their answere of the Chancellor so that they were not a little afraid least y e Erle in his displeasure would haue vsed some outrage towardes them which otherwise than in words it should appeare he did not In Ianuary about the keeping of a Courte at Iedworth 1520 Variance betwixt the Erle of Angus and the Lord of Ferniââ¦rst there was reising of people betwixte the Earle of Angus on the one part and the Lorde of Fernihurst in whose ayde Iames Hamilton came with foure hundred Mers men but the Lorde of Sesseforde then Warden assisting the Erle of Angus his part met Hamilton at Kelso with a greate company and when they were light a foote and shoulde haue foughten the Mers men left sir Iames Hamilton in al y e danger with a fewe of his owne men about him so that with muche payne he was horsed and escaped in greate daunger vnto Hume with losse of foure of his seruantes which were slayne and on the other parte there was an Englishman slayne called Raufe Car that came in aide of the Warden On the morrowe after the Larde of Fernihurst as Bayly to the Earle of Arrane of that regalitie helde his Court at the principall place of the forrest of Iedburgh and the Earle himselfe helde his Courte likewise in an other parte of the same lande three miles distant from the other The thirtie day of Aprill the Larde of Wedderborne and Maister William Dowglas newly made Prior of Coldingham with theyr partakers in greate number came to Edenburgh to ayde the Erle of Angus who was within the Towne agaynste the Earle of Arrane and the Chancellor who were also there But nowe by the comming of these succours whiche entred by force at the neather bowe and slewe the Maister of Mountgomery and Sir Patrick Hamilton Knighte the Earle of Arrane and the Chancellor were constreyned to forsake the Towne and to passe through the North loch The one and twentie of Iuly y e Erle of Angus beeing in y e Towne of Edenburgh George Hume brother to the late Lord Hume beheaded came thither with the Abbot of ColdinghaÌ brother to the Earle of Angus and Dauid Hume of Wedderborne a great company of Gentlemen others and passed to the Tolbuith where they remayned till the heads of the Lorde Hume of his brother William were taken downe beside the place where they were fastned on a gavil The Lorde Humes head taken downe and this was done in presence of the prouost for the time being The next daye they went to Linlithgew and from thence to Striueling in hope to haue found the Chancellor and some other of that faction there but missing of their purpose they returned to Edenburgh agayne and causing solemne funerall obsequies to be kepte in the blacke Friers for them that ought those heads with offerings and banquets they afterwards returned home to their owne dwellings without attempting any other thing for that present The Duke of ââ¦any returneth into Scotlande In Nouember the Duke of Albany arriued in ScotlaÌd on the west partes at an Hauen called Grawrach the nineteenth of the same moneth and on the three and twentie he came to Edenburgh accompanyed with the Queene the Archbishop of Glasgo Chancellor the Earle of Huntley and many other Lords Knights Barons and Gentlemen and within sixe dayes after their coÌming thither the Prouost and Baylifes were deposed The prouost Baylifes of Edenburgh deposed bycause they had bin chosen in fauour of the Earle of Angus and other appoynted in their romthes Then was there a Parliament summoned to be kepte at Edenburgh the sixe and twentie of Ianuarie next folowing and on the ninth of Ianuary A Parliamente ââ¦moned a general sommonance of forfalture was proclaimed at y e market Crosse in Edenburgh wherein were summoned y e Earle of Angus his brother 1521 the Prior of ColdinghaÌ the Lorde of Wedderborne the Lorde of Dalehousy Iohn Sommerwell of Cawdstreme and William Cockborne of Langton with theyr complices to make their appearance in the sayde Parliament to be tried for sundry great offences by them committed Gawin Dowglas Bishop of Dunkââ¦ilde ââ¦th into Englande Master Gawin Dowglas Bishop of Dunkeld hearing of this Proclamation fledde into England and remayned in LoÌdon at the Sauoy where hee departed this lyfe and is buried in the Church there He was a cunning Clearke and a very good Poet he translated the twelue bookes of the Eneidos of Vergill in Scottish Metre and compiled also the Palace of honor with diuers other treatises in the Scottish language which are yet extant The Earle of Angus The Earle of Angus feareth the sentence of forfalture fearing the sentence of forfalture to bee layd against him at the Parliament procured his wife although there was small liking betwixte them to labor for his pardon vnto the gouernor Wherevpon it was agreed that the Earle and his brother George Dowglas shoulde passe out of the Realme into France He and his ââ¦ther banished and there to remayne during the gouernours pleasure and so they departed into Fraunce and remayned there all the next yeere following The king of England hearing that the Duke of Albany was ariued in ScotlaÌd and had taken the rule vpon him doubting least he shoulde perswade the Scottishmen to assist the French king against whome by perswasion of the Emperour he meante shortly to make warre Cââ¦areÌtieux an English Herâ⦠sent into Scotlande sente this Herrald Clarentienx into Scotlande to require the Duke to departe from thence alledging that it was promised by the K. of Fraunce at the last enteruewe betwixte them which chanced the Sommer before that he shuld not come into Scotland And moreouer wheras the king of Englande was vncle vnto y e King of Scots he considered with him selfe that by nature he was bounde to defend his Nephew as hee ment to do therefore he thought it not reason y t the Duke being next to y e Crowne to succeede The King of EnglaÌd doubteth to haue the Duke of Albany gouernour to the king his Nephewe if ought came to y e yong king should haue the gouernement of him least he might be made away as other yong kings had bin He further complained that y e Erle of Angus should be sent forth of y e Realme so y t he could not enioy y e company of his wife sister to the same K. of England Warre denouÌced by ClareÌtieux against the Duke of Albany Clarentieux had therefore commandement that if y e Duke refused to depart out of y e Realm of Scotland he should intimate a defiance with opeÌ war against him which the saide Clarentieux did declaring his message vnto the Duke from point to point at Holy Roode house as he had in coÌmandement To whom y e Duke answered The Dukes answere that neyther y e king of France nor the king of Englande shoulde stay him from comming into his countrey and
agreement and free consent Moreouer immediately after the Kynges death bycause he deceassed without making any will or taking any direction for the gouernemente eyther of the Realme or custody of the yong Queene hys daughter Dauid Beaton Dauid Beaton Cardinall Cardinall and Archbyshop of S. Androwes the speciall minister and factor of the Frenche causes to the aduancement and continuaunce thereof ââ¦forging of ââ¦ll inuented and forged a will and Testament of the late King now departed in whiche among other things hee established hymselfe chiefâ⦠regent adioyning with him the Garles of Murreyâ⦠baââ¦e brother to the Kyng deceassed Huntley and Argile not once mentioning the Garle of Lennox then absent in Fraunce nor yet Iames Earle of Arraine his Cousin The Protestants espyed the Cardinals craftie iugling beeing there present in Scotland Those that professed the reformed Religion being then called Protestantes to whome the sayde Cardinall was ââ¦uerâ⦠cruell enimie and sharp scourge espyed forth his vniust dealing in this behalfe and trusting by the gentle nature and good inclination of the sayd Earle of Arraine to haue some libertie to imbrace the Gospell set him againste the Cardinall so that by the helpe of his owne and their friendes he remoued the Cardinal and his adherents from the vsurped roomth and authoritie and therewith was the sayde Earle of Arraine proclaymed gouernour and protector of the Realme This Earle of Arrane made a title to haue and enioy that office and roomth as nexte in bloudâ⦠yong Queene as discended from a sister of King Iames the third married to his Grandfather Lord Hamilton in the yere .1475 by reason of whiche marriage hee was created Earle of Arrane as by acte of Parliament holden the same yeare at EdeÌburgh it was agreed and ordeyned The King of Englande that noble Prince Henrye the eyght aduertised of the death of the King of Scottes considered with good aduise that now there was offered a most ready meane and iust occasion whereby the two Realmes of Englande and Scotland might be broughte into one ââ¦tier Monarchie without warre or bloudshed by the marriage of his sonne Prince Edwarde beeyng then little past sixe yeares of age with the yong Queene of Scotlande The King of England talketh with the Lords of ScotlaÌd prisoners for a marriage betwixt his sonne and their Queene Hee therefore being resolued fully to bring the same to passe eyther by quiet meanes or by force and sending for the Erles of Cassill and Glencarne the Lordes Maxwell and Fleming and other Prisoners y t had bin taken at Soloway Muffe caused them to bee conueyd vnto Hampton Court where the seauen and twentith of December they being right curteously enterteined hee made vnto them an ouerture of his purpose and whole intent proponing the whole matter vnto them requesting them for their partes to help with their consents that a contract of marriage mighte bee made betweene his sonne the Prince and their yong Queene promising to them libertie without raunsome besydes other pleasures and benefytes if they would doe theyr indeuour to perswade the Gouernoure and other of the nobilitie of Scotland to be agreeable heerevnto The Scottishe Earles and Lords accepted the Kings offer and withall promised to doe their diligence to perswade the rest of the nobilitie in Scotland at their coÌming home wherevpon they were licenced to depart and so comming to Newcastell remayned there with the Duke of Suffolke then the Kings Lieutenant of the North partes till he had receyued forthe of Scotlande certayne pledges of the chiefest of these Lordes for performance of their promises The Earle of Angus sente home into Scotlande Likewise the King of England sent wyth them the Earle of Angus and his brother Sir George Dowglas with his letters to the Gouernoure requesting effectuously y t they mighte be restored to their roomthes lands and possessions in that Realme 1542 These Lords arriuing at Edenburgh aboute the middes of Ianuary declared to the Gouernoure their message and proposition made by the King of Englande with such efficacie that the Gouernour beeyng perswaded thereto by their wordes sente for the Lords and nobilitie of the Realme to come vnto Edenburgh to a conuention A conuention of the Scottish nobilitie there to be holden the seauen and twentith of that present moneth where they concluded that a Parliamente shoulde bee kepte in Marche next ensuing and doubting least the Cardinall beeing there present should goe about to perswade the nobilitie not to consent to their desires they caused hym to be put in warde within the Castell of Dalketh The Cardinall committed to warde the Lord Seton being appoynted to haue the custody of him Also hee commaunded not onely the Cardinall as before ye haue heard but also ordeyned that the Queene mother should remayne in Lithgow with the yong Queene hir daughter vnder some manner of safe custody and the Cardinall to be remoued vnto his owne Castell of Saint Androwes with warders about hym to see him safely kept Theâ⦠Realme beeing thus brought in quiet and vnder good gouernement The French King misliketh of the match with Englande the French King sore misliking this new coniunction of y e Scots with England and doubting least the olde former bond of aliance betwixt France and Scotland might therby be vtterly dissolued and shaken off he sent for Mathew Earle of Leuenox Mathew Earle of Lennox then abrode in his seruice in the warres of Italy and vppon his comming backe from thence to the Court hee declared to him the deceasse of the late King of Scottes the intrusion of Arrane and the attemptes in that Realme begun with all the circumstances from poynt to point as he knewe and further discoursed with hym what wrong hee had to be sette aside and displaced from hys ryghte of gouernemente and therefore exhorted hym to repayre home to recouer the same offering not only to assist him with men money and munition but also to ioyne hys friendes in Scotlande with hym in ayde to attayne the place of regimente and to remoue Arrane and others from it The Earle of Leuenox heerevpon with commission and instructions deliuered to him by the French King had also letters from him directed to the Lordes that were of the French faction wherein the sayde Kyng requested them to remaine and continue in their former good meanings towards him and to assist the Erle of Leuenox in all things as should be thought expedient ââ¦e Earle of ãâã pasâ⦠into ââ¦d The Earle therefore fully instructed by the Frenche Kyng howe to deale and proceede tooke his leaue and with all speede taking the Sea directed hys course into Scotlande where after his arriual he came to Edenburgh in which towne all the Lords being assembled togither with the Gouernoure hee declared to them the effect of hys commission from the French Kyng his request to them and good affection to maynteyne them against England if in case they woulde continue the
long in skirmishyng that day with the Scottishmen retyred to Leith The nexte day the whole army with the great Artillery came forwarde towardes the towne and breakyng open the Cannogate Edenburgh entred by force they entred the towne by the same bryngyng their ordinaunce within sight of the Castell purposing to plante the same in battery agaynst it but the Capitayne of the castell caused the Artillery within to shoote of at them in so great aboundance and so good measure See more herof in EnglaÌd that they slew diuers Englishmen and dismounted one of their peeces so that in the ende they were constrayned to drawe backe their ordinaunce and retyred but yet in the meane time they set fire on the towne Edenburgh brent and breute the moste parte of all the houses in the same They brent also the Cannogate streete and the Abbey of holy roode house The Gouernour at that present released out of pryson the Erle of Angus Prysoners set at liberty the Lorde Maxwell the Master of Glencarne sir George Dowglas and others In this meane time also there came from the Bordures by lande foure thousande of English horsemenne vnder the conduction of the Lorde William Evers his sonne sir Raufe Evers who ioyning with the army at Leith skoured the countrey on euery side the towne of Edenburgh finally after that the English army had layne in Leith a certayne space Leith brent they brent that towne also and sent their shippes away fraught with pillage spoyles got aswell in that towne as in Edenburgh and abrode in the countrey backe towardes England And therewith the Erle of Hertford the Lord Admirall and others returned by land through the couÌtry vnto Barwike as in the Englishe historie more at large appeareth Whylest the Englishe army was thus occupied in that part of ScotlaÌd the Erle of Lennox with an army of menne whiche he had raysed was ready to come on the backes of the Gouernour and his adherentes The Erle of Lennox if they had assembled their forces and come forewarde to haue gyuen the English men battayle For all this season the ciuill contention still continewed and sundry conflictes and skirmishes chanced betwixt the parties The English army hauing brente Edenburgh and harried the countrey aboute departed from Leith whiche towne they also brent and drew homewardes brenning and spoyling sundry Castelles Piles Villages Townes in their way Also where the Lorde Maxwell came in to the Erle of Hertforde for his double dealyng hee was stayed and brought into Englande Shortly after the returne of the English armie the Gouernour and the Lord Boyd came with an army to besiege the Castell of Glasquo which y e Erle of Lennox had lately againe recouered The Erle of Glencarne and other of the Erle of Lennox his friendes being at that present within Glasquo issued foorth vpon Glasquo Moore gaue the Gouernour battayle in the whiche the Larde of Campsketh mayster of the housholde to the Gouernour and vij The battayle of Glasquo wonne by the Gouernour score others of the surname of the HamiltoÌs loste their lyues but the victory yet remayned vpoÌ the Gouernours side Andrew Coningham sonne to the Erle of Glencarne Iames Coningham with George Tullough Captaine of the Erle of Lennox his shotte being slayne on that parte besides others of the meaner sorte Shortely after this ouerthrow the Erle of Lennox accompanied with Alexander the master of Glencarne otherwise called Lord of Kilmawse Walter Graham brother to the Erle of Montrose The Erle of Lennox goeth into England sir Iohn Borthwike knight and sundry other Gentlemen tooke the sea to passe into England arriued at Westchester aboute Midsomer passing from thence to the Court he was ioyfully receyued He marrieth the Lady Margaret Dowglas and immediatly therevpon was the mariage celebrated betwixt him and the Lady Margaret Dowglas daughter heyre to the Erle of Angus to Margaret his wife queene of Scottes sister to king Henry the eight at what time there was assured to him by way of inheritaunce Landes to the valewe of xvij hundreth markes of yearely rent of assise in consideration of this mariage with the Kings neece in recompence of landes loste by him in Fraunce to the whiche he was inheritour after the decease of Robert Steward Lorde Obenie Lord Obney one of the foure Marshals of Fraunce Moreouer kyng Henry beyng now vpon his iourney towards Bullongne aswell for the annoyance of his highnesse enimies in Scotland as for recouerie of the sayde Erles right in that realme The ãâã Lenââ¦e ââ¦neth ââ¦nto ââ¦land appointed the sayd Erle to enter Scotland in the moneth of August accoÌpanied with sir Rise Maunffield sir Peter Mewtas knights M. Thomas Audley M. Thomas Brookes old M. Winter coÌpââ¦oller of the Kings ships his sonne sir William Winter that now is sundry other Capitaynes hauing vnder their charge two hundred hakebutters two hundred Archers with long vowes and two huÌdred armed pikes beside the Mariners belongyng to those shippes that were appoynted to goe foorth in this iourney beyng in number aboute xij or xiiij sayle belonging to Bristow and other of the West partes Vpon their arriual on the coast of Scotland they brent the Iââ¦e of Arrane and rased the gouernours Castell there to the grounde The Isle of Bute taken And afterwards arriuing at the Isle of Bute they entred the same and tooke the Castell of Rosey standing therein from whence the Stewardes kings of Scotland had theyr originall the Capitaine they had away prisoner with them into England Here also they tooke twoo Frenche shippes laden with wines and this done they entred the Firth of Clyde thinking to find none but their frendes in the Castell of Dunbertane but the truth is that in this meane time the Erle of Glencarne with sundry gentlemen being left in that Castell with the Capitayne thereof called Houson to keepe it in the name and to the behoufe of the Erle of Lennox were in his absence perswaded through practise of the queene Dowager not onely to renounce theyr promised faith to him in defrauding him of that Castell but also to entrappe and winde him within their daunger to take him prysoner For whiche purpose they so dissembled the matter that they had gotte him a lande onely with three hundred menne The Erle of Lennox in daunger to betrayed anâ⦠taken and so farre foorth they were growen in talke that the Erle of Lennox beyng entred into the Castell with a fewe other with him the money was layde downe on the boorde to be payde to the Capitayne for his satisfaction But in the meane tyme the Erle of Lennox and suche as were with him perceyuing some treasonable practise in hande gotte foorth of the house agayne vnto theyr companie below leauing the money behinde them and after made shifte to gette to theyr shippes and not before it was high time for if they had stayed
that such as were knowne for open and apparant traytours in the commotion were for the more part executed or with rounde summes fined or from the realme exiled certaine gentlemen of worship were sent from Englande Commissioners sent to Ireland with Commission to examine eche person suspected wyth Thomas his treason and so according to theyr discretion eyther with equitie to execute or with clemencie to pardon all such as they could proue to haue furthered hym in his disloyall Commotion Commissioners were these Their names sir Anthonie Sentleger knight sir George Paulet knight maister Moyle and maister Barnes Much aboute this tyme was there a Parliament holden at Dublin before the Lord Leonarde Gray Lorde Deputie A Parliament 1539 beginning the first of May in the .xxviij. yeare of the raigne of Henrie the eight In this Parliament there past An Act For the attainder of the Erle of Kildare and Thomas Fitz Giralde with others For the succession of the King and Queene Anne Of absenties wherein was graunted to the king the inheritance of such landes in Irelande whereof the Duke of Norffolke and George Talbot Earle of Waterford and Solop were seysed with the inheritances of diuerse other corporations and couents demurrant in England For the repeale of Ponings Act. Authorising the king his heyres and successours to be supreme heade of the Church of Irelande That no subiects or resiants of Irelande shall pursue or commence vse or execute any maner of prouocations appeales or other processe from the Sea of Rome vpon paine of incurring the prenmnire Agaynst such as slaunder the King or his heyres apparant For the first fruites Of sir Walter Delahyde knight his landes in Carbeyre graunted to the king How persons robbed shall bee restored to theyr goodes Restrayning trybutes to be graunted to Irishmen Agaynst Proctors to be any member of the Parliament Agaynst marying or fostering with or to Irishmen Agaynst the authoritie of the Sea of Rome For the twentith part For the English order habite and language For the suppressing of Abbayes For the lading of Wooll and flockes For the proufe of Testaments Of faculties Declaring the effect of Ponings Act. Of penall statutes For the weres vpon Barrou and other waters in the Countrey of Kilkenny For the person of Dongarun For leazers of corne As for the olde Earle of Kildare who in this Parliament was attainted for diuerse presumptions in the preamble of the sayde Act rehearsed certaine it is The olde Erle of Kildare his wishe before his death that the reuolt of his sonne Thomas Fitz Giralde smote him so deepely to the heart as vpon the report thereof hee deceassed in the Tower wishing in his death bed that eyther he had died before he had heard of the rebellion or that his brainlesse boy had neuer liued to rayse the like commotion This Earle of such as did not stomacke his proceedings was taken for one that bare hymselfe in all his affayres verie honourably a wise deepe and farre retebing man in warre valyant without rashnesse and politique wythoute treacherie Such a suppressour of rebelles in his gouernment His seruice as they durst not beare armour to the annoyance of any subiect whereby he heaped no small reuenues to the crowne enryched the king his treasure garded with securitie the pale continued the honour of his house and purchased enuie to his person His hospitalitie and deuotion His great hospitalitie is to this day rather of eche man commended than of any one followed He was so religious addicted to the seruing of God as what tyme soeuer he trauayled to any part of the Countrey such as were of his Chapell should be sure to accompanie him Among other rare gyftes hee was with one singular qualitie endued which were it put in practise by such as are of his calling might minister great occasion as well to the abandoning of flattring cary tales as to the stayed quietnesse of noble potentates For if any whispered vnder Benedicite a sinister report or secrete practise that tended to the disteyning of his honour or to the perill of hys person he woulde straytly examine the informer whether the matter he reported were past or to come If it were sayde or done he was accustomed to lay sore to his charge where and of whom he heard it or how he could iustifie it If he found him to halte in the proufe he woulde punish him as a pikethanke makebate for being so maliciously caried as for currying fauour to himselfe he woulde labour to purchase hatred to another But if the practise were future and hereafter to be put in execution then woulde hee suspende the credite vsing withall such wary secrecie as vntill the matter came to the pinche the aduersarie should thinke that hee was moste ignorant when he was best prouided The olde Erle of Kildare hys policie when his death was conspired As being in Dublyn forewarned that Iohn Olurckan with certaine desperate Varlets conspired his destruction and that they were determined to assault him vpon his returne to Maynoth hee had one of his seruants named Iames Graunt Iohn OlurckaÌ Iames Graunt that was much of his pitche and at a blush did somewhat resemble him attyred in his ryding apparaile and namely in a skarlet Cloake wherewith he vsed to be clad Graunt in thys wise masking in his Lordes attyre roade as hee was commaunded in the beaten highe way towardes Manoth with sixe of the Earle his seruantes attending vpon him The Conspiratours awayting towards Lucan the comming of the Earle encountered the disguised Lorde and not doubting but it had beene Kildare they began to charge him but the other amazed therwith cryed that they tooke theyr marke amisse for the Earle roade to Manoth on the further side of Liffic Wherewith the murtherers appalled fled away but incontinently were by the Earle apprehended susteyning the punishment that such caytifes deserued This noble man was so well affected to his wife the Ladie Gray as he woulde not at any tyme buy a sute of apparell for himselfe but hee woulde sute hir with the same stuffe Whiche gentlenesse she recompenced with equall kindenesse For after that he deceassed in the Tower she did not only euer after liue as a chast and honourable Vidue The Ladie Grayes kindnesse to hir husband but also nightly before shee went to bed she would resort to his picture and there with a solemne congee she woulde bid hir Lorde goodnight Whereby may bee gathered with howe great loue shee affected his person that had in such price his bare picture An other Act that did passe in this Parliament touching absenties proceeded of this occasion Giralde Aylmer Maister Girald Aylmer who first was chief Baron of the Exchequer after chiefe Iustice of the Common place was occasioned for certain his affayres to repaire to the Court of EnglaÌd Where being for his good seruice greatly countenanced by such as were in those dayes taken for the pillers
of them to stande which sore troubled the legges of the Northerne menne when the battell ioyned The Earle of Northumberlande and Andrew Trollop The Earle of Northumberlande which were chiefe Captaynes of Kyng Henries vawwarde seeyng theyr shotte not to preuaile hasted forwarde to ioyne with theyr enimies and the other part slacked not to accomplish their desire This battell was sore foughten for hope of life was set aside on eyther parte and takyng of prisoners proclaymed a great offence The obstinamyndes of both partes by reason euery man determined to conquere or to dye in the field This deadly battell and bloudy conflict continued tenne houres in doubtfull victorie the one parte sometime flowing and sometime ebbing but in conclusion King Edwarde so couragiously comforted his men that the other part was discomfited and ouercome Kyng Henries parte discomfited like to men amazed fled towarde Tadcaster bridge to saue them selues but in the meane way there is a little booke called Cocke not very broade Cock or riuer but of a greate deepenesse in whiche what for hast to escape and what for feare of followers a greate number ãâã meââ¦ht and ââ¦ned It was reported that men aliue passed the riuer vpon dead carcasses and that the greate riuer of Wharfe whiche is the great sewer of that brooke and of all the water comming froÌ Towton was couloured with bloud The chase continued all night and the most parte of the nexte daye and euer the Northerne men as they sawe anye aduantage returned againe and fought with their enimies to y e greate losse of both partes The number slayne in battayle of Saxton otherwise called Palme sunday fielde For in these two dayes were slaine as they that knew it wrote on both parts sixe and thirtie thousand seauen hundred threescore and sixteene persons all Englishmen and of one nation whereof the chiefe were the Erles of NorthumberlaÌd and Westmerland and the Lord Dakers the Lord Welles Sir Iohn Neuill Andrew Trolop Robert Horne and many other Knightes and Esquiers and the Earle of Deuenshire was taken prisoner but the Dukes of Somerset and Excester fledde from the field and saued themselues After this great victorie King Edward rode to Yorke where hee was with all solemnitie receiued and first he caused the heads of his father the Earle of Salisburie and other his friends to bee taken from the gates and to be buried with their bodies and there hee caused the Earle of Deuonshire and three other to be beheaded and set their heads in the same place King HeÌry after he heard of the irrecouerable losse of his armye King Henrye withdraweth to Berwike from theÌce into Scotland departed incontinently with his wife and sonne to the Towne of Berwike and leauing the Duke of Somerset there wente into Scotlande and comming to the King of Scottes required of him and his counsell ayde succour reliefe and comfort The yong King of Scottes lamenting the miserable state of King Henry comfortedly ãâã with faire words and friendly promises and assigned to him a competente pencion to liue on during his abode in Scotland Kyng Henry in recompence of this ãâã and frendship shewed to him by the K. of Scottes deliuered to the sayd king the towne of Berwike After that the Scottishe king had giue possession of this towne hee faythefully supported the parte of king Henrye and concluded a mariage betwixt his sister and the yong Prince of Waââ¦es but yet the same mariage was ãâã consummate as after ye shall heare When king Henry was somewhat settled in the realme of Scotlande Queene Margaret with his sonne goeth into France he sente his wyfe and his sonne into France to K. Reigner hir father trusting by hys ayde and succour to assemble ãâã armie and once agayne to possesse his Realme and former dignitie and hee in the meane tyme determined to make his aboade in Scotlande to see what waye his friendes in Englande would studie for his restitution The Queene beyng in Fraunce did obteyne of the young Frenche king then Lewes the .xj. that all hir husbandes friendes and those of the Lancastriall band might safely and surely haue reforte into any parte of the Realme of France prohibityng all other of the contrarie faction any accesse or repaire into that countrey Thus yee haue hearde how King Henry the sixth after he had raigned eight and thirtie yeres and odde monethes was expulsed and driuen out of this Realme and now leauing him with the Princes of his faction consulting togither in Scotlande and Queene Margaret his wife gathering of menne in Fraunce I will returne where I left to proceede with the doings of king Edwarde This yong Prince hauing with prosperous successe obteyned so glorious a victorie in the mortall battell at Towton and chased all hys aduersaries out of the Realme or at the least wayes put them to silence returned after y e maner and fashion of a triumphant conqueror with great pomp vnto London where according to the olde custome of the Realme he called a great assemblie of persons of all degrees and the nyne and twentith daye of Iune was at Westminster with al solemnitie crowned anoynted K. In the which yeare this King Edwarde called his high courte of Parliament at Westminster in the whiche the state of the Realme was greatly reformed and all the Statutes made in Henry the sixt his time whiche touched eyther his title or profite were reuoked In the same Paliament the Erle of Oxford farre striken in age and his sonne and heire the Lord Aworey Veer eyther through malice of theyr enimies or for that they had offended the King were both with diuers of theyr counsellors atteinted and put to execution which caused Iohn Earle of Oxforde euer after to rebell There were also beheaded the same time Sir Thomas Tudenham Knyghte William Tirell and Iohn Mongomerie Esquiers and after them diuers others Also after this hee created his two yonger breethren Dukes that is to saye Lorde George Duke of Clarence Lorde Richarde Duke of Gloucester and the Lord Iohn Neuill brother to Richarde Earle of Warwike hee firste made Lord Montacute and afterwardes created hym Marques Montacute Beside this Henrye Bourchier brother to Thomas Archbyshoppe of Caunterburie was created Earle of Essex and William Lorde Fawconbridge was made Earle of Kent To this Henrye Lorde Bourchier a man highly renowmed in martiall feates Richarde Duke of Yorke long before this time had gyuen his sister Elizabeth in marriage of whome hee begate foure sonnes William Thomas Iohn and Henrye the whiche William beeing a man of great industrie witte and prouidence in graue and weightie matters married the Lady Anne Wooduile discended of high parentage whose mother Iaquet was daughter to Peter of Lââ¦renburgh Earle of Sainte Paule by the whyche Anne hee had Lord Henry Earle of Essex one Daughter named Cicile maried to Water Lord Ferrers of Chartley and an other called Isabell which dyed vnmaried ââ¦int The
for his Bulles that he purposeth to be one and though he pay for nothyng else And yet must he be twyce asked whether he will be Bishop or no and he ââ¦st twice say nay and at the thyrde tyme take it as compelled therevnto by his owne wil. And in a stage play all the people ãâã right well that hee that playeth the Sowdaine is percase a sowter yet if one shoulde can so little good to shewe out of season what aquaintaunce hee hath with him and call hym by hys ãâã ââ¦e while he standeth in his maiestie one of hys tormentors myghte happe to breake ãâã head and worthie for marring of the play And so they sayde that these matters hee kings games as it were stage playes and for the mâ⦠part played vpon scaffoldes In which poore men be but the lookers on And they y t wise be will meddle no further For they that sometime step vp and play with them when they cannot playe theyr partes they disorder the playe and doe themselues no good King Richard the third Rich. the .iij. 1483 An. reg 1. This that is ââ¦ere betweene his mark and his marke * was not writen by maister Moore in this historie writen by him in Englishe but ââ¦s translated ââ¦ut of this hiââ¦tory which he wrote in latin THE next day the Potector w t a great trayne wente to Westminster hall and there where hee had placed himselfe in the Coââ¦e of the Kinges ãâã deâ⦠to the audience that he woulde take vpon him the Crowne in that place there where the King himselfe sitteth and ministreth the lawe bycause hee considered that it was the chiefest duetie of a King to minister the lawes Then with as plesant an Oration as he could ãâ¦ã brought out of the Sanctuarie for thyther had he fledde for feare of him in the slight of the people hee tooke hym by the hande Whiche thyng the Common people reioyced at and praysed but wyse menne tooke it for a vaniâ⦠Iâ⦠his retourne homewarde whome so ââ¦er ãâã he saluted For a mynde that knoweth it selfe guiltie is in a manner deiected to a seruile dââ¦cle When he had begonne his reigne the daye of Iune after this mockishe election then was hee Crowned the daye of the same moneth And that solemnitie was furnished for the most parte with the selfe same prouision that was appoynted for the coronatioÌ of his nephue * ââ¦om thys ââ¦ark to this* â⦠not founde â⦠Sir Thomas Moore but in maister Hall ââ¦nd Grafton But heere to shewe the manner of his Coronation as the same is inserted in this Pamphlet of Sir Thomas More by master Hall and Richard Grafton although not found in the same Pamphlet thus we find it by them reported First to be sure of all enimies as he thoughte he sent for fyne thousande men of the Northe against his Coronation which came vp euill apparelled and worse harneised in rustie harneis neither defensable nor scoured to the sale which mustered in Finseburie field to the great disdeine of all the lookers on The fourth day of Iuly he came to the Tower by water with his wife and the fifth day he created Thomas Lord Haward Duke of Norffolke and Sir Thomas Haward his sonne hee created Earle of Surrey and William Lorde Barkeley was then created Earle of Nottingham and Fraunces Lord Louel was then made Vicount Louell and the King his Chamberlayne and the Lord Stanley was deliuered out of warde for feare of his sonne the L. Strange which was then in Lancashire gathering men as men sayde and the sayde Lord was made Stewarde of the King his housholde lykewise the Archbyshoppe of Yorke was deliuered but Morton Byshoppe of Elie was coÌmitted to the Duke of Buckingham to keepe in warde which sent him to his manor of Brecknock in Wales from whence hee escaped to King Richarde hys confusion The same nyght the King made seuenteene Knyghtes of the Bathe whose names ensue Sir Edmond the Duke of Suffolkes sonne Sir George Grey the Erle of Kents sonne Sir William the Lord Souches sonne Sir Henry Burganie Sir Christopher Willoughbie Sir William Barkeley Sir Henrie Babington Sir Thomas Arondell Sir Thomas Boleyne Sir Gerueys of Clifton Sir William Saye Sir Edmond Bedingfield Sir William Enderbie Sir Thomas Lekenor Sir Thomas of Vrmon Sir Iohn Browne Sir William Barkeley The next day being the fifth day of Iulie the King rode through the Citie of London toward Westminster with great pomp being accompanied with these Dukes Earles Lordes and Knightes whose names followe Edward Prince of Wales the Kings onely sonne Dukes The Duke of Norffolke The Duke of Buckingham The Duke of Suffolke Earles The Earle of Northumberlande The Earle of Arondell The Earle of Kent The Earle of Surrey The Earle of Wilshire The Earle of Huntingdon The Earle of Nottingham The Earle of Warwike The Earle of Lincolne Lordes The Lord Lisle Vicount The Lord Louell Vicount The Lord Stanley The Lord Audeley The Lord Dakers The Lord Ferrers of Chertley The Lord Powes The Lord Scrope of Vpsale The Lord Scrope of Bolton The Lord Gray Codner The Lord Gray of Wilton The Lord Sturton The Lord Cobham The Lord Morley The Lord Burganie The Lord Souche The Lord Ferrers of Groby The Lord Welles The Lord Lomney The Lord Matreuers The Lord Harbert The Lord Becham Knightes Sir Iames Titell Sir William Kniuet Sir Thomas Aborow Sir William Standley Sir William Aparre Sir George Browne Sir Robert Middleton Sir Iohn Henningham Sir Nicholas Latimer Sir Thomas Mongomery Sir Thomas Delamer Sir Gilbert Debnam Sir Terrie Robsart Sir William Brandon Sir Iohn Sauell Sir Henry Wentfoord Sir Edward Standley Sir Henry Seyntmont Sir William yong Sir Thomas Bowser Sir Henry Winkefielde Sir Thomas Wortley Sir Iohn Seyntlow ⪠Sir Charles of Pilkinton Sir Iames Harington Sir Iohn Asheley Sir Thomas Barkley Sir Richard Becham Sir William Hopton Sir Thomas Percy Sir Robert Dymocke Sir Iohn Cheyny Sir Richard Ludlowe Sir Iohn Eldrington Sir William Sands Sir Richard Dudley Sir William Seintlowe Sir Thomas Twaightes Sir Edmond of Dudley Sir Raufe Ashton Sir Richard Charlington Sir Thomas Gray Sir Phillip Barkeley Sir Robert Harington Sir Thomas Gresley Sir Richard Harecourt Sir Wiliam Noris Sir Thomas Selenger Sir Richard Hodlesten Sir Iohn Conias Sir William Stoner Sir Phillip Courtney Sir William Gascoigne Sir Richard Amedilton Sir Roger Fynes Sir George Vere Sir Henry Percie Sir Iohn Wood. Sir Iohn Aparre Sir Iohn Gray Sir Iohn Danby Sir Richard Tailebushe Sir Iohn Rider Sir Iohn Herring Sir Richard Enderby Sir Iohn Barkeley Sir Iames Strangwishe Sir Raufe Carnbrecke Sir Iohn Constable Sir Robert Eliarde Sir Richard Darell Sir Iohn Gilforde Sir Iohn Lekenor Sir Iohn Morley Sir Iohn Hewes Sir Iohn Boleyne Sir Edmond Shaa Alderman On the morrowe beeing the sixte daye of Iulye the King with Quene Anne hys wife came down out of the White Hall into the great Hall at Westminster and went directly to the kings bench And from
he might bee lettâ⦠and was likeso to be ãâ¦ã thought good rather to assent to their humble request and so seeme to gratifie them thaâ⦠by drââ¦ying it to procure their euill willes and returned the nearer of his purpose When king Henrie and enfourmed of hys landing hee was ryght glad thereof and wente vnto Sir Iohn Garâ⦠land to Sir Thomas Trencharde ãâ¦ã they shoulde entertayne hym in the most ãâ¦ã they coulde deuise ãâã he might come himself in person to welcom him Beside this he sent the Earle of Arunâ⦠with many Lordes and knights to attende vpon him Which Erle according to the kings letters ââ¦eceiued him with three hundred horses all by threâ⦠light to the great admiration of the strangers King Philip seeing no remedie but that hee must needes tary woulde no longer gase after King Henryes comming out tooke hys iourney towardes Wyndsore Castell where the King lay and fiue myle from Windsore the Prince of Wales accompanied with fiue Erles diuerse Lordes and knights and other to the number of fiue hundred persons gorgeoustye apparayled receyued him after the most honourable fashion And within halfe a myle of Wyndsore the king accompanied with the Duke of Buckingham and a great parte of the nobilitie of thys Realme welcomed him and so conueyed to him to the Castell of Wyndsore where hee was made companion of the noble order of the Garter After him came to Wyndsore his wife Queene Iane sister to the Princes Dowager ââ¦e wife to Prince Arthure After the two kings had renued and confirmed the league and amitie betwixt them King Henrie desired to haue Edmond de la Poole Erle of Suffolke to be deliuered into hys handes To whome the King of Castile aunswered that he ââ¦eââ¦ly was not wythin hys Dominion and therefore it lay not in him to delyuer hym In deede he was loth to be the authour of his death that came to him for succour and was receyued vnder his protection yet vppon the earnest request and assured promise of king Henrie that he would pardon him of all executions and paynes of death he graunted to king Henryes desire And so incontinently caused the sayde Earle secretly to be sent for After this to protract tyâ⦠till he were possessed of his pray king Henrie conueyed the king of Castile vnto the Citie of London that hee might see the heade Citie of his Realme there ledde hym from Baynards Castell by Cheape to Barking and so returned by Walling streete againe during whiche tyme there was shot out of the Tower a wonderfull peale of Ordinance But he woulde not enter into the Tower bycause as ye haue hearde before hee had ââ¦owed not to enter the Fortesse of of any foraine Prince in the which a garnison was mainteyned From London the King brought him to Richmonde where many notable feares of armes were prooued both of tylte iourney and barriers In the meane season the Earle of Suffolke perceyuing what hope was to be had in forraine Princes and trusting that after hys lyfe to him once graunted king Henrie would briefly set him at his full libertie was in maner contented to returne agayne into his natiue countrey When all partes and couenaunts betweene the kings of Englande and Castile were appoynted concluded and agreed king Philippe tooke hys leaue of king Henrie yeelding to hym most heartye thankes for hys highe cheare and Princely entertaynment And being accompanyed with dyuerse Lordes of Englande came to the Citie of Exceter and so to Falmouth in Cornwale and there taking shippe sayled into Spaine where shortly after hee dyed being .xxx. yeares of age He was of stature conuenient The death ãâã deseri pâ⦠Philip king ãâã Spaine of counteâ⦠amiable of bodie somewhat grosse quick witted bolde and hardie stomacked The tempest that he suffered on the Sea was huge and wonderfull also vpon the lande insomuch that the violence of the wynde blew downe an Eagle of Brasse being set to shewe on which part the wynde blewe from a pynacle or Spiââ¦e of Paules Churche and in the falling the same Eagle brake and battered an other Eagle that was set vppe for a signe at a Tauerne dââ¦re in Cheape side And herevpon men that were giuen to gesse things that shoulde happen by ââ¦king of straunge tokens deemed that the Emperour Maximilian which gaue the Eagle should suffer some greate mysfortune as hee old ââ¦ly after by the losse of hys sonne the sayde king Philip. Also shortlye after the departing of Kyng Philippe the King of Englande beganne to suspect Sir George Neuill Lorde of Burgeynye and Sir Thomas Greene of Greenes Norton as partakers in the begynning of the conspiracie wyth the Earle of Suffolke and so vpon that suspition they were commaunded to ãâã Tower But shortly after when they had ãâã tryed and pourged of that suspition hee commaunded them both to be set at libertie But sir Thomas Greene fell sicke before and remayned in the Tower in hope to be restored to hys health as well as to his libertie but by death he was preuented This yeare the King beganne to be diseased of a certayne infyrmitte An. reg ââ whiche ââ¦hriâ⦠euerye yeare but especially in the Spring tyme sore ââ¦eââ¦d him and bycause for the moste parte the harme that chaunceth to the Prince is parted wyth his Subiectes the ââ¦ting sickenesse whiche as yee haue hearde in the fyrst yeare of this king fyrst afflicted the people of this realme nowe assayled them agayne The sweâ⦠fieââ¦esse eftsâ⦠returââ¦neth howbeâ⦠by the remedie founde at the begynning of ãâã nothyng the lyke number dyed thereof nowe thys second time as did the first time til the said remedie was inuented But nowe the thirde plague ââ¦gall to the Pestilence ensued by the working of the Maisters of the forfeytures and suche infourmers as were appoynted thereto By whose meanes many a riche and wealthie person by the extremitie of the lawes of the realme were coÌdemned and brought to great losse and hinderance A greate part of which theyr vndoyngs proceeded by the inconuenience of suche vnconscionable officers as by the abuse of exigentes outlawed those that neuer hearde nor had knowledge of the saytes commenced agaynst them of whiche harde and sharpe dealyng the harme that thereof insueth considered if the occasion might be taken away by some other more reasonable fourme and order of lawe deuysed whereby the partie myght haue personall warning it woulde both preserue many an Innocent manne from vndeserued vexation and daunger of vnmercifull losse of goodes and also cedounde highly to the commendation of the Prince and such other as chaunced to bee refourmers of that colourable law where they be called only in the counties without other knowledge giueÌ to theÌ or theirs at their dwelling houses But now to returne such maner of outlawries olde recognisaunces of the peace and good abearings escapes riottes and innumerable statutes penall were put in execution and called vppon that euerie man both of the
wrote to hym sharply againe commaundyng him to accomplishe that which appertained to his dutie which caused hym to aduenture thyngs further than wââ¦ââ¦dÌ ãâã he should as ââ¦eer ye then heare Prioue Iehan keping ãâã within hâ⦠hold as a priâ⦠a dungeon An. reg 5. did yet somtime send out his cause ioyââ¦s to make a shewe before the English nauie which caused them to their Bay but bicause the English ships were myghtie vessells they coulde not enter the Bay and therfore the L. Admiral caused certain boates to be manned ãâã which took one of the best Foysts that Prior. Iehan had and that with great daunger for the galeys and bulwarks shot so freshly al at one instant that it was maruel how the englishmen escaped The L. Admirall perceiuing that the Frenchmen would not come abroade called a counsel wherin it was determined y e first they would assaile Prior Iehan and his galeys lying in Blanke sable Bay after to set on the residue of the French fleete in the hauen of Brest Then first it was appointed that the Lord Ferrers sir Stephen Bull and other should go a land with a conueniente member to assault the bulwarkes while the Admirall entred with row barges and little Galeys into the Baye and so shoulde the Frenchmen be assayled both by water and land The Lord Admirall by the counsel of a Spanishe knight called Sir Alfonse Charant affirming that he might enter the Bay with litle icopardie called to him William Fitz William William Cooke Iohn Colley and sir Wolstan Browne as his chiefe and most trustie frendes making them priuie to his intent which was to take on him the whole enterprise with their assistance and so on Saint Markes day whiche is the .xxv. of Aprill the sayde Admirall put hymselfe small rowe barge appoynting three other small rowing shippes and his owne shypboate to attend him and therwith vpon a sodain rowed into the Bay where Prior Iehan hadde moored vp his galeys iust to the grounde whiche galeys with the bulwarkes on the lande shot so terribly that they that folowed were afrayd but the Admirall passed forwarde and as soone as he came to the Galeys he entred droue out the Frenchemenne William Fitz William within his shippe was sore hurt with a quarell The Bay was shallow and the other ships could not enter for the tyde was spent Which thyng the Frenchmen perceyuing they entred the galeys agayn with Moris pikes and foughte with the Englishemen in the galeys The Admirall perceyuing their approche thought to haue entred agayne into his rowe barge whiche by violence of the tide was dryuen downe the streame and wyth a pike hee was throwen ouer the boorde Sir Edvvarde Lord Admiral drovvned and so drowned and also the forenamed Alfonse was there stayne All the other boates and vesselles escaped verye hardlye awaye for if they had taryed the tyde had fayled them and then all had bin lost The Lord Fââ¦ers and the other captaines were right sorowfull of thys chance but when there was no remedy they determined not to attempte anye further till they might vnderstand the kings plesure and so they returned into England The Frenchmen perceyuing that the English flete departed from the coasts of Britayne and drewe towardes Englande they came foorth of their hauens and Prior Iehan set foorth his galeys and foysts and drawing alongst the coasts of Normandie and Britayn coasted ouer to the borders of Sussex with all his company The Frenche gallies land in Sussex and brent certayne cotages there landed and set fire on certaine poore cotages The Gentlemen that dwelte neere reysed the countrey and came to the coast and drone Prior Iehan to his galeys The King was right sory for the death of his Admirall but sorrowe preuaileth not when the chaunce is past Therfore the king hearyng that the French nauie was abrode called to hym the lord Thomas Howard eldest brother to the late Admirall and sonne and heire apparante to the Erle of Surrey The Lorde Thomas Havvarde made Admirall whom he made Admiral willing him to reuenge his brothers death The lord Howard humbly thanked his grace of the truste that he put in him and so immediatly wente to the sea and skoured the same that no Frenchman durst shew himself on the coast of EnglaÌd for he fought with them at their owne portes The king hauing all his prouisions ready for the warre and meaning to passe the sea in hys owne person for the better taming of the loftye Frenchemen appoynted that worthy counsellor and right redoubted chieftayne the noble George Talbot erle of Shrewesburie The Earle of Shââ¦evvesbury sent into FraÌce vvyth an army hygh Steward of his household to be capitayn generall of his foreward and in his companie were appoynted to goe the Lord Thomas Stanley erle of Derby Lorde Decowrey Prior of Saint Iohans sir Robert Ratcliffe Lorde Fitzwater the Lorde Hastings the Lorde Cobham sir Rice ap Thomas sir Thomas Blunt sir Richarde Sacheverell Sir Iohn Digby sir Iohn Askewe sir Lewes Bagot sir Thomas Cornwal and many other knights and esquiers and souldiors to the number of eight thousande men These passed the sea and came to Caleys about the middle of May. The Lorde Herbert called sir Charles Somerset Lorde Chamberlayn to the kyng in the ende of the same moneth folowed the sayd earle of Shrewesbury with sixe thousande menne in whose companie were the Earles of Northumberlande Percye of Kent Graye of Wylshyre Stafforde the Lorde Dudley the Lorde Delaware and his sonne Sir Thomas Weste Syr Edwarde Hussey sir Edwarde Dynmacke sir Dany Owen with many other knights esââ¦yââ¦s and Gentleman After they had soiorned certayne days in Ealââ¦ys and that all their necessaries were ââ¦adye they issued forth of the towne so to begin their camp And first the erle of Shrewesburie his coÌpany toke the fielde after hââ¦s the Lord Heââ¦bert with his retiââ¦es in maner of a reââ¦ward Then folowed that valiant knight sir Ryââ¦cap Thomas with .v. C. light horsmen and archers on horsbacke who ioyned himself to the forewarde These two Lordes thus embââ¦tailed did remoue the .xvij. of Iune to Saââ¦field and on the .xviij. they came to Marguyson on the further side of the water The Englishe armie marcheâ⦠vnto Tervvys as though they woulde haue passed streight ways to Bolongne but they meaning an other thing the next day toke an other way and so coasted the countrey with suche diligence that the .xxij. of Iune they came before the strong citie of Terrouanne and ââ¦ight theyr tents a mile from the town The same night as certain captains were in counsell within the lord Hââ¦berts tent the baron of Carew was slayne with a bullet shotte oute of the towne The Baron of Carevv slayne whyche sodain aduenture muche dismayed the assemble but the lord Herbert comforted them with manly words and so his death was passed ouer All the countrey of Arthoys
to be in hym The Lord Hovvarde Admirall Capitayne of the vauvvarde Then the Earle and hys counsell wyth greate deliberation appointed his battailes in order wyth wings and wyth horsmen necessarie Firste of the forewarde was ordayned Capitayne the Lorde Howarde Admirall of England aswell with such as came with him from the Sea as others Fyrste the Lorde Clyfforde the Lorde Coniers the Lord Latimer the lord Scrope of Vpsall the Lorde Ogle the Lorde Lomley Sir Nicholas Appliarde Maister of the ordinaunce sir Stephan Bull sir Henrye Shirborne sir Wyllyam Sidney sir Edwarde Echingham sir Wyllyam Bullmer wyth the power of the Byshoppricke of Durham sir Wyllyam Gascoygne sir Christofer Warde sir Iohn Eueringham sir Thomas Metham sir Walter Griffith and many other Of the wyng on the ryght hande of the forewarde was Capitayne sir Edmunde Howarde Knyght Marshall of the hoste and with him Brian Tunstall Rause Brearton Io. Laurence Rich. Bold esquiers sir Iohn Bothe sir Thomas Butler Knyghtes Richarde Done Iohn Bigod Thomas Fitz Wyllyam Iohn Claruys Bryan Stapulton Roberte Warcoppe Richard Cholmley with the men of Hulle and the Kings tenauntes of Hatfielde and other Of the wyng on the lefte hande was capitayne sir Marmaduke Connestable with his sonnes and kinsemen sir Wyllyam Percye and of Lancashire a thousande men Of the rerewarde was capitayne the earle of Surrey hymselfe and with hym the Lorde Scrope of Bolton sir Phillyppe Tiiney sir George Darcy sir Thomas Berkely sir Iohn Rocliffe sir Christofer Pikeryng Richarde Tempeste sir Iohn Stanley with the Bishop of Elies seruauntes sir Bryan Stapulton Lionell Percye with the Abbot of Whithies tenauntes Christofer Clapham sir William Gascoygne the yonger sir Guy Dawney Maister Magnus Maister Dalbies seruants sir Iohn Normanuile the Citizens of Yorke sir Ninian Markanuile sir Iohn Willoughby with other Of the wing on the right hand was capitaine the Lorde Dacres with his power Of the lefte hande wing was captayne sir Edward Stanley Knyght with the residue of the power of the twoo countyes Palantine of Chester and Lancaster Thus was the hoste appointed and deuided into Wardes and wynges at the firste thoughe afterwarde vppon occasion this order was somewhat altered And nowe that euery man knew what to do the Erle of Surrey commyng wyth hys power towardes the place where hee thought to finde the Scottishe hoste hee was enformed howe King Iames being remoued a six miles from Norham The strengthâ⦠of the place vvhere Kyng Iames lay encamped called Flodden lay embattailed vppon a greate mountaine called Flodden a place of suche strengthe as it was not possible for the Englishmen to come neare hym but to their greate disaduantage for at the foote of the same hill on the lefte hand there was a great marishe grounde full of reed and water On the ryght hande it was defended with a riuer called Til the course whereof being so swifte and the chanell in some places to deepe that it myght not conuenientlye bee passed On the backe halfe there were such craggy rockes and thicke woods that it was not possible to assayle hym to anye aduauntage that way forthe And on the fore parte of the campe where Nature hadde lefte an easye entry for men to come to the same all his ordinaunce was planted alofte vpon the sides of such trenches as hee had caused to bee caste for defence on that parte The Earle of Surrey herevppon consydering with hymself that onlesse he might deuise some policie to cause the Scottishe armye to discend the hil it wer not possible for him to accomplish his desire he calling about him his counsell An Herraulte sente from the earle of Surrey to King Iames. and with them taking aduice in this point at length it was coÌcluded determined among other things to send Rouge Crosse Purseuaunt of armes wyth a trumpet to the Kyng of Scottes wyth a Message and certain Instructions whych in substance was to shewe and declare vnto the sayde Kyng of Scottes that where hee contrarye vnto hys othe and league and vnnaturallye agaynst all reason and conscience hadde entred and inuaded this his brothers Realme of England and done greate hurte to the same in castyng downe Castels Towers and houses brenning spoyling and destroying the same and cruelly murthering the Kyng of England his brothers subiectes he the sayde Earle woulde bee readie to trie the rightfulnesse of the matter with the king in battayle by Friday next comming at the farthest if he of his noble courage would giue him tarying and abode And the same the said Earle promised as he was a true Knight to God and the Kyng of Englande hys maister The Lorde Admirals ââ¦essage to the K. of Scottes And before Rouge Crosse should departe with the sayde instructions the Lorde Admirall gaue him in credence to shewe the sayde Kyng of his comming and parte of hys companye from the Sea with him and that hee had soughte the Scottishe nauie then beeing on the Sea but hee coulde not meete with them bycause they were fledde into Fraunce by the coast of Ireland And in as muche as the sayde Kyng hadde diuers and many times caused the sayde Lorde to bee called at dayes of truce to make redresse for Andrewe Barton Andrewe Barton a Pirate of the Sea long before that vanquished by the same Lorde Admirall hee was nowe come in hys owne proper person to be in the vantgard of the field to iustifie the death of the sayde Andrew against hym and all hys people and woulde see what coulde be layde to hys charge the sayde day and that he nor none of his company should take no Scottishe noble man prisoner nor any other but they should dye if they came in his daunger vnlesse it were the Kings owne person for hee sayde hee trusted to none other curtesse at the hands of the Scottes And in thys manner hee should finde hym in the vantgard of the fielde by the grace of God and Sainte George as he was a true Knight Yet before the departing of Rouge Crosse with the sayde instructions and credence it was thought by the Earle and his counsayle that the sayde King woulde fayne and imagine some other message to send an Herrault of his with the same onely to view and ouersee the manner and order of the Kyngs royall army ordinance and artillerie then beeing with the Earle whereby myghte haue ensued greate daunger to the same â⦠good ââ¦oââ¦e and for the eschuing thereof hee hadde in commaundemente that if anye suche message were sente not to bryng any person commyng therewith within three or two mile of the fielde at the nighest where the sayde Earle woulde come and heare what hee woulde saye And thus departed Rouge Crosse with hys Trumpette apparrelled in hys coate of armes On Monday the fifth daye of September the Earle tooke hys fielde at Bolton in Glendale as he hadde appoynted where all the noble men and Gentlemen mette hym with their retinues to
were fought with right sharply who defended theÌselues with such manhode in drawing backe to their aduauntage that if the yong Lorde of Fulberie had not come to the succours of the Englishmen the Scottes had gone away with their bootie Notwithstanding in the ende they were glad to seeke refuge by flight loosing two hundreth of their number which were taken in the chase The v. of Iulye next ensuing Sir Iohn a Fenwike Leonarde Musgraue and bastarde Heron with diuerse other Englishe Captaynes hauing with them nine hundreth men of warre entred the Mers minding to fetch out of the same some bootie and encountring wyth the Scots being in number two thousande after sore and long fight caused them to leaue their grounde and to flie so that in the chase were taken two hundreth Scottes and many slaine and amongst them were diuers Gentlemen but sir Raufe a Fenwike Leonarde Musgraue and the bastarde Heron with xxx other Englishmen well horsed followed so farre in the chase that they were past rescues of their companie wherof the Scottes being aduised sodainly returned and set on the Englishmenne which oppressed with the multitude of their enimies were soone ouercome and there was taken sir Raufe a Fenwike Leonarde Musgraue and sixe other and bastarde Heron with seauen other were slayne The residue by chaunce escaped The other Englishmen with their two hundreth prisoners returned safely into Englande The seuenth of Iuly the Englishmen fought with like fortune against the Scottes that were entred Englande at the West marches for in the beginning they put the Scots to the worse and tooke three hundreth of them prisoners but afterwardes bicause the Englishmen that had taken those prisoners withdrewe out of the field with the same prisoners the Scots perceyuing the number of the Englishmen to be diminished gaue a newe onset on the Englishmen and them distressed After this the Scots sued for a truce and had it graunted to endure till the feast of Saint Andrewe This yeare the first of September was Doctor Thomas Hanniball maister of the Rolles receyued into London with Earles The Popes ambassadour presenteth the K. with the golden Rose and Bishoppes and diuerse other Nobles and GentlemeÌ as Ambassadors from pope Clement which brought with him a Rose of golde for a token to the King and on the daye of the Natiuitie of our Ladie after a solemne Masse song by the Cardinall of Yorke the sayde present was deliuered to the King which was a tree forged of fine golde and wrought with branches leaues and floures resembling Roses This tree was set in a pot of golde which had three feete of anticke fashion The pot was of measure halfe a pynte in the vppermost Rose was afayre Saphire loupe pierced the bignesse of an ââ¦orne the tree was of eygth halfe an English yarde and a foote in bredth This yeare in Iuly the Lorde Archimbalde Douglas Earle of Angus whiche had maryed the Queene of Scots sister to the king of Englande escaped out of Fraunce where he had remayned for a season in maner as a banished man and came into Englande to the king as then being at Grenewich and was of him curteously receyued Sir Anthonie Fitzherbert one of the Iustiers of the common place sir Rauf Egerton knight Commissioners sent into Ireland to reforme the countrey and Doctor Denton Deane of Lichfield being sent in the beginning of this yeare into Irelande as Commissioners behaued theÌselues so sagely that they reformed diuers wrongs brought sundry of the wylde Irishe by fayre meanes vnto obedience and made by the kings authoritie The Earle of Kildare ââ¦e Deputie of Irelande the earle of Kildare Deputie of the lande before whome the great Onele bare the sworde And the Lord Piers Butler earle of Ormond which before was Deputie was now made high treasurer of Ireland In September the sayd Commissioners returned During all this season there were dayly attemptes made and practised by the Englishmen in the lowe countrie namelye the Englishe horsemen and the Aduenturers rested not but daily made inuasions vpon the French confines But the Aduenturers about the beginning of winter made an enterprise to fetch some bootte from a village lying towarde Muttrell They were not fully two hundreth men and of those there were xxv horsemen The Frenchmen by chaunce the same time were abroade vnder the conduct of the Earle of Dammartine whiche was going to S. Omers with xv huÌdred horsmen and viij C. footemen and perceyuing where the Aduenturers were comming made towardes them and after long and cruell ââ¦ght ouercame them and slue most part of them for that in defending themselues most stoutly they had slayne and wounded a great number of the Frenchmen ere they coulde be ouercome keping themselues close togither and might not be broken so long as they had any arrowes to shoore The ende of ãâã Kreekers This was the ende of the Aduenturers otherwise called Kreekers being as hardie men as euer serued Prince In December there came to London diuers Ambassadors out of Scotlande about a peace to be had and a mariage concluded betweene the King of Scottes and the Ladie Marie daughter to the King of Englande as in the Scottishe historie ye shall finde more at large expressed Before the feast of Christmas the Lorde Leonarde Grey and the Lorde Iohn Grey brethren to the Marques Dorset sir George Cobham sonne to the Lorde Cobham Willyam Cary sir Iohn Dudley Thomas Wyat FraÌcis Pointz Francis Sidney sir Anthonie Browne sir Edwarde Seymor Oliuer Manners Perciuall Hart Sebastian Nudigate and Thomas Calen Esquires of the Kings housholde enterprised a chalenge of feates of armes against the feast of Christmas which was proclaymed by Winsore the Herault and perfourmed at the time appointed after the best maner both at Tylt Turney Barriers and assault of a Castell erected for that purpose in the Tilte yarde at Greenewiche where the King helde a royall Christmas that yeare with great myrth and Princely pastime 1525 In the Moneth of Ianuarie the Cardinall by his power Legantine The ââ¦ers obseruants imââ¦gne the Cardinals authoââ¦ie would haue visited the Friers obseruants but they in no wyse woulde thereto condiscende wherefore ninetene of the same Religion were accursed at Paules crosse by one of their owne Religion called Frier Forest Iohn Iokin Stewarde of housholde to the French kings mother this yere whylest the French king was in Italy came into EnglaÌd and was receyued in secret maner into the house of one Doctor Larke a Prebendarie of S. Stephens and oftentimes talââ¦ed with the Cardinal about the affayres betwixt the Kings of Englande and Fraunce motioning ways for a peace to be concluded When this was known abrode as at the length it was Monsieur de Prate the Emperors ambassador misliked such couert doings and sore grudged thereat The xxiiij of Ianuarie the President of Roan called Monsieur Brinion came to London as Ambassador from the French king and was lodged with the
by some of theÌ be came thus to his ende At length the murtherer in deede was condemned at Banburie in Oxfordshyre to die for a felonie which he afterwardes committed and when hee came to the Gallowes on whiche hee suffered he confessed that he did this murther and till that tyme hee was neuer had in anye suspicion thereof The .xxix. of Marche were twelue of the Lincolneshyre Rebelles drawne to Tyborne and there hanged and quartered fiue of them were priestes the residue lay men One of the priestes was Doctour Makarell and another was the vicar of Louth About this season the maner of casting pipes of leade for the conueyaunce of water vnder the ground Grafton The inuention of casting pipes without occupying of sonder to the same was inuented by Robert Brocke Clearke then one of the kings Chaplaynes an inuention right necessarie for the sauing of expenses for two men and a boy will doe that in one day which before could not be done by many men in many dayes Robert Cowper Goldsmyth was the fyrst that made the instruments and put this inuention in practise An. reg 29. In the verie beginning of this yeare certaine Commissioners beeing sent into Somersetshyre to take vp corne the people beganne to make an Insurrection but by the wisedome and diligence of yong master Paulet and others the same was suppressed and the begynners therof to the number of .lx. were apprehended and condemned and xiiij of them were hanged and quartred One of the number being a woman The rest ãâã were saued by the kings mercifull pardon In Iune the Lorde Daâ⦠and the Lorde Husey Execution were arraigned at Westmynster before the Marques of Exceter then high Stewarde where they were found guiltie and haâ⦠iudgemeÌt as in cases of high treason Shortly after also were arraigned sir Robert Conestable sir Thomas Pââ¦roââ¦e Arraignmeâ⦠sir Frances Bigot sir Stephen Hamilton sir Iohn Bââ¦lmeâ⦠and his wife or ãâã her as some report his paramout also William Lomley Nicholas Tempest William Tââ¦t Abbot of Fountaynes Adam Sudburie Abbot of Ierueux William Wolde Prior of Birlington also the Abbot of Ryuers and Robert Aske They were all found guiltie of high treason al put to death Sir Robert Conestable was hanged in Chaââ¦s ouer Beuerley gate at Hul and Robert Aske was also hanged in chaynes on a tower at Yorke and Margaret Cheyuey sir Iohn Bulmers paramor burnt in Smithfield in London The other suffered at Tiborne In the latter end of Iune Execution was the lord Darcy beheaded at the tower hill shortly after the lord Husey was likewise beheaded at Lincolne This yeare at Saint Georges feast was the Lord Cromwell made knight of the Garter In October on Saint Edwardes euen The birth oâ⦠king Edwâ⦠the sixth which falleth on the twelfth of that Moneth at Hampton court the Queene was deliuered of hir sonne named Edward for whose byrth great ioy was made through the Realme with thankes giuing to almightie God who hadde sent suche a yong Prince to succeede his father in the Crowne of this Realme as afterwarde he did by the name of king Edward the sixt His Godfathers at the Font stone were the Archbishoppe of Canterburie and the Duke of Norffolke The Ladie Marie was his Godmother And at the Bishopping the Duke of Suffolke was his Godfather But as ioy is often myxed with sorrowe The death ãâã Queene Iaâ⦠so at that tyme it came to passe by the death of his mother that noble vertuous Lady Queene Iane whiche departed out of thys lyfe the fourtenth day of this Month of October to the great grief of the whole realme but namely the king hir husband tooke it most grieuously of all other who remouing to Westminster there kept himselfe close a great while after The .viij. of NoueÌber the corps of the Queene was caried to Winsore with great solemnitie there buried in the midst of the Quiere in the castell Church There was also a soleÌmn herse made for hir in Pauls church funeral exequies celebrate as well as in al other churches within the Citie of London The king held his Christmas at Greenewich and as well he as all the Court ware mourning apparell till the morow after Candlemasse day and then he and all other chaunged 1538 ãâ¦ã This yeare the vicount Beauchampe was created Earle of Hertfort and sir William Fitzwilliam Lorde high Admiral was created Earle of Southampton An. reg 30. ãâã Forest In May a Frier obseruant called Frier Forest was apprehended for that he was knowne in secrete confessions to haue declared to many of the Kings liege people that the king was not supreme heade of the Church where he had by hys othe neuerthelesse affyrmed him so to be Wherevpon in his examination that poynt beyng layde to hys charge he answered that hee tooke his othe with his outwarde man but hys inwarde man neuer consented therevnto But beeyng further accused of dyuerse hereticall and damnable opinions that he helde and mainteyned contrarie to the Scripture at length beyng not able to defende the same he submitted himself to the punishment of y e Church But wheÌ vpon thys hys submission hauing more libertie thaÌ before he had to talke with whom he would and other hauing libertie to talke with him he was inceÌsed by some such as had conference with him that the Frier when his abiuration was sent him to read peruse he vtterly refused it and obstinately stood to al his heresies treasons thervpon he was coÌdemned and afterwardes on a paire of new gallowes prepared for him in Smithfield he was haÌged by the middle and armholes al quicke and vnder the gallowes was made a fire wherewith hee was consumed and burnt to death ãâã Forrest ãâã There were diuers of the counsel present at his death ready to haue graunted him pardon if any spark of repentance would haue appeared in him There was also a Pulpet prepared in whiche that renowmed preacher Hugh Latimer then bishop of Worcester by manifest Scriptures confuted the Friers errors and with many godly exhortations moued him to repentance but hee would neither heare nor speake A little before the execution an huge and great Image was brought to the gallowes This Image was fetched out of Wales which y e Welch men had in great reuereÌce It was named Daruell Gatherne A prophecie They had a prophesie in Wales that this Image shoulde set a whole Forrest on fire which prophecie was nowe thought to take effect for he set this Frier Forrest on fire and consumed him to nothing The Frier when he saw the fire come caught hold on the ladder which he would not let goe but in that sort vnpaciently tooke his death so as if one might iudge him by his outward man he appeared saith Hal to haue small knowledge of God and lesse trust in hym at his ending In Iuly was Edmonde Coningshie attainted of treason
Englande to the great annoyance of the Englishe borders which dealing though it much mooued the king of Englande to take displeasure against the Scottes yet he gaue gentle audience vnto Leirmouth at his comming vnto him and by hys fayre wordes and promises was partly pacified But in the meane time the dedes of the Scottishe borderers were as extreame as might be and in a roade made by sir Robert Bowes for reuenge thereof the same sir Robert and many other with him were taken prisoners and could not be deliuered nor admitted to paye their fine and raunsome as hath bene euer accustomed betwixt them on the borders And where at the same time an assuraunce was made on both sides for a time K. Henrie forced to take armes against the Scots at the suite of the sayde Leirmouth the Scots ceased not to make sundrie inuasions into Englande in such wise as the king no longer trusting to their fayre wordes but weying their deedes put an armie in a readynesse for defence of his subiects as the due meane to attayne such a peace as for the safetie of his people he thought it stoode with his honor to procure After whiche preparation made and knowledge thereof had the king of Scots made newe suite to haue the matter taken vppe by treatie Wherevpon the king caused the armie to staye about Yorke and appointed the D. of Norffolk his Lieutenant generall the Lorde priuie seale Bishop of Durham and sir Anthonie Browne Maister of his horses to treate and conclude with the Ambassadors of Scotland some frendly peace vpon reasonable and indifferent condicions as shoulde he thought requisite for the auoyding of warres then by sundrie inuasions of the Scottes made open and manifest But after they had vewed eche others Commissions and beganne to propone articles the Scottish commissioners to protract time at the first seemed to like such articles as the Englishe commissioners had proponed The double dealing of the Scots in the negotiation about an agreement made semblance as if there were no doubt but that in case their k. ours might mete all matters should be quietly coÌpounded ended so taking it as for a thing sure and certaine they only desired vj. dayes to obtaine answere from their Maister and our armie for that time to staye wherevnto the Englishe Commissioners accorded After those sixe dayes was sent a Commission out of Scotlande to conclude a meeting precisely at such a place as they knew will could not in the Winter season be obserued nor kept Wherewith when the English Commissioners seemed nothing content the Scottish Commissioners shewed forth instructions wherein libertie was giuen to them to exceede their Commission in the appoynting of a place and to consent to any other by the Englishe Commissioners thought meete and conuenient but when the English Commissioners refused to deale with men wanting sufficient Commission to warrant their doings the Scottishe Commissioners required other .vj. days respite to send for a larger commission which being graunted at the end of those six dayes they brought forth a commission made in good forme and without exception or restraint of place But therwith they shewed instructions conteyning a lyke restraint as in the former Commission was expressed And thus driuing forth the matter by trisling vppon purpose onely to winne tyme they hoped thereby through the Winter comming on that the Englishe armie shoulde not be able much to annoye their Countrie for that yeare And so their talke brake vp without any conclusion of agreement at all and forthwith was the armie set forward a good part whereof had lien all this time of treatie in Yorke and in the Countrie there abouts When the whole power was assembled the Duke of Norffolke Lieutenaunt generall accompanied with the Earles of Shrewesburse ⪠Darbie The English armie entreth into Scotland Cumberlande Surrey Hertford Angus Rutlande and the Lordes of the Northe partes and sir Anthonie Browne Master of the Horse Sir Iohn Gage Comptroller of the Kings house and others hauing with them twentie thousande men well and warrelike appointed entred Scotlande the xxj of October and taried there eyght dayes without hauing any battayle offered vnto them in whiche spare they brent these townes and villages Paxton Ramrige Styne Gradyn Shylles Lang Ednem ⪠Newton Skitshell Newthorne Smellem spitââ¦le the twâ⦠ãâ¦ã and the two Brurdwes ãâ¦ã Edâ⦠Spittle ãâ¦ã Abbay long Spronâ⦠ãâã and ãâã ââ¦stone And while the ãâ¦ã fourth day after his ââ¦uiring and Scotlande there came to speake with ãâã a myle ãâã the Campe the Bishoppe of Oââ¦ney and Iames Lothââ¦oâ⦠sent from the king of Scoâ⦠to intreate of peace but they agreed not Finally after the Englishmen had lyeâ⦠so long within Scotlande as they might recouer vittayle at length for necessitie they returned to Berwicke In all which iourney the standeâ⦠of the Earle of Southhamptons The Earle of Southamptons standart late Lorde priuie seale which dyed at Newcastell before these entring into Scotlande was borne in the foreward bicause he was appoynted captaine of the same The king of Scots hearing that the English armie was returned raysed a power of ãâã tene thousande menne forth of all partes of hys Realme vnder the guiââ¦ng of the Lorde Maxwell or rather of Oliuer ââ¦eâ⦠An armie of Scots iouade Englande as the Scoth affirme boasting to taâ⦠ãâã in Englande as the Duke of Norffolke had taried in Scotlande And soon the Fridaye being Saint Katherines euen they passed one other water of Eâ⦠and brent certayne houses of the Greââ¦es hir the very border Amongst other that were taken wee finde these men of name Scottish Lords taken at Solem Moste the Earle of Castill Glencarne the Lorde Maxwell Admirall of Scotlande and Warden of the West marches the Lorde Flemming the Lorde Sommerwell the Lorde Oliphant the Lorde Graye sir Oliuer Sincler the Kings minion Iohn Rosse Lorde of Gragy Robert Erskin sonne to the Lorde Geskin Carre Lorde of Gredon the Lorde Maxwels two brethren Iohn Lesley bastarde sonne to the Earle of Rothus George Hume Larde of Hemitton Iohn Mattelande Larde of Wike castell Iames Pringel Iames Sinclex brother to Oliuer Sincler Iohn Carmell Captayne of Crayforth Patricke Heborne Esquire Iohn Seton Esquire sonne in lawe to the Lorde Erskin William Seton Esquire Iohn Steward cousin to the King Iohn Morrowe Esquire Henrie Droumont Esquire Iames Mitton Esquire Iohn Cormurth Esquire Captaine of Gainsforth Iames Mitton Esquire The number of prisoners and artillerie taken and other Esquires and Gentlemen beside the Earles and Lordes before mencioned to the number of two hundreth and aboue and more than viij C. other persons of meaner calling so that some one Englishman yea some women had three or foure prisoners They tooke also foure and twentie peeces of ordinance foure Cartes laden with speares and ten pauilions so that this might well be sayde to be the handie worke of God and the verse of the Psalme verified
Nunc vidi dixi haec est mutatio dextrae excelâ⦠The death of the king of Scotlande The King of Scottes tooke such griefe and inwarde thought for his ouerthrow and also for the murther of an Englishe Herault that was stayne at Dunbar by one Leeche an Englishe man the whiche for the rebellion in Lincolne shire was fledde into Scotlande that he fell into a hote ague and therof dyed although many reported that he was at the byckering and receyued there his deathes wounde and fledde therewith into Scotlande But of his death and of the birth of his daughter ye may see more in the historie of Scotlande ââ¦xiiiâ⦠hath Hall Of these prisoners before named xxj of them were brought vp to London and on the xix ⪠of December entred into the Citie by Bishops gate and so were conueyed to the tower where they remained for the space of two dayes and vpon Saint Thomas daye the Apostle Scottes prisoners brought to London being the xxj of December they were conueyed to Westminster sir Iohn Gage Constable of the Tower ryding before them and the Lieutenant of the same Tower ryding behinde them They roade two and two togither and eyght of them being Earles and Lordes had newe gownes of blacke Damaske furred with black Conse cotes of blacke Veluet and doublers of Saââ¦m with shiââ¦es and other apparell bought aââ¦we for ãâã at the Kings charges Thus being soltiââ¦elye conueyed through the streetes of London vnto Westminster The Scottes prisoners before the Counsell in the staâ⦠Chamber they came before the Counsell sitting in the Starre Chamber and there the Lorde Chauncellour declared to them their vntruth vnkindenesse and false dissimulation declaring further howe the King had cause of war agaynst them both for the denying of their homages and also for their trayterous inuasions made into his Realme without defiance and also for keeping his subiectes prisoners without redemption contrarie to the auncient lawes of the Marches for whiche doings God as they might perceyue had scourged them Howbeit the King more regarding his honour than his Princelye power was content to shewe them kyndenesse for vnkyndenesse right for wrong And although he might keepe them in strait prison by iust lawe of armes yet he was contâ⦠that they shoulde haue libertie to be with the nobles of his Realme in their houses and so according to their Estates they were appoynted to Dukes Earles Bishoppes Knights and Gentlemen which so entertayned them that they confessed themselues neuer to be better vsed nor to haue had greater cheare in all their life times The Earle of Cassils was appointed to be with the Archbishoppe of Caunterburie the Earle of Glencarne with the Duke of Norffolke the L. Flemming with the Lorde priuie seale the Lord Maxwell with sir Anthonie Browne the Lord Somerwel with the Lord Chancelor the Lord Oliphant with sir Thomas Lee Oliuer Sencler with the Duke of Suffolke Robert Ersâ⦠with the Bishop of Westminster the lord Monteth with sir Anthonie Wingfielde the Lorde MouÌketh with sir Raufe Sadler George Hame with the Earle of Hertforde the Lorde of Gragie with sir Thomas Cheiney the Lorde of Gredon with maister Gastwike Henrie Maxewell with sir Richarde Long Thomas Clifforde with sir Arthur Darcy Patrick Heââ¦forde with sir Thomas Wriothesley Iames Prââ¦gel with sir Richard Rich Iohn Mariââ¦d with sir Edwarde North the Lorde Grey Iames Sencler and Iohn Lesley were apointed to men of such credit as were thought mere to aunswere for their safe keping The .xxij. of DeceÌber ãâã came of the king of Scottes death and vpâ⦠S. Iohns day in Christmas weeke y e foresaid ââ¦rds of ScotlaÌd were brought to y e court which was then at Grenewich where they had great chââ¦e went before the King to y e chappel were ââ¦odged within the court Here vpoÌ ye must coÌsider y e where as the K. of Scots had left no issue behind him in life but only one daughter y e King hys Counsell perceyuing a meane nowe offered wherby without warre the two Realmes might be vnited these Scottishe Lordes hauing first made the motion themselues for a mariage to be had betwixt Prince Edwarde and their yong Queene the king required them to helpe to the ââ¦t hââ¦rance of that matter which myght be such a benifit to themselues and their countrie This they promised faithfully to doe and aswell by themselues as their friendes to being the same to effect so muche as the king coulde require Wherevpon the king was not only couââ¦ed to release them home but also highly rewarded them with rich gyftes in most bountifull wise The xxx of December they departed from the Court and the morrow after eyght of them dyned with Sir Iohn Coates thou Lorde Maior of London and the rest with the Sherifes and had very great cheare On Newyeares daye they departed from London honââ¦wardes towardes Scotlande 1543 and roade to Enfelde to see the Prince and there dyned that daye greatly ââ¦oyââ¦ng as by their wordes and countenance is sââ¦ared to beholde so propet and towardly anyââ¦ped From thence they kept on then iourney till they came to the North partes where they founde the Duke of Suffolke the Kings Lieutenant there and with him remayned till suche pledges were come forth of Scotlande as it was couenanted they should leaue behind them The Duke then after he had receyued the hostages permitted them to depart and so they returned into Scotlande where they were gladlye welcommed by their kinsemen and frendes With them went also the Earle of Augus who had bene banished Scotlande and hauing remayned here in Englande a long time receyued of the Kings fee a thousande marke by yeare and likewise his brother Sir George Douglas who had fiue hundreth markes yearely likewise of the Kings gift They were nowe both restored home into their countrie and that as was sayde by the last Kings will The sayde Earle of Angus and diuerse of the Lordes that had bene prisoners here in Englande were made of the priuie Counsell of the Realme by the Earle of Arrayne that was chosen gouernour to the yong Queene and of the Realme as next heire apparent Nothwithstanding that the Archbishop of Saint Andrewes and Cardinall of the sea of Rome enimie mortall to the King of Englande for the Popes cause and partlye set on by the French king had forged a will expressing howe the king had made him gouernour associate with two Earles of his affinitie as well of the Queene as Realme contrarie to the lawes of Scotland Wherevpon the said Earle of Arceyne according to his right as he pretended with the helpe of his frendes The Earle of Arraine tooke vppon him the authoritie of Gouernour and put the sayde Cardinall in poson and deliuered Sir Robert Bowes Sir Robert Bowes deliuered and the other Englishe prisoners by their handes according to the custome of the marches All this yeare was neyther perfect peaconor open warre betwixt
candle that they might see where they were set all the villages houses about on a light fire continuing the same al that afternoone and most parte of the night following and the next morning betwixt foure and fiue of the clocke they came backe agayne vnto Boullogne with all their spoyle and prisoners They tooke in this encounter seauen peeces of artillerie two of Brasse and fiue of Iron Artillerie gayned Also the peeces of aduauntage of the armour of Monsieur de Biez beside apparell plate and furniture in great plentie as well taken in the field as also in their campe where they left their tents standing all their prouision of vittayles wholy vnremooued The same peeces of armour were sent ouer into Englande to the King for a wytnesse of the good successe that had thus happened to his people in this famous enterprise in the atchieuing whereof there were not past halfe a dozen English men slayne beside those that were hurt which neyther were many as vnder halfe a score at the most Whylest suche things were a doing aboute Boulogne and other places Stow. as before ye haue hearde in this xxxvj yeare the shippes of the west countrey and other coastes of this Realme wafted abrode on the seas and tooke to the number of three hundred and odde French shippes Great prizes of French goods taken by the western ships so that the Grey friers Churche in London was layd full of wyne the Austine friers and Black friers full of herring and other fish that was taken as the same shoulde haue bene conueyed into Fraunce About the same season the King demaunded a beneuolence of hys subiectes spirituall and temporall A beneuolence towardes the mayntenaunce of his warres agaynste the Frenchmenne and Scottes Among other Prisoners taken Richarde Read an Alderman of London was one Reade Alderman of LoÌdon who for that hee refused to paye suche a summe of money as the coÌmissioners for the beneuolence demaunded of him was coÌmanded forthwith to serue the King in hys warres agaynste the Scottes and so was taken nowe at thys ouerthrowe The death of Sir Raufe Euers was greatly bemoned for he had shewed great profe of his valiant prowes at sundry tymes before namely in thys yeare past as at the taking and brenning of the towne of Iedworth which enterprise was atchieued the .x. of Iune beside dyuers other exploytes fortunately brought to passe by his highe valiancie and manhoode till his hap was at this present to finishe his dayes An. reg 37. Grafton This yeare on Saincte Georges daye Syr Thomas Wriothesley Lorde Chauncellor of England was made knight of the garter also Trinitie Terme was adiourned by reason of the warres but the Escheker and the Court of the Tenths were open for those that were accomptable in eyther of the sayd courses The .xiij. of Iune Robert Luken seruaunt to sir Humfrey Browne one of the Iustices of the kings benche Anne Askee others arreigned acquitte Anne Askew gentlewoman otherwyse called Anne Kyme wyfe to one Kyme a Gentleman of Lyncolneshire and Ioane Sauterey wyfe to Iohn Santerey of London were arraigned in the Guyld Hall of London for speaking against the Sacrament of the Aultar as they tearmed it contrarie to the estatute of the .vj. articles but bicause no witnesse appeared against the women nor againste Lucane one onely excepted who was thought to accuse him rather of malice than otherwyse they were by .xij. honest substantiall men of the Citie sworne to passe vppon theyr Inditements clearely acquit and discharged The same daye also was a Pewterer named Thomas Day discharged Thomas Daye Pevvterer by the pardoÌ granted in the laste Parliament after hee hadde remayned in pryson in Newegate the space of three yeares nowe paste condempned long before the date of the same pardon for the article of aurycular confession comprysed wythin the same statute Aboute the same tyme to wytte the seuenth of Iune a greate armye of Frenchemen came downe to Boullongne and neare vnto the hauen encamped themselues Martin de Bellay In this army were reconed to bee .xij. M. Lansquenetz .xij. M. Frenche footemen .vj. M. Italians iiij M. of Legeonarie souldiors of France a M. or xij huÌdred men of armes beside .vij. or .viij. C. light horsmen After some skirmishes not greaââ¦lye to their aduantage they began yet to build a forte whiche at length they accomplished The nevv forâ⦠before Bulleyâ⦠as after shall appeare The same moneth also the lord Lisle Admirall of England with the Englyshe fleete entred the mouthe of Sayne The Englishâ⦠fleete coÌmeth before Nevvhauen and came before Newe hauen where a greate nauy of the Frenchmen lay to the number of a ij C. ships and xxvj galeys whereof the Pope as was reported had sent .xx. well furnished with men and mony to the aide of the Frenche kyng The Englishmen being not past an C. and .lx. saile and all greate shippes determined not to set vpon the Frenchmen where they lay but yet approching neare vnto them shotte off certaine peeces of ordinance at them and therby caused the galleis to come abroade whiche chaunged shot agayn wyth the Englishmen The Galleis at the fyrste hadde greate aduantage by reason of the great calme Twise eyther parte assaulted other with shotte of their greate artillerye but suddainelye the wynde rose so high that the Galeys could not endure the rage of the seas and so the Englishmenne for feare of slattes wet compelled to enter the mayne seas and so sayled vnto Portesmouthe where the Kyng laye for he hadde knowledge by hys espialles that the Frenchemen intended to lande in the Isse of Wyght wherefore hee repaired to that coaste to see his Realme defended The Frenche ââ¦eete landeth ââ¦n the Isle of VVight After this the eighteenth of Iuly the Admirall of France Monsieure Danchalââ¦e halfed vppe sayles and wyth his whole Nauie came foorthe into the Seas and arryued on the coast of Sussex afore Bryght Hamsteede The Frenchemen lande in Suffex and set certaine of his souldiours a lande to burne and spoile the countrey but the Beacons were fired and the inhabitantes thereaboutes came downe so thicke that the Frenchemenne were driuen to flee with losse of diuers of their number so that they did little hurte there Immediatly hervpoÌ they made to the point of the Isle of Wight called saint Helens point and there in good order vpon their arriuall they caste ankers and sent daily .xvj. of their galleis to the verye hauen of Portsmouth The Englishe nauie lying there in the same hauen made them readye and set out towards the ennemyes and still the one shotte hottelye at the other but the winde was so calme that the kyngs shippes could beare no saile whiche greatly greeued the minds of the Englishmen and made the ennemies more bolde to approch wyth their galteis and to assayle the Shippes with their shot euen within the
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 FraÌcis 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 dryuââ¦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 iÌto 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 aââ¦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 ââglasse oâârowen In the meane tyme the Lord Protector appoynted the house to be ouerthrowen whiche by the Captayne of
tyme it lasted and therewith hauing made a reasonable breache for the Souldiours to enter they within yeelded wyth condition to haue these lyues saued which the Lorde Gray was contented to graunt to them all one onely excepted Vlpian Fulâ⦠in the Floâ⦠of Fame who during the siege vttered vnseemely wordes of the king abusing his Maiesties name wyth vile and most opprobrious tearmes They all comming forth of the Castell in theyr shyrtes humbled themselues to my Lordes Gray as became them and vpon strayte examination who shoulde bee the rayles that was excepted oute of the pardon it was knowne to be one Newton a Scot But hee to saue himselfe Newton and Hamilton tâ⦠Scottish gentetlemen accuse ech othââ put it to our Hamilton and so these two Gentlemen acussing one an other the truth coulde not be decided otherwyse than by a combate whiche they requyred and my Lorde Gray therevnto assented and pronounced iudgement so to haue it tryed At the appoynted tyme they entred the Lystes sette vppe for that purpose in the market place of Hadington without other apparell sauing their doublets and hosen weaponed wyth sworde buckles and dagger At the fyst entrye into the Lystââ Hamilton kneeling downe A combat soght betweene them made hys heartie prayer to God that it myght please him to gyue victorie vnto the truth wyth solemne protestation that hee neuer vttered any such wordes of King Edwarde of Englande as his aduersarie changed him with On the other syde Newton being troubled as it seemed wyth his false ââ¦sation argued vnto the beholders hys guiltie conscience Nowe were the sticklers in a readinesse and the Combattours with theyr weapons ãâã fell to it so that betwyxt them were stryken sixe or seuen blowes ryght lustily But Hamylton being verye sieres and eagre vppon truste of hys innocencie constrayned Newton to ãâã ground almost to the ende of the Lystes and ââ¦he had dryuen him to the ende in deede then by the law of Armes he had woonne the victorie Newton perceyuing himselfe to bee almoste at poynt to bee thus ouercome slept forwardes agayne and gaue Hamilton suche a gashe on thââ¦leggâ⦠that he was not able longer to stand but self therewith downe to the grounde He ãâã was vanquished ââ slaine and then Newton falling on him incontinently ãâã him wyth a dagger There were Gentlemen present that ãâã as they tooke it for certain howe Newton was the offender although fortune had ââered him in they Combate woulde gladlye haue ventured their lyues agaynst him man for man if it ryght haue beene graunted bat he chalenging the lawe of Armes had it graunted by my Lorde Gray ãâã reâ⦠by my ââ¦ay who gaue him also his owne Gowne besyde hys backe and a chaine of golde whiche he then ware Thus was he well rewarded howe soeuer he deserued But he escaped not so for afterwardes as he was ryding betwyxt the borders of bothe the Realmes ãâã slaine ãâã he was slaine and cut in peeces The fourth of Iune the Towne of Dawketh was burnt and the Castell wonne by ãâã what ãâ¦ã Scottes were slaine and three hundred ãâã prisoners among whome were of nauie the maister of Morton sonne in law to sir George Dowglas the Larde of Blââgarââ¦ie the Larde of Wedexburne and one Alexander Hume a man of good reputation among them The same day the English horsemen burnt al the Milles round about Edenbourgh within the compasse of sixe miles on eche side the towne Muskelbourgh ãâã The .vij. of Iune they burnt Muskelbourgh Now after that my Lorde Gray had fortifyed Hadington and furnished it with vittayles and mââ¦nitions sufficient the .xij. of Iune he departed from thence homewardes leauing there in garnison about two thousand footmen and .v. C. horsmen In this meane time Henrie the French king succeding hiâ⦠father Fraunces the first who departed this lyfe the last of Marche in the yeare last past to wit 1547. made prouision of an army with a nauy of ships and galleys to passe into Scotland The French âââprepareth âây in ayd the Scottes to the ayde of the Queene and other of his faction And first he had sent thither Monsieur de la Chapelle de Biron a Gentleman of good account to assyst the gouernour wyth hys aduice and counsaile whiche gouernour desirous to recouer the Castell of Broughtiecragge and loth to see it possessed by the English men raysed a power of eight thousande men âââhtiecrag ââ¦gââ¦d and with eight peeces of artillerie came before that Fortresse meaning to winne it by siege but by the valyaunt prowes of Sir Andrewe Dudley and the hardie manhoode of suche Englishe Souldiours as serued there vnder hym the Scottes were repulsed and driuen to leuie theyr siege with dishonour Yet not thus contented the Earle of Arguile with and armie of his Irish Scots or Hielande men if I may so call them after this likewise came and besieged the place but glad to take truce for a time with sir Andrew Before the tearme of the same truce was expired there come newe succours to him and therevpon the Earle in the ende was constrayned to leuie his siege and suffer the Englishmen to become maisters of a little his not farre off from the Castel where afterwards they builded a fortresse But to returne to the French armie whiche was prepared to passe into Scotlande yee Hall vnderstande that when theyr Shippes and prouisions were once readie and the Capitaynes wyth theyr bandes come downe to Brest in Brytayne where the Nauie was rigged to receyue them Monsieur de Desse generall of the French armie Monsieur de Desse Generall of all the army reconed to conteyne a seuen or eight thousand men embarquââ¦d himselfe with all his people and sayled forth on his iourney He landeth at Lieth tyll they arriued in the Forth and there tooke land at Lieth the .xvj. of Iune Shortly after hauing got their great artillerie on lande and taken aduise with the Lorde Gouernour and other of the Scottish Nââitie whome they founde at Edenbourgh how to proceede in prosecuting the warre agaynst the Englishe men it was resolued that without delay they shoulde trie theyr forces aboute the recouering of Hadington The French men resolue to besiege Hadington and goe to besiege that Towne before they attempted any other exployte The gouernour and other of the Scottes Lordes hauing with them seuen or eight hundred light horsemen offered to goe with them to the better aduauncing forwarde of that enterprice Herevppon setting forwarde and comming to Muskelbourgh the Captaynes wyth a certaine numbers of horsemen and footemen as well of Scottes as Frenchmen were appoynted to goe before to view the sayde Towne of Hadington Vpon their approche neare to the towne there issued forth certaine Englishmen and Italians that were of Tiberia's bande which skirmished with them right stoutly all at length the Frenchmen and Scots retyred backe to Lauret a little from Muskelbourgh whore their armie
Lorde of Burgueuennie coulde haue of them after they forsoââ¦e their purpose waye was as they ascâ⦠Wrotham hill Wrotham hil Yallam directly vnder Yallam maister Peckhams house where they ãâ¦ã great aduauntage by the winning of the ââ¦ill displayed their ensignes thinking they had ãâã out of daunger but the Lord of Burgueuennie made such haste after them that ouertaking them at a fielde in the ãâã of Wrotham myle distant from the very ââ¦oppe of the hill Black soll field called Blacke folle fielde ⪠after some resistance with showe and arâ⦠The skirmish and prââer of ãâã made by their horsemen they were put to ââ¦ight and chased for the space of fourâ⦠myles ãâ¦ã to Harthy woode Lx. of them were taken prisoners Sir Henrie Isley fled vnto HaÌpshire And they Kneuet made such shift that he got y t night vnto Rochester and the same time Sir George Harper departing from Sir Thomas Wiat comming to the Duke of Norâ⦠submitted him selfe butâ⦠his grace and the Duke receyued him Which Duke as before ye haue partly heaâ⦠being sent with fiue hundreth Londoners and certaine of the Gares for his better defence to go against the Kentishe menne thus assembled with Sir Thomas Wiat was come downe to Grauââ¦de set forth from thence on mondaye the xxix of Ianuarie about ten of the clocke in the fortnoone marching towardes Stroude on this side of Rochester and about foure of the clocke in the afternoone of the same daye The Duke of Norffolke arriueth at Stroude he arriued at Stroude neare vnto Rochester hauing with him Sir Henrie Ierningham Captayne of the Garde Sir Edwarde ââ¦raye Sir Iohn Fogge Knightes Iohn Couert Roger Appleton Esquires Maurice Gââââish the Bishoppe of Rochester Thomas Swan gentleman with certaine of the garde and ââ¦s to the number of two hundreth or thereabout bââ¦e Bret and other fiue Captaines who with their bandes ââ¦aried behinde at Spittell hill neere vnto Stroud whylest the Duke weââ¦e to Stroude to see the placing of the ordinaunce whiche being readye charged and bent vnto the towne of Rochester and perceyuing by Sir Thomas Wiat and his men by hanging out their ensignes little to regarde him the Duke commaunded one of the peeces to be fired and shotte off into Rochester and as the gunner was firing the peece sir Edwarde Brayes eldest sonne came in all haste to the Duke and tolde him howe the Londoners woulde betraye him and herewith turning backe The reuolting of the Londoners he might beholde howe Brette and the other Captaines of the white Coates with their handes being vppon the hill and at his backe made great and loud shouts sundrie times crying we are all English men wear call English men fashioning themselues in aray ready bent with their weapons to set vpon the Duke if hee had made any resistance wherevppon the Duke commaunded the peeces that were bent against Rochester to be turned vpon Bret and his fellowes but vpon further consideration the shotte was spared and the Dukes grace with the captaine of the Garde considering with wofull hearts their chiefe strength thus turned against them and being thus enuironned both behinde and before with enimies shifted themselues away as did also their companie Sir Thomas Wiat accompanied with two or three and not many mo came forth halfe a myle from Rochester to meete Brette and the other Captaynes amongst whome was Sir George Harper notwithstanding his former submission to the Duke Their meeting verily seemed right ioyfull both in gesture and countenaunce and therewith hauing saluted ech other they entred altogither into Rochester The Lorde of Burguenennie and the Sherife were greatly abashed when they vnderstoode of this mishappe for they doubted that such as were euill disposed afore woulde not be greatly amended thereby The Sherife being then at Maidstone hasted to come to Malling The sherife of Kent rideth to the Counsaile where the Lorde of Burgueuennie laye and vppon his comming thither hee tooke aduise to ryde in poste to the Counsayle to knowe their mindes howe they woulde direct them Sir Thomas Wiat and his associates were greatly recomforted with this newe supply added to their strength by the reuolting thus of the Londoners and verilye it bredde no small hope in all their heartes that wished well to his enterprise that he shoulde the better attaine vnto the wished ende of his purpose But it pleased God otherwise who neuer prospereth any that attempt such exploits without publike and lawfull authoritie In this meane whyle the Duke of Suffolke being persuaded to ioine with other in this quarrell as he that doubted as no small number of true English men then did least the pretenced mariage with the Spanishe King should bring the whole nobilitie and people of this Realme The Duke ãâã Suffolke gâ⦠downe into Leycestershâ⦠into bondage and thraldome of Straungers after he was once aduertised that Sir Thomas Wiat had preuented the time of their purposed enterprise hee secretelye one euening departed from Sheene and roade with all speede into Leycester shire where in the towne of Leycester and other places he caused proclamation to bee made in semblable wyse as Sir Thomas Wiat had done against the Queenes matche whiche she ment to make with the sayd King of Spain but fewe there were that woulde willingly harken thereto But nowe ye must vnderstande The citie of Couentrie that before his comming downe hee was persuaded that the Citie of Couentrie woulde be opened vnto him the more part of the citizens being throughly bent in his fauour in so necessarie a quarrell for defence of the Realme against Straungers as they were then persuaded But howsoeuer it chaunced this proued not altogither true for whether through the misliking whiche the Citizens had of the matter or throughe negligence of some that were sente to sollicite them in the cause or chiefly as should seeme to be most true for that God woulde haue it so When the Duke came with sixe or seauen score horsemen well appointed for the purpose The Duke of Suffolke kepâ⦠out of Couentrie presenting himselfe before the Citie in hope to be receyued hee was kept oute For the Citizens through comfort of the Earle of Huntington that was then come downe sent by the Queene to staye the Countries from falling to the Duke and to rayse a power to apprehende him had put them selues in armor and made all the prouision they coulde to defende the Citie againste the sayde Duke Wherevpon perceyuing himselfe destitute of all such ayde as hee looked for among his frends in y e two shires of Leicester Warwick he got him to his manour of Astley distant from Couentrie fiue myles where appoynting his companie to disperse themselues and to make the best shift eche one for his owne safegard that he might and distributing to euerye of them a portion of money according to their qualities and his store at that present hee and the Lorde Iohn Grey his
Scottishe nobilitie and the Queene dowager of Scotland ââ¦able in âââlande which chanced specially about matters of Religion certayne of the Lordes there minding a reformation therin And the Queene resisting them to hir power in purpose to mainteyne the olde Popishe Religion which some name Catholique diuers companies of Soldyers and men of war were sente out of Fraunce into Scotland to ayde the sayde Queene Frenchmen ãâã into Scotlande where they were placed in dyuers Townes and fortes to the high displeasure of the more part of the Scottishe nobilitie who lothing to bee oppressed with straungers in that sorte The Scottes ãâã to the Queenes master of England for ayde against the French were forced to sue vnto the Queene of Englande for ayde to expell the Frenche who soughte to subuerte the auntiente state of that Realme and to annex the same vnto y e Crowne of France Their sure was the better liked of for that it was doubted least the Frenchmen vnder pretence of bringing an armye into Scotlande to appease the Scottes mighte attempt some inuasion heere in Englande considering that by procuremente as was thoughte of the Duke of Guise Vncle to the Queene of Fraunce and Scotlande a title should seeme to be pretended by his neece the foresayd Queene as might bee gathered by manifest coniectures of the vsurping of armes and so forth The Lords of Scotland that were confederate togyther agaynst the French The names of the Lords of Scotlande that made sute for ayde againste the Frenchmen at this season were these The Duke of Chateau le reault The Earle of Arraine his sonne The Lorde Iames Prior of Sainte Andrewe The Earle of Arguile The Earle of Glencarne The Earle of Rothouse The Earle of Southerland The Earle of Mounseith The Earle of Huntley The Earle of Catnes The Earle of Erxolle The Earle of Marshall The Earle of Morton The Earle of Cassils The Earle of Eglenton The Earle of Montros The Lord Ruithuen The Lord Boyde The Lord Ogletree The Lord Erskin The Lord Dromond The Lord Hume The Lord Roose The Lord Chreighton The Lord Leuingston The Lord Somerwell The maister of Lindsey The maister of Maxwell The Queenes Maiestie with aduice of hyr graces Counsell considering of thys weightie busines and withall foreseeing the malitious purpose of hir aduersaries and how the Queene of Scottes was in Fraunce married and gouerned so as she was not able to vse the libertie of hir Crowne dyd thinke it best to preuente such mischiefes as might ensue if timely remedie were not vsed to displace such daungerous neighbors the Frenchmen that began to ãâã themselues thus strongly so neere at hande for no good purpose as easily might be gessed The Queenes Maiestie determineth to aid the Scottes Heerevppon was a power reysed and sente forth both by Sea and land the Duke of Norffolke beeing appoynted generall and sente into the North for the direction thereof And firste maister William Winter Sir William Winter appoynted Vice Admirall of the Queenes nauie Northwardes made saile towards Scotlande and wasting aloÌgst the coast in Ianuary 1560 came into the Forth and so to the road of Lieth and there cast ancre as well to impeach the landing of suche Frenchmen as might haply be sente forthe of Fraunce to the ayde of the Frenche there against the Scottish Lords named of the congregation as also to keepe them that lay in Inskeith from vittayles and likewise to see that none of the Frenchmen by water shoulde passe to or from Lieth but to watch them so as they shoulde not enioy any commoditie that mighte come to eyther place by the same water Moreouer after that the army by lande was come togither into the North partes The Lorde Grey generall of the army and hadde soiourned a time at Berwike and thereaboutes the Lord Grey of Wilton being appoynted generall of the said armye departed with the same out of the boundes of Berwike and marched to Coldingham where they encamped that night Sir Iames Croft Saterday the thirtith of March Sir Iames Croft and Sir George Howard departed Berwike to the armye The numbers of horsemen and footemen in the army with all the launces and light horsemen conteyning y e number of twelue hundred and fiftie horses The number of the footemen amounted to aboue sixe thousand in all The chiefest in charge in this army The chiefe gouernoures of which army were these The Lord Grey of Wilton Lieutenant generall Sir Iames Crofte assistaÌt with him in that charge The Lord Scrope Lord Marshall Sir George Howard generall of the men at armes and demilances Maister Barnaby Fitz Patricke hys Lieuetenant Sir Henry Percy generall of the light horsemen Thomas Hugghens Esquier prouost Marshall Thomas Gower maister of the ordinance Maister William Pelham Captayne of the pioners Edward Randol Esquier Sergeant maior Maister Thomas Bourrough Maister Cutbert Vaughan Maister Williams and maister Cornewall Corporals Dunglas This Saterday night the army encamped at Dunglas the Horsemen lodged in sundrye Villages neere about Sir Iames Croft lay that nighte at Coberspeth in the Lard of Whitlayes house Sunday the last of March the army remoued from Dunglas A skirmish at Dunbar and marching by Dunbar there issued out of the Towne certayne Horsemen and footemen offering a skirmish towards whome certayne of the English launces and pistoliers with certayne barquebusters made forwardes but they kepte themselues within theyr strength but yet some of the English horsemen approched them so neere that in skirmish two of the enimies horsemen and one footeman were slayne The Englishmen receyued little damage sauing that Peter Miace due of their horsemen was hurt there This done Linton bridg the armye marched vnto Linton Brigges where the footemen encamped that night The Horsemen lay at Hadington and in diuers other small townes Sir Iames Croftes lay at Clarkington West of Hadington at the Lard of Cockburnes house Monday the firste of Aprill the Camp remoued from Linton Brigges vnto Salt Preston Salt Preston and there encamped This euening Sir Iames Croft with dyuers of the Captaynes in his companye mette with the Earle of Arrayne the Lorde Iames The Earle of Arraine Priour of S. Andrewes the maister of Maxwell sir William Kirkaudy Lard of Grange and dyuers other of the Scottish nobilitie with three hundred horse in their trayne After they were mitte and had saluted eache other they rode altogither vnto Salt Preston where at the ende of the towne my Lord Grey Lorde Lieutenante mette them and embraces them and so they lighted from theyr horses and entred into communication for the space of an houre and after tooke leaue eache of other and so departed for that night Tewsday the seconde of Aprill my Lorde Grey Sir Iames Croft my Lord Scrope sir George Howard with diuers of the Captaines rode to Muskelbourrough Church The Duke of Chateau le reault there tarried the coÌming of
the D. of Chateau le reaulte for the space of two houres at length he came accompanyed with his sonne the Earle of Arrayne the Earles of Arguile Glencarne Southerland Monteith and Rothus the L. Iames Prior of Sainte Andrewes the Lorde Ruythnen alias Riuen the Lorde Ogiltree the Lorde Boyd the maister of Maxwel the Lard of Ormââ¦ston the maister of Lindsey the Byshop of Galloway the Abbot of Saint Colmes Inch the Abbot of Cultos the Lard of Pettirowe the Lard of CunnynghaÌ head the Lard of Grange and diuers other They were a two hundred horse in trayne Vpon the Dukes approche they all lighted on foote as well on the one part as the other and after courteous embracings and gentle salutations they entred into the house of one William Atkinson neere to Vndreske Church sate there in counsell the space of two houres and then departed for that night The army lay still in Camp at Salt Preston froÌ Monday till Saterday Palme Sonday euen On Wednesday the third of April my Lord Grey sir Iames Croft and my Lorde Scrope Sir George Howard Sir Henrye Percy and dyuers other Captaynes and Gentlemen rode vnto Pinkey a house of y e Abbot of Dunfernes distant a mile an half from y e Campe where y e Earle of Arrayne and the Lorde Iames Steward with diuers other noble men of Scotland meeting them did conduct them into the sayde house where they had long conference togither which ended they went to dinner and after dinner they returned with my Lord Lieutenante vnto Salt Preston and viewed the Englishe Camp Thursdaye the fourth of Aprill fyue yong Gentlemen The Scottishe ââ¦edges appoynted to passe into Englande for pledges and bound thither by Sea through contrary windes were forced to come a land at Salt Pannes Theyr names were as followe The Lord Claude Hamilton fourth sonne to the duke of Chateau le reault Robert Dowglas halfe brother to the Lorde Iames Stewarde Archebalde Cambell Lord of Loughennell George Gream seconde sonne to the Earle of Monteith Iames Coningham sonne to the Earle of Glencarne they were broughte vp to Salt Preston and remayned there that nyght Saterday the sixth of Aprill beeyng Palme Sonday eueÌ the Camp reysed from Salt Preston and marched forwards Halfe a myle froÌ Lesterike beneath a cragge called Arthurs seate Arthurs seate the Duke of Chateau le reault the Erle of Arrayne the Earle of Arguile the Lorde Iames Prior of Saint Andrewes and the rest of the noble men of Scotlande accompanyed with two hundred Horsemenne or thereaboutes and fiue hundred footemen stayed for the comming of the English army Wherevpon the Lord Grey Sir Iames Croft the L. Scroupe Sir George Howard and Sir Henry Percye repaired to them and hadde conference there with the Duke and other of the Scottishe Lords that were in hys company In the meane while the army stayed but yet at length the Horsemen the vantgard and battayle were commaunded to march forthe who accordingly passing forwarde alongst by the place where the Duke and Scottishe Lordes stoode helde vpon their way till they approched neere to Lestericke At their commyng thither Trombull the Queene regents Trumpet came to my Lorde Lieutenant and brought with him a safe conduit giuen vnder hir hand and seale for the safe repaire of Sir Iames Croft Sir George Howard and sixe other to accompany them Wherevpon they preparing themselues to goe to hir after they had talked with my Lorde Lieutenant Sir Iames Croft and fit George Howard went to talke with the Queene and the duke of Chateau le reault they departed towardes Edenburgh where the sayde Queene as then lay within the Castell There went with them maister Somersette maister Pelham and foure other Gentlemen Whilest they were in conference with the Queene although an asistinence of all hostilitie by appoyntmente taken betwixte my Lorde Grey and the sayd Queene ought to haue reasson the Frenchmen to the number of nine hundred of a thousande shot backed with fiue hundred corselettes and pikes and about fiftie horsemen were come forth of Lieth vnder the conduction of Monsieur Doysell and the Counte Marââ¦igues coronell of the French footemen My Lord Grey vnderstanding therof came vp to the hille appoynted an officer at armes called Rouge Crosse to goe vnto them My Lorde Greys message sent to the Frenchmen wyth commandement from him that they should retire their forces forth of the fielde into y e Towne of Lieth for if it were not for the promise which hee hadde made to the Queene Dowager hee would cause them to departe not much to their ease The Herrault doyng his message receyued aunswer that they were vpon their maister and mistresse ground and therfore meante not to remoue from it Rouge Crosse returning with this aunswer was sent agayne from my Lord Lieutenant to commaunde them estsoones to goe theyr way backe to Lieth for if they did not hee woulde surely send them away with a mischiefe But vnneth had the Herrault done this second message when the Frenchmen stepping forthe discharged a whole volee of their shot into the field against my Lord Grey and his company Heerevppon the Englishmen and they fall in skirmishe A sharp and a long skirmish whiche continued for the space of foure houres and more so hotâ⦠and earnestly maynteyned an both partes that the like hadde not lightly bin seene manye a daye before At length yet The Frenchmen repulsed the Englishmen droue the Frenche footemen ouer the hill wonne the cragge from them and put them from a Chappel where they had stoode a greate while vsing it for a couerte and safegard for them against the EnglishmeÌs shotte Then the enimies that were in Lieth shot off diuers peeces of their greate artillerie out of the Towne againste the Englishmen who on the other parte broughte forth two fielde peeces and couered them with a troupe of Horsemen and hauing planted them to some aduantage discharged the same among the enimies who perceiuing that gaue place and suddaynely the Englishe demilaunces gaue a charge on them brake in amongst them and slewe dyuers of them To conclude they were putte from theyr grounde and forced to retire backe into Lieth beeing followed welneere to the very gates of that Towne There were slayne in thys skirmishe of the French Churchyard about a seauen score and amongst theÌ twelue men of name beside some of them that remayned prisoners Of the Englishmen there were also dyuers slayne and many hurt but if the grounde hadde bin knowen to the Englishmen and what aduantage was offered to them by that presumptuous comming of the enimies so farre from their hold it was thoughte their whole power mighte easily haue bin cutte off and vtterly distressed The Frenchmen driuen into Lieth After that this skirmishe was ended and the Frenchmen driuen into Lieth the army encamped at Lesterike The same day the Scottish hostages were embarqued to passe into England Towardes euening Sir Iames
vyttayles lodging and prouision as well for themselues as theyr Horses but the fyre whych the Scottes hadde of a malicious purpose and subtiltye thus begoonne was by the diligent industrie of the Englishmen so entreased that both the Thatche and Tymber of the whole Towne was consumed to Ashes a stone house pertayning to the Larde of Drumtanerig onely excepted wherein the Lorde Lieutenaunte laye that night and bycause the sayde Drumlanerig was a friende assured the sayde house was spared wyth all the goodes and Corne therein whereof there was greate plentie The .xx. of Aprill the armie marched towarde a fayre proper house An house of the Larde of Burlewes blowes vp with powder called Beauxton belonging to the Lard of Burlewgh which was blown vp with powder and vtterly ruynated Here the army was againe deuided as before by the sayde Lorde Lieutenaunt his appointment and marching by North the Riuer of Tiuet towardes Englande they burnt and spoyled all such Castels Pyles Townes and Villages as were belonging to the sayde Lardes of Fernyhurst and Buclewgh their kinsmens alies and adherents and came that night againe to Iedworth and there lodged The .xxj. of Aprill the armie deuiding it selfe againe the one part vnder the leading of the Marshall sir William Drurie passed to the Riuer of Bowbent and there Tiuidale and Riddesdale men meeting him all on both sides that Ryuer was burnt and spoyled The other part of the armie marching by the Riuer of Catle wasted and burnt in like maner there all that was founde on both sydes that Riuer belonging wholy to the Larde of Buclewgh hys kinsmen alies and adherents This done they returned againe neare to Kelsey where the Lorde Lieutenant lodged for that night meaning to haue besieged Hume castell for the accomplishment whereof the same night the Lorde of Honnesdon and his companie went to Warke to bring from thence the day next following the great Artillerie but bycause the caryage horses were returned to Barwicke this coulde not be brought to passe and so the Lorde Lieutenant with the whole armie returned into England the .xxij. of Aprill and came that night to Barwike In this iourney there were rased ouerthrowne and spoyled aboue fiftie Castels and Pyles and more than three hundred townes and vyllages so that there were verie fewe in Tiuidale and those parties there aboutes which had eyther receyued the English Rebelles or by inuasion endomaged the Englishe borders and good Subiectes inhabiting vpon the same that had left to them eyther Castell Pile or house for themselues theyr friendes or tenaunts beside the great losse of goodes which were wasted taken away or consumed by this armie vnder the Lord Lieutenant And in the meane while that hee with hys power thus afflicted the aduersaryes on that syde the Lorde Scrope Warden of the West Marches the eyghtenth of Apryll entred Scotlande on that syde wyth suche forces as hee had assembled and the first nyght they encamped at Eglesham and in the morning at the dislodging of the campe that towne was burnt and passing forwarde through the Countrey they burnt and spoyled dyuerse other Townes almost tyll they came to Dunfryse and hadde dyuerse conflictes wyth the enimies gaue them sundrie ouerthrowes tooke many of them prisoners and hauing accomplished hys purpose to his highe prayse and commendation hys Lordshippe returned in safetie wyth his people into Englande Hauing burnt in that iourney these places following Hoddon Trailebrow olde Cockpoole Sherington Blackshawe Banke ende Rowell Logher wood Bride Kyrke and others During these inuasions thus made into Scotlande in that season the Marches of Englande were so strongly garded in all places by the Lorde Eures Sir George Bowes and others that the Scottes durst not so muche as once offer to make anye inuasion so that in absence of the armies there was not so much as an house burnt or a Cow driuen out of the English borders The .xxvj. of Aprill the Earle of Sussex Lord Lieutenant accompanyed wyth the foresayde Lorde of Honnesdon maister Drurie and dyuerse other Captaynes and Souldiours to the number of three thousande or thereaboutes set from Berwike aboute fiue of the clocke in the after noone towardes Warke where they arriued aboute nine of the Clocke in the nyght and continuing there till the next morning in the meane tyme he put things in order necessarie for the assieging of Hume Castell the winning whereof hys Lordshippe seemed to haue vowed Aboute the breake of the day hee sent forth maister Drurie with certaine horsemen and shot before to enuiron that Castell and to choose there such a plot of grounde where hee myght encampe best in safetie from the shotte of the same The Marshall sent before to Hume castell which the sayd maister Drurie accordingly perfourmed and there remayned till the comming of the sayde Lorde Lieutenant with the armie who setting forward the foote bandes caryage and Ordinaunce made haste to followe but yet ere hee coulde passe the Ryuer of Tweede and sette ouer all the men Ordinaunce and caryage it was almost tenne of the clocke Here at thys Ryuer the Lorde Lieutenaunt caused all the horsemen to stay and to take ouer the footmen This done The order taken by the Earle of Sussex for the safetie of the armie with good circumspection he appoynted the Demilaunces and other horsemen to remayne behinde in the rerewarde and putte the footemen in the battaile for the more safegarde of themselues the Ordinaunce and caryages Then his Lordshippe himselfe wyth his owne Standard and the Lorde of Honnesdons guydon marched forwarde towardes Hume Castell commaunding the rest of the armye wyth the Ordinaunce to followe after and so aboute one of the Clocke in the after Noone hee came before the Castell out of the whiche the enimyes shotte at his Standarde verye hottely but God be praysed withoute doyng hurt eyther to manne or horse and encamped vnder a Rocke or cragge which the Marshall had possessed with his bande of horsemen and certaine footemen as in a place most apt from daunger of shotte oute of the Castell Hume Castell besieged Herewith a companie of Curriours and Caliuers were putte forwarde and appoynted to take an other rocke nearer to the Castell which shotte at them in the sayde Castell and the defendantes within it answered them again verie roundly although without any greate hurt on eyther part The Earle of Sussex vieweth the Castell of Hume In the meane tyme the Lorde Lieutenant himselfe accompanied onely with the Marshall maister Drurie roade sundrie tymes rounde about the Castell to view and suruey the same at whome they within shotte verie sore both with their great Artillerie and small shotte missing them yet as God woulde though verye narrowly About sixe of the clock in the Euening came the whole battaile ordinaunce and caryages with ensignes spred shewing themselues verie brauely at whome also the Castell shotte lustily but as God woulde haue it withoute hurting either man or boy They lodged
six myles further vnto Sterling Sterlinâ⦠where they saw the yong King The next day the .xviij. of May sir Robert Conestable Sergeant Maior with the rest of the Captaynes of the twelue hundred Englishe footemen and two hundred Scottes footemen the which were most part shoââe marched along iourney ââey come to ãâã and came to lodge that nyght at Glasco and the Generall ãâã William Drurie came to them with the Horsemen and the moste parte of the Noble men of Scotlande that were on the Kings syde which âââred the towne and lodged in the same with many horsmen and footemen The Duke of Chastell ãâã as yââ haue heard had ââ¦erue ââ¦spans besiegââ the ââstell that belonged to the king but he ãâã of the English mennes comming two dayes before theyr approching thither ãâ¦ã siege and departed thence with the losse of ãâã of his men The .xix. of May Sir William Drurie Generall of the Englishe power beyng determined afore hande on a iourney towardes Dunbreton sent foorth that morning before certaine vauntâ⦠ãâ¦ã on horsebacke to stay ãâã such as they found vpon the way The Generall âââeth to view âânbreton This done hee tooke with him certaine Gentlemen and some shotte and roade foorth towardes Dunbreton to view the straytes and situation of that Castell within the whiche were at that present the Lorde Fleming ⪠that tooke vpon him as Captaine thereof the Archbishop of Saint Andrewes and other theyr adherents frendes to the duke of Chastellereault and enimies to the Lords that were aboute the King After Sir William Drury had viewed the Castell and taken the plotte of the situation thereof hee sent his Trumpet to knowe who were wythin it and to whose vse they kept it ⪠They within the Castell requyred to knowe what he was that sent to knowe the same It was aunswered that it was the Queene of Englandes Generall of hir forces there in Scotlande that made the demaunde wherevnto aunswere was returned that they knewe well hee was not so ignoraunt as hee seemed as in deede hee was not but that hee did well knowe that this Castell was and of long time had beene kepte by the Lorde Fleming and that accordinglye by hym hys friendes and seruauntes it was nowe mainteyned whiche aunswere beeyng reported to the Generall hee sente agayne hys Trumpettour to knowe if the Lorde Fleming woulde come forth and parley vppon assuraunce of honour to returne safely The Lord Fleming is required to come to parley with the generall Wherevnto the Lorde Fleming consented although not meaning so to doe but by a subtile practise as was thought intended to wynde him wythin daunger for there were some Harquebusiers secretly couched in coneââ¦t wythin whose reache when the Generall was come himselfe alone on horsebacke moste dishonestly hys Trumpâ⦠ãâ¦ã returned tâ⦠ãâ¦ã meanyng ãâã haue kylled hym wythoute any reâ⦠ãâ¦ã of God The dishonorable dealing of the Lorde Fleming but thâ⦠ãâ¦ã of the Lorde ãâ¦ã Knight receyued no ââdily hurte but perteyââ¦ing tâ⦠ãâ¦ã courage hee bestowed ãâ¦ã at them as they did thâ⦠ãâ¦ã him ãâã so returned to hys companie ââcke agayne ãâã safetie yeelding to God dâ⦠ãâ¦ã his mercifull deliâââânce from ãâ¦ã Vpon ãâ¦ã incââ¦ling Sir William Drurie goeth again towards Dunbreton the .xxj. of Maââ Sir William Drurie accompanyed wyth the sayde Gentlemen and horsemen ãâã agayne towardes Dunbreton ãâã parley ãâ¦ã the Lorde Fleming vppon hys fâ⦠ãâ¦ã that hee ãâã meete hym three myles from the sayd castell whervpon the sayde Sir William Drurie ãâã Englishe man and a Scottishmââ to view the grounde whiche shoulde bee appoynted foorth for theyr meeting He sendeth to view the grouÌd wher he shuld meet with the L. Fleming which they founde to bee so neare to the Castell as was subiect to all theyr shotte both great and small and clâââe contrarye to the promises and so they declaââd to the Captayne named Iohn Fleming that was sente foorth of the Castell to appoynt the same howe it was neyther indifferent nor ââecte for ââche a purpose The captain answered that his maister was a man of honour and stoode vpon the same and therefore woulde not ãâã himselfe among horsemen wholy without the daunger of the peece wherevnto the messengerâ⦠replied that the Lorde Fleming for his ãâ¦ã was not to bee credited in this ãâã neythââ comparable to the generall of the English armie for he was therefor the Queene of Englande ⪠and further theâââde ⪠that forsomuch as they had of lâ⦠ãâ¦ã the law of armes and thereby so greatly ãâã their creditâ⦠ãâ¦ã and honour they could ãâã wish that their general ââould be well aduiseâ⦠ãâã hee did hazarde himselfe any more within their daunger vpon their slipperie promises except they would appoint ââme other place of parley as might be thoughâ⦠indifferent according to their former offers ⪠which woulde not be graunted and so they departed Immediatly wherevpon to shew some peece of their double dealings and vnfaithfull practises towardes the Englishmen the Scottes within the castell presently sent after the Messengers a Cââ¦luering shot for a farewell Sir William Drurie then peââ¦teyning that the meaning of the Lord Fleming was not to deale simplye in this matter ââ¦ching a conference to be had betwixt theÌ returned to Glasco where sir George Carie being ââ¦uellously inflamed with that vnhonest dealing of the Lorde Fleming made earnest suyte to the Generall Sir George Caries suyte that hee myght sende to him and offer him the Combaâ⦠in tryall of thys quarell sith it was more requisite that a Gentleman souldiour shoulde stande in those questions Churchyard than a Generall considering his calling and office The Generall thanked Sir George very courteously but yet sayde that it stoode him vpon to searche out these matters to the vttermoste as hee woulde haue done in deede were not hys Commission and charge as was well knowne to bee otherwyse employed yet quoth hee sith your suyte is so reasonable and the whole companie and lawe of Armes alloweth of it I graunt your request and therein doe as best shall seeme to your byrth and estimation Herevpon Sir George Carie streight wayes deuised a letter of chalenge and deliuered it to an Heraulde to beare from him vnto the sayde Lorde Fleming the tenour whereof here ensueth Sir George Caries letter to the Lorde Fleming LOrd Fleming if eyther your byrth or bringing vp had wrought in you a noble mind or estimation of credite hardly woulde you haue so much forgotten and stayned your honour as in a parleâ⦠of late with our general you did At whom vilely and vnhonourably shooting you falsed that assurance of warre whiche souldiours submit themselues vnto and trayned him to your treason vnder trust a thing heretofore not accustomed nor presently to bee allowed of He assuredly pretending your owne and your friends good commoditie to your couÌtrey and quietnesse to the state twice abased and submitted himselfe comming to conferre
Sir William Drury talketh with the Captayne of Hamilton Castel hauing likewise a case of pistolles came according to appoyntment but after they had talked togither and that the Captayne would not in anye wyse consente to deliuer vp the Castell hee with hys associate returned to their holde agayne and the Englishe generall with Sir George Carie came backe to the Campe and therevppon The Englishe ordinance shooteth at the Castell the English ordinance was presently placed about the Castell and shotte very sore all that nyghte but did no greate hurte by reason they were but field peeces and not fitte for batterie They in the Castell likewyse shot verie sore at the Englishmen but did no great harme sauing that there were three of the footmen hurte In the palaice which was a preatie house The Duchesse of Chastellereault the Duchesse of Chastellereault was at that tyme resident to whom Sir William Drury did repaire offring hir all the courteisy he might with all that to hir appertayned willyng hir not to feare any thing and for hir more assurance he coÌmitted hir to the charge of sir Thomas Maners The .xxiiij. of May the generall gaue sommonance to the Castell and bycause they within stoode stiffely in deniall to make surrender thereof vnto him Great ordinance sent for hee was driuen to sende vnto Striueling for some greate peeces of ordinance meete to make batterie In the meane tyme the Earles of Lenox and Morton with the HorsemeÌ The Earles of Lenox and Morton The Abbey of Kilwinnings brent and some shot marched into the Countrey to a very faire house of the Abbot of Kilwinnings neere adioyning whose name was Gawen Hamilton whyche house they brent ⪠and vtterly defaââ¦ed spoiling it ⪠and rasing it downe to the earth There were also brent seuen other faire houses belongyng to others that were not of that surname but yet were of their friendes and alyes Moreouer there were diuers other of their kinred and alies that came in with humble submission and assured themselues firmely promising from thenceforthe their obedience to the King The .xxv. of Maye sir William Drury the generall retired his people vppon a policie from the Castell and left it without either watche or warde The Castell sommoned for that nyght The next daye he sente sir George Carie to the Castel with a trumpetter to knowe if they within woulde deliuer it vp before the greate ordinaunce shoulde come which the capitayn vtterly refused to do whervpon the small shotte clapt sodeynly rounde about the house and kept them within occupied till that a whole culueryng a demy culuering came to them from Sterling the whiche wyth foure of the English small field peeces were in y e night following planted againste the Castell and being shotte off The Castell of Hamilton battered a bullet of one of the greate peeces passed throughe the walles into the Castell The Castell eftsoones sommoned The .xxvij. of May about foure of the clocke in the morning the generall sente a Trumpetter to giue sommonance againe to y e Castell to whome the Captayne aunswered that he cared not for them and so bade them doe their worst for he would not yeeld the place to them at anye handâ⦠wherevppon immediately the whole fyre began to play in such forte that within four volees both sides of y e house wer battered through at the sight whereof the Captayne was so dismaid that forthwith hee cried for parlee The Captaine of the Castell demandeth parlee and so the shotte was stayde and vppon humble sute the Captaine was admitted to speake with the generall and so comming to talke with him at length he agreed to yeelde wherevpon the Prouost Marshall was sente into the Castell to take possession thereof The generall permitted them very courteously to depart with their furniture and other suche stuffe as they coulde cary wyth them There came out of the house nine and thirtie persons one and other four and thirtie meÌ three boyes and two women and therewith was the Castell blowen vp and rased and the army lay that night in the towne and in places about it The next day beeing the eyght and twentith of May they departed from thence the Earles of Lennox Mar and Glencarne with other of the nobilitie of Scotland of the Kings parte taking their leaues with their company returned to Glascow and sir George Carie with the Horsemen came that nighte to Lithquo where also the rest of the English forces met A Castell called Combernawd belonging to the Lorde Fleming was yeelded to the generals handes who vppon bonde of assurance that the house shoulde remayne at the deuotion of the Queene of Englande was contented to spare it from fire and spoyle But this was not the firste nor laste courtesie whiche the generall shewed in this iourney vnto suche as in any respect were thought worthy of his fauour Amongst other the Lady of LidingtoÌ being great with childe The Lady of Lidington mistrusting hirselfe or hir husbands double dealings towards our CouÌtrey in great feare began to flie But Sir William Drury hearing thereof sente hir worde hee came not to make warres with women but rather to shewe pitie to the weake and comfortlesse and therevpon she stayed and had no further harme The nine and tweÌtith of May when the army should dislodge from Lithquo the generall called for the Prouost of the Towne and commaunded him to prepare with all expedition to receiue a iust punishmente and correction thorough the whole towne for treason and vnpardonable offences committed and declaring that the inhabitantes therof had succoured and supported traytors to the realme of England Churchyard and lykewyse to their owne King contrarye to the leagues and quietnesse of bothe the Realmes of England and Scotlande for whiche cause he was fully resolued to ouerthrow that town and receptacle of traytours if therfore there were any women in chylde bedde or impotent people within y e towne The Towne of Lieth thretned to bee brent he gaue warning thus aforehand to conuey them out of it and herwith also coÌmanding eche capitayne and souldiour vnder his charge to see due execution of that whiche he purposed in this behalfe to haue done he willed the Prouost to appoynt a place conuenient into the which the goodes of the towne mighte be broughte to the ende that the same shoulde neither be spoyled by the English souldiors neither yet consumed through vehemencie of fyre but to be preserued al wholy to y e Scottish meÌs vse Further he granted that euery noble mans lodging and capitaines house shoulde be saued from fire But nowe the tyme being come for this determined execution the Earle of Morton that still accompanied the Englishe generall offred himselfe as an intercessor to intreate and sue for a pardon The Earle of Morton an intercessor for the Towne of Lithquo bringing afore the generall a multitude of waylyng people whose mournful and
Marco Molino beside diuers other nobles and Gentlemen of name as wel Italians as Spanyards and Almaynes ââ¦taren In all there dyed of the Christans to the number of seauen thousande syxe hundred fiftie and sixe beside those that were hurte beeing in like number to them that were slayne ãâã among the which was Don Iohn de Austria generall of all the Christian army there Sebastian Veniero the Venetians generall and the Counte de Santa Fiore with diuers other Moreouer there were Christian Galeys bouged three of the VenetiaÌs one of the Popes one belonging to the Duke of Sauoy and an other to the Knights of Malta Contareno There was one also taken and ledde away by Ochiali and hys company Suche was the successe of this battayle which continued for y e space of sixe houres in the ende whereof the victorye remaynyng with the Christians caused no small reioysing through all parties of Christendome for if thys victory hadde bin followed with hys gracious helpe and assistance that was the giuer thereof the proude and loftie horne of the Ismaelite had bin so bruised as peraduenture hys courage woulde haue quailed to putte forthe the same so speedily as he did but suche is the malice of the time that the Christians haue more pleasure to drawe theyr weapons one against another than against that common enimie of vs all who regardeth neyther Protestante nor Catholique they may be sure those of the Greekish Church nor others as if the merciful prouidence of the Lorde of Hostes doe not in tyme disappoynte hys proceedings it will bee too soone perceyued though happily too late to stoppe the breache when the floud hath gote head and once wonne passage through the banke It were therefore to bee wished of all those that tender the suretie of the Christian common wealth that Princes woulde permitte their subiectes to liue in libertie of conscience concerning matters of faithe and that subiectes agayne woulde bee ready in duetifull wise to obey their Princes in matters of ciuill gouernemente so that compoundyng their controuersies among themselues wyth tollerable conditions they myght employ theyr forces against the common enimie to the benefite of the whole Christian worlde whiche the more is the pitie they haue so long exercised one against another to each others destruction And as for matters in variance about Religion rather to decide the same with the word than with the sworde an instrumente full vnfitte for that purpose and not lightly vsed nor allowed of by the auntiente fathers in time of the primatiue Church But sith this is rather to bee wished than hoped for by anye apparant lykelyhoode considering the strange contrarietie of humors nowe reigning among men in sundry partes of Christendome lette vs leaue the successe of oure wishe to the pleasure of God the author of all good happes who ruleth the heartes of Princes and frameth the peoples mindes as seemeth best to hys diuine prouidence And withall lette vs also humbly offer to him oure prayers instantly besieching him to spare vs in mercy and not to rewarde vs after oure iniquities but rather by hys omnipotente power to turne from vs the violence of oure enimyes in abridging theyr forces as it maye seeme good to hys mercifull fauour and great clemencie The thirtith of December Earle of Kent Reynolde Grey was by the Queenes Maiestie restored Earle of Kente The thirteenth of Ianuary Sir William Peter deceased deceassed Sir William Peeter Knyghte who for hys iudgemente and pregnant witte hadde bin Secretarye and of priuie Counsayle to foure Kynges and Queenes of thys Realm and seauen times Lorde Embassadoure abroade in forraine laÌds hee greately augmented Excester Colledge in Oxforde and also builded tenne Almes houses for the poore in the parishe of Iugarston The sixteenth of Ianuary 1572 Duke of Norffolke araigned the Lord Thomas Howarde Duke of Northfolke was arraigned in Westminster Hall before George Lorde Talbot Earle of Shrewsburye hyghe Stewarde of Englande for that daye and there by hys Peeres founde giltie of hyghe Treason and hadde iudgemente accordinglye The eleuenth of Februarye Kenelme Barney and Edmonde Mather Mather Barney and Rolfe executed were drawen from the Tower of London and Henry Rolfe from the Malshalsey in Southwarke all three to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for Treason Barney and Mather for conspiracye and Rolfe for counterfayting of the Queenes Maiesties hande The tenthe of Marche deceassed Sir William Paulet Knyghte Lorde Sainte Iohn Sir William Paulet Lorde Treasorer deceased Earle of Wilshire Marques of Winchester Knyghte of the honorable order of the Garter one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie CouÌsell and Lorde high Treasorer of Englande at his mannour of Basing This worthy man was borne in the yeare of oure Lorde .1483 the fyrste yeare of Kyng Richarde the thyrde and lyued aboute the age of fourescore and seauen yeares in syxe Kynges Queenes dayes He serued fiue Kings and Queenes Henrye the seuenth Henry the eyght Edwarde the sixt Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth All these he serued faithfully and of theÌ was greatly fauoured Himselfe did see the Children of hys Childrens Children growing to the number of 103. A rare blessing giuen by God to men of his calling The fyue and twentith and sixe and twentith of Marche by the commaundement of the Queenes Maiestie hir Counsell the Citizens of London assembling at theyr seuerall Halles the Maisters collected and chose out the most likely and actiue persons of euery theyr companies to the number of three thousande whome they appoynted to bee pikemen and shotte the pikemen were forthwith armed in faire corslets and other furniture according therevnto the Gunners hadde euery of them hys Calliuer with the furniture and Morians on theyr heads To these were appoynted dyuers valiaunte Captaynes who to trayne them vppe in warlike feates mustered them thrice euery weeke sometymes in the artillerie yarde teachyng the Gunners to handle theyr peeces sometimes at the Myles ende and in Sainte Georges fielde teaching them to skirmishe In the whyche skirmishing on the Myles ende the tenth of April one of the Gunners of the Goldsmithes company was shotte in the syde with a peece of a skouring sticke left in one of the Caliuers whereof hee dyed and was buryed the twelfth of Aprill in Sainte Paules Churchyarde all the Gunners marchyng from the Miles ende in battell ray shot off theyr Caliuers at his graue On May day they mustred at Greenewiche before the Queenes Maiestie where they shewed many warlike feates but were muche hindered by the weather whyche was all daye showring they returned that nyght to London and were discharged on the nexte morrowe Earles of Essex and Lincolne created The fourth of May Walter Deueroux Lord Ferrers of Chartley and Viscount of Hereforde was created Earle of Essex And Edwarde Fines Lord Clinton and Say high Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Lincolne The eyght of May the Parliamente beganne at Westminster
ãâ¦ã about ãâ¦ã my maisters doe make small account of this blew garter here and therewith heââe it out but if God lende me lyfe for a fewe monethes PeradueÌture it was but a blew Ribbon I will make the prowdest of you all to reuerence the like and euen vpon this ââender occasion he gaue himselfe to the ãâã of this order Certes I haue not read of any thing that hauing had so simple a beginning hath growne in the ende to so great honour and estimation But to procéede after he had stuââ¦yed a whyle about the performaunce of his deuise had set downe such orders as he himselfe had inuented concerning y e same he proclaimed a royall feast to be holden at Windsore whyther all his nobilitie resorted with their Ladyes where he published his institutioÌ and furthwith inuested an appointed number into the aforesayd fellowship whose names insue himself being the Soueraigne and principall of that companie Next vnto him also he placed Edwarde Prince of Wales Henry duke of Lancaster N. Earle of Warw. N. Capt. de Bouche N. Earle of stafford N. Earle of Sarum N. L. Mortimer Sir Iohn Lisââ¦e Sir Bartholomewe Burwash N. Sonne of S. Iohn Beauchamp Sir N. de Mahun S. Hugh Courtnay S. Thomas Holland S. Iohn Gray S. Rich. Fitzsimon S. Miles Stapleton S. Thomas Wale S. Hugh Wrotosley S. Neale Lording S. Iohn Chandos S. Iames Dawdley S. Oââ¦ho Holland S. Henry Eme. Sir Sanchet Dambricourt Sir Walter Pannell alias Paganell What order of electioÌ and what estatutes were prescribed vnto the elected at this first institution as yet I can not exactely vnderstande neyther can I learne what euerye Prince afterwarde added therevnto before the sixe and thirtieth yeare of king Henry the eyght and thirde of king Edwarde the sixt wherfore of necessitie I must resort vnto the estate of the sayde order as it is at this present which I will set downe so briefely as I may When any man therefore is to be elected vpon a rowme found voyd for his admissioÌ into this fellowship the king directeth his letters vnto him notwithstanding that he before hande be nominate vnto the same to this effect Right trustie and welbeloued we greete you well assertayning you that in consideration aswell of your approoued trueth fidelitie as also of your couragious and valiant actes of knighthoode with other your probable merites knowne by experieÌce in sundrie parties and behalfes we with the companions of the noble order of the Garter assembled at the election holden this day within our manour of N. haue elected chosen you amongst other to be one of the companions of the sayd Order as your desertes doe condignely require Wherfore we will y t with conuenient diligence vpoÌ the sight herof you repaire vnto our presence there to receyue such thinges as to the sayde order appertayneth Dated vnder our signet at our maner of Grenewich the 24. of April These letters as it shoulde séeme were written An. 3. Edwardi sexti vnto the Earle of Huntingdon the Lorde George Cobham your Lordshippes honourable father at such time as they were called vnto the aforesaide company I finde also these names subscribed vnto the same Edwarde Duke of Somerset Vncle to the king The Marq. of Northhampton Earle of Arundell L. Chamberleine Earle of Shrewesbury L. Russell Lord priââ¦y seale L. S. Iohn L. great maister Sir Iohn Gage S. Anthony Wingfielde Sir Wylliam Paget Beyng elected preparation is made for his enstalling at windsore the place appointed alwaies for this purpose wherat it is required that his Banner be set vppe at twoo yardes and a quarter in length and thrée quarters in bredth besides the frynge Secondly his sworde of whatsoeuer length hym séemeth good thyrdely his helme which froÌ the charnell vpwards ought to be of thrée ynches at the least fourthly the crest wyth mantelles to the helme belonging of such conuenient stuffe and biggenesse as it shall please him to appoint Item a plate of armes at the backe of hys stall and crest with mantelles and beastes supportant to be grauen in mettall Item lodging scoucheons of hys armes in the garter to be occupyed by the way Item two mantelles one to the remayne in the colledge at Windsore the other to vse at hys pleasure with the scocheon of the armes of S. George in the garter with Laces Tasselettes and knoppes of blewe silcke and Golde belonging to the same Item a Surcote or Gowne of redde or crimosine veluet with a whodde of the same lyned wyth white Sarcenet or Damaske Item a collor of the garter of thirtie ounces of golde troye weight Item a tablet of S. George rychely garnished with precious stones or otherwyse Item a Garter for his left legge hauing the buckle and Pendaunt garnished wyth Golde Item a booke of the statutes of the sayde order Item a scocheon of y e armes of S. George in y e garter to set vpon the mantell And thys furniture is to be prouided against his instalation When any Knight is to bée installed he hath with hys former letters a garter sent vnto him and when he commeth to be installed ãâ¦ã or his depââ¦tie ãâã him hys collor and so he shall haue the ãâ¦ã of his habit As for his ãâ¦ã not giueÌ according vnto the calling ãâã of the receyuer but as the place ãâã that happeneth to be vââ¦ydâ⦠so that eache one called vnto this knyghthoode the sââ¦uereigne Emperours and Kinges and Princes alwaies excepted shall haue the same ãâã which became voyd by the death of hys predecessor howsoeuer it fall out whereby a knight onely oftentimes doth sit before a Duke wythout anye murmuring or gââdgyng at hys roome except it please the souereigne once in hys lyfe to make a generall alteration of those seates and so sette eache one according to hys degrée Nowe as touching the apparell of these Knyghtes it remaineth such as King Edwarde the first deuisor of thys order left it that is to say euery yere one of the cullours that is to say Scarlet Sanguine in graine blewe and white In lyke sorte the Kinges Grace hath at his pleasure the content of cloth for hys Gowne whodde lyned wyth white Satine or Damaske and multitude of garters with letters of Golde The Prince hath fiue yardes of cloth for his Gowne and whoodde and garters with letters of Golde at his pleasure beside fiue timber of the fynest mineuer A tymber containeth fourtie skinnes A Duke hath fiue yardes of wollen cloth fyue timber of mineuer 120. garters with title of Golde A Marquise hath fiue yardes of woollen clothe fiue timber of mineuer 110. garters of silke An Earle fiue yardes of woollen clothe fiue timber of mineuer and 100. garters of silke A Viscount fiue yardes of woollen cloth fiue timber of mineuer 90. garters of silke A Baron fiue yardes of woollen cloth thrée timber of mineuer gresââ¦e 8â⦠garterâ⦠of silke ãâ¦ã degrées of reprââh which ãâ¦ã from the ãâã
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 raynâ⦠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 importaÌce 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 whoÌ 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 Gleââ¦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 begotteÌ 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
them of the holy Roode house at his comming to Edynburgh wherein he likewise lodged It is thoughte that in memory of the friendly entertainemente whiche his father the Duke of Lancaster founde in these Abbeys at the time of his being in Scotland when the rebellion chaunced in England through Iacke Strawe and his complices he shewed suche fauor towardes them at this present To bee briefe it shoulde appeare that King Henry came into Scotlande as it were enforced more through counsell of his nobles than for any hatred he bare towardes the Scottes as hee well shewed in returning backe againe without doing them any further iniurie The death of Queene Annabell In the yeere after deceassed the Scottishe Queene Annabell Drommond after whose decesse hir sonne Dauid the Duke of Rothsay that vnder hir gouernemente had bin well and vertuously broughte vp hauing nowe gote once the reyne at liberty The insolent outrage of the Duke of Rothsay fell to al kind of insolent outrage seeking to defyle Wiues Virgines Nunnes and al other kind of womeÌ in al places wher he came At length his Father perceyuing his sonnes youthful nature to rage after that manner in vnbrideled lust beyond the tearmes of all measure to the great reproch of them both wrote to his brother the Duke of Albany requiring him to take his sonne the said Duke of Rothsay into his custody and to see him so chastised for his wanton behauiour as he might learne to amend the same Here is to be noted that the Duke of Albany had of long time before desired to see the Duke of Rothsay dispatched out of the way as the person whome hee most doubted and therefore hauyng commission thus from the King to take him hee reioyced not a little trusting thereby to compasse his purpose without daunger And herevppon taking the Duke of Rothsay betwixt Dundee and S. Androwes hee brought him to Faulkland The Duke of Rothsay coÌmitted to prison where he shut him vp in straite prison and kept him without al manner of meate or drinke so to famish him to death It is sayde that a woman vnderstanding the Duke of Albanies intention and taking ruth of the others pitifull case found meanes to let meale fall downe through a rift of the loft of that towre wherein he was enclosed by meanes whereof hys life was certayne dayes susteyned but after thys was once knowne incontinently was the woman made away On the same maner another woman through a long reede fedde him with milke of hir owne brests and was likewise dispatched as soone as her doings were perceyued Then after this The Duke of Rothsay famished to death the Duke destitute of all worldly sustenaunce through very famine was constreyned to eate not onely all suche filth as hee could finde within the Towre but also in y e end hee gnawed off his owne fingers and so finally in this miserable state of Martirdome as I may call it ended his wretched life and was buryed in Lundoris Miracles where as the fame wente many fayre miracles were done neere to his graue till tyme that Iames the first began to punish the murtherers for sithens that time such miracles ceassed About the same time The displeasures done by George Earle of March George Earle of March did many displeasures to the Scottes makyng sundry rodes into their countrey greatly to hys profyte The Earle of Dowglas that had the gouernmente of Lowthian in those dayes tooke order The Earle of Dowglas gouernoure of Louthian that certayne Captaines of that Countrey shuld euery one for his turne with a competente number assigned to him for the time rode into England to reuenge such displeasures The first that went Thomas Holy burton was Thomas Halyburton who returned in safetie with a great pray taken of Englishmens goodes Next vnto him was Patrike Hepborne of the Halis the yonger appoynted to goe ââ¦oorthe as Captayne generall with a certaine number who entring into Englande gote a great bootie togither but the Englishmen following therevppon to recouer it encountred with hym at Nesbetiâ⦠the Mers Patricke Hepborne slayne at Nââ¦sbet and there not onely slew him but also distressed his people Besides them that were slayne with theyr Captayne there were also many that were taken as Iohn and William Cokborne Roberte Lawder of the Bas Iohn and Thomas Haliburton with many other Almost all the floure of Lowthian as Iohannes Maior writeth perished in this battell whiche was fought the .xxij. of Iune in the yere .1402 1402 Archembald Dowglas inââdeth Englande Archembald Earle of Dowglas sore displeased and wonderfully wroth in his minde for this ouerthrowe gote commission to inuade Englande with an army of tenne thousand men and hauing the same once ready with all thyngs necessary for his voyage hee set forwarde and entring into Englande brente and harried the countrey not staying till hee came as farre as Newcastell In this army there was with the Dowglas Murdock eldest sonne to Duke Robert Earle of Fife Thomas Earle of Murray The Nobles of Scotland in this army George Earle of Angus with many other Lords and nobles of Scotlande It is sayde that after the Scottes were once put to flight they gathered agayne and renewed the battell by the exhortation of Adham Gordon and sir Iohn Suynton but that dyd little auayle them for they were still beaten downe and slayne Amongst other of those that were slaine were the same sir Iohn Swynton and Adham Gordoun Men of name slayne Also Iohn Leuynston of Kalendare Alexander Ramsay of Dalhowsy with sundry other gentlemen and nobles of Scotland Prisoners taken Archembald Earle of Dowglas Mordo Stewarde eldest sonne to Duke Robert the gouernour George Earle of Angus Roberte Erskyn of Alloway the Lorde Saulton Iames Dowglas maister of Dalkeith and his two brethren Iohn and William with the most part of all the Barons of Fyfe and Lowthian were taken prisoners This battell was fought on the Roode day in Haruest in the yeere .1403 vpon a tuisday H. B. 1402 The Castell of Cocklauis beseeged Henry Percy righte proude of this victory came with the Earle of March vnto the Castell of Cokclauis in Teuidale and layde seege to the same but Iohn Greynelow Captayne thereof defended it so manfully that they gote no greate aduauntage yet at length he fell to this composition with them that if he had no reskewe within the space of three moneths A compositioÌ the Castell shoulde be then rendred into their hands When the gouernour of Scotlande was enformed what agreement the Captayne of Cokclauis had made he assembled the Lordes in couÌsell to haue their aduice for the leuying of an army against the time appoynted There were many of this opinion that it was better to lose the Castell than to ieoperde the liues of so many men as were necessary to furnish that enterprise for the sauing of it but y e gouernor shewed that hee weyed
fayre promises perceyued the same to tende only to this ende that the league betwixt the French men and Scottes might be once clearly broken and then to vse the matter as occasion shoulde serue their turne This matter therefore being proponed before the Counsell it was concluded that in no wyse the sayde league betwixt the Frenche men and Scottes should be dissolued and so therevpon the English Ambassadors were dispatched without more talke concerning that matter In the same yeare that is to wit .1433 1433 George Erle of March arested and put in warde the king caused George Dunbar Earle of March sonne to that Erle which rebelled agaynst his father King Robert the thirde to be arested and put in safe keeping within the Castell of Edenbourgh He sent also the Earle of Angus with his Chauncellor William Creichtoun and Adam Hepborne of Hales to the Castell of Dunbar deliuering them letters signed with his hande and directed to the keepers of the sayde Castell that they should deliuer vp the house immediatly vpoÌ sight of those his letters vnto the bringers of the same The keepers durst not disobey his commaundement but suffered them to enter according to theyr commission A Parliament at Perth Within a tweluemonth after a Parliament was holden at Perth where the foresayd George Earle of March was disinherited of al his landes and liuings for his fathers offence committed agaynst king Robert the thirde The Erle of March disinherited Thus the house of the Dunbars lost the Erledome of March wherein the same had flourished so many yeares togither to the great defence and safegarde of the realme of Scotland on that side against both ciuill and forraine enimies The Erledome of Buchquhan giuen to George Dunbar The king yet moued with some pitie toward so noble a linage within short time after gaue the Erledome of Buchquban to the said George and after the Kings deceasse the Lordes of the Councell thinking the same to little assigned forth to him and to his sonne Patrike the summe of foure hundred markes yearely to be receyued out of a parcell of his owne auncient inheritance of the Erledome of March to enioy the same till Iames the second came to full age 1435 The death of Alexander Stewarde Earle of Mar. In the yeare .1435 Alexander Steward Erle of Mar departed out of this life This Alexander was a Bastard sonne of the Erle of Buchquhan that was one of the sonnes of king Robert the seconde He was a man of right singular prowes and in his youth following the warres was with Philip Duke of Burgoigne at the siege of Liege or Luik Leodiuââ where he bare himselfe so manfully that few wanne the like honor at that iourney Not long after to his high aduauncement he got in mariage the Ladie Iacoba Countes of Hollande Notwithstanding he continued but a while with hir being enforced to forgo hir companie eyther for that she had an other husband either for that the inhabitants woulde not suffer a straunger to raigne ouer them After his returne into Scotlande he sent messengers into Hollande Warres betwixt the Erle of Mar and the Hollanders requyring to haue the issues and profites of such lands as were due vnto him in right of the sayde Countesse his wife but receyuing nought but a frowarde answere hee prouided him of shippes and made sore warres on the Hollanders by sea first being put to the worse but at length he tooke a nuÌber of their ships laden with Marchandize as they were returning homewardes from Dantzicke Truce betwixt the Scots and Hollanders for terme of one hundred yere The Mariners were drowned and the ships burnt Through which losse the Hollanders being sore abashed fell to a composition wyth him and tooke truce with the Scottes for an hundred yeares This Earle of Mar so long as he lyued had the gouernaunce of the North partes of Scotlande vnder king Iames the first for he was a right prudent person aswell in warlike enterprises as in ciuill administration Stood Mares brought out of Hungarie into Scotlande for breede He brought forth of Hungarie sundrie great Horses and Mares for generation that by suche meanes the countrey might be prouided of great horses of their own race where til that time there was none bred within Scotland but smal nags more meet to serue for iourneying hackneis than for any seruice in the warres Not long before this time Ambassadors out of Denmarke there came an Ambassade from the King of Denmarke vnto king Iames requiring him to make payment of such yearely tribute as was due to the sayde king of Denmark being also king of Norway Their request for the westerne Iles according to the promise and agreement made by Alexander sometime king of Scotland the thirde of that name vnto his predecessor Magnus at that time king of Norway The Ambassadours that came with this message were honourably receyued and in like sort enterteyned by king Iames who at their departure gaue to theÌ sundry rich gifts and appointed sir William Creichtoun to goe with them into Denmarke Sir William Creighton sent into Denmark Ambassadour from him to the king there who vsed himselfe so sagely in this businesse which he thus went about that renuing the olde league betwixt the two Realmes of Denmarke and Scotlande Peace and amitie betwixt Scotland and Denmarke stedfast peace and assured amitie without any more ado thereof ensued Much what about the same time there came Ambassadors from the French king Charles the vij Ambassadours ââth of France not onely desiring to haue the olde league betwixt France and Scotland to be ratified at that present by a new confirmation The old league ââ¦erââ¦ed betwixt France and Scotland but also to confyrme the same with better assurance Margaret eldest daughter to King Iames at request of the sayde King Charles The Dolphin marieth Margaret daughter to K Iames. was giuen in mariage vnto Lewes the Dolphin and eldest sonne to the sayde king Charles Many great Lordes of Scotlande were appoynted to haue the conueyaunce of hir into Fraunce and great prouision of shippes made for that voyage English men â⦠in awayte for the Scottish fleete bycause the king was aduertised that the English men had a fleete abrode on the seas to take hir if they might meete with hir by the way But as the hap fel it chaunced the same time as the Scottish shippes shoulde passe there appeared on the coast of England a great fleete of Spaniardes The English men encounter a fleet of Spaniardes which the English men supposing to be the Scots they came vpon them with lxxx vessels of one and other thinking verely to haue had theyr wished pray euen according to theyr expectation but beeing receyued with as hote a storme as they brought they quickly vnderstoode how they were in a wrong boxe and so shrewdly amazed as Hector Boetius hath they susteyned
be had in coÌtempt of the Erle withal he mistrusted also least there were some secrete practises in hande to the preiudice of him and hys realme so that be stormed not a little towards the Erle The Earle of Dowglas sueth for pardon who being thereof aduertised came in huÌble wise to the king besought him of pardoÌ if he had in any wise offended him assuring him that from thenceforth he would neuer commit any act that might tend to his Ma. displeasure Herewith the Queene also other noble men made suite to the king for the Earles pardon so that in theende he ãâã receiued again into fauor but yet discharged of bearing any publike office He enuleth those that bare rule about the king which ãâã him so ââ¦ore ãâã for that his aduersaries William ãâã lord Chancellor the Erle of ãâã ãâã to beare all the rule about the king besought to dispatch the Chancellor He seeketh to destroy the L. Chaââ¦cellor procuring certaine of his seruants ãâã to assault him ãâã morning as he was chââ¦ng forth of Edenburgh but yet he escaped to his castel of chaâ⦠although wounded indeed right sore â⦠within few dayes after gathering a power of his kinsmen friends and allies he returned againe to Edenburgh and had destroyed as was thought the Earle of Dowglas at that present The Dowglas constrayned to flee out of Edenbourgh if hee had not shifted awaye the more ãâã who being thus to his great griefe no small dishonor chased out of Edenbourgh deuised whiche way hee might best ââ¦e reuenged and for the more easie accomplishment of his purpose He maketh a part he procured the Erles of Crawford and Rosse to ioyne with him in that quarell agaynst Chreichton and other his coââ¦plices by force of which confederacie they couenauted to assyst one another agaynst the malice of the sayde Chreichton and all other theyr aduersaries The Erle of Dowglas hauing concluded this bond of confederacie bââ¦re himselfe very highe The Earle of Dowglas presometh of the assistance at the handes of his friendes in presuming further therof than stood with reason and this was one great cause of the kings displeasure nowe passingly increased agaynst the sayde Erle An other cause was this The Lorde Herres his lands spoyled a sort of theeues and robbers ⪠brake into the landes of the Lorde Iohn Herres a noble man and one that had continued euer faythfull to the king taking with theÌ out of the same landes a great bootie of Cattell And whereas the sayde Lordâ⦠Herres complayned vnto the Earle of Dowglas of that wrong bycause the offendours were inhabyting within his rowââ¦th and yet coulde haue no redresse he attempted to fetche oute of Annardale some praye wherewith to satisfie in parte the wrong which had bene offred him by those lymmers and robbers But such was his euil happe that taken he was with his retinue and committed to pryson and shortly after by commaundement of the Earle of Dowglas he was hanged as a fellon The Lorde Herres hanged notwithstanding that the king by an Herald coÌmaunded the contrarie The king being sore offended herewith as he had no lesse cause passed ouer his displeasure with silence til he saw time and oppââunitie to reuenge the same but in the mean season many an honest man bought the bargain right dearly being spoyled of that he had otherwise euil entreated and yet durst not the meaner sort once complaine for feare of further mischief where the higher powers also sore lamented the great disorders dayly increasing and were not able yet in anye wyse to reforme the same insomuch as it was greatly doubted The coÌfederacie mistrusted least the Earles of Dowglas Crawforde Rosse Murrey and other of that faction ment to put the king beside his seate which doubt being put into y e kings head brought him into no smal perplexitie The king sendeth for the Erle of Dowglas whervpon by courteys messages he sent for the Earle of Dowglas wylling hym to repayre to his presence soiourning there in Striueling Castell which he refused to do till he had assurance vnder the kings great seale for his safe coÌming and going as some haue said And then about Shrouetide in the yeare .1451 he came to the court at Striueling 1451 where the king tooke him aside and in secret talk moued and requested him to forsake the league and bonde of friendship betwixt him and the Earle of Crawford and other such his confederates There was a secrete murmuring amongest a number that this Erle of Dowglas purposed to make a proofe one day to get the garlande besyde the kings heade In deede by reason of his kinnesmen and allyes he was of more puissaunce in the Realme than as it was thought stoode wyth the suretie of the Kings estate vnlesse hee were the more faythfull Earles of the surname of the Dowglasses He had at the same time two brethren that were also Earles as Archymbalde Erle of Murrey and Hugh or as other haue George Erle of Ormont The lynage and great aliance of the Dowglasses besyde the Earle of Angus and the Erle of Mortoun that were of his surname and bloud with a great nuÌber of other lords knights and men of great possessions liuings all of the same surname and linked in friendship aliance with other the chiefest linages of all the realme Hereto by reason there had bene so many valiant men and worthie Captaines of the Dowglasses one after another The loue that the people bare towarde the name of the Dowglasses as it had beene by succession the people and coÌmons of Scotland bare such good will and fauour towardes that name that they were ready to ride or go with theÌ they cared not whither nor agaynst whom It is sayde that the Earles of Dowglasses might haue raysed .xxx. or .xl. thousande warlike persons readie at theyr commaundement whensoeuer it had pleased them to call In deede the Dowglasses had euer the gouernment of al matters perteyning to the defence of the realme so that the men of warre had them still in all the estimation honor that might be But nowe to the purpose touching the conference had betwixt king Iames the seconde and the Erle of Dowglas The Earle of Dowglas answereth the king ouerthwartly and is slaine It chaunced in the ende vpon what occasion I knowe not that the Erle answered y e king somwhat ouerthwartly wherwith the king tooke suche indignation that the Erle herevpon was slaine by him and such other as were then about him on Shroue euen Then after the Earle was thus made away His brethren make warre against the king his brethren made open warre agaynst the king and saâ⦠all such of his friendes and seruantes as they might encounterâ⦠with Insomuch that those which trauailed by the high wayes were ãâã doubt to confesse whether they belonged to the king or to the
Dowglasses The Lorde of CadÈow beeing in the towne of Striueling with a great companie of the Erle of Dowglasses friendes Striueling is burnt in reuenge of his death inconsistently burnt that towne and did many other great displeasures to the King and hys subiectes setting forth Proclamations agaynst the King and his Councell for the violating of the assurance graunted as before is sayde to the Earle of Dowglas Whereby the King was put so to his shiftes that hee was determined to haue left the Realme The king would haue fled and to haue fledde by Sea into Fraunce had not Iames Kenedre the Byshop of Saint Androwes caused him to stay on the hope he had of assystaunce onely by the Earle of Huntley whiche Erle hearing that the Dowglasses had gathered an armie in the South agaynste the King raysed another armie in the North to ayde the king On the other syde the Earle of Crawford hauing assembled a great power encountred him at Breithune in purpose to stoppe the Earle of Huntleys passage where betwixte them was fought a sore battayle and the Earle of Crawford chased into Fynnewyn so that many noble men gentlemen and commons were slaine and amongst other the Erle of Crawfordes brother was one Hector Boetius writeth Cullace of Bannamwin betrayeth the Erle of Crawford that Iohn Cullace of Bannamwin whom the Erle of Crawford had appointed to lead theÌ that bare y e battail Axes or as I may terme them the Bilmen in the left wing of his armie fled of purpose in the hotest of the fight and so left the middle ward naked on the one side of the chiefest ayde y t the said Erle had so the victorie by that meanes only inclined to the kings standard The Earle of Huntley victoreâ⦠which the Earle of Huntley had there with him But howsoeuer it was the sayd Erle of Huntley had the honor of the fielde who neuerthelesse lost diuerse of his men also though nothing so many as his aduersaries did This battaile was fought the .xviij. of May being the Ascention day .1452 1452 The Earle of Huntly the same day before the battails ioyned gaue laÌds to the principal men of those surnames that were with him as to y e Forbesses Leslies Iouings Ogilvies Grantes diuerse other Which bouÌtifulnes of the Erle made theÌ to fight more valiantly Landes giuen to the Erle of Huntley In recoÌpence wherof the king gaue to the said Erle the lands of Badzenot Lochquhaber The Earle of Murrey In the meane time Archbalde Dowglas Earle of Murrey brent the peââl of Straboggy perteyning to the Earle of Huntley and harried the lands there aboutes In reuenge whereof the Earle of Huntley at his returning backe brent and harried all the landes of the Earledome of Murrey In the meane time ⪠at a Parliament holden at Edenburgh The Earle of Crawford ãâ¦ã ed. the Erle of Crawford was denounced a traytor and all his lands and goodes deceââed âo of forfeyted into the Kings hands Lââdes cited ãâã âppeare Iames Earle of Dowglas Iames Lord Hammilton the Erles of Murrey and Ormont the Lord of Baluay and many other of that faction were by publike Proclamation made by an Herault commaunded to appeare by a day to vnderly the law but in the next night that folowed the day of this ProclamatioÌ certayne of the Dowglasses seruantes that were sent priuily to Edynburgh to vnderstande what was done ther Writings set ãâã coÌtempt ãâã the King fastned writings vpoÌ the Church dores sealed with the Dowglas his seale in this fourme The Earle from hencefoorth will neyther obey citation nor other commaundement Besyde this in the same writings they charged the King with many haynous crymes callyng hym a murtherer periured false and a bloudsucker The King therefore assembled an army and went foorth againste them but bycause the tyme of the yeere was contrary to his purpose he could do no great hurt to his enimies althogh he burnt vp their corne and droue away their cattell But the Dowglas seemed to passe little for the kings malice The Earle of Dowglas ma ãâ¦ã th his brothers wife and the Earle himselfe married his brothers wife the Countesse Beatrice and sente to Rome for a licence to haue that marriage made lawfull but by the Kings agents in that Court ⪠the Earles suite might not be obteyned Neuerthelesse hee kepte hir still in place of his wife and continuing in Rebellion againste the King the nexte spring and for the more part of the whole tearme of two yeeres nexte ensewing he harried and spoyled the Kings possessions and the King on the other part wasted Annandale and all other the landes and possessions that belonged to the sayde Earle of Dowglas or his friendes but shortly after as the King passed through Angus to goe into the Northe partes of the Realme the Earle of Crawford came and submitted himselfe vnto him The Earle of Craâford sub ãâ¦ã eth hymselfe to the ãâã and is ãâ¦ã oned crauing mercy in most humble and lamentable wise and obteyned the Kings pardon through mediation of Iames Kenedie Bishop of Saint Androwes and sir William Creichton but the saide Earle lyued not past sixe monethes after He departed ãâã life 1454 Parliament departing this life by force of a hote Agewe in the yeere .1454 The same yeere the King called a Parliament at Edynburgh in the whyche Iames Earle of Dowglas and his brothers wife the Countesse Beatrice whome hee hadde taken to him by way of a pretensed and fayned mariage Archbald Dowglas Erle of Murrey George Dowglas Earle of Ormont and Iohn Dowglas Baron of Baluay were forfalted and condeÌned of Treason The Dowglasses forfalted or as I may say atteynted The Earledome of Murrey was giuen vnto sir Iames Creichton or rather restored to him froÌ whome it had bin wroÌgly taken by the vniust sentence of William Erle of Dowglas who had procured it to be assigned vnto his brother the foresaide Archebalde although the right remayned in the sayd sir Iames Creichton But yet when the sayd Sir Iames Creichton could not kepe that Earledome without enuy of diuers and sundry persons hee handled the matter so that shortly after it returned agayn to the kings hands Moreouer Creations of noble men at this Parliamente George Creichton was created Earle of Cathnes William Hay Conestable of ScotlaÌd was made Earle of Eââ¦alle Ther were also diuers erected Lordes of the Parliamente whose titles were as folow Darley Halis Boyd Lyle and Lorn After the breaking vp of the Parliament the King made a iourney against his aduersaries into Galloway and with small âdoe broughte all the Castels of that Countrey into his possession Dowglas dale giueÌ in spoile to the men of warre and then turning into Dowglas dale bycause the inhabitants ⪠thereof woulde not obey him hee abandoned the spoyle thereof vnto his souldiers who practised no small crueltie against the inhabitants Herevpon y
first sent vnto Saint Colmes Ins Put in prison and from thence to Dunfermling and lastly to Lochleuin where he dyed and was buried in S. Sarffis I le in Lochleuin 1479 William Schewes is coÌsecrated Archbishop The sayd William Schewes was consecrate Archbishop of Sainte Androwes on passion Sunday in Lente within Holy Roode house the king being present many of the nobles of the Realm And there y e sayde Archbishop receiued y e pall as a signe of his Archbishops dignitie so was coÌfirmed primate legate of y e Realm notwithstaÌding y e impediment made against Graham before by the Bishops about y e same This yere also The Duke of Albany imprisoned Alexander Duke of Albany was committed to prison by the king his brother within y e Castel of Edenburgh through euil counsel but he brake out escaped to DuÌbar wher he caused the Castel to be furnished with al necessaries leauing his seruants within it He escaped passed himself into France was there of y e king honorably receyued and louingly intreated Edenburgh besieged In the beginning of May following the king besieged y e Castel by his Lieutenant the Erle of Auââ¦ndale who lost at that siege .3 good knights the Lord of Lute sir Iohn Schaw of Sauche the Lorde of Cragiwallace with y e shot of a gun Iohn RaÌsay was slain with a stone cast by haÌd WheÌ thei within saw they could not loÌg endure they left y e Castel fled away by sea the Erle of Auandale entred found it void of al things wherof any accoÌpt was to be made Doctor Ireland sent vnto the king of Scottes Doctor IrelaÌd being graduat in diuinitie at Paris was sent from y e FreÌch king vnto y e king of Scottes to perswade him to make war into EnglaÌd to y e end y t king Edward shuld not aid y e Duke of Burgundy And moreouer he had in charge to moue for the Pardon of y e Duke of Albany and shortly after returned with answer 1480 Iohn Steward a prisoner The Erle of Mar called Iohn Steward y e kings yoÌger brother this yeere in the moneth of December was taken in the nighte within hys owne house conueyed vnto Cragunster where he was kept as prisoner by the kings commaundement and after was conuict of conspiracie for witchcraft which he shuld practise against y e king hervpon in Cannogate beside Edenburgh Was put to death hys vaynes were cut so he bled to death Ther were many diuers Witches sorcerers aswil men as women coÌuicted of y e crime burnt for y e same at EdeÌb The K. sent Ambassadors into EnglaÌd to make suite to haue the Lady Cicill daughter to king Edward ââ¦ariage coÌ ded ioyned in mariage with his sonne Iames y e Prince which was graÌted and y e mariage concluded to be solemnizate when y e prince of Scotland should come to perfect age as in the English historie it more playnely appeareth Doctor Irelande with a knight and another religious man came againe to king Iames from the French king to perswade him to make warre against England and at length King Iames his nobles coÌdiscended to breake the peace wherewith Thomas Spens Bishop of Abirdene that was full tenderly beloued of king Edwarde ãâã Spenââ¦ed and had bin euer a mediator for peace betwixte the kings of England France and ScotlaÌd and the Duke of Burgongne when he heard that warre would folow he dyed through griefe of mind and melancoly at Edenburgh in the moneth of Aprill 1481 ãâã Iames a ambasââ¦o king ãâã The king sente two Heraldes vnto King Edwarde requesting him not to ayde the Duke of Burgongne nor any other against y e King of France for if he did hee must needes supporte the Frenchmen by reason of y e league betwixt France Scotland but king Edward would not admit those Heraldes to his presence ââ¦ing Edward ãâã nauie ãâã Scotland but kept them still without answer till he had sent foorth a nauie of Ships into y e Forth before Lieth Kingorne and Pettenwenne theÌ were the Heralds licensed to returne ãâã taken ãâã The Englishe fleete entring the Forth tooke eight great shippes which they found in that riuer and landing at Blacknesse brent y e towne and a great Barge that lay there at rode and so returned ââ¦he of king ââ¦and preââ¦d an army The king assembled an army from all partes of the Realme and amongst other y e Lord of the Iles came with a great coÌpany and nowe the king being ready to enter into England there came to him a messenger of king Edward sente from a Cardinall Legate that was residente as then in England Legate inâ⦠him commanding king Iames by authoritie apostolike not to proceede any further in his purposed iourney to the ende that peace being obserued all Christian Princes might bende their powers againste the Turke and Infidels This commaundemente did king Iames obey and so discharged his army notwithstandyng that king Edwarde sent foorth his nauie agayne into the Forth ãâã naâ⦠into ââ¦and vnto the I le of Ins Keith but they did no hurt for the countreymen kept them off The Scottish borderers inuaded y e Englishe marches destroyed townes and led many prisoners away with them into Scotland ââ¦ke assieâ⦠an arâ⦠of England ââ¦en The king of Englande caused Berwike to be assieged both by sea and lande all the winter season and ouerthrew a wall that was newly made about it for defence thereof but the Scottes within it defended the towne for that time so stoutly that the enimies might not winne it from them 1482 The Duke of Albany after his wife was dead which he had married in France perceyuing him selfe not so well entreated as before came ouer into Englande The Duke of Albany commeth into England where king Edwarde receyued him righte honorably promising as some haue written to make him king of Scotlande therevpon assembled an army of thirtie thousand meÌ with a great nauie by Sea to inuade Scotland and appoynted Captaynes and leaders of the army by land his owne brother y e Duke of Glowcester the Duke of Albany and others The king of Scotââ¦tes hearing of their approche to inuade his Realme reised a puissant army to resist them and came forward with the same vnto y e town of Lowder where beeing encamped the principall nobles of his Realme as Archembalde Earle of Angus George Erle of Huntley The presumptuous demeanor of the Scottish nobilitie Iohn Erle of Lenox Iames Erle of BuchquhaÌ Androw sord Grey Robert Lord Lile and diuers other beeing armed entred the kings lodging where they accused him of diuers things done and practised by him contrary to his honor the common weale of his Realme and specially bycause he vsed yoÌg counsell of lewde persons vnworthy and base of birth suche as
sent the Bishop of Imola to treate of peace betwixt Richarde King of Englande and Iames king of ScotlaÌd Iames king of Scottes hauing not long before made diuers incursions roades into England and that to his profite hee sewed therevpon for a truce which came to passe euen as king Richarde wished so that condiscending to haue a communication Commissioners appoynted on the behalfe of the king of England and Scotlande to treatâ⦠for a peace at Notingham commissioners were appoynted for both partes to meete at Notyngham y e seuenth day of September nexte ensuing For the King of Scottes there appeared Colin Earle of Argile the Lorde Cambell and the Lord Chancellor of ScotlaÌd William Bishop of Abirdene Robert Lord Lyle Laurence Lord Oliphant Iohn Drummound of Stubhall Archybald Duytelaw Archdeacon of Lawden and Secretary to king Iames Lyon king of armes and Duncan Dundas For king Richard there came Richard Bishop of S. Assaph Iohn Duke of Norfolke Henry Erle of Northumberlande Thomas Lord Stanley George Stanley Lord Straunge Iohn Gray Lord Powes Richarde Lord Fitzhugh Iohn Gunthorpe keeper of the Kings priuie seale Thomas Barrow master of the Rolles sir Thomas Bryan chiefe iustice of y e common place Sir Richarde Ratclife Knighte William Catesby Richard Salkeld Esquires These counsellers in the latter end of September after sundry meetings and communications had togither concluded as followeth a peace to bee had betwixt both the Realmes for y e space of three yeres ââ¦ââ¦eaââ¦e conââd for ââ¦re yeeres the same to begin at the rising of the sunne on the .29 of September in the yeere .1484 and to continue vnto the setting of the sunne on the .29 of September in the yeere .1487 during whyche tearme it was agreed that not onely all hostilitie and warre shuld ceasse betwixt y e two Realmes but that also al ayde and abaitement of enimies should be auoided and by no colorable meanes or way in any case vsed The towne and Castell of Barwike to remayne in the Englishmens haÌds for the space of the sayde tearme with the same boundes as the Englishmen possessed it at that season when it was deliuered to the ScottishmeÌ by king Henry the sixt It was likewise condiscended that all other Castels holdes and fortresses during the tearme of the sayde three yeeres should abide in the hands of those that held them at that present the Castell of DuÌbar only excepted The Castell of Dunbar in the Englishmens hands ââ¦n article for the Castell of Dunbar This Castell of Dunbar was deliuered vnto the Englishmen by the Duke of Albany when he fled into France and so remained in their haÌds at that time of concluding this truce Herevppon by reason the Scottish commissioners had not authoritie to conclude any ful agreement for that Castell vnlesse the same might be restored vnto y e king their masters hands it was accorded that if the king of Scots within the space of .40 dayes next ensewing did intimate his resolute refusall to be agreeable that the sayd Castell shoulde remayne in the Englishmens hands aboue y e space of sixe moneths that then during that tearme of sixe moneths those that kepte the Castell for the Englishmen should remayne in quiet and not be troubled nor molested by any kind of meanes by the sayde King of Scottes or any other by hys procurement so that they within y e Castell likewise absteyned from making any issues or reisses vpon the Scottishe people And if after that the sayd tearme of sixe moneths were once expired it should chance that any warre arose for defending or recouering the sayd Castell yet the truce shuld endure for all other rightes and possessions notwithstaÌding that it might be lawfull to do what lay in any of their powers eyther for winning or defending the foresaid Castel as though no truce had bene concluded It was further agreed An article for Traytors that no traytor of eyther Realme shoulde be receyued by y e Prince of y e other Realm and if any traytor or Rebell chanced to arriue in eyther Realme the Prince thereof to deliuer him vpoÌ demauÌd made An article for Scottishmen already being in England Scottes already abiding in England sworne to the king there may remain stil so their names be certified to y e Scottish King within .40 days An article for the Wardens of the marches If any Warden of eyther Realm shuld inuade y e others subiects he to whome such WardeÌ is subiect shal within sixe days proclaime him traytor certifie the other Prince thereof within .2 days A clause to be put in safeconducts An article for such as should serue eyther Princes in warre And in euery safeconduct this clause shoulde be conteyned Prouided alwayes that the ãâã nor of this safeconduct be no traytor If any of the subiects of eyther Prince do presume to aide ãâã mainteyne or serue any other Prince against any of the contractors of this truce then it shall be lawfull to him to whome hee shewed himselfe enimie to apprehende and attach the sayd subiect going comming or tarying within any of hys dominions Colleagues comprised in the truce Colleagues comprised in this truce if they woulde assente thereto on the Englishe part were these the king of Castell and Leon the king of Arragone y e king of Portingale y e Archduke of Austrich and Burgoine and the Duke of Britaine On the Scottishe parte Charles the French king Iohn King of Denmarke Norway the Duke of GelderlaÌd the Duke of Britayne Lorne and Lunday excepted The Lordship of Lorne in the Realme of Scotland and the Iland of Lunday lying in the riuer of Seuerne in the Realme of Englande were not comprehended in this agreement This concord peace and amitie thus concluded was appoynted to be published y e first day of October in the most notable cities and townes of both the Realmes For y e sure obseruation keeping performance of this truce and league there were appointed for conseruators on y e Scottish side Dauid Earle of Crawford Lord Lindsey George Erle of Huntley Lord Gordon and Badzenath Iohn Lord Darnlye Iohn Lord Kenedy Robert Lord Lââ¦e Patrick Lord Haleene Laurence Lord Oliphant William Lorde Borthwike sir Iohn Rosse of Halââ¦herâ⦠sir Gilbert Iohnson of Elphyââ¦ston sir Iohn Lundy sir Iohn Ogââây of Arly sir Robert Hamilton of Fââ¦galton Sir WillaÌ BalÈe of Lamington sir Iohn Kenedy of Blarqbone sir Iohn Wenââ¦es sir W. Rochwen Edward Stochton of Kirke paty Iohn Dââas Iohn Rosse of Mountgrenan Esquires It was further agreed Commissioners appointed to meete at Loughmaââ¦an that Commissioners shoulde meete at Loughmaââ¦an the eyghteene day of Nouember aswell for redresse of certayne offences done on the West marches as also for declaring and publishing the peace On y e English part the Lord Dacres the Lord Fitzbugh sir Richard Ratcliffe sir Christopher Moreshye sir Richard Salkeild or three of theÌ For y e Scots
Realme vpon them as these The Archbishops of S. Andrews and Glasquho the bishops of Aberden and Dunblane The Earles of Angus Argyle Arrane and Lennox the Quene was adioyned to them as principall withoute whose aduice nothing should be done From this Parliament also was the Erle of Cassels sente with answere vnto the King of Englande hee come to London the ninteenth of Marche But bicause the king had knowledge that the French King was ââ¦en at the battaile of Pauie hee woulde not proceede in the treatie of marryage betwixte the kyng of Scotlande and his daughter till he had the Emperours aduice Truce tenââ¦ed whome he affirmed to bee his confederate friend and in renuing the truce for three yeares and syxe monethes the Ambassadours returned into Scotland about the beginning of Aprill next ensuing without any contract of mariage at that time The Argument betwixt the Queene and Lords continued not long for anone after died the Bishop of DuÌkeld whose benefice the E. of Angus obtained of the king for his brother W. Dowglas without the aduice of the Queene and other Lords wherevpon the Q. departed and went vnto Striueling The King not in his owne power leauing the king w t the Erle of Angus who togither w t the Erle of Lennox toke the whole rule and gouernemeÌt of y e Realme and K. vpon him made his Vncle Archimbald Dowglas treasourer of the Realme and then the saide Earles of Angus and Lennox bestowed benefices offices and al other things by the aduice of George Dowglas brother to the saide Earle of Angus and others of that faction In this meane time the Archbishop of Saint Andrewes and the Earles of Arrane Arguile and Murrey remaining with the Queene of Striueling alledged that the king was wythholden froÌ them by the E. of Angus sore against his wil and therefore they sente vnto the Earle requiring him to deliuer him but y e Erle caused the K. to giue the answere himself that he would not come from the Erle of Angus albeit he wold gladly haue bin out of his hands if he might as by secret message sent to sundry of the lordes likewise at that time it appeared for he willed the bâ⦠priuie meanes to assemble an army and to come fetch him out of their handes that thus deceiued him Herevpon shortly after they raysed a power The Queene mother in armes and comming therewith to Linlithgew purposed to passe vnto Endenburgh y t they might get the K. out of the Erle of Angus his handes the said Erle w t the Earle of Lennox other his assistants being thereof aduertised came to y e fielde w t the kings banne displayed brought the king with him although partly against his wil. The Queene with such Lords as were with hir there in the armie for the reuerence they bare to the Kyngs person and fearing the daunger that mighte chaunce vnto them if they buckled togither in a foughten field they withdrew theÌselues to Striueling and from thence the Queen went into Murrey laÌd with y e Erle of Murrey and there remayned a long time after The Earles of Arrane and Arguile went into the Weste Countrey and the Bishoppe of Saint Andrewes to Dunfermeling and then the Earle of Angus toke vppon him more boldly the gouernement of the King and Realme and sent to the Bishoppe of Saint Androwes who was chauncellour for the great seale which was deliuered to them that were so sent for it The great seale deliuered The nobles of the Realme remaining thus at variance and deuided amoÌg themselues there was small obedience of lawes and iustice diuers slaughters in sundry parts were committed great theftes and robberies made by the borderers vpoÌ the Inland Countries Moreouer this yere y e displeasure stil continuing betwixt the Queene the kings mother and hir husband the Earle of Angus she clerely forsooke him and so vsed the matter that she was married to Henry stewarde brother to Andrew Stewarde Lorde Auendale to whome she had borne good wil as hath bin reported long before which Henry was after created by the king Lorde of Methwen 1526. The foure and twentith of Iulye the King being accompanied with the Earle of Angus y e Lorde Hume the Karres and others roade vnto Iedburgh in purpose to haue reformed the misgoueraunce of y e borderers but after that they had remained there three dayes with little obedience shewed towards them they returned and on the nine and twentith day of Iuly at the Bridge of Melrose The Lard of Boclough his enterprice to take the king from the Earle of Angus the Lard of Boclough accompanyed w t aboue a thousand horsemen began to shew himselfe in sighte whose principall purpose was to haue taken the King from the Earle of Angus his assistantes being requested and commaunded by the King himselfe so to do The Erle of Angus incontinently sente an Herrauit vnto the Larde of Boclough to know what his intention was to doe who aunswered that he came to do the King honour and seruice and to shewe his friends and power as the vse is of the borderers The Earle of Angus w t the Lorde Hume and the rest not being contente wyth thys aunswere bicause of the great feude betwixte hym and the Humes and the Karres sente vnto him a commaundemente in the Kings name to departe and not to approche neere to the kinges presence vnder paine of high treason wherevnto he answered that he knew the kings mind wel ynough and would not spare for his commaundemente to come to his graces presence whyche aunswere receiued from him incontinentlye the Earle of Angus the Lords Fleming and Hume the Karres the Larde of Sesseford with theyr friendes alighted on foote the King remayning on horsebacke accompanied with the Erle of Lenox the Lord Marwek George Dowglas and Ninian Crechton Tutor of Sanquhââ¦r The Lard of Bouclough lighted also on foote but bicause the most parte of his men were of the theeues and outlawes of the borders commonly called broken men vppon their firste approche to the ioyning with their speares they fledde leauing the Larde of Boclough with a smal number of his owne seruauntes aboute him in all the daunger yet they defended themselues righte maÌfully and slewe the Larde of Sesseforde and diuers other on the Earle of Angus his side The Lard of Sesseforde slaine The Lard of Boclough put to flight but finallye ouerpressed with multitude they were put to flight and fourescore of Bocloughes men slaine in the chase After this the King reââ¦ourned to Iedburgh and remained there the space of foure dayes and then returned to Edenburgh All this while the King was gouerned and holden against his will by the Earle of Angus and his assisters although he did not outwardly shewe so in countenaunce but dissembled the matter as well as hee mighte yet perceiuing two enterprises to haue quayled that hadde bene attempted for his deliueraunce he thought to
to resist the Kings proceedings this Sir Raufe Evre beyng then within Scarborrough Castel He is besieged in Scarborrough Castell accoÌpaned onely with his friends seruants and tenants whiche of very good will were contented to serue vnder him was besieged in the same Castell and kept from all reliefe succours that might come or be brought vnto him from any parte during the terme of sixe weekes or there about so that for the space of xx dayes after theyr prouision was spent they liued onely with bread and water hauing little or no other sustenance whiche extremitie not withstanding he kept the fortresse in safetie to the Kings vse vnto the ende of that dangerous rebellion and then to his high prayse and commendation deliuered it like a faithful GentlemaÌ into the Kings hands This I should haue set downe in place where mencion is made of that rebellion but the note came not to my hand till that parte of the booke was paste the presse and so rather here than not at all I haue thought good to imparte it to the Reader But now to returne to the purpose for the doings in Scotlande About the same time that the victory before mencioned chanced to the Scottes Robert Carncorfe bishop of Rosse departed this life Death of Byshops to whome succeeded Dauid Pantane Secretary to the gouernour an Priour of S. Mary I le In Aprill William Steward bishop of Aberden likewise deceased and master William Gordon ChaÌcellor of Murray vncle to George Erle of Huntley was by the Cardinals suyte promoted to that see greatly to the displeasure of the Erle of Angus that laboured to haue preferred an other thereto For this other causes the Cardinal was greatly in hatred of y e Dowglasses This yeere also Montgomery otherwise called Monsier de Lorges Monsieur de Lorges sent into Scotland knight of the order of S. Michael was sent by the French king with iiij thousand Frenchmen into Scotlande to assist the Scottes against England he landed at Dunbertayne and came in good order to Edenburgh the xiij of May he brought with him from the French king the order of S. Michaell to inuest therewith the Lord gouernour Knights of Michaels ââ¦der the Erles of Angus Huntley and Argile Herwith also was an army of Scottes reysed and ioyning with the Frenchmen they approched y e bordures where they lay for a season An army of Scots lieth the bordure but the Erle of Hertford Lieutenant generall of the North partes comming downe tooke such direction for the safe keeping of the English bordures that after the Scottes had layne there in campe a certayne space without atchieuing any great enterprice though some notable exploit was looked for to haue bene attempted by them at that present they brake vp theyr armie and returned home The .xvj. of September about three or foure hundred Scottes and Frenchmen attempted to enter into England on the east bordures French meâ⦠and Scotââ¦ââ¦uerthrowen but the Englishmen perceyuing where they were aboute to passe by a certayne streyt they set vpoÌ them with their Archers discomfited them sleying and taking to the number of seuen score of them Amongst other that were taken one of the Sonnes to the Lord Hume with a French capitayne and George Elphinston Archer of the corps to the French king were accompted ââ¦f Also on the West bordures Robert Maxwell eldest sonne to the Lord Maxwels The Lorde Maxwelles sonne taken prysoner was taken in a roade made by him others into the English confines on that side although at an other time certaine Englishmen making a roade into Scotlande were distressed the more parte of them beyng taken or slayne At a ParliameÌt holden at Linluchque begonne there the .xxviij. of September and continued til the first of October Matthew Erle of Lennox and Thomas bishop of _____ were forfalted al their laÌds and goodes giuen away and annexed to the Crowne In this meane time the king of England desirous to haue the seruice of the Iles of Scotland for sundry great causes and respects moued the Erle LeÌnox to deale with them to y e ende whiche hee did and his trauell tooke suche effect that the Iland men were coÌtented to rest at the king of Englande his deuotion The Erle of Lennox pââ¦cureth theâ⦠of the Iles serue the king of England partely for that they were in a maner sworne enimies to the Erle of Argyle and his family and partly for that they doubted the king of Englands puyssance if he shoulde attempt to inuade those parties and againe bearing an olde speciall fauor to the Earle of Lennox and his house hauing an auntient bonde of alliance and amitie with the same they were the more ready to satisfie his motion ãâã lorde of ââ¦les eleâ⦠being ãâã of the Maââ¦es Herevpon they elected amoÌgst them a Lorde of the Isles nexte of the bloud a title long sithence righte odious to the state of Scotland and by the inducement of the Earle of Lennox hee was contented as the Kyng of Englands pentioner to receyue two thousand Crownes of him yeerely with certayne riche apparel of cloth of golde and siluer from the said Earle The first proofe he attempted to shew of hys seruice in the King of Englands behalfe was this hauing instructions thereto from the Erle of Lennox vnder colour of a conference for matters touching the estate of the Countrey he had suborned one of his aliance and seruantes called y e Clane Reignald ãâã Rey ãâã slayeth ãâã Lorde ãâã to entrappe the Erles of Arguile and Huntley and although they escaped very narrowly the Lord Louet an auntient Baron and greate friende to those two Earles was slayne by the sayd Clane togyther with seauen hundred of his kinsmen and frieÌds in so muche that there remayned not but one yong boy of that lignage to succeede in that Lords lands After this the L. of the Iles with sixe M. meÌ embarqued in certayne vessels passed ouer into Carrike The Lord of ãâã Isles inâ⦠Carike harried and brent the lands of the Erle of Cassels then a great enimie to the Kyng of England In this voyage he got great spoiles and flew many of the enimies after which enterprise so atchieued he came with his power by Sea ãâã commeth ãâã Ireland and landed in Irelande where the Earles of Lennox and Ormonde were with twelue hundred Irishmenne appoynted to ioyne with him that with their whole power they myghte inuade the Earle of Argulles Countreys and consequently the mayne lande of Scotlande at the brode syde But before the preparation could be made ready for that iourney the newe Lord of the Iles deceassed ãâã departeth ãâã ââ¦e whose buriall in Irelande to honor the Earle of Lennox stoode the Kyng of England in foure hundred pounds sterling But now to returne vnto y e doings on the bordures betwixt England and Scotland in thys season Ye shall vnderstand that after the
al 's knawing the proximitie of blude standand betuix vs our said Sone our derrest brother Iames Erle of Murray Lord Ahirnethie c. And hauand experience of the naturall affectioun and tenderly lufe he hes in all tymes borne and presently beââ¦ris towardis vs honour and estate of our saide Sone Of quhais lufe and fauour towardis him we can not bot assure our self To quhome na greter honour wy nor felicitie in eird can cum nor to se our said Sone inaugurat in his Kingdome feirit reuerencit and obeyit be his liegis thairof In respect quhairof and of the certanetie and notoritie of the honestie habilitie qualificatioun and sufficiencie of our said derrest brother to haue the cure and Regiment of our said Sone Realme and liegis foirsaidis during our said Sonis minoritie We haue maid namit appointit constitute and ordanit and be thir our letteris namis appointis makis coÌstitutis and ordanis our said derrest brother Iames erle of Murray Regent to our said derrest Sone Realme and liegis foirsaidis during his minoritie and les age and ay and quhill he be of the age of seuintene Èeiris compleit And that our said brother be callit during the said space Regent to our said Sone his Realme and liegis Swa that our said Sone efter the completing of the Èeiris foirsaidis in his awin persoun may tak vpon him the said gouernement and vse exerce all and sindrie priuilegis honouris and vtheris immuniteis that appertenis to the office of ane King alsweill in gouerning his Realme pepill according to the Lawis as in repressing the violeÌce of sic as wald inuaid or iniustlie resist him or thame or his authoritie Royal. With power to our said derrest brother Iames Erle of Murray in name authoritie and behalf of our said maist deir Sone to ressaue resignatiounis of quhatsumeuer landis haldin of him or Èit of offices Castellis Towris Fortalices mylnis fischingis woddis benefices or pertinentis quhatsumener the samin againe in our said Sonis name to gif and deliuer signaturis thairvpon vpon the giftis of wairdis nonentressis and releues of landis and mariageis of airis falland or that fall happin to fall in our said Sonis handis as superiour thairof And al 's vpon presentatioun of landis benefices eschetis of guids mouabil and vnmouabill dettis and takkis respittis remissiounis supersedereis and vpon the dispositioun of offices vacand or quhen thay fall happin to vaik to subseriue and cause be past the Seillis the said office of Regentrie to vse exerce in all thingis priuilegis and commoditeis siclyke as frelie and with al 's greit libertie as ony Regent or Gouernour to vse or our predecessouris vsit in ony tymes bygane and siclyke as gif euerie held priuilege and article concerning the said office wer at lenth expressit and amplifyit in thir our letteris Promisand to hald firme and stabill in the word and faith of ane Prince to quhatsumeuer thingis our said derrest brother in the premissis happinnis to do Chargeing heirfoâ⦠Èow all and sundrie our Ingeis Ministeris of Law liegis and subiectis foirseidis to answer and obey to our said derrest brother in all and findrie thingis concerning the said office of Regentrie as Èe and ilk ane of Èow will declair Èow luising subiectis to our said maist deir Sone and vnder all paine charge and offence that Èe and ilk ane of Èow may commit and inrin againis his Maiestie in that pairt Subscriuit with our hand and geuin vnder our preuie Seill At Lochleuin the .xxiiij. day of Iulij And of our Regne the twentie fyue Èeir The kings othe These Commissions being redde the Bishop of Argile with two superintendentes proceeded to the Coronation the Erle of Morton and the Lord Hume tooke the othe for the king that he should rule in the faith feare and loue of God and to mainteyne the religion then preached exercised in Scotlande and to persecute all aduersaries to the same The whole ceremonie was done in the Scottes Englishe tongue the Queene mother to the King remayning at that tyme prysoner in Lochleuin A Parliament holden at Edenburgh The .xv. of December a Parliament begonne being holden at Edenburgh before the Earle of Murrey Lord Regent in the which diuers actes and Statutes were deuised made and ratified as firste concernyng the Queenes demission of hir Crowne and resignation thereof made to hyr Sonne King Iames the sixte And likewise concernyng the instituting of the Earle of Murrey in the Regencie of the Realme which he tooke vpon hym the twoo and twentie day of August laste paste accordyng to hir letters of commission and procuration aboue specified An acte for the abolishing of the Popes authoritie in Scotland Also there was an Acte made for the abolishyng of the Pope and his vsurped authoritie and an other Acte for the annullyng of former Actes made in Parliament for mayntenaunce of superstition and Idolatrie and herevnto was annexed a confession of the fayth and doctrine receyued by the Protestantes of the Realme of Scotlande authorised in the same Parliament There was also an acte made for the indempnitie of those that had leuied warre and apprehended the Queene at Carbarrie hill the fiftenth of Iuly last past and concernyng the deteyning of hir in Lochleuin The castell of Dunbar and the fortresse of Inchkeith to be rased Moreouer it was ordeyned by an acte passed in this Parliament that the Castell of Dunbar and the fortresse of Inskeith shoulde bee demolished and rased downe to the earth To be briefe there were one fourtie Actes or Statutes made and established in this Parliament as by the Register thereof it may appeare On Sunday the seconde of May in the yeare 1568. at supper tyme the Queene escaped out of Lochleuyn 1568. The queene escape out of Lochleuin by the meanes and helpe of George Dowglas brother to the Laird of Lochleuyn The Lorde Seaton the Laird of Ricartou and Iames Hamilton of Oribiston were ready to receyue hyr and conueyed hyr ouer the Queenes Ferry firste to Nudry the Lorde Seatons house and from thence to Hamilton Castell where she remayned till the thirtenth day of May beyng thursday The Queenes gathereth a power gathering in the meane time such forces as she might from all places The Earle of Murrey Lorde regent was in Glasquho at what tyme shee thus escaped out of Lochleuin and vpon knowledge had thereof meant at the firste to haue withdrawen himselfe vnto Sterlyng but suddenly changing his purpose in that behalf he determined to continue at Glasquho whiche is not paste an eyght myles from Hamilton The Regentâ⦠determination to stay at Glasquho bycause hee was perswaded that if she should shrynke backe neuer so little he shoulde encourage his aduersaries and discourage his frendes and so consequently weaken his parte greatly Herevpon the
a freÌch Captaine 477.11 fortifieth Iedvvorth in Scotlande 477.13 besiegeth the Castell of Fernihurst and taketh it 477.30 taketh the Castell of Cornevvall 477.64 maketh a roade into Englande 477.86 is forced by the Englishmenne to flee from Iedvvorth 477.114 Diana Goddesse of Huntyng 12. 96 Didius looke Aulus Didius Dinnune Castell 463.6 Diocletianus Emperour 77.52 Dionethus sonne to Octauius sometime King of Britaine feared 100.53 Dionethus ioyneth vvyth the Scottes and Pictes agaynste the Romanes 100.86 Dionethus proclaymed Kyng of Britayne 101.2 Dionethus escapeth into VVales 102. 20 Dionethus reputed second person of the Realme of Brytayne 102. 76 Dion Cassius cited 32.46 Dirtin rayde or durtie roade 375. 80 Discommodities of ciuill dissention 222.84 Disagreemente among VVriters of the place vvhere S. Colme dyed 142.1 Disagreemente of VVriters concerning the Martirs of the I le of May. 188.39 Disorder of King Edvvardes army agaynste Kyng Roberte 315. 81 Disorder in Scotlande during the minoritie of Iames the fifthe 423. 73 Dissention betvveene the Scottes and Irishmen 4.101 Dissention betvveene King Iohn of England and the Pope 281.32 Dissention betvveene King Iohn of EnglaÌd and hys Barons 282.3 Dissention betvveene King Henry the third of England and hys Nobles 285.114 Dissention betvveene the Earles of Angus and Arrane 430.13 Dissention betvveene the Earle of Angus and the Lord of Fernihurst 430.65 Dissention and the cause thereof betvveene King Roberte and George Erle of March 366.90 DissentioÌ betvveene the inhabitaÌts of Angus Mernes 217.67 Disobedience in the Scottish nobilitie punished 304.25 Discommodities vvhich insue the Princes minoritie 11.15 Diuers opinions for the imprisoning of the Earle of Angus and the Lord Maxvvell 460.114 Diuers heads diuers opinioÌs 8.57 Diuels den or blacke den 1ââ¦0 58 Donalus gouernour of Brigantia conspireth agaynste Nothatus 14. 32 Donalus army put to flight tvvice in one day 15.28 Donalus slayne in fight 15.46 Donald dyeth 73.29 Donall brother to Finnanus 25.60 Donald made King of Scots 71.1 Donald conuerted to the Christian faith 72.103 Donald firste caused gold and syluer to be coyned in Scotlande 73. 18 Donalde a Gentleman of the Iles rebelleth 76.55 Donalde of the Iles is drovvned 76. 74 Donalde sonne of Donalde of the Iles rebelleth 77.2 Donalde offereth to yeelde hymselfe vpon certayne conditions 77. 16 Donaldes deuice to murther King Findocke 77.24 Donalde third sonne to Athirco chosen King 77.90 Donald of the Iles inuadeth Scotland 78.1 Donalde of the Iles assayleth the Kings camp 78.18 Donalde the King and hys armye vanquished 78.34 Donald the Kyng dyeth 78.39 Donalde of the Iles taketh vppon him to be King 78.44 Donalde of the Iles beloued of fevve 78.76 Donalde of the Iles murthered 78. 78 Donalde of the Iles kinsfolke put to death 79.46 Donald gouernour of Atholl conspireth to murther Conran the King 131.53 Donalde of the Iles maynteyneth robbers and spoylers 155.57 Donalde of the Iles and his complaces apprehended and put to death 155.100 Donald brother to Kenneth chosen King of Scotland 182.55 Donald liueth in all dissolutenesse 182. 63 Donalde putteth Osbert Kyng of NorthumberlaÌd and his people to flight 183 Donalde and his nobilitie taken 184. 3 Donalde and his noble men restored to libertie 185.96 Donalde committed to prison 186. 58 Donald flayeth hymselfe 186.60 Donalde the first created King of Scotland 199.63 Donalde sendeth ayde to the Englishmenne againste the Danes 200. 5 Donald appeaseth a commotion in Murrey lande 200.40 Donald dyeth 200.52 Donalde of the Iles discomfited vvith his armye by Edvvarde Bruce 313.113 Donalde of the Iles rebelleth againste the Gouernour of Scotland 373.4 Donald of the Iles subdueth Ros. 373. 6 Donald of the Iles submitteth himselfe 373.53 Donald Lord of the Iles rebelleth vvyth the Dovvglasses 394.40 Dongard created King of Scottes 109. 99 Dongardes diligence in peace to prouide for vvarres 110.3 Dongardes bounteous liberalitie tovvardes the Churchemenne 110. 20 Dongard flayne 111.18 Dongall a noble man of Gallovvay 111.83 Dongall sonne to Dongarde proclaymed King of Scottes 112.21 Dongals policie in gouerning hys Realme 112.32 Dongall inuested Kyng of Scotland 167.91 Dongall apprehendeth the Rebelles that vvere vp agaynste hym and executeth them 168. line 40 Dongall causeth open vvarre againste the Pictes 169.79 Dongall drovvned in the riuer of Spey 169.98 Donvvald inuested King of Scotland 146.33 Donvvalde maketh meanes that Eufrede is restored to hys fathers kingdome 146.66 Donvvald drovvned 147.3 Donvvald Lieutenant of the Castell of Fores. 207.11 Donvvalde conceyueth vnquencheable hatred agaynste Duffe 207. 87 Donvvaldes deepe dissimulation coÌcerning Duffes murther 208. line 89 Donvvaldes giltie conscience enforceth hym to flee 209.50 Donvvald taken prisoner 209.95 Donvvald vvith hys confederates executed 210 Doruadille King of Scottes 13.19 Doruadille makes a league vvyth the Britaynes 13 2â⦠Doruadille confirmeth the auntiente alliance vvyth the Pictes 13. 26 Doruadille set all his delite in huÌting 13.29 Doruadille establisheth nevve lavves 13.68 Doruadille dyeth 14.16 Dovvglas Iames fleeth to kyng Robert to ayde hym 313.16 Dovvglasses vvhat caused them to rise to great honor 313.37 Dovvglas Iames chosen to goe vvith king Roberts heart to Ierusalem 329.99 Dovvglasses vvhy they beare the bloudye hearte in theyr armes 329. 104 Dovvglas Iames serueth in Aragon againste the Sarazens 330. line 20 Dovvglas Iames slaine by the Sarazens 330. ââ¦9 Dovvglas Archembalde chosen gouernour in place of Andrevv Murray 337.6 Dovvglas VVilliam knight ransomed out of England 342.54 Dovvglas VVilliam slayeth ââ¦re hundred Englishmen at Edenburgh 346. ââ¦5 Dovvglas VVilliam created Erle Dovvglas 350. ââ Dovvglas VVilliam knight flain 352. 37 Dovvglas Archembald taken prisoner by the Englishmen escapeth vvyth a small raunsome 354. 7 Dovvglasses hovve they come to the Earledome of Murrey 356. line 66 Dovvglas Iames Earle of Dovvglas entreth Northumberlande vvith an army 360. ââ¦9 Dovvglas VVilliaÌ marrieth Giles daughter to K. Roberte 361.37 Dovvglas VVilliam passeth ouer into Irelande vvith a povver 361. 66 Dovvglas VVilliam chosen Admirall of a nauie to goe againste the people in the Northeast partes 365.38 Dovvglas VVilliam slayne 365. line 5â⦠Dovvglas Archimbalde Earle Dovvglas dyeth 367.45 Dovvglas the grimme 367 5â⦠Dovvglas Archimbalde Earle Dovvglas inuadeth Englande vvith an army 369.14 Dovvglas Archimbald taken prisoner and hys armye slayne at Homildon by the Englishmen 369. 48 Dovvglas Archimbalde aideth the Percies at Shrevvsburie fielde 370. 11 Dovvglas Archimbalde taken prisoner at Shrevvsburie field 370. 29 Dovvglas Archimbald releassed returneth into Scotlande 372. line 97 Dovvglas Archimbalde Earle Dovvglas imprisoned and set at libertie 380.3 Dovvglas VVilliam Erle of Angus ouerthrovveth Henry Percie and his armie at Piperden 383. 58 Dovvglas Archimbalde Earle of Dovvglas dyeth 386.68 Dovvglas VVilliam yong Earle Dovvglas made Duke of Touraine 386.105 Dovvglas VVilliam Earle of Dovvglas beheaded 387.53 Dovvglas Iames baron of Abircorne dieth 387.59 Dovvglas Hugh Erle of Ormond general of an armie agaynst the Englishmen 389.64 Dovvglas Hugh ouerthrovveth the Englishmen and taketh many prisoners 390.58 Dovvglas VVilliam Earle of Dovvglas vvith many other nobles of
it to king Edwarde who in recompence gaue to him and his heyres Males Birmingham made Erle of Louth the Earledome of Louth and the Baronie of Ardich and Athenrie to him and his heyres generall for euer Shortly after sir Richard de Clare with foure other knightes of name Sir Richard de Clare slaine 1319 and many other men of warre were slaine in Thomond the Lord Roger Mortimer came againe into Ireland to gouerne as Lorde iustice there nowe the second time and the townes of Athessell and Plebs were brent by the Lorde Fitz Thomas brother to the Lorde Maurice Fitz Thomas And about this season the bridge of Kilcolyn was buylded by Maurice Iakis 1320 The Earle of Kildare Lord Iustice In the yeare following to wit .1320 which was the .xiiij. of king Edwards raigne Thomas Fitz Iohn Erle of Kildare was made Lord Iustice of Irelande Here is to be remembred An Vniuersitie erected at Dublyn that about this time also Alexander Bignore Archbishop of Dublyn sent to Pope Iohn the .xxij. for a priuiledge to institute an Vniuersitie within the citie of Dublyn and his suite tooke effect And the first three Doctors of Diuinitie did the sayde Archbishop himselfe create William Hardity a Frier preacher Henrie Cogie a Frier minor and Frier Edmond Bernerden and beside these one Doctor of Canon to wit Richard Archdeacon of S. Patrikes that was Chauncellor of the same Vniuersitie who kept their termes and CoÌmencements solemnly neyther was this vniuersitie at any time since disfranchised but onely through chaunge of tymes discontinued and now since the dissoluing of Monasteries vtterly decayed A motion was made as Campion hath noted in a Parliament holden there whilest sir Henrie Sidney was the Queenes Lieutenant to haue it againe erected by way of contributions to be layd togyther the sayde sir Henry offring .xx. pounde landes and an hundred pound in money Other there were also that according to their abilities and deuotions followed with their offers The name was deuised A worthie Plantation of Plantagenet and Bulleigne But while they disputed of a coÌuenient place for it of other circumstances they let fall the principall 1321 In the yeare .1321 there was a great slaughter made of the Oconhurs at Balibagan by y e English of Leynister Meth. And Iohn BirminghaÌ Earle of Louth was made L. iustice of Irelande Vnto this man whilest he was Lord iustice Rec. Turris the king wrote coÌmaunding him to be with him at Carleil in the Octaues of the Trinitie in the .xv. yeare of his raigne with three C. men of armes one M. hobellares and sixe M. footemen eche of them armed with an aketon a sallet and gloues of Male which number was to be leuied in that land beside three C. meÌ of armes which the Erle of Vlster was appoynted to serue with in that iourney which the king at that time intended to make against the Scottes The date of the letter was the third of Aprill In the yere .1322 diuerse nobles in Ireland departed this life 1322 as the Lord Richard BirminghaÌ the Lord Edmond Butler the Lorde Thomas Perceuale Moreouer the L. Andrew BirminghaÌ sir Richard de la LoÌd were slain by OnolaÌ In the .xviij. yeare of King Edward y e second his raigne 1323 Iohn Darcie Lord iustice the L. Iohn Darcie came into IrelaÌd to be L. Iustice and the kings lieutenant there The Ladie Alice Kettle accused of sorcerie In these dayes liued in the Dioces of Ossorie the Ladie Alice Ketell whom the Bishop ascited to purge hirselfe of the fame of inchantment and witchcraft imposed vnto hir to one Petronille and Basill hir complices She was charged to haue nightly coÌference with a spirit called Robin Artisson to whoÌ she sacrificed in the high way .ix. red cockes .ix. peacocks eies Also that she swept the streetes of Kilkenny betwene CoÌpleine twilight raking al the filth towardes the doores of hir son William Outlaw murmuring these words To the house of VVilliam my sonne Hie all the wealth of Kilkenny towne At the first conuiction they abiured and did penance but shorly after they were found in relapse and then was Petronille burnt at Kilkenny the other twaine might not be heard of She at the houre of hir death accused the sayd William as priuie to their sorceries whome the Bishop helde in duraunce .ix. weekes forbidding his keepers to eate or to drinke with him or to speake to him more than once in the day But at length through the suite and instance of Arnold le Poer then Seneshall of Kilkenny he was delyuered and after corrupted with brybes the Seneshal to persecute the Bishop so that he thrust him into prison for three Monethes In rifeling the closet of the ladie they found a Wafer of sacramentall bread hauing the diuels name stamped thereon in stead of Iesus Christ and a Pipe of oyntment wherewith she greased a staffe vpoÌ the which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin when and in what maner she listed This businesse about these witches troubled al the state of Ireland the more for that the Ladie was supported by certaine of the nobilitie lastly conueyed ouer into England since which time it could neuer be vnderstood what became of hir In the yeare .1326 and last of king Edwarde the secondes raigne Richard Burgh Erle of Vlster departed this life Edward the third In the yeare folowing the lord Thomas Fitz Iohn Earle of Kildare and the Lorde Arnolde Poer and William Erle of Vlster wer sent ouer into Ireland and Roger Outlaw prior of saint Iohns of Ierusalem in Ireland commonly called the prior of Kilmaynam was made Lorde Iustice The Prior of Kilmaynam Lord iustice This man by reason of variaunce that chaunced to rise betwixt the Giraldines the Butlers and Birminghams on the one side and the Poers and Burghes on the other for terming the Earle of Kildare a rimor to pacifie the parties called a Parliament wherin he himselfe was fain to make his purgation of a slaunder imposed to him as suspected of Heresie Arnald Poer accused of heresie The Bishop of Ossorie had giuen an information agaynste Arnalde le Poer conuented and conuicted in his Consistorie of certaine hereticall opinions but bycause the beginning of Poers accusation concerned the Iustices kinsman and the Bishop was mistrusted to prosecute his own wrong and the person of the man rather than the fault a day was limitted for the iustifying of the byll the partie being apprehended and respited therevnto This dealing the Bishop who durst not styrre out of Kilkenny to prosecute his accusation was reputed partiall and when by meanes hereof the matter hanged in suspence he infamed the sayde Prior as an abettor and fauourer of Arnolds heresie The Prior submitted himselfe to the tryal and thervpon were seueral Proclamations made in Court that it shoulde bee lawfull to any man to come into the Court and to
Iustice might haue possessed the Iles if they had bene worth the keeping into the which Iles except the sayd Darcy the Earle of Sussex late Lieutenant of Irelande no gouernor at any time yet aduentured At Darcyes comming backe into Irelande and exercising the office of Lorde Iustice he deliuered Walter Birmingham out of the Castell of Dublin Howe a Realme of warre might bee gouerned by one both vnskilfull and vnable in all warlike seruice Articles or questions How an officer vnder the king that entred very poore might in one yeare grow to more excessiue wealth than men of great patrimonie and liuelode in many yeares Howe it chaunced that sithe they were all called Lordes of theyr owne that the soueraigne Lord of them all was not a pennie the rycher for them The chiefe of them that thus seemed to repine with the present gouernment was Thomas Fitz Maurice Erle of Desmonde through whose maintenance and bearing out of the matter the Countrey was in great trouble so as it had not lightly beene seene that suche contrarietie in myndes and dislyking had appeared amongest those of the English race in that realme at any time before Herewith Raufe Vffort was sent ouer Lord Iustice who bringing hys wyfe wyth him 1343 Raufe Vffort Lord iustice the Countesse of Vlster arryued about the .xiij. of Iulie Thys man was verye rygorous and through perswasion as was sayde of his wyfe he was more extreeme and couetous than otherwyse hee woulde haue beene a matter not to bee forgotten The Countesse of Vlster for if thys Ladie had beene as readie to moue hir husbande to haue shewed hymselfe gentle and mylde in his gouernment as she was bent to pricke him forwarde vnto sharpe dealing and rygorous proceedings shee had beene nowe aswell reported of as shee is infamed by theyr pennes that haue regystred the doyngs of those tymes And whilest hee yet remayned in Mounster he deuised wayes how to haue the Earle of Desmonde apprehended whiche being brought to passe hee afterwarde deliuered him vpon mainprise of these sureties whose names ensue Sureties for the Earle of Desmonde William de Burgh Earle of Vlster Iames Butler Earle of Ormonde Rycharde Tuyt Nicholas Verdon Maurice Rochefort Eustace le Power Geralde de Rochefort Iohn Fitz Robert Power Robert Barry Maurice Fitz Girald Iohn Wellesley Walter le Fant Richard Rokelley Henrie Traherne Roger Power Iohn Lenfaunt Roger Power Mathew Fitz Henrie Richarde Walleys Edmonde Burgh sonne to the Earle of Vlster knightes Dauid Barry William Fitz Gerald Foulke de Fraxinus Robert Fitz Maurice Henry Fitz Berkley Iohn Fitz George de Roche Thomas de Lees de Burgh These as ye haue heard were bounde for the Earle and bycause hee made default the Lorde Iustice verily tooke the aduauntage of the bonde agaynst the mainpernours foure of them onely excepted the two Earles and two knightes Vffort euill spoken of The lord Iustice is charged with strayte dealing by wryters in this behalfe for that the same persons had assisted him in his warres agaynste Desmond but truly if we shal consider the matter with indifferencie he did no more than law reason required For if euery surety vpoÌ forfeyture of his bonde shoulde be forborne that otherwyse doth his duetie what care woulde men haue eyther to procure sureties or to become suretyes themselues But such is the affection of wryters specicially when they haue conceyued any mislyking towardes those of whome they take occasion to speake so as many a worthie man hath bene defamed and with slaunder greatly defaced in things wherein he rather hath deserued singular commendation But howsoeuer this matter was handled touching the Earle of Desmonde Ioy conceyued for the death of the lord Iustice Vffort vpon the death of the Lord Iustice whiche ensued the nexte yeare Bonfyres were made and greate ioye shewed through all the Realme of Irelande His Ladie verily as shoulde appeare was but a miserable woman procuring him to extortion and bryberie Much he abridged the prerogatiues of the Churche and was so hated that euen in the sight of the Countrey he was robbed without rescue by Mac Cartie notwithstanding he gathered power and dispersed those Rebels of Vlster Robert Darcy was ordeyned Iustice by the Counsell 1346 Robert Darcie Lord iustice till the kings letters came to sir Iohn Fitz Morice who released Fitz Thomas Earle of Kildare left in durance by Vfford at his death Iohn Fitz Morice Iustice Fitz Morice continued not long but was discharged and the Lorde Walter Birmingham elect to succeede in that rowmth Lord Birmingham Iustice who procured a safeconduct for Desmonde to pleade his cause before the King by whome he was liberally entreated and allowed towarde his expences there twentie shillings a day at the Princes charge in consideration of whiche curtesie shewed to hys Kinnesman the Earle of Kildare accompanied with dyuerse Lordes Knightes and chosen Horsemen serued the King at Calyce a towne thought impregnable and returned after the winning thereof in greate pompe and ioylitie 1347 ââ¦ecord Tur. Wee finde that Thomas Lorde Berkeley and Reignalde Lord Cââ¦bham and Sir Morice Berckley became mainââ¦ernours for the sayde Earle of Desmonde that hee shoulde come into England and abide such tryall as the law would awarde 1348 The Prior of Kilmaynam Baron Carew Iustice Sir Thomas Rokesby Iustice Record Tur. Iohn Archer Prior of Kylmaynam was substituted Lieutenaunt to the Lorde Iustice To whome succeeded Baron Carew and after Carewe followed Sir Thomas Rokesbye Knight vnto whome was assigned aboue his ordinarie retinew of twentie men of armes a supplie of tenne men of armes and twentie Archers on Horsebacke so long as it should bee thought needfull Greate mortalitie chaunced this yeare as in other partes of the worlde so especially in places aboute the Sea coastes of Englande and Irelande 1349 In the yeare following departed this life Alexander Bignor Archbishop of Dublin Iohn de Saint Paule Archbishop of Dublin And the same yeare was Iohn de Saint Paule consecrated Archbishop of that sea This yeare deceased Kemwryke Shereman sometime Maior of Dublin 1350 Kenwrike Shereman a great benefactor to euery Churche and religious house within .xx. myles rounde aboute the Citie His legacies to the poore and other besides his liberalitie shewed in his lyfe tyme amounted to three thousande Markes Sir Robert Sauage In this season dwelled in Vlster a wealthie knight one sir Robert Sauage who the rather to preserue his owne began to wall and fortifie his Manor houses with Castelles and pyles against the Irish enimie exhorting his heyre Henrie Sauage to applie that worke so beneficiall for himselfe and his posteritie Father quoth yong Sauage I remember the prouerbe Better a Castell of bones than of stones where streÌgth courage of valiant men are prest to helpe vs neuer will I by the grace of God comber my selfe with dead walles My fort shall bee where soeuer yong blouds be
slue Thomas Maureuar baron of Serin English men slaine there were taken prisoners Christofer Fleming Iohn Dardis diuers other beside many y t were slain Iohn Lorde Talbot of Sherfield On Saint Martins euen sir Iohn Talbot of Holomshire Lorde Furniuale landed at Dalkey the kings lieutenaunt in Irelande a man of great honour In the yeare .1415 in NoueÌber Robert Talbot a right noble man 1415 Robert Talbot deceaseth that walled the Suburbs of Kilkenny departed this life Also Patrike Baret Bishop of Fernis deceased and was buried among the Canons at Kenlis 1416 This yeare in the feast day of Geruasius and Prothasius which falleth on the .xix. of Iune the Lord lieutenants wife the Ladie Furniuall was brought to bed at Finglasse of a sonne named Thomas The Archbishop of Ardmagh deceaââ¦eth About the same time also Stephen Fleming Archbishop of Ardmach departed thys life after whoÌ succeded Iohn Suanig On y e day of S. Laurence the Lord Furniuals sonne Tho. Talbot that was borne at Finglasse in NoueÌber last past departed this life and was buried in the Quier of the frier preachers church in Dublyn About the same time the Irish fel vpoÌ y e Englishmen and slue many of them among other Thomas Balimore of Baliquelan was one ââ¦he Parliaââ¦ent remoued ãâã Trim. The Parliament which the last yeare had bene called and holden at Dublyn was this yeare remoued to Trim and there began the .xj. of May where it continued for the space of xj dayes in the which was graunted to the lord lieutenant a subsidie in monie subsedie 1417 ãâã Archbiâââp of Dublin âââeased In the yeare following the Archebishop of Dublyn passed ouer into England and deceassed at Faringdon but his bodie was buried in the new Colledge at Oxforde This man is greatly praysed for his liberalitie ãâã prayse hee was a good almes man a great Clearke a Doctor of Diuinitie an excellent preacher a great buylder beautifull tall of stature and sanguine of complexion He was lxxx yeares of age when he died and had gouerned the Church of Dublyn in good quiet by the space of twentie yeares This yeare shortly after Easter the Lord deputie spoyled the tenants of Henrie Crus 1418 and Henrie Bethat Also at Olane on the feast day of Saint Iohn and Saint Paule the Erle of Kildare six Christofer Preston and sir Iohn Bedlow were arrested and committed to warde within the Castell of Trim bycause they sought to commune wyth the Prior of Kilmaynam The xxix of Iuly Mathew Husee Baron of Galtrim deceased and was buried at the Friers preachers of Trim. In the yeare .1419 a counsell royall was holden at Naas 1419 A counsell or Parliament holden where was graunted to the Lorde Lieutenant a subsedie in money The same yeare vpon Cene Thursday Othoel tooke .400 kine y t belonged vnto Balimore so breaking the peace contrarie to his othe The fourth Ides of May Mac Mourch Mac Murche taken prisoner chief captain of his nation and of all the Irish in Leynister was taken prisoner and the same day was sir Hugh Cokesey made knight The last of May the Lord lieutenant and the Archebishop of Dublin with the Maior razed the Castel of Kenini The morow after the feast day of Processus and Martinianus that is the .xx. of Iune the lord William de Burgh other Englishmen slue .v. C. Irish men and tooke Okelly Okelly taken On the feast of Marie Magdalene the Lorde lieutenaÌt Talbot returned into EnglaÌd leauing his deputie there the Archbishop of Dublin This yeare about Saint Laurence day dyuerse went forth of Irelande to serue the king in his warres of Normandie The Prior of Kilmaynam went to serue the king ãâã Fraunce as Thomas Butler that was Prior of Kilmaynam and many other Iohn Fitz Henry succeded the said Butler in gouernment of the Priorie of Kilmaynam The Archbishop of Dublin that remayned as Lorde Deputie fiue .xxx. Irish men neare vnto Rodiston Also the .xiij. of Februarie Iohn Fitz Henry Prior of Kilmaynam departed this life WilliaÌ Fitz Thomas was chosen to succeede in his place and was confirmed the morrow after Saint Valentines day 1420 Iames Butler Earle of Ormond Lorde Lieutenant Iames Butler Erle of Ormond appointed the kings lieutenant in Ireland in place of Iohn L. Talbot Furniual landed at Waterford about the .iiij Ides of Aprill and shortly after his comming ouer caused a combat to be fought betwixt two of his cousins of whoÌ the one was slain in y e place and the other caried away sore wounded On Saint Georges day A Parliament sommoned he held a counsell in Dublin and summoned a Parliament to begin there the .vij. of Iune In the meane while he fetched great booties out of the Countreys of the Irish Lordes Oraly Mac Mahun Magynoys But first ere we go further to shew what Marlb hath noted of the doings whilest this Erle of Ormond gouerned as the kings lieutenant in Irelande we haue thought good to set downe what Campion also writeth thereof as thus The morrow after the feast of Simon and Iude The Castell of Colmolin the Castell of Colmolyn was taken by Thomas Fitz Geralde And on Saint Katherins euen The Earle of Ormondes son and heyre borne the sonne and heyre of the Erle of Ormond Lord Lieutenant was borne for the which there was great reioysing In the Parliament begon againe at Dublin the Monday after Saint Andrews day an other subsidie of CCC markes was graunted vnto the Lord Lieutenant And after they had sit .xiij. dayes it was eftsoones adiourned till the Monday after Saint Ambrose day Then rumors were spred abrode that Thomas Fitz Iohn Erle of Desmond was departed this life at Paris vppon Saint Laurence day after whome succeded his vncle Iames Fitz Gerald whom he had three seueral times renouÌced as one that was a waster of his patrimonie both in England and Ireland and not like to come to any good proufe 1421 A Parliament In the yeare .1421 the Parliament began againe vpon the last prorogation the Monday after Saint Ambrose day in which Parliament it was ordeyned that certaine persons should be sent to the king to sue that a reformation might bee had in matters touching the state of the land The chiefe of those that were thus sent were the Archbishop of Ardmagh sir Christopher Preston knight The Bishop of Casshell accused Moreouer Richard Ohedian bishop of Casshell was accused by Iohn Gese Bishop of Lismore and Waterford who layd .xxx. Articles to his charge Amongst other one was for that he loued none of the English nation and that he bestowed not one benefice vpon any English man and counselled other bishops that they should not bestow any within their Dioces vpon any English man Moreouer an other Article was for counterfeyting the kings seale and an other for that he went about to make himself K. of
MouÌster and had taken a ring from the Image of S. Patrike which the Erle of Desmond had offred and giuen it to his lemman Many other crymes were layd to him by the sayd Bishop of Lismore and Waterford which he exhibited in writing Also in the same Parliament there rose coÌtention betwixt Adam Pain bishop of Clone an other prelate whose church he would haue annexed vnto his see At length after the Parliament had continued for the space of xviij days it brake vp Herewith came newes of y e slaughter of the Lord Tho. of LaÌcaster duke of Clarence y t had bin L. The Duke of Clarence slaine in Fraunce lieutenant of Ireland vpoÌ the .vij. of May certaine of the Erle of Ormondes men were ouerthrown by the Irish nere to the Abbey of Leys xxvij Englishmen were slain there of whom the chief were two geÌtlemeÌ the one named Purcel the other Grant Also .x. were takeÌ prisoners and two C. escaped to the foresayde Abbey so sauing themselues About the same time Mac Mahun Mac Mahun an Irish lord did much hurt within the couÌtry of Vrgile by burning and wasting all afore him Also vpon the morrow after Midsommer day the Erle of Ormond Lord lieutenant entred into the Countrey about Leys vpon Omordris for the space of foure dayes togither did muche hurt in sleaing and spoyling the people till the Irish were glad to sue for peace ¶ Henrie the sixt LIeutenants to Henrie the sixt ouer the realme of Irelande were these Edmonde Earle of March and Iames Erle of Ormond his deputy Iohn Sutton Lord Dudley sir Tho. Strange knight his deputie Sir Thomas Stanley and sir Christofer Plunket his deputie Henry Marleâ⦠Thys sir Thomas Stanley on Michaelmasse day Here endeth Marleburgh and all that foloweth is taken out of Campion in the twelfth yeare of King Henrye the sixth wyth all the Knightes of Methe and Irrell fought agaynste the Irishe slue a greate number and tooke Neill Odonell prisoner Lion Lord Welles the Earle of Ormonde his deputie Iames Earle of Ormonde by hym selfe Iohn Erle of Shrewesburie and the Archbishop of Dublin Lorde Iustice in his absence Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke father to King Edwarde the fourth and Earle of Vlster had the office of Lieutenaunte by the Kings letters patents during the tearme of tenne yeeres who appoynted to rule vnder him as his deputies at sundry times the Baron of Deluin Richarde Fitz Eustace Knight Iames Earle of OrmoÌd and Thomas Fitz Morice Erle of Kildare To this Richard Duke of Yorke and Vlster then resident in Dublin Campion out of the Records of Christs Church George Duke of Clarence borne at Dublin Iacke Cade was borne within the Castell there his secoÌd sonne the Lord George that was after Duke of Clarence his Godfathers at the fontestone were the Erles of Ormond and Dismonde Whether the commotion of Iacke Cade an Irishman borne naming himself Mortimer and so pretending cosinage to diuers noble houses in this land proceeded from some intelligeÌce with the Dukes friends here in Ireland it is vncertayne but surely the Duke was vehemently suspected and immediately after began the troubles whiche through him were reysed Whyche broyles being couched for a time the Duke helde himselfe in Ireland being lately by Parliamente ordeyned protector of the Realme of Englande he left his agent in the Court his brother y e Erle of Salisburie Lord Chancellor to whom he declared the troth of the troubles then towarde in Ireland which letter exemplyfyed by Sir Henry Sidney Lorde Deputie a greate searcher and preseruer of antiquities as it came to Campions hands and by hym set downe we haue thoughte good likewise to present it here to your viewe To the right worshipfull and with all mine hart intierly beloued brother the Earle of Salisburie The copie of a letter RIght Worshipfull and with all my harte intierly beloued brother I recommende me vnto you as hartily as I can And like it you to witte sith I wrote last vnto the King our Soueraigne Lorde his highnesse the Irish enemie y t is to say Magoghigam and with him three or foure Irishe Captaynes associate with a greate felowship of English Rebells notwithstandyng that they were within the King our Soueraygne Lord his peace of greate malice and againste all truth haue maligned against their legiance and vengeably haue brent a great towne of myne inheritance in Meth called Ramore and other villages thereaboutes and murthered and breÌt both men womeÌ and children withouten mercy the whiche enimies be yet assembled in Woods and fortes aweighting to do the hurt and greeuance to the Kings subiects that they can thinke or imagine For whiche cause I write at this tyme vnto the Kings highnesse and beseeche his good Grace for to hasten my payment for this lande âârding vnto his letters of warrant nowe late directed vnto the Treasorer of Englande to the intente I may wage men in sufficiente number for to resist the malice of the same enimies and punish them in such wise that other which wolde do the same for lacke of resistance in time maye take example For doubtlesse but if my paymente be had in all hast for to haue men of warre in defence and safegard of this land my power caÌnot stretch to keepe it in the ââ¦ings obeysance and very necessitie will compell me to come into England to liue there vpon my poore liuelyhood for I had leuer be dead than any inconuenience ââoulde fall therevnto in my default for it shall neuer bee chronicled nor remayne in Scripture by y e grace of God that Ireland was lost by my negligeÌce And therefore I beseeche you right Worshipfull brother that you will holde to your handes instantly that my paymente may bee had at thys time in eschewing all inconueniences For I haue example in other places more pitie it is for to dread shame and for to acquit my troth vnto the Kings highnesse as my duetie is And thys I pray and exhort you good brother to shewe vnto his good grace and that you will be so good that this language may bee enacted at this presente ParliameÌt for mine excuse in time to come Roger Roe and that you will be good to my seruant Roger Roe the bearer of these and to my other seruaunts in such things as they shall pursew vnto the kings highnesse and to giue full faith and credence vnto the report of the said Roger touching the sayde matters Right worshipful and with all my hart intierly beloued brother our blessed Lorde God preserue and keepe you in all honor prosperous estate and felicitie and graunte you righte good life long WritteÌ at Dublin y e .15 day of Iune Your faithfull true brother Richarde Yorke Of suche power was Magoghigam in those dayes who as he wan and kept it by the sworde Magoghigam his power so nowe his successors in that state liue but as meane
deuided into three battayls or wards and in eche of them were sixtene thousande armed men al mustered and passed for armed men The first battayle was gouerned by the Duke of Orliance The ordering of the Frenche battell wherein were sixe and thirtie banners and twice as many penons The seconde was ledde by the Duke of Normandie and hys brethren the Lord Lewes and the Lorde Iohn The thirde the French K. hymselfe conducted And whyle these battayles were a settyng in arraye the Kyng caused the Lorde Eustace de Ribaumount and two other noble menne to ryde on before to see the dealing of the Englishemenne and to aduise of what number they were Those that were thus sente rode foorth and behelde the order of the Englishemenne at good leysure and retournyng enfourmed the Kyng that as they coulde iudge the enimyes were aboute two thousande menne of armes foure thousande Archers and fifteene hundred of others and that they were lodged in such a strong place and so well fenced wyth ditches and hedges that it wold be hard assaultng them therin The Cardinall of Piergort the Popes Legate The Cardinall of Piergorte as then lying in the Citie of Poictiers came that mornyng to the Kyng and required hym to abstayne from battayle til he might vnderstande whether the Prince woulde condescende vnto suche conditions of peace as he him selfe shoulde thynke reasonable whyche if it myghte be broughte to passe the same shoulde be more honourable for hym than to aduenture so many noble men as were there wyth hym at that present in hazarde of battayle The King was contented that the Cardinall should goe to the Prince The Prince of VVales contented to come to a treatie and see what he could doe with hym The Cardinall rode to the Prince and talked with him tyll hee was contented to come to a treatie The Cardinall retourned to the Frenche kyng and required of hym that a truce mighte be graunted tyll the nexte daye Sunne rysing whyche truce obteyned hee spente that daye in ryding to and fro betwixt them The Prince offred to render into the Kyngs handes all that he hadde wonne in that voyage The offer of the Prince of VVales as well Townes as Castelles and also to release all the Prisoners whiche he or any of his men had taken in that iorney and further he was contented to haue bene sworne not to beare armour agaynst the French king within the terme of .vij. yeres next folowing The Frenche Kinges presumptuous demaunde But the French K. woulde not agree thereto The vttermost that hee would agree vnto was this that the Prince and an hundred of hys Knyghtes should yeld themselues as Prisoners vnto hym otherwyse hee woulde not haue the matter taken vp The Prince in no wyse coulde bââ¦e broughte to anye suche vnreasonable conditions and so the Cardinall coulde not make them frendes althoughe hee trauayled earnestly betwixt them all that daye When it drew towardes nyght he retourned towarde Poictiers The Englishmen were not ydle The Engââ¦menne ãâ¦ã whylest the Cardinall thus was in hande to bring the parties to some good agreemente but caste greate ditches and made hedges and other fortifications aboute the place where theyr Archers stoode and on the nexte mornyng beyng Mondaye the Prynce and hys people prepared them selues to receyue battayle as they had done before hauyng passed the daye before and that nyghte in greate defaulte of necessarie thynges for they coulde not stirre abroade to fetche forrage or other prouisions wythout daunger to be surprised of theyr enimyes The Cardinall came agayne earely in the morning to the Frenche Kyng and founde the Frenche army ready in order of battayle by that tyme the Sunne was vp and though hee eftsoones fell in hande to exhorte the Kyng to an agreemente yet it would not be and so he went to the Prince The Cardinall traueil in vaine and declared to hym howe he coulde doe no good in the matter and therfore he muste abyde the hazarde of battayle for ought that he coulde see wherewith the Prince was contente and so the Cardinall retourned vnto Poictiers Here is to be remembred that when as Thomas Walsingham wryteth thys Cardinall of Perigourt was sente from the Pope to trauayle betwixte the parties for a peace to bee had and that the Pope exhorted hym verie earnestly to shewe his vttermoste diligence and endeuor therin at his setting foorth to goe on that message the sayde Cardinall as was sayde made this answere Most blessed father sayd he either will we perswade them to peace and quietnesse Tho. VVels A prophesie of Prelate eyther else shall the verie Flint stones crye oute of it But this hee spake not of hymselfe as it was supposed but being a Prelate in that time he prophesied what should follow for when the English Archers had bestowed all their arrows vppon their enimies they tooke vp pebles from the place where they stoode beeyng full of those kind of stones and approchyng to their enimies they threw the same with such violeÌce on them that lighting against their helmets armour and targets they made a great ringing noyse so that the Cardinals prophesie was fulfilled that hee would either persuade a peace or else the stones shoulde crye out therof The worthye Prince lyke a coragious chieftaine when he saw that he must needes fyghte The ââ¦on of the Prince required his people not to bee abasshed of the greate number of theyr enemyes sith the victorie did not consist in the multitude of menne but where God would sende it and if it fortuned that the iourney myghte bee theirs and his they shoulde be the moste honored people of the world and if they should dye in that rightuous quarrell he had the Kyng his father and also hys brethren in lyke case as they hadde freendes and kynsemenne that woulde seeke their reuenge And therfore he desyred them that day to shewe themselues lyke valyant men of warre and for his parte hee trusted in God and Sainct George they shoulde see in hys persone no defaulte These or the lyke woordes dydde thys moste gentle Prince speake Noble men with the Prince of VVales whiche greatly comforted all hys people There were wyth hym of Earles Warwicke Suffolke Salesburye Stafforde of Lordes Cobham Spencer Audeley Berckley Bassette Wareyn de la Ware Bradeston Burwasch Felton Mallowe and dyuers other also Sir Iohn Chandos by whome hee was muche counsayled Sir Richard Stafforde Syr Richarde of Penbruche and manye other Knyghtes and valyaunt Esquyres of Englande Moreouer there was of Gascoyne the Capitall of Buz or Boef The Capitall ââ¦e Boef the Lordes of Prumes Burguenrye Chaumount de Lespare Rosen Monferant LaÌduras the Souldich of Lestrade or Lesearde and other and of Heynault sir Eustace Daubreticourt sir Iohn de Guistelles and other straungers The number of the prince his army Al the Princes company passed not the number of eight thousande men one and other of
sending away the Messengers promised to sende them ayde very shortly There were with the king at this siege his son the duke of Aquitaine otherwise called the Dolphin the dukes of Burgoigne Bar and a great number of other erles lords knights gentlemeÌ so that the Citie was besieged euen til within the Faux burges of that side towards Dun le Roy. The siege continued till at length through mediation of Philibert de Lignac Lorde greate maister of the Rhodes and the Marshall of Sauoy that were both in the kings campe trauelling betwixt the parties there were appoynted CoÌmissioners on both sides to treate for a peace to wit the master of the Crosbowes and the Seneshal of Heynalt and certain other for the king and the Archbishop of Bourges and the Lorde of Gaucourt and others for the Orlientiall side A peace concluded beââ¦wixt the two factions of Burgoin and Orleans These comming togither on a Fryday the .xv. of Iuly in the Dolphins Tent vsed the matter with such discretion that they concluded a peace and so on the Wednesday nexte following the campe brake vp and the king returned Eyton Whilest these things were a doing in France the Lorde Henrie Prince of Wales The prince of wales accused to his father eldest sonne to king Henrie got knowledge that certain of his fathers seruants were busie to giue informations agaynst him whereby discorde might arise betwixte him and his father Iohn Stow. for they put into the Kings heade not onely what euill rule according to the course of youth the Prince kepte to the offence of many but also what greate resort of people came to hys house so that the Courte was nothing furnished wyth suche a traine as dayly folowed the Prince These tales brought no small suspition into the Kings heade The suspiciuos ieaââ¦ousie of the king towards his son least hys sonne woulde presume to vsurpe the crowne bee beeing yet aliue through which suspitious iealousie it was perceiued that he fauoured not his sonne as in tymes past he had done The Prince sore offended with such persons as by slaunderous reportes sought not onely to spotte his good name abroade in the realme but to sow discorde also betwixt him and his father wrote his letters into euery part of the realme to reproue all such slaunderous deuises of those that sought hys discredite and to cleare himselfe the better that the Worlde mighte vnderstande what wrong he had to be slandered in such wise aboute the feast of Peter and Paule to witte The prince goeth to the court with a great trayne the .xxix. daye of Iune hee came to the Courte with such a number of Noble menne and other his friendes that wished him wel as the like train had beene seldome seene repayring to the Court at any one tyme in those dayes He was apparelled in a Gowne of blewe Satten full of smal Oylet holes His strange apparel at euery hole the needle hanging by a silke threde with which it was sewed Aboute his arme he ware an Houndes coller sette full of SS of golde and the tyrettes likewise being of the same mettall The Court was then at Westminster where he being entred into the Hall not one of his companie durst once aduaunce himselfe further than the fire in the same Hall notwithstanding they were earnestly requested by the Lordes to come higher but they regarding what they had in coÌmaundement of the prince woulde not presume to do in any thing contrary thervnto He himself onely accompanied with those of the kings house was streight admitted to the presence of the k. his father who being at y e time grieuously diseased caused himself yet in hys Chayre to be borne into his priuie Chamber where in the presence of three or foure persons in whome he had moste confidence The prince coÌmeth to the kings presence hee commaunded the Prince to shew what hee had to saye concerning the cause of hys comming The Prince kneeling downe before his father sayde Most redoubted and soueraigne Lord and father I am this time come to your presence as your liege man and as your naturall sonne in all things to be at your commaundement His wordes to his father And where I vnderstand you haue in suspition my demeanour agaynst your grace you knowe very well that if I knewe any man wythin thys realme of whome you shoulde stande in feare my dutie were to punish that person thereby to remoue that griefe from your heart Then howe much more ought I to suffer death to ease your grace of that griefe which you haue of me beeing your naturall sonne and liegeman and to that ende I haue this day made my selfe readie by coÌfession and receyuing of the SacrameÌt and therfore I beseeche you moste redoubted Lorde and deare father for the honour of God to ease your heart of all such suspition as you haue of me and to dispatche me here before your knees with this same dagger and withall hee deliuered vnto the king his dagger in all humble reuerence adding further that his life was not so deare to him that hee wished to liue one daye with his displeasure and therefore sayth he in thus ridding me out of life and your selfe from all suspition here in presence of these Lordes and before God at the day of the generall iudgement I faythfully protest clearly to forgiue you The kings wordes to the ãâã his son The king moued herewith cast from him the dagger and embracing the Prince kyssed hym and with shedding teares confessed that in deede he had him partly in suspition though now ãâã perceyued not with iust cause and therefore from thenceforth no misreport shuld cause him to haue him in mistrust this he promised of his honâ⦠So by his greate wisedome was the wrongfull suspition whiche his father had conceyued against him remoued and hee restored to hys fanââ¦er And further Eyâ⦠where he coulde not but grieuouslye complayne of them that hadde slaundered hym so greatly to the defacing not onely of his honor but also putting him in daunger of his life The pelâ⦠quest to hâ⦠his accuseâ⦠answeâ⦠this wrongful ââ¦ders he huÌbly besought the King that they myght answere theyr vniuste accusation and in case they were founde to haue forged suche matters vpon a malicious purpose that then they myght suffer some punishment for theyr faultes thoughe not to the full of that they had deserued The King seeming to graunt his reasonable desire tolde him yet that he must tarie a Parliament that suche offenders might he punished by iudgement of theyr Peeres And so for that time he was dismissed with great loue and signes of fatherly affection About the same time Iohn PreÌdergest knight Sir Iohn PreÌdergest reââ¦red to the kings faâ⦠sent to ãâã being restored to the kings fauor with .xxx. ships ââ¦koured the seas tooke good prises of wine and vitayles which relieued the commons greatly Amongst
of the kings high way let drawe the chaine of the stoupes there and set vp pipes and hurdles in manner and forme of Bulwarkes and set men in Chambers Cellers and Windows with bowes and arrowes and other wepons to the intent to bring to finall destruction my saide Lorde of Gloucesters person aswell as of those that then shoulde come wyth hym 4 Item my said Lord of Gloucester saith and affirmeth that our soueraigne Lorde hys brother that was king Henry the fift tolde him on a time when our soueraigne Lorde being prince was lodged in the pallace of Westminster in the greate chamber by the noise of a spaniell there was on a night a man spied and taken behinde a tapet of the sayde Chamber the whyche man was delyuered to the Earle of Arundell to bee examined vppon the cause of his being there at that time the which so examined at that time confessed that hee was there by the stirring vp and precuring of my saide Lorde of Winchester ordeined to haue slaine the saide Prince there in his bedde Wherefore the saide Earle of Arundell let sacke him forthwith and drowned him in the Thames 5 Item our soueraigne Lorde that was Kyng Henry the fift saide vnto my sayd Lord of Gloucester that his father Kyng Henry the fourth liuing and visited then greately wyth sicknesse of the hand of God my saide Lord of Winchester saide vnto the king Henry the fift then being prince that the king his father so visited with sicknesse was not personable and therefore not disposed to come in conuersation and gouernance of the people and for so much counsailed him to take the gouernance crown of this lande vpon hym The aunswere of the Bishop HEre ensue the aunswers to the accusations made by my Lorde of Winchester Chauncellour of Englande vnto the causes and matters of heauinesse declared in the Articles against him by my Lorde of Gloucester 1 Fyrst as of the refuse made vnto my lord of Gloucester of opening the Tower to him of his lodging therein by the commaundement of my saide lorde of Winchester he aunswereth that in the presence of my saide Lord of Gloucester before his comming out of his country of Heinault for causes suche as were thought resonable it seemeth lawfull that the Tower shoulde haue bin notably stored and kepte with victuall howbeit it was not forthwith executed and that in likewise after that my said lord of Gloucester was gone into his said countrey of Heinault for seditious and odious villes and languages caste vsed in the citie of London sounding of insurrection and rebellion againste the kings peace and destruction aswell of diuers estates of this lande as strangers being vnder the defence in so muche that in doubt thereof straungers in greate number fledde the lande And for the more sure keping of the said Tower Richarde Wooduile esquier so trusted with our soueraigne lord the king that deade is as well ye knowe and also chamberlaine and counsellor vnto my Lorde of Bedforde wyth a certaine number of defensible persons assigned vnto hym was made deputie there by the assent of the kings counsell being that time at London for to abide therein for the safegarde thereof and straightlie chardged by the saide counsell that during that tyme of his sayde chardge he shoulde not suffer any man to be in the Tower stronger than hymselfe without speciall charge or commaundement of the king by the aduise of his counsell 2 Item that after soone vppon the comming of my laid Lord of Gloucester into this lande from his countrey of Heinault the saide lords of the kings counsell were informed that my said Lorde of Gloucester grudged with the saide manner of enforcing the Tower and let say to them of London that hee had well vnderstande that they had bin heauily threatned for the time of his absence and otherwise than they should haue bin if he had bin in this land Wherfore hee was right euill contented and especially of the said forcing of the Tower set vpon them in manner of a chast villayne consideryng the good equitie and truthe that they had alwayes kepte vnto the king offering them therevpon remedy if they woulde 3 Item that after this Richard Scot lieuetenaunt of the Tower by the commaundement of my saide Lorde of Gloucester broughte vnto him Frier Randolphe the whiche he had long before confessed treason done by hym againste the Kings person that deade is for the whiche knowledge he was put to bee kept in the sayde Tower and straightly commaunded vnder greate paine giuen vnto the said Scot to kepe him straightly and surely and not to lette him out of the saide Tower wythout commaundement of the Kyng by the aduise of his counsell The whiche Frier Randolphe my saide Lord of Gloucester kept then with himself not witting to the saide Scot as he declared vnto my sayde Lorde of Winchester soone after that he had broughte the saide Frier Randolph vnto my Lorde of Gloucester saying vnto my Lorde of Winchester that he was vndone but hee helped hym and expressed as for cause of the withhoulding of Frier Randolphe And saying moreouer that when hee desired of my saide Lorde of Gloucester Fryer Randolph the deliueraunce of the saide Frier Randolphe to leade him againe vnto the Tower or sufficient warrant for hys dischardge my saide Lorde of Gloucester aunswered him that his commauÌdement was sufficient warrant and discharge for hym In the whiche thing abouesaid it was thought to my lord of Winchester that my said lord of Gloucester tooke vpon hym further than his auctoritie stretched vnto and caused him to doubt and dreade leaste that he would haue proceeded further And at suche time as the saide Wooduile came vnto hym to aske his aduise counsell of lodging my said L. of Gloucester in y e Tower he aduised and charged him that before he suffred my saide lord of Gloucester or any person lodge therein stronger than himselfe he shoulde puruey him a sufficieÌt warrant therof of the K. by the aduise of his counsell 4 Item as to the said article of the foresaide causes of heauinesse my said lord chauncellour answereth that hee neuer purposed to set hande on the kings persoÌ nor to remoue him or that he shoulde be remoued or put in any manner of gouernauÌce but by the aduise of the kings couÌsell For hee coulde not perceyue any manner of goodnes or of aduaÌtage y e might haue growne to him therof but rather great perill charge and herof my saide lord of Winchester is ready to make proofe in time and place conuenieÌt 5 Item as to the .iij. article of the foresaid causes and heauines my saide lorde Chauncelor answereth y t he was ofte diuers times warned by diuers credible persoÌs aswell at the time of the kings last parliameÌt holdeÌ at Westminster as before sith y t my said L. of Gloucester purposed him bodily harm was warned ther of and counselled by the said persons
into the Citie with all their vytaile artillerie and other necessarie prhuââ¦sions The next day the English men boldly assaulted the Towne but the Frenchmen defended the walles so as no greate feat worthie of memorie chanced that day betwixt theÌ though the French men were amased at the valiaunt attempt of the English men wherevpon the Bastarde of Orleans gaue knowledge to the Duke of Alanson in what daunger the towne stoode without his present helpe who comming within two leagues of the Citie gaue knowledge to them within that they shoulde bee readie the nexte daye to receyue him Which accordingly was accomplished for the Englishmen willingly suffered him and hys armie also to enter supposing that it should be for their aduauntage to haue so great a multitude to enter the Citie whereby theyr vytayles whereof they within had great scarcitie might the sooner be consumed On the next day in the morning the Frenchmen altogither issued out of the towne and wan by assaulte the Bastile of Saint Lââ¦n and set it on fire And after they likewise assaulted the Tower at the bridge foote which was manfully defended but the FreÌchmen being more in number at length tooke it ere the Lorde Talbot could come to the succours in the which Wil Gladdesdale the captain was slaine with the Lord Mooââ¦lins and the Lord Poynings also The Frenche men puffed vp with thys good lucke fetched a compasse about in good order of battaile marched toward the Bastile which was in the keeping of the Lord Talbot the which vpon the enimies approche lyke a Captaine without all feare or dread of that great multitude issued forth agaynst them and gaue them so sharpe an encounter that they not able to withstand his puyssaunce fled like sheepe before the Woolfe againe into the Citie with great losse of men and small artillerie Of Englishmen were lost in the two Bastiles to the number of sixe hundred persons or thereabout though the Frenche wryters multiplie this number of hundred to thousandes as theyr manner is in theyr gloryous Hystoryes The Earle of Suffolke the Lorde Talbot the Lorde Scales and other Captayne 's assembled togyther in Counsaile and after causes shewed to and fro it was amongest them determined to leaue theyr fortresses and Bastiles and to assemble in the plaine field and there to abyde all the day to see if the Frenchmen woulde issue forth to fight with them This conclusion taken was accordingly executed but when the Frenchmen durst not once come forth to shew their heades the Englishmen set fire in theyr lodgings ââ¦siege of ââ¦s broâ⦠and departed in good order of battell from Orleans The next day which was the .viij. day of May the Erle of Suffolk rode to Iargeaux with foure hundred Englishmen and the Lord Talbot with an other companie returned to Meun And after he had fortifyed that towne he went to the towne of Lauall and wan it togither with the Castell sore punishing the townesmen for theyr cancred obstinacie agaynst them Thus when the Englishmen had seuered themselues into garnisons the Duke of Alanson the bastard of Orleans Ioan la Pucelle the lord Gawcourt and diuerse other Captaines of the Frenchmen came the .xij. day of Iune before the towne of Iargeaux where the Earle of Suffolke and his two brethren soiourned and gaue to the towne so fierce an assault on three partes ⪠that Poyton de Sentrailes perceyuing an other part voyde of defendants sealed the walles on that side and wythout difficultie tooke the towne and slue sir Alexander Poole brother to the Erle and many other to the number of two hundred but the Frenchmen gayned not much thereby for they lost three C. good men and more Of the English men .xl. were taken with the Earle and his other brother named Iohn The Frenchmen as they returned to Orleans fell at variance for their prisoners and slue them all sauing the Earle and his brother Shortly after the same Frenche armie came to Mehun where they tooke the Tower at the bridge foote and put therein a garnison From thence they remoued to Baugency and constrayned them that were within the towne to yeelde vpon condition they might depart wyth bagge and baggage At the same place there came to the duke of Alanson the new Conestable Arthure of Brytain and with him was the Lord Dalbret and other Also after this the Earle of Vandosme came to them so that by the dayly repayre of such as assembled togither to strengthen the Frenche pââ¦t they were in all to the number betweene .xx. and xxiij thousand men Nichol Giles Fiue thousand hath Hall the whiche beeing once ioyned in one armie shortly after fought with the Lord Talbot who had with him not past six M. men nere to a village in Beause called Paââ¦ay at which battail the charge was giuen by the Frich so vpon a sodaine that the Englishmen had not leysure to put themselues in aray after they had pight vp their stakes before their Archers so that there was no remedie but to fight at aduenture This battaile continued by the space of three long houres for the English men though they were ouerpressed with multitude of their enimies yet they neuer fled backe one foote tyl theyr Captayne the Lorde Talbot was sore wounded at the backe and so taken Then theyr heartes began to faint and they fledde Creat loste on the english fâ⦠The Lords Talbot Scales and Hurgerford takes in which flight were slaine aboue twelue hundred and fortie taken of whome the Lorde Talbot the Lorde Scales the Lord Hungerforde and sir Thomas Rampston were chiefe Diuerse archers after they had shot all theyr arrowes hauing onely their swordes defended themselues and with helpe of some of their horsemen came safe to Mehun This ouerthrew and specially the taking of the Lorde Talbot did not so muche reioyce the Frenchmen but it did as much abesh the Englishmen so that immediatly thervpon the townes of Ienuile Mehun Fort and diuers other returned from the English part and became French From this battail departed without any stroke striken sir Iohn Fastolfe the same yeare for hys valiantnesse elected into the order of the Garter for which cause the Duke of Bedforde tooke from him the Image of Saint George and his Garter though afterward by meane of friendes apparaunt causes of good excuse the same were to him againe deliuered agaynst the mynde of the Lorde Talbot Charles the Dolphin y t called himselfe French K. perceiuing fortune to smile thus vpoÌ him asseÌbled a great power determined to conquere the Citie of Reimes that hee might be there sacred crowned annoynted according to the custome of his progenitors that all men might iudge that he was by al lawes and decrees a lust and a lawfull king In his way thitherwardes he besieged the citie of Auxerre the Citizens whereof compounded with him to yeelde if they were not reskued within certaine dayes From thence he came before Troys
not a man apt to the gouernemente of a Realme wanting both witte and stomacke sufficient to supply the roomth which he held Many of the high estates not liking y e world and disalowing the actes and doings both of the King and his counsaile determined to practise howe things might come to some alteration When the Duke vnderstoode their mindes he chiefly entertayned and wanne the fauour of two Neuilles and both named Richarde He ãâã hymself with the Neuilles the one Earle of Salisburie and the other Earle of Warwike the first being the father and y e second the sonne This Earle of Salisburie was second sonne to Raufe Neuill Earle of Westmerland whose daughter the Duke of Yorke had married The sister of Rich. Neuille erle of Salisbury and the sayde Richard was espoused to Lady Alice the only childe and sole heire of Thomas Montacute Earle of Salisburie slayne at the siege of Orleans as before is declared of which woman he begate Richarde Iohn and George Richard the eldest sonne espoused Anne the sister heyre of the entire bloud to Lord Henry Beauchamp Earle and after Duke of Warwike in whose right and title he was created and named Erle of Warwike This man through a certaine naturall inclination and practise did so set forward a sortâ⦠good qualities whiche rested in him with wittie and gentle demeanor towards all maner of persons both of high and lowe degree that he grew into suche fauoure and estimation amongst the common people The descriptioÌ of the erle of Warwike that they iudged him able to do all things that without hym nothing could be well done For whiche causes his authoritie so farfoorth increased that whiche way he bowed that way ranne the streame and what parte hee tooke that sayde got the game When the Duke of Yorke hadde fastened hys chaine betwene these two strong pillers An. reg .33 he with his frendes wrought so effectuously and handled his businesse so politikely The duke of Somerset arrested that the Duke of Somerset was arrested in the Quenes great chamber and sente to the Towre of London where he kept his Christmasse without great solemnitie against whome in open Parliamente were layd diuers and heynous articles of high treason 1455 as wel for the losse of Normandie as for the late mischance which happened in Guyenne The king at y e time was sicke at Clarendon and conueyed to London by reason whereof no fynall determination proceeded in thys weightie cause but all was put in suspence tyll the next assemblie of the high Court of Parliamente VVeââ¦amsted Wee finde in some Writers that whilest the K. was sicke the D. of Yorke bare all the rule gouerned as Regent or Viceroy by authoritie committed to him by the Lords of the Realme then assembled in counsell to see to the preseruation and good gouernemente of the common wealth The king sick during the time of that y e kings sicknes which was so greeuous that hee lay senselesse and was not able for a time either to goe or stande The Duke of Yorke therefore hauing obteyned an absolution of the Pope to discharge him of his oth before taken did now discouer the sparkes of his hatred hid vnder the ashes of dissimulation against the D. of Somerset but yet when the K. had recouered strength againe and resumed to hym hys former princely gouernemente eyther of hys owne mynde or by the Queenes procurement The duke of Somerset sette at libertie hee caused the Duke of Somerset to be set at libertie by whiche doyng great enuie displeasure grew And to aggrauat more the malice of the D. of Yorke his frieÌds the Queene whiche then bare the chiefe rule caused the Duke of Somerset to be preferred to the Captaineshippe of Calaice He is made de ââ¦ie of Caleis wherewith not only the commons but also many of the nobilitie were greately greeued and offended saying that he had lost Normandie and so would he do Calaice The Duke of Yorke and his adherentes perceyuing that neither exhortation serued nor accusatioÌ preuailed against the Duke of Somerset determined to reuenge their quarrell and obteyne their purpose by open warre and so he being in the marches of Wales The duke of Yorke assembled an army accompanyed with his speciall friends the Earles of Salisburie and Warwike the Lorde Cobham and others assembled a power and like warlike persons marched toward London The King enformed heereof assembled lykewise a great host meaning to meete with the Duke rather in the North parts than about London where it was thought he had too many friends with great speede and small lucke being accompanied with the Dukes of Somerset and Buckingham the Earles of Pembroke Stafford VVhethaÌsted Northumberlande Deuonshire Dorset Wilshire the Lords Clifford Sudley Berneis Roos and others beeing in all aboue two thousande men of warre departed from Westminster the twentith or as some haue the one and twentith of May and laye the firste nighte at Wadford Of whose doings the Duke of Yorke by espials hauing still aduertisement with al his power beeing not past three thousande men as some write coasted the Countrey and came to the said Towne of Saint Albons the third day next ensuing The King had pight his Standert in a place called Goselowe otherwise Sandiford in Saint Peeters streete the Lord Clifforde kept the barriers of the Towne to stoppe that the D. being asseÌbled in Keye fielde shuld not enter y e towne But the King wheÌ he heard first of y e Dukes approche sente to him messengers as the Duke of Buckingham and others to vnderstaÌd what he meant by his comming VVhethaÌsted thus furnished after the manner of warre The Duke of Buckingham doing his message as hee had in commaundement The duke of Buckingham sent to the D. of Yorke was aunswered by the Duke of Yorke and his complices that they were all of them the Kings faithfull liege subiects and intended no harme to him at all and the cause of our comming hither say they is not to doe anye hurt to his person but let that wicked and naughtie man the Duke of Somerset bee deliuered vnto vs who hathe lost Normandie The Duke of Somerset burdened with all thinges that had happened amisse and taken no regard to the preseruation of Gascoigne yea and furthermore hath brought this Realme of England vnto this miserable estate that where it was the floure of nations and the Princesse of all prouinces now doth it sitte as a widowe forsaken not hauyng any louing sonnes but suche whome that euill man seeketh to destroy and to deuoure both theÌ and their substance if it therefore please the kyng to deliuer him into our handes wee are readye without trouble or breach of peace to returne in quiet home into our Countrey but if the Kyng be not minded so to doe but denye our request bycause he will by no
couragious than ââ¦ireuââ¦d ãâã came out of his strength with hys would vasell and aduaunced hymselfe somewhat alyâ⦠shippes the Kings ãâã and by certayne passages afore anââ¦e and for that purpose prouided to the Kings parte although ãâã on hee passed a lane and came into a ãâ¦ã right afore the K. where he was einbaefelâ⦠not doubting but the Prince eche ãâ¦ã with the middle waâ⦠ãâã followed iust at his back but whether y e L. WleÌlocke dissimuled the matter for king Edwardes sake or whether his hart serued him not still he stode and gaue the looking on ââ¦all The king or as other haue the duke of Gloucester taking the aduantage that he adueââ¦ââ¦ood for turned againe face to face to the duke of Somerset his battayle and winning the hedge and ditche of hym entred the close and with greate violence put hym and his people vp towards the hill from whence they were descended Here is to bee noted that when the king was come before hys enimies ere he gaue the onseââ¦te hee perceyued that vppon the ryghte hande of theyr Campe there was a Parke and muche store of woodde growyng therein and doubtyng least hys aduersaries hadde layde any ambushe within that woodde The politike foresight of the King he chose foorth of his companies two hundred speares commandyng them to keepe a stale lyke a quarter of a myle from the fielde to attende vpon that corner of the woodde out of the whiche the ambushe if any were was to issue and to encounter with them as occasion serued but if they perceyued that there was no ambushe at all then to imploye their seruice as they shoulde see it expediente and behouefull for the tyme. This politik prouision for danger that might haue ensued although there was none that way for to serued yet before theââ¦end of the battayle to greate good purpose For when those spares perfectly vnderstoode that there was no ambushe within the wood and withall saâ⦠conueniente tyme to employe themselues other cares and brake with full randâ⦠vppon the Duke of Somersette and hys ãâ¦ã in so violent wyse vppon the sodayne that where they hadde before ynough to doe with those wyth whome they were firste matched The vanââ¦gard of the Lords distressed ãâã with this newe charge giuen vppon them by those two hundred speares they were not a little dismayed and to conclude so discouraged that streightwayes they tooke them to flyght some fledde into the Parke other into the meadowe there at hande some into the lanes and some hidde them in dykes eche one makyng what shift he could by the whyche he hoped beste to escape but many neuerthelesse were beaten downe slayne and taken prisoners The Duke of Somerset seyng this vnfortunate chance as some write tourned to the middle warde and there finding the Lord Wenlock standing still Aââ¦emââ¦ble stroke after he had reuiled him and called him traytour with his axe he stroke the braynes out of his head The Duke of Gloucester pursuing after them that fledde with the Duke of Somersette to theyr camp wher the rest of their armie stode entred the trench and after him the king where he bare himselfe so knightely that therevpon the Queenes parte wente to wracke and was put to flight the king and other falling in chase after them so that many were slayne but especially at a mylne in the medow fast by the towne a great sorte were drowned many ran towards the towne some to the churche and diuers to the Abbey other to other places wher they thought best to saue themselues In the winning of the campe Hall Prince Edward taken suche as stoode to it were slayne out of hande Prince Edward was taken as he fled towardes the towne by sir Richarde Croftes and kept close In the fielde and chase were stayne Nobles slaine the Lord Iohn of Somerset called Marques Dorset Thomas Courtney Earle of Deuonshire Sir Iohn Delues Sir Edwarde Hampden Sir Roberte Whitingham and Sir Iohn Leukener with three thousand other After the fielde was ended proclamation was made that whosoeuer could bring foorth Prince Edwarde alyue or deade shoulde haue one Annuitie of a hundred pounde during hys lyfe and the Princes lyfe to be saued if he were broughte foorth alyue Sir Richarde Croftes nothing mistrustyng the kings promise Sir Richard Croftes deliuereth the prince in hope that his life should haue bin saued broughte foorth hys prysoner Prince Edwarde beeyng a fayre and wel proportioned yong Gentleman whom when kyng Edwarde hadde well aduysââ¦d hee demaundeed of hym howe he durst so presumptuously enter into his Realme with banner displayed wherevnto the Prince boldly answered saying to recouer my fathers Kingdome heritage from his father and graundfather to him and from him after hym to meââ¦liueally descended At whyche woordes kyng Edwarde sayde nothyng but with hys hande thruste him from hym Prince Edward murthered or as some say stroke him with his gantlette whome incontinentely George Duke of Clarence Richarde Duke of Gloucester Thomas Grey Marques Dorcet and Wylliam Lorde Hastings that stoode by sodeynely murthered For the which cruell acte the more part of the dooers in theyr latter dayes dranke of the lyke Cuppe by the ryghtuous Iustice and due punishment of God His body was homely enteââ¦ed w t the other simple corpses in y e church of y e Monasterie of blacke Monks in Teukesbury Thys was the laste ciuill battayle that was foughte in King Edward the fourths days whiche chaunced thys fourth daye of Maye beyng Saterdaye in the eleuenth yeare of his reygne and in the yeare of our Lorde 1471. After the victoâ⦠was thus archieued the ãâã repayred to the Abbey Churche there ââ¦o gyâ⦠God thankes for thâ⦠good successe whyche it hadde pleased hym to ââ¦sse him with and ãâã findyng a greate number of his enemyes ãâã were fledde thyther to saue themselues he gaue them all hys free pardon Alââ¦t there was no franchyse there for rebelles but that he myghte haue commaunded them to haue bene drawen foorth without breache of any liberties of that Churche Hee graunted also that the deade bodies as well of the Lordes as other stayne in that battel myght be buried in the same church or els where it pleased their frendes or seruants without any quartering or headyng or setting vp the heades or quarters in any publike places King Edward being at Worcester had aduertisements brought forth of the North partes that the people there ãâ¦ã were about to assemble in armour against him in fauour of King Henry wherevpon he left the right way to London and rode to CoueÌtrie meaning to encrease the number of his people and so with a puissant army to goe Northwards Herevpon comming to Couentrie the eleuenth of May and remayning there a three dayes he well refreshed such as had bin with him at Tewkesburie fielde Hither was broughte to him Queene Margaret from whence she was conueyd to London there to remain in safekeeping as before
George Duke of Clarence and attained the Crowne George Duke of Clarence was a goodly noble prince at all points fortunate if either his owne ambition had not let him againste hys brother or the enuy of his enimies his brother againste hym For were it by the Queene and lordes of hir bloude whiche highly maligned the kings kiââ¦red as women commonly not of malice but of nature hate them whom their husbands loue or were it a proude appetite of the duke hymself intending to be king at the least wise heinous treson was there layde to his charge and finally were hee faultie were he faultlesse ââ¦taynted was he by Parlyamente and iudged to the deathe and there vpon hashly drowned in a hutte of Malmesey whose death kyng Ewarde albeit hee commaunded it when he wyst it was done piteously bewayled and sorowfully repented Richarde the thirde sonne The discription Richard the thirde of whome wee nowe intreate was in witte and courage ââ¦gall with either of them in bodie and prowes farre vnder them both little of stature yll featured of limmes crooke backed his left shoulder muche hygher than hys ryght harde fauoured of visage and suche as is in states called warlye in other men otherwyse he was malicious wrathfull enuious and from afore his byrth euer frowards It is for truth reported that the Duchesse his mother hadde so much adoe in hir trauaile that she could not be deliuered of hym vncut and that he cam into the world with the feete forward as meÌ be borne outward and as the fame runneth also not vntoothed whether men of hatred report aboue the truth or else that nature chaunged hir course in his beginning which in the course of his life many things vnnaturally committed None euill captain was he in the warre as to which his disposition was more metely than for peace Sundry victories had he and somtimes ouerthrewes but neuer in default as for his owne person eyther of hardinesse or politike order free was he called of dispence and somewhat aboue hys power liberall wyth lardge giftes hee gate hym vnstedfaste friendeshippe for whiche he was faine to pill and spoile in other places and gette hym stedfaste hatred Hee was close and secrete a deepe dissimuler lowly of countenaunce arrogant of harte outwardelye coumpinable wââ¦ere hee inwardelye hated not lettyng to kisse whome hee thought to kill dispitions and cruell not for euill will alwaye but offer for ambition and eyther for the surety or increase of hys estate Frend and foe was muche what indifferent where his advauntage grewe hee spared no mans deathe whose life wythstoode his purpose Hee flewe wyth his owne handes Kyng Henry the sixte The deathe of Kyng Henry the sixte being prisoner in the Tower as men constantly saide and that wythout commaundement or knowledge of the Kyng which woulde vndoubtedlye if hee hadde intended that thyng haue appointed that butcherly office to some other than his owne borne brother Some wise men also weene that his drifte couertly conueyed lacked not in helpyng forth his brother of Clarence to his deathe whiche hee resisted openly howdeit somewhat as men deemed more faintly than hee that were hartelye minded to hys wealthe And they that thus deeme thinke that hee long time in King Edwards life forest ought to be King in case that the King his brother whose life hee looked that euill diet shoulde shorten shoulde happen to deceasse as in deede hee did while his children were yong And they deeme that for this intent hee was gladde of his brothers deathe the duke of Clarence whose life must needes haue hindered hym so intending wheather the same Duke of Clarence hadde kepte hym true to his Nephewe the yong Kyng or enterprised to be King himselfe But of all this pointe is there no certaintie and who so deuineth vppon coniectures may aswell shoote to farre as to shorte Howebeit this haue I by credible enformation learned that the selfe nyght in whyche Kyng Edward dyed one Mistlebrooke long ere morning came in greate haste to the house of one Pottier dwellyng in Redecrosstreete wythout Creeplegate and when hee was wyth hastye rappyng quicklye letten in hee shewed vnto Pottier that King Edwarde was departed By my truth man quod Pottier then will my Maister the Duke of Gloucester bee King What cause hee had so to thinke harde it is to saye whether hee beeing towarde hym anye thyng knewe that hee suche thing purposed or otherwise hadde any inkeling thereof for he was not likelye to speake it of nought But nowe to retourne to the course of this hystorye were it ãâã the Duke of ãâ¦ã hadde ãâã olde springââ¦ded this ãâ¦ã was nowe at ââ¦eââ¦e ãâ¦ã in hope by the occasion of the ãâã a good ãâã yong Princes has Nephewes as ãâ¦ã and likel ãâã of speeds putteth a ãâ¦ã rage of that hee ãâã not intendeâ⦠ãâ¦ã that hee contriued their destruction ãâ¦ã vsurpation of theââ¦egâ⦠dignitie vpon ãâã ⪠And for asmuche as hee ãâ¦ã ââ¦wisââ¦e and ãâ¦ã ââ¦utaââ¦e along continuââ¦digeâ⦠ãâ¦ã brenning beetweene the Queenes kinâ⦠ãâ¦ã the Kings ãâã eyther partie ãâ¦ã authoritie heâ⦠ãâã that ãâ¦ã sion shoulde becaâ⦠it was intended ãâ¦ã beginnyng to the pursuite of hys intâ⦠ãâã a sure grounde for the fountâ⦠of all ãâã buildyng if hee mighte firste vnder the preâ⦠of reuenging of ãâã displeasure abuse the anger and ignorants of the tone partie to the distruction of the ââ¦other and then winne to his purpose as many as he could those that could not bee wonne myght hee loste ere they ãâã therefore For of oââ¦ethyng was hee certayne that if hys intent were perceyued hee shoulde soone haue made peace betwene the bothe partieâ⦠with hys owne bloude Kyng Edwarde in hys life alheit that this dissention betweene his friendes somewhat inââ¦d hym yet in his good healthe he somewhat the lesse regarded it bycause hee thought whatsoeuer busines should a fall betwene theâ⦠himselfe shoulde always bee able to ââ¦ule ââ¦othe the parties But in his last sicknes when hee perceyued his naturall strengthe so sore enfeebled that hee dispaired all recouerie then hee consideryng the youth of his children alheit he pothyng lesse mistrusted than that that happened yet well foreseeing that many harmes myghte growe by their debate while the youthe of hys children shoulde lacke discretion of them selfe and good counsaile of their friendes of whiche eyther partie shoulde counsaile for their owne commoditie and rather by pleasaunt aduise to wynne themselfe fauoure than by profitable aduertisement to doo the children good hee called some of them before hym that were at vaniaunce and in especiall the Lorde Marques Dorset the Queenes sonne by his firste husband and William the Lord Hastings a noble man then Lorde Chamberlaine againe whom the Queene specially grudged for y e great fauour the King bare hym ãâ¦ã and also for that she thought hym secretely familiar with the Kyng in wanton company Hir kinred also bare him sore aswell for that the Kyng hadde
with a goodly bande of Welchmen which making an oth and promise to the Earle submitted himselfe wholy to his order and commaundement For the Earle of Richmond two days before made to him promise that if he wold sweare to take his part and be obedient to him he wold make him chief gouernor of Wales which part as hee faythfully promised and graunted so after that hee had obteyned and possesââ¦d the realme and Diademe hee liberally perfourmed and accomplished the same In the meane time the Messengers that were sent diligently executed theyr charge and hiden with rewardes of them so whom they were sent returned to him the same day that hee entred into Shrewsburie and made relatioÌs to him that his friends were readie in all poynts to do all things for him which eyther they ought or might ãâã The Erle Henrie brought in good hope with his pleasant message continued forth his intended iourney and came to a little Towne called Newporte and pytching hys Campe on a little hyll adioyning reposed himselfe there that night In the Euening the same day came to him sir Gylbert Talbot with the whole power of the yong Earle of Shrewsbury than being in ward whiche were accounted to the number of two thousande men And thus his power encreasing he arryued at the Towne of Stafforde and there pawsed To whome came sir William Stanley accompanied with a fewe persons and after that the Earle and hee had communed no long time togither he reuerted to his Souldiers which he had assembled togither to serue the erle which froÌ theÌce departed to Lichfield lay without the walles in his campe all the night The next morning he entred into the towne and was with all honor like a prince receyued A day or two before the Lorde Stanley hauing in his hande almost fiue thousand men lodged in the same towne but hearing that the erle of Richmonde was marching thitherward gaue to him place dislodging him and his and repayred to a towne called Aderstone there abiding the comming of the Earle and this wilye Foxe did this acte to auoyde all suspition being afrayde least if he should be seene openly to bee a faââ¦our or ayder to the Earle his sonne in lawe before the day of the battayle that king Richard which yet did not vtterly putte in him diffidence and nustrust woulde put to some cruell death hys son and heyre apparant George Lord Strange whome King Richarde as you haue hearde before kept wyth him as a pledge or hostage to the intent that the Lorde Stanley hys father shoulde attempt nothing preiudiciall to him King Richarde at this season keeping hys house in the Castell of Notingham was informed that the Earle of Richmonde with such banished men as fled out of Englande to him were nowe arryued in Wales and that all things necessary to his enterprice were vnprouided vnpurueyed and verie weake nothing meete to withstande the power of suche as the King had appoynted ãâ¦ã ãâ¦ã when he came to that poynte that he shoulde ãâã compelled to sight agaynst his wyth ãâ¦ã should be apprehended aliue or else by a ââ¦elyhââ¦dâ⦠he shoulde of ââ¦ecessitie come to ãâ¦ã confusion and that he cruelled to bee shortly ãâã by sir Waâ⦠Herbeââ¦t and Rice ap Thomas which then ââ¦uled Wales with ââ¦gall power and like authoritie Bâ⦠yet he reuoluing and ââ¦g in his minde that ãâ¦ã warre begonne and winked at had not regarded may earn to a great broyle and ãâã and that it was prudent policie not to coâ⦠and disdaine the little small power and weakenesse of the ãâã ââ¦e it neuer so small thought it necessarie to prouâ⦠for afterclaps that myght ãâã and chaunce Wherfore hee sent to Iohn Duke of Norffolke Henry Garlâ⦠of Northamberlande Thomas Earle of Surrey and to other of his especiall and trustie friendes of the Nobilitie which he iudged more to preferre and ãâã his wilth and honor than theyr owne ryches and pryuate commoditie wyllyng them to master and view all theyr seruantes and tenants and ââ¦o elect and choose the most couragious and actiue persons of the whole number and with them to repayre to his presence with all speede and diligence Also hee wrote to Robert Brukenburie Lieutenant of the Tower commaunding him with his power to come to his armie and to bring with him as fellowes in armes Sir Thomas Bourchier and sir Walter Hungerford and diuerse other knights esquiers in whom be cast no small suspiââ¦ion While he was thus ordering his affayres ââ¦ydings came that the Earle of Richmonde was passed Seuerne and come to Shrewsburie without any deââ¦nt or encomâ⦠At which message he was sore mooued and broyled wyth Melancholie and ââ¦olour and cryed out asking vengeance of them that contrarie to theyr othe and promise had so deceyued him For whiche cause he began to haue diffidence in other insomuch that he determined himselfe oute of hande the same day to meete with and resist hys aduersaries And in all haste sente out espialles to view and espie what waye his enimies kept and passed They diligentlye doing theyr duetie shortly after returned declaring to the king that the Earle was encamped at the towne of Lichfielde When hee had perfite knowledge where the Earle with his armie was so ââ¦oiourning be hauing continuall repayre of his subiectes to him began incontinently without delay to marshal and put in order his battayles like a valiaunt Captayne and politike leader and first he made his battails to set forward fiue and fiue in a ranke marching towarde that way where his enimies as was to him reported entended to passe In the middle part of the ãâã ââ¦ee appoynted the ââ¦eaââ¦e and cariage apperteyning to the enimie Then he enuironed wyth hys Garde with a frowning countenaunce and cruell vysage mountes on a greate whyte Courser and followed with his footesmenne the wings of Horsemen coasting and raunging on euerie syde and keeping this array hee with great pompe entred the Towne of Leycester after the Sunne set The Earle of Richmonde raysed his campe and departed from Lichfielde to the Towne of Tamworth thereto neare adioyning and in the midde way passing there saluted him sir Walter Hungerforde and sir Thomas ââ¦ouerchier knightes and dyuerse other whiche yeelded and submitted them to his pleasure For they beeing aduertised that king Richarde had theÌ in suspitioÌ and ieaolousie little beyonde stonie Stratforde left and forsooke priuily their Captaine Robert Brakenburie and in wandring by night and in maner by vnknowne pathes vncertaine wayes searching at the last come to Erle Henrie A straunge chaunce that happened to the Earle of Richmonde Diuerse other noble personages which inwardly hated king Richard worse than a Toad or a Serpent did likewise resort to him with all their power and strength There happened in this progression to the erle of Richmond a strange ââ¦ance worthie to be noted for albeit he was a man of valiant courage and that his armie encreased and dayly more and more be
Dorset was comming towardes his Maiestie to excuse himselfe of thinges that hee was suspected to haue doone when he was in Fraunce hee sente the Earle of Oxford to arrest the sayde Marques by the way and to conueye hym to the Tower of London there to remayne till his truthe might be tryed From thence the King wente foorth to Norwiche 1487 and tarying there Christmasse daye departed after to Walsingham where he offereed to the Image of our Ladye and then by Cambridge he shortly retourned to London Martin Svvard a valiant capitaine of the Almaines In this meane tyme the Earle of Lincolne had gotten togyther by the ayd of the lady Margaret about .ij. M. Almayns with one Martine Swarde a noble capitaine to leade them With this power the Erle of Lincolne sayled into Ireland and at the citie of Diuelyn caused young Lambert to be proclaymed and named kyng of Englande after the moste solemne fashion as though he were the verie heire of the bloud royal lineally borne and descended And so with a greate multitude of beggerly Irishmenne almoste all naked and vnarmed sauyng skaynes and mantelles The counterset arle of VVarvvicke vvith all his adhereÌts ââ¦andeth in Englande of whome the Lorde Thomas Gerardine was Capitayn and conductour they sayled into Englande wyth thys newe founde kyng and landed for a purpose at the pyle of Fowdreye wythin a little of Lancaster trustyng there to fynde ayde by the meanes of sir Thomas Broughton one of the chiefe companyons of the conspiracie The Kyng hadde knowledge of the enimies intente before theyr arriuall and therefore hauyng assembled a greate Armye ouer the whyche the Duke of Bedforde and the Earle of Oxforde were chiefe Capitayne hee ãâã to Couentrye where hee was aduertised theâ⦠the Earle of Lincolne was landed at Lancaster with his newe kyng Here he tooke aduice of his counsellors what was best to be doone whether to for team the ââ¦myes wythoute further delaye or to ãâã tyme a whyle but at length it was thoughte beste to delaye no tyme but to gyue them battayle before they shoulde encrease theâ⦠power and therevppon hee remoued to Nodynghame and there by a little woodde called Bââ¦wres heâ⦠pitched hys fielde vnto whome shortely came the Lorde George Talbot Earle of Shreââ¦esburye the Lorde Straunge Sir Iohn Cheynye ryght valyaunt Capitaynes with ãâã other noble and experte menne of warre namely of the countreyes neere adioyning so that the Kynges armie was wonderfully increase In this space the Earle of Lincolne beeyng entred into Yorkeshyre passed safelly on hys iourney withoute spoyling or hurting of anye manne trustyng thereby to haue some companye of people resorte vnto hym but after hee perceyued fewe or none to followe hym and that it was too late nowe to retourne backe he determyned to try the matter by dynt of sword and heere vppon directed hys waye from Yorke to Newarke vppon Trente but before he came there Kyng Henrye knowing all hys enemies purposes came the nighte before the day of the battayle to Newark and tarrying there a little went three myles further and pitching hir field lodged there that night The Earle of Lincolne certified of his comming was nothing abashed but kepte still on his iourney and at a little village called Stole night to the Kyng and his armye sette downe his rampe The nexte daye the King deuided his whole power into three battayls The armyes ioyne and after in good array approched nygh to the towne of Stoke Thus they foughte for a space so sore and so egrely on both partes that no manne coulde well iudge to whome the victorie was lyke to enclyne But at lengthe the Kings fore warde beyng full of people and well fortifyed wyth winges whiche only both began and continued the fight set vpon the aduersaries with such force and violence that first they oppressed and killed such capitaynes one by one as resisted their mighte and puissaunce And after that put all the other to flyghte the whiche were eyther apprehended as Prisoners in their running away or els slayne and broughte vnto confusyon in a small momente But when thys battayle was ended and fought out to the extremitie then it wel appered what hyghe prowes what manfull stomackes what hardie and couragious heartes rested in the kings aduersaries All the capiââ¦s fayne For there the chiefe captaines the Earle of Lincolne and the Lorde Louell Sir Thomas Broughton Martine Swarde and the Lorde Gerardine capitain of the Irishmen were slaine and found dead in the verie places whiche they hadde chosen alyue to fighte in not giuing one foote of grounde to theyr aduersaries Howbeit some affirme that the lord Louell tooke his horsse and would haue fledde ouer Trente but was not able to recouer the further side for the highnesse of the banke and so was drowned in the ryuer There were killed at that battaile with theyr fiue captains before rehersed of that parfie about foure thousand Of the kings part there wer not half of them which fought in the fore warde and gaue the onset slayne or hurt Then was Lambert the youngling Lambert and his maister Symonde taken whiche was falsly reported to be the sonne of the duke of Claââ¦nce and his maister sir Richard Symond Priest both taken but neyther of them put to death bycause that Lambert was but an innocent and of yeares insufficient of hymselfe to doe any such enterprise and the other was pardoned of lyfe bycause hee was a priest and annoynted man but yet was committed to perpetuall pryson Lamberte was at lengthe made one of the kings Faulconers after that he had bin a turnebroache for a space in the kings kitchen This battayle was soughte on a Saterdaye beyng the sixteenth day of Iune in thys second yeare of this kings reygne In whiche yeare also dyed Thomas Bourchier Archebishoppe of Canterburye and Iohn Moorton Bishoppe of Elye Morton Byshop of Elye made Archebishop of Canterbury chauncellour of Englande a manne of excellente learnyng vertue and policie succeeded in his place whome Alexander Pope of Rome the sixte of that name created a Cardinall and the Kyng created hym hygh Chauncellour of England After that the King had got the vpper hand of his enimies hee remoued to Lincolne and there carryed three dayes causyng euery of the same dayes solemne processions to bee made in rendryng thankes to GOD for his fortunate victorye Then caused he execution to be done of suche rebels and traytors Thankesgiuing to God after victorie as were taken in the field either at the battaile or in the chase And shortely after he went into Yorkshire and there coasted the countrey ouerthware searching out suche as had ayded his enimies and were thought to bee seditions persons whome be punished some by imprisonmeÌt some by fines and some by death according to the qua litie of their offences and as was thought most expedient An. reg 3. About the middest of August entring into the the
The enemies herewyth dischardged their ordynaunce and ouershotte them The Almaines kept ouer the ditche with their moris pikes The Englishemenne in the forefront waded the ditche and were holpen vp by the Almaines and set on their enemies tooke many prisoners The other Englishmen hasted by the causey to enter in at the Northe gate of the campe The Lorde Morley slaine where the Lord Morley being on horsebacke in a riche coate was slayne wyth a gunne When his deathe was knowen euery man killed his prisoner and slewe all suche as didde wythstande them to the number of eight thousande men in so muche that of twoo thousande that came ot of Bruges as the FleÌmish chronicle reporteth there came not home one hundreth On the Englishe parte was slayne the Lorde Morley and not an hundreth mo The Englishemen tooke their ordinaunce and sent it to Newporte wyth all the spoile and greate horses And by the way hearing certaine freÌchmen to be at Ostend they made thither warde but the Frenchemen fled so they burned parte of the towne and came againe to Newporte where the Lord Daubney left al y e Englishmen that were hurte and returned to Calais where he buried the body of the Lord Morley The Englishemen got greate riches at this fielde for they that went forthe in clothe came home in silke and those that went out on foote came home on great horses The Lord Cordes being at Ipre with twenty thousand men was sore displeased wyth this ouerthrow therfore thinking to be reuenged Nevvport besieged by the Frenchemen besieged the towne of Newport right strongly and shot daily at the walles breaking them in many places But the Englishmen that were hurte at Dixemew field before and might eyther stande or drawe bowe neuer came froÌ the walles One day the frenchmenne gaue a greate assault to a Towes and perforce entred it and set vp the banner of the Lorde Cordes but see the chaunce during the time of the assaulte there arriued a backe wyth foure score freshe English archers which came straight to the Tower and did so muche that what wyth the helpe of suche as beefore were wounded and hurtemen and of the couragious hartes of the newe come archers encouraged greatly by the women of the town crying Englishe archers shoote Englishmen shoote the Tower was regaigned out of the Frenchemens handes and the banner of the Lorde Cordes rent in peeces and implace therof the penon of Saint George set vp Then the Frenchmen supposing a great aide of Englishemen to haue bene come to the towne by sea lefte the assault And the night folowing the enuious Lord Cordes whiche so sore longed for Calais that hee woulde commonly saye that hee coulde be content to lye seuen yeares in Hell so that Calais were in possession of the Frenchmen brake vp his siege and retourned to Heldyng wyth shame And the Englishmen glad of this victorie returned to Calais Iames king of Scottes slaine by his ovvne Subiectes This yeare Iames the thirde of that name King of Scots was slaine by his owne Subiectes after they had vanquished hym in a pight fielde Aboute the same time one Adrian an Italian was sente in Ambassade from Pope Innocent the eight into Scotland Adrian an Italian made Bishoppe of Herforde after of Bathe and VVellâ⦠to haue taken vp the variaunce betwixte the King there and his people But being arriued here in EnglaÌd he was enformed that king Iames was slaine and the refore taryed here certaine Monethes for that hee was a man of excellent learnyng vertue and humanitie i the Archebishoppe of Canterbury Iohn Morton so commended him to the King that he made him firste Bishoppe of Hereforde and shortely after that resigned and giuen ouer hee promoted him to the Bishopricke of Welles and Bathe 1490 And after that wyth these honours he was retourned to Rome hee was aduaunced by all the degrees of Spirituall dignities into the Colledge of the Cardinalles and worthie sure he was of great preferrement for by hys meanes learned men were moued to seeke out the vse of eloquent writyng and speaking in the latine tongue he being the firste in the tyme of our fathers that taught the trade to choose and vse apte wordes and fitte termes In the sixte yeare of King Henries raigne there came Ambassadors to him froÌ the frenche king the lord FrauÌcis of Lutzenburg An. reg 6. Charles Mariguane and Robert Gaguine Minister of the Bonnehommes of the Trinitie The effect of their comming was to haue concluded a peace with King Henrye and that with good will the French King might dispose of the mariage of the yong Dutchesse of Britaine as he shoulde thinke good and to make void the contract and former mariage which by proxie the deputie of Maximilian king of Romains had before time contracted and made with hir But thereto woulde not King Henry giue his consent euer harping on this string that the maideÌ being once lawfully combined in matrimonye with Maximilian ought not to be compelled againste hir will and promisse yea and contrary to all lawe right and equitie to take any other person than him to hir spouse and husbande In deede Kyng Henry was lothe that the Frenche King shoulde marry the Dutchesse of Britaine hymselfe as he perceued his meaning was and so ioyne the Dutchie of Britayne to the Crowne of Fraunce and therefore hee did what he coulde to hinder that bargaine At lengthe yet it was agreede that a forme of a league should be drawen with conditions clauses and couenauntes and for the full concludyng of the same it was thought expedient that the King of Englande shoulde send Ambassadours to the Frenche Kyng to finyshe all matters beetwyxte them Wherevppon the Frenche Ambassadours beyng dismissed wyth great rewardes straight waies Thomas earle of Ormonde and Thomas Goldenston Prior of Christes Churche in Canterbury were appointed by the king to folow them into France instructed fully in all things that he wold haue on his behalfe either moued or determyned Lionel Bishop of Concordia In this meane space Lionell the Bishop of Concordia was sente as Oratour from Pope Alexander the sixte to the Frenche Kyng for certaine matters and amongst other things he hadde in chardge to conclude a peace and vnitye betwixte the Frenche Kyng and the King of Englande Hee mouyng thys matter to the Frenche King founde hym nothyng strange to encline to his motion Whervpon the Bishop of Concordia conceyuyng good hope and therwith desyrous as became hym beste bearyng that title to set an attonement beetwixte those two Kings tooke his iourney towardes Englande to the intent he might moue King Henry to bee agreable therevnto and so comming to Calais found the Englishe Ambassadours there beeing so farre on their way towards the Frenche King and being honourably receiued of them into that Towne after they had communed togither the Bishoppe took the sea and was traÌsported
and amongst them the blacke Smith and other the chiefe Captaines which were shortely after put to death When this battel was ended the K. wanted of al his numbers but three hundred which were slayne at that conflict Some affirme that the King appointed to haue fought with them not till the Monday and preuenting the time set on theÌ on the Saterday before taking the vnprouided and in no aray of battel and so by that policie obteyned the field and victory The prisoners as well captaines as other were pardoned sauing the chiefe captaynes and first beginners to whome hee shewed no mercye at all Iames Lorde Audeley beheaded The L. Audeley was drawen froÌ Newgate to the Tower hill in a coate of hys owne armes paynted vppon paper reuersed and all to torne and there was beheaded the four and tweÌtith of Iune Tho. Flammock Mighel Ioseph were hanged drawen and quartered after y e maner of Traitors and their heads and quarters were pitched vpon stakes and set vp in LondoÌ and in other places Although at the first the K. meant to haue sent theÌ into Cornewal to haue bin set vp there for a terror to all others but hearing that the Cornishmen at home were readie to begin a new coÌspiracy least he should y e more irritate and prouoke them by that displeasaunte sight he changed his purpose for doubte to wrap himselfe in more trouble than needed Foxe bishop of Durham The Bishop of Durham Richard Foxe being owner of that Castell had well furnished it both with men and munitions aforehand doubting least that would follow which came nowe to passe The Byshoppe after that the Scottes made this inuasion aduertised the King as then being at London of all things that chanced in the North parts and sent in all post hast to y e Erle of Surrey to come to the rescue The Earle being then in Yorkeshire and hauing gathered an army vpon knowledge giuen to hym from the Byshop with al diligence marched forward and after him folowed other noble men out of all the quarters of the North euerye of them bringing as many men as they coulde gather for defence of their countrey Amongst whom the chiefe leaders were these Raufe Erle of WestmerlaÌd Thomas Lord Dacres Raufe Lord Neuill George Lord Straunge Richard Lorde Latimer George Lorde Lumley Iohn Lorde Scrope Henrye Lorde Clifford George Lord Ogle William Lord Conyers Thomas Lord Darcy Of Knightes Thomas Baron of Hilton Sir William Percy Sir William Bulmer Sir William Gascoigne Sir Raufe Bigod Sir Raufe Bowes Sir Tho. a Parre Sir Raufe Ellecker Sir Iohn Connestable Sir Iohn Ratclif Sir Iohn Sauill Sir Tho. Strangweys a great nuÌber of other knightes and Esquiers besydes The whole armye was little lesse than twentie thousand men beside the nauie whereof the Lord Brooke was Admirall When the Scottes had diuers wayes assaulted and beaten the Castell of Norham but coulde make no batrie to enter the same they determined of their owne accorde to reyse the siege and returne and that so much the sooner in very dede bycause they heard that the Erle of Surrey was within two dayes iourney of them with a great puissance Wherefore King Iames reysed hys siege and returned home into his owne Realme When the Earle knew of the Kings returne he followed him with all hast possible trustyng surely to ouertake him and to giue him battayle When the Earle was entred Scotlande he ouerthrewe and defaced the Castell of Cawdestreymes the tower of Hetenhall the tower of EdingtoÌ the tower of Fulden and he sent Norrey King at armes to the Captayne of Hayton Castel whiche was one of the strongest places betwixt Berwike and EdeÌburgh to deliuer him the Castel which he denied to do affirming that he was sure of speedie succours The Erle heerevpon layde his ordinance to the Castel and continually beate it from two of the clock till fiue at night in such wise that they within rendered vp the place their liues only saued The Earle caused his miners to rase and ouerthrow y e fortresse to the playn grouÌd The Scottish K. was w tin a mile of the siege both knew it sawe y e smoke but would not set one foote forward to y e rescue While the Earle lay at Hayton the K. of Scottes sent to him Machemont and an other Herrauld desiring him at his election eyther to fight with whole puissance against puissance or else they two to fight person to person requiring that if the victorie fell to the Scottish K. that then the Earle should deliuer for his raunsome the town of Berwike with the fishgarthes of the same The Earle made aunswere heereto that the Towne of Berwike was the Kyng his maisters and not his the whiche hee neyther oughte nor woulde lay to pledge without the King of Englands assent but he woulde guage his bodie which was more precious to him than all the townes of the worlde promising on hys honour that if he tooke the king prisoner in that singular combate he would release to him all his part of his fine and raunsome and if it chaunced the king to vanquish him hee woulde gladly pay such raunsome as was conuenient for the degree of an Earle and thanked him greatly for the offer for surely he thought himselfe much honored that so noble a Prince woulde vouchsafe to admit so poore an Erle to fight with him body to body When he had rewarded and dismissed the Heraulds he set his armie in a readinesse to abide the comming of the king of Scots and so stoode all day But K. Iames not regarding his offers wold neyther performe the one nor the other fearing to cope with the English nation in anie coÌdition and so therevpon fled in the night season with all his puissance WheÌ the Erle knew that the king was reculed and had beene in Scotlande sixe or seuen dayes being dayly and nightly vexed with continuall wind and raine vpon good and deliberate aduise returned backe to the town of Berwik and there dissolued his armie tarying there himself till hee might vnderstande further of the Kings pleasure This Spanish Ambassador so earnestly trauailed in his message to the king of Scottes that at length he found him conformable to his purpose and therfore wrote to the king of England that it would please him to sende one of his Nobilitie or counsayle to be associate with him in concluding of peace with the Scottish king The king of England was neuer dauÌgerous to agree to any reasonable peace so it mighte stand with his honour and therfore appoynted the Bishop of Durham doctor Fox to go into Scotland about that treatie which Peter Hyalas had begon The Bishoppe according to his commission went honorably into Scotland where he Peter Hyalas at the town of Iedworth after ioÌg arguing and debating of matters with the Scottishe Commissioners in steade of peace concluded a truce for certaine yeares vppon condition that Iames king of Scottes
to bee of his fathers right deare and famyliar friendes whose names were as followeth William Warham Archebishop of Canterburie and Chauncellour of Englande Counsailers to king Henry the eight Richard Foxe Bishop of Winchester Thomas Howarde Earle of Surrey and Treasorer of Englande George Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie and Lorde steward of the kings householde Charles Somerset Lorde Chamberlaine Sir Thomas Louell sir Henrie Wââ¦at doctor Thomas Ruthall sir Edward Poynings These graue wise counsailors fearing least such aboundance of riches and wealth as the king was nowe possessed of might moue his yong yeres vnto riottous forgetting of himselfe for vnto no King at any time before was ãâã greater or the ââ¦e ââ¦iches as well in readie come as in ââ¦wels and other moueable ãâ¦ã as ãâã to him by his father And therefore hys saide counsaylers trauayled in such prudent ââ¦with him that they got him to bee present with them ãâã they saââ¦e in counsaile so to ââ¦ynt hym with matters pertaining to the politike gouernement of the Realme that by little and little then might applie himselfe to take ãâã him the ãâã and administration of publike affayres with the whiche at the first he coulde not wâ⦠endure to be muche troubled being rather inclined to ãâã suche pleasaunt pastimes as his youthfull ãâã yeares did more delight in ââ¦d therefore ãâ¦ã verie wel contenâ⦠that other grâ⦠ãâ¦ã should take paines therein The same day also that the king came to the Tower the Lorde Henrie Sufâ⦠brother to the Duke of Buckingham was arrested and admitted to the Tower and ãâã day also dââ¦ctor Ruthaâ⦠was named ãâã of ãâã The xxvâ⦠day of Aprill was ãâ¦ã the kings grace ãâã all the ãâ¦ã by his father and also pardoned at suche persons as were then infuââ¦te for any offence whatsoeuer it was treason ââ¦ther and fellonie ãâã excepted And nowe wheras the perfourmance of the deceassed kings will was thoughte right expedient with aâ⦠speede to be perfourmed A proâ⦠a Proclamation was also ãâ¦ã and published throughe the Realme that if any man coulââ¦e proue himself to he ââ¦t and depriued of his goods wrongfully by the Commissioners of the forfeytures he shoulde come and present his plaint to the king being redie to satisfie euerie one of all iniuries sustained After this Proclamation was notified abrode all suche as had beene constrained eyther by right or wrong as Polidor sayth to pay any thing for anye forfeytures of lawes and customes by them transgressed came flocking to the Court there declared their griefs in what sort they had wroÌgfully bin compelled as they ââ¦urmiled to pay this or that summe The counsaile heard euery mans complaint suche as were founde to haue paide any thing without plaine proof of iusticauâ⦠they tooke such order for them that they had ther money again Which being once knowen it was a strange thing to see how thick other came in yea euen those that had bin worthily fined punished for their disorderly transgressions making erââ¦est suit for restitutioÌ feining forging many things to make their cause seme good and to stand with equitie and the better to be hearde in their suyte they made friends as wel with brybes and large giftes as otherwise leauing no wayes vnassayed to compasse their desires whiche greedinesse in such multitude of futers brought the commissioners and other that had delt in the forfeytures into daunger and did themselues no good for the counsell perceyuing that it was not possible to satisfie them all refused to heare anye further complayntes or suites for restitution but thought it best to committe those to prison by whom the compleynantes preteÌded themselues to haue bin wroÌged herevpon was sir Rich. Empson knight Empson and ââ¦ey committed to the ãâã and Edmonde Dudley Esquier great counselloures to the late Kyng attached and broughte to the Tower thereby to quiet mens myndes that made suche importunate suite to haue their money agayne restored whiche in the late Kynges dayes they hadde beene compelled to disburse through the rigorous proceedings as they alledged of the sayd two counsellours and others Truely greate exclamation was made agaynst them as it often happeneth that where anye thyng is doone contrarye to the lykyng of y e people those that be dealers vnder the Prince by hys commaundemente proceede in the execution thereof runne in hatred of the multitude But howe so euer it was theyr apprehension and committyng to prison was thoughte by the wyse to bee procured by the malice of them that in the late Kynges dayes were offended with theyr authoritie Shortely after as Edwarde Halle sayeth were apprehended dyuers other persones that wer called promoters as Canby Page Smith Derbye Promoters perished Wrighte Symson and Stocton of the whyche the more parte ware papers and stoode on the Pillorie When all things were prepared ready for the funeralles of the late Kyng his corps with all sumptuous pompe and solemne Ceremonyes was conueyed from Richmont to Saint Georges fielde where the Clergie of the Citie mette it and at the Bridge the Mayre and hys brethren wyth many Commoners all cloathed in blacke lykewyse mette it and gaue theyr attendaunce on the same thorough the Citie to the Cathedrall Churche of Saincte Paule where was song a solemne Dirige and Masse and a Sermon made by the Bishoppe of Rochester Iohn Fysher The nexte daye the corps was had to Westminster and there the daye followyng put into the earth wyth all due solemnities as apperteyned After that the funeralles of the sayde laââ¦e Kyng were once ended great preparation was made for the Coronation of thys new King whiche was appoynted on Midsomer daye next ensuyng Duryng the tyme of whyche preparation the Kyng was aduysed by some of his counsell to take to wyfe the Ladye Katherine late wyfe to hys brother Prince Arthur least she hauing so greate a dowrie as was appoynted to hir might marrye out of the realme whiche should be to his hinderaunce The Kyng beeyng hereto perswaded Lady Katherin Prince Arthure his widow maried to his brother King Henry the eyght espoused the sayd Ladye Catherine the thirde daye of Iune the whyche maryage was dispensed with by Pope Iuly at the suite of hir father kyng Ferdinando On the eleuenth day of this moneth of Iune the King came from Greenewiche to the Tower ouer London bridge and so by Gracechurche with whome came many a Gentleman rychely apparelled but specially the Duke of Buckingham whiche had a gowne all of Goldesmithes worke very costly On Friday the two and twentith daye of Iune the Kyng with the Queene being in the Tower of London made foure and twentie knightes of the Bath And the morrowe following being Saterday the 24. of Iune his grace with the Queene departed froÌ the Tower thorough London the streetes beeing hanged with tapestrie cloth of arras very richly And a great parte of the South side of Cheape with clothe of gold and so was some part of
lord Admirall in chase of the Barkâ⦠of Scotlande called Ienny Piââ¦wyn which was woute to sayle with the Lyon in companie so much did he with other that he layd him a hââ¦de and though the Scots manfully defended themselues you at length y e english men entred the Barke slew many and tooke all the residue Thus were these two shippes taken and brought to Blackewall the seconde of August The Scottes that were taken prisoners wer pardoned of their liues and sent home into their Countrey The King of Scottes hearing of the death of Andrew Barton and the taking of his two shippes was wonderfully wroth and sente letters to the King requiring restiââ¦tion according to the league amitie The K. wrote to the K. of Scots againe with brotherly salutation of the robberies done by y e sayd Andrew and that it became not a Prince to lay breache of peace to his confederate for doing iustice vpon a Pirate and theefe and that all the Scots that were taken had deserued to die by iustice if hee had not extended his mercy And with this aunswere King Henry the eyght taketh the popes part against the french K. the Scottish Herrault departed About this season the Frenche K. made sharp warre against Pope Iuly wherefore the K. of England wrote to the french K. that he should leaue off to vexe the Pope in suche wise being his friend and confederate but when the French K. seemed litle to regarde that request the king sent him worde to deliuer him his lawfull inheritance both of the duchie of Normandy and Guyenne the countries of Aniou Mayne and also of his crown of France or else he woulde come with suche a power that by fine force he wold obteyne his purpose but notwithstanding those writings the French King still pursued his warres in Italye Whervpon the K. of EnglaÌd ioyning in league with Maximilian the Emperor Ferdinando king of Spain and with diuers other princes resolued by the aduise of counsel to make warre on the French king his countreyes and made preparation both by sea and land setting forth ships to the sea for safegard of his merchants 1512 This yeare the king kepte his Christmasse at Grenewich with great and plentiful cheere also with triumphant pastimes as maskings dauncings A Parliament and suche lyke The .xv. day of Ianuarie began the Parliament wher the bishop of Canterbury began his oration with this verse Iustitia pax osculatae sunt vppon whiche hee declared how iustice should be ministred peace should be nourished by what meanes Iustice was put by and peace turned into warre And therevpon he shewed how the French K. wold do no iustice in restoring to the king his righte inheritaunce wherefore for lacke of Iustice Peace of necessitie must be turned into warre In this Parliament was graunted two fifteenes of the temporaltie of the Cleargie two dismes After that it was concluded by the whole body of the realme in the high court of Parliament assembled that warre shuld be made on the French K. his dominioÌs whervpon was wonderful spede made in preparing all thinges necessarie bothe for Sea and lande The K. of Aragon also hauyng of that tyme warre with the Frenche king wrote to his son in law king Henry that if he wold send ouer an armie into Bisââ¦ay and so to inuade FraÌce on that side for y e recouerie first of his durhie of Guyââ¦e he would ayde them with ordinaunce horsemen beastes cariages with other necessaries appertaining to the same The king and his counsell putting their affiance in this promise of â⦠Ferdinando prepared a noble armie all of footemen and small artillerie appoyntyng the noble Lord Thomas Greye Marquâ⦠Dorset to bee chiefe conductour of the same The kyng dayly studying to set forth his war which he had begon against the French K. caused Sir Edmund Haward his Admirall An. reg 4. wyth diligence to make readie diuers goodly tall ships as the Souerain other to the number of xvlij beside other smaller vessels and therwith hauing in his companie sir Weston Browne Griffyth Doune Edwarde Cobham Thomas Windham Thomas Lucy William Perton Henry Shirchourne Stephen Bull George Wââ¦itwange Iohn Hopton William GunstoÌ Thomas Draper Edmonde Cooke Iohn Burder and diuers other he tooke the Sea and scowring the same about the middes of May he came before Portesmouth About the very selfe time the Lord Marques Dorset and other noble men apointed for the iorney of Biskey as the Lorde Hawarde son and heire to the Earle of Surrey the Lorde Brooke the Lord Willoughby the lord Ferrers the lord Iohn the lord Anthony and the lorde Leonarde Grey all three brethren to the Marques Syr Griffeth ap Rise Syr Morris Barkely sir William Sandes the Baron of Burforde sir Richarde Cornewall brother to the said Baron William Husey Iohn MeltoÌ William Kingston esquiers sir Henry Willoughby and diuers other with Souldiors to the number of .x. M. amongst the which were fiue C. Almaynes clad all in white vnder the leading of one Guiot a Gentleman of Flaunders came to Southampton and there ââ¦red their bandes whyche were appoynted and trimmed in the best maner The sixtenth daye of May they were al bestowed aboued in Spanish shippes furnished with victual other necessaries for that iourney The winde serued ãâã well for their purpose y e they came all in safety on the coaste of Bisky at the Port of Passagâ⦠Southwest of Fonteraby and so the third day of Iune they landed tooke the fielde embattailing themselues for their safegarde righte strongly Within three days after that the army was thus a land there came to the Marques an erle and an other noble man to welcome him and his companie Then the Lord captain remoued his field and took an other place nerer to Fonterabye where he lay a long tyme looking euery day to haue ayde of horsemen and artillerie of the King of Arragon but none came Syr Iohn Style caused to bee boughte two hundred Mulettes and Asses of suche price as the Spanyardes gained greately and when they were put to cary and drawe The englishe ââ¦pe greatly ââ¦dered for ãâã of beasts ãâã their ââ¦ce they woulde not serue the turn for they were not exercised therto before that tyme and so for want of beasts to drawe such ordinance as the Englishemen had there with theÌ they lost the doing of some greate exployte against the Frenchmen on the frontiers of Gascoygne for they mighte haue runne a great waye into that countrey being as then destitute and vnpurueyed of men and munitions One day the Frenchmen made a skrye toward the Englishe campe but the Englishmen perceyuing them passed the riuer that was betwixt them and with Arrowes chased the Frenchmen so that for haste many of theyr horsses foundered and fell ere they came to Bayonne If there had bene any horsemenne amongst the Englishmen they hadde sore endomaged their
at the Buclerâ⦠and a great mââ¦ny of yong men looking on them for the coÌââ¦Ìdement was then scarce knowne he commaunded them to leaue off and for that one of them asked him why hee woulde haue hadde into the Counter Then all the yong prentisâ⦠stept to and resisted the Alderman taking the yong fellow from him and cryed prentises and clubbes Then out at euery doore came clubbes and weapons The Alderman fled and was in great daunger Then more people arose oute of euery quarter and forth came seruing men watermen courtiers and other so that by ãâã of the clocke there were in Cheape sir or seuen C. and out of Pauls Church yeard came three C. which knew not of the other So out of all places they gathered and brake vp the counters tooke out the prisoners that the Maior had thither committed for hurting the straungers and came to Newgate and tooke out Studley and Petit committed thither for that cause The Maior and Sherifes were present there and made proclamation in the kings name but nothing was obeyed Herewith being gathered in plumpes they ran through S. Nicholas Shambles and at Saint Martines gate there mette with them sir Thomas More and other desiring them to go to their lodgings And as they were thus eââ¦mating and had almoste perswaded the people to departe they within Saint Martyns threw out stones and ââ¦attes so that they hurt diuerse honest persons that were ther with sir Thomas Moore perswading the rebellious persons to crasse insomuche as at length one Nicholas Downes a Sergeant of armes being there with the sayde sir Thomas Moore and sore hurt amongst other in a furie cryed downe with them and then all the misruled persons ranne to the doores and windowes of the houses within saint Martines and spoiled all that they found After that they ran headlong into Cornehil and there likewise spoiled diuerse houses of FreÌch men that dwelled within y e gate of master Mewtas house called greene gate This master Mewtas was a Picard borne and repââ¦ed to be a great bearer of Frenchmen in their occupyings trades contrarie to the lawes of the Citie If the people had found him they would surely haue striken off his head but when they found hym not the watermen and cortaine yong priestes that were there fell to ryfling and some ranne to Blanchchapelton brake vp the straungers houses and spoyled them Thus from tenne or eleuen of the clocke these ryotous people continued in theyr outragious doings tyll aboute thââ¦e of the clocke at what tyme they beganne to withââ¦e and wââ¦t to theyr places of resort as ãâã the way they were taken by the Maior and the handes of the Citie and sent same of theÌ to the tower some to Newgate and soâ⦠to the Court ãâã to the ãâã of three C. Many fled and specially the watermen priests and ââ¦ing men but the premises wâ⦠caught by the backe and had to prison In the meane time whilest the hotest of this ââ¦fling lasted the Cardinall was aduertised thereof by sir Thomas Naâ⦠whervpon the Cardinal strengâ⦠thened his house with men and ordinance and sir Thomas Paââ¦e rode in all hast to Richmonde where the king lay and enââ¦med him of the matter who incontinently sent forth hastilye the London to vnderst and the state of the Citie and was truly aduertised howe the ryot was crased and many of the myââ¦ders apprehended The Lieuetenant of the Tower sir Roger Cholmeley during the time of this hââ¦ling then off certaine peeces of ãâã ââ¦gayntâ⦠the Cââ¦tie and though they did us great ââ¦e yet hee wanne muche euill will ãâã his hastie doing bycause men thought he did it of malice rather theâ⦠of any discration About fiue of the clocke the Erles of Shrewsburie and Suââ¦ey Thomas Doââ¦erey Lorde of Saint Iohns George Neuill Lorde of Burgeyny and other which had heard of thys ryot come to London with suche strength as they coulde make vpon that sodaine and so ãâã the Iââ¦s of Court but before they tanâ⦠whether with feare of the bruyte of theyr coââ¦ing or of her wyfe ãâã ryotous assemble was broken vp and manye of the misdoers taken as ye haue heard Then to the the prisoners examined and the Sermon of Doctour Bele called to remembrance and he taken and sent to the Tower Herewith was a Commission of Oyre and determiner directed to the duke of Norffolkes A Commissiâ⦠of Oier add determiner and to diuerse other Lordes to the Lorde Maior of London and the Alderbury and to all the Iustices of Englande for punishment of this insurrection whervpon all the Iustices with ãâã the kings Counsaile learned in the lawes asseâ⦠at the house of sir Iohn Fineux Lorde chiefe Iustice of Englande neare to S. Brides by Fleetestreete to take aduice and conclude vpon the order which they shoulde follow in this matter and first there was read the Staââ¦tâ⦠of the thirde of Henrie the fifth the effect whereof ensueth in these wordes following The statute quinto of H. the fifth bycause that dyuerse ââ¦aââ¦ons comprised within the ââ¦es concluded as well by oââ¦er soââ¦aigne Lorde the King that nowe is as by his ryght noble father ãâã that ãâã ââ¦ne robbed and spoyled by ãâã Kings Liââ¦ges ofâ⦠subiectes as well on the mayne Seas as wyth ãâã the portes and coastes of Englande Irelande and Wales by reason whereof the truses and safeconductes haue beene broken and violated to the domage dishonour and flaunder of the king and agaynst hys dignitie and the mansleyers spoylers robbers and violaters of the same truses and safeconductes as before is declared haue beene recetted procured counsayled vpholden and mainteined by diuerse of the kings liege people vpon the coastes our sayde soueraigne Lorde the king by the aduice and assent abouesayde and at the prayer of the sayd Commons hath ordeyned and established that all such manslears robbers spoylers breakers of truses and safecoÌducts graunted by the king and the wilfull recetters abetters procurers counsaylers susteyners and mainteyners of such persons hereafter in time to come being any of the lieges and subiectes of thys Realme of Englande Irelande and Wales are to be adiudged and determined as guiltie of high treason cowmitted agaynste the Crowne and dignitie of the king And further in euerie Hauen and port of the sea there shall be from henceforth made and assigned by the king by his letters patents one lawfull officer named a conseruator of truses and safeconducts graunted by the king which officer shall dispend at the least tenne pound in land by yeare c as in the statute more at large is expressed The which statute being read and well considered of bycause there were diuerse leagues of truses betwixt the king and diuerse other princes as one betwixt him the French king an other betwixt him and the Archeduke of Burgongne and an other betwixt him and the king of Spain all the which truces were violated by the sayd insurrection it was determined by
had licence to keepe their parkes and grounds enclosed as before Thus the great expectation whiche men had conceiued of a generall redresse proued voyde howbeit some profite the husbandmen in some partes of the realme gotte by the mouing of this matter where the inclosures were already layde open ere mistresse money coulde preuente them and so they enioyed their commons whiche before had bin taken from them After that thys matter for inclosures was thus dispatched the Cardinall boyling in hatred against the duke of Buckingham The Cardinall ââ¦seth the ââ¦ction of the Duke of Buckingham and thirsting for hys bloud deuised to make Charles Kneuet that had bin the Dukes surueyour and put from hym as yee haue hearde an instrumente to bring the Duke to destruction Thys Kneuet beyng had in examination afore the Cardinall disclosed all the Dukes lyfe and firste hee vttered that the Duke was accustomed by way of talke to say howe he meante so to vse the matter that hee woulde atteyne to the Crowne if King Henrye chauced to dye without issue and that hee had talke and conference of that matter one tyme with George Neuil Lord of Bââ¦guennye vnto whom hee hadde giuen his daughter in marriage and also that he threatned to punish the Cardinall for his ââ¦ifolde misdoings beeing without cause his mââ¦rtall enimie The Cardinall hauing gotten that that hee sought for encourageth comforteth and procureth Kneuet with manye comfortable wordes and greate promises that hee shoulde with ãâã holde spirite and countenance ââ¦biecte and laye these thyngs to the Dukes charge with more if he knew it when time required Then Kââ¦tâ⦠partely prouoked with desire to bee reuenged and partely moued with hope of rewarde openly confesseth that the Duke hadde once fully determined to deuise meanes how to make the Kyng away beeyng broughte into a full hope that hee shoulde bee King by a vayne prophesie which one Nicholas Hopââ¦ius a Monke of an house of the Charmâ⦠order besyde Bristow called Henton sometime hâ⦠confessor had opened vnto him The Cardinall ââ¦eth the ââ¦ke of Bucââ¦gham to ãâã Kyng The Cardinall hauing thus token the examination of Kneuet wente to the Kyng and declared vnto hym that hys person was in daunger by suche trayterous purpose as the Duke of Buckingham hadde conceyued in his heart and sheweth how that nowe there is manifest tokens of hys wicked pretence wherefore hee exhorteth the Kyng to prouide for hys owne suretie with speede The King hearing the accusation enforced to the vttermost by the Cardinall maketh thys aunswere if the Duke haue deserued to bee punished lette hym haue accordyng to hys desertes The Duke herevppon is sente for vp to LoÌdon and at his comming thither is straighte-wayes attached Hall and brought to the Tower by Sir Henry Marney Captayne of the garde the sixtenth of Aprill There was also attached the foresayde Chartreux Monke maister Iohn de la Kar alias de la Court the Dukes confessor and Sir Gilbert Perke priest the Dukes Chancelloure After the apprehension of the Duke An. reg 13. inquisitions were taken in dyuers Shires of England of hym so that by the Knightes and Gentlemen he was endited of high treason The Duke of Buckingham indited of treson for certaine wordes spoken as before yee haue hearde by the same Duke at Blechingly to the Lorde of Burguennie and therwith was the same Lorde attached for conââ¦lement and so likewise was the Lord Montagew and both led to the Tower Sir Edwarde Neuill brother to the sayde Lorde of Burguannie was forbidden the kings presence Moreouer in the Euiâ⦠Hall within y e Citie of London before Iohn Brugge Knyghte then Lorde Maior of the same Citie by aâ⦠inquest whereof one Miles Ierraââ¦d was foreman the said Duke was endited of dyuers poyntes of high treason The effect of the Dukes inditement as by the same InditemeÌt is appeareth inââ¦ing that the sayde Duke intendyng to exalt himselfe and to vsurâ⦠the Crowne the royall power and dignitie of the Realme of England and to depriue the Kings maiestie thereof that he the sayd Duke myght take vpon hym the fame againste his allegiance had the tenthe daye of Mââ¦rche in the second yeare of the kings maiesties ââ¦gne Th Duke is indited of treson in LondoÌ was at ãâã other tymes ââ¦fore and after imagined and compassed the Kings death and desâ⦠of London and at Thornebury in the he Countie of Moncester This Hopkins had sent one of the Prior of HeÌtoÌâ⦠seruaÌts to the Duke the day afore to will hym to sende ouer to hym hys Chauncellour as by an other inditement it appeareth and for the accomplishment of his ââ¦ed intent and purpose as in the enditement is alledged the 24. of Aprill in the fourthe yeare of the Kynges raigne he sent one of his Chaplaynes called Io de la Court vnto the priorie of Henton in Sommersetshire whiche was an house of Chartreuâ⦠Monkes thereto vnderstande of one Nicholas Hopkins a Monke of the same house who was vaynely reputed by way of reuelation to haue foreknowledge of things to come what shoulde happen concerning this matter whiche hee hadde ymagyned whiche Monke causing the said de la Courte firste to sweare vnto him not to disclose his words to anye manner of person but only to the Duke his maister therewith declared that his maister the sayde Duke shoulde haue all willing him for the accomplishment of his purpose to seeke to winne the fauour of the people De la Court came backe with this aunswere and tolde it to the Duke at Thorneburye the morrow after being the .25 of Aprill Also the .22 of Iuly in the same fourth yeare the Duke sente the same de la Court with letters vnto the saide Monke to vnderstand of him further of such matters and the Monke tolde to him againe for aunswer that the Duke shoulde haue all and being asked as well now as before at the firste time howe hee knewe this to be true be sayd by the grace of God and with this aunswere de la Court now also returning declared the same vnto the D. the .24 of Iuly at Thornebury aforesaid Moreouer the said Duke sent the same de la Court againe vnto the sayde Monke with hys letters the sixe and twentith of Aprill in the fifth yeare of the Kings raigne when the Kyng was to take hys iourney into Fraunce requiring to vnderstande what shoulde become of these warres and whether the Scottish King shoulde in the Kings absence inuade this Realme or not The Monke among other things for answere of these letters sent the Duke worde that the King should haue no issue maâ⦠Againe the saide Duke the twentith daye of February in the sixth yeare of the Kings raigne beeing at Thornebury spake those wordes vnto Raufe Earle of Westmerlande Well there are two new Dukes created heere in Englande but if ought but good come to the King the Duke of Buckingham should be next in
one Leigh a Gentleman and nine temporall men on which persons were apprehended and in diuers places put to execution The layde Leigh and ãâã other the one named Taterfall a clothyer and the other Thorneton a yeoman the seuententh of May were drawen through London to Tiborne and there executed And sir Iohn Neuil knight and ten other persons dyed Sir Iohn Nââ¦uill executed The countesse of Salisburie beheaded for y e same cause at Yorke The same day Margaret Countesse of Salisbury that had remayned a long tyme prisoner in the Tower was beheaded there within the Tower She was the last of the right line and name of Plantagenet The ninth of Iune for ensample sake Execution two of the kings gard the one named Dââ¦mport and the other Chapman were hanged at Greenewiche by the Friers wall for robberies whiche they hadde committed The Lord Leonard Gray beeyng endited of certain points of treason by him committed as was alledged againste him during the season that he was the kings Lieutenant in Irelande to wite for deliuering his nephew Girald Fitz Garard brother to Thomas Fitz Gararde before executed and also for that hee caused certain Irishmen to inuade the lands of the Kings friendes whome hee fauoured not the fiue and tweÌtith of Iune he was araigned at Westminster in the Kinges benche and appoynted to bee tryed by knightes bycause he was a L. by name and no L. of the Parliament but hee discharged the Iury and confessed the enditemente wherevpon he had iudgemente and on the eyghte and twentith of Iune being Saint Peters euen hee was beheaded at Tower hill The Lorde Leonard Grey beheaded where he ended his life very quietly and godly This noble man as he was come of high lignage so was he a ryghte valiant and hardy personage hauing in his time done his Prince and countrey good seruice both in Irelande France and other places greatly to his commendation although now his happe was thus to lose his head The same day that he suffered there were executed at S. Thomas Waterings three Gentlemen Iohn Mantel Iohn Frowds and George Roydon They dyed for a murther committed in Suffer as their ââ¦ement imported in company of Thomas Fââ¦s Lorde Daââ¦s of the Sonthe ⪠The truth where of was thus the sayde Lorde Dacres through the lewds perswasion of soute of them as hath ben reported meaning to hunt in the Parke of Nicholas Pelham Esquire at Langht a in the same countie of Sassex beyng accompanyed with the sayd Mantel Frowâ⦠and Rââ¦on Iohn Cheynte and Thomas Isley Gentlemen Richarde Middleton and Iohn ââ¦oââ¦ell yeomen passâ⦠from his house of Hurstmonseux the last of Aprill in the night season towarde the same parke where they inteÌded so to hunt and comiÌg vnto a place called Pikehay in the parish of Heââ¦ingââ¦y they founde one Iohn Buforigge Iames Busbrigge and Richard Saââ¦ner standing there togither and as it fell out through quaââ¦ing there ensurdâ⦠fray betwixte the sayde Lorde Dacres and hys company on the one partie and the sayde Iohn and Iames Busbrigge and Richard Somener on the other in so muche that the sayde Iohn Busbrigge receiued such hurt that he dyed thereof the second of May next ensuing wherevpon as well the sayde L. Dacres as those that were there with him and diuers other likewise that were appointed to goe an other way to meete them at the said parke were endited of murther and the seauen and twentith of Iune the Lorde Dacres himselfe was araigned before the Lorde Audeley of Walden then Lord Chancellor sitting that daye as high Stewarde of Englande with other Peeces of the Realme aboute hym who then and there condemned the sayde Lorde Dacres to die for that transgression and afterwards the nine and twentith of Iune being S. Peters daye at eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone the Sheriffes of London accordingly as they were appointed were ready at the Tower to haue receiued the saide prisoner and hym to haue led to execution on the Tower hill but as the prisoner shoulde come forthe of the Tower one Heire a Gentleman of the L. Chancellors house came and in the Kings name commaunded to stay the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone whiche caused many to thynke that the King would haue graunted his pardon But neuerthelesse at three of the clocke in the same afternoone he was brought forth of y e Tower and deliuered to the Sherifes who led him a foote betwixt them vnto Tiborne wher he dyed His body was buryed in the Churche of S. Sepulchers hee was not past four and twentie yeare of age when he came thus through great mishappe to his ende for whome manye sore lamented and likewise for the other three Gentlemen Mantell Frowdes and Roydon but for the said yong L. being a right towardly Gentleman and suche a one as many hadde conceyued greate hope of better proofe no small moane and lamentation was made the more indeede for that it was thought he was induced to attempt such follie whiche occasioned his deathe by some light heads that were then about him The King goeth in progresse into Yorkeshire This Sommer the King kept his progresse to Yorke and passed through Lincolneshire where was made to him an humble submission by the Temporaltie and confessing their faults they humbly thanked him for his pardon which he had graunted them Giftes giuen to him by them of Lincolneshire The Towne of Stanford gaue to him twenty pound the citie of Lincolne fortie pounde Boston fiftie pounde that parte of the Shire whiche is called Linsey gaue three C. pound and Kesterne and the Church of Lincolne presented him with fiftie pound At his entring into Yorkeshire hee was met with two hundred Gentlemen of the same shire in coates of veluet and foure M. tall yeomen and seruing menne well horsed whiche on their knees made their submission by the mouth of Sir Roberte Bowes gaue to the K. nine hundred pounde Giftes giuen by them of Yorkeshire On Barnesdale the Archb. of York with three C. Priestes and more met the K. and makyng a like submission gaue to him sixe C. pounde The like submission was made by the Maiors of Yorke Newcastell and Hull and eache of them gaue to the King an hundred poundes After he had bin at Yorke twelue dayes hee came to Hull Hull fortifyâ⦠where he deuised certayne fortifications This done he passed ouer the water of Humbre and so through Lincolneshire returned towards the South parts and at Alhallowen tide came to Hampton Court Aboute the same time the Kyng had knowledge that the Queene lyued dissolutely in vsing the vnlawfull companye of one Frauncis Diram with whome she had bin too familiar before hir marriage with the King and not meaning to forgoe his company now in time of hir mariage without regard had eyther to the feare of God or the King hir husband the last Sommer beeing in progresse with the King at
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 CoÌmentaries in Cantica William Roye Simon Fish a KeÌtishman 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 coÌplaint vpoÌ London c. Robert Shinglaton ãâã 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 excelleÌt 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 Luââ¦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
in the way as the Earle shoulde passe they had cowched behinde a bullocke aboute two hundred of their prickers and had sente a fortie beside to searche where my Lorde was whome when they had found parte of them prickt very nye whom tenne or twelue of the Earles small company did boldly encouÌter and droue them welnie home to their ambushe flying perchance not so much for feare as for falsehood to bring them within their daunger but hereby enformed that the Earle was so nye they sent out a bigger number and kept the rest more secret vpoÌ this purpose that they might eyther by a playne onset distresse him or else by feyning of flighte to haue trayned hym within daunger of theyr ambush and thus instruct they came pricking toward his Lordship apace why quoth he and will not these knaues bee ruled The manly courage of the Earle of Warwike Dandy Car. giue me my staffe the whiche then with so valiante a courage hee charged at one as it was thought Dandy Car a Captayne among theÌ that he did not only coÌpell Car to turne himselfe chased him aboue twelue score togyther al y e way at the speare poynte so y t if Cars horse had not bin exceeding good wyght his lordship had surely run hym throgh in this rase but also with his little band caused all the rest to flee amayne After whom as Henry Vane Henry Vane a gentlemaÌ of y e said erles one of this coÌpanie did fiersly pursue .iiij. or .v. Scots sodenly turned set vpon him and though they did not altogether escape his hands free yet by hewyng mangling his head body many places else they did so cruelly intreat him as if reskue had not come the sooner they had slayn him outright Here was Barteuile run at sideling Barteuille burie hurt in the buttock one of y e EnglishmeÌ slain Of Scots again none slain but .iij. taken prisoners wherof one was Rich. Maxwel hurt in the thigh who had bin long in EnglaÌd not long before had receyued ryght many benefites both of the late kings liberality of the erle of Warwike of many other nobles geÌtlemeÌ in y e court beside But to coÌclude if the erle of Warwike had not thus valiantly encountred them ere they could haue warned their ambushe howe weakely he was garded he had bin beset rouÌd about by theÌ ere euer he could haue bin aware of theÌ Richard Maxwell ãâã or reskued of other where hereby his Lordship vndoubtedly shewed his wonted valure saued hys companye and discomfited the enimie As Barteuille the frenchman that day had right honestly serued so did the Lords right honorably quite it for y t Erle of Warwike did get him a surgeoÌ and drest he was streight after leyd and conueââ in the Lorde Protectors owne chariot The rest that wer hurt wer here also drest Scots other The armye hauyng marched that same daye nine myles ââ Nudââ encamped at nyghte by a Towne standing on the Fryth called Lang Nuddrey The nexte morning beeyng Thurseday the eyghte of September in tyme of the dislodging of the Englishe Camp signe was made to some of the Shippes whereof the most part and chiefest lay a tenne or twelue miles in the Forth beyond vs ouer againste Lieth and Edenburgh that the Lorde Admirall should come a shore to speake with the Lorde Protector In the meane time somewhat earely as oure Galley was comming toward vs about a mile and more beyonde our camp the Scottes were very busie awafting heere a shore toward them with a banner of Sainte George that they had so to trayne them to come alande there but the Earle of Warwike soone disappoynted the policie for making towarde that place where the Lorde Admirall should come a shore the Englishmen on the water by the sighte of his presence did soone discerne their friendes from their foes The Lord Admirall herevpon came to land and riding backe with the Earle vnto the Lord Protector ãâã taken ãâã plaââ of the ââippes order was taken that the great Ships shoulde remoue from before Lieth and come to lye before Muskelburgh and the Scottish camp which lay there in field already assembled to resist the Englishe power that marched thus towards them The smaller vesselles that were vittaylers were appoynted to lye neerer to the army The Lord Admirall heerevpon being returned to the water and the armye marching onwarde a mile or two there appeared aloft on a hill that lay longwise East and West and on the South side of them vppon a sixe hundred of their horsemen prickers The Scottishe ââkers shewe themselues whereof some within a flight shoote directly againste the Englishmen shewed themselues vpon the same hill and more further off Towarde these ouer a small bridge that laye ouer a little riuer there very hardly did ride about a dosen hackbutters on horsebacke and held them at bay so nye to their noses that whether it were by the goodnesse of the same hackbutters or the badnesse of them the Scottes dyd not only not come downe to them but also very courteously gaue place and fledde to theyr fellowes The armye wente on but so muche the slowlyer bycause the way was somewhat narrowe by meanes of the Forth on the tone syde and certayne Marishes on the other The Scottes kept alwayes pace with them till there were shotte off two field peeces twice wherwith there was a man killed and the legge of one of their horses striken off which caused them to withdraw so that the Englishmen saw no more of them till they came to the place where they meante to encampe for there they shewed themselues agayne aloft on the fore remembred hill standing as it were to viewe and take muster of the armye but when the Lorde Gray made towardes them minding to knowe theyr commission they wisely went their way and woulde not once abyde the reasoning Little else was done that day but that George Ferrers one of the Duke of Somersettes Gentlemen and one of the commissioners of the cariages in the armye perceyuing where certayne Scottes were gote into a caue vnder the earth stopping some of the ventes Scottes smolthered in a caue and settyng fyre in the other smolthered them to death as was thought it could be none other by coniecture of the smoke breakyng forth at some of the other ventes The Englyshe Shippes also takyng theyr leaue from before Lieth with a score of shotte or more and as they came by salutyng the Scottes in theyr Camp also with as manye came and lay according to appoyntmente The armye hauyng marched thys day about a fyue myles Salt Preston encamped at Salt Preston by the Forth On Friday the ninth of September the English army lying in sight and view of the Scottish Camp that lay two myles or there aboutes from them hadde the Forth on the North and the hill last remembred on the
for the coÌmons to die than perish for lacke of liuing 16 Also you said that the lords of the parliameÌt were loth to incline themselues to reformation of inclosures and other things therefore the people had good cause to reforme the things themselues 17 Also you after the report and declaration of the defaults and lackes reported to you by such as did suruey Bollongue and the peeces there would neuer amend the same defaults 18 Also you would not suffer the peeces beyond the seas called new hauen and Blacknests to bee furnished with men and vytayles although you were aduertised of the defaultes therein by the Captaines of the some peeces and others and were thereto aduertised by the kings Counsaile whereby the French king beeing the kings open enimie was encouraged and comforted to winne the said peeces to the kings great losse and dishonour of his realme 19 Also you declared and published vntruly as well to the kings Maiestie as other the yong Lordes attendant vpon his graces person that the Lords of the Counsail at London minded to destroy the king and âân required the king neuer to forget it but to reuenge it and likewise you required the yong Lordes to put the King in remembrance therof to the intent to make sedition and discord betwene the king and his Lords 20 Also where the Kings Maiesties priuie Counsaile of their loue and zealt that they dyd heare vnto the King and his realme did consult at London to haue comuned with you to the intent to moue you charitably to amend your doings and misgouernment you hearing of the said assembly did cause to be declared by letters in diuerse places the sayd Lordes to be high traytors to the King to the great disturbaunce of the Realme And thus much for these troubles of the Lord Protectour and Articles agaynst him obiected to the ende as was doubted that the same shoulde haue cost him his life but such was the pleasure of almightie God disposing mennes heartes as seemeth to him best that at length to wit the sixt of Februarie next he was deliuered and the Proclamation before set forth agaynst him reuoked and called in And thus being againe restored though not to his former office yet vnto libertie he continued therein for the space of two yeares and two dayes til new troubles chaunced to him as after shall appeare But nowe to returne to other doings Whilest these hurles and tumultes were in hande to the danger of the whole state the warres against the Scottes were nothing followed according to the former purposed meaning of the Counsaile so that it seemed necessarie to giue ouer the keeping of Hadington the same beeing in deede more chargeable as was thought than profitable sithe the garnison there coulde not be vytayled but with a greate power to conduct the Cariages in safetie the enimies being still readie to take theyr aduauntage to dystresse them vppon anye oportunitie offred It was therefore resolued that the Earle of Rutlande shoulde goe thither to see the fortifications razed and to conduct from thence the men and ordinaunce in safetie home into Englande Herevppon the sayde Earle wyth the Almaines and other Souldiours then remayning on the borders marched thyther Hadington razed and caused the Bulwarkes Rampires and Trenches to be razed and filled statte with the grounde and bringing from thence all the men artillerie and munition bagge and baggage returned vnto Berwike without encounter in peaceable and quiet maner Shortly after this the Kings Maiestie called his high Court of Parliament A Parliament which began at Westminster the .xxiiij. day of Nouember in this thirde yeare of his raigne and there continued the same vntill the first daye of Februarie next following which was in the beginning of the Fourth yeare of his raigne And among other things there enacted and concluded one statute was made for the punishmente of Rebelles An Act for vnlawfull assemblies and vnlawfull assemblies the which lawe was made by occasion of the late rebellion that happened in maner through the Realme the yeare passed was not thought nor ment to haue touched any noble man specially suche as the Duke of Somerset was which after as it shal appeare it did and by that Statute hee was condemned within two yeares next after About the same tyme 1550 An. reg 4â⦠Monsieur de Thermes that succeeded Monsieur de Desse in gouernment as Generall of the French forces in Scotlande came before Broughtieragge where he did so much by batterie and other kindes of enforcement that gyuing an assault both wyth his Frenchmen and certaine Scots ioyned with him the .xx. of Februarie the Fort was entered by fine force and all wythin it eyther taken or slaine Sir Iohn Lutterell gouernour of that peece remayned prysoner amongest the Frenchmen Moreouer now after the ende of the Parliament the Erle of Warwicke hauing then highest authoritie and the rest of the Lordes of the Counsaile calling to remembrance howe the last yeare in the tyme of rebellion the French king had entred into Bollonois and woonne dyuerse of the English Fortes there being of great importaunce for defence of the Towne and Countrey the default whereof was imputed to the negligent gouernement of the Lorde Protectour And for as much as they well vnderstoode that the Frenche King vppon further practise had placed a Captaine called the Reingraue wyth diuerse regiments of Almaine Lancequenets and certaine Ensignes of Frenchmen to the number of foure or fiue thousand at the Towne of Morguison being the mydway betwene Bollongne and Calais to the great perill and daunger as well of the Countie of Bollonois as also of Calais Guisnes and all the low Countrey The King therefore for the defence of the sayd frontiers caused al the straungers which had saued that yeare against the rebels being to the nuÌber of two M. to be transported ouer y e sea to the marches of Calays And now at Christmas last past by order of the said Erle and of the counsaylers aforesaid Frances Erle of Huntingdon and sir Edwarde Hastings his brother sir Iames Crost sir Leonard Chamberlaine and dyuerse other Captaynes and souldiers to the number of three thousand were set ouer to the marches of Calais to ioyne with the said strangers minding with as coÌuenient spead as they might to remoue the campe and otherwise to annoy the Frenche But in the meane time through the diligent trauaile of certaine persons specially of one Guidâââ an Italian and a Florentine horne there was a motion made for a treatie to bee had by certaine Commissioners appointed betwixt the Kings of England and France for the conclusion of some peace vpon such reasonable conditions and articles as might be thought expedient for the present time and to stande with the honour and commoditie of both the Princes This motion tooke such effect that about the seuenth day of Februarie certaine Commissioners appoynted for this treatie Commisioners new treate ââ¦ace that is
maye please you to appoynte vs a certaine daye for our appearaunce bycause perhappes else some of vs maye bee in forreine parties aboute our businesse Thus much for Sir Nicholas Throckmortons arreignement wherein is to be considered that the repealing of certaine Statutes in the last Parliament was the chiefe matter he had to alledge for his aduauntage where as the repealing of the same statutes was ment notwithstanding for an other purpose as before you haue partly hearde which statutes or the effect of the chiefe branches of them haue bene sithence that time againe reuiued as by the bookes of the statutes it maye better appeare to the whiche I referre the Reader The xxvij of Aprill the Lorde Thomas Graye brother to the Duke of Suffolke was beheaded at the tower hill The Lorde Thomas Gray beheaded a proper gentleman and one that had serued right valiantly both in Fraunce and Scotlande in the dayes of the late kings Henrie and Edwarde Vpon Saterdaye the xxviij of Aprill Sir Iames a Croft and maister Willyam Winter were brought from the tower to the Guilde hall in London where Sir Iames Crofts was arreygned but bicause the daye was farre spent maister Winter was not arraigned but caried backe againe to the tower with the sayde Sir Iames a Croft William Thomas arreigned ãâã condemned William Thomas of whome mencion is made before in the hystorie of Sir Thomas Wiat with certaine other were arraigned and condemned for the conspiring of the murther and killing of the Queene vpon the sodaine and for that offence the sayde Willyam Thomas was the xviij daye of Maye drawne hanged and quartered at Tiburne The Ladie ââ¦lizabeth deliuered out of ââ¦he tower The xix daye of Maye next following the Ladie Elizabeth sister to Queene Msrie was deliuered out of the Tower and committed to the custodie of Sir Iohn Williams knight afterward Lorde Williams of Tame by whom hir Grace was more courteously intreated than some woulde haue wished Wherefore shortlye after shee was committed to the manour of Woodstocke vnder the custodie of Sir Henrie Beningfielde of Oxenboroughe in the countie of Norffolke ãâã Henrie Beningfielde ââ¦night knight at whose hands she found not the like curtesie who as it is well knowne vsed his office more like a Iaylor than a Gentleman and with such rigour as was not meete to be shewed to such an estate But here is to be noted not so much the vnciuile nature of the man as the singular lenitie and gracious clemencie of that gentle and vertuous Princesse who afterwarde as shall appeare comming to the possession of the Crowne as hir rightfull inheritance was at that time so farre from reuenge of iniuries receyued that whereas diuerse Princes haue requited muche lesse offences with losse of life she neuer touched him eyther with daunger of life eyther losse of landes or goodes nor neuer proceeded further than to discharge him of the Court which many thought was the thing that pleased him best At whose departing from hir presence she vsed onely these wordes or the like in sense God forgiue you that is past and we doe and if we haue any prisoner whome we would haue hardly handled and straitly kept then we will sende for you The xxv of May the Earle of Deuonshire was brought oute of the tower at three of the clocke in the morning Sir Thomas Tresham knight and maister Chamberlaine of Suffolk with certaine of the Garde being appointed to attende him vnto Frodinghey Castell in Northamptonshire where hee was assigned to remayne vnder custodie of the saide sir Thomas Tresham and others The xj of Iune the Lorde Iohn Grey An. reg 2. The Lorde Iohn Grey brother to the late D. of Suffolk was arreigned at Westminster in the Kings benche and there condemned but yet through the painefull trauayle and diligent suite of the Ladie Grey hys wife his pardon was obteyned so he escaped with life and was at length set at libertie as after it shall appeare But nowe in this meane while that these things thus passed here in England the Prince of Spaine prepared for his hither comming vnto whome had bene sent the Earle of Bedforde Lorde priuie seale and the Lorde Fitzwaters accompanied with diuerse noble men and Gentlemen who arriuing at the Corone in Galicia were receyued very honourably And forasmuch as the Prince was then at Vale Dolido distant from thence neare hande an hundreth leagues they were desired to stay there for their better ease till hee might haue conuenient oportunitie to repaire thither which neuerthelesse he coulde not do so soone as he pretended to haue desire thereto as well by reason of the sickenesse of his sister the Princes Dowager of Portugall as by other weightie affaires But being at length ridde of suche encombers and come into Galicia the Englishe ambassadors mette him at Saint Iames de Compostella and after hee had in presence of a great number of Noble men and Gentlemen there ratified the contract and sworne to obserue the couenants he departed towardes Corone where within a fewe dayes after hee embarked and accompanied with the number of Cl. sayle directed his course towards Englande The Lorde Admirall hauing continuallye bene abroade on the seas for the space of three moneths or more with a nauie of xxviij ships other vessels accompanied also with the Vice-admirall of the lowe Countries that had vnder his gouernance xiiij shippes of the Emperours met with the sayde Prince the xix of Iulye about the Needles The arriuall of the prince of Spaine and from thence accompanied him vnto Southampton where he arriued the morowe after the xx of Iulye the Earle of Arundell Lorde Stewarde of the Queenes house being sent from hir to present to him the George and the Garter of the order of the which fellowship he was at the last Chapiter holden by the Confreers chosen one of the companie met him vpon the water and at his comming to lande presented the sayde George and Garter vnto him At his landing he was receyued by the Lord Treasurer the Bishop of Lincolne the Lorde Saint Iohn and others by whom he was first conueyed to the Church and from thence to his lodging After his landing the Lorde Chaunceller accompanied with diuerse Gentlemen was sent from the Queene to bidde him welcome on hir behalfe and so was hee visited by diuerse noble personages whilest he remayned at Southampton sent thither for that purpose and he on the other part sent diuerse of his noble men to visit hir maiestie on his behalfe Monday the xxiij of Iuly he departed from Southampton towardes Winchester whither shee was the Saturdaye before remoued from Bishops Waltham He commeth to Winchester On the way he was accompanied beside the Noblemen and Gentlemen of his owne trayne with the Marques of Winchester the Earles of Arundell Darbie Worceter Bedford Rutlande Penbroke Surrey the Lordes Clinton Cobham Willoughbye Darcie Matrauers Talbot Strange Fitzwarren
wyth you thereof but your pride ioined with a harmfull meaning to those that you professe best vnto and selfe wilfull vainglorie without cause why refused that which reason and honor commaunded you to haue done Therefore bycause his calling is presently with his charge better than yours and mine not inferior I sommon you reasonably to excuse that fault supposed to be yours or else to mainteyne that trayterous acte with your person agaynst mine in fight when where or howe you dare Otherwise I will baffull your good name sounde wyth the Trumpet your dishonour and paynt your picture with the heeles vpwarde and beare it in despite of your selfe In the meane tyme I attende your aunswere From Glasco the xxij of May. 1570. Subscribed George Carie. The Copie of the Lord Flemings answere GEorge Carie I haue receyued your brainlesse letter making mention of my false and treasonable dealing against your Generall in shââ¦ting vnder trust so vilely agaynst my honor and truth trayterously trayned him vnder my trust which is altogither false and vntrue And howbeit your Generall came by the house of Dunglas by my appoyntment which I suffered and I appoynted one place of meeting sixe men of either partie which he refused and he departed and certaine of his companie came bragging vp y e riuer side towards the house viewing the sââ¦me and the ground thereaboutes shooting your Harquebusses agaynst the same I coulde doe no lesse but present you with such as I had Whereas you wryte of your Generalles calling to be presently better than mine and yours not inferiour when your Generall chalengeth me thereof I shall giue answere And as for you I will not be inferiour to a better than you or any Souldiour vnder your Generals charge Whereas you sommon mee as you call it reasonably to excuse that fault supposed to be mine owne or else to mainteyne that trayterous acte with my person agaynst yours you shall wyt I haue Gentlemen of honour seruant Souldiours to me as ye are to your Generall whiche may be your fellowes shall defende the same agaynst you and your false and vntrue inuented wryting and were not the charge I present or how soone I can bee relieued of the same I should lowly my person to meet you sixe English miles from any other person Howbeit ye be but one souldiour assure your selfe from thys day foorth I will not receyue no such inuented message for I haue little to doe with Englishe men ye may raile vpon my honorable name as ye please You shall haue as honorable gentlemeÌ as your selfe against you fighting Take this for answere Iohn Lord Fleming LOrde Fleming often the Flemings after noone aunsweres smelleth more of Wine than witte But as to that common cryme the custome of theyr Countrey yeeldeth them part of pardon so your common acquaintaunce with the same condition knowne to bee verye great shall to mee somewhat excuse your witlesse wryting wherin first you disalow my right recitall of your trayterous dealing by tearming it false and vntrue for answere knowe this the truth my penne hath writteÌ by the witnesse of a number And my hande I vowe shall maynteyne the same before the worlde at all tymes but you in denying it haue both falsly and vniustly lyed in your throate and dare neyther defend nor disproue that in deeds which in wordes you haue done Wheras you write that our generall passed Dunglasse by your appointment whiche you suffred therein you doe manifestly say vnhonourably and vntruly for that you had no knowledge of our firste comming but saluted vs with your shotte and wee lykewise skirmished with your meÌ euen at their owne strength vntill we viewed the ground aboute at oure pleasure And touchyng the appointment of sixe of eyther part easily that may be knowen to be a playnelye seeing wee hadde neyther parley not conference with you before to appoynt place or meeting But whereas you say you coulde doe no lesse but present vs wyth such as you hadde therein you confesse and acknowledge y e dishonor and treason that I charged you withall taking vppon youre selfe that fault which I supposed to haue bin of your seruaunts for oure generall retired his company farre from him And his Trumpet beeing wyth you approched himselfe alone to haue parled when vnder trust you discharged two harguebusses agaynste him an acte rather seemely for a cowardly Traytor than one that professeth to be a Souldier Finally whereas you lette mee witte that you haue Gentlemen of honor seruaunts Souldiers to you that may be my fellowes whiche shoulde defend the challenge that toucheth so neere your selfe as with honor you should not haue refused it First I thinke skorne to bee any wayes inferiour to you though but a Souldier too honorable a name for you beeyng better in birth and vnsteined with reproche as you haue bin Secondly I haue more and as good GentlemeÌ vnder my conduct as you haue vnder your charge which shall aunswer as many as you can bring ⪠if with number ye meane to combate and will put them to that whyche you dare not doe your selfe But assure you my quarrell shall remayne euerlasting excepte the proofe of your owne person againste mine maye ende it and when you shall dare come out of youre Crowes nest I will be ready to ride an hundred Scottish myles to meete with you in any indifferente place and vntill that tyme. I shall accompte you deuoyde of honestie and honor vnworthy to marche vpon grounde or to keepe company with men From Hamilton the 29. of May. 1570. Subscribed George Carey Though many wayes were soughte by message and otherwise tâ⦠ãâã the Lorde ââ¦leââ¦ming to defend with battaile the fault and folly committed yet it wold not be for he suffred ãâã the matter ⪠so as it well appeared it was but lost labour further to attempt him therin The .xxij. A master of Scottishmen of May the Earle of Lenoux accompanyed with the Erle of Glenââ¦rn the lord Symple and other his frendes ââ¦aries and alies mustered on the Moore before the towne of Glasco the number of .4000 horsemen and footmen that were there assembled to seeke him in presence of Sir William Drury and other of the English capitayns The .xxiij. of Maye Sir William Drurye the Earle of Lenoux The army goeth towards Hamilton and ââ¦theâ⦠the Scotââ¦she Lords and the whole armie marched towards the Castell of Hamilton and sending a Trââ¦mpettor and one with hym to parley with the Captaine named Andrew Hamilton he agreed to come forth and due other with him to talke with Sir William Drury and one other Gentleman suche as he should thinke good to bryng with him to a place somewhat distance as well from the Castell as the Camp Heerevpon Sir William Drury wyth hys sword and tergate and Sir George Carie with a case of pistolles wente forthe to the appoynted place whither the Captayne of the Castell also with an halberâ⦠and one other with him
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 MoÌtmorency was sââ¦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 ChanoÌ row at Westminster Lord Treasorer Lorde priuie seale Lord Chambââ¦rlââ¦yne with other officers The thirteÌth 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
theyr baggage Erle of Worcester robbed on the sea and three or foure of theyr men slaine In Fraunce he and his trayne were honourablye receyued At the Christning hee gaue the childe to name Elizabeth They returned into England the seueÌ and twentith of Februarie In the Moneth of Februarie through sundrie heynous coÌplaints brought to the Queenes Maiestie and hir Counsaile of Pirats that kept the narrow Seas doing many robberies The narrow seas scoured as also the robbing of the Earle of Worcester as is aforesayde hir highnesse by the aduise of hir honourable counsaile tooke order with the Lord Admirall of England that he should send to the seas shippes and men to scowre the narrow seas and to apprehende so many Pyrates shippes as might be mette with And for the better doing thereof it pleased hir Maiestie to sende one of hir owne shippes named the Swallowe to bee the Admirall vnder the charge of William Holstock of London Esquire controller of hir highnesse shippes who had with him the Gyllian the Barke Garet and the Barke of Yarmouth and three hundred .lx. able Mariners Gunners and souldiours in the sayde three ships and one bark which scoured the narrow sea from the North forelande as farre Westwarde as Falmouth in Cornwall and tooke .xx. shippes and barkes of sundrie Nations videlicet Englishe Frenche Pirates on the west seas and Flemings but all Pirates and in fashion of warre He apprehended in those shippes and barkes to the number of .ix. hundred men of all nations and sent them to warde to Sandwich Pirates executed Douer Wight and Portsmouth wherof three of them that robbed the Erle of Worcester were shortly after executed at Wight Also the sayde William Holstocke did rescue and take from the abouesayd Pirates shippes xv other marchant ships laden with marchandises that were theyr pryses being of sundrie Nations and set at libertie the said .xv. Marchant shippes and goods which done he returned to Portesmouth and there ended his voyage in March The fourth of March A man hanged in S. Georges fielde a man was hanged in chaynes in S. Georges fielde beyonde Southwarke of London for murthering the Gaylour of Horsham in the same field The .xvij. of March Erle of Kent deceased deceased Reynald Gray of Ruthen Erle of Kent at Hernesey and was buryed at Saint Giles withoute Creplegate Aboute the same tyme dyed Edmonde Lorde Chandos The .xxv. of Marche being Wednesday in Easter weke George Saunders murthered at Shooters hill and the feast of the Annunciation of our Ladie George Browne cruelly murthered two honest men neare to Shooters hill in Kent the one of them was a wealthie Marchant of London named George Saunders the other Iohn Beane of Woolwich whiche murther was commytted in manner as followeth On Tuesday in Easter Weeke the .xxiiij. of Marche the sayde George Browne receyuing secrete intelligence by letter from Mistresse Anne Drurie that Maister Saunders shoulde lodge the same night at the house of one Maister Barnes in Woolwich and from thence goe on foote to Saint Mary Cray The next morning he lay in waite for him by the way a little from Shooters hill and there slue both him and Iohn Bean seruant to maister Barnes but Iohn Bean hauing .x. or .xj. woundes and being left for dead by Gods prouidence did reuine againe and creeping awaye on all foure was founde by an olde man and his Maiden and conueyed to Woolwich where hee gaue euident markes of the Murtherer Immediately vpon the deed doing Browne sent Mystresse Drurie worde thereof by Roger Clement among them called trustie Roger hee himself repayred forthwith to y e court at Greenwich anon after him came thither the report of the murther also Then departed he thence vnto London and came to the house of Mystresse Drurie where though hee spake not personallye with hir after conference had with hir seruaunt trustie Roger she prouided him .xx. pounde that same day for the which she layde certaine plate of hir owne and of Mistresse Sanders to gage On the next morning being Thursday hauing intelligence that Browne was sought for they sent him sixe poundes more by the same Roger warning him to shift for himself by flight which thing he for slowed not to doe neuerthelesse the Lordes of the Queenes Maiesties Counsaile caused so speedie and narrow search to bee made for him that vpon the .xxviij. of the same Moneth he was apprehended in a mans house of his owne name at Rochester and beeing brought backe againe to the Court was examined by the Counsaile vnto whom he confessed the deed as you haue heard and that hee had oftentymes before pretended and sought to doe the same by the instigation of the said mystresse Drurie who had promised to make a maryage betweene him and mystresse Saunders whome hee seemed to loue excessiuely neuertheles he protested though vntruly that mystresse Sanders was not priuy nor consenting therevnto Vpon his confession he was arraigned at the kings Bench in Westminster Hall the .xviij. of Aprill where he acknowledged himselfe guiltie and was condemned as principall of the murther according to which sentence he was executed in Smithfielde on Monday the .xx. of Aprill at which time also vntruly as she hirselfe confessed afterward he laboured by all meanes to cleare mistresse Sanders of committing euill of hir bodie with him George Brow hanged in Smithfield and then flung himselfe besydes the ladder Hee was after hanged vp in Chaynes neare vnto the place where he had done the fact In the meane time mistresse Drurie and hir man being examined as well by their own confessions as by falling out of the matter and also by Brownes appeachment thought culpable were committed to warde And after mistresse Saunders being deliuered of childe and churched for at the tyme of hir husbandes death she looked presently to he down was vpon mistresse Druries mans confession and other great likelihoodes likewise committed to the Tower and on Wednesday the sixt of May arraigned with mistresse Drurie at the Guildhall The effect of whose inditement was that they by a Letter written had beene procurers of the sayde murther and knowing the murther done had by money and otherwyse relieued the murtherer whervnto they pleaded not giltie Anne Sanders Anne Drurie trustie Roger hanged Howbeit they were both condemned as accessaries to maister Sanders death and executed in Smithfield the .xiij. of May beeing Wednesday in the Whitsunweeke at which time they both confessed themselues guiltie of the fact Trustie Roger mystresse Druries man was arraigned on Fryday the .viij. of May and being there condemned as accessarie was executed with his mistresse at the time and place aforesayd Not long after Anthonye Browne hanged at Yorke Anthonie Browne brother to the forenamed George Browne was for notable felonies conueyd from Newgate to York and there hanged The .x. of Aprill seuen pyrates Pirate hanged at Wapping which among other had beene taken on the
col 1. lin 14. Carew Peter knyght conspireth with the Duke of Suffolke 1727.53 fleeth beyond the seas ead 58. Causes why Geffrey Archbyshop of Yorke was depriued 549.2 Castleford pag. 1311. col 1. lin 26. Cassels in Ireland ordeyned an Archbyshopricke 386.32 Carton cited 266.7 Castels wonne by the Scottes 855.47 b. Cantorbury Colledge in Oxford founded 1003.50 a. Cassibellanes dominion where it lay by likelihood 41.39 Cassibellane made generall of the Britaine 's agaynst the Romanes 41.46 Carausius made kyng of the Britaines 81.55 Carausius slayne in the feelde by Alectus 81.89 Cantorburie destroyed by the Danes 206.113 Edmund Earle of Cambridge married Isabel daughter to the kyng of Spayne 992.4 a. Cardinall of Piergort trauayleth to make peace 958.23 a. Castles deliuered to the keping of Fouks de Brent by kyng Caen Abbey in Normandy builded 315.91 Caen wonne by the Englishmen 930.50 a Cadwane king of Northwales 154.67 Geffrey lord Charmey discomfited at Calais 944.30 b. is taken prisoner there 945. 4. a. Camber second sonne to Brute 16.33 Cambria allotted to Camber nowe called Wales 16.40 The Carricke burnt 1476.36 Cay doctor cited 2.76 and 3.8 and .3.94 and .4.2 and 4.47 Cartimandua refuseth her husband Venutius and marrieth Vellocatus 58.82 Cartimandua deliuered from her enimies by the Romanes 58.106 Camulodunum taken by the Britaines and sacked 63.91 Castalio Balthasar knight enstalled for the Duke of Vrbice 1461.45 Caerleil citie and castle taken by the Scottes 366.68 Cardinall Cualo coÌmeth ouer into England to kyng Iohn 600.55 he excommunicateth Lewes the FreÌch kings sonne by name 600.61 Caerleil citie recouered from the Scottes 397.3 Castles names geuen by kyng Richard the fyrst to his brother Iohn 475.38 Carpwald slayne by an Ethnicke 162.38 Cause why the French Kyng warred agaynst the Britaines 562.52 Caergrant nowe called Cambridge 30.59 Casinare Marques of Randealme Ambassadour from the Emperour 1458.40 Cary George sonne to the lorde HunsdoÌ made knight 1846 45. his letter of chalenge to the lord Fleming with his answere and Syr George his replie 1848.29 Castle Galiard besieged and deliuered to the French king 557.19 Calice hauen in vayne attempted to be destroyed 1526.11 Caxtons Chronicle cited 24.41 and .30.48 Cambridge possessed by the Danes 212.38 Cambridge Towne builded 30.47 and .30.72 Castle of Maydens in Albania builded 18.13 Cardiffe castle in Wales 346.18 Cardinal Gualo 592.3 Chatoau Valyard besieged pag. 1198. col 2. lin 45. Cardinals reuenues in England seased into the kynges handes 929.43 a. Cantorburie the head citie of the kyngdome of Kent 147.69 Cassander vsurpeth the kyngdome of Macedonie 29.93 Castles fortified by kyng Iohn 601.25 Caius Volusenus looke Volusenus Calater wood in Scotland 24.29 Calphurmus Agricola sent Lieutenant into Britaine 76.74 Cardiffe castle builded 351.55 Castle built nygh to Cryde Abbey called Huberts folly 632.21 Capitoll of Rome saued by the noyse of Ganders 26.66 Cambridge burned by the Danes 245.60 Castle Chinon and Sawmer 542.23 Castle and citie of Angiers deliuered to the Duke of Britaine 542.27 The Cardinall of Saint Andrewes imprisoned 1589. 4. is deliuered out of prison and dasheth the mariage betweene Prince Edward Marie y e Scottishe Queene 1591.55 Carew the Baron of Carew slayne 1478.22 Causes which moued Cesar to make warre on y e Britaines 34.103 Cardinall Hispanus 844.13 b. Cambridge Vniuersitie when founded and by whom 28.78 Carewe Nicholas knight knight of the Garter maister of the kinges house beheaded 1571.17 the speache which he used at his execution ibidem Caen besieged and yeelded to the French pag. 1276. col 2 lin 2. Castles wonne by the byshop of Durisme 832.20 a. Caxton cited 122.9 Calice in old tyme called Icius Portus 35.14 Caircone castle fortified against kyng Henry the fyrst 339.60 Caradoc Lancarnanensis in what time he liued 394.46 Caleis inhabited with Englishmen 943.35 a. Carow EdmuÌde knight 1450 41. Caboto Sebastian discouereth Moscouia 1714.26 Chateau Galiard castle in Normandie builded 539.53 Cambridgshire annexed to the Sea of Ely 349.94 Catesby Willyam atteinted 1415.46 Cantorburie burned with casuall fire 191.90 Candida Casa now Whiterne 192.27 Causes which mooued Duke William of Normandie to assay the coÌquering of England 285.81 Caleis besieged by the Duke of Burgoigne pag. 1259. col 2 lin 15. he breaketh vp hys siege 1260. col 1. lin 53. Caen castle repayred 359.59 Canutus and Harold sonnes to king Swanus of Denmarke sent into England with a Nauie 300.25 Canutus Harold with their armie put to flight by kyng William escape to theyr shippes 301.18 Causey made through the fens of the I le of Ely 306.101 Cardinals appoynted to treat of peace 991.12 b. Cambrey besieged by king Edward the third 904.55 a. Capitaine Hanson pag. 1304. col 1. lin 15. beheaded col 2. lin 13. Cairbadon now called the citie of Bathe 21.97 Captaines flourishing in the dayes of Richard the first 541.53 Cardinall of Saint Prarede dealeth al for money 1023.14 b. Cardinals come into England to treat of peace 901.53 b. Caernaruan burned 810.19 b. Cadsant I le 901.23 b. Cataractone towne 170.54 Caerbranke citie nowe called Yorke by whom buylded 18.10 Canute Prudan marryeth Githa daughter to Osgote Clappa 268.1 Carausius commaunded to bee slayne escapeth 83.19 Cadwan elected kyng of the Britaines 156.75 Carlile besieged 853.48 b. Cenwalch or Chenwald succeedeth his father Cinegiscus in the kingdome of West Saxons 171. Cenwalch putteth awaye hys wyfe receyueth her againe 171.44 Celwalch driuen out of his couÌtrey flieth to the Eastangles 171.46 Cenwalch receiueth the Christian fayth 171.53 Cenwalch recouereth his kingdome 171.58 Cedda a vertuous Priest sent to preach the Gospell to the East Saxons 174.23 Cedda ordeined Byshop of the East Saxons 174.37 Cedda borne in Northumberland 174.103 Cenwalch king of west Saxons departeth this lyfe 180.63 Centwine succeedeth Escuinus in the kingdome of the west Saxons 180 88. Celiestline Abbey in Irelande buylded 208.203 Ceolwolfe expulsed his kingdome by Bernwolfe 205.72 Ceorlus succeedeth his kinsmaÌ Wibbas in the kingdome of Mercia 153.9 Ceolred sonne to king Ethelred 189.10 Ceolred succeedeth Kenred in the kingdome of Mercia 189.47 Coelred dyeth and is buryed at Litchfield 189.48 Ceadwalla entreth Kent wyth a armie is put to flight by the Kentishmen 186.64 Ceadwalla succeedeth Centwine in the kingdome of the west Saxons 183.100 Ceolwolfe succeedeth his Nephew Kenelme in the kyngdome of Mercia 205.70 Cerdicus gouerneth the West partes of Britaine as kyng 127.9 Cerdicus doeth homage fealtie vnto K. Arthur 137.78 Cedda dyeth in LestingheÌ Monasterie 175.28 Chesshyre wasted by the welchmen 381.41 Cerdiceore supposed to be Yermouth in Northfolke 126.108 Certicestshore 130.46 Ceolwolfe dyeth 196.11 Cealtide Synode 199.11 Celling William 1463.11 Cedferth Byshop of Donwich 195.14 Cedwallo looke Cadwallo Ceorle Earle 207.11 Cesar cited 3.49 3.62 and 4.77 5.62 Ceowuif departeth this lyfe 155.43 Celtica kingdome what countryes in conteined 1.101 Cerdicus a Saxon arriueth with a power in Brytaine 126.103 Chesshyre a great part destroyed by Norway Pirates 238
or Gigines what it signifieth 6.86 Geffray bastard sonne to kyng Henry the second made Byshop of Lincoln spoyleth the Church resigneth his myter 447.38 and .454.45 Geffray of Monmouth cyted 15.81 and .22.60 and .23.16 and 24.38 Geffray sonne to King Henry the second dealeth vnfaythfully with his father and brethren 457.22 taken prisoner by his brother Richard 461.95 dyeth at Paris 463.37 Geffray of Monmouth cited 31.110 and .32.1 and .32.110 and .33.9 Gerard Thomas buent 1580.59 Genissa daughter to Claudius the Emperour marryed to Aruiragus 51.41 Geffrey of Monumouth cited 43.48 .81.58 .82.66 .92.85 Gentlemen of the priuie chamber remoued 1507. Geffrey Bishop of Constancies 308.36 George Browne knight executed pa. 1405. col 2. lin 3 Gerard departeth this life 348 12. Germane leadeth the Britishe armie against the Saxons 120.38 .. Germane returneth again into Fraunce 120.75 Germane being sent for commeth agayne into Britaine 121.29 Germane returneth into France the second time 121 49. Germane departeth this lyfe at Rauenna 121.56 Gerent king of Britaines and his armie chased by Inas king of West Saxons .187 100. Germane souldiours slay their Captaine and become Rouers in the Coastes of Britaine 71.16 Geffray Monmouth in what time he liued 394.45 Geffray fourth sonne to kyng Henry the second borne 398 47. George Lorde Aburgeinty 1447.17 Geffrey Archbishoppe of Yorke depatreth priuely out of the realme accurseth al those that gather the payment within his Diocesse demauÌded by king Iohn 564.17 Geanology of the Earles of Chester 650.48 Genawe murdred at London 1013.43 b. Geffrey surnamed the Gramarian 1462.50 Gerard chiefe of the Valdoyes that came ouer into Ireland 400.19 Gertrude Marchionesse of Exceter atteinted 1570.52 Gemeticum Abbey in Normandie 269.109 Germane Byshop of Auxerre sent to preache in Britaine 119 51. Geneticensis cited 264.37 Gerard receiueth the Pall of the Pope 342.78 Geruldine Thomas a Lord and Chauncellour of Ireland receyueth with all honour the counterfeit Earle of Warwicke 1428.46 sendeth into England in his quarel with an army of Irishe men 1430.45 is slaine 1431 45. Geruas Dorobern cited 415.11 Geffrey William a counterfeit Christ whypped 1815.1 Gerald Earle of Kildare deputie of Ireland apprehended 1444.58 restored to his former libertie honor 1445.9 Gerion slayne by Hercules in Spaine 5.107 Reinald Earle of Geldre maryeth king Edward the thirdes sister 895.13 b. made Duke of Geldre 903.55 a. in daunger to be slaine by Flemmings 911.50 a. Genowayes in Britaine 917. 20. b. fight with the Englishmen on the sea 917.28 b. Duke of Gelderland commeth into England 1080.13 b. Gernesey entred by frenchmen 992.50 b. Geffrey Archbyshop of Yorke dyeth in exile 574.30 Geffrey de Lucignam 584.40 Geffrey of Monmouth cyted 122.9 .134.51 and .154.50 pag. 154.75 Gerard simested Archbyshop of of Yorke 342.1 Generon or Guaneren Castle in Wales buylded 117.53 121.80 Genââ¦sses a people in Brytaine and where they inhabited 110.48 Gerarde de Atie taken prisoner by the french kyng 562.13 Gentlemen and Noblemens names which asisted kyng William in the conquest of England 293.61 Gernesey inuaded by the french men 1696.28 Geffrey sonne to king Henry the second made knight 450.77 Geffrey Monmouth cited 183 65. Gelenor king of Greece dryuen out of hys Countrey 7.42 George Neuil Archbyshop of Yorke pag. 1318. Genissa maketh atonement hetweene Aruiragus and the Romanes 52.33 Gisors besieged and yeelded to the English pag. 1201. col 2 lin 12. Geinsborough 249.77 Gemeticensis cited 283.86 .291.72 319.73 and 345.39 Geffrey Monmouth consecrated Byshop of S. Assaph Gerueys Clifton knight beheaded pag. 1340. col 2. lin 22 George Douglas Earle of Angus pag. 1315. col 1. lin 26. Gerbery Castle destroyed 399 57. George stanley Lord straunge pag. 1411. col 2. lin 20. Gylford Richard knight 1447 20. Geffrey Gates knight pag. 1325. col 1. lin 40 Gyffard William made Byshop of Winchester 337.43 Gilbert Skarlock slayne pag. 1288. col 1. lin 15. Gilbert Debenham kynght pag. 1327. col 1. lin 16. Gildas cyted 99.103 .101.85 .114.49 Gillingham battayle fought by the Englishmen against the Danes 254.29 Walter Giffard Archbyshop of Yorke dyeth 789.35 a. Gildas cyted 45.38 .47.58 and .50.25 and .51.88 and 96.21 Giles Daubeney knyght pag. 1400. col 1. lin 47. Gysors besieged in vaine 533.17 Giffard William depriued and bannished the realme 342.10 Gilla daughter to Charles Le Simple king of Fraunce maryed to Rollo Duke of Normandie 288.105 Gilbert Midleton knight 854.30 b. Gyffeith a Welch kyng 231.81 Gipswich spoyled by y e Danes 239.56 Giââa ââther to king Harold escapeth from Exeter into Flaunders 299.50 Gillomanus kyng of Ireland and his people discomfited 123.35 Gillomannus king of Ireland with his armie discomfited and slayne 123.13 Girmi a people in Englande 185.65 Giauntes in Fraunce slayne in Combat by Arthur 133.70 Gilbert de Gaunt made Earle of Lincolne 602.20 Gilbert Talbot pa. 1411. col 2. lin 4. pa. 1414. col 2. lin 35. pag. 1415. col 1. lin 18. pag. 1417. col 2. lin 23. Giaunt whence deriued 6.88 Giles Byshop of Eureux 421.78 Gilbert consecrated Byshop of Herefoord 381.83 Gilbert Fitz Fergus commeth into England 445.32 Gyfford Walter Erle of Buckingham deceaseth without heire 402.11 Gilbert Byshop of London forbydden the vse of the Sacramentes 412.38 Gilbert Byshop of London restored to the administration of his office againe 414.86 Githa daughter to Osgote Clappa maryed to Canute Prudan 268.1 Gildas cited 123.73 .129.12 .138.38 .139.59 141.17 .142.25 Gift of healing the kings euyll left as an inheritance to the kings of England 279.86 Gipswich now called Ipswich 388.24 Gipswich Castle besieged and taken 388.16 Gilbert murderer of Liulfus 311.35 Gilbert slaine by Liulfus kinsfolke 311.68 Giraldus Cambrensis cyted 287.58 Giraldus Cambrensis disproued 287.64 Gythrun looke Gurthrun 214 107. Giraldus Cambrensis cited 135.20 and .136.11 and 137.31 Gisors Castle gotten into the kyng of Englandes handes 400.61 Giauntes in Britaine 5.50 Giauntes what they signifie 5.55 and .6.89 Gilbert captaine of Tunbridge Castle 319.52 Girarde de Sotigam a politick captayne of Douer Castle 609.11 Girwy Abbey buylded 178.106 Gildas borne 115.35 Giouan Villani cited 9.59 27.47 Gillingham Manour 301.67 Gildas cyted Gilford 264.24 Gillomar looke Gillomannus Gladââore Heath by Barnet pag. 13.3.3 col 1. lin 33. Glasââ¦irion a Barde 4.43 Glau Margan in Wales why so called 21.26 Duke of Gloucesters iourney to Prutzen 1079.7 a. made Duke of Ireland 1082.25 b. Glanuille Ranulfe made ruler of Yorkeshyre 452.56 Glastenburie Monasterie builded 188.19 Glasiers first brought into England 178.114 Gloucester monasterie destroyed by the Danes and repayred 222.48 Gloucester towne whence so named 51.55 Glastenburie Abbey finished 234.6 Glouernia now Glocester and why so called 51.53 Glademouth 222.83 Gloucester Monasterie of S. Peters buylded 222.45 Gloucester Citie taken by the Barons 765.56 wonne by king Henry the thyrde hys faction 772.38 Gloucester Castle 371.20 Thomas Duke of Gloucester conspireth against the kyng 1090.20 b. apprehended
armie to recouer Guian 1472.31 behaueth himselfe very honorably at the Iustes at Paris 1496.44 receyueth the Emperour 1520.10 is made warden of the East middle Marches 1522.40 maketh a noble rode into Scotlan eadem 50. Gray Henry sonne to Thomas Gray the secende Marques Dorset is created Duke of Suffolke 1719.20 is committed to the towre 1720.10 delyuered ibidem rebelleth 1726.55 is apprehended ibidem executed 1733.10 twise repelleth his confââ¦ssor from the seaffold ibideÌ his speache at his death eadem 24. is described 1734.24 Grosââ¦ed Robert Byshop of Lincolne dyeth 733.83 hys worthye commendations 733.87 Gray Thomas Lord rebelling is taken 1722.10 is beheaded 1755.10 Gray of Ruthan Reinold restored Earle of Kent 1861.16 dyeth 1865. Graue sent brent by the frenche men 1021.20 a Gray Thomas Marques Dorset redeemed 1426.15 committed to the towre 1430.28 delyuered againe 1432.30 Griffââ¦n kyng of Wales ouerthroweth the English power 272.58 Gratianus sent into Britaine with an armie against Euauius and Melga 56.4 Griffin sonne of Leulin Prince of Wales breaketh his necke escaping out of the towre of London 611.44 Gray Leonard Lord Deputie of Ireland committed y e towre 1579.50 executed 1581. 30. is described ibidem Gray Iohn Lord his house assaulted and broken vp by the Londoners 761.97 William Grenefeld made Archbyshop of Yorke 840 39. a payeth money to the Pope 843.44 a. dyeth 852.51 a. Grosted Robert Byshop of Lincolne what tyme he flourished 784.54 Grudging among the people for excessiue payments 267.21 Gratianus the Emperour sendeth out a power agaynst Marimus 95.109 Gray Iohn Byshop of Norwich and President of the councel to kyng Iohn 561.69 elected Byshop of Cantorburye 561.72 Granzeben mountayne 71.44 Gray Richard keeper of Douer castle 765.7 Griffin ap Rice inuadeth the kings dominions in Wales and burneth them 353.34 Groby Castle deliuered to king Henry the second 436.35 Groby Castle made playne wyth the ground 445.19 Gregories Dialogues translated into English 218.28 Gregorie or George sent Legate from Pope Adrian into England 198.64 Gray Walter Byshop of Worcester elect Archbyshop of Yorke 594.44 Gray Iane maryed to the Lord Guilford Dudley 1714.36 hath the Crowne conueyed vnto her by the wyl of kyng Edward 1715.28 is proclaymed Queene 1716.24 is committed to ward in the Towre 1720.21 is atteinted 1723.50 is beheaded 1732.30 The speache shee vsed at her death eadem 48. Grandmesuil Hugh wasteth Leicester towne and the countrey adioyning 318.61 Grapelitum Castle won by the french king 562.50 Grimbald gouernour of y e new Monasterie at Winchester 218.39 Gregorie the Pope sendeth Augustine into Brytaine 146.11 Gregorie bewayleth the vnchristened state of Britaine 146.44 Gregory offceth to come preach in England 146.67 Gray Lorde Gray of Wilton Captain of Guisnes sleaeth inskirmishe the Captaine of Arde. 1603.30 Lieutenant of Bologne raceth the fort called Chastillions garden 1609.26 Gray Richard Captaine of Douer castle lord Warden of the Cinque portes 752. 30. discharged from his offices 757.23 Gray Walter Byshop of Worcetor remoued to the See of Yorke 583.96 Grenewich 246.43 Grauelin fortifyed by y e French king 1045.10 a. Great number of Christians martyred at Lichfielde 88.34 Grand Prior of Fraunce slaine comming to Cressy 935.10 b. Grafton a mannor place pag. 1316. col 1. lin 7. Griffin Rees knyght beheaded and his man hanged quartered 1557.42 Grindal doctor Byshop of London 1803.21 Gray Friers apprehended pa. 1134. col 1. ââ 4ââ executed pa. ibidem col ibid and. 50. col 2. lin 13. Gray Iohn Lorde rebelling is takeÌ 1727.10 is pardoned 1755.20 Griffin forsaken by hys owne people 277.70 Griffin chosen prince of Wales 715.35 Greekes called Danai of Danaus 7.49 Griffins palaice in Rutlande burned 277.55 Griffin slayne and hys head sent to Earle Harold 277.73 Great Orators pag. 1402. col 1. lin 37. Guendoloena daughter to Corineus Duke of Cornwall 17.16 Guendoloena maried to Locesnus 17.21 Guendoloena forsaken of Locrinus 17.26 Guendoloena made gouernour of the Realme during her sonnes minoritie 17.41 Gurguintus sonne to Belinus begynneth to raigne ouer Britaine 28.17 Gurguintus constrayneth the Danes to pay their tribute 28.39 Gurguintus sayleth into Denmarke with an army 28.36 Gurguintus encountreth with the Balences or Basclenses vpon the sea 28.40 Gurguintus dieth 28.76 Guenhera kinswoman to Cador Earle of Cornwal maried to king Arthur 133.55 Guilford Henry Prouost Martial of the army sent into Hispaine 1469.56 made knight by the king of Castil 1470.33 Guisnes besieged 1773.30 is yeelded 1776.40 Gutland subdued to the Britaines 133.64 Gurmo for Gurmond Gurthryd 219.68 Guido king of Ierusalem sore oppressed with moste cruel warre by the Sarasins 451 21. Guenhera wife to Arthur why so named 137 Guenbera suspected of incontinencie 137.11 Guenhera maryed to Mordred in Arthurs absence 137.19 Guenhera rauished by Melua 137.25 Guenhera buried with Arthur her husband 137.28 Gudwina wife to Earle Leofrike 277.20 Gudwina rydeth naked thorow Couenerie 277.24 Guisnes castle pag. 1297. co 2 lin 50. pag. 1298. co 1. lin 8. Guthryd ordeyned king of Northumberland 219.37 Gurmo Anglitus succeedeth his father Frotto in y e kingdome of Denmarke 215 27. Guthmund a leader of y e Danes 239.55 Guillomer king of Ireland arrineth in Scotland with a mighty power to helpe the Scots against the Britaines 133.45 Guillomer vanquished and driuen into Ireland 133.49 Guy king of Ierusalem sweareth fealtie to king Richard the first 492.42 resigneth his title to Henrye Earle of Champagne 504.65 Guilford Edward knight marshal of Calice his vallor 1521.46 Gualo or Wallo the Popes Legate accurseth Lewes the French kings sonne and al his adherents 613.27 Guinderius eldest sonne to Kym balaine begynneth to raigne ouer Britaine 47 Guinderius refuseth to be in subiection to the Romanes 47.54 Gurth banished the land 272 11. Gumobarius made mayster of the armorie vnto Constantius 103.45 Gualea or Guales Ghrankes eldest daughter 17.103 Guanius king of Hunnes slaine in battaile 108.58 Guitethus king of Venedocia 39.11 Guetheline Archbishop of London sent in ambassade into litle Britaine 102.34 Guinderius putteth the Roman army to the worse 50.59 Guinderius slaine 50.69 Guiderius looke Guinderius Guanius and Melga enter into the North partes of Britain and make sore warre vppon the Britaines 96.1 Guanius and Melga enter Britaine with an army and destroy it 99.91 Seneshal of Guyen taken prisoner by the English men 928 36. b. Gurth brother to king Harold slaine 288.3 Gudench Henry Steward to the Earle of Glocester taken prisoner 779.38 Guthryd appoynted king of Northumberland by a vision 219.47 Guthryd departeth this life 219.62 Guortimer sonne to Vortimer 116.63 Guortimer dyeth 116.82 Guisnes fortified 1581.8 Guy Earle of Warwicke what tyme he liued 227.36 Guilthdacus driuen by a tempest into Northumberland 24.11 Guenhera her graue found and boanes translated 135.39 Gundreda Countesse of Warwicke a valiant Lady 388.1 Guethrun baptized and named Adelstan 214 Gurthrun a Dane appoynted king ouer both East Angles and East Saxons 211.46 Gurth perswadeth king Harold not to fight
Euald 1864.2 Haddington fortifyed by the Lord Gray 1634.40 is besieged by the Frenchmen valiantly defended 1635. 43. is deliuered from siege by the Earle of Shrewibury 1637.40 almost taken by a Camisado 1641.42 forsaken by the Englishmen and razed 1702.50 Harper George knight rebelleth 1724.44 commeth in and submitteth himself vnto y e duke of Norfolk 1725.31 rââ¦uolteth againe 1726.28 Hastiââ¦ges Lord created Earle of Huntington 1553.12 Hare Nicholas knight committed to the Towre 1578. 20. and deliuered ibidem Harrison William cited 143.78 and .148.48 and .154 37. and .156.80 and .177.35 Hastings Henry a Baron dyeth 723.22 Hawes Stephen 1462.57 Haghenet Castle taken and burned 431.48 Halden and Hunger slayne 214.65 Willyam of Hatfield sonne to kyng Edward the thyrde borne 900.28 a. Harold of armes slaine by the Flemmings 1043.8 a. Hampton fortresse 391.32 Harding Iohn cited 7.3 and 76.3 Haiden a Danish king slayne 220.63 Harison William cyted 229.31 and .241.89 and .241 110. and .266.58 Hamons hauen called newe Southampton 51.9 Harbaldowne Hospital nygh Cantorburie builded 320.65 Harold a Dane slayne 210.37 Harnsey pag. 1363. col 2. lin 31. Hambout in Britaine besieged 917.8 a. Harfleete in Normandie 436.85 Hagustald or Lindesferne 182 15. Hales Church founded and dedicated 726.66 Habulacus one of the Byshops of the East Angles 192.1 Hamo his policie to slay Guinderius 50.61 Hardicnute refuseth to come out of Denmark to gouerne England 263.50 Hay Iohn knight taken prisoner 777.29 Hamilton castle yeelded 1850.35 Hampton why so called 51.7 Hamshyre wasted by y e Danes 240.73 and .245.4 Hamo slayne 50.76 Hasting Castle buylded 299.2 Hastings the Purciuant pag. 1373. col 2. lin 55. Hastings Richard a knight templex 403.47 Haunsard Gilberd 777.21 Hacun sonne to Swaine 273 94 Harlington pag. 1299. col 1. lin 42. Hangey Castle 386.12 Harding cited 167.4 Hatan looke Elanius Henry the second repeÌteth hym selfe of his sonne Henryes aduancement 412.66 Henry the second renounceth his estate and causeth his sonne Henry to be crowned king of England 412.81 Henry the second falleth sicke and maketh his Testament 413.1 Henry eldest sonne to king Henry the second geuen to misorder and excessiue riot 413 18. Henry the seconde submitteth hym selfe ouer lowly to the Archbishop Thomas Becker 413.51 Henry the seconde Holdeth the styrrop while Archbishop Thomas Becker mounââ¦eth on horsebacke 414.38 Henry the seconde refuseth to kisse the Pax with Archbishop Thomas Becket 414 41. Henry the second his woordes whiche caused Archbishop Thomas Becket to be slaine 415.38 Henry the second very sory for Archbishop Thomas Beckets death 417.41 Henry the second transporteth an army into Ireland to conquer it 419.40 Henry the second admonished to take regard to the administration of iustice 421.93 Henry the second admonished by a pale leane man to amend his life 421.102 Henry the second admonished to amend his life by an Irish man 422.19 Henry the second admonished of his euyl lyfe by a knight of Lindsey 422.21 Henry the first surnamed Beauclerke succeedeth his brother king William Rufus in the kingdome of England 336.36 Henry the first sendeth ambassadours into Scotland to require Maude sister to kyng Edgar in mariage 337.76 Henry the first taketh vpon hym to nominate Bishops and to inuest them 341.72 Henry the first perswaded to geue ouer his Title to the inuesture of Bishops 343 16. Henry the first sendeth a power into Normandy against his brother Duke Robert 343.75 Henry the first passeth into Normandie with a mighty army 344.12 Henry the first hasteth into Normandy with a new supply to pursue Duke Robert his brother 344.59 Henry the first saileth ouer into Normandy to set the Countrey in good order 347.109 Heron Gyles put to deth 1590 29. Henry the second purgeth hym selfe of the death of Archbishop Thomas Becket 422 64. Henry the second his promises and vowes which he sware to performe to the Popes Legates 422.67 Henry sonne to king Henry the second taketh an othe to performe the articles wherunto his father was sworne 422 115. Henry sonne to king Henry the second moueth rebellion against his father 424.58 Henry sonne to king Henry the second ââ¦eth from his father to the French king 425.113 Henry sonne to king Henry the second proclaymed Duke of Normandy 426.3 Henry the second in such distresse that he knoweth not whom to trust 462.38 Henry the second receyneth an army of Brabanders against Henry his sonne 426.91 Henry the sixt proclaymed pag. 1220. col 1. lin 18. homage done to hym by Iames king of Scottes pag. 1222. col 1. lin 35. crowned at Westminster pag. 1244. col 2. lin 26. goeth with an army into France pag. 1247. col 1. lin 7. crowned in Paris eadem lin 48. returned into England pag. 1249. col 2. lin 32. affied to the Earle of Arminaks daughter pag. 1269. col 1. lin 12. maried Margaret daughter to the king of Cicel pag. 1270. col 1. lin 50. depriued pag. 1307. col 1. lin 12. Humfrey Duke of Glocester Protector pag. 1220. col 1. lin 33. maried Lady Iaquet of Baniere Countesse of Heyuault Holand and Zeland pag. 1226. col 2. lin 18 maried Elianor Cobham which had bene his paramor pag. 1227. col 1. lin 26. he spoyleth Flanders pa. 1260. col 2. lin 36. Henry sonne to king Henry the second his dissembling with his father and brethren 457 34. Henry sonne to king Henry the second falleth sicke and dieth 457.98 Henry sonne to king Henry the second his penitent death burial 458.10 Henry the second doth homage to the French king 459.40 and 470.84 Henry Earle of Richmond is moued to take on hym the kingdome pag. 1400. col 2. lin 43. setting forward toward England the wynd resisteth hym pag. 1403. col 2. lin 58. returneth to Normandy and so againe to Britaine pag. 1304. col 2. lin 9 maketh a league with diuers Lordes pag. 1405. col 1. lin 14. is attainted by Parliament eadem col 2. lin 13. ambassadours sent to apprehend him pag. 1407. col 1. lin 38. he obtayneth ayd of Charles the French king pag. 1413. col 1. lin 18. sayleth towards England pag. 1413. col 2. lin 29. arriued at Mylford hauen eadem lin 35. his Oration pag. 1419. col 1. lin 41. Henry the second taketh vppon ãâã Closse to get to the holy lord 465 7â⦠Henry the seconde entreth into France with an army 468. 31. burnish in loue with the Lady Alice his daughter in law 469.40 Henry the second geueth his sonnes Gods curse and his 471.33 falleth sicke and dyeth 471.57 why called short Mantel 471.89 his issue and stature 471.107 his vertues and vices 472.20 Helene daughter to king Costus maried to Eaustantius 88.70 Helene of what callyng or condition by some reported to haue been 89.19 Helene refused by Constantius and another maryed 89.30 Henry second sonne to Henrye the seuenth borne 1440. b. 45. created Duke of Yorke ibidem created Prince of Wales and Earle of Chester 1458. a. 3. receyueth Philip the Duke of
Northumberland 312.48 Mutterel besieged 1594. the siege broken vp 1590.40 Murder committed at Oxford vppon a woman by a Priest 568.58 Murther in Westmin Church 1010.12 b. Murtherers to suffer death by hanging 472.59 Murtherers of king Constantius strangled 109.98 Merkam chiefe Iustice lost his office pag. 1381. col 1. lin 16. A Muster of Horsemen 1712.14 Mulinucius looke Dunwallo Mulinucius lawes 23.34 Murcherdach King of Ireland 326.70 Murreine among cattel 314.27 Earle of Murrey taken prisoner 898.20 b. Murton Byshop of Elie committed to warde pag. 1387. col 1. lin 8. N. Nathaliod a Britaine neyther of ancient house nor of skyll in the warres 127.67 Nathaliod and his army discomfited by the Saxons 127.84 Nazaleod king of Britaines maketh warre vpon the west Saxons 130.14 Nazaleod with his armye discomfited and slaine 130.39 Nazaleod nowe called Certicestshore 131.18 Nailes wherewith Christ was fastned to the crosse found what was done with them 91.115 and. 92.19 Nanneus sent to defend the inuasion of the Saxons 105 102. Nayles set in cuppes to measure draughtes 231.112 Nathaliod made general of the British army against y e Saxons 127.67 Names of the Bishops and Nobilitie present at the homage done by the Scottish kyng to kyng Iohn 550.14 Name of this land generally to be called England 204.45 Names and line of the kings of the seuen kingdomes of England 281.1 King of Naples disswadeth the French king from battaile 905.18 a. Nauntes citie vnliuered to K. Henry the second 398.43 Narcissus sent into Gallia to perswade the souldiers to go into Britaine 48.72 Narcissus in great credit with Claudius the Emperour 52 42. Nambre Earle Henry taken by the French 546.41 Nations neare to Britaine are subiect to the Romans 86 88. Names of the most valiant captaines and soldiers whose fame is moste renoumed for their noble deedes in the holy land against the Sarasins 504.3 Nauie alway in a readines to defend the coastes from Pyrates 266.51 Names of British kings which reigned from Elidurus to Lud. 32.65 and. 32.100 and. 33.40 King of Nauer commeth into England 991.41 a Names of the Peeres sworne to king Iohn 542.79 Names of the bishops present at the Coronation of kyng Iohn 545.10 Names of the nobilitie at the coronation of kyng Iohn 545.29 Names of the Bishops that accursed king Iohn and the Realme and afterward fled out of the Realme 566.24 Names of the sureties sworne to keepe the league made betweene king Iohn and Regiginald Earle of Boloigne 572.41 Names of the noblemen that continued vnto king Iohn 573.50 Names of British people which submyt them selues to Cesar 42.74 Names of foure kings in Kent at Cesars commyng 42.97 Nauie sent out by king Egelredus against the Danes 240.10 Nauie of Spaniards French discomfited by the Englishe men 1020.53 a Nantes besieged by the Englishmen 1021.54 a Names of learned men flourishing in the tyme of king Henry the thyrd 783.64 Names of the Barons that tooke part against king Henry the thyrd 726.19 Names of the Barons whiche tooke part with king Henry the thyrd against the other nobles of the Realme 726 35. Names of the Lords that banded them selues against kyng Iohn 588.45 Nauarre wonne by Ferdinand the kyng of Hispaine 1473 50. Nauie of Frenchmen 908.44 a. Robert de Namur serueth king Edward the third 940.45 b. Earle of Namur taken by the Scots 898.50 a Nauclerus cited 75.107 Names of writers that liued in king Iohns dayes 607.36 Names of the Lords that at the first went not against kyng Iohn but afterwardes ioyned with the other Barons at London 589.32 Names of the parties that sate to make the agreement betwene king Iohn and the Barons 589.75 Names of those elected to see the agreement betweene K. Iohn and his Barons performed 590.25 Names of the noble men and captaynes that came from beyond the seas to ayde king Iohn against the Barons 592.80 Names of the chiefe prisoners taken by king Iohn in the castle of Rochester 593.34 Names of the captaines of that part of the armye that Kyng Iohn left about London and of the other parte that went with hym Northward 595 7.14 Names of the Barons accursed by the Pope 596.77 Names of the chiefe captaynes vnder whom ayde came out of Fraunce to the Barons against king Iohn 597.72 Names of the noble men reuolting from king Iohn to Lewes 600.34 Names of Castles wonne by Lewes 600.78 Neotus an Abbot motioner of the founding of the vniuersitie of Oxford 217.63 Neuille George Lorde of Burgeyny coÌmitted to the towre but deliuered againe 1460 20. New supply of Saxons sent for to come into Britaine 102.70 Neuill Alexander his Heptarchie cited 205.35 Newmerch and Vernon restored to the Duke of Normandie 393.47 Newcastle otherwise called Drincouet besieged woon 429.30 Newport a litle towne 1415 co 1. lin 13. Henry Newarke made archbishop of Yorke 815.32 a. dieth 835.58 a Newe mynster in Winchester builded 217.57 Newgate set on fire 1765.40 Newe eractions 1102.52 b. New historie which is the British historie 38.72 Newbourgh 194.66 Neuile Edward knight beheaded 1572.5 Newton slayeth Hamilton in combat 1634.30 Alexander Neuil Archbshop of Yorke fleeth 1070.36 a. attaynted 1071.25 New Forrest made by king William 313.85 Newcastle towne recouered from the Scottes 397.6 Lord Neuil sent into Britaine 993.7 b. Guy de Nealle Marshal of Fraunce slayne 947.10 b. Neal Bruce taken 842.50 a. executed 843.17.6 Neuil Iohn knight executed 1581.2 Newmerch Castle besieged and deliuered to the Frenchmen 385.20 Newark pag. 1329. col 1. lin 28. Newbourgh Abbey founded 394 28. Nefle Castle yeelded to the Frenchmen 510.40 Neuil Raufe Byshop of Cicester dyeth 611.42 Newburge Robert a man of great honour 398.32 Nennius a Britayne cited 7.14 Newburie Castle wonne by king Stephan 386.42 Raufe Lord Neuil created Earle of Westmerland 1097.30 b. Neuil Hugh high Iustice of the Forrestes 549.44 Newcastle pag. 1315. col 1. lin 13. Newcastle in olde tyme called Monkaster 307.100 Neomagus a Citie in Britaine by whom builded 2.95 Newton Peter knight Counsellour to Prince Arthur 1456.54 Newarke Castle builded 371.75 Newcastle taken by the Scots 366.80 Newcastle vpon Tyne brent by casual fire 728.16 Newarke Castle restored to the Byshop of Lincolne 105. Newcastle towne and Castle founded 311.8 Neglecting of Iustice is cause of greater mischiefes 311.82 Newburne Churh 312.26 Neuil Raufe elected Archbyshop hf Canterburie and the election made voyde by the Pope 637.27 Neuer as yet any king drowned 329.76 Neuille Alane accursed by Archbishop Thomas Becket 409.63 Nennius getteth away Cesars swoord in fyght 39.16 Nenuius dyeth of the hurte which Cesar gaue him 39.20 Neptunus called Nepthuin 5.4 Neptunus parentage 5.5 Neptunus called king and God of the seas 5.19 Newburgh brent by Earle Iohn 538.4 Nectaridus Earle of the Sea coast in Britayne slayne 103.95 Neuil Charles Erle of Westmerland rebelleth 1839.38 fleeth into Scotland 1841.12 Nicholas Burdet knight pag. 1227. col 1. lin 32. lin 56. col 2. lin 10. pa. 1237 co 2. lin 30. pag.
endeth his lyfe in grieuous tormentes 249 30. Swanus besiegeth LoÌdoÌ and is repulsed 247.96 Swale riuer 162.13 Swineshed Abbey in Lincolnshire 605.41 T. TAle how king Alureds body walked a nights after his death 218.82 Tale how king Kenelmes death was signified at Rome 205.55 Tacuinus ordeyned Archbishop of Canterburie 191.103 Tacuinus Archb. of Canterburie dieth 193.27 Thomas Talbot 396.58 a Tancrede concludeth an affinitie and league with King Richarde the first 488.150 Taluan Earle of Sagium deliuereth certaine Castels to King Henrie the seconde 410.3 Tailbourgh fortresse subdued 4ââ¦3 90 Tale of a knightes dreame that wore a long heare ââ¦64 72 Tame foules flie too the woods and become wild 314.30 Tailleux william a Chronicler of Normandie cyted 293.60 Tale of a King giuen too Saint Edwarde by a Pilgrim that came from Ierusalem 279.89 Talbot william defendeth Hereforde in the ryght of Mawd the Empres. 368.74 Tale of King Arthure conueyed awaye by Fairies 136.20 Tale of a Calfe restored to lyfe by Saint Germaine 122.43 Tallages and vniust impostes layde downe 319. 41. Tankeruile william chaÌberleyne and Lieutenant to King Henrie the first 359.70 Tables Dice and Cardes forbidden 466.28 Taurus nephew too Hanniball 15.3 Tay riuer 69.88 Tarapha cited 1.97 Tancred elected King of Sicill 480.104 Talbot George Earle of Shrewesburie and hys sonne Lord Straunge at Stoke field 1430.14 Talbot Gilbert Knight sent intoo Flaunders 143â⦠4â⦠Tallages of Bridges and Streetes betwene Englande and Rome dimmished 262.5 Tale howe Dunstan sawe the diuell 228.90 Tale howe Swanus was slaine with Saint Edmonds knife 249.87 Tamer riuer 241.42 Tate or Tace looke Ethelburga Tamer Riuer a confine betweene the Englishmen and Cornishmen 226.103 Tankeruile yeelded to the Lorde Talbot pag. 1262. col 1. lin 34. Tamworth towne 1416.57 Talbot George Earle of Shrewesburie and Lord stewarde of housholde to Henrie the eigth 1464.5 Talbot George Earle of Shrewsburie captaine of the foreward in the wing to Turwin 1478.36 Talbot Humfrey knight Marshall of Calais sent into Flaunders 1435.50 Talbot George Earle of Shrewsbury his faithful diligence in the tyme of the rebellion in the north 1567.50 Talbot George Earle of Shrewsburie Lieutenaunt Generall of the north partes 1522.52 Talbot Gylbert Knight Ambassador to the Pope 1461.19 Tankeruile wonne by Edwarde Dudley 1821.30 recouered by the Reingraue 1821.18 Table of golde 850.20 a Taxe of the Spiritualtie 799 20. b. 828. a 810.20 a Tax leuied of the thirtenth part of euery maÌs goods in Englande by King Iohn 564.13 Earle of Tankeruile taken prisoner at Caen. 930 55. a. Tale how the diuel laughed at Dunstanes banishment 230.100 Tame Robert Knight 1450.14 Tadcaster a town .1820.40 Tenants not to bee troubled for their Lords debt 451.26 Tempest great 1821.47 Tempestes and much hurt thereby 1839 Tearme of Trinitie adiourned by reason of the warres 1601.40 Tempest of weather at the battaile of Cressy 933 24 b. Tenham spoiled by the erle of Albemarle 618.40 Templers sent from Pandolfe the Popes Legate in Fraunce too King Iohn 574.83 Temple of peace nowe Blackwell hall in London builded 23.16 Tacitus cited 4.77 and 51.26 and. 52.58 and. 69 14. Tempest most straunge at London 633.97 Tenth part of all spirituall liuing graunted too the Pope 628.35 Tempest sore vpon Christmasse day the lyke hath not beene hearde of 421.9 Temples builded in Brytain by Cunedagius ââ 40 Temple of Claudius and Victoria builded 54.45 Tempeste in Brytayne hurtyng the Romaines 37.29 Terre filius howe to bee vnderstoode 6 9â⦠Temples dedicated too Idolles conuerted too the seruice of almightie God 91.88 Tempest 1833.26 and 1834.13 Tempest of thunder and lightnings 726.9 Teuide riuer 55.63 Tempest 556 2â⦠Tertullian cited 53.28 Temnesford castell builded and destroyed 222.85 Tearmes ordeyned to bee kept foure tymes in a yeare 303.40 Tenth of all moueabl-e goodes to bee payed towardes the iourney into the holye lande 466.8 and. 481.8 Tempests 1076.1 b. 1084.35 a. Tempest of wind 2088.51 a Tenchard Thomas knight causeth the Archduke to stay 1459.17 Terrouan besieged and won 937.43 b Tenantius looke Theomantius Theis riuer 219. ââ¦6 Tedder Iasper Earle of Pembroke created duke of Bedford 1426.33 vncle to K. Henrie the .vij. ibid. sent with a power to represse the insurrection of the Lord Louell and others 1427 4â⦠the which hee doth with effect 1428.10 sent with a power against the counterfeit Erle of warwike 1430. discoÌfiteth the army of the counterfeyte 1431.30 TeÌplers apprehended 448 32. a. their lands giuen to the hospitalere 874.26 a Terme Michaelmasse adiourned to y e sixth of Nouember 1870.37 Tirrell walter escapeth away by flight 334.48 Terme Michaelmas none kept 1873.50 Hillarie terme kept at Hertfort castell 1834.26 Tempest horrible 1773.43 Tempest 1835.50 1835. 54. and. 1868.42 1870. 58. and. 1872.47 Terme Michaelmasse not kept 1839.12 Terme begon at Oxford adiorned to west 1504.20 Tempest of weather 794.1 b. 797.56 a. 848.28 a TeÌpest of winds 89â⦠16 b Tearme adiourned to saint Albons 1591.18 Terwin rased 1485.28 Terme adiourned 1536.17 Tenerchbray Castel besieged 345. ââ¦3 Tempest Nicholas put to death 1570.12 Tempest of winde and ram doing exceding much hurt 743.6 Tenth payed 825.23 b. 810.8 b Tenour of the profession which the Archbishop of Yorke maketh too the Archbishop of Canterburie 350.72 Tempest of horrible thunder and lightning in winter 365.18 Tesra williaÌ prohibited to gather money 844.43 a Teukesburie 1337.52 field 1338.30 Teeth fewer than afore time 945.13 b Terme kept at Yorke sixe yeares 840.12 a Tirrel Iames Knight Capitaine of Guisnes sent into Flanders 1435 47. Title pretended to y e crown of Englande by Lewes the French kings sonne 599.30 Tides two at London in one houre 1870.40 Tirell Iames knight attainted beheded 1457.40 Tindall william burned 1764.26 his byrth and workes ibid. Tinmouth 325.12 Tinmouth Castell taken by King william Rufus 326.5 Tillage coÌmanded 1500.1 Tileburg vpon Thames 174.46 Tickhill Castell fortified agaynst king Henrie the first 339.62 Title too the Crowne of Fraunce 905.50 b Titus Emperor of Rome dieth 73.44 Tithings and hundreds first deuised in England and why 217 Tileres Gilbert owner of Danuile Castel 428.88 Tineas king of Babilon 15.39 Triphon slain by Hercules in Egypt 5.106 Tââ¦o Vulfingacester 162.77 Timagines first bringeth the Greke letters froÌ the Druides to Athens 3.80 Tiler wat slain 1029.1 a TinninghaÌ burnt 227.73 Titus Liuius cited 27.70 Prior of Tiptre thronged to death 1090.30 a Tilââ¦ey Abbey founded 394.25 Tithes too bee payed too Churches in Irelande 420.108 Tirrell walter a Frenche knight sleaeth K. williaÌ with an arrow 334.39 Tine riuer 140.8 Tine riuer 76.50 Tine riuer 302.61 Tinemouth 202.45 Theobald Earle of Charters maketh warres vpoÌ Haruie de yuon 411.60 Theobald Earle of Bloys maketh attonement betwene the kings of England France 412.107 Thunder and lightning continuing xv dayes 641.113 Theadford towne 230.9 Three things to bee foreseene by them that shall giue battaile 375.70 Thames frozen so that meÌ passe ouer on foote and horsebacke 383.105 Three