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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50031	Leicestor's commonvvealth fully epitomized conceived, spoken, and published, with most earnest protestation of all dutifull good-will and affection towards this realme, for whose good onely it is made common to many : contracted in a most briefe, exact, and compendious way, with the full sense and whole meaning of the former booke, every fragment of sence being interposed : with a pleasant description of the first originall of the controversies betwixt the two houses of York, and Lancaster.; Leycesters commonwealth.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1641 (1641)	Wing L969A; ESTC R11905	10,841	16

the carnality and licentiousnesse of many outragious persons in this kinde but I never read nor heard the like of him in my life whose concupisence and violence runne ioyntly together neither holdeth hee any rule in his lust besides onely the motion and suggestion of his owne sensuality for there are not by report two Noble Gentlemen about her Maiestie I speake upon some accompt of them that know much whom he hath not sollicited by potent waies And seeking pasture among the waiting Gentlewomen of her Maiesties Chamber he hath offered three hundred pounds for a Night and if that would not make up the summe he would otherwise having reported himselfe so little shame he hath that he offered to another of higher place a hundred pound lands a yeare with many more Iewels to doe the Act. Gent. Nay he is so Libinous that he hath given to procure love in others by coniuring sorcery and other such meanes But I am ashamed to make any more mention of his filthinesse Schol. To draw you from the further stirring of this unsavory puddle and foule dunghill I will recompt a pritty story concerning his daughter borne of the Lady Sheffeild in Dudley Castle I was acquainted three moneths past with a certaine Minister that now is dead living at Dudley Castle for complement of some sacred Ceremonies at the birth of my Lord of Leicesters daughter in that place and the matter was so ordered by the wily wit of him that had sowed the seede that for the better covering of the Harvest and secret delivery of the Lady Sheffeild the good wife of the Castle also whereby Leycesters appointed Gossips might without suspition have accesse to the place should faine her selfe to bee with child and after long and sore travel God wot to be delivered of a cushion as shee was indeede and a little after a faire Coffin was buried with a bundle of clouts in shew of a child and the minister caused to use all accustomed prayers and ceremonies for the solemnizing thereof For which thing afterward the Minister before his death and great greife and remorse of conscience with no small detestation of the most irreligious devise of my Lord of Leicester in such a case Gent. This was a most Atheisticall designement and with all so unworthy that it did alone deserve a correspondent punishment no doubt but that God who hath an impartiall eye in veiwing such voluntary iniquities will on day render unto him according to his demerits to whose supreame Iustice I leave him yet Gentlemen if you please I will relate most apparently unto you his intended murther against the Earle of Ormand Leycester did offer five hundred pounds to have him privately murthered but when that devise tooke no effect hee appointed the field with him but secretly suborning his servant William Killegre to lie in the way where Ormand should passe and so massacre him with a Calliver before he came to the place appointed Which matter though it tooke no effect for that the matter was taken up before the day of meeting yet was Killegre placed afterwards in her Majesties privie Chamber by Leicester for shewing his ready mind to doe for his Master so faithfull a service Schol. So faithfull a service indeed in my opinion it was but an unfit preferment for so facinorous a fact Yet I heare withall that he is a man of great impatience fury rage and ire and whatsoever thing it be that he conceives either justly or unjustly he prosecuteth the same with such implacable cruelty that there is noe abiding his fury His Treacheries towards the Noble Earle of Sussex in their many breachies is notorious to all England As also the bloudy practises gainst divers others But among many none were more odious and misliked of all men then those against Monsieur Simiers a stranger and Ambassadour whom first he practised to have poisoned but when that devise took no place then he would have slaine him at the Black-friers at Green-wich as he went forth at the garden gate but missing of that purpose too he dealt with certaine Flushiners and other Pirates to sincke him at Sea with the English Gentle-men his favourers that accompanied him at his returne into France Lawyer Now verily Sir you paint unto me a strange patterne of a Perfect potentate in the Court for the common speech of many wanteth not reason I perceive which call him the heart and life of the Court. Gent. They which call him the heart upon a litle occasion more would call him the head and then I marveile what would be left for her Majesty when they take from her both life heart and headship in her owne Realme Lawyer Yet durst no Subject presume to contradict his Hellish opinions but rather gave their assertion unto for feare of the dammage of their lives Schol. But he hath munition to what intent I know not for in Killingworth Castle he hath ready armour to furnish ten thousand Souldiers of all things necessary both for horse and man besides the great abundance of ready coine there laid up sufficient for any great exploit to be done within the Realme Gent. He hath many lands possessions Seigniories and rich offices of his owne favour and authority with his Prince the part and portion in all suites that passe by grace or are ended by law he doth chop and change what landes he listeth with her Majesty possesseth many licences to himselfe as of Wine Oyles Currants Cloath Velvets with his new office of alienation which might inrich Townes Corporations Countries and Common-wealths He disposeth at his will Ecclesiasticall livings of the Realme in making Bishops c. of whom he pleaseth he sweepeth away the glebe from many Benefices throughout this land he scoureth the Vniversity and Colledges where he is Chancellour and selleth both head-ships and Scholler-places and all other offices and dignities that by art and violence may yeeld money He driveth the Parties out of their possessions and maketh title to what land he pleaseth He taketh in whole Forrests Commons Woodes and pastures to himselfe these and in all these he doth insult notwithstanding his former impiety He released Callis to the French most Trayteriously as his Father before him sould Bulloigne to the French by like Treacherie What should I speake of his other actions whereof there would be no end As of his dealing with Master Robinson of Stafford-shire with false arraignement with Master Richard Lee for his Manor of Hockenorton with Master Ludwicke Grivell by seeking to bereave him of all his living at once if ' the drift had taken place with George Witney in the behalf of Sir Henry Leigh for enforcing him to forgoe the Controller-ship of Woodstocke which he holded by pattent from King H. the 7. With my Lord Barkeley whom he inforced to yeeld up his lands to his brother Warwicke which his Ancesters had held quietly before 200 years What shall I speak of his intolerable Tyranny upon Sir Iohn Throgmarton

whom he brought to his grave by perpetuall vexations and upon all the line of King Henry against this mans Father in King Edward and Queene Maries dayes upon divers of the Lanes for one mans sake of that name before mentioned that offered to take Killingworth Castle Vpon some of the Giffords others for Throgmartons sake in his endlesse persecuting Sir Drew Drewry and many other Courtiers both men women But especially Leycester was supposed to use this practise for bringing the Scepter finally to his owne head and that he would not onely imploy himselfe to defeate Scotland and Arbeda to defeate Huntington but also would use the marriage of the Queene imprisoned to defeate them both if he could Which marriage he being frustrated of was not ashamed to threaten a treacherous vindication against her Majesties Royall Person But I hope her Majesty will set out a faire Proclamation with a bundle of Halters for all such Traitours Lawy. I applaud your well wishings to the State yet I doe observe much by reading over our Countrys affaires and among other things I doe abhorre the memory of that time and doe dread all occasion that may leade us to the like in time to come seeing that in my judgement neither the civill warres of Marius and Silla or of Pompey and Caesar among the Romans nor yet the Guelphians Gibilines among the Italians did ever worke so much woe as this did to our poore Country wherein by the contention of Yorke and Lancaster were fought fifteene or sixteene pitched fields in lesse then an hundred yeares That is from the 11. or 12. yeare of King Richard the second his raigne unto the 13. yeare of King Henry the seventh At what time by cutting of the chiefe titler of Huntingtons house to wit young Edward Plantaginet Earle of Warwick sonne and heire to George Duke of Clarence the contention was most happily quenched and ended wherein so many fields were fought betweene Brethren and Inhabitants of our owne Nation And therein about the same quarrell were slaine murthered and made away about nine or tenne Kings and Kings Sonnes besides above forty Earles Marquesses and Dukes of name But many more Lords Knights great Gentlemen and Captaines and of the common people without number and by particular conjecture very neere too hundred thousand For that in one Battell fought by King Edward the fourth there are recorded to be slaine on both parts five and thirty thousand 700. and a 11. persons besides other wounded persons to be put to death afterward at the pleasure of the Conquerer at divers battles after 10000. slaine at a battle As in those of Barnet and Turkesbury fought in one yeare Schol I pray Sir open unto me the ground of these controversies betweene Yorke and Lancaster I have heard a large relation thereof but no originall Lawy. The controversie betweene the Houses of Yorke and Lancaster tooke his actuall beginning in the issue of King Edward 3. and Edmond Earle of Lancaster whose inheritance fell upon a Daughter named Blanch who was married to the 4. sonne of King Edward the third named Iohn of Gaunt borne in the city of Gaunt in Flanders and so by his wife became Duke of Lancaster and heire of that house And for that his sonne Henry of Bolingbrooke pretended among other thinges that Edmond Crookebacke was the elder Sonne of King Henry the third and injustly put by the inheritance of the Crowne for that he was crook-backt and deformed Hee tooke by force the Kingdome from Richard the second Nephew to King Edward the third by his first sonne and placed the same in the house of Lancaster where it remained for three whole descents untill afterwards Edward Duke of York descended of Iohn of Gaunts yonger Brother making claime to the Crown by title of his Gradmother that was heire to Lionell Duke of Clarence Iohn of Gaunts Elder Brother tooke the same from Henry the sixt by force out of the House of Lancaster and brought it backe againe to the House of Yorke This therefore was the originall of all those discords betweene them Gent. But let us not digresse from our former discourse concerning Leycesters treacherous actions I have a friend yet living that was toward the old Earle of Arundell in good credit and by that meanes had occasion to deale with the late Duke of Norfolke in his chiefest affaires before his troubles who did often report strange things from the Dukes owne mouth of my Lord of Leycesters most treacherous dealing towards him for gaining of his blood as after appeared true This Leycester have also deceived her Majestie diverse times in forging of Letters as if they came from some Prince when they were his owne forgerie Hee had likewise a hellish devise to entrap his well deserving Friend Sir Chrystopher Hatton in matter of Hall his Priest whom hee would have had Sir Chrystopher to hide and send away being touched and detected in the ease of Ardent thereby to have drawne in Sir Chrystopher himselfe made him accessary to this Plot. What meaneth all these pernitious late dealings against the Earle of Shrewsbury a man of the most ancient and worthiest Nobility of our Realme It is onely Leycesters ambitious minde that causeth all this But it is very strange to see what a contemner of the Prerogatives of England he is and how little account he maketh of all the antient Nobility of our Realme how he contemneth derideth and debaseth them Which is the fashion of all such as meane to usurpe to the end that they may have none who shall not acknowledge their first beginning and advancement from themselves His base and abiect behaviour in his last disgrace about his marrage well declared what he would doe in a matter of more importance by deceiving of Sir Chrystopher Hatton and by abusing my Lord Treasurer in a letter for which Her Highnesse did much rebuke him It was affirmed by many that all the broyles troubles dangers and disturbance in Scotland did proceed from his complot and conspiracy His unworthy scandall which he cast on the Earle of Shrewsbury was perfidious Wherefore in regard of these innumerable Treacheries for prevention of succeding calamities to tell you plainely my opinion and therewith to draw to an end of this our conference I should thinke it the most necessary point of all for her Majesty to call his Lordship to an account among other and to see what other men could say against him at length after so many yeares of his sole accusing and pursuing of others I know and am very well assured that noe Act which her Majesty hath done since the comming to the Crown nor any that lightly her Majesty may doe hereafter can be of more utility to her self and to the Realme or more gratefull unto her faithfull and zealous Subjects then this Noble Act of Iustice will be for triall of this mans deserts towards his Countrey And so like wise now to speake in our particular case if there be any grudge or griefe at this day any mislike repining complaint or murmure against her Majesties government in the hearts of her true and faithfull Subjects who with amendment of that which is amisse and not the overthrow of that which is well I dare avouch upon conscience that either all or the greatest part thereof proceedeth from this man And if her highnesse doe permit and command the laws dayly to passe upon theives and Murderers without exceptition and that for one fact onely as by experience we see how then can it be denyed in this man who in both kindes have committed more enormous Acts then may be well recounted As in the first of Theft not onely by spoiling and oppressing almost infinite private men but also whole Townes Villages Corporations and Countries by robbing the Realme with inordinate licences by deceiving the Crowne with racking changing and imbezeling the Lands by abusing his Prince and Soveraigne in selling his favour both at home abroad with taking bribes for matter of Iustice grace request supplication or whatsoever suite else may depend upon the Court or of the Princes authority In which sort of traffique he committeth more theft oftentimes in one day then all the way-keepers Cut-purses Cosenners Pirates Burglares or other of that art in a whole yeare within this Realme As for the second which is Murder you have heard before somewhat said and proved but yet nothing to that which is thought to have beene in secret committed upon divers occasiones at divers times in sundry persons of different calling in both sexes by most variable meanes of killing poysoning charming inchanting conjuring and the like according to the diversity of men places opportunities and instruments for the same By all which meanes I thinke he hath more blood lying upon his head at this Day crying vengeance against him at Gods hands and her Majestie then ever had private man in our Countrey before were he never so wicked Whereto if we adde all his intollerable licentiousnesse in all filthy kinde and manner of carnality with all his sorts of wives friends and kinswomen If wee adde his iniuries and dishonours done hereby 〈…〉 if we 〈…〉 the Crowne his 〈…〉 his rap●s and most 〈…〉 poore his 〈◊〉 of the Parliament 〈…〉 with the Nobility and whole 〈…〉 his open injuries which he 〈…〉 ●●●●sters thereof by turning all to his owne ganes if I say 〈◊〉 lay together all those inormities before 〈…〉 and thousand 〈◊〉 more in particular which might and would be gathered if his day of tryall were but in hope to be granted I doe not see in 〈◊〉 and reason ●ow her highnesse sitting in 〈◊〉 and at the 〈◊〉 Steine as shee doth could deny her Subiects this most lawfull request considering that every one of these 〈…〉 requireth Iustice of his owne Nature and much more altogether ought to obtaine the 〈◊〉 at the hand of any good and godly Majesti●●● in the world Before this discourse was fully ended the night came on apace and it being Supper 〈◊〉 the Mistris came to call them downe to Supper wherefore there further speech was intercepted FINIS