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A45326	The life & death of that renowned John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester comprising the highest and hidden transactions of church and state, in the reign of King Henry the 8th, with divers morall, historicall and political animadversions upon Cardinall Wolsey, Sir Thomas Moor, Martin Luther : with a full relation of Qu. Katharines divorce / carefully selected from severall ancient records by Tho. Baily ...	Hall, Richard, 1535 or 6-1604.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547. Testamentum.; Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1655 (1655)	Wing H424; ESTC R230	97,933	254

businesse which w●● no lesse than what the said Percy had said before he en●ouraged her in the prosecution who for some reasons best known unto her self a● she said to the Cardinall better liked of the Marriage of her daughter with the said Lord Percy than if the King should marry her The Cardinall finding a backwardnesse in this Lady that her daughter should be wedded to the King and hearing what fame had formerly spread abro●d con●erning the Kings former familiarity with her gu●shed at the cause and therefore advised her to go unto the King and deale freely with him in that particular lest hereafter she might otherwise repent The Lady takes his advise and addresses her self to the King who communing with him awhile upon that subject between jest and earnest she uttered these words Sir For the reverence of god take ●eed what you do in marrying my daughter for if you record your conscience well she is your own daughter as well as mine The King replied Whose daughter so●ver she is she shall be my Wife But When she proceeded to acquaint him with the Contract and told him how that her daughter and the Lord Percy were already man and wife before God ●olemnly contracted in the presence of s●ch and such the King was exceeding angry and swore by his wonted oath that it was not so and it should not be so and sent immediately for the Lady her self to come before him to whom as soon as ever she came into the presence and before ever she had heard of the business the King with a frowning conntenance said unto her Is it so Nan is it so hoh what say'st thoss to it To what said Anne Bullein Mother of God said the King they say that thou hast promised to marry young Per●y Mrs. Anne nothing at all abashed returns him this answer Sir When I knew no otherwise but that it was Lawfull for me to make such promises I must confesse I made him some such promise but no good subject makes any promises but with this proviso that if his Soveraigne commands otherwise it shall be lawfull for him to obey Well said my own Girle said the King and turniug himself to the Countess he said I told you that there was no such thing Thus you see concerning the first particular the King cared not who he married so that he might be wedded to his own will and concerning the second the King presently after sent for the Cardinall and him for to undo the former kno● with his own teeth enjoyning him to procure his servant to release his Mistress of her engagement which he did CHAP VIII 1. The first occasion of the Cardinalls ruine 2. The King sends divers Orators to the Vniversiti●s beyond the Seas to procure their ass●ntments to the Divorce 3. The return with satisfaction but it proves fruitlesse 4. Embassadours are sent to Rome 5. The Cardinall aspireth to be Pope 6. Ho useth strange meanes to accomplish the same Now it is the Queen● bed must be taken down that her palat may be advanced but from this time forward though the Card. was seemingly forward yet was covertly slow in the prosecution of the Divorce which afterwards proved to be his ruine Wherefore the King was advised by the Cardinalls and the rest of the b●shops as the only way of dispatch to send certaine Orators to forreine Universities as well as to those at home and so without any more ado to rest in their judgements The King having made choice of men fi● for his purpose gave them instructions and sent them several ways to the most renowned Universities of Christendome there to dispute the case viz. whether it was lawfull for a man to marry his brothers wife or not without acquainting them with the particulars either of the former brothers having no carnall knowledge of the said wife or the Popes dispensation thereupon so that by this slight and subtil●y they easily obtained determinations from all the Universities viz. that it was not lawfull whereupon not knowing whose case it was nor the case it selfe rightly the O●atours procured those determinations under the common S●ales of all the forraigne U●iversities whereupon they returned with great triumph to the great contentment of the King who rewarded them highly for their paines and it must not be thought that our Universities at home though they onely understood the case sh●uld be wiser than all the Universities of Christendome All these S●ales were all delivered into the C●rdinalls hand with a strict charge speedily to convene all the Bishops before him and to determine upon the businesse but this quick fire could not make this sweet malt for it was determined by whose means you may easily guesse that although the Universities had thus determined under th●ir Seales yet the businesse was too weighty for them to determine thereupon as of themselv●s without the authority of the Sea Apostolike but they all fell upon this agreement among themselves that Orators should be sent with these Seales of the Universities to Rome to treat with the Pope for procuring his confirmation therein thus the King was shov'd off with another wave from the Shore of his desired purpose With much reluct●ncy and sensibility of the tediousnesse of the delay no other remedy appearing A mbassadours were dispatched in all hast to Rome Cl●ment the seventh being Pope at that time The Ambassadours names were St●phen Gardiner the Kings Secretary Sir Francis Brian Knight one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Pr●vy Chamber Sir Gregory de Cassalel an Italian and Mr. P●ter 〈◊〉 a Venetian who being arrived at Rome having propounded the cause of their coming and rested themselves there awhile letters were come unto them from the King and the● Cardinall with further instructions how to deale with the Pope and to make all possible dispatch that could be made in the businesse But the Ambassadours were not half so hasty in demanding as the Pope was slow in expedition and that by reason of the Gout which then afflicted him and perhaps of an unwillingnesse of the minde as well as a debility of the body the Emb●ssadours by the return of their Letters having made knowne unto the King the Popes slownesse by reason of his great infirmity the Cardinall layes hold upon this occasion and in●ormes the King how that if he were Pope if it should so happen that the Pope should die all should goe well and speedily on his side To this purpose Letters were sent thick and three-fold to Rome both from the King and Cardinall with instructions that they would the more earnestly and often call upon the Pope for a finall determination hoping that he would the more easily be drawn thereto that he might by reason of his paine be rid of their importunity as also that if the Pope should chance to die of this present disease that by all meanes they should devise some way or other how the Cardinall of York should be elected to succeed in his

subscribe your name and put your seale thereto and you would allow the same as if it had been your act and deed then my Lord of Rochester seeing himself so unjustly charged said unto the Archbishop No no my Lord by your ●avour and licence that had been all one and that which you charge me with is not true And as he was proceeding in his speech the King interrupted him saying Well well my Lord of Rochester it makes no great matter we will not stand with you in argument you are but one man amongst the rest if the worst fall out but the rest of the Bishops that had bin dealt with in like manner said not a word so that the fi●st encounter on the Queen● side was not so well performed through want of seconds And this was all that was done for that day CHAP. XI 1. The pleadings of the Counsell on both sides 2. The d●position of the severall Witnesse 3. The honest Plea of Bishop Fisher. 4. The stout Plea of Doctor Ridley 5. Cardinall Wol●ey takes him up 6. The Doctors Reply thereto UPon the second meeting there was much matter propounded by the Counsell of the Kings part concerning the invalidity of the foresaid marriage from the beginning by reason of the carnall copulation there vehemently u●ged to have bin committed between Prince Arthur the Kings brother and the present Queene but being again as vehemently denied by the Queenes Counsell the whole matter rested onely upon proof to this purpose divers witnesses were produced As 1. Agnes the old Datchesse of Norfolk 〈◊〉 d●posed that she was present at the marriage of P●ince Arthur at S● Paul's in London and that sh● saw them both in bed together the next night after they were married the Prince being of the age of fifteen yeares and the Princesse elder 2. George Earle of Shrewsbury who deposed as to the celebration of the Marriage Decimo septimo Henrici 7. 1501. that he was born at Winchester secundo Hen. 7. that he believed Prince Arthur knew the Queen carnally and was able so to doe because he knew his wife before she was sixteen 3. William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury that never liked the marriage and that he told Hen. 7. as much 4. Sir William Thomas Knight who deposed as to the age of the parties and their cohabitation as man and wife five moneths together both at London and in L●dlow 5. Sir Anthony Poynes as to the age onely 6. Thomas Marquesse of Dorset as to age and that he was●of a good sanguine complexion and able as he supposed for the busin●sse 7. Robert Viscount Fir●water as to the age and that the next day after they had been ● bed together he waited on Prince Arthur whiles he was at breakfast where Maurice St. Iohn carved and the Lord Firzwater was Cupbearer where he heard Prince Arthur upon the said Maurice hi● asking the Prince how he had done the last night Answer I have been in Spain the last night 8. Thomas Lord Darcy William Lord Montjoy and Henry Guildford Knights of the Garter little to any purpose but what they had heard by publique fame 9. Charles Duke of Suffolk deposed to the ●ame effect with Mau●i●e S. Iohn and that the Prince soon after beg●n to decay in bodily health which said he as the said S. Iohn related grew by the Prince his lying with the Lady Katharine 10. David Owen as to the age onely 11. Thomas Duke of Norfolk Lord Treasurer of England to the same effect with Maurice S. Iohn by which words he believed that the Prince carnally knew the Lady and because he was of a good complexion and age as he supposed sufficient having performed the like himselfe at the same age 12. Anth Willoughby Kt. that the morrow after the Marriag● in the presence of divers witnesses being in the Privy chamber the Prince called to the s●id Willougby saying Willoughby give me a cup of Ale for I have been in the midst of Spain the last night 13. Nicholas B●shop of Ely that he could say nothing concerning the carnalis copula but that he very much doubted it in regard the Queen often sub testimonio conscientiae suae said to this D●ponent that she was never carnally k●own by Prince 〈◊〉 These things being 〈◊〉 the Bishop of Rochester stood up and spoke in this manner And all this is no more than what hath formerly been deposed examined throughly debated and scanned by the best and l●arnedst Divines and Lawyers that could possibly be got which time I do very well remember and am not ignoranc of the manner of their proceedings when and where all the allegations in respect of what was then produced to the contrary was a ju●lged vain and frivolous whereupon the Marriage was concluded which Marriage was afterwards approved and ratified by the See Apostoa bque and that in such large an lample ma●ner as that I think it a very hard matter now againe to call the same in question before another Iudge Then stood up another of the Q●●enes Counsell Doctor 〈…〉 we have heard how the Queene her selfe here in the face of the whole Court 〈…〉 presence and hearing of the King himself called the great God of heaven and earth to witness that she was a pure Virgin when she first came into the Kings bed and how she put it to his conscience speaking unto him face to face and if it were otherwise we cannot imagine that either the Queen durst so appeale ●●to him or the King so spoke unto if unworthily would not have contradicted her besides we have here the testimony of a most reverend Father who hath deposed upon his oath how the Queen had often 〈◊〉 testimonio 〈…〉 said unto him ●ow that she never had any carnall knowledge of Prince Ar●hur Now my Lords that such a ●rolick or a j●st as that about a cup of Ale or the midst o● Spaine which together with all the rest that hath beene said are but meere conjectures and presumptions should stand in competition with so great a testimony as a soveraigne 〈…〉 attestation of her cause upon the 〈◊〉 conscience and that conscience 〈…〉 such presumption by its own silence 〈…〉 to lay aside all reverence which 〈…〉 power and authority as that all the 〈◊〉 consultations 〈…〉 of all former powers even of the See Apostolique it selfe should become 〈◊〉 by your calling this matter againe into 〈◊〉 is a thing in my conceit ●ost detestable to be rehearsed and a great sha●e to this honourable Court to heare ●uch stuffe ripped up to no other purpose but in contempt of former Power and c●lling the wisdome of our Ancestors and 〈◊〉 together with our owne into question and derision Whereat Cardinall Wol●ey that he might not seeme to say nothing by saying something said unto him 〈…〉 D●mine Doctor magis reverenter No no my Lord said the Doctor there belongeth no reverence to be given at all for an 〈◊〉 matter would be unreverently answer'd Whereupon

the year of our Lord God 1534. Two men must be thanked for this Wolsey and Fisher and these two men must be met withall whereby they may receive their payment for the first we leave him to his owne story or some others on his behalf The second is the subject of my pen and how they found out him the following Chapter must relate CHAP. XVIII 1. The various rumour of the people concerning the Divorce 2. The History of the Holy maid of Kent 3. Div●rs persons of quality executed as traitors concerning her and the Bishop of Rochester c. convicted of misprision of Treason for the same cause 4. A new Parliament called 5. The Marriage between the King and Queen Katharine pronounced null by Archbishop Cranmer 6. A new Oath made and tendred to both houses of Parliament c. all take it excepting the Bishop of Rochester AT the time when the Kingdome began to be divided when the King was about to make the Divorce between him and his wife as the first act of his Supremacy and to talk too busi●● some in favour of the King but most of the Queen it happened that one Elizabeth Barton a young maiden borne in Kent at a plac● called Court at Street declared unto sundry persons that she had lately received certain Visi●ns and Revelations concerning the Kings proceedings in this matter of D●vorce and as sh● thought they came from God and often falling into a trance she would declare how that the K●ngs 〈◊〉 away his wife would be a m●anes to bring in 〈…〉 Land and that 〈…〉 〈…〉 his wife should never have co●fo●t in any other that whatsoever he did yet the daughter of this Q●een should reign and bec●use he deprived 〈◊〉 mother the 〈◊〉 Cathol que Church of so many chi●dren all his child●●n should die 〈◊〉 and himselfe comfortlesse leaving an ●●nominious name and fame 〈◊〉 him to the w●rlds end To this and the like 〈◊〉 she would ●tter words which were too wonderfull to proceed ordinarily from so simple a reputed woman First she communicated these V●sions c. to one M Richard Mayster Parson of Aldington in Kent whose Penitent she was This Al●ington advised her to go to Mr. Edward Bocking Dr. of D●vinity and a Monk of Christ-church in Canterbury a man that was ●amous both for Learning and Devotion who sent for one Mr. Iohn Deering another Monk of the same house all these advised her to go● to the Archbishop of Canterbu●y Doctor Warham and to take his adv●se therein and to follow his direction who as it was conceived being conscious of the great ill-w●ll of the people which he had drawn upon h●mself by being so great a furtherer of the D●vorce and of the inevitable changes and alterations in R●ligion which he then saw evidently to ensue ●●rough his so much compliance with the King shortly after discoursed with this Maid died of grief After whose departure from this life the King by vertue of his Supremacy appointed ●ranmer to be Archb●shop of Canterbury This womans fame did so spread it self abroad over the whole Kingdome as that she was resorted unto by multitudes of p●ople and called by them the holy Maid of K●nt whose vertues were exceedingly ex●olled by the preachings of Mr. Henry Gold Bachelour in Divinity and a learned man Father Hugh Rich Warden of the ●riars Observants in Canterbu●y and Richard Risby of the same house and having gone her Perambulation to the Charter-house of London and Sheane thence to the Nunnery of Sion and thence to the Friars of Richmond Canterbury and Greenwich at last she came to the King himself and before him declared her minde fully and plainly with whom as she had quiet audience so she had peaceable departure at last she came unto the Bishop of Rochester Dr Iohn Adeson his Chaplain and Dr. Thomas Bell sometimes the Queenes Chaplaine who as a rarity admitted her to come before them to heare what she would say as all men else had done and now and not till now was this businesse looked upon as a matter of dangerous consequence the Kings Counsel were call'd together to consult about it who were divided amongst themselves concerning her some were for letting her alone as knowing not what to make of her others were for rigour and cruelty to be shewed against her in the end forbearance was laid aside and severity was to take its place which sentenced it to be a traiterous conspiracy between the Maid and some that were chief of the Clergie to bring the King and his Government into contempt and hatred with his people whereby to encourage them to tumults and insurrections wherefore the King sent for his Judges and certain others which were servient to the Law and propounded the case unto them acquainting them with that which every one had done desiring to know their opinions therein who sitting in long consultation at last they made result that Elizabeth Barton Edward Bockings Iohn Deering Monks Richard Maysters Henry Gold Priests Hugh Rich and Richard Risby Friars Minors where all by the Law in case of high Treason that my Lord of Rochester Dr. Adeston Dr. Abel c. b●cause they were not the fi●st contrivers of the Matter but concealers of the Thing were on●ly in the case of misprision of Treason viz. losse of Goods and imprisonment of their Bodies during the Kings pleasure and thus the King got the opinion of the Judges but not so home it was conceived as he expected This being done all the forementioned persons opin'd to be within the case of high Treason were attached and carried to Lambeth before the new Arch-bishop Cranmer where after they had been examined by him others of the Commissioners and charged with Treason Fiction and Hypocrisie Fa●sehood Dissimulation and Conspiracy Tumults Rebellion and Insurrection they were all sent to the Tower Thus the King got the parties into prison Which being done The King called a Parliament in the 25 year of his reigne to be held at Westminster upon the 15. day of Ianuary where they were all attainted of high Treason the Maid judged to b● hanged and head●d at Tyburne the rest to be hanged and qu●rtered alive the Bishop of Rochester Dr. Ad●son Dr. Abel Thomas Register to the Archdeacon of Cant. and E●ward Thwaites Gent. convicted of misprision of Treason of which conviction being it was no more the Bishop of Rochester for that time got himself cleared paying unto the King three hundred pounds A little before this Parliament sate the Archbishop of Canterbury Cranmer had decreed which decree was made at Dunstable that the foresaid marriage solemnized between the King and the Lady Katharine was clearly and absolutely against the Lawes of Almighty God and that it ought to be accepted reputed and taken as of no value or effect but utterly void to all intents and purposes and that the Marriage which was to be had and solemniz●d between the King and the Lady Anne Bullein ought to be