to him The Lords who were not his friends perceiving that my Lord was disposed to plant himselfe so nigh the King thought then to withdraw his appetite from Winchester moved the King to give my Lord a pension of fowre thousand markes out of Winchester and all the rest to be distributed amongst the Nobilitie and his servants And so likewise to divide the Revenues of Saint Albons whereof some had 200. pound and al his Revenues of his Lands belonging to his Colledge at Oxford and Ipswich the King tooke into his owne hands whereof Master Cromwell had the receit and government before by my Lords assignment wherfore it was thought very necessary that he should have the same still who executed all things so well and exactly that he was had in great estimation for his behaviour therein Now it came to passe that those to whom the King had given any annuities or fees for term of life or by patent could not be good but onely for and during my Lords life for as much as the King had no longer estate therein but what hee had by my Lords attainder in the Premunire And to make their estate good and sufficient there was no other way but to obtaine my Lords confirmation of their patents And to bring this about there was no other meanes but by Master Cromwell who was thought the fittest Instrument for this purpose and for his paines therein he was worthily rewarded and his demeanor his honesty and wisedome was such that the King tooke great notice of him as you shall hereafter heare Still the Lords thought long till my Lord was removed further off the Kings way wherefore among others of the Lords my Lord of Norfolke said Master Cromwell me thinkes the Cardinall thy Master makes no hast to goe Northwards tell him if hee goe not away I will tear him with my teeth Therefore I would advise him to prepare away with speed or else I will set him forwards These words reported Mr. Cromwel to my Lord at his next repaire which was then at Richmond having obteyned licence of the King to remove from Ashur to Richmond and in the evening my Lord being accustomed to walke in the Garden and I being with him standing in an Alley I espied certaine Images of Beasts counterfeited in Timber which I went nearer to take the better view of them among whom I there saw stand a dunne Cow whereat I most mused of all those beasts My Lord then suddenly came upon mee unawares and speaking to me said what have you spied there whereat you looke so earnestly Forsooth quoth I if it please your Grace I here behold these Images which I suppose were ordained to be set up in the kings Palace but amongst them all I have most considered this Cowe which seemes to mee the Artificers Master-piece Yea marry quoth my Lord upon this Cowe hangs a certaine Prophesie which perhaps you never heard of I will shew you there is a saying When the Cowe doth ride the Bull Then Priest beware thy Scull Which saying neither my Lord that declared it nor I that heard it understood the effect although the compasse thereof was working and then like to bee brought to passe this Cowe the King gave by reason of the Earledome of Richmond which was Inheritance This Prophesie was afterwards expounded in this manner The dunne Cow because it is the Kings beast betokens the King and the Bull betokens Mistris Anne Bulloigne who after was Queene her Father gave the blacke Bulls head in his Cognizance and was his Beast so that when the King had marryed Queene Anne it was thought of all men to bee fulfilled for what a number of Priests Religious and secular lost their heads for offending of those Lawes made to bring this matter to passe is not unknowne to all the world therefore it may well be judged that this prophesie is fulfilled You have heard what words the Duke of Norfolke spake to Master Cromwell touching my Lords going into the North then said my Lord Tom It is time to bee going therefore I pray you goe to the King and tell him I would goe to my Benefice at Yorke but for lacke of moneyes desiring his Grace to helpe him to some and you may say that the last mony I had from his Grace was too little to pay my debts and to compell me to pay the rest of my debts were too much extremitie seeing all my goods are taken from mee Also shew my Lord of Norfolk and the rest of the Counsell that I would depart if I had money Sir quoth Master Cromwell I shall doe my best so after other communication departed and came to London then in the beginning of Lent my Lord removed his lodging into the Charterhous at Richmond where he lay in a lodging that Dr. Collet made for himselfe and every after-noon for the time of his residence there would he sit in contemplation with some one of the most auncient Fathers there who converted him to dispose the vain glory of this world and there they gave unto him shirts of haire to wear next his bodie which hee were divers times after The Lords assigned that my Lord should have 1000. Markes pension out of Winchester for his going downe into the North which when the King heard of hee commanded that it should be forthwith paid unto Mr. Cromwell And the King commanded Master Cromwell to repaire to him againe when he had received the said Sum which he accordingly did To whom his Majestie said shew your Lord that I have sent him tenne thousand pounds of my benevolence and tell him hee shall not lacke bid him bee of good comfort Master Cromwell on my Lords behalfe thanked the King for his royall liberalitie towards my Lord and with that departed to Richmond to whom he delivered the mony and the joyfull tidings wherein my Lord did not a little rejoyce forthwith there was a preparation made for his going hee had with him in his traine one hundred and sixtie persons having with him twelve Cartes to carrie his goods which hee sent from his Colledge at Oxford besides other Cartes of his daily carriage of his necessaries for his buildings hee kept his solempne feast of Easter at Peterborow and upon Palme-Sunday he bare his palm and went on procession with the Monkes and upon Thursday hee made his Mandy having 59 poor people whose feete hee washed and kissed and after he had dried them hee gave every one of them twelve pence and three ells of good Canvas to make them shirts and each of them a paire of new shooes and a caske of Red-herring on Easter-day hee rose to the Resurrection and that day he went in procession in his Cardinals vestments and having his hat on his head and sung the high masse there himselfe solempnlie after his masse he gave his Benediction to all the hearers with cleane remission From Peterborow hee tooke his journey
not this your hand and Seale and shewed it to him in the Instrument with Seales no forsooth quoth the Bishop how say you to that quoth the King to the Bishop of Canterburie Sir It is his hand and Seale quoth the Bishop of Canterbury No my Lord quoth the Bishop of Rochester indeed you were in hand with mee to have both my hand and Seale as other of the Lords had done but I answered that I would never consent to any such act for it was much against my Conscience And therefore my hand and Seale shall never bee set to such an instrument God willing with many other words to that purpose You say truth quoth the Bishop of Cantorbury such words you used but you were fully resolved at the last that I should subscribe your name and put to your seale and you would allow of the same all which quoth the Bishop of Rochester under correction my Lord is untrue Well quoth the King wee will not stand in argument with you you are but one And so the King arose up and the Court was adjourned until the next day at which time the Cardinalls sate again and the Counsell on both sides were there present to answere The Kings Counsell alleadge the matrimonie not good nor lawful at the beginning Because of the Carnall copulation that Prince Arthur had with the Queene This matter was very narrowly scanned on that side and to prove the Carnall Copulation they had many Reasons and fimilitudes of truth and beeing answered negatively againe on the other side it seemed that al their former allegations were doubtfull to bee tryed and that no man knew Yes quoth the Bishop of Rochester I know the truth how can you know the truth quoth the Cardinall more than any other person Yes forsooth my Lord quoth hee I know that God is the Truth it selfe and never saith but truth and he saith thus Quos Deus conjunxit homo non separet And for as much as this marriage was joyned and made by God to a good intent therefore I sayd I knew the truth and that man cannot breake upon any wilfull action that which God hath made and constituted So much doe all faithfullmen know quoth my Lord Cardinall aswell as you therefore this reason is not sufficient in this case for the Kings Counsell doe alleadge many presumptions to prove that it was not lawfull at the beginning Ergo it was not ordained by God for God doth nothing without a good end Therefore it is not to be doubted but if the presumptions be true which they alleadge to be most true then the Conjunction neither was nor could bee of God Therefore I say unto you my Lord of Rochester you know not the truth unlesse you can avoide their presumptions upon just reasons Then quoth Doctor Ridley it is a great shame and dishonour to this honourable presence that any such presumtions should be alleadged in this open Court what quoth my Lord Cardinall Domine Doctor Reverende No my Lord there belongs no reverence to this matter for an unreverent matter may bee unreverently answered And so left off and then they proceeded to other matters Thus passed this Court from Session to Session and day to day till a certaine day the King sent for the Cardinal to Bridewell who went into the privie Chamber to him where hee was about an hower and then departed from the King and went to Westminster in his Barge the Bishop of Carlile being with him sayed it is a hot day today yea quoth the Cardinall if you had been as well chafed as I have beene within this hower you would say you were very hot my Lord no sooner came home but he went to bed where he had not lyen above two howers but my Lord of Wiltshire Mistris Anne Bullens Father came to speake with him from the King my Lord commanded he should be broght to his beds side who told him it was the Kings minde he should foorthwith goe with the Cardinall to the Queene being then at Bridewell in her chamber and to perswade her through their wisedomes to put the whole matter into the Kings own hands by her consent which should be much better for her honour then stand to the tryall at Law and thereby bee condemned which would tend much to her dishonour and discredit To performe the Kings pleasure my Lord said hee was ready and so prepared to goe but quoth he further to my Lord of Wiltshire you and others of the Lords of the Counsell have put fancies into the head of the King whereby you trouble all the Realme but at the length you will get but small thanks both of God and the world with many other earnest words and reasons which did cause my Lord of Wiltshire to bee silent kneeling by my Lords beds-side and in conclusion departed And then my Lord rose and tooke his barge and went to Bathhouse to Card. Campaines and so went together to Bridewell to the Queenes lodgings she being then in her Chamber of Presence they told the Gentleman-Usher that they came to speake with the Queens grace who told the Queen the Cardinalls were come to speak with her then shee rose up having a scane of red silke about her neck beeing at worke with her maides and came to the Cardinalls where they staied attending her comming at whose approach quoth she Alack my Lords I am sorrie that you have atended on me so long what is your pleasures with me If it please your grace quoth the Cardinall to go to your privie Chamber we will shew you the cause of our comming My Lord said shee if you have any thing to say to mee speak it openly before all these folke for I feare nothing that you can say to me or against mee but that I am willing all the world should both see heare it and therefore speake your mindes openly Then began my Lord to speake to her in Latin nay good my Lord speak to me in English quoth she although I doe understand some Latin Forsooth quoth my Lord good Madam if it please your Grace wee come both to know your mind what you are disposed to do in this matter and to declare to you secretly our Counsels and opinions which wee doe for very zeale and obedience to your Grace My Lords quoth shee I thanke you for your good wills but to make answer to your requests I cannot so suddenly for I was set amongst my maids at worke little thinking of any such matter wherein is requisite some deliberation and a better head then mine to make answere for I need Counsell in this case which concernes me so neare and friends here I have none they are in Spaine in my owne Countrey Also my Lords I am a poore woman of too weake Capacitie to answere such noble persons of wisedome as you are in so weighty a matter And therefore I pray you be good to
rights if every Bishop should doe so then might every Prelate give away the Patrimony of the Church and so in proces of timeleave nothing for their Successors to maintain their dignities which would be but little to the Kings honour Well quoth my Lord let me see your Commission which was shewed to him then quoth my Lord tell his Highnesse that I am his most faithfull Subject and obedient beadesman whose command I will in no wife disobey but will in all things fulfill his pleasure as you the Fathers of the Law say I may Therefore I charge your Conscience to discharge mee and shew his Highnes from mee that I must desire his Majesty to remember there is both heaven and hell and thereupon the Clarke took and wrote the Recognizance and after some secret talke they departed Thus continued my Lord at Ashur receiving dayly messages from the Court some good and some bad but more ill then good for his enemies perceiving the good affection the King bare alwaies to him devised a means to disquiet his patience thinking thereby to give him occasion to fret and chafe that death should rather ensue then otherwise which they most desired for they feared him more after his fall then they did in his prosperitie Fearing hee should by reason of the Kings favour rise againe and bee againe in favour and great at the Court they his enemies might bee in danger of their lives for their cruelty wrongfully ministered unto him and by their malitious surmises invented and brought to passe against him And did continually finde new matters against him to make him vexe and frett but hee was a wise man and did arme himselfe with much patience At Christmas hee fell very sore sicke most likely to dye the King hearing thereof was very sorry and sent Doctor Butts his Physitian unto him who found him very dangerously sicke in Bedde and returned to the King The King demanded saying have you seene yonder man yes Sir quoth hee how doe you like him quoth the King Sir quoth he if you will have him dead I will warrant you he wil be dead within these foure dayes if hee receive no comfort from you shortly Marry God forbid quoth the King that hee should dye for I would not loose him for twenty Thousand pounds I pray you goe to him and doe youre care to him Then must your Grace quoth Doctor Buts send him some comfortable message So I will quoth the King by you therefore make speed to him againe and you shall deliver him this Ring from me for a Token In the which Ring was the Kings Image engraven with a Ruby as like the King as might be devised This Ring hee knoweth well for hee gave mee the same and tell him that I am not offended with him in my heart for any thing And that shal be known shortly therefore bid him pluck up his heart be of good comfort And I charge you come not from him till you have brought him out of the danger of Death if it bee possible Then spake the King to Mistris Anne Bulloign good Sweet heart as you love me send the Cardinall a Token at my Request and in so doing you shall deserve our Thankes Shee being disposed not to offend the King would not disobey his loving Request but tooke incontinently her Tablet of gold that hung at her side and delivered it to Doctor Buts with very gentle and loving Words and so hee departed to Ashur with speed and after him the King sent Doctor Cromer Doctor Clement and Doctor Wotton to consult and advise with Doctor Buts for my Lords recovery Now after Doctor Buts had beene with him and delivered him the Tokens from the King and Mistris Anne Bulloigne with the most comfortable Words he could devise on the Kings and Mistris Annes behalfe Hee advanced himselfe in his Bed and received the Tokens very joyfully giving him many thankes for his paines and good comfort Hee told him further that the Kings pleasure was that hee should minister unto him for his Health And for the better and more assured wayes hee hath also sent Doctor Cromer Doctor Clement and Doctor Wotton all to joyne for your recovery Therefore my Lord quoth Doctor Buts it were well they were called to visite you and to consult with them for your disease At which motion my Lord was contented and sent for them to heare their judgements but hee trusted more to Doctor Cromer then all the rest because hee was the very meanes to bring him from Paris to England and gave him partly his exhibition in Paris To be short in foure dayes they set him againe upon his feete and hee had gotten him a good stomacke to meate All this done and my Lord in a right good way of amendment they tooke their leaves and departed to whom my Lord offered his Reward but they refused saying the King hath given a speciall Commandment that they should take nothing of him for at their returne he would reward them of his owne cost After this my Lord continued at Ashur till Candle-masse before and against which Feast the King caused to be sent to my Lord three or foure loads of stuffe and most thereof except Beds and Kitchin-stuffe was loaded in Standars wherein was both plate and rich Hangings and Chappell stuffe which was done without the knowledge of the Lords of the Councell for all which hee rendered the King most humble and hearty thankes And afterwards made suite unto the King to be removed from Ashur to Richmond which request was granted The House of Richmond a little before was repaired by my L. to his great cost for the K. had made an exchang with him for Hampton-court Had the Lords of the Counsell knowne of these favours from the King to the Cardinall they would have perswaded the King to the contrary for they feared least his now abode neere the King might move the King at some season to resort unto him and to call him home againe considering the great and daily affection the King bare unto him Therfore they moved the King that my Lord might goe downe to the North to his benefice there where hee might bee a good stay as they alleadged to the Countrey to which the King condiscended thinking no lesse but that all had been true according to their relation beeing with such colour of deep consideration that the King was straitway perswaded to their conclusion whereupon my Lord of Norfolke by Master Cromwell who daily did resort to my Lord that hee should say to him that he must goe home to his Benefice well then Thomas quoth my Lord wee will goe then to Winchester I will then quoth Master Cromwell tell my Lord of Norfolke what you say and so hee did at his next meeting of him what should he doe there quoth the Duke let him goe to the rich Bishoprick of Yorke where his greatest honour and charge lyeth and so shew
the Court Gate upon Alholland-day towards my Lord of Northumberland Now will I declare what I promised before of a certaine signe or token of my Lords trouble ensuing Upon All-hallow-day my Lord sitting at dinner having at his Boards end divers of his Chaplaines to beare him Company for want of other Guests you shall now understand that my Lords great Crosse which stood by fell and in the fall broke Doctor Bonners head inasmuch that some blood ran downe My Lord perceiving the fall thereof demaunded of those that stood by him what was the matter that they stood so amazed I shewed him of the fall of his great crosse upon Dr. Bonners head Quoth my Lord hath it drawne any blood yea quoth I with that he cast his head aside and soberly said Malum Omen and thereupon suddenly said grace and rose from table and went to his Bed-chamber but what he did there I cannot tell Now marke how my Lord expounded the meaning thereof in his fancie to meat Pontefract after his fall First that the great Crosse that he bare as Archbishop of Yorke betokened himselfe and Doctor Austin the Physitian who overthrew the Crosse was hee that accused my Lord whereby his enemies caught an occasion to overthrowe him it fell on Doctor Bonners head who was then master of my Lords faculties and spirituall jurisdiction who was then dampnified by the fall thereof and moreover the drawing of blood betokeueth death which did suddenly after follow Now the appointed time drew neere for Installation and sitting at dinner the friday before the monday that he should have been installed at Yorke The Earle of Northumberland and M. Welsh with a great company of Gent of the Earls house and of the Country whom they had gathered in the Kings name to accompany them yet not knowing to what end came to the hall of Caywood the Officers being at dinner and my Lord not fullie dined nor knowing any thing of the Earles being come The first thing that the Earle did after hee had set the hall in order he commanded the Porter to deliver the keyes of the gates to him which he would in no wise doe although he was threatned and commanded in the Kings name to make deliverance thereof to one of the Earles servants which he still refused saying to the Earle that the keyes were delivered to him by his Lord and master both by oath and other command Now some of the Gent. that stood by the Earle hearing the porter speake so stoutly said hee is a good fellow and a faithfull servant to his master and speaks like an honest man therefore give him your charge and let him keep the keyes still then said my L. thou shalt wel and truly keep the keys to the use of our Soveraigne Lord the King and you shall let none passe in nor out of the Gates but such as from time to time you shal be commanded by us being the Kings Commissioners during our stay here and with that oath he received the keyes of the Earle and Master Welches hands but of all these doings knew my Lord nothing for they had stopped the stayers that none should goe to my L. chamber and they that came down could not goe up againe At the length one escaped up and shewed my Lord that the Earle of Northumberland was in the hall whereat my Lord wondred and at the first believed him not till he heard it confirmed by another Then quoth my Lord I am sorry wee have dined for I feare our Officers have not provided fish enough for the entertainment of him with some honourable cheere fitting his estate and Dignity And with that my Lord arose from the Table and commanded to let the cloath lye that the Earle might see how far forth they were at their dinners and as he was going downe stayres he encountred with my Lord of Northumberland to whom my Lord said you are heartily welcome my Lord and so they embraced each other Then quoth my Lord Cardinal if you had loved mee you would have sent me word before of your comming that I might have entertained you according to your honour Notwithstanding you shal have such cheer as I can make you for the present with a right good will trusting you will accept thereof in good part hoping hereafter to see you oftner when I shal be more able to entertain you this said my Lord tooke him by the hand and led him to his Chamber whom followed all the Earls servants and they being there all alone saving I which kept the doore as my Office required being Gentleman-vsher these two Lords standing at a window the Earle trembling said I arrest you of high Treason with which words my Lord was well nigh astonished standing still a good space without speaking one word But at the last quoth my Lord what authority have you to arrest mee quoth the Earle I have a Commission so to doe shew it me quoth my Lord that I may see the contents therof nay Sir that you may not quoth the Earle Then quoth my Lord hold you contented for I will not obey your arrest for there hath been between your Ancestors and my Predecessors great contentions and debate and therefore unlesse I see your authority I will not obey you Even as they were debating the matter in the Chamber so likewise was Master Welsh busie in arresting Dr. Austine at the door saying go in thou Traytor or I shall make thee with that I opened the Portal dore and did thrust in Doctor Austine before him with violence The matter on both sides astonished me very much marveyling what all this should meane untill at the last Master Welsh being entered my Lord Chamber began to pluck of his hood being of the same cloath his cloake was which hood he wore to the intent hee should not be known who kneeled down to my Lord to whom my Lord said come hither Gentleman and let me speake with you commanding him to stand up and said thus My Lord of Northumberland hath arrested mee but by what authority I know not if you be privie thereunto joyned with him therein I pray you shew me Indeed my Lord if it please your Grace quoth Master Welsh I pray have me excused there is annexed to our Commission certain instructions as you may not see nor be privie too why quoth my Lord be your Instructions such as I may not see nor be privie thereunto yet paradventure if I be privie unto them I may helpe you the better to performe them for it is not unknown to you that I have been of Counsell in as weity matters as these are and I doubt not but I shall doe well enough for my part prove my selfe a true man against the expectations of my cruel enemies I see the matter whereupon it groweth well there is no more to doe I trowe you art of the Privie Chamber your name is Mr. Welsh I am contented to yeeld to
of some they wonne and to some they lost And having viewed all the Ladyes they returned to the Cardinall with great Reverence pouring downe all their gold which was above two hundred crownes At all quoth the Cardinall and casting the Dye he wonne it whereat was made great joy Then quoth the Cardinall to my Lord Chamberlaine I pray you goe tell them that to me it seemeth that there should be a Nobleman amongst them that better deserves to sit in this place then I to whom I should gladly surrender the same according to my duty if I knew him Then spake my Lord Chamberlaine to them in French declaring my Lord Cardinalls words and they rounding him againe in the eare the Lord Chamberlaine said unto my Lord Cardinall Sir quoth he they confesse that among them is such a Noble personage whom if your Grace can point out from the rest he is contented to disclose himselfe and to accept of your place most willingly With that the Cardinall taking good advise went amongst them and at the last quoth he it seemeth to mee that the Gentleman with the blacke beard should be he and with that he rose out of his Chaire and offered the same to the Gentleman with the blacke Beard with the Cup in his hand But the Cardinall was mistaken for the person to whom he then offered his Chaire was Sir Edward Nevill a comely Knight and of a goodly personage who did more resemble his Majesties person then any other in that Masque Then the King tooke his seat under the cloath of Estate commanding every person to sit still as they did before And then came in a new Banquet before his Majestie of two hundred dishes and so they passed the night in Banquetting and dancing untill morning which much rejoyced the Cardinall to see his Soveraigne Lord so pleasant at his house CHAP. IX Of the originall Instrument of the Cardinalls fall Mistris Anne Bullen NOw you shall understand that the young Lord of Northumberland attended upon my Lord Cardinall who when the Cardinall went to Court would ever have conference with Mistris Anne Bullen who then was one of the Maides of Honour to Queene Katharine insomuch that at last they were contracted together which when the King heard he was much moved thereat for hee had a private affection to her himselfe which was not yet discovered to any and then advised the Cardinall to send for the Earle of Northumberland his Father and take order to dissolve the Contract made betweene the said parties which the Lord Cardinall did after a sharpe reprehension in regard he was Contracted without the King and his Fathers knowledge Hee sent for his Father who came up to London very speedily and came first to my Lord Cardinall as all great Personages did that in such sort were sent for of whom they were advertised of the cause of their sending for And when the Earle was come hee was presently brought to the Cardinall into the Gallery After whose meeting my Lord Cardinall and he were in secret communication a long space after their long discourse and drinking a cup of Wine the Earle departed and at his going away he sate downe at the Gallery end in the Hall upon a forme and being set called his Sonne unto him and said Sonne quoth he even as thou art and ever hast been a proud disdainfull and very unthrifty Master so thou hast now declared thy selfe wherefore what joy what pleasure what comfort or what solace can I conceive in thee That thus without discretion hast abused thy selfe having neither regard to me thy Naturall Father nor unto thy naturall Soveraigne Lord to whom all honest and loyall Subjects beare faithfull obedience nor yet to the prosperitie of thy owne estate But hast so unadvisedly ensnared thy selfe to her for whom thou hast purchased the Kings high displeasure intollerable for any Subject to susteine And but that the King doth consider the lightnesse of thy head and wilfull qualities of thy person his displeasure and indignation were sufficient to cast me and all my posteritie into utter ruine and destruction But hee being my singular good Lord and favourable Prince and my Lord Cardinall my very good friend hath and doth cleerely excuse me in thy lewdnesse and doe rather lament thy folly then maligne thee and hath advised an order to be taken for thee to whom both I and you are more bound then we conceive of I pray to God that this may be a sufficient Admonition unto thee to use thy selfe more wisely hereafter For assure thy selfe that if thou dost not amend thy prodigalitie Thou wilt be the last Earle of our house For thy naturall inclination thou art Masterfull and prodigall to consume all that thy Progenitors have with great travell gathered and kept together with honour But having the Kings Majestie my singular good Lord I trust I assure thee so to order my succession that thou shalt consume thereof but a little For I doe not intend I tell thee truly to make thee Heire for thankes be to God I have more boyes that I trust will use themselves much better and prove more like to wise and honest men of whom I will choose the most likely to succeed mee Now good Masters and Gentlemen quoth he unto us it may be your chances hereafter when I am dead to see those things that I have spoken to my Sonne prove as true as I now speake them yet in the meane time I desire you all to be his friends and tell him his faults in what he doth amisse wherein you shall shew your selves friendly to him and so I take my leave of you And son goe your wayes unto my Lord your Master and serve him diligently And so parted and went downe into the Hall and so tooke his Barge Then after long and large debating the matter about the Lord Percies assurance to Mistris Anne Bullen it was devised that the Contract should bee infringed and dissolved And that the Lord Piercy should marry one of the Earle of Shrewsburies Daughters And so indeed not long after he did whereby the former Contract was broken and dissolved wherewith Mistris Anne was greatly displeased promising that if ever it lay in her power she would doe the Cardinall some displeasure which indeed she afterwards did But yet he was not altogether to be blamed for he did nothing but what the King commanded whereby the Lord Piercy was charged to avoyd her company And so was she for a time discharged the Court and sent home to her Father whereat she was much troubled and perplexed For all this time she knew nothing of the Kings intended purpose But wee may see when Fortune doth begin to frowne how shee can compasse a matter of displeasure through a farre fetcht Marke Now therefore of the grudge how it began that in processe of time wrought the Cardinals utter destruction CHAP. X. Of Mistris Anne Bullen her
mee a woman destitute of friendshippe heere in a forraigne Region and your Counsell I also shall bee glad to heare and therewith shee tooke my Lord by the hand and led him into her Privie Chamber with the other Cardinall where they stayed a while and I heard her voice loud but what shee said I know not This done they went to the King and made a Relation unto him of the passages betweene the Queene and them and so they departed This strange case proceeded and went forwards from Court day to Court day untill it came to that that every man expected to hear Iudgement given at which time all their proceedings were openly read in Lattin That done the Kings Counsell at the Barre mooved for Iudgement quoth Cardinall Campaines I will not give judgement untill I have related the whole proceedings to the Pope whose Counsell and Commandment I will in this Case observe The matter is too high for us to give hasty judgement considering the persons and the doubtfull occasions alleadged and also whose Commissioners wee are by whose authority we sit It is good reason therefore that wee make our chiefe Lord of Counsell in the same before wee proceede to judgement definitive I came not to please for any Favour Reward or feare of any person alive be he King or otherwise I have no such respect to the person that I should offend my Conscience And the party Defendant will make no answere here but rather doth appeale from us I am an old man both weake and sickly and looke every day for Death what shal it avayle me to put my Soule in danger of Gods displeasure to my utter damnation for the favour of any Prince in this World My being here is onely to see Justice administred according to my Conscience The Defendant supposeth that wee bee not indifferent Judges considering the Kings high dignity and authority within his Realme And wee beeing both his Subjects shee thinkes wee will not doe her justice and therefore to avoyd all these Ambiguities I adjourn the Court for the Time according to the Court of Rome from whence our jurisdiction is derived For if wee should goe further then our Commission doth warrant us it were but a folly and blame worthy because then wee shal be breakers of the Orders from whom we have as I sayd our authority derived and so the Court was dissolved and no more done Thereupon by the Kings Commandment stept up the Duke of Suffolke and with a haughty countenance uttered these words It was never thus in England untill we had Cardinals amongst us Which Words were set forth with such vehemency that all men marvailed what he intended the Duke further expressing some opprobrious Words My Lord Cardinall perceiving his vehemency soberly sayd Sir of all men in this Realme you have least cause to disprayse Cardinals for if I poore Cardinall had not beene you should not at this present have had a head on your shoulders wherewith to make such a brag in dispute of us who wish you no harme neyther have given you such cause to be offended with us I would have you thinke my Lord I and my Brother wish the King as much happinesse and the Realme as much honour Wealth and peace as you or any other Subject of what degree soever hee be within this Realme and would as gladly accomplish his lawfull desires And now my Lord I pray you shew mee what you would doe in such a Case as this if you were one of the Kings Commissioners in a forraigne Region about some weighty matter the consultation whereof was very doubtfull to be decided would you not advertise the Kings Majesty ere you went through with the same I doubt not but you would and therefore abate your malice and spight and consider wee are Commissioners for a Time and cannot by vertue of a Commission proceed to judgement without the knowledge and consent of the head of the authority and lycence obtayned from him who is the Pope Therefore doe wee neyther more nor lesse then our Commission allows us and if any man wil be offended with us hee is an unwise man Therefore pacifie your selfe my Lord and speake like a man of Honour and Wisedome or hold your peace speake not reproachfully of your friends you best know what friendship I have showne you I never did reveale to any person till now eyther to mine owne prayse or your dishonour Whereupon the Duke went his way and sayd no more being much discontented This matter continued thus a long Season and the King was in displeasure against my Lord Cardinal because his Suit had no better successe to his purpose Notwithstanding the Cardinal excused himself by his Commission which gave him no authority to proceed to judgement without the knowledge of the Pope who reserved the same to himself At last they were advertised by a Post that they should take deliberation in the matter untill his Councell were opened which should not be til Bartholmew-tide next The king thinking it would be too long ere it would bee determined sent an Ambassador to the Pope to perswade him to shew so much favor to his Majesty as that it might be sooner determined On this Embassage went Doctor Stephen Gardener then called by the name of Doctor Steven Secretary to the King afeer wards Bishop of Winchester This Ambassadour stayed there till the latter end of Summer of whose returne you shall hereafter heare CHAP. 17. Of certaine passages conducing to the Cardinals fall NOW the King commaunded the Queene to be removed from the Court and sent to another place presently after the King rod on Progresse and had in his Company Mistris Anne Bolloigne in which time Cardinall Campadnes made suite to bee discharged and sent home to Rome in the interim returned Mr. Secretary and it was concluded that my Lord should come to the King to Grafton in Northampton-shire as also Cardiall Campaines beeing a stranger should bee conducted thither by my Lord Cardinall And so the next Sunday there were divers opinions that the King would not speak with my Lord whereupon there were many great Wagers layd These two Prelates being come to the Court and lighting expected to be received of the great Officers as the manner was but they found the contrary Neverthelesse because the Cardinall Campaine was a stranger the Officers met him with staves in their hands in the outward Court and so conveyed him to his lodging prepared for him and after my Lord had brought him to his lodging he departed thinking to have gone to his Chamber as hee was wont to do But it was told him hee had no lodging or Chamber appoynted for him in the Court which newes did much astonish him Sir Henry Norris who was then Groome of the stoole came unto him and desired him to take his Chamber for a while untill an other was provided for him for I assure
you quoth he here is but little room in this House for the King and therefore I humbly beseech your Grace accept of mine for a Season My Lord thanking him for his curtesie went to his Chamber where hee shifted his riding apparrell In the meane time came divers Noblemen of his friends to welcome him to the Court by whom my Lord was advertised of all things touching the Kings favour or displeasure and being thus informed of the Cause thereof hee was more able to excuse himselfe So my Lord made him ready and went to the Chamber of Presence with the other Cardinall where the Lords of the Councell stood all of a Row in order in the Chamber and all the Lords saluted them both And there were present many Gentlemen which came on purpose to observe the meeting and countenance of the King to my Lord Cardinall Then immediatly after the King came into the Chamber of Presence standing under the Cloath of State Then my Lord Cardinall tooke Cardinall Campaine by the hand and kneeled downe before the King but what hee sayd unto him I know not but his Countenance was amiable and his Majesty stooped downe and with both his hands tooke him up and then tooke him by the hand and went to the Window with him and there talked with him a good while Then to have beheld the Countenance of the Lords and Noblemen that had layd Wagers it would have made you smile especially those that had layd their money that the King would not speake with him Thus were they deceived for the King was in earnest discourse with him insomuch that I could heare the King say how can this be is not this your hand and pulled a Letter out of his owne bosome and shewed the same to my Lord And as I perceived my Lord so answered the same that the King had no more to say but sayd to my Lord goe to your Dinner and take my Lord Cardinall to keepe you company and after Dinner I will speake further with you and so they departed And the King that day dined with Mistris Anne Bulloign in her Chamber Then was there set up in the Presence Chamber a Table for my Lord and other Lords of the Councell where they dined together and sitting at Dinner telling of divers matters The King should doe well quoth my Lord Cardinall to send his Bishops and Chaplaines home to their Cures and Benefices Yea marry quoth my Lord of Norfolke and so it were meete for you to doe also I would be very well contented therewith quoth my Lord if it were the Kings pleasure to lycence mee with his Graces leave to goe to my Cure at Winchester Nay quoth my Lord of Norfolke to your Benefice at Yorke where your greatest Honour and Charge is Even as it shall please the King quoth my Lord Cardinall and so they fell upon other Discourses For indeed the Nobility were loath hee should be so neere the King as to continue at Winchester Immediately after Dinner they fell to Councell till the Waiters had also dined I heard it reported by those that waited on the King at dinner that Mistres Anne Bulloigne was offended as much as she durst that the King did so graciously entertaine my Lord Cardinall Saying Sir Is it not a marvailous thing to see into what great debt and danger hee hath brought you with all your Subjects How so quoth the King Forsooth quoth shee there is not a man in all your whole Realme of England worth a hundred pounds but hee hath indebted you to him meaning of Loane which the King had of his Subjects Well well quoth the King for that matter there was no blame in him for I know that matter better then you or any else Nay quoth shee besides that what exploits hath hee wrought in severall parts and places of this Realme to your great slaunder and disgrace There is never a Nobleman but if hee had done halfe so much as hee hath done were well worthy to loose his head Yea if my Lord of Norfolke my Lord of Suffolke my Father or any other man had done much lesse then hee hath done they should have lost their heads ere this Then I perceive quoth the King you are none of my Lord Cardinals friends Why Sir quoth shee I have no cause nor any that love you No more hath your Grace if you did well consider his indirect and unlawfull doings By that time the Waiters had dyned and tooke up the Table and so for that time ended their Communication You may perceive by this how the old malice was not forgotten but begins to kindle and be set on fire which was stirred by his auncient enemies whom I have formerly named in this treatise The King for that time departed from Mistris Anne Bulloigne and came to the Chamber of Presence and called for my Lord and in the great window had a long discourse with hin but of what I know not afterwards the King tooke him by the hand and led him into the privie Chamber and sate in Consultation with him all alone without any other of the Lords till it was darke night which blanked all his enemies very soer who had no other way but by Mistris Anne Bulloigne in whom was all their trust and affiance for the accomplishment of their enterprises for without her they feared all their purposes would bee frustrate Now at night was warning given me that there was no roome for my Lord to lodge in the Court so that I was forced to provide my Lord a lodging in the Countrey about Easton at one Mr. Empstons house where my Lord came to supper by torch-light beeing late before my Lord parted from the King who willed him to resort to him in the morning for that he would talke further with him about the same matter and in the morning my Lord came againe at whose comming the Kings Majesty was ready to ride willing my Lord to consult with the Lords in his absence and said he would not talke with him commanding my Lord to depart with Cardinall Campaine who had already taken his leave of the King This suddaine departure of the Kings was the especiall labour of Mistris Anne Bulloigne who rode with him purposely to draw him away because he should not returne till the departure of the Cardinalls The King rode that morning to viewe a peice of ground to make a Parke of which was afterwards and is at this time called Harewell Parke where Mistris Anne had provided him a place to dine in fearing his returne before my Lord Cardinals departure So my Lord rode away after dinner with Cardinall Campaine who tooke his jorney towards Rome with the Kings reward but what it was I am not certaine After their departure it was told the King that Cardinall Campaine was departed and had great Treasure with him of my Lord Cardinalls of England to bee conveyed in great sums to Rome whither they surmised
hee would secretly repaire out of this Realme Insomuch that they caused a Post to ride after the Cardinall to search him who overtooke him at Callis and stayed him untill search was made but there was found no more then was received of the King for a reward Now after Cardinall Campaine was gone Michaellmas terme drew on against which time my Lord Cardinall repaired to his house at Westminster and when the Terme began hee went into the Hall in such manner as he was acustomed to doe and sate in the Chancery being then Lord Chancellor of England after which day he never sate more the next day hee stayed at home for the comming of my Lord of Norfolk and Suffolke who came not that day but the next And did declare unto my Lord that it was the Kings pleasure he should surrender up the great Seale of England into their hands and that he should depart unto Ashur which is a house near unto Hampton Court belonging unto the Bishopricke of Winchester The Cardinall demanded of them to see their Commission that gave them such authority who answered again they were sufficient Commissioners and had Authority to doe no lesse from the Kings owne mouth notwithstanding he would in no wise agree to their demand in that behalfe without further knowledge of their Authority telling them that the great Seale was delivered to him by the Kings owne person to enjoy the Ministration thereof together with the Chancellorship during the term of his life whereof for surety he had the Kings Letters Patents to shew which matter was much debated between him and the Dukes with many great words which he tooke patiently insomuch that the Dukes were faine to depart without their purpose at that time and returned to Windsor to the King and the next day they returned to my Lord with the Kings Letters whereupon in obedience to the Kings command my Lord delivered to them the broad Seale which they brought to Windsor to the King Then my Lord called his Officers before him and tooke account of all things they had in their charge and in his Gallery were set divers Tables upon which were layed divers and great store of rich stuffes as whole pieces of silke of all colours Velvets Sattins Muskes Taffaties Grogarams Scarlets and divers rich Commodities Also there were 1000. pieces of fine Hollands and the hangings of the Gallery with cloath of Gold and cloath of Silver and rich cloath of Bodkin of divers colours which were hanged in expectation of the Kings comming Also of one side of the Gallery were hanged the rich suits of Copes of his owne providing which were made for Colledges at Oxford and Ipswich they were the richest that ever I saw in all my life Then had he two chambers adjoyning to the Gallery the one most commonly called the guilt Chamber the other the Councell Chamber wherein were set two broad and long Tables whereupon was set such abundance of Plate of all sorts as was almost incredible to be believed a great part being al of clean gold and upon every table and cupboard where the Plate was set were bookes importing every kinde of plate and every piece with the contents and the weight thereof Thus were all things furnished and prepared giving the charge of the said stuffe with other things remayning in every office to be delivered to the King as he gave charge all things beeing ordered as is before rehearsed my Lord prepared to depart and resolved to goe by water but before his going Sir William Gascoigne beeing his Treasurer came unto him and said Sir quoth he I am sorry for your Grace for I heare you are straight to goe to the Tower Is this the best comfort quoth my Lord you can give to your master in adversity It hath alwaies beene your inclination to bee light of credit and much lighter in reporting of lyes I would you should know Sir William and all those reporters too that it is untrue for I never deserved to come there Although it hath pleased the King to take my house ready furnished for his pleasure at this time I would all the world should know I have nothing but it is of right for him and of him I received all that I have It is therefore convenient and reason to tender the same to him againe Then my Lord with his traine of Gentlemen and yeomen which was no small company took his barge at his privie stairs and went by water to Putney at which time upon the water were abundance of boates filled with people expecting to have seene my Lord Cardinall goe to the Tower which they longed to see Oh wondring and new-fangled world is it not a time to consider the mutability of this uncertaine world for the common people ever desire things for novelties sake which after turne to their small profit or advantage For if you mark the sequell they had small cause to rejoyce at his fall I cannot see but all men in favour are envyed by the common people though they doe minister Iustice truly Thus continued my Lord at Ashur 3. or 4. weekes without either Beds sheets Table-cloaths or dishes to eate their meate in or wherewith to buy any But there was good store of all kind of victualls of beere and wine plenty but afterwards my Lord borrowed some Plate and dishes of the Bishop of Carlile Thus continued my Lord in this strange estate till after Alhollantide and beeing one day at dinner Mr. Crumwell told him that he ought in Conscience to consider the true and good service that he and other of his servants had done him who never forsooke him in weale nor woe then quoth my Lord alas Tom you know I have nothing to give you nor them which makes me both ashamed and sorry that I have nothing to requite your faithfull services whereupon Master Cromwell told my Lord that he had abundance of Chaplaines that were preferred by his Grace to Benefices of some 1000. pound and others 500 pound some more and some lesse and wee your poore servants who take more paines in one dayes service then all your idle Chaplains have done in a yeare and therefore if they will not impart liberally to you in your great indigence it is pitty they should live and all the world will have them in iudignation for their great ingratitude to their Master Afterwards my Lord commanded me to call all his Gentlemen and Yeomen up into the great Chamber commanding all the Gentlemen to stand on the right hand and the Yeomen on the left side at last my Lord came out in his Rochet upon a Violet gowne like a Bishop who went with his Chaplins to the upper end of the Chamber where was a great windowe beholding his goodly number of servants who could not speake to them untill the tears ran downe his checks which beeing perceived of his servants caused fountaines of teares to gush out of their sorrowfull eyes in such
sort as would cause my heart to relent At last my Lord spake to them to this effect and purpose saying most faithfull Gentlemen and true-hearted Yeomen I much lament that in my prosperity I did not so much for you as I might have done and was in my power to doe I consider that if in my prosperity I should have preferred you to the King then should I have incurred the Kings Servants displeasure who would not spare to report behinde my back that there could no office in the Court escape the Cardinall and his servants and by that meanes I should have run into open slander of all the world but now it is come to passe that it hath pleased the King to take all that I have into his hands so that I have now nothing to give you for I have nothing left me but the bare cloaths on my back with many other words in their phrase and so he giving them all hearty thanks went away and afterwards many of his servants departed from him some to their wives some to their friends Master Cromwell to London it beeing then the beginning of the Parliament CHAP. 18. The Cardinall is accused of high Treason in the Parliament House against which accusation Mr. Cromwell late servant to him being a Burgesse in the Parliament made defence THe aforesaid Master Cromwell after his departure from my Lord devised with himselfe to bee one of the Burgesses of the Parliament And being at London hee chanced to meete one Sir Thomas Russell Knight a speciall friend of his whose son was one of the Burgesses of the Parliament of whom by meanes he obteyned his roome and so put his feete into the Parliament house and 3. dayes after his depature from my Lord hee came againe to Ashur and I beeing there with my Lord he said unto mee with a pleasant Countenance I have adventured my feet where I will bee better regarded ere the Parliament be dissolved And after hee had some talke with my Lord he made haste to London because he would not bee absent from the Parliament to the intent he might acquaint my Lord what was there objected against him thereby the better to make his defence insomuch that there was nothing at any time objected against my Lord but hee was readie to make answere thereunto by meanes whereof he beeing earnest in his Masters behalfe was reputed the most faithfull servant to his Master of all other and was generally of all men highly commended Then was there brought a Bill of Articles into the Parliament house to have my Lord condempned of high Treason against which Bill Master Cromwell did inveigh so discreetly and with such witty perswasions that the same would take no effect Then were his enemies constrained to indite him of a Premunire al was to intitle the King to all his goods and possessions which hee had obteyned and purchased for the maintenance of his Colledges of Oxford and Ipswich which were both most sumptuous buildings To the Judges that were sent to take my Lords answere here in hee thus answered My Lords Judges quoth hee the King knoweth whether I have offended or no in using my Preogative for the which I am indicted I have the Kings licence in my Coffer to shew under his hand and broad Seale for the executing and using thereof in most large manner the which now are in the hands of mine enemies but because I wil not here stand to contend with his Majesty in his owne case I will here presently before you confesse the Indictment and put my selfe wholy to the mercy and grace of the King trusting that he hath a conscience and reason to consider the truth and my humble submission and obedience wherein I might wel stand to my triall with Justice Thus much may you say to his Highnesse that I wholie submit my selfe under his obedience in all things to his Princely will and pleasure whom I never disobeyed or repugned but was alwaies contented and glad to please him before God whom I ought most chiefly to have believed and obeyed which I now repent I most heartily desire you to have me commended to him for whom I shall during my life pray to God to send him much prosperitie honour and victory over his enemies And so they left him After which Mr. Shelley the Judge was sent to speak with my Lord who understanding he was come issued out of his privie Chamber and came to him to know his businesse who after due salutation did declare unto him that the Kings pleasure was to demand my Lords house called Yorke-place neare Westminster belonging to the Bishopricke of Yorke And that you doe passe the same according to the Lawes of this Realme his Highnesse hath sent for all his Iudges and learned Counsell to know their opinions for your assurance thereof who bee fully resolved that your grace must make a Recognizance and before a Iudge acknowledge and confesse the right thereof to belong to the King and his Successors and so his Highnesse shall bee assured thereof Wherefore it hath pleased the King to send mee hither to take of you the Recognizance having in your Grace such affiance that you will not refuse to doe so therefore I doe desire to know your Graces pleasure therein Master Shelley quoth my Lord I know the King of his owne nature is of a Royall spirit not requiring more then reason shall leade him to by the Lawe And therefore I counsell you and all other Iudges and learned men of his Counsell to put no more into his head then Law that may stand with Conscience for when you tell him that although this bee Lawe yet it is not Conscience for Law without conscience is not fit to bee ministred by a King nor his Counsell nor by any of his Ministers for every Counsell to a King ought to have respect to Conscience before the rigour of the Law Laus est facere quod decet non quod licet The King ought for his Royall dignitie and prerogative to mitigate the rigour of the Lawe and therefore in his Princely place hee hath constituted a Chancellour to order for him the same and therefore the Court of Chauncery hath beene commonly called the Court of Conscience for that it hath jurisdiction to command the Law in every case to desist from the rigour of the execution And now I say to you Master Shelley have I a power or may I with Conscience give that away which is now mine for mee and my Successors if this bee Law and Conscience I pray you shew me your opinion Forsooth quoth hee there is no great conscience in it but having regard to the Kings great power it may the better stand with Conscience who is sufficient to rcompence the Church of Yorke with the double value That I know well quoth my Lord but there is no such condition but onely a bare and simple departure of others
into the North but made some stay by the way and many passages hapned in his journey too tedious here to relate At the last he came to Stoby where he continued til after Michaelmas exercising many deeds of charity most commonly every sunday if the weather served would he goe to some poor Parish-church thereabouts and there would say the divine service and either said or heard masse then caused one of his Chaplins to preach the word of God to the people afterwards hee would dine in some honest house in the Town where should be distributed to the poor alms aswell of meat and drinke as mony to supply the want of meat and drink if the number of poor did exceed thus with other good deeds practising himselfe during the time of his abode there between partie and partie being at variance About Michaelmas after heremoved from thence to Caywod Castle within 7. miles of the City of Yorke where he had much honour and love from all men high and lowe where he kept a plentifull house for all commers also hee builded and repaired the Castle which was much decayed having at the least three hundred persons daily in worke to whom he paid Wages lying there Where all the Doctors and Prebends of the Church of Yorke did repaire to my Lord according to their duties as unto the chiefe Head Patron and Father of their Spirituall dignities who did most joyfully wellcome him into those parts Saying it was no small comfort unto them to see their Head among them who had beene so long absent from them being like unto Fatherlesse and comfortlesse Children for want of his Presence and that they trusted shortly to see him amongst them in his owne Church To whom hee made answere That it was the most especiall cause of his comming to bee amongst them as a Father and a naturall brother Sir quoth they you must understand the Ordinances and Rules of our Church whereof although you bee the Head and sole Governour yet you are not so well acquainted as we be therein Therfore if it please your Grace wee shall under favour open unto you some part of our ancient Lawes and Customes of our Church that our head Prelate and Pastor as you now are might not come above our Quire doore untill by due Order he be installed Nor if you should happen to dye before your installation you should not be buried above in the Quire but below in the neather part of the body of the Church Therefore wee humbly desire and beseech you in the name of all our Brethren that you would vouchsafe to doe therein as our ancient Fathers your Predecessours have done and that you will not breake the laudable Customs of our Church To the which we are obliged by Oath at our first admittance to observe that and divers others which in our Chapter doth remaine upon Record These Records quoth my Lord would I faine see and then shall you know further of mine advise and mind in this businesse A day was signed to bring their Records to my Lord at which time they resorted to my Lord with their Register and Bookes of Records wherein were fairely Written their Institutions and Rules which every Minister of their Church was most principally and chiefly bound to observe and infallibly keepe and maintaine When my Lord had read the Records hee did intend to be at the Cathedrall Church of Yorke the next Munday after Alholland-tide against which Time due preparation was made for the same but not in so sumptuous a wise as were his predecessors before him Nor yet in such sort as the fame and common report was afterwards made of him to his great slander And to the false Reporters no small dishonesty to become a divulger of such notorious lies I am sure they did For I my selfe was sent by my Lord to Yorke to see that all things there should bee ordered and provided for that Solemnity in a very decent forme to the honour of that ancient and worthy Monastery of Yorke It came to passe that upon Alholland-day one of the head and principall Officers of the said Cathedrall Church which should have had most doing at my Lords Installation was with my Lord at Caywood and sitting at Dinner they fell into Communication of this matter and the Order and Ceremony thereof Hee saying that my Lord Cardinall should goe a foote from a Chappell which stands without the Gates of the City called Saint Iames his Chappell unto the Minster upon cloath which should bee distributed to the poore after his said passage to the Church Which my Lord hearing replied and said although perhaps our Predecessors have gone upon cloath yet we intend to go on foot without any such Pompe or glory in the vampes of our hosen And therfore gave order to his Servants to goe as humbly thither as might bee without any sumptuous apparrell for I intend on Sunday to come to you to bee installed and to make but one Dinner for you at the close and the next day to dine with the Major and so returne againe hither The day beeing not unknowne to all the Country the Gentlemen Abbots and Priors such provision sent in that it was almost incredible for store and variety The Common people held my Lord in great estimation for his purity and liberality and also for his familiar gesture and good behaviour amongst them By meanes whereof hee gained much love of all the people in the North parts of England CHAP. 19. Of the Cardinals fall and how hee was arrested of high Treason WHat chanced before his last troubles at Caywood as a signe or token from God of that which should follow I will now God willing declare My L. enemies being then at Court about the King in good estimation and honorable dignities seeing now my Lord in great favour and fearing the King would now call him home againe they therefore did plot amongst themselves to dispatch him by meanes of some sinister Treason or to bring him into the Kings great indignation by some other meanes This was their daily study and consultation having for their especiall helpe and furtherance as many vigilant attendants upon him as the Poets faine Argus had eyes The King with these their continuall complaints was mooved to much indignation and thought it good that the Cardinall should come up and to stand to his Triall in his owne person which his enemies did not like of Notwithstanding hee was sent for and after this sort First they devised that Sir Walter Welch Knight one of the Kings privy Chamber should bee sent downe with a Commission into the North and the Earle of Northumberland who was sometimes brought up in the House of my Lord being joyned in Commission with him should arrest my Lord of high Treason This being resolved upon Sir Walter Welch prepared for his journy with his Commission and certaine instruments annexed to the same and tooke horse at
you but not to the Earle without I see his Commission and also you are a sufficient Commissioner in this behalf being one of the privie Chamber Therefore put your Commission in execution spare me not I will obey you and the King for I feare not the crueltie of mine enemies no more then I doe the truth of my Allegiance wherein I take God to witnesse I never offended his Majesty in word or deede and therein I dare stand face to face with any having a difference without partiality Then came my Lord of Northumberland and commanded mee to avoide the Chamber And being loath to depart from my Master I stood still and would not remove to whom he spake againe and said there is no remedie you must depart with that I looked upon my Master as who would have said shall I goe and perceiving by his countenance that it was not for me to stay I departed and went into an other chamber where were many Gentlemen and others to heare newes to whom I made a report of what I heard and saw which was great heauinesse to them all Then the Earle called into his Chamber diuers of his owne servants and after he and Master Welsh had taken the keyes from my Lord hee committed the keeping of my Lord unto five Gentlemen and then they went about the house and put all things in order intending to depart the next day and to certifie the King and the rest of the Lords what they had done Then went they busie about to Convey Doctor Austine away to London with as much speede and privacy as they could possible sending with him divers persons to conduct him who was bound to his horse like a Traytor And this being done when it was neere night the Commissioners sending two Groomes of my Lords to attend him in his Chamber where hee lay all night the rest of the Earles men watched in the Chamber and all the house was watched and the gates safe kept that no man could passe or repasse untill next morning About eight of the clocke next morning the Earle sent for me into his Chamber and commaunded mee to goe to my Lord and as I was going I met with Master Welsh who called me unto him and shewed me how the Kings Majesty bare unto me his principall favour for my love and diligent Service that I had performed to my Lord wherefore quoth hee the Kings pleasure is that you shal be about him as chiefe in whom his Highnesse putteth great confidence and trust and thereupon gave mee in Writing the Articles Which when I had read I sayd I was content to obey his Majesties pleasure and would bee sworne to the performance thereof whereupon hee gave mee my Oath That done I resorted to my Lord whom I found sitting in a Chaire the Table being ready spread for him But so soone as hee perceived me come in he fell into such a wofull lamentation that would have forced a flinty-heart to mourne I then comforted him aswell as I could but hee would not for quoth hee I am much grieved that I have nothing to reward you and the rest of my true and faithfull Servants for all the good Service that they and you have done mee for which I doe much lament Upon Sunday following the Earle and Master Welsh appoynted to set forward for my Lords Horse and ours were brought ready into the inner Court where we mounted and comming towards the Gate ready to ride out the Porter had no sooner opened the same but we saw without ready attending a great number of Gentlemen and their Servants such as the Earle had appointed for that Service to attend and Conduct my Lord to Pomfrait that night But to tell you the Truth there were also many of the people of the Country assembled at the Gate lamenting his departure in number above three Thousand who after the opening of the Gate that they had a sight of him cryed out with a loud voyce God save your Grace God save your Grace the foule Evil take them that have taken you from us wee pray God that vengeance may light upon them And thus they ran after him through the Towne of Caywood for he was there very well beloved both of rich and poore CHAP. 20. Of the Cardinals entertainment at the Earle of Shrewsburies and of his death and buriall at Leicester AFter our departure from Cawood we came to Doncaster the third day wee came to Sheffield-parke where my Lord of Shrewsbury lived within the lodge and the Earle and his Lady and a great company of Gentlewomen and Servants stood without the Gate to attend my Lords comming at whose alightning the Earle received him with much honour and imbraced him saying these words My Lord you are most heartily welcome to my poore lodge and I am glad to see you Here my Lord stayed a fortnight and was most nobly entertayned he spent most of his time and applyed his minde to prayers continually in great devotion It came to passe as hee sate one day at dinner I beeing there perceived his colour divers times to change I asked him if hee was not well who answered me with a loud voyce I am suddenly taken with a Thing at my stomacke as cold as a Whet-stone and am not well Therefore take up the Table and make a short dinner and returne to mee againe suddainly I made but a little stay but came to him agayne where I found him still sitting very ill at ease Hee desired me to goe to the Apothecarie and aske him if hee had any thing would breake Winde upwards Hee told me hee had Then I went and shewed the same to my Lord who did command mee to give him some thereof and so I did and it made him breake winde exceedingly Loe quoth he you may see it was but winde for now I thanke God I am well eased and so he arose from the Table and went to praiers as hee used every day after dinner In the afternoon my Lord of Shrewsbury sent for mee to him to whom he said forasmuch as I have always perceived you to be a man in whom your Lord putteth great affiance and I my selfe knowing you to bee a man very honest with many words of commendations and praise more then becommeth mee to rehearse he said your Lord and Master hath often desired me to write unto the King that he might answere his accusations before his enemies And this day I have received Letters from his Majestie by Sir William Kingston whereby I perceive that the King hath him in good opinion and upon my request hath sent for him by the said Sr. William Kingston Therfore now I would have you play your part wisely with him in such sort as he may take it quietly and in good part for he is alwaies full of sorrow and much heavinesse at my being with him that I fear he would take it ill if I bring him tidings thereof And therein doth hee not
my shadow upon the bedside asked who was there Sir quoth I t is I how doe you quoth he well I Sir quoth I if I might see your Grace well what is it a clock quoth hee I answered it was about eight of the Clock quoth he that cannot be rehearsing eight of the clocke so many times Nay quoth he that cannot be for at eight of the clock you shall see your masters time draw neere that I must depart this world with that quoth Doctor Palmes a worthy Gentleman standing by bid me aske him if hee would bee shriven to make him readie for God what ever chanced to fall out which I did but he was very angry with me and asked what I had to doe to aske him such a question till at the last Master Doctor took my part and talked with him in Lattin and pacified him After dinner M. Kingston sent for me and said Sir The King hath sent unto mee Letters by Mr. Vincent our old companion who hath bin in trouble in the Tower for mony that my Lord should have at his departure A great part of which money cannot bee found wherefore the King at Master Vincents request for the declaration of the truth hath sent him hither with his Graces Letters that I should examine my Lord have your Counsell therein that he may take it well and in good part And this is the cause of my sending for you therefore I desire your Counsel therein for acquitall of this poor Gentleman Master Vincent Sir quoth I according to my duty you shall and by my advise you shall resort unto him in your own person to visit him and in communication breake the matter unto him And if he will not tell you the truth therein then may you certifie the King thereof But in any case name not nor speake of my fellowe Vincent Also I would not have you to detract the time for hee is very sicke and I feare that he will not live past a day or two and accordingly Master Kingston went to my Lord and demanded the money saying that my Lord of Northumberland found a book at Caywood-house that you had but lately borrowed 10000. pounds there is not so much as one penny to be found who hath made the King privie to the same wherefore the King hath written to me to know what is become thereof for it were pitty that it should bee holden from you both Therefore I require you in the Kings name to tell me the truth that I may make a just report thereof unto his Majestie of your answer With that quoth my Lord oh good Lord how much doth it grieve me that the King should think any such thing in me that I should deceive him of one pennie seeing I have nothing nor never had God be my Iudge that I ever esteemed so much mine owne as his Majesties having but the bare use of it during my life and after my death to leave it wholy to him wherein his Majestie hath prevented mee But for this money that you demand of me I assure you it is none of my own for I borrowed it of diverse of my friends to bury me and to bestow amongst my servants who have taken great pains about mee notwithstanding if it bee your pleasure to know I must bee content yet I beseech his Majestie to see it satisfied for the discharge of my Conscience to them that I owed it to who be they quoth Master Kingston That shal I tell you quoth my Lord I borrowd two hundred pounds of Iohn Allen of London another 200. p. of Sir Richard Gresham and 200. pound of the Master of the Savoy and also 200. pound of Doctor Highden Dean of my Colledge at Oxford 200 pound of the Treasurer of the Church and 200. pound of Master Ellis my Chaplain And an other 200. pound of a Priest I hope the King will restore it againe forasmuch as it is none of mine Sir quoth Master Kingston there is no doubt in the King whom you need not distrust but Sir I pray you where is the money quoth hee I will not conceale it I warrant you but I will declare it unto you before I dye by the grace of God have a litle patience with me I pray you for the money is safe enough in an honest mans hands who will not keep one penny thereof from the King So Master Kingston departed for that time my Lord being very weake and about fowre of the clock in the next morning as I conceived I asked him how he did well quoth he if I had any meate I pray you give me some Sir quoth I there is none ready then he said you are much too blame for you should have alwaies meate for me in readinesse whensoever that my stomack serves me I pray you get some ready for mee for I meane to make my selfe strong to day to the intent I may goe to confession and make mee ready for God quoth I I will call up the Cookes to prepare some meate And also I will call Master Palmer that he may discourse with you till your meate be ready with a good will quoth my Lord and so I called Master Palmer who rose and came to my Lord Then I went and acquainted Master Kingston that my Lord was very sicke and not like to live In good faith quoth Master Kingston you are much too blame to make him beleeve he is sicker then he is Well Sir quoth I you cannot say but I gave you warning as I am bound to doe upon which words he arose and came unto him but before he came my Lord Cardinall had eaten a spoonfull or two of Callis made of Chickin and after that he was in his confession the space of an hower And then Master Kingston came to him and bad him good morrow and asked him how he did Sir quoth he I watch but Gods pleasure to render up my poore soule to him I pray you have me heartily commended unto his Royall Majestie and beseech him on my behalfe to call to his Princely remembrance all matters that have bin between us from the beginning and the progresse And especially betweene good Queene Katherin and him and then shall his Graces Conscience know whether I have offended him or not Hee is a Prince of a most Royall carriage and hath a Princely heart and rather then hee will misse or want any part of his will he will endanger the one halfe of his Kingdome I do assure you I have often kneeled before him sometimes three houres together to perswade him from his will and appetite but could not prevaile And Master Kingston had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King he would not have given me over in my gray haires But this is the just reward that I must receive for my diligent paines and studdy not regarding my service to God but onely to my Prince Therefore let me advise you if you
is ten pounds is not it so quoth the King Yea forsooth and if it please your Grace quoth I. And withall said the King you shall receive a reward the Duke of Norfolke So I received tenne pounds of the Duke for my wages and twenty pounds for my reward and his Majestie gave me a Cart and six horses the best that I could chose out of my Lords horses to carry my goods and five marks for my charge homewards FINIS He was Batchelour of Arts at 15. years of Age He was naturally eloquent King Henry in the fifth yeare of his raigne invaded France The King relieth upon the Almaners policie He besieged the strong Towne of Turwine He besiegeth the Towne of Turney The Scots in the Kings absence invade England The Officers of his Chappell Officersin his privie Chamber Great resort to his house as to the King His entertainment of the King in a Masque The King his Company conducted into the chamber The Masquers salute the Ladies The Cardinall casts at two hundred crownes The Cardinall mistaken The Earle come to the Cardinall His sharpe reproofe of his Sonne The Earle doth intend to dis-inheâ—it him He speakes to the servants He goes to the King The Contract between Lord Percy and Mistris Anne Bullen dissolved She much displeased therat Shee is discharged the Court Her admittance againe to Court Queene Katherine her patience A plot of the Nobility against the Cardinall The Cardinall endevours to get her favour A plot of the Cardinall The Duke of Burbon fled to the Emperour King Henry joyneth his forces with the Emperor against the French King The Duke the King of Englands Generall The French King in person with an Army The Duke flies to Pavia and is there besieged by the French King The French Ambassadour treats of peace with England Command sent to Sir Iohn Russell to detaine the Kings pay The Duke his souldiers in extreme want The Dukes loving advise A generall consent The Dukes subtile devise They issue out in the night The Duke issues out with 150. or 160. men He flew the enemies and tooke the gunnes He wonne the field He intended to sack Rome but was there slaine Easie to invade France King Henry ought to have the French King captive Divers Ambassadours from Fuance to King Henry to take order for their Kings release The Cardinall endevoureth the peace of the Pope and the French King The Counsell advised the Cardinal to goe of the Embassage to France This was a plot The Cardinall doth prepare for his Iourney See his Magnificence He came to Canterbury The Cardinall commandeth the Monkes to pray for the Pope The Cardinall wept He arrived at Callice He gave the people pardon The Cardicalls all his followers into his privy Chamber The Cardinalls instructions to his followers Their duty to him expressed The nature of the Frenchmen The Cardinall and his traine goe from Callis His troops 3. inranke extended three quarters of a mile The Cardinall of Lorraine meets my Lord Captaine of Picardy The French king sent a Convoy His entertainment in Bulloigne Also at Muterell A Latine Oration Pageants made for joy His entertainment at Abovile I left my Lord and rode to Amience to see the King First came Madam Regent Two dayes after the King attended by Swithers Burgonians French and Scottish The Cardinall put on rich raiments The French King and the Cardinall meet They March the Cardinall on the Kings right hand The King and Cardinall at Amience 14. dayes They removed from Amience to Campaines Monsieur Crookesley his going to invite the King and the Cardinall to his Castle The Cardinals servant nobly entertained The Lady salutes him her selfe The French King the Lord Cardinall and the Queene Regent lodged all in one Castle The Cardinall fell out with the Chancellour of France The Cardinal departs in anger Great means used to bring him again to consultation The Cardinall writes Letters into England He sends post into England The Cardinall feasts two Queens In comes the French King and the King of Navarre The French King much taken with my Lords Musicke The French King hunted the wild Boare Preparation to returne into Bngland The Cardinal that morning he came away made the Chancellour of France a Cardinall He arrives at the court The Cardinall maketh an oration in the Star-chamber A perpetuall peace made with France The Embassadours establish our King in the order of France The King of England sent Ambasse into France to establish the French King in the order of the Garter The King of England and France Ambassadours receive the Sacraments to confirme the perpetual peace The Articles of peace read by the Cardinall The King subscribeth and sealeth The French Nobility conveyed to Richmond The rooms richly hung 200. and 80. beds prepared The ordering of the banquetting rooms The Frenchmen conducted to supper The Cardinall comes in ere the second course The Cardinall drinks a health to both Kings His Majestie invites the Stangers to the Court Their preparation for France They take leave of the King The Kings reward And also of the Cardinall The Kings Case discussed by an assembly of Bishops CoÌ„missioners sent to all the forraigne Vniversities The Cardinal sends againe for the bishop Embassadors sent to th' pope The Pope doth grant their suite The Pope sends his Legate into England Kings Councell Queenes Counsell The Bishop of Rochester lost his head for the Queens sake The King and Queene called by the Cryer The Queene on her knees pleads for her selfe She commendeth K Henry the 7. She goes out of the Court The Kings commendations of his Qu. in her absence The King declares himself to the whole Court All the Kings Issue Male by the Queen dyed The chiefe point in the Kings case The King affirmes he hath no dislike of the Queene The King produceth the Licence sealed by the Card. and the rest of the Bishops The Bishop of Rochester doth denie that he ever sealed or subscribed The Court adiourn'd The Kings counsel alledg the Matrimony not good nor lawfull The Queenes Counsel speak Bishop of Rochester Doctor Ridley The King sent for the Cardinall The Cardinal returnes and goes home to bed The two Cardinalls went on a message from the King to the Queen The Cardinal declares the cause of their going Queens answer Cardinall Campains refused to give Iudgement He makes a speech The Duke of Suffolke confronts the Cardinals The Cardinals mild answere His reason why hee proceeds not to Iudgment The Duke deharted discontented The King offended The Cardinals commission his excuse Dr. Gardener sent Embassador to th' pope The Cardinal sent for to the Court He found but small content Great supposition of the K. displeasure Mistris Anne Bulloigne offended for the Cardinalls intertaynment She complains of him The King would not talke with the Cardinall They search the Cardinall at Callis The King sends for the great Seale He refuseth to deliver up the broad Seal The Card. sets his house in order He speaks to them all He informed his Lord what was objected against him Articles against the Cardinall disannulled by Mr. Cromwell They charge him with a Premunire Iudges sent to examine the Cardinall His answere The Cardinal doth submit to the King The King demands Yorke house The Cardinals answere He fell sicke The King sends his Physition Th' King sends his ring in token of favour And mistris Anne Bulloign her Tablet In foure dayes they cured him The Kingsent three or foure loads of houshold stuffe A Prophesie When the cow rides the bull Then Priest beware thy scull The Prophesies expounded And fulfilled by the Cardinalls fall Shirt of hair A thousand mark pension to the Cardinall The King sent him 10000. p. The Cardinal goeth to his Bishoprick of Yorke At Peterborowe hee did wash 59. poor mens feete Charity to the poore Order in the Cathedral at Yorke Preparation for the Cardinals instalment at York Store of good provision sent in by the Country The Cardnals crosse in the fall brake Dr. Bonners head The Earle of Northumberland and Mr. Welsh come to Caywood-hal The Cardinal and the Earle meete The Earl doth arrest the Cardinall Master Welsh arrests Doctor Austin of high Treason The Earle takes the keys from my L. The Cardinalls causlesse feares Enemies The Cardinall salutes Mr. Kingston Mr. Kingston tells him he is in the Kings favour The Cardinal near death Divers soms of money borrowed by the Cardnal a little before hee dyed The Cardinal desires meate The Cardinals advise The Cardinall gave up the Ghost The Cardinal is buried in St Maries Chappell in Leicester