affectiō loue that he bare to thys realme being his natiue coūtry gaue to henry the. ii king of Englād y ◠right seniory of the dominiō of Irelād whiche pertained to y e see of Rome I wil not reherse y ◠manifold benefites y ◠this realme hath receaued frō y ◠Apostolike sea nor how ready the same hath been to reliue vs in all our necessities Nor I wil not re hearse the manifolde miseries and calamities that this Realme hath suffred by swaruing from that vnitie And euen as in thys Realme so in all other countries which refusing the vnitie of the Catholike fayth haue followed fātastical doctryne y ◠like plages haue happened Let Asia and the Empire of Grece be a spectacle vnto y ◠world who by swaruing from the vnitie of the Churche of Rome are broughte into captiuitie and subieccion of the Turke All storyes be full of like examples And to cum vnto latter tyme loke vpō our nie neigh bours of germany who by swarving from this vnitie are miserablye afflicted with diuersitie of sectes deuided in faccions What shal I rehearse vnto you the ◅umultes effusion of blood that hath happened there in late dayes Or trouble you with the rehersal of those plages y ◠haue happened sins this Innouacion of religion wherof you haue felt the bitternes and I haue hearde the reporte Of al which matters I can say nomore but suche was the misery of the tyme. And see how farre forth this furie went For those that liue vnder the Turke may frely liue after their conscience and so was it not lawfull here Yf men examined wel vpon what groundes these Innouations began they shall well finde that the rote of thys as of many other mischieffes was avarice And that the lust Carnal affeccion of one mā confounded all lawes both deuine and humane And notwithstanding all these deuises pollicies practised within thys Realme against the church of Rome they neded not to haue loste you but that they sought rather as frēdes to reconcile you then as enemies to enfeaste you For they wanted not great offers of the most mightie Potentates in all Europe to haue ayded the church in that quarell Then marke the sequel ther semed by these chaun ges to rise a gret face of riches gayne which in profe cam to gret misery and lacke Se howe god then can confounde the wisdome of the wise and turne vniust pollicy to mere folye and that thing that semed to be done for reliefe was cause of playne ruyne and decay Yet see that goodnes of God which at no tyme fayled vs but moste benignlye offered hys grace when it was of our partes leaste soughte and worste deserued And when all lyghte of true religiō seamed vtterly extīcte as the churches defaced the aulters ouerthrowen the ministers corrupted ◅euen lyke as in a lampe the lyghte beyng cou◅red yet it is not quenched euē so in a few remained the confessiō of Christes fayth namely in the brest of the Quenes excellency of whom to speake wythoute adulacyon the saing of the Prophet may be verified Ecce quasi der elicta And see howe miraculouslye GOD of hys goodnes preserued her hyghenes contrarye to the expectacyon of manne That when numbers conspyred agaynste her and pollicies were deuised to disherit hir and armed power prepared to destroye hir yet she being a Uirgin helples naked and vnarmed preuailed had the victorye ouer tyrauntes which is not to be ascribed to any pollici of mā but to the almighty greate goodnes prouidence of God to whome the honoure is to be geuen And therfore it may be sayd Da gloriam deo For in mannes iudgemente on her graces parte was nothinge in apparance but dispayre And yet for all these practises deuises of ill mē here you se hir grace established in hir estate being your lawful Quene and Gouernes borne amonge you whome God hathe appointed to reigne ouer you for the restitucion of true religion and extirpacion of all erroures sectes And to confirme hir grace the more stronglye in thys enterprise Lo howe the prouidence of God hath ioyned her in mariage with a Prince of like religion who beinge a kinge of great might armour and force yet vseth towardes you neyther Armour nor force but seketh you by the waye of loue and amitie in whiche respecte greate cause you haue to gyue thankes to almighty God that hathe sent you suche Catholyke Gouernours It shal be therfore your parte againe to loue obey and serue them And as it was a synguler fauoure of God to conioyue theym in maryage so it is not to be doubted but that he shal sende them yssue for the comforte and suerty of thys common wealthe Of all Prynces in Europe the Emperours hath trauayled most in the cause of religion as it appereth by hys actes in Germany ▪ yet happly by some secret iudgement of god he hath not atchiued the ende with whom in my iourney hetherwardes I had conference touchinge my Legation whereof when he had vnderstandinge he shewed great apperaunce of most ernest ioye and gladnes saying that it reioysed him no les of there concilemēt of this realme vnto christian vnitie then that his sonne was placed by mariage in y ◠king dome And most glad of all that the occasion thereof shuld come by me beinge an English manne borne whiche is as it were to call home oure selues I can wel compare hym to Dauid whiche thoughe he were a manne electe of GOD yet for that he was contaminate with bloode war coulde not builde the temple of I◅rusalem but lefte the finishynge therof to Salomon whiche was Rex pacificus So may it be thoughte that the appeasing of controuersies of religion in Christianity is not appoynted to this Emperour but rather to his sonne who shal perfourme the buildyng that his father hath begun which church cannot be perfitly builded wythout vniuersallye in all Realmes we adhere to one head and do acknowledge hym to be the vica◅ of god and to haue power from a boue For al power is of God accordyng to the saying Non est potestas nisi adeo And therefore I consider that all power being in god yet for the conseruacion of quiet godly life in the world he hath deriued that power from aboue into two partes here in earthe whiche is in the power Imperial and ecclesiasticall And these two powers as they be seuerall and distinct so haue they two seueral effectes and operacions For seculer Princes to whom the Tēporall swerde is committed be ministers of god to execute vengeaunce vpon transgressours ill liuers and to preserue the wel doers and innocentes from iniury and violence Which power is represented in these two most excellence persons the king and Quenes Magesties here preesēt who haue this power committed vnto theim Immediatlye from god wythout any superioure in that behalfe The other power is of ministracyon
they c◅m thither whiche verses as I am aduertised were made by my lorde the Bishop of winchester nowe lorde chaunceller of Englande whose excellēt learnyng is well knowē euery where yea and he to bee of moste exacte Iudgemente in all kinde of good letters These be the two verses O domus es felix minium miniumque be◅ Hospitio tales nunc habitura tuo That is to saye Thou art happy house righte bli◅ bli◅ again That shortly shalt suche noble geastes retayn ANd after that their maiesties had thus remayned in the Citie of winchestre ten daies vnto the which Citie and to Southhampton in token and perpetuall memorye of thys their most noble mariage solem nizated in the one of the kiges first lāding in the other they did geue great priuilegis and la◅des for euer they remoued frō thens on tuesdaye the last of Iuli and riding through the Citie in a very princelye order they wente to Basing xv mile frō winchestre Where at my lord Treasurer of Englandes house they lay that night and the next day folowīg where was suche noble Chere prouided for them and both their nobilities as I haue not sene the like for the tyme in my dayes The next thursday being the seconde of August they departed from thens and rode to Reding wher after they had lyne but that nyghte they came to Windesore the next friday at vi of y ◠clocke at nyghte And cumming in at the west end of the town they came with two swerdes borne before thē streight way towardes the churche weste dore wher with procession they were receaued by my lord Chaun celler where also the lord Stewarde of Englande reuested the king with the robe of the order of the garter and the Quenes magestie put the collar of the same order aboute hys necke whiche being done they bothe proceded vnder a Canapy towardes the quere y ◠lordes of the order going beefore them in their robes and collars also And after that the kyng was there installed and Te deum song and ended they came out at the same dore of the quere where they entred and wente to a place of the north side of y ◠same where the kinges highnes the lordes put of their robes Which being done the kinges magestie and the Quene departed on horse backe to their lodging in Windsor Castel And to make an ende here of their progres your Lordship shall vnderstande that after they had remayned at wind sor certain daies after the kīges installacion they came to Richemont Where being aduertysed that all suche triumphes and pageants as wer deuised in Londō agaynst their cumming thyther were finished ended they came frō thens by water on friday the xvii of August lāded at S. Ma rie Oueres staires on Southwarke side Where euery corner keing so straight kept as no man could passe come or go but those which were appointed to attende their lāding they passed through my Lorde chauncellers house at Suffolke place which was prepared for their lying that night This Suffolke place and your Lordshyp bee remembred is of the left hande as we enter into Southwarke cummyng from Hampton Courte whiche place was made by the olde Duke of Suffolke immediatly after that he maried the godly vertuous Princes Marye quene Dowager of Fraunce and the seconde doughter of king Henry the. vii Nowe to begyn and declare their cumming to London and so make an ende your reuerend Lordship shall vnderstande that bothe their moste excellent Maiesties made their moste noble and Triumphinge entres into the noble Citie of London furth of Southwarke place the next satterdaye whiche was the. xviii of August at ii of the clocke at after none Where after all the lordes of their moste honorable priuie counsel and the ambassadours of all nacyons with the nobilitie of Englande and Spayne and diuers other noble and ◅entle mē as wel Eng lish as straunge wer al on horse backe two and two in a rāke the lord Maior of Londō as the two Prīces came out at the gate kne led and deliuered a mace whiche signified his ◅ower and authoritie within the citie of London to the Quenes grace Whose magestie deliuering the said mace to the lord Maior again the kinges highnes and she ascended their horses so marchyng towardes London bridge the quene of the righte hande and the king of the lefte with two swerdes of honoure before theym and before the swerdes the Lord Maior of London bearing the Mace the Toure of London begynneth to shoote And when they came to the drawe bridge there they made the fyrst staye where there was in the higth thereof a fayre table holden vp with two greate Giauntes the one named Corineus Britannus and the other Gogmagog Albionus In which table in a fielde siluer with faire Romaine letters of sable these xii verses following were wrytten Vnica caesareae stirpis ◅pes Inclite princeps ◅ui deus imperium totius destinat orbis ◅ratus et optatus nostras accedis adoras Ecce sagittipotens tibi tota Britania dextr◅ porrigit et gremiū tibi nobilis anglia p◅dit Te tamē in primis urbs Londoniēsis honor at Incolumemque suū gaudet venisse Philippū Ipsa suis sentit charum te ciuibus esse Et f◅re foelicem tali se principe credit Teque putant omnes missum diuinitus urbi C◅ius mens studiū uox uirtus atque uolūtas ◅det et in clari cōsentit amore philippi That is to say O noble Prince sole hope of Cesars side By god apointed all the world to gyde Rig◅t ha◅tely welcome art thou to our land The archer Brit◅yne yeldeth the hir hand And noble England openeth her bosome Of ◅actie affection for to bid the welcome But chiefly London doth her loue vouchsafe Reioysing that hir Philip is come safe She seith hir Citisens loue the on eche side And trustes they shal be happy of such a gide ▪ And al do thinke thou art sent to their citie By thonly meane of Gods paternall pitie So that their minde voice study power and will ◅s onlie set to loue the Philippe still HEre also the Toure of London the signe geuen that the kinge and the Quene were in syghte thereof shotte suche peales of ordinaunce in about euery quarter therof and specially out of the toppe of the whyte foure of the wharffe as neuer was heard the lyke in Englande here to fore Which being done they proceded forwarde vntil they came in gracious strete where in their waye the conduit therof was finely trīmed wheron was painted verye ingeniouslye the nine worthies with many notable prouerbes and adages written with fayre Romā letters on euery side ther of And at the signe of the splaied Egle they made the second staie where the first pagēt was deuysed and made by the marchaunt straungers of the Stilliarde Where emōgest diuers notable stories there
wyth manye other noble menne being suspect as adherentes to him in the same opinion Surely thys cruelty was great but that whyche exceded all the rest thys olde lady being at least lx and .x. yeares of age cosin to the king and beyng as it is saied most innocent and giltles was without iudgement or processe of the lawe drawen by the hore heres to y e blocke not knowyng any cause why to dye Many lyke examples of crueltie folowed in Englande by that alteracion whiche are oute of my purpose but this I haue touched by occasion of this Cardinall who nowe by the quenes goodnes is restored to the honour of his house And now of late is arriued in Englande as Ambassadour and legate from the Popes holynes with moste ample commission to receiue the e Ralme of Englande vnto the vnitie of the church wherof your lordship shal ê‘ceue more hereafter He is se meth to be of nature sad graue whose good lyfe maye be an example to the reste of his profession and hys excellent learning is well knowen through all Europe For I assure your lordship that at my beinge in Rome xvi yeares agon I haue hearde out of the mouthes aswel of my couÌ„try men then being in Rome as of the Romaines them selfes no les yea and more then I haue saide For it is commonly sayde of him by lerned men in Rome and in other places where I haue trauayled Polus Cardinalis natione Anglus pietatis et literarum testimonio dignus non qui Polus Anglus sed qui polus Angelus uocetur But nowe passinge ouer the praysinges of thys noble vertuous prelate whome no manne dispraiseth I will procede where I lefte Within fewe daies after hys cumminge to Lambeth a daye was prefixed by appoyntment of the king and Quenes maiesties that the three estates of England being called vnto the parliament shoulde be brought vnto the presence of the Cardinal for the better vnderstanding of his legation This assemble was appointed in the greate Chambre of the court at Westminster where as the king and Quenes maiesties sitting vnder the cloth of estate and al the three estates placed in theyr degrees the Cardinall sytting in a Chaire on y e right haÌ„d out of the cloth of estate my lord Chaunceller of England began in this maner MY lordes of y e vpper house you my masters of the nether house here is present y â— righte reuerend father in god my lord Cardinal Pole come froÌ„ the Apostolike Sea of Rome as ambassadour to the king and Quenes magesties vpon one of the moste weightiest causes that euer happened in thys Realme And whiche perteineth to the glo ry of god and your vniuersall benefit The which ambassage their magesties pleasure is to be signâ—… fied to you all by hys own mouth Trustyng that you will receyue and accepte it in as beneuolent and thankefull wyse as theyr highnesses haue done and that you will geue attente and inclynable eare to hym When hys Lordship had thus made an ende my Lorde Cardinall taking the occasion offred without any studye as it semed spake in effecte as foloweth My lordes all you that are y e coÌ„mons of this preseÌ„t Par liment assembled which 〈◊〉 effect is nothing els but the statâ—… body of the whole Realme As y e cause of my repaire hither hath been both wisely grauely declared by my lord Chaunceller So before y e I entre to y e particularities of my coÌ„missioÌ„ I haue somwhat to say touching my selfe to geue most huÌ„ble harti thaÌ„kes to the king Quenes magesties after theÌ„ to you all whiche of a maÌ„ exiled and banisht froÌ„ this coÌ„ mon wealth haue restored me to a member of the same and of a man hauyng no place nether here or els where within this realme haue admitted me in place where to speake and to be heard Thys I protest vnto you al that though I was exiled my natyue country w tout iust cause as god knoweth yet y â— ingratitude could not pull from me the affeccion and desire that I had to proffit and doe you good Yf the offer of my seruice might haue ben receaued it was neuer to seke where that could not be taken you neuer failed of my prayer nor neuer shall But leauing the rehersall therof and cumming more nere to the matter of my commission I signifie vnto you all that my principall trauayl is for the restitucion of thys noble Realme to the auncient nobilitie and to declare vnto you that the Sea Apostolike froÌ„ whens I come hath a special respect to this Realme aboue al other and not without cause seiÌ„g that god himselfe as it were by prouideÌ„ce hath geueÌ„ this Realme prerogatiue of nobilitie aboue other which to make more playne vnto you it is to be considered that this Iland first of al IlaÌ„des receiued the light of Christes religion For as stories testifie it was prima prouinciarum quae amplexaest fidem Christi For the BrittoÌ„s beiÌ„g first inhabitauÌ„tes of this realme not withstandyng the subieccion of the Emperours heathen Princes dyd receyue Christes fayth from the Apostolike Sea vniuersally not in partes as other countryes nor by one one as clockes encrease their houres by distinction of tymes but al together at ones as it were in a moment But after that their ill merites or forgeatfulnes of god had deserued expulsioÌ„ and that Straungers being infidels had possessed this land yet god of his goodnes not leauing where he ones loued so illumined y â— hartes of the Saxons being heatheÌ„ mâ—… that they forsoke the darknes of heathen errours enbraced the light of Christes religioÌ„ So that within small space Idolatry and heatheÌ„ supersticion was vtterlye abaÌ„doned iÌ„ this IlaÌ„d This was a greate prerogatiue of nobilitie wherof though the benefite be to be ascribed to god yet the meane occasion of the same came from the Church of Rome In y e faithe of whiche churche we haue euer since continued and consented with the rest of the worlde in vnitye of religion And to shew further the feruent deuocion of the inhabitauntes of this Iland towardes the Churche of Rome We rede y â— diuers Princes in the Saxons time with great trauell and expenses went personally to Rome as Offa Adulpbus whiche thought it not inough to shew theÌ„ selfes obedient to the said see vn les y â— in their owne persones they had gon to that same place from whence thei had receued so great a grace benefite In the time of Carolus magnus who first fouÌ„ded the vniuersity of Parys he sent into England for Alcuinus a great learned maÌ„ which first brought learning to that vniuersity Wherby it semeth that the greatest part of y â— world fet the light of religioÌ„ froÌ„ EnglaÌ„d AdriaÌ„ y â— fourth being an English maÌ„ coÌ„uerted norway froÌ„ infidelity which AdriaÌ„ afterwardes vpoÌ„ great