they were suddaynely arrested their goodes seased vppon and they themselues cast in prison and some that in reuenge of such offered iniurie attēpted to make resistance were cruelly slaine their Shippes conueyd away their goodes confiscate without other pretence but only that it was sayd to them that they were Huguenotes neyther was thys done by priuate persons but by open violence of the gouernours and magistrates of those places where the same disorder was executed so that it appeared from whence they had their commission to vse such wrongful dealing and how farre the same would extende if they might once haue time and occasion to accomplish their purposed intentions Moreouer when complaynt of such iniuries was made vnto the lawfull magistrates there they found no redresse at all For what might the poore Merchaunts profite by their complayntes when the packets of the Ambassadors letters directed to hir were taken from the bearer Letters taken from the Queenes Ambassadors seruantes and no punishmente had against those that committed so vnciuill an vn◅rage a thing that offended hir Maiestie so much the more for that as shee tooke the matter there wanted no good will eyther in the King or his mother or in the King of Nauarre the Kyngs generall Lieutenant to see such a presumptuous and vnruly part punished of their people but rather that there lacked in them authoritie to haue it redressed Furthermore it greately greeued hir that the yong frēch King hir deere brother was brought to suche a streighte that hee was neyther able to defend the libertie of his people nor the authoritie of his lawes nor to deale vprightly with other Princes and potentates accordingly as by the boundes of leagues and couenanted aliēces had bin requisite The French troubles touch most the Q of Englande Neyther did suche disorder in gouernemente of the Kingdome of Fraunce touche anye so muche and particularly as the Queenes Maiestie of England She therefore lamenting that the King and Queene mother shoulde be thus in the hands of them that procured all these troubles and ledde vp and downe at their pleasures and driuen to behold the spoyle and sacking of diuers hys Cities and miserable slaughter of his subiects and againe hir grace thinking it expedient to preuent that such as were knowen to beare no good will eyther to hir or hir Realme The chiefe causes that moued the Queenes Maiestie to send a power into Fraunce should not get into their possessions such Townes and hauens as lay against y e Sea coastes of hir said Realm whereby they stuffing the same with garrisons and numbers of men of warre might easily vppon occasions seeke to make inuasions into this hir sayd Realme to the great annoyance of hir and hir louing subiectes shee at the request of the French themselues thought it expedient to put in armoure a certaine number of hir subiects to passe ouer into Normandy vnto suche Hauens as neere approched to thys hir Realme of Englande as well for the safegarde of the same as also for the reliefe and preseruation of the inhabitantes there and other that professed the Gospell liuing in continuall daunger to be murthered and oppressed and therefore crauing hyr ayde to saue and deliuer them out of the bloudy hands of their cruell aduersaries that sought their hastie destruction For the conduction therefore of suche forces as she meante to sende ouer at that present shee ordeyned the Lorde Ambrose Dudley Earle of Warwike to be hir principal Lieutenant Captaine generall chiefe leader and gouernoure of hir sayde subiects that shoulde in such wise passe ouer into Normandy Herevpon the sayd Earle The Earle of Warwike sent into Normandy with an armye the seuententh of October in this fourth yeare of hir Maiesties raigne toke shipping at Portesmouth in the hauen there at one of the clocke in the after noone being aboorde himselfe in the Queenes Shippe called the newe barke and setting forward sayled all that after noone and the night following directly towards Newhauen but in the morning about eyght of the clocke when his Lordship was within twentie myles of the Towne of Newhauen the winde suddainely changed cleane contrary to hys course so that being driuen to returne about the next midnight he arriued in the downes and there remayned at anker till about eyght of the clocke in y e next morning being Monday and then was set a sande by boate at Sandon Castell besides Deale and the same day at night came to Douer and there lay till Friday three of the clocke in the after noone and then taking Shippe agayne sayled forth but finding the winde nothing prosperous for his course after he had layne all that nyghte and day following tossing and tumbling on the Seas he was cōstreyned to come backe againe and arriued in the Hauen of Douer about tenne of the clocke on Saterday at nyghte and so remayned there till Tewsday next ensuing three of the clocke in the after noone and then went to Shipbord againe in the sayd Shippe called the new barke and directing his course forward on Thursdaye morning aboute eight of the clocke his Lordshippe landed at Newhauen The Earle of Warwike landeth at Newhauen where he was most ioyfully receyued with a greate peale of artillerie The nexteday being Friday and thirtith of October Light horsemen Scottes ther came to Newhauē from Dieppe fiftie light Horsemen Scottes broughte by one of maister Killigrues seruauntes On Saterday the last of October the Earle of Warwikes commission was proclaymed in Latine English and French by Bleumantell Purciuant at armes whiche beeing ended hys Lordship went into the Churche and there Sir Adrian Poynings An oth receyued by the Lord Lieutenant and other officers Knight Marshall gaue him his oth and then my Lorde gaue the sayde Sir Adrian his othe and after him were sworne Cutbert Vaughan Comptroller Iohn Fisher Knight porter William Bromfield maister of the ordināce William Robinson water Bailife and Captayne Thomas Wood Clearke of the Counsell On Monday the seconde of Nouember the Earle of Warwike with the Knight Marshall and the Comptroller rode out of Newhauen to Hauteuille so towards Moundeuille accompanyed with all the Horsemen Englishe and Scottish and a thousand footemen The Scottishmen and Montgomeries band passed forth A skirmishe and skirmished with them of Mondeuille and the Scottes brought away with thē a booty of three hundred Sheepe but in the morning they were returned backe agayne by commaundement of the Earle of Warwike Maister Comptrollers Souldyers wente as farre as Harflew and there skirmished with thē of that garrison but without any hurt to eyther parte My Lorde Lieutenante riding all about the hilles viewed the Countrey and at nighte returned On Wednesday the fourth of Nouember A prise a barke of Newhauen belonging to Frauncis Clearke broughte into the Hauen of the same Towne foure Britons laden with wines to the quantitie of two hundred tunnes of good Gascoigne wine whiche they
marching with his menne in battayle army broughte them hoâ—…e in safetie without other impeachment The seuententh of December the Counte Montgomerie and Sir Hugh Pauleâ—… arriued at Newhauen in one of the Queenes Shippes called the Ayde The ninetenth of December A Proclamation a Proclamation was made for orders to be obserued concerning the embarquing of such souldyers as were â—…ed to depart by passeport or otherwise and likewise prohibiting the taking into anye vessell any drie fish wine â—…ugre or any houshold stuffe without special licence of the Lord Lieutenant Whilest things passed thus in Normandye at Newhauen and thereaboutes where y e noble Erle of Warwike and other valiant Captaines were ready to make proofe of their high prowes in time and place as occasion might serue these ended his life at home that honorable Baron The deathe of the Lorde Grey of Wilton and right famous Captayne in his dayes William Lorde Grey of Winton Knighte of the most noble order of the Garter and at that presente Gouernour of Berwike and warden of the â—â—st marches anâ—â—ust Scotland He deceassed the fyue and twentith of December this yere 1562. at Cheshnut in Hertfordshire then the house of Henrye Deny Esquier that had married mistresse Honor Grey the sayd Lord Greys only daughter The sixe and twentith of December the Counte de Montgomerie tooke shypping at Newhauen roade accompanyed with foure hundred harquebusiers Frenchmen and sayled to Dieppe there to be gouernoure of that towne He wente in an English barke belonging to Nicholas Musby Secretary to the Earle of Warwike Lord Lieutenant The third of Ianuary 1563 a Shallop that was sent the same morning from Newhauen laden with beere and other vittailes to passe vnto Tankeruille was assayled aboute Harflewe by a Shallop of Hunfleu whiche droue the Hoy to the shore so as the Englishmen forsooke theyr Hoy and came running to Newhauen to declare what had happened Heerevpon the Lord Lieutenant sente for the foure French Shallops by water and the Horsmen with sixe hundred footemen passed forth by land and vsed such diligence that they came euen as the Frenchmen were haling vp the Hoy towardes Harflewe and skirmishing with the Frenchmen beeing fourescore good Harquebusiers for the space of a long houre at length recouered the Hoy A Hoy recouered which the Frenche had taken and tooke three of their Shallops with their ordinance which they broughte to Newhauen with the losse of one onely man an Harquebusier of Captayne Zouches bande The fourth of Ianuary in the morning the Englishe skoute beeing thirtie good Harquebusiers were sette vpon by the enimies that droue them vnto the very gates They shot also with their Harquebusies into the Towne and ouer the Mont Royall among the English Souldyers They hurt at that present three of y e scoutes but when they perceyued that the Englishmen were in a readinesse to approche them they departed beeing in number three hundred horsemen and a thousande footemen Souldyers of Mondeuille and Harfleu The fifth of Ianuary wer appreheÌ„ded Captayne Blondell Captaine Moucombell Monsieur Demainie and Vitanua with others for some conspiracie or trayterous practise whyche they went about and had malitiously contriâ—…ed The same day Captayne Edward Horsey with his two huÌ„dred Souldyers and Captaine Francis Blont with his hundred tooke shipping at Newhauen road and sayled to Dieppe there to remayne with the Conte Montgomerie whose wyfe the Countesse Montgomerie wente also with them to hir husbande the same tyme. On the Saterday following the twelfth day after Christmas A great tempest in Leicester being the ninth of Ianuary a greate tempest of winde and thunder happened in the Towne of Leicester whiche vncouered two and fortie bayes of houses and ouerthrewe many renting and tearing them in peeces in a strange and maruellous manner The people that were assembled that daye in the market place to buy and sell their vsuall chafer wares and commodities were fore amazed and astonyed with the hideousnesse of that most outragious and violent tempest On Thursday the fourtenth of Ianuary at one of the clocke in the morning there issued forth of Newhauen threescore Horsemen and a thousande footemen all Englishmen and comming to Mondeuille where the Reingraue lay An alarme giuen to Mondeuillâ—… â–ª gaue to them within an alarme but neyther the Reisters nor the Almayne footemen nor french that were within that Towne woulde come forth and therefore after the Englishmen hadde tarried there the space of foure houres they returned backe againe to Newhauen The fiftenth of Ianuary at one of the clocke in the after noone there issued forth of Newhauen threescore Horsemen and fifteene hundred footemen whiche commyng to Harfleâ—… An alarme giuen to Hâ—…flewe gaue a like alarme to that towne but none of the garrison there woulde come forthe where vpon the Englishmen returned home agayne to Newhauen The sixtenth of Ianuary The Castell Tankeruille deliuered to the Reingraue the Castell of TaÌ„keruille was surrendred to the Râ—…ingraue after he had layne about it an eyght dayes with two thousand Horsemen and footemen It was nowe yeelded by composition after it had bin kept by the space of thirtie eight days that those within should depart with bagge and baggages the galley beeing sent from Newhauen to fetch them away There were no moe within it at that tyme when it was thus deliuered but Captayne Iohn Warde Captaine Edward Dudley and Captayne Saule hys Lieutenant Riley with threescore and tenne Englishe Souldyers and thirtie French The ninetenth of Ianuary there landed at Newhauen Captayne Tremayne with fiftie Horsemenne very well appointed Tremayne to serue the Queenes Maiestie there The foure and twentith of Ianuary Frauncis Clearke Francis Clearke Frenchman arriued at NewhaueÌ„ with two tall Shippes of his owne right well appoynted for the warres bringing with hym three rich prises Prises taken by him valued at aboue fiftie thousand Crownes one of them was a mightie greate Hulke laden with woade and allume The sixe and twentith of Ianuary Captaine Tremayne with all his Horsemen and Captayne Clearke with his Scottish Horsemen and sixe hundred footemen went forth of NewhaueÌ„ towards Mondeuille and by the way in a little Village there was a Frenche Captayne come forthe of Mondeuille named Monsieur Emerie hauing with hym thirtie Souldiers where falling in hande to spoyle the same Village the paysants aboute gathered themselues togyther and set vpon him and his Souldyers and whilest they were thus in fighte the Scottish Horsemenne came suddaynely vpon them Captayne Emerle taken by the Scottish horsemen tooke the sayde Captayne sore wounded flewe twelue of hys Souldyers and tooke foureteene other of them prisoners whome with their Captayne wounded as hee was they broughte home the same night vnto Newhauen â—…clamaâ—… The three and twentith of Ianuary a Proclamation was made for orders to bee obserued by the Souldyers and other resâ—…ants within the Towne of Newhauen concerning politike gouernement thereof as
meante to haue brought to the enimies but being thus taken as a good prise it was discharged in Newhauen stoode the Englishmen and other of that towne in good steede On Friday the sixth of Nouember aboute nine of the clock in the morning a great alarme rose in the sayd Towne of Newhauen An alarme for vpon the hilles on the North side of the Towne the Reingraue and the sonne of the Vice admirall of Fraunce shewed themselues accompanyed with two thousand footemen and fiue hundred horsemen And heerewith the Reingraue sent a Trumpettor to the Towne to aduertise the L. Lieutenaunte that he was on the hilles there at hande and that vnderstanding his Lordshippe was come into the Countrey and entred into Newhauen if it woulde please him to promise vppon his honor and by the faith of a Gentleman that he might come and returne in safetie he would be glad to come to see him and talke with him Wherevpon the Lord Lieutenaunt taking with hym certayne Captaynes and Gentlemen rode forth of the Towne and sente before him Sir Adrian Poinings the Marshall with Stephen Medcalfe Stephen Medcalfe hir Maiesties Trumpettor vnto the Reingraue who talking wyth him returned and mette with the Lord Lieutenant who therewith passed forward and meeting with the Reingraue The Earle of Warwike and the Reingraue talke togither they embraced eache other and conferred togither as they had occasion and the Reingraue tolde the Lorde Lieutenant among other talke that he was come to he his neighbor and so with such merrie speech they communed togithers and after taking leaue eyther of other they returned to theyr homes The Countie Montgomerie and Monsieur Beauvoys had some talke also with the Reingraue casting out bitter and sharp wordes in deprofe of the Duke of Guise and other that were of his faction The Reingraue comming backe to his army the same after noone forraied all the Countrey and droue away the most parte of all the cattayle that they might meete with and comming to the Churche of Hauteuille where an hundred and fiftie of Montgomeries band lay they skirmished wyth them and in the ende Montgomeries Souldiers were forced to retire and abandon the place leauing it to the enimies and comming away withdrewe the same night into Newhauen The Almaynes the same euening deuidyng their army into two partes the one halfe of theÌ„ went and lodged at Mondeuille and the other halfe at Harflew The Church 〈◊〉 Haulteuille â—â—nered The morrow after the Frenchmen that had abandoned the Church of Hauteuille the nyghte before went thither againe tooke and kepte it against the enimies in like manner as they helde it before â—… Proclamation The eleuenth of Nouember a Proclamation was made in name of the Lorde Lieutenant by the officer at armes Bleumantell as well for good orders to be kept by the Souldyers aueynst the Frenche inhabitauntes of the Towne and reforming of certayne greeuances whereof the Frenche had made complaynte as also for theyr comming to Churche to heare common prayer and preaching at due times for the auoyding of vnlawfull games whoredome wicked othes and other blasphemies and lykewise concerning dyuers other good orders to bee obserued and disorders to bee eschued as was thought necessary to giue warning of with coÌ„digne paynes appoynted for punishemente of those that should transgresse in the same On Thursdaye the twelfth of Nouember there wente out of the Towne of Newhauen towards Harflewe three bands of Frenchmen conteyning aboute sixe hundred footemen and suddaynely they were besette by the Almaynes and Frenchmen of the garrison of Harflewe so that the Frenchmen Protestantes were driuen to take a Village called Grauille where they maynteyned the skirmishe for the space of two houres A skirmish before Harflewe till the Lord Lieutenant hearing of the perill in whiche they stoode sent forth with the Comptroller the number of a thousande footemen and all the English and Scottishe Horsemen and Monsieur Beauvoys with dyuers frenche Horsemen who comming before Harflewe fel in skirmish with the enimies to whose succoure there issued forthe of Harflew a greate number of the Almaynes both Horsemen and footemen but the Englishmen behaued themselues so valiantly that they beate them out of the fielde and dryue them in the ende to the very gates of theyr towne Thys skirmishe was stoutely mainteyned and coÌ„tinued for the space of three long houres Their greate artillerie was shotte off freshly from the walles and bulwarkes At length when the nighte drewe on the retire was sounded and so the Englishmen came their way backe to Newhauen with honor hauing lost not past eight of their Souldyers that were slayne and sixe other hurt where as there was one of the enimies Captaynes slayne in sighte with twenty Souldyers and another of their Captaynes with diuers other of theyr numbers greeuously wounded Monsieur Beauvoys shewed hymselfe that day very forwarde and valiant Monsieur Beauvoys and so likewise did the Scottishmen The thirtenth of Nouember a pinesse of the Frenchmen that belonged to Newhauen being gone forth the night before brought into the hauen a Shippe laden with Rochell wines fiue and twentie tunnes that was bound to passe vp to the enimies and so esteemed a good prise And the fourtenth of Nouember Prises taken and brought to Newhauen another Shippe fraught with twentie tunnes of Gascoigne wine was brought in as a prise likewise taken by a barke of Newhauen that belonged to a Frenchman called Iehan de Boys an earnest aduersarie to the Papistes An. Reg. 5. A Proclamation The seuententh of Nouember a Proclamation was made by Bleumantel concerning orders taken and passed by the Lorde Lieutenant that no Englishman nor Frenchman shoulde shoote off any harquebuze within the Towne nor that any FrenchmaÌ„ except Monsieur Beauvoys or Monsieur Bricquemault or theyr companyes shoulde be out of their lodgings after nine of the clocke at nyght till the next morning on payne of deathe excepte in cases of alarmes The twentith of Nouember aboute sixe of the clocke at nighte one of the Milles without the gate was sette on fyre by some of the Papistes as was thought An alarme whereof rose a greate alarme The thirtenth of Nouember the Reingraue was seene on the North hilles of the Towne with fourescore Horsemenne wherevppon the Scottishe Horsemen and three bandes of footemen issued out marching vp towards the same hylles in hope to meete with the enimies but they were retired towardes Mondeuille and so nothing was done It was reported for a certayne truth that the Duke Daumale was there at that presente with the Reingraue On Wednesday the fiue and twentith of Nouember one of Captayne Cocksons Souldyers Execution was hanged in the market place and an other that was brought thither likewise to be executed hadde his pardon at the sute of certayne Frenche Gentlemen and heerewith was Proclamation made A Proclamation that where it had bin proclaymed afore that none
hee stoode in feare of your commyng whose sayles hee behelde readie to approche towards him howesoeuer the matter shoulde fall out he chose rather to trye his fortune wyth your capitaynes than to abyde the present force of your maiestie a madde man that vnderstoode not that whether so euer he fled the power of your diuine maiestie to be present in all places where your countenance and banners are had in reuerence But hee fleeing from your presence fell into the handes of youre people of you was he ouercome of youre armies was he oppressed To be short he was brought into suche feare and as it were still looking behynde him for doubte of your comming after him that as one out of his remembrance amazed what to do he hasted forward to his death so that he neyther sette his men in order of battayle nor marshalled suche power as hee had about him but onely with the olde authors of that conspiracie the hired bands of the barbarous nations as one forgetful of so great preparation which he had made ran hedlong forwards to his destruction insomuch noble emperor your felicitie yeldeth this good hap to the cōmon welth that the victorie being atchieued in the behalfe of the Romain empire there almost died not one Romain for as I heare all those fields and hilles laye couered with none but only with the bodies of moste wicked enimies the same beeing of the barbarous nations or at the lest wise apparelled in the coūterfait shapes of barbarous garments glistering with their long yealow heares but nowe with gashes of wounds bloud all deformed and lying in sundry maners as the pangs of death occasioned by their wounds Alectus founde dead had caused them to stretch foorth or draw in their maymed limmes and mangled parts of their dying bodies And among these the chiefe ringleader of the theeues was founde who had put off those robes which in his life time he had vsurped dishonored He had dispoy◅ed himselfe of the imperiall ◅obes bycause he vvould not be knovven if ◅e chanced to be slayne so as vneth was he couered wyth one piece of apparell wherby he might be knowen so neare were his wordes true vttered at the houre of his death whiche he saw at hand that he would not haue it vnderstoode howe he was slayn Thus verily most inuincible emperour so greate a victorie was appointed to you by consent of the immortall gods ouer al the enemies whom you assayled Francones siue Franci but namely the slaughter of the Frankeners those youre souldiours also which as before I haue sayd through missyng their course by reason of the myst that lay on the seas were nowe come to the citie of London where they slewe downe right in eche parte of the same citie London in danger to be spoyled what multitude soeuer remayned of those hyred barbarous people which escaping from the bataile mente after they had spoyled the citie to haue got away by flight But now being thus slain by your souldiours the subiects of your prouince were both preserued from further daunger and tooke pleasure to beholde the slaughter of suche cruell enimies O what a manyfolde victorie was this worthie vndoubtedly of innumerable triumphes by which victorie Britayne is restored to the Empire by which victorie the nation of the Frankeners is vtterlye destroyed and by whiche many other nations found accessaries in the cōspiracie of that wicked practise are compelled to obedience To conclude the seas are purged and broughte to perpetuall quietnes Glorie you therfore inuincible Emperor for that you haue as it were gote an other worlde and in restoring to the Romain puissaunce the glorie of conquest by sea haue added to the Romain empire an element greater than al the compasse of the earth that is the mightie mayne Ocean You haue made an ende of the warre inuincible Emperour that seemed as present to threaten all prouinces and might haue spreade abroade and burst out in flame euen so largely as y e Ocean Seas stretche and the Mediterrane gulfes do reache neither are we ignorant althoughe thorough feare of you that infection did festee within the bowels of Britayn only and proceeded no further w t what furie it would haue auanced it selfe else where if it might haue bin assured of meane to haue raunged abroade so farre as it wished For it was bounded in with no bordure of mountayne nor ryuer whych garnisons appoynted were garded and defended but euen so as the shippes although we had your martiall prowes and prosperous fortune readye to relieue vs was still at oure elbowes to put vs in feare so farre as eyther seas reache or wynde bloweth for that incredible boldenesse and vnwoorthy good happe of a few captiues of the Frankeners in time of y e Emperour Probus came to our remēbrance whiche Frankeners in that season The piracy of the Frankeyners called Franci or Frācones conueying away certayn vessels from the coastes of Pontus wasted doth Grecia Asia and not without great hurt damage ariuing vpon diuers partes of the shore of Libya at length tooke the Citye of Saragose in Sicile an hauen towne in tymes paste hyghely renowmed for victories gotten by sea and after this passyng thorough the streytes of Gibralterra came into the Ocean so with the fortunate successe of their rashe presumptuous attempte shewed how nothing is shut vp in safety from the desperate boldnesse of pyrates where ships may come and haue accesse And so therfore by this your victorie not Britain alone is deliuered from bondage but vnto all nations is safetie restored which might by the vse of the seas come to as great perils in time of warre as to gayne of commodities in tyme of peace Now Spayne to let passe the coastes of Gallia with hir shores almost in sight is in suretie now Italy now Afrike nowe all nations euen vnto the fennes of Meotis are voyde of perpetuall cares Neyther therfore are they lesse ioyful the feare of danger being taken away which to feele as yet the necessitie had not brought thē but they reioyce so muche the more for this that both in the guiding of your good prouidence and also furtheraunce of fortune so great a force of rebellion by sea men is calmed vpon the entring into their bordures and Britayne it selfe whiche had giuen harburgh to so long a mischief is euidently knowne to haue tasted of your victorie with hir only restitutiō to quietnesse Britayne restored to quietnesse Not without good cause therefore immediatly when you hir long wished reuenger and deliuerer were once arriued your Maiestie was met with greate triumph and the Britayns replenished with all inwarde gladnesse The Britaynes receyue Maximian vvith great ioy and humblenesse came foorth and offered themselues to youre presence with their wyues and children reuerencing not onely youre selfe on whome they sette their eyes as on one descended downe them to from heauen but also euen
with these .ij. heades this blondy â—…cher entred into the citie againe and in despite caused them in euery streete to kisse togither to the great detestation of all the beholders After this succeeded open rapine and manifest robbery in diuers houses within the citie and especially in the house of Philip Malpas Adâ—…rmaÌ„ of London diuers other ouer and beside raunsoming and fining of diuers notable merchaÌ„tâ—… for the suertye of their liues and goods as Roberte Horne Alderman whyche pâ—…yde â—… C. marks he also put to execution in Southwarke diuers persones some for breakyng hys ordynaunce other being of his olde acquaintaunce lost they shoulde bewraye his base linnage disparaging him for his vsurped surname of Mortimer The Maior and other the Magistrates of London perceyuing themselues neyther to bee sure of goodes nor of life well warranted determined to repulse and keepe out of their citie suche a mischieuous tâ—…raunt and his wicked company and to be the better able so to do they made the lorde Scales and that renoumed captaine Mathewe Goughe priuye bothe of their intent and enterprise beseeching them of their helpe and furtherance therin The Lord Scales promised them his aide with shoting off the artillery in the tower and Mathew Gough was by hym apointed to assiste the Maior Londoners in all that he might and so he other captaines appointed for defence of the Citie tooke vpon them in the night to keepe the brydge and woulde not suffer the Kentishmen once to approche The rebelles which neuer soundly slept for feare of sodaine chaunces hearing that the bridge was thus kept ran with greate haste to open that passage where betwene bothe parties was a fience and cruell encounter Mathew Goughe perceuing the rebelles to stand to their tackling more manfully than hee thought they woulde haue done aduised his company not to aduance any further towarde Southwarke till the day appeared that they â—…ght see where the place of icoperdy rested and so to prouide for the same But thys little auailed For the rebelles wyth theyr huge multitude draue backe the Citizens froÌ„ the stoulpes at the bridge foote to the drawe bridge and began to set Arc in dyuers houses greate ruth it 〈◊〉 to beholde that 〈◊〉 like chance for 〈…〉 to eschuâ—… the fire fell vpâ—… 〈◊〉 their enimies weâ—…pon and so died 〈…〉 with children in their armes aâ—…â—…aâ—… die past good remembraÌ„ce â—…ept into y e riuer other doubting how to haue themselues betwene fire water sword were in their houses 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 hered Yet y e Captaines nothing regarding these vauntes soughte on the bridge all the night valiantly but in 〈◊〉 y e rebels gaâ—… the draw bridges drowned many slew Iohn Sotton Alderman Robert Heysand a hardye Citizen w t many other 〈◊〉 Mathew Gough a man of great wit much experience in feares of chiualry y t which in coÌ„tinual warres had speÌ„t his time in seruice of the King and his father This fore conflict endured in doubtfull wise on the bridge till nine of the clocke in the morning for sometime the Londoners were beaten backe to S. Magnus corner and suddaynely againe the Rebels were repulsed to y e stoulpes in Southwarke so that both parts being faint and weerie agreed to leaue off from fighting till the next day vppon condition that neyther Londoners should passe into Southwarke nor y e Kentishmen into London After this abstinence of warre taken thys rakehell Captaine hoping vppon more friendes brake vp the gasles of the Kings benche and the Marshalsey and set at libertie a swarme of galauntes both meete for his seruice and apt for his enterprise The Archbishop of Canterburie being ChaÌ„cellor of Englande and as then for his suretie lying within the Tower called to him the Byshop of Winchester who likewise for feare lurked at Halywell these two Prelates seeing the furie of the Kentishe people by reason of theyr late repulse and beating backe to bee somewhat aswaged passed the riuer of Thames from the Tower into Southwarke bringing with them vnder the kings great seale 〈◊〉 eâ—…emities â—…metimes politie doth more than â—…ength a general pardon vnto all the offendors and caused the same to be openly published The poore people were so glad of this pardon and so readye to receiue it that without bidding farewell to their Captayne they withdrew theÌ„selues y e same night euery maÌ„ towardes his owne home as men amazed and striken with feare but Iacke Cade despayring of all succours and fearing nowe the sequeale of his lewde dealings departed secretely in habite disguised into Sussex hoping so to escape but after that proclamation was made that who so euer could appreheÌ„d the said Iacke Cade shuld haue in rewarde a M. markes for hys paynes many sought for him but few espied him tyll at length one Alexander Iâ—… a valiant Esquier of Keâ—…e founde him one in a garden and hym there in his defence manfully flew Iacke Cade a desperate Rebell slayne and brought his dead body to London whose head was pitched on a polle and set vpon London bridge After this the King himselfe came into Kent and there 〈…〉 vpon the offendors and if he had not mingled his lust 〈◊〉 with used â–ª as more than fiue hundred by 〈…〉 had â—…iuistly put to 〈…〉 punishing only the stubbornie heads and disordred 〈◊〉 â—…ders deliuered and pardoned 〈…〉 persons to the great 〈…〉 During the commoâ—… adâ—… London Raufe Biâ—…e Salisburie was by 〈…〉 namitoâ—… and 〈…〉 and so from thenceforth dayly followed murther slaughter and dâ—…struction The French King vnderstanding all this ciuill discord and rebellious stories in England made thereof his foundations â—…ping to get vnto his handes and possession the Duchie of Aquitaine and therevpon sent y e Erles of 〈◊〉 and Perigort to lay siege to the towne of Bâ—…rgerat situate vppon the riuer of Douerdoâ—…ne of whiche towne was Captaine Iohn Geâ—… who vppon reasonable conditions rendred the Towne but yet the Lorde Caâ—… sir George Seymor and sir Iohn Atuâ—…der 〈◊〉 diuers other valiant Captaines hauing the gouernance of the Countrey manned Townes gathered people and recomforted the faâ—…ing harts of the Gascoignes in all that they could withall sent letters ouer into England certifying to y e kings maiestie that without speedie aide ready succours the whole countrey was like to bee conquered won out of the Englishmens possessioÌ„ Many letters were sente manye faire aunsweres were brought but reliefe neyther appeared nor one man of warre was thither shipped by reason whereof the frenchmen pursuing the victorie gote the fortresses of Iansacke and S. Foye with diuers other peeces of importaunce thereaboutes Also about y e same time the L. Doruall third sonne to the L. de la Breth with a great number of men as wel on horsebacke as on foote departed from Baâ—…as to conquere and destroy y e I le of Medor wherevpon the Maior of Burdeaux issuing out encountring with his enimies was vaÌ„quished losing sixe
commyng to Rychemonts where the Kyng then laye the laste of September In October there came Ambassadoures from the French King into England the lord Annas de Montmorancy great Master of the said French kings house the Bishoppe of Baâ—…onne chiefe presidente of Roan and Monsieur de Humieres accompanied wyth 〈◊〉 Gentlemen well appointed These Ambassadors were receyued with all honor â—…ght be deuised On 〈◊〉 daye the Kyng commyng to the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paule where the Cardinall â—…ng Masse sware deâ—… the high 〈◊〉 in the presente of the French Ambassadors to keepe and performe the league On Sunday the xâ—… of Noueâ—…ber the king being 〈◊〉 knight of the order of Saint Michaell The K. of Englande receyâ—… the order of S. Michaell receiued 〈◊〉 Grieâ—… with the saide order by the hands of the greate maister of Fraâ—… and Monsier Humiâ—…res that wer companions of the same order in like case as the French K. the same day at Paris receiued the order of the Garâ—…r by the hands of the lorde Lisle Doctor Taltor maister of the Rolls sir Nicholas Carew knight maister of the kings horses sir Antony Brown knight The Frenche K. receyueth the order of the garter sir Thomas Wriothestey Knight otherwise called Garter Kyng of armes the whiche were sente thither wyth the whole habite roller and other habillements of the order as appertained After that the French Ambassadors had ben highly feasted banqueted entertained with al honor pastime conuenient the great maister and all his company tooke leaue of the king wyth great rewardes returned into Fraunce leauing the Bishop of Bawnne behind them who abode ambassador legier in EnglaÌ„d In this Moneth of NoueÌ„ber Arthur Biluey â—…ey and other abiured Geffrey Lome one Garret y e spake against the Popes auctoritie were abiured by the Cardinall By reasoÌ„ of the gret weet that fell in the sowing time of the corne in the beginning of the laste yeare now in the beginning of this corne so failed that in the citie of LondoÌ„ for a while breade was scant by reason that commissioners appointed to see orders taken in shires aboute ordeined that none shuld be coÌ„ueied out of one shire into an other which order had like to haue bred disorder for y e euery cuntry place was not prouided a like and namely London that maketh hir prouisioÌ„ out of other places felte great inconuenience hereby Deâ—…th of corn till the marchants of the Stiliarde and other out of the Theutsch countryes broughte such pieÌ„tie y t it was better cheap in London 〈◊〉 in any other part of England for the king also releeued the citizens in time of their nede with a M. quarters by way of lone of his own prouision The scarcetie at the first was more than the derth for in the beginning of their wante wheate was only at .xv. s shillings a quarter and from thence it rose to .xx. s shillings after to xxvj s shillings v d. pence the quarter till remedy by outward prouision was procured and had In this meane while y e Lorde Lauâ—…ter with his army was entred into Italy where howe he sped and what came of that expeâ—…ion ye shall finde in the histories of Fraunce and Italy and therefore in this place I passe it ouer Sir Francis Poâ—…nes knighte in 〈◊〉 of Ducâ—…her returned out of Spain into England leauing Clarenceaux behind him to â—…ng further answer The Emperor at the requeste of this sir Frauncis Polties who made y e â—…aâ—… in â—…ame of his maister the K. of England was contended to release â—… articles whiche weâ—… reputed most preiudiciall to the French king only to gratiâ—…e the king of England but the Cardinall kepte the kyng still in displeasure towarde the Emperor for the fauor whiche hee dare to the French king whose only purposes he sought to aduaunce The articles whiche were draweÌ„ at Amiâ—…s wheÌ„ the Cardinal was there were exhibited to y e Emperor by the FreÌ„ch Ambassadors bycause he refused the same worde was set to Clarenceaux king of arms to make destaunce to the Emperor Wherevpon on the Wednesday the .xxij. of Ianuarie Guyenne king of arms to the French king and ClareÌ„ceaux king of arms to the king of England being in the citie of Bourgues in Spain came to the Court of Charles the elect Emperor aboue 9. of the clocke in the morning and there dâ—…d request of his maiestie that it wold please him to appoint theÌ„ an houre of audsence The lord de Chaâ—…ux by ordinaunce from hys maiestie gaue them answer that it shuld be about x. of y e clocke before noone the same daye And at the same houre his Maiestye came into the greate hall of his Courte accompanyed wyth diuers Prelats Dukes Marquises Erles Barons other great lords and good personages of diuers nations of his kyngdome seigniories in great number The Emperour sittyng in a chayre prepared accordyng to his dignitye the twoo kinges of armes of Fraunce and Englande being in the nether end of the hall holdyng vpon their left arms eche one his coate of armes did make .3 solemne reuerences accustomed wyth knee to the ground And wheÌ„ they were at the lowest steire before hys Emperiall Maiestie Clarenceaux king of armes of Englande hauing the words in bothe their names spake as followeth Sir following the three Edictes inuiolably kept and obserued by your predecessours Emperours of Rome Kings Princes and Captaynes Guyenne Kyng of armes of the moste Christened Kyng and also Clarenceaux King of armes to the Kyng of Englande one soueraigne and naturall lords wee presentyng our selues before your sacred maiesty for to declare certaine things from the saide kings our maisters beseching your maiestie that hauing regarde vnto the saide laws according to your benignitie and mercy that it would please you to gyue vs sure accesse and good intreatyng in your countreis lands and seigniories atteÌ„ding your aunswere with sure conducts to reâ—…oueâ—…e vnto the couÌ„treis lands and seigniories of our saide soueraigne Lordes The Emperour then had them saye on whatsoeuer the Kyngs your maisters haue giuen you in chardge your priuiledges shall be kepte none shall do you any displeasure within my kingdomes or territories After thys Guyenne read in writyng that whych followeth signed wyth y e hand of y e said Guienne king of armes Sir the most christned Kyng my soueraigne and naturall Lorde hathe commaunded me to saye to you that hee hath conceyued a maruellous griefe and displeasure of that that in place of amitie whiche hee so muche desired to haue with you the former enmytie in full force still remaineth By the whiche he seeth and perceyueth that the euils and inconueniences long since begon shal continue and augment not only vnto you and vnto him your vassals subiects but also vnto all Christendom and that the forces youths whyche the one and the other oughte to employ against the enimyes of the faith shall bee spent to
Willyam Herbert after Earle of Penbroke Sir Iohn Paulet Sir Hugh Paulet Sir Thomas Speake and others with a conuenient power of men of warre both on horsebacke and foote Straungers Amongst other there were certaine Straungers that came with my Lorde Grey as Captaine Germaine an Hennowyer with a band of horsemen most part Albanâ—…yses and Italians Also Captaine Paule Baptist Spinola an Italian borne of a noble house 〈◊〉 Genoa with a bande of Italian footemen But now the Lorde priuy seale that was ordeyned by the King and his Counsayle Generall of that armie 〈◊〉 vpon his first approching towardes them sent vnto them the Kings Maiesties Proclamation 〈◊〉 proclamatioÌ„ the effecte whereof was that all suche persons as were vnlawfullye assembled and did not wythin three dayes nexte after the proclaiming thereof yeelde and submitte themselues to the Lorde priuy Seale the Kings Lieutenaunt they shoulde from thenceforth bee deemed accepted and taken for Rebels against his royall person and his imperiall crowne and dignitie And further the Kings Maiestie for a more terrour to the Rebelles and the encouragement of such other his louing subiectes as shoulde helpe and ayde to apprehende anye of the sayde Rebelles hee by his sayde Proclamation graunted and gaue all the offices fees goodes and possessions which the sayde Rebelles had at and before their apprehension This Proclamation notwithstanding the Rebels continueth in their wicked deuises and traiterous purposes wherevpon yet once againe the Kings maiestie for the auoyding of the shedding of Christian bloude sent vnto them a most gentle and louing message in writing thereby to reduce them againe to their dutifull obedience but all woulde not serue nor auaile to moâ—…e their obstinate mindes to leaue off their desperate and diuelish enterprise The message was as followeth Although knowledge hath bene gyuen to vs and our dearest vnkle the Duke of Somerset Gouernour of our person The Kings message to the rebelles of Cornewal and Deuonshire and Protectour of all our Realmes Dominions and subiects and to the rest of our priuie Counsayle of diuerse assemblies made by you whiche ought of dutie to be our louing subiectes against all order of lawe and otherwise than euer anye louing or kinde subiectes hath attempted against their naturall and liege Souereygne Lorde yet we haue thought it meete at this verye firste time not to condemne and reiecte you as wee might iustly doe but to vse you as our subiects thinking that the diuell hath not that power in you to make you of naturall borne Englishmen so sodenly to become enimies to your owne natiue Countrey of our subiects to make you traytors or vnder pretence to relieue your selues to destroye youre selues youre wiues children landes possessions and all other commodities of this your life This we say that we trust that although ye be ignorantly seduced ye will not be vppon knowledge obstinate And though some amongst you as euer there is some Cockle amongst good corne forget God neglect their Prince esteeme not the state of the Realme but as carelesse desperate men delite in sedicion tumult and warres yet neuerthelesse the greater part of you will heare the voyce of vs your naturall Prince and will by wisedome and counsell bee warned and cease your euilles in the beginning whose endes will be euen by God almighties order your owne destruction Wherefore as to you our subiectes by ignoraunce seduced we speake and be content to vse our Princely authoritie like a father to his Children to admonishe you of your faultes not to punishe them to putte you in remembraunce of your dueties not to auenge your forgetfulnesse First your disorder to ryse in multitudes Disorder in subiects to assemble yourselues against one other louing subiectes to arraye your selues to the warre who amongst you all can aunswere for the same to almightie God charging you to obeye vs in all things Or howe can anye Englyshe good hearte aunswere vs oure lawes and the rest of oure verye louyng and faythfull subiectes who in deede by their obedience make our honour estate and degree Yee vse oure name in youre writings Abusing of the Kings name and abuse the same against our selfe what iniurie herein doe you vs to call those which loue vs to your euill purposes by the authoritie of our name God hath made vs your King by his ordinance and prouidence by our bloude and inheritaunce by lawfull succession and our Coronation but not to this ende as you vse our name Wee are your moste naturall Souereine Lorde and King Edwarde the sixth to rule you to preserue you to saue you from all your outwarde enimies to see oure lawes well ministred euerye manne to haue his owne to suppresse disordered people to correct traitours theeues pyrates robbers and such lyke yea to keepe our Realmes from other Princes from the malice of the Scottes of Frenchmenne of the Bishoppe of Rome Thus good subiectes our name is written thus it is honoured and obeyed this maiestie it hathe by Gods ordinaunce not by mannes So that of this your offence we cannot wryte to muche And yet doubt not but this is ynoughe from a Prince to all reasonable people from a royall King to all kynde hearted and louyng subiectes from the puissant King of Englande to euery naturall Englishe man False causes Your pretence whiche you saye moueth you to doe thus and wherewith you seeke to excuse this disorder we assure you is either false or so vayne that we doubt not that after that ye shall hereby vnderstande the truth thereof ye will all with one voyce acknowledge your selues ignorantly ledde and by errour seduced And if there be any one that will not then assure you the same bee ranke traytours enimies of oure Crowne sedicious people hererikes Papistes or such as care not what cause they haue to prouoke an insurrection so they maye doe it nor in deede can waxe so riche with their owne labours and with peace as they can doe with spoyles with warres with robberies and suche lyke yea with the spoyle of your owne goodes with the liuing of your labours the sweare of your bodies the foode of youre owne housholdes wyues and Children Suche they bee as for a tyme vse pleasaunt persuasions to you and in the ende will cutte your throates for youre owne goodes You be borne in hande that youre children though necessitie chaunce shall not be christened but vpon the holy dayes howe false this is learne you of vs. Our booke whiche we haue set forth by the free consent of our whole Parliament in the Englishe tongue teacheth you the contrarie euen in the first leafe yea the first side of the first leafe of that parte whiche intreateth of Baptisme Good subiectes for to other we speake not looke and be not deceyued They whiche haue put this false opinion into your cares they meane not the christening of Children but the destruction of you our christened subiectes Be this knowne vnto you that
verie hell for the time They also hurled downe ouer the Walles vppon the assaylantes heades greate plentie of stones logges and mightie peeces of tymber which did muche hurt to the English men and Scottes that forced themselues to climbe vp But yet neuerthelesse manye there were that entered the Towne in sundrye places of the whyche some came backe agayne although others were beaten downe and slaine To conclude at length all that escaped with lyfe were forced to retyre with the losse of seuen or eyght skore Englishmen some haue sayde two hundred which were slaine outryght The number slaine and hurt at the assault besyde those that were wounded being in number at the least two or three hundred and amongest other there were dyuerse Capitaynes and Gentlemen that were hurt as Syr Thomas Hesketh Maister Sutton Maister Newporte maister Conwey Captaine Wood Thomas Fitton with others Vppon the repulse thus giuen to our men by the French they aduaunced and set vp fourtene Ensignes presentlye aboute the Towne and continewed otherwyse quyet all that daye Wednesday the eyght of May in the after Noone sir George Howarde and sir Richarde Lee departed towardes Barwike wyth certayne Companies of Horsemen for their safeconduction Thursday the ninth of May the Frenchmen wrought verie earnestly within the towne to fortifie the necessarie places and repayre the breaches euen in the face of the English ordinance which went off dyuerse tymes and dyd them much hurt The same daye also the Frenche hadde manned to the Sea wardes a Boate fraught wyth fyftie Harquebusiers meaning to conuey them ouer to Insketh but the Englishe Shippes discouering them prepared certayne Boates to encounter them whereof they beyng aware returned Fryday the tenth of May Maister Inglebie Captaine Pickman A supply from Barwike and Captain Browne came to the Campe from Berwike with a supplie of .450 souldiours The same day aboute tenne of the clocke at night there chaunced a brawle to fall oute among the Scottes that watched in the trenches nearest vnto the Towne of Lieth an the West side insomuch that one of them fell to and killed an other which disorder being perceyued of the French within Lieth they issued out and ment to haue vsed the aduantage but the English men that watched neare vnto the Scottes stayed the fray and did not onely bring them to quiet but also put the French men to flight Sunday the .xij. of May about midnight the Frenchmen to the number of two hundred sallied forth of the towne minding to giue a camisado to the Englishe men that kept watche that night in the trenches at the West side of Montpelham but they were discried and certaine of them killed and so had the repulse Sir Fraunces Leake bringeth a supply to the campe Wednesday the .xv. of May sir Frauncis Leake came to the campe with a supplie of fiue hundred men from Barwike Thursday the .xvj. of May towardes night the Frenchmen to the number of one hundred footmen and .xxx. horsemen came abroade shewed themselues very braue skirmishing with the English men at the west end of their towne Tuisday the .xxj. of May about .vij. of the clocke at night there issued forth of Lieth sixe horsemen and one hundred footmen Harquebusiers marching towarde Montpelham to offer skirmish A skirmish wherevpon Captaine Vaughan went forth to them verie orderlye and skyrmished with them a pretie while and in the meane tyme off went the greate Ordinance on both sides In the end the French men were driuen to retyre into the towne for the English men shewed themselues verie egre and valiantly charged their enimies put them to retyre and chased them in at theyr gates The French men chased to the whiche they followed them right hardily The same night maister Frauncis Somerset and other Captaines were appoynted to kepe a Fort buylt aboue the campe and now finished tooke name of him being Captaine thereof and was after called Somersets Mount. Somersets Mount The same day a souldiour of captain Druries band was hāged for going to Edenbourgh contrarie to a Proclamation inhibiting any soldiour so to do without speciall licence Sir Peter Carew Wednesday the .xxij. of May sir Peter Carew came to the Campe beeing sent from the Court. Thursday the .xxiiij. of May at seuen of the clocke at night the French sallied forth to the number of two hundred footmen and .xx. horsemen at the relief of the wardes when the watch shoulde be set meaning as it appeared to haue woonne the Trenches from the Englishmen wherevpon a sore skyrmishe followed dyuerse slaine and many hurt on both partes yet in the ende the Frenche menne were dryuen home by plaine force This was at the West syde of the towne where they had fortified towards the Sea The same day the Frenchmen of Dunbarre tooke an English Hay laden with double beere An English hoy taken biefe oxen and flitches of bakon Saterday the .viij. of Iune sir Iohn Neuill with CCC men Captaine Bridges and captaine Drurie with other three hundred set from Barwike towards the campe where they arryued on Monday the .x. of Iune The Queene Dowager departeth this life on which day the Queene Dowager departed this life The .xiij. of Iune sir William Cicill principal Secretarie to the Queenes Maiestie now Lorde Burley and high Treasorer of England and Doctor Wotton deane of Canterburie and Yorke came to Barwike appoynted Commissioners on hir sayde Maiesties behalfe to treate of an accorde with the Conte de Randon and the bishop of Valence cōmissioners sent for that purpose from the French king and his wife Marie Queene of Scotland The .xiiij. of Iune being Fryday a certaine number of French men came forth of Lieth to gather Cockles on the Sands towards Montpelham The French gather cockles to their hin◅derance whereof the Englishmen perceyuing set vpon them slue .lxx. and tooke xvj of them prysoners On Sunday the .xvj. of Iune the foreremembred commissioners came to Edenbourgh Sir William Cicil and doctor Wotton came to Edenbourgh and as maister Secretarie and Doctor Wotton passed the English fortes and campe they were saluted with a gallant peale of the harquebusters that shot off their harquebusses verse liuely Monday the .xvij. of Iune about eight of the clocke an abstinence of warre was concluded warning being giuen by the discharging of two peeces of the great artillerie out of the Castell and then the Frenchmen shewed and aduaunced themselues vpon their rampiers Saterday the .xxij. of Iune the abstinence was broken of which till then had beene truely kept and obserued Thursday the fourth of Iuly about three of the clock in the after noone the French came out of Lieth according to their accustomed maner to gather Cockles whervpon the Lord Lieutenant being at that present in Montpelham sent a Drumme vnto Monsieur Doysell to signifie to him that his soldiours had gone further without theyr boundes than they might do by the order taken
about a dozen or thirteene persons and amongst other was Captayne Tremayne slayne and many hurt To conclude the Englishmen like hardye and worthy Souldyers wanne and kepte the helde so as the Frenchmen in the ende were driuen to retire The Frenchmen driuen to retire and beside other losses whiche they receyued they hadde aboue fiftie of their horses killed and hurt In this skirmish being one of the notablest y t had bin lightly seene manye a day before Captayne Horseys valiancy Captayne Horsey shewed worthy proofe of his most valiant courage winning to himselfe such commendation as the same will not bee forgotten whilest anye shall remayne aliue that behelde hys manfull healings beeing suche at that presente as deserue to bee registred in the Booke of Fame to continue with posteritie for euer On Saterday the fifth of Iune at seauen of the clocke at nyghte the Reingraue hauyng layde in the Village of Lheure an ambushe of sixe hundred Horsemenne and fifteene hundred fotemen there came downe also betweene the Abbey and the Village called Englefield towards the Towne Another â—…kirmishe the number of a thousande footemen whiche beganne a very hote skirmish firste at the newe forte comming euen harde to the ditches where the Englishmen manfully encountred them Heerewith also the Reingraue appoynted other to come downe and approche the Bulwarkes of Sainte Addressez Sainte Francis and Saint Michell and to conclude rounde about the Towne so that there were of them the number of sixe thousand that were employde in this skirmishe whyche was mainteyned ryghte fiercely for the space of two houres with ryghte sharpe and cruell fight in the ende The number which the French lost in this skirmish the enimies were forced to giue place with the losse of fyue hundred of their men Almaynes Frenchmen Gascoignes and Spanyards The Englishmen verily in thys seruice shewed that they were nothing degenerated from the auntiente race of theyr noble progenitors Beside those that were slayne on the French parte amongst whome was one of their Captaynes of good accompte amongst them they tooke also Bassompeere an Almayne Bassompeere coronell ouer tenne ensignes of footemen The presence of the Lorde Lieutenante was not wanting that daye both to encourage hys worthy Souldyers and also to see them applyed with weapon and munition so as they should not bee vnprouided of anye thyng that was needefull for seruice Of Englishmen there were hurte Captayne Ielbert and Captayne Pelham Captayne Ielbert and Captayne Pelham hurt and about fifteene other hurt and slayne The seuenth of Iune Edward Dudley Captaine Edwarde Dudley arriued at NewhaueÌ„ with an C. souldiers The morrowe after beeing the seauenth of Iune the firste Canon shorte lighte within the Towne of Newhauen neere to the Bulwarke of Saint Addressez striking into y e house where Captayne Wheler was lodged which shot being brought to my lord of Warwike by Blewmantell Purseuant at armes his honor beholding it reioysed thereat and said by Gods grace he would aunswere them againe A new supply of Berwike Souldyers The ninth of Iune arriued at Newhauen three Captaynes with their bandes of an hundred a peece being of the garnison of Berwike to witte Captayne Tremayne Captayne Cornewall and Captayne Carew Captayn Randoll Edward Randoll also landed there the same bay appoynted to be Knight Marshall The dead body of Sir Thomas Finche amongst other was cast a shore and being knowen was conueyd home to his house and there buryed in his parish Churche After this mischance losse of that worthy Gentleman Edward Randoll the sayde Edwarde Randoll was appoynted Knight Marshall who ordeyned a righte sufficiente personage Captayne Iohn Shute to be his prouost Marshall The fiftenth of Iune Captayne Richarde Sanders A supply of Soldyers and Captayne William Saul wyth theyr bandes of an hundred Souldiers a peece and Captayne Drury with two hundred arriued at Newhauen and the morrowe after arriued Captayne Robertes with another hundred of Souldiers And on the seuententh of Iune being Thursday Sir Frauncis Knolles Sir Francis Knolles Vicechamberlaine of the Queenes Maiesties house landed there being sente ouer by hir Maiestie and hir Counsell to viewe the state of the Towne On Friday the eyghtenth of Iune a Sergeant of Captayne Bluntes bande and a Souldyer of Captayne Darcies bande were executed in the Market place of Newhauen for drawing their weapons agaynst their Captaynes and forsaking their appoynted places of warding and suche other lewde partes whiche they had committed The fiue and twentith of Iune A Proclamation Proclamation was made that no Souldier of the newe fort should resort to the Towne of Newhauen without licence of his Captayne or some of his principall officers on payne of death or that any man shoulde presume to passe the limits of the sayd new fort except vpon occasion of seruice in company of his Captayne or Lieutenaunt on like payne and thys order was taken bycause dyuers stragling abroade had bin taken prisoners and slayne by the enimies to their owne reproch and hinderance of the Princes seruice The eyght and twentith of Iune the French men came downe to the Village of Lheure and there very neere to the forte began to skirmishe with the Englishmen A long skirmish without â—…ay greate hurt â—â—moâ—…s placed â—â— beate the Towne This skirmishe lasted three houres and yet there were not past foure slayne The night following they placed fiue Cannons betwixte the Towne and the brickhilles and likewise they placed other peeces of their artillerie at the foresayd Village of Lheure so that they shotte both into the Towne and fort The first of Iuly about midnight they issued forthe of their trenches and skirmished with the Englishe skoutes droue them vnder the Bulwarke of Saint Addressez and there perceyuing that the Englishmen had a priuie sallie out after a long skirmish they retired They had meante to haue set the Milles belonging to the Towne on fyre but they hadde suche play made them that aboute three of the clocke in the morning they became to be quiet and left the Englishmen in rest hauing done to them little or no hurt at all The greate ordinance on both sides was not idle whilest thys skirmish was in hande Six hundred out of Northfolke and three hundred out of Suffolke The seconde and third of Iuly there landed nine hundred Souldyers that came forthe of Northfolke and Suffolke yellowe clokes and blewe clokes verye well appoynted hauyng to their Captayne 's Ferdinando Liggens Philip Sturley Iohn Highfielde and Edw. Driuer Also there came the same time fiftie Carpenters sixteene Sawyers and eyght Smithes to serue the Queenes Maiestie in hir workes Moreouer on the thirde daye of Iuly aboute tenne of the clocke at night the Frenche gaue a greate alarme to the towne beat in the skoutes but incontinently issued forth fiue hundred souldiers out at the sallying place vnder the greene Bulwarke and beat the Frenchmen
as followeth The Articles of the agreemeÌ„t touching surrender of Newhauen Firste that the Earle of Warwike shoulde 〈◊〉 agayne the Towne of Newhauen into the handes of the Connestable of Fraunce with all the artillerie and munitions of warre then beeyng in that Towne and belonging to the French King and his subiects Item that hee should leaue the Shippes that were in the sayde towne at that presente belonging eyther to the King or hys subiects with all their furniture and generally all such merchandise and other things being likewise at that present within that Towne as either belonged to the King or his subiects Item for the more suretie of the premisses the sayd Earle should presently deliuer into the hands of the sayde Connestable the greate tower of the sayde hauen so that the Souldyers that were placed therin enter not into y e towne and that the sayde Earle of Warwike shoulde cause the gates there towardes the Towne to be warded till it were in the possession of y e sayd Connestable without planting any ensignes on the sayde Tower according vnto the sayde agreement and also that the sayde Earle shoulde deliuer foure such hostages as the sayde Connestable should name Item that the next day by eight of the clocke in the morning the sayd Erle should withdraw his Souldyers whiche are in the forte to deliuer it immediately into the hands of the sayd Connestable or such as should be by hym appoynted to receyue the same at the sayd houre Item that all prisoners that haue bin taken before the sayde Hauen shoulde bee delyuered on eyther side without paying any raunsome Item that the Connestable shoulde for hys parte suffer the saide Earle of Warwike and all those that are in garnison in the sayde Newhauen to departe with all thyngs 〈◊〉 that belonged to the Queene of Englande and hir subiects Item that for the departure as well of the sayd Earle as the 〈◊〉 of hys Souldyers and other things before rehearsed y e sayd Connestable agreed to gyue them sixe whole dayes beginning the morrow there nexte following to 〈◊〉 the .xxix. of Iuly during whiche sixe dayes they mighte â—…ly and freâ—…ly take and 〈◊〉 away all the sayde things 〈◊〉 wythe or foule weather shuld hinder that their passage coulde not be made within the sayde 〈◊〉 in this case the sayde Connestable should graunte them suche further time of delay as might bee though 〈◊〉 Item the sayde Connestable dyd likewise permite that 〈…〉 Shippes and English vessels and all other that shoulde be appoynted for the portage and conueying away of the sayde things should safely and freely passe into and fro the sayde Hauen without any stay or impeachment eyther by the Frenche army of anye other The sayde some hostages were appoynted to bee maister Oliuer Maners brother to the Earle of Rutlande Captayne Pelham Captayne Horsey and Captayne Leighton In witnesse whereof the sayde Lordes the Connestable of Fraunce and Earle of Warwike signed these articles the eyght and twentith of Iuly Anno .1563 Thus the Earle of Warwike Additions to Lanquer as he had during the whole tyme of hys abode there in that Towne of Newhauen shewed himselfe a right hardy and valiaunt Captayne so nowe in the ende hee proued himselfe to be both prudent and politike for by accepting of these honorable coÌ„ditions to goe with all armour munition Shippes goodes bagge and baggage in anye wife apperteyning or belonging eyther to the Queenes maiestie or to any of hir graces subiects he saued the liues of a great number which otherwise escaping the scourge of the infectiue plague must needes haue fallen vnder the edge of the sword The Connestable during the tyme of the parley sente hys yongest sonne Monsieur de Thorree to the King and Queene mother to aduertise them of the recasie of this peace and after it was once concluded and signed by the Earle of Warwike he sent his eldest sonne the Marshall Montmorencie to presente the same vnto them at Criquelot halfe way betweene Newhauen and Fefeanip The French King coÌ„meth to the Camp before Newhauen who were right ioyful of the newes and the nexte day they came to the Campe shewing greate signes of theyr contryued gladnesse for the recouering of that Towne thus 〈◊〉 of the Englishe mens handes The Saterday the most part of the English men tooke shippe and departed homewardes for glad might be thinke himselfe that could get soonest out of that vnwholsome and most vnsouerie 〈◊〉 Many sicke persons yet were left behinde impotent and not able to helpe themselues The miserie where of Edward Randolfe Esquier high Marshall of the towne who was appoynted to carrie and see the vttermost of the composition accomplished perceyuing moued with naturall pitie of his Countreymen relinquished without comfort caused the sayde sicke personnes to be caried aborde not sparing hys shoulders at that tyme feable and full of the plague himselfe and his men still bearing and helping the poore creatures on shipboorde Arane fact worthie rewarde and no doubt in remembraunce with God the true recorder of mercifull deserts Thus was the Towne of Newhauen reduced againe into the hands of the French more vndoubtedly through the extreeme mortalitie that so outragiously afflicted the souldiours and men of warre within the same than by the enimyes enforcementes although the same was great and aduaunced to the vttermost of the aduersaries power Beside the meaner sort of those that dyed of the pestilence during the siege these I find noted as chiefe Cutbert Vaughan Comptroller of the towne Frauncis Somerset cousin to the Earle of Worcester Auerie Darcie brother to the Lorde Darcie Iohn Zouch brother to the Lorde Zouch Edwarde Ormesby Thomas Drurie alias Poignard Richard Croker Iohn Cockson Thomas Remishe Iohn Prowde William Saul Wilfreid Antwisell Besyde these being Captaynes in chiefe dying there in that towne or else sickning there and dying vpon theyr returne into Englande there were dyuerse other gentlemen and such as had charge whiche likewise ended theyr lyues by force of that cruell and moste grieuous pestilent infection There were diuerse also that were slaine as well by Canon shotte as otherwise in the fielde in skirmish as both the Tremaynes brethren of one byrth Nicholas and Andrew Captayne Richard Sanders with maister Robynson maister Bromfield of which two before ye haue heard also one Leighton a Gentleman and diuerse moe whose names I knowe not worthie neuerthelesse to be remembred and placed in ranke with such worthie men as in their countreys cause haue lost theyr liues and are therefore by Wryters registred to liue by same foreuer But now to passe to other matters at home As ye haue heard Stow. Pestilence the plague of Pestilence being in the towne of Newhauen through the number of souldiours that returned into Englande the infection thereof spread into dyuerse partes of this realme but especially the Citie of London was so infected that in the same whole yeare that is to say from
Dundalke by the garnison thereof and afterwarde through the great valiance and foresight of sir Henrie Sidney knight of the order Shane Oneyle discomsited Statuta regni Hibernie Campion and lord deputie of Irelande he was so discomfited in sundrie cōflicts with the losse of three thousand fiue hundred of his men that now foreseeing his declination to be imminent he determined to put a coller about his necke and disguising himselfe to repayre to the Lorde Deputie and penitently to requyre his pardon to haue his life But Neyl Mackeuer his Secretarie who had incited him to this rebellion perswaded him fyrst to trie and treate the friendship of certaine wylde Scottes that then lay encamped in Clan Iboy vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge and Mac Gilliam Buske whose father and vncle Shane Oneyle had lately killed in an ouerthrow giuen to the Scottes neuerthelesse he wel lyking this perswasion went to the sayde campe the seconde of Iune where after a dissembled enterteynment and quaffing of Wine Gilliam Buske burning with desire of reuenge for his fathers and vncles death and ministring quarelling talke issued out of the tent and made a fray vpon Oneyls men and then gathering togither his Scottes in a throng sodainly entred the tent againe who there with their slaughter swordes Shane Oneyle slaine hewed in peeces Shane Oneyle his Secretarie and all his companie except a verie fewe which escaped by flight On Saint Iohns euen at nyght Watch at mid sommer was the lyke standing watche in London as had beene on Saint Peters euen in the yeare laste before passed This yeare the Emperour Maximilian the seconde of that name being elected into the most honourable order of the Garter the right honourable Thomas Erle of Sussex c knight of the same most noble order was appoynted by the Queenes Maiestie to go vnto the sayde Emperour with the sayde order of the Garter according to his sayde election who being honorably accompanied with the Lorde North sir Thomas Mildmay knight Henrie Cobham esquier one of the Pensioners and others departed from London the .xxv. of Iune .1567 vnto Douer and there embarked landed at Calays and his trayne at Dunkerke and so passed through the low countreys to Andwerpe in Brabant where hee was honourably receyued by the Englishe Marchants and others and being there went to visite Madame de Parma Regent of the sayde Countreys then resident within y e same towne And from thence passed vnto Coleyn where as his Lordship and traine mounted the Riuer of the Rhine and by sundrie continual dayes iourneys passed by the citie of Ments or Magunce vnto Oppenham and there taking his way by lande passed through the Countrey by the Cities of Wormes and Spires til he came to Vlmes standing on the riuer of Danow where he arriued the .xxj. of Iuly and the .xxiij. his Lordship road in post to Anspurge called in Latine Augustia Vindelicorum nine Duche miles from Vlmes From thence hee departed the .xxv. of Iuly and met with his traine at Donewert being come thither vpon slottes downe by the sayd ryuer of Danow From thence he kept vpon his iourney by Ingolstat Reinspurg in Latin Katisbena by Passaw and other townes till he came to Linz where his Lordship stayed the first seconde and thirde of August by reason of the high waters And departing from thence the fourth of August passed by Stoanne and Cremz by the sayde Riuer of Danow and so arriued at the Citie of Vienna the fift of August in in this foresayde yeare .1567 where hee was receyued of the Lorde Smeckouites hauing twelue horses readie with theyr foote clothes for his Lordship and the most respected of his traine and so brought him to the presence of the Emperour at that present within his Castell there in that Citie by whom hee was right honourabl◅ receyued and afterwarde conducted to his assigned lodgings where as all prouision was prepared and made at the Emperors charges Here his Lordship continued till the .xiiij. of Ianuarie In which meane time the Emperour very often as tyme serued had the sayde Earle forth with him vnto such pastimes of hunting the Hart Boare and such lyke as the plentifulnesse of that Countrey yeeldeth Moreouer during the time of his Lordships abode there at Vienna Charles Archeduke of Austria Carinth arriued in that Citie whom my Lorde went to salute After this vppon the Queenes Maiesties letters brought out of Englande by maister Henrie Brooke alias Cobham one of hir Maiesties Gentlemen Pencioners the sayde Earle of Sussex vpon Sunday the fourth of Ianuarie in the after noone 1568 presented and delyuered vnto the Emperors Maiestie in his Chamber of presence the habiliments and ornamentes of the most noble order of the Garter sir Gylbert Dethicke knight alias Garter principall king of Armes and officer for the sayde order and William Dethick then Rouge Crosse also officer of Armes giuing their attendance in theyr coates of Armes And the Emperor at his inuesture of the sayde habiliments gaue vnto the sayd Garter his short Gowne and vnder garment fureed throughout with Luzerns and then proceeded thence into a great Chamber adorned in forme of a Chapell where as all the other Ceremonies belonging to the sayd noble order were there obserued and accomplished And the same night the sayde Earle supped with the Emperours Maiestie both being in theyr Robes of the sayd order And shortly after his Lordship with certain of his cōpanie taking leaue of the Emperor departed from Vienna the .xiiij. of Ianuarie aforesayde vnto Newstat and so through the Countrey of Styre vnto Gratz the chiefe Citie of Carinthie where hee tooke also leaue of the sayde Archeduke Charles and from thence returning passed those partes of the Alpes vnto Saltzburgh where he met with the other part of his trayne and so by continuing iourneys came againe into England vnto the Queenes Maiestie towardes the latter ende of March. After a drie Sommer Stowe An. reg 10. followed and extreeme sharpe Winter namely the latter part thereof with such great scarcitie of fodder and bay that in diuerse places the same was solde by weight as in Yorkshyre and in the Peake of Darbyshyre where a stone of hay was solde for fiue pens There followed also a great death of cattell namely of horse and sheepe This yeare in the Moneth of Ianuarie the Queenes Maiestie sent into the narrowe Seas three of hir shippes Grafton and one barke named the Anthelop the Swallow the Ayde and the Phenix the which were manned with fiue hundred men And hir highnesse appoynted the charge of the sayde shippes and men to hir trustie seruant William Holstocke of London esquire Comptroller of hir highnesse shippes who had cōmaundement to stay the subiects of king Philip. And according to his dutie he vsed such diligence as one hauing care to his charge in garding as well the Frenche as the Englishe coastes did the .xj. day of March next folowing meete with a .xj.
Lordshippe sente maister William Drurie the Marshall of Berwike accompanyed with dyuerse Gentlemen and Captaynes hauing wyth them aboute two thousande Souldiours to take fast Castell the whiche vppon the fyrst commonance was delyuided into his handes who receyuing the Keyes beeing presented to hym entered the Holde and tooke possession thereof in the Queenes Maiesties name and expelling the Scottes beeing aboute the number of halfe a score who according to couenaunt were suffered to depart with theyr lyues saued hee put terme Stowe or as some haue fourtone Englishmen into that Castell which were thought able and number sufficient ynough to keepe it agaynst al the power of Scotlande the situation thereof is so strong In thys meane tyme the troubles increasing among the Scottes by reason of the marsher committed in the person of the Earle of Murrey the lâ—… gouernour the Duke of Chastellerault and other his partakers gathered a power of three thousande men and comming to Lithgo into way betwyxt Sterling and Edenbourgh remayned there for a tyme and afterwardes came to Edenbourgh in purpose 〈◊〉 make warre agaynst the Lordes of the Kings part who hauing sent to the Earle of 〈◊〉 then remayning in Englande earnesâ—…y requested him to repayre into Scotland wherevppon hee by the Queenes Maiesties licence â—…ooke hys iourney thytherwardes and came to Barwyke whâ—…e hee was also viâ—…teâ—… wyth sickenesse and so remayned certayne dayes in that Towne and vnderstanding that the sayde Duke of Chastâ—…rauâ—…tes power was suche that the Lordes of the Kings side were not able to come togyther nor he to goe to them wythoute the Queene of Englandes ayde hee humblyâ—… sued to hir Maiestye by letters to haue some power by hir appoyntment to conducte hym into Scotlande and there to ayde hym and the other Lordes of that side agaynst their aduersaries the Duke and his complices Herevpon by hir maiesties commaundement the Erle of Sussex as yet not fully recouered of his sicknesse ordeined maister William Drurie y e Marshall of Barwike w t such forces as were thought conuenient to go with the sayd Erle of of Lenox for the execution of such exploytes in seruice as seemed most expedient And about the same time to wit the .vj. of May the L. Scrope Lord warden of the west marches made a road into Scotland encamping the first night on the hither side of the water of Annan and the next day marched towards the water of Milke burning and spoyling all on that side of Annandale namely the Land Iohnsons lands finding smal resistaunce sauing that the forrey was a little troubled with a fortie or fiftie Scots horsmen so hauing done his pleasure he quietly returned without receyuing other impeachmeÌ„t notwithstanding the Lorde Herryes was in Dunfrise hauing gathered a gret power in purpose to hinder his enterprice But now to returne to the Earle of Sussex who hauing instituted sir Wil. Drurie generall of those hands that should passe with the Erle of Lenox into Scotland bicause eche gentleman souldior and seueral bands should dutifully obey the sayd sir William their new ordeyned generall in all points of warlike order the said Earle made an Oration in such pithie forme maner as throughly expressed the whole substaÌ„ce of the seruice the vnsuretie of the season the straunge malicious dealing of diuerse aduersaries which points be so cunningly handled as the excellencie of a perfit orator appeared fully in his speach At whose eloquence the hearer rather seemed astonied than vnsatisfied in any point or parcel of those matters for he opened the very bowels of rebellion the practises of enimies and suborning of traytors therefore perswaded euery honest mind to haue a dutiful coÌ„sideration of his prince country in the defence and libertie wherof both life lands and goodes are alwayes to bee offred After which Oration in respect of further aduancement as the custom is for seruice past and encouragement to proceede in the like worthie doings he made these knights Sir Wil. Drury sir Thomas Maners sir George Carie and sir Robert Conestable and placing the sayde sir William Drurie the appoynted Generall in full authoritie he committed them to God and the good conduct of their chieftaine The same day being the .xj. of May diuerse foote bands with shot and armed pykes were set forward into Scotlande with certaine peeces of artillerie powder munition in good quantitie First captaine Brickwell with his ensignes departed the towne and then the coÌ„panies of captaine Read captaine Caruell captaine Game captaine Lamberd and captaine Erington These old bands of Barwike conteyned fiue C. souldiors After them followed the companie of sir Robert Conestable their sergeant Maior of three C shot the coÌ„panie of sir Tho. Maners of two C. shot â–ª Lastly marched forth captaine Iohn Conestable and captaine Barwike with two C. armed men These .xij. C. footmen with fiue ensignes marched that night to ColdinghaÌ„ Also for the better assurance of couenants and promises made on the behalfe of such Lordes of Scotland as had made suite for this ayde to bee sent into their couÌ„trey for their assistance against them of the contrarie faction Hostages dâ—â—â—uered by thâ—… Scottish loâ—â— on the kingâ—… syde there were certaine hostages sent into England by the same Lords as it was thought expedient for doubt of double dealing The .xij. of May they marched forward and the same day sir William Drurie the Earle of Lenox and the other newe made knights with the horsmen departed from Barwike and at the Peese neare to Dunglas they ouertooke the footmen The horsmâ—â— and footmeâ—… encampe at Dunbar and the same night all the horsmen and footmen came and encamped togither at Dunbar being in al not past .xvj. C. men They had foure fielde peeces with them and good store of powder The next day being the .xiij. of May and Whitson euen they made suche speed in theyr march that they came vnto Edenburgh where they found the Earles of Morton Mar Scottish lorâ—… of the kings syde Glencarne the Lordes Rithwen Lindsey Symple Glames Methven Ogiltre and Câ—…tcart with diuerse other Gentlemen Here also they vnderstoode that the duke of Chastellerault and hys partakers were departed from Lithquo whether they were retyred back againe from Edenburgh vpon knowledge had that the Englishmen were comming forwards towardes them The .xiiij. and .xv. day they lay stil in Edenbourgh and the morrow after being the .xvj. of that Moneth they marched forwards to Lithgo and lodged in that towne that night Lithgo where they receyued aduertisementes that the sayde Duke of Chastellerault had broken vppe hys campe â–ª after he had vpon his departure from the sayde Towne of Lithgo attempted the wynning of the Castell of Glasco and myssing hys purpose there was dryuen to retyre with dishonour The next morning being Wednesday the armie marched forwarde and the footemen lay that night at a place called Faâ—…kyrke a sixe myles from Lithgo but the Generall with the horsemen road
the priuie Counsell to the sayd King and Bertrand de Saligners Lorde de la Mothefenelon Knightes of the order of Sainte Michaell Ambassadors for the same King arriued at Douer The .xiiij. day they shot London bridge towardes Somerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The .xv. daye being Sonday the saide Ambassadors repaired to the white hall where they were honorably receiued of the Queenes Maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces Chappell about one of the clocke in the after noone y e articles of treaty league or confederacy and sure friendshippe concluded at Bloys the .xix. of Aprill as is aforeshewed betwixt the Queenes Maiestie League with France confirmed at Westminster and the French K. beeing read the same was by hyr Maiestie and his Ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that day with great parte of the night following was spente in greate triumph with sumptuous banquets The eyghtenth of Iune Saint Georges feast at Windesore the feast of Sainte George was holden at Windesore where the Frenche Ambassadors were royally feasted and Fraunces Duke of Mōtmorency was s◅aulled Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter The eyghte and twentith daye of Iune the forenamed Ambassadors departed from London towards Fraunce The fourteenth of Iune Thomas Lorde Wharton deceassed in his house of Chanō row at Westminster Lord Treasorer Lorde priuie seale Lord Chamb◅rl◅yne with other officers The thirtēth day of Iuly the Queenes Maiestie at White Hall made sir William Cicill Lorde of Burghley Lord high Treasorer of England Lorde William Howard late Lorde Chamberlaine Lord priuie seale The Earle of Sussex L. Chamberlaine sir Thomas Smith principall Secretary and Christopher Hatton Esquier Captaine of the garde c. Englishmen sent to Vlstar in Irelande In thys moneth of August Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell carefully tendering the reformation of Irelande sente hys sonne Thomas Smith Esquier thither with a certayne number of Englishmenne to inhabite the Ardes in Vlster after the manner of a Colonie vsed by the Romaynes An. reg 51. A strange Starre appeared The .xviij. of Nouember in the mornyng was seene a Starre Northward very bright cleere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir Chaire which with three chiefe fixed starres of the said constellation made a Geometrical figure losengewise of the learned men called Rombus This starre in bignes at y e first appearing seemed bigger than Iupiter and not much lesse than Venus when she seemeth greatest also the sayde Starre neuer changing hys place was carried about with the dayly motion of Heauen as all fixed Starres commonly are and so continued by little and little to the eye appearing lesse for the space of almost sixteene Monethes at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of oft viewing moughte imagine the place than any eye could iudge y e presence of the same And one thing is heerein chiefely to bee noted that by the skyll and consente of the best and most experte Mathematicians whyche obserued the state propertie and other circumstaunces belongyng to the same Starre it was founde to haue bin in place Celestiall farre aboue the Moone otherwise than euer anye Comete hathe beene seene or naturally can appeare Therefore it is supposed that the signification thereof is directed purposely and specially to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the worlde neuer was the like The four and twentith of Nouember Earle of Derby deceassed Edwarde Earle of Derby Lorde Stanley and Strange of Knocking Lord and gouernour of the Isles of Man Knyghte of the noble order of the Garter and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell deceassed at hys house called Latham in Lancashire Hys lyfe and deathe deseruing commendation and crauyng memorie to bee imitated was suche as followeth Hys fidelitie to two Kynges and two Queenes in daungerous tymes and great Rebellions in whyche tyme and alwayes as cause serued hee was Lieutenaunt of Lancashire and Cheshire and lately offered tenne thousande menne to the Queenes Maiestie of hys owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godly disposition to his tenants neuer forcing anye seruice at theyr handes but due payment of theyr rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous houskeeping and .xj. score in checkrol neuer discontinuing the space of twelue yeare His feeding especially of aged persons twice a day .lx. and odde besides all commers thrice a weeke appoynted for his dealing dayes and euery good Fryday these .xxxv. yeares one with another two thousande seuen hundred with meate drinke money and money worth There was neuer Gentleman or other that wayted in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as well wages as otherwise for horse and man His yearely porcion for the dispences of his house foure thousand pounde His cunning in setting bones disioynted or broke his chirurgerie and desire to helpe the poore His deliuerie of his George and Seale to the Lord Straunge with exhortation that he might keepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his Prince as he had and his ioy that he dyed in the Queenes fauour Hys ioyfull partyng this worlde his taking leaue of all his seruantes by shaking of handes and his remembrance to the last day The .xxviij. of Nouember Iohn Hall late of Battell in Sussex Gentleman Hall and Wilkinson executed and Oswolde Wilkinson late of Yorke and Gallour of York Castel being before arraigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered Great frost a sharpe winter This yeare a greate and sharpe frost almost continually lasted from before the feast of all Saintes till after the feast of the Epiphanie of our lord with somtime great and deepe snowes and sometymes raines which freesed as fast as the same fell to the grounde wherethrough at Wrotham in Kent and many other places the armes and boughes of Trees being ouercharged with Ice brake off and fell from the stockes of the same Trees Also the wynde contynued North and East till after the Ascention day with sharpe frostes and snowes whereby followed a late spring 1573 L. priuie seale deceassed The twelfth of Ianuarie William Lorde Howarde Baron of Effingham Lorde priuie seale knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of the priuie Counsaile deceassed at Hampton Court Erle of Worcester sent into Fraunce The .xviij. of Ianuarie William Lord Somerset Earle of Worcester began his iourney toward Fraunce to the Christning of the kings daughter there in stead of the Queenes Maiestie of Englande who sent with him a Font of Golde for that purpose weying .326 ounces The sayde Earle with many of his companie were robbed vpon the sea by Pirates of muche of
theyr baggage Erle of Worcester robbed on the sea and three or foure of theyr men slaine In Fraunce he and his trayne were honourablye receyued At the Christning hee gaue the childe to name Elizabeth They returned into England the seuē and twentith of Februarie In the Moneth of Februarie through sundrie heynous cōplaints brought to the Queenes Maiestie and hir Counsaile of Pirats that kept the narrow Seas doing many robberies The narrow seas scoured as also the robbing of the Earle of Worcester as is aforesayde hir highnesse by the aduise of hir honourable counsaile tooke order with the Lord Admirall of England that he should send to the seas shippes and men to scowre the narrow seas and to apprehende so many Pyrates shippes as might be mette with And for the better doing thereof it pleased hir Maiestie to sende one of hir owne shippes named the Swallowe to bee the Admirall vnder the charge of William Holstock of London Esquire controller of hir highnesse shippes who had with him the Gyllian the Barke Garet and the Barke of Yarmouth and three hundred .lx. able Mariners Gunners and souldiours in the sayde three ships and one bark which scoured the narrow sea from the North forelande as farre Westwarde as Falmouth in Cornwall and tooke .xx. shippes and barkes of sundrie Nations videlicet Englishe Frenche Pirates on the west seas and Flemings but all Pirates and in fashion of warre He apprehended in those shippes and barkes to the number of .ix. hundred men of all nations and sent them to warde to Sandwich Pirates executed Douer Wight and Portsmouth wherof three of them that robbed the Erle of Worcester were shortly after executed at Wight Also the sayde William Holstocke did rescue and take from the abouesayd Pirates shippes xv other marchant ships laden with marchandises that were theyr pryses being of sundrie Nations and set at libertie the said .xv. Marchant shippes and goods which done he returned to Portesmouth and there ended his voyage in March The fourth of March A man hanged in S. Georges fielde a man was hanged in chaynes in S. Georges fielde beyonde Southwarke of London for murthering the Gaylour of Horsham in the same field The .xvij. of March Erle of Kent deceased deceased Reynald Gray of Ruthen Erle of Kent at Hernesey and was buryed at Saint Giles withoute Creplegate Aboute the same tyme dyed Edmonde Lorde Chandos The .xxv. of Marche being Wednesday in Easter weke George Saunders murthered at Shooters hill and the feast of the Annunciation of our Ladie George Browne cruelly murthered two honest men neare to Shooters hill in Kent the one of them was a wealthie Marchant of London named George Saunders the other Iohn Beane of Woolwich whiche murther was commytted in manner as followeth On Tuesday in Easter Weeke the .xxiiij. of Marche the sayde George Browne receyuing secrete intelligence by letter from Mistresse Anne Drurie that Maister Saunders shoulde lodge the same night at the house of one Maister Barnes in Woolwich and from thence goe on foote to Saint Mary Cray The next morning he lay in waite for him by the way a little from Shooters hill and there slue both him and Iohn Bean seruant to maister Barnes but Iohn Bean hauing .x. or .xj. woundes and being left for dead by Gods prouidence did reuine againe and creeping awaye on all foure was founde by an olde man and his Maiden and conueyed to Woolwich where hee gaue euident markes of the Murtherer Immediately vpon the deed doing Browne sent Mystresse Drurie worde thereof by Roger Clement among them called trustie Roger hee himself repayred forthwith to y e court at Greenwich anon after him came thither the report of the murther also Then departed he thence vnto London and came to the house of Mystresse Drurie where though hee spake not personallye with hir after conference had with hir seruaunt trustie Roger she prouided him .xx. pounde that same day for the which she layde certaine plate of hir owne and of Mistresse Sanders to gage On the next morning being Thursday hauing intelligence that Browne was sought for they sent him sixe poundes more by the same Roger warning him to shift for himself by flight which thing he for slowed not to doe neuerthelesse the Lordes of the Queenes Maiesties Counsaile caused so speedie and narrow search to bee made for him that vpon the .xxviij. of the same Moneth he was apprehended in a mans house of his owne name at Rochester and beeing brought backe againe to the Court was examined by the Counsaile vnto whom he confessed the deed as you haue heard and that hee had oftentymes before pretended and sought to doe the same by the instigation of the said mystresse Drurie who had promised to make a maryage betweene him and mystresse Saunders whome hee seemed to loue excessiuely neuertheles he protested though vntruly that mystresse Sanders was not priuy nor consenting therevnto Vpon his confession he was arraigned at the kings Bench in Westminster Hall the .xviij. of Aprill where he acknowledged himselfe guiltie and was condemned as principall of the murther according to which sentence he was executed in Smithfielde on Monday the .xx. of Aprill at which time also vntruly as she hirselfe confessed afterward he laboured by all meanes to cleare mistresse Sanders of committing euill of hir bodie with him George Brow hanged in Smithfield and then flung himselfe besydes the ladder Hee was after hanged vp in Chaynes neare vnto the place where he had done the fact In the meane time mistresse Drurie and hir man being examined as well by their own confessions as by falling out of the matter and also by Brownes appeachment thought culpable were committed to warde And after mistresse Saunders being deliuered of childe and churched for at the tyme of hir husbandes death she looked presently to he down was vpon mistresse Druries mans confession and other great likelihoodes likewise committed to the Tower and on Wednesday the sixt of May arraigned with mistresse Drurie at the Guildhall The effect of whose inditement was that they by a Letter written had beene procurers of the sayde murther and knowing the murther done had by money and otherwyse relieued the murtherer whervnto they pleaded not giltie Anne Sanders Anne Drurie trustie Roger hanged Howbeit they were both condemned as accessaries to maister Sanders death and executed in Smithfield the .xiij. of May beeing Wednesday in the Whitsunweeke at which time they both confessed themselues guiltie of the fact Trustie Roger mystresse Druries man was arraigned on Fryday the .viij. of May and being there condemned as accessarie was executed with his mistresse at the time and place aforesayd Not long after Anthonye Browne hanged at Yorke Anthonie Browne brother to the forenamed George Browne was for notable felonies conueyd from Newgate to York and there hanged The .x. of Aprill seuen pyrates Pirate hanged at Wapping which among other had beene taken on the
North seas were led from Southwarke to Wapping and fiue of them were there hanged the other two had theyr pardon at the gallowes The .xvij. of Aprill Foure women on the Pillory a Chandlers wife without Aldredes gate of London who had practised hir husbandes death by poysoning and other wayes was set on the Pyllorie in Cheape wyth three other women who had beene of hir counsayle two of them were wyth hir there whipped Our Queene at the request of hir cousin the yong King of Scottes appoynted sir William Drurie knight marshal of Barwike to passe into Scotland with a thousande souldiours and fiue hundred Pioners and also certaine peeces of Artillerie to helpe by siege and force of Canon to constrayne those that kepte the Castell of Edenbourgh agaynst the sayde King to yeelde the same into his handes Herevpon the sayde sir William Dunrie hauing with him sir Frauncis Russell sir George Carie sir Henrie Lee maister Thomas Cecill maister Michaell Carie Captaine Brickwell Captaine Read Captaine Erington maister of the Ordinance and Prouost Marshall captaine Pickman captaine Yaxley Captaine Game Captaine Wood Captaine Case Captayne Strelley maister Thomas Sutton maister Cotton maister Kelway maister Dier maister Tilney and others with the number of the souldiours and Pioners afore mentioned passed frō Barwik and by conuenient iourneys came vnto Lieth from whence the .xxv. of Aprill all the foote bandes marched to Edenbourgh at whom were shot after they entred the towne dyuerse and sundrie Canon shottes out of the Castell which did little harme to any of them thankes be to God sauing that captaine Brickwell was hurt in the face and handes with stones raysed by the sayde Canon shotte The same day the Castell was sommoned by a Messenger in maner as followeth Sir William Kirkaudie sometyme of Graunge knight for as muche as the Queenes Maiestie my soueraigne Ladie vpon the earnest request of hir deare cousin the King of Scottes your soueraigne Lorde made to hir highnesse by his Regent Nobilitie and states of this realme after all good meanes vsed to haue reduced you to dutifull obedience of his authoritie by treatie which hitherto you haue not duly hearkned vnto to the only hinderance of the vniuersall peace in this realme by withholding that his highnesse Castell meaning as it seemeth to reserue the same for a receptacle of forraine forces to the manifest daungers both of this Realme and of my soueraignes and therefore necessarie to remoue so perillous a danger to both the realmes for which consideration hir maiestie hath sente hir ayde and succours of men Ordinaunce and Munition vnder my charge and leading for the expugnation and recouerie of the sayde Castell to the sayde Kings vse and behoofe and therefore according to hir Maiesties commaundement and Commission this shall be in due maner to warne require and sommon you that you render and delyuer the sayde Castell wyth the whole Ordinance Artillerie Munitions Iewels Householde stuffe and suche other implements within the same to mee to the vse and behoofe of the King your soueraigne and his regent in his name immediately after this my letter of sommons or knowledge of the same shall come vnto you which if you obey as of duetie you ought then will I in hir Maiesties name interpone my selfe to trauaile with the Regent Counsaile and Nobilitie here for the safetie of your lyues c. Otherwise if you continue in your former obstinacie abyding the Canon then no further to looke for grace or fauour but you and the rest within that Castell to be pursued to the vttermost and holden as enimies to hir maiestie your owne soueraigne and Countrey Yeuen at Edenburgh by me sir William Drurie knight generall of hir Maiesties forces nowe in Scotlande thys .xxv. of Aprill .1573 The Lorde of Graunge Captaine of the Castell notwithstanding this sommonance refused vtterly to yeelde the fortresse who therevpon receyued such aunswere from the Generall as stoode not greatly to his contentation Here vpon were the Pioners set in hande to cast Trenches and to rayse Mountes in places conuenient to plant the Ordinaunce vpon as by the draught of the plot therof and herevnto annexed may appeare They within spared not to bestow such shot as they had both great and small verie roundly as well at the Pioners as souldiours that were appoynted to garde them insomuch that dyuerse were hurt and some slaine before the same Trenches and Mountes might bee brought to any perfection although no diligence was wanting to hasten the same Amongst other one Duberie Lieutenant to Captaine Strelley was striken with a small shot the first day that the siege thus began and dyed of the hurt The last of Aprill also one maister Maunsfield a gentleman seruing vnder captaine Read was hurt but yet without daunger of death The .viij. of May maister Neuill a Pencioner was also hurt Thus diuerse were hurt and some slaine both Englishmen and Scottes without and they within escaped not altogither free especially after that the Trenches and Mountes were brought in state to defende the assaylantes who watching and warding in the trenches answered them within the Castell verie roughly At length the great Ordinance was placed on the Mountes and in the Trenches so that vpon the .xvij. of May there were .xxx. Canons shotte off agaynst the Castell and so well bestowed in bat◅erle at Dauids tower Dauids tower that by the ruynes thereof then and after the force of the English Canons was easie to consider The xviij.xix and xx of May the Canons and demir Canons were not ydle but the .xxj. the whole batterie beganne on eche side the Castell from the Trenches and Mountes verie hotely The batterie begon on eche side the castel and still tury within ceassed not to make answere againe with their artillerie killing and hurting diuerse both Englishmen and Scottes but such was the diligence of the English Gunners encouraged wyth the presence of the Generall and others that they displaced the Ordinaunce in the Castell and stroke one of theyr chiefe Canons iust in the mouth whereby the same was broken in peeces and the shyuers flue aboute their eares that stoode neare it by reason whereof the Englishmen rested the more in quiet continually after so long as the siege endured Albeit with theyr small shotte and some tyme wyth theyr great Peter Burford and Clement Wood gunners slaine they wythin slue and hurt dyuerse as well Gunners as other of the Englishmen and Scottes in the Mountes and Trenches The .xxvj. of May the Assault was giuen at seuen of the clocke in the morning to the Spurre The Spurre woonne which by the hardie manhoode of the assaylants was woonne and was no sooner entred by the Englishmen but that the Generals ensigne was shewed and spred vpon the front and toppe thereof to the great discomfort of them within the Castell In the meane tyme whylest those were appoynted to gyue the assault thus to the Spurre there were certaine Englishe
men and Scottes commaunded to make a countenaunce of an assault at the West syde of the Castell whereby those that assaulted the Spurre myght the more easilye obteyne theyr purpose but they rashlye aduenturing further than they had in commaundement were beaten backe and repulsed with twentie and eyght or thirtie of their companie Scottes and English slaine and hurte A noble courage forgitting his dutie Sir Frauncis Russell for disobeying the generals commaundement in going to the assault at the Spurre contrarie to his generals will and pleasure hauing an especiall care for the safetie of his person vpon his returne from that seruice was by the Generals commaundement committed to warde Moreouer the same day towardes night they within the Castell by a drumme demaunded parley They within the castell demaund parley which being graunted with a surseance of all hostilitie from that houre which was about fiue of the clocke in the after noone of that day being the .xxvj. of May vnto the .xxviij. day of the same Moneth the Larde of Peterroe was let downe by a rope from the Castell and afterwardes the Larde of Graunge himselfe the Captaine of the Castell and Robert Meluin came likewise downe to talke with the generall and such other as were appoynted to accompanie him Herevpon at length to witte the sayd xxviij of May the Castell was surrendred into the handes of Sir William Drurie Generall of the English forces there And so it rested in his possession for the tyme and his Ensigne was set vppe and spredde during the same time in sundrie places of the Castell and afterwardes to the greate honour of England Queene Elizabeth a fayth-holder by him it was delyuered vnto the vse of the king of Scottes The .xvj. of Iune the prisoners were deliuered by the sayde sir William Drurie in presence of sundrie Scottes and Englishmen vnto the handes of the Regent and that done the same day the sayde sir William Drurie wyth hys power departed homewardes to Barwike The names of the prisoners were these Sir William Kirkaudie Larde of Graunge and Capitayne of the Castell of Edenbourgh The Lorde Hume The Lord of Ledington Secretarie The Lard of Peterroe Conestable of the castell The Countesse of Arguile The Ladie of Ledington The Ladie of Graunge with others But yet the priuate souldiours and others of the meaner sort were suffred to depart with bagge and baggage Thus by the valiant prowes and worthie policie of sir William Drurie our Queenes Maiesties Generall and other the Captaines and souldiours vnder his charge was that Castell of Edenbourgh woonne as before yee haue heard which by the common opinion of men was esteemed impregnable and not to bee taken by force insomuche as many thought it tooke the name of the Mayden Castell for that it had not beene woonne at any tyme before except by famine or practise but suche is the force of the Canon in this age that no Fortresse be it neuer so strong is able of it selfe to resyst the puyssaunce thereof if the situation be of that nature as the grounde aboute it will serue to conuey the great artillerie to bee planted in batterie agaynst it The seuenth of Iune Haile in Northamtoâ—…shire betwene the houres of one and two of the clocke in the after noone a great tempest of haile and raine hapned at Tocester in Northamtoâ—…shire wherethrough sixe houses in that towne were borne downe and fourtene more sore perished with the waters which rose of that tempest the hailstones were square and sixe ynches about one childe was there drowned and many sheepe with other cattell which when the water was fallen many of them were lying on the highe hedges where the waters had left them EDINBVRG LEETH The Lough The KINGS mont The GENERALS two monts Spur 370 Foot high Arthurs Chaire The .xvj. of August Walter Erle of Essex accompanyed with the Lorde Riche â—…le of Essex and the Lorde â—…che with oâ—…er sayled inâ—… Irelande and diuerse other Gentlemen embarked themselues in seuerall shippes at Leirpoole and the winde sitting verie well tooke theyr voyage towardes Irelande The Earle after many and great daungers on the Sea at length wan Copemans Ilande from whence in a Pinise of Captaine Perces he was brought safe to Knockfergus The Lorde Riche with the like daunger landed at Castell Killife where being met by Captaine Malbie maister Smith and master Moore Pencioners was conducted to Inche Abbay maister Malbis house where he had in a readinesse on the morrow morning a hundred and fiftie horsemen for theyr safegarde to Knockfergus beside fiftie Kernes which went a foote through the Woods there was among these a thirtie Bowes with a Bagpype the rest had Dartes Sir Bryan Makephelin had preyed the Countrey and taken away what was to be caryed or dryuen but on the sixt of September he came to Knockfergus to the Earle of Essex and there made his submission the number of kine were esteemed thirtie thousand besides sheepe and swine After him Ferdorough Macgillasticke the blinde Scots sonne Roze Oge Macwilline did the like and diuerse other sent their Messengers to the erle to signifie that they were at his lordships disposition as the Baron of Dongarrowe Condenell Odonell and the captaine of Kylulto The Erle of Essex hauing the Countrey of Clanyboy other Erle of Essex captaine generall of Vlster 〈◊〉 Ireland the Q. Maiestie of England directed hir letters to the Lorde Deputie of Irelande willing him to make by Commission the Earle of Essex Captaine generall of the Irishe Nation in the Prouince of Vlster and to deuide the Countrey woonne Clanyboy and else where c. The .xj. of October Peter Burchet Gentleman of the middle Temple with his Dagger sodainly assayled cruelly wounded and ment to haue murdered a seruiceable Gentleman named Iohn Hawkins esquire â—…ter Burchet â—…ounded M. Hawkins as he with sir William Winter and an other gentlemen rode towards Westminster in the highe streete neare to the Strand beyond the Temple barre of London for which fact the sayde Burchet beeing apprehended and committed to the Tower was after examined concerning the fact who aunswered that he tooke the sayde Maister Hawkins for an other Gentleman Peter Burchet â—…nd to be an heretike and being further examined he was founde to holde certaine erronious opinions for the which hee was sent to the Lollards Tower from thence being called into the consistorie of Poules Church before the right reuerend father Edwin Bishop of London Peter Burchet abiured his heresie and submitted himselfe to doe penance and other and by them examined he stoode in his opinions till the sentence of death as an heretike was readie to haue beene pronounced agaynste him on the fourth of Nouember but through the earnest perswasions of dyuerse learned men who tooke great paynes in that matter hee renounced forswore and abiured his opinions for erronious and damnable promising neuer to returne to them and also willingly to
in Smithfield Anabaâ—…insts burns who dyed in great horror with roaring and crying Thunder and haile The .xxx. of Iuly in the after noone was a great tempest of lightning and thunder wherethrough both men and beastes in dyuerse places were stryken dead Also at that tyme fell greate abundance of hayle whereof the stones in many places were founde to be sixe or seuen ynches aboute The Glasse house burnt The fourth of September being Sunday about seuen of the clock in the morning a certain Glassehouse which sometyme had bene the crossed Friers hall neare to the Tower of London brast out on a terrible fire where vnto the Lorde Maior Aldermen and Sherifes with all expedition repayred and practised there all meanes possible by water buckets hookes and otherwise to haue quenched it all which notwithstanding whereas the same house in a small tyme before had consumed great quantitie of woodde by making of fine drinking glasses now it self hauing within it neare .xl. thousand billets of wood was all consumed to the stone walles which walles greatly defended the fire from spreading further and doing any more harme The .xxvj. of September a Pulters wife in the Parish of Christes Church within Newgate of London was deliuered and brought to bed of foure children at one burthen all females or mayden children which were Christened by the names of Elizabeth Marie Margaret and Dorothie and the same day Moneth the mother was buryed but all the foure Children liuing in good liking were borne to Church after hir On Michaelmasse euen at night the like impressions of fire and smoke were seene in the aire to flash out the North East North Northwest as had beene on the .xxv. of Nouember last before passed The tenth of October many French and some English men but all Pirates of the Seas were arraigned at y e admiraltie court in Southwarke where to the number of .xxij. were condemned and had sentence of death pronounced agaynst them The Maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his othe as hath beene accustomed he kept no feast at the Guild-hall but dined at his owne house with his brethren the Aldermen and other The companies dyned at theyr seuerall Halles c. This was done as in the yeare last before passed to auoyde the infection of the plague which might haue encreased by comming togyther of greater numbers of people That weeke from the .xxij. vnto the .xxviij. of October deceassed in the Citie and libertyes of all diseases one hundred thirtie and two of the which number .xxxvj. were accounted to die of the plague The next weeke following ending the thirde of Nouember thankes be giuen to God therefore there deceased of all diseases but Cx. and of them of the plague but .xxvj. This yeare by reason of the troubles in the low Countreys An. Reg. 18. 1576 the English Marchants susteyned great losses dyuerse wayes for the men of warre that kept the Seas aduowing themselues to bee reteyned with the Prince of Orange vnder colour to searche for theyr aduersaries goodes oftentymes bourded the Englishe shippes as they mette with them on the Seas finally to the profite of them to whome the same shippes goodes appertayned Some they stayed and tooke away with them and at length there was a generall restraynt made by the Prince of Orange that no English shippes should passe to or fro the towne of Andwerpe by the riuer of Scheld such being arrested and deteyned at Flishing as were comming downe that riuer and other likewise that were bound vp the same time towardes Andwerpe The English merchants feeling themselues thus molested and damnified at sundry seasons exhibited their complaintes to the Queenes Maiesties couÌ„sell who accordingly dealt froÌ„ time to time with the Prince of Orange and his deputies for redresse but specially now vpoÌ„ this general restraint although gret difficultie appeared in the mater aswell for contenting of the aduenturers of Flishyng â—…ese foure â—…ppes were â—…ed for satisfaction of 〈◊〉 Simons â—…ppe out of 〈◊〉 whiche a 〈◊〉 â—…hynger 〈◊〉 taken cerâ—…yne times of â—…arie wine as for y t there had bene foure shippes belonging to the Prince arrested stayed at Falmouth at length yet such English shippes as were kept holden at Flishing were releassed and sent home But not till two of the English marchantes aduenturers men of good calling and estimation hauing first as hath bene saide made a certaine maner of proteste were faine to enter into bande for the loane of a summe of money â—…tire Calâ—…y William Godard and were therewith kepte at Flishyng till the contract in that behalf might be performed wherevpon the Queenes Maiestie misliking that hir subiectes should be thus hardly dealt with armed and set forth certayne of hir shippes whiche going to the seas to see that hir subiectes might trauerse the same in safetie tooke diuers of the Flishingers vessels and brought theÌ„ into the English streames The Flishingers herewith on the other parte tooke and arrested other of the English ships so that the troubles seemed rather to increase than to be in any wise appeased Although afterwardes by sending two and fro the mater was taken vp and suche order had as was thought to stande very well for the suertie commoditie and good liking of the English Merchantes But in the meane time and before this could be brought to passe through a disordered mutinie whiche chaunced among the Spanishe Souldiers it so fell out that the States of those lowe countreys agreed with the Prince of Orange set themselues wholy agaynst the Spaniardes wherevpon the yong Counte de Egmont the Marques de Hauery entred the towne of Andwerpe with a power of Souldiers for y e States ment to haue kept that towne against the Spaniardes that helde the Castell but they doubting to be enclosed and shut vp by some siege This was the â—â—eth of Noâ—…ber 〈◊〉 one and â—…er slayne â—…ewned and 〈◊〉 got moe of their fellowes to them entred the towne by force and pitifully killing no small number of people sacked the towne put aswel the townesmen as others that were Merchantes resident there to their ransomes Amongst other our Englishmen escaped not altogither free so as diuers were spoyled of that they had and the whole nuÌ„ber put to their ransome although vpon the sending ouer of Doctor Wilson hir Maiesties Ambassadour so much of the raunsom as remayned vnpayde was promised to be remitted Thus were our Merchants euill intreated on ech hand by reason of those ciuill tumultes in the lowe countreys aswell this yeare as in the former yeares past and small hope would be of better successe there if some ende shoulde not be had of that ciuill dissention whiche hath so long continued betwixt the King of Spayne his subiectes in those countreys not onely to the hinderance of themselues but also of others that haue to trade among them specially for traffique sake and entercourse of
Merchandise But at length they haue compounded their controuersies and are growen to a full agreement and perfect conclusion of peace whiche God graunt may take place so effectually as may turne to the quietnesse and publique cōmoditie not onely of those countreys but of their neighbours whereby Merchants and passengers may in suertie passe to and fro without disturbance so as no occasion be giuē of breach of leagues and amities betwixt Princes and Countreys but that the same may be mainteyned to Gods glorie and the suretie of the Christian common wealth Walter Deueroux Earle of Essex and Eu Earle Marshall of Ireland Knight of the moste noble order of the Garter fell sicke of a loosenesse of his body the .xxj. of August being Fryday and for the space of .xxij. dayes togither hee was so greeuously tormented therewith The Earle of Essex departeth this lyfe that finally on Saturday the .xxij. of September hee departed out of this transitorie life passing from hence to the ioyes of heauen as by his godly ende all that were aboute him haue giuen testimonie The losse of this noble man was greatly bemoned aswell by the English as Irish for the noble courage vertuous qualities and tender zeale to the aduauncement of the common wealth whiche appeared in him The .x. of Nouember a proclamation was published for the free traffike of Merchants to be restored as had bene accustomed in times paste betwixte the Kingdomes and Countreys of the Queenes Maiestie of England and the King of Portingall whiche traffique had bene discontinued by reason of certayne stayes and arrestes made of diuers subiectes on bothe partes with their goodes and shippes But now it was accorded in name of both their Maiesties that all maner of bothe their subiectes of what kingdome or countrey so euer they be from the .xv. day of the sayde moneth might vse the like mutuall traffique for marchādices and in the same places that is to say hir Maiesties subiects in the kingdomes of Portingale and Algarbia and in the Isles of Medera and Azore and likewise the subiectes of the King of Portingale in Englande and Irelande as they were lawfully accustomed before the sayde arrestes This restitution of the sayde traffique to remayne from the sayde .xv. day of Nouēber in this yeare .1576 during the space of three yeares next ensuing At the end of which terme if by the sayde Princes in the meane time it be not otherwise prouided for continuance of the sayd traffique to endure perpetually no new arrestes shal be made of any things brought into the kingdomes and Isles aforesayde of either of the sayd Princes during the time of the sayd .iij. yeares It was further agreed by the said Princes for the more sure preseruation of the amitie frēdship betwixt them their sayd realmes subiectes that neither of them shall receyue any Pirate or rouer into any of the portes or creekes of either of the Realmes Dominiōs and Countreys whiche may or shall haue committed any Piracie or robberie vpon eyther of their subiects nor shall shewe any fauour giue any ayde or succour or suffer any to be giuen directly or indirectly to the sayde Rouers or Pirates Neither shall they during the time of the sayde amitie in either of their kingdomes or any place of their dominiōs fauour entertaine receiue or reteyne nor suffer to be fauoured entertayned receyued or retained by any of their subiects and rebelles traytours or fugitiues subiects to either of them Thus farce haue I continued this collection of the English Histories noting briefly in these later yeares suche things as I finde in the abridgement of Richarde Grafton and in the Summarie of Iohn Stow increased somwhat as may appeare in places with such helpes as haue come to my hande humbly beseeching the Reader to accept the same in good parte and to pardon me where I haue not satisfied his expectation sithe herein I must confesse I haue nothing contented my selfe but yet at the request of others haue done what I could and not what I would for wante of conference with suche as might haue furnished mee with more large instructions such as had bene necessarie for the purpose But now to obserue the order which hitherto I haue followed in mencionyng of such writers of our nation as liued in the dayes of other Princes I haue thought good to write also the names of some of those that haue flourished in the time of the peaceable reigne of our soueraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth whose happie state with long life the Lorde maynteyne Of whiche wryters as there are many some departed and others yet liuing so the greate number of workes Treatises Poesies Translations and Pamphlets by them published to the world may fully witnesse the flourishing state of the Muses in these dayes of peace in the which learning is bothe cherished and the studious enioye their wisshed quietnesse the better to encourage them to vtter their talentes Suche therefore as I finde eyther rehearsed by Maister Bale or els otherwise shall come to my memorie I meane thus to recorde their names as followeth REginald Poole Cardinall Mathew Parkar late Archbishop of Cantorbury doctor of Deuinitie a great searcher of antiquities deseruing well of all those that are studious therein for the furtherance of whose knowledge he restored many auncient Monumentes to good perfection and caused some to bee published in Prince to his highe prayse and commendation Edmond Grindall now Archbishop of Cant. Iames Pilkinton late bishop of Duresme Myles Couerdale sometime bishop of Excester Iohn White once bishop of Winchester Edmond Bonner once bishop of London who for his wilfull obstinacie was emprysoned in the Marshalse where he died Raphe Bane once byshop of Couentrie and Lichfielde Iohn Iewell late bishop of Sarum William Barlow late bishop of Chichester Robert Horne bishop of Winchester Iohn Scory bishop of Hereford Edmonde Freake bishop of Norwiche Iohn Aelmer bishop of London Thomas Cooper bishop of Lincolne Iohn Parkhurst late bishop of Norwiche Alley late bishop of Execster Sir William Cecill Lord Thresourer Lorde Wentworth Lord Buckhurst Sir Thomas Smith knight Sir Anthony Cooke knight Sir Thomas Chalenor knight Sir Iohn Price knight Sir Iohn Conwey Knight Sir Humfrey Gilbert knight Thomas Hobbey William Stanford Edmond Ploydon Robert Brooke Iohn Rastell William Fleetewood Walter Haddon Thomas Wilson now Embassadour for the Queene in the lowe Countreys who had sometimes charge of the bringyng vp of those two worthy impes Henry Duke of Southfolke and Charles his brother both sonnes to Charles Brandon somtime Duke of Southfolke whose towardnesse was suche as was well worthy of their calling but it pleased God to call them by the sweate Anno. 1551. the elder firste and the yonger after so that they bothe died Dukes whiche I forgote to note in the place where I made mention of the same sicknesse Iohn Man Iohn Hales Thomas Norton William Lambert Iohn Foxe Alexander Nowell Iohn Whiteguiste Thomas Becon William Turner