Now a word or two to shew who they be that die in the Lord and then an end They principallie are said to die in the Lord which suffer death vnder the beast for confession of Christs religion for they properlie die in the Lords cause Such are the martyrs as well of the primitiue church vnder the cruell emperours as the martyrs of all ages since vnder antichrist of Rome They also die in the Lord which though they die not by the crueltie of the beast yet they die in the faith of Iesus Christ and are therefore blessed Of this number was this godlie earle as I haue before declared Wherfore I will conclude and direct my spéech for two or thrée words to this good earle O noble earle of Essex in thy time the pearle of nobilitie the mirrour of vertue and worthie qualities the child of chiualrie the beautifull floure of England the pretious iewell and comfort of Wales the trustie staie of Ireland Thy life was most honourable thy worthinesse incomparable thy death pretious in the sight of God for thou diedst in the Lord a right inheritour of the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Wherefore by authoritie of the heauenlie oracle that saint Iohn was commanded to write thou art to be pronounced blessed for euer Our sins haue shortened thy life so that we could inioie the same no longer Thou hast notwithstanding bequeathed thy bodie to be buried amongst vs here in Wales Of verie dutie therefore O noble earle thy toome shall be with vs in reuerence estimation and honor the fame and name of thy nobilitie valiantnesse vertue and woorthinesse shall neuer be forgotten but shall liue and be kept with vs in memorie from generation to geration while the world standeth Thus far the words of the bishop vttered in a sermon preached in the ears of no meane audience either for reputation or number Now then brieflie considering wherein true and perfect noblenesse consisteth that the heroicall vertues with their naturall vse were most firmelie fixed in his heart and practised by his hand there is great reason to mooue euen his enimies if it were possible for so good a gentleman to haue anie to confesse in him most absolute nobilitie and that this epitaph alluding to his right honorable ensignes is deseruedlie to be recorded being an abstract of that notable line 10 epitaph intituled Epitapium genealogicum in obitum illustrissimi Gualteri comitis Essexiae Euiae comitis marischalli regni Hiberniae vicecomitis Hereford Bourghcher domini Ferrers de Chartleie Bourgcher Louein praenobilis ordinis garterij militis qui obijt Dublinij 21. Septemb. 1576. aetatis suae 36 sepulti apud Maridunum 26. Nouemb. c. Si quisquam claret veterum splendore parentum Aut famam meritus morum probitate perennem line 20 Profiteatur in hijs nomen Essexius heros Qui praeclara virûm gestat monumenta tot vnus Quot rarò licuit multis gestaminaferre Qui intrepidè ob patriam tot mille pericula passus Quot rarò poterint vlla aulica corporaferre Aureolus partus matris patriae decus ingens Quo non exultat moderante Herefordia sola Aut Trinobantum titulo probitatis honorem Plebs referens strenuum validúmue Britannia sola Sensit in aduersos Boreales dum benegessit line 30 Tota sed heroem cognouit marte feroci Eugeniae tellus Hibernica bella probantem Regia cum proprijs expendens bella per annos Dura gerit binos multa pericula tentans Vltoniae fines vultu dextrà que quieti Perficit hinc comitis donatur nomine belli Nec tamen is potuit gladio finire labores Mors nemini parcens Dublinia funera fletu Trans mare transuexit Maridunica sydera voluens Clotho colum tenuit post septem lustra per annum line 40 Quinque dieâ Lachesis post haec sua fila trahebat Térque dies septem septeno mense videns heu Atropos eximij fulgentia lumina clausit Quatuor ast pueris illustria stamina spondent In tribus regnis titulos gestabat honoris Nam comitem Euensem cognouit Gallia fortem Aureus heroem demonstrat circulus Essex Ob bello vires comes est is martis Hibernus Nobilitas innata tibi probitatis honorem Armipotens Gualtere dedit probitásque laborem line 50 Perpetuámque labor vitam sic vita salutem This epitaph with the said earles whole genealogie or pedegree comprised in heroicall verse and ioined with the funerall sermon was presented to the right honourable lord Robert now earle of Essex and Ew vicount of Hereford and Bourchier lord Ferrers of Chartleie Bourchier Louaine at such time as he was the quéenes maiesties ward with an epistle of the presenter which bicause it is a veine of godlie deuise tending to a verie honorable purpose line 60 deserueth here to be placed answering the president heretofore set out in print as followeth The epistle of E. W. prefixed before the genealogicall epitaph and funerall sermon published at the interring of the right honourable the lord Walter earle of Essex c. MY lord your absence latelie from the funerals of my lord your father was lamented by such in Wales as would gladlie haue beheld the liuelie image of him in you and if the tendernesse of your yeares vnmeet for so tedious and so vnseasonable trauell had not by necessitie disappointed their hope then should the lamentable speech of the graue and reuerend father the bishop of saint Dauies expressed with abundance of dolour tears haue left in you a déepe impression of griefe for the intollerable losse of so honourable a parent But it maie be iudged that God hath turned your absence to your more benefit sith the importunacie of such as loue honour you and who couet to haue your fathers vertues descend with his inheritance hath obteined the publishing of that learned sermon wherin you maie at good leasure view in the iust report of his life death the paterne forme of true nobilitie The heroicall description that the bishop maketh of nobilitie comparing it vnto a mounteine from which foure famous riuers must issue the mounteine true religion the riuers prudence iustice fortitude and temperance is a rule to you first to follow your father in truth of religion then to be as he was wise iust valiant and temperat The naturall and vnforced courtesie affabilitie that was in your father and that excellent mixture of disposition and aptnesse both for warre and peace dooth promise to the world a singular perfection in you hereafter For as your grandfather who died in his yoong yeares did make shew of much more honour than was in the noble vicount his father and this our earle by famous actions did altogither eclipse the vertuous hope conceiued of your grandfather so considering that God in nature continueth as it were the race by outward shew of good parts in you and that you haue
worldlings whose hearts are so hardened that they will not beléeue though one rise from the dead or though God should speake vnto them from heauen as the poet noteth trulie which he hath doone in times past solióque tremendus ab alto Altitonans coelo signa stupenda dedit About the twelfe daie of Ianuarie proclamation was published at London for reuocation of sundrie line 40 the quéenes maiesties subiects remaining beyond the seas vnder colour of studie and yet liuing contrarie to the lawes of God and of the realme and also against the reteining of Iesuits and massing priests sowers of sedition and other treasonable attempts c. The thirtéenth of Ianuarie a man was drawne to saint Thomas of Waterings and there hanged headed and quartered for begging by a licence wherevnto the quéenes hand was counterfeited On the sixteenth daie of Ianuarie the lords line 50 and barons of this realme began to sit in the parlement house at Westminster and on the twentith daie of Ianuarie the quéenes maiestie went from White hall to the parlement house by water Whereas a great chalenge of iusts was signified by waie of deuise before hir maiestie on Twelfe night last past to haue beene performed the fiftéenth daie of Ianuarie hir maiesties pleasure was for diuerse considerations the same should be deferred vntill the two and twentith daie of the same moneth on which line 60 daie the same was most couragiouslie accomplished in the accustomed place at Westminster where manie staues were valiantlie broken but through the great concourse of people thither repairing manie of the beholders as well men as women were sore hurt some maimed and some killed by falling of the scaffolds ouercharged This yeare about Hallowntide last past in the marishes of Daneseie hundred in a place called Southminster in the countie of Essex a strange thing happened There suddenlie appéered an infinite multitude of mice which ouerwhelming the whole earth in the said marishes did sheare and gnaw the grasse by the roots spoiling tainting the same with their venemous teeth in such sort that the cattell which grased thereon were smitten with a murreine and died thereof Which vermine by policie of man could not be destroied till now at the last it came to passe that there flocked togither all about the same marishes such a number of owles as all the shire was not able to yeeld whereby the marsh holders were shortlie deliuered from the vexation of the said mice This yeere against the comming of certeine commissioners out of Francis into England by hir maiesties appointment year 1581 on the six and twentith daie of March in the morning being Easter daie a banketting house was begun at Westminster on the south west side of hir maiesties palace of White hall made in maner and forme of a long square thrée hundred thirtie and two foot in measure about thirtie principals made of great masts being fortie foot in length a peece standing vpright betwéene euerie one of these masts ten foot asunder and more The walles of this house were closed with canuas and painted all the outsides of the same most artificiallie with a worke called rustike much like to stone This house had two hundred ninetie and two lights of glasse The sides within the same house was made with ten heights of degrées for people to stand vpon and in the top of this house was wrought most cunninglie vpon canuas works of iuie and hollie with pendents made of wicker rods and garnished with baie rue and all maner of strange flowers garnished with spangles of gold as also beautified with hanging toseans made of hollie and iuie with all maner of strange fruits as pomegranats orenges pompions cucumbers grapes carrets with such other like spangled with gold and most richlie hanged Betwixt these works of baies and iuie were great spaces of canuas which was most cunninglie painted the clouds with starres the sunne and sunne beames with diuerse other cotes of sundrie sorts belonging to the quéenes maiestie most richlie garnished with gold There were of all manner of persons working on this house to the number of thrée hundred seuentie and fiue two men had mischances the one brake his leg and so did the other This house was made in thrée wéeks and three daies and was ended the eightéenth daie of Aprill and cost one thousand seuen hundred fortie and foure pounds nineteene shillings and od monie as I was crediblie informed by the worshipfull maister Thomas Graue surueior vnto hir maiesties workes who serued and gaue order for the same as appeareth by record On the sixteenth daie of Aprill arriued at Douer these noblemen of France commissioners from the French king to hir maiestie Francis of Burbon prince dolphin of Auergne Arthur Cossaie marshall of France Lodouic Lusignian lord of Laneoc Tauergius Caercongin countie of Tillir Bertrand Salignacus lord Mot Fenelon monsieur Manaissour Barnabie Brissen president of the parlement of Paris Claud Pinart monsieur Marchmont monsieur Ueraie these came from Grauesend by water to London where they were honorably receiued and interteined and shortlie after being accompanied of the nobilitie of England they repaired to the court and banketting house prepared for them at Westminster as is afore said where hir maiestie decus illa Britannûm Gemmáque non alijs inuenienda locis with amiable countenance great courtesse receiued them and afterward in that place most roiallie feasted banketted them Also the nobles gentlemen of the court desirous to shew them all courtesie possible fittest for such estates and to sport them with all courtlie pleasure agréed among them to prepare a tâiumph which was verie quicklie concluded and being deuised in most sumptuous order was by them performed in as valiant a manner to their endlesse fame and honor The chiefe or chalengers in these attempts were these the earle of Arundell the lord Windsore maister Philip Sidueie and maister Fulke Greuill who calling themselues the foure foster children of desire made their inuention of the foresaid triumph in order and forme following line 10 The gallerie or place at the end of the tiltyard adioining to hir maiesties house at Whitehall wheras hir person should be placed was called and not without cause The castell or fortresse of perfect beautie for as much as hir highnesse should be there included whereto the said foster children laid tiâle and claime as their due by descent to belong vnto the them And vpon deniall or anie repulse from that their desired patrimonie they vowed to vanquish and conquer by force who so should séeme to withstand it line 20 For the accomplishing whereof they sent their challenge or first defiance to the quéenes maiestie which was vttered by a boie on sundaie the sixtéenth of Aprill last as hir maiestie came from the chappell who being apparelled in red and white as a martiall messenger of Desires fostered children without making anie precise reuerence
added and set foorth by the said iustice Manwood who for perpetuall supplie when need should be procured that the ancient contributorie lands almost growne into obliuion should be to that end reduced into a conuenient order answerable vnto right and iustice And likewise for good direction in yearelie elections of wardens and other officers with the accounts prouision works and other such necessaries required for perpetuall maintenance of that bridge obteined an act of parlement in the eightéenth yeare of this quéenes reigne as appeareth in the printed booke of statutes wherein were manie things ordâined for the good ordering of the said bridge and the officers belonging therevnto After all which a charge of fiue hundred pounds was of record demanded and leuied vpon the wardens of the said bridge for arerages of the stipends of chanterie priests sometime seruing in the chappell at the east end of the said bridge to the great damage and ouerthrow of the bridge had not the said iustice Manwood by his trauell vpon due and lawfull triall at the assises deliuered discharged the bridge of that great demand as appeareth by record in the court of the excheker before the said sir Roger Manwood came to be chiefe baron there And yet abuse and slackenesse being had in these things the wardens notwithstanding that great beneuolence and reléefe was at sundrie times and of sundrie persons procured vnto the said bridge by the carefull and diligent trauell of Thomas Wooten of Bocton Maleherbe of Kent esquier a deere father and fauourer of his countrie as well at the times of the elections of the wardens and the accounts of the officers were forced to disburse great sums of their owne monie from time to time to dispatch the néedfull charges and works required for the bridge without anie conuenient allowance of the contributorie persons at the yearelie elections of the wardens and without due regard had for order of the said land belonging and contributorie to the bridge For auoiding wherof the said sir Roger Manwood then now lord chiefe baron of the excheker procured to passe another act of parlment in the seuen twentith yeare of hir maiestie reigne wherein is further prouision made for the said bridge as in the printed booke of statutes at large appeareth By which fullie prouided meaneâ and by reasonable following the presidents of the works and accounts written in great lâgear books by the said chiefe baron and William Lambard esquier in the yeare next after the said last mentioned act of parlement of the seauen and twentith of the quéenes reigne they then executing the office of wardens all néedfull reparations be so doone and prouision before hand so made as it is now growne out of all controuersie that the said famous stone bridge of Rochester for euer like to last according vnto the intent of the first building and the indowment thereof for the good and beneficiall seruice of the commonwealth This sir Roger Manwood hauing had before an other wife issued of the gentlemanlie familie of the Theobalds is at this daie ioined in marriage with Elisabeth descended of an ancient and worshipfull familie the daughter of Iohn Copinger of Alhallowes in the countie of Kent esquier which Elisabeth being a woman of such rare modestie and patience as hir verie enimies must néeds confesse the same occasioned these verses following to be composed touching hir hir husband the said sir Roger Manwood Scaccarij protho barâ Manwoode beatum Quem faciunt leges lingua loquela virumâ Coniuge foeliciâr tamenes quae nata Copinger Egregââ est summa foemina digna viro Quae viduata thâro Wilkins coniunctáque Manwood ãâã coniux est âoriata binis In the moneth of Ianuarie deceassed Edward Fines lord Clinton earle of Lincolne and lord admerall of England knight of the garter and one of hir maiesties priuie councell a man of great yéeres and seruice as well by sea as land he was burieâ at Windsor leauing manie children behind him honorablie married Of this noble man whiles he liued one to whome the honorable lords of the courâ were not obscurelie knowne writing of the peaâeable regiment of the queenes maiestie comprising in an orderlie discourse their high places of seruice to the crowne amongest others speaketh verie commendablie and deseruedlie of this deceassed earle who at such time as the said booke was published vnder the title aforenamed had béene lord great admerall of England thirtie yeares and of councell vnto thrée princes alwaies of vnspotted report speciallie for allegiance and therefore as singularlie beloued in his life so accordinglie bemoned at his death The words that concerne this noble mans memoriall are thus extant to the aduancement of his honour testified by report of two English poets line 10 O Clintone tuae concessa est regia classis Tutelae totos ter denos circiter annos Consuluisse tribus nec haec tibi gloria parua Principibus veterum satraparum sanguine clares Multa gerens pelago praeclarè multáque terris Hunc decorat comitem grandi Lincolnia fastis And before this namelie in the yeare 1564 at what time the said noble man was honored with the title of Praefectus maris and attendant vppon hir maiestie in presence at hir being in Cambridge where line 20 she was magnificallie interteined with all hir troope of lords and traine of ladies c thus did an academike write in praise of the forenamed earle Regnatórque maris Clintonus cuius in vndis Excellens nomen praecipuúmque decus Ille mihi Neptunus aquas mouet ille tridente Hunc Triton hunc pelagi dijque deaeque colunt On the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie one and twentie Iesuites seminaries and other massing priests late prisoners in the Tower of London line 30 Marshalsee and Kings bench were shipped at the Tower wharffe to be conueied towards France banished this realme for euer by vertue of a commission from hir maiestie as may more fullie appeare by that which followeth A vew of the said commission from the queenes maiestie WHere as the queenes most excellent line 40 maiestie foreseeing the danger that hath and might grow vnto the realme by accesse of Iesuits and seminarie priests and other like wandering and massing priests comming hither to seduce and withdraw hir louing subiects from their due obedience to God and hir maiestie and there withall traitorouslie to practise the mouing and stirring of rebellion within the realme as hath appeared by sufficient proofe against them and line 50 by confession of sundrie of themselues for the which diuerse of the said Iesuits and seminaries haue béene tried condemned and executed by the ordinarie and orderlie course of hir maiesties lawes and yet they haue not refrained dailie to practise and attempt the like treasons Hir maiestie notwithstanding following the accustomed course of hir princelie clemencie liking rather for this time to haue them onelie banished out of the
of Arundell Warwike and others Then sir Iohn Bushie stept foorth and made request on the behalfe of the communaltie that it might please the kings highnesse for their heinous acts attempted against his lawes and roiall maiestie to appoint them punishment according to their deseruings and speciallie to the archbishop of Canturburie who then sat next the king whome he accused of high treason for that he had euill counselled his maiestie inducing him to grant his letters of pardon to his brother the earle of Arundell being a ranke traitor When the archbishop began to answer in his owne defense the king willed him to sit downe againe and to hold his peace for all should be well Herewith sir Iohn Bushie besought the king that the archbishop should not be admitted to make his answer which if he did by reason of his great wit and good vtterance he feared least he should lead men awaie to beléeue him so the archbishop might be heard no further Sir Iohn Bushie in all his talke when he proponed any matter vnto the king did not attribute to him titles of honour due and accustomed but inuented vnused termes and such strange names as were rather agreeable to the diuine maiestie of God than to any earthlie potentate The prince being desirous inough of all honour and more ambitions than was requisite seemed to like well of his speech and gaue good eare to his talke Thus when the archbishop was constreined to keepe silence sir Iohn Bushie procéeded in his purpose requiring on the behalfe of the commons that the charters of pardons granted vnto the traitors to wit the duke of Glocester and the earles of Arundell and Warwike should be reuoked by consent of all the estates now in parlement assembled The king also for his part protested that those pardons were not voluntarilie granted by him but rather extorted by compulsion and therefore he besought them that euerie man would shew foorth their opinions what they thought thereof There were two other persons of great credit with the king besides sir Iohn Bushie that were as before yee haue heard verie earnest to haue those charters of pardon reuoked and made void to wit sir William Bagot and sir Thomas Gréene But bicause this matter séemed to require good deliberation it was first put to the bishops who with small adoo gaue sentence that the said charters were line 10 reuocable and might well inough be called in yet the archbishop of Canturburie in his answer herevnto said that the king from whome those pardons came was so high an estate that he durst not saie that anie such charters by him granted might be reuoked notwithstanding his brethren the bishops thought otherwise not considering saith Thomas Walsingham that such reuoking of the kings charters of pardon should sound highlie to the kings dishonor line 20 forsomuch as mercie and pardoning transgressions is accompted to be the confirmation and establishing of the kings seat and roiall estate The temporall lords perceiuing what the bishops had doone did likewise giue their consents to reuoke the same pardons but the iudges with those that were toward the law were not of this opinion but finallie the bishops pretending a scrupulositie as if they might not with safe consciences be present where iudgement of bloud should passe they appointed line 30 a laie man to be their prolocutor to serue that turne To conclude at length all maner of charters of pardon were made void for that the same séemed to impeach the suertie of the kings person When sir Iohn Bushie and his associats had obteined that reuocation it was further by them declared that the earle of Arundell had yet an other speciall charter of pardon for his owne person which he had obteined after the first And therefore sir Iohn Bushie earnestlie requested in name of the communaltie that line 40 the same might likewise be reuoked The question then was asked of the bishops who declared themselues to be of the like opinion touching that charter as they were of the other At that selfe time the archbishop of Canturburie absented himselfe from the parlement in hope that the king would he his fréend and stand his verie good lord for that he had promised nothing should be doone against him in the parlement whilest he was absent But neuerthelesse at the importunate sute of the said line 50 sir Iohn Bushie and others the archbishop was condemned vnto perpetuall exile and appointed to auoid the realme within six wéekes And therewith the king sent secretlie to the pope for order that the archbishop might be remooued from his sée to some other which sute was obteined and Roger Walden lord treasuror was ordeined archbishop in his place as after shall appeare On the feast daie of saint Matthew Richard fitz Aleine earle of Arundell was brought foorth to line 60 sweare before the king and whole parlement to such articles as he was to be charged with And as he stood at the bar the lord Neuill was commanded by the duke of Lancaster which sat that daie as high steward of England to take the hood from his necke and the girdle from his waste Then the duke of Lancaster declared vnto him that for his manifold rebellions and treasons against the kings maiestie he had béene arrested and hitherto kept in ward and now at the petition of the lords and commons he was called to answer such crimes as were there to be obiected against him and so to purge himselfe or else to suffer for his offenses such punishment as law appointed First he charged him for that he had traitorouslie rid in armour against the king in companie of the duke of Glocester and of the earle of Warwike to the breach of peace and disquieting of the realme His answer herevnto was that he did not this vpon anie euill meaning towards the kings person but rather for the benefit of the king and relme if it were interpreted aright and taken as it ought to be It was further demanded of him whie he procured letters of pardon from the K. if he knew himselfe giltlesse He answered that he did not purchase them for anie feare he had of faults committed by him but to staie the malicious speach of them that neither loued the king nor him He was againe asked whether he would denie that he had made anie such rode with the persons before named and that in companie of them he entred not armed vnto the kings presence against the kings will and pleasure To this he answered that he could not denie it but that he so did Then the speaker sir Iohn Bushie with open mouth besought that iudgement might be had against such a traitour and your faithfull commons said he to the king aske and require that so it may be doone The earle turning his head aside quietlie said to him Not the kings faithfull coÌmons require this but thou and what thou art I
destitute of sobrietie and wisedome and therfore could not like of him that so abused his authoritie Herevpon there were sundrie of the nobles that lamented these mischéefes and speciallie shewed their greefes vnto such by whose naughtie counsell they vnderstood the king to be miââed and this they did to the end that they being about him might either turne their copies and giue him better counsell or else he hauing knowledge what euill report went of him might mend his maners misliked of his nobles But all was in vaine for so it fell out that in this parlement holden at Shrewsburie Henrie duke of Hereford accused Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke of certeine words which he should vtter in talke had betwixt them as they rode togither latelie before betwixt London and Brainford sounding highlie to the kings dishonor And for further proofe thereof he presented a supplication to the king wherein he appealed the duke of Norfolke in field of battell for a traitor false and disloiall to the king and enimie vnto the realme This supplication was red before both the dukes in presence of the king which doone the duke of Norfolke tooke vpon him to answer it declaring that whatsoeuer the duke of Hereford had said against him other than well he lied falselie like an vntrue knight as he was And when the king asked of the duke of Hereford what he said to it he taking his hood off his head said My souereigne lord euen as the supplication which I tooke you importeth right so I saie for truth that Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke is a traitour false and disloiall to your roiall maiestie your crowne and to all the states of your realme Then the duke of Norfolke being asked what he said to this he answered Right déere lord with your fauour that I make answer vnto your coosine here I saie your reuerence saued that Henrie of Lancaster duke of Hereford like a false and disloiall traitor as he is dooth lie in that he hath or shall say of me otherwise than well No more said the king we haue heard inough and herewith commanded the duke of Surrie for that turne marshall of England to arrest in his name the two dukes the duke of Lancaster father to the duke of Hereford the duke of Yorke the duke of Aumarle constable of England and the duke of Surrie marshall of the realme vndertooke as pledges bodie for bodie for the duke of Hereford but the duke of Northfolke was not suffered to put in pledges and so vnder arrest was led vnto Windsor castell and there garded with kéepers that were appointed to sée him safelie kept Now after the dissoluing of the parlement at Shrewsburie there was a daie appointed about six wéeks after for the king to come vnto Windsor to heare and to take some order betwixt the two dukes which had thus appealed ech other There was a great scaffold erected within the castell of Windsor for the king to sit with the lords and prelats of his realme and so at the daie appointed he with the said lords prelats being come thither and set in their places the duke of Hereford appellant and the duke of Norfolke defendant were sent for to come appeare before the king sitting there in his seat of iustice And then began sir Iohn Bushie to speake for the king declaring to the lords how they should vnderstand that where the duke of Hereford had presented a supplication to the king who was there set to minister iustice to all men that would demand the same as apperteined to his roiall maiestie he therefore would now heare what the parties could say one against an other and withall the king commanded the dukes of Aumarle and Surrie the one being constable and the other marshall to go vnto the two dukes appellant and defendant requiring them on his behalfe to grow to some agréement and for his part he would be readie to pardon all that had beene said or doone amisse betwixt them touching anie harme or dishonor to him or his realme but they answered both assuredlie that it was not possible to haue anie peace or agréement made betwixt them When he heard what they had answered he commanded line 10 that they should be brought foorthwith before his presence to heare what they would say Herewith an herald in the kings name with lowd voice commanded the dukes to come before the king either of them to shew his reason or else to make peace togither without more delaie When they were come before the king and lords the king spake himselfe to them willing them to agree and make peace togither for it is said he the best waie ye can take The line 20 duke of Norfolke with due reuerence herevnto answered it could not be so brought to passe his honor saued Then the king asked of the duke of Hereford what it was that he demanded of the duke of Norfolke and what is the matter that ye can not make peace togither and become friends Then stood foorth a knight who asking and obteining licence to speake for the duke of Hereford said Right deare and souereigne lord here is Henrie of Lancaster duke of Hereford and earle of Derbie line 30 who saith and I for him likewise say that Thomas Mobwraie duke of Norfolke is a false and disloiall traitor to you and your roiall maiestie and to your whole realme and likewise the duke of Hereford saith and I for him that Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke hath receiued eight thousand nobles to pay the souldiers that keepe your towne of Calis which he hath not doone as he ought and furthermore the said duke of Norfolke hath béene the occasion of all the treason that hath beene contriued in your realme line 40 for the space of these eighteene yeares by his false suggestions and malicious counsell he hath caused to die and to be murdered your right déere vncle the duke of Glocester sonne to king Edward Moreouer the duke of Hereford saith and I for him that he will proue this with his bodie against the bodie of the said duke of Norfolke within lists The king herewith waxed angrie and asked the duke of Hereford if these were his woords who answered Right déere lord they are my woords and hereof I require line 50 right and the battell against him There was a knight also that asked licence to speake for the duke of Norfolke and obteining it began to answer thus Right déere souereigne lord here is Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke who answereth and saith and I for him that all which Henrie of Lancaster hath said and declared sauing the reuerence due to the king and his councell is a lie and the said Henrie of Lancaster hath falselie and wickedlie lied as a false and disloiall knight and line 60 both hath béene and is a traitor against you your crowne roiall maiestie realme This will I proue and defend as becommeth a loiall knight to
was displeased and so returned to Brecknocke to you But in that iournie as I returned whither it were by the inspiration of the Holie-ghost or by melancholious disposition I had diuerse and sundrie imaginations how to depriue this vnnaturall vncle and bloudie butcher from his roiall seat and princelie dignitie First I santised that if I list to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall scepter of the realme now was the time propice and conuenient For now was the waie made plaine and the gate opened and occasion giuen which now neglected should peraduenture neuer take such effect and conclusion For I saw he was disdeined of the lords temporall abhored and accurssed of the lords spirituall detested of all gentlemen and despised of all the communaltie so that I saw my chance as perfectlie as I saw mine owne image in a glasse that there was no person if I had béene gréedie to attempt the enterprise could nor should haue woone the ring or got the gole before me And on this point I rested in imagination secretlie with my selfe two daies at Tewkesburie From thence so iournieng I mused and thought that it was not best nor conuenient to take vpon me as a conqueror For then I knew that all men and especiallie the nobilitie would with all their power withstand me both for rescuing of possessions and tenures as also for subuerting of the whole estate laws and customes of the realme such a power hath a conqueror as you know well inough my lord But at the last in all this doubtfull case there sprang a new branch out of my head which suerlie I thought should haue brought forth faire floures but the sunne was so hot that they turned to drie wéeds For I suddenlie remembred that the lord Edmund duke of Summerset my grandfather was with king Henrie the sixt in the two and thrée degrées from Iohn duke of Lancaster lawfullie begotten so that I thought sure my mother being eldest daughter to duke Edmund that I was next heire to king Henrie the sixt of the house of Lancaster This title pleased well such as I made priuie of my counsell but much more it incouraged my foolish desire and eleuated my ambitious intent insomuch that I cléerelie iudged and in mine owne mind was determinatlie resolued that I was indubitate heire of the house of Lancaster and therevpon concluded line 10 to make my first foundation and erect my new building But whether God so ordeined or by fortune it so chanced while I was in a maze either to conclude suddenlie on this title to set it open amongst the common people or to keepe it secret a while sée the chance as I rode betweene Worcester and Bridgenorth I incountered with the ladie Margaret countesse of Richmond now wife vnto the lord Stanlie which is the verie daughter and sole heire to lord Iohn duke of Summerset my grandfathers line 20 elder brother which was as cleane out of my mind as though I had neuer séene hir so that she and hir sonne the earle of Richmond be both bulworke and portcullice betwéene me and the gate to enter into the maiestie roiall and getting of the crowne Now when we had communed a little concerning hir sonne as I shall shew you after and were departed shée to our ladie of Worcester and I to Shrewsburie I then new changed and in maner amazed began to dispute with my selfe little considering line 30 that thus my earnest title was turned to a tittell not so good as Est Amen Eftsoones I imagined whether were best to take vpon me by election of the nobilitie and communaltie which me thought easie to be done the vsurper king thus being in hatred and abhorred of this whole realme or to take it by power which standeth in fortunes chance and difficile to be atchiued and brought to passe Thus tumbling and tossing in the waues of ambiguitie betwéene the stone and the sacrifice I considered first the office dutie and line 40 paine of a king which suerlie thinke I that no mortall man can iustlie and trulie obserue except he be called elected and speciallie appointed by God as K. Dauid and diuerse other haue beéne But further I remembred that if I once tooke on me the scepter and the gouernance of the realme that of two extreame enimies I was dailie sure but of one trustie friend which now a daies be gone a pilgrimage I was neither assured nor crediblie ascerteined such is the worlds mutation For I manifestlie perceiued that the daughters of king Edward line 50 and their alies and freends which be no small number being both for his sake much beloued and also for the great iniurie manifest tyrannie doone to them by the new vsurper much lamented and pitied would neuer ceasse to barke if they cannot bite at the one side of me Semblablie my coosine the earle of Richmond his aids and kinsfolks which be not of little power will suerlie attempt like a fierce greihound either to bite or to pearse me on the other side So that my life and rule should euer hang line 60 by a haire neuer in quiet but euer in doubt of death or deposition And if the said two linages of Yorke and Lancaster which so long haue striued for the imperiall diadem should ioine in one against me then were I suerlie mated and the game gotten Wherefore I haue cléerelie determined and with my selfe concluded vtterlie to relinquish all such fantasticall imaginations concerning the obteining of the crowne But all such plagues calamities and troubles which I feared and suspected might haue chanced on me if I had taken the rule and regiment of this realme I shall with a reredemaine so make them rebound to to our common enimie that calleth himselfe king that the best stopper that he hath at tenice shall not well stop without a fault For as I told you before the counfesse of Richmond in my returne from the new named king méeting me in the high waie praâed me first for kinred sake secondarâlie for the loue that I bare to my grandfather duke Humfrie which was sworne brother to hir father so mooue the king to be good to hir sonne Henrie earle of Richmond and to licence him with his fauour to returne againe into England And if it were his pleasure so to doo she promised that the earle hir sonne should marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the king without anie thing to be taken or demanded for the said espousals but onelie the kings fauour which request I soone ouerpassed and gaue hir faire words and so departed But after in my lodging when I called to memorie with a deliberate studie and did circumspectlie ponder them I fullie adiudged that the Holie-ghost caused hir to mooue a thing the end whereof she could not consider both for the securitie of the realme as also for the preferment of hir child and the destruction and finall confusion of the common enimie king
line 50 made The seauenteenth of Februarie the lord protector was created duke of Summerset the earle of Essex was created marquesse of Northhampton the lord Lisle high admerall of England was created earle of Warwike and high chamberlaine of England sir Thomas Wriothesleie lord chancellour was created earle of Southhampton sir Thomas Seimer was aduanced to the honour of lord of Sudleie and high admerall of England which office the earle of Warwike then resigned sir Richard Rich was made lord Rich and sir William Willoughbie was created lord Willoughbie of Parrham sir Edmund Sheffield was made lord Sheffield of Butterwike and as saith a late writer of this action Vt quisque est ditione potentior auctus honore Et noua virtutis sumens insignia fulget At the same time great preparation was made for the kings coronation so that the foure and twentith of Februarie next insuing his maiestie came from the Tower and so rode through London vnto Westminster with as great roialtie as might be the stréets being hoong and pageants in diuerse places erected to testifie the good willes of the citizens reioising that it had pleased God to deale so fauourablie with the English nation to grant them such a towardlie yoong prince to their king and souereigne thus to succéed in place of his noble father ¶ Now as he rode through London toward Westminster and passed on the south part of Pauls churchyard an Argosine came from the battlements of the stéeple of Paules church vpon a cable being made fast to an anchor by the deanes gate lieng on his breast aiding himselfe neither with hand nor foot and after ascended to the middest of the cable where he tumbled and plaied manie pretie toies whereat the king and the nobles had good pastime The morrow after being Shrouesundaie and the fiue and twentith of Februarie his coronation was solemnized in due forme and order with all the roialtie and honour which therevnto apperteined Shortlie after the coronation to wit the sixt of March the erle of Southhampton lord chancellour of England for his too much repugnancie as was reported in matters of councell to the residue of the councellors about the king was not onelie depriued of his office of chancellor but also remooued from his place and authoritie in councell and the custodie of the great seale was taken from him and deliuered vnto sir William Paulet lord Saint-Iohn that was lord great maister of the kings houshold Also shortlie after his coronation the kings maiestie by the aduise of his vncle the lord protector and other of his priuie councell minding first of all to séeke Gods honor and glorie and therevpon intending a reformation did not onelie set foorth by certeine commissioners sundrie iniunctions for the remoouing of images out of all churches to the suppressing and auoiding of idolatrie and superstition within his realmes and dominions but also caused certeine homilies or sermons to be drawne by sundrie godlie learned men that the same might be read in churches to the people which were afterward by certeine of these commissioners sent foorth as visitors accompanied with certeine preachers thâroughout the realme for the better instruction of the people published and put in vre At Easter next following he set out also an order thorough all the realme that the supper of the lord should be ministred to the laie people in both kinds ¶ On the fifteenth of Maie doctor Smith recanted at Paules crosse All these things doone concerning religion as before is said the lord protector and the rest of the councell calling to mind the euill dealing and craftie dissimulation of the Scots concerning the matter of line 10 marriage betwixt the kings maiestie and the quéene of Scotland which marriage as ye haue heard in the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight was by authoritie of parlement in Scotland fullie concluded thought it not to stand with the kings honor to be in such maner by them deluded and withall considering how greatlie it shuld turne to the quietnesse and safetie of both realmes to haue these two princes conioined in matrimonie they did deuise line 20 sundrie waies and meanes how the same might be brought to passe and the rather as some doo write for that king Henrie before his death had giuen them in speciall charge by all indeuours to procure that the said marriage might take place as wholie wishing by the coniunction of those two yoong princes the vniting of the two kingdoms in perpetuall amitie and faithfull league of loue as our poet saith Optat coniugio duo regna coire fideli Aeternam pacem hinc aeternáque foedera iungi line 30 But the lords of Scotland were so inueigled and corrupted by the French king and abused by cardinall Beton archbishop of saint Andrewes and other of their clergie that they not onelie shranke from that which they had promised but also sought to destroie those that fauored the king of Englands part wherevpon a great and puissant armie was now prepared to passe by land into Scotland and likewise a nauie to passe by sea to attend vpon the same whereof the great gallie and foure and twentie tall ships were thoroughlie furnished with men and munition line 40 for the warres besides manie merchants ships and other small vessels which serued for carriage of vittels and other necessaries But now to shew what noble men and other were ordeined officers and assigned to haue the conduction as well of the armie by land as of the fleete by sea ye shall vnderstand that first the duke of Summerset lord protector tooke vpon him to go himselfe in person as generall of the whole armie and capteine line 50 also of the battell or middle-ward wherin were foure thousand footmen The marshall erle of Warwike appointed lord lieutenant of the same armie led the fore-ward conteining thrée thousand footmen The lord Dacres gouerned in the rere-ward wherein were other thrée thousand footmen The lord Greie of Wilton was ordeined high marshall of the said armie capteine generall of all the horssemen being in number six thousand Sir Rafe Sadler knight treasuror of the armie Sir Francis Brian knight capteine of the light horssemen in number two thousand line 60 Sir Rafe Uane knight lieutenant of all the men of armes and demilances Sir Thomas Darcie knight capteine of all the kings maiesties pensioners and men at armes Sir Richard Leigh knight deuiser of the fortifications Sir Peter Mewtas knight capteine of the harquebutters which were in number six hundred Sir Peter Gamboa knight capteine of two hundred harquebutters on horssebacke Sir Francis Fleming knight was master of the ordinance Sir George Blaag sir Thomas Holcroft commissioners of the musters Edward Shelleie the lord Greies lieutenant of the men of armes of Bullongne who was the first that gaue the onset in the daie of battell and died most honorablie in the same Iohn Brenne capteine
laie sidelong toward the Englishmen next to whome by the side of the same furrowes a stones cast from the Scots was there a crosse ditch or slough which the Englishmen must needs passe to come to them wherein manie that could not leape ouer stucke fast to no small danger of themselues and some disorder of their fellowes The enimie perceiuing the Englishmen fast to approch disposed themselues to abide the brunt and line 10 in this order stood still to receiue them The earle of Angus next to the Englishmen in the Scotish foreward as capteine of the same with an eight thousand men and foure or fiue péeces of ordinance on his right hand and a foure hundred horssemen on his left Behind him westward the gouernour with ten thousand Inland men as they call them the choisest soldiers counted of their countrie And the earle of Huntleie in the rere-ward welnie euen with the battell on the left side with eight thousand The foure line 20 thousand Irish archers as a wing to them both last indéed in order first as they said that ran awaie The battell and also the rere-ward were garded likewise with their ordinance according Edward Shelleie lieutenant vnder the lord Greie of his band of Bulleners was the first that passed ouer the sâough The lord Greie himselfe next with the lord Iohn Greie and others in the foremost ranke and so then after two or thrée rankes of their former bands But badlie yet could they make their line 30 rase by reason the furrowes laie trauerse to their course That notwithstanding and though also they were nothing likelie well to be able thus afront to come within them to doo them hurt as well bicause the Scotishmens pikes were as long or longer than their staues as also for that their horsses were all naked without bards whereof though there were right manie among them yet not one put on for as much as at their comming forth in the morning they looked for nothing lesse than for battell that daie yet line 40 did those worthie gentlemen the lord Greie of Wilton the lord Iohn Greie and maister Shelleie with the residue so valiantlie stronglie giue the charge vpon them that whether it were by their prowesse or power the left side of the enimies that his lordship did set vpon though their order remained vnbroken was yet compelled to swaie a good waie backe and giue ground largelie and all the residue of them beside to stand much amazed Beside this as the Englishmen were welnie at line 50 their enimies they stood verie braue and bragging shaking their pike points crieng Come lounds come héere tikes come heretikes and such like rhetorike they vsed But though saith master Patten they meant but small humanitie yet shewed they thereby much ciuilitie both of faire plaie to warne yer they stroke and of formall order to chide yer they fought The English capteines that were behind perceiuing at eie that both by the vnéeuennesse of the ground by the sturdie order of the enimie and line 60 for that their fellowes were so nie and streight before them they were not able to anie aduantage to mainteine this onset did therefore according to the deuise in that point appointed turne themselues and made a soft retire vp toward the hill againe Howbeit to confesse the truth some of the number that knew not the prepensed policie of the counsell in this case made of a sober aduised retire an hastie rash and vnaduised flight howbeit without capteine or standard vpon no cause of néed but of a méere vndiscretion and madnesse A madnesse indéed for first the Scots were not able to pursue bicause they were footmen and then if they could what hope by flight so farre from home in their enimies land where was no place of refuge The valiant lord Greie Edward Shelleie little Preston Brampton and Ierningham Bulleners Ratcliffe the lord Fitzwaters brother sir Iohn Cleres sonne and heire Rawleie a gentleman of right commendable prowesse Digs of Kent Ellerker a pensioner Segraue of the duke of Summersets band Standleie Woodhouse Conisbie Horgill Norris Denis Arthur and Atkinson with other in the fore-ranke not being able in this earnest assault both to tend to their fight afore and to the retire behind the Scots againe well considering herby how weake they remained caught courage afresh ran sharplie forward vpon them and without anie mercie slue the most part of them that abode furthest in prease a six more of Bulleners and other than before are named in all to the number of twentie six and most part gentlemen My lord Greie yet and my lord Iohn Greie and likewise my lord Edward Seimer as some grace was returned againe but neither all in safetie nor without euident markes they had bin there for the lord Greie with a pike through the mouth was rased a long from the tip of the toong and thrust that waie verie dangerouslie more than two inches in the necke and the other two had their horsses vnder them with swords sore wounded Like as also a little before this onset sir Thomas Darcie vpon his approch to the enimies was striken glansing wise on the right side with a bullet of one of their field péeces and thereby his bodie brused with the bowing in of his armour his sword hilts broken and the forefinger of his right hand beaten flat Euen so vpon the parting of this fraie was sir Arthur Darcie slasht at with swords and so hurt vpon the wedding finger of his right hand also as it was counted for the first part of curing to haue it quite cut awaie About the same time certeine of the Scots ran on hastilie to the kings standard of the horssemen the which sir Andrew Flammocke bare and laieng fast hold vpon the staffe therof cried A king a king that if both his strength his hart and his horsse had not beene good and herewith somewhat aided at this pinch by sir Rafe Coppinger a pensioner both he had béene slaine and the standard lost which the Scots neuerthelesse held so fast that they brake and bare awaie the nether end of the staffe to the burrell and intended so much to the gaine of the standard that sir Andrew as hap was scaped home all safe and else without hurt At this businesse also the lord Fitzwaters both earle of Sussex and lord chamberleine to the quéenes maiestie capteine there of a number of demilances was vnhorst but soone mounted againe scaped yet in great danger and his horsse all hewen Hereat further were Caluerleie the standard-bearer of the men at armes and Clement Paston a pensioner thrust each of them into the leg with pikes and Don Philip a Spaniard into the knée diuerse others maimed and hurt and manie horsses sore wounded beside By this time had the English fore-ward accordinglie gotten the full vantage of the hilles side and in respect of their
Old man capteine More line 10 of Bullognberg with certeine cariages to go vnto a wood not farre off called the North wood to fetch fagots and brush to repare and mainteine the rampires These capteins with their bands being passed forward about two miles in distance from the fort met with certeine of their scouts that were sent forth that morning who told them that they had discouered the tract of a great number of horssemen Whervpon line 20 the Englishmen now being almost come to the wood side retired with all spéed and herewith the French horssemen brake out of the wood and following them fell in skirmish with them The Englishmen casting themselues in a ring kept them off with their pikes wherewith they impailed themselues and hauing their small troope lined with shot they also galled the Frenchmen right sore therewith as they still approched them Neuerthelesse those horssemen gaue three maine onsets vpon the Englishmen with the number of a thousand horsse at two of the first line 30 onsets and the third they gaue with all their whole power being estéemed a fiftéene hundred horssemen in all But such was the valiant prowesse of the English souldiers incouraged with the comfortable presence of sir William Cobham and other their capteins that conducted them in such order as stood most for their safegard exhorting them with such effectuall words as serued best to purpose that the enimie to line 40 conclude was repelled with losse of seuentie of their great horsses that laie dead there in the field within the space of halfe a mile There were also foure thousand French footmen that came forward but could not reach and so marching about the fort returned in vaine after they once perceiued that the Englishmen were safelie retired within their fort The councell thus perceiuing the French kings purpose which he had conceiued to worke some notable damage to this realme as well in support of his friends in line 50 Scotland as in hope to recouer those peeces which the English held at Bullongne and in those marches doubted also of some inuasion meant by him to be attempted into this realme bicause of such great preparation as he had made for leuieng of his forces both by sea and land The councell therefore made likewise prouision to be readie to resist all such attempts as anie waie foorth might be made to the annoiance of the realme But as things fell out the same stood in good stead line 60 not against the forren enimie but against a number of rebellious subiects at home the which forgetting their dutie and allegiance did as much as in them laie what soeuer their pretense was to bring this noble realme and their naturall countrie vnto destruction But first for that it maie appeare that the duke of Summerset then protector and other of the councell did not without good ground and cause mainteine the warres against the Scots I haue thought good to set downe an epistle exhortatorie as we find the same in the great chronicle of Richard Grafton sent from the said protector and councell vnto the Scots to mooue them to haue consideration of themselues and of the estate of their countrie by ioining in that friendlie bond and vnitie with England as had beene of the kings part and his fathers continuallie sought for the benefit of both realmes the copie of which exhortation here insueth Edward by the grace of God duke of Summerset earle of Hertford vicount Beauchampe lord Seimer vncle to the kings highnesse of England gouernor of his most roiall person and protector of all his realmes dominions subiects lieutenant generall of all his maiesties armies both by land and sea treasuror and earle marshall of England gouernor of the Iles of Gerneseie and Ierseie and knight of the most noble order of the garter with others of the councell of the said most high and noble prince Edward by the grace of God of England France and Ireland king defender of the faith and in earth vnder Christ the supreame head of the churches of England and Ireland To the nobilitie and councellors gentlemen and commons and all other the inhabitants of the realme of Scotland greeting and peace COnsidering with our selues the present state of things and weieng more déepelie the maner and tearmes wherein you and we doo stand it maketh vs to maruell what euill fatall chance dooth so disseuer your hearts and maketh them so blind and vnmindfull of your profit and so still conciliate and heape to your selues most extreame mischiefs the which we whome ye will néeds haue your enimies go about to take awaie from you and perpetuallie to ease you therof And also by all reason order of necessitie it should be rather more conuenient for you to séeke and require moderate agréements of vs whome God hath hitherto according to our most iust true and godlie meanings and intents prospered and set forward with your affliction and miserie than that we being superiours in the field maisters of a great part of your realme should seeke vpon you Yet to the intent that our charitable minds and brotherlie loue should not cease by all meanes possible to prouoke and call you to your owne commoditie and profit euen as the father to the son or the elder brother to the yoonger and as the louing physician would doo to the mistrustfull and ignorant patient we are content to call and crie vpon you to looke on your estate to auoid the great calamitie that your countrie is in to haue vs rather brothers than enimies and rather countrimen than conquerors And if your gouernor or capteins shall reteine and kéepe from you this our exhortation as heretofore they haue doone our proclamation tending to the like effect for their owne priuat wealth commoditie not regarding though you be still in miserie so they haue profit and gouernance ouer you and shall still abuse you with feined and forged tales yet this shall be a witnesse before God and all christian people betweene you and vs that we professing the gospell of Iesus Christ according to the doctrine thereof doo not cease to call and prouoke you from the effusion of your owne bloud from the destruction of the realme of Scotland from perpetuall enimitie and hatred from the finall destruction of your nation and from seruitude to forren nations to libertie to amitie to equalitie with vs to that which your writers haue alwaies wished might once come to passe Who that hath read the stories in times past and dooth marke note the great battels past âought betwixt England Scotland the incursions rodes spoiles which haue béene doone on both parties the realme of Scotland fiue times woone by one king of England the Scotish kings some taken prisoners some slaine in battell some for verie sorrow and discomfort vpon losse dieng and departing the world and shall perceiue againe that all nations in the world that
abroad but euerie man departed And shortlie after the duke was arrested in the kings line 50 college by one maister Sleg sargeant at arms At the last letters were brought from the councell at London that all men should go each his waie Wherevpon the duke said to them that kept him Ye doo me wrong to withdraw my libertie sée you not the councels letters without exception that all men should go whither they would At which words they that kept him and the other noblemen set them at libertie and so continued they for that night insomuch that the earle of Warwike was readie in line 60 the morning to haue rode awaie But then came the erle of Arundell from the quéene to the duke into his chamber who went out to méet him Now as soone as he saw the earle of Arundell he fell on his knees and desired him to be good to him for the loue of God Consider saith he I haue doone nothing but by the consents of you and all the whole councell My lord quoth the earle of Arundell I am sent hither by the quéens maiestie and in hir name I doo arrest you And Iobeie it my lord quoth he I beséech you my lord of Arundell quoth the duke vse mercie towards me knowing the case as it is My lord quoth the earle ye should haue sought for mercie sooner I must doo according to commandement herwith he committed the charge of him and the others to the gard and gentlemen that stood by The lord marques after this went to quéene Marie On the fiue twentith daie of the said moneth the duke of Northumberland with Francis earle of Huntington Iohn earle of Warwike son and heire to the said duke and two other of his yoonger sons the lord Ambrose and the lord Henrie Dudleie sir Andrew Dudleie Sir Iohn Gates capteine of the gard to king Edward the sixt sir Henrie Gates brethren sir Thomas Palmer knights and doctor Sands were brought to the tower by the earle of Arundell But as they entered within the tower gate the earle of Arundell discharged the lord Hastings taking him out of the tower with him On the six twentith of Iulie the lord marques of Northampton the bishop of London the lord Robert Dudleie and sir Robert Corbet were brought from the quéenes campe vnto the tower The eight and twentith of Iulie the duke of Suffolke was committed to the tower but the one and twentith of the same moneth he was set at libertie by the diligent sute of the ladie Francis grace his wife After that quéene Marie was thus with full consent of the nobles and commons of the realme proclamed quéene she being then in Northfolke at hir castell of Framingham repaired with all speed to the citie of London and the third daie of the said moneth of August she came to the said citie and so to the tower where the ladie Iane of Suffolke late afore proclamed quéene with hir husband the lord Gilford a little before hir comming were committed to ward there remained almost after fiue moneths And by the waie as the quéene thus passed she was ioifullie saluted of all the people without anie misliking sauing that it was much feared of manie that she would alter the religion set foorth by king Edward hir brother whereof then were giuen iust occasions because notwithstanding diuerse lawes made to the contrarie she had dailie masse and Latine seruice said before hir in the tower Yea it was doubted in like sort that she would both adnull and innouat certeine lawes and decrées established by the yoong prince hir predecessor which she did in deed as one hath left testified in a memoriall of hir succession but little vnto hir commendation saieng At Maria Eduardi regni succedit habenis Confirmans iterùm regno papalia iura Concilióque nouas leges sancire vocato Molitur latas à fratre perosa priores At hir entrie into the tower there were presented to hir certeine prisoners namelie Thomas duke of Norffolke who in the last yeare of king Henrie the eight as you haue heard was supposed to be attainted of treason but in the parlement of this first yeare of quéene Marie the said supposed attaindour was by the authoritie and act of parlement for good and apparant causes alleged in the said act declared to be vtterlie frustrat and void Also Edward Courtneie son and heire to Henrie marques of Excester coosine germane to king Henrie the eight and Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Durham with other persons of great calling but speciallie Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester whom she not onlie released out of imprisonment but also immediatlie line 10 aduanced and preferred to be lord chancellor of England restoring him also to his former estate and bishoprike and remoued from the same one doctor Poinet who a little before was placed therein by the gift of king Edward the sixt And touching Edward Courtneie she not onelie aduanced him to the earldome of Deuonshire but also to so much of his fathers possessions as there remained in hir hands whereby it was then thought of manie that she bare affection to him by the waie line 20 of marriage but it came not so to passe for what cause I am not able to giue anie reason but surelie the subiects of England were most desirous thereof Upon the receiuing of this new queene all the bishops which had béene depriued in the time of king Edward the sixt hir brother for the cause of religion were now againe restored to their bishopriks and such other as were placed in king Edward his time remoued from their sées and others of contrarie religion placed Amongest whom Edmund line 30 Bonner doctor of the lawes late afore depriued from the sée of London and committed prisoner to the Marshalsea by order of king Edwards councell was with all fauour restored to his libertie and bishoprike Maister Nicholas Ridleie doctor in diuinitie late before aduanced to the same sée by the said king was hastilie displaced and committed prisoner to the tower of London The cause why such extremitie was vsed towards the said bishop Ridleie more than to the rest was for that in the time of ladie line 40 Iane he preached a sermon at Pauls crosse by the commandement of king Edwards councell wherein he dissuaded the people for sundrie causes from receiuing the ladie Marie as queene ¶ On the ninth of August in the afternoone the queene held an obsequie in the tower for king Edward the dirge being soong in Latine and on the morrow a masse of Requiem whereat the quéene with hir ladies offered The same daie the corps of king Edward was buried at Westminster the lord treasuror the earle of line 50 Penbroke and the earle of Shrewesburie being chéefe mourners with diuerse other noble men and others Doctor Daie bishop of Chichester preached at the said buriall and all the seruice with a communion was
An qua Budaeum Gallia docta suum Candidus ille studet Graecam celebrare Mineruam Graecorum celebras tu monumenta patrum Ille colit veteres intento pectore leges Sunt studij leges cura diserta tui Ille rudes assis docuit cognoscere partes Tu numeros primus verba Latina loqui Gallia causidicum tecum dignare Britannum Conferri niueis dignus vtérque notis In this meane time through controuersie raised betwixt the Scotish nobilitie and the queene Dowager of Scotland which chanced especiallie about matters of religion certeine of the lords there minding a reformation therein and the quéene resisting them to hir power in purpose to mainteine the old popish religion which some name catholike diuerse companies of souldiers and men of war were sent out of France into Scotland to aid the said quéene where they were placed in diuerse townes and forts to the high displeasure of the more part of the Scotish nobilitie who lothing to be oppressed with strangers in that sort were forced to sue vnto the quéene of England for aid to expell the French who sought to subuert the ancient state of that realme and to annex the same vnto the crowne of France Their sute was the better liked of for that it was doubted least the Frenchmen vnder pretense of bringing an armie into Scotland to appease the Scots might attempt some inuasion here in England considering that by procurement as was thought of the duke of Guise vncle to the quéene of France and Scotland a title should seeme to be pretended by his néece the foresaid quéene as might be gathered by manifest coniectures of the vsurping of armes and so foorth The names of the lords of Scotland that made sute for aid against the Frenchmen at this season were these the duke of Chateau le reault the earle of Arraine his sonne the lord Iames prior of saint Andrews the earle of Argile the earle of Glencarne the earle of Rothouse the earle of Southerland the earle of Mounteith the earle of Huntleie the earle of Cathnes the earle of Erroll the earle Marshall the earle of Morton the earle of Cassils the earle of Eglenton the earle of Montros the lord Ruithuen the lord Boid the lord Ogletrée the lord Erskin the lord Dromond the lord Hume the lord Roose the lord Chreighton the lord Leuingston the lord Somerwell the maister of Lindseie the maister of Maxwell The quéenes maiestie with aduise of hir graces councell considering of this weightie businesse and withall foreseeing the malicious purpose of hir aduersaries and how the queene of Scots was in France married and gouerned so as she was not able to vse the libertie of hir crowne did thinke it best to preuent such mischiefs as might insue if timelie remedie were not vsed to displace such dangerous neighbours the Frenchmen that began to nestle themselues thus stronglie so néere at hand for no good purpose as easilie might be ghessed Herevpon was a power raised and sent foorth both by sea land line 10 the duke of Norffolke being appointed generall and sent into the north for the direction thereof And first maister William Winter appointed viceadmerall of the quéens nauie northwards made saile toward Scotland and wasting alongst the coast in Ianuarie year 1560 came into the Forth so to the road of Leith and there cast anchor as well to impeach the landing of such Frenchmen as might happilie be sent foorth of France to the aid of the French there against the Scotish lords named of the congregation as also to line 20 keepe them that laie in Insketh from vittels and likewise to sée that none of the Frenchmen by water should passe to or from Leith but to watch them so as they shuld not inioy any commoditie that might come to either place by the same water Moreouer after that the armie by land was come togither into the north parts and had soiourned at Berwike and thereabouts the lord Greie of Wilton being appointed generall of the said armie departed with the same out of the bounds of Berwike and marched to Coldingham where they incamped that line 30 night Saturdaie the thirteenth of March sir Iames Croft and sir George Howard departed Berwike to the armie with all the lances and light horssemen conteining the number of twelue hundred and fiftie horsses The number of the footmen amounted to aboue six thousand in all The chiefe gouernours of which armie were thâse the lord Greie of Wilton lieutenant generall sir Iames Croft assistant with him in that charge the lord Scroope lord marshall sir line 40 George Howard generall of the men at armes and demilances maister Barnabie Fitz Patrike his lieutenant sir Henrie Persie generall of the light horssemen Thomas Hugghens esquier prouost marshall Thomas Gower master of the ordinance master William Pelham capteine of the pioners Edward Randoll esquier sergeant Maior masâer Thomas Burrough master Cutbert Uaughan master Williams and master Cornewall corporals This saturdaie at night the armie incamping at line 50 Dunglas the horssemen lodged in sundrie villages néere about Sir Iames Croft laie that night at Coberspeth in the lard of Whitlaies house Sundaie the last of March the armie remooued from Dunglas and marching by Dunbar there issued out of the towne certeine horssemen and footmen offering a skirmish towards whome certeine of the English lances and pistoliers with certeine harquebutters made forwards but they kept themselues within their strength Yet some of the English horssemen line 60 approched them so néere that in skirmish two of the enimies horssemen and one footman were slaine The Englishmen receiued little damage sauing that Peter Mince one of their horsmen was hurt there This doone the armie marched on to Linton brigs where the footmen incamped that night The horssemen laie at Hadington and in diuerse other small townes and sir Iames Croft laie at Clarkington west of Hadington at the lard of Cockburns house Mondaie the first of Aprill the campe remooued from Linton brigs vnto salt Preston and there incamped This euening sir Iames Croft with diuers of the capteins in his companie mât with the earle of Arraine the lord Iames prior of saint Andrews the master of Maxwell sir William Kirkaudie lard of Grange and diuerse other of the Scotish nobilitie with thrée hundred horsse in their traine After they were met and had saluted each other they rode altogither vnto salt Preston where at the end of the towne my lord Greie lord lieutenant met them and imbraced them so they lighted from their horsses and entered into communication for the space of an houre and after tooke leaue each of other and so departed for that night Tuesdaie the second of Aprill my lord Greie sir Iames Croft my lord Scroope sir George Howard with diuerse of the capteins rode to Musklebourgh church and there taried the comming of the duke of Chateau
ciuill dissention and warres that rose betwixt the house of Guise and other of that faction vpon the one side and the prince of Conde and other that tooke part with him on the contrarie side the quéenes maiestie informed how that the duke of Guise and his partakers hauing got into their possession the person of the yoong king vnder pretext of his authoritie sought the subuersion of manie noble men and good subiects of the crowne of line 30 France namelie such as were knowne or suspected to be zealous for a reformation to be had in matters of religion hir maiestie thervpon considering that if their purpose might be brought to effect it was to be doubted that they would not so rest but séeke to set things in broile also within this hir realme of England and other countries néere to them adioining first as one that had euer wished quietnesse rather than the troubles of warre sent ouer sir Henrie Sidneie at that present lord president of Wales line 40 a man of such estimation as his word ought to haue deserued credit to trie if he might doo anie good to bring the parties to some attonement But such wilfull headinesse séemed to rest in some that were chiefe of the one faction that their desire seemed altogither bent to enter into wars Hir maiestie yet hoping the best appointed to send another honourable ambassage which by their wisedoms and good aduise might persuade the parties vnto concord whereby all due line 50 authoritie honor dignitie might be restored to the king and euerie other degree keepe their roomes and places as to them apperteined but all in vaine For this motion of a pacification to be had could take no place neither might the will of the yoong king or of his timorous mother as it then seemed be regarded otherwise than as stood with the pleasure appointment of those that were knowne to be the chiefe authors and furtherers of all those troubles Whilest the quéenes maiestie therefore did thus line 60 trauell in respect of the suertie which hir grace bare to hir welbeloued brother the said king and to the commoditie and quietnesse of both the factions an open iniurie was offered to hir maiestie so as it might appeare what minds they bare towards hir that had thus excluded and refused all offers means to grow to some good and indifferent conclusion of peace For whereas manie merchants as well of London as of Excester and other the west parts of hir realme were soiourning for cause of traffike in diuerse ports and hauens of Britaine and hauing dispatched their businesse and got their lading aboord their ships were readie to hoise vp sailes and to returne each one towards the place from whence hée came they were suddenlie arested their goods seized vpon and they themselues cast in prison and some that in reuenge of such offered iniurie attempted to make resistance were cruellie slaine their ships conueied awaie their goods confiscat without other pretense but onelie that it was said to them that they were Huguenots Neither was this doone by priuat persons but by open violence of the gouernors magistrats of those places where the same disorder was executed so that it appeared from whence they had their commission to vse such wrongfull dealing and how farre the same would extend if they might once haue time and occasion to accomplish their purposed intentions Moreouer when complaint of such iniuries was made vnto the lawfull magistrats there they found no redres at all For what might the poore merchants profit by their plaints when the packets of the ambassadors leters directed to hir maiestie were taken from the bearer no punishment had against those that committed so vnciuill an outrage A thing that offended hir maiestie so much more for that as she tooke the matter there wanted no good will either in the king or his mother or in the king of Nauarre the kings generall lieutenant to sée such a presumptuous and vnrulie part punished of their people but rather that there lacked in them authoritie to haue it redressed Furthermore it greatlie gréeued hir that the yong French king hir déere brother was brought to such a streict that he was nether able to defend the libertie of his people nor the authoritie of his lawes nor to deale vprightlie with other princes and potentats accordinglie as by the bonds of leagues and of couenanted aliances had bene requisite Neither did such disorder in gouernement of the kingdome of France touch anie so much and particularlie as the queens maiestie of England She therefore lamenting that the king and quéene mother should be thus in the hands of them that procured all these troubles and led vp and downe at their pleasures and driuen to behold the spoile and sacking of diuerse his cities and miserable slaughter of his subiects and againe hir grace thinking it expedient to preuent that such as were knowne to beare no good will either to hir or hir realme should not get into their possessions such townes and hauens as laie against the sea coasts of hir said realme whereby they stuffing the same with garrisons and numbers of men of warre might easilie vpon occasions seeke to make inuasions into this hir said realme to the great annoiance of hir and hir louing subiects at the request of the French themselues thought it expedient to put in armor a certeine number of hir subiects to passe ouer into Normandie vnto such hauens as néere approched vnto this hir realme of England as well for the safegard of the same as also for the reliefe and preseruation of the inhabitants there and other that professed the gospell liuing in continuall danger to be murthered and oppressed and therefore crauing hir aid to saue and deliuer them out of the bloudie hands of their cruell aduersaries that sought their hastie destruction For the conduction therefore of such forces as she meant to send ouer at that present she ordeined the lord Ambrose Dudleie earle of Warwike to be hir principall lieutenant capteine generall chiefe leader and gouernor of hir said subiects that should in such wise passe ouer into Normandie Herevpon the said erle the seuenteenth of October in this fourth yeare of hir maiesties reigne tooke shipping at Portesmouth in the hauen there at one a clocke in the after noone being aboord himselfe in the quéens ship called the New barke and setting forward sailed all that after noone and the night following directlie towards Newhauen but in the morning about eight a clocke when his lordship was within twentie miles of the town of Newhauen the wind suddenlie changed cleane contrarie to his course so that being driuen to returne about the next midnight he arriued in the downes and there remained at anchor till about eight of the clocke in the next morning being mondaie and then was set on land by bote at Sandon castell besides Deale and the same daie at night
departed to the lord chamberleins chamber and shifted them the said lord Robert in his surcot with the hood his mantle borne before him by the lord Hunsâon and led by the lord Clinton lord admerall by the right hand and the lord Strange on the left hand in their parlement robes Garter bearing the patent before him the officers of armes and so procéeded into the chamber of presence where the quéenes highnesse sat vnder the cloth of estate with the noblemen on ech side of hir the ambassador of France was also present with another stranger an Italian And when the said lord with the other came in the quéenes sight they made their obeisance three times the said lord knéeled downe after the which Garter preseââed the letters patents to the lord chamberleine and he presented the same to the quéenes highnesse who gaue it to sir William Cecill secretarie who read the same with a lowd voice at the words of Creauimus the lord of Hunsdon presented the mantle to the quéens maiestie who put on the same wherby he was created baron of Denbigh for him and his heires Then the patent was read out to the end after the which he deliuered it to the quéene againe and hir highnesse gaue it to the said lord who gaue hir maiestie most humble thanks and he rose vp and departed to the chamber they came from the trumpets sounding before him Then he shifted him of those robes and put on the robes of estate of an earle and being led by the earle of Sussex on the right hand and the erle of Huntington on his left hand the earle of Warwike bearing his sword the pomell vpward and the girdle about the same all in their robes of estate the lord Clinton lord admerall in his parlement robes bearing his cap with the coronall Garter before him bearing his patent and the other officers of armes before him they proceeded as afore into the chamber of presence where after they had made their obeisance the said earle knéeled downe and Garter deliuered his patent to the lord chamberleine who gaue the same to the quéenes maiestie hir highnesse gaue the same to sir William Cecill secretarie to read who read the same And at the words Cincturam gladij the earle of Warwike presented the sword to the quéenes highnesse who girt the same about the necke of the said new earle putting the point vnder his left arme and after hir maiestie put on his cap with the coronall Then his patent was read out to the end and then the said secretarie deliuered it againe to the quéene and hir highnesse gaue it to the said new erle of Leicester who gaue hir humble thanks for it And then he arose and went into the councell chamber to dinner the trumpets sounding before and at dinner he sat in his kirtle and there accompanied him the foresaid ambassador of France and the said Italian with diuerse other erles and lords And after the second course Garter with the other officers of armes proclamed the quéenes maiesties stile and after the stile of the said earle for the which they had fiftéene pounds to wit for his baronie fiue pounds for his earledome ten pounds and Garter had his gowne of blacke veluet garded with thrée gards of the same laid on with lace lined through with blacke taffata and garded on the inner side with the same and on the sléeues eight and thirtie paire of aglets of gold The earles stile was as followeth Du tresnoble puissant seigneur Robert conte de Leicestre baron de Denbigh cheualier du tresnoble ordre de la iarretièrre grand esquier de la royne nostre souuereigne On whole scutchion conteining sundrie cotes inuironed with the cognisances of both orders as well S. Michaels as S. Georges with other ornaments were made these verses now common to be read Quot clypeos atauûm clypeo coniungis in vno Tot tibi virtutes atauûm sunt pectore iunctae Somerij pietas vis imperterrita Greij Intemerata fides Hastingi nobile pectus Ferrarij Quinci probitas bonitásque Boghani Martia Talbotti virtus fidissima dextra Beauchampi Herculei mens inconcussa Guidonis Barklaei vigor generosa modestia Lisli The second of October in the afternoone and on the morrow in the sorenoone was a solemne obsequie at Paules church in London for Ferdinando late emperor departed ¶ Of this emperor it is said line 10 that lieng sicke and so sicke that Zichard a precher of his court then present could not hold him vp howbeit comming at last to himselfe and somewhat in recouerie he said to the standers by You thought that I would neuer come againe naie mine houre is not so soone I doo certeinlie know that I shall not die before Whitsuntide Now when he had liued till that daie and eight daies after as hauing the verie time of his departure told him by secret reuelation and satisfied at full touching the request that Dauid line 20 made to God about the length of his life saieng Da mihi nosse meae quae sint stata tempora vitae Et quando vltima sint fata futura mihi he said to them that were about him It is the holie ghosts pleasure that I should not die before saint Iames tide that as he was a pilgrime among vs so I with him should passe my pilgrimage out of this my natiue countrie After which words spoken his disease grew to greater force and sharpnesse insomuch that at last euen at the verie time prefixed namelie S. Iames daie he departed this life after line 30 he had liued sixtie yeares nine moneths and od daies He gouerned the empire aboue the space of seauen yeares had to wife Anne queene of Hungarie and Boheme by whom he had fiftéene children some male namelie Maximilian Ferdinand Iohn and Charles also eleuen females to wit Elisabeth married to Sigismund king of Poland Anne Marie Mawdline Catharine Elenor Margarite Barbare Ursule Helen and Ione He is commended line 40 for his carefulnesse his watchfulnesse his bountifulnesse his gentlenesse his vprightnesse his discréetnesse his peaceablenesse and other qualities wherin he had a kind of singularitie And thus much of him by waie of praise as I found it readie to my hand The seauenth of October at night from eight a clocke till after nine of the clocke all the north parts of the element séemed to be couered with flames of fire procéeding from the northeast and northwest toward the middest of the firmament where after it line 50 had staied nigh one houre it descended west and all the same night being the next after the change of the moone seemed nigh as light as it had béene faire daie The twentith of Nouember in the morning through negligence of a maiden with a candell the snuffe falling in an hundred pounds weight of gunpowder thrée houses in Bucklersburie were
sore shaken and the maid died two daies after The one and twentith of December began a frost which continued so extremlie that on Newyeares euen people went ouer and alongst the Thames on the I se line 60 from London bridge to Westminster Some plaied at the football as boldlie there as if it had béene on the drie land diuerse of the court being then at Westminster shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames and the people both men and women went on the Thames in greater numbers than in anie strèet of the citie of London On the third daie of Ianuarie at night it began to thaw and on the fift daie was no I se to be seene betwéene London bridge and Lambeth which sudden thaw caused great floods and high waters that bare downe bridges and houses and drowned manie people in England especiallie in Yorkshire Owes bridge was borne awaie with others The third daie of Februarie Henrie Stuart lord Darleie about the age of ninetéene yeares eldest sonne to Matthew earle of Lineux who went into Scotland at Whitsuntide before hauing obteined licence of the quéenes maiestie tooke his iourneie towards Scotland accompanied with fiue of his fathers men where when he came he was honorablie receiued lodged in the kings lodgings and in the summer following he maried Marie quéen of Scotland About this time for the quéenes maiestie were chosen and sent commissioners to Bruges the lord Montacute knight of the honourable order of the garter doctor Wotton one of hir maiesties honourable councell doctor Haddon one of the masters of requests to hir highnesse with others master doctor Aubreie was for the merchant aduenturers of England they came to Bruges in Lent Anno 1565 and continued there till Michaelmasse following and then was the diet prolonged till March in the yeare 1566 and the commissioners returned into England The two and twentith of Aprill year 1565 the ladie Margarite countesse of Lineux was commanded to kéepe hir chamber at the Whitehall where she remained till the two and twentith of Iune and then conueied by sir Francis Knolles and the gard to the tower of London by water On s. Peters euen at night was the like standing watch in London as had béene on the same night twelue moneths past The sixtéenth of Iulie about nine of the clocke at night began a tempest of lightning and thunder with showers of haile which continued till three of the clocke in the next morning so terriblie that at Chelmesford in Essex 500 acres of corne was destroied the glasse windowes on the east side of the towne and of the west and south sides of the church were beaten downe with the tiles of their houses also besides diuerse barnes chimneis and the battlements of the church which was ouerthrowne The like harme was doone in manie other places as at Leeds Cranebroke Douer c. Christopher prince and margraue of Baden with Cicilie his wife sister to the king of Swethland after a long and dangerous iournie wherein they had trauelled almost eleuen months sailing from Stockholme crossing the seas ouer into Lifeland from whence by land they came about by Poland Prussie Pomerland Meckelburgh Friseland and so to Antwerpe in Brabant then to Calis at the last in September landed at Douer and the eleuenth daie of the same they came to London and were lodged at the earle of Bedfords place neere to Iuie bridge where within foure daies after that is to saie the fiftéenth of September she trauelled in childbed and was deliuered of a man child which child the last of September was christened in the quéenes maiesties chappell of White hall at Westminster the quéenes maiestie in hir owne person being godmother the archbishop of Canturburie and the duke of Norffolke godfathers At the christening the quéene gaue the child to name Edwardus Fortunatus for that God had so gratiouslie assisted his mother in so long and dangerous a iournie and brought hir safe to land in that place which she most desired and that in so short time before hir deliuerance The eleuenth of Nouember the right honorable Ambrose earle of Warwike maried Anne eldest daughter to the earle of Bedford For the honor and celebration of which noble mariage a goodlie chalenge was made and obserued at Westminster at the tilt each one six courses at the tournie twelue strokes with the sword thrée pushes with the punchion staffe and twelue blowes with the sword at barriers or twentie if anie were so disposed At ten of the clocke at night the same daie a valiant seruiceable man called Robert Thomas maister gunner of England desirous also to honour the feast and mariage daie in consideration the said earle of Warwike was generall of the ordinance within hir maiesties realmes and dominions made thrée great traines of chambers which terriblie yéelded foorth the nature of their voice to the great astonishment of diuerse who at the firing of the second was vnhappilie line 10 slaine by a péece of one of the chambers to the great sorow and lamentation of manie The foure and twentith of December in the morning there rose a great storme and tempest of wind by whose rage the Thames and seas ouerwhelmed manie persons and the great gates at the west end of S. Paules church in London betwéene the which standeth the brasen piller were through the force of the wind then in the westerne part of the world blowne open In Ianuarie monsieur Rambulet a line 20 knight of the order in France was sent ouer into England year 1566 by the French king Charles the ninth of that name with the order who at Windsore was stalled in the behalfe of the said French king with the knighthood of the most honorable order of the garter And the foure and twentith of Ianuarie in the chappell of hir maiesties palace of Whitehall the said monsieur Rambulet inuested Thomas duke of Norffolke and Robert earle of Leicester with the said order of S. Michaell line 30 The marquesse of Baden and the ladie Cicilie his wife sister to the king of Swethen who came into this land in the moneth of September last past as before is declared being then by the quéenes especiall appointment at their arriuall honorablie receiued by the lord Cobham an honorable baron of this realme and the ladie his wife one of the quéenes maiesties priuie chamber now in the moneth of Aprill 1566 departed the realme againe the marquesse a few daies before his wife being both conducted by line 40 a like personage the lord of Aburgauennie to Douer Certeine houses in Cornehill being first purchased by the citizens of London were in the moneth of Februarie cried by a belman and afterward sold to such persons as should take them downe and carie them from thence which was so doone in the moneths of Aprill and Maie next following And then the ground being made plaine at the
this rebellion persuaded him first to trie treat the freendship of certeine wild Scots that then laie incamped in Clan Iboie line 40 vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge and Mac Gilliam Buske whose father and vncle Shane Oneil had latelie killed in an ouerthrow giuen to the Scots Neuerthelesse he well liking this persuasion went to the said campe the second of Iune where after a dissembled interteinement quaffing of wine Gilliam Buske burning with desire of reuenge for his fathers and vncles death and ministring quarrelling talke issued out of the tent and made a fraie vpon Oneils men and then gathering togither his line 50 Scots in a throng suddenlie entred the tent againe who there with their slaughter swords hewed in péeces Shane Oneil his secretarie and all his companie except a verie few which escaped by flight On saint Iohns euen at night was the like standing watch in London as had beene on saint Peters euen in the yeare last before mentioned This yeare the emperour Maximilian the second of that name being elected into the most honourable order of the garter the right honourable Thomas earle line 60 of Sussex c knight of the same most noble order was appointed by the quéenes maiestie to go vnto the said emperour with the said order of the garter according to his said election Who being honorablie accompanied with the lord North sir Thomas Mildmaie knight Henrie Cobham esquier one of the pensioners and others departed from London the fiue and twentith of Iune 1567 vnto Douer and there imbarked landed at Calis and his traine at Dunkirke and so passed through the low countries to Antwerpe in Brabant where he was honourablie receiued by the English merchants and others and being there went to visit madame de Parma regent of the said countries then resident within the same towne From thence he passed vnto Colen where as his lordship and traine mounted the riuer of Rhene by sundrie continuall daies iourneies passed by the citie of Ments or Magunce vnto Oppenham there taking his waie by land passed through the countrie by the cities of Wormes and Spires till he came to Ulmes standing on the riuer of Danow where hée arriued the one and twentith of Iulie and the thrée and twentith his lordship rode in post to Auspurge called in Latine Augusta Vindelicorum nine Dutch miles from Ulmes From thence he departed the fiue and twentith of Iulie and met with his traine at Donwert being come thither vpon flotes downe by the said riuer of Danow From thence he kept vpon his iourneie by Ingolstat Reinspurge in Latine Ratisbona by Passaw and other townes till hée came to Linz where his lordship staied the first second and third of August by reason of the high waters And departing from thence on the fourth of August he passed by Stoan Cremz by the said riuer of Danow and so arriued at the citie of Uienna the fift of August in this foresaid yeare 1567 where hée was receiued of the lord Smeckouites hauing twelue horsses readie with their footclothes 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 he was right honourablie receiued and afterwards conducted to his assigned lodging where as all prouision was prepared and made at the emperours charges Here his lordship continued till the fouretéenth of Ianuarie In which meane time the emperour verie often as time serued had the said earle foorth with him vnto such pastimes of hunting the hart boare and such like as the plentifulnesse of that countrie yéeldeth Moreouer during the time of his lordships abode there at Uienna Charles archduke of Austria and Carinth arriued in that citie whom my lord went to salute After this vpon the quéenes maiesties letters brought out of England by maister Henrie Brooke alià s Cobham one of hir gentlemen pensioners the said earle of Sussex vpon sundaie the fourth of Ianuarie in the after noone year 1568 presented and deliuered vnto the emperours maiestie in his chamber of presence the habiliments and ornaments of the most noble order of the garter sir Gilbert Dethike knight alià s Garter principall king of arms and officer for the said order and William Dethike then Rougecrosse also officer of armes giuing their attendance in their cotes of armes And the emperour at his inuesture of the said habiliments gaue vnto the said Garter his short gowne and vnder garment furred throughout with luzerns and then proceeded thence into a great chamber adorned in forme of a chappell where as all the other ceremonies belonging vnto the said noble order were obserued and accomplished And the same night the said earle supped with the emperours maiestie both being in their robes of the said order Now shortlie after his lordship with certeine of his companie taking leaue of the emperour departed from Uienna the fourtéenth of Ianuarie aforesaid vnto Newstat and so through the countrie of Stire vnto Graâz the chiefe citie of Carinth where he tooke also leaue of the said archduke Charles and from thence returning passed those parts of the Alpes vnto Saltzburgh where he met with the other part of his traine and so by continuing iourneies came againe into England to the queenes maiestie towards the latter end of March. After a drie summer folowed an extreme sharpe winter namelie the latter part therof with such great scarsitie of fodder and haie that in diuerse places the same was sold by weight as in Yorkeshire and in the Peake of Darbishire where a stone of haie was sold for fiue pence There followed also a great death of cattell namelie of horsse and sheepe This yeare in the moneth of Ianuarie the queens maiestie sent into the narrow seas thrée of hir ships and one barke named the Anthelop the Swallow the Aid and the Phenix the which were manned with line 10 fiue hundred men And hir highnesse appointed the charge of the said ships and men to hir trustie seruant William Holstocke of London esquier comptrollor of hir highnesse ships who had commandement to staie the subiects of king Philip. And according to his dutie he vsed such diligence as one hauing care vnto his charge in garding as well the French as the English coasts did the eleuenth daie of March next following méet with eleuen saile of Flemmish hoies open vpon Bullongne which came line 20 from Rone and had in them foure hundred and od tuns of Gascoigne and French wines which they intended to haue caried into Flanders but the said Holstocke staid all the said eleuen hoies and sent them to London where they made their discharge and the Flemmings disappointed of those wines Moreouer the eight and twentith daie of the foresaid moneth of March the said William Holstocke seruing in the Anthelop at that present admerall and in his companie being William Winter the line 30 yonger
repaire to them in warlike maner for the defense and suertie of hir maiesties person sometimes affirming their dooings to be with the aduise and consent of the nobilitie of this realme who in deed were wholie bent as manifestlie line 30 appeared to spend their liues in dutifull obedience against them and all other traitors sometimes pretending for conscience sake to séeke to reforme religion sometimes declaring that they were driuen to take this matter in hand least otherwise forren princes might take it vpon them to the great perill of this realme Upon mondaie the thirteenth of Nouember they went to Durham with their banners displaied And to get the more credit among the fauorers of the old line 40 Romish religion they had a crosse with a banner of the fiue wounds borne before them sometime by old Norton sometime by others As soone as they entred Durham they went to the minster where they tare the bible communion bookes other such as were there The same night they went againe to Branspith The fourteenth daie of the same moneth they went to Darington and there had masse which the earles and the rest heard with such lewd deuotion as they had Then they sent their horssemen to gather togither such numbers of men as they could line 50 The fifteenth daie the earles parted he of Northumbeland to Richmond then to Northallerton so to Borowbridge he of Westmerland to Ripon after to Borowbridge where they both met againe On the eighteenth daie they went to Wetherbie and there taried three or foure daies and vpon Clifford moore nigh vnto Bramham moore they mistrusted themselues at which time they were about two thousand horssemen and fiue thousand footmen which was the greatest number that euer they were line 60 From which they intended to haue marched toward Yorke but their minds being suddenlie altered they returned The thrée and twentith of Nouember they besieged Bernards castell which castell was valiantlie defended by sir George Bowes and Robert Bowes his brother the space of eleuen daies and then deliuered with composition to depart with armor munition bag and baggage In which time the quéens maiestie caused the said earles of Northumberland Westmerland to be proclamed traitors with all their adherents and fauourers the foure and twentith of Nouember The lord Scroope warden of the west marches calling vnto him the earle of Cumberland and other gentlemen of the countrie kept the citie of Carleill The earle of Sussex the quéens lieutenant generall in the north published there the like proclamations in effect as had beene published by hir maiestie against the said rebels and also sent out to all such gentlemen as he knew to be hir maiestes louing subiects vnder his rule who came vnto him with such numbers of their friends as he was able in fiue daies to make aboue fiue thousand horssemen and footmen And so being accompanied with the erle of Rutland his lieutenant the lord Hunsdon generall of the horssemen sir Rafe Sadler treasuror the lord William Euers that was after appointed to lead the reareward and diuerse other that with their tenants and seruants were come to him remaining as then within the citie of Yorke he set forward from thense the fift of December being sundaie and marched with his power which he had thus got togither towards the enimies Sir George Bowes hauing surrendred Bernards castell as before ye haue heard met the earle of Sussex thus marching forward with his armie at Sisaie from whence they kept forward to Northallerton and resting two nights there they marched on to Croftbridge then to Akle and so to Durham and after to Newcastell And the twentith of December they came to Heram from whence the rebels were gone the night before to Naworth where they counselled with Edward Dacres concerning their owne weakenesse also how they were not onlie pursued by the earle of Sussex others with him hauing a power with them of seuen thousand men being almost at their héeles but also by the earle of Warwike and the lord Clinton high admerall of England with a far greater armie of twelue thousand men raised by the queens maiesties commissioners out of the south and middle parts of the relme In which armie beside the earle of Warwike the lord admerall chéefe gouernors in the same there was also Walter Deuereux vicount Hereford high marshall of the field with the lord Willoughbie of Perham maister Charles Howard now lord Howard of Effingham generall of the horssemen vnder the earle of Warwike yoong Henrie Knols eldest sonne to sir Francis Knols his lieutenant Edward Horseie capteine of the I le of Wight with fiue hundred harquebusiers out of the same I le and capteine Leighton with other fiue hundred harquebusiers Londoners and manie other worthie gentlemen and valiant capteins The comming forward of these forces caused the rebels so much to quaile in courage that they durst not abide to trie the matter with dint of sword For whereas the earle of Warwike and the lord admerall being aduanced forward to Darington ment the next daie to haue sent Robert Glouer then Portculeis and now Summerset herald who in his iourneie attended on the lord admerall as Norreie king of armes did vpon the earle of Warwike vnto the rebels vpon such message as for the time and state of things was thought conuenient the same night aduertisements came from the earle of Sussex vnto the earle of Warwike and to the lord admerall that the two earles of Northumberland and Westmerland were fled as the truth was they were indéed first from Durham whither the said Glouer should haue béene sent vnto them and now vpon the earle of Sussex his comming vnto Exham they shranke quite awaie and fled into Scotland without bidding their companie farewell The earle of Warwike and his power marched on to Durham But the earle of Sussex pursuing those other rebels that had not meane to flée out of the realme apprehended no small number of them at his pleasure without finding anie resistance among them at all The fourth and fift of Ianuarie did suffer at Durham to the number of thrée score and six year 1570 conestables and others amongst whome the alderman of the towne and a priest called parson Plomtrée were the most notable Then sir george Bowes being made marshall finding manie to be fautors in the foresaid rebellion did sée them executed in diuerse line 10 places of the countrie The one and twentith of Ianuarie a prentise of London was hanged on a gibet at the north end of Finch lane in London to the example of others for that he the thirteenth of December had striken his maister with a knife whereof he died About the later end of Ianuarie Leonard Dacres of Harleseie began to rebell and procured the people of the north parts to assist him so that he raised to the number of thrée thousand men Of
whose line 20 attempts when the lord Hunsdon lord warden of the east marches and gouernor of Berwike heard he prepared to go against him and hauing with him sir Iohn Forster lord warden of the middle marches they set forward towards the place where they thought they should find him They had with them 300 chosen soldiors of the garrison of Berwike and twelue hundred borderers and other of the garrisons there about the borders so that they were in all fiftéene hundred footmen and horssemen They marching line 30 therewith foorth approched néere to a towne and castell called Naworth which was in the kéeping of the said Leonard Dacres And vpon a moore through the middle whereof a litle riuer called Chelt hath his course the said Leonard Dacres the two and twentith of Februarie was readie with his power in order of battell ranged set in arraie after the forme of a triangle compassed and inuironed about with horssemen And now vpon the lord Hunsdons approch the said Dacres with great and stout courage line 40 gaue an hardie onset vpon the said lord Hunsdon and his companie neere vnto the foresaid riuer The fight was sharpe and cruell and the euent verie doubtfull for a while the rebels were so stiffelie bent to doo their vttermost indeuor in defense of their wicked quarrell There were amongst them manie desperat women that gaue the aduenture of their liues and fought right stoutlie Manie therfore were slaine on both sides to the number at the least of three hundred persons But such was the forward valiancie line 50 of the lord Hunsdon that his people incoraged by his example whome they might see so noblie acquit himselfe in aduenturing so farre as anie other of the whole troope behaued themselues in such manfull wise that the victorie in the end fell to him and his companie and the said Leonard Dacres was forced to flée from his séelie slaine and miserable people taking his waie into Scotland so fast as his horsse might beare him Capteine Reade and the other capteins and soldiors of Berwike bare themselues right valiantlie and shewed proofe of their skill and line 60 hardie manhood in this skirmish After the which these holds and castels were taken and deliuered vnto the said lord Hunsdon Naworth which was committed vnto the kéeping of maister Scroope Kestwood Greistocke and Rockleie which were deliuered to the kéeping of diuerse of the duke of Norffolks officers On good fridaie the seauen and twentith of March Simon Digbie of Askue Iohn Fulthorpe of Isilbecke in the countie of Yorke esquiers Robert Peneman of Stokesleie Thomas Bishop the yoonger of Poklinton in the same countie of Yorke gentlemen were drawne from the castell of Yorke to the place of execution called Knaues mire halfe a mile without the citie of Yorke and there hanged headed and quartered their foure heads were set on foure principall gates of the citie with foure of their quarters the other in diuerse places of the countrie Osclope Clesbe was with them drawne to the gallows and returned againe to the castell William earle of Penbroke baron of Cardiffe knight of the garter one of the priuie councell and lord steward of the quéenes maiesties houshold deceased the eightéenth of Aprill and was buried in saint Paules church at London ¶ This noble man liued in great credit and estimation with king Henrie the eight king Edward the sixt quéene Marie and quéene Elisabeth and was by euerie of the said princes imploied in matters of great importance and for his good and faithfull seruice greatlie honored as appéereth in an epitaph fixed vpon his toome in the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London which I thought good here to laie downe Perpetuae pietati sacrum GVlielmo Herberto Penbrochiae comiti equiti aurato praenobilis ordinis Anglici Hen. viij R. A cubiculis Edoard vi R. equitum magistro Walliae praesidi Tumultu occidentali cum Russello Grato baronibus paribus auspicijs summae rerum praeposito Mariae R. contra perduelles ac expeditione ad Augustam Veromanduorum bis totius exercitus duci bis summo in agro Caletum limitum praefecto Elisab R. officiorum seu Magno Regiae magistro Pariter Dominae Annae ex vetusta Parrorum gente oriunda Sorori Catharinae R. Henr. viij R. vi matrimonio coniunctae ac Marchionis Northamptonij Prudentiss foeminae pietatis religionis probitatis omnÃsque auitae virtutis retinentiss fidiss Comitis coniugi Henr. F. ac comes Pp. chariss sibi ac suis moerens P. Olijt aetatis Ann. 63. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Olijt salutis Ann. 1569. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Liberis relictis ex prima Henrico Pemb. Comite Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Edoardo equite Aurato Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Domina Anna Baroni Talbot nupta Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina The earle of Sussex in reuenge of the euill demeanor of the Scots inhabiting néere to the English marches as well in receiuing and succouring diuerse of the English rebels as other naughtie practises assembled such forces as he thought expedient in the night that followed the seauen and twentith of Aprill and hauing with him the lord Hunnesdon gouernour of Berwike and lord warden of the east marches sir William Drurie marshall of the said armie and towne of Berwike came to Warke being twelue miles distant from the said towne of Berwike then the next daie being the eightéenth of the same moneth they entered into Tiuidall in Scotland where marching in warlike order they burned ouerthrew wasted and spoiled all the castels townes and villages as they passed till they came to a tower called the Mosse tower standing in a marish and belonging to the lard of Buclewgh which likewise was rased ouerthrowne and burned and so marching forward wasted the whole countrie before them vntill they came to a great towne called Crauling The same daie sir Iohn Forster warden of the middle marches with all the garrisons and forces of the same entered likewise into Tiuidall at Espesgate distant sixteene miles from Warke where in like order they burned and spoiled the countrie before them till they came to a castell in the possession of the lard of Ferniherst being parcell of hir sons lands which likewise was ouerthrowne rased and burned with all other castels piles townes and villages all alongst the said countrie till they came to Crauling ioining there with the lord lieutenants power This towne was likewise burned and spoiled Thus they passed
answer the lord lieutenant thought good to send the said master Drurie vnto the place appointed who comming thither met with the said lord Hume And after they had debated the matter togither at length the lord Hume was contented that the castell should be surrendered into the hands of the lord lieutenant with condition that his people therein might depart with life which the lord lieutenant was contented to grant so that there weââ nâ English men among them Héerevpon about eight of the clocke in the euening the gates were opened and the keies deliuered to the marshall who presented them to the lord lieutenant and then the lord Hunnesdon the said marshall and diuerse other gentlemen entered into the castell and by by tooke possession thereof in the quéene of Englands name pulled downe their banner of defiance and in place thereof set vp the English banners against all those in Scotland that would saie the contrarie The Scots that were within it being in number an hundred thrée score and eight persons were put out in their common wearing apparell without armour weapon or anie baggage They comming to the lord lieutenant that was then at the place of the batterie on horssebacke presented themselues to line 10 him who according to his word and promise of honour caused them to be safelie conducted through the watch and scouts to such place as they required Amongst them there were two Englishmen the one of them named Hilliard the earle of Northumberlands man the other was a vagarant person or a roge as we may call him named William God saue hir alià s Lions which both were caried to Barwike there executed the thirtéenth of Maie next insuing In all this siege there were but foure line 20 persons slaine on both parts two Scots two Englishmen but there were manie hurt as well on the one part as the other The castell of Hume being thus woone the lord lieutenant the morow after placed therein to kéepe the house to the quéenes maiesties vse capteine Wood and capteine Pikman with two hundred souldiours This doone his lordship returned towards England and came to Barwike During this siege there were diuerse townes and villages situate within thrée or foure miles of the campe set line 30 on fire by the Englishmen and vtterlie spoiled The lord lieutenant vpon his returne to Barwike staied there for a time verie euill at ease hauing in trauell about the siege taken such cold as therewith he was brought into an extreame ague The fourth of Maie his lordship sent maister William Drurie the marshall of Barwike accompanied with diuerse gentlemen and capteins hauing with them about two thousand souldiours to take Fast castell the which vpon the first summons line 40 was deliuered into his hands who receiuing the keies being presented to him entered the hold and tooke possession thereof in the queenes maiesties name and expelling the Scots being about the number of halfe a score who according to couenant were suffered to depart with their liues saued he put ten or as some haue fouretéene Englishmen into that castell which were thought able and number sufficient enough to kéepe it against all the power of Scotland the situation thereof is so strong In this meane time the troubles increasing among line 50 the Scots by reason of the murther committed in the person of the earle of Murreie the late gouernour the duke of Chatellerault and other his partakers gathered a power of thrée thousand men and comming to Lithquo midwaie betwixt Sterling and Edenburgh remained there for a time and afterwards came to Edenburgh in purpose to make warre against the lords of the kings part who hauing sent to the earle of Lennox then remaining in England earnestlie requested him to repaire line 60 into Scotland Wherevpon he by the queenes maiesties licence tooke his iourneie thitherwards and came to Barwike where he was also visited with sickenesse and so remained certeine daies in that towne And vnderstanding that the said duke of Chatelleraults power was such that the lords of the kings side were not able to come togither nor he to go to them without the quéene of Englands aid he humblie sued vnto hir maiestie by letters to haue some power by hir appointment to conduct him into Scotland and there to aid him and the other lords of that side against their aduersaries the duke and his complices Héerevpon by hir maiesties commandement the earle of Sussex as yet not fullie recouered of his sicknesse ordeined master William Drurie the marshall of Barwike with such forces as were thought conuenient to go with the said earle of Lennox for the execution of such exploits in seruice as séemed most expedient And about the same time to wit the sixt of Maie the lord Scroope lord warden of the west marches made a rode into Scotland incamping the first night on the hither side of the water of Annan and the next daie marched towards the water of Milke burning and spoiling all on that side of Annandale namelie the lard Iohnsons lands finding small resistance sauing that the forreie was a little troubled with a fortie or fiftie Scots horssemen and so hauing doone his pleasure he quietlie returned without receiuing other impeachment notwithstanding the lord Herries was in Dunsrise hauing gathered a great power in purpose to hinder his enterprise But now to returne to the earle of Sussex who hauing instituted sir William Drurie generall of those bands that should passe with the earle of Lennox into Scotland bicause each gentleman souldior and seuerall bands should dutifullie obeie the said sir William their new ordeined generall in all points of warlike order the said earle made an oration in such pithie forme and manner as throughlie expressed the whole substance of the seruice the vnsuertie of the season the strange and malicious dealing of diuerse aduersaries which points he so cunninglie handled as the excellencie of a perfect orator appeared fullie in his speach At whose eloquence the herers rather séemed astonied than vnsatisfied in anie point or parcell of those matters for he opened the verie bowels of rebellion the practises of enimies and suborning of traitors and therefore persuaded euerie honest mind to haue a dutifull consideration of his prince and countrie in the defense and libertie whereof both life lands and goods are alwaies to be offered After which oration in respect of further aduancement as the custome is for seruice past and incouragement to procéed in the like worthie dooings he made these knights Sir William Drurie sir Thomas Manners sir George Careie and sir Robert Constable and placing the said sir William Drurie the appointed generall in full authoritie he committed them to God and the good conduct of their chéefeteine Now hauing heard the lord lieutenant thus speake and séeing the means that he vsed to incourage them against the enimie how could they one with another but vow in mind euen with the hazzard
discharged of such their oth and also from all fealtie and seruice which was due to hir by reason of hir gouernment c. Héere hath euerie true subiect to sée whether Felton was not a fréend to Pius Quintus in so easilie being induced and drawne to prefer his procéedings against the lords annointed for whose sake if he had had a thousand liues true loialtie would haue inuited him to the losse of them all if occasion had so required considering that hir maiestie hath alwaies deserued well of hir people for whome she euer had a tender care as one reporteth that saith he heard with his owne ears hir maiestie commending hir subiects to the carefull and wise gouernment of hir councell and iudges when shée spake thus vnto them Haue care ouer my people You haue my place Doo you that which I ought to doo They are my people Euerie man oppresseth them and spoileth them without mercie They cannot reuenge their quarell nor help themselues See vnto them see vnto them for they are my charge I charge you euen as God hath charged me I care not for my selfe my life is not deare to me my care is for my people I praie God whosoeuer succéed me be as carefull as I am They which might know what cares I beare would not thinke I tooke anie great ioie in wearing the crowne Could a mother speake more tenderlie for hir infant than this good quéene speaketh for hir people And shall the people be so vngratious to a prince so gratious as to attempt anie thing that should discontent hir highnesse A mercifull hart shée hath alwaies had before shee atteined the crowne a mercifull hart shée hath now possessing the scepter manie times remitting and pardoning offenses intended and practised against hir owne person which C. O. noteth in his Eirenarchia siue Elisabetha speaking of hir maiestie in this point verie trulie vncontrollablie Nobilis praestans est ignoscentia virtus Haec quanquam potis est si vult excelsior vis Mentis inest iram strictis compescit habenis Delictis mulctam grauibus quandóque remittens Hoc priuata priùs nondum diademate sumpto Fecerat hoc facit princeps diademate sumpto The seauen and twentith of Male Thomas Norton and Christopher Norton of Yorkshire being both condemned of high treason for the late rebellion in the north were drawen from the tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged headed and quartered In this yeare also conspired certeine gentlemen with other in the countie of Norffolke whose purpose was on Midsummer daie at Harlestone faire with sound of trumpet and drum to haue raisâd a number and then to proclame their diuelish pretense against strangers and others This matter was vttered by Thomas Ket one of the conspiracie vnto Iohn Kenseie who foorthwith sent the same Ket with a conestable to the next iustice before whome and other iustices he opened the whole matter Wherevpon maister Drue Drurie immediatlie apprehended Iohn Throckmorton and after him manie gentlemen of the citie of Norwich and the countie of Norffolke who were all committed to prison and at the next sessions of goale deliuerie at the castell of Norwich the seauentéenth of Iulie before sir Robert Catlin knight lord chéefe iustice Gilbert Gerard the quéenes attornie generall and other iustices ten of them were indicted of high treason and some others line 10 of contempt Diuerse of them were condemned and had iudgement the one and twentith of August and afterward thrée of them were hanged bowelled and quartered which were Iohn Throckmorton of Norwich gentleman who stood mute at his arreignment but at the gallows confessed himselfe to be the chéefe conspirator and that none had deserued to die but he for that he had procured them With him was executed Thomas Brooke of Rolsbie gentleman on the thirtith of August and George Dedman of Cringleford line 20 gentleman was likewise executed the second of September The fourth of August the duke of Norffolke was remooued from the tower of London to the Charterhouse néere vnto Smithfield The same daie was arreigned at the Guildhall of London Iohn Felton for hanging the foresaid bull of pope Pius Quintus on the gate of the bishop of Londons palace and also two yoong men for coining clipping of coine who all were found guiltie of high treason and had line 30 iudgement to be drawne hanged quartered The eight of August Iohn Felton was drawen from Newgate into Paules churchyard and there hanged on a gallows new set vp that morning before the bishops palace gate and being cut downe aliue he was bowelled and quartered After this the same morning the shiriffes returned to Newgate and so to Tiborne with two yoong men which were there executed for coining and clipping as is aforesaid The two and twentith of August the earle of Sussex line 40 lord lieutenant generall for the queenes maiestie in the north and the lord Scroope warden of the west marches with diuerse others marched from Carleill with the quéens armie and force of the north as well of horssemen as footmen into Scotland passing ouer the riuers of Eske Leuine Sarke which riuer of Sarke parteth England and Scotland and so to Dornocke wood belonging to Edward Urone the lord of Bonshow and then to Annan a strong house of the lord Harris which they rased and ouerthrew line 50 with others thereabouts from thense to Hodham which they burnt and blew vp from thense to Kennell a towne belonging to the lord Cowhill which they burnt from thense to Donfrise which they sacked and spoiled of such paltrie as the fugitiues had left and also rased and ouerthrew a sumptuous house belonging to the quéene of Scots in the kéeping of the lord Harris Then passing the riuer of Longher they burnt and spoiled Cowhilles and Powtracke and returned to Donfrise and so to the towne of Bankend which they burnt with another house perteining line 60 to william Maxwell of the Iles and so to the castell of Carlauarocke standing in a marish iust to an arme of the sea which parteth Annerdale and Gallowaie which castell they blew vp and returned homeward transporting their ordinance ouer quick-sands and bogs where neuer the like was doone before and so came to Dornocke wood The eight of August they marched towards Carleill where by the waie they burnt and ouerthrew two houses the one being Arthur Greams alià s Carleill the other rich George two notable théeues The same daie at night after the lord lieutenants comming to Carleill he made knights sir Edward Hastings sir Francis Russell sir Ualentine Browne sir William Hilton sir Robert Stapleton sir Henrie Curwen sir Simon Musgraue This yéere the fift of October chanced a terrible tempest of wind and raine both by sea and land by meanes whereof manie ships perished much hurt was doone in diuerse parts of the realme as by a little pamphlet set foorth
great galleasses The Turks had their gallies galliots and foists to the number of two hundred and fiftie as appeareth by the account afore made of those that were taken line 40 abandoned and escaped There were deliuered and set at libertie about twelue thousand some say fourteene thousand christian captiues whome the Turks kept for slaues and had them chained there aboord with them in their gallies But this victorie was not got without great losse of the christians for beside Augustine Barbarigo the principall proueditore of the Uenetians there died seuentéene other gentlemen of Uenice being men of good estimation Iohn Cardone Barnardine Cardone Spaniards line 50 Uirginio and Horatio Ursini Romans Troilo Sabello Marco Molino besides diuerse other nobles and gentlemen of name as well Italians as Spaniards and Almans In all there died of the christians to the number of seauen thousand six hundred fiftie and six beside those that were hurt being in like number to them that were slaine among whom was don Iohn de Austria generall of all the christian armie there Sebastian Ueniero the Uenetians generall the counte de Santa Fiore with diuerse others Moreouer line 60 there were christian gallies bouged thrée of the Uenetians one of the popes one belonging to the duke of Sauoie and another to the knights of Malta There was one also taken led awaie by Ochialie and his companie Such was the successe of this battell which continued for the space of six houres in the end whereof the victorie remaining with the christians caused no small reioising through all parties of christendome For if this victorie had béene followed with his gratious helpe and assistance that was the giuer thereof the proud and loftie horne of the Ismaelite had béene so brused as peraduenture his courage would haue quailed to put foorth the same so spéedilie as he did But such is the malice of the time that the christians haue more pleasure to draw their weapons one against another than against that common enimie of vs all who regardeth neither protestant nor catholike they may be sure those of the Gréekish church nor others as if the mercifull prouidence of the Lord of hosts doo not in time disappoint his proceedings it will be too soone perceiued though happilie too late to stop the breach when the floud hath got head and once woone passage through the banke It were therfore to be wished of all those that tender the suertie of the christian commonwealth that princes would permit their subiects to liue in libertie of conscience concerning matters of faith and that subiects againe would be readie in dutifull wise to obeie their princes in matters of ciuill gouernment so that compounding their controuersies among themselues with tollerable conditions they might emploie their forces against the common enimie to the benefit of the whole christian world which the more is the pitie they haue so long exercised one against another to each others destruction And as for matters in variance about religion rather to decide the same with the word than with the sword an instrument full vnfit for that purpose and not lightlie vsed nor allowed of by the ancient fathers in time of the primitiue church But fith this is rather to be wished than hoped for by anie apparant likelihood considering the strange contrarietie of humors now reigning among men in sundrie parts of christendome let vs leaue the successe of our wish to the plesure of God the author of all good haps who ruleth the harts of princes as the poet saith verie trulie eius In manibus sunt regum animi quotúnque voluntaâ Fert sua vertit eos and frameth the peoples minds as séemeth best to his diuine prouidence And withall let vs also humblie offer to him our praiers instantlie beseeching him to spare vs in mercie and not to reward vs after our iniquities but rather by his onmipotent power to turne from vs the violence of our enimies in abridging their forces as it may séeme good to his mercifull fauour and great clemencie The thirtith of December Reinold Greie was by the quéenes maiestie restored earle of Kent ¶ The thirtéenth of Ianuarie deceassed sir William Peter knight who for his iudgement and pregnant wit had béene secretarie and of the priuie councell to foure kings and quéenes of this realme and seauen times ambassador abroad in forren lands he augmented Exceter college in Oxford with lands to the value of an hundred pounds by yeare and also builded ten almes houses in the parish of Ingerstone for twentie poore people ten within the house and ten without the house hauing euerie one two pence the daie a winter gowne and two load of wood and among them féeding for six kine winter and summer and a chapleine to saie them seruice dailie The sixteenth of Ianuarie the lord Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was arreigned at Westminster hall before George lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie high steward of England for that daie and there by his péeres found giltie of high treason and had iudgement accordinglie The eleuenth of Februarie Kenelme Barneie and Edmund Mather were drawen from the tower of London and Henrie Rolfe from the Marshalsea in Southworke all thrée to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for treason Barneie and Mather for conspiracie and Rolfe for counterfeiting of the quéens maiesties hand ¶ The queenes maiestie hearing crediblie by report that certeine lewd persons vnder pretense of executing commissions for inquiries to be made for lands concealed contrarie to hir maiesties meaning chalenging lands stocks of monie plate c letting not also to make pretense to the bels led and other such things belonging vnto parish churches or chappels Hir maiestie meaning spéedilie to withstand such manner of vnlawfull practises commanded that all commissions then extant and not determined for inquisition of anie manner of concealements should be by Supersedias out of hir excheker reuoked line 10 And also appointed speedie remedie to be had against such extorcioners as more at large appeareth by proclamation concluding thus Finallie hir maiestie would hir iustices of assise to haue some speciall care not onelie to the premisses but also to the reforming of certeine couetous iniurious attempts of diuerse that of late time by other colour than for hir maiesties vse had taken awaie the led of churches and chappels yea and bels also out of steeples and other common goods belonging to parishes an line 20 example not to be suffered vnpunished nor vnreformed And so hir maiestie eftsoones chargeth hir iustices of hir assise to prouide seuere remedie both for punishment and reformation thereof Dated at Westminster the thirtéenth daie of Februarie the fourtéenth yeare of hir reigne The tenth of March deceased sir William Paulet knight lord saint Iohn earle of Wilshire marquesse of Winchester knight of the honorable order of the garter one of the quéenes maiesties
priuie councell and lord high treasuror of England at his line 30 manor of Basing This worthie man was borne in the yeare of our Lord 1483 the first yeare of king Richard the third and liued about the age of foure score and seauen yeares in six kings and quéenes daies He serued fiue kings and quéenes Henrie the seauenth Henrie the eight Edward the sixt queene Marie and quéene Elisabeth All these he serued faithfullie and of them was greatlie fauoured Himselfe did sée the children of his childrens children growing to the number of one hundred and line 40 thrée A rare blessing giuen by God to men of his calling On the fiue and twentith and six and twentith of March by the commandement of the quéenes maiestie hir councell the citizens of London assembling at their seuerall halles the maisters collected and chose out the most likelie and actiue persons of euerie their companies to the number of thrée thousand whome they appointed to be pikemen and shot line 50 The pikemen were foorthwith armed in faire corslets and other furniture according thervnto the gunners had euerie of them his caliuer with the furniture and murrians on their heads To these were appointed diuerse valiant capteins who to traine them vp in warlike feats mustered them thrise euerie wéeke sometimes in the artillerie yard teaching the gunners to handle their peeces sometimes at the Miles end in saint Georges field teaching them to skirmish In the which skirmish on the Miles end the line 60 tenth of Aprill one of the gunners of the goldsmiths companie was shot in the side with a peece of a scouring sticke left in one of the caliuers wherof he died and was buried the twelfe of Aprill in Pauls churchyard all the gunners marching from the Miles end in battell raie shot off their caliuers at his graue On Maie daie they mustered at Gréenwich before the quéenes maiestie where they shewed manie warlike feats but were much hindered by the weather which was all daie showring they returned that present night to London and were discharged the next morrow The fourth of Maie Walter Deuexeur lord Ferrers of Chartleie and vicount of Hereford was created earle of Essex and Edward Fines lord Clinton and Saie high admerall of England was created earle of Lincolne The eight of Maie the parlement began at Westminster and that same daie in the parlement by the quéenes maiesties writs sir Henrie Compton knight lord of Compton in the Hole sir Henrie Cheinie knight lord of Todington sir William Paulet knight of Basing sir Henrie Norris knight lord of Ricot were called barons into the higher house In this parlement for so much as the whole realme of England was excéedinglie pestered with roges vagabunds and sturdie beggers by meanes whereof dailie happened diuerse horrible murthers thefts and other great outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fouretéene yéeres being taken begging vagarant wandering disorderlie should be apprehended whipped and burned through the gristle of the right eare with a hot iron of one inch compasse for the first time so taken The foure twentith of Maie Martine Bullocke was hanged on a gibet by the well with two buckets in Bishops gate stréet of London for robbing and most shamefullie murthering of a merchant named Arthur Hall in the parsonage of S. Martine by the said well This Martine had procured the said Arthur Hall to come to the said parsonage to buie of him certeine plate But after the said Arthur had well viewed the same he said This is none of your plate it hath doctor Gardeners marke and I know it to be his That is true said Martine Bullocke but he hath appointed me to sell it c. After this talke whilest the said Arthur was weieng the plate the same Martine fetcht out of the kitchin a thicke washing beetle and comming behind him stroke the said Arthur on the head that he felled him with the first stroke and then strake him againe and after tooke the said Arthurs dagger and sticked him and with his knife cut his throte and after would haue trussed him in a Danske chest but the same was too short Whervpon he tumbled him downe a paire of staires and after thinking to haue buried him in the cellar his legs being broken with the first fall and stiffe he could not draw him downe the cellar stairs being winding Wherfore he cut off his legs with an hatchet and in the end trussed him with straw in a drie vat and saieng it was his apparell and bookes caused the same to be carried to the water side and so shipped to Rie But as God would haue it there was suspicion gathered against the murtherer wherby he was examined before alderman Branch then one of the shiriffes of London but so small likelihood appéered that he should be guiltie that there was an honest man dwelling in saint Laurence Pontneis named Robert Gée a clothworker who supposing the offendor to be cléere in the matter vndertooke for his foorth comming Wherevpon Bullocke being suffered to go at libertie slipt awaie first to Westminster and there taking bote passed vp the riuer and comming on land beyond Kingston passed foorth till he came to Okingham in the forrest of Windsore an eight miles beyond the towne of Windsore and from thense what mooued him I leaue to the secret iudgement of God he came backe againe vnto London lodging at the red lion in Holborne In the meane time the foresaid Gée vpon knowledge had that Bullocke was withdrawen out of the waie was not onelie had in some suspicion but also committed toward albeit so as he had libertie to take order to send abrode such as should make sute after Bullocke And amongst other that went foorth one of his seruants was sent to Rie whither the drie vat was conueied and comming thither the same drie vat was opened wherein the mangled corps of Hall was found whereby the truth of the matter came to light and by the good prouidence of God the reuealer of such euill facts Bullocke was at the verie same time discouered at the place in Holborne afore mentioned and there apprehended did receiue as ye haue heard due punishment for his heinous and most wicked offense The six and twentith of Maie the right honorable earle of Lincolne departed from London towards France ambassador being accompanied with the lord Dacres the lord Rich the lord Talbot the lord Sands and the lord Clinton sir Arthur Chambernowne line 10 sir Ierome Bowes and sir Edward Hastings knights with diuerse other gentlemen who taking ship at Douer cut ouer to Bullongne where they were verie honorablie receiued and conueied by iournies to Paris where they were lodged in a house of the kings named le chasteau de Louure being attended vpon of the kings officers Fiue daies after they went to the king at a house called Madrill
duke of Summerset earle of Hertford vicount Beauchampe lord Seimor vncle to the kings highnesse of England gouernor of his most roiall person and protector of all his realmes dominions and subiects lieutenant generall of his maiesties armies both by sea and land treasuror and earle marshall of England gouernor of the iles of Gerneseie and Ierseie and knight of the most honorable order of the garter c. This stile he had which I haue béene the more willing to set downe because I doo not remember that anie subiect did with like shew publish anie such stile before his time Which honors he did not long inioie for were it for malice of some of the nobilitie disdaining such honor or for cause in him offending the laws or for his ouer carelesse good disposition that suspected no such euill from his enimies he was the second time on the sixt of October in the fift yeere of king Edward the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1551 committed prisoner to the tower and the two and twentith daie of Ianuarie folowing he was beheaded at tower hill and buried in the tower chappell He had two wiues wherof the first was Katharine the daughter of sir William Filioll of Woodland knight by whome he had a son called Edward his second wife was Anne the daughter of sir Edward Stanhope by whom he had issue Edward earle of Hertford Henrie now liuing and Edward with Anne married the third of Iune in the fourth yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt in the yéere one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie to Iohn lord Dudleie eldest sonne to Iohn earle of Warwike and duke of Northumberland Ione Marie Katharine and Elisabeth Henrie Greie marquesse Dorset lord Ferrers of Groobie Harrington Boneuile and Asleie was at Hampton court created duke of Suffolke on the eleuenth of October in the fift yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one who in the first yeere of quéene Marie being the yéere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée supposing that the quéene would marrie a stranger did flie into Leicester and Warwikeshires with a small companie making proclamation against the quéenes marriage with the prince of Spaine but the people inclined not vnto him Wherevpon a companie being sent out after him vnder the leading of the earle of Huntington the first daie of Februarie proclamation was made at London that the duke was discomfited and fled with his two brethren After which the tenth of Februarie the duke with his brother sir Iohn Greie was brought from Couentrie where he remained three daies after his taking in the house and custodie of Christopher Warren alderman of that towne by the earle of Huntington attended with thrée hundred men to the tower Where remaining a certeine space he was on the thrée and twentith of Februarie beheaded at tower hill and buried in the chappell of the tower as I haue heard He married Francis one of the daughters to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke by whom he had issue Iane married to Gilford the sonne of Iohn duke of Northumberland and died without issue Katharine and Marie Iohn Sutton of Dudleie created by king Henrie the eight vicount Lisle being admerall lord great chamberleine lord great maister and earle of Warwike was after on the eleuenth daie of October the fift yéere of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one created duke of Northumberland He after the death of king Edward tooke armes and proclamed quéene Iane daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke meaning to exclude quéene Marie But shortlie after perceiuing quéene Marie to be proclamed at London this duke did also proclame hir at Cambridge Notwithstanding all which he was arested in the Kings college there by one maister Sleg sergeant at armes and after anew arrested by the earle of Arundell Henrie Fitzallen sent thither for that cause who brought him to London where this duke was the fiue and twentith of Iulie in the said first yeare of quéene Marie commited to the tower Shortlie after which he was the eightéenth of August following arreigned at Westminster there condemned and beheadded on tower hill the two and twentith of the same moneth whose bodie with the head was buried in the tower he being the last duke that was created in England He maried Iane the line 10 daughter of sir Edward Gilford knight the sister and heire to sir Henrie Gilford knight of whose children I will not speake bicause they are yet fresh in memorie And thus farre Francis Thin touching the creation and the succession in lineall descents of all the dukes of England since the conquest About the ninth of Iune Francis duke of Montmorencie chiefe marshall of France gouernour and lieutenant of the I le of France generall to Charles the ninth king of France and Paule de Foix of the line 20 priuie councell of the said king and Bertrand de Saligners lord de la Mothfenelon knights of the order of S. Michaell ambassadors for the same king arriued at Douer The fourtéenth daie they shot London bridge toward Summerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The fifteenth daie being sundaie the said ambassadors repaired to the White hall where they were honourablie receiued of the quéenes maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces chappell about one of the clocke in the line 30 after noone the articles of treatie league or confederacie and sure friendship concluded at Blois the ninteenth of Aprill as is afore shewed betwixt the quéenes maiestie and the French king being read the same was by hir maiestie and his ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that daie with great part of the night following was spent in great triumph with sumptuous bankets The eightéenth of Iune the feast of saint George line 40 was holden at Windsor where the French ambassadors were roiallie feasted Francis duke of Montmorencie was stalled knight of the most honourable order of the garter The eight and twentith daie of Iune the forenamed ambassadors departed from London toward France ¶ The fourtéenth of Iune Thomas lord Wharton deceased in his house of Chanon row at Westminster The thirtéenth daie of Iulie the quéenes maiestie at Whitehall made sir William Cicill lord of Burghleie lord high treasuror line 50 of England lord William Howard late lord chamberleine lord priuie seale the earle of Sussex lord chamberleine sir Thomas Smith principall secretarie and Christopher Hatton esquier capteine of the gard A treatise of the treasurors of England set downe out of ancient histories and records as they succeeded in order of time and in the reigne of the kings line 60 THis adorning of sir William Cicill knight lord Burghleie with the honour of lord treasuror of England hath rowsed my enuied
this Iohn Sitsylt and had by hir sir Iohn Baskeruile knight 11 Sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Alicia the sister of the said sir Roger Baskeruile and sir Roger married his sister as is aforesaid This sir Iohn Sitsylt had Iohn Sitsylt and Roger Sitsylt In the time of the warres that king Edward the third made against Scotland at a place called Halidon hill néere Barwike anno 6. of Edward the third there arose a great variance and contention betweene sir William de Facknaham knight on the one side approuant this sir Iohn Sitsylt knight on the other side defendant for an ensigne of armes that is to saie The field of ten barrets siluer and azure supported of fiue scutcheons sable charged with so manie lions of the first rampants incensed geuls which ensigne both the parties did claime as their right But as both parties put themselues to their force to mainteine their quarrell and vaunted to mainteine the same by their bodies it pleased the king that iustice should be yéelded for triall of the quarrell without shedding of bloud and so the bearing of the ensigne was solemnelie adiudged to be the right of the said sir Iohn Sitsylt as heire of blood lineallie descended of the bodie of Iames Sitsylt lord of Beauport slaine at the siege of Wallingford as before is declared The finall order and determination of which controuersie is laid downe by Iohn Boswell gentleman in his booke intituled The concords of Armorie fol. 80. This sir Iohn Sitsylt had a charge of men at arms for the custodie of the marches to Scotland in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third 12 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Ione daughter of sir Richard Monington knight and had by hir Iohn Sitsylt that died his father being aliue and Thomas Sitsylt 13 Thomas Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter and heire of Gilbert de Winston and had by hir Philip Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt This man was a great benefactor to the moonks of Dore and forgaue them great sums of monie which they did owe him 14 Philip Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter of Iohn Philips and had by hir Richard Iohn and Margaret 15 Richard Sitsylt or Cecill married Margaret the daughter of Philip Uaughan and had by hir Philip Cecill Margaret Cecill Iohn Cecill Dauid Cecill and Iames or Ienkin Cecill * These pedegrées descents I gathered faithfullie out of sundrie ancient records and euidences wherof the most part are confirmed with seales autentike therevnto appendent manifestlie declaring the antiquitie and truth therof which remaine at this present in the custodie of the right honourable sir William Cecill knight of the noble order of the garter lord Burghleie and lord high treasuror of England who is lineallie descended from the last recited Richard Sitsylt father to Dauid Cecill grandfather to the said sir William Cecill now lord Burghleie And at this daie William Sitsylt or Cecill esquier coosen german to the said lord Burghleie remooued by one degrée onelie is possessed of the foresaid house of Halterennes in Ewyas land as the heire male of the house of Sitsylts and is descended of Philip Cecill elder brother to the said Dauid This sir William Cecill lord Burghleie liuing at this instant in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred eightie and six to the great support of this commonwealth dooth worthilie inioy the place of the lord treasuror of England of whome for auoiding the note of flatterie I may not saie that good which we the subiects of England doo féele by his meanes and all the world dooth sée in his rare and wise gouernment And therefore leauing what may be said of him for his honorable deserts from his countrie his prince and his countriemen as well for rare gouernement at home as for graue managing of the matter of state abroad I beseech the almightie Lord to lengthen his yeares with perfect health and happie successe of all his good desires to answer the worth of those his honourable deserts Thus knitting vp this discourse of the treasurors with no lesse honorable person of the temporaltie in this our age than I began the same discourse with a rare person of the spiritualtie in that their age this being knowne as singular in policie as the other line 10 was supposed to be in prelacie I here set end to that which with much labour of bodie trauell of mind and charge of pursse I haue brought to this forme what so euer it be Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the treasurors of England The 22 of August Thomas Persie earle of Northumberland late of Topclife who had beene before attainted by parlement of high treason as one of the principall conspirators in the late rebellion and line 20 now brought out of Scotland whither he had fled was beheaded at Yorke about two of the clocke in the afternoone on a new scaffold set vp for that purposâ in the market place In this moneth of August sir Thomas Smith one of the quéenes maiesties priuie councell carefullie tendering the reformation of Ireland sent his son Thomas Smith esquier thither with a certeine number of Englishmen to inhabit the Ards in Ulster after the maner of a colonie vsed by the Romans The eighteenth of Nouember in the morning was line 30 séene a star northward verie bright and cléere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir chaire which with thrée chéefe fixed stars of the said constellation made a geometricall figure losengwise of the learned men called Rhombus This starre in bignes at the first appeering séemed bigger than Iupiter not much lesse than Uenus when she seemeth greatest Also the said starre neuer changing his place was caried about with the dailie motion of heauen as all fixed starres commonlie are and so continued line 40 by little and little to the eie appearing lesse for the space of almost sixtéene moneths at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of off vewing might imagine the place than anie eie could iudge the presence of the same And one thing is herein cheefelie to be noted that by the skill and consent of the best and most expert mathematicians which obserued the state propertie and other circumstances belonging to the same starre it was found line 50 to haue beene in place celestiall far aboue the moone otherwise than euer anie comet hath béene séene or naturallie can appéere Therefore it is supposed that the signification therof is directed purposelie and speciallie to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the world neuer was the like The foure and twentith of Nouember Edward earle of Darbie lord Stanleie Strange of Knocking lord and gouernor of the Iles of Man knight line 60 of the noble order of the garter and one of the quéens maiesties priuie
councell deceased at his house called Latham in Lancaâhire His life and death deseruing commendation and crauing memorie to be imitated was such as followeth His fidelitie vnto two kings and two queenes in dangerous times and great rebellions in which time and alwaies as cause serued he was lieutenant of Lancashire and Chesshire and latelie offered ten thousand men vnto the quéenes maiestie of his owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godlie disposition to his tenants neuer forcing anie seruice at their hands but due paiment of their rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous housekéeping and eleuen score in checkroll neuer discontinuing the space of twelue yeares His féeding especiallie of aged persons twise a daie thrée score and od besides all commers thrise a wéeke appointed for his dealing daies and euerie good fridaie these fiue and thirtie yeares one with another two thousand seauen hundred with meat drinke monie and monie worth There was neuer gentleman or other that waited in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as well wages as otherwise for horsse and man His yeerlie portion for the expenses of his house foure thousand pounds His cunning in setting bones disiointed or broken his surgerie and desire to helpe the poore his deliuerie of the George and seale to the lord Strange with exhortation that he might kéepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his prince as he had and his ioie that he died in the quéenes fauour His ioifull parting this world his taking leaue of all his seruants by shaking of hands his remembrance to the last daie The eight and twentith of Nouember Iohn Hall late of Battell in Sussex gentleman and Oswold Wilkinson late of Yorke and gailor of Yorke castell being before arreigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartered This yéere a great and sharpe frost almost continuallie lasted from before the feast of All saints till after the feast of the Epiphanie of our Lord with somtime great and déepe snowes and sometime raines which fréesed as fast as the same fell to the ground wherethrough at Wrotham in Kent and manie other places the armes and boughs of trées being ouercharged with I se brake off and fell from the stockes of the same trées Also the wind continued north and east till after the Ascension daie with sharpe frosts and snowes whereby followed a late spring The twelfe of Ianuarie William lord Howard year 1573 baron of Effingham lord priuie seale knight of the noble order of the garter and one of the priuie councell deceased at Hampton court The eightéenth of Ianuarie William lord Smmerset earle of Worcester began his iourneie towards France to the christening of the kings daughter there in stead of the quéenes maiestie of England who sent with him a font of gold for that purpose weieng thrée hundred and six and twentie ounces The said earle with manie of his companie were robbed vpon the sea by pirats of much of their baggage and thrée or foure of their men slaine In France he and his traine were honorablie receiued At the christening he gaue the child to name Elisabeth They returned into England the seauen and twentith of Februarie In the moneth of Februarie thorough sundrie heinous complaints brought to the quéenes maiestie and hir councell of pirats that kept the narrow seas dooing manie robberies as also the robbing of the earle of Worcester as is aforesaid hiâ highnesse by the aduise of hir honourable councell tooke order with the lord admerall of England that he should send to the seas ships and men to scowre the narow seas to apprehend so manie pirats ships as might be met with And for the better dooing thereof it pleased hir maiestie to send one of hir owne ships named the Swallow to be the admerall vnder the charge of William Holstocke of London esquier comptrollor of hir highnesse ships who had with him the Gillian the barke Garet and the barke of Yarmouth and thrée hundred and thrée score able mariners gunners and souldiors in the said thrée ships and one barke which scowred the narrow seas from the north foreland as farre westward as Falmouth in Cornewall and tooke twentie ships and baâks of sundrie nations to wit English French and Flemmings but all pirats and in fashion of warre He apprehended in those ships and barks to the number of nine hundred men of all nations and sent them to ward to Sandwich Douer Wight and Portesmouth whereof thrée of them that robbed the earle of Worcester were shortlie after executed at Wight Also the said William Holstocke did rescue and take from the aboue said pirats ships fiftéene other merchants ships laden with merchandize that were their line 10 prises being of sundrie nations and set at libertie the said fiftéene merchants ships and goods which doone he returned to Portesmouth and there ended his voiage in March The fourth of March a man was hanged in chains in saint Georges field beyond Southworke of London for murthering the gailor of Horsham in the same field The seuentéenth of March deceassed Reinold Greie of Ruthin earle of Kent at Herneseie and was buried at saint Giles without Creplegate line 20 About the same time died Edmund lord Shandois The fiue and twentith of March being wednesdaie in Easter wéeke and the feast of the Annuntiation of our ladie George Browne cruellie murthered two honest men néere to Shooters hill in Kent the one of them was a wealthie merchant of London named George Sanders the other Iohn Beane of Woolwich which murther was committed in manner as followeth On tuesdaie in Easter wéeke the foure and twentith of March the said George Browne receiuing line 30 secret intelligence by letter from mistresse Anne Drurie that master Sanders should lodge the same night at the house of one master Barnes in Woolwich and from thense go on foot to saint Marie Craie the next morning he laie in wait for him by the waie a little from Shooters hill and there slue both him Iohn Beane seruant to master Barnes But Iohn Beane hauing ten or eleuen wounds being left for dead by Gods prouidence did reuiue againe and créeping awaie on all foure was found line 40 by an old man and his maiden and conueied vnto Woolwich where he gaue euident marks of the murtherer Immediatlie vpon the déed dooing Browne sent mistresse Drurie word thereof by Roger Clement among them called trustie Roger he himselfe repaired foorthwith to the court at Greenewich anon after him came thither the report of the murther also Then departed he thense vnto London and came to the house of mistresse Drurie where âhough he line 50 spake not personallie with hir after conference had with hir seruant trustie Roger she prouided him twentie pounds that same daie for
end should not be had of that ciuill dissention which hath so long continued betwixt the king of Spaine and his subiects in those countries not onelie to the hinderance of themselues but also of others that haue to trade among them speciallie for traffike line 20 sake and intercourse of merchandize But at length they haue compounded their controuersies and are growen to a full agréement and perfect conclusion of peace which God grant may take place so effectuallie as may turne to the quietnesse and publike commoditie not onlie of those countries but of their neighbors whereby merchants and passengers may in suertie passe to and fro without disturbance so as no occasion be giuen of breach of leagues and amities betwixt princes and countries but that the same line 30 may be mainteined to Gods glorie and the suertie of the christian commonwealth In this yeare the right honorable Walter Deuereux earle of Essex and Eu earle marshall of Ireland vicount Hereford and Bourcher lord Ferrers of Chartlie Bourcher Louaine knight of the most noble order of the garter fell sicke of a loosenesse of his bodie the one and twentith of August being fridaie and for the space of two and twentie daies togither he was so grieuouslie tormented therwith that line 40 finallie on saturdaie the two twentith of September he departed out of this transitorie life passing from hence to the ioies of heauen as by his godlie end all that were about him gaue testimonie The losse of this noble man was greatlie béemoned aswell by the English as Irish for the noble courage vertuous qââlities and tender zeale to the aduancement of thâ commonwealth which appéered in him ¶ So that it were a fowle fault in the highest degree line 50 not to laie vp some commemoration of so worthie and well deseruing a gentleman both of prince and people in perpetuall records which I will doo by Gods grace none otherwise than I am lead by such matter yea memorable matter as I find in a funerall sermon made by the reuerend father in God Richard bishop of saint Dauis at the buriall of this right honorable earle of Essex in the parish church of Caermerthin in Wales where the said bishop taking for his text these words of S. Iohn in the 14 of line 60 the reuelation Audiui vocem de coelo dicentem Beati mortui c. I heard a voice from heauen saieng Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord c. After he had discoursed vpon the text as the spirit of God gaue him vtterance he descended at last to a particular treatise tending wholie to the praise of this right noble man saieng in sort as followeth Behold the heauie hand of God for our sins vpon all the whole countrie in the death of this noble man which is not onelie a messenger of Gods wrath towards this towne and countrie wherein he was borne but also in verie déed a great losse to the whole realme And although this countrie who shall misse so noble and so worthie a ruler and magistrate that bore them so great affection so readie to benefit all and hurt none and for the high calling he was of so able to pleasure and to doo good although I saie this countrie by the death of this noble earle is most earnestlie eââectuallie cited to appéere before the Lord and to fall to a reckoning yet doo I beléeue that the queenes maiestie hir highnesse councell and all the nobilitie of the realme may hereby receiue admonition and cause of further circumspection and aduigilancie For such valiant and couragious noble men are the bulworks and walles of defense of the whole realme They saie the realme is walled about bicause it is inuironed with the sea but I hold rather with their iudgements that make the fidelitie and true harts of the subiects and especiallie of such of the nobilitie that haue made themselues by Gods especiall grace expert to gouerne and rule vnder hir maiestie aswell in warre as peace the strong towers of defense both of hir maiestie and hir highnesse realme This noble earle was one of these number for I beléeue there is no prince in the world that had a more faithfull noble subiect than hir maiestie had of him in his time And for the notable valiantnesse experience and vertues that were in him I am persuaded that hir maiestie if he had liued might haue vsed his seruice to be a terrour to all enimies forren or domesticall And now that I may speake somewhat of his great nobilitie his excellent vertuous and worthie qualities first I thinke I may saie thus much in a generalitie that it was easie for a man of any iudgement that should behold his countenance and behauiour to find in him nobilitie maiestie and honor planted by the especiall gift of God euen from his mothers wombe When I consider the nature of nobilitie with the causes efficient and finall it séemeth vnto me that nobilitie may be compared vnto a riuer or a floud which in the originall issueth out of foure principall wels and all the foure rise out from the compasse of one hill The welles of nobilitie are prudence fortitude iustice and temperance the hill whence they spring is the feare of God or true religion Although this worthie earle by progenie was of noble bloud whose ancestors were of great honour which of it selfe if a man degenerat not too far from his forefathers deserueth honorable acceptation in this world yet was he not therewith satisfied as it may appéere by his studie and trauell in his life time for he séemed to be of that iudgement that Alphonsus king of Aragon of whome we read in stories was of When a certeine man tooke in hand to set out the land and praise of his nobilitie he stood much in recitall that he was a king a kings sonne a kings nephue a kings brother and such like titles The king interrupting his tale answered that he neuer estéemed much of that kind of glorie and that it was the praise and commendation of his ancestors who by vertue and worthie qualities had deserued such high callings and honour and not of him and that his praise stood not in that which might fall vnto him by testament but in the imitation and performing of the noble acts prowesse and valiantnesse of his forefathers This noble earle likewise not answered to his expectation in that he was a noble man by bloud and inheritance gaue himselfe wholie all the daies of his life to purchase and win the nobilitie that springeth immediatlie from the verie originall founteins of the same as parâlie I will put you in remembrance of We will begin with prudence which may be thus defined Prudence is a power or facultie of the mind giuen of God whereby man is made wise prouident and circumspect and whereby man atteineth knowledge cunning and expertnesse in all matters that the children
Holieghost that sanctified him and according to the saieng of S. Augustine desired Iesus that he would be to him Iesus as much to saie as his sauiour and redéemer He likewise confessed himselfe a catholike man and a préest intending to die in that faith But when the treasons were mooued to him he likewise did make deniall thereof line 20 He asked the quéenes maiestie forgiuenesse and desired that she might long liue and reigne ouer vs. Then was read to him the booke of the aduertisement which before had beene read to Campion and after a few praiers he likewise ended his life Alexander Brian séemed more obstinate and impious vsing verie little signe of repenâance and hartie humilitie he vsed manie praiers to himselfe and spake verie little worthie the rehearsall Iustice being executed on him he and Sherwin were quartered according line 30 as Campion had beene before them ¶ No sooner had iustice giuen the blow of execution and cut off the foresaid offendors from the earth but certeine enimies to the state politike and ecclesiastike greatlie fauouring them and their cause which they falslie gaue out to be religion dispersed abroad their libels of most impudent deuise tending to the iustifieng of the malefactors innocencie to the heinous and vnrecompensable defamation of the course of iustice and iudgement against them commensed line 40 and finished in somuch that speaking of the daie whereon they died they blushed not to intitle them martyrs saieng among other things not publishable as in these few verses extracted followeth Vna dies viuos pariter caesósque videbat In coelum missos vidit vna dies AeternÃsque breui gaudent pro morte coronis Haec sunt martyribus dona parata pijs Foelix illa dies mensis fuit illa Decembris Martyrijs donans coelica regna tribus line 50 Foelix quae sanctum suscepit terra cruorem Quem caecata odij fuderat ira tui Supremúmque manens foelix constantia finem Atque in conspectu mors pretiosa Dei c. Thus slanderouslie against the administration of iustice scattered these vipers brood their lieng reports therein to the skies aduancing the children of iniquitie as spotlesse yea forging most monstruous fables put them in print as though God and nature had suffered violence to their vnappeaseable indignation line 60 for that men of such integritie forsooth and extraordinarilie sanctified suffered to shamefull a death in somuch that it was bruted abroad not by men but brute beasts that on the selfe same daie wheron Campion was executed the riuer of Thams did neither eb nor flow but stood still O miracle Whether this were a lie or not as all the world may sweare it was no truth this is certeine and vndoubted that there was found a facultie about Campion a litle before his death wherein authoritie was giuen him from the bishop of Rome Gregorie the thirtéenth to execute the sentence of the bull published by Pius Quintus against all the quéens maiesties subiects as heretiks c and yet this man forsooth albeit notorious died not for treason but for religion as with fowle mouths they are not ashamed to saie Relligio crimen non mala vita fuit But of this matter inough now to the processe of English accidents after this tragicall narration When the quéene of England and the monsieur euen duke of Aniou vnderstood by report made to hir maiestie and his highnesse by monsieur de Pruneaux who had béene sent ouer a litle before from the duke to the prince of Orange and had prosecuted the treatie the former yeares as his ordinarie ambassador what good will and great longing he had found in the prince of Orange who was come into the I le of Walkeren with a great number of gentlemen and with the deputies of the states and of the chiefest of the best cities of the low countrie to receiue his highnesse and to doo him most humble seruice and when they had also heard the ambassage of the lords of Ohain Iunius sent from the lords of the state to the duke to shew vnto him the excéeding great desire which all the people had to sée his highnes for the present ratifieng of the former couenants that had passed betwixt them for accomplishing whereof it was néedfull that he should passe ouer with all spéed whereby the same thing was confirmed which had béene declared oft afore by the lord of mount saint Aldegond ordinarie ambassador to hir maiestie and his hignes vpon the intelligence of these things it was resolued by hir maiestie his highnes that the monsieur should depart Wherevpon the quéene calling the lord Howard commanded him for the earle of Lincolne was then sicke to take vpon him the charge of the admerals ship and to go to Rochester and there to choose vessels méet for transporting of the monsieur his traine to furnish them with men of war mariners and all manner of necessaries as well of war as of vittels Which thing was doone with such diligence and speed that the ships being readie with all things in lesse than eight daies passed out of the riuer of Rochester and the Thames and were conueied to the downes néere to the towne of Sandwich where the monsieur was to take shipping And for so much as the monsieur came into England accompanied but with a few princes and lords they also had left their traine in France some of the same lords were sent backe againe afterward by his commandement and for his seruice the quéene determined to giue him a companie traine méet for his greatnesse taking his iournie about so great noble exploit And therfore as agréeing with hir highnesse hart she commanded the earle of Leicester master of hir horsses the lord of Hunsdon gouernour of Berwike hir maiesties néere kinsman cuius fuerat matertera pulchra Reginae genetrix Henrici nobilis vxor and the lord Howard the viceadmerall of whom the first two were of hir priuie councell and all thrée were knights of the order of the garter to attend vpon him and to assemble as great a number of English lords and gentlemen as could be gotten in so litle time to honour him withall wherevnto the said lords obeied verie willinglie And there went with them to accompanie them the lord Willoughbie the lord Windsore the lord Sheffield the lord Howard the lord Awdleie second sonne to the late duke of Norffolke master Philip Sidneie nephue to the forenamed erle of Leicester sir George Careie and master Iohn Robert Careie all thrée sonnes of the said lord of Hunsdon master William Howard brother of the said lord Howard sir Thomas Sherleie sir Thomas Perot sir William Russell sir William Drurie sir George Bowser knights and a great number of gentlemen namelie master Henrie Windsore brother to the lord Windsore master Iohn Borough brother to the lord Borough master Walter Ralegh master George Carew
master Edward Hobbie master Francis Darcie master Michaell Stanhoope master William Knols master Francis Knolles master George Digbie master Thomas Uauasor master Anthonie Mildemaie master Henrie Nowell master Nicholas Gorges master Michaell Harecourt master Fulke Greuill so as the whole traine that attended vpon the said earle was to the number of an hundred gentlemen and more than three hundred seruingmen line 10 The lord of Hunsdon had of gentlemen and others togither to the number of a hundred and fiftie and the lord Howard had as manie besides manie more whereof diuerse were hir maiesties seruants The quéene determined to accompanie the monsieur to the sea side yet neuerthelesse commanded the said lords to kéepe their course and to attend vpon his highnesse to the said place with all maner of solemnities interteinments and feastings He on the other side desired and besought hir maiestie not to depart line 20 from London as well for that the iournie would be painefull vnto hir and for that he saw the weather faire and wind fauorable and therefore was loth to loose anie occasion of performing his voiage with all spéed But he could not preuaile Wherevpon hir maiestie tooke hir iournie with hir whole court the first daie of Februarie lodged that night at Rochester The next daie abiding still at Rochester hir maiestie shewed him all hir great ships which were in that place into most whereof his line 30 highnesse and the prince and lords of his traine entered not without great admiration of the French lords gentlemen who confessed that of good right the quéene of England was reported to be ladie of the seas Also he beheld how all those ships were readie furnished and well appointed And hir maiestie told him that all those vessels the furniture of them should doo him seruice when soeuer he would imploie them for the which he most humblie thanked hir maiestie and so after all the great ordinance had béene line 40 shot off they returned for that daie againe to Rochester The third day they went to Sittingborne where dining both togither the queene was serued after the English manner by the greatest ladies of hir court and the monsieur after the French manner by the gentlemen of his traine which ladies and gentlemen dined afterwards togither Then his highnesse besought hir maiestie againe to go no further declaring vnto hir that the faire weather passed awaie line 50 But notwithstanding his intreatance the quéene went on still to Canturburie At which place after one daies tarriance when she had openlie feasted all the French nobilitie either part tooke their leaue of other not without great griefe and shew of verie great amitie especiallie betwéene hir maiestie and the monsieur Which thing was perceiued also in the lords and gentlemen of both nations likewise in the ladies to all whome it was like griefe to depart after they had béene conuersant and had liued line 60 friendlie and brotherlie togither by the space of three moneths without anie change or alteration of good willes But the honor which inforced his highnesse asswaged his griefe and made him to proceed on his iournie with the said prince and lords of both nations The sixt daie of the same moneth whereas he was determined to haue taken ship he was counselled to lodge that night of Sandwich bicause the wind was somewhat changed Howbeit some of the English gentlemen namelie master Killegreie master Diar and diuerse others to eschew thronging at their imbarking went to Douer and there taking ship the same night laie a while at anchor and somwhat after midnight sailed awaie with certeine other vessels The seuenth daie in the morning about nine of the clocke his highnesse tooke the sea in three great ships of war In the greatest of them named the Discouerer sailed the monsieur himselfe with the erle of Leicester and the lord Howard the viceadmerall in the second called the Sentinell went the prince Dolphin and in the third was the countie of Louall and the lord of Hunsdon Now as his highnesse was yet at anchor there came a post from a lord of England who brought him word that the states of the low countries were reuolted and namelie the citie of Antwerpe and therefore he praied him not to depart vntill he had more certeine newes Notwithstanding this his highnesse determined to depart and so sailed awaie with fifteene ships and he had so faire weather which continued euen vntill after his eniering into Antwerpe and his feasting and solemne interteinement there that the heauen the winds the sea and the earth séemed all to fauour his voiage and to further the gladnesse which the people shewed in receiuing him with so great good will In the meane time the prince of Orange séeing the time fit departed from Middleborough where he had taried the monsieurs comming six weekes and more and came to Flushing to take order for all things that were requisit for the honorable and commodious interteinement of so great a prince At the which place vnderstanding by the letters of the said lords ambassadours and others that the monsieur was departed from London and come to Canturburie and therefore thinking it would not be long yer he arriued there he dispatched monsieur Treslon his viceadmerall of Zeland with a litle pinnesse called the Chase to go before to meet the monsieur commanding him that as soone as he had discouered his fléet he should giue him a watchword thereof by the shot of two cannons Monsieur Treslon hauing about noonetide discouered the ships that were parted from Douer and thinking that they had béene the great fléet gaue his watchword which was the cause that a certeine vessell went foorth to the sea to méet his highnesse but anon after perceiuing his errour he returned to Flushing where by and by the fléet of Douer arriued Then monsieur Treslon going foorth found the monsieur and the great fleet betwéene Newport and Dunkirke where after salutation giuen and taken on either side the monsieur standing vpon the hatches of his ship espied his owne secretarie named Nephue standing likewise vpon the hatches of the Chase to whome he sent his shipbote commanding him to come aboord to him which thing he did and there aduertised the monsieur that as concerning the reuolting of the states there was no such matter but that all things went verie well that his highnesse was waited for with great longing That daie by reason the wind was turned northeast they could go no further but were faine to cast anchor ouer against a place called Ostend where they passed that night waiting for the tide the next morning His ships were perceiued by them of Flushing where after midnight arriued the lord of S. Aldegond who assured the prince of Orange that the next morning the monsieur would arriue there with the tide Wherevpon the prince of Orange and the prince of Espinoie with a great number of
also met him in the same place then began the Swissers to march on in their order striking vp their drums after their manner Moreouer six companies of the citizens well armed and well araied stood imbattelled without the towne who kept their place till the monsieur was past and then they followed after leisurelie behind The deputies of the states of the earledome of Zeland waited his comming at the towne gate who hauing declared the gladnesse which they conceiued reioised at the happie successe which his highnes had had in making the peace in France and in rescuing the citie of Cambraie by his armie and in his owne person and in his passing into England which they knew he had taken vpon him for none other cause than for the furtherance of the affaires of those countries and finallie for that hauing put his person in danger of that passage he was now happilie arriued in Zeland most humblie thanking his highnesse and declaring what hope they had conceiued of his presence and therewithall offering right humblie whatsoeuer their dutie required At the entrie of the gate one brought him a coursor of Naples but he determined with himsefe séeing that the princes and lords had not their horsses there to go through with his iornie on foot and so entred into the citie of Middleborough in this order First went the magistrates of the citie with their vnder officers and ministers of iustice Next them the deputies of the states of Zeland After them followed diuerse gentlemen of all the three nations with the deputies of the cities of Brabant and of the foure members of Flanders Then marched the Swissers after their accustomed fashion in whose traine were a great line 10 sort of noblemen and also gentlemen of whome the most part were Englishmen of the retinue of the thrée lords sent thither by the quéene Behind them insued as it were in one troope togither the prince Dolphin the earle of Leicester the prince of Espinoie the countie de Lauall the lord of Hunsdon the lord Howard ând the rest of the lords Then came the monsieur himselfe hauing on his left hand somewhat more than halfe a pase beneath him the prince of Orange of whome he alwaies asked some question line 20 After him followed his gard of Frenchmen and after them the gard of the prince of Orange and last of all the six ensigns that stood in battell raie without the citie and ten others which had marshalled the stréets vnto the market place where all the rest of the citizens were imbattelled Throughout all the stréets from the gate to the monsieurs lodging there were railes and at euerie tenth pase on either side were burning cressets And so his highnesse and all the nobilitie which accompanied him passed on maruelled line 30 to sée so goodlie a citie in so little an I le and so néere to thrée other good towns not distant one from another aboue one league But most of all they wondered at the beautie of the marketsted and of the common hall of the citie His highnes lodging was verie well and richlie hanged and furnished considering the small respit that the inhabitants had so as he was verie well and commodiouslie lodged both he and all the princes noblemen and gentlemen of all nations that attended vpon him That euening line 40 was passed in feasting in making of bonfires in the stréets in artificiall fireworks vpon the towers and stéeples and in sounding of trumpets The next morning the twelue deputies of the foure members of Flanders speaking to his highnesse by the mouth of monsieur Taiard the recorder of Gant declared at large the great goodwill of all the people of Flanders towards him and that like as they had beene of the first that had sent vnto him so they hoped to be of the first that should yéeld all humble seruice and subiection line 50 vnto him Wherevnto his highnesse answered verie discréetlie as his custome was He passed the rest of the time in plaieng at tennis with the prince of Orange and after with other lords The thirtéenth daie he had a solemne feast made him in the townehall where his highnesse commanded the tables to be prepared of purpose that he might haue the companie of the prince Dolphin the prince of Orange the earle of Leicester the prince of Espinoie the countie de Lauall the lord of Hunsdon and the lord Howard For the lords of England line 60 were highlie regarded honored euerie where both in respect of hir maiestie which sent them and also for the worthines of their persons The feast was excellentlie well furnished of all things speciallie of tapistrie worke other deuises of sugar insomuch that both the Frenchmen and Englishmen confessed that they had not béene woont to sée such manner of seruices in their countries The fourteenth daie the prince of Orange would néeds go sée the putting of the ships in a readinesse which should carrie the monsieur and his traine which were in number foure and fiftie and therefore he would haue gone to the foreland of Middleborough Whereof the monsieur hearing would néeds go with him On thursdaie the fiftéenth of that moneth his highnesse went to see the towne of Ermwiden which is about halfe a league from Middleborough And vnderstanding that the English lords were gone to sée the towne of Uere called by strangers Camfer by reson of the passage that was sometime in the towne of Campe which is now drowned he also tooke bote and went thither where all the companie was verie well receiued by the inhabitants notwithstanding that they were taken vnprouided The sixteenth daie his highnesse was determined to haue taken ship but there arose so great a storme that the mariners councelled him to forbeare the sea for that daie by reason whereof his imbarking was deferred till the next morrow at which time his highnesse with all his traine sailed awaie He himselfe was caried in a ship painted all ouer with his owne colours beset with a number of flags and pensils of the armes of Aniou The residue had their accustomed flags so greatlie feared of the Spaniards belaied with the colours of the prince of Orange This fléet came that daie against Beerland in the I le of south Beueland where they cast anchor and spent that night there The next daie being arriued luckilie at Lislo after manie shot of ordinance from the fort and from the ships of warre which accompanied his highnesse they did cast anchor againe He himselfe went aland and laie that night in the capteins lodging longing for the morning This fort of Lislo is builded a thrée leagues beneath Antwerpe vpon the point of a dike or causeie in the parish of Lislo The place is so commodious that with a musket a man may easilie shoot from the one banke of the riuer Skeld to the other and by reason that the streame of the riuer and the tide
vp an high waie that directed towards the market towne of Cerne and yet notwithstanding the hedges wherewith it was inclosed inuiron it still and the trées stand thereon bolt vpright sauing one oke trée that is well nigh twentie goads remooued the place whereas the ground had his being at the first is left like vnto a great hollow pit The same thirteenth daie of Ianuarie being sundaie about line 30 foure of the clocke in the afternoone the old and vnderpropped scaffolds round about the beare garden commonlie called Paris garden on the southside the Thames ouer against the citie of London ouercharged with people fell suddenlie downe whereby to the number of eight persons men and women were slaine and manie other sore hurt and brused A fréendlie warning to all such as more delight themselues in the crueltie of beasts to sée them rent one an other line 40 than in the works of mercie which are the fruits of a true professed faith and ought to be the sabboth daies exercise and not onelie a warning to works of mercie but a watchword to put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie the Lords owne daie which he sanctified himselfe that we by his example might sanctifie the same and not prophane it with such gentilisme as we doo as though God would not call vs to a râckoning for abusing his holie ordinances and falsifieng the glorious title of christians in line 50 our odious actions for the which God will seuerelie expostulat with vs and with indignation demand of vs why we take his lawes in our mouths renounce them in our minds why we let them swim in our lips and slip from our liues as the vaine Iewes did vnto whome God said in displeasure as followeth Quid de lege mea declamas ore profano Non hoc officij debuit esse tui Cùm tamen mores leges oderis aequas Et verbi officium negligis omne mei line 60 On the third of Februarie being sundaie William Bruistar habardasher a man of more than threescore yeares old being lodged ouer the southwest porch of saint Brides church in Fleetstréet with a woman named Marie Breame whome the same Bruistar had bailed out of Bridewell were both found smothered to death in maner following On the same sundaie in the morning a marriage being solemnized in that church a strong fauour was felt which was thought to haue béene the burning of old shooes or such like in some gentlemans chamber there about thereby to suppresse the infection of the plague But in the afternoone before euening praier the parishioners espied a smoke to issue out of Bruistars chamber and therevpon made hast to the dore which they found fast locked and were forced to breake it open but could not enter till they had ripped vp the lead and roofe of the chamber to let out the smothering stench which being doone they found Bruistar dead sitting on a settle by his beds side in his apparell and close trussed his right thigh right arme vp to the elbow burnt or scorched with the fire of a small pan of coales that stood before him but now being cleane quenched with the dampe or lacke of aire The woman also laie dead ouer the pan so that hir armes were likewise burnt with the nether part of hir bodie before to hir brest and behind to the shoulders and nothing else in the chamber burnt but the bottome of the settle wheron Bruistar sat Of this lamentable accident people talked diuerslie and pamphlets were published to make the same more knowne howbeit to leaue the certeine meanes of the euent to his knowledge that vnderstandeth and séeth all things let it be a warning to all ages so to liue as that an honest report may attend their death shame flie from them as a cloud before the wind Sic sapient sic non insipientes erunt On the sixteenth of Aprill about six of the clocke in the morning Thomas Worth Alice Shepheard year 1583 were hanged on a gibbet at Shoolane end in Fléetstreet for killing of a prentice in the same Shoolane Also on the same daie about eight of the clocke in the morning a gunpowder house called the signe of the gun in Fetterlane néere vnto Fléetstréet and diuerse other houses néere adioining were blowne vp with the spoire of fiftie hundred weight of powder two men and one woman were slaine diuerse other persons as well men as women and children were sore hurt some blasted with the flame some brused with the fall of timber vpon them c. Albertus Alasco frée baron of Lasco Uaiuode or palatine of Siradia in Poland arriued at Harwich in Essex and on the last of Aprill came by water to Winchester house in Southworke where he remained for the most part of his abode heere of whome more hereafter at his returne into his owne countrie Elias Thackar tailor was hanged at saint Edmunds burie in Suffolke on the fourth of Iune and Iohn Coping shoomaker on the sixt of the same moneth for spreading and mainteining certeine bookes seditiouslie penned by one Robert Browne against the receiued booke of English common praier established by the lawes of this realme their bookes so manie as could be found were burned before them This yeare on the ninth of Iune deceased Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex lord chamberleine to hir maiestie and knight of the garter at Barmundseie in the borough of Southworke besides London and was on the eight of Iulie next following conueied through the same citie of London toward Newhall in Essex there to be buried in forme folowing First went on foot before him fortie and fiue poore men in blacke gownes then on horssebacke one hundred and twentie seruingmen in blacke coats then ninetie and fiue gentlemen in blacke gownes or clokes besides the heralds at armes and other which bare his helme creast sword coat of armes and banners of armes c. Then the deceased earle couered with a pall of blacke veluet in a chariot likewise couered with blacke veluet drawne with foure goodlie geldings next after was led the earles stéed couered with blacke veluet then sir Henrie Ratclife the succéeding erle chiefe mourner and eight other lords all in blacke then the lord maior and his brethren the aldermen of London riding in murraie gownes then on foot the gentlemen of Greis in and last of all the worshipfull companie of the merchant tailors of London in their liueries for that the said earle was a brother of their companie as manie noble men and famous princes kings of this realme before him had béene as more at large is declared in the summarie of the chronicles of England in the eightéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth The maior and aldermen the gentlemen of Greis in and the merchant tailors accompanied the corps to the barres without Aldgate and returned This was the end of that nobleman who whiles he liued
of two and thrée in the after noone went from his lodging by a posterne through the garden which is néere to the Louure accompanied with the said lords de la Moth Fenelon de Curton and Grignan togither with the sier de Gondie the said de Marle and de Gonaix and found the capteins of the regiment line 60 of the kings gard making two ranks on either side of the stréet beginning from the posterne to the Louure gate who welcoÌmed him in the kings behalfe Without the gate of the said Louure he was receiued by the lieutenants of the great prouost of France his archers at the Louure gate by the sier de Montegnie capteine thereof to his maiestie and his archers which archers togither with those of the great prouost made two ranks from the said gate of the Louure to the foot of the staiers From the foot of the staiers his lordship was receiued by the sier de Perdillon the French lieutenant of the Swissers of the kings gard which from the foot of the said staiers to the doore of the hall made two ranks for his lordships passage At the entrie of the hall his lordship was receiued by the sier de Chasteau viaux knight of the holie ghost and capteine of the archers of the kings gard who likewise from the said doore vnto the doore of the antichamber made two ranks From the doore of the antichamber his lordship was receiued by the sier de Combault of the holie ghost chiefe master de hostell to the king and by the other masters of the hostell to his maiestie and by his gentlemen waiters and there in the said antichamber all the said earle of Derbies officers and gentlemen wearing liueries were appointed to staie and the quéenes seruants that procéeded next after them and before the said earle went still forward At the entrie of the chamber of estate his lordship was receiued by the sier de Liencourt knight of the holie ghost chiefe escuir of the kings escuir and the other escuires of the escuir togither with the lieutenant of the hundred gentlemen of his maiestie who made likewise two ranks for his lordships passage from that chamber doore to the chamber of audience euerie of them bearing halberds in their hands At the entrance of the antichamber his lordship was receiued by the duke Ioieulx accompanied with the gentlemen of the kings chamber ordinarie who made two ranks from that chamber doore to the doore of the chamber roiall Into the said chamber roiall first entred all the gentlemen the quéenes maiesties seruants the lords that had receiued and accompanied the said earle and lords and the said duke de Ioieulx accompanied the said earle of Derbie euen vnto the bars that stood about the edge of the haltpase or mounting floore ãâã the same chamber where the king stood at his beds féet accompanied without the said barriers on his right hand with the cardinals of Bourbon Uandosme and Ioieulx and on the left hand with the lords the princes of Contie the countie de Soissons and duke Montpensier princes of the bloud the dukes de Neuers Delbeufe de la Tremouille de Retz monsieur le chancellor sier de Uilequier du Bouchase de la Ualette Dantragues de la Chapelle aux Ursins Chauignie la Uauguion countie de Mauleurier Clermont Dantragues de Larchaut and other knights of the holie ghost and councellors of the estate in great number The said earle with the lord ambassador ordinarie of England alonelie entered within the said haltpase within the barriers vnto his maiestie of whom they were receiued with great courtesie as amiable countenance as could be And the earle deliuered the quéenes maiesties letters vnto the king with great reuerence and then making rehearsall of that he had in charge to saie the said ambassador presented vnto the king the lords Sands and Windsor with other the English knights and gentlemen which all one after an other mounted vpon the haltpase kissed their hands did their reuerence vnto the king Then the erle tooke his leaue and was conducted by all the lords capteins that had before receiued him and conueied him vnto the place where they had first receiued him Afterwards he went to salute the quéene mother and at the entrance into hir antichamber he was receiued by monsieur de Lansac knight of the holie ghost and knight of honour vnto the same queene whome he found accompanied with hir néece the princesse of Loraine standing at hir beds head the princesses of Conde and Iontie and the duches of Neuers standing at the beds féet the duchesses Dusez and of Rez and other ladies and gentlewomen in great number From thense his lordship was conueied to the quéene Regents chamber at the entrance whereof he was receiued by the countie de Fiesque knight of the holie ghost and hir knight of honour finding hir accompanied with the duchesses of Montpensier and Ioieulx who stood at hir beds féet the ladie of Roiden hir ladie of honour and other ladies and gentlewomen also in great number and then returned to the foresaid hostell de Longueuille On mondaie the fiftéenth of Februarie the king by monsieur le Moth Fenelon told the lord ambassador his mind touching the receipt of the order that he intended to receiue it on thursdaie following in the after noone at the Augustine friers which was doone line 10 accordinglie with a mantle of blew veluet and a hood and collar of the order with a booke of the statutes of the order which all were inuested vpon the king in a place called maison de Nautralles but the oth was ministred vnto the king in the friers church Magnificat being then soong or singing On sundaie the eight and twentith of Februarie the ambassador with his traine tooke their leaue at whose returne from the court to his lodging he was presented that night with a rich cupboord of plate woorth twelue line 20 hundred pounds at the least and vnto maister Clarenceaux was giuen a chaine of gold woorth one hundred and twentie pounds and better of two hundred thirtie and six links to maister Sumerset a chaine of one hundred and fiftie links woorth one hundred marks and to Thomas Mils a chaine of the same value On the thursdaie following the earle with his traine set forward homewards from Paris vnto saint Denise and so were lodged all the waie in the line 30 same lodgings that before they had béene receiued in and arriued prosperouslie in England from Bullogne to Douer on fridaie the twelfe day of March and on the tuesdaie following were brought to the quéenes maiesties presence at Greenewich who gratiouslie welcommed them home This yeare on the second daie of March being tuesdaie William Parrie was drawne from the Tower thorough the citie of London to Westminster line 40 and there in the palace court hanged boweled and quartered for high and horrible treasons by
that he did sweare to me at diuerse times that all the aduancement she could giue should serue but for hir scourge if euer time and occasion should serue and that although he would not laie hand vpon hir in a corner his hart serued him to strike off hir head in the field Now leauing him to himselfe thus much to make an end I must confesse of my sefe I did meane to trie what might be doone in parlement to doo my best to hinder all hard courses to haue praied hearing of the queenes maiestie to mooue hir if I could to take compassion vpon hir catholike subiects and when all had failed to doo as I intended If hir maiestie by this course would haue eased them though she had neuer preferred me I had with all comfort and patience borne it 13 but if she had preferred me without ease or care of them the enterprise had held ¶ God preserue the quéene incline hir mercifull hart to forgiue me this desperat purpose and to take my head with all my hart for hir better satisfaction line 10 W. Parrie After which for the better manifesting of his treasons on the fouretéenth of Februarie last past there was a letter written by him to hir maiestie verie voluntarilie all of his owne hand without anie motion made to him The tenor whereof for that which concerneth these his traitorous dealings is as followeth line 20 A letter written by Parrie to hir maiestie YOur maiestie maie see by my voluntarie confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented mind how constantlie I pursued my first conceiued purpose in Venice for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes continued it in Lions and resolued in Paris to put it in aduenture for the restitution line 30 of England to the ancient obedience of the see apostolike You maie see withall how it is commended allowed and warranted in conscience diuinitie and policie by the pope and some great diuines though it be true or likelie that most of our English diuines lesse practised in matters of this weight doo vtterlie mislike and condemne it The enterprise is preuented and conspiracie discouered by an honourable gentleman my kinsman and late familiar friend maister Edmund Neuill priuie line 40 and by solemne oth taken vpon the bible partie to the matter wherof I am hardlie glad but now sorie in my verie soule that euer I conceiued or intended it how commendable or meritorious so euer I thought it God thanke him and forgiue me who would not now before God attempt it if I had libertie and oportunitie to doo it to gaine your kingdome I beseech Christ that my death and example maie as well satisfie your maiestie and the world as it shall glad and content me line 50 The queene of Scotland is your prisoner let hir be honourablie intreated but yet surelie garded The French king is French you know it well enough you will find him occupied when he should doo you good he will not loose a pilgrimage to saue you a crowne I haue no more to saie at this time but that with my hart soule I doo now honour loue you am inwardlie sorie for mine offense and readie to make you amends by my death and patience Discharge me A culpa but not A poena good ladie And line 60 so farewell most gratious and the best natured and qualified queene that euer liued in England From the Tower the fourteenth of Februarie one thousand fiue hundred eightie and foure W. Parrie After which to wit the eightéenth of Februarie last past Parrie in further acknowledging his wicked and intended treasons wrote a letter all of his owne hand in like voluntarie maner to the lord treasuror of England and the earle of Leicester lord steward of hir maiesties house the tenor wherof is as followeth William Parries letter to the lord treasuror and the earle of Leicester MY lords now that the conspiracie is discouered the fault confessed my conscience cleared and mind prepared patientlie to suffer the paines due for so hainous a crime I hope it shall not offend you if crieng Miserere with the poore publicane I leaue to despaire with curssed Caine. My case is rare and strange and for anie thing I can remember singular a naturall subiect solemnlie to vow the death of his naturall queene so borne so knowne and so taken by all men for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes and restitution of religion The matter first conceiued in Venice the seruice in generall words presented to the pope continued and vndertaken in Paris and lastlie commended and warranted by his holinesse digested and resolued in England if it had not beene preuented by accusation or by hir maiesties greater lenitie and more gratious vsage of hir catholike subiects This is my first and last offense conceiued against my prince or countrie and dooth I cannot denie conteine all other faults whatsoeuer It is now to be punished by death or most gratiouslie beyond all common expectation to be pardoned Death I doo confesse to haue deserued life I doo with all humilitie craue if it may stand with the queenes honor and policie of the time To leaue so great a treason vnpunished were strange to drawe it by death in example were dangerous a sworne seruant to take vpon him such an enterprise vpon such a ground and by such a warrant hath not beene seene in England to indict him arreigne him bring him to the scaffold and to publish his offense can doo no good to hope that he hath more to discouer than is confessed or that at his execution he will vnsaie anie thing he hath written is in vaine to conclude that it is impossible for him in time to make some part of amends were verie hard and against former experience The question then is whether it be better to kill him or least the matter be mistaken vpon hope of his amendment to pardon him For mine owne opinion though parciall I will deliuer you my conscience The case is good queene Elisabeths the offense is committed against hir sacred person and she may of hir mercie pardon it without preiudice to anie Then this I say in few words as a man more desirous to discharge his troubled conscience than to liue Pardon poore Parrie and releeue him for life without liuing is not fit for him If this may not be or be thought dangerous or dishonorable to the queenes maiestie as by your fauors I thinke it full of honor and mercie then I beseech your lordships and no other once to heare me before I be indicted and afterwards if I must die humblie to intreat the queenes maiestie to hasten my triall and execution which I praie God with all my heart may prooue as honorable to hir as I hope it shall be happie to me who will while I liue as I haue doone alwaies praie to Iesus Christ for hir maiesties long and prosperous reigne From the
deliuered in the Star-chamber and after published in a booke intituled A true and summarie report of the declaration of some part of the earle of Northumberlands treasons deliuered publikelie in the court at the Starchamber by the lord Chancellor and others of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell councell learned by hir maiesties speciall commandement togither with the examinations depositions of sundrie persons touching the maner of his most wicked and violent murther committed vpon himselfe with his owne hand in the Tower of London the 20 daie of Iune 1585. MAlice among other essentiall properties perteining to hir ouglie nature hath this one not inferior to the rest and the woorst incredulitie wherewith the commonlie possesseth the minds and affections of all those that are infected with hir so blinding the eies iudgement of the best and clearest sighted that they cannot see or perceiue the bright beames of the truth although the same be deliuered with neuer so great puritie proofe circumstance and probabilitie It is said that no truth passeth abroad vnaccompanied with hir contrarie and as they go truth is euer constreined to yeeld the precedence and preheminence to hir yokefellow falshood whose lodging is alwaies first made and prepared without a harbenger in the corrupt nature of mankind by whome she is first receiued interteined and harbored at all times wherof in our dailie experience there happen manie and dangerous demonstrations especiallie in matters of the highest moment tending to excuse or accuse the actions of the greatest personages There was of late deliuered in publike by persons of honour credit and reputation a large declaration of certeine treasons practised by the late earle of Northumberland of the maner of his vntimelie death being with his owne hand murthered in the Tower and of the causes that wrought him therevnto The particularities whereof are such and so manie as for the helpe of my memorie comming then to the Starchamber by occasion and not looking for anie such presence of the nobilitie and priuie councell as I found there at that time and not looking for anie such cause of that nature to haue béene handled there that daie I tooke notes of the seuerall matters declared by the lord chancellor maister attourneie and solicitor generall the lord chiefe baron and maister vicechamberlaine for as I remember they spake in order as they are here marshalled and therefore I place them in this sort and not according to their precedence in dignitie Upon the hearing of the treasons with their proofs and circumstances and the desperat maner of the earles destruction deliuered in that place and by persons of that qualitie I supposed no man to line 10 haue beene so void of iudgement or the vse of common reason that would haue doubted of anie one point or particle thereof vntill it was my chance falling in companie with diuerse persons at sundrie times as well about the citie of London as abroad to heare manie men report variablie and corruptlie of the maner and matter of this publike declaration possessing the minds and opinions of the people with manifest vntruths as that the earle had béene vniustlie deteined in prison without proofe or line 20 iust cause of suspicion of treason and that he had beene murthered by deuise and practise of some great enimies and not destroied by himselfe These slanderous reports haue ministred vnto me this occasion to set forth vnto thy view and consideration gentle reader this short collection of the said treasons and murther as neere vnto the truth as my notes taken may lead and permit me with the view of some of the examinations them selues concerning this cause for my better satisfaction since obteined Which I line 30 haue vndertaken for two respects the one to conuince the false and malicious impressions and constructions receiued and made of these actions by such as are in heart enimies to the happie estate of hir maiesties present gouernement the other because it may be thought necessarie for the preuenting of a further contagion like to grow by this créeping infection in the minds of such as are apt though otherwise indifferent in these and the like rumors to receiue the bad as the good and they the most in number Wherein if I haue séemed more bold than line 40 wise or intermedled my selfe in matters aboue my reach and not apperteining vnto me I craue pardon where it is to be asked and commit my selfe to thy friendlie interpretation to be made of my simple trauell and dutifull meaning herein Upon the three and twentith daie of Iune last assembled in the court of Starchamber sir Thomas Bromleie knight lord chancellor of England William lord Burleigh lord treasuror of England line 50 George earle of Shrewsburie lord marshall of England Henrie earle of Derbie Robert earle of Leicester Charles lord Howard of Effingham lord chamberlaine Henrie lord Hunsdon lord gouernor of Berwike sir Francis Knollis knight treasuror sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of hir maiesties houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vice-chamberlaine to the quéenes maiestie the lord chiefe iustice of hir maiesties bench the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the excheker line 60 and others The audience verie great of knights esquiers and men of other qualitie the lord chancellor began briefelie and summarilie to declare that whereas Henrie late earle of Northumberland for diuerse notable treasons and practises by him taken in hand to the danger not onelie of hir maiesties roiall person but to the perill of the whole realme had béene long deteined in prison and looking into the guilt of his owne conscience and perceiuing by such meanes of intelligence as he by corrupting of his keepers and other like deuises had obteined that his treasons were by sundrie examinations and confessions discouered grew thereby into such a desperat estate as that therevpon he had most wickedlie destroied murthered himselfe Which being made knowen to the lords of hir maiestees priuie councell order was therevpon taken and direction giuen to the lord chiefe iustice of England the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the eâcheker to examine the maner and circumstances of his death which they with all good indeuor and diligence had accordinglie performed And least through the sinister meanes of such persons as be euill affected to the present estate of hir maiesties gouernement some bad and vntrue conceipts might be had as well of the cause of the earles deteinement as of the maner of his death it was therefore thought necessarie to haue the truth thereof made knowen in that presence and then he required hir maiesties learned councell there present to deliuer at large the particularities both of the treasons and in what sort the earle had murthered himselfe Then began Iohn Popham esquier hir maiesties attourneie generall as followeth The earle of Northumberland about the time of the last rebellion in the north in
plot was laid for the enterprise of the duke of Guise and that he was willed to conferre with Throckemorton in the matter who therevpon acquainted the said ambassador with the plot of the hauens and with the noble men and gentlemen that he had set downe as fit to be dealt withall in that cause Throckemorton said that the bottome of this enterprise which was not to be knowne to manie was that if a toleration of religion might not be obteined without alteration of the gouernement that then the gouernment should be altered the quéene remoued That the Scotish quéene was made acquainted from the duke of Guise with the intention to relieue hir by these forces It was in debate betweene Throckemorton and the Spanish ambassador how the Scotish quéene might be deliuered as by an enterprise to be made with a certeine number of horsses and it was told Francis Throckemorton by his brother Thomas Throckemorton that it was a principall matter in debate beyond the seas how she might be deliuered with safetie the lacke of resolution wherin was the principall staie of the execution of the attempt of inuasion Mendoza told Francis Throckemorton about Bartholomewtide 1583 that one Mope was come into England to sound the earle of Northumberland and other principall men in Sussex and about the end of September following the same Mendoza told him that Mope was Charles Paget and that he came not onelie to sound the men but to view the places the hauens the prouisions and meanes and néerenesse and commoditie of mens abidings that should ioine with the forren forces It was deuised that such noble men and others as would be contented to assist the forren forces being iustices of peace of credit in their countries might by colour of their authoritie leuie men as for hir maiesties defense and yet emploie them to assist the forren forces The lord Paget was made acquainted with this deuise and answered that it was a good course and that he had thought vpon it before Mendoza told Throckemorton that Charles Paget had béene in Sussex and had spoken with those that were there and that he came to moue the earle of Northumberland and others The night before Throckemorton was apprehended he came to the lord Paget and desired him that he would not acquaint the earle of Northumberland and certeine others whome he named with such matters as had passed betwéene them two touching the practise of this inuasion and the lord Paget willed him to deale as wiselie for his part as he would doo for himselfe and all should be well but quoth the lord Paget the earle of Northumberland knoweth you well enough It was once agreed among the confederats that the duke of Guise should land in Sussex being ouer against Déepe and Normandie which after was misliked because those parts laie too néere to hir maiesties greatest force and store and that the people thereabout for the most part were protestants Maister attourneie shewed further that in summer last there was taken vpon the seas sailing towards Scotland a Scotish Iesuit about whome line 10 there was found a discourse written in Italian of a like enterprise to be attempted against England which should haue beene executed in September or October then last past wherein assurance is made that the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland Dacres that is dead whom they termed lord Dacres and of all the catholike lords and gentlemen in the north parts where the inuasion should haue béene attempted setting it downe that it is not said by coniecture that these men are assured line 20 but that it is certeinlie knowne that they will ioine with the forren forces In the said discourse it is also affirmed that the priests dispersed in the realme can dispose of the other catholikes of the realme as they shall be ordered and that the popes excommunication should be renewed and pronounced against hir maiestie and all those that shall take hir part and that all such should be holden traitors that did not ioine with that armie by a daie When maister attourneie had thus prooued the line 30 purpose of inuasion he procéeded to the proofe of Charles Pagets comming ouer about the practise and prosecution of that enterprise And first that Paget came to Petworth in September 1583 was secretlie receiued and brought in the night laâe to the earle of Northumberland into his gallerie at Petworth by one of the earles seruants where the earle and he had secret conference together by the space of a large houre from thense Paget was likewise conueied backe into the towne by the same line 40 seruant and there lodged all that night and the next night following was conueied secretlie to a ãâ¦ã And for better proofe thereof it was alleaged by master attorneie that Charles Paget returning from Petworth to the house of one William Dauies néere to the place where Paget had landed in Sussex and tooke shipping againe at his departure beyond the seas sent to William Shelleie esquire residing then at his house at Michelgroue distant about a mile from the house of William Dauies to come vnto him who within few daies before had béene at the lodge at Petworth with the said Paget and now at their méeting in a coppice néere to Dauies house Paget entred into speech and discourse with him of diuers matters and at the last among other things he began to be inquisitiue of the strength and fortification of Portesmouth and what forces and strength hir maiestie had in the other parts westward Paget brake out and declared vnto him that forraine princes would séeke reuenge against hir maiestie of the wrongs by hir doone vnto them would take such time and opportunitie as might best serue them for that purpose and said that those princes disdeined to see the Scotish queene so kept vsed here as she was and would vse all their forces for hir deliuerie that the duke of Guise would be a dealer therin and that the earle of Northumberland would be an assistant vnto them willing Shelleie whatsoeuer should happen to follow the earle of Northumberland affirming that there was not a noble man in England of conduct and gouernment like to the said earle saieng further that the earle of Northumberland was affected to the Scotish quéene would do what he could for hir aduancement that the duke of Guise had forces in a readinesse to be emploied for the altering of the state of religion here in England and to set the forenamed Scotish queene at libertie ãâ¦ã awaie the lord Paget grew vpon the apprehension of Throckmorton who being committed to the Tower and charged with high matters was in case to be delt withall by waie of extremitie to be made to confesse the treasons charged vpon him in reuealing whereof Charles Pagets comming to Petworth and the cause of his repaire thither could not be conceled No man at this time within the realme could accuse the
and that the same sundaie morning that the earle murthered himselfe at night he saw the dag lieng vnder the earles beds head The dag was bought not manie daies before of one Adrian Mulan a dagmaker dwelling in east Smithfield as by the said Mulan was testified Viua voce vpon his oth in the open court at the time of the publike declaration made of these matters in the Starchamber All these particularities considered with the depositions and proofs of the witnesse concerning the earles death first how he came by the dag secondlie how long he had kept the same and in what secret maner thirdlie the earles bolting of his chamber dore in the inside fourthlie the blow of the dag fiftlie the breaking vp of the earles chamber doore by the lieutenant of the Tower and lastlie the finding of the earle dead as aforesaid what is he so simple that will thinke or imagine or so impudent and malicious that will auouch and report that the earle of Northumberland should haue béene murthered of purpose by practise or deuise of anie person affecting his destruction in that manner If men consider the inconuenience happened thereby as well in matter of state as commoditie to the quéenes maiestie lost by the preuention of his triall who can in reason coniecture the earle to haue béene murthered of policie or set purpose as the euill affected line 10 séeme to conceiue If the earle had liued to haue receiued the censure of the law for his offenses all lewd and friuolous obiections had then béene answered and all his goods cattels and lands by his atteindor had come vnto hir maiestie and the honour and state of his house and posteritie vtterlie ouerthrowne the consideration and feare whereof appeareth without all doubt to haue béene the principall and onelie cause that made him laie violent hands vpon himselfe If line 20 obiections be made that to murther him in that sort might be a satisfaction to his enimies who could be pacified by no meanes but with his bloud that séemeth to be as improbable for that it is commonlie discerned in the corrupt nature of man that when we are possessed with so profound a hatred as to seeke the death of our enimie we imagine and wish his destruction to be had with the greatest shame and infamie that can be deuised thinke you not then that if the earle of Northumberland had anie line 30 such enimie that knew the danger wherein he stood and that his triall and conuiction by law would draw vpon him the losse of his life lands and goods fame honor and the vtter subuersion of his house would be so kindharted vnto him as to helpe to take awaie his life onelie saue him all the rest I suppose there is no man of iudgement will beléeue it But to returne to the maner of the earles death It was declared by the lord Hunsdon and the lord chiefe baron that the dag wherewith the earle murthered line 40 himselfe was charged with thrée bullets and so of necessitie with more than an ordinarie charge of powder to force that weight of bullets to worke their effect The earle lieng vpon his backe on the left side of his bed tooke the dag charged in his left hand by all likelihood laid the mouth of the dag vpon his left pap hauing first put aside his wastecote and his shirt being onelie betwéene the dag and his bodie which was burnt awaie the breadth of a large hand discharged the same wherewith was made line 50 a large wound in his said pap his heart pearsed and torne in diuerse lobes or péeces thrée of his ribs broken the chinebone of his backe cut almost in sunder and vnder the point of the shoulder blade on the right side within the skin the thrée bullets were found by the lord Hunsdon which he caused the surgion in his presence to cut out lieng all three close togither within the breadth and compasse of an inch or thereabout the bullets were shewed by his lordship at the time of the publication made in the court at the Starchamber line 60 And whereas it hath béene slanderouslie giuen out to the aduantage of the earle as the reporters suppose that he was imprisoned kept in so streict narrow and close roome with such penurie of aire and breath that thereby he grew sickelie and wearie of his life and that to haue béene the cause chieflie why he murthered himselfe if it were so that he died by the violence of his owne hand which they hardlie beléeue To answer that péeuish and senselesse slander there was much spoken by the lord chiefe baron who had viewed and caused verie exactlie to be measured the chambers and roomes within the prison where the earle laie being part of hir maiesties owne lodging in the Tower The particular length and breadth of the said chambers rooms and the qualitie of the lights and windows expressed by the said lord chiefe baron I can not repeat but well I doo remember it was declared that all the daie time the earle had the libertie of fiue large chambers and two long entries within the vtter doore of his prison thrée of which chambers and one of the entries laie vpon two faire gardens within the Tower wall and vpon the Tower wharfe with a pleasant prospect to the Thames and to the countrie more than fiue miles beyond The windowes were of a verie large proportion yéelding so much aire and light as more cannot be desired in anie house Note therefore how maliciouslie those that fauour traitors and treasons can deliuer out these and the like slanderous spéeches to the dishonor of hir maiestie noting hir councellors and ministers with inhumanitie and vncharitable seueritie contrarie to all truth and honestie When the lord chiefe baron had finished this discourse of the manner of the earles death with the circumstances and had satisfied the court and auditorie concerning the qualitie of the prison where the earle had remained sir Christopher Hatton knight hir maiesties vicechamberlaine who as it séemed had béene speciallie imploied by hir maiestie among others of hir priuie councell in the looking into and examining of the treasons aforesaid aswell in the person of the earle as of others and at the time of the earles commitment from his house in S. Martins to the Tower of London sent vnto him from hir maiestie to put the earle in mind of hir maiesties manifold graces and fauors in former times conferred vpon him procéeding from the spring of hir maiesties princelie and bountifull nature and not of his deseruings and to aduise him to deliuer the truth of the matters so cléerelie appearing against him either by his letters priuatlie to hir maiestie or by spéech to maister vicechamberlaine who signified also vnto him that if he would determine to take that course he should not onlie not be committed to the Tower but should find grace fauor at hir maiesties hands
bring two of the wicked persons to iustice Now knowing how men are maliciouslie bent in this declining age of the world both to iudge speake and write maliciouslie falslie and vnreuerentlie of princes and holding nothing so déere vnto vs as the conseruation of our reputation and honor to be blamelesse we found it verie expedient not to suffer two such horrible imputations to passe vnder silence lest for lacke of answer line 60 it might argue a kind of guiltinesse and did therefore thinke that what might be alledged by vs for our iustification in that behalfe might most aptlie be ioined vnto this former declaration now to be published to laie open before the world the maner and ground of our procéeding in the causes of the low countries And for answer of the first point wherewith we are charged touching our ingratitude towards the king of Spaine as we doo most willinglie acknowledge that we were beholding vnto him in the time of our late sister which we then did acknowledge verie thankâfullie and haue sought manie waies since in like sort to requite as in our former declaration by our actions maie appeare so doo we vtterlie denie as a most manifest vntruth that euer he was the cause of the sauing of our life as a person by course of iustice sentenced vnto death whoeuer carried our selfe towards our said sister in dutifull sort as our loialtie was neuer called in question much lesse anie sentence of death pronounced against vs a matter such as in respect of the ordinarie course of proceeding as by processe in law by place of triall by the iudge that should pronounce such sentence and other necessarie circumstances in like cases vsuall especiallie against one of our qualitie as it could not but haue beene publikelie knowne if anie such thing had beene put in execution This then being true we leaue to the world to iudge how maliciouslie and iniuriouslie the author of the said pamphlet dealeth with vs in charging vs by so notable an vntruth with a vice that of all other we doo most hate and abhorre And therefore by the manifest vntruth of this imputation men not transported with passion maie easilie discerne what vntruth is conteined in the second by the which we are charged to haue béene acquainted with an intended attempt against the life of the said prince a matter if anie such thing should haue béene by vs intended must haue procéeded either of a misliking we had of his person or that the prosecution of the warres in the low countries was so committed vnto him as no other might prosecute the same but he And first for his person we could neuer learne that he hath at anie time by act or speach doone anie thing that might iustlie bréed a mislike in vs towards him much lesse a hatred against his person in so high a degree as to be either priuie or assenting to the taking awaie of his life Besides he is one of whom we haue euer had an honorable conceit in respect of those singular rare parts we alwaies haue noted in him which hath woone vnto him as great reputation as anie man this daie liuing carrieth of his degree and qualitie and so haue we alwaies deliuered out by speach vnto the world when anie occasion hath béene offered to make mention of him Now touching the prosecution committed vnto him of the warres in the low countries as all men of iudgement know that the taking awaie of his life carrieth no likelihood that the same shall woorke anie end of the said prosecution so is it manifestlie knowne that no man hath dealt more honorablie than the said prince either in dulie obseruing of his promise or extending grace and mercie where merit and desert hath craued the same and therefore no greater impietie by anie could be wrought nor nothing more preiudiciall to our selfe so long as the king shall continue the prosecution of the cause in that forcible sort he now dooth than to be an instrument to take him awaie from thense by such violent meanes that hath dealt in a more honorable and gratious sort in the charge committed vnto him than anie other that hath euer gone before him or is likelie to succéed after him Now therefore how vnlikelie it is that we hauing neither cause to mislike of his person nor that the prosecution of the warres should cease by losse of him should be either author or anie waie assenting to so horrible a fact we referre to the iudgement of such as looke into causes not with the eies of their affection but doo measure and weigh things according to honor and reason Besides it is likelie if it had béene true that we had bin anie waie chargeable as the author reporteth the confessions of the parties executed importing such matter as by him is alledged would haue béene both produced and published for malice leaueth nothing vnsearched that maie nourish the venome of that humor The best course therefore that both we and all other princes can hold in this vnfortunat age that ouerfloweth with numbers of malignant spirits is through the grace and goodnesse of almightie God to direct our course in such sort as they maie rather shew their wils through malice than with iust cause by desert to saie ill or deface princes either by spéech or writing assuring our selues that besides the punishment that such wicked and infamous libellors line 10 shall receiue at the hands of the almightie for deprauing of princes and lawfull magistrats who are Gods ministers they both are and alwaies shall be thought by all good men vnwoorthie to liue vpon the face of the earth Giuen at Richmount the first of October 1585 and the 27 yeare of the reigne of our souereigne ladie the queene to be published In the moneths of Nouember and December line 20 manie horsses and men were shipped at the Tower wharffe to be transported ouer into the low countries And on the sixt of December the right honorable lord Robert Dudleie earle of Leicester lord lieutenant generall after he had taken his leaue of hir maiestie and the court with his traine entred the towne of Colchester in Essex where the maior his brethren all in scarlet gownes with multitudes of people met him and so with great solemnitie entred line 30 the towne where he lodged that night and on the next morrow set forward to Harwich into the which towne he was accordinglie receiued and interteined On the eight of December accompanied with diuers lords and knights he arriued at Flushing where he was interteined by sir Philip Sidneie gouernour the Graue Morris the states of the towne and others passing honorablie The next day he sailed to Middleborough where his receiuing was answerable to his person and after certeine daies there spent as occasions then moued he came to Williamstat line 40 then to Rotherodam then to Delph where he lodged euen in the house where the prince
which doo reach to a faire chamber at the vpper end whereof on high was placâd a cloth of estate in the middest of which were the armes of England and against them my lord was seated on each side of him two steps descending line 40 sat twelue of the principall states below them sat the residue to the number of twentie right before my lord but foure or fiue steps descending On the right hand of my lord did stand the prince of Portugall next him the lord Morleie next master Norris gouernor of Munster next sir William Russell and sir Robert Germin with diuerse men of great account On the left hand of my lord did stand the Graue Morris next the earle of Essex sir William Stanleie sir Robert Stapleton and sir Thomas line 50 Parrat with diuers others of great account Thus being placed a Dutchman made a large oration in Dutch declaring the causes of the matter in hand with thanks to the quéenes maiestie and the lord lieutenant Then was read in Latine the couenants betwéene the states the queene and my lord this doone the couenants were deliuered to my lord which he deliuered to the states and the states deliuered an other to him then was my lord demanded to vow line 60 the same by oth who holding his hand to heauen did sweare to the couenants The like did the states holding vp their hands vow to performe Then againe were the states sworne to the queene and my lord hir lieutenant in those affaires This doone my lord gaue to them seuerall thanks and they seuerallie did giue to him the like which being doone my lord passed through to his chamber the trumpets all sounding before him And héere as matter of conueniencie requireth we purpose to touch the peremptorie authoritie committed to the said lord lieutenant by common consent of the states being as followeth in the placard A placard conteining the authoritie giuen by the states of the low countries vnto the mightie prince Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh c for the gouernment of the said low countries translated out of Dutch into English as followeth THe generall states of the vnited prouinces of the low countries to all those which shall sée or heare these present writings health and dilection Euen as it hath pleased hir maiestie of England mercifullie to send ouer into these countries the high and mightie prince and lord lord Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh and one of the priuie councell knight of the noble order of the garter and not onlie to admit and institute his excellencie as chéefe head aboue all militarie souldiers on horse or foot which hir maiestie hath sent or shall send ouer hereafter into these countries to the end to assist vs with counsell aid aduise according to his great experience policie and wisedome in the direction of publike affaires of the land as well touching the feates of warre as other waies in conseruation of all that which most tendeth to the profit of the foresaid land to bring backe and reduce the same into such good order and rule as it hath béene in times past to the end that so much the better and orderlie he maie resist the force and tyrannie of our enimies and to frustrate all his practises but also besides this to honour and inrich his foresaid excellencie with greater authoritie might and commandement aboue all hir maiesties admerals and viceadmerals and ships of war to command them all to emploie them to the seruice of these countries and in such order as his excellencie shall find néedfull for the same countrie and that his excellencie following hir maiesties commandement desirous to shew the effect of the good will and affection which he beareth to these affaires and to the preseruation of the same and also of the true christian religion and hath imploied himselfe so willinglie in the foresaid matters that his excellencie for that onlie cause hath left and abandoned his natiue countrie and goods and transported himselfe hitherward amongst vs so that hir maiestie and his excellencie could neuer haue doone or shewed vnto vs a greater benefit than this Therefore are we resolued with good and ripe deliberation to certifie all men by these presents that we haue desired accepted and authorised the foresaid mightie and honorable prince lord Robert earle of Leicester c to be our gouernor and generall captaine ouer all the vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same And we giue vnto his excellencie besides the authoritie of hir maiestie giuen vnto him the highest and supreme commandement and absolute authoritie aboue and in all matters of warfare by sea and by land to execute administrat the same to the resistance of the enimie euen as his excellencie shall thinke most commodious to the preseruation of these countries and so further to doo all such things as apperteine to the office of a generall capteine And furthermore we commit the administration vse of policie and iustice ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same into his hands to execute and administrat the same with such power and authoritie as haue had in times past all the other gouernors of these low countries before him and especiallie as haue béene exercised and lawfullie administred in the time of Charles the fift reserued onelie the lawes and priuileges of the foresaid countries also with especiall power to collect profits and receiue and administrat all the contributions which are agreed and condescended or shall hereafter be consented or agréed to the maintenance of the warres and also that which is or shall be deliuered hereafter into his excellencies hands and this all according to the vertue of other letters and missâues written more at large touching the same agreement All which former charge and commission his excellencie through our earnest desire hath accepted and hath deliuered solemne oth and assurance into our hands first of all for the preseruation line 10 of the true christian religion and maintenance of the priuileges and rights of these lands and prouinces members and cities of the same We therefore ordeine and command all gouernors of prouinces and cities all admerals and viceadmerals all officers coroners capteins their officers and souldiors by sea and land and furthermore all other councellors officers treasurors receiuers bailiffs burgomaisters marshals magistrats gentlemen burgers other inhabitants subiects of line 20 these lânds of what qualitie or condition soeuer that they euerie of them doo acknowledge his foresaid excellencie in the qualitie of gouernement and capteine generall ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces to honor respect and obeie him as they ought to doo without making anie difficultie in dooing the same vpon paine of falling in the displeasure and anger of his excellencie and to be punished according to the heauines of the fault and as reason shall require And to the end
for his person both by water and by land the quéens maiesties barges and seruants imploied about him to from London the court then being at Gréenwich whither alwaies when he came the nobilitie of England failed in no point of courtesie that might be shewed which he séemed as he could no lesse verie acceptablie to take Now being in England and in the English court he might and no doubt did marke the magnificence of hir maiestie in all respects admirable Whereof a notable president was giuen in Whitsunweeke at what time the said ambassador being at the court was accompanied with certeine English lords to hir highnesse chapell and placed not far from hir excellencie did heare diuine seruice so melodiouslie said and soong both by voice and instruments of consort as a man halfe dead might thereby haue béene quickened The gentlemen of the chapell with the rest of the quier bending themselues both with skill and zeale that daie to honour their prince according to their place The bishop of Salisburie and others distinctlie reading part of diuine seruice and in presence of all the auditorie dooing such obeisance with knée and countenance as the presence of so gratious a souereigne as they had in their eies did require Now when this solemnitie was ended hir maiestie departed and so did the ambassador attended vpon and accompanied vnto the place appointed for dinner where standing néere vnto a faire window fronting into the open court he might being in communication now with one and then with another English lord as the L. Charles Howard L. admerall the lord Cobham lord warden of the cinque ports c behold the roiall seruice of hir maiestie verie personable gentlemen thereto sorted carieng couered dishes all of siluer and gilt verie beautifull themselues in veluet and silke sutable in ech respect and as decentlie made so decentlie worn the trumpets sounding and the drums plaieng therevnto a maruellous delightsome thing to heare a passing gallant sight to behold When dinner was doone the ambassador was made partaker of such courtlie recreations as for that time were fit wherewith he could not but be pleasantlie conceipted considering that as euerie thing was doone with purpose to delight so he with others must needs be accordinglie affected And as the better sort had their conuenient disports so were not the ordinarie people excluded from competent pleasure For vpon a gréene verie spatious and large where thousands might stand and behold with good contentment there bearebaiting bulbaiting tempered with other merrie disports were exhibited whereat it cannot be spoken what pleasure the people tooke Now the daie being far spent and the sun in his declination the pastimes ended and the actors therein wearie the ambassador withdrew vnto his lodging by barge to Crosbies place where no doubt this daies solemnitie was thought vpon and talked of if not by him yet by his traine and perhaps as like enough of both Now after this and manie other English courtesies else where verie bountifullie giuen and taken the ambassador after the finishing of such affaires as he was put in trust withall taking his leaue both of the court citie and countrie returned towards Denmarke on the thirtith line 10 daie of Maie next following whome we will leaue vpon his voiage and touch other matters happening at home In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred foure score and six and on the fourth daie of Iune a commission was directed from the quéens maiestie then at Gréenewich tending to the ratification of a firme league of amitie betwéene the two mightie princes Elisabeth queene of England and Iames the sixt of that name king of Scots vpon certeine line 20 causes necessarie and important the reigne and gouernement of the said princes happening in so doubtfull and dangerous times wherein the princes néere adioining who will be called catholike agnising the popes authoritie by mutuall leagues doo knit friendship for the rooting vp and throwing out of the true pure and sincere religion of the gospell not onelie out of their owne territories and dominions but also out of other forrein kingdoms and thereto haue obliged their faith line 30 Least they therefore that loue the religion of the gospell should seeme lesse carefull for the defense and supportation thereof than they which earnestlie indeuour to mainteine and vphold that of Rome least it should be ouerthrowne the said princes for the greater secuâitie of their persons vpon whose safetie the safetie of the whole people dooth depend and for the preseruation of the true ancient and christian religion which they now professe haue thought good that a stricter bond of a mutuall and sociall league than at anie time hitherto hath béene line 40 agreed vpon betweene their maiesties progenitors should now be substantiallie concluded This league was articulated and commissioners thereto appointed the right honorable Edward earle of Rutland a complet noble man answerable to the âtymon of his name and verie well deseruing the poets report nomen virtutilus aequat Nec âinit ingenium nobilitate premi the lord William Euers and also Thomas Randolph esquier who with their traine of attendants line 50 came to Berwike the ninetéenth of Iune where the ambassadors of Scotland being in like sort present they accomplished the matter whereto they were commissionated the articles of the said league in all and euerie part sufficientlie confirmed on the fift of Iulie All which being dispatched the said earle of Rutland with his traine returned This ambassage is reported in the historie of Scotland wherevnto for the auoiding of tautologie we refer the reader line 60 In the moneth of Iulie a verie dangerous conspiracie was discouered tending to the subuersion of the state and lamentable confusion of all things wherein as the turbulent spirited did what they could to procéed so it pleased God the author of peace to intercept them in the plot of their mischéefous deuise and to ouerthrow them in their owne imagined nets Ringleaders in this pretended treason were certeine gentlemen and others of whome hereafter by particular name we will speake who had waded and ventured so far therein that vpon the notice thereof as God will suffer no such attempts to lie long vndetected order was taken for a verie strict inquirie and search vniuersallie to be made for their apprehension which was accordinglie executed in so much that the conspirators distressed and succorles were put to verie hard shifts by this inquisition and pursuâe and in fine apprehended to the great reioising of the citizens of London diuerslie testified as with bonfiers making merrie in the streets at square and round tables singing of psalmes marching about their fiers with tabber anâ pipe and giuing manie a showt that the aire rang withall In so much that the consideration thereof did so worke in hir highnesse as herevpon a thing rare in a prince she directed letters of thanks to the citie
horsebacke in the high waies by reson of the trées that laie blowne and broken downe crosse ouerthwart the stréets And among other strange chances happening in that tempest I thought good for a tast to recite thrée accidents which befell not farre asunder within the countie of Kent The one was at Sittingborne where a woman passing in the line 40 stréet by hir neighbors house saw a great tree standing close by the same to wauer and wag at the verie root in such sort as she suspecting the ruine thereof called vnto hir neighbors who were then in bed and told them the danger thereof who presentlie arising descended from out of the lost where they lodged and were no sooner departed thense but downe fell the trée and brake through the roofe of that house and rested on the bed where they laie There was also blowne downe with the violence line 50 of the same wind not far off a great walnut trée the armes and branches wherof bare and bent a couple of imps in such sort as the owner in the morning to saue them did cut off two branches from the walnut trée and so departed to the church to heare morning praier but before he was returned home to dinner his walnut trée stood as vpright as euer it did and so remaineth and groweth as before The third strange chance happened that night at Dartford in the said shire at the dwelling house of line 60 maister Béere esquire where by the force of the said wind all the coping of one side of a great gable hed of bricke reaching from below the top or roofe of the same house almost to the eaues thereof was blowne quite ouer the house vnder which it stood and neuer touched anie part thereof at anie side By these accidents happening within so small a circuit it maie be conceiued what great harmes were doone that night throughout the whole realme For it was thought vniuersall as was also that which raged in the end of September wherewithall fell such sharpe shewers of raine that the drops thereof beating against the faces of trauellers made them to smart as with twigs of birch and so vehement they were that they persed through their clothing to their skin so that manie wringing wet and sore beaten with wind and weather being verie ill appaid were glad to shorten their purposed iournies by taking the next towne for their present succour where they might sée the roofes and rafters of houses naked of tiles and heare the donging of belles as they hoong in the steeples c. At what time it was reported by people of great age that they had béene in manie tempests they thanked God but none comparable to this which might well be so if a man were disposed to set downe a register of the particular casualties losses damages hurts hinderances c thereby occasioned In the table if you looke for tempests and winds you shall read strange matter and worthie obseruation though some account this and manie more but ridiculus stuffe which kind of people I doubt are not of the number that woonder at Gods works but are too too much addicted to naturall philosophie One of the west gates of the citie of London commonlie called Ludgate being sore decaied and in perill to haue fallen was taken downe the prisoners thereof in the meane time remaining vnder the charge of Thomas Lutwich custos or keeper of Ludgate in the southeast quadrant to the same gate adioining which quadrant for the ease of the prisosoners freemen of that citie was sometime builded by sir Steuen Foster fishmonger lord maior of that citie in Anno 1453. And this yeare the said gate was againe not onelie newlie but also stronglie and beautifullie builded at the charges of the citizens of the same citie the foundation whereof in the name and presence of sir Wolstan Dixie maior certeine of his brethren the aldermen Anthonie Ratclife and Henrie Pranell shiriffes was laid on the second daie of Maie and so foorthwith so diligentlie applied by William Kirwine frée mason and other woorkmen of diuerse crafts vnder his charge who for a certeine sum had taken vpon him for all maner of stuffe workemanship to the same belonging that the same gate was fullie finished in the space of six moneths or lesse So that on the 29 daie of October in the same yeare the said gate was set open to sir William Cicill knight lord treasuror who first entered the same on horsebacke accompanied of diuerse other honorable persons and noble men of hir maiesties priuie councell who all rode to the Guildhall where on the same daie kept his feast George Barnes lord maior of that citie after he had taken his oth and charge in the exchecker at Westminster On the 29 daie of October the archbishop of Canturburie the lord treasuror and the earle of Derbie representing the quéens maiesties person began the high court of parlement by proxe which session of parlement was at this time assembled for triall of matters concerning Marie quéene of Scots as more plainlie shall appeare by that which followeth the end of that session In the moneth of Nouember about the 23 daie the right honorable lord Robert earle of Leicester lieutenant generall of all hir maiesties forces in the vnited prouinces of the low countries returning from thense arriued at London and went late to the court where as he was not so suddenlie come as forwardlie welcome of the principall and others to the great reioising of all estates throughout the whole realme as maie appeare by verses of gratulation in part as followeth Solonem ingenio magnum qui Nestora vincis Consilio pietate Numam grauitate Catonem Gratus ades ter gratus ades Comes inclyte ab oris Teutonicis salsi emensus vada caerula ponti Rauca fuit Wansteda diu te absente nec vllas Laetitiae ediderat voces Ilfordia eclypsin Passa fuit modulis fleuit Laitona canoris Hammáque moestificis vlulauit percita curis At veluti auricomus dispellit nubila Titan Exhilarat tua sic nostros praesentia vultus Magne Comes terrae decus immortale Britannae Magnanimos inter meritò numerande dynastas On the second daie of December the session of parlement begun the nine twentith of October as is afore shewed was dissolued broken vp line 10 and was proroged vntill the fiue twentith of Februarie next following The substance and effect of matters handled in the same parlement is set downe in a letter learnedlie penned and directed to the right honorable the earle of Leicester as followeth THE COPIE OF A LETTER TO the right honorable the earle of Leicester lieutenant generall of all hir maiesties forces in the vnited prouinces of the low countries written line 20 before but deliuered at his returne from thense with a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the queenes maiestie at two seuerall times from all the lords and
collection out of Parries indictment Certeine speciall matters vnder writing read in open audience of the multitude for their satisfaction Parries confession was not Coacta but Voluntaria ergo more credible Parries confession of his treasons was read by his owne assent A letter of cardinall di Como vnto Parrie also read Parries letter of the eightéenth of Februarie to the lord treasuror and the earle of Leicester read The quéenes atturnie requireth iudgement Parrie had for his credit aâore time said verie secretlie that he had béene solicited beyond the ââas to commit the fact but he would not doo it â wherewith he crastââiâ abused both the quéenes maiestie those two counââllors wâerof he now would helpe himselfe with these speeches against most manifest proofs Maister vicechamberleins spéeches proouing manifestlie Parries traitorous intentiâons Notâ all this charge of maister vicechamberleine to be a recapitulatioÌ of all or most the treasons of Parrie Parrie chargeâh the lords of the councell with vnâruth Parrie râprooued of false spéeches and so by himselfe also confessed The magnanimitie of the quéenes maiestie notified by sir Christopher Hatton The lord of Hunsdons spéeches conuincing Parrie manifestlie of hie treason Parries exclamation of outrage and vnpatientnesse Parrie abuseth the honorable and woorshipfull of the bench with termes vncouth and darke spéeches More libertie of speech giuen to Parrie than by law was allowable Parries treaâons recapitulated by the lord chiefe iustice both for maner and matter The occasions and meanes that induced Parrie to these treasons The danger damnablenessâ of popish bookes either read or listened vnto of papists c. The forme of iudgement against the traitor pronounced by the lord cheefe iustice Parrie rageth at the iustice bar without all reuerence William Parrie the traitor executed Parrie euen at the time of his death séeketh to cleare and purge himselfe as innocent of the treasons for the which he was condemned A description of Parrie both by linage person education and qualitie c. Parrie baselie borne and baselie brought vp Parrie a verie runnaââte and vagârant rakehell in his yoong yeares Note Parries ambitioÌ and how the priest forgetteth that euer he was parish clerkâ Parrie matcheth himselfe in marriage with a widow in Southwales Parrie a shiâter in debt danger he marrieth a rich widow c. Parrie defloureth his wiues owne daughter and sundrie waies abuseth the old mother Parrie condemned for burgularie is pardoned of the quéene Parrie pretended a conscience of religion being vtterlie prophane and of as religion Parries voluntarie oth thrise taken in 22 yeares of obedience to hir maiestie And this is most like for what will not ãâã pope dispense withall Parries twâ beaupéers the cardinals of Uand oâ me Narbone What a notable dissembler was this Parrie peâiured towards hir maiestie perfidious to the pope c. No trust nor certeine dealing vsed by Parrie to or fro Buch. in psalm 58. Benedicto Palmio a Iesuit mentioned before pag. 1385. Thomas Morgan and Wats the one termed a catholike gentleman pag. 1385. They cannot be found in loialtie that are vnfound in religion Ergo how caâ they giue Caesar his right that denie God his due and true seruice Aniball a Iesuit in Paris of whome before pag. 1385. Ragazzoni the Nuntio sée before pag. 1385. Sée before pag. 1386. Sée beforâ pag. 1386. Cardinall di Como of whom sée bâfore pag. 1385. and his letter to Parrie pag. 1388. Sââ beforâ pag. 1386 Sââ beforâ pag. 1386. part of Parries voluntarie confession Note the pâânicious dealing of Parrie euerie waie hurtfull Taâ principi quà m populo deiâceps sibimeâ oâ proditori sumââ pag. 1386. All these circumstances prooue that Parrie was resolute and by prepared both in hart and by hand to put in practise his conceiued vnnaturall treason How could this heihound die an innocent for intent the premisses considered A dilemmâ or reason of aduantage concluding that Parrie died a periured traitor Abr. Fl. ex lib. manuscripto Situs nuper domus fratrum praedicatoruÌ vocata le Blacke-friers in villa Cantabrigiae The parlement dissolued The quéenes maiesties oration in the parlement house O the care that hir maiestie hath of true religion the lord of life lengthen hir graces life Hir maiesties reuerend estimation of Gods word and sacred scriptures O most princelie resolution and persuasion * The God of vengeance and iustice roote them out that the Lords annointed maie be frée from all feare of hurt What subiect would thinke life and lands too déere to lose if néed were for so gratious a quéene C. O. in sua Elisabetha Abr. Flem. The death of pope Gregorie the thirtéenth read of this popes practises against England in Parries treasons pag. 1382 c. The pope is verie busie by his owne presumptuous proud enterprises to impeach christian libertie This hath beene doone in such sort by a mathematician stranger that he is bold to chalenge anie holding the contrarie opinion to a reproofe of his examination Vide M. Michaelem Maestlinum Gaeppingensem in Tibuigensâ academia Mathematicum c. A good and plausible beginning if the procéeding were agreeable Popish diuines doo rather imitate anie duns than the prophet Dauid who setteth downe the age of man to consist of 70 yeares A further examination of mans age by popish learning Happie newes to the true church when the membes of antichrist decrease This is no adulation to a dead carrion what did this fellow thinke you to the beast when he was aliue A comparison abused to the commendation of lewd pope Gregorie Childish reasons and worse diuinitie How did this fellow flatter Gregorie aliue whom he so magnified being dead A fit child and scholer for so bad a father and maister No spouse but a strumpet spotted with spirituall fornication Beastlie and blasphemous diuinitie fit for so lewd a bishop and so vnlearned a chapleine Noblie borne no doubt was this Gregorie otherwise called Hugh the good fellow A similitude of a pretious stone set in gold and verâtues in personages noblie descended Gregorie perceiued all things but it would be knowen how A long similitude most foÌdlie and most ridiculouslie applied Marke this principallie that Gregorie was mortified if the text lie not Iesu what a woonder is this and well woorthie to be placed in Legenda aurea The head which sought to ouerthrow the true church to dissuadâ subiects from their allegiance to their prince and to mainteine his owne pompe and glorie For all that is hitherto spoken is méere ridiculous idle and méere lip-labour Notes that he would in time prooue a strong piller of idolatrie The continencie and virginitie of the popish clergie dooth consist in kéeping of concubines Note how Gregorie is extolled by waie of comparison A great studeÌt was Gregorie but in no good facultie Better had that liberalitie bene exhibited to théeues than to sacrilegious beasts c. Gregorie a good companion to traitors but an ill companion to the godlie It is
Hunsdon declareth how the dag was more than ordinarilie charged and how the earle dispatched him selfe Thrée bullets found vnder the point of the earls shoulder blade A slanderous report of the quéenes enimies and the earles fauourers answered The earle wanted no prospects for pleasure nor walks of conuenient libertie Sir Christopher Hatton reuealeth to the court and auditorie the gratious dealing of hir maiesâie with the said earle no such fauour deseruing The quéenes maiestie mitigateth the punishmeÌt which the law would haue awarded against the earle The quéenes maiesties nature is to loue hir enimies O that they could change their nature and loue hir highnesse againe The earle standeth vpon termes of his innocencie all the world séeing the cause to contrarie * To this petition let all true harted Englishmen saie Amen The arriuall and interteinment of the deputies for the estates of the low countries The names of the said deputies for the estates The quéenes maiesties most gratious fauor acknowledged The distressed state of the ãâã countriâââââter the death of the prince of Orange The hope that the low countrie people had in hir highnes helpe Spanish seruitude importable The cause whie the deputies for the states came into England and their sute vnto hir highnesse expressed The gouernement principalitie of the low countries presented to the quéenes maiestie Manie good townes and places yet remaining in the low countries defensible against the enimie The vniting of the low countries to the realmes of England c how beneficiall Protection of the reformed religion a part of their sute The loialtie and faithfulnesse of the low countrie people commanded Benefits like to insue vpon the said protection vndertaken of hir highnesse The said deputies doo present certeine articles and conditions to hir maiestie concerning their sute Aufeld and Weblie hanged for publishing of seditious bookes Fiue or rather ãâã people slain by the fall of a wall in London néere vnto Downegate Earle of Bedford and the lord Russell his sonne deceased Souldiers sent to aid the low countries of Holland Zeland c. Ground and trées soonke and swallowed vp in Kent eight miles from London Seminarie and massing priests banished Note in this certificat an acknowledgment of verie great English courtesie to the seminaries in their transportation The seminaries suddenlie assaulted and in danger of death by a Flushinger as they were passing ouer sea The seminaries are set on shore at Bullogne through their owne importunitie Kings and princes souereignes are to yéeld account of their actions onelie to almightie God the king of kings Naturall causes of the ancient continuall trafficke betwixt the people of EnglaÌd them of the low countries Confederatitions both betwixt the kings of England and lords of the low countries and also the subiects of both countries The people of both the countries bound by speciall obligations interchangeablie for mutuall fauours and friendlie offices Treaties extant of ancient time betwixt the kings of England and the dukes of Burgundie for the commerce betwixt their countries Conuentions for the subiects of either side to shew mutuall fauors one to th e other Spaniards and strangers latelie appointed gouernors in the low countries to the violation of the liberties of the countrie The destruction of the nobilitie and the people of the countries by the Spanish gouernement The lamentable violent death of the countie of Egmond the glorie of those countries The rich townes and strengths with the wealth thereof possessed by the Spaniards The French kings offers to haue aided and receiued to his subiection the oppressed people of the low countries The quéene of Englands coÌtinuall fréendlie aduises to the king of Spaine for restreining of the tyrannie of his gouernors The quéene of Englands means vsed to staie the states of the lowe countries froÌ yéelding their subiection to anie other forreine prince The enterprise of the Spaniards in Ireland sent by the king of Spaine and the pope The refusall of the quéenes messenger and hir letters to the king of Spaine The iust causes of dismissing of Barnardin Mendoza out of EnglaÌâ Two turbulent spirited persons Spaniardâ dâuing what they could to set all EnglaÌ in a tumult Sée the voâluntarie confession of F. Throgmortoâ in pages 1370 1373. The courteous dealing of hir maiestie with Mendoza a man mortallie hated departinâ out of England The quéene of EnglaÌds procéeding for the deliuerie of Scotland from the seruitude wherein the house of Guise meant to haue broght it The realme of Scotland restored to the ancient fréedome and so possessed by the present king by the meanes onelie of the quéene of England The conclusion of the causes of sending of certeine coÌpanies of English souldiors to the defense of the oppressed people of the low countries and to withstand the attempts against this realme Thrée speciall things reasonablie desired by the quéene of England 1. The end of warres with restitution of the low countries to their ancient liberties 2. Suertie froÌ inuasion of hir owne realme 3. And renewing of the mutuall traffike betwéene the countries The causes of taking some townes into hir maiesties custodie The summe of a slanderous pamphlet published in the Italian toong against the quéenes maiestie The quéenes maiestie is gelous ouer the conseruation of hir reputation An answer to the first point of the said pamphlet clearing hir highnes of ingratitude The second point of the pamphlet answered to the full satisfaction of anie that is reasonable The prosecution of the warres in the low countries is not like to cease though the prince of Parma were dead This being dulie pondered all the world maie sée how vniustlie hir highnesse is slandered The nature of malice comprised in a senâânce of few ãâã ãâã in a ãâã of few âords The reward ââat wicked and infamous ââbellors shall âape at the hands of God and men The earle of Leicesters paâsing ouer ãâã the low ââântries The first shew âf a woman ââpresenting Leidon âhe second ãâã of faâe âhe third ãâã of ãâã The fourth shew of Spanish seruituuâ The fift shew of hope to be succored The sixt shew of aid promised The last shew of libertie victorie and triumph These verses séeme to be made by no metrician perhaps they were deuised by some of Leidon Uerses written vpon the doore of the lord lieutenaÌts lodging The lord lieutenant returneth backe from Leidon to Donhage A géneráll fast proclamed and deuoutlie obserued The lord lieutenant rideth to Skeueling and is presented with a few English verses Titles of honór ascribed to the lord lieutenant with a reioising at his comming The estates sworne to the quéene of England The earle of âeicester installed at Donhage with the maner and order thereof Persons of honor and worship The couenants betwéen the quéens maiestie and the estates read in Latine and deliuered to and fro Note what â title and stilâ of excellencie the states ãâã to the earle their gouernor and the honorable seââuice to him ââpointed The good
his eldest daughter Blanch accoÌpanied with the earle of Summerset the bishop of Worcester the lord Clifford and others into Almanie which brought hir to Colin and there with great triumph she was married to William duke of Bauier sonne and heire to Lewes the emperour About mid of August the king to chastise the presumptuous attempts of the Welshmen went with a great power of men into Wales to pursue the capteine of the Welsh rebell Owen Glendouer but in effect he lost his labor for Owen conueied himselfe out of the waie into his knowen lurking places and as was thought through art magike he caused such foule weather of winds tempest raine snow and haile to be raised for the annoiance of the kings armie that the like had not beene heard of in such sort that the king was constreined to returne home hauing caused his people yet to spoile and burne first a great part of the countrie The same time the lord Edmund of Langlie duke of Yorke departed this life and was buried at Langlie with his brethren The Scots vnder the leding of Patrike Hepborne of the Hales the yoonger entring into England were ouerthrowen at Nesbit in the marches as in the Scotish chronicle ye may find more at large This battell was fought the two and twentith of Iune in this yeare of our Lord 1402. Archembald earle Dowglas sore displeased in his mind for this ouerthrow procured a commission to inuade England and that to his cost as ye may likewise read in the Scotish histories For at a place called Homildon they were so fiercelie assailed by the Englishmen vnder the leading of the lord Persie surnamed Henrie Hotspur and George earle of March that with violence of the English shot they were quite vanquished and put to flight on the Rood daie in haruest with a great slaughter made by the Englishmen We know that the Scotish writers note this battell to haue chanced in the yeare 1403. But we following Tho. Walsingham in this place and other English writers for the accompt of times haue thought good to place it in this yeare 1402 as in the same writers we find it There were slaine of men of estimation sir Iohn Swinton sir Adam Gordon sir Iohn Leuiston sir Alexander Ramsie of Dalehousie and three and twentie knights besides ten thousand of the commons and of prisoners among other were these Mordacke earle of Fife son to the gouernour Archembald earle Dowglas which in the fight lost one of his eies Thomas erle of Murrey Robert earle of Angus and as some writers haue the earles of Atholl Menteith with fiue hundred other of meaner degrées After this the lord Persie hauing bestowed the prisoners in suer kéeping entered Tiuidale wasting and destroieng the whole countrie and then besieged the castell of Cocklawes whereof was capteine one sir Iohn Grenlow who compounded with the Englishmen that if the castell were not succoured within three moneths then he would deliuer it into their hands The first two moneths passed and no likelihood of rescue appeared but yer the third moneth was expired the Englishmen being sent for to go with the king into Wales raised their siege and departed leauing the noble men prisoners with the earle of Northumberland and with his sonne the lord Persie to keepe them to the kings vse In this meane while such as misliked with the doctrine and ceremonies then vsed in the church ceassed not to vtter their consciences though in secret to those in whome they had affiance But as in the like cases it commonlie hapneth they were bewraied by some that were thought chieflie to fauour their cause as by sir Lewes Clifford line 10 knight who hauing leaned to the doctrine a long time did now as Thomas Walsingham writeth disclose all that he knew vnto the archbishop of Canturburie to shew himselfe as it were to haue erred rather of simplenesse and ignorance than of frowardnesse or stubborne malice The names of such as taught the articles and conclusions mainteined by those which then they called Lollards or heretikes the said sir Lewes Clifford gaue in writing to the said archbishop Edmund Mortimer earle of March prisoner line 20 with Owen Glendouer whether for irkesomnesse of cruell captiuitie or feare of death or for what other cause it is vncerteine agréed to take part with Owen against the king of England and tooke to wife the daughter of the said Owen Strange wonders happened as men reported at the natiuitie of this man for the same night he was borne all his fathers horsses in the stable were found to stand in bloud vp to the bellies The morow after line 30 the feast of saint Michaell a parlement began at Westminster which continued the space of seauen weekes in the same was a tenth and a halfe granted by the cleargie and a fiftéenth by the communaltie Moreouer the commons in this parlement besought the king to haue the person of George earle of March a Scotishman recommended to his maiestie for that the same earle shewed himselfe faithfull to the king his realme ¶ There was also a statute made that the friers beggers should not receiue any into line 40 their order year 1403 vnder the age of fourteene yeares In this fourth yeare of king Henries reigne ambassadors were sent ouer into Britaine to bring from thence the duches of Britaine the ladie Iane de Nauarre the widow of Iohn de Montford late duke of Britaine surnamed the conqueror with whom by procurators the king had contracted matrimonie In the beginning of Februarie those that were sent returned with hir in safetie but not without tasting the bitter stormes of the wind and weather that tossed line 50 them sore to and fro before they could get to land The king met hir at Winchester where the seuenth of Februarie the marriage was solemnized betwixt them Whilest these things were thus in dooing in England Ualeran earle of saint Paule bearing still a deadlie and malicious hatred toward king Henrie hauing assembled sixtéene or seuentéene hundred men of warre imbarked them at Harflew and taking the sea landed in the I le of Wight in the which line 60 he burned two villages and foure simple cotages and for a triumph of so noble an act made foure knights But when he heard that the people of the I le were assembled and approched to fight with him he hasted to his ships and returned home wherewith the noble men of his companie were displeased considering his prouision to be great and his gaine small In the same verie season Iohn earle of Cleremont sonne to the duke of Bourbon wan in Gascoigne out of the Englishmens possession the castels of saint Peter saint Marie and the New castell and the lord de la Bret wan the castell of Carlassin which was no small losse to the English nation Henrie earle of Northumberland with his brother Thomas earle
he receiued from him ¶ The words of which herald are woorth the noting reported in writers as followeth The heralds oration to the king vttered with boldnesse of face and libertie of toong RIght high and mightie prince right puissant and noble king if your excellent wisedome did perfectlie know or your high knowledge did apparantlie perceiue what inward affection and feruent desire the king my maister hath alwaies had to haue a perfect peace a sure vnitie a brotherlie concord betweene your noble person and your realme and his honorable personage and his dominions you would for truths sake should confesse and saie that neuer christian prince more thirsted for an amitie nor yet no louer hath more sought to atteine to the fauour of his paramor than he hath sought to haue with you a perpetuall freendship amitie and aliance to the intent that the subiects of both the relms quietlie liuing vnder two princes confederate and combined togither in an indissoluble confederacie and league may mutuallie imbrace ech other in their harts may personallie haue resort and frequent each others princes territories and dominions with their merchandizes and wares and finallie the one to liue with the other as freend with freend brother with brother companion with companion in continuall loue rest and tranquilitie And for his part he dooth affirme saie that since he receiued first the crowne of his kingdome and was annointed with the holie ampull he neuer attempted nor yet once imagined anie line 10 war or thing preiudiciall toward your roiall person your realme or your people If you peraduenture will saie that he supported mainteined the earle of Warwike against your maiestie he suerlie that dooth will denie for he aided him against the duke of Burgognie whom he knew not onelie to be his extreame enimie but also to laie in wait both by sea and land either line 20 to take him or vtterlie to destroie him Which duke of Burgognie onelie for his owne cause hath excited and solicited your highnesse to come ouer the troublous and tempestuous seas to the intent to cause yea in maner to compell the king my master to condescend to such treatie and appointment as should be to his onlie profit and neither to your honour nor yet to your gaine For if he such other as dailie flattered line 30 him for their peculiar profits as he had manie indeed that dailie sucked at his elbow had once obteined the thing that they breathed for all your affaires were put in obliuion and left at large for them or their assistants euen as they be at this daie Hath not the duke of Burgognie caused you first to come into France after to set forward your armie and in conclusion line 40 for lacke of his promise to loose the faire season of the yeare and to lie in the fields in winter Which warre if it continue shall neither be profitable to you nor to your nobilitie nor yet pleasant but painefull to your communaltie and finallie to both the realmes and especiallie to merchant men shall bring both miserie pouertie and calamitie line 50 Came the duke of Burgognie from Nusse to Calis onlie to visit you Rode he all that post hast onelie to blind you Returned he backe into Loraine againe for anie cause but onelie to leaue you desolate to abandon you Did he or the constable keepe anie one promise with you Why doo you then beleeue and yet still trust them in whome you neuer found faith nor fidelitie But if line 60 God will it so ordeine that you and my master may ioine in league and amitie I dare both saie and sweare that the fine steele neuer cleaued faster to the adamant stone than he will sticke claspe with you both in wealth and wo in prosperitie and aduersitie And if it shall please you to harken to anie reasonable treatie I being a poore man shall on ieopardie of my life which is my chiefe treasure vndertake that this communication shall sort and come to such an effect that both you your nobilitie shall be glad and reioise and your commons shall be contented and pleased and they that haue deceiued you shall be both abashed and ashamed Most humblie beseeching your highnesse if your pleasure shall incline this waie that I may haue a sure safe conduct for one hundred horsses for such personages as the king my master shall send vnto you with further intimation of his mind and purpose And if your pleasure shall be to haue the communication in anie place indifferent betweene both the armies then shall I warrant you the like safe conduct for your men as you doo send for ours When he had accomplished his message and instructions the king of England and his councell highlie commended his audacitie his toong and his sobernesse giuing to him in reward a faire gilt cup with a hundred angels deliuering him a safe conduct according to his request and demand with the which he with speed departed hauing with him an English herald to bring a like safe conduct from the French king After that the safe conducts were deliuered on both parts the ambassadours met at a village beside Amiens On the king of Englands side the lord Howard sir Thomas Saintleger doctor Morton after bishop of Elie chancellor of England were cheefe For the French king the bastard of Burbon admerall of France the lord Saint Pierre the bishop of Eureux called Heberge were appointed as principall The Englishmen demanded the whole realme of France or at the least Normandie and whole Aquitaine The allegations were proued by the Englishmen and politikelie defended by the Frenchmen so that with arguments without conclusion the day passed and the commissioners departed and made relation to their maisters The French king and his councell would not consent that the Englishmen should haue one foot of land within France but rather determined to put him selfe the whole realme in hazard and aduenture At the next méeting the commissioners agréed vpon certeine articles which were of both the princes accepted and allowed It was first accorded that the French king should paie to the king of England without delaie seauentie fiue thousand crownes of the sunne and yearelie fiftie thousand crownes to be paid at London during king Edwards life And further it was agréed that Charles the Dolphin should marrie the ladie Elizabeth eldest daughter to king Edward and they two to haue for the maintenance of their estates the whole duchie of Guien or else fiftie thousand crownes yearelie to be paid within the Tower of London by the space of nine yeares and at the end of that terme the Dolphin and his wife to haue the whole duchie of Guien and of the charge the French king to be cléerelie acquit And it was also concluded that the two princes should come to an interview and there take a corporall oth for the performance of this peace either in
Lanquet wrote an epitome of chronicles and also of the winning of Bullongne Iohn Shepre Leonard line 30 Cox wrote diuerse treatises one in English rhetorike whereof Bale maketh no mention Thomas Soulmon borne in the I le of Gernseie verie studious in histories as by his writings and notes it appeareth Iohn Longland bishop of Lincolne Maurice Chancie a Charterhouse moonke Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Duresme Richard Samson Alban Hill a Welshman an excellent physician Richard Croke verie expert in the Gréeke toong Robert Whittington borne in Staffordshire néere to Lichfield line 40 wrote diuerse treatises for the instruction of Grammarians Iohn Aldrige bishop of Carleill Iohn Russell gathered a treatise intituled Super iure Caesaris Papae he wrote also commentaries in Cantica William Roie Simon Fish a Kentishman borne wrote a booke called the supplication of beggers Iohn Powell and Edward Powell Welshmen wrote against Luther Edward died in Smithfield for treason in denieng the kings supremacie in the line 50 yeare 1540 Iohn Houghton gouernour of the Charterhouse moonks in London died likewise for treason in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and fiue Iohn Rickes being an aged man forsaking the order of a frier Minor which he had first professed imbraced the gospell George Bullen lord Rochford brother to quéene Anne wrote diuerse songs and sonets Francis Bigod knight borne in Yorkeshire wrote a booke against the cleargie intituled De impropriationibus and translated certeine bookes from Latine into English he died for rebellion in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and seauen Richard Wise Henrie Morleie lord Morleie wrote diuerse treatises as comedies and tragedies the life of sectaries and certeine rithmes William Boteuille alià s Thin restored Chaucers workes by his learned and painfull corrections Iohn Smith sometime schoolemaister of Heiton Richard Turpine borne of a worshipfull familie in England seruing in the garrison of Calis wrote a chronicle of his time he died in the yéere a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one and was buried in saint Nicholas church in Calis Sir Thomas Wiat knight in whose praise much might be said as well for his learning as other excellent qualities meet for a man of his calling he greattlie furthered to inrich the English toong he wrote diuerse matters in English méeter and translated the seauen penitentiall psalmes and as some write the whole psalter he died of the pestilence in the west countrie being on his iourneie into Spaine whither he was sent ambassadour from the king vnto the emperour in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Henrie Howard earle of Surrie sonne to the duke of Norffolke delighted in the like studies with sir Thomas Wiat wrote diuerse treatises also in English méeter he suffered at Tower hill as in the historie of this king before yée haue heard Iohn Field a citizen and lawyer of London wrote sundrie treatises as his owne answers vnto certeine articles ministred to him by sir Thomas More the bishop of Rochester Rastall and others when he was in prison for religion he wrote also a treatise of mans fréewill De seruo hominis arbitrio and collections of the common lawes of the land c Tristram Reuell Henrie Brinklow a merchant of London wrote a little booke which he published vnder thâ name of Roderike Mors and also a complaint vpon London c Robert Shingletân borne of a good familie in Lancashire wrote a treatise of the seauen churches and other things as of certeine prophesies for the which as some write he suffered at London being conuict of treason in the yeare 1544 William Parreie a Welshman wrote a booke intituled Speculum iuuenum Of strangers that liued here in this kings daies and for their works which they wrote were had in estimation these we find recorded by maister Bale Barnard Andreas a Frenchman borne in Tolouse an Augustin Frier and an excellent poet Adrian de Castello an Italian of Corneto a towne in Thuscaine he was commended vnto king Henrie the seuenth by the archbishop Morton and therevpon was first made bishop of Hereford and after resigning that sée was aduanced to Bath and Welles Andreas Ammonius an Italian of the citie of Luca secretarie to the king wrote diuerse treatises Iames Calco an Italian also of Pauia in Lumbardie by profession a Carmelite frier an earnest defender of the diuorse betwixt the king and the ladie Katharine Dowager disproouing the marriage beâwixt them to be in anie wise lawfull Thus farre the right high and renowmed Henrie the eight sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth Edward the sixt sonne and successor to Henrie the eight AFter it had pleased almightie God to call to his mercie that famous prince king Henrie the eight the parlement as yet continuing and now by his death dissolued the executours of the said king and other of the nobilitie assembling themselues line 10 togither did first by sound of trumpet in the palace of Westminster and so through London cause his sonne and heire prince Edward to be proclamed king of this realme by the name of Edward the sixt king of England France and Ireland defender of the faith and of the churches of England and Ireland the supreame head he being yet but nine yeares and od moneths of age he was thus proclamed the eight and twentith of Ianuarie in the yeare of the world 5513 and after the birth of our line 20 Lord 1547 year 1547 according to the accompt of them that begin the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompt of the church of England in the yeare 1546 about the nine and twentith yeare of the emperor Charles the fift the three and thirtith of Francis the first of that name king of France and in the fift yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scotland Shortlie herevpon the earle of Hertford with other of the lords resorted to Hatfield where the yoong king then laie from whence they conducted him with line 30 a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the time of his abode there for the good gouernement of the realme the honour and suertie of his maiesties person his vncle Edward earle of Hertford was by order of the councell and the assent of his maiestie as one most méetest to occupie that roome appointed gouernour of his roiall person and protector of his realmes dominions and subiects and so proclamed the first of Februarie by an herald at armes and sound of trumpet through line 40 the citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thought expedient The sixt daie of Februarie the earle of Hertford lord protector adorned king Edward with the order of knighthood remaining then in the Tower and therewith the king standing vp called for Henrie Hubbleshorne lord maior of the citie of London who comming before his presence the king tooke the sword of the lord protector and dubbed the said Hubblethorne knight he being the first that euer he
therefore of this and other vaine prophesies the rebels through the diuels procurement that had nourished and pricked them forward all this while in their wicked procéedings determined to remoue thither to the end that they might with more spéed make an end of the matter before they should be driuen to disperse themselues by famine For the earle of Warwike had taken order to haue the passages stopped in such wise as no vittels could easilie be conueied to their campe the want whereof began alreadie to pinch them Herevpon setting fire on their cabins which they had raised and built here and there of timber and bushes the smoke whereof couered all the grounds about them they came downe with their ensignes into the vallie called Dussin daie where with all spéed that might be they intrenched themselues about and raising a rampire of a good height set stakes also round about them to kéepe off the horssemen The earle of Warwike perceiuing their dooings the next daie being the seuen and twentith of August with all his horssemen and the Almans with capteine Druries band issued foorth of the citie marching streight towards the enimies Yet before he approched in sight of them he sent sir Edmund Kneuet sir Thomas Palmer knights with others to vnderstand of them whether now at length they would submit themselues receiue the kings pardon which if they would doo he offred to grant it freelie to all the whole multitude one or two of them onelie excepted but they with generall voices refusing it the earle fell in hand to incourage his people vnto the battell and hauing appointed as well the horssemen as footmen in what order they should giue the charge they passed forward in approching the enimies The rebels beholding them thus to come forward put themselues in order of battell in such manner that all the gentlemen which had béene taken prisoners and were kept in irons for starting awaie were placed in the fore ranke of their battell coupled two and two togither to the end they might be killed by their line 10 owne friends that came to seeke their deliuerance but yet as God would haue it the most part of them were saued Miles the maister gunner among the rebels leuieng a péece of ordinance shot it off and stroke him that caried the kings standard in the thigh and the horsse through the shoulder The earle of Warwike and others sore grieued therewith caused a whole volie of artillerie to be shot off at the rebels and herewith capteine Drurie line 20 with his owne band the Almans or lanceknights whether ye list to call them on foot getting néere to the enimies hailsed them with their harquebut shot so sharplie and thrust forward vpon them with their pikes so stronglie that they brake them in sunder The gentlemen who as we haue said were placed in the fore ranke found meanes as good hap was to shrinke aside and escaped the danger for the more part although some indeed were slaine by the Almans and other that knew not what they were line 30 The light horssemen of the kings part herewith gaue in amongst them so roundlie that the rebels not able to abide their valiant charge were easilie put to flight and with the foremost their grand capteine Robert Ket gallopped awaie so fast as his horsse would beare him The horssemen following in chase slue them downe on heapes euer still as they ouertooke them so that the chase continuing for the space of thrée or foure miles there were slaine to the number of thrée thousand fiue hundred at the least beside line 40 a great multitude that were wounded as they fled here and there ech waie foorth as séemed best to serue their turne for their most spéedie escape out of danger Yet one part of them that had not beene assailed at the first onset séeing such slaughter made of their fellowes kept their ground by their ordinance and shranke not determining as men desperatlie bent not to die vnreuenged but to fight it out to the last man They were so inclosed with their carts carriages line 50 trenches which they had cast and stakes pitched in the ground to kéepe off the force of horssemen that it would haue béene somewhat dangerous to haue assailed them within their strength But sure they were that now they could not escape séeing no small part of their whole numbers were cut off and distressed and they inuironed on ech side without hope of succour or reléefe of vittels which in the end must néeds haue forced them to come foorth of their inclosure to their vndoubted ouerthrow and destruction The earle of Warwike yet pitieng their case and line 60 loth that the king should loose so manie stout mens bodies as were there amongst them which might doo his maiestie and their countrie good seruice if they could be reclamed from this their desperat follie vnto due obedience sent Norreie vnto them offering them pardon of life if they would throw downe their weapons and yéeld if not he threatened that there should not a man of them escape the deserued punishment Their answer was that if they might be assured to haue their liues saued they could be contented to yeeld but they could haue no trust that promise should be kept with them For notwithstanding all such faire offers of pardon they tooke it that there was nothing meant but a subtill practise to bring them into the hands of their aduersaries the gentlemen that had prepared a barrell of ropes and halters with which they purposed to trusse them vp and therefore they would rather die like men than to be strangled at the wils and pleasures of their mortall enimies The earle of Warwike right sorie to sée such desperat minds among them sent to the citie and caused the most part of the footmen which he had left there to defend the same to come foorth now in battell arraie that they might helpe to distresse those wilfull rebels that thus obstinatelie refused the kings pardon And hauing brought as well them as the Almans and the horssemen in order of battell againe and readie now to set vpon the rebels he eftsoones sent vnto them to know that if he should come himselfe and giue his word that they should haue their pardon whether they would receiue it or not Herevnto they answered that they had such confidence in his honor that if he would so doo they would giue credit thereto and submit themselues to the kings mercie Incontinentlie herevpon he went vnto them and commanded Norreie to read the kings pardon fréelie granted to all that would yéeld Which being read euerie man threw downe his weapon and with one whole and entier voice cried God saue king Edward God saue king Edward And thus thorough the prudent policie and fauourable mercie of the erle of Warwike a great number of those offendors were preserued from the gates of death into the which they were
the erle of Deuonshire speciallie in the west parts insomuch as they drew not all by one line line 10 Then Throckmorton asked how the Kentishmen were affected to the Spaniards Wiat said The people like them euill inough and that appeered now at the comming of the countie of Egmount for they were readie to stur against him and his traine supposing it had bin the prince But said Wiat sir Robert Southwell maister Baker and maister Moile and their affinitie which be in good credit in some places of the shire will for other malicious respects hinder the libertie of their countrie Then Throckmorton line 20 should saie Though I know there hath béene an vnkindnesse betwixt maister Southwell and you for a monie matter wherein I trauelled to make you fréends I doubt not but in so honest a matter as this is he will for the safegard of his countrie ioine with you and so you may be sure of the lord Aburgauennie his force Then Wiat said It is for another matter than for monie that we disagree wherein he hath handled me and others verie doublie vnneighborlie howbeit he can doo no other neither to me nor line 30 to anie other man therefore I forgiue him Item with sir Peter Caroe Throckmorton had conference touching the impeachment of the landing of the said prince and touching prouision of armour and munition as insueth that is to saie that sir Peter Caroe told Throckmorton that he trusted his countriemen would be true Englishmen and would not agrée to let the Spaniards to gouerne them Item the said sir Peter Caroe said the matter importing the French king as it did he thoght the French king would worke to hinder the Spaniards comming hither line 40 with whome the said sir Peter did thinke good to practise for armour munition and monie Then Throckmorton did aduise him to beware that he brought anie Frenchmen into the realme forceablie inasmuch as he could as euill abide the Frenchmen after that sort as the Spaniards And also Throckmorton thought the French king vnable to giue aid to vs by meanes of the great consumption in their owne warres Maister Caroe said As touching line 50 the bringing in of the Frenchmen he meant it not for he loued neither partie but to serue his owne countrie and to helpe his countrie from bondage declaring further to Throckmorton that he had a small barke of his owne to worke his practise by so he said that shortlie he intended to depart to his owne countrie to vnderstand the deuotion of his countrimen Item Throckmorton did saie he would for his part hinder the coÌming in of the Spaniards as much as he could by persuasion Item to sir Edward Warner he had and did béemone his owne line 60 estate and the tyrannie of the time extended vpon diuerse honest persons for religion and wished it were lawfull for all of ech religion to liue safelie acording to their conscience for the law Ex officio will be intollerable the clergies discipline now maie rather be resembled to the Turks tyrannie than to the teaching of christian religion ¶ This was the summe of the matter which was read in the foresaid confession as maters most greeuous against the prisoner Then Throckmorton said Sithence maister sergeant you haue read and gathered the place as you thinke that maketh most against me I praie you take the pains and read further that hereafter whatsoeuer become of me my words be not peruerted and abused to the hurt of some others and especiallie against the great personages of whom I haue béene sundrie times as appeareth by my answers examined for I perceiue the net was not cast onelie for little fishes but for the great ones Iuxta adagium It shall be but losse of time and we haue other things to charge you withall and this that you desire dooth make nothing for you And for the better confirmation of all the treasons obiected against the prisoner and therein to prooue him guiltie you of the iurie shall heare the duke of Suffolks depositions against him who was a principall and hath suffered accordinglie ¶ Then the said sergeant read the dukes confession touching the prisoner amounting to this effect that the lord Thomas Greie did informe the said duke that sir Nicholas Throckmorton was priuie to the whole deuises against the Spaniards was one that should go into the west countrie with the earle of Deuonshire But what dooth the principall authour of this matter saie against me I meane the lord Thomas Greie who is yet liuing Why be not his depositions broght against me for so it ought to be if he can saie anie thing Will you know the truth Neither the lord Thomas Greie hath said can saie or will saie anie thing against me notwithstanding the duke his brothers confession and accusation who hath affirmed manie other things besides the truth I speake not without certeine knowledge for the lord Thomas Greie being my prison-felow for a small time informed me that the duke his brother had misreported him in manie things amongst others in matters touching me which he had declared to you maister Southwell and other the examinors not long ago I am sure if the lord Thomas could or would haue said anie thing it should haue beene here now And as to the dukes confession it is not materiall for he dooth referre the matter to the lord Thomas report who hath made my purgation And it please you my lords and you my maisters of the iurie besides these matters touching Wiats rebellion sir Peter Caroes treasons and confederating with the duke of Suffolke and besides the prisoners conspiracie with the earle of Deuonshire with Crofts Rogers Warner and sundrie others in sundrie places it shall manifestlie appeare vnto you that Throckmorton did conspire the quéenes maiesties death with William Thomas sir Nicholas Arnold and other traitors intending the same which is the greatest matter of all others and most to be abhorred And for proofe hereof you shall heare what Arnold saith ¶ Then was sir Nicholas Arnolds confession read saieng that Throckmorton shewed to him riding betwixt Hinam and Crosse laund in Glocestershire that Iohn Fitz Williams was verie much displeased with William Thomas William Thomas deuised that Iohn Fitzwilliams should kill the queene and Throckmorton knew of it as appeareth by Arnolds confession First I denie that I said anie such thing to maister Arnold and though he be an honest man he may either forget himselfe or deuise meanes how to vnburthen himselfe of so weightie a matter as this is for he is charged with the mater as principall Which I did perceiue when he charged me with his tale and therefore I doo blame him the lesse that he seeketh how to discharge himselfe vsing me as a witnesse if he could so transferre the deuise to William Thomas But trulie I neuer spake anie such words vnto him And for my better declaration I
at that time his viceadmerall seruing in the Aid and Iohn Basing capteine of the Swallow and Thomas Gouarlie capteine of the Phenix met in the narrow seas with fouretéene saile of great hulkes which were come out of Portugall and bound to Flanders their chiefe lading being Portugall salt and yet had good store of Spanish roials of plate and also of good spices The which fourteene hulkes did mainteine their fight for the space of two houres And after that they did perceiue that they could not line 40 preuaile hauing tasted of the ordinance of the queens ships to their great hurt as well in slaughter of their men as also in spoile of their ships the said Holstock and his companie tooke eight of the said hulks wherof six were sent into the riuer of Thames And the admerall and viceadmerall in the said hulks being two great ships which the said Holstocke himselfe did take were caried vnto Harwich and there discharged The eightéenth of March through vehement rage line 50 and tempest of winds manie vessels on the Thames with two tiltbotes before Grauesend were sunke and drowned The six and twentith of Iune deceased Thomas Yoong archbishop of Yorke at the manour of Sheffield and was honourablie buried at Yorke The eleuenth of October were taken in Suffolke at Downam bridge neere vnto Ipswich seuentéene monstrous fishes some of them conteining seuen and twentie foot in length the other foure and twentie or one and twentie foot at the least At the costs line 60 and charges of the citizens of London a new conduit was built at Walbrooke corner neere to Dowgate which was finished in the moneth of October the water whereof is conueied out of the Thames The seuen and twentith of Ianuarie Philip Mestrell a Frenchman and two Englishmen were drawne from Newgate to Tiburne and there hanged the Frenchman quartered who had coined gold counterfeit the Englishmen the one had clipped siluer the other cast testons of tin The eight and twentith of March the pensioners well appointed in armor on horsbacke mustered before the queenes maiestie in Hide parke beside Westminster A great lotterie being holden at London in Poules church yard at the west doore was begun to be drawne the eleuenth of Ianuarie and continued daie and night till the sixt of Maie wherein the said drawing was fullie ended Sir Thomas Ro lord maior of London caused to be inclosed with a wall of bricke nigh one acre of ground néere vnto Bedlem without Bishops gate to be a place of buriall for the dead of such parishes in London as lacked conuenient ground within their said parishes ¶ On the southside whereof ouer a folding gate this inscription is grauen in stone in great letters Thomas Ro miles cùm praetor esset Londinensis hunc locum Reipublicae in vsum publicae sepulturae communem suo sumptu dedicauit Anno Domini 1569. Which writing I haue here recorded for that in viewing the same I saw some of the letters defaced and vtterlie made awaie which in time might likewise befall to the residue and so the memorie of the gentleman there fixed to so good an end vanish and die He also of a godlie motion builded a conuenient roome in Pauls churchyard on the southside of the crosse to receiue a certeine number of hearers at the sermon time as may appeare by some remembrances of his name there fixed Howbeit this gentleman thus well disposed and like inough to haue procéeded in more such godlie actions was called out of this life the next yeare immediatlie following forgoing all the pompe of this life with no lesse good will than he was forward by death to passe to eternall rest His bodie was buried in Hacknie church in the southside of the chancell where besides a monument of himselfe and his wife this epitaph remaineth to be read in faire great letters as followeth An. 1570. Septemb. 2. Sir Thomas Ro lieth buried heare Of London knight and alderman Who late was maior and rule did beare To right the cause of euerie man A merchant venturer was he Of merchant tailors companie A citizen by birth also And eke his wife dame Marie Ro. In wedlocke one and thirtie yeare They did continue man and wife Eleuen children she did beare But fiue of them haue left this life And six aliue doo yet remaine Foure of them sons and daughters twaine His soule with God we hope is blest And dooth remaine in Abrams brest A standing watch on S. Iohns euen at Midsummer and sir Iohn White alderman rode the circuit as the lord maior should haue doone The seuen and twentith of August Andrew Gregorenich Sauin ambassador from Muscouie landed at the tower wharfe and was there receiued by the lord maior of London the aldermen and shiriffes in scarlet with the merchants aduenturers in cotes of blacke veluet all on horssebacke who conueied him riding through the citie to the Muscouie house in Seding lane there to be lodged The plague of pestilence somewhat raging in the citie of London Michaelmas terme was first adiourned vnto the third of Nouember and after to Hilarie terme next following The eleuenth of October Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was brought from Burnam beside Windsore by land to Westminster and from thence by water to the tower of London prisoner sir Henrie Neuill being his kéeper This yeare the lord maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his oth as hath béene accustomed but kept no feast at the Guildhall least through comming togither of so great a multitude infection of the pestilence might haue increased That wéeke from the one and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October there died in the citie and out parishes of all diseases one hundred fiftie and two of the which one and fiftie were accounted to die of the plague On thursdaie the ninth of Nouember Thomas Persie erle of Northumberland receiued the queens maiesties letters to repaire to the court And the same night other conspirators perceiuing him to be wauering and vnconstant of promise made to line 10 them caused a seruant of his called Beckwith after he was laid in his bed to bustle in and to knocke at his chamber doore willing him in hast to arise and shift for himselfe for that his enimies whome he termed to be sir Oswold Ulstrop and maister Uaughan were about the parke and had béeset him with great numbers of men Wherevpon he arose conueied himselfe awaie to his kéepers house In the same instant they caused the bels of the towne to be roong backeward and so raised as manie as they line 20 could to their purpose The next night the earle departed thense to Branspith where he met with Charls earle of Westmerland and the other confederats Then by sundrie proclamations they abusing manie of the queens subiects commanded them in hir highnesse name to
woorst for he would not yéeld the place to them at anie hand Wherevpon immediatlie the whole tire began to plaie in such sort that within foure volées both sides of the house were battered through at the sight whereof the capteine was so dismaied that foorthwith he cried for parlée and so the shot was staied Now vpon humble sute the capteine was admitted to speake with the generall and so comming to talke with him at length he agreed to yeeld wherevpon the prouost marshall was sent into the castell to take possession thereof The generall permitted them verie courteouslie to depart with their furniture and other such stuffe as they could carie with them There came out of the house nine and thirtie persons one and other foure and thirtie men thrée boies and two women and therewith was the castell blowne vp and rased and the armie laie that night in the towne and in places about it The next daie being the eight and twentith of Maie they departed from thence the earles of Lennox Mar and Glencarne with other of the nobilitie of Scotland of the kings part taking their leaues with their companie returned to Glasco and sir George Careie with the horssemen came that night to Lithquo where also the rest of the English forces met A castell called Combernawd belonging to the lord Fleming was yéelded to the generals hands who vpon bond of assurance that the house should remaine at the deuotion of the queene of England was contented to spare it from fire and spoile But this was not the first nor last courtesie which the generall shewed in this iournie vnto such as in anie respect were thought worthie of his fauour Amongst other the ladie of Lidington being great with child mistrusting hir selfe or hir husbands double dealing towards our countrie in great feare began to flie But sir William Drurie hearing thereof sent hir word he came not to make warres with women but rather to shew pitie to the weake and comfortlesse and therevpon she staied and had no further harme The nine and twentith of Maie when the armie should dislodge from Lithquo the generall called for the prouost of the towne and commanded him to prepare with all expedition to receiue a iust punishment and correction thorough the whole towne for treason and vnpardonable offenses committed and declaring that the inhabitants thereof had succoured and supported traitors to the realme of England line 10 and likewise to their owne king contrarie to the leagues and quietnesse of both the realmes of England and Scotland for which cause he was fullie resolued to ouerthrow that town receptacle of traitors If therefore there were anie women in childbed or impotent people within that towne he gaue warning thus aforehand to conueie them out of it and herewith also commanding each capteine souldier vnder his charge to sée due execution of that which he purposed in this behalfe to haue doone he willed line 20 the prouost to appoint a place conuenient into the which the goods of the towne might be brought to the end that the same should neither bee spoiled by the English souldiers neither yet consumed through vehemencie of fire but to be preserued all wholie to the Scotishmens vse Further he granted that euerie noble mans lodging and capiteins house should bée saued from fire But now the time being come for this determined execution the earle of Morton that still accompanied line 30 the English generall offered himselfe as an intercessor to intreat and sue for a pardon bringing afore the generall a multitude of wailing people whose mournfull and most pitious cries were lamentable and verie importunat The generall hearing their requests made answer that for manie causes the towne ought to be destroied considering how diuerse enimies whose insolent practises were not to be suffered had alwaies there a common resort to conferre of their wicked deuises and further quoth line 40 he the courtesie that is shewed to such places of repaire hath imboldened the rest of Scotland to vse open violence and secret villanies to the preiudice of Gods glorie hinderance of the weale publike and breach of good lawes and policies and therefore it was fit and most méet for a warning to thousands in that case of extremitie to rase out such monuments of mischiefe But at length notwithstanding these heauie words vttered by sir William Drurie the people of all sorts so preassed about him made such line 50 pitifull cries and sorowfull noise with children sucking of their mothers breasts that he taking ruth of their miserable estates at this their lamentable sute and speciallie at the great instance of the earle of Morton who came bareheaded to speake for them the generall was contented to saue the towne and people therein taking good band and assurance of the prouost and chiefest of the towne that they should follow the campe and at all times appeare when they were called for at Berwike and there to submit line 60 themselues their towne and goods to the clemencie of the quéens highnesse and to such order as the earle of Sussex hir maiesties generall lieutenant should by consent thinke necessarie to which band conditions they of Lithquo agréed And for that their regent was slaine none since instituted to whome they had giuen faith of allegiance they confessed that none might command them anie waie without licence of him to whome they had made this band sith to him both their promise and obligation was passed And in this sort they continued bound to him for their good behauiors The duke of Chatelleraults palace in Lithquo was yet burnt and rased and marching to another house belonging to the said duke called Kenile distant from Lithquo about a mile or more they likewise burned the same Thus hauing doone their pleasures at Lithquo and in the countrie about that towne they marched from thense to a proper house and castell belonging to the lord Seton called Neitherie which the enimies had fortified But yet when the ladie of that house came to the generall and made humble petition on hir knées for his fauor offering to him the keies of that place in most humble wise she found such courtesâe at his hands that with condition that she a baron with hir should enter bands for assurance that the castell should euer afterwards remaine at the quéene of Englands pleasure he tooke hir the keies againe leauing hir in possession of hir house and goods without dooing hir anie further displeasure This night the armie came to Edenburgh where certeine of the companie that made hast to get thither somewhat before the rest receiued some discourtesie for they were spoiled in the streets of their furniture such other things as they had about them But when the generall with the rest of the armie was come néere to the towne and had knowledge of such foule disorder he thought not good to enter the towne
the which she laid certeine plate of hir owne of mistresse Sanders to gage On the next morning being thursdaie hauing intelligence that Browne was sought for they sent him six pounds more by the same Roger warning him to shift for himselfe by flight which thing he foreslowed not to doo Neuerthelesse the lords of the quéens maiesties councell caused so spéedie and narrow search to be made for him that vpon the eight line 60 and twentith of the same moneth he was apprehended in a mans house of his owne name at Rochester and being brought backe againe to the court was examined by the councell vnto whome he confessed the deed as you haue heard and that he had oftentimes before pretended and sought to doo the same by the instigation of the said mistresse Drurie who had promised to make a marriage betwéene him and mistresse Sanders whome he seemed to loue excessiuelie neuerthelesse he protested though vntrulie that mistresse Sanders was not priuie nor consenting therevnto Upon his confession he was arreigned at the Kings bench in Westminster hall the eighteenth of Aprill where he acknowledged himselfe guiltie and was condemned as principall of the murther according to which sentence he was executed in Smithfield on mondaie the twentith of Aprill at which time also vntrulie as she hir selfe confessed afterward he laboured by all meanes to cléere mistresse Sanders of committing euill of hir bodie with him and then floong himselfe besides the ladder He was after hanged vp in chains néere vnto the place where he had doone the fact In the meane time mistresse Drurie and hir man being examined as well by their owne confessions as by falling out of the matter and also by Brownes appeachment thought culpable were committed to ward And after mistresse Sanders being deliuered of child and churched for at the time of hir husbands death she looked presentlie to lie downe was vpon mistresse Druries mans confession and other great likelihoods likewise committed to the tower and on wednesdaie the sixt of Maie she was arreigned with mistresse Drurie at the Guildhall The effect of their indictment was that they by a letter written had béene procurers of the said murther knowing the murther doone had by monie otherwise reléeued the murtherer wherevnto they pleaded not giltie Howbeit they were both condemned as accessaries to master Sanders death and executed in Smithfield the thirtéenth of Maie being wednesdaie in Whitsunwéeke at which time they both confessed themselues guiltie of the fact Trustie Roger mistresse Druries man was arreigned on fridaie the eight of Maie being there condemned as accessarie was executed with his mistresse at the time and place aforesaid Not long after Anthonie Browne brother to the fornamed George Browne was for notable felonies conueied from Newgate to Yorke and there hanged The tenth of Aprill seauen pirats which among others had béene taken on the north seas were lead from Southworke to Wapping and fiue of them were there hanged the other two had their pardon at the gallowes The seauentéenth of Aprill a chandelers wife without Aldersgate of London who had practised hir husbands death by poisoning and otherwise was set on the pillorie in Cheape with thrée other women who had béene of hir counsell two of them were with hir there whipped The seauenth of Iune betwéene the houres of one and two of the clocke in the after noone a great tempest of haile and raine happened at Tocester in Northamptonshire wherethrough six houses in that towne were borne downe and foureteene more sore perished with the waters which rose of that tempest The hailstones were square six inches about One child was there drowned and manie shéepe with other cattell which when the water was fallen manie of them were lieng on the high hedges where the waters had left them The sixteenth of Iune Thomas Woodhouse a priest of Lincolnshire who had laine long prisoner in the Fleet was arreigned in the Guildhall of London and there condemned of high treason who had iudgement to be hanged and quartered and was executed at Tiburne the ninetéenth of Iune The sixtéenth of August Walter earle of Essex accompanied with the lord Rich and diuerse other gentlemen imbarked themselues in seuerall ships at Leirpoole and the wind sitting verie well tooke their voiage towards Ireland The earle after manie and great dangers on the sea at length woone Copemans Iland from whence in a pinnesse of capteine Perses he was brought safe to Knockfergus The lord Rich with the like danger landed at castell Killife where being met by capteine Malbie maister Smith master Moore pensioners he was conducted to Inch abbaie maister Malbies house where he had in a readinesse on the morrow morning a hundred and fiftie horssemen for their safegard to Knockfergus beside fiftie Kerns which went a foot through the woods there was among these a thirtie bowes with a bagpipe the rest had darts Sir Brian Makephelin had preied the countrie and taken awaie what was to be carried or driuen but on the sixt of September line 10 he came to Knockfergus to the earle of Essex and there made his submission the number of kine were estéemed thirtie thousand besides shéepe and swine After him Ferdorough Macgillasticke the blind Scots sonne Roze Oge Macwilline did the like and diuerse other sent their messengers to the earle to signifie that they were at his lordships disposition as the baron of Dongarrow Condenell Odonell and the capteine of Kilulto The earle of Essex hauing line 20 the countrie of Claniboie and other the quéens maiestie of England directed hir letters to the lord deputie of Ireland willing him to make by commission the earle of Essex capteine generall of the Irish nation in the prouince of Ulster and to diuide the countrie woone Claniboie and else where c. The eleuenth of October Peter Burchet gentleman of the middle temple with his dagger suddenlie assailed cruellie wounded and meant to haue murthered a seruiceable gentleman named Iohn Hawkins line 30 esquier as he with sir William Winter and an other gentleman rode towards Westminster in the high stréet neare to the Strand beyond the Temple-barre of London for which fact the said Burchet being apprehended and commited to the tower was afterward examined concerning the fact Who answered that he tooke the said maister Hawkins for an other gentleman and being further examined he was found to hold certeine erronious opinions for the which he was sent to the Lollards tower line 40 From thence being called into the consistorie of Paules church before the right reuerend father Edwine bishop of London and others by them examined he stood in his opinions till the sentence of death as an heretike was readie to haue béene pronounced against him on the fourth of Nouember but through the earnest persuasions of diuerse learned men who tooke great paines in that matter he
of men haue to deale with in this world This noble erle was of great wisedome deepe iudgement graue consideration and so blessed with vnderstanding experience and manifold vertues and gifts of God that he was right worthie to serue hir maiestie in princelie and weightie affaires both in warre and peace He was of such prudent and excellent discretion that he had a speciall grace to interteine all states of men superiour equall and inferiour with such comelinesse and decencie that for ciuilitie line 10 humanitie maners and honorable behauior he was a paterne and an example for nobilitie to imitate and to follow In his youth he bestowed not the time in vanitie idlenesse or voluptuousnesse but in atchiuing and winning of such sciences properties and vertues which might beautifie and increase his nobilitie and preuailed therin so effectuallie that be became excellent in all kinds of knowledge and qualities méet commendable or necessarie for a man of honour Concerning diuine matters I haue line 20 in my time conferred with his lordship and therefore can saie somewhat therein and amongst others one thing is notable which in conference I receiued at his mouth He affirmed this in effect that there was nothing in the world that could blemish and abase the heroicall nature of nobilitie so much as to haue the eies of vnderstanding so closed and shut vp that a man in honour should not be able to discerne betwixt true religion and the hypocriticall false religion betwixt the right worshipping of God idolatrie line 30 betwixt the traditions of men and Gods word but remaine subiect to lies and superstition and to call bad good and good bad and concluded that to be frée from this seruile state was a necessarie point of true nobilitie He therefore in his time had diligentlie trauelled in the scriptures and so furnished himselfe with principles of christian religion that he was able readilie to discerne sermons and disputations and to find out who had veritie on their side and also probablie line 40 to speake with authoritie of scripture in matters of controuersie His vnderstanding by the especiall worke of the holie ghost was so illumined that he claue drew to true christian religion as the adamant stone cleaueth and draweth to stéele His lordship therefore furthered and fauoured all preachers of Gods word so that whosoeuer will iudge of the successe of Christs religion by humane reason must confesse that the gospell hath lost a mightie protector and an earnest defender But God in setting out of his line 50 word vseth to worke beside the expectation of man and beyond the reach of reason I haue yet further to speake of his lordship that I beléeue there be verie few noble men in England more readie and expert in chronicles histories genealogies and pedegrées of noble men and noble houses not onlie within the realme but also in forren realmes than this noble earle was in his time He excelled in describing and blasing of armes and in all skill perteining thereto and to be short his vnderstanding and capacitie was line 60 so liuâlie and effectuall that it reached to all kind of matters that a perfect nobleman shall haue to deale withall in this world Fortitude is another founteine from whense nobilitie floweth of Cicero In Tusculanis quaestionibus thus defined Est affectio animi qua grauia patiendo legibus obteÌperatur It is an affection of the mind whereby to satisfie the lawes a man is content to suffer hardnesse he meaneth mans lawes and not Gods law It séemeth therefore that it may be thus more euidentlie and fullie defined Fortitude is an affection of the mind wherby a man is made hardie and couragious to suffer difficulties and dangers auoiding on the one side rashnesse expelling on the other side feare to performe that which Gods law and honestie prescribeth and commandeth Although by this definition we find that the effect of fortitude resteth much in banishing of feare of bodilie hurts yet dooth it agrée verie well with the feare of God Iethro therefore counselling Moses to choose men to gouerne vnder him saith Prospice viros fortes timentes Deum Séeke out men indued with fortitude fearing God c. Whereby we perceiue that fortitude and the feare of God varie not but are linked togither Déepe was the floud of nobilitie that this valiant earle had fetched out of this founteine For in this togither with the well of prudence he found that excellent knowledge of chiualrie the cunning to lead an armie to guide and to rule soldiors that experience of stratagems warlike policies that notable magnanimitie and inuincible courage whereby he indured and ouercame so manie dangers and perils for the which he is renowmed in England and Ireland and shall neuer be forgotten He was by nature the sonne of Mars and by practising feats of war and exercise aforehand he had made himselfe in manner a perfect warrior afore that euer he came to the wars and was for prowesse magnanimitie and high corage to be compared to the old Romane capteins that be so much in stories commended This fortitude is no lesse necessarie for nobilitie in time of peace than in time of war For it belongeth vnto them to minister iustice betwixt partie and partie without respect of persons which cannot be performed without the assistance of this vertue I haue good cause to thinke of this noble earle that there was no subiect in England that could feare or corrupt him from executing of iustice He was to the proud and arrogant a lion and to the méeke and humble a lambe neither is there anie contrarietie in this for true nobilitie discerneth a due and conuenient time and place to vse both the one and the other Iustice is the third well of nobilitie it is a constant and a perpetuall will to giue euerie man his owne This is a diuine vertue pretious and commendable in all men and especiallie in the nobilitie who by reason of authoritie may doo iniurie without remedie for the same We sée by experience that great is the number of them that would oppresse if they had authoritie we see also the iniuries that are doone dailie by them that haue colour of authoritie be it neuer so simple But examine the life of this earle who will and I beléeue there is no man liuing that can iustlie complaine of anie iniurie or wrong doone by him I once in my time heard him not a litle offended with one of his men that was complained vpon saieng that his seruant could doo him no greater dishonor than by pretense of his authoritie to doo anie poore man wrong Iob in the time of his authoritie wealth was commended to be a iust a righteous man And in the explication of part of that iustice Iob hath these words Fui oculus caeco vice pedum claudo c I was the eies to the blind and I
like a fether being hollow with one eare growing on the lower part of the chéeke his bellie big and hard the armes big hauing fiue fingers and a thumbe on either hand and in place of toes on the left foot fiue fingers and a thumbe on the right foot a thumbe and seuen fingers in the place of priuitie the shape both of male female a strange sight to be seene and I feare signifieth our monstrous line 50 life which God for his mercie giue vs grace to amend without procrastination or putting off from daie to daie as the poet significantlie saith Cras vultis sed vult hodie vindex Deus cras Aut non vult aut vos obruet atra dies The eight daie of October immediatlie after the new moone there appeared a blasing star in the south bushing toward the east which was nightlie séene the aier being cléere more than two moneths The eighteenth of October were made eight sergeents line 60 at law to wit William Fléetwood recorder of London Edward Flowerdue Thomas Snag William Periam Robert Halton Iohn Clench Iohn Pickering Thomas Warmsleie maister Snag before named was sicke and therefore was sworne in his chamber at Greies inne the other seuen were sworne at Westminster and held their feast at the new Temple at London The quéenes maiestie being informed that in sundrie places of this realme certeine persons secretlie taught damnable heresies contrarie to diuers principall articles of our beléefe and christian faith who to colour their sect named themselues the familie of loue and then as manie as were allowed by them to be of that familie to be elect and saued and all others of âhat church soeuer they be to be reiected and damned And for that vpon conuenting of some of them before the bishops ordinaries it was found that the ground of their sect is mainteined by certeine lewd hereticall and seditious books first made in the Dutch toong and lastlie translated into English and printed beyond the seas secretlie brought ouer into the realme the author whereof they name H. N. c. And considering also it is found that those sectaries held opinion that they may before anie magistrat or ecclesiasticall or temporall or anie other person not being professed to be of their sect by oth or otherwise denie anie thing for their aduantage so as though manie of them are well knowne to be teachers and spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable sects yet by their owne confession they can not be condemned Therefore hir maiestie being verie sorie to sée so great an euill by malice of the diuell to be brought into this hir realme and by hir bishops and ordinaries she vnderstandeth it verie requisit not onelie to haue those dangerous heretiks and sectaries to be seuerelie punished but that also all other meanes be vsed by hir maiesties roiall authoritie which is giuen hir of God to defend Christs church to root them out from further infecting of hir realme she hath thought méet and conuenient and so by hir proclamation commandeth that all hir officers and ministers temporall shall in all their seuerall vocations assist the bishops of hir realme and all other person to search out all persons dulie suspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable sects and by all good meanes to proceed seuerelie against them being found culpable by order of the lawes ecclesiasticall or temporall and that all search be made in all places suspected for the books and writings mainteining the said heresies and sects and them to destroie and burne c as more at large may appéere by the said proclamation giuen at Richmond the third of October and proclamed at London on the ninetéenth daie of the same moneth About this time there arriued vpon the west coast of Ireland a certeine companie of Italians and Spaniards sent by the pope to the aid of the earle of Desmond in his rebellion which fortified themselues stronglie néere vnto Smerwike in a fort which they called castell del Ore there erecting the popes banner against hir maiestie Which when the lord Greie of Wilton deputie of Ireland vnderstood he marched thitherward and on the sixt of Nouember hearing of the arriuall of the Swift the Tigre the Aid the Merlion other of the quéenes maiesties ships and also of thrée barks fraughted from Corke and Limerike with vittels on the morrow after marched towards the fort vnto the which he gaue so hot an assault that on the ninth of Nouember the same was yéelded all the Irishmen and women hanged and more than foure hundred Spaniards Italians and Biscaies put to the sword the coronell capteins secretarie and others to the number of twentie saued for ransome In which fortresse was found good store of monie bisket bakon oile wine and diuerse other prouisions of vittels sufficient for their companie for halfe a yeare besides armour powder shot and other furniture for two thousand men and vpwards The eight and twentith daie of Nouember were arreigned in the kings bench William Randoll for coniuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth and goods felloniouslie taken were become Thomas Elks Thomas Lupton Rafe Spacie and Christopher Waddington for being present aiding and procuring the said Randoll to the coniuration aforesaid Randoll Elks Spacie and Waddington were found guiltie had iudgement to be hanged Randoll was executed the other were repriued About the 24 of December in the town of Walsham in the countie of Sussex a child of eleuen yéers old named William Withers laie in a trance for the space of ten daies without anie sustenance and at the last comming to himselfe he vttered to the standers by manie strange spéeches inueieng against pride couetousnesse coldnesse of charitie and other line 10 outragious sins To behold this child there resorââd diuerse godlie zelous preachers as also knights esquiers gentlemen all of them hearing and séeing that which was woonderfull And among others that came thither there was a gentleman of great credit and worship with certeine of his men to heare and behold the child who hauing espied a seruingman that had béene there with his maister two times whom he had sharplie tawnted for his great and monstrous ruffes spake vnto him verie vehementlie line 20 and told him that it were better for him to put on sackecloth and mourne for his sinnes than in such abhominable pride to pranke vp himselfe like the diuels darling the verie father of pride and lieng who sought by the exercise of that damnable sinne to make himselfe a preie to euerlasting torments in helfire Wherevpon the seruingman as one prickt in conscience sore sorowed and wept for his offense rent the band from his necke tooke a knife and cut it in péeces and vowed neuer to weare the like againe line 30 This for the strangenesse thereof will be condemned as a lie speciallie of vnbeléeuers and peruers
the lawfull quéene of England the first and highest point of treason and that all hir subiects are discharged of their oths and obedience a second high point of treason and all warranted to disobeie hir and hir lawes a third and a verie large point of treason And thereto is to be added a fourth point most manifest in that they would not disallow the popes hostile procéedings in open warres against hir maiestie in hir realme of Ireland where one of their companie doctor Sanders a lewd scholer and subiect of England a fugitiue and a principall companion and conspirator with the traitors and rebels at Rome was by the popes speciall coÌmission a commander as in forme of a legat and sometime a bursor or paiemaster for those wars Which doctor Sanders in his booke of his church monarchie did afore his passing into Ireland openlie by writing gloriouslie auow the foresaid bull of Pius Quintus against hir maiestie to be lawfull and affirmeth that by vertue thereof one doctor Morton an old English fugitiue and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England which was true to stirre vp the first rebellion there whereof Charles Neuill the late earle of Westmerland was a head capteine And thereby it may manifestlie appéere to all men how this bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland and how for maintenance thereof and for sowing of sedition by warrant and allowance of the same these persons were iustlie condemned of treason and lawfullie executed by the ancient lawes temporall of the realme without charging them for anie other matter than for their practises and conspiracies both abroad and at home against the queene and the realme and for the mainteining of the popes foresaid authoritie and bull published to depriue hir maiestie of hir crowne and for withdrawing and reconciling of hir subiects from their naturall allegiance due to hir maiestie and to their countrie and for moouing them to sedition and for no other causes or questions of religion were these persons condemned although true it is that when they were charged conuinced of these points of conspiracies and treasons they would still in their answers colourablie pretend their actions to haue beene for religion but in deed and truth they were manifested to be for the procurement and maintenance of the rebellions and wars against hir maiestie and hir realme And herein is now the manifest diuersitie to be séene and well considered betwixt the truth of hir maiesties actions the falshood of the blasphemous aduersaries that where the factious partie of the pope the principall author of the inuasions of hir maiesties dominions doo falselie allege that a number of persons whom they terme as martyrs haue died for defense of the catholike religion the same in verie truth may manifestlie appeere to haue died if they so will haue it as martyrs for the pope but yet as traitors against their souereigne and quéene in adhering to him being the notable and onelie open hostile enimie in all actions of warre against hir maiestie hir kingdomes and people and that this is the meaning of all these that haue so obstinatlie mainteined the authoritie and contents of this bull the verie words of the bull doo declare in this sort as doctor Sanders reporteth them PIus Quintus pontifex maximus de apostolicae potestais plenitudine declarauit Elisabetham praetenso regni iure line 10 necnon omne quocunque dominio dignitate priuilegióque priuatam itémque proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac catero omnes qui illi quomodocunque iurauerunt à iuramento huiusmodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuò absolutos That is to saie Pius Quintus the greatest bishop of the fulnesse of the apostolike power declared Elisabeth to be bereaued or depriued of hir pretended right of hir kingdome and also of all and whatsoeuer dominion dignitie and priuilege and also the nobles subiects and people of the said kingdome and line 20 all others which had sworne to hir anie maner of wais to be absolued for euer from such oth and from all debt or dutie of fealtie c with manie threatning cursings to all that durst obeie hir or hir laws As for execution hereof to prooue that the effect of the popes bull and message was a flat rebellion it is not amisse to heare what the same doctor Sanders the popes fire brand in Ireland also writeth in his visible church monarchie which is thus Pius Quintus ponâifex maximus Anno Domini 1569 reuerendum presbyterum Nicolaum Mortanum Anglum iâ Angliam misit vt certis illustribus viris authoritate apostolica denuntiaret Elisabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur haereticam esse obeâmque causam omni dominio potestate excidisse impunéque ab illis velut ethnicam haleri posse nec ãâã lâgibus aut mandatis deinceps obedire cogi That is to saie Pius Quintus the greatest bishop in the yeare of our Lord 1569 sent the reuerend priest Nicholas Morton an Englishman into England line 40 that he should denounce or declare by the apostolike authoritie to certeine noblemân Elisabeth who then was in possession to be an heretike for that cause to haue fallen from all dominion and power and that she may be had or reputed of them as an ethnike and that they are not to be compelled to obeie hir lawes or commandements c. Thus you sée an ambassage of rebellion from the popes holinesse the ambassador an old doting English priest a fugitiue and conspirator sent as he saith to some noble line 50 men and these were the two earles of Northumberland and Westmerland heads of the rebellion And after this he followeth to declare the successe therof which I dare saie he was sorie it was so euill with these words Qui dementiatione milti nobiles viri adducti sunt vt de ãâã liberandis cogitare auderent ac sperabant illi quidem ãâã âânes summis viribus affuâurâs esse verum etsi ãâ¦ã expectâbant res euenit quia catholici omnes nandum probè cognouerant Elisabetham haereticam esse declarâââm line 60 tamen laudanda illorum nobilium consilia erant That is By which denuntiation manie noblemen were induced or led that they were boldened to thinke of the fréeing of their brethren and they hoped certeinlie that all the catholikes would haue assisââd them with all their strength but although the matter happened otherwise than they hoped for bicause all the catholikes knew not that Elisabeth was declared to be an heretike yet the counsels and intents of those noblemen were to be praised A rebellion and a vanquishing of rebels verie smoothlie described This noble fact here mentioned was the rebellion in the north the noblemen were the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the lacke of the euent or successe was that the traitors were vanquished and the queenes maiestie and hir subiects had by Gods
as persons that did renounce their quarrell and seemed to cursse or to blame such as sent them to so vnfortunate and desperate a voiage But though these reasons grounded vpon rules of naturall reason shall satisfie a great number of the aduersaries who will yeeld that by good order of ciuill and christian policie and gouernement hir maiestie line 40 could nor can doo no lesse than she hath doone first to subdue with hir forces hir rebels and traitors and next by order of hir lawes to correct the aiders abettors lastlie to put also to the sword such forces as the pope sent into hir dominions yet there are certeine other persons more nicelie addicted to the pope that will yet séeme to be vnsatisfied for that as they will tearme the matter a number of sillie poore wretches were put to death as traitors being but in profession scholers or priests by the names of seminaries Iesuits or simple schoolemaisters that line 50 came not into the realme with anie armour or weapon by force to aid the rebels and traitors either in England or in Ireland in their rebellions or wars of which sort of wretches the commiseration is made as though for their contrarie opinions in religion or for teaching of the people to disobeie the lawes of the realme they might haue beene otherwise punished and corrected but yet not with capitall paine These kinds of defenses tend onelie to find fault rather with the seueritie of their punishments than to line 60 acquit them as innocents or quiet subiects But for answer to the better satisfaction of these uice and scrupulous fauourers of traitors it must be with reason demanded of them if at least they will open their eares to reason whether they thinke that when a king being stablished in his realme hath a rebellion first secretlie practised and afterward openlie raised in his realme by his owne seditious subiects and when by a forren potentate or enimie the same rebellion is mainteined and the rebels by messages and promises comforted to continue and their treasons against their naturall prince auowed and consequentlie when the same potentat and enimie being author of âhe said rebellion shall with his owne proper forces inuade the realme and subiects of the prince that is so lawfullie and peaceablie possessed in these cases shall no subiect fauouring these rebels and yéelding obedience to the enimie the inuador be committed or punished as a traitor but onelie such of them as shall be found openlie to carrie armour and weapon Shall no subiect that is a spiall and an explorer for the rebell or enimie against his naturall prince be taken and punished as a traitor bicause he is not found with armour or weapon but yet is taken in his disguised apparell with scrolles and writings or other manifest tokens to prooue him a spie for traitors after he hath wandered secretlie in his souereignes campe region court or citie Shall no subiect be counted a traitor that will secretlie giue earnest and prest monie to persons to be rebels or enimies or that will attempt to poison the vittels or the founteins or secretlie set on fire the ships or munition or that will secretlie search and sound the hauens and créeks for landing or measure the depth of ditches or height of bulworks and walles bicause these offendors are not found with armor or weapon The answer I thinke must needs be yéelded if reason and experience shall haue rule with these aduersaries that all these and such like are to be punished as traitors and the principall reason is bicause it can not be denied but that the actions of all these are necessarie accessaries and adherents proper to further and continue all rebellions and warres But if they will denie that none are traitors that are not armed they will make Iudas no traitor that came to Christ without armour colouring his treason with a kisse Now therefore it resteth to applie the facts of these late malefactors that are pretended to haue offended but as scholers or bookemen or at the most but as persons that onelie in words and doctrine and not with armour did fauour and helpe the rebels and the enimies For which purpose let these persons be termed as they list scholers schoolemaisters bookemen seminaries priests Iesuits friers beadmen Romanists pardoners or what else you will neither their titles nor their apparell hath made them traitors but their traitorous secret motions practises their persons haue not made the warre but their directions and counsels haue set vp the rebellions It is trulie to be pondered that the verie causes finall of these rebellions and warres haue béene to depose hir maiestie from hir crowne the popes bull hath roared it so to be The causes instrumentall are thâse kind of seminaries and seedmen of sedition their secret teachings and reconciliations haue confirmed it The fruits and effects thereof are by rebellion to shed the bloud of all hir faithfull subiects the rewards of the inuadors if they could preuaile should be the disinheriting of all the nobilitie the clergie and the whole communaltie that would as they are bound by the lawes of God by their birth and othes defend their naturall gratious quéene their natiue countrie their wiues their children their familie and their houses And now examine these which you call vnarmed scholers and priests wherefore they first fled out of the realme why they liued and were conuersant in companie of the principall rebels and traitors at Rome and in their places where it is proued that they were partakers of their conspiracies Let it be answered why they came thus by stealth into the realme Why they haue wandered vp downe in corners in disguised sort changing their titles names and maner of apparell Why they haue intised and sought to persuade by their secret false reasons the people to allow and beléeue all the actions and attempts whatsoeuer the pope hath doone or shall doo to be lawfull Why they haue reconciled and withââwne so manie people in corners from the lawes of the realme to the obedience of the pope a ãâã potentate and open enimie whome they kââw to haue alreadie declared the queene to be no lawfull queene to haue mainteined the knowne rebels and traitors to haue inuaded hir maiesties dominions with open warre Examine further how these vagarant disgised vnarmed spies haue answered line 10 when they were taken and demanded what they thought of the bull of pope Pius Quintus which was published to depriue the quéenes maiestie and to warrant hir subiects to disobeie hir whether they thought that all subiects ought to obeie the same bull and so to rebell Secondlie whether they thought hir maiestie to be lawfull queene of the realme notwithstanding the said bull or anie other bull of the pope Thirdlie whether the pope might giue such licence as he did to the earls of Northumberland and line 20 Westmerland and other hir maiesties subiects to rebell as
realme than to suffer the iustice line 60 of hir lawes to be executed against them although they haue deserued the same in the highest degrée hath giuen power to vs of hir maiesties priuie councell others by commission and warrant vnder the great seale of England bearing date the fiftéenth daie of this present month of Ianuarie to sée this hir purpose and determination for their banishment put in execution By vertue whereof we haue procéeded therevnto and haue committed to the charge of these bearers William Bolles one of hir maiesties yeomen of hir chamber and Anthonie Hall the persons whose names doo follow that is to saie Iames Bosgraue Iohn Hart Edward Rushton Iaspar Heiwood William Tedder Samuell Coniers Arthur Pits William Wharmington Richard Slake William Hartlie Richard Norris William Dean William Bishop Robert Nutter Thomas Stephanson Iohn Coliton Christopher Tomson Thomas Worthington Iohn Barns William Smith clearks being Iesuits seminaries and other wandering and massing priests and Henrie Orton gentleman all which haue béene apprehended in this realme to be by them imbarked and transported beyond the seas according to such direction as they haue receiued in that behalfe These shall be therefore by the authoritie aforesaid to will and require you and in hir maiesties name strictlie to charge and command you and euerie of you hir maiesties officers as well within the realme of England and Iceland as in anie other parts of hir maiesties dominions and countries to whome it may and shall apperteine not onelie to suffer them to passe vnder the charge of the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall but also that in case by contrarietie of winds or extremitie of weather they shall be after their imbarking driuen into anie port or creeke within anie of your iurisdictions that vpon the sight of this pasport ye aid and assist the said Bolles and Anthonie Hall if they shall so require you in séeing them safelie reteined committed kept in custodie if they shall come aland till such time as they the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall may with safetie put againe into the sea to transport them to such place beyond the sea as by our direction they are appointed and to suffer them eftsoones to imbarke and depart without staie or interruption Foreseeing that they the said Iesuits and seminaries and other the wandering and massing priests aforesaid nor anie of them nor the said Henrie Orton be suffered to conueie or transport out of the realme anie thing that by the lawes be prohibited or forbidden Whereof as of the rest commanded herein we require you not to faile as you will answer to the contrarie at your perils Giuen vnder our hands at Gréenewich the twentith daie of Ianuarie in the seuen and twentie yeare of hir maiesties reigne ¶ Now followeth a certificat of the maister that transported the forenamed one and twentie banished persons as followeth To the right honorable lords and others of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell and all other officers to whome it may apperteine THese may be to certifie c that William Bolles yeoman vsher of hir maiesties chamber and Anthonie Hall of London skinner hauing imbarked at the Tower wharffe of London the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie 1584 one and twentie persons being banished men into my barke called the Marie Martin of Colchester to be transported and conueied into Normandie for sixtéene of which said one and twentie persons they had compounded with me aforehand The same William Bolles and Anthonie Hall haue satisfied and paid me for all their passages and vittels and haue also hired at Douer an experimented pilot for the coasts of Normandie which said Bolles and Hall with the said banished men in their charges after their being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith at Grauesend in Tilberie hope at Lée at the Spaniard at the Downes at Douer and at Rie were by force of weather and chase of pirats driuen to Bullen and there arriued all safelie the second day of Februarie 1584 and thense sent the said banished men some by horsse but most on foot with conducts to Abbiuile in the coasts of Normandie Witnesse my hand herevnto this fift of Februarie 1584. ¶ By me Matthew Strut An other certificat written and directed into England by the said banished men TO all magistrats officers ministers within the realme of England or elsewhere to whome it may in anie wise apperteine line 10 this may be to giue certification that we whose names are here vnder written who were imbarked at the Tower wharffe of London the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie 1584 and there receiued into the charge of maister William Bolles and maister Anthonie Hall by commission from their lordships and other hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell haue béene by them the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall verie friendlie honestlie intreated and with carefull diligence line 20 safelie conducted transported conueied to the prouince of Normandie by them left this third daie of Februarie according to the English computation in the yeare of Christ 1584 which said Bolles and Hall haue in our presence paid the maister of the barke which transported vs for his whole fraught and vittels in the ship for the time of our remaining abroad and generallie so well vsed vs in all respects that we can not but acknowledge our selues much beholding to them fullie satisfied in hauing béene line 30 committed to the charge of so courteous officers sith the case standeth so with vs that we are banished our countrie contrarie to our desires wherein we take no little griefe of mind For testimonie wherof we haue herevnto set our seuerall hands this present third daie of Februarie 1584. Iaspar Halwood Edward Rushton Iohn Hart c. ¶ O Lord what a mercifull quéene is this in such sort to forgiue and forget iniuries yea treasonable iniuries as by banishment onelie to chastise them line 40 that deserued extreame punishment Yea with a banishment scarse fitlie to be so termed sith in the execution thereof there was such clemencie shewed as that the banished by their owne confessions haue left acknowledged vnder their owne handwriting a notable kind of courtesie receiued by the meanes of hir maiestie And therefore they cannot but in conscience commend hir highnesse tender affection so gratiouslie exchanged for seuere affliction insomuch that it may rightlie be reported of hir gighnesse line 50 which the poet spake of Caesar that is to saie Est piger ad poenas princeps ad praemia velox CuÃque dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Henrie earle of Darbie appointed to be hir maiesties ambassador to Henrie the third French king and to inuest him with the order of the garter tooke his leaue of the quéenes maiestie at Greenewich on the twentith daie of Ianuarie and with him such gentlemen as were present were admitted to kisse hir highnesse hand Maister Robert Cooke
him practised as maie appeare by the discourse that followeth published vpon his execution to giue generall intimation of his notorious trecheries vnto all the quéenes maiesties subiects A true and plaine declaration of the horrible treasons practised by William Parrie against the queenes maiestie and of his line 50 conuiction and execution for the same the second of March 1584 according to the account of England THis William Parrie being a man of verie meane and base parentage but of a most proud and insolent spirit bearing himselfe alwaies far aboue the measure of his fortune after he had long led a wastfull and dissolute life and had committed a great outrage against one Hugh Hare a gentleman of the inner line 60 temple with an intent to haue murthered him in his owne chamber for the which he was most iustlie conuicted séeing himselfe generallie condemned with all good men for the same and other his misdemeanors he left his naturall countrie gaue himselfe to trauell into forren parts beyond the seas In the course of this his trauell he forsooke his allegiance and dutifull obedience to hir maiestie and was reconciled and subiected himselfe to the pope After which vpon conference with certeine Iesuits and others of like qualitie he first conceiued his most detestable treason to kill the quéene whose life God long preserue which he bound himselfe by promise letters and vowes to performe and execute and so with this intent he returned into England in Ianuarie one thousand fiue hundred foure score thrée and since that did practise at sundrie times to haue executed his most diuelish purpose and determinatition yet couering the same so much as in him laie with a veile and pretense of great loialtie vnto hir maiestie Immediatlie vpon his returne into England he sought to haue secret accesse to hir maiestie pretending to haue some matter of great importance to reueale vnto hir which obteined and the same so priuatlie in his highnesse palace at Whitehall as hir maiestie had but one onelie councellor with hir at the time of his acresse in a remote place who was so far distant as he could not heare his spéech And there then he discouered vnto hir maiestie but shadowed with all craftie and tratiorous skill he had some part of the conference and procéeding as well with the said Iesuits and other ministers of the popes as especiallie with one Thomas Morgan a fugitiue residing at Paris who aboue all others did persuade him to proceed in that most diuelish attempt as is set downe in his voluntarie confession following bearing hir maiestie notwithstanding in hand that his onelie intent of proceeding so farre with the said Iesuits and the popes ministers tended to no other end but to discouer the dangerous practises deuised and attempted against hir maiestie by hir disloiall subiects and other malicious persons in forren parts albeit it hath since appeared most manifestlie as well by his said confession as by his dealing with one Edmund Neuill esquier that his onelie intent of discouering the same in sort as he craftilie and traitorouslie did tended to no other end but to make the waie the easier to accomplish his most diuelish and wicked purpose And although anie other prince but hir maiestie who is loth to put on a hard censure of those that protest to be loiall as Parrie did would rather haue procéeded vnto the punishment of a subiect that had waded so farre as by oth and vow to promise the taking awaie of hir life as he vnto hir maiesties selfe did confesse yet such was hir goodnesse as in stead of punishing she did deale so gratiouslie with him as she suffered him not onelie to haue accesse vnto hir presence but also manie times to haue priuat conference with hir and did offer vnto him vpon opinion once conceiued of his fidelitie towards hir as though his wicked pretense had béene as he protested for hir seruice a most liberall pension Besides to the end that he might not grow hatefull to the good and well affected subiects of the realme from whome he could in no sort haue escaped with safetie of his life if his diuelish purpose had beene reuealed hir maiestie did conceale the same without communicating it to anie creature vntill such time as he himselfe had opened the same vnto certeine of hir councell and that it was also discouered that he sought to draw the said Neuill to haue béene a partie in his diuelish and most wicked purpose A verie rare example and such as dooth more set forth the singular goodnesse and bountie of hir maiesties princelie nature than commend if it be lawfull for a subiect to censure his souereigne hir prouidence such as ought to be in a prince and person of hir maiesties wisdome and qualitie And as the goodnesse of hir maiesties nature did hereby most manifestlie shew it selfe to be rare in so extraordinarie a case and in a matter of so great perill vnto hir owne roiall person so did the malice of Parrie most euidentlie appeare to be in the highest and extreamest degrée who notwithstanding the said extraordinarie grace and fauour extended towards him did not onlie persuade the said Neuill to be an associat in the said wicked enterprise but did also verie vehementlie as Neuill confesseth importune him therein as an action lawfull honourable and meritorious omitting nothing that might prouoke him to assent therevnto But such was the singular goodnesse of almightie God who euen from hir maiesties cradle by manie euident arguments hath shewed himselfe hir onelie and especiall protector that he so wrought in Neuils heart as he was mooued to reueale the same vnto hir maiestie and for that purpose made line 10 choice of a faithfull gentleman and of good qualitie in the court vnto whome vpon mondaie the eight of Februarie last past he discouered at large all that had passed betwéene Parrie and him who immediatlie made it knowne to hir maiestie Wherevpon hir highnesse pleasure was that Neuill should be examined by the earle of Leceister and sir Christopher Hatton who in the euening of the same daie did examine him and he affirmed constantlie all which he had before declared to the said gentleman line 20 In the meane time hir maiestie continued hir singular and most princelie magnanimitie neither dismaied with the rarenesse of the accident nor appaled with the horror of so villanous an enterprise tending euen to the taking awaie of hir most gratious life a matter especiallie obserued by the councellor that was present at such time as Parrie after his returne did first discouer vnto hir maiestie his wicked purpose who found no other alteration in hir countenance than if he had imparted vnto hir some matter line 30 of contentment which sheweth manifestlie how she reposeth hir confidence wholie in the defense of the almightie And so hir maiestie following the woonted course of hir singular clemencie gaue order that
the eleuenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne then called by the title of Henrie Persie knight had vndertaken the conueieng awaie of the Scotish quéene for the which as appeareth by a record of the fourtéenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne in the court of hir maiesties bench he was indicted he confessed the offense and put himselfe to hir maiesties mercies At which time vpon his said confession submission and faithfull promise of his dutie and allegiance to hir highnesse from thenseforth the quéenes maiestie of hir mercifull nature was pleased not to looke into his offense with the extremitie of hir lawes but dealt therein as by waie of contempt onelie as may appeare by the record the effect whereof was then shewed in the court vnder the hand of one of the clerkes of hir maiesties said bench In haec verba An extract of the said record conteining the said earles indictment MEmorandum that Henrie Persie late of Tinmouth in the countie of Northumberland knight was indicted in the terme of Easter in the fourtéenth yéere of hir maiesties reigne for that hée with diuers others did conspire for the deliuering of the quéene of Scots out of the custodie of the erle of Shrewsburie Upon which indictment the same Henrie Persie did confesse the offense and did put himselfe to the quéenes mercie and therevpon iudgement was after giuen by the court that the said Henrie should paie to the queene for a fine for his said offense fiue thousand marks as appeareth by the record thereof in court Per Micha 14. 15. Elisabethae reginae rotulo quinto inter placista reginae Concordat cum recordo Per Io. Iue By this record it maie appeare that the earle had his hand in that rebellion But for a further proofe thereof it is most manifestlie discouered in a certeine tract written by the bishop of Rosse wherein he sheweth how faithfullie he behaued himselfe in the managing of those treasons at and about the time of that rebellion that the said earle was in effect as farre plunged into the same as the late earle his brother howsoeuer he woond himselfe out of the danger thereof at that time Notwithstanding these traitorous practises the queenes maiestie was contented to remit all within a short time and then accepted most gratiouslie of him both in honor and fauor though vnworthilie bestowed vpon him for that he vtterlie forgetting those graces and fauors receiued at hir maiesties mercifull hands with a gracelesse resolution was contented to enter into a new plot now latelie contriued not onelie for the deliuering of the Scotish queene but for the inuading of the whole realme the ouerthrow of the gouernment aswell concerning the state of religion as otherwise the danger of hir maiesties sacred person and aduancing of the said Scotish quéene to the line 10 regall crowne and scepter of this realme wherevnto hir maiestie is lineallie and lawfullie borne and descended and wherein God of his mercie continue hir long in happie state of gouernement to the increase of hir owne glorie and the comfort of hir louing and obedient subiects Then did maister Atturneie enter into the particularities of the treasons leauing manie parts thereof vntouched because the case stood so as it was not then conuenient to reueale them as he said in line 20 respect that they touched some other persons vndealt withall at that time shewing that Throckemortons treasons were not old but fresh in euerie mans memorie and how far foorth they reached vnto the earle he declared And for that the treasons of Throckemorton tended especiallie to the inuading of the realme with forren forces the purpose of that inuasion long before intended is prooued by sundrie examinations and confessions taken héere within the realme aswell of hir maiestes owne subiects as line 30 others by letters intercepted written from and to the conspirators abroad and at home and by other good aduertisements and intelligences had from forren parts discouering the same He declared that in a letter written from doctor Sanders to doctor Allen out of Spaine in the yeare 1577 it is set downe among other things that the state of Christendome stood vpon the stout assailing of England That in a letter sent to the said Allen from Rome touching audience giuen by the pope to the ambassadors line 40 of certeine forren princes betwéene the pope whom a league was agréed on against the quéenes maiestie there were inclosed certeine articles conteining in effect that the realme should be inuaded with twentie thousand men at the charge of the said pope and princes that hir maiestie should be deposed and some English catholike elected king That it was confessed that the comming ouer of so manie priests into the realme was to win great numbers line 50 to the catholike partie to ioine if opportunitie serued either with forren inuasion or with tumult at home That at Narbonne in Prouince there was met an Englishman being the head preacher there who gaue intelligence to one of hir maiesties subiects that the realme should shortlie be inuaded by a forren king and the popish religion restored and said further that priests came into England and dispersed themselues in countries to make their partie strong A message was sent in Nouember line 60 1581 to doctor Allen from a subiect of this realme by a seminarie priest then returning beyond the seas that whereas he had receiued word from Allen at Alhallontide before that men and all things were in a readinesse if the place of landing might be knowne that Allen should forthwith send word whether things were in such readinesse or not and if they were he would then send him such perfect instructions as he could One Paine executed for treason confessed that this realme could not continue in the state wherein it was for that the pope had a speciall care thereof and would in short time either by forren princes or by some other meanes worke a change of things here From hense maister Atturneie fell into the treasons confessed by Francis Throckemorton shewing that the state of this realme had béene often presented to the consideration of a forren prince who after long hearkening to the motion had resolued to yéeld what furtherance he might and to giue all aids necessarie for the reforming of religion so they might be backed by such as were well affected within this countrie That the duke of Guise had solicited for two yeares together the pope and other princes to supplie him with forces but being crossed by the death of a great personage it was now growne to this passe if there could be a partie found in England to ioine in that action and conuenient places and meanes for landing and other things necessarie there should be a supplie for Guise of forren strength Francis Throckemorton was recommended from beyond the sea to Don Barnardino de Mendoza ambassador resident for the Spanish king here in England who acquainted Throckemorton what
earle of these confederacies but the lord Paget onlie who stood in danger to be discouered by Francis Throckmorton the safetie therefore of the line 10 earle rested altogither vpon the lord Pagets departing out of the realme Which was procured by the earle with so great expedition as that Throckmorton being coÌmitted to the Tower about the seuenth daie of Nouember 1583 the earle made meanes the twelfe daie to haue the lord Paget prouided of shipping in all hast by William Shelleie wherin the earle vsed such importunat intreatie sent so often to hasten the preparation of the ship that the same was prouided and the lord Paget imbarked by the line 20 14. of the same moneth following or thereabout The departure of the lord Paget soone after discouered and how and by whom he was conueied awaie hir maiestie vpon good cause taking offense thereat the earle being then at London had notice thereof and of the confessions of Throckmorton who began to discouer the treasons came presentlie down to Petworth sent immediatlie for William Shelleie who comming to him to Petworth the next morning about dinner time met the earle in a dining line 30 parlour readie to go to his dinner The earle tooke Shelleie aside into a chamber and as a man greatlie distracted and troubled in mind entred into these speeches Alas I am a man cast awaie And Shelleie demanding what he ment by those spéeches the earle answered The actions I haue entred into I feare will be my vtter vndooing and thervpon desired Shelleie to kéepe his counsell and to discouer no more of him than he must néeds The earle moreouer at this méeting intreated William Shelleie to line 40 conueie away all such as he knew to haue béene emploied and were priuie of the lord Pagets going awaie and of Charles Pagets comming ouer which was accordinglie performed by Shelleie and the earle for his part conueied awaie a principall man of his own whom he had often vsed in messages into France and had béene of trust appointed by the earle to attend on Charles Paget all the time of his staie at Connigar lodge Maister solicitor pursuing the matters that made line 50 the earles practises and deuises for the concealing of his treasons manifest declared further that after the earle and Shelleie had obteined some libertie in the Tower after their first restreint the earle found meanes to haue intelligence with Shelleie was aduertised from him of all that he had confessed in his first examinations taken before they were last restreined since which time the earle by corrupting of his kéeper hath practised to haue continuall aduertisements as before as well of things doone within the Tower as abroad in so much as by his said keeper he had sent and conueied twelue seuerall letters out of the Tower within the space of nine or ten wéekes and one of those on sundaie the twentith daie of Iune in the morning when he murthered himselfe the night following By the same corruption of his kéepers he sent also a message to William Shelleie by a maidseruant in the Tower by the which he required him to stand to his first confessions and to go no further for so it would be best for him and he should keepe himselfe out of danger Wherevnto Shelleie returned answer by the same messenger that he could hold out no longer that he had concealed the matters as long as he could and willed the earle to consider that there was a great difference betwéene the earles estate and his for that the earle in respect of his nobilitie was not in danger to be dealt withall in such sort as he the said Shelleie was like to be being but a priuat gentleman and therefore to be vsed with all extremitie to be made confesse the truth wherefore he aduised the earle to deale plainlie and to remember what spéeches had passed at his house at Petworth when Charles Paget came last thither Iames Price by the same corruption of the earls kéeper came to William Shelleie on the fridaie or saturdaie before Trinitie sundaie last and told him that the erle was verie desirous to vnderstand how farre he had gone in his confessions and at Prices instance Shelleie did set downe in writing the effect of the said confessions and sent the same to the said earle who vpon the sight therof perceiuing the treasons reuealed and discouered and knowing thereby how heinous his offenses were fearing the iustice and seueritie of the lawes and so the ruine and ouerthrow of his house fell into desperation so to the destruction of himselfe For confirmation whereof it was confessed by one Iaques Pantins a groome of the earles chamber who had attended on the earle in the Tower by the space of ten wéeks before his death that he had heard the earle often saie that maister Shelleie was no faithfull fréend vnto him and that he had confessed such things as were sufficient to ouerthrow them both that he was vndoone by Shelleies accusations affirming that the earle began to despaire of himselfe often with teares lamenting his cause which the earle said to proceed onlie of the remembrance of his wife and children saieng further that such matters were laid vnto his charge that he expected no fauour but to be brought to his triall and then he was but a lost man repeating often that Shelleie had vndoone him and still mistrusting his cause wished for death Herewith maister solicitor concluded and then sir Roger Manwood knight lord chiefe baron of hir maiesties excheker entered into the description of the earles death and in what sort he had murthered himselfe shewing first how the same had beene found by a verie substantiall iurie chosen among the best commoners of the citie impanelled by the coroner vpon the view of the bodie and diligent inquirie by all due meanes had according to the law and declared that vpon the discouerie of the intelligence conueied betweene the earle and Shelleie it was thought necessarie for the benefit of hir maiesties seruice by such of hir highnesse most honourable priuie councell as were appointed commissioners to examine the course of these treasons that Iaques Pantins attending vpon the earle and the earles corrupt kéepers should be remooued Wherevpon Thomas Bailiffe gentleman sent to attend on the earle of Northumberland vpon the remoouing of Palmer and Iaques Pantins from about the said earle who from the beginning of his last restreint attended on him for the reasons lastlie before mentioned was by the lieutenant of the Tower on the sunday about two of the clocke in the after noone being the twentith of Iune shut vp with the earle as appointed to remaine with him and serue him in the prison for a time vntill Palmer Pantins and Price then committed close prisoners might be examined how the earle came by such intelligences as were discouered to haue passed betwéene the earle and Shelleie and betweene the
in the mitigation of such punishment as the law might laie vpon him And here M. vicechamberlaine repeated at length the effect of hir maiesties message at that time sent to the earle begining first with the remembrance of his practise vndertaken for the conueieng awaie of the Scotish quéene about the time of the last rebellion as hath béene declared in the beginning of this tract and that he confessing the offense being capitall hir maiestie neuerthelesse was pleased to alter the course of his triall by the iustice of hir lawes and suffered the same to receiue a slight and easie punishment by waie of mulct or fine of fiue thousand marks whereof before this his imprisonment as it is crediblie reported there was not one penie paid or his land touched with anie extent for the paiment thereof which offense was by hir maiestie not onelie most gratiouslie forgiuen but also most christianlie forgotten receiuing him not long after to the place of honor that his ancestours had inioied for manie yeares before him and gaue him such entrance into hir princelie fauour and good opinion that no man of his qualitie receiued greater countenance and comfort at hir maiesties hands than he insomuch that in all exercises of recreation vsed by hir maiestie the earle was alwaies called to be one and whensoeuer hir maiestie shewed hir selfe abroad in publike she gaue to him the honor of the best and highest seruices about hir person more often than to all the noble men of the court But the remembrance of these most gratious and more than extraordinarie fauours and benefits receiued nor the hope giuen vnto him by maister vicechamberlaine of hir maiesties disposition of mercie towards him nor the consideration of the depth and weight of his treasons against hir maiestie hir estate hir crowne and dignitie with the danger thereby like to fall vpon him by the course of hir highnes lawes to the vtter ruine and subuersion of him and his house standing now at hir maiesties mercie could once mooue his heart to that naturall line 10 and dutifull care of hir maiesties safetie that he ought to haue borne towards hir and she most worthilie had merited at his hands or anie remorse or compassion of himselfe and his posteritie but resting vpon termes of his innocencie hauing as you maie perceiue conueied awaie all those that he thought could or would anie waie accuse him he made choise rather to go to the Tower abide the hazard of hir maiesties high indignation and the extremitie of the law for his offenses line 20 All which was a notable augur of his fall and that God by his iust iudgement had for his sinnes and ingratitude taken from him his spirit of grace and deliuered him ouer to the enimie of his soule who brought him to that most dreadfull horrible end wherevnto he is come from the which God of his mercie defend all christian people and preserue the quéenes maiestie from the treasons of hir subiects that she maie liue in all happinesse to sée the ruine of hir enimies abroad and at home and that she and line 30 we hir true and louing subiects maie be alwaies thankfull to God for all his blessings bestowed vpon vs by hir the onlie mainteiner of his holie gospell among vs. On the six twentith of Iune arriued at London deputies for the estates of the netherlands or low countries who were lodged about the Tower stréet had their diet for the time of their abode here verie worshipfullie appointed all at the charges of hir maiestie in the Clothworkers hall in Minchenlane line 40 néere to the said Tower stréet These on the nine twentith of Iune being the feast of the apostles Peter Paule repaired to the court then at Gréenewich where by vertue of their commissions from the vnited countries they presented to hir maiestie the souereingtie of those countries to wit of Brabant but the commission for the siege of Antuerpe not full authorised of Guelder of Flanders of Holland of Zeland of Utrecht and of Friseland For Brabant Iaques de Grise great bailie of Bridges line 50 councellour of the Franks For Guelerr Rutger of Barsold gentleman For Flanders Noell de Garsie lord of Schonewalle For Holland Iohn Wanderdoest lord of Nortwicke Iosse de Menin pensionarie of Dordreght Iohn of old Barneuelt pensionarie of Rotradame and D. Francis Maolso For Zeland Iacob Dales councellor and pensionarie of Tergoest For Utrecht Paulus Buis doctor of the lawes For Friseland I. Fritzma line 60 gentleman H. Ansona president of Friseland and Lads Iangema gentleman All these falling on their knées tofore hir maiestie and so remaining for a long space one of them to wit Iosse de Menin councellor and pensionarie of Dordreght one of the commissioners for Holland made to hir maiestie this oration in French as followeth The said deputies oration in French to hir maiestie at Greenwich MAdame les estats des prouinces vnies des pais bas remercient treshumblement vostre maiesté de la bonné affection faueur quel à pleu de monstrer audits pais en leur necessites confermer per tant de tesmoignaiges euidens encores dernierement quand apres l'execrable assasmat comme en la personne de feu monsir le prince d'Orenges il à pleu a vostre maiesté faire entendre audits estats per son ambassadeur le sire Dauison le soing qu'icelle auoit a nostre defense obseruation aussy par le sire de Grise le grand desplaisir que vostre maiesté auoit conceu de voir l'esdits estats frustres de l'esperance quelle auoient fondeé sur le traicte de France Mais que le soin que vostre maiesté a tousiours en de nostre bien conseruation n'estoit pour cela en rien diminué aine quel s'augmentoit plustost a mesure quella necessité de nos affaires le requiert dont ledits pais en general chacun d'eulx en particulier demeurerent perpetuellement tresobliges a vostre maiesté pour le recognoistre auec tout fidelité obeisance Et comme ledits estats considerent Madame que depues le deces endit sire prince d'Orenges ils out faict perte de plusieurs de leurs places bonne villes que pour la conseruation desdits pais il leur est besoing d'vng prince sire souuerain qui les puisse garentir defendre contre la tyranné inique opression des Espaignols leurs adhereÌs qui s'efforcent de plus en plus par leurs sinistres armes tous aultres moyens de destruire ruiner lesdits pais de fonds en comble reduire ce pouure peuple en vne seruitude perpetuellé pire que des IndieÌs souls l'insuportable ioug de la detestable inquisition d'Espaigne Considerans aussy que les corps des villes communaultes desdits pais ont vne fermé afience que vostre maiesté ne les
the bodie of the townes and communalties of the aforesaid countries haue a firme hope that your maiestie will not sée them perish according to the desire of their enimies which make this long and cruell warre all which outrages the states of the said low countries following the diligence and band which they owe to their burgesses and citizens are to susteine repell and to turne from them by reason of the manifest tyrannie seruitude which the Spaniards attempt to bring in to laie vpon the poore people thereby to preserue their liberties rights priuileges and franchises with the exercise of the true christian religion whereof your maiestie by good right carrieth the title of protectrice and defendresse against which the said enimies and their associats alreadie haue and still doo make manie leagues deuise manie subtilties treasons and ambushes not ceasing dailie to practise and imagine them against the person of your maiestie and to the preiudice of the rest of your realme and states whome the good God hath preserued vntill this present for the wealth of the christians and sustentation of their churches Wherefore Madam it is so that for these causes reasons other considerations the said states haue assembled and concluded vpon a good and firme resolution to haue recourse vnto your maiestie sith it is an ordinarie matter amongst all people and oppressed nations in their calamities and oppressions to craue support and fauour against their enimies of kings and princes neere vnto them but especiallie of those who be indued with magnanimitie pietie iustice and other princelie vertues to which effect the states haue appointed vs to come vnto your maiestie to present vnto the same the principalitie souereigntie and iust gouernment of the said prouinces vnder certeine good and equall conditions chieflie concerning the preseruation of the exercise of the reformed religion and of the ancient priuileges liberties franchises and customs and next of the administration of the affaires policie and iustice of the warres in the said countrie And although that these countries haue susteined much hurt by these long and continuall warres and that the enimie hath taken diuers strong places and forts in the same countries yet there is besides the same in the countries of Brabant Gelderland Flanders Malmes Ouerset manie good townes and places which defend themselues against the force of the enimie and the countries of Holland Zeland Utricht and Frise be yet thanks be to God entire and whole in which there be manie great and strong townes and places faire riuers and déepe ports and hauens of the sea out of which your maiestie and your successors may receiue diuerse good seruices fruits and commodities whereof it is néedlesse here to make anie long recitall Onelie this amongst other matters deserueth good and especiall consideration that the vniting of those countries of Holland Zeland Frise and the townes of Sluze and Ostend in Flanders vnto the realmes of your maiestie importeth so much as the absolute gouernement of the great ocean sea and by consequence an assurance and perpetuall felicitie for the subiects of your woorthie maiestie Which we most humblie beséech that it will please the same to condescend vnto vs in the said points and conditions line 10 and in that which followeth which is that you will for you and your lawfull successors in the crowne of England be protectors of the reformed religion as the principall iusticer and souereigne gouernor of the said countries and consequentlie to receiue the people of the same as your most humble and most obedient subiects vnder the protection and continuall safegard of your maiestie they being a people assuredlie so faithfull and louing to their princes and lords be it spoken without vaunting as anie other line 20 nation is throughout christendome In dooing whereof Madam you shall preserue manie goodlie churches which it hath pleased God to assemble in these latter times in the same countries at this present in manie places greeuouslie afflicted and you shall deliuer the same countrie and people of late before the vniust deeds of the house of Spaine verie rich and florishing through the great commoditie of the sea ports hauens riuers traffike and merchandize whereof they be naturallie indued line 30 You shall I saie Madam deliuer them from ruine and perpetuall bondage of bodie and soule being a worke right roiall and most magnificent acceptable to God profitable to all christianitie woorthie immortall commendation answerable to the magnanimitie and heroicall vertues of your maiestie and ioined with the assurance and prosperitie of your dominions and subiects Wherevpon we present vnto your maiestie the said articles and conditions reuerentlie praieng the King of kings line 40 to preserue your maiestie from your enimies to increase your glorie and felicitie and for euer to keepe you in his holie protection ¶ This oration ended and the summe thereof considered it pleased the quéenes maiestie by direction of hir wise and politike councell to incline hir hart alwaies pitifull and replenished with commiseration to the ease and reléefe of the said oppressed people And bicause hir owne subiects should not be vtterlie line 50 vnacquainted with hir highnesse dooings in that case there was published by authoritie a booke thereof as in due place hereafter followeth On sundaie the fourth of Iulie Charles lord Howard late lord chamberleine was made lord admerall and Henrie lord Hunsdon was made lord chamberleine of houshold On the fift daie of Iulie Thomas Awfeld a seminarie priest and Thomas Weblie diar were arreigned at the sessions hall in the Old bailie found guiltie condemned and had line 60 iudgement as fellons to be hanged for publishing of bookes conteining false seditious and slanderous matter to the defamation of our souereigne ladie the quéene and to the excitation of insurrection and rebellion as more at large appeareth in their indictments These were on the next morrow to wit the sixt of Iulie executed at Tiborne accordinglie On thursdaie the sixteenth of Iulie by the sudden fall of a bricke wall in Thames stréet of London neere vnto Downegate fiue persons were ouerwhelmed and slaine to wit a man his wife the wife being great with child and two children the one their own the other a nurse child and a poore man that liued by charitie hauing no knowne dwelling place On the same sixteenth of Iulie was sir Francis Russell knight lord Russell third sonne to Francis Russell earle of Bedford slaine with a dag in the borders of Scotland beside Berwike by a Scot borne in those parts as they met vpon a true daie as more at large appeareth in the historie of Scotland On the next morrow to wit the seuentéenth of Iulie Francis Russell earle of Bedford knight of the garter and one of hir maiesties priuie councell father to the late named sir Francis lord Russell slaine on the borders of Scotland deceassed and was honorablie buried at 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that no bodie should pretend line 30 ignorance we command expreslie to make knowne these ordinances to proclame and publish them whereas men are accustomed to proclame all publications procéeding and commanding to procéed with rigor against all disdainors and neglectors of the same according to the order of punishment before mentioned without anie fauour or dissimulation to the contrarie because we haue thought the same to be expedient for the preseruation of the countrie Giuen in our congregation assemblie line 40 in the Hage the sixt daie of Februarie 1586 by ordinance of the foresaid generall states This placard thus passed the lord lieutenant bending his mind to his charge vndertaken did ordeine certeine speciall men natiues borne of the councell to the intent that such affaires as chanced to occur might by them be conuenientlie managed And as he tooke order for matters of policie so was he studious in preferring martiall affaires prouiding line 50 by good lawes and ordinances not onelie concerning common souldiours but capteins in like sort that a conuenient course and well beseeming the excellencie of his place might be obserued in all militarie businesses for proofe whereof these lawes touching capteins as a note of the rest may serue First no capteine officer or other person shall receiue or interteine anie other mans souldiour or seruant without consent of his former capteine or line 60 master neither shall intise anie other mans souldior from him vpon paine of losse of a moneths wages and to restore the partie to his former capteine or master Secondlie no capteine shall send foorth anie men to doo anie enterprise without knowledge of the generall or chéefe officer appointed therevnto vpon paine of losse of his place Thirdlie all priuat capteins being no head officers shall watch and ward with their ensignes vnlesse it be by speciall leaue vpon paine of the losse of a moneths paie for the second time lose his place Fourthlie no capteine shall sell or ransome his prisoner without licence of the generall and shall not suffer them to depart without making the high marshall priuie to the same vpon paine to lose his prisoner and imprisonment Fiftlie anie capteine finding anie souldiour of what band or companie so euer which hath transgressed anie of these lawes ordinances may take him bring him vnto the marshall to be punished Sixtlie that no capteine shall receiue or inroll anie person into his paie vnder him but that he cause the said souldior to receiue the oth vpon paine to the capteine for not obseruing the same or losse of a moneths paie Seauenthlie no inferiour capteine shall for corruption or anie other cause licence anie of his souldiors to depart the campe or garrison without speciall licence of the generall or head officer vpon paine of losse of his moneths paie and expulsion out of his office Eightlie if anie capteine heereafter receiuing his souldiors paie doo not paie the same vnto them within eight daies after and being demanded then vpon complaint made and the capteine thereof indicted he shall lose his moneths paie and be depriued of his office banished the campe and disabled from thensefoorth to serue in the armie Ninthlie capteins officers shall resort to their souldiors lodgings to sée in what state their armor and munition be in and to giue great charge that their furniture be alwaies in a readinesse their corslets with all péeces belonging to the same and their caléeuers to be made cleane oiled to haue match and powder drie and strings for their bowes their bils and holberds to be kept cleane and sharpe vpon paine and punishment arbitrarie according to the qualitie of their negligence Tenthlie that euerie capteine or officer shall cause these said statutes to be read euerie twentith daie to them of their charge as well horssemen as footmen to follow the same so néere as they may Now when the state of the countrie was prouided for in such sort as before ye haue heard the lord lieutenant procéeded to other actions insomuch that on the first of March he came from Hage to Leidon and the third of March from Leidon to Harlem where being honorablie interteined according to the maner in other places before named with sundrie representations on the tenth daie of March he came from Harlem to Amsterdam a towne counted inexpugnable being there receiued in most sumptuous sort with diuersitie of shewes ceremonies The like also were exhibited vnto him comming to Utricht the people of which towne shewed themselues greatlie to fauour our Englishmen for there came to the towne from the Leger three hundred or foure hundred souldiors so sicke and poore that it was woonder to sée their miserie and the townesmen not onelie receiued them but also releeued them with meat drinke and cloths giuing them for the most part new shirts and other necessarie apparell looking so vnto them for their health that whereas for the most part they were in great danger of death few or none of them at that time perished The thrée and twentith of Aprill the earle of Leicester being lieutenant and gouernour generall of hir maiesties forces in the low countries of the vnited prouinces as is aforesaid and making his residence at that time in Utricht a great and goodlie towne vpon the frontiers of Holland kept most honourablie the feast of S. George therein the procéedings whereof being so princelie performed to the honor of our nation in the view of so manie thousand strangers I could not choose hauing gotten the true and faithfull description by one William Sââger alià s Portcullis an officer at armes in that seruice to make some breefe remembrance of the maner thereof in this booke to wit The streets of Utricht being large and faire were rankt and set with eight ensignes of burgers richlie appointed wearing scarffes knit like roses white and red vpon their armes betwéene whome from the court of my lord vnto the cathedrall church called the Dome the procéeding was on horssebacke First rid the trumpettors apparelled in scarlet laid with siluer lace sounding their trumpets most roiallie their bannerols being line 10 displaied and richlie limmed with my lords armes Then followed the gentlemen capteins coronels and hir maiesties sworne men to the number of a fortie horsse richlie adorned in cloth of gold siluer and silks of all colours After came six knights foure barons with the councell of estates the right honourable earle of Essex accompanied the bishop of Cullen prince elector and the prince of Portingall rid by himselfe next procéeded the capteine of line 20 the gard the treasuror and controllor of the houshold bearing their white slaues after whom followed two gentlemen vshers and Portcullis herald in a rich cote of armes of England Then came my lord most princelike inuested in his robes of the order garded by the principall burgers of the towne which offered themselues to that seruice besides his owne gard
bridge well repared His deuised remedie tending to so good a purpose was impugned The yearelie reuenues of the said bridge amount vnto more in value by triple than they were before A further remedie deuised An act of parlement obteined for the behoofe of the said bridge Maister Thomas Wooten of Kent esquire a father and fauourer of his countrie * Sir Roger Manwood and maister William Lambard esquier wardens of the said bridge Elisabeth daughter of Iohn Copinger esquier second wife to sir Roger Manwood hir modestie c. The earle of Lincolne deceassed * ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã siue Elisabethâ C. O. Iesuits seminaries and massing priests set ouer the seas and banished out of this realme of England for euer The quéenes maiesties mercies notable The names of such Iâbusites Iesuits I should say as by vertue of the queenes commission were banished out of the queéenes dominions A further charge vpon the said seminaries touching transportation A certificat to the lords of the councell c concerning the foresaid maiter A certificat worthie to hang vpon perpetuall record wherein the Iesuits doo acknowledge the excéeding courteous and bountifull vsage shewed vnto them at and in their banishment c. Note good reader note Ouid. lib. 1. de Pons Earle of Derbie ambassador into France Attendants vpon the said ambassador The lord ambassadour passeth from LoÌdon to Grauesend and so to Douer and arriueth at Calis Monsieur de Gourdon gouernour of Calis interteineth the ambassadour Monsieur Creuicure lieutenant of Picardie méeteth the lord ambassadour c. Sir Edward Stafford the quéenes ambassador resident with the French king c. The lord ambassadors interteinement and vsage The statelie the honorable receiuing at the lord ambassadour before he came in presence ¶ audience of the French king The chamber roiall manner of receiuing and conducting of the lord ambassadour therevnto and other notable obseruations The earle of Darbie sir Edward Stafford c are courteouslie receiued of the king The lord ambassador sâluted the quéene mother The lord ambassadour conueied to the quéene Regents chamber The French king inuested into the order of the garter Gifts of roâall magnificence bestowed and receiued William Parrie hanged and quartered at Westminster A description of William Parrie William Parrie reconciled to the pope and of hiâ treason In superlatiuo gradu O papisticall dissimulation Thomas Morgan a fugitiue and furtherer of Parries purpose Edmund Neuill not ignorant of this attempt O gratious quéene and too too fauourable euen to thine enimies The malice of Parrie groweth to an extremitie of mischiefe against the quéene Neuill discouereth the intended treason against hir maiestie Did euer anie man read or heare of the like magnanimitie in a woman Parrie is committed to the custodie examination of sir Francis Walsingham Parrie denieth with protestations whatsoeuer is demanded of him Parrie is desirous to haue some spéech with maisteâ secretarie Parrie is examined before certeine lords of the councell c. Neuill chargeth Parrie so preciselie that he is committed to the Tower Note the malicious humor of Parrie because he might not obteine preferment to his liking A triple reason that moued Parrie to his pretended treason Parrie counted it an act meritorious to murther hir maiestie O villanous persuasion or inducement to be accessarie to the treason Note Parries pestilent humor of malice against hir maiestie These doubts were of aduantage to Neuill but meanes of reprochfull ruine to Parriâ Note the traitorous pâoctise of Parrie laid downe in order as it should haue béene come Marke the resolutenes of Parrie to accomplish his treason by oft frequenting the action Neuill iâ resolued at no hand to be partaker with Parrie in his treason Parries voluntarie confession in the hearing of certein lords c. Alacke good and gratious ladie whose hard hap it was to interteine so bad gracelesse a seruant Parrie sueth âor licence to trauell beyond sea and obteineth it Parrie iustifieth himselfe in religion before the inquisitor of Millaine Parrie is resolued in the plot of his treacherous deuise Note with what felows enimiâs to God and his church Parrie linketh himselfe Note the diuelish confereÌce betwéene Morgan and Parrie Parrie boweth to vndertake the killing of the quéene * O Lord what a lameÌtable hearing is this Parrie is now become altogither past grace and growne resolute with Iudas to kill the Lords annointed A prouiso for a Scotish inuasioÌ after the deuise of Parrie executed Note the villans ill mind to hir maiestie Note hir maiesties vndeserued gratiousnes to pretended catholikes Note Parries resolution by letters from cardinall Como Parrie is in a mammering what to doo as maie be noted by these spéeches interrogatorie Parrie desperat How long the conspiracie was in handling yeâ it was detected Note the actions that should haue béene commensed and finished in this conspiracie This oth and all of the like qualitie and nature are violable Saâuâ interiâ anima The death of Westmerland reported Parrrie chargeth Neuill with grieuous spéeches of curssed disloialtie God no doubt will preserue good quéene Elisabeth though a thousand such traitors as Parrie conspire hir death to their owne destruction Parries purpose conceiued in Uenice continued in Lions resolued in Paris to be executed in England Neuill charged by Parrie to be accessarie to the treason Compare these warnings with the euents in Anno 1585 1586 speciallie about August Parries guiltie conscience exonerateth it selfe by voluntarie confession A traitor of singular note by his owne confession was Parrie An offense sufficient to hang 1000 traitors without drop of mercie Parrie had more glosing rhetorike than faithfull obedience Good Lord with what heart might Parrie hope after anie thing but death hauing béene so capitall a traitor Creitchton apprehended with diuerse plots for inuasions of this realme Note Creitchtons report of Parries craft and malice Creitchtons reasons to repell Parries traitorous allegations Deum magis amare aduerbia quà m nomina Creitchton holdeth Parries attempt vnlawfull note Parrie saith and vnsaith like a traitor to shift off the heauie charge of treason Cardinall de Como his animating letter to Parrie to perseuere in his diuelish deuise But as God would Parries enterprise wanted that wished Buâno seââcâ successo A good cleargie in the meane time that allow treasons in this sort * Good spirit naie malignaÌt spirit more than diabolicall * Naie curssed and abhominable purposes with destruction to the vndertaker Parrie coâuented and arreigned aâ Westminster hall the 22 of Februarie The names of such personages of ãâ¦ã The lieutenant of the tower returneth his prâcâpt The indictment against Parrie wherin his ââinous âreason appeereth Parrie sent letters to Gregorie the ââ bishop of Rome and whaâ was the scoââ of them Parrie moouââ Neuill to assiââ him in his treasons Parries ansâer to the indictment wherein he cânfesseth ãâã Parrie confesseth that he is guiltie of all things coÌteined in the indictment Sir Christopher Hattons
thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish couÌtries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused thâ statutes of Ireland to bâ imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fuâtherer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all plââces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Solââario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace ãâã Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor oâ Uââssingen commonlie called Flââshing He surpriseâ Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making ãâã entrie into thâ sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facÃtque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condigâliâ punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie âas a knight ãâã his gift to ãâã of âondon pag. ââ â50 The ambasââdor deparââth home toâards Denâarke âord Edâard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated â league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. ãâ¦ã The horrible conspiracie of âabington âther his ãâã traitors ãâã sâoursed by â F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England ãâã his last ãâã finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion
Montacute earle of Salisburie Thomas lord Spenser and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine In the meane time the king fearing what might be attempted against him by those that fauoured these noblemen that were in durance sent for a power of Cheshire men that might day and night keepe watch and ward about his person They were about two thousand archers paid wéekelie as by the annales of Britaine it appeareth The king had little trust in any of the nobilitie except in his brother the earle of Huntington and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke and in the earle of Salisburie in these onelie he reposed a confidence and not in any other except in certeine knights and gentlemen of his priuie chamber In the meane time whiles things were thus in broile before the beginning of the parlement diuers other beside them of whom we haue spoken were apprehended and put in sundrie prisons The parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster the 17 of September and writs therevpon directed to euerie of the lords to appeare and to bring with them a sufficient number of armed men and archers in their best arraiâ for it was not knowen how the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke would take the death of their brother nor how other péeres of the realme would take the apprehension and imprisonment of their kinsemen the earles of Arundell and Warwike and of the other prisoners Suerlie the two dukes when they heard that their brother was so suddenlie made awaie they wist not what to saie to the matter and began both to be sorowfull for his death and doubtfull of their owne states for sith they saw how the king abused by the counsell of euill men absteined not from such an heinous act they thought he line 10 would afterwards attempt greater misorders from time to time Therefore they assembled in all hast great numbers of their seruants fréends and tenants and comming to London were receiued into the citie For the Londoners were right sorie for the death of the duke of Glocester who had euer sought their fauour in somuch that now they would haue béene contented to haue ioined with the dukes in seeking reuenge of so noble a mans death procured and brought to passe without law or reason as the common line 20 brute then walked although peraduenture he was not as yet made awaie Here the dukes and other fell in counsell and manie things were proponed Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes euen from his youth But the line 30 dukes after their displeasure was somewhat asswaged determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time and if the king would amend his maners to forget also the iniuries past In the meane time the king laie at Eltham and had got about him a great power namelie of those archers which he had sent for out of Cheshire in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other There went messengers betwixt him and the dukes which being men of honour did their indeuour line 40 to appease both parties The king discharged himselfe of blame for the duke of Glocesters death considering that he had gone about to breake the truce which he had taken with France and also stirred the people of the realme to rebellion and further had sought the destruction and losse of his life that was his souereigne lord and lawfull king Contrarilie the dukes affirmed that their brother was wrongfullie put to death hauing doone nothing worthie of death At length by the intercession and meanes of those noble line 50 men that went to and fro betwixt them they were accorded the king promised from thencefoorth to doo noâhing but by the assent of the dukes but he kept small promise in this behalfe as after well appeared When the time came that the parlement should be holden at Westminster according to the tenour of the summons the lords repaired thither furnished with great retinues both of armed men and archers as the earle of Derbie the earle Marshall the earle of Rutland the lord Spenser the earle of Northumberland line 60 with his sonne the lord Henrie Persie and the lord Thomas Persie the said earles brother also the lord Scroope treasuror of England diuerse other All the which earles and lords brought with them a great strong power euerie of them in their best araie as it were to strengthen the king against his enimies The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewise there giuing their attendance on the king with like furniture of men of armes archers There was not halfe lodging sufficient within the citie suburbes of London for such coÌpanies of men as the lords brought with them to this parlement called the great parlement in somuâh that they were constreined to lie in villages abroad ten or twelue miles on ech side the citie In the beginning of this parlement the king greatlie complained of the misdemeanour of the péeres and lords of his realme as well for the things doone against his will and pleasure whiles he was yoong as for the streit dealing which they had shewed towards the quéene who was thrée houres at one time on hir knées before the earle of Arundell for one of hir esquiers named Iohn Caluerlie who neuerthelesse had his head smit froÌ his shoulders all the answer that she could get was this Madame praie for your selfe and your husband for that is best and let this sute alone Those that set foorth the kings greeuances as prolocutors in this parlement were these Iohn Bushie William Bagot and Thomas Gréene The king had caused a large house of timber to be made within the palace at Westminster which he was called an hall couered aboue head with tiles and was open at the ends that all men might see through it This house was of so great a compasse that scarse it might stand within the roome of the palace In this house was made an high throne for the king and a large place for all estates besides to sit in There were places also made for the appellants to stand on the one side and the defendants on the other and a like roome was made behind for the knights and burgesses of the parlement There was a place deuised for the speaker named sir Iohn Bushie a knight of Lincolneshire accompted to be an excéeding cruell man ambitious and couetous beyond measure Immediatlie after ech man being placed in his roome the cause of assembling that parlement was shewed as that the king had called it for reformation of diuerse transgressions and oppressions committed against the peace of his land by the duke of Glocester the earles