at to bring them vnder Coram wherein said he if they had followed my aduise then had they doone well and wiselie This or much like was the effect of the shamelesse and tyrannicall excuse of himselfe more méete to speake with the voice of a beast than of a man Although in this parlement some diuersitie there was of iudgement and opinion betwéene parties yet notwithstanding through the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord the true cause of the gospell had the vpper hand the papists hope was frustrat and their rage abated the order and procéedings of king Edwards time concerning religion was reuiued againe the supremasie of the line 10 pope abolished the articles and bloudie statutes of queene Marie repealed bréeflie the furious fierbrands of cruell persecution which had consumed so manie poore mens bodies were now extinct and quenched Moreouer in the time of this parlement a motion was made by the common house that the queenes maiestie might be sued vnto to grant hir graces licence to the speaker knights citizens burgesses to haue accesse vnto hir graces presence to declare line 20 vnto hir matter of great importance concerning the state of this hir graces realme The which petition being mooued to hir grace she most honorablie agréed and consented therevnto and assigned a daie of hearing When the daie came the speaker common house resorted vnto hir graces palace at Westminster called the White hall And in the great gallerie there hir grace most honorablie shewed hir selfe readie to heare their motion and petition And when the speaker had solemnlie and eloquentlie set foorth line 30 the message the principall matter wherof most speciallie was to mooue hir grace to marriage whereby to all our comforts we might inioie as Gods pleasure should be the roiall issue of hir bodie to reigne ouer vs c. The quéenes maiestie after a little pause made this answer following as néere as I could beare the same awaie saith Grafton The queenes answer to the former line 40 motion of the parlement house AS I haue good cause so doo I giue to you my hartie thanks for the good zeale and care that you séeme to haue as well toward me as to the whole state of your countrie Your petition I gather to be grounded on thrée causes and mine answer to the same shall consist in two parts And for the first I saie vnto you line 50 that from my years of vnderstanding knowing my selfe a seruitor of almightie God I chose this kind of life in which I doo yet liue as a life most acceptable vnto him wherin I thought I could best serue him and with most quietnesse doo my duetie vnto him From which my choise if either ambition of high estate offered vnto me by marriages whereof I haue records in this presence the displeasure of the prince the eschewing the danger of mine enimies or the auoiding the perill of death whose messenger the line 60 princes indignation was no little time continuallie present before mine eies by whose meanes if I knew or doo iustlie suspect I will not now vtter them or if the whole cause were my sister hir selfe I will not now charge the dead could haue drawen or dissuaded me I had not now remained in this virgins estate wherein you sée me But so constant haue I alwaies continued in this my determination that although my words and youth maie seeme to some hardlie to agrée togither yet it is true that to this daie I stand frée from anie other meaning that either I haue had in times past or haue at this present In which state and trade of liuing wherewith I am so throughlie acquainted God hath so hitherto preserued me and hath so watchfull an eie vpon me and so hath guided me and led me by the hand as my full trust is he will not suffer me to go alone The maner of your petition I doo like and take in good part for it is simple and conteineth no limitation of place or person If it had béene otherwise I must haue misliked it verie much and thought in you a verie great presumption being vnfit and altogither vnméet to require them that may command or those appoint whose parts are to desire or such to bind and limit whose duties are to obeie or to take vpon you to draw my loue to your likings or to frame my will to your fansies A guerdon constreined and a gift fréelie giuen can neuer agrée Neuerthelesse if anie of you be in suspect that whensoeuer it maie please God to incline my hart to that kind of life my meaning is to doo or determine anie thing wherwith the realme maie haue iust cause to be discontented put that out of your heads For I assure you what credence my assurance maie haue with you I can not tell but what credit it shall deserue to haue the sequele shall declare I will neuer in that matter conclude anie thing that shall be preiudiciall vnto the realme For the weale and good safetie whereof as a good mother of my countrie I will neuer shun to spend my life And whomsoeuer my choise maie light vpon he shall be as carefull for the preseruation of the realme as you I will not saie as my selfe for I cannot so certeinlie promise of another as I doo surelie know of my selfe but as anie other can be And albeit it dooth please almightie God to continue me still in this mind to liue out of the state of marriage it is not to be feared but he will so worke in my hart and in your wisdoms that as good prouision may be made in conuenient time wherby the realme shall not remaine destitute of an heire that may be a fit gouernor and peraduenture more beneficiall to the realme than such ofspring as may come of me For though I be neuer so carefull for your well dooings and mind euer so to be yet may mine issue grow out of kind and become vngratious And for me it shall be sufficient that a marble stone declare that a quéene hauing reigned such a time liued and died a virgine To make an end I take your comming to me in good part and giue vnto you eftsoons my hartie thanks more yet for your zeale good will and good meaning than for your message and petition Manie that for feare of persecution in quéene Maries daies were fled the realme and liued in voluntarie exile now that all persecution ceased by the gratious clemencie of this noble princesse quéene Elisabeth they returned with all conuenient spéed home into their natiue countrie giuing to almightie God most humble thanks for that his mercifull deliuerance in sending them a gouernor that not onelie permitted libertie of conscience but also was readie to aduance religion and command frée exercise of common praier preaching and administration of the sacraments according to the right institution of the primitiue churches Fridaie the seauentéenth of Februarie one
hazarded and stand to the euent of the like miraculous discoueries Therefore as most humble and instant suppliants they did vpon their knées at hir most gratious féet beséech and request in most earnest maner that aswell for the continuance of Gods religion the quiet of this kingdome preseruation of hir person and defense of them and their posterities it would line 40 please hir highnesse to take order that the said sentence might be published and such further direction giuen as was requisit in this so weightie a cause according to the purport and intent of the said statute Wherein if hir maiestie pursuing hir woonted clemencie should now be remisse besides the imminent danger to hir person she might by the staie thereof procure the heauie displeasure of almightie God as by sundrie seuere examples of his iustice in the sacred scriptures dooth appeare And so line 50 he deliuered to hir maiesties owne hands the petition in writing which he said had béene with great deliberation assented vnto by all the whole parlement A SHORT EXTRACT OF SVCH reasons as were deliuered in speach by maister sargent Puckering speaker of the lower house before the queens most excellent maiestie in hir presence chamber at Richmond the twelfe of Nouember 1586 in the eight and twentith yere of hir line 60 reigne conteining diuerse apparant and imminent dangers that maie grow to hir maiesties most roiall person and to hir realme from the Scotish queene and hir adherents if remedie be not prouided First touching the danger of hir maiesties person 1 BOth this Scotish quéene and hir fauorers doo thinke hir to haue right not to succeed but to inioie your crowne in possession and therefore as shée is a most impatient competitor so will shée not spare anie meanes whatsoeuer that maie bereaue vs of your maiestie the onelie impediment that she inioieth not hir desire 2 She is obdurat in malice against your roiall person notwithstanding you haue shewed hir all fauour and mercie as well in preseruing hir kingdome as sauing hir life and saluing hir honor And therefore there is no place for mercie since there is no hope that she will desist from most wâ—cked attempts the rather for that hir malice appeareth such that she maketh as it were hir testament of the same to be executed after hir death and appointeth hir executors to performe it 3 She boldlie and openlie professed it lawfull for hir to mooue inuasion vpon you And therefore as of inuasion victorie maie insue and of victorie the death of the vanquished so did she thereby not obscurelie bewraie that she thought it lawfull for hir to destroie your sacred person 4 She thinketh it not onelie lawfull but honorable also and meritorious to take your life from you as being alreadie depriued of your crowne by the excommunication of the holie father And therefore it is like she will as hitherto she hath doone continuallie séeke it by whatsoeuer meanes 5 That she is gréedie of your maiesties death and preferreth it before hir owne life and safetie for in hir direction to one of hir laie complices she aduised vnder couert termes that whatsoeuer should become of hir that tragicall execution should be performed vpon you 1 IT is most perillous to spare hir that continuallie hath sought the ouerthrow and suppression of true religion infected with poperie from hir tender youth and being after that a confederat in that holie league when she came to age and euer since a professed enimie against the truth 2 She resteth wholie vpon popish hopes to deliuer and aduance hir and is thereby so deuoted to that profession that aswell for satisfaction of others as for feeding of hir owne humor she will supplant the gospell where and when so euer she maie which euill is so much the greater and the more to be auoided as that it staieth the verie soule and will spread it selfe not onelie ouer England and Scotland but also into those parts beyond the seas where the gospell of God is mainteined the which cannot but be exceedinglie weakened by the defection of this noble Iland 1 As the Lydians said Vnum regem agnoscunt Lydi duos autem tolerare non possunt So we saie Vnicam reginam Elizabetham agnoscunt Angli duas autem tolerare non possunt 2 As she hath alredie by hir allurements brought to destruction more noble men and their houses togither with a greater multitude of the commons of this realme during hir being here than she should haue beene able to doo if she had béene in possession of hir owne crowne and armed in the field against vs so will she still be continuall cause of the like spoile to the greater losse and perill of this estate and therefore this realme neither can nor maie indure hir 3 Againe she is the onelie hope of all discontented subiects she is the foundation whereon all the euill disposed doo build she is the root from whense all rebellions and trecheries doo spring and therefore whilest this hope lasteth this foundation standeth and this root liueth they will reteine heart and set on foot whatsoeuer their deuises against the realme which otherwise will fall awaie die and come to nothing 4 Mercie now in this case towards hir would in the end prooue crueltie against vs all Nam est quaedam crudelis misericordia and therefore to spare hir is to spill vs. 5 Besides this it will excéedinglie greeue and in a maner deadlie wound the hearts of all the good subiects of your land if they shall see a conspiracie so horrible not condignlie punished 6 Thousands of your maiesties most liege and louing subiects of all sorts and degrees that in a line 10 tender zeale of your maiesties safetie haue most willinglie both by open subscription and solemne vow entered into a firme and loiall association and haue thereby protested to pursue vnto the death by all forcible and possible meanes such as she is by iust sentence now found to be can neither discharge their loue nor well saue their oths if your maiestie shall kéepe hir aliue of which burthen your maiesties subiects are most desirous to be reléeued as the same maie be if iustice be doone line 20 7 Lastlie your maiesties most louing and dutifull commons doubt not but that as your maiestie is dulie exercised in reading the booke of God so it will please you to call to your princelie remembrance how fearefull the examples of Gods vengeance be that are there to be found against king Saule for sparing king Agag against king Achab for sauing the life of Benadad both which were by the iust iudgement of God depriued of their kingdoms for sparing those wicked princes whome God line 30 had deliuered into their hands of purpose to be slaine by them as by the ministers of his eternall and diuine iustice Wherein full wiselie Salomon proceeded to punishment when he tooke the life of his owne naturall and elder brother Adonias for the onelie intention
they had entred into a new consultation for that purpose selected a great number of the choisest line 30 persons of the higher house of parlement to confer thereof either priuatlie or togither with the lower house which also was doone accordinglie at seuerall times At all which conferences it was concluded by them all so afterwards by the whole assemblie of both houses that there could be no other assured means for the preseruation of hir maiesties life and continuance of Gods religion quiet of this state than by the full execution of the sentence according to their former petition instantlie pressing hir maiestie line 40 with manie arguments and reasons tending thereto All which though by distance from his lordship I could not well conceiue yet this I did remember preciselie and especiallie was one that as it were iniustice to denie execution of law at the sute of anie one particular and the meanest of hir people so much more not to yeeld to the earnest instance and humble praiers of all hir faithfull and louing subiects And so concluded with earnest petition for hir maiesties resolute determination and line 50 answer for a present and spéedie direction by proclamation and otherwise also according vnto the forme of the statute A summarie report of the second speach vttered by the speaker of the lower house by direction of all the commons THat if hir maiestie should be safe without taking awaie the life of the Scotish quéene the same were most likelie and probablie to grow by one of these means following 1 First that happilie she might be reclamed and become a repentant conuert agnising hir maiesties great mercie and fauors in remitting hir heinous offense and by hir loialtie hereafter performe the fruits of such conuersion 2 Or else by a more streict gard be so kept as there should be no feare of the like attempts hereafter 3 Or that good assurance might be giuen by oth bonds or hostages as cautions for hir good and loiall demeanor from henseforth 4 Or lastlie by banishment the realme might be voided of hir person and thereby the perils further remooued that grow to hir maiestie by hir presence The moments whereof being dulie pondered did yet appeare so light in all their iudgements that they durst not aduise anie securitie to rest in anie no not in all of them For touching hir conuersion it was considered that if pietie or dutie could haue restreined hir from such heinous attempts there was cause abundantlie ministred vnto hir on hir maiesties behalfe when she not onelie protected hir against the violence of hir owne subiects who pursued hir to death by iustice but couered hir honor when the same by publike fame was touched and by verie heinous and capitall crimes obiected and proued against hir before certeine commissarie delegats assigned to examine the same more than blemished and spared hir life when for hir former conspiracies and confederacies with the Northerne rebels hir highnesse was with great instance pressed by both the houses in the fouretéenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne to doo like iustice vpon hir as now is desired and as hir treasonable practises then had most iustlie deserued And where the penaltie of this act sufficientlie notified vnto hir should haue terrified hir from so wicked attempts she hath neuerthelesse insisted in hir former practises as a person obdurat in malice against hir maiestie and irrecouerable so as there was no probable hope of anie conuersion but rather great doubt and feare of relapse and recidiuation forasmuch as she stood obstinatlie in the deniall of matter most euidentlie prooued and now most iustlie sentenced against hir and was not entred into the first part of repentance the recognition of hir offense and so much the further off from the true fruits that should accompanie the same As for a surer gard more streict imprisonment it was resolued that there was no securitie therein nor yet in the other two means propounded of bonds and hostages forasmuch as the same meanes that should be practised to take hir maiesties life awaie which God forbid would aptlie serue for the deliuerie of hir person and release of the bonds hostages that should be giuen for cautions in that behalfe which being vnhappilie atchiued and to our irreparable losse who should sue the bonds or deteine the hostages Or being deteined what proportion was there in bonds or hostages whatsoeuer to counteruaile the value of so pretious inestimable a iewell as hir maiestie is to this realme to vs all But she will solemnlie vow take an oth that she will not attempt anie thing to the hurt of hir maiesties person She hath alreadie sundrie times falsified hir word hir writing and hir oth and holdeth it for an article of religion that faith is not to be holden with heretiks of which sort she accounteth your maiestie and all the professors of the gospell to be and therfore haue we little reason to trust hir in that wherof she maketh so small a conscience As for banishment that were a step A malo in peius to set hir at libertie a thing so greatlie desired and thirsted for by hir adherents and by some princes hir alies who sought hir inlargement chéeflie to make hir a head to be set vp against hir maiestie in time of inuasion To the which were added some few reasons collected out of hir owne letters and the confession of Babington hir instrument and conspirator by which appeared how hir owne conscience bewraied what might iustlie fall vpon hir in case anie of hir intended designements came to light that she might haplie be shut vp in some more close and strict prison as the Tower of London if there befell hir no woorse thing And in that she directed Babington in case he failed in the action of hir deliuerie that he should neuerthelesse proceed in the residue which was the death of hir maiestie who also confessed that vpon assurance of hir maiesties death or the arriuall of strangers he intended to proclame the quéene of Scots and made no doubt of the desired successe and therefore hir maiesties death being so earnestlie sought for aduancement line 10 of this competitor hir highnesse could not remaine in quietnesse or securitie if the Scotish queene should longer continue hir life THE SECOND ANSWER made by the queens maiestie deliuered by hir owne mouth to the second speach vttered in the names of the lords and commons of the parlement FUll gréeuous is the waie whose going on and end bréed cumber for the line 20 hire of a laborious iourneie I haue striued more this daie than euer in my life whether I should speake or vse silence If I speake and not complaine I shall dissemble if I hold my peace your labour taken were full vaine For me to make my mone were strange and rare for I suppose you shall find few that for their owne particular will cumber you with such a care Yet such I
articles to the French king The emperor â—â—mmeth at 〈◊〉 houre of â—â—dience The words of Clarenceâ—ux king of armes to the emperor The emperor giueth the heralds libertie to speake The inconueniences of warre mooued to the emperor The herald prosecuteth the state of Rome the pope in lamentable sorâ— The herald mooueth the emperor with the king of Englands example c. The herald commmeth to the verie drift of his message What the king of EnglaÌ„d desireth of the emperour in the French kings behalfe The king of Englands meaning and the French kings for the returne of the emperours subiects out of their countries and contrariwise The emperors words to Guien the French kings herald How the emperor was affectioned for the pope in his captiuitie The emperor seemeth loth to incur the â— of Englands displeasure The report of the herald falleth out iustifiable by Guicciardines discourse lib. 18. The king of England fauoured the French king The herald useth an argument drawne from benefits receiued to mooue the emperour The herald of England sheweth the emperour what is the king of Englands present determination â—f his offers be refused The disposition of the king of England to the pope and the French king The defiance intimated to the emperor by the herald of England Libertie granted to the emperors subiects in England and France to returne to their owne countries and the like demanded on the contrarie part The emperors modestiâ— in this point notable The English herald is coÌ„manded by the emperour to leaue his oration behind him in writing Guic. pag. 1085. Accord betwéene the pope the emperours agents Heauie paiments for the pope to discharge Guic. pag. 1085 The manner of the popes going out of prison The emperors words to the French herald This the emperor inferreth to iustifie his owne dealings by waie of comparison The heralds receiue the emperors answer in writing The sâ—auen twentith â—â—th Guic. pag. 1â—â—1 This speach of the kings dooth wholie concerne the emperor and fauoureth of displeasure What induced the French king to vse some discourtesie against the emperors ambassadors The king answereth the emperours words vttered to Guien his herald The French K. saith that constraint and necessitie made him tractable to the emperor The emperors ambassador refuseth to read the French kings letters sent to his souereigne The French king deliuereth his mind with a corage as vtter enimie to the emperour The French kings allegations in defense of his honor charged with vntruth The French king giueth the emperor the lie sée Guic. pag 10â—â— This Robertet was one of the secretaries to the estate The emperor answereth the French kings letters What states both natiue and forren were present in the French kings hall Who stood on either side of the French kings seate roiall The king sheweth the first cause of this assemblie of honorable personages Further causâ— whie the said assemblie was procured The French king in 〈◊〉 of all his 〈…〉 that he 〈◊〉 gaue his faith to 〈◊〉 of his 〈◊〉 ergo not to the emperour The king â—rosecuteth the discourtesâ—e of the emperour in his â—eclaration The field that is a place where they may safelie come to fight in 〈◊〉 before indifferent iudges Guic. pag. 1091. The French kings talke and communication to the emperors ambassador vttered with indignation The herald requireth libertie to depart The emperoâ—â— defied by the kings of England and France English merchants staied in Spaine The incoÌ„moditie rising of lacke of intercourse for traficke An abstinence of war granted vpon sute made to the king of England Creation of the earle of Osserie Sir Edmund Walsingham A truce and the benefits insuing from the same The sweating sickenesse whereof died both courtiers and others Sir William Compton Abr. Fl. ex 〈◊〉 pag 959. A prisoner brake froÌ„ the sessions house Register of Greie friers DoctorLongland bishop of Lincolne Why the cardinall was suspected to be against the marriage Polydor. Edw. Hall The king is desirous to be resolued by the opinions of the learned touching his marriage Cardinall Campeius sent into England The matter touching the kings marriage debated The quéene chooseth lawyers for hir part Polydor. Doctor StephaÌ„ Gardner Doctor Pace falleth out of his wits Anno Reg. 21. Edw. Hall Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 959. The maner of the session euerie personage of account in his place The king and queene called into the court Quéene Katharines lamentable and pâ—â—hie spéech in presence of the court The quéene iustifieth the mariage The quéene departing onâ— of the court is called againe The cardinall requireth to haue that declared which was well enough known The king confesseth that the sting of conscience made him mislike this mariage The state of the question The king submitteth himselfe to the censures of the learned in this case of diuorse The quéene accuseth cardinall Wolsie She appeleth to the pope The king mistrusteth the legats of séeking delaies The present mariage whie thought vnlawfull Quéene Katharine and the cardinals haue câ—mmunication in hir priuie chamber The quéene refuseth to make sudden answer to so weightie a matter as the diuorse The king quéenes matter commeth to iudgement Cardinall Campeius refuseth to giue iudgement The kings affection and goodwill to the ladie Anne Bullen The secret working and dissimulation of cardinall Wolseie The king coÌ„ceiueth displeasure against the cardinall Edw. Hall Articles exhibited against the cardinall The cardinall sued in a premunire Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 966 967. The cardinall is loth to part from the great seale The cardinall discharged of the great seale The cardinall calleth all his officers to accounts The cardinall of Yorke goeth to Asher and hath his plentie turned into penurie Iohn Scute and Edmund Iennie The cardinall condemned in a premunire The bishoprike of Duresme giuen to doctor Tunstall The duchesse of Sauoy and the duchesse â—â— Angolesme méet about â— treatie oâ— peace Edw. Hall in H. 8. fo clxxxâ—â— Read more hereof in Guic. pag. 1145. deinceps The womens peace Sir Thomas Moore lord chancellor Edw. Hall in H. 8. fo clxxxâ—â— An oration made in the audience of the parlement by sir Thomas Moore Wherein the person of the king is properlie reputed a ruler Thomas â—udleie chosen speaker An oration made by the speaker of the parlement The commoÌ„s of the lower house complaine against the clergie The bishops sticke hard against these billes The saieng of Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester A complaint made to the king against the bishop of Rochester The bishops excuse to the kings maiestie Hard hold betwéene the lords spirituall and temporall about the probats of willes and mortuaries The loane of monie released to the king which he borowed in anno reg 15. The matter of testaments and mortuaries moderated by the king All against the cleargie both head and taile Articles â—â—hâ—bited against the cardinall of Yorke Creation of earles at Yorke place A speciall argument in disproofe of the
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 tâ—iumph 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 tiâ—le 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
three monthes it were a notable line 60 world for traitors and murtherers thus to haue all procéedings set loose as well of our common lawes which condemne vpon all euidences as of the ciuill lawes which giue capitall sentence vpon confession onelie yea Moses wisedome is ouerreached and Christes equitie in his euangelicall parable against the lewd seruant not vsing his talent is eluded All this is also ratified by voluntarie letters of his to hir maiestie apart and to hir honorable councell And if anie Italianat papist neuerthelesse will néeds beleeue this â—epugnancie of his last speaches let him yet take this one note of him whereby to consider how credible a man he crediteth Either Parrie meant this monstrous murther according to his vowes in heauen and sworne promises in earth and so died a desperat traitor protesting the contrarie in his last words vpon his soule and damnation or else was he periured to the foule abuse of pope all poperie most execrablie prophaning Gods name by promising swearing vowing c that which he meant not Necessarilie therefore must he perish vpon periured treason or wreckâ— vpon desperat deieration Nothing auoideth this dilemma but a popish bull of dispensation which if he had I know not how princes may not as safelie suffer woolues and beares come to their presence as such papists And verie like it is that Parrie had a speciall bull either else was it comprehended in his indulgence that he might take othes contrarie to his catholike conscience as he did the oth of supremasie in the beginning of the last parlement Which if his coniuratours had not béene priuie with what intention he did sweare he neuer durst haue taken it least they should haue now bewraied him as a man sworne against the pope therefore not to be trusted But the truth is this papist Parrie was both a traitor and a manifold periured traitor whome with all other of the like stampe we leaue to the finall iudgement of God at the last and dreadfull doome registring in the meane time a proper epigram and of no lesse fit than true deuise in memorie of the said capitall traitor requiting that propheticall posie concerning Daruell Gatheren and frier Forrest of whome you shall read in the thirtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight this of Parrie being as followeth William Parrie Was ap Harrie By his name From the alehouse To the gallows Grew his fame Gotten westward On a bastard â—s is thought Wherefore one waie Kin to Conwaie Hath he sought Like a beast With inceast He begon Mother maried Daughter caried Him a sonne Much he borrowed Which he sorrowed To repaie Hare his good Bought with blood As they saie Yet for paiment Had arrainment Of his detter Shee that gaue him Life to saue him Hangd a better Parrie his pardon Thought no guardon For his woorth Wherefore sought That he mought Trauell foorth Which obtained He remained As before And with rashnes Shewd his bashnes More and more He did enter To aduentuer Euen hir death By whose fauor He did euer Draw his breath It was pittie One so wittie Malcontent Leauing â—eason Should to treason So be bent But his gifts Were but shifts Void of grace And his brauerie Was but knauerie Vile and base Wales did beare him France did sweare him To the pope Venice wrought him London brought him To the rope Wherewith strangled And then mangled Being dead Poles supporters Of his quarters And his head In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred eightie foure sir Walter Mildmaie knight one of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell founded a college in the vniuersitie of Cambridge and named it Emmanuell college ¶ The same was sometimes a house of friers and came to king Henrie the eight by dissolution as appeareth by the sequeale being an extract out of a substantiall and large booke written in parchment which I haue seene and whense I had this transcript conteining the entrie or inrolment of certeine letters patents writings and euidences line 10 touching the said college First the premisses came vnto king Henrie the eight by act of parlement touching the dissolution of monasteries afterwards the said king by letters patents vnder the great seale of England dated Decimo sexto Aprilis anno tricesimo quinto regni sui did grant the same to Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe and to the heires of the said Edward for euer After that the said Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe by their déed pold dated Quarto Martij anno tricesimo sexto Henrici line 20 octaui did grant the premisses to William Sherwood gentleman his heires for euer Then George Sherewood gentleman sonne and heire to William Sherwood by déed pold dated Vicesimo nono Septembris anno vicesimo tertio Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Robert Tailor esquier and to his heires for euer And afterwards the said Robert Tailor by déed pold dated Duodecimo Iunij anno vicesimo quinto Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Richard Culuerwell line 30 citizen mercer of London and Laurence Chaderton of Cambridge bachelor of diuinitie and their heires for euer And after that the premisses were conueied to sir Walter Mildmaie who hath conuerted the same into a séedplot of learning for the benefit of the church common-wealth so that the students maie verie trulie saie this and more too of so good so honoorable and vertuous a founder fluuijs dum cruerit aequor Dúmque vagas stellas pascet vterque polus line 40 Dum steriles altis lustrabunt montibus vmbrae Virtutis stabit fama decúsque tuae year 1585 On the nine and twentith daie of March which was in the yeare of Christ 1585 the parlement was dissolued at the breaking vp whereof the quéenes maiestie in the parlement house made an oration to such effect as followeth The queenes maiesties oration line 50 in the parlement house MY Lords and ye of the lower house my silence must not iniurie the owner so much as to suppose a substitute sufficient to render you the thanks that my heart yéeldeth you not so much for the safe keeping of my life for which your care appeareth so manifest as for line 60 the neglecting your priuat future perill not regarding other waie than my present state No prince herein I confesse can be surer tied or faster bound than I am with the linke of your good will and can for that but yeeld a hart hand to séeke for euer all your best Yet one matter toucheth me so neere as I may not ouerskip religion the ground on which all other matters ought to take roote and being corrupted may marre all the trée and that there be some faultfinders with the order of the cleargie which so may make a slander to my selfe the church whose ouer ruler God hath made me whose negligence can not be excused if anie schismes or errors hereticall were suffered Thus much
commons latelie assembled in parlement and hir maiesties answeres therevnto by hir selfe deliuered though not expressed by the reporter with such grace and life as the same were vttered by hir maiestie To the right honorable the earle of Leicester c. ALbeit with earnest desire of my heart right honorable my verie good lord I haue alwaies indeuored to doo your lordship some acceptable seruice for the honour you first vouchsafed me from beyond my cradle and after confirmed with the fauorable opinion line 40 wherewith you haue alwaies countenanced me euer since euen thus far onward on my daies which also togither with my yeares hath increased faster than mine abilitie to performe being crossed in nothing more deepelie than when I was letted by the ouermuch tendering of me by my parents to attend your lordship in your late voiage and honorable expedition into the low countries yet haue I béene euer since most studious to obserue and apprehend some good occasion or fit opportunitie to testifie line 50 the dutifull reuerence I beare to your lordship wherein if hitherto I haue béene slacke in performance during your absence it hath procéeded of the care I had not to interteine your lordship with matter either friuolous or vulgar though things of that nature might best become my condition and well agrée with my vnderstanding In which cogitation it came to my mind that the report of the spéeches deliuered by the queens most excellent maiestie in a late and weightie cause line 60 dealt in this parlement in answer to the petitions presented to hir maiestie the twelfe and foure and twentith daie of Nouember at Richmond by the lord chancellor and speaker respectiuelie in the name and behalfe of both estates accompanied with diuerse of either sort would doubtlesse be a thing to your lordship most gratefull as one euer pleased iustlie to admire the rare perfections of hir mind and approoued iudgement wherewith according to your estate and place deseruedlie your lordship hath béene vsuallie acquainted as also worthie of eternall monument and euerlasting memorie for as much as on the sudden they were deliuered by hir selfe for answer of a matter propounded debated resolued and digested with great labor and premeditation of the greatest grauest wisest and most choise persons of the whole realme whereof although I haue but slenderlie purtraied the lineaments without expressing to life the externall ornaments of hir roiall speach accompanied with all princelie and gracefull accomplements yet doubt I not but your lordship will easilie find hir inward vertues whereof it is impossible for me to make the least adumbration And because in the dailie expectation of your lordships returne I rested vncerteine how these might come safelie to your lordships hands I did therefore aduise to haue this my letter with the included copies to be readie to attend your first arriuall in gratulation of the safetie thereof which hath beene long desired Wherein as I striue to performe a particular dutie to your lordship so trust I you will haue that honorable consideration that in the communication thereof with others there grow not anie preiudice to me for my presumption in aduenturing to be a reporter of that which in the deliuerie wrought so great astonishment to all the hearers as it exceeded the fulnesse of euerie mans expectation and therefore without some fauorable construction of mine attempt I might incurre great blame by my slender maner of report so to haue blemished the excellencie of hir maiesties spéeches whereof I humblie beséech your lordship to haue fauorable regard Thus referring them to your lordships disposition and my selfe to your fauorable protection I humblie take my leaue 25. Nouember 1586. Your lordships most humblie in all dutie to command R. C. The briefe of the lord chancellors first speach at the time when he deliuered hir most excellent maiestie a petition in writing for and in the name of the lords and commons which speaches were of more length than here are by me collected but sure I am the substance thereof is here trulie expressed THat the lords and commons hauing of long time to their intolerable greefe found by how manie practises the Scotish quéene had compassed the destruction of hir highnesse most roiall person in whose safetie next vnder God they acknowledged their chiefe felicitie to consist thereby not onelie to bereaue them of the sincere and true religion in this realme professed and established but to bring backe againe this noble realme into the thraldome of Romish tyrannie and to ouerthrow the happie estate thereof wherein although hir highnesse of hir abundant gratious naturall clemencie and princelie magnanimitie hath either lightlie passed them ouer or with no small indulgence tolerated notwithstanding the often and earnest instances of hir nobilitie and commons in sundrie parlements heretofore and further hath protected hir from the violent pursute of hir owne people she yet as a person obdurat in malice as it appeareth continued hir former practises as had béene latelie manifested by certeine wicked conspiracies plotted by one Anthonie Babington and diuerse desperat persons that had combined and confederated themselues by vow and oth in a most horrible enterprise by murther to take awaie the life of hir maiestie wherein the Scotish quéene did not onelie aduise them but also direct comfort and abbet them with persuasion counsell promise of reward and earnest obtestation Wherevpon hir maiestie at the earnest request of such as tendered the safetie of hir roiall person and the quiet of the realme did direct commission vnder the great seale to sundrie lords and others of hir maiesties priuie councell a great number of lords of parlement of the greatest and most ancient degrée assisted with some of the principall iudges of the realme to heare examine and determine the same according to a statute in that behalfe made in the seuen and twentith yeare of hir reigne Who to the number of thirtie and six hauing attended line 10 the execution of the said commission and diuerse daies and times heard the allegations against the said Scotish quéene in hir owne presence and hearing she being permitted to saie what she would in hir owne excuse did with one assent find hir calpable both in priuitie consent to the said crimes obiected and also in compassing the quéens maiesties death Which sentence by hir owne directions vpon the hearing of the proofes and processe in parlement line 20 was iudged to haue béene most honorable and iust And therevpon they all beséech hir maiestie that forasmuch as the said quéene of Scots was the verie ground and onelie subiect wherevpon such dangerous practises and complots had béene founded against hir maiesties most roiall person and the estate of this realme for these manie yeares to the ouerthrow of sundrie of the nobilitie of the land and danger of christian religion and that they could sée line 30 no hope of hir desisting and hir adherents but that still hir maiesties safetie must be
〈◊〉 know the meaning of euerie reprâ—sentation The meaning of the pageant opened by thâ— spéech of â— child The same verses in Latine These verses 〈…〉 The conduit 〈◊〉 Cornehill â—â—cked and a noise of loud instruments â—n the top of the same The deuise of the pageant in Cornehill Liuely workmanship and right commendable A proper morall How the pageant was appointed and furnished The quéene draweth néere the pagent to heare the childs oration The same verses in Latins painted on a table The ground or morall of the pageant The quéenes promise with thanks to the citie A pageant at Soper lane end The inscription fixed or set vpon the front of the said pageant The meaning of the pageant The quéene giueth attentiue eare to the childs words A consent on all sides of prince people and children The standard and crosse in Cheape adorned and triâ—med A pageant erected at the little conduct in Cheape The quéene promiseth the citie often to read ouer the bible The seuerall companies of the citie shew 〈◊〉 ioifull 〈◊〉 at the queenes comming The citie giâ—eth a thousand marks to the quéene in a pursse The verie words of the queene vttered to the lord maior c. A pageant of a square proportion and what things the same had represented in it â—â—â—publica 〈◊〉 â—â—â—publica bene 〈◊〉 Veritas temporis filia expounded to the quéene The interpretation of the pageant deliuered in speéch to the quéene by a child The quéene receiueth Verbum Dei kisseth it and laieth it in hir lap The meaning in bréeâ—e of this pagent A scholer of Paules vttereth an oration in Latine to the quéene Laus Elisabethae regni iugum subeuntis Ad Anglorum gentem breuis adhortatio Quaenam praestabit Elisabaetha suo regiminâ— The quéenes maiestie considered the cities charge A pagent in Fléetstréet described * Alluding to the quéenes maiestie no doubt How willing the quéene was to heare the child speake The morall 〈◊〉 foresaid 〈◊〉 The children 〈◊〉 Christs â—â—â—pitall stand â— S. Dunstans Temple bar 〈◊〉 with Gogmagog 〈◊〉 giants Quinque arcuâ— quam significationem implicitaâ—â— teneanâ— What the arches signifie The cities farewell to the quéene going out at Temple barre The last words of the quéene to the citie by waie of promise Carmen valedictorium a puero recitatum Certein notes of the quéenes maiesties great mercie clemencie and wisdome vsed in this pâ—ssagâ— Of one that wept for ioy and inward gladnesse The humblenesse of the quéene in receiuing verie trifles of hir poore subiectâ— thankefullie * Where hir mind then was no douâ—â— in heauen vpon God The quéens maiestie is 〈◊〉 forgetfull to glorifie God who glorified hir As religious â— princesse is queene Elisabeth as euer she was Hir coronation at Westminster Sir Edward Dimmocke knight hir champion by office The lord maior of London serueth the quéene of ipocrasse A parlement Iohn Stow. The first fruits and tenths restored to the crowne Abr. Fl. ex Iohan. Foxi martyrologio Doctor Storie impudenâ— and sawcie The words of doctor Storie in the parlement house This martyr burnt at Uxbridge was maister Denleie A motion made in the parlement house to the quéene touching marriage c. Rich. Grafton The quéenes maiestie estéemeth no life so glorious as to serue God The quéenes maiestie hath no mind to marrie A most excellent answer of a most excellent princesse The quéenes promise howsoeuer God incline hir hart The quéenes words touching an heire roiall the last part of their motion The returne of the protestants from exile One set on the pillorie and what punishment the quéene by hir owne mouth appointed him Preachers at Sâ—ittle The pulpit 〈◊〉 Paules 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 A conference appointed â—â—ncerning râ—ligion The best learned of ech side to be chosen 〈◊〉 â—hâ—s conâ—erence The persons 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 Order taken for quâ—eâ— conference and regard had of the bishops according to their dignitie The daie for the first meéting of this conference appointed The bishop of Winchesters waie of procéeding misliked but yet in fine followed notwithstanding the contrarie prouided The maner of their first entrance into this coÌ„ference * Afterwards bishop of Winchester Another order taken for the next méeting to conâ—er A new assemblâ—e on the mondaie according to appointment The stuburnesse of the aduerse part an occasion to dissolue this assemblie A treatie for peace betwixt the kings of Spaine and France The deputieâ— or commissioners appointed for the princes 〈…〉 The articles of the peace betwixt the â—â—eenes maâ—â—â—tie and the French king Sir Iohn Mason A generall peace betwixt the kings of France and Spaine The peace proclamed Plâ—ies and interludes forbidden for 〈…〉 The lord Wentworth arreigned and acquited A subsidie granted oâ—â—â—â—â—â—ables 〈…〉 Iohn Stow. A muster at Gréenwich by the citizens of London in presence of the queene Bishops depriued and others succéeding Iohn Fox Commissioners sent abrode for establishing of religion Religious houses suppressed Images taken downe and burned in the stréets Diuerse popish relikes consumed to ashes Ex I. S. 1113. Churches in London striken broken by tempest An obsequie for the FreÌ„ch king Henrie the second in whose time Calis was lost The maner of the obsequie The chéefe mourners at this obsequie Six bishops receiue the communion Ex I. S. pa. 1114. Embassador from Swethen receiued into England The queenes maiestie sued vnto out of Denmarkâ— about mariage Iohannes Lewenclaij Fr. Thin Description and commendation of bishop Tunstall The armes of Tunstall Tunstall bare office Buildings founded by Tunstall c. Tunstall depriued from his bishoprike Tunstall restored Tunstall death 〈◊〉 Par. in act 〈◊〉 Cant. ca. â— Warham Iohn Fox Collatio Budeâ— Cutberti Tunstalli Anno Reg. 2. Trouble in Scotland Frenchmen sent into Scotland The Scots sue to the queens maiestie of England for aid against the French The lords of Scotland that were confederat togither against the French The quéenes maiestie determineth to aid the Scots Sir William Winter viceadmerall The lord Grey generall of the armie Sir Iames Croft The number of horssemen and footmen in the armie The chiefest in charge of this armie Dunglasse A skirmish at Dunbar Two horsmen one footman slaine Linton brigs Salt Preston The earle of Arraine accoÌ„panied with other of the Scotish nobilitie The duke of Chateau le rault and his companie The English and Scotish gentlemen meet embrace and consult The Scotish pledges appointed to passe into England A crag called Arthurs sâ—at Conference betwéene the English and Scotish Sir Iames Croâ—t and sir George Howard went to talke with the 〈◊〉 My lord Greis message sent to the Frenchmen A sharpe and â—long skirmish betwéene â—oth parts The Frenchmen repelled by the Englishmen â— Churchâ—â—â—d The number 〈◊〉 the English 〈◊〉 French 〈◊〉 The Frenchmen driuen into Leith Saint Nicholas Stéeple planted with two great hot péeces Ordinance landed Good fridaie to some bad fridaie Warre maketh no difference of time The pile of Blackenessâ— surrendred Nine
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 aâ—ore time said verie secretlie that he had béene solicited beyond the â—â—as to commit the fact but he would not doo it â— wherewith he crastâ—â—iâ— abused both the quéenes maiestie those two counâ—â—llors wâ—erof he now would helpe himselfe with these speeches against most manifest proofs Maister vicechamberleins spéeches proouing manifestlie Parries traitorous intentiâ—ons Notâ— all this charge of maister vicechamberleine to be a recapitulatioÌ„ of all or most the treasons of Parrie Parrie chargeâ—h the lords of the councell with vnâ—ruth Parrie râ—prooued 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 treaâ—ons 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 runnaâ—â—te and vagâ—rant 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 shiâ—ter 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 〈◊〉 pope dispense withall Parries twâ— beaupéers the cardinals of Uand oâ— me Narbone What a notable dissembler was this Parrie peâ—iured 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 bâ—fore pag. 1385. and his letter to Parrie pag. 1388. Sâ—â— beforâ— pag. 1386 Sâ—â— beforâ— pag. 1386. part of Parries voluntarie confession Note the pâ—â—nicious dealing of Parrie euerie waie hurtfull Taâ— principi quà m populo deiâ—ceps sibimeâ— oâ— proditori sumâ—â— 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 verâ—tues in personages noblie descended Gregorie perceiued all things but it would be knowen how A long similitude most foÌ„dlie 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 studeÌ„t 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
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 cōmons require this but thou and what thou art I
the diuine science of musike iustlie reported in a distichon that Gaudia si superûm res sit mortalibus vlla Integra quae referat musica sola refert line 30 the vse of it commendablie seruing by sweet harmonie to praise God in church and for delectable recreation to a gentlemanlie mind any where else and part of these yoong ones to be taught the grammar in a faire schoole well appointed therefore out of which as out of a nursserie of it owne for supplement certeine to keepe full the number these budlings at néed from time to time to be dulie deriued and drawen Now somewhat in casting vpon this deuout mans deuise and compasse to consider the companie of line 40 students there that in seuerall sciences and sundrie professions are not a few then their assigned studies and exercises in them their steps in rising reward for diligence from the lowest logician to the highest degrées of doctrine in schooles their officers in house their orders for gouernance in maners in safegard of health and helpe in sicknesse and that chiefest is the reuenues certeine for prouision maintenance of all it may be a question not easie to answer whether at first in this founders meditation vpon such a line 50 worke were a mind more magnifike or a more amplitude of abilitie after in so absolute a forme to performe it or else a profounder wisedome for perpetuitie into so perfect an order in all points to haue fixt it It was a fashion at those daies long also afore since from a learned spirituall man to take awaie the fathers surname were it neuer so worshipfull or ancient and giue him for it the name of the towne he was borne in and so was Richard Notingham a learned frier minorite in king Edward the seconds line 60 daies called of Notingham where he was borne Iohn Olneie a learned monke in those daies also named of an Iland wherein he was borne nie Glocester of Barton in Lincolnshire one William Barton in Richard the seconds reigne for that time a famous doctor and chancellor of Oxford Water Disse of Disse in Suffolke a learned Carmelite frier confessour to the duke and duchesse of Lancaster in king Henrie the fourths reigne Richard Hampoole of a towne in Yorkeshire a zelous doctor and after a vertuous heremit in king Henrie the sixts daies And after this sort manie hundreds more that had their names so altered as euen in like maner vnto this reuerend prelat in the prime of his towardnesse was changed his fathers surname Paten to Wainfléet of the towne where hee was borne in Lincolneshire a matter right proueable aswell by the records of the house there extant as by a faire déed remaining among other his proper euidences in the hands of the worshipfull maister Thomas Fanshaw esquier the quéenes maiesties remembrancer in the escheker at Westminster And as the names of Germin German Germi are but for one name though diuerslie wrested and all to remember Germanie the countrie their ancestors came from and also as Iute Iud and Chute are all but for the race of Iutes one of the thrée first Germane nations that came in with Horsus and Hengist and Caltrap Caltrop and Calthorp was all but for Caldthorp that signifieth a cold towne how euer it be otherwise wried euen so Paten Patin Patten or Patent is but a mention of the old Saxon name that trulie at first was Patan of Pate the sole of the foot and thereof Patan to signifie flat footed as among the Latines they were called Plautus or Plancus so Cicero of a chiche or tare Nasones Labiones and Labieni well nosed and lipt manie more after that sort in manie toongs else so deriued That right manie students skilfull in the profoundest sciences and learned toongs manie venerable clerks who in most weightie causes with singular wisedome successe and faith haue serued their prince and countrie this college hath brought foorth hereto that manie toward wits it still to haue hath had the good hap which happilie yet too it dooth reteine may here with modestie a litle be touched neither to comparison that were contentious folie nor yet to seeke glorie that cannot be but vaine but onlie in storie to mind how vnto purposes vertuouslie deuised and wiselie pursued Gods goodnesse alwaies giueth chéeuing and thrift according ¶ In this seuen and twentith yeare of king Henries reigne as witnesse the English chronâ—cles a knight of France called sir Lewes de Bueill challenged an esquier of England named Rafe Challons to triall of certeine feats of warre Herevpon as was thought conuenient a daie was appointed them to make proofe thereof the place also was assigned of their meeting to wit at a towne in France called Maunt or Maunce where the French king at the same time was personallie present But fortune saith mine author was to Challons so fauourable and leaned so much to his side that he ran the French knight through with the point of his fatall speare Huncilli finem lingua superba dedit The English esquier seeing the infortunate euent of this triall to fall to the shame of the challenger was so far from reiossing at his ouerthrow that he was touched with christian compassion moorned for his enimie for whome also he kept an obsequie as if he had béene his owne naturall brother and descended of the same parents For which mercifull motions of mind inwardlie working and outwardlie appearing he was of the king greatlie commended But doubtfull it is whether the other if he had suruiued and got the vpper hand would haue had the like reuerend care of the Englishmans dead bodie as to haue vouchsafed it a solemne interrement As the affaires in France now were neither well looked to nor the gouernours there well aduised an English capteine called sir Francis Suriennes surnamed the Aragonois of the countrie where he was borne a man for his wit and actiuitie admitted into the order of the garter tooke by scaling suddenlie in the night of the euen of our ladie daie in Lent a towne on the frontiers of Normandie belonging to the duke of Britaine called Fougiers spoiling the same and killing the inhabitants The duke of Britaine being hereof aduertised sent word by the bishop of Reimes to the French king beseeching him of his aid and counsell in the matter The French king foorthwith sent his caruer Iohn Hauart and Iohn Cosinet one of the maisters of his requests to the king of England and to the duke of Summerset he dispatched Peter de Fonteins the maister of his horsse To which messengers answer was made aswell by the king as the duke that the fact was doone without their knowledge And for the line 10 truce to be kept and not onelie restitution but also amends to be made to the duke of Britaine a daie of diet was appointed to be kept at Louuiers where the commissioners on both parts being
was by hir set foorth had missed the cushin and lost both horsse and spurres she could not be quiet vntill she had practised a new deuise to put line 10 king Henrie to trouble And as the diuell prouideth venemous sauce to corrupt stomachs so for hir purpose she espied a certeine yoong man of visage beautifull of countenance demure and of wit craftie and subtill This youths name was Peter Warbecke one for his faintnesse of stomach of the Englishmen in derision called Perkin Warbecke according to the dutch phrase which change the name of Peter to Perkin line 20 of yoonglings and little boies which for want of age lacke of strength and manlike courage are not thought worthie of the name of a man This yoong man trauelling many countries could speake English and diuerse other languages for his basenesse of birth and stocke was almost vnknowne of all men and driuen to séeke liuing from his childhood was constreined to go and trauell thorough manie countries The duchesse glad to haue got so meet an organ for the conueieng of hir inuented purpose as line 30 one not vnlike to be taken and reputed for the duke of Yorke sonne to hir brother king Edward which was called Richard kept him a certeine space with hir priuilie Besides that she with such diligence instructed him both in the secrets and common affaires of the realme of England and of the linage descent and order of the house of Yorke that like a good scholer not forgetting his lesson he could tell all that was taught him promptlie without anie stackering or line 40 staie in his words And besides that he kept such a princelie countenance and so counterfeit a maiestie roiall that all men in manner did firmelie beléeue that he was extracted of the noble house and familie of the dukes of Yorke For suerlie it was a gift giuen to that noble progenie as of nature planted in the root that all the sequels of that line and stocke did studie and deuise how to be equiualent in honour and fame with their forefathers and noble predecessors line 50 When the duches had framed hir cloath méet for the market she was informed that king Henrie prepared to make warre against Charles the French king Wherefore she thinking that the time serued well for the setting foorth of hir malicious inuention sent this Perkin hir new inuented mawmet first into Portingale and so craftilie into the countrie of Ireland to the intent that he being both wittie and wilie might inuegle the rude Irishmen being at those daies more inclined to rebellion than to reasonable line 60 order to a new seditious commotion Shortlie after his arriuall in Ireland whether by his shrewd wit or the malicious exhortation of the sauage Irish gouernours he entred so farre in credit with the people of that I le that his words were taken to be as true as he vntruelie with false demonstrations set foorth and published them The French king aduertised hereof then being in displeasure with king Henrie sent into Ireland for Perkin to the intent to send him against king Henrie which was then inuading France as yée before haue heard Perkin thought himselfe aloft now that he was called to the familiaritie of kings and therefore with all diligence sailed into France and comming to the kings presence was of him roiallie receiued and after a princelie fashion interteined and had a gard to him assigned whereof was gouernour the lord Congreshall and to him being at Paris resorted sir George Neuill bastard sir Iohn Tailor Rowland Robinson and an hundred English rebels Now after that a peace as before is said was concluded betwixt the French king and the king of England the French king dismissed Perkin and would no longer kéepe him But some haue said which were there attending on him that Perkin fearing least the French king should deliuer him to the king of England beguiled the lord Congreshall and fled from Paris by night But whether the French king knew of his departure or not the truth is that he being in maner in despaire returned to his first founder the ladie Margaret of whome he was so welcomed to all outward appearance that it séemed she could not haue reioised at anie earthlie thing more than she did at his presence and as she could well dissemble she made semblance as though she had neuer séene him before that time Now as she had sore longed to know not once but diuerse times in open audience and in solemne presence she willed him to declare and shew by what means he was preserued from death and destruction and in what countries he had wandered and sought fréendship and finallie by what chance of fortune he came to hir court This did shée to the intent that by the open declaration of these fained phantasies the people might be persuaded to giue credit and beléeue that he was the true begotten sonne of hir brother king Edward And after this shee assigned to him a gard of thirtie persons in murrie and blew and highlie honoured him as a great estate and called him the white rose of England The nobilitie of Flanders did to him all reuerence All which port and pompe exhibited in most solemne sort he was well content to take vpon him forgetting the basenesse of his birth and glorieng in the counterfeit title of honour much like the iay that would be called a swan or like the crow that trimming hir selfe with the stolne feathers of a pecocke would séeme Iunos bird as the poet saith mentito nomine cygnum Graculus appellat sese cornicula plumas Pauonis furata cupit pauo ipsa videri ¶ In this yeare was one Hugh Clopton maior of London and of the staple a gentleman borne at Clopton village halfe a mile from Stratford vpon Auen by north who continued during his life a bacheler he builded the great and sumptuous bridge of Stratford vpon Auen at the east end of the towne This bridge hath fouretéene great arches and a long cawsie with smaller arches all made of stone new walled on each side At the west end of the bridge he builded a faire large chappell Toward the south end of that towne néere vnto the same a pretie house of bricke and timber where he laie and ended his life He glased the chancell of the parish church in that towne and made a waie of foure miles long three miles from Alesburie towards London and one mile beyond Alesburie But to returne to Perkin the brute of whome in England blowne throughout the realme sore disquieted the people insomuch that not onelie the meaner sort but also manie of the nobles and worshipfull personages beléeued and published it abroad that all was true which was reported of him And not onelie they that were in sanctuaries but also manie other that were fallen in debt assembled in a companie and passed ouer the seas into Flanders to their
giuen and receiued diuerse Scots were wounded and some slaine and the residue ouermatched with multitude of the Englishmen fled as fast as their horsses could carie them The Scotish king hereof aduertised was highlie displeased and in all hast signified to king Henrie by his herald Marchemont in what sort his people to the breach of the truce were abused and handled King Henrie being not in will to breake with anie of his neighbours excused the matter affirming that he was not of knowledge to the misdemeanor of those that had the castell in kéeping requiring the king of Scots not to thinke the truce broken for anie thing doone without his consent promising in the word of a king to inquire of the truth and if the offense were found to be begun on the partie of the kéepers of the castell he assured him that they should for no meed nor fauour escape due correction and punishment This answer though it was more than reasonable could not pacifie the king of Scots till the bishop of Durham that was owner of the castell of Norham who sore lamented that by such as he appointed kéepers there the warre should be renewed with sundrie letters written to the Scotish king at length asswaged his displeasure so that the said king wrote courteouslie to the bishop againe signifieng that bicause he had manie secret things in his mind which he would communicate onelie with him touching this matter now in variance therefore he required him to take the paine to come into his countrie trusting that he should thinke his labor well bestowed The bishop was glad and sent word hereof to the king his master who willed him to accomplish the desire of the Scotish king which he tooke to bee reasonable At his comming into Scotland he was courteouslie receiued of the king himselfe at the abbeie of Melrosse And there after the king had for a countenance complained much of the vniust slaughter of his men late committed at Norham vpon the bishops gentle answers thervnto he forgaue the same and after began to talke secretlie without witnesses alone with the bishop And first he declared what iust causes mooued him in times past to séeke amitie with the king of England which now he desired much more to haue confirmed for further maintenance increase thereof Which he doubted not but should sort to a fortunate conclusion if the king of England would vouchsafe to giue to him in matrimonie his first begotten daughter the ladie Margaret vpon which point he purposed latelie to haue sent his ambassadors into England which thing he would the sooner doo if he knew the bishops mind therein to bée readie to further his sute The bishop answered but few words sauing that when he were returned to the king his maister he would doo the best in the matter that he could When the bishop was returned into England and come to the king he declared to him all the communication had betwéene king Iames and him from point to point in order The king liked well thereof as he to whom peace was euer a souereigne solace and comfort In this meane time Perkin Warbecke year 1499 disappointed of all hope to escape out of the Englishmens hands which was the onelie thing that he most desired found meanes yet at length to deceiue his kéepers took him to his héels But when he came to the sea coasts and could not passe he was in a maruellous perplexitie for euerie byway lane and corner was laid for him and such search made that being brought to his wits end and cut short of his pretensed iournie he came to the house of Bethlem called the priorie of Shéene beside Richmond in Southerie and betooke himselfe to the prior of that monasterie requiring him for the honour of God to beg his pardon of life of the kings maiestie line 10 The prior which for the opinion that men had conceiued of his vertue was had in great estimation pitieng the wretched state of that caitife came to the king and shewed him of this Perkin whose pardon he humblie craued and had it as fréelie granted Incontinentlie after was Perkin brought to the court againe at Westminster and was one day set fâ—ttered in a paire of stocks before the doore of Westminster hall and there stood a whole day not without innumerable reproches mocks and scornings And the next daie he was caried through London and set vpon line 20 a like scaffold in Cheape by the standard with like ginnes and stocks as he occupied the daie before and there stood all daie and read openlie his owne confession written with his ownâ— hand the verie copie whereof here insueth The confession of Perkin as it was written with his owne hand which he read openlie vpon a scaffold by the standard line 30 in Cheape IT is first to be knowne that I was borne in the towne of Turneie in Flanders and my fathers name is Iohn Osbecke which said Iohn Osbecke was controllor of the said towne of Turneie and my moothers name is Katharine de Faro And one of my grandsires vpon my fathers side was line 40 named Diricke Osbeck which died After whose death my grandmoother was married vnto Peter Flamin that was receiuer of the forenamed towne of Turneie deane of the botemen that row vpon the water or riuer called le Scheld And my grandsire vpon my moothers side was Peter de Faro which had in his keeping the keies of the gate of S. Iohns within the line 50 same towne of Turneie Also I had an vncle called maister Iohn Stalin dwelling in the parish of S. Pias within the same towne which had maried my fathers sister whose name was Ione or Iane with whome I dwelt a certeine season And after I was led by my moother to Antwerpe for to learne Flemish in a house of a cousine of mine an officer of the said towne called Iohn Stienbecke with line 60 whome I was the space of halfe a yeare And after that I returned againe to Turneie by reason of warres that were in Flanders And within a yeare following I was sent with a merchant of the said towne of Turneie named Berlo to the mart of Antwerpe where I fell sicke which sickenesse continued vpon me fiue moneths And the said Berlo set me to boord in a skinners house that dwelled beside the house of the English nation And by him I was from thense caried to Barow mart and I lodged at the signe of the old man where I abode for the space of two moneths After this the said Berlo set me with a merchant of Middle borow to seruice for to learne the language whose name was Iohn Strew with whome I dwelt from Christmasse to Easter and then I went into Portingall in companie of sir Edward Bramptons wife in a ship which was called the queens ship And when I was come thither then was I put in seruice to a knight that dwelled in Lushborne
6 to haue ten or twelue benefices to be resident vpon none and to know manie well learned scholars in the vniuersities which were able to preach teach to haue neither benefice nor exhibition These things before this time might in no wise be touched nor yet talked of by anie man except he would be made an heretike or léese all that he had For t hebishops were chancellors and had all the rule about the king so that no man durst once presume to attempt anie thing contrarie to their profit or commoditie But now when God had illuminated the eies of the king and that their subtile dooings were once espied then men began charitablie to desire a reformation and so at this parlement men began to shew their grudges Wherevpon the burgesses of the parlement appointed such as were learned in the law being of the common house to draw one bill of the probats of testaments another for mortuaries and the third for non residence pluralities and taking of farmes by spirituall men The learned men tooke much paines and first set foorth the bill of mortuaries which passed the common house and was sent vp to the lords To this bill the spirituall lords made a faire face saieng that suerlie priests and curats tooke more than they should and therefore it were well done to take some reasonable order thus they spake bicause it touched them little But within two daies after was sent vp the bill concerning probats of testaments at the which the archbishop of Canturburie in especiall and all other bishops in generall both frowned and grunted for that touched their profit Insomuch as doctor Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester said openlie in the parlement chamber these words My lords you sée dailie what billes come hither from the common house and all is to the destruction of the church For Gods sake sée what a realme the kingdome of Boheme was and when the church went downe then fell the glorie of the kingdome now with the commons is nothing but Downe with the church and all this me séemeth is for lacke of faith onlie When these words were reported to the commons of the nether house that the bishop should saie that all their dooings were for lacke of faith they tooke the matter gréeuouslie for they imagined that the bishop estéemed them as heretikes and so by his slanderous words would haue persuaded the temporall lords to haue restrained their consent from the said two billes which they before had passed as you haue heard before Wherefore the commons after long debate determined to send the speaker of the parlement to the kings highnesse with a gréeuous complaint against the bishop of Rochester And so on a daie when the king was at leasure Thomas Audleie speaker for the commons and thirtie of the chéefe of the common house came to the kings presence in his palace at Westminster whiâ—h before was called Yorke place and there verie eloquentlie declared what a dishonor to the king and the realme it was to saie that they which were elected for the wisest men of all the shires cities and boroughs within the realme of England should be declared in so noble and open presence to lacke faith which was equiualent to saie that they were infidels and no christians as ill as Turkes or Saracens so that what paine or studie soeuer they tooke for the common wealth or what acts or lawes soeuer they made or stablished should be taken as laâ—es made by Painims and heathen people and not woorthie to be kept by christian men Wherefore he most humbly besought the kings highnesse to call the said bishop before him and to cause him to speake more discréetlie of such a number as was in the common house The king was not well contented with the saieng of the bishop yet he gentlie answered the speaker that he would send for the bishop and send them word what answer he made and so they departed againe After this the king sent for the archbishop of Canturburie and six other bishops and for the bishop of Rochester also and there declared to him the grudge of the commons to the which the bishop answered that he meant the dooings of the Bohemians was for lacke of faith and not the dooings of them that were in the common house Which saieng was line 10 confirmed by the bishops being present who had him in great reputation and so by that onelie saieng the king accepted his excuse and thereof sent word to the commons by sir William Fitz Williams knight treasuror of his houshold which blind excuse pleased the commons nothing at all After diuerse assemblies were kept betwéene certeine of the lords and certeine of the commons for the billes of probats of testaments and the mortuaries the temporaltie laid to the spiritualtie their owne lawes line 20 and constitutions and the spiritualtie sore defended them by prescription vsage to whom this answer was made by a gentleman of Greies inne The vsage hath euer beene of théeues to rob on Shooters hill ergo is it lawfull With this answer the spirituall men were sore offended because their dooings were called robberies But the temporall men stood still by their saiengs insomuch that the said gentleman said to the archbishop of Canturburie that both the exaction of probats line 30 of testaments and the taking of mortuaries as they were vsed were open robberie and theft After long disputation the temporall lords began to leane to the commons but for all that the billes remained vnconcluded for a while In the meane season there was a bill assented to by the lords and sent downe to the commons the effect whereof was that the whole realme by the said act did release to the king all such summes of monie as he had borrowed of them at the loane in the fiftéenth yeare of his line 40 reigne as you haue heard before This bill was sore argued in the common house but the most part of the commons were the kings seruants and the other were so laboured to by other that the bill was assented vnto When this release of the loane was knowen to the commons of the realme Lord so they grudged spake ill of the whole parlement For almost euerie man counted it his debt and reckoned suerlie of the line 50 paiment of the same And therefore some made their willes of the same and some other did set it ouer to other for debt and so manie men had losse by it which caused them sore to murmur but there was no remedie The king like a good and discréet prince séeing that his commons in the parlement house had released the loane intending somewhat to requite the same granted to them a generall pardon of all offenses certeine great offenses and debts onelie excepted also he aided them for the redresse of their line 60 griefes against the spiritualtie and caused two new billes to be made indifferentlie both for the
shew all obedience to heathen kings shall we not willinglie and trulie be subiect to christian kings If one ought to submit himselfe line 50 by humilitie to another ought we not all by dutie to be subiect to our king If the members of our naturall bodie all follow the head shall not the members of the politicall bodie all obeie the king If good maners be content to giue place the lower to the higher shall not religion teach vs alwaie to giue place to the highest If true subiects will die gladlie in the kings seruice should not all subiects thinke it dutie to obeie the king with iust seruice But you haue not onelie disobeied like ill subiects but also taken stoutlie line 60 rule vpon you like wicked magistrates Ye haue béene called to obedience by counsell of priuat men by the aduise of the kings maiesties councell by the kings maiesties frée pardon But what counsell taketh place where sturdinesse is law and churlish answers be counted wisdome Who can persuade where treason is aboue reason and might ruleth right and it is had for lawfull whatsoeuer is lustfull and commotioners are better than commissioners and common wo is named common-wealth Haue ye not broken his lawes disobeied his councell rebelled against him And what is the common-wealth worth when the law which is indifferent for all men shall be wilfullie and spitefullie broken of head-strong men that séeke against laws to order lawes that those may take place not what consent of wise men hath appointed but what the lust of rebels hath determined What vnthriftinesse is in ill seruants wickednes in vnnaturall children sturdinesse in vnrulie subiects crueltie in fierce enimies wildnes in beastlie minds pride in disdainfull harts that floweth now in you which haue fled from housed conspiracies to incamped robberies and are better contented to suffer famine cold trauell to glut your lusts than to liue in quietnesse to saue the common-wealth and thinke more libertie in wilfulnesse than wisedome in dutifulnesse and so run headlong not to the mischiefe of other but to the destruction of your selues and vndoo by follie that ye intend by mischiefe neither séeing how to remedie that ye iudge faultie nor willing to saue your selues from miserie which stifneckednesse cannot doo but honestie of obedience must frame If authoritie would serue vnder a king the councell haue greatest authoritie if wisedome and grauitie might take place they be of most experience if knowledge of the common-wealth could helpe they must by dailie conference of matters vnderstand it best yet neither the authoritie that the kings maiestie hath giuen them nor the grauitie which you know to be in them nor the knowledge which with great trauell they haue gotten can mooue you either to kéepe you in the dutie ye ought to doo or to auoid the great disorder wherin ye be For where disobedience is thought stoutnesse and sullennes is counted manhood and stomaching is courage and prating is iudged wisedome and the eluishest is most méet to rule how can other iust authoritie be obeied or sad counsell be followed or good knowledge of matters be heard or commandements of counsellors be considered And how is the king obeied whose wisest be withstanded the disobedientest obeied the high in authoritie not weied the vnskilfullest made chiefe capteins to the noblest most hurt intended the braggingest braller to be most safe And euen as the viler parts of the bodie would contend in knowledge gouernement with the fiue wits so doo the lower parts of the common-wealth enterprise as high a matter to striue against their dutie of obedience to the councell But what talke I of disobedience so quietlie Haue not such mad rages run in your heads that forsaking and bursting the quietnesse of the common peace ye haue heinouslie and traitorouslie incamped your selues in field and there like a bile in a bodie naie like a sinke in a towne haue gathered togither all the nastie vagabonds and idle loiterers to beare armour against him whome all godlie and good subiects will liue and die withall If it be a fault when two fight togither and the kings peace broken and punishment to be sought therefore can it be but an outragious and a detestable mischiefe when so manie rebels in number malicious in mind mischiefous in enterprise fight not among themselues but against all the kings true and obedient subiects and séeke to prooue whether rebellion may beat downe honestie and wickednesse may ouercome truth or no If it be treason to speake heinouslie of the kings maiestie who is not hurt thereby and the infamie returneth to the speaker againe what kind of outragious horrible treason is it to assemble in campe an armie against him and so not onelie intend an ouerthrow to him and also to his common-wealth but also to cast him into an infamie through all outward and strange nations and persuade them that he is hated of his people whome he can not rule and that they be no better than vilans which will not with good orders be ruled What death can be deuised cruell enough for those rebels who with trouble seeke death and can not quench the thirst of their rebellion but with the bloud of true subiects and hate the kings mercifull pardon when they miserablie haue transgressed and in such an outrage of mischiefe will not by stubbornesse acknowledge themselues to haue faulted but intend to broile the common-wealth with the flame of their treason and as much as lieth in them not one-to annoie themselues but to destroie all others He line 10 that is miscontented with things that happen and bicause he cannot beare the miserie of them renteth his heare and teareth his skin mangleth his face which easeth not his sorrow but increaseth his miserie maie he not be iustlie called mad and fantasticall and woorthie whose wisedome should be suspected And what shall we saie of them who being in the common-wealth feeling a sore greeuous vnto them and easie to haue béene amended sought not the remedie but haue increased the gréefe and like frantike beasts raging against their head doo teare line 20 and deface as much as lieth in them his whole authoritie in gouernement and violentlie take to themselues that rule vpon them which he by policie hath granted vnto other And who weieng well the heauinesse of the fault maie not iustlie saie and hold them to be worse herein than any kind of brute beasts For we sée that the sheepe will obeie the shepheard and the neat be ruled by the neatheard and the horsse will know his line 30 keeper and the dog will be in aw of his maister and euerie one of them féed there and of that as his kéeper and ruler dooth appoint him goeth from thence and that as he is forbidden by his ruler And yet we haue not heard of that anie heard or companie of these haue risen against their heardman or gouernour but be alwaies
contented not onelie to obeie them but also to suffer them to take profit of them And we sée furthermore that all heards all sorts be more egre in fiercenesse against all kind of strangers line 40 than they be against their owne rulers will easilier offend him who hath not hurt them than touch their ruler who séeketh profit on them But ye that ought to be gouerned by your magistrates as the heards by the heardman and ought to be like shéepe to your king who ought to be like a shéepeheard vnto you euen in the time when your profit was sought and better redresse was intended than your vpstirs and vnquietnesse could obteine haue beyond the crueltie of all beasts fowlie risen against your ruler and shewed your selues woorthie to line 50 be ordered like beasts who in kind of obedience will fall from the state of men A dog stoopeth when he is beaten of his maister not for lacke of stomach but for naturall obedience you being not striken of your head but fauoured not kept downe but succoured and remedied by law haue violentlie against law not onelie barked like beasts but also bitten like helhounds What Is the mischiefe of sedition either not knowne vnto you or not feared Haue not examples aforetimes both told the end of rebels line 60 and the wickednesse of rebellion it selfe But as for old examples let them passe for a while as things well to be considered But at this present one thing more to be weied Looke vpon your selues after ye haue wickedlie stept into this horrible kind of treason doo ye not sée how manie bottomlesse whirlepooles of mischiefe yee be gulâ—t withall and what lothsome kinds of rebellion ye be faine to wade through Ye haue sent out in the kings name against the kings will precepts of all kinds without commandement commanded his subiects and vnrulâ—lie haue ruled where yée listed to command thinking your owne fansies the kings commandements and rebels lusts in things to be right gouernement of things not looking what should follow by reason but what your selues follow by affection And is it not a dangerous and a cruell kind of treason to giue out precepts to the kings people There can be no iust execution of lawes reformation of faults giuing out of commandements but from the king For in the king onelie is the right herof the authoritie of him deriued by his appointment to his ministers Ye hauing no authoritie of the king but taking it of your selues what thinke ye your selues to be Ministers ye be none except ye be the diuels ministers for he is the author of sedition The kings maiestie intendeth to mainteine peace and to oppresse warre ye stirre vp vprores of people hurliburlies of vagabonds routs of robbers Is this anie part of the kings ministerie If a vagabond would doo what he lust and call himselfe your seruant and execute such offices of trust whether yée would or no as yee haue committed vnto another mans credit what would euerie one of you saie or doo herein Would ye suffer it Ye wander out of houses ye make euerie daie new matters as it pleaseth you ye take in hand the execution of those things God by his word forbidding the same which God hath put the magistrates in trust withall What can ye saie to this Is it sufferable thinke ye If ye told a priuat message in another mans name can it be but a false lie I praie you And to tell a feined message to the common-wealth and that from the king can it be honest thinke ye To command is more than to speake what is it then to command so traitorous a lie This then which is in word a deceitfull lie and in déed a traitorous fact noisome to the common-wealth vnhonourable to the king mischiefous in you how can ye otherwise iudge of it but to be an vnheard of and notable disobedience to the king and therefore by notable example to be punished and not with gentlenesse of pardon to be forgiuen Ye haue robbed euerie honest house and spoiled them vniustlie and pitiouslie wronged poore men being no offendors to their vtter vndooing and yet ye thinke ye haue not broken the kings lawes The kings maiesties law and his commandement is that euerie man should safelie kéepe his owne and vse it reasonablie to an honest gaine of his liuing ye violentlie take and carie awaie from men without cause all things whereby they should mainteine not onelie themselues but also their familie leaue them so naked that they shall féele the smart of your curssed enterprise longer than your owne vnnaturall vngodlie stomachs would well vouchsafe By iustice ye should neither hurt nor wrong man and your pretensed cause of this monstruous sturre is to increase mens wealth And yet how manie and saie truth haue ye decaied and vndoone by spoiling and taking awaie their goods How should honest men liue quietlie in the common-wealth at anie time if their goods either gotten by their owne labor or left to them by their friends shall vnlawfullie and vnorderlie to the féeding of a sort of rebels be spoiled and wasted and vtterlie scattered abrode The thing that ye take is not your right it is an other mans owne The maner of taking against his will is vnlawfull against the order of euerie good common-wealth The cause why ye take it is mischiefous and horrible to fat your sedition Ye that take it be wicked traitors and common enimies of all good order If he that desireth an other mans goods or cattell doo fault what dooth he thinke you whose desire taking followeth and is led to and fro by lust as his wicked fansie void of reason dooth guide him Hée that vseth not his owne well and charitablie hath much to answer for and shall they be thought not vniust who not onelie take awaie other mens but also misuse and wast the same vngodlie They that take things priuilie awaie and steale secretlie and couertlie other mens goods be by law iudged worthie death and shall they that without shame spoile things openlie and be not affeard by impudencie to professe their spoile be thought either honest creaturs to God or faithfull subiects to their king or naturall men to their countrie If nothing had mooued you but the example of mischeefe and the foule practise of other mooued by the same ye should yet haue absteined line 10 from so licentious and vilanous a shew of robberie considering how manie honester there be that being loth their wickednesse should be blazed abrode yet be found out by prouidence and hanged for desert What shall we then thinke or saie of you Shall we call you pickers or hid theeues naie more than théeues daie théeues heard stealers shire spoilers and vtter destroiers of all kinds of families both among the poore and also among the rich Let vs yet further see Be there no mo things wherein ye line 20 haue broken the
was no lacke to himselfe but to his countrie whose death might euerie way béene better borne than at a rebels hand Uiolence is in all things hurtfull but in life horrible What should I speake of others in the same case diuerse and notable whose death for manhood and seruice can want no woorthie praise so long as these vglie sturrers of rebellion can be had in mind God hath himselfe ioined mans bodie and his soule togither line 20 not to be departed asunder afore he euer disseuer them himselfe or cause them to be disseuered by his minister And shall rebels and heedlesse camps being armed against God and in field against their king thinke it no fault to shed bloud of true subiects hauing neither office of God nor appointment of ministers nor cause of rebellion He that stealeth anie part of a mans substance is woorthie to lose his life What shall we thinke then of them who spoile men of their liues for the maintenance whereof not onelie line 30 substance riches be sought for but also all common-welths be deuised Now then your owne consciences should be made your iudges none other set to giue sentence against ye Séeing ye haue beene such bloudshedders so heinous manquellers so horrible murderers could ye doo anie other than plainlie confesse your foule and wicked rebellion to be gréeuous against God and traitorous to the king and hurtfull to the common-wealth So manie gréeuous line 40 faults meeting togither in one sinke might not onelie haue discouraged but also driuen to desperation anie other honest or indifferent mind But what féele they whose hearts so déepe mischéefe had hardened and by vehemencie of affection be made vnshamefast and stop all discourse of reason to let at large the full scope of their vnmeasurable madnesse Priuat mens goods séeme little to your vnsatiable desires yée haue waxed gréedie now vpon cities and haue attempted mightie spoiles to glut line 50 vp and yée could your wasting hunger Oh how much haue they néed of that will neuer be contented and what riches can suffice anie that will attempt high enterprises aboue their estate Ye could not mainteine your camps with your priuat goods with your neighbours portion but yée must also attempt cities bicause ye sought great spoiles with other mens losses and had forgotten how yee liued at home honestlie with your owne and thought them worthie death that would disquiet yée in your house line 60 and plucke awaie that which yée by right of law thought to be your owne Héerein in sée what yée would haue doone spoiled the kings maiesties subiects weakened the kings strength ouerthrowne his townes taken awaie his munition drawne his subiects to like rebellion yea and as it is among forren enimies in sacking of cities no doubt thereof yee would haue fallen to slaughter of men rauishing of wiues deflouring of maidens chopping of children fiering of houses beating downe of stréets ouerthrowing of altogither For what measure haue men in the increase of madnesse when they can not at the beginning staie themselues from falling into it And if the besetting but of one house to rob it be iustlie deemed worthie death what shall we thinke of them that besiege whole cities for desire of spoile We liue vnder a king to serue him at all times when he shall néed our strength and shall ye then not onlie withdraw your selues which ought as much to be obedient as we be but also violentlie plucke other awaie too fro the dutie vnto the which by Gods commandement all subiects be strictlie bound and by all lawes eueri◠nation is naturallie led The townes be not onelie the ornament of the realme but also the seat of merchants the place of handicrafts that men scattered in villages and néeding diuerse things maie in little roome know where to find the lacke To ouerthrow them then is nothing else but to wast your owne commodities so that when ye would buie a necessarie thing for monie ye could not tell where to find the same Munition serueth the king not onelie for the defense of his owne but also for the inuasion of his enimie And if ye will then so strictlie deale with him that ye will not let him so much as defend his owne ye offer him double iniurie both that ye let him from dooing anie notable fact abrode and also that ye suffer not him quietlie to inioie his owne at home But herein hath notablie appéered what cities haue faithfully serued and suffred extreme danger not onelie of goods but also of famine death rather than to suffer the kings enimies to enter and what white liuered cities haue not onlie not withstood them but also with shame fauored them and with mischiefe aided them And I would I might praise herein all cities alike which I would doo if all were like worthie For then I might shew more faith in subiects than strength in rebelles and testifie to men to come what a generall faith euerie citie bare to the kings maiestie whose age although it were not fit to rule yet his subiects hearts were willing to obeie thinking not onelie of the hope which all men conceiue hereafter to be in him but also of the iust kind of gouernment which in his minoritie his councell dooth vse among them And here how much and how worthilie maie Excester be commended which being in the middest of rebels vnuittelled vnfurnished vnprepared for so long a siege did noblie hold out the continuall and dangerous assault of the rebell For they susteined the violence of the rebell not onlie they had plentie enough of vittels but also eleuen or twelue daies after the extreme famine came on them and liuing without bread were in courage so manfull in dutie so constant that they thought it yet much better to die the extreme death of hunger shewing truth to their king and loue to their countrie than to giue anie place to the rebell and fauor him with aid although they might haue doone it with their lesse danger Whose example if Norwich had followed had not rather giuen place to traitor Ket than to kéepe their dutie and had not sought more safegard than honestie and priuat hope more than common quietnesse they had ended their rebellion sooner and escaped themselues better and saued the losse of the worthie lord Shefféeld in whome was more true seruice for his life than in them for their goods And although this can not be spoken against a certeine honest sort that were amongst them whose praise was the greater bicause they were so few yet the greater number was such that they not onelie obeied the rebell for feare but also folowed him for loue and did so traitorouslie order the kings band vnder my lord marquesse that they suffered more damage out of their houses by the towns men than they did abrode by the rebelles Whose fault as the kings maiestie maie pardon so I
poore The poore by impotencie Poore by casualtie Thriftlesse poore 1 The poore by impotencie are also diuided into three kinds that is to saie 1 The fatherlesse poore mans line 60 child 2 The aged blind and lame 3 The diseased person by leprosie dropsie c. 2 The poore by casualtie are of thrée kinds that is to saie 4 The wounded souldier 5 The decaied housholder 6 The visited with gréeuous disease 3 The thriftles poore are three kinds in like wise that is to saie 7 The riotor that consumeth all 8 The vagabond that will abide in no place 9 The idle person as the strumpet and others For these sorts of poore were prouided thrée seuerall houses First for the innocent and fatherlesse which is the beggers child and is in déed the séed and breeder of beggerie they prouided the house that was late Graie friers in London and now is called Christes hospitall where the poore children are trained in the knowledge of God and some vertuous eâ—ercise to the ouerthrowe of beggerie For the second degrée is prouided the hospitall of saint Thomas in Southworke saint Bartholomew in west Smithfield where are continuallie at least two hundred diseased persons which are not onelie there lodged and cured but also fed and nourished For the third degrée they prouided Bridewell where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes They prouided also for the honest decaied housholder that he should be relieued at home at his house and in the parish where he dwelled by a wéekelie reliefe and pension And in like manner they prouided for the lazer to kéepe him out of the citie from clapping of dishes and ringing of bels to the great trouble of the citizens and also to the dangerous infection of manie that they should be relieued at home at their houses with seuerall pensions Now after this good order taken and the citizens by such meanes as were deuised willing to further the same the report therof was made vnto the kings maiestie and his grace for the aduancement hereof was not onelie willing to grant such as should be the ouerséers and gouernors of the said houses a corporation and authoritie for the gouernement thereof but also required that he might be accounted as the chiefe founder and patrone thereof And for the furtherance of the said worke and continuall maintenance of the same he of his méere mercie and goodnesse granted that where before certeine lands were giuen to the maintenance of the house of the Sauoie founded by king Henrie the seuenth for the lodging of pilgrims and strangers and that the same was now made but a lodging of loiterers vagabonds and strumpets that laie all daie in the fields and at night were harboured there the which was rather the maintenance of beggerie than the reliefe of the poore gaue the same lands being first surrendred into his hands by the maister and fellowes there which lands were of the yearelie value of six hundred pounds vnto the citie of London for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid And for a further reliefe a petition being made to the kings maiestie for a licence to take in mortmaine or otherwise without licence lands to a certeine yearelie â—alue and a space left in the patent for his grace to put in what summe it would please him he looking on the void place called for pen and inke and with his owne hand wrote this summe in these words foure thousand marks by yeare and then said in the hearing of his councell Lord God I yeeld thée most hartie thanks that thou hast giuen mée life thus long to finish this worke to the glorie of thy name After which foundation established he liued not aboue two daies whose life would haue béene wished equall to the patriarchs if it might haue pleased God so to haue protracted the same But he was too good a prince for so bad a people and therefore God remooued him and translated him to his owne kingdome foreséeing the euent of something which in his secret counsell he had purposed against a nation that knew not the benefit of the acceptable time of grace wherein God by this péerelesse princes means ment all good to this land as might be gathered by the reformation of religion wherin the kings care was exceeding great as his desire to establish Gods glorie was zealous according to that notable allusion of Iohn Leland recorded in praise of this most excellent prince as followeth in this epigram Quisquis Eaduerdum Romano expresserat ore Custodem fidei dixerit esse sacrae Hoc ego crediderim puero feliciter orto A superis nomen coelitùs esse datum Est pater antiquae fidei defensor amicus Degener nullo tempore natus erit But to returne where we left By example of the charitable act of this vertuous yoong king sir William Chester knight and alderman of London and line 10 Iohn Calthrop citizen and draper of the said citie at their owne proper costs and charges made the bricke walles and way on the backeside that leadeth from the said new hospitall vnto the hospitall of saint Bartholomewes and also couered and vauted the towne dich from Aldersgate to Newgate which before was verie noisome and contagious to the said hospitall This hospitall being thus erected and put in good order there was one Richard Castell alià s Casteller line 20 shoomaker dwelling in Westminster a man of great trauell and labor in his facultie with his owne hands and such a one as was named the cocke of Westminster for that both winter and summer he was at his worke before foure of the clocke in the morning This man thus trulie and painfullie labouring for his liuing God blessed and increased his labours so abundantlie that he purchased lands and tenements in Westminster to the yearelie value of fortie and foure pounds And hauing no child with the line 30 consent of his wife who suruiued him was a vertuous good woman gaue the same lands wholie to Christs hospitall aforesaid to the reliefe of the innocent and fatherlesse children and for the succor of the miserable sore and sicke harbored in the other hospitals about London whose example God grant manie to follow ¶ The third of August at Midlenton eleuen miles from Oxford a woman brought foorth a child which had two perfect bodies from the nauill vpward and line 40 were so ioined togither at the nauill that when they were laid in length the one head bodie was eastward and the other west the legs for both the bodies grew out at the midst where the bodies ioined and had but one issue for the excrements of both bodies they liued eightéene daies and were women children The eight of August were taken at Quinborow thrée great fishes called dolphins the weeke following at Blackewall were six more taken and line
fact they had doone therein Not long after this a merrie fellow came into Paules and spied the rood with Marie and Iohn new set vp wherto among a great sort of people he made low curtsie said Sir your maistership is welcome to towne I had thought to haue talked further with your maistership but that ye be héere clothed in the quéenes colours I hope ye be but a summers bird for that ye be dressed in white gréene c. The prince thus being in the church of Paules after doctor Harpesfield had finished his oration in Latine set forward through Fléetstreet so came to White hall where he with the quéene remained foure daies after and from thence remooued vnto Richmond After this all the lords had leaue to depart into their countries with strict commandement to bring all their harnesse and artillerie into the tower of London with all spéed Now remained there no English lord at the court but the bishop of Winchester From Richmond they remooued to Hampton court where the hall doore within the court was continuallie shut so that no man might enter vnlesse his errand were first knowne which séemed strange to Englishmen that had not béene vsed thereto The seuentéenth daie of September was a proclamation in London that all vagabonds and maisterlesse men as well strangers as Englishmen should depart the citie within fiue daies and strictlie charging all inholders vittelers tauerners and ale house kéepers with all other that sold vittels that they after the said fiue daies should not sell anie meat drinke or anie kind of vittels or reléefe to anie seruingman whatsoeuer vnlesse he brought a testimoniall from his maister to declare whose seruant he was were in continuall houshold with his said maister vpon paine to runne in danger of the law if they offend herein In September the duke of Norffolke departed this life at Fremingham castell in Norffolke and there was honorablie buried among his ancestors ¶ The 26 of October a Spaniard was hangd at Charingcrosse for killing an Englishman there was offered for his life by other strangers 500 crownes but all that would not staie iustice On fridaie the same 26 of October those honest men that had béene of Throckmortons quest being in number eight for the other foure were deliuered out of prison for that they submitted themselues and said they had offended like weakelings not considering truth to be truth but of force for feare said so these eight men I saie whereof maister Emanuell Lucar and maister Whetston were chéefe were called before the councell in the Starrechamber where they affirmed that they had doone all things in that matter according to their knowledge and with good consciences euen as they should answer before GOD at the daie of iudgement Where maister Lucar said openlie before all the lords that they had doone in the matter like honest men and true and faithfull subiects and therefore they humblie be sought my lord chancellor and the other lords to be meanes to the king and quéenes maiesties that they might be discharged and set at libertie and said that they were all contented to submit themselues to their maiesties sauing and reseruing their truth consciences and honesties The lords taking their words in maruellous euill part iudged them worthie to paie excessiue fines Some said they were worthie to paie 1000 pounds a péece Other said that Lucar and Whetston were worthie to paie a thousand marks a péece and the rest fiue hundred pounds a peece In conclusion sentence was giuen by the lord chancellor that they should paie a thousand marks a peece he that paid least and that they should go to prison againe and there remain till further order were taken for their punishment The thirtith of October being tuesdaie the lord Iohn Greie was deliuered out of the tower and set at libertie Upon saturdaie the tenth of Nouember the shiriffes of London had commandement to take an inuentarie of each one of their goods which were of maister Throckmortons quest to seale vp their doores which was doone the same daie Maister Whetston and maister Lucar and maister Kightlie were adiudged to paie two thousand pounds a péece and the rest a thousand marks a péece to be paid within one fortnight after From this paiment were exempted those foure which confessed a fault therevpon had submitted themselues whose names are these maister Loe maister Pointer maister Beswicke and maister Cater The 12 of Nouember being mondaie the parlement began line 10 at Westminster to the beginning whereof both the king and quéene rode in their parlement robes hauing two swords borne before them The earle of Penbroke bare his sword and the earle of Westmerland bare the quéenes They had two caps of maintenance likewise borne before them whereof the earle of Arundell bare the one and the earle of Shrewesburie the other During this parlement cardinall Poole landed at Douer vpon wednesdaie being the 21 of Nouember who being receiued with line 20 much honor in all other countries through which hee had passed was receiued here at the first with no great shew for the causes aboue mentioned The same daie on the which he arriued an act passed in the parlement house for his restitution in bloud vtterlie repealing as false and most slanderous that act made against him in K. Henrie the eights time And on the next daie being thursdaie and the 22 of Nouember the king and queene both came to the parlement house to giue their roiall assent and to establish line 30 this act against his comming On saturdaie the foure and twentith of Nouember he came to the court and after went to Lambeth where his lodging was prepared On wednesdaie following in the after noone he came into the parlement house being at that present kept in the great chamber of the court of the White hall for that the quéene by reason of sicknesse was not able to go abrode where the king and quéene sitting vnder the cloth of estate and the cardinall sitting line 40 on the right hand with all the other estates of the realme being present and the knights and burgesses of the common house being also called thither the bishop of Winchester being lord chancellor spake in this maner My lords of the vpper house and you my maisters of the nether house here is present the right reuerend father in God my lord cardinall Poole legat A Latere come from the apostolike sée of Rome as ambassador to the king and quéenes maiesties line 50 vpon one of the weightiest causes that euer happened in this realme and which apperteineth to the glorie of God and your vniuersall benefit the which ambassage their maiesties pleasure is to bee signified vnto you all by his owne mouth trusting that you will receiue and accept it in as beneuolent and thankefull wise as their highnesse haue doone and that you will giue attentiue and
entrance heere Behold with how rich hope she leades thee to thy crowne Behold with what two gifts she comforteth thy cheere The first is blessing toongs which manie a welcome saie Which praie thou maist doo well which praise thee to the skie Which wish to thee long life which blesse this happie daie Which to thy kingdome heapes all that in toongs can lie The second is true hearts which loue thee from their root Whose sure is triumph now and ruleth all the game Which faithfulnesse haue woone and all vntruth driuen out Which skip for ioy when as they heare thy happie name Welcome therefore ô queene as much as heart can thinke Welcome againe ô queene as much as toong can tell Welcome to ioyous toongs and hearts that will not shrinke God thee preserue we praie and wish thee euer well At which words of the last line all the people gaue a great shout wishing with one assent as the child had said And the quéens maiestie thanked most heartilie both the citie for this hir gentle receiuing at the first also the people for confirming the same Here was noted in the quéenes maiesties countenance during the time that the child spake besides a perpetuall attentiuenesse in hir face a maruellous change in looke as the childs words either touched hir person or the peoples toongs and hearts So that she with reioising visage did euidentlie declare that the words tooke no lesse place in hir mind than they were most heartilie pronounced by the child as from all the hearts of hir most heartie citizens The same verses were fastened vp in a table line 10 vpon the scaffold and the Latine thereof likewise in Latine verses in another table as herafter insueth Vrbs tua quae ingressis dederit tibi munera primo O regina parem non habitura vide Ad diadema tuum te spe quà m diuite mittat Quae duo laetitiae des tibi dona vide Munus habes primum linguas bona multa precantes Quae te quum laudant tum pia vota soâ—â—ant Foelicémque diem hunc dicunt tibi sacula longa Optant quicquid denique longa potest line 20 Altera dona feres vera tui amantia corda Quorum gens ludum iam reget vna tuum In quibus est infracta fides falsumque perosa Quaeque tuo audito nomine laeta salit Grata venis igitur quantum cor concipit vllum Quantum lingua potest dicere grata venis Cordibus infractis linguisque per omnia laetis Grata venis saluam te velit esse Deus Now when the child had pronounced his oration and the quéenes highnesse so thankefullie had receiued line 30 it she marched forward toward Gratious stréet where at the vpper end before the signe of the eagle the citie had erected a gorgeous and sumptuous arch as here followeth A stage was made which extended from the one side of the stréet to the other richlie vawted with battlements conteining thrée ports and ouer the middlemost was aduanced thrée seuerall stages in degrées Upon the lowest stage was made one seat roiall wherein were placed two personages representing line 40 king Henrie the seuenth and Elizabeth his wife daughter of king Edward the fourth either of these two princes sitting vnder one cloth of estate in their seates none otherwise diuided but that the one of them which was king Henrie the seuenth procéeding out of the house of Lancaster was inclosed in a red rose and the other which was quéene Elizabeth being heire to the house of Yorke inclosed with a white rose each of them roiallie crowned and decentlie apparelled as apperteineth to princes with line 50 scepters in their hands and one vawt surmounting their heads wherein aptlie were placed two tables each conteining the title of those two princes And these personages were so set that the one of them ioined hands with the other with the ring of matrimonie perceiued on the finger Out of the which two roses sprang two branches gathered into one which were directed vpward to the second stage or degrée wherein was placed one representing the valiant noble prince king Henrie the eight which sproong line 60 out of the former stocke crowned with a crowne imperiall and by him sat one representing the right woorthie ladie quéene Anne wife to the said king Henrie the eight and mother to our most souereigne ladie quéene Elizabeth that now is both apparelled with scepters and diadems and other furniture due to the state of a king and quéene and two tables surmounting their heads wherein were written their names and titles From their seat also procéeded vpwards one branch directed to the third and vppermost stage or degrée wherein likewise was planted a seat roiall in the which was set one representing the quéenes most excellent maiestie Elizabeth now our most dread souereigne ladie crowned and apparelled as the other princes were Out of the fore part of this pageant was made a standing for a child which at the queens maiesties comming declared vnto hir the whole meaning of the said pageant The two sides of the same were filled with lowd noises of musicke And all emptie places thereof were furnished with sentences concerning vnitie and the whole pageant garnished wich red roses and white And in the fore front of the same pageant in a faire wreath was written the name and title of the same which was The vniting of the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke This pageant was grounded vpon the quéens maiesties name For like as the long warre betweene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster then ended when Elizabeth daughter to Edward the fourth matched in mariage with Henrie the seuenth heire to the house of Lancaster so sith that the quéenes maiesties name was Elizabeth for somuch as she is the onelie heire of Henrie the eight which came of both the houses as the knitting vp of concord it was deuised that like as Elizabeth was the first occasion of concord so she another Elizabeth might mainteine the same among hir subiects so that vnitie was the end whereat the whole deuise shot as the quéenes maiesties name moued the first ground The pageant now against the quéenes maiesties comming was addressed with children representing the forenamed personages with all furniture due vnto the setting forth of such a matter well meant as the argument declared costlie and sumptuouslie set foorth as the beholders can beare witnesse Now the quéenes maiestie drew néere vnto the said pageant And for so much as the noise was great by reason of the prease of people so that she could scarse heare the child which did interpret the said pageant and hir chariot was passed so far forwards that she could not well view the personages representing the kings quéenes aboue named she required to haue the matter opened vnto hir and what they signified with the end of vnitie and ground of hir name according as is
before expressed For the sight whereof hir grace caused hir chariot to be remooued backe and yet hardlie could she sée because the children were set somewhat with the furthest in But after that hir grace had vnderstood the meaning thereof she thanked the citie praised the fairenesse of the worke and promised that she would doo hir whole indeuor for the continuall preseruation of concord as the pageant did import The child appointed in the standing aboue named to open the meaning of the said pageant spake these words vnto hir grace The two princes that sit vnder one cloth of state The man in the red rose the woman in the white Henrie the seauenth and queene Elizabeth his mate By ring of marriage as man and wife vnite Both heires to both their blouds to Lancaster the king The queene to Yorke in one the two houses did knit Of whome as heire to both Henrie the eight did spring In whose seate his true heire thou queene Elizabeth doost sit Therefore as ciuill warre and shead of bloud did cease When these two houses were vnited into one So now that iarre shall stint and quietnesse increase We trust ô noble queene thou wilt be cause alone The which also were written in Latine verses and both drawen in two tables vpon the fore front of the foresaid pageant as hereafter orderlie followeth Hij quos iungit idem solium quos annulus idem Hac albente nitens ille rubente rosa Septimus Henricus rex regina Elizabetha Scilicet hâ—redes gentis vterque suae Haec Eboracensis Lancastrius ille dederunt line 10 Connubio è geminis quo foret vna domus Excipit hos haeres Henricus copula regum Octauus magni regis imago potens Regibus hinc succedis auis regÃque parenti Patris iusta haeres Elizabetha tui Sentences placed therein concerning vnitie Nullae concordes animos virer doniant Quâ— iuncti terreni deiuncti timent line 20 Discorde sinimi soâ—uubi concordes ligant Augentuâ— pâ—rua pace magna bello caâ—uâ—t Coniuncâ—◠〈◊〉 fortius tollunt â—â—us Regno pro â—â—â—â—nibus aeneis ciuium concordia Qui duc pugnant diutius lugent Dissidentes principes subdi toâ—um 〈◊〉 Princeps ad pacem natus non ad arma datus Filia concordiae copia neptis quies Dissentiens respublica hostibus patet Qui idem tenent duitius tenent line 30 Regnum diuisum facilè dissoluitur Ciuitas concors armis frustrà tentatur Omnium gèntium consensus firmat fidem c. These verses and other pretie sentences were drawen in void places of this pageant all tending to one end that quietnes might be mainteined and all dissention displaced and that by the quéenes maiestie heire to agreement and agreeing in name with hir which to fore had ioined those houses which had béene the occasion of much debate and ciuill war line 40 within this realme as maie appéere to such as will search chronicles but be not to be touched herein onelie declaring hir graces passage through the citie and what prouision the citie made therefore And yer the quéenes maiestie came within hearing of this pageant she sent certeine as also at all the other pageants to require the people to be silent For hir maiestie was disposed to heare all that should be said vnto hir line 50 When the quéenes maiestie had heard the childs oration and vnderstood the meaning of the pageant at large she marched forward toward Cornehill alwaie receiued with like reioising of the people And there as hir grace passed by the conduit which was curiouslie trimmed against that same time with rich banners adorned and a noise of lowd instruments vpon the top thereof she spied the second pageant And bicause she feared for the peoples noise that she shuld not heare the child which did expound the same line 60 she inquired what that pageant was yer that shé◠came to it and there vnderstood that there was a child representing hir maiesties person placed in a seat of gouernement supported by certeine vertues which suppressed their contrarie vices vnder their feet and so foorth as in the description of the said pageant shall hereafter appeere This pageant standing in the nether end of Cornhill was extended from the one side of the stréet to the other And in the same pageant was deuised thrée gates all open and ouer the middle part thereof was erected one chaire or seate roiall with a cloth of estate to the same apperteining wherein was placed a child representing the quéenes highnesse with consideration had for place conuenient for a table which conteined hir name and title and in a comelie wreath artificiallie well deuised with perfect sight and vnderstanding to the people In the front of the same pageant was written the name and title thereof which is The seat of worthie gouernance Which seat was made in such artificiall maner as to the appearance of the lookers on the fore part seemed to haue no staie therefore of force was staied by liuelie personages which personages were in number foure standing and staieng the forefront of the same seat roiall each hauing his face to the quéene and people whereof euerie one had a table to expresse their effects which are vertues namelie Pure religion Loue of subiects Wisedome and Iustice which did tread their contrarie vices vnder their feet that is to wit Pure religion did tread vpon Superstition and Ignorance Loue of subiects did tread vpon Rebellion and Insolencie Wisedome did tread vpon Follie and Uaine glorie Iustice did tread vpon Adulation and Briberie Ech of these personages according to their proper names and properties had not onelie their names in plaine and perfect writing set vpon their breasts easilie to be read of all but also euerie of them was aptlie anâ— properlie apparelled so that his apparell and name did agree to expresse the same person that in title he represented This part of the pageant was thus appointed anâ— furnished The two sides ouer the two side ports had in them placed a noise of instruments which immediatlie after the childs spéech gaue an heauenlie melodie Upon the top or vppermost part of the said pageant stood the armes of England roiallie purtraitured with the proper beasts to vphold the same One representing the quéenes highnesse sat in this seat crowned with an imperiall crowne and before hir seat was a conuenient place appointed for one child which did interpret and applie the said pageant as hereafter shall be declared Euerie void place was furnished with proper sentences commending the seat supported by vertues and defacing the vices to the vtter extirpation of rebellion and to euerlasting continuance of quietnesse and peace The queenes maiestie approching nigh vnto this pageant thus beautified and furnished in all points caused hir charriot to be drawne nigh therevnto that hir grace might heare the childs short oration which was this While that religion true shall ignorance suppresse
pageant But in the opening when hir grace vnderstood that the bible in English should be deliuered vnto hir by Truth which was therein represented by a child she thanked the citie for that gift and said that she would oftentimes read ouer that booke commanding sir Iohn Parrat one of the knights which held vp hir canopie to go before and to receiue the booke But learning that it should be deliuered vnto hir grace downe by a silken lace she caused him to staie and so passed forward till she came against the aldermen in the high end of Cheape before the little conduit where the companies of the citie ended which began at Fanchurch stood along the stréets one by an other inclosed with railes hanged with cloths and themselues well apparelled with manie rich furres and their liuerie hoods vpon their shoulders in comelie and seemelie maner hauing before them sundrie persons well apparelled in silks and chains of gold as wiflers and garders of the said companies besides a number of rich hangings as well of tapistrie arras cloths of gold siluer veluet damaske sattin and other silks plentifullie hanged all the waie as the queenes highnesse passed from the tower thorough the citie Out at the windowes and penthouses of euerie house did hang a number of rich and costlie banners line 10 and stremers till hir grace came to the vpper end of Cheape Where by appointment the right worshipfull master Ranulph Cholmelie recorder of the citie presented to the quéenes maiestie a pursse of crimson sattin richlie wrought with gold wherein the citie gaue vnto the quéens maiestie a thousand marks in gold as master recorder did declare bréefelie vnto the quéens maiestie whose words tended to this end that the lord maior his brethren and communaltie of line 20 the citie to declare their gladnesse and goodwill towards the quéenes maiestie did present hir grace with that gold desiring hir grace to continue their good and gratious queene and not to esteeme the value of the gift but the mind of the giuers The queens maiestie with both hir hands tooke the pursse and answered to him againe maruellous pithilie and so pithilie that the standers by as they imbraced intirelie hir gratious answer so they maruelled at the couching thereof which was in words truelie reported these I thanke my lord maior his brethren and you line 30 all And whereas your request is that I should continue your good ladie and quéene be yee ensured that I will be as good vnto you as euer quéene was to hir people No will in me can lacke neither doo I trust shall there lacke anie power And persuade your selues that for the safetie and quietnesse of you all I will not spare if néed be to spend my bloud God thanke you all Which answer of so noble an hearted princesse if it mooued a maruellous shout line 40 reioising it is nothing to be maruelled at sith both the haltinesse thereof was so woonderfull and the words so iointlie knit When hir grace had thus answered the recorder she marched toward the little conduit where was erected a pageant with square proportion standing directlie before the same conduit with battlements accordinglie And in the same pageant was aduanced two hilles or mounteins of conuenient height The one of them being on the north side of the same pageant line 50 was made â—ragged barren and stonie in the which was erected one trée artificiallie made all withered and dead with branches accordinglie And vnder the same trée at the foot thereof sat one in homelie and rude apparrell crookedlie and in mourning maner hauing ouer his head in a table written in Latine and English his name which was Ruinosa respublica A decaied commonweale And vpon the same withered trée were fixed certeine tables wherein were written proper sentences expressing the causes line 60 of the decaie of a commonweale The other hill on the south side was made faire fresh greene and beautifull the ground thereof full of floures and beautie and on the same was erected also one tree verie fresh and faire vnder the which stood vpright one fresh personage well apparelled and appointed whose name also was written both in English and Latine which was Respublica bene instituta A flourishing common-weale And vpon the same tree also were fixed certeine tables conteining sentences which expressed the causes of a flourishing commonweale In the middle betweene the said hils was made artificiallie one hollow place or caue with doore and locke inclosed out of the which a little before the quéenes highnesse comming thither issued one personage whose name was Time apparelled as an old man with a sieth in his hand hauing wings artificiallie made leading a personage of lesser stature than himselfe which was finelie and well apparrelled all clad in white silke and directlie ouer hir head was set hir name and title in Latine and English Temporis filia The daughter of Time Which two so appointed went forwards toward the south side of the pageant And on hir brest was written hir proper name which was Veritas Truth who held a booke in hir hand vpon the which was written Verbum veritatis The word of truth And out of the south side of the pageant was cast a standing for a child which should interpret the same pageant Against whome when the quéenes maiestie came he spake vnto hir grace these swéet words This old man with the sieth old father Time they call And hir his daughter Truth which holdeth yonder booke Whome he out of his rocke hath brought foorth to vs all From whence this manie yeares she durst not once out looke The ruthfull wight that sits vnder the barren tree Resembleth to vs the forme when common weales decaie But when they be in state triumphant you may see By him in fresh attire that sits vnder the baâ—e Now sith that Time againe his daughter Truth hath brought We trust ô worthie queene thou wilt this truth imbrace And sith thou vnderstandst the good estate and naught We trust wealth thou wilt plant and barrennes displace But for to heale the sore and cure that is not seene Which thing the booke of truth dooth teach in writing plaine Shee dooth present to thee the same ô worthie queene For that that words doo flie but written dooth remaine When the child had thus ended his spéech he reached his booke towards the quéenes maiestie which a little before Truth had let downe vnto him from the hill which by sir Iohn Parrat was receiued and deliuered vnto the quéene But shée as soone as she had receiued the booke kissed it and with both hir hands held vp the same and so laid it vpon hir brest with great thanks to the citie therefore and so went forward towards Paules churchyard The former matter which was rehearsed vnto the quéenes maiestie was written in two tables on either side the pageant eight verses and in the middest these in
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
new fort where the valiant English souldiers shewed well the woonted valure of their woorthie ancestors giuing such an hardie onset vpon their aduersaries that greater manhood had not lightlie appeared in any incounter than was vsed by those martiall capteins and their warlike bands at that present to the high honor of their countrie insomuch that they beat backe their enimies slue and tooke of them to the number of foure hundred beside thirtie faire horsses and an ensigne which one Eastwike lieutenant to capteine Antwisell got Amongst the numbers of them that were slaine there were found aboue thirtie handsome gentlemen and verie well appointed To conclude the Englishmen behaued themselues so manfullie on each side that by plaine force of armes they droue the enimies quite out of the village after set it on fire bicause the enimies should not come to incampe therein as their purpose was to haue doone at that present The six and twentith of Maie the Frenchmen in number about thrée thousand horssemen and footmen came downe towards the windmils neere to the bulworke called saint Addresses against whom the English horsemen and footmen issued foorth of the towne giuing them a right hot skirmish which continued for the space of two houres insomuch that there were slaine of the French to the number of 200 beside an hundred and aboue that were hurt On the English side that daie were lost about a dozzen or thirtéene persons and amongst others was capteine Tremaine slaine and manie hurt To conclude the Englishmen like hardie and worthie souldiers wan and kept the field so as the Frenchmen in the end were driuen to retire and besides other losses which they receiued they had aboue fiftie of their horsses killed and hurt In this skirmish being one of the notablest that had béene lightlie séene manie a daie before capteine Horseie shewed woorthie proofe of his most valiant line 10 courage winning to himselfe such commemdation as the same will not be forgotten whilest anie shall remaine aliue that beheld his manfull dealings being such at that present as deserue to be registred in the booke of fame to continue with posteritie for euer On saturdaie the fift of Iune at seuen of the clocke at night the Reinsgraue hauing laid in the village of Lheure an ambush of six hundred horssemen and fiftéene hundred footmen there came downe also betwéene the abbeie and the village called Englefield line 20 towards the towne the number of a thousand footmen which began a verie hot skirmish first at the new fort comming euen hard to the ditches where the Englishmen manfullie incountered them Herewith also the Reinsgraue appointed other to come downe and approch the bulworks of saint Addresses saint Francis saint Michaell and to conclude round about the towne so that there were of them to the number of six thousand that were imploied in this skirmish which was mainteined right fercelie for the space of two hours with verie sharpe line 30 and cruell fight in the end the enimies were forced to giue place with the losse of fiue hundred of their men Almans Frenchmen Gascoignes and Spaniards The Englishmen verelie in this seruice shewed that they were nothing degenerat from the ancient race of their noble progenitors Besides those that were slaine on the French part amongst whom was one of their capteins of good account amongst them they tooke also Bassompeere an Almane coronell line 40 ouer ten ensignes of footmen The presence of the lord lieutenant was not wanting that daie both to incourage his worthie souldiers and also to sée them applied with weapon â—nd munition so as they should not be vnprouided of anie thing that was néedfull for seruice Of Englishmen there was hurt capteine Gilbert and capteine Pelham and about fiftéene other hurt and slaine The seuenth of Iune capteine Edward Dudleie arriued at Newhauen with an line 50 hundred souldiers The morrow after the first canon shot light within the towne of Newhauen néere to the bulworke of saint Addresses striking into the house where capteine Whéeler was lodged which shot being brought to my lord of Warwike by Blewmantell purseuant at armes his honor beholding it reioised thereat and said by Gods grace he would answer them againe The ninth of Iune arriued at Newhauen three capteins with their bands of an hundred a péece line 60 being of the garrison of Berwike to wit capteine Tremaine capteine Cornewall capteine Carew Edward Randoll also landed there the same daie appointed to be knight marshall For ye must vnderstand that sir Adrian Poinings being knight marshall vpon his returne into England was otherwise emploid and went not backe againe and then was sir Thomas Finch of Kent appointed to go ouer to supplie the roome of knight marshall who making his prouision readie sent ouer his brother Erasmus Finch to haue charge of his band and his kinsman Thomas Finch to be his prouost marshall whilest staieng till he had euerie thing in a readinesse to passe ouer himselfe At last he imbarked in one of the quéenes maiesties ships called the Greiehound hauing there aboord with him beside thréescore and six of his owne retinue fourtéene other gentlemen two of them being brethren to the lord Wentwoorth Iames Wentwoorth and Iohn Wentwoorth with diuerse others who in the whole accounting the mariners amounted vnto the number of 200 persons and vpward And as they were on the furthest coast toward Newhauen they were by contrarie wind and foule weather driuen backe toward the coast of England and plieng towards Rie they forced the capteine of the ship a verie cunning seaman named William Maline and also the maister and mariners to thrust into the hauen before the tide and so they all perished seuen of the meaner sort onlie excepted where of three died shortlie after they came to land The dead bodie of sir Thomas Finch amongst others was cast on shore being knowne was conueied home to his house and there buried in his parish church After this mischance and losse of that woorthie gentleman the said Edward Randoll was appointed knight marshall who ordeined a right sufficient personage capteine Iohn Shute to be his prouost marshall The fifteenth of Iune capteine Richard Sanders and capteine William Saule with their bands of an hundred souldiers a péece and capteine Drurie with two hundred arriued at Newhauen and the morrow after arriued capteine Roberts with another hundred of souldiers And on the seuenteenth of Iune being thursdaie sir Francis Knolles vicechamberleine of the quéenes maiesties house landed there béeing sent ouer by hir maiestie and hir councell to view the state of the towne On fridaie the eightéenth of Iune a sergeant of capteine Blunts band and a souldior of capteine Darcies band were executed in the market place of Newhauen for drawing their weapons against their capteins and forsaking their appointed places of warding
charges also of the citie possession thereof was by certeine aldermen in the name of the whole citizens giuen to line 50 the right worshipfull sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the queenes highnesse there to build a place for merchants to assemble in at his owne proper charges who on the seuenth daie of Iune laid the first stone of the foundation being bricke and foorthwith the workemen followed vpon the same with such diligence that by the moneth of Nouember in An. 1567. the same was couered with slate The commissioners before named appointed for the matters of Flanders kéeping their diet at Bruges agreed to refer the whole matter to the princes on both sides line 60 and if they could not agrée then the merchants to haue fortie daies to repare home with their merchandize and in the meane time all things to stand as they were then Our commissioners departed from Bruges about the six and twentith of Iune The one and thirtith of August the quéenes maiestie in hir progresse came to the vniuersitie of Oxford and was of all the students which had looked for hir comming thither two yeares so honorablie and ioifullie receiued as either their loialnesse towards the quéenes maiestie or the expectation of their fréends did require Concerning orders in disputations and other academicall exercises they agréed much with those which the vniuersitie of Cambridge had vsed two yeares before Comedies also and tragedies were plaied in Christs church where the queenes highnesse lodged Among the which the comedie intituled Palemon and Arcit made by maister Edwards of the quéenes chappell had such tragicall successe as was lamentable For at that time by the fall of a wall and a paire of staires and great presse of the multitude thrée men were slaine The fift of September after disputations the quéene at the humble sute of certeine hir nobilitie and the K. of Spaines ambassador made a bréefe oration in Latine to the vniuersitie but so wise and pithie as England may reioise that it hath so learned a prince and the vniuersitie may triumph that they haue so noble a patronesse The sixt of September after dinner hir grace comming from Christs church ouer Carfox and so to S. Maries the scholers standing in order according to their degrees euen to the east gate certeine doctors of the vniuersitie did ride before in their scarlet gownes and hoods maisters of art in blacke gownes and hoods The maior also with certeine of his brethren did ride before hir in scarlet to the end of Magdalen bridge where their liberties ended but the doctors and maisters went forward still to Shootouer a mile and more out of Oxford bicause their liberties extended so far and there after orations made hir highnes with thanks to the whole vniuersitie bad them farewell and rode to Ricote The valiant capteine Edward Randoll esquier lieutenant of the ordinance and coronell of a thousand footmen in September last past was with his band imbarked at Bristow and within few daies after landed at Knockfergus in the north parts of Ireland and from thence by water to a place called Derrie by which passeth the riuer Longfoile There the said coronell in short space fortified to the great annoiance of Shane Oneil and by great foresight and experience garded himselfe and his charge till the said Oneil to hinder and disturbe his aboad there the twelfe of Nouember arriued with a great armie of Kerne Galowglasses and horssemen with whome the said capteine Randoll incountered and him there so discomfited as after that conflict he durst neuer approch the quéenes power And to his perpetuall fame the said capteine by reason of his bold and hardie onset that daie lost his life Charles Iames the sixt of that name son to Henrie Stuart lord of Darnleie and Marie king queene of Scots was borne in Edenburgh castell the ninetéenth of Iune last past and the eighteenth of December this yeare solemnlie christened at Sterling whose godfathers at the christening were Charles K. of France and Philibert duke of Sauoie and the quéenes maiestie of England was the godmother who gaue a font of gold curiouslie wrought and inameled waieng three hundred thrée and thirtie ounces amounting in value to the summe of 1043 pounds ninetéene shillings The tenth of Februarie in the morning Henrie Stuart lord of Darnleie before named K. of Scots by Scots in Scotland was shamefullie murthered year 1567 the reuenge whereof remaineth in the mightie hand of God The two and twentith of Februarie the ladie Margaret Dowglas countesse of Lineux mother to the said king of Scots was discharged out of the tower of London Within the space of ten moneths last past died seuen aldermen of London the first Edward Bankes deceassed the ninth of Iulie An. 1566 Richard Chamberleine late shiriffe sir Martin Bowes sir Richard Mallorie sir William Hewet and sir Thomas White late maiors then Richard Lambert one of the shiriffes for that yeare the fourth of Aprill 1567. The like mortalitie to haue happened among them about a ten or eleuen yeares before you shall read in the historie of queene Marie in the fourth yeare of hir reigne The two and twentith of Aprill by great misfortune of fire in the towne of Ossestrie in Wales twelue miles from Shrewsburie to the number of two hundred houses to wit seuen score within the wals and three score without in the suburbs besides cloth corne cattell c were consumed which fire began line 10 at two of the clocke in the after noone and ended at foure to the great maruell of manie that so great a spoile in so short a time should happen Two long stréets with great riches in that towne was burnt in the yeare 1542 and likewise or worse in the yeare 1564. The foure and twentith of Aprill the sergeants feast was kept at Greis inne néere vnto Holborne and there were at that time made seuen new sergeants of the law The seuenteenth of Maie in the towne of Milnall in Suffolke eight line 20 miles from Newmarket thirtie seuen houses besides barnes stables and such like were consumed with fire in the space of two houres Shane Oneil who had most traitorouslie rebelled against the quéenes maiestie in Ireland and had doone manie great outrages in the parts of Ulster was this yeare with his great losse manfullie repelled from the siege of Dundalke by the garrison therof and afterward through the great valiancie and foresight of sir Henrie Sidneie knight of the order line 30 and lord deputie of Ireland he was so discomfited in sundrie conflicts with the losse of thrée thousand fiue hundred of his men that now foreséeing his declination to be imminent he determined to put a collar about his necke and disguising himselfe to repaire to the lord deputie and penitentlie to require his pardon to haue his life But Neil Mackeuer his secretarie who had incited him to
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 weâ—â— 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
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
renounced forswore and abiured his opinions for erronious damnable promising neuer to returne line 50 to them and also willinglie to doo and performe all such penance as the bishop his ordinarie should inioine him The ninth of Nouember the said Peter Burchet was remoued from the Lollards tower to the tower of London where on the next morrow about noone whilest one that had kept him companie was gone downe and locked the doore after him leauing an other with him called Hugh Longworth who stood at the window reading in the bible the said Burchet line 60 walking vp and downe in the chamber tooke a billets end out of the fire and knocked the said Longworth on the head and left not till he had striken him starke dead for the which on the next morow he was arreigned condemned at Westminster and then returned to Summerset house where he remained that night and on the next morrow being the twelfe of Nouember he was brought to the gibet where after his right hand being striken off and nailed to the gibbet he was hanged nigh the place where hée wounded master Hawkins This yeare about Lammas wheat was sold at London for thrée shillings the bushell but shortlie after it was raised to foure shillings fiue shillings six shillings before Christmas to a noble and seuen shillings which so continued long after béefe was sold for twentie pence and two and twentie pence the stone and all other flesh and white meats at an excessiue price all kind of salt fish verie deare as fiue herings two pence c yet great plentie of fresh fish and oft times the same verie cheape pease at foure shillings the bushell otemeale at foure shillings eight pence baie salt at thrée shillings the bushell c. All this dearth notwithstanding thanks be giuen to God there was no want of anie thing to them that wanted not monie The fourth of Aprill being Paline sundaie there was taken saieng of masse in the lord Morleis house within Algate of London year 1574 one Albon Dalman priest and the ladie Morleie with hir children and diuerse others were also taken hearing of the said masse There was also taken the same daie and houre for saieng masse at the ladie Gilfords in Trinitie lane one Oliuer Heiwood priest and for hearing of the said masse the said ladie Gilford with diuerse other gentlewomen There was also taken at the same instant in the ladie Browns house in Cowlane for saieng masse one Thomas Heiwood priest and one Iohn Cowper Priest with the ladie Browne and diuers other were likewise taken being hearers of the said masse All which persons were for the same offenses indicted conuicted and had the law according to the statute in that case prouided There was also found in their seuerall chappels diuerse Latine bookes beads images palmes chalices crosses vestments pixes paxes and such like The ninth of Iulie at six of the clocke at night in the I le of Thanet besids Ramesgate in the parish of saint Peter vnder the cliffe a monstrous fish or whale of the sea did shoot himselfe on shore where for want of water beating himselfe on the sands he died about six of the clocke on the next morning before which time he roared and was heard more than a mile on the land The length of this fish was twentie two yards the nether iaw twelue foot the opening one of his eies being taken out of his head was more than six horsse in a cart could draw a man stood vpright in the place from whence the eie was taken The thicknesse from the backe whereon he laie to the top of his bellie which was vpward was fouretéene foot his taile of the same breadth betweene his eies twelue foot thrée men stood vpright in his mouth some of the ribs were six foot long his toong was fiftéene foot long his liuer two cart lode into his nosetrils anie man might haue crept the oile being boiled out of the head was parmasitie the oile of his bodie was whitish and sweet of tast The seuenth of August a solemne obsequie was kept in saint Paules church at London for Charles the ninth king of France who deceassed on the twentie day of Maie last before passed On the fiftéenth daie of August being sundaie Agnes Bridges a maiden about the age of twentie yeares and Rachell Pinder a wench about eleuen or twelue yeares old who both of them had counterfetted to be possessed by the diuell wherby they had not onelie maruellouslie deluded manie people both men and women but also diuerse such persons as otherwise séemed to be of good wit and vnderstanding stood before the preacher at Paules crosse where they acknowledged their hypocriticall counterfetting with penitent behauiours requiring forgiuenesse of God and the world and the people to praie for them Also their seuerall examinations and confessions were there openlie read by the preacher and afterwards published in print for the further posteritie hereafter to beware of the like deceiuers The fourth of September in the after noone such a storme of raine happened at London as the like of long time could not be remembred wherethrough the chanels of the citie suddenlie rising ran with such a forceable course towards the common sewes that a lad about the age of eightéene yeares minding to haue lept ouer the chanell neere vnto Dowgate was borne ouer with the streame and by the same caried from the conduit there towards the Thames with such a swiftnesse that no man with staues or otherwise could stay him till he came against a cart wheele that stood in the watergate afore which he was drowned line 10 and starke dead This yeare the maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his oth as hath béene accustomed he kept no feast at the Guildhall although great prouision had béene made for that purpose but dined at his owne house with his brethren the aldermen the companies dined at their seuerall halles This was doone by the speciall appointment of the quéenes maiesties councell to auoid infection of the plague like to haue increased by line 20 comming togither of such a multitude This wéeke from the two and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October deceased in the citie and liberties conteining an hundred and eight parishes of all diseases one hundred thréescore six of the which number thréescore and fiue were accounted to die of the plague Michaelmas tearme which had beene adiourned by proclamation began at Westminster on the sixt of Nouember The same sixt day in the morning there happened two great tides at London in the line 30 riuer of Thames the first by course the other within one houre following which ouerflowed the marshes with manie vaults and cellars neare adioining The fourtéenth of Nouember being sundaie about midnight following diuerse strange impressions of fire and smoke were séene in the aire to
those that bled till they died stroue so much with their sickenesse that the bloud issued out at their vents but yet had perfect memorie euen to the yéelding of their breath as was verie well perceiued by sir William Babington who neuer ceased to call vpon God in his great agonie c. This reported W. B. as a certeine truth to stop the flieng rumors of those that as he saith haue spoken vntrulie in this behalfe and published their owne fantasies On sundaie the fourth of August betwéene the houres of nine and ten of the clocke in the forenone whilest the minister was reading of the second lesson in the parish church of Bliborough a towne in Suffolke a strange and terrible tempest of lightening and thunder strake thorough the wall of the same church into the ground almost a yard déepe draue downe all the people on that side aboue twentie persons then renting the wall vp to the reuestre clef◠the doore and returning to the steeple rent the timber brake the chimes fled toward Bongie a towne six miles off The people that were striken downe were found groueling more than halfe an houre after whereof one man more than fortie yeares and a boie of fiftéene yeares old were found starke dead the other were scorched The same or the like flash of lightening and cracks of thunder rent the parish church of Bongie nine miles from Norwich wroong in sunder the wiers and whéeles of the clocks slue two men which sat in the belfreie when the other were at the procession or suffrages and scorched an other which hardlie escaped The tower on London bridge being taken downe and a new foundation drawne sir Iohn Langleie lord maior of the citie of London laid the first stone on the eight and twentith line 10 daie of August in the presence of the shiriffes of London the two bridgemasters which new tower was finished in the moneth of September Anno 1579. The thirtith daie of Nouember Cutbert Maine was drawne hanged and quartered at Lanceston in Cornewall for preferring Romane power The seuentéenth of Ianuarie one Simon Penbrooke dwelling in saint Georges parish in Southworke being a figureflinger and vehementlie suspected to line 20 be a coniurer by commandement of the ordinarie iudge for those parties appeared in the parish church of saint Sauiors in Southworke at a court holden there Which Simon being busied in interteining a proctor and hauing monie in his hand leaned his head vpon a pew wherein the proctor stood which after he had doone a certeine space the proctor began to lift vp his head to sée what he ailed and found him departing out of life and streightwaie the said Simon fell downe ratling a little in the throte and neuer line 30 spake word after This was doone euen as the iudge came into the church who said it was the iust iudgement of God towards those that vsed sorcerie and a great example to admonish other to feare the iustice of God After his clothes being opened there were found about him fiue diuelish bookes of coniuration and most abhominable practises with a picture of tin of a man hauing thrée dice in his hand with this poesie Chance dice fortunatlie diuerse papers of such like matters as he had dealt in for men such line 40 men I meane as are mentioned in Leuiticus the twentith chapter and sixt verse If anie soule turne himselfe after such as woorke with spirits and after soothsaiers to go a whooring after them saith the Lord I will put my face against that soule and will cut him off from among my people The third daie of Februarie Iohn Nelson for denieng the quéenes supremasie and such other traitorous words against hir maiestie was drawne from Newgate to Tiburne and there hanged line 50 bowelled and quartered And on the seuenth of the same moneth of Februarie Thomas Sherewin was likewise drawne from the tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for the like offense The fiue and twentith of Februarie Iohn de Loy a Frenchman and fiue English gentlemen was conueied from the tower of London towards Norwich there to be arreigned and executed for coining of monie counterfeit And on the ninth of March seuen pirats were hanged at Wapping line 60 in the ouze beside London The ladie Margaret countesse of Lennox deceased on the tenth of March year 1578 at hir house in the parish of Hackneie besides London and was buried at Westminster on the third of Aprill The one and thirtith and last of Maie Martine Frobisher with fifteene saile of good ships manned vittelled and otherwise well appointed departed from Harwich in Essex on his third voiage towards Cataia And on the one and thirtith and last daie of Iulie after manie attempts and sundrie times being put backe by Ilands of ice in the streicts he recouered his long wished port and came to anchor in the Ilands newlie by hir maiestie named Meta incognita where as in the yeare before they fraught their ships with the like stone or gold ore out of the mines and then on the last of August returning thense arriued safelie in England about the first of October The two and twentith of Ianuarie being thursdaie about seuen of the clocke at night Iohn Cassimere countie palatine of Rhene duke of Bauare landing at the tower of London was there by diuerse noble men and others honourablie receiued and conueied by cresset light and torch light to sir Thomas Greshams house in Bishops gate street where he was receiued with sounding of trumpets drums fiefs and other instruments of musicke and there both lodged and feasted till sundaie next that he was by the nobilitie fetched and conueied to the court at Westminster where after he had talked with hir maiestie he returned vnto Summersets house at the strand and was there lodged In the wéeke following he hunted at Hampton court On sundaie the first of Februarie he beheld a valiant iusting and running at the tilt at Westminster On the next morrow in the same place he saw them fight at barriers with swords on horsse backe On tuesdaie he dined with the lord maior of London on wednesdaie with the dutchesse of Suffolke at hir house called the Barbican in Red crosse stréet on thursdaie at the Stilliard c. On sundaie the eight of Februarie the quéene made him knight of the garter by deliuering to him the collar putting the garter on his leg at White hall And on the fourteenth of Februarie he departed from London to Rochester homewards with great rewards giuen to him by the quéenes maiestie the nobilitie men of honour the lord maior of London and other citizens of that citie The same moneth of Februarie to wit on the fourth daie and in the night next following year 1579 fell such abundance of snow that on the fift daie in the morning the same snow was found in London to lie two foot
déepe in the shallowest and otherwise being driuen by the wind verie boisterous in the northeast on banks one ell or a yard a half déepe In the which drifts of snow farre deeper in the countrie manie cattell and some men and women were ouerwhelmed and lost It snowed till the eight daie of that moneth and frised till the tenth and then followed a â—haw with continuall raine a long time after which caused such high waters and great flouds that the marishes and low grounds being drowned for the time and the water of the Thames rose so high into Westminster hall that after the fall thereof some fishes were found to remaine in the said hall The seuentéenth of Februarie an Irishman for murdering of a man in a garden of Stepenheth parish was hanged in chaines on the common called Mile end gréene This common was sometimes yea in the memorie of men yet liuing a large mile long from White chappell to Stepenheth church and therefore called Mile end greene but now at this present by gréedie and as séemeth to me vnlawfull inclosures and building of houses notwithstâ—nding hir maiesties proclamation to the contrarie it remaineth scarse halfe a mile in length The twentith daie of Februarie deceased sir Nicholas Bacon lord kéeper of the great seale of England who was honourablie buried vnder a sumptuous monument or toome by him in his life time erected in S. Pauls church of London on the ninth daie of March This sir Nicholas Bacon in his life time gaue for six scholers to be found in Bennets college in Cambridge to each of them three pounds six shillings and eight pence the yeare for euer ¶ The said sir Nicholas Bacons toome aforesaid bearing certeine representations of his wiues and children in imagerie worke is adorned with a notable epitaph wherein is pithilie described the meanes whereby he grew to be noble as also immortall The same being conteined in these verses following and iustifiable by the verie epitaph whereof this is a true transcription great pitie but it shuld be perpetuall Hic Nicolaum ne Baconum conditum Existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni secundum columen exitium malis line 10 Bonis asylum caeca quem non extulit Ad hunc honorem sors sed aequitas fides Doctrina pietas vnica prudentia Non morte raptum crede qui vnica Vita perennes emerit duas agit Vitam secundam coelites inter animus Fama implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est Hac positum in ara est corpus olim animi domus Ara dicata sempiternae memoriae This yeare in the moneth of Aprill to wit on the line 20 foure and twentith daie fell such a snow betwéene the hours of foure of the clocke in the morning nine of the clocke before noone of the same daie that in London the same snow was found to lie one foot déepe The 25 daie of Aprill sir Thomas Bromleie knight was made lord chancellor of England The chancellors of England collected out of sundrie ancient line 30 histories THe creation of this sir Thomas Bromleie lord chancellor hath occasioned me to treate of the chancellors of England a matter which I haue béene the willinger to set downe because I would minister cause to others who haue long wanted of their cunning in this matter to impart to the world some of their great knowledge herein to the benefit of their countrie But since I doubt that they will line 40 not accept this in good part till that come And as I may perhaps doo in this somewhat more largelie than in the iudgement of others shall seeme answerable to the most receiued opinion touching the chancellors treat of the antiquitie of them so yet I haue no mind to erre or to leade anie other into error Wherefore if things be not in perfection vpon this first rough hewing as nothing is at the first so exquisit as time dooth not after amend it yet disdaine it not sith this may giue more light than line 50 before was knowen And I determine God willing either to amend or to confesse and auoid in the large description of their liues whatsoeuer imperfections haue now distilled out of my pen either for mistaking or misplacing of name person or time and so to the matter It hath beene some question amongst the best antiquaries of our age that there were neuer anie chancellors in England before the comming of Edward the confessor out of Normandie whome they line 60 suppose to haue brought the same officer with him from thense into this realme But sith I am with manie reasons and ancient authorities led to beleue the contrarie I will imbrace the contrarie opinion therevnto and hold in this discourse as the order thereof shall prooue that there were chancellors before saint Edwards time for the confirmation whereof and for the authoritie of them for the etymologie and originall of the name and for the continuance of their office thou shalt find an ample discourse in my booke purposelie written of the liues of the chancellors whervnto I wholie refer thée who I hope shall within these few yeares be partaker thereof and in the meane time giue thee this tast of the age and names of the chancellors and vicechancellors and such keepers of the great seale as serued in place of chancellors For euerie one that was kéeper of the great seale was not intituled chancellor no more than euerie chancellor was intituled the keeper of the greatseale But because the one did serue in the vacancie of the other so that after a certeine sort the kéeper of the great seale was vicechancellor and possessed the place though not the name of a chancellor as in our age sir Nicholas Bacon did we therefore haue set downe the names of the one and the other as they followed in succession of time after this manner Turketill chancellor to Ethelbald who began his reigne about the yeare of Christ 718 which Turketill gaue six manours to the abbeie of Croâ—land as I haue séene noted Saint Swithin bishop of Winchester was chancellor and chiefe of councell to the great monarch king Egbert though some attribute him to Edgar which Egbert began his reigne about the yeare of Christ 802. Wlfinus chancellor to king Athelstan who began his reigne in the yeare of our redemption nine hundred and foure and twentie Adulphus chancellor to king Edgar who began his reigne in the yeare that the world became flesh nine hundred fiftie and nine of this man speaketh Hugo Petro Burgensis and Leland calleth this Adulph Cancellarium archigrammatum chancellor or chiefe secretarie Alsius or Aelsius the second abbat of Elie chancellor to king Etheldred who began his reigne in the yeare of Christ nine hundred seuentie and eight this man being by Ethelwold bishop of Winchester consecrated abbat at the appointment of the said king Ethelred or Egelred
woorsteds commmonlie called Norwich woorsted was first practised and tooke their beginning which tempest beat the corne flat vnto the ground rent vp manie great trees and shiuered them in peeces or woond them like withies At Hening more than a mile from Worsted the west doore of the church weieng more than thrée hundred pound weight was lifted off the hookes and throwne ouer the font within one yard of the chancell doore the top of the church was riuen vp and the lead as it were blowen awaie fiue webs of lead were ruffled vp togither like as they had béene clouts of linnen cloth and blowen into the field without the churchyard Also at east Russen were manie barnes blowen downe and houses vncouered This yeare Michaelmasse terme was reiourned from the vtas thereof vntill the fourth returne of the same called Mense Michaelis and from the said returne vntill the returne commonlie called Crastino animarum next insuing then reiorned from Westminster to the castell of Hertford in Hertfordshire there to begin in the said Crastino animarum and to be continued till the end of the same terme which was doone accordinglie where was plentie of good viands to be had for monie but lodging hard and scant besides the long and plashie waie that manie had vnto their hosts and then peraduenture sléepe in the chimneie corner or vpon the hard boords with a pillow vnder their heads Was not this a good amends This yeare Peter Moris frée denison hauing made an engine for that purpose conueied Thames water in pipes of lead ouer the stéeple of saint Magnus church at the north end of London bridge and so into diuerse mens houses in Thames stréet new Fish stréet and Grasse street vp vnto the northwest corner of Leaden hall the highest ground of the citie of Londâ—n where the waste of the first maine pipe ran first this yeare one thousand fiue hundred eightie and two on Christmasse éeuen which maine pipe being since at the charges of the citie brought vp into a standard there made for that purpose and diuided into foure seuerall spouts ran foure waies plentifullie seruing to the vse of the inhabitants néere adioining that will fetch the same into their houses and also clensed the chanels of the stréets north towards Bishopsgate east towards Aldgate south towards the Bridge and west towards the Stocks market No doubt a great commoditie to that part of the citie and would be farre greater if the said water were mainteined to run continuallie or at the least at euerie tide some reasonable quantitie as at the first it did but since is much aslaked thorough whose default I know not sith the engine is sufficient to conueie water plentifullie which being well considered by Barnard Randolph esquier common sergeant of the citie of London he being aliue gaue and deliuered to the companie of the fishmongers in London a round sum to be imploied toward the conducting of Thames water for the good seruice of the commonwealth in conuenient order Other legacies verie liberallie and bountifullie he gaue by his testament to be laid out in works of charitie as I haue noted more at large hereafter in due line 10 place vpon occasion of recording the daie of his death The publication of whose acts as also of diuerse others if they may mooue the rich of this world to part with some small portion of their store to the like christian vses I shall be glad and thinke my paines worth the printing otherwise I saie with one that persuading this age to walke worthie of their calling and doubting his words should be but wind concluded with this interrogatiue distichon Sed quid verba miser non proficientia per do line 20 Quid iuuat in vacuos missa loquela notos This yeare 1582 was there instituted and first founded a publike lecture or lesson in surgerie to begin to be read in the college of physicians in London in Anno 1584 the sixt daie of Maie against that time new reedified in a part of the house that doctor Linacre gaue by testament to them by Iohn Lumleie lord Lumleie and Richard Caldwell doctor in physicke to the honour of God the common profit of hir maiesties subiects and good same with line 30 increase of estimation and credit of all the surgians of this realme The reader whereof to be a doctor of physicke and of good practise and knowledge and to haue an honest stipend no lesse than those of the vniuersities erected by king Henrie the eight namelie of law diuinitie and physicke and lands assured to the said college for the maintenance of the publike lesson wherevnto such statutes be annexed as be for the great commoditie of those which shall giue and incline themselues to be diligent hearers for the obteining line 40 of knowledge in surgerie as whether he be learned or vnlearned that shall become an auditor or hearer of the lecture he may find himselfe not to repent the time so imploied First twise a wéeke thorough out the yeare to wit on wednesdaies and fridaies at ten of the clocke till eleuen shall the reader read thrée quarters of an houre in Latine and the other quarter in English wherein that shall be plainlie declared for those that vnderstand not Latine what was said in Latine And the first yeare to read Horatius Morus tables an epitome or briefe handling line 50 of all the whole art of surgerie that is of swellings or apostems wounds vlcers bonesetting and healing of bones broken termed commonlie fractions and to read Oribasius of knots and Galen of bands such workes as haue beene long hid and are scarselie now a daies among the learned knowen and yet are as the anatomies to the first enterers in surgerie and nouices in physicke but amongst the ancient writers and Grecians well line 60 knowne At the end of the yeare in winter to disseâ—t openlie in the reading place all the bodie of man especiallie the inward parts for fiue daies togither as well before as after dinner if the bodies may so last without annoie The second yeare to read Tagaultius institutions of surgerie and onelie of swellings or apostems and in the winter to dissect the trunke onelie of the bodie namelie from the head to the lowest part where the members are and to handle the muscles especiallie The third yeare to read of wounds onelie of Tagaultius and in winter to make publike dissection of the head onelie The fourth yeare to read of vlcers onlie the same author and to anatomize or dissect a leg and an arme for the knowledge of muscles sinewes arteries veines gristles ligaments and tendons The fift yeare to read the sixt booke of Paulus Aegineta and in winter to make anatomie of a skeleton therwithall to shew declare the vse of certeine instruments as Scamnum Hippocratis and other instruments for setting in of bones The sixt yeare to read Holerius of the matter
Spanish ambassador with these papers as he hath confessed when he made him partaker of the rest of his traitorous practises deuises as you haue heard and thought his casket of treasons to be most safelie committed to his hands It may be thought that there is no man of so simple vnderstanding that will iudge to the contrarie vnlesse he be parciallie affected to excuse the treasons And now to shew vnto you what mind this man hath carried towards hir maiestie you are to be informed that Francis Throckemorton after he had discouered to hir maiestie his course of practising repenting himselfe of his plaine dealing in the bewraieng thereof said to some of the commissioners vpon occasion of speach I would I had béene hanged when I first opened my mouth to declare anie of the matters by me confessed And being at other times sent vnto by hir maiestie with offer of pardon if he would disclose the whole packe and complices of the treasons he vsed this argument to persuade hir maiestie that he had confessed all saieng that Sith he had alreadie brought himselfe by his confessions within the danger of the lawes to the vtter ruine of his house and familie he wondered why there should be anie conceit in hir maiestie that he had not declared all But to persuade such as were sent vnto him for these purposes the rather to beleeue that he could discouer no more at one time he vsed these speeches following with great vehemencie Now I haue disclosed the secrets of hir who was the déerest thing vnto me in the world meaning the Scotish quéene and whom I thought no torment should haue drawen line 10 me so much to haue preiudiced as I haue doone by my confessions I sée no cause why I should spare anie one if I could saie ought against him and sith I haue failed of my faith towards hir I care not if I were hanged And when he began first to confesse his treasons which he did most vnwillinglie after he was entered into the declaration of them before all the commissioners vpon aduisement he desired he might deliuer his knowledge but to one of them onelie wherevnto they yéelded And therevpon remoouing aside line 20 from the place where he sat by the racke he vsed this prouerbe in Italian Chi a perso la fede a perso l'honore that is He that hath falsed his faith hath lost his reputation meaning thereby as it may be conceiued that he had giuen his faith to be a traitor and not to reueale the treasons then he began to confesse as you haue heard By this discourse conteining the principall heads of his treasons and the proofes and circumstances of the same you that are not transported with vndutifull minds and affections will line 30 cléerelie perceiue how impudéntlie and vntrulie he denied at his arreignement the truth of his confessions charging hir maiestie with crueltie and hir ministers with vntruths in their proceeding against him But the cause that mooued him thereto was the vaine conceit he had taken that his case was cleere in law by the intermission of the time betweene his confession made and his arreignement grounding himselfe vpon a statute of the thirtéenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne in the which there are certeine treasons line 40 specified and made of that nature that no person shal be arreigned for anie of those offenses committed within anie of the quéenes maiesties dominions vnlesse the offendor be thereof indicted within six moneths next after the same offense committed and shall not be arreigned for the same vnlesse the offense be prooued by the testimonie and oth of two sufficient witnesses or his voluntarie confession without violence wherein he was greatlie deceiued For it was made manifest vnto him by the line 50 lord chiefe iustice and other of the iudges in commission at his triall that his treasons were punishable by a statute of 25. Edw. 3. which admitted no such limitation of time or proofe Herein his skill failed him and forgot the aduise giuen vnto him by some of the commissioners who pitieng his misfortune for sundrie good gifts of the mind appearing in him assured him that there was no waie so readie for him to redéeme his life as by submission and acknowleding of his offense which for a time after he had confessed line 60 his treasons he was contented to follow and now eftsoones after his condemnation by a new submission to the quéens maiestie the fourth of Iune had resumed that course The submission Verbatim written with his owne hand followeth To hir most excellent maiestie euen to hir owne roiall hands MOst excellent prince and my most gratious souereigne sith to me the most miserable of all your maiesties poore distressed subiects being iustlie condemned by the ordinarie and orderlie course of your maiesties laws there resteth no further meane of defense but submission vouchsafe most excellent prince gratiouslie to accept the same which prostrate in all humilitie I here present vnto the hands of your most excellent maiestie beseeching the same that as iustice hath beene deriued from your highnesse as from the founteine to the triall of mine actions so I may receiue from the same spring some drop of grace and mercie for the great grieuous offense wherof I rest by your maiesties lawes iustlie condemned some part I saie of that your accustomed gratious clemencie wherof most your distressed subiects haue tasted and few beene depriued And albeit the inconsiderate rashnesse of vnbridled youth hath withdrawen me from that loiall respect which nature dutie bound me to owe vnto your maiestie as to my lawfull naturall dread souereigne and that the naturall care in me of the defense of my life mooued me latelie to the vntrue vndutifull gainesaieng of some such points as had beene before by me in most humble sort confessed neuerthelesse I most humblie beseech your most excellent maiestie that in imitation of God whose image both in respect of the happie place you hold as also in regard of your singular wisdome and other the rare and singular vertues perfections wherwith God nature hath plentifullie indued you you represent vnto vs here in earth it may please your maiestie to commiserate the lamentable estate of me now the most miserable of all your maiesties subiects and gratiouslie to grant vnto me remission and forgiuenes that not onelie doo most humblie confesse my selfe worthie of death but also in shew of my repentance and sorowfull afflicted mind doo not craue at your maiesties hands the prolonging of my life if the same shall not stand with your gratious good plesure but rather desire the trebling of the torment iustlie by your maiesties lawes imposed vpon me if the same may be anie satisfaction to your maiestie for the heinous crime whereof I remaine by your maiesties lawes iustlie condemned or anie mitigation of your maiesties indignation worthilie conceiued against me that desire
Parrie the same mondaie in the euening though not so knowne to him should be sent vnto maister secretaries house in London he being then there who according vnto such direction as he receiued from hir maiestie did let him vnderstand that hir highnesse in respect of the good will she knew he line 40 bare vnto the said Parrie of the trust that Parrie did outwardlie professe to repose in maister secretarie had made especiall choice of him to deale with him in a matter that concerned hir highlie and that the doubted not but that he would discharge his dutie towards hir according vnto that extraordinarie deuotion that he professed to beare vnto hir And therevpon he told him that hir maiestie had béene aduertised that there was somewhat intended presentlie against hir owne person wherwith she line 50 thought he could not but be made acquainted considering the great trust that some of hir woorst affected subiects reposed in him and that hir pleasure therefore was that he should declare vnto him his knowledge therein and whether the said Parrie himselfe had let fall anie spéech vnto anie person though with an intent onelie to haue discouered his disposition that might draw him in suspicion as though he himselfe had anie such wicked intent But line 60 Parrie with great and vehement protestations denied it vtterlie Whervpon maister secretarie the rather to induce him to deale more plainelie in a matter so important declared vnto him that there was a gentleman of qualitie euerie waie as good or better than himselfe and rather his friend than enimie that would auouch it to his face yet Parrie persisted stubbornelie in his former deniall and iustification of his owne innocencie and would not in anie respect yéeld that he was partie or priuie to anie such motion enterprise or intent Being lodged that night at M. secretaries house the next morning he desired earnestlie to haue some further spéech with maister secretarie which granted Parrie declared to him that he had called to remembrance that he had once some spéech with one Neuill a kinsman of his so he called him touching a point of doctrine conteined in the answer made to the booke intituled The execution of iustice in England by which booke it was resolued that it was lawfull to take awaie the life of a prince in furtherance of the catholike religion but he protested that they neuer had anie speech at all of anie attempt intended against hir maiesties person Which deniall of his at two sundrie times after so much light giuen him dooth set forth most apparantlie both the iustice and prouidence of God his iustice for that though he was one of a sharpe conceipt he had no power to take hold of this ouerture thereby to haue auoided the danger that Neuils accusation might bring him into by confessing the same as a thing propounded onelie to féele Neuils mind whome before he had reported vnto maister secretarie he found a person discontented and therefore his confession might to verie great purpose haue serued to haue cléered himselfe touching the intent his prouidence for that of his great mercie he would not suffer so dangerous and wicked a member to escape and liue to hir maiesties perill The same daie at night Parrie was brought to the earle of Leicesters house and there eftsoons examined before the said earle of Leicester maister vicechamberlaine and maister secretarie he persisted still in his deniall of all that he was charged with Wherevpon Neuill being brought before him face to face iustified his accusation against him He notwithstanding would not yet yéeld to confesse it but verie proudlie and insolentlie opposed his credit against the credit of Neuill affirming that his no was as good as Neuils yea as by way of recrimination obiected the crime to Neuill himselfe On the other side Neuill did with great constancie affirme all that he had before said and did set downe manie probable circumstances of the times places and maners of their sundrie conferences and of such other accidents as had happened betwéene them in the course of that action wherevpon Parrie was then committed to the Tower and Neuill commanded by their honors to set downe in writing vnder his hand all that which before he had deliuered by words which he did with his owne hand as followeth Edmund Neuill his declaration the tenth of Februarie 1584 subscribed with his owne hand WIlliam Parrie the last summer soone after his repulse in his sute for the maistership of saint Katharins repaired to my lodging in the White friers where he shewed himselfe a person greatlie discontented and vehementlie inueighed against hir maiestie and willed me to assure my selfe that during this time and state I should neuer receiue contentment But sith said he I know you to be honorablie descended and a man of resolution if you will giue me assurance either to ioine with me or not to discouer me I will deliuer vnto you the onelie meanes to doo your selfe good Which when I had promised him he appointed me to come the next daie to his house in Feuterlane repairing thither accordinglie I found him in his bed wherevpon he commanded his men foorth and began with me in this order My lord said he for so he called me I protest before God that thrée reasons principallie doo induce me to enter into this action which I intend to discouer vn to you the replanting of religion the preferring of the Scotish title and the aduancement of iustice woonderfullie corrupted in this common-wealth And therevpon entred into some discourses what places were fit to be taken to giue entrance to such forren forces as should be best liked of for the furtherance of such enterprises as were to be vndertaken And with these discourses he passed the time vntill he went to dinner after which the companie being retired he entered into his former discourses And if I be not deceiued said he by taking of Quinborough line 10 castell we shall hinder the passage of the quéenes ships foorth of the riuer Wherevnto when he saw me vse no contradiction he shooke me by the hand Tush said he this is nothing if men were resolute there is an enterprise of much more moment and much easier to performe an act honorable and meritorious to God and the world Which séeing me desirous to know he was not ashamed to vtter in plaine termes to consist in killing of hir maiestie wherein saith he if you will go with me I will line 20 loose my life or deliuer my countrie from hir bad and tyrannous gouernment At which spéeches finding me discontented he asked me if I had read doctor Allens booke out of which he alledged an authoritie for it I answered no and that I did not beléeue that authoritie Well said he what will you saie if I shew further authoritie than this euen from Rome it selfe a plaine dispensation for the killing of hir wherein you shall find
Morgan assured me that shortlie after my departure the L. Fernehurst then in Paris should go into Scotland and be readie vpon the first newes of the queens fall to enter into England line 10 with 20 or 30000 men to defend the queene of Scotland whom and the king hir sonne I doo in my conscience acquit of anie priuitie liking or consent to this or anie other bad action for anie thing that euer I did know I shortlie departed for England and arriued at Rie in Ianuarie 1583 from whense I wrote to the court aduertised some that I had a speciall seruice to discouer to the quéens maiestie 8 Which I did more to prepare accesse and credit than for anie care I line 20 had of hir person though I were fullie resolued neuer to touch hir notwithstanding anie warrant if by anie deuise persuasion or policie she might be wrought to deale more gratiouslie with the catholikes than she dooth or by our maner of procéeding in parlement meaneth to doo for anie thing yet seene I came to the court then at Whitehall praied audience had it at large and verie priuatlie discouered to hir maiestie this conspiracie much to this effect though couered with all the skill I had she tooke line 30 it doubtfullie I departed with feare And amongst other things I cannot forget hir maiesties gratious speech then vttered touching the catholikes which of late after a sort I auowed in parlement she said to me that neuer a catholike should be troubled for religion or supremasie so long as they liued like good subiects Whereby I mistrusted that hir maiestie is borne in hand that none is troubled for the one or the other It may be trulie said that it is better than it hath béene though it be not yet as it should be line 40 In March last while I was at Gréenewich as I remember suing for saint Katharines came letters to me from cardinall Como dated at Rome the last of Ianuarie before whereby I found the enterprise commended and allowed and my selfe absolued in his holinesse name of all my sinnes and willed to go forward in the name of God That letter I shewed to some in court who imparted it to the quéene what it wrought or maie worke in hir maiestie God knoweth onelie this I know 9 That line 50 it confirmed my resolution to kill hir and made it cléere in my conscience that it was lawfull and meritorious And yet was I determined neuer to doo it if either policie practise persuasion or motion in parlement could preuaile I feared to be tempted and therefore alwaies when I came neere hir I left my dagger at home 10 When I looked vpon hir maiestie remembred hir manie excellencies I was greatlie troubled and yet I saw no remedie for my vowes were in heauen my letters and promises in earth and the case of the catholike recusants and others line 60 little bettered Sometimes I said to my selfe Why should I care for hir What hath she doone for me Haue I not spent ten thousand markes since I knew hir seruice and neuer had penie by hir It maie be said she gaue me my life But I saie as my case stood it had béene tyrannie to take it and I feare me it is little lesse yet If it please hir gratiouslie to looke into my discontentments would to Iesus Christ she had it for I am wearie of it And now to come to an end of this tragicall discourse In Iulie I left the court vtterlie reiected discontented and as hir maiestie might perceiue by my passionate letters carelesse of my selfe I came to London doctor Allens booke was sent me out of France 11 It redoubled my former conceipts euerie word in it was a warrant to a prepared mind It taught that kings maie be excommunicated depriued and violentlie handled It prooueth that all warres ciuill or forren vndertaken for religion is honourable Hir maiestie maie doo well to read it and to be out of doubt if things be not amended that it is a warning and a doctrine full dangerous This is the booke I shewed in some places read and lent to my cousine Neuill the accuser who came often to mine house put his finger in my dish his hand in my purse and the night wherein he accused me was wrapped in my gowne six moneths at least after we had entered into this conspiracie in which space hir maiestie and ten princes in seuerall prouinces might haue béene killed God blesse hir maiestie from him for before almightie God I ioie and am glad in my soule that it was his hap to discouer me in time though there were no danger neere And now to the matter of our méetings He came to me in the beginning of August and spake to me in this or the like sort Cousine let vs doo somewhat sith we can haue nothing I offered to ioine with him and gladlie heard him hoping bicause I knew him to be a catholike that he would hit vpon that I had in my head but it sell not out so He thought the deliuerie of the quéene of Scotland easie presuming vpon his credit and kinred in the North I thought it dangerous to hir and impossible to men of our fortunes He fell from that to the taking of Berwike I spake of Quinborough and the nauie rather to interteine him with discourse than that I cared for those motions my head being full of greater matter 12 I told him that I had an other maner of enterprise more honourable and profitable vnto vs and the catholikes commonwealth than all these if he would ioine in it with me as he presentlie vowed to doo He pressed to know it I willed him to sleepe vpon the motion he did so and belike ouertaken came vnto me the next morning to my lodging in London offered to ioine with me and tooke his oth vpon a bible to conceale and constantlie to pursue the enterprise for the aduancement of religion which I also did and meant to performe the killing of the quéene was the matter The maner and place to be on horssebacke with eight or ten horsses when she should ride abroad about saint Iames or some other like place It was once thought fit in a garden and that the escape would be easiest by water into Shepeie or some other part but we resolued vpon the first This continued as agréed vpon manie moneths till he heard of the death of Westmerland whose land and dignitie whereof he assured himselfe bred belike this conscience in him to discouer a treason in Februarie contriued and agreed vpon in August If it cost him not an ambitious head at last let him neuer trust me He brought a tall gentleman whome he commended for an excellent pistolier to me to Chanon Row to make one in the match but I refused to deale with him being loth to laie my head vpon so manie hands M. Neuill hath I thinke forgotten
awaie from his master and was often taken brought to him againe His master to correct his peruerse and froward conditions did manie times shut him as prisoner in some close place of his house and manie times caused him to be chained locked and clogged to staie his running awaie Yet all was in vaine for about the third yeare of hir maiesties reigne for his last farewell to his poore master he ran awaie from him and came to London to séeke his aduentures He was then constreined to seeke what trade he could to liue by and to get meat and drinke for his bellie and clothes for his backe His good hap in the end was to be interteined in place of seruice aboue his desert where he staied not long but shifted himselfe diuerse times from seruice to seruice and from one master to another Now he began to forget his old home his birth his education his parents his friends his owne name and what he was He aspired to greater matters he challenged the name and title of a great gentleman he vanted himselfe to be of kin and alied to noble and worshipfull he left his old name which he did beare and was commonlie called by in his childhood during all the time of his abode in the countrie which was William ap Harrie as the maner in Wales is And bicause he would séeme to be in déed the man which he pretended he tooke vpon him the name of Parrie being the sirname of diuerse gentlemen of great worship and hauiour And bicause his mothers name by hir father a simple priest was Conwaie he pretended kinred to the familie of sir Iohn Conwaie and so thereby made himselfe of kin to Edmund Neuill Being thus set foorth with his new name and new title of gentleman and commended by some of his good fauorers he matched himselfe in mariage with a widow in Southwales who brought him some reasonable portion of wealth She liued with him but a short time and the welth he had with hir lasted not long it was soone consumed with his dissolute 〈◊〉 wastfull maner of life He was then driuen to his woonted shifts his creditors were manie the debt which he owed great he had nothing wherewith to make paiment he was continuallie pursued by sergeants and officers to arrest him he did often by sleights and shifts escape from them In this his néedie and poore estate he sought to repare himselfe againe by a new match in mariage with another widow which before was the wife of one Richard Heiwood This matter was so earnestlie followed by himselfe and so effectuallie commended by his fréends and fauourers that the sillie woman yéelded to take him to husband a match in euerie respect verie vnequall and vnfit Hir wealth and yearelie liuelihood was verie great his poore and base estate worse than nothing he verie yoong she of such age as for yeares she might haue beene his mother When he had thus possessed himselfe of his new wiues wealth he omitted nothing that might serue for a prodigall dissolute and most vngodlie course of life His riot and excesse was vnmeasurable he did most wickedlie defloure his wiues owne daughter and sundrie waies pitifullie abuse the old mother he caried himselfe for his outward port and countenance so long as his old wiues bags lasted in such sort as might well haue sufficed for a man of verie good hauiour and degrée But this lasted not long his proud hart wastfull hand had soone powred out old Heiwoods wealth line 10 He then fell againe to his woonted shifts borowed where he could find anie to lend and ingaged his credit so far as anie would trust him Amongst others he became greatlie indebted to Hugh Hare the gentleman before named Who after long forbearing of his monie sought to recouer it by law For this cause Parrie conceiued great displeasure against him which he pursued with all malice euen to the seeking of his life In this murtherous intent he came in the night time to M. Hares chamber in line 20 the Temple broke open the doore assaulted him and wounded him grieuouslie and so left him in great danger of life For this offense he was apprehended committed to Newgate indicted of burgularie arreigned and found guiltie by a verie substantiall iurie and condemned to be hanged as the law in that case requireth He standing thus conuicted hir maiestie of hir most gratious clemencie and pitifull disposition line 30 tooke compassion vpon him pardoned his offense gaue him his life which by the law due course of iustice he ought then to haue lost After this he taried not long but pretending some causes of discontentment departed the realme and trauelled beyond the seas How he demeaned himselfe there from time to time and with whome he conuersed is partlie in his owne confession touched before This is the man this is his race which he feared should be spotted if he miscaried in the execution of his traitorous enterprise this hath béene the course of his life these are line 40 the great causes of his discontentment And whereas at his arreignement and execution he pretended great care of the disobedient popish subiects of this realme whom he called catholikes and in verie insolent sort séemed to glorie greatlie in the profession of his pretensed catholike religion the whole course and action of his life sheweth plainelie how prophanelie irreligiouslie he did alwaies beare himselfe He vaunted that for these two and twentie yeares past he had béene a catholike and during all line 50 that time neuer receiued the communion yet before he trauelled beyond the seas at three seuerall times within the compasse of these two and twentie years he did voluntarilie take the oth of obedience to the queenes maiestie set downe in the statute made in the first yeare of hir highnesse reigne by which amongst other things he did testifie and declare in his conscience that no forreine prince person prelat state or potentat hath or ought to haue anie iurisdiction power preeminence or authoritie ecclesiasticall line 60 or spirituall within this realme and therfore did vtterlie renounce forsake all forren iurisdictions powers and authorities and did promise to beare faith and true allegiance to the quéenes highnesse hir heires and lawfull successours With what conscience or religion he tooke that oth so often if so be he were then a papist in deed as since the discouerie of his treasons he pretended let his best freends the papists themselues iudge But perhaps it may be said that he repented those his offenses past that since those thrée oths so taken by him he was twise reconciled to the pope and so his conscience cleared and he become a new man and which is more that in the time of his last trauell he cast awaie all his former lewd maners that he changed his degrée and habit and bought or begged the graue title of
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 laâ—e 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 〈…〉 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 〈…〉 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
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 adherēs 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 Indiēs 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
which were a fiftie halberds in scarlet clokes garded with purple and white veluet He being thus honourablie brought vnto the church after due reuerence doone vnto the line 30 quéenes maiesties estate which was there erected on the right hand he tooke his owne stall on the left by certeine degrees lower Then began praiers and a sermon made by maister knewstubs my lords chapleine after which my lord procéeded to the offering first for hir maiestie then for himselfe the which he performed with such decorum princelie behauiour that all generallie spake most honorablie of him These solemnities being doone his lordship returned line 40 as he came leauing behind him the earle of Essex and certeine gentlemen to accompanie the princes and the ladies of the court His court was a faire and large house belonging in times past to the knights of the Rhodes in which was a verie great hall richlie hoong with tapistrie at the vpper end whereof was a most sumptuous cloth and chaire of estate for the quéens maiestie with hir armes and stile thereon and before it a table couered with all things so requisit as if in person she had beene there line 50 on the left hand almost at the tables end was my lords trencher and stoole for he would haue no chaire The tables being couered all degrees assembled my lord before the estate of hir maiestie knighted a Dutch gentleman called sir Martin Skinke for his manifold seruices doone to his countrie the which doone the vshers marshalled the feast At the table on the right side of the hall sat the yoong prince of Portingall the prince elector and his wife the princesse Semeie the earle of Essex the Graue Morris line 60 and his ladie betwéene euerie ladie was an English lord or knight placed On the left side sat the states and chéefe burgers of the towne and the grand prior of Amerford who came to see the feast was by my lords appointment placed vppermost at that table Then began the trumpets to sound in the seruice which was most princelike abundant serued on the knée carued tasted to hir maiesties trencher To prosecute the sumptuousnesse statelinesse and varietie of deuises in seruice at this banket requireth a discourse of manie lines and therefore leauing it to the imagination of the reader hauing relation to the former we will heare surcease remembring thus much to the honour of the lord lieutenant that sundrie militarie exploits or stratagems were with no lesse magnanimitie attempted than with felicitie atchiued against the enimie during the time of his abode in those countries which it were better vtterlie to omit than not with conuenient dignitie to record being heerein semblablie affected to his honour as sometimes was the poet Horace to Agrippa Qui sibi non conuenire tam sublime argumentum asseuerabat proinde Varium poetam rectiùs scripturum eius praeclara facinora dicebat qui ad Homericam foelicitatem proximè accedere videbatur And now to leaue him in the hands of God vpon whome dependeth his honours hope we will héere leaue the netherlands and approach to matters of England On the one and twentith daie of this Ianuarie two seminarie préests before arreigned and condemned were drawne to the Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered Also on the same daie a wench was burnt in Smithfield for poisoning of hir aunt and mistresse and also attempting to haue doone the like wicked offense to hir vncle On the second daie of Februarie or the feast of the purification of our blessed ladie doctor Iohn Whitegift archbishop of Canturburie William lord Cobham lord warden of the fiue ports and Thomas lord Buckhurst were chosen and taken to be of hir maiesties priuie councell the two first to wit the archbishop and the lord Cobham were sworne the same daie and the third on the next morrow And here as in other places of these chronicles where we haue set downe certeine collections of right worthie personages in high calling and verie honourable office we are lead by some reason to deliuer a catalog of the names at least of such archbishops as haue successiuelie possessed the metropolitan see of Canturburie therein implieng their antiquitie and authoritie c and from thense proceed to saie somewhat of the lord Cobhams and lord wardens of the cinque ports as a matter of some consequence by means of the mutuall aduancement at one instant which hir highnesse of speciall grace vouchsafed them both And to begin with Canturburie being first named you shall vnderstand that Augustine the moonke according to the receiued opinion of chronographers was the first archbishop which occupied that metropolitan sée next whome sucéeded one Laurentius then Melitus Iustus Honorius Deusdedit Theodorus Brightwaldus Tatwinus Nothelmus Cutbertus Beguinus Lambertus Athelardus Wilfredus Theologildus Athelredus Plegmundus Athelmus Wolfelmus Odo Seuerus Dunstanus Ethelgarus Siricius Aluricius Elphegus Liuingus Agelnothus Edsinus and so forward with the residue before and after the conquest which being multiplied by vnities doo make vp the complet number of thrée score and twelue Where by the waie we might touch the varietie of their names sith authors therein doo dissent as also the time wherein they liued and flourished with some commemoration of their acts and deeds both in church and commonwealth But this kind of discourse being ecclesiasticall is vnproper for this secular historie wherefore labouring no further therein we will remit the reader to such authors as Ex professo haue amplie treted of that argument minding now by waie of note in a few lines to touch the thrée late primats as they haue succéeded ech other since the coronation and regiment of hir maiestie the first of whom was Matthew Parker whose predecessor Reg. Poole dieng he was aduanced and inioied the same aduancement certeine yeares hauing béen the seuentith archbishop of that see during which time he did much good diuerse waies deseruing well not onelie of the church but also of the commonwealth But hauing spoken elsewhere of this man we will here staie our course concluding this collection of archbishops in their successions with the two reuerend diuines and doctoâ—s the one Edmund Grindall late deceased the other Iohn Whiâ—egift now liuing of whom no more but silence for vertue dooth sufficientlie commend hâ—r selfe Now order would that we should descend into a discourse of the lord Cobhams lord wardens of the cinque ports remembred before page 1435 a 10 but herein the line 10 reader is patientlie to put vp the disappointment of his expectation vpon supposall of some reasonable impediment whie the same was not satisfied And now to the course of our historie orderlie to be continued ¶ In this yeare 1586 certeine of the lords of hir maiesties most honoraâ—le priuie councell made an appointment to haue met at Douer to surueie a notable peece of worke there latelie performed about the hauen to the benefit of the whole
than matter vpon syllables than sense of the law For in the strictnesse exact following of common forme she must haue béene indicted in Staffordshire haue line 30 holden vp hir hand at the barre and beene tried by a iurie a proper course forsooth to deale in that maner with one of hir estate I thought it better therefore for auoiding of these and more absurdities to commit the cause to the inquisition of a good number of the greatest and most noble personages of this realme of the iudges and others of good account whose sentence I must approoue and all little enough For we princes I tell you are set on stages in the sight and view of all the world dulie line 40 obserued the eies of manie behold our actions a spot is soone spied in our garments a blemish quicklie noted in our dooings It behooueth vs therefore to be carefull that our procéedings be iust and honorable But I must tell you one thing more that in this last act of parlement you haue brought me vnto a narrow streict that I must giue direction for hir death which cannot bée to mée but a most gréeuous and irksome burthen And least you line 50 might mistake mine absence from this parlement which I had almost forgotten although there bée no cause whie I should willinglie come amongst multitudes for that amongst manie some maie bee euill yet hath it not béene the doubt of anie such danger or occasion that kept me from thense but onlie the great griefe to heare this cause spoken of especiallie that such a one of state and kin should néed so open a declaration and that this nation should be so spotted with blots of disloialtie line 60 Wherein the lesse is my gréefe for that I hope the better part is mine and those of the woorse not so much to be accounted of for that in séeking my destruction they might haue spoiled their owne souls And euen now could I tell you that which would make you sorie It is a secret and yet I will tell it you although it is knowne I haue the propertie to keepe counsell but too well oftentimes to mine owne perill It is not long since mine eies did sée it written that an oth was taken within few daies either to kill me or to be hanged themselues and that to be performed yer one moneth were ended Hereby I see your danger in me and neither can nor will be so vnthankefull or carelesse of your consciences as not prouide for your safetie I am not vnmindfull of your oth made in the association manifesting your great good wils and affections taken and entered into vpon good conscience and true knowledge of the guilt for safetie of my person and conseruation of my life doone I protest to God before I heard it or euer thought of such a matter vntill a great number of hands with manie obligations were shewed me at Hampton court signed and subscribed with the names and seales of the greatest of this land Which as I doo acknowledge as a perfect argument of your true hearts and great zeale to my safetie so shall my bond be stronger tied to greater care for all your good But for as much as this matter is rare weightie and of great consequence I thinke you doo not looke for anie present resolution the rather for that as it is not my maner in matters of far lesse moment to giue spéedie answer without due consideration so in this of such importance I thinke it verie requisit with earnest praier to beséech his diuine maiestie so to illuminat my vnderstanding and inspire me with his grace as I maie doo and determine that which shall serue to the establishment of his church preseruation of your estates and prosperitie of this common wealth vnder my charge Wherein for that I know delaie is dangerous you shall haue with all conueniencie our resolution deliuered by our message And what euer anie prince maie merit of their subiects for their approoued testimonie of their vnfained sinceritie either by gouerning iustlie void of all parcialitie or sufferance of anie iniuries doone euen to the poorest that doo I assuredlie promise inuiolablie to performe for requitall of your so manie deserts ¶ The occasions of the second accesse THis answer thus made by hir maiestie the lords and commons were dismissed And then hir highnesse some few daies after vpon deliberation had of this petition being as it appeared of hir mercifull disposition of nature and hir princelie magnanimitie in some conflict with hir selfe what to doo in a cause so weightie and important to hir and the realme sent by the lord chancellor as I heard and by the mouth of an honorable person and a right worthie member of the lower house this message to both houses moouing and earnestlie charging them to enter into a further consideration whether there might not be some other waie of remedie than that they had alreadie required so far disagreeing from hir owne naturall inclination Wherevpon the lords and commons in either houses assembled had sundrie consultations both in their seuerall houses generallie and by priuat committees deputed speciallie And after conference had betwixt the said committées it was resolued with vnanimitie of consent amongst them in the lower house and by vniuersall concord in the vpper house the question there propounded to euerie one of the lords that there could be found no other sound and assured meane in the depth of their vnderstanding for the continuance of the christian religion quiet of the realme and safetie of hir maiesties most roiall person than that which was conteined in their former petition The reasons whereof were summarilie these that follow which are more shortlie reported than they were vttered A briefe report of the second accesse the foure and twentith of Nouember 1586 and of the answer made in the name of tâ—e lords of the parlement to a message sent from hir maiestie by the lord chancellor after hir first answer THe lord chancellor accompanied with aboue fiue or six and twentie lords of parlement came before hir highnesse in hir line 10 chamber of presence to deliuer the resolution of all the lords of parlement concerning a message which he had not long before deliuered from hir maiestie for further consultation whether anie other means could be thought of or found out by anie of them how the Scotish quéens life might be spared and yet hir maiesties person saued out of perill and the state of the realme preserued in quiet declared that according to that he had receiued in commandement from hir maiestie he had imparted line 20 the same vnto the lords assembled in the vpper house whom he found by their generall silence much amazed at the propounding thereof considering the same had béene before in deliberation amongest them and resolued vpon and as appeared by their former petition exhibited to hir highnesse wherein they had expressed the same resolution Notwithstanding for hir maiesties further satisfaction
disordered persons which stirred in other parts of the realme would haue ioined with them by force to haue disappointed and vndoone that which the prince by law and act of parlement in reformation of religion had ordeined and established But afterwards perceiuing how in most places such mischeefous mutinies and diuelish attempts as the commons had begun partlie by force and partlie by policie were appeased or that their cause being but onelie about plucking downe of inclosures and inlarging of commons was diuided from theirs so that either they would not or could not ioine with them in aid of their religious quarrell they began somewhat to doubt of their wicked begun enterprise Notwithstanding now sith they had gone so farre in the matter they thought there was no shrinking backe and therefore determining to proceed they fell to new deuises as first before all things to bring into their hands all such places of force wealth and defense as might in anie respect serue for their aid and furtherance Herevpon the second of Iulie they came before the citie of Excester incamping about the same in great numbers and vsed all waies and meanes they could deuise how to win it by force sometimes assaulting it right sharplie sometimes firing the gates otherwhiles vndermining the wals and at other times as occasions serued procuring skirmishes Finallie nothing was left vndoone which the enimie could imagine to serue his purpose for the winning of that citie And albeit there wanted not lustie stomachs among the citizens to withstand this outward force of the enimie yet in processe of time such scarsitie of bread and vittels increased that the people waxed weari◠loth to abide such extremitie of famine Howbeit the magistrats though it gréeued them to sée the multitude of the citizens in such distresse yet hauing a speciall regard of their dutie toward the prince and loue to the common-wealth left no waies vnsought to quiet the people staie them in their dutifull obedience to resist the enimies so that comforting the people with faire promises and reléeuing their necessities verie liberallie so farre as their power might extend did in such sort vse the matter that euerie of them within resolued with one generall consent to abide the end in hope of some spéedie reléefe And in the meane while when their corne and meale was consumed the gouernors of the citie caused bran and meale to be moulded vp in cloth for otherwise it would not sticke togither Also they caused some excursions to be made out of the citie to take and fetch into the citie such cattell as were found pasturing abroad néere to the wals which being brought in were distributed among the poore To conclude into such extremitie were the miserable citizens brought that albeit mans nature can scarselie abide to féed vpon anie vnaccustomed food yet these sillie men were glad to eat horsse flesh line 10 and to hold themselues well content therewith Whilest the siege thus remained before Excester the rebels spoiled and robbed the countrie abroad and laieng their traitorous heads togither they consulted vpon certeine articles to be sent vp to the king But herein such diuersitie of heads and wits was among them that for euerie kind of braine there was one maner of article so that neither appeared anie consent in their diuersitie nor yet anie constancie in their agréement Some séemed more tollerable others altogither vnreasonable some would haue no line 20 iustices some no state of gentlemen The priests euer harped vpon one string to ring the bishop of Rome into England againe and to hallow home cardinall Poole their countriman After much a doo at length a few articles were agréed vpon to be directed vnto the king with the names of certeine of their heads set therevnto the copie whereof here insueth The articles of the commons of Deuonshire and Cornewall sent to the king with answers afterward following vnto the same FIrst forsomuch as man except he be borne of water and the Holie-ghost can not enter into the kingdome of God and forsomuch as the gates of heauen be not line 40 open without this blessed sacrament of baptisme therefore we will that our curats shall minister this sacrament at all times of need as well on the wéeke daies as on the holie daies 2 Item we will haue our children confirmed of the bishop whensoeuer we shall within the diocesse resort vnto him 3 Item forsomuch as we constantlie beléeue that after the priest hath spoken the words of consecration being at masse there celebrating and consecrating the same there is verie reallie the bodie and line 50 bloud of our sauiour Iesus Christ God and man and that no substance of bread and wine remaineth after but the verie selfe same bodie that was borne of the virgin Marie and was giuen vpon the crosse for our redemption therefore we will haue masse celebrated as it hath beene in times past without anie man communicating with the priests forsomuch as manie rudelie presuming vnworthilie to receiue the same put no difference betweene the Lords bodie other kind of meat some saieng that it is bread before line 60 and after some saieng that it is profitable to no man except he receiue it with manie other abused termes 4 Item we will haue in our churches reseruation 5 Item we will haue holie bread and holie water in the remembrance of Christs pretious bodie and bloud 6 Item we will that our priests shall sing or saie with an audible voice Gods seruice in the quier of the parish churches and not Gods seruice to be set foorth like a Christmasse plaie 7 Item forsomuch as priests be men dedicated to God for ministring and celebrating the blessed sacraments and preaching of Gods word we will that they shall liue chast without marriage as saint Paule did being the elect and chosen vessell of God saieng vnto all honest priests Be you followers of me Item we will that the six articles which our souereigne lord king Henrie the eight set forth in his latter daies shall be vsed and so taken as they were at that time 9 Item we praie God saue king Edward for we be his both bodie and goods For the pacifieng of these rebels were appointed by the king and his councell sir Iohn Russell knight lord priuie seale the lord Greie of Wilton sir William Herbert after earle of Penbroke sir Iohn Paulet sir Hugh Paulet sir Thomas Speake and others with a conuenient power of men of warre both on horssebacke and foot Amongst others there were certeine strangers that came with my lord Greie as capteine Germane an Hennower with a band of horssemen most part Albanoises and Italians Also capteine Paule Baptist Spinola an Italian borne of a noble house in Genoa with a band of Italian footmen But now the lord priuie seale that was ordeined by the king and his councell generall of that armie vpon his first
approching towards them sent vnto them the kings maiesties proclamation the effect whereof was that all such persons as were vnlawfullie assembled and did not within thrée daies next after the proclaming thereof yéeld and submit themselues to the lord priuie seale the kings lieutenant they should from thenceforth be déemed accepted and taken for rebels against his roiall person and his imperiall crowne and dignitie And further the kings maiestie for a more terrour to the rebels and the incouragement of such other his louing subiects as should helpe and aid to apprehend anie of the said rebels he by his said proclamation granted and gaue all the offices fées goods and possessions which the said rebels had at and before their apprehension This proclamation notwithstanding the rebels continued in their wicked deuises traitorous purposes hastening to the hazzards of their owne deaths vndooings as the poet saith of the foolish fish swiming to the hidden hooke Occultum visus decurrere piscis ad hamum Wherevpon yet once againe the kings maiestie for the auoiding of the shedding of christian bloud sent vnto them a most gentle and louing message in writing thereby to reduce them againe to their dutifull obedience but all would not serue nor auaile to mooue their obstinate minds to leaue off their desperate and diuelish enterprise The message was as followeth The kings message to the rebels of Cornewall and Deuonshire ALthough knowledge hath beene giuen to vs and our deerest vncle the duke of Summerset gouernor of our person and protector of all our realms dominions and subiects and to the rest of our priuie councell of diuerse assemblies made by you which ought of dutie to be our louing subiects against all order of law and otherwise than euer anie louing or kind subiects haue attempted against their naturall and liege souereigne lord yet we haue thought it méet at this verie first time not to condemne and reiect you as we might iustlie doo but to vse you as our subiects thinking that the diuell hath not that power in you to make you of naturall borne Englishmen so suddenlie to become enimies to your owne natiue countrie of our subiects to make you traitors or vnder pretense to relieue your selues to destroie your selues your wiues children lands possessions and all other commodities of this your life This we saie that we trust that although ye be ignorantlie seduced ye will not be vpon knowledge obstinate And though some amongst you as euer there is some cockle amongst good corne forget God neglect line 10 their prince estéeme not the state of the realme but as carelesse desperat men delite in sedition tumults wars yet neuerthelesse the greater part of you will heare the voice of vs your naturall prince and will by wisedome and counsell be warned and cease your euils in the beginning whose ends will be euen by God almighties order your owne destruction Wherfore as to you our subiects by ignorance seduced we speake and be content to vse our princelie authoritie like a father to his children to admonish line 20 you of your faults not to punish them to put you in remembrance of your duties not to auenge your forgetfulnesse First your disorder to rise in multitudes to assemble your selues against our other louing subiects to arraie your selues to the war who amongst you all can answer for the same to almightie God charging you to obeie vs in all things Or how can anie English good hart answer vs our lawes and the rest of our verie louing and faithfull subiects who in deed by their obedience make our line 30 honour estate and degrée Ye vse our name in your writings and abuse the same against our selfe What iniurie herein doo you vs to call those which loue vs to your euill purposes by the authoritie of our name God hath made vs your king by his ordinance and prouidence by our bloud and inheritance by lawfull succession and our coronation but not to this end as you vse our name We are your most naturall souereigne lord king Edward the sixt to rule you to preserue you to saue line 40 you from all your outward enimies to sée our lawes well ministred euerie man to haue his owne to suppresse disordered people to correct traitors théeues pirats robbers such like yea to keepe our realms from other princes from the malice of the Scots of Frenchmen of the bishop of Rome Thus good subiects our name is written thus it is honored and obeied this maiestie it hath by Gods ordinance not by mans So that of this your offense we cannot write too much And yet doubt not but this is inough line 50 from a prince to all reasonable people from a roiall king to all kindharted louing subiects frō the puissant K. of England to euerie naturall Englishman Your pretense which you saie moueth you to doo thus and wherewith you séeke to excuse this disorder we assure you is either false or so vaine that we doubt not that after that ye shall hereby vnderstand the truth thereof ye will all with one voice acknowlege your selues ignorantlie led and by errour seduced And if there be anie one that will not then assure line 60 you the same be ranke traitors enimies of our crowne seditious people heretikes papists or such as care not what cause they haue to prouoke an insurrection so they may doo it nor in deed can wax so rich with their owne labors with peace as they can doo with spoiles with wars with robberies and such like yea with the spoile of your owne goods with the liuing of your labors the sweat of your bodies the food of your owne households wiues and children such they be as for a time vse pleasant persuasions to you and in the end will cut your throtes for your owne goods You be borne in hand that your children though necessitie chance shall not be christened but vpon the holie daies how false this is learne you of vs. Our booke which we haue set foorth by free consent of our whole parlement in the English toong teacheth you the contrarie euen in the first leafe yea the first side of the first leafe of that part which intreateth of baptisme Good subiects for to other we speake not looke be not deceiued They which haue put this false opinion into your eares they meane not the christening of children but the destruction of you our christened subiects Be this knowne vnto you that our honor is so much that we may not be found faultie of one iote or word proue it if by our laws you may not christen your children when ye be disposed vpon necessitie euerie daie or houre in the wéeke then might you be offended but seeing you may doo it how can you beléeue them that teach you the contrarie What thinke you they meane in the rest which moue you to breake your obedience against vs your king souereigne
secretarie by whome he hath alreadie a goodlie babe but a daughter This right woorthie and thrise renowmed knight sir Philip Sidneie lord gouernor of Ulissingen hauing spent some time in hir maiesties seruice in the low countries with great honor speciall credit and estimation and withall hauing obteined by his vertue valor and great policie such an entrie of entire good will trust and authoritie with the states as his counsels and persuasions could much more preuaile and worke singular effect with them than anie one mans could doo in anie cause what soeuer that happened to fall in question or debate amongst them therfore earnestlie following the course he then tooke in hand for the aduancement of that seruice and to win fame the onelie marke true nobilitie either dooth or ought to leuell at he imbarked himselfe at Ulissingen accompanied onlie with thrée thousand footmen and bending his course to Arell which lieth in the countie of Flanders vsed both such diligence and secrecie in this eâ—pedition as he surprised the towne before they could haue intelligence of his comming without losse or hurt of anie one of his companie By means whereof the forts and sconses there néere abouts adioining being striken vpon the sudden into such a feare and amazement as doubting some further perils to them intended than anie at the present well appeared voluntarilie and simplie gaue themselues and their holds into his hands yéelded to his disposition and mercie And so after he had well refreshed himselfe and his companie in this towne he had thus new taken he departed thense remained in the countrie not farre off ten or twelue daies next following till he had vittelled the same put in a garrison left monsieur Pernon there gouernor Now in the meane time of his staie attending these seruices and because he would alwaies be occupied in some honorable action he brake a sluse forced a trench and cut out a banke that made such an open passage entrance into the sea as since it hath drowned and destroied the whole countrie being well neere now worne into a chanell the same hauing béene the best and most fertill soile in those parts and far excéeding anie territorie néere thereabouts to so great a preiudice and annoiance of the enimie as by common well grounded opinion neither by sluse or lightlie anie other draine or deuise that countrie can possiblie be recouered or regained And this enterprise was atchiued without making head or other offer of offense inuasion or resistance by Mondragon who was of purpose imploied with sufficient force to defend the countrie and to haue impeached all these attempts and actions Moreouer his aduise for the seruice intended at Grauelin dissenting in opinion from others who were thought the most expert capteins and best renowmed and sorted souldiours gaue such a sufficient proofe of his excellent wit policie and ripe iudgement as his onelie act and counsell with the losse of line 10 a verie few of his companie wrought all their safeties which otherwise by treacherie had béene most likelie to haue béene intrapped And so consequentlie going forward in other seruices at an incounter with the enimie not far from Zutphen where he that daie most valiantlie serued for he bare the inuincible mind of an ancient woorthie Romane who euer where he came made account of victorie he receiued hurt by a musket shot a little aboue the left knée which so brake and rifted the bone and so entred the line 20 thigh vpward towards the bodie as the bullet could not be found before his bodie was opened Of which hurt notwithstanding he liued though in great paine and extreame torment six and twentie daies following and died the seauentéenth daie of October betweene two and thrée of the clocke in the afternoone at Arnam in Gelderland He greatlie abounded in sundrie good vertues which euer where he came procured him loue but chéefelie in iustice and liberalitie a woorthie most line 30 speciall note in a gouernour which gained him hartie loue coupled with fame and honor For the which especiallie those vnder his late charge and gouernment so greatlie loued esteemed honored in a sort adored him when he was aliue as they made earnest meanes and intreatie to haue his bodie remaine there still with them for memorie when he was dead and promised that if they might obteine it to erect for him as faire a monument as anie prince had in christendome yea though the same should cost halfe line 40 a tun of golâ— the building His bodie was most honourablie conueied from Arnam to London where it remained at the Minories certeine daies from thense brought and remooued on the sixtéenth of Februarie alongst the stréets through Cheapside with funerall pompe and solemnitie beseeming so martiall a gentleman the ensignes of warre and pikes trailed vpon the ground the drums and flutes couered with blacke and making a softlie sound with other statelie shewes of mournfull representations the earle of Leicester with other honourable line 50 and woorshipfull personages following the dead bodie which finallie was interred in Paules church of London About this time one Thomas Louelace late of Staple inne gentleman for counterfeiting of false and trecherous letters against his own kinred containing most traitorous matter against hir maiesties owne person was iudged in the Starchamber to be carried on horsse-backe about Westminster line 60 hall with his face to the horsse taile and a paper on his backe declaring his offense then to be set on the pillorie in the palace at Westminster and there to haue one of his eares cut off then to ride in like sort into London and in Cheapside to be set on the pillorie vpon a market daie after that to be conueied into Kent where standing openlie on the pillorie in the place of assise as before he should loose his other eare and lastlie be set vpon the pillorie one market daie in Canturburie and another at Rochester his offense and punishment in euerie of the said places openlie read and published which iudiciall sentence was accordinglie executed On sundaie the eight daie of Maie an ambassador named Henrie Ramelius intituled Cancellarius Germanicus arriued at the tower of London A gentleman he was of goodlie personage somewhat corpulent and of sanguine complexion verie eloquent likewise and learned not onelie in the knowledge of diuerse toongs as Latine French Italian and German but also in sundrie sciences He came in ambassage from Frederike the second of that name king of Denmarke vnto the queens maiestie of England and arriuing as you haue heard at the Tower was honorablie receiued of the lord Cobham and other great estates who conueied him from thense through Tower stréet into Bishopsgate street and so to a faire and large house called Crosbies place where he was well lodged and remained The said Ramelius during the time of his tariance had attendance doone him conuenient
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 secuâ—itie 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 â—tymon of his name and verie well deseruing the poets report nomen virtutilus aequat Nec â—init 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 pursuâ—e 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