defraied and laid out in Almaine and in Boheme about the kings marriage and for the residue desired daies of paiment yet he could obteine neither Further he was accused that the duke of Ireland and he had gathered great summes of monie conueied the same to Douer and from thence sent it in the night by sea into Germanie Lastlie the archbishop forsooth and the moonks of Canturburie charged him that he sought the means to remooue â—he shrine of the archbishop Thomas otherwise called Thomas Becket from Canturburie vnto Douer vnder a colour of feare least the Frenchmen being assembled in Flanders to inuade England should land in Kent and take Canturburie and spoile it where indeed as they surmized against him he meant to send it ouer the seas vnto the king of Boheme Herevpon he was first committed to the tower and before the king or his other friends could procure his deliuerance he was without law or iustice before any of the residue as some hold brought foorth and beheaded on the tower hill by commandement of the duke of Glocester and other of his faction quite contrarie to the kings will or knowledge in somuch that when he vnderstood it he spake manie sore words against the duke affirming that he was a wicked man and worthie to be kept shorter sith vnder a colour of dooing iustice he went about to destroie euerie good and honest man The king was also offended with the duke of Yorke for his brothers presumptuous doings though the said duke of Yorke being verelie a man of a gentle nature wished that the state of the common-wealth might haue béene redressed without losse of any mans life or other cruell dealing but the duke of Glocester and diuerse other of the nobilitie the lesse that they passed for the kings threatening speach so much more were they readie to punish all those whom they tooke to be their enimies In deed the said sir Simon Burlie was thought to beare himselfe more loftie by reason of the kings fauour than was requisite which procured him enuie of them that could not abide others to be in any condition their equals in authoritie It should appeare by Froissard that he was first of all in the beginning of these stirs betwixt the king and the lords committed to the tower and notwithstanding all the shift that either the king or the duke of Ireland or anie other of his fréends could make for him by the duke of Glocesters commandement he was cruellie beheaded so greatlie to the offense of the king and those that were his trustie councellors that therevpon the king caused the duke of Ireland the sooner to assemble an armie against the said duke and his complices therby â—o râ—sâ—raine their presumptuous proceedings But whether he was thus at the first or last executed to please the king the better now at this parlement amongst others that were condemned in the same his lands were giuen to the king a great part whereof he afterwards disposed to diuerse men as he thought expedient But yet in the parlement holden in the one and twentith yeare of this kings reigne the act of atteindor of the said sir Simon was repealed and at an other parlement holden in the second yeare of king Henrie the fourth all his lands which then remained vngranted and vnsold were restored to sir Iohn Burlie knight sonne and heire of sir Roger Burlie brother to the said Simon of whom lineallie is descended Thomas Eins line 10 esquier now secretarie to the queenes maiesties councell in the north parts And thus far touching sir Simon Burlie of whom manie reports went of his disloiall dealings towards the state as partlie ye haue heard but how trulie the lord knoweth Among other slanderous tales that were spred abroad of him one was that he consented to the deliuering of Douer castell by the kings appointment to the Frenchmen for monie But as this was a thing not like to be true so no doubt manie things that the persons line 20 aforesaid which were executed had béene charged with at the least by common report among the people were nothing true at all although happilie the substance of those things for which they died might be true in some respect Sir William Elmham that was charged also for withdrawing of the soldiers wages discharged himselfe therof and of all other things that might be laid to his charge As touching the iustices they were all condemned to death by the parlement but such line 30 meanes was made for them vnto the queene that she obteined pardon for their liues But they forfeited their lands and goods and were appointed to remaine in perpetuall exile with a certeine portion of monie to them assigned for their dailie sustentation the names of which iustices so condemned to exile were these Robert Belknap Iohn Holt Iohn Craie Roger Fulthorpe William Burgh and Iohn Lokton Finallie in this parlement was an oth required and line 40 obteined of the king that he should stand vnto and abide such rule and order as the lords should take and this oth was not required onelie of the king but also of all the inhabitants of the realme ¶ In these troubles was the realme of England in these daies and the king brought into that case that he ruled not but was ruled by his vncles and other to them associat In the latter end of this eleuenth yeare was the earle of Arundell sent to the sea with a great nauie of ships and men of warre There went with him in line 50 this iournie of noble men the earles of Notingham Deuonshire sir Thomas Percie the lord Clifford the lord Camois sir William Elmham sir Thomas Morieux sir Iohn Daubreticourt sir William Shellie sir Iohn Warwike or Berwike sir Stephan de Liberie sir Robert Sere sir Peter Montherie sir Lewes Clanbow sir Thomas Coque or Cooke sir William Paulie or Paulet diuerse others There were a thousand men of armes and three thousand archers The purpose for which they were sent was to line 60 haue aided the duke of Britaine if he would haue receiued them being then eftsoones run into the French kings displeasure for the imprisoning of the lord Clisson constable of France But after that contrarie to expectation the duke of Britaine was come to an agréement with the French king the earle of Arundell drew with his nauie alongst the coasts of Poictou and Xaintonge till at length he arriued in the hauen that goeth vp to Rochell and landed with his men at Marrant foure leagues from Rochell and began to pilfer spoile and fetch booties abroad in the countrie The Frenchmen within Rochell issued foorth to skirmish with the Englishmen but they were easilie put to flight and folowed euen to the bariers of the gates of Rochell ¶ Perot le Bernois a capteine of Gascoigne that made warre for the king of England in Limosin and lay in the fortresse of Galuset came foorth the same time
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
destitute of sobrietie and wisedome and therfore could not like of him that so abused his authoritie Herevpon there were sundrie of the nobles that lamented these mischéefes and speciallie shewed their greefes vnto such by whose naughtie counsell they vnderstood the king to be miâ—â—ed and this they did to the end that they being about him might either turne their copies and giue him better counsell or else he hauing knowledge what euill report went of him might mend his maners misliked of his nobles But all was in vaine for so it fell out that in this parlement holden at Shrewsburie Henrie duke of Hereford accused Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke of certeine words which he should vtter in talke had betwixt them as they rode togither latelie before betwixt London and Brainford sounding highlie to the kings dishonor And for further proofe thereof he presented a supplication to the king wherein he appealed the duke of Norfolke in field of battell for a traitor false and disloiall to the king and enimie vnto the realme This supplication was red before both the dukes in presence of the king which doone the duke of Norfolke tooke vpon him to answer it declaring that whatsoeuer the duke of Hereford had said against him other than well he lied falselie like an vntrue knight as he was And when the king asked of the duke of Hereford what he said to it he taking his hood off his head said My souereigne lord euen as the supplication which I tooke you importeth right so I saie for truth that Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke is a traitour false and disloiall to your roiall maiestie your crowne and to all the states of your realme Then the duke of Norfolke being asked what he said to this he answered Right déere lord with your fauour that I make answer vnto your coosine here I saie your reuerence saued that Henrie of Lancaster duke of Hereford like a false and disloiall traitor as he is dooth lie in that he hath or shall say of me otherwise than well No more said the king we haue heard inough and herewith commanded the duke of Surrie for that turne marshall of England to arrest in his name the two dukes the duke of Lancaster father to the duke of Hereford the duke of Yorke the duke of Aumarle constable of England and the duke of Surrie marshall of the realme vndertooke as pledges bodie for bodie for the duke of Hereford but the duke of Northfolke was not suffered to put in pledges and so vnder arrest was led vnto Windsor castell and there garded with kéepers that were appointed to sée him safelie kept Now after the dissoluing of the parlement at Shrewsburie there was a daie appointed about six wéeks after for the king to come vnto Windsor to heare and to take some order betwixt the two dukes which had thus appealed ech other There was a great scaffold erected within the castell of Windsor for the king to sit with the lords and prelats of his realme and so at the daie appointed he with the said lords prelats being come thither and set in their places the duke of Hereford appellant and the duke of Norfolke defendant were sent for to come appeare before the king sitting there in his seat of iustice And then began sir Iohn Bushie to speake for the king declaring to the lords how they should vnderstand that where the duke of Hereford had presented a supplication to the king who was there set to minister iustice to all men that would demand the same as apperteined to his roiall maiestie he therefore would now heare what the parties could say one against an other and withall the king commanded the dukes of Aumarle and Surrie the one being constable and the other marshall to go vnto the two dukes appellant and defendant requiring them on his behalfe to grow to some agréement and for his part he would be readie to pardon all that had beene said or doone amisse betwixt them touching anie harme or dishonor to him or his realme but they answered both assuredlie that it was not possible to haue anie peace or agréement made betwixt them When he heard what they had answered he commanded line 10 that they should be brought foorthwith before his presence to heare what they would say Herewith an herald in the kings name with lowd voice commanded the dukes to come before the king either of them to shew his reason or else to make peace togither without more delaie When they were come before the king and lords the king spake himselfe to them willing them to agree and make peace togither for it is said he the best waie ye can take The line 20 duke of Norfolke with due reuerence herevnto answered it could not be so brought to passe his honor saued Then the king asked of the duke of Hereford what it was that he demanded of the duke of Norfolke and what is the matter that ye can not make peace togither and become friends Then stood foorth a knight who asking and obteining licence to speake for the duke of Hereford said Right deare and souereigne lord here is Henrie of Lancaster duke of Hereford and earle of Derbie line 30 who saith and I for him likewise say that Thomas Mobwraie duke of Norfolke is a false and disloiall traitor to you and your roiall maiestie and to your whole realme and likewise the duke of Hereford saith and I for him that Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke hath receiued eight thousand nobles to pay the souldiers that keepe your towne of Calis which he hath not doone as he ought and furthermore the said duke of Norfolke hath béene the occasion of all the treason that hath beene contriued in your realme line 40 for the space of these eighteene yeares by his false suggestions and malicious counsell he hath caused to die and to be murdered your right déere vncle the duke of Glocester sonne to king Edward Moreouer the duke of Hereford saith and I for him that he will proue this with his bodie against the bodie of the said duke of Norfolke within lists The king herewith waxed angrie and asked the duke of Hereford if these were his woords who answered Right déere lord they are my woords and hereof I require line 50 right and the battell against him There was a knight also that asked licence to speake for the duke of Norfolke and obteining it began to answer thus Right déere souereigne lord here is Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke who answereth and saith and I for him that all which Henrie of Lancaster hath said and declared sauing the reuerence due to the king and his councell is a lie and the said Henrie of Lancaster hath falselie and wickedlie lied as a false and disloiall knight and line 60 both hath béene and is a traitor against you your crowne roiall maiestie realme This will I proue and defend as becommeth a loiall knight to
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After which proclamation thus published a gentleman of Kent named Alexander Eden awaited so his time that he tooke the said Cade in a garden in Sussex so that there he was slaine at Hothfield and brought to London in a cart where he was quartered his head set on London bridge and his quarters sent to diuers places to be set vp in the shire of Kent After this the king himselfe came into Kent and there sat in iudgement vpon the offendors and if he had not mingled his iustice with mercie more than fiue hundred by rigor of law had beene iustlie put to execution Yet he punishing onelie the stubborne heads disordered ringleaders pardoned the ignorant and simple persons to the great reioising of all his subiects ¶ But saith another the king sent his commissioners into Kent and caused inquirie to be made of this riot in Canturburie where for the same eight men were iudged and executed and in other townes of Kent and Sussex was doone the like execution This yeare the commons also in diuerse parts line 10 of England as in Sussex Salisburie Wiltshire and other places did much harme to manie persons among the which on the nine and twentith of Iune William Ascoth bishop of Salisburie after he had said masse at Edington was by his owne tenants drawne from the altar in his albe with his stole about his necke to the top of an hill and there by them shamefullie murthered and after spoiled to the naked skin they renting his bloudie shirt tooke euerie man a péece and made boast of their wickednesse line 20 The daie before his chariot was robbed to the value of ten thousand markes Soldiours made a fraie against the maior of London the same daie he tooke his charge at Westminster at night comming from saint Thomas of Acres after he had béene at Paules The French king vnderstanding all the ciuill discord and rebellious sturs in England made therof his foundation hoping to get into his hands and possession the duchie of Aquitaine and therevpon sent the earles of Ponthienure and Perigort to laie line 30 siege to the towne of Bergerat situate vpon the riuer of Dourdon of which towne was capteine Iohn Gedding who vpon reasonable conditions rendred the towne But yet the lord Camois sir George Seimor and sir Iohn Arundell with diuers other valiant capteins hauing gouernance of the countrie manned townes gathered people and recomforted the fainting harts of the Gascoignes in all that they could and withall sent letters ouer into line 40 England certifieng to the kings maiestie that without spéedie aid and readie succours the whole countrie was like to be conquered and woone out of the Englishmens possession Manie letters were sent and manie faire answers were brought but reléefe neither appeared nor one man of warre was thither shipped by reason whereof the Frenchmen pursuing the victorie got the fortresses of Iansacke and S. Foie with diuerse other péeces of importance thereabouts Also about line 50 the same time the lord Doruall third sonne to the lord de la Breth with a great number of men as well on horssebacke as on foot departed from Basas to conquer and destroie the I le of Medoc Wherevpon the maior of Burdeaux issuing out and incountring with his enimies was vanquished losing six hundred Englishmen and Gascoignes albeit the Frenchmen gained not this victorie with cléere hands for there were slaine of them to the number of eight hundred persons line 60 After this the bastard of Orleance with his brother Iohn earle of Angolesme year 1451 which had béene long prisoner in England and manie other valiant capteins besieged the castell of Montguion which to them was rendered Afterwards they besieged the towne of Blaie standing on the riuer of Garonne the which in conclusion by verie force was conquered and woone The bastard of Kendall capteine of the castell séeing the towne lost vpon certeine reasonable conditions deliuered his fortresse to the bastard of Orleance the French kings lieutenant After this the townes of Burgh and Liborne after fiue wéekes siege were likewise yéelded to the Frenchmen Then was the citie of Acques besieged by the erle of Fois and the vicount de Lawtrec his brother and other noble men So likewise was the strong towne of Rion by the earle of Arminacke extreame enimie to the realme of England for breach of the mariage concluded betweene king Henrie and his daughter The earle of Ponthienure laid siege to Chatillon in Perigort and the earle of Dunois inuironned with great puissance the towne of Fronsacke The Englishmen perceiuing in what state they stood within the towne couenanted with the said earle that if the towne were not succoured and the Frenchmen fought with before the feast of the natiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist next insuing that then the towne of Fronsacke should be yéelded to them which was the strongest fortresse in all that countrie and the verie keie of Guien Héereof were pledges deliuered and writings made sealed Which agréement once blowne through the countrie the citie of Burdeaux and all other townes except Baion made the like agréement So did all the noble men and gentlemen which were subiects and vassals to the crowne of England Euerie daie was looking for aid but none came And whie Euen bicause the diuelish diuision that reigned in England so incombred the heads of the noble men there that the honor of the realme was cléerelie forgotten so that to conclude the daie appointed came but succour looked for came not By reason whereof all the townes of Aquitaine except Baion deliuered their keies and became vassals to the French nation yet the citizens of Burdeaux in hope of rescue required a longer daie of battell which was granted But at the daie appointed when no reléefe came they rendred themselues and the citie to their aduersaries their liues and goods saued with licence and safe conduct to all persons which would depart and saile into England Then finallie was the citie of Baion besieged and with mines and batterie constreined to yéeld it selfe into the Frenchmens hands Beside the agreements taken and made with the townes diuerse noble men made seuerall compositions as Gaston de Fois Capdaw de Bue◠whome king Henrie the fift made earle of Longeuile and knight of the garter whose ancestors were euer true to England Which agréed that he and his sonne Iohn de Fois whome king Henrie the sixt made earle of Kendale and also knight of the garter should enioy all their lands in Aquitaine giuen to them by the kings of England or by the dukes of Aquitaine And sith their intent was still to serue the king of England they agréed to deliuer into the custodie of the earle of Fois the sonne and heire of the said earle of Kendale being of the age of thrée yeares to the intent that if he at his full age denied to become subiect to the French king or before
perceiued no stedfast ground to line 60 catch anchor hold vpon he submitted himselfe vnder the protection of Philip archduke of Austrich But his brother Richard being a politike man so wiselie ordered himselfe in this stormie tempest that he was not intrapped either with net or snare The king not yet out of all doubt of ciuill sedition bicause a great number of euill disposed persons partakers of this conspiracie were fled into sundrie sanctuaries deuised to haue all the gates of sanctuaries and places priuileged shut and locked vp so that none should issue out from thence to perturbe and disquiet him And for that intent he wrote vnto pope Alexander desiring him by his authoritie to adiudge all Englishmen being fled to sanctuarie for the offense of treason as enimies to the christian faith interdicting and prohibiting the refuge and priuilege of sanctuarie to all such as once had enioied the libertie and protection of the same and after that fled out and eftsoones returned againe Which thing after that the pope had granted turned to the great quietnesse of the king and his realme For manie that had offended for feare to fall into danger returned to the due subiection of their prince and other that were yet frée from perill durst not hazard themselues so boldlie as they durst haue doone before vpon hope of such starting holes When the king had thus setled things to his owne contentation and pleasure there suddenlie happened to him a lamentable chance For that noble prince Arthur the kings first begotten sonne after he had béene maried to the ladie Katharine his wife the space of fiue moneths departed out of this transitorie life in his castell of Ludlow and with great funerall obsequie was buried in the cathedrall church of Worcester His brother the duke of Yorke was staied from the title of Prince by the space of a moneth till to women it might appeare whether the ladie Katharine wife to the said prince Arthur was conceiued with child or not It is reported that this ladie Katharine thought and feared such dolorous chance to come for when she had imbraced hir father and taken hir leaue of hir noble and prudent mother and sailed towards England she was continuallie so tossed and tumbled hither and thither with boisterous winds that what for the rage of the water and contrarietie of the winds hir ship was prohibited diuerse times to approach the shore and take land In this eightéenth yeare the twentie fourth daie of Ianuarie a quarter of an houre afore three of the clocke at after noone of the same daie the first stone of our ladie chapell within the monasterie of Westminster was laid by the hands of Iohn Islip abbat of the same monasterie sir Reginald Braie knight of the garter doctor Barnes maister of the rolles doctor Wall chapleine to the kings maiestie maister Hugh Oldham chapleine to the countesse of Darbie and Richmond the kings mother sir Edward Stanhope knight and diuerse others Upon the same stone was this scripture ingrauen Illustrissimus Henricus septimus rex Angliae Franciae dominus Hiberniae posuit hanc petram in honore beatae virginis Mariae 24. die Ianuarij anno Domini 1502. Et anno dicti regis Henrici septimi decimo octauo The charges whereof amounted as some report vpon credible information as they saie to fouretéene thousand pounds Quéene Elizabeth lieng within the Tower of London was brought a bed of a faire daughter on Candlemasse daie which was there christened and named Katharine and the eleuenth of the same moneth the said queene there deceased and was buried at Westminster whose daughter also liued but a small season after hir mother King Henrie the seauenth being himselfe a brother of the tailors companie in London as diuerse other his predecessors kings before him had béene to wéet Richard the third Edward the fourth Henrie the sixt Henrie the fift Henrie the fourth and Richard the second also of dukes eleuen earles eight and twentie and lords eight and fortie he now gaue to them the name and title of merchant tailors as a name of worship to indure for euer This yeare about the later end of March the prior of the Charterhouse of Shene was murthered in a cell of his owne house by meanes of one Goodwine a moonke of the same cloister and his adherents artificers of London A drie summer hauing no notable raine from Whitsuntide to the later ladie daie in haruest The eighteenth of Februarie the king at his palace of Westminster created his onelie sonne Henrie prince of Wales earle of Chester c who afterward succéeded his father in possession of the regall crowne of this realme Moreouer this yeare also after the deceasse of that noble queene for hir vertue commonlie called good queene Elizabeth departed out of this world also sir Reginald Braie knight of the garter a verie father of his countrie for his high wisedome and singular loue to iustice well worthie to beare that title If anie thing had béene doone amisse line 10 contrarie to law and equitie he would after an humble sort plainelie blame the king and giue him good aduertisement that he should not onelie reforâ—e the same but also be more circumspect in anie other the like case Of the same vertue and faithfull plainnesse was Iohn Morton archbishop of Canturburie which died as is shewed aboue two yeares before So these two persons were refrainers of the kings vnbrideled libertie whereas the common line 20 people ignorant altogither of the truth in such matters iudged and reported that the counsell of those two worthie personages corrupted the kings cleane and immaculate conscience contrarie to his princelie disposition and naturall inclination such is euer the errour of the common people ¶ About this time died Henrie the archbishop of Canturburie whose roome doctor William Warham bishop of London supplied And to the sée of London William Barnes was appointed and after his death succéeded one Richard line 30 fitz Iames. This yeare also the lord Cassimire marquesse of Brandenburgh accompanied with an earle a bishop and a great number of gentlemen well apparrelled came in ambassage from the emperor Maximilian and were triumphantlie receiued into London and lodged at Crosbies place Their message was for thrée causes one to comfort the king in his time of heauinesse for the losse of his wife The second for the renewing of amitie and the old league The third which was not apparant line 40 wâ—s to mooue the king to marie the emperours daughter â—he ladie Margaret duchesse Dowager of Sauoie The two first tooke effect for the king vpon Passion sundaie road to Paules in great triumph the said marquesse riding on his left hand And there the bishop made to the king an excellent consolatorie oration concerning the death of the quéene And there also the king openlie sware to kéepe the new reuiued league and amitie during their two liues
also of other bands of the quéenes assured friends Wherevpon Wiat who comming towards the citie made himselfe sure of his enterprise now desperat of the same was faine to turne his face retiring backe againe to Temple-barre where he with the rest of his retinue determined as it seemed to trie their last fortune The earle of Penbroke who all this while kept his force togither in the field hearing of Wiats approch to London sent to him an herald called Clarenceaux with great communication to desist from his rebellious enterprise Which herald did his message accordinglie albeit that some said he promised the said Wiat his pardon which should not séeme to be true as well for that the herald had no such commission as also that it was not like that the said Wiat being then disarmed of all his forces would haue refused mercie in such a case For true it is that he with a verie few of his forlorne fellowship not manie aboue the number of one hundred persons stood still as men amazed at the gate of the Temple-barre till such time as sir Maurice Barkleie knight by chance riding towards London vpon his horsse with footcloth without anie armour finding the said Wiat there persuaded him to repaire to the court and to yéeld himselfe to the quéene Whose aduise he followed and incontinent mounted vp on the said sir Maurice horsse behind him and so road to the court voluntarilie to yéeld himselfe prisoner This comming of Wiat to the court being so little looked for was great cause of reioising to such as of late before stood in great feare of him But more than maruell it was to sée that daie the inuincible heart and constancie of the quéene hir selfe who being by nature a woman and therefore commonlie more fearefull than men be shewed hir selfe in that case more stout than is credible For she notwithstanding all the fearefull newes that were brought to hir that daie neuer abashed Insomuch that when one or two noblemen being hir capteins came in all hast to tell hir though vntrulie that hir battels were yéelded to Wiat. She nothing mooued thereat said it was their fond opinion that durst not come néere to sée the triall saieng further that she hir selfe would enter the field to trie the truth of hir quarrell and to die with them that would serue hir rather than to yéeld one iot vnto such a traitor as Wiat was and prepared hir selfe accordinglie But by the apprehension of Wiat that voiage tooke none effect for after his comming to the court line 10 he was immediatlie committed to the Tower As soone as the taking of Wiat was knowne the armie whereof mention is made before that laie in saint Iames field was discharged and euerie man licenced to depart to his home And foorthwith proclamation was made as well in the citie of London as in the suburbs of the same that none vpon paine of death should kéepe in his or their houses anie of Wiats faction but should bring them foorth immediatlie before the lord maior and other the quéenes line 20 iustices By reason of which proclamation a great multitude of their said poore caltifs were brought foorth being so manie in number that all the prisons in London sufficed not to receiue them so that for lacke of place they were faine to bestow them in diuerse churches of the said citie And shortlie after were set vp in London for a terrour to the common sort bicause the white cotes being sent out of the citie as before ye haue heard reuolted from the quéenes part to the aid of Wiat twentie paire of gallowes line 30 on the which were hanged in seuerall places to the number of fiftie persons which gallowes remained standing there a great part of the summer following to the great griefe of good citizens and for example to the commotioners ¶ As for the principals of this faction namelie Thomas Wiat William Kneuet Thomas Cobham two brethren named Mantels and Alexander Bret were brought by sir Henrie Ierningam by water to the tower prisoners where sir Philip Denie receiued line 40 them at the bulworke as Wiat passed by he said Go traitor there was neuer such a traitor in England To whom sir Thomas Wiat turned and said I am no traitor I would thou shouldst well know thou art more traitor than I it is not the point of an honest man to call me so and so went forth When he came to the tower gate sir Thomas Bridges lieutenant tooke in through the wicket first Mantell and said Ah thou traitor what hast thou and thy companie wrought But he holding downe his head said line 50 nothing Then came Thomas Kneuet whom master chamberleine gentleman porter of the tower tooke in Then came Alexander Bret whome sir Thomas Pope tooke by the bosome saieng Oh traitor how couldest thou find in thy heart to worke such a villanie as to take wages and being trusted ouer a band of men to fall to hir enimies returning against hir in battell Bret answered Yea I haue offended in that case Then came Thomas Cobham whome sir Thomas Poines tooke in and said Alas maister line 60 Cobham what wind headed you to worke such treason And he answered Oh sir I was seduced Then came in sir Thomas Wiat whom sir Iohn Bridges tooke by the collar and said Oh thou villen vnhappie traitor how couldest thou find in thy hart to worke such detestable treason to the quéenes maiestie who gaue thée thy life and liuing once alreadie although thou diddest before this time beare armes in the field against hir and now to yéeld hir battell c. If it were not saith he but that the law must passe vpon thee I would sticke thée through with my dagger To the which Wiat holding his arms vnder his side and looking grieuouslie with a grim looke vpon the lieutenant said It is no maisterie now and so passed on Thomas Wiat had on a shirt of maile with sleeues verie faire theron a veluet cassocke and a yellow lace with the windlace of his dag hanging thereon and a paire of boots on his legs and on his head a faire hat of veluet with a broad bone-worke lace about it William Kneuet Thomas Cobham and Bret were the like apparelled On the morrow and the next daie following were brought into the tower prisoners George Cobham sir William Cobham Anthonie Kneuet Hugh Booth Thomas Uane Robert Rudstone sir George Harper Edward Wiat Edward Fog George Moore and Cutbert Uaughan The tenth of Februarie the earle of Huntington and other gentlemen and to the number of thrée hundred horssemen brought to the tower as prisoners the duke of Suffolke and the lord Iohn Greie his brother from Couentrie where the duke had remained thrée daies after his taking in the house and custodie of Christopher Warren alderman there The eleuenth daie sir Henrie Isleie who had fled was brought into the tower in an
of Spaine and France was now renewed againe and the deputies were appointed to meet at Chasteau Cambresi a six leagues distant from Cambraie For the king of Spaine the duke of Alua the prince of Orange the bishop of Arras Rigomes de Silua earle of Mellito monsieur Uiglius Zwichem knight and president of the priuie councell in the low countries who neuerthelesse came not bicause he was letted by sicknesse For the French king there came the cardinall of Loraine the conestable the marshall of saint Andrew the bishop of Orleans and Claude de Aubespine the said kings secretarie For the queene of England the bishop of Elie the lord William Howard baron of Effingham lord chamberleine to the said quéene doctor Nicholas Wootton deane of Canturburie and Yorke For the duke of Sauoie there were the earle of Stropiana the president of Asti. And as a meane or mediatrix betwéene the parties there was Christierna dutchesse of Loraine with hir sonne the yong duke which dutchesse as well here as before at Cercampe trauelled most earnestlie to doo good betwixt the parties and to bring them to a finall accord whose endeuor therein was to the great good liking contentation of all the said parties After that this treatie had continued a long time and now restâ—d nothing to staie them froÌ„ concluding a generall peace but onelie the article touching Calis at length that matter was also accorded by a speciall treatie betwixt the quéenes maiestie of England the French king Guido Caualcanti a gentleman of Florence line 10 being the meane to bring the same to effect The substance of which articles was that Calis shuld rest in the Frenchmens hands for the terme of eight yéeres and at the end of that terme they couenanted to render the same or else for default to forfeit vnto the quéenes highnesse the summe of fiue hundred thousand crownes and for suertie hereof to deliuer foure hostages such as hir maiestie should thinke sufficient And in case the towne were not deliuered at the end of the said eight yéeres though the monie were line 20 paid according to the couenants yet notwithstanding the right and title to the said towne and countrie adioining should alwaies remaine and be reserued vnto the crowne and realme of England It was further concluded also that a peace should be firmed and had betwixt the realmes of England and Scotland such fortresses to be rased as had been built and made by the Scots and French on the borders towards England as Haimouth and others Sir Iohn Mason knight secretarie for the French line 30 toong was sent ouer in post with instructions vnto the English commissioners after whose comming within two or thrée daies a generall peace was concluded betwixt all the parties the articles whereof not touching England we haue of purpose omitted But now after the conclusion of this peace the said sir Iohn Mason returned in post with the same and so therevpon the seuenth of Aprill the said peace was proclamed to wit betwixt the quéenes maiestie on the one part and the French king on the other line 40 their realmes dominions and subiects and likewise betwixt hir said maiestie and the king Dolphin and quéene of Scots his wife their realmes dominions and subiects This proclamation was made by Garter Norreie king at armes accompanied with thrée other heralds fiue trumpettors the lord maior of London the aldermen in their scarlet gowns being also present riding in companie of the said heralds The same time also was another proclamation made vnder the quéenes hand in writing inhibiting line 50 thâ—t from thensefoorth no plaies nor interludes should be exercised till Alhallowes tide next insuing Upon saturdaie the two and twentith of Aprill the lord Wentworth late deputie of Calis was areigned at Westminster vpon an indictment of treason found against him in the late queene Maries daies for the losse of Calis but he was acquited by his péeres the lord marquesse of Northampton sitting that daie as cheefe steward of England vnder the cloth of estate The eight of Maie the parlement line 60 brake vp in which parlement beside other things before recited concluded and passed in the same a subsidie was granted to the quéenes highnesse of two shillings eight pence the pound of mooueable goods and foure shillings of lands to be paid at two seuerall paiments of euerie person spirituall and temporall towards the better furnishing of hir maiestie with monie for the necessarie charges which she was presentlie occasioned to susteine finding the treasure of the realme greatlie consumed and the reuenues of the crowne sore diminished and the same crowne much indebted by taking vp of notable summes of monie by waie of loane vpon interest as well in the daies of hir brother K. Edward as hir sister quéene Marie The foureteenth of Maie being Whitsundaie the seruice in churches began according to the booke of coÌ„mon praier set foorth and established in this last parlement correspondent to that which was vsed in the daies of hir brother king Edward Upon sundaie the second of Iulie the citizens of London set foorth a muster before the quéenes maiestie at Greenwich in the parke there of the number of 1400 men whereof 800 were pikes armed in fine corselets foure hundred shot in shirts of male with morâ—ans two hundred halbarders armed in Almaine riuets these were furnished foorth by the crafts and companies of the citie To euerie hundred two wifflers were assigned richlie appointed and apparelled for the purpose There were also twelue wardens of the best companies mounted on horssebacke in coats of blacke veluet to conduct them with drums and fiffes and six ensignes all in ierkins of white sattin of Bridges cut and lined with blacke sarsenet and caps hosen and scarfs according The sergeant Maiors capteine Constable and capteine Sanders brought them in order before the queenes presence placing them in battell arraie euen as they should haue fought so as the shew was verie faire the emperours and the French kings ambassadors being present In this moneth also the archbishop of Yorke the bishops of Elie London and others to the number of thirtéene or fouretéene being called before the quéenes councell and refusing to receiue the oth touching hir maiesties supremasie and other articles were depriued from their bishopricks in whose roomes and places first for cardinall Poole succéeded doctor Matthew Parker archbishop of Canturburie In the place of Heth succeeded doctor Yoong In steed of Boner Edmund Grindall was bishop of London For Hopton Thurlbie Tunstall Pates Christoferson Peto Coats Morgan Feasie White Oglethorpe c were placed doctor Iohn Parkhurst in Norwich D. Cox in Elie Iewell in Salisburie Pilkenton in Duresme doctor Sands in Worcester master Downam in Westchester Bentam in Couentrie and Lichfield Dauid in S. Dauies Allie in Excester Horne in Winchester Scorie in Hereford Best in Carleill Bullingham in Lincolne Scamler in
the assault which continued for the space of an houre and a halfe the French shot off their flankers and mainteined their shot from the wals so thicke that it seemed a verie hell for the time line 60 They also hurled downe ouer the wals vpon the assailants heads great plentie of stones logs and mightie péeces of timber which did much hurt to the Englishmen and Scots that forced themselues to clime vp But yet neuerthelesse manie there were that entred the towne in sundrie places of the which some came backe againe although others were beaten downe and slaine To conclude at length all that escaped with life were forced to retire with the losse of seauen or eight score Englishmen some haue said two hundred which were slaine outright beside those that were wounded being in number at the least two or three hundred and amongst other there were diuer se capteins and gentlemen that were hurt as sir Thomas Hesketh master Sutton master Newport master Conweie capteine Wood Thomas Fitton with others Upon the repulse thus giuen to our men by the French they aduanced and set vp fouretéene ensignes presentlie about the towne and continued otherwise quiet all that daie Wednesdaie the eight of Maie in the afternoone sir George Howard and sir Richard Lée departed towards Barwike with certeine companies of horsmen for their safe conduction Thursdaie the ninth of Maie the Frenchmen wrought verie earnestlie within the towne to fortifie the necessarie places and repare the breaches euen in the face of the English ordinance which went off diuerse times and did them much hurt The same daie also the French had manned to the sea wards a bote fraught with fiftie harquebusiers meaning to conueie them ouer to Insketh but the English ships discouering them prepared certeine botes to encounter them whereof they being aware returned Fridaie the tenth of Maie master Inglebie capteine Pickman and capteine Browne came to the campe from Barwike with a supplie of foure hundred and fiftie souldiors The same daie about ten of the clocke at night there chanced a brall to fall out among the Scots that watched in the trenches néerest vnto the towne of Leith on the west side insomuch that one of them fell to and killed an other which disorder being perceiued of the French within Leith they issued out and meant to haue vsed the vantage but the Englishmen that watched néere vnto the Scots staied the fraie and did not onelie bring them to quiet but also put the Frenchmen to flight On sundaie the twelfe of Maie about midnight the Frenchmen to the number of two hundred sallied foorth of the towne minding to giue a camisado to the Englishmen who kept watch that night in the trenches at the westside of Montpelham but they were descried and certeine of them killed and so had the repulse Wednesdaie the fiftéenth of Maie sir Francis Leake came to the campe with a supplie of fiue hundred men from Barwike Thursdaie the sixteenth of Maie towards night the Frenchmen to the number of one hundred footmen and thirtie horssemen came abroad and shewed themselues verie braue skirmishing with the Englishmen at the west end of their towne Tuesdaie the one and twentith of Maie about seauen of the clocke at night there issued foorth of Leith six horssemen and one hundred footmen harquebusiers marching toward Montpelham to offer skirmish Wherevpon capteine Uaughan went foorth to them verie orderlie and skirmished with them a prettie while and in the meane time off went the great ordinance on both sides In the end the Frenchmen were driuen to retire into the towne for the Englishmen shewed themselues verie egre and valiantlie charged their enimies put them to retire and chased them in at their gates to the which they followed them right hardilie The same night maister Francis Summerset and other capteins were appointed to kéepe a â—ort built aboue the campe and now finished tooke name of him being capteine thereof and was after called Summersets mount The same daie a souldiour of capteine Druries band was hanged for going to Edenburgh contrarie to a proclamation inhibiting anie soldiour so to doo without speciall licence Wednesdaie the two and twentith of Maie sir Peter Carew came to the campe being sent from the court Thursdaie the foure and twentith of Maie at seuen of the clocke at night the French sallied foorth to the number of two hundred footmen and twentie horssemen at the reléefe of the warders when the watch should be set meaning as it appeared to haue woone the trenches from the Englishmen Wherevpon a sore skirmish followed diuerse slaine and manie hurt on both parties yet in the end the Frenchmen were driuen home by plaine force This was at the west side of the towne where they had fortified towards the sea The same daie the Frenchmen of Dunbar tooke an English hoie laden with double béere béefe oxen line 10 and sâ—itches of bacon Saturdaie the eight of Iune sir Iohn Neuill with three hundred men capteine Bridges and capteine Drurie with other thrée hundred set from Barwike towards the campe where they arriued on mondaie the tenth of Iune on which daie the queene Dowager departed this life The thirtéenth of Iune sir William Cicill principall secretarie to the queenes maiestie and doctor Wotton deane of Canturburie and Yorke came to Barwike appointed commissioners on hir said maiesties line 20 behalfe to treat of an accord with the conte de Randon and the bishop of Ualence commissioners sent for that purpose from the French king and his wife Marie queene of Scotland The fouretéenth of Iune being fridaie a certeine number of Frenchmen came foorth of Leith to gather cockles on the sands towards Montpelham which the Englishmen perceiuing set vpon them slue thréescore and ten and tooke sixtéene of them prisoners On sundaie the sixtéenth of Iune the fore remembred line 30 commissioners came to Edenburgh and as master secretarie and doctor Wotton passed the English forts and campe they were saluted with a gallant peale of the harquebusiers that shot off their harquebusies verie liuelie Mondaie the seuentéenth of Iune about eight of the clocke an abstinence of warre was concluded warning being giuen by the discharging of two péeces of the great artillerie out of the castell and then the Frenchmen shewed and aduanced themselues vpon their rampiers Saturdaie the two and twentith of Iune the abstinence line 40 was broken off which till then had beene trulie kept and obserued Thursdaie the fourth of Iulie about thrée of the clocke in the after noone the French came out of Leith according to their accustomed maner to gather cockles Whervpon the lord lieutenant being at that present in Montpelham sent a drum vnto monsieur Doisell to signifie to him that his soldiours had gone further without their bounds than they might doo by the order taken by the commissioners line 50 of both parts Doisell answered that
great galleasses The Turks had their gallies galliots and foists to the number of two hundred and fiftie as appeareth by the account afore made of those that were taken line 40 abandoned and escaped There were deliuered and set at libertie about twelue thousand some say fourteene thousand christian captiues whome the Turks kept for slaues and had them chained there aboord with them in their gallies But this victorie was not got without great losse of the christians for beside Augustine Barbarigo the principall proueditore of the Uenetians there died seuentéene other gentlemen of Uenice being men of good estimation Iohn Cardone Barnardine Cardone Spaniards line 50 Uirginio and Horatio Ursini Romans Troilo Sabello Marco Molino besides diuerse other nobles and gentlemen of name as well Italians as Spaniards and Almans In all there died of the christians to the number of seauen thousand six hundred fiftie and six beside those that were hurt being in like number to them that were slaine among whom was don Iohn de Austria generall of all the christian armie there Sebastian Ueniero the Uenetians generall the counte de Santa Fiore with diuerse others Moreouer line 60 there were christian gallies bouged thrée of the Uenetians one of the popes one belonging to the duke of Sauoie and another to the knights of Malta There was one also taken led awaie by Ochialie and his companie Such was the successe of this battell which continued for the space of six houres in the end whereof the victorie remaining with the christians caused no small reioising through all parties of christendome For if this victorie had béene followed with his gratious helpe and assistance that was the giuer thereof the proud and loftie horne of the Ismaelite had béene so brused as peraduenture his courage would haue quailed to put foorth the same so spéedilie as he did But such is the malice of the time that the christians haue more pleasure to draw their weapons one against another than against that common enimie of vs all who regardeth neither protestant nor catholike they may be sure those of the Gréekish church nor others as if the mercifull prouidence of the Lord of hosts doo not in time disappoint his proceedings it will be too soone perceiued though happilie too late to stop the breach when the floud hath got head and once woone passage through the banke It were therfore to be wished of all those that tender the suertie of the christian commonwealth that princes would permit their subiects to liue in libertie of conscience concerning matters of faith and that subiects againe would be readie in dutifull wise to obeie their princes in matters of ciuill gouernment so that compounding their controuersies among themselues with tollerable conditions they might emploie their forces against the common enimie to the benefit of the whole christian world which the more is the pitie they haue so long exercised one against another to each others destruction And as for matters in variance about religion rather to decide the same with the word than with the sword an instrument full vnfit for that purpose and not lightlie vsed nor allowed of by the ancient fathers in time of the primitiue church But fith this is rather to be wished than hoped for by anie apparant likelihood considering the strange contrarietie of humors now reigning among men in sundrie parts of christendome let vs leaue the successe of our wish to the plesure of God the author of all good haps who ruleth the harts of princes as the poet saith verie trulie eius In manibus sunt regum animi quotúnque volunta◠Fert sua vertit eos and frameth the peoples minds as séemeth best to his diuine prouidence And withall let vs also humblie offer to him our praiers instantlie beseeching him to spare vs in mercie and not to reward vs after our iniquities but rather by his onmipotent power to turne from vs the violence of our enimies in abridging their forces as it may séeme good to his mercifull fauour and great clemencie The thirtith of December Reinold Greie was by the quéenes maiestie restored earle of Kent ¶ The thirtéenth of Ianuarie deceassed sir William Peter knight who for his iudgement and pregnant wit had béene secretarie and of the priuie councell to foure kings and quéenes of this realme and seauen times ambassador abroad in forren lands he augmented Exceter college in Oxford with lands to the value of an hundred pounds by yeare and also builded ten almes houses in the parish of Ingerstone for twentie poore people ten within the house and ten without the house hauing euerie one two pence the daie a winter gowne and two load of wood and among them féeding for six kine winter and summer and a chapleine to saie them seruice dailie The sixteenth of Ianuarie the lord Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was arreigned at Westminster hall before George lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie high steward of England for that daie and there by his péeres found giltie of high treason and had iudgement accordinglie The eleuenth of Februarie Kenelme Barneie and Edmund Mather were drawen from the tower of London and Henrie Rolfe from the Marshalsea in Southworke all thrée to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for treason Barneie and Mather for conspiracie and Rolfe for counterfeiting of the quéens maiesties hand ¶ The queenes maiestie hearing crediblie by report that certeine lewd persons vnder pretense of executing commissions for inquiries to be made for lands concealed contrarie to hir maiesties meaning chalenging lands stocks of monie plate c letting not also to make pretense to the bels led and other such things belonging vnto parish churches or chappels Hir maiestie meaning spéedilie to withstand such manner of vnlawfull practises commanded that all commissions then extant and not determined for inquisition of anie manner of concealements should be by Supersedias out of hir excheker reuoked line 10 And also appointed speedie remedie to be had against such extorcioners as more at large appeareth by proclamation concluding thus Finallie hir maiestie would hir iustices of assise to haue some speciall care not onelie to the premisses but also to the reforming of certeine couetous iniurious attempts of diuerse that of late time by other colour than for hir maiesties vse had taken awaie the led of churches and chappels yea and bels also out of steeples and other common goods belonging to parishes an line 20 example not to be suffered vnpunished nor vnreformed And so hir maiestie eftsoones chargeth hir iustices of hir assise to prouide seuere remedie both for punishment and reformation thereof Dated at Westminster the thirtéenth daie of Februarie the fourtéenth yeare of hir reigne The tenth of March deceased sir William Paulet knight lord saint Iohn earle of Wilshire marquesse of Winchester knight of the honorable order of the garter one of the quéenes maiesties
driuen to depart thense vnto the Camber at Rie which then was a notable good rode though now vtterlie decaied or into the Isle of Wight For in a sudden flaw or storme of wind at southeast there haue beene seuen or eight ships broken all to péeces in one daie vpon the said cliffes To reléeue and amend the same harborough and somewhat to mitigat the foresaid inconuenience line 10 there was a round tower builded by one Iohn Clarke préest maister of the maison de Dieu about the yeare one thousand fiue hundred at the southwest part of the said baie which serued somewhat to defend the ships from the rage of the southwest wind but especiallie to moore the ships which were tied therevnto For manie great ringles were fastened to the same tower for that purpose as it maie yet be séene sith it standeth there at this houre And hereby that part of the baie was made so pleasant as euer after line 20 that corner hath béene named and is at this daie called Little paradise Neuerthelesse this was thought verie insufficient in respect of the place for the safegard of such a multitude of ships as vsuallie laie for harbour in that rode For besides all strange botes which commonlie repaired thither it appeareth in the booke of Doomesdaie that Douer armed yearelie at his proper charges twentie vessels to the sea by the space of fiftéene daies with one and twentie able men in ech ship line 30 Now about the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two one sir Iohn Thomson clarke parson of the parish of saint Iames in Douer being a man ingenious and séeing the conueniencie and possibilitie of a good hauen to be made in that place consulted with the cheefe and best mariners of the towne Among whome it was agréed that humble sute should be made to the kings maiestie by the state of the towne for his gratious fauour and aid toward the making of a good hauen there And it was also line 40 by them all thought meet that the said sir Iohn Thomson should exhibit their petition to his highnesse whervnto he agréed and drew a plot and prepared a supplication in the name and behalfe of the towne conteining the necessarie causes and reasons deuises and instructions for the erection and building thereof But he told them he was poore and therefore vnable of his owne proper charges to follow the sute In which respect they collected among themselues and deliuered vnto him foure pounds ten shillings which line 50 he accepted and foorthwith repaired to the court where he so demeaned himselfe as he had present accesse to the king who heard his sute with great fauor and debated with him about the contents of his plot and liked so well of his informations that he willed him to repaire home and without delaie to returne to his presence accompanied with some of the best mariners or seamen of the towne and so with commendations dismissed him for that time When the maisters of the towne vnderstood his graces pleasure they immediatlie assembled themselues line 60 and made choise of Edward Maie Robert Iustice Richard Cowchie and Iohn Steward as the fittest and skilfullest persons to vse conference and to be imploied in that cause being all mariners of good experience These foure and the said sir Iohn Thomson without further staie resorted to the court with whom when the king had communed he conceiued of the necessitie of a hauen to be there had and of the probabilitie and likelihood of good successe in the enterprise to be performed according to their suggestion And because his maiestie vnderstood the poore estate of the towne he granted his gratious aid for the supplie of their want of monie deliuering at that time out of his owne cofers vnto them the summe of fiue hundred pounds wherewith he willed them to make a beginning of the worke At which time he bestowed on the said sir Iohn Thomson the maistership of the maison de Dieu of Douer which was a hospitall valued at one hundred and twentie pounds by the yeare the custome and dutie of the which house was as the ancient townesmen informe me to interteine and reléeue souldiors and others which came from beyond the seas hurt or distressed who were allowed some reléefe there by the space of certeine daies gratis which though I find not directlie set downe in record yet doo I know assuredlie the same to haue beene put in execution wherewith the verie name of the house is agréeable and as it were a credible witnesse The king at that time also appointed the said sir Iohn to be principall surueior of the works and vnder him the other foure to be ouerseers of the same Now am I to giue you to vnderstand that the drift and deuise of the said sir Iohn Thomson was to erect a huge wall which he termed by the name of a pierre from Arcliffe chapell being the southwest part of the baie directlie towards the east into the maine sea about 131 rods in length so as by that meanes the harborough was to be garded from the rage of all weather comming from the north northeast northwest and southwest and so the entrance onelie at east southeast whereinto when the ships were once brought they might there lie safe in all weather at the one side or the other But the pierre was not finished by 350 foot so far as the foundation thereof which he called the Molehead was laid which foundation consisted of great rocks brought from a place néere hand called Hakcliffe or the castell Raie and Folkestone This pierre was begun on S. Annes daie 1533 and it was compiled of two rowes of maine posts great piles of fiue or six twentie foot long set at each side close togither which were let downe and put in certeine holes hewed in the great rocks laid for that purpose but some of those piles were shod with iron and driuen into the maine rocke of chalke with a great engine called a ram These posts and piles were combined and held togither with iron bolts and were filled with mightie stones of chalks as also with beach and other earth but the bottome consisted altogither of great rocks of stone which if they had not béene brought thither by a speciall deuise must néeds haue béene extreame chargeable for manie of them were of twentie tun a péece and few vnder The practise of this charge is now common but it was before that time rare vnknowne in England and inuented there by a poore simple man named Iohn Yoong who first with a nutshell after with an egshell lastlie with a small vessell made proofe what weight those things could raise beare in the water and hauing by that experiment made triall or at least a probable coniecture that stones of great weight might be raised and carried in the water by greater vessels he
thought that they would leauie a power and come downe to rescue Chierburgh The duke of Glocester therefore 〈◊〉 his camps to be stronglie intrenched and manie defensiâ—le blockehouses of timber to be raised like to small turrets that the same might be a safegard to his people and to conclude left nothing vnforeséene nor vndoone that was auailable for the defense of his armie The king doubting least some power should be sent downe to the danger of his brother and those that were with him at this siege caused two thousand men to be imbarked in thirtie ships of the west countrie by order sent vnto certeine lords there The Frenchmen within the towne perceiuing those succors to approch neere to the towne thought verelie that there had béene a power of Frenchmen comming to their aid but when they saw them receiued line 10 as fréends into the English campe their comfort was soone quailed and so when the daie appointed came being the ninetéenth of October or rather about the later end of Nouember as the historie of the dukes of Normandie hath they rendred vp both the towne and castell according to the couenants The lord Greie of Codnore was made the kings lieutenant there and after his deceasse sir Water Hungerford About the same time or rather before as Titus Liuius writeth to wit the two and twentith of line 20 Iune the strong castell of Dampfront was yéelded into the hands of the earle of Warwike to the kings vse But the historie writen of the dukes of Normandie affirmeth that it was surrendred the two and twentith of September after the siege had coÌ„tinued about it from Aprill last The king by honorable report of other and of his owne speciall knowledge so rightlie ascerteined of the great valure that for feats at armes and policie in warre was alwaies found in the person of that Iohn Bromley esquier spoken line 30 of a little here before for which his maiestie so sundrie waies roiallie rewarded him againe some specialtie yet of the gentlemans merits togither with the souereignes bountie to him among other seemes here at mention of this Dampfront whereof shortlie after he was capteine verie well to deserue a place and to that purpose as the king in Iulie went ouer againe and this Iohn Bromley in Iune the same yeare with conduct of charge was sent afore imploieng himselfe still in venturous actiuitie with line 40 great annoie to the enimie his highnesse for good liking of the same and for hartening and example to other in Aprill next following gaue fourtie pounds land to him and his heires males by letters patents in words as followeth and remaining yet of record in the Tower of London A copie of the said letters patents line 50 HEnricus Dei gratia rex Angliae Franciae dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes litterae peruenerint salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali pro bono seruitio quod dilectus seruiâ—ns noster Iohannes Bromley nobis impendit impendet in futurum dedimus concessimus ei hospitium de Molay Bacon infra comitatum nostrum line 60 de Baieux ac omnes terras tenementa redditus haereditates possessiones infra ducatum nostrum Normandiae quae fuerunt Alani de Beaumont nobis rebellis vt dicitur Habendum tenendum praefato Iohanni haeredibus fuis masculis de corpore suo procreatis hospitium terras tenementa redditus haereditates possessiones supradictas vna cum omnimodis franchesijs priuilegijs iurisdictionibus wardis maritagijs releâ—ijs eschetis forisfacturis feodis militum aduocationibus ecclesiarum aliorum beneficiorum ecclesiasticoruÌ„ quorumcúnque terris pratis pasturis boscis wareÌ„nis chaseis aquis vijs stagnis moleÌ„dinis viuarijs moris mariscis ac alijs coÌ„moditatibus quibuscúnque dictis hospitio terris tenementis redditibus haereditatibus possessionibus pertinentibus siue spectantibus ad valorem quadraginta librarum sterlingorum per annum tenendis de nobis haeredibus nostris per homagium c ac reddendo nobis eisdem haeredibus nostris apud castrum nostrum de Baieux vnam zonam pro lorica ad festum Natuitatis sancti Iohannis Baptistae singulis annis nec non faciendo alia seruitia c. Reseruato c. Prouiso semper c. Castro seu ciuitati nostro de Baieux c. Quódque praedictum hospitium c. In cuius rei c. Teste me ipso apud dictam ciuitatem nostram de Baieux 18 die Aprilis anno regni nostri sexto per ipsum regem Yet heere at the noble prince not staieng his bountie but rather regarding euer how iustlie new merits doo deserue new dignities and peraduenture the more mooued somewhat to reare vp the degrée of this esquire toward the state of his stocke who a long time before had béene indued with knighthood and also bicause that vnto the duke of Buckingham he was of bloud which his behauiour alwaies had from staine so farre preserued as rather brought to it some increase of glorie did in the most worthie wise which to that order belongeth dub him knight of warfare in field made him also capteine generall of this strong castell of Dampfront seneshall and great constable of Bosseuile le Rosse with other offices and titles of worship as partlie may appeare by a déed in which this knight taking patterne at his princes benignitie had giuen an annuitie of twentie pounds to his kinsman Walter Audeley A copie of that writing sundrie waies so well seruing to the truth of the storie was thought right necessarie heere to be added thus OMnibus ad quos hoc praesens scriptum peruenerit IohaÌ„nes de Bromley miles capitaneus generalis de Dampfront senescallus magnus constabularius de Bosseuile le Rosse March ibidem salutem Sciatis quòd pro bono fideli seruitio quod dilectus consanguineus meus Gualterus de Audeley mihi fecerit tam infra regnum Angliae quà m extra praecipuè contra Francos dedisse concessisse hac praesenti chartamea confirmasse eidem Gualtero vnum annualem redditum viginti librarum exeuntem de manerio meo de Bromley omnibus alijs terris tenementis meis infra regnum Angliae vna cum herbagio pro quatuor equis habendo infra boscos meos de Bromley Willoughbridge octo carucatis foeni capiendis infra prat a mea de Shurlebrooke Foordsmedo annuatim durante tota vita praedicti Gualteri infesto sancti Iacobi apostoli Et si contingat praedictum annualem redditum a retrò fore in aliquo festo durante termino praedicto tunc bene licebit eidem Gualtero in manerio meo omnibus alijs terris meis praedictis distringere districtiones inde captas penes se retinere quousque de redditu praedicto vna cum arreragijs si quae fuerint plenarie fuerit
was displeased and so returned to Brecknocke to you But in that iournie as I returned whither it were by the inspiration of the Holie-ghost or by melancholious disposition I had diuerse and sundrie imaginations how to depriue this vnnaturall vncle and bloudie butcher from his roiall seat and princelie dignitie First I santised that if I list to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall scepter of the realme now was the time propice and conuenient For now was the waie made plaine and the gate opened and occasion giuen which now neglected should peraduenture neuer take such effect and conclusion For I saw he was disdeined of the lords temporall abhored and accurssed of the lords spirituall detested of all gentlemen and despised of all the communaltie so that I saw my chance as perfectlie as I saw mine owne image in a glasse that there was no person if I had béene gréedie to attempt the enterprise could nor should haue woone the ring or got the gole before me And on this point I rested in imagination secretlie with my selfe two daies at Tewkesburie From thence so iournieng I mused and thought that it was not best nor conuenient to take vpon me as a conqueror For then I knew that all men and especiallie the nobilitie would with all their power withstand me both for rescuing of possessions and tenures as also for subuerting of the whole estate laws and customes of the realme such a power hath a conqueror as you know well inough my lord But at the last in all this doubtfull case there sprang a new branch out of my head which suerlie I thought should haue brought forth faire floures but the sunne was so hot that they turned to drie wéeds For I suddenlie remembred that the lord Edmund duke of Summerset my grandfather was with king Henrie the sixt in the two and thrée degrées from Iohn duke of Lancaster lawfullie begotten so that I thought sure my mother being eldest daughter to duke Edmund that I was next heire to king Henrie the sixt of the house of Lancaster This title pleased well such as I made priuie of my counsell but much more it incouraged my foolish desire and eleuated my ambitious intent insomuch that I cléerelie iudged and in mine owne mind was determinatlie resolued that I was indubitate heire of the house of Lancaster and therevpon concluded line 10 to make my first foundation and erect my new building But whether God so ordeined or by fortune it so chanced while I was in a maze either to conclude suddenlie on this title to set it open amongst the common people or to keepe it secret a while sée the chance as I rode betweene Worcester and Bridgenorth I incountered with the ladie Margaret countesse of Richmond now wife vnto the lord Stanlie which is the verie daughter and sole heire to lord Iohn duke of Summerset my grandfathers line 20 elder brother which was as cleane out of my mind as though I had neuer séene hir so that she and hir sonne the earle of Richmond be both bulworke and portcullice betwéene me and the gate to enter into the maiestie roiall and getting of the crowne Now when we had communed a little concerning hir sonne as I shall shew you after and were departed shée to our ladie of Worcester and I to Shrewsburie I then new changed and in maner amazed began to dispute with my selfe little considering line 30 that thus my earnest title was turned to a tittell not so good as Est Amen Eftsoones I imagined whether were best to take vpon me by election of the nobilitie and communaltie which me thought easie to be done the vsurper king thus being in hatred and abhorred of this whole realme or to take it by power which standeth in fortunes chance and difficile to be atchiued and brought to passe Thus tumbling and tossing in the waues of ambiguitie betwéene the stone and the sacrifice I considered first the office dutie and line 40 paine of a king which suerlie thinke I that no mortall man can iustlie and trulie obserue except he be called elected and speciallie appointed by God as K. Dauid and diuerse other haue beéne But further I remembred that if I once tooke on me the scepter and the gouernance of the realme that of two extreame enimies I was dailie sure but of one trustie friend which now a daies be gone a pilgrimage I was neither assured nor crediblie ascerteined such is the worlds mutation For I manifestlie perceiued that the daughters of king Edward line 50 and their alies and freends which be no small number being both for his sake much beloued and also for the great iniurie manifest tyrannie doone to them by the new vsurper much lamented and pitied would neuer ceasse to barke if they cannot bite at the one side of me Semblablie my coosine the earle of Richmond his aids and kinsfolks which be not of little power will suerlie attempt like a fierce greihound either to bite or to pearse me on the other side So that my life and rule should euer hang line 60 by a haire neuer in quiet but euer in doubt of death or deposition And if the said two linages of Yorke and Lancaster which so long haue striued for the imperiall diadem should ioine in one against me then were I suerlie mated and the game gotten Wherefore I haue cléerelie determined and with my selfe concluded vtterlie to relinquish all such fantasticall imaginations concerning the obteining of the crowne But all such plagues calamities and troubles which I feared and suspected might haue chanced on me if I had taken the rule and regiment of this realme I shall with a reredemaine so make them rebound to to our common enimie that calleth himselfe king that the best stopper that he hath at tenice shall not well stop without a fault For as I told you before the counfesse of Richmond in my returne from the new named king méeting me in the high waie praâ—ed me first for kinred sake secondarâ—lie for the loue that I bare to my grandfather duke Humfrie which was sworne brother to hir father so mooue the king to be good to hir sonne Henrie earle of Richmond and to licence him with his fauour to returne againe into England And if it were his pleasure so to doo she promised that the earle hir sonne should marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the king without anie thing to be taken or demanded for the said espousals but onelie the kings fauour which request I soone ouerpassed and gaue hir faire words and so departed But after in my lodging when I called to memorie with a deliberate studie and did circumspectlie ponder them I fullie adiudged that the Holie-ghost caused hir to mooue a thing the end whereof she could not consider both for the securitie of the realme as also for the preferment of hir child and the destruction and finall confusion of the common enimie king
to studie and knowledge So that vnto these hopes was much helping the manner of the election being made in his person sincerelie and line 10 without simonie or suspicion of other corruption The first act of this new pope was his coronation which was represented according to the vsage of his predecessors in the church of saint Iohn de Lateran The pompe was so great both of his familie and his court and also of the prelates and multitudes that were there togither with the popular and vniuersall assemblies of people that by the opinion and iudgement of men the pride and maiestie of that action did farre surpasse all the celebrations doone in Rome line 20 since the tyrannies of the Goths and sauage nations In this same solemnitie the Gonfalon of the church was caried by Alfonso de Este who hauing obteined a suspension of his censures paines was come to Rome with great hope that by the clemencie and facilitie of the pope he should be able to compound for his affaires The Gonfalon of the religion of Rhodes was borne by Iulio de Medicis mounted vpon a statelie courser armed at all points by his nature he bare an inclination to the profession of line 30 armes but by destinie he was drawen to the life ecclesiastike in which estate he maie serue as a wonderfull example of the variation of fortune One matter that made the memorie of that daie wonderfull was this consideration that the person who then in so high rare pompe was honored with the most supreme and souereigne dignitie of the world was the yéere before and on the verie same daie miserablie made prisoner The great magnificence that appéered vpon his person and his expenses confirmed in the generalitie and multitude of men line 40 the expectation that was had of him euerie one promising that Rome should be happie vnder a pope so plentifullie indued with the vertue of liberalitie whereof that daie he had giuen an honorable experience his expenses being aboue an hundred thousand duckats But wise men desired in him a greater grauitie and moderation they iudged that neither such a maiestie of pompe was conuenient for popes neither did the condition of the present time require line 50 that he should so vnprofitablie disperse the treasures that had beene gathered by his predecessour to other vses The vessell of amitie betwéene the king of Enggland the French being first broched by this popes letters the French king by an herald at armes sent to the king of England requiring of him a safe conduct for his ambassadors which should come to intreat for a peace and attonement to be concluded betwixt them and their realmes Upon grant obteined thereof the French king sent a commission with the line 60 president of Rome and others to intreat of peace and aliance betwixt both the princes And moreouer bicause they vnderstood that the mariage was broken betwéene the prince of Castile and the ladie Marie they desired that the said ladie might be ioined in mariage with the French king offering a great dowrie and suerties for the same So much was offered that the king mooued by his councell and namelie by Woolsie the bishop of Lincolne consented vpon condition that if the French king died then â—he should if it stood with hir pleasure returne into England againe with all hir dowrie and riches After that they were accorded vpon a full peace and that the French king should marrie this yoong ladie the indentures were drawen ingrossed sealed and peace therevpon proclamed the seuenth daie of August the king in presence of the French ambassadors was sworne to kéepe the same and likewise there was an ambassage sent out of England to see the French king sweare the same The dowrie that was assigned vnto the bride to be receiued after hir husbands deceasse if she suruiued him was named to be 32000 crownes of yearelie reuenues to be receiued out of certeine lands assigned foorth therefore during all hir naturall life And moreouer it was further agreed couenanted that the French king should content and paie yearelie vnto king Henrie during the space of fiue yeares the summe of one hundred thousand crownes By conclusion of this peace was the duke of Longuile with the other prisoners deliuered paieng their ransoms and the said duke affied the ladie Marie in the name of his maister king Lewes In September following the said ladie was conueied to Douer by the king hir brother the queene and on the second daie of October she was shipped and such as were appointed to giue their attendance on hir as the duke of Norffolke the marquesse Dorset the bishop of Durham the earle of Surreie the lord de la Ware the lord Berners the lord Monteagle the foure brethren of the said marques sir Maurice Berklie sir Iohn Pechie sir William Sands sir Thomas Bulleine sir Iohn Car and manie other knights esquiers gentlemen and ladies They had not sailed past a quarter of the sea but that the wind arose and seuered the ships driuing some of them to Calis some into Flanders and hir ship with great difficultie was brought to Bullen not without great ieopardie at the entering of the hauen for the maister ran the ship hard on shore But the boats were readie and receiued the ladie out of the ship and sir Christopher Garnish stood in the water and tooke hir in his armes and so caried hir to land where the duke of Uandosme and a cardinall with manie other great estates receiued hir with great honor From Bullen with easie iournies she was conueied vnto Abuile there entered the eighth of October where she was receiued by the Dolphin with great honour she was apparelled in cloth of siluer hir horsse was trapped in goldsmiths worke verie richlie After hir followed 36 ladies all their palfries trapped with crimsin veluet embrodered After them followed one chariot of cloth of tissue the second cloth of gold the third crimsin veluet embrodered with the kings armes hirs full of roses After them followed a great number of archers and then wagons laden with their stuffe Great was the riches in plate iewels monie apparell and hangings that this ladie brought into France On the morrow following being mondaie and S. Denise day the mariage was solemnized betwixt the French king and the said ladie with all honour ioy roialtie both apparelled in goldsmiths worke Then a great banket and sumptuous feast was made where the English ladies were honorablie interteined according to the dignitie of the persons and to the contentment of them that had no dregs of malice or misliking settled in their harts For vnpossible it is that in a great multitude meeting togither though all about one matter be it of pleasure and delight there should not be one of a repugnant disposition and though not apparantlie perceiued trauelling with grudge malignant mind as we sée some apples
where he had line 20 by his oth neuerthelesse affirmed him so to be Whervpon in his examination that point being laid to his charge he answered that he tooke his oth with his outward man but his inward man neuer consented therevnto But being further accused of diuerse hereticall and damnable opinions that he held mainteined contrarie to the scripture at length being not able to defend the same he submitted himselfe to the punishment of the church Now when vpon this his submission hauing more libertie than before he had to talke with whome he line 30 would and other hauing libertie to talke with him he was incensed by some such as had conference with him that when his formall abiuration was sent him to read and peruse he vtterlie refused it and obstinatelie stood in all his heresies and treasons Wherevpon he was condemned afterwards on a paire of new gallowes prepared for him in Smithfield he was hanged by the middle and arme-holes all quicke and vnder the gallowes was made line 40 a fire wherewith he was consumed and burnt to death There were diuerse of the councell present at his death readie to haue granted him pardon if anie sparke of repentance would haue appeared in him There was also a pulpit prepared in which that renowmed preacher Hugh Latimer then bishop of Worcester by manifest scriptures confuted the friers errors and with manie godlie exhortations mooued him to repentance but he would neither heare nor speake line 50 A little before the execution an huge and great image was brought to the gallowes This image was fetched out of Wales which the Welshmen had in great reuerence and it was named Daruell Gatheren They had a prophesie in Wales that this image should set a whole forest on fire which prophesie was now thought to take effect for he set this frier Forrest on fire and consumed him to nothing The frier when he saw the fire come caught hold on the ladder which he would not let go but in that sort vnpatientlie line 60 tooke his death so as if one might iudge him by his outward man he appeared saith Hall to haue small knowledge of God and lesse trust in him at his ending otherwise he would haue béene persuaded to patience and a christian farewell to the world ¶ Upon the gallows that he died on was set vp in great letters these verses here following Dauid Daruell Gatheren As saith the Welshmen Fetched outlawes out of hell Now is he come with speare and shield In harnesse to burne in Smithfield For in Wales he maie not dwell And Forrest the frier That obstinate lier That wilfullie shall be dead In his contumacie The gospell dooth denie The king to be supreme head In Iulie was Edmund Cuningsbie atteinted of treason for counterfeiting the kings signe manuell and in August was Edward Clifford for the same cause atteinted and both put to execution as traitors at Tiburne In September by the speciall motion of the Lord Cromwell all the notable images vnto the which were made anie especiall pilgrimages and offerings were vtterlie taken awaie as the images of Walsingham Ipswich Worcester the ladie of Wilsdon with manie other and likewise the shrines of counterfeit saints as that of Thomas Becket and others And euen foorthwith by meanes of the said Cromwell all the orders of friers and nuns with their cloisters and houses were suppressed and put downe ¶ As for the images of our ladie of Walsingham and Ipswich were brought vp to London with all the iewels that hoong about them and diuerse other images both in England Wales wherevnto anie common pilgrimage was vsed for auoiding of idolatrie all which were burnt at Chelsie by the lord priuie seale On the first of September being sundaie one Gratnell hangman of London and two other were hanged at the wrestling place by Clearken well for robbing a booth in Bartholomew faire at which execution were aboue twentie thousand people as Edward Hall himselfe then a present beholder iudged This moneth of September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale vicegerent to the kings highnesse sent foorth iniunctions to all bishops curats through the realme charging them to see that in euery parish church the bible of the largest volume printed in English were placed for all men to read on and that a booke of register were also prouided and kept in euerie parish church wherein shall be written euerie wedding christening and burieng within the same parish for euer Saint Augustines abbeie at Canturburie was suppressed and the shrine goods taken to the kings treasurie as also the shrine of Thomas Becket in the priorie of Christs church was likewise taken to the kings vse and his bones scull and all which was there found with a peece broken out by the wound of his death were all burnt in the same church by the lord Cromwell The moonks there were commanded to change their habits c. The one and twentith of October the church of Thomas Becket in London called the hospitall of saint Thomas of Acres was suppressed Nicholas Gibson groser for this yeare shiriffe of London builded a free schoole at Ratcliffe néere vnto London appointing to the same for the instruction of thréescore poore mens children a schoolemaster and vsher with a stipend of ten pounds by the yere to the master and six pounds thirteene shillings foure pence to the vsher He also builded there certeine almes houses for fouretéene poore and aged persons who quarterlie receiue six shillings eight pence a peece for euer In this season sute was made to the king by the emperour to take to wife the duchesse of Millan but shortlie after that sute brake off bicause as was thought the emperours councell ment by a cautell to haue brought the king in mind to sue for a licence of the pope Then the duke of Cleue began to sue to the king that it would please him to match with his sister the ladie Anne which after tooke effect In Nouember one Iohn Nicholson otherwise called Lambert a priest was accused of heresie for holding opinion against the bodilie presence in the sacrament of the altar He appealed to the kings maiestie who fauourablie consented to heare him at a daie appointed against which daie in the kings palace at Westminster within the kings hall there was set vp a throne or seat roiall for the king with scaffolds for all the lords and a stage for Nicholson to stand vpon This Nicholson was esteemed to be a man well learned but that daie he vttered no such knowledge line 10 saith Hall as was thought to be in a man of that estimation Diuerse arguments were ministred to him by the bishops but namelie the king pressed him sore and in the end offered him pardon if he would renounce his opinion but he would not consent thereto and therefore he was there condemned and had iudgement and so shortlie after he was
of maister Hunnings seruants that was also one of the takers of fresh fish for the prouision of the queenes house was set on the pillorie in Cheapside in the fish market ouer against the kings head hauing a bawdrike of smelts hanging about his necke with a paper on his forehead written For buieng smelts for twelue pence the hundred and selling them againe for ten pence the quarter He stood so likewise on the eightéenth and the twentith daie of the same moneth euerie one of those three daies from nine of the clocke till twelue The last daie he should haue had one of his eares slit if by great sute made to the councell by the lord maior of London he had not béene pardoned and released out of prison This penance was assigned to him by the quéenes owne appointment when to hir grace his trespasse was reuealed Whereby shée gaue a tast to the people of a zealous mind to haue iustice dulie ministred and faults accordinglie punished namelie of those which vnder pretense of hir graces authoritie should go about to wrong and oppresse hir louing subiects line 10 This yéere in the Easter holidaies on the mondaie preached at the Spittle doctor Bill on the tuesdaie doctor Cox on the wednesdaie doctor Horne the first was hir maiesties chapleine the other two had remained at Geneua and in other places beyond the seas all queene Maries time On low sundaie maister Samson made the rehearsall sermon but when the lord maior and aldermen came to their places in Paules churchyard the pulpit doore was locked the keie could not be heard of Whervpon line 20 the lord maior sent for a smith to open the locke which was doone and when the preacher should enter the place it was found verie filthie and vncleanlie Moreouer the verger that had the custodie of the keie which opened the doore of the place where the prelats and other vse to stand at the sermon time would not open the doore but the gentlemen with a foorme brake it open and so came in to heare the sermon This disorder chanced by reason that since Christmasse last past there was not a sermon preached line 30 at Paules crosse by meanes of an inhibition sent from the councell vnto the bishop of London that he should admit no preacher because of the controuersie betwixt the bishops and other of the clergie that were now returned into the realme from the parties of beyond the seas The last of March the parlement yet continuing was a conference begun at Westminster concerning certeine articles of religion betwixt the bishops and other of the clergie on the one part and certeine line 40 learned preachers of whome some had beene in dignitie in the church of England before that time on the other part The declaration of the procéeding wherin and the cause of the breaking vp of the same conference by default and contempt of certeine bishops parties of the said conference was published in a little treatise and imprinted by Richard Iug and Iohn Cawood printers to the quéenes maiestie as here followeth The quéenes most excellent maiestie hauing heard of diuersitie of opinions in certeine line 50 matters of religion amongst sundrie of hir louing subiects and being verie desirous to haue the same reduced to some godlie christian concord thought it best by the aduise of the lords and other of hir priuie councell as well for the satisfaction of persons doubtfull as also for the knowlege of the verie truth in certeine matter of difference to haue a cōuenient chosen number of the best learned of either part to confer togither their opinions and reasons and therby to come to some good and charitable agreement line 60 And herevpon by hir maiesties commandement certeine of hir priuie councell declared this purpose to the archbishop of Yorke being also one of the same priuie councell required him that he would impart the same to some of the bishops and to make choise of eight nine or ten of them and that there should be the like number named of the other part and further also declared to him as then was supposed what the matters should be And as for the time it was thought meet to be as soone as possible might be agreed vpon And then after certeine daies past it was signified by the said archbishop that there was appointed by such of the bishops to whome he had imparted this matter eight persons that is to saie foure bishops and foure doctors who were content at the quéenes maiesties commandement to shew their opinions and as he termed it render account of their faith in those matters which were mentioned and that speciallie in writing although he said they thought the same so determined as there was no cause to dispute vpon them It was herevpon fullie resolued by the quéenes maiestie with the aduise aforesaid that according to their desire it should be in writing on both parts for auoiding of much altercation in words and that the said bishops should bicause they were in authoritie and degree superiors first declare their minds and opinions in the matter with their reasons in writing and the other number being also eight men of good degrée in schooles and some hauing béene in dignitie in the church of England if they had anie thing to saie to the contrarie should the same daie declare their opinions in like manner And so ech of them should deliuer their writings to the other to be considered what were to be improoued therein and the same to declare againe in writing at some other conuenient daie and the like order to be kept in all the rest of the matters All this was fullie agreed vpon with the archbishop of Yorke and also signified to both parties And immediatlie herevpon diuerse of the nobilitie and states of the realme vnderstanding that such a meeting and conference should be and that in certeine matters wherevpon the court of parlement consequentlie following some lawes might be grounded they made earnest meanes to hir maiestie that the parties of this conference might put and read their assertions in the English toong and that in the presence of them of the nobilitie and others of the parlement house for the better satisfaction and inabling of their owne iudgements to treat and conclude of such lawes as might depend herevpon This also being thought verie reasonable was signified to both parties and so fullie agréed vpon and the daie appointed for the first méeting to be the fridaie in the forenoone being the last of March at Westminster church where both for good order and for honour of the conference by the quéenes maiesties commandement the lords and others of the priuie councell were present and a great part of the nobilitie also And notwithstanding the former order appointed and consented vnto by both parts yet the bishop of Winchester and his colleagues alleging that they had mistaken that their assertions and reasons
Peterburie Bartlet in Bath Gest in Rochester Barlow in Chichester c. In like maner were diuerse deans archdeacons parsons vicars remooued from their benefices and some of them committed to prison in the Tower Fléet Marshalsea and Kings bench Moreouer about the same time were commissio-appointed to visit in euerie diocesse within the relme for the establishment of religion according to the order appointed by act and statute passed and confirmed in the last parlement For London were appointed sir Richard Sackuill knight Robert Horne doctor of diuinitie doctor Huic a ciuilian and maister Sauage who calling before them diuerse persons of euerie parish sware them to inquire and make presentment accordinglie vpon certeine iniunctions drawne and deuised for the better accomplishment and execution of that which they had in charge Furthermore about the same time by vertue of an act established in parlement all such religious houses as were againe erected and set vp were now suppressed as the abbeies of Westminster the houses of the nuns and brethren of the Sion and Shéene the blacke friers of Gréenwich c. And on the twelfe of August being saturdaie the high altar in Paules church with the rood the images of Marie and Iohn standing in the rood loft were taken downe the prebendaries and petie canons commanded to weare no more their graie amises but to vse onelie a surplice in seruice time This was doone by commandement of doctor Grindall newlie elect bishop of London doctor Maie then also newlie elected deane of Paules and other the commissioners then appointed Also on the euen of saint Bartholomew the day and morrow after were burned in Paules churchyard Cheapeside and diuerse other places of the citie of London all the roods and other images of churches and in some places the coapes vestments and altar clothes bookes banners sepulchers and rood lofts were likewise committed to the fier and so line 10 consumed to ashes ¶ The fift of September about midnight fell a great tempest at London in the end wherof a great lightning with a terrible clap of thunder strake the spire being stone of the stéeple of Alhallowes church in Bredstréet about a ten foot beneath the top out of the which fell a stone that slue a dog and ouerthrew a man plaieng with the same dog and the spire of the stéeple was so perished that not long after the same was taken downe with lesse charges to the parish line 20 than the reparing would haue cost And at the same instant by the same tempest one of the southdores of S. Dionise church in Fenchurchstréet with the dore of the reuestrie of the same church were both striken through and broken Upon Fridaie the eight of September was kept in Paules church of London a solemne obsequie for Henrie the second of that name king of France who departed this life about the tenth of Iulie last past of a wound receiued the 29 of Iune in running line 30 at tilt in a solemne iusts holden at Paris in honor of the marriage celebrated betwixt his sister the ladie Margaret of France and Philibert duke of Sauoie He was striken on the viser with a lance as he ran against the counte de Montgomerie the spilts entring by the sight of his headpéece persing through his eie into his head so perished his braine that there was no meane to saue his life The obsequie for him was kept in verie solemne wise with a rich hearse made like an imperiall line 40 crowne susteined with great pillers and couered with blacke veluet with a valence stringed with gold and richlie hanged with scutchions pennons and banners of the French kings armes without anie lights And on the beere was laid a rich pall of cloth of gold with a coat armor of the armes of France and a crest with an imperiall crowne standing vpon the béere doctor Parker archbishop of Canturburie elect doctor Barlow bishop of Chichester elect and doctor Scorie bishop of Hereford elect executing at line 50 the dirge of this euening song in English they sitting in the bishop of Londons seat in the vpper quéere in surplices with doctors hoods about their shoulders The chéefe mourner was the marquesse of Winchester lord treasuror assisted with ten other lords mourners with all the heralds in blacke and their coat armours vppermost On the morrow being saturdaie ninth of September a sermon was preached by doctor Scorie in place of doctor Grindall bishop of London who being line 60 appointed to preach that sermon was letted by sicknesse After the sermon six of the lords mourners receiued the communion with the bishops which bishops were in copes and surplices onelie at the ministration of the said communion Which being finished there was a great dinner kept in the bishop of Londons palace by Paules where the mourners apparelled them and so ended the solemnitie of the said exequies The bishops had blacke gownes giuen them and eight blacke coats a peece for their seruants at the quéenes charges ¶ About the last of September Iohn duke of Finland second sonne to Gustabus king of Swethen was sent by his father to treat a marriage for his eldest brother Ericus with the quéenes maiestie of England he arriued at Harwich in Essex and was there honorablie receiued and interteined by the erle of Oxford which said earle and the lord Robert Dudleie with a goodlie band of gentlemen and yeomen conueied him to London where he was receiued of diueâ—se knights and gentlemen of the court on the fift of October and was with his traine of about the number of fiftie persons well horssed conueied to the bishop of Winchesters place in Southworke where he was lodged during his abode here and remoued from thence two daies before Easter homewards and sped on his message as may appeare by that which followeth taken out of Iohannes Lewenclaij comment de bellis Moscorum Ericus king of Swethen sonne of Gustabus late king of the said kingdome hauing committed to prison his brother Iohn duke of Finland whom a little before he had imploied into England on an ambassage to the quéenes maiestie whom he sued to for mariage and had his sute reiected againe the second time solicited hir maiestie in the same sute notwithstanding to his great dishonor and as it fell out his iust disgrace He attempted the same matter with the yoongest daughter of Philip Lantgraue Uanhessen at whose hand hauing the second time beene reiected of hir maiestie héere the matter being knowne there he also not onelie receiued a deniall but the ladie was by hir father bestowed vpon Adolfe duke Uan Holst vncle of Frederike king of Denmarke then enimie of the said Ericus Thus farre Iohannes Lewenclaij ¶ Cuthbert Tunstall was translated from London to Durham after the death of cardinall Wolseie of whome besides that which Holinshed in this booke reporteth I will saie a little he being so
Reingraue after he had laine about it eight daies with two thousand horssemen and footmen It was now yéelded by composition after it had béene kept by the space of thirtie eight daies that those within should depart with bag and baggage the gallie being sent from Newhauen to fetch them awaie There were no more within it at that time when it was thus deliuered but capteine Iohn Ward capteine Edward Dudleie and capteine Saule his lieutenant Rileie with seuentie English souldiers thirtie French The 19 of Ianuarie there landed at Newhauen capteine Tremaine with 50 horssemen verie well appointed to serue the quéenes maiestie there The foure and twentith of Ianuarie Francis Clerke Frenchman arriued at Newhauen with two tall ships of his owne right well appointed for the wars bringing with him thrée rich prises valued at about fiftie thousand crownes one of them was a line 10 mightie great hulke laden with wood allume The 26 of Ianuarie capteine Tremaine with all his horssemen capteine Clerke with his Scotish horsmen and 600 footmen went foorth of Newhauen towards Mondeuille by the waie in a little village there was a French capteine came foorth of Mondeuille named monsieur Emerie hauing with him thirtie souldiers where falling in hand to spoile the same village the pezzants about gathered themselues line 20 togither and set vpon him and his souldiers Now whilest they were thus in fight the Scotish horssemen came suddenlie vpon them tooke the said capteine sore wounded slue twelue of his soldiers tooke foureteene other of them prisoners whome with their capteine wounded as he was they brought home the same night vnto Newhauen The three and twentith of Ianuarie a proclamation was made for orders to be obserued by the souldiers and other resiants within the towne of Newhauen line 30 concerning politike gouernement thereof as well for the better defense against the enimies without as the quiet demeanor of the men of warre and inhabitants within The fift of Februarie two ships of Britons laden with Gascoigne wines butter bakon lard salt and other vittels were brought into Newhauen by a shallop of Killebeuf that was resiant with other Frenchmen in Newhauen seruing against the papists and had taken those two vessels as they were going to vittell the enimies line 40 The sixt of Februarie thrée faire mightie ships of warre belonging to Francis Clerke brought into Newhauen thrée rich prises laden with sackes bastards sugar orenges graines and other merchandizes This Clerke had not béene foorth past six weeks at this time and yet he had got aboue eightéene prises well worth by iust valuation the summe of fiftie thousand pounds On saturdaie the sixt of Februarie a souldier of capteine Appleyards band was executed in the market place for that contrarie to order line 50 taken and published afore that time by proclamation he had not onelie drawen his weapon against another souldier but also maimed him and plaied other lewd parts in contempt of the lord lieutenants commandements There was another also condemned to die and two others adiudged to lose their hands but the lord lieutenant of his mercifull clemencie granted to those thrée his pardon for their passed offenses On sundaie the seuenth of Februarie was Hunflue summoned by an herald line 60 sent from the French admerall monsieur de Chatillon On mondaie the eight of that moneth the said admerall came before Hunflue with six thousand horssemen Reisters and other of his owne retinues beside footmen and a thousand horssmen of the countries thereabout And about six of the clocke at night there was a great peale of ordinance shot off at Newhauen for a welcome to the said admerall The twelfe of Februarie the French gallies of Newhauen passing foorth and wasting about Hunflue to séeke aduentures in hope of suertie by reason the lord admerall of France laie therby at Touque rode at an anchor whilest some of them that were aboord in hir went on land to gaine somwhat of the enimies But they within Hunflue perceiuing this made out their great gallies with fiftie good mariners and souldiers who comming vpon the gallies of Newhauen lieng at anchor put hir in great danger of taking For there were but fifteene men left aboord in hir at that present wherof thrée of them were Englishmen who perceiuing in what danger they stood waied anchor with all spéed and drew towards the shore to take in the rest of their companie and getting them aboord vnto them they manfullie stood to their defense being in all but foure and twentie men Neuerthelesse they so behaued themselues that continuing in fight aboue a long houre at length they ouercame their enimies slue seuen of them outright wounded seuen and thirtie tooke their gallie and brought hir to Newhauen with thirtéene bels diuerse copes and church ornaments shéepe and other spoiles which they had got abroad in the countrie togither with thrée and fortie good prisoners and the artillerie which was found aboord in the foresaid great gallie wherewith she was verie well appointed and furnished Of the French protestants there were but thrée slaine and six hurt and one of the thrée Englishmen was also hurt As it hath béene crediblie reported the French protestants might thanke those thrée Englishmen that were with them in their gallies for that their good hap for if they had not manfullie stood to it at the first and bestowed such artillerie as they had aboord with them freshlie against the enimies the French had yeelded But by Gods good helpe and their worthie courage the victorie remained on their side The fouretéenth of Februarie there came from the lord admerall of France lieng then at Touque monsieur de Rohen and monsieur de Grandemont a knight of the order monsieur Telegnie the admerals sonne in law and diuerse other French gentlemen to confer with the lord lieutenant who receiued them right gladlie and made them great cheere They remained in Newhauen till the eightéenth of Februarie and then departed and went to Caen whither the said lord admerall was remooued had entred the towne laie within it preparing with all spéed to besiege the castell The same daie that the French lords departed from Newhauen towards Caen monsieur Briquemault and sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight arriued at Newhauen in one of the quéenes ships called the Aid The admerall Chatillon being got into the towne of Caen kept the castell besieged within the which was inclosed the marquesse Dalbeuf There were sent to him from Newhauen the fiue twentith of Februarie seuen canons two demie culuerings one minion On the morrow following being fridaie and six and twentith of Februarie sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight monsieur Briquemault and monsieur Beauuois with a thousand souldiers French and as manie English to wit capteine Zouch capteine Twedie capteine Higate ech of them with two hundred capteine Iohn Ward
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
Marie And then the preaching of the gospell being againe receiued hauing a free passage he returned into England but would neuer returne to his bishoprike notwithstanding it was reserued for him sundrie times offered him but liued a priuat life continuing in London preaching teaching the gospell so long as the strength of his bodie would permit and at length being verie old and striken in yeares he died and was honorablie buried at saint Magnus church in London 44 Iohn Uoiseie after the depriuation of Miles Couerdale was restored to this church and for the better setling of the Romish religion did here state for a while but his mind was addicted to his owne countrie that he returned thither and made his onlie abode there practising there what he could to haue the making of kersies to come to some effect but the same being more chargeable than profitable came to small proofe This man being verie old died in his owne house with a pang and was buried in his parish church there in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue 45 Iames Troblefield succéeded bishop Uoiseie and was consecrated in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie six he was a gentleman borne and of a good house verie gentle and courteous he professed diuinitie but most zelous in the Romish religion yet nothing cruell nor bloudie And yet that he might not séeme to doo nothing he was contented to prosecute and condemne a giltlesse poore séelie woman named Agnes Pirest for religion and heresie who was burned in Southingham for the same It was laied to hir charge as dooth appeare by an indictment taken at Lanceston Dit lunae in quarta septimana quadragesimae anno Philippi Mariae secundo tertio before William Stanford then iustice of the assise that she should denie the reall presence in the sacrament of the altar and that the same was but a signe and a figure of Christs bodie and that none dooth eat reallie the bodie of Christ but spirituallie He was verie carefull to recouer some part of the lands of his bishoprike which his predecessor wasted and did obteine of quéene Marie to him and to his successors the fee farme of the manor of Credition After that he had béene bishop about two yeares quéene Marie died and he was depriued and liued after a priuat life 46 William Alleie in the second yeare of quéene Elisabeth was chosen bishop and installed the sixt of August in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred sixtie and one In all quéene Maries time which were called the Marian daies he trauelled from place to place in the north countrie where he was not knowne and sometimes by practising of physike and sometimes by teaching of scholars he picked out a poore liuing for himselfe and his wife and so continued being not knowne to haue béene a priest during all quéene Maries time after whose death he went to London and there did read diuinitie lecture in Paules verie learnedlie and to his line 10 great commendation and from whense he was taken and made bishop of this citie He was verie well learned vniuersallie but his chiefe studie and profession was in diuinitie and in the toongs And being bishop he debated no part of his former trauels but spent his time verie godlie and vertuouslie Upon euerie holie daie for the most part he preached and vpon the weeke daies he would and did read a lecture of diuinitie the residue of his time and free from his necessarie businesse he spent in his line 20 priuat studies and wrote sundrie books whereof his prelections or lectures which he did read in Paules and his poore mans librarie he caused to be imprinted the like he would haue doone with his Hebrue grammar and other his works if he had liued He was well stored and his librarie well replenished with all the best sort of writers which most gladlie he would impart and make open to euerie good scholar and student whose companie and conference he did most desire imbrace He séemed at the first appéerance line 30 to be a rough and an austere man but in verie truth a verie courteous gentle and an affable man at his table full of honest speeches ioined with learning and pleasantnesse according to the time place and companie All his exercises which for the most part was at bowles verie merrie and plesant void of all sadnesse which might abate the benefit of recreation loth to offend readie to forgiue void of malice full of loue bountifull in hospitalitie liberall to the poore and a succourer of the néedie faithfull to line 40 his friend and courteous to all men a hater of couetousnesse and an enimie to all euill and wicked men and liued an honest a godlie and vertuous life Finallie he was indued with manie notable good gifts and vertues onelie he was somewhat credulous of a hastie beléefe and light of credit which he did oftentimes mislike blame in himselfe In his latter time he waxed somewhat grosse and his bodie full of humors which did abate much of his line 50 woonted exercises and hauing béene bishop about eight yeares he died the first of Aprill one thousand fiue hundred and seauentie and was buried in his owne church 47 William Bradbridge deane of Sarisburie was the next bishop and consecrated at Lambeth by Matthew Parker archbishop of Canturburie the eightéenth of March one thousand fiue hundred and seauentie he was a professor of diuinitie but not taken to be so well grounded as he persuaded line 60 himselfe he was zelous in religion but not so forwards as he was wished to be In his latter daies he delighted to dwell in the countrie which was not so much to his liking as troublesome to his clergie to such as had anie sutes vnto him It was thought he died verie rich but after his death it proued otherwise he died suddenlie no bodie being about him at Newton Ferris the ninth yeare of his bishoprike vpon the nine and twentith of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord 1578 and was buried in his owne church Thus farre the collection of Iohn Hooker agréeing with the records The seuentéenth daie of Iulie the quéenes maiestie being on the riuer of Thames about nine of the clocke at night betwixt hir highnesse manour of Gréenewich Dartford in hir priuie barge accompanied with the French ambassador the earle of Lincolne and maister vicechamberlaine it chanced that one Thomas Appletrée a yoong man and seruant to maister Henrie Carie with two or thrée others being in a bote on the Thames rowing vp and downe betwixt the places aforenamed the foresaid Thomas had a caliuer or harquebus charged with bullet and shooting at randon by misfortune shot one of the watermen being the second man next vnto the bales of the said barge which sat within six foot of hir highnesse cleane
like a fether being hollow with one eare growing on the lower part of the chéeke his bellie big and hard the armes big hauing fiue fingers and a thumbe on either hand and in place of toes on the left foot fiue fingers and a thumbe on the right foot a thumbe and seuen fingers in the place of priuitie the shape both of male female a strange sight to be seene and I feare signifieth our monstrous line 50 life which God for his mercie giue vs grace to amend without procrastination or putting off from daie to daie as the poet significantlie saith Cras vultis sed vult hodie vindex Deus cras Aut non vult aut vos obruet atra dies The eight daie of October immediatlie after the new moone there appeared a blasing star in the south bushing toward the east which was nightlie séene the aier being cléere more than two moneths The eighteenth of October were made eight sergeents line 60 at law to wit William Fléetwood recorder of London Edward Flowerdue Thomas Snag William Periam Robert Halton Iohn Clench Iohn Pickering Thomas Warmsleie maister Snag before named was sicke and therefore was sworne in his chamber at Greies inne the other seuen were sworne at Westminster and held their feast at the new Temple at London The quéenes maiestie being informed that in sundrie places of this realme certeine persons secretlie taught damnable heresies contrarie to diuers principall articles of our beléefe and christian faith who to colour their sect named themselues the familie of loue and then as manie as were allowed by them to be of that familie to be elect and saued and all others of â—hat church soeuer they be to be reiected and damned And for that vpon conuenting of some of them before the bishops ordinaries it was found that the ground of their sect is mainteined by certeine lewd hereticall and seditious books first made in the Dutch toong and lastlie translated into English and printed beyond the seas secretlie brought ouer into the realme the author whereof they name H. N. c. And considering also it is found that those sectaries held opinion that they may before anie magistrat or ecclesiasticall or temporall or anie other person not being professed to be of their sect by oth or otherwise denie anie thing for their aduantage so as though manie of them are well knowne to be teachers and spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable sects yet by their owne confession they can not be condemned Therefore hir maiestie being verie sorie to sée so great an euill by malice of the diuell to be brought into this hir realme and by hir bishops and ordinaries she vnderstandeth it verie requisit not onelie to haue those dangerous heretiks and sectaries to be seuerelie punished but that also all other meanes be vsed by hir maiesties roiall authoritie which is giuen hir of God to defend Christs church to root them out from further infecting of hir realme she hath thought méet and conuenient and so by hir proclamation commandeth that all hir officers and ministers temporall shall in all their seuerall vocations assist the bishops of hir realme and all other person to search out all persons dulie suspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable sects and by all good meanes to proceed seuerelie against them being found culpable by order of the lawes ecclesiasticall or temporall and that all search be made in all places suspected for the books and writings mainteining the said heresies and sects and them to destroie and burne c as more at large may appéere by the said proclamation giuen at Richmond the third of October and proclamed at London on the ninetéenth daie of the same moneth About this time there arriued vpon the west coast of Ireland a certeine companie of Italians and Spaniards sent by the pope to the aid of the earle of Desmond in his rebellion which fortified themselues stronglie néere vnto Smerwike in a fort which they called castell del Ore there erecting the popes banner against hir maiestie Which when the lord Greie of Wilton deputie of Ireland vnderstood he marched thitherward and on the sixt of Nouember hearing of the arriuall of the Swift the Tigre the Aid the Merlion other of the quéenes maiesties ships and also of thrée barks fraughted from Corke and Limerike with vittels on the morrow after marched towards the fort vnto the which he gaue so hot an assault that on the ninth of Nouember the same was yéelded all the Irishmen and women hanged and more than foure hundred Spaniards Italians and Biscaies put to the sword the coronell capteins secretarie and others to the number of twentie saued for ransome In which fortresse was found good store of monie bisket bakon oile wine and diuerse other prouisions of vittels sufficient for their companie for halfe a yeare besides armour powder shot and other furniture for two thousand men and vpwards The eight and twentith daie of Nouember were arreigned in the kings bench William Randoll for coniuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth and goods felloniouslie taken were become Thomas Elks Thomas Lupton Rafe Spacie and Christopher Waddington for being present aiding and procuring the said Randoll to the coniuration aforesaid Randoll Elks Spacie and Waddington were found guiltie had iudgement to be hanged Randoll was executed the other were repriued About the 24 of December in the town of Walsham in the countie of Sussex a child of eleuen yéers old named William Withers laie in a trance for the space of ten daies without anie sustenance and at the last comming to himselfe he vttered to the standers by manie strange spéeches inueieng against pride couetousnesse coldnesse of charitie and other line 10 outragious sins To behold this child there resorâ—â—d diuerse godlie zelous preachers as also knights esquiers gentlemen all of them hearing and séeing that which was woonderfull And among others that came thither there was a gentleman of great credit and worship with certeine of his men to heare and behold the child who hauing espied a seruingman that had béene there with his maister two times whom he had sharplie tawnted for his great and monstrous ruffes spake vnto him verie vehementlie line 20 and told him that it were better for him to put on sackecloth and mourne for his sinnes than in such abhominable pride to pranke vp himselfe like the diuels darling the verie father of pride and lieng who sought by the exercise of that damnable sinne to make himselfe a preie to euerlasting torments in helfire Wherevpon the seruingman as one prickt in conscience sore sorowed and wept for his offense rent the band from his necke tooke a knife and cut it in péeces and vowed neuer to weare the like againe line 30 This for the strangenesse thereof will be condemned as a lie speciallie of vnbeléeuers and peruers
their malice how mightilie God had defended his chosen Elisabeth returning their dealings to their owne destruction Among sundrie these treasonable practises which the pope the ancient aduersarie to hir maiestie hath at diuerse times set abroch the rebellion in the north may remaine as a witnesse of his excéeding malice and spite against hir grace and gouernement Wherto let vs ad the bull sent ouer by Iohn Felton which traitorouslie he placed on the bishop of Londons gate in which bull the pope vtterlie excommunicated hir maiestie she was an heretike he had dispossessed hir of hir crowne and dominion she was not the lawfull quéene of this realme and hir subiects were not bound to obeie anie of hir laws or decrées but they were all frée and perfectlie discharged of their allegiance to hir so that they might lawfullie when time serued so conuenient for them both stirre rebellion against hir and also enter into armes against hir maiestie The popes will in this hath bin put in execution as through the ill demeanor of diuerse persons to him affected it was mooued in the north where mainteining themselues on the authoritie of the pope and his traitorous bull secretlie dispersed abrode they entred into a plaine and manifest rebellion The like was put in practise in Ireland through doctor Sanders and other traitors who there ioined themselues togither vnder the popes standard to bring to passe their secret appointment in this realme Through their persuasions and dealings the people were mooued in the popes name to fight against their lawfull princesse vnder his banner and to rebell against hir so notoriouslie as they might The incouragement to this great disobedience they receiued through doctor Sanders a fugitiue and ranke traitor to his prince and countrie as also through diuerse Iesuits both English and Irish whose hypocriticall shew of holinesse and diuellish persuasions on the behalfe of the pope their maister and head intised a multitude of the people there to change their profession in religion and to yeeld themselues to the popes authoritie whereby they should renounce the most certeine and iust title of hir maiestie and when foren forces should be assembled there they to ioine with them in their intent and so traitorouslie rebell against their lawfull souereigne All these practises tooke their originall from the pope as well by sending his secret messengers as also by his traitorous bull which being sent by Pius quintus is neuerthelesse confirmed in the former authoritie by this pope Gregorie the thirtéenth and remaineth in hope to take effect at some time or other for which he doth watch opportunitie as conuenientlie as he maie But God the iust auenger of all causes as he hath hither to preserued hir maiestie this litle Iland from all their malicious attempts and practises and hath deseruedlie throwne the yoke of their shame on their owne necks so will he no doubt continue his fatherlie care that his children shall be preserued their aduersaries confounded But saith Campion What is this to vs here present What apperteineth this to our indictment We are here both seuerallie and all togither indicted of high treason and for that that is obiected against vs we must answer Let not other mens offenses be laid to our charge that we should answer for other mens falts committed long since Some of vs were then but nouices here in the vniuersities and were altogither ignorant of these matters What haue we to doo with anie thing that they did They that line 10 were offendors let them answer to what you can lay against them For vs that be here at this instant you must either saie Thou Campion didst this thing or thou naming some of the other committedst this offense and ther vpon bring your proofes and witnesses otherwise you shall neuer be able to touch vs. As for these assertions for the strength they haue against vs I will not estéeme it worth a penniworth of pippins And therefore to your indictment This answer so smoothlie deliuered and with such line 20 coie lookes and protestation of action gested that all the standers by gaue perfect notice of the man both of his nature and disposition as also of his prompt ingenious wit to shadow an absolute truth with a shew of great wisedome and learning For this he knew right well that before he came to that place he had woone a maruellous goodlie report to be such a man as his like was not to be found either for life learning or anie other qualitie that might beautifie a man So that by his fauorers and fréends it was line 30 blowen abrode that we had neither doctors nor others that were worshie to enter disputation with him he was so farre aboue them all that they might not deale with him Here to doo the great titles which they adorne him withall giue credit saieng thus Quid Campiano deâ—rat doctrina perito Doctrinae natus qui penetrale fuit Cui fuit in primis sponsata scientia cunis QuÃque puer nulli mente secundus erat Ingenuas iuuenis qui sedulus imbibit artes line 40 VÃrque videbatur vix habuisse parem c. Now being brought vnto a publike triall it stood him vpon to argue somewhat of the praise that had béene giuen him wherefore in verie quaint and familiar eloquent gloses he stood vpon quirks and fine deuise of spéech thinking as he had deluded manie before so at that present he might blind the eies of iustice acquite himselfe of his horrible tresons But as truth sheweth most braue when she goeth bare naked and deceipt finest when he is cunninglie florished line 50 euen so the poore habit of the one discouered the proud hart of the other and confounded his boldnesse with hir sacred brightnesse giuing all men to vnderstand that Veritas vincit omnia And bicause Campion would haue made such a cunning conueiance of the matter as though it neither might or could attaint him or anie of them it was giuen him to vnderstand that they would not alone touch him in the sequele of the former causes but them all and he that thought himselfe the cléerest Wherevpon doctor line 60 Sanders and doctor Bristow their traitorous writings in defense of the popes bull exhibited against hir maiestie were read vnto them how they both allowed it and also the rebellion in the north Afterwards it was manifestlie prooued to their faces that Bristows booke in allowance thereof named his Motiues was especiallie commanded to be vsed amongest them both at Rome and at Rheimes euerie one being expreslie charged not to be without one of these bookes This with open mouths they altogither denied some that they had neuer séene it and some that they neuer heard of anie such commandement when as Iohn Hart one of their owne fellowes had auouched had auouched it and there vnto subscribed Besides my selfe when I came to Rheimes saw them as
benefit of soules as he still termed it but he would not grant that he came for anie treason So that to seduce hir maiesties subiects to persuade them from their duetie and obedience and to ioine themselues in such sort as their princesse and countrie must be destroied thereby this is no treason in his opinion Howbeit Campion and his fellowes pleaded ignorance still they saw and would not sée they were so craftilie schooled Iames Bosgraue he was at Uilna in Polonia and as he confessed line 50 himselfe he vnderstood that there was préests appointed for England vpon which report he came awaie from thense in verie great hast And in his passage he mentioned to one in the ship who was sworne and confessed the same before certeine iustices that there was such matter towards in England as hath béene before expressed and therevpon he sought to haue woone him if his purpose could haue taken effect Campion seeing this begun somewhat to touch the quicke and that in truth it discouered line 60 the dealings of them all he taketh vpon him to answer on his behalfe for that they all reposed themselues on him He saith that if Bosgraue did heare such news that there were papists appointed for England whie should they take hold on so small a cause Flieng reports are not to be credited for albeit he heard such newes how knew he if they were certeine or no Againe quoth he the man hath beene long out of England and he doth not speake English perfectlie it maie be then that some word maie escape him vnawares which you are not to build vpon considering the defect of the man for he maie peraduenture speake he knoweth not what And where you saie that such a one hath auouched before certeine iustices that he vsed such and such words to him where is the man we are not to credit a written paper what know we if it be true or no Let vs heare him selfe saie so and then we will beléeue it Sée what a number of shifts he had cōtinuallie to wast the time and all to no pupose The mans owne confession was there wherto himselfe had subscribed and foure or fiue iustices set their hands to it for the certeintie thereof yet this was not sufficient to answer them Robert Iohnson he was likewise at Auinion in France from whense he came also in verie great hast vpon the report he had heard of priests that were appointed for England Now there is an other thing to be considered that these men setled where they were by their owne confession they must not depart from thense without they be appointed by their superiors then it is easie to be answered that they came by their superiors apointment at this present and as the generall determination was so they came all for one cause intent Edward Rishton he being here in England wrote a letter to Richardson a priest and who is likewise condemned amongest them which letter was there openlie read to his face How there were foure goldsmiths of his occupation latelie come ouer who indeed were priests and how all things went successiuelie forwards And Campion being in the Tower wrote a letter vnto Pownd likewise wherein he gaue him to vnderstand that he was verie sorie that through his frailtie he had bewraied those at whose houses he had béene so fréendlie interteined wherefore he asked God hartilie forgiuenesse and them all whome he had so highlie offended But saith he as for the chiefe matter that is as yet vnreuealed and come racke come rope neuer shall that be discouered A number of matters more were brought against them which to rehearse would require a farre more large discourse but to be bréefe in the end this was the full and certeine issue That these men when they were beyond the seas the generall agréement and determination amongest them was to worke the death of our most gratious princesse to destroie hir dominion and to erect such as pleased them when this aforesaid daie should take effect And that their comming ouer was to seduce hir louing subiects to win their obedient hearts from hir so that they should be in a readinesse to ioine with a foren power and so they should likewise be destroiers of their princesse and countrie And that in the meane while they themselues sought to accomplish hir maiesties death so much as in them laie This was manifestlie prooued by verie large and ample euidence credible witnesses and their owne confessions and writings whereon the iurie hauing wiselie and discreetlie pondered and searched and séene into the depth of euerie cause worthilie and deseruedlie gaue them vp all guiltie of the treasons whereof they were indicted and arreigned Which being doone after a godlie and comfortable exhortation persuading them patientlie to suffer and abide the death for them appointed and to be heartilie sorie for their greeuous and hainous offenses the sentence of death was pronounced on them that they should depart to the places from whense they came and from thense to be drawne on hurdles to the place of execution where they should he hanged till they were halfe dead then to be cut downe their priuie members to be cut off and their entrailes taken forth and to be burned in the fire before their eies then their heads to be cut off their bodies parted into foure quarters to be disposed at hir maiesties pleasure and the Lord God to receiue their soules to his mercie Afterwards they were conueied from thense with botes to a place of landing for them appointed from whense they were conducted to the Tower of London diuers of them giuing foorth sundrie lewd and dishonest spéeches as Thomas Coteham seeing so manie people to behold them desired that fire and brimstone might fall from heauen to destroie both the citie and all that were in it with diuerse other wicked words which for modesties sake I omit here to rehearse desiring God in mercie to giue men better grace On the next daie being tuesdaie and the one and twentith daie of Nouember there was brought to the said high barre these persons following Iohn Hart Thomas Foord William Filbie Laurence Richardson Iohn Shert Alexander Brian and Iohn Collington Alexander Brian he had shauen his crowne himselfe made him a crosse of a peece of a trencher which he held in his hand openlie praied to which when he was rebuked for he boldlie and stoutlie made answer that his crowne was of his owne shauing and he had good hope to doo it againe line 20 In breefe they were all indicted on the selfe same treasons as they were the daie before and Iohn Harts traitorous sermon which he made at Rhems against hir maiestie auouched to his face their owne writings and confessions with substantiall witnesse produced against them so that they were found giltie of their treasons as the other were before them except Iohn Collington he was quit of the former
10 them as they should not be disappointed of the hope which they had conceiued of his gouernement which he would fashion out after the paterne of his predecessors and great vncles who had gouerned these countries so happilie And he thanked them for their good will loue praieng them to continue the same and promising to take them into his protection togither with the rest of the people in generall that as he had heretofore a singular regard of learned men so would he be willing to continue the same line 20 hereafter After this maner began this great prince to gouerne that people with great authoritie and modestie and the people to yéeld vnto him verie willing and honorable obedience and all men hope both generallie and particularlie that God will giue him the grace so to hold on in that so holie and commendable gouernement as that by his example he shall shew to all princes and to all others that come after him how greatlie the iust and lawfull gouernement line 30 auaileth and that the people on their side shall shew what maner of obedience loue and constancie is due to good princes in which vertues there was neuer yet anie people that could skill to surmount them neither shall anie hereafter by the helpe of the great God and euerlasting father of our sauiour Iesus Christ to whome with the vnitie of the holie spirit be all glorie for euer and euer Amen Iohn Paine priest being indicted of high treason line 40 for words by him spoken was arreigned and condemned at Chelmsford on the last daie of March and was there executed on the second daie of Aprill according to the qualitie of his offense and as law had awarded In the moneth of Maie namelie on the fifteenth daie at night about ten of the clocke a blasing starre appeared descending in the northwest the beard whereof streamed into the southeast On mondaie being the eight twentith of Maie line 50 Thomas Foord Iohn Shert and Robert Iohnson priests hauing beene before indicted arreigned and as well by their owne testimonie as also sufficient witnesses produced to their faces found giltie and condemned for high treason intended practised and appointed against hir maiesties most roiall person as also for the vtter ruine ouerthrow and subuersion of hir peaceable and well gouerned realme themselues being sent as instruments to deale for and in the behalfe of the pope in this disloiall and traitorous cause according as iustice had before determined line 60 were drawne vpon hurdles from the Tower of London to the place appointed for execution hauing béen so long time spared by hir maiesties most roiall and princelie regard of mercie to trie if either the feare of God would take place in them consideration and respect of their owne duties mooue them or the meere loue and accustomed clemencie of hir maiestie might win them to acknowledge hir to be their lawfull souereigne and themselues hir subiects bound to serue hir notwithstanding any pretense or authoritie to the contrarie not for matter of their popish superstition All this notwithstanding they remained giuen ouer to their owne wickednes and swallowed vp in the gulfe of their vndutifull affection which caused iustice to step before mercie committing them to the reward of their lewd and vnnaturall dealing All the waie as they were drawne they were accompanied with diuers zealous and godlie men who in mild louing spéeches made knowne vnto them how iustlie God repaieth the reprobat how fatherlie againe he receiueth the obedient how he ouerthroweth the vngodlie in their owne deuises and protecteth his chosen in all stormes and afflictions In remembrance of all these to bethinke themselues of their wickednesses passed and to shew such hartie and zealous repentance for the same that albeit they had so gréeuouslie trespassed yet in contrite and humble sorrowing they might be gratiouslie receiued into his heauenlie fauour whome they had mooued and stirred by their vnreuerent regard to smite and chasten with the rod of his furie Among which godlie persuasions maister shiriffe himselfe both learnedlie and ernestlie labored vnto them moouing all good occasions he might deuise to change the obstinacie he perceiued in them into a christianlike humilitie and repentance but these good indeuors tooke no wished effect their owne euill disposition so blinded them that there was no waie for grace to enter When they were come beyond saint Giles in the field there approched vnto the hurdle one of their owne sect and a priest as himselfe had confessed who in this maner spake vnto the prisoners O gentlemen be ioifull in the bloud of Iesus Christ for this is the daie of your triumph and ioie Being asked whie he vsed such words he said vnto the prisoners againe I pronounce vnto you yea I pronounce a full remission and pardon vnto your soules Using these and other traitorous spéeches hold was laid on him When as maister shiriffe demanded what he was he answered He was the voice of a crier in the wildernesse and that he was sent to prepare the Lords waie And notwithstanding such meanes of resistance as himselfe vsed he was deliuered vnto Thomas Norris purseuant who brought him vnto Newgate where he confessed vnto him that he was a priest and that he had so long dissembled as he would now leaue off and doo so no more Being come to the place of execution Thomas Foord was first brought vp into the cart when as he began in this maner Whereas I am come hither to die for matters laid vnto my charge of treason which should be conspired against the queene within these two yeares or somewhat more I giue you to vnderstand that of anie such matter I am innocent frée for that I can prooue my comming into England to be fiue yeares since Wherevpon maister shiriffe spake vnto him and said Foord haue mind on God and aske him and hir maiestie heartilie forgiuenesse whome thou hast so highlie offended thou doost but delude the people for it is manifestlie knowen how thou art guiltie of the matters laid to thy charge here be thine owne answers to shew affirmed vnder thine owne hand and other witnesses to reprooue thee Wherevpon I my selfe was called foorth who iustified the causes to his face that at his arreignement was laid to his charge and he euidentlie and plainelie found guiltie thereof Then were his answers whereto he had subscribed read vnto him which is in the booke latelie set foorth by authoritie Wherevpon he tooke occasion to tell a long circumstance of a certeine question mooued at Oxford as concerning taking armes against hir maiestie which horrible treason he séemed to approoue thereby Then maister shiriffe willed him to aske hir maiestie forgiuenesse offering him to stand his friend in atteining hir graces mercie if he would change his former traitorous mind to become a true and faithfull subiect acknowledging hir to be his lawfull souereigne ladie
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
the length whereof was from the necke vnto the taile seuenteene yards and one foote hauing a big head for the chap of the saw was thrée yards and a quarter in length with téeth of three quarters of a yard compas great eies and two great holes ouer them to spout out water hir taile was fourteene foot broad c she laie in the sands and was soonken therein a yard and a halfe déepe and yet was she aboue the sands so high that a lather of fourtéene staues would but reach to the top of hir backe so that in thicknesse from the backe to the bellie she was foure yards and a halfe Iohn Slade sometime a schoolemaister and Iohn Bodie a maister of art of Oxford being both indicted and condemned of high treason were drawne hanged and quartered Slade at Winchester on the thirtith daie of October and Bodie at Andouar on the second daie of Nouember line 10 About this time one named Ditch a notable horssestealer was apprehended at the sessions holden for the goale deliuerie at Newgat on the fourth of December ninetéene times indicted whereof he confessed eightéene who also betwéene the time of his apprehension and the said sessions appeached manie for stealing of horsses whereof diuerse being apprehended ten of them were condemned and hanged in Smithfield on the sixt daie of December being Fridaie and horsse market there He also holpe diuerse more to their horsses againe which had béene line 20 stolne from them taking of euerie one of them ten shillings the péece or more that so recouered their horsses wherby he made fiftéene pounds of currant monie towards his charges Iames earle of Desmond in Ireland secretlie wandering without anie succour as a miserable begger being taken in his cabbin by one of the Irishrie his head was cut off and sent into England where the same as the head of an archrebell was set vpon London bridge on the line 30 thirteenth daie of December Looke for the manner of his rebellion and his death more at large set downe in the historie of Ireland The tenth daie of December through negligence of vndiscréet persons brewing in the towne of Nantwich in a place called Waterlode the fire being careleslie left tooke hold as should séeme vpon some straw or such light matter so burst foorth to the roofes of the house and in short time so increased that from the west end of the towne the wind at line 40 southwest the flame was dispersed so furiouslie into the towne on the southside that in short space a great part of the said southside and some of the east-side was burned downe to the ground Which fire beginning at six of the clocke in the euening and continuing till six of the clocke in the morning following neuer ceased burning till it had consumâ—d aboue the number of two hundred houses besides brew houses barnes stables c in all about six hundred houses so that by estimation of manie the losse of houses and goods amounted to aboue thirtie line 50 thousand pounds as more at large appeared by a particular booke printed of that matter About this time Iohn Someruile a furious yoong man of Elstow in Warwikeshire of late discouered and taken in his waie comming with full intent to kill the quéenes maiestie whom God long prosper to reigne ouer vs confessed the treason and that he was moued therevnto in his wicked spirit by certeine traitorous persons his kinsmen and alies and also by often reading of certeine seditious bookes latelie line 60 published for the which the said Someruile Edward Arden a squire of Parkehall in Warwikeshire Marie Arden his wife father and mother in law to the said Someruile and Hugh Hall priest being with other before indicted at Warwike were on the sixtéenth of December arreigned in the Guildhall of London where they were found guiltie and condemned of high treason On the nintéenth of December Iohn Someruile and Edward Arden being brought from the tower of London to Newgate of the same citie and there shut vp in seuerall places within two hours after Someruile was found desperatlie to haue strangled himselfe And on the morrow being the twâ—ntith of December Edward Arden was drawne from Newgate into Smithfield and there hanged bowelled and quartered whose head with Someruiles was set on London bridge and his quarters on the gates of the citie but the bodie of Someruile was buried in the Morefields néere vnto the windmils without Moregate A dreadfull example of Gods heauie iudgement vpon those two offendors but speciallie against the last whome God deliuered to a reprobat mind in somuch that his owne hands became his hangman preuenting the office of the common executioner who should haue performed that last action vpon him whereof the iustice of God in vengeance made himselfe the finisher and fulfiller Thus much by the waie of terror that the remembrance hereof by the reading reporting of the same maie make men euill minded amazed at the rigorous reuengement which God taketh when he séeth his due time vpon the wicked after his long sufferance and patience most wickedlie abused wherof the poet saith Vltio procedit fateor diuina gradatim Nec quoties peccant fulmina vibrat eis Supplicij verò iusta grauitate rependit Turpia quae longo tempore facta tulit In this yeare 1583 which should haue béene noted in the fore part of the yeare by the meanes of a certeine astrologicall discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the two superior planets Saturne and Iupiter prognosticated to be the eight and twentith of Aprill the common sort of people yea and no small multitude of such as thinke scorne to be called fooles or counted beggers whilest they were in expectation of this coniunction were in no small imaginations supposing that no lesse would haue béene effectuated than by the said discourse was prophesied Into these fansies not void of feare and mistrust they were drawne with the more facilitie for that they had read and heard pondered and suspected and in part beléeued the predictions of such euents as should insue by influence of that coniunction For it was termed the great and notable coniunction which should be manifested to the ignorant sort by manie fierce and boisterous winds then suddenlie breaking out It was called the greatest and most souereigne coniunction among the seuen planets why so Because lawes and empires and regions are ruled by the same which foretelleth the comming of a prophet the destruction of certeine climats and parts of the earth and new found heresies and a new founded kingdome and damages through the pestilence and abundant showers which dooth prognosticat the destinie of a great and mightie king much sorrow heauinesse to men losses to rich and noble men yea and those too which are accounted and reputed like to prophets and a multitude of locusts which dooth foreshew that weightie and woonderfull things shall come into the
Thomas Throckemorton his brother made him priuie to his negotiation at his last being here in England and that therevpon Francis Throckemorton tooke vpon him to be a follower and meane for the effectuating thereof among the confederats in England with the helpe of the Spanish ambassadour whome he instructed how and with whome to deale for the preparing of a conuenient partie here within the realme for that himselfe would not be séene to be a sounder of men least he might be discouered and so indanger himselfe and the enterprise knowing that the ambassadour being a publike person might safelie deale therein without perill That the duke of Guise and other heads of the enterprise had refused some landing places and made speciall choise of Sussex and about Arundell in Sussex both for the néere cut from the parts of France where the duke did or best could assemble his force line 10 and for the oportunitie of assured persons to giue assistance c. That he taking vpon him the pursute of this course shewed the whole plot and deuise of the hauens for landing to the Spanish ambassadour who did incourage him therin he promising that if he might haue respit vntill the next spring the same should be doone more exactlie That at the time of Thomas Throckemortons being here least the negotiation of the enterprise by line 20 sâ—me casualtie might faile in the onelie hand of one man Thomas Throckemorton there was also from the confederats sent ouer into Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring and therof an aduertisement couertlie sent vnto Thomas Throckemorton both that Thomas might vnderstand it and not be offended that an other was ioined with him in his labour That the Spanish ambassador by aduertisements from the confederats was made priuie to this comming line 30 of Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope and yet knowne to him to be Charles Paget That the said ambassador did according to his said aduertisements know affirme that Charles Paget was come ouer to view the hauens and countrie for landing of such forren forces about Arundell and speciallie to sound and conferre with certeine principall persons for assistance The same ambassadour also knew and affirmed that Charles Paget had accordinglie doone his message line 40 and had spoken with some principall persons here according vnto his commission and was returned He moreouer confessed that there was a deuise betwéene the Spanish ambassadour and him how such principall recusants here within the realme as were in the commission of the peace in sundrie counties might vpon the first brute of the landing of forren forces vnder colour and pretext of their authoritie and the defense of hir maiestie leuie men whome they might after ioine to the forren forces and conuert line 50 them against hir maiestie In these few articles is brieflie comprised the whole effect of his confession made at large without anie interrogatorie particularlie ministred other than vpon the two papers before mentioned conteining the names of men and hauens And here you are to note that at the time of his apprehension there was no knowledge or doubt had of these treasons or of his priuitie vnto them but onelie an information and suspicion deliuered and conceiued of line 60 some practise betwéene him and the Scotish quéene as is before mentioned For the discouering whereof after he had béene sundrie times vpon his allegiance commanded to declare his dooings in conueieng and receiuing of letters to and from hir he did voluntarilie confesse that he had written diuerse letters vnto hir and had conueied manie to and fro betwéene hir and Thomas Morgan in France by whose meanes he was first made knowne to hir and that he had receiued as manie letters from hir He also declared the effect of his letters to hir of hirs to him which letters betwéene them were alwaies written in cipher and the cipher with the nullities and marks for names of princes and councellors he sent vnto the queenes maiestie written with his owne hand He also deliuered the names of some by whome he conueied his letters vnto the Scotish quéene as by one Godfrie Fulgeam who fled the realme immediatlie vpon Throckemortons apprehension and one other person whome he described by his stature shape and apparell and the man since apprehended and examined hath confessed the same the mans name is William Ardington The summe and effect of the most part of these confessions although they were at the time of his arreignement opened and dilated by hir maiesties sergeant atturneie and solicitor generall at the bar and therefore seeme not néedfull to be repeated here yet because the purpose of this discourse is to shew sufficient proofe that the matters conteined in his said confessions are neither false nor feigned as Francis Throckmorton most impudentlie affirmed at his triall alledging that they were méere inuentions of himselfe by policie to auoid the torture they haue béene here inserted to the end you may the better iudge of the proofes presumptions and circumstances following by comparing the matters with their accidents and consequentlie sée the falshood of the traitor the iust and honorable procéedings of hir maiestie and the honest and loiall indeuors of hir ministers imploied in the discouering of the treasons First it is true and not denied by himselfe that he was at Spaw about the time by him mentioned and had conference with Ienneie in that place and with sir Francis Englefield in Flanders and that he hath written letters to sir Francis and receiued letters from him for if he should denie the same he were to be conuinced by good proofe for it hath béene noted in him by manie of his countriemen English subiects that both in those parts and in France he did continuallie associat himselfe with English rebels and fugitiues If then you consider with whome he hath conuersed beyond the seas and compare his religion with theirs you will iudge of his conuersation accordinglie And it is to be supposed that those men knowne to be continuall practisers against the quéenes maiestie and this realme from whense for their treasons and vnnaturall demeanours they are woorthilie banished will not in their conuenticles and méetings forget to bethinke them of their banishment and how they might be restored to their countrie where vnto no desert in hir maiesties life time which God long continue can well without hir maiesties great mercie restore them Then I praie you what conferences might maister Throckemorton haue with sir Francis Englefield with Ienneie with Liggons with Owen and with such like who were his dailie companions in France and in the low countries He hath written letters to sir Francis Englefield To what purposes He haunted continuallie two ambassadors in London by whose meanes he sent and receiued letters to and from beyond the seas dailie To whome and from whome Euen to and from Thomas Morgan and Thomas Throckemorton at Paris men knowne to
deliuered in the Star-chamber and after published in a booke intituled A true and summarie report of the declaration of some part of the earle of Northumberlands treasons deliuered publikelie in the court at the Starchamber by the lord Chancellor and others of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell councell learned by hir maiesties speciall commandement togither with the examinations depositions of sundrie persons touching the maner of his most wicked and violent murther committed vpon himselfe with his owne hand in the Tower of London the 20 daie of Iune 1585. MAlice among other essentiall properties perteining to hir ouglie nature hath this one not inferior to the rest and the woorst incredulitie wherewith the commonlie possesseth the minds and affections of all those that are infected with hir so blinding the eies iudgement of the best and clearest sighted that they cannot see or perceiue the bright beames of the truth although the same be deliuered with neuer so great puritie proofe circumstance and probabilitie It is said that no truth passeth abroad vnaccompanied with hir contrarie and as they go truth is euer constreined to yeeld the precedence and preheminence to hir yokefellow falshood whose lodging is alwaies first made and prepared without a harbenger in the corrupt nature of mankind by whome she is first receiued interteined and harbored at all times wherof in our dailie experience there happen manie and dangerous demonstrations especiallie in matters of the highest moment tending to excuse or accuse the actions of the greatest personages There was of late deliuered in publike by persons of honour credit and reputation a large declaration of certeine treasons practised by the late earle of Northumberland of the maner of his vntimelie death being with his owne hand murthered in the Tower and of the causes that wrought him therevnto The particularities whereof are such and so manie as for the helpe of my memorie comming then to the Starchamber by occasion and not looking for anie such presence of the nobilitie and priuie councell as I found there at that time and not looking for anie such cause of that nature to haue béene handled there that daie I tooke notes of the seuerall matters declared by the lord chancellor maister attourneie and solicitor generall the lord chiefe baron and maister vicechamberlaine for as I remember they spake in order as they are here marshalled and therefore I place them in this sort and not according to their precedence in dignitie Upon the hearing of the treasons with their proofs and circumstances and the desperat maner of the earles destruction deliuered in that place and by persons of that qualitie I supposed no man to line 10 haue beene so void of iudgement or the vse of common reason that would haue doubted of anie one point or particle thereof vntill it was my chance falling in companie with diuerse persons at sundrie times as well about the citie of London as abroad to heare manie men report variablie and corruptlie of the maner and matter of this publike declaration possessing the minds and opinions of the people with manifest vntruths as that the earle had béene vniustlie deteined in prison without proofe or line 20 iust cause of suspicion of treason and that he had beene murthered by deuise and practise of some great enimies and not destroied by himselfe These slanderous reports haue ministred vnto me this occasion to set forth vnto thy view and consideration gentle reader this short collection of the said treasons and murther as neere vnto the truth as my notes taken may lead and permit me with the view of some of the examinations them selues concerning this cause for my better satisfaction since obteined Which I line 30 haue vndertaken for two respects the one to conuince the false and malicious impressions and constructions receiued and made of these actions by such as are in heart enimies to the happie estate of hir maiesties present gouernement the other because it may be thought necessarie for the preuenting of a further contagion like to grow by this créeping infection in the minds of such as are apt though otherwise indifferent in these and the like rumors to receiue the bad as the good and they the most in number Wherein if I haue séemed more bold than line 40 wise or intermedled my selfe in matters aboue my reach and not apperteining vnto me I craue pardon where it is to be asked and commit my selfe to thy friendlie interpretation to be made of my simple trauell and dutifull meaning herein Upon the three and twentith daie of Iune last assembled in the court of Starchamber sir Thomas Bromleie knight lord chancellor of England William lord Burleigh lord treasuror of England line 50 George earle of Shrewsburie lord marshall of England Henrie earle of Derbie Robert earle of Leicester Charles lord Howard of Effingham lord chamberlaine Henrie lord Hunsdon lord gouernor of Berwike sir Francis Knollis knight treasuror sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of hir maiesties houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vice-chamberlaine to the quéenes maiestie the lord chiefe iustice of hir maiesties bench the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the excheker line 60 and others The audience verie great of knights esquiers and men of other qualitie the lord chancellor began briefelie and summarilie to declare that whereas Henrie late earle of Northumberland for diuerse notable treasons and practises by him taken in hand to the danger not onelie of hir maiesties roiall person but to the perill of the whole realme had béene long deteined in prison and looking into the guilt of his owne conscience and perceiuing by such meanes of intelligence as he by corrupting of his keepers and other like deuises had obteined that his treasons were by sundrie examinations and confessions discouered grew thereby into such a desperat estate as that therevpon he had most wickedlie destroied murthered himselfe Which being made knowen to the lords of hir maiestees priuie councell order was therevpon taken and direction giuen to the lord chiefe iustice of England the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the eâ—cheker to examine the maner and circumstances of his death which they with all good indeuor and diligence had accordinglie performed And least through the sinister meanes of such persons as be euill affected to the present estate of hir maiesties gouernement some bad and vntrue conceipts might be had as well of the cause of the earles deteinement as of the maner of his death it was therefore thought necessarie to haue the truth thereof made knowen in that presence and then he required hir maiesties learned councell there present to deliuer at large the particularities both of the treasons and in what sort the earle had murthered himselfe Then began Iohn Popham esquier hir maiesties attourneie generall as followeth The earle of Northumberland about the time of the last rebellion in the north in
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
new hauen of greater importance and better securitie than euer it was before For as you haue heard Douer cliffes naturallie defend this baie from all tempests comming from the northeast and northwest the pierre yet remaining gardeth it from the west and southwest winds the shelfe of beach crossing from the end thereof to the Castell Raie had made such a close pent as if anie ships could be conueied thereinto they might there rest in great safetie The roome within this close baie conteineth almost fortie acres and the riuer as I haue said runneth quite through the same immediatlie into the maine sea at south so as the said pent being surrounded at euerie high water and lieng almost bare at euerie ebbe the ouze or â—lâ—ech grew to be fouretéene or fiftéene foot déepe the bottome thereof being a maine rocke of chalke insomuch as a great multitude of ships might be placed there in good securitie if the entrance could be made good These things considered by men of good capacitie and experience sundrie deuises and conceipts were exhibited therabouts whereof some séemed verie probable and were the rather heard and commended for that the worke was so necessarie and beneficiall to the commonwealth And in that respect it pleased the queenes maiestie to grant to the towne of Douer towards the reparing of their hauen the frée transportation of thirtie thousand quarters of wheat ten thousand quarters of barlie and malt and foure thousand tun of béere without paieng either custome or impost which was a gift of no small importance For besides great summes of monie alreadie leuied and imploied vpon the beginning of these works the licence or patent was sold to a couple of merchants of London named Iohn Bird and Thomas Wats after the rate of thrée shillings and foure pence for euerie quarter of wheat and two shillings and eight pence for euerie quarter of barlie and malt and the licence of béere being sold to diuerse others amounted to foure thousand marks at the least Besides all this it was enacted in the parlement holden the three and twentith yeare of the reigne of hir maiestie for and in the considerations aforesaid and for that there was a probable plot contriued by skilfull men to be performed for a conuenient sum of monie that for euerie ship vessell or craier whereof anie of hir maiesties subiects were owners or part-owners being of the line 10 burthen of twentie tuns or vpwards loding or discharging within this realme or passâ—ng to or fro anie forren countrie during the space of seuen yeres then next insuing from fortie daies after the end of the same session of parlement there should be paid for euerie such voiage by the maister or owner of all such vessels c the summe of thrée pence for euerie tun of the burthen of such ship c. Hereby there grew great summes of monie to be yearelie leuied toward these works amounting to one thousand pounds yearelie at the least and yet the line 20 time not expired by two yeares After this hir maiestie being carefull that the hauen should with expedition be taken in hand directed hir letters patents dated the nine and twentith daie of March in the foure and twentith yeare of hir reigne to the lord Cobham lord warden of hir cinque ports c sir Thomas Scot sir Iames Hales knights Thomas Wootton Edward Bois the maior of the towne of Douer present and to come Richard Barrie lieutenant of line 30 the castell of Douer Henrie Palmer Thomas Digs Thomas Wilford and William Partridge esquires all which were of the shire and men of great wisedome and iudgement and no small trauellers in matters concerning the common wealth some of them maruellous expert in affaires and matters of the seas some in fortifications some hauing trauelled beyond the seas for experience and conference that waie and to sée the order of forren seaworks and hauens and none without singular vertues In line 40 which respect they were commissionated and authorised by those presents to doo and foresee to be doone from time to time all things needfull and requisit to be imploied about the reparing and mending of the said hauen and as might tend to the furtherance of the said seruice and to choose officers and assigne their stipends and the seuerall fées of all ministers attendants and clerks néedfull for the substantiall necessarie spéedie and cheape dooing thereof and therein to set downe particular orders and directions as might be for the furtherance and accomplishing of the said line 50 works most expedient Now for the performance hereof manie plots by sundrie persons were deuised and first of all one Iohn True was commended or at the least commended him selfe to the lords of hir maiesties priuie councell to whome he made great shew to be an expert enginor and by their lordships he was sent to Douer and presented to be generall surueior of the works as one in whome they reposed great hope of furthering and finishing the said hauen whereof he line 60 made no doubt but resolutelie promised the spéedie execution and accomplishing thereof His deuise and determination was to make within the said baie néere to the shelfe of beach a long wall from the water gate out of which the riuer issueth into the harborough to the blacke bulworke in length two hundred rods This wall was to bée made of excellent stone at Folkstone the which he framed after a strange and contrarie kind of workmanship And there was for this purpose alreadie perfectlie hewed of the same stone seuen thousand foot and six thousand foot more was scapled he bestowed and spent thereabouts one thousand two hundred fourescore and eight pounds as appeareth in the accounts of the treasurors for that time being and yet there was not one stone of his said long wall laid nor that hitherto hath come to anie profitable vse But this wall if it had beene or rather could haue béene finished it would haue cost a hundred thousand pounds and yet would neuer haue serued the turne For a stone wall is so contrarie to the nature of that sandie foundation as it can make no good coniunction nor perfect pent For the furtherance of his deuise he would haue plucked downe a great part of the old pierre whereof there was then too little remaining he detracted the time for he had ten shillings a daie allowed vnto him for his fée which perhaps he was loth to forgo He either could or would not render anie reason to the commissioners of his dooings and finall purpose but alwaies said he would make them a good hauen neither would he set downe anie time certeine for the accomplishing thereof All these matters with his negligence delaies vntowardlinesse of his works being aduertised to the lords of hir maiesties councell he was dismissed After whom one Ferdinando Poins who had béene conuersant and acquainted with water works in the low
iustice And for the better increase of hir maiesties reuenue and profit he praied the like to serue in the rooms of hir highnesse attorneie generall and sollicitor No man had a greater desire to aduance the publike euerie waie than he had and in opinion greatlie magnified estéemed all them that were of that mind for he would manie times saie that those were things memorable of perpetuitie fame and last where all priuat things died and perished with their priuat persons Wheresoeuer he was bestowed to serue he had such a rare gift gallant courtlie behauior and comlinesse of person as he gained the harts of manie and such vniuersall liking and louing of all sorts of people toward him as they were euer desirous and neuer wearie of him but speciall sute commonlie made of the grauest best and wisest sort amongst them when he was reuoked to haue him returne and continue againe amongst them He was as best became him verie aduised circumspect and carefull in the seruice of the state not onelie setting apart but in a sort neglecting all busines of his owne in respect of his charge He was a perfect orator by nature hauing such readinesse and facilitie of spéech flowing eloquence swéet deliuerie and passing memorie for he seldome or neuer forgat anie thing he either read or heard as he was speciallie noted a most rare man of all that did heare him Such ample instructions he would giue for the framing and writing of his letters or anie other thing he committed to be conceiued and put downe in writing and dispose the same in so good order and fine method as a verie simple man if he reteined and remembred but a part of that he said and deliuered might supplie himselfe with matter inough to the purpose to write of And when by occasion he happened vpon some dull line 10 conceipted spirited fellow as Ireland and Wales now and then bred some such to whome he had giuen instructions to write who afterwards brought him the same to signe not couched in sort as he liked or would haue it his temperance courtesie and discreet modestie was such as he would neuer shew choler and impatience rent the paper in péeces or publikelie disgrace the writer but bid him not be discouraged for that fault he could giue him the like instructions againe he gaue him before but willed line 20 him then to marke and remember them better At ech seuerall time he was sent deputie into Ireland he was by occasion and as time fell out furnished with a new secretarie The first was master Edward Waterhouse now knighted and one of hir maiesties councell in Ireland The second master Edmund Tremaine who after was preferred to be a clearke to hir maiesties councell on hir highnesse person attendant The third who although it was thought of manie who were in that case well able line 30 to iudge neither in paine desert birth nor breeding was much inferiour to the other two that were before him yet in fortune reward or other recompense so far behind them as this noble gentleman who trulie honored vertue master to them all three would manie times in sort lament and déepelie bemone to his good friends commending highlie this mans paine and diligence attributing his hard hap to his owne mishap the time so serued he could not doo him good which manie times by sundrie means line 40 he had earnestlie attempted to doo affirming often in solemne and earnest protestation as well to him as others that it gréeued him not a little his fortune was so bad to come to him now in the declination and wane of the moone for he was the sole onelie man he had imploied about him in that néerenesse and credit of seruice wherein he had vsed him that euer had quailed vnder his hands for that was the terme he vsed howbeit he well hoped time or some good man in respect his seruice was publike and not line 50 priuat would repaire that then he could not doo For he déemed the man right woorthie regard and consideration that had serued him so long and that in his great and roiall seruices in so painefull and toilesome a place without anie great wages fée or other interteinment growing to him in perpetuitie or other wais which was either burthenous to his purse or procéeding by or from him by anie other degree to the gentlemans benefit increase of credit or further aduancement in recompense of his long seruice He had both a speciall care likewise a â—ingular line 60 gift in dispatch of common causes and the people in like manner had a passing maruellous desire to be heard dispatched by him Therefore as well in part to satisfie their humors and affections as more completlie to performe the due and full measure of his charge which was to heare and helpe all as néere as he could he applied himselfe greatlie therevnto and would spare no paines but indure maruellous toile and trauell to rid and dispatch awaie sutors which he could doo with such dexteritie and woonderfull facilitie as the same might séeme no wearinesse and tediousnesse at all to him that was halfe a hell to some others but rather to be reckoned a kind of recreation and pastime He made manie beholding vnto him for he as much as laie in him did benefit manie and had more than an ordinarâ—e desire to doo for all his friends and faithfull followers and so carefullie earnestlie and painfullie he would trauell to aduance their particular sutes were it sometimes to speake to hir maiestie hir selfe or to the bodie of hir graue and honorable councell or to anie priuat councellor apart as though he had purposelie followed his owne most weightie causes And as he was a most déere kind tender and louing father to his children for none could loue and estéeme his children more than he did and noting in them great minds and hautie courages which drew them by degrees to excesse in expense and more than an ordinarie liberalitie he would sometime fatherlie aduise them thus that if they meant to liue in order they should euer behold whose sonnes seldome thinke whose nephues they were so he was an affable gentle courteous constant and honourable master to his seruants For he would often saie it was an easie matter for them to keepe him but hard to recouer his loue and fauour if they had once lost him And when anie of his noble and most louing friends would commend him greatlie as manie times they would that he made much of his old seruants for few that came to him euer went from him but such as were first aduanced by him to better preferment he would answer plesantlie after his woonted mirth Lord I giue thee thanks that of those thou gauest me I haue not lost one He was maruellous affable and courteous of nature of easie accesse and plesantlie familiar with anie that had occasion to repaire vnto him strict and
of them were likewise arreigned at Westminster who pleading not giltie were tried by a iurie found giltie and had iudgement accordinglie The effect of whose treasons shortlie to touch them were these Iohn Sauage remaining long in France at Rheims was persuaded by doctor Gilbert Gifford that great honor should redound to him if he would take in hand to change religion to inuade the realme by forren power to dispossesse the quéene of England and to proclame the Scotish queene and set hir in hir place All which Sauage promised to doo or else to lose his life and therevpon returned into England where he imparted his purpose to Anthonie Babington requiring his aid therein Then Iohn Ballard préest also persuaded the said Babington to the purpose before expressed promising him aid of threescore thousand men that secretlie should be landed and told him both how when as he thought Wherevpon Babington promised and concluded to make a slaughter vpon the councell of hir maiestie in the Starchamber then to haue sacked London to haue burned the nauie and chéefest ships to kill or displace the lords knights and magistrats that remained true subiects to our right lawfull quéene and realme and also to haue cloied and poisoned the greatest ordinance c. These were their purposes Now touching the names of the traitors their behauiours and speaches with the maner of their executions you shall vnderstand that vpon the twentith daie of September being tuesdaie Iohn Ballard a preest and first persuader of Babington to these odious treasons was laid alone vpon an hurdell and six others two and two in like sort all drawne from Tower hill through the citie of London vnto a field at the vpper end of Holborne hard by the high waie side to saint Giles in the field where was erected a scaffold for their execution a paire of gallows of extraordinarie hight as was that wherevpon haughtie Haman was hanged for his ambition c the place likewise so railed to kéepe off horssemen as the people might plainelie see the execution On the first daie the traitors were placed vpon the scaffold that the one might behold the reward of his fellowes treason Ballard the preest who was the first brocher of this treason was the first that was hanged who being cut downe according to iudgement was dismembred his bellie ript vp his bowels and traitorous heart taken out throwne into the fire his head also seuered from his shoulders was set on a short stake vpon the top of the gallows and the trunke of his bodie quartered and imbrued in his owne bloud wherewith the executioners hands were bathed and some of the standers by but to their great loathing as not able for their liues to auoid it such was the throng beesprinkled This Ballard at the verie time of his death not denieng his treason died an obstinate papist and in his protestation doubtfullie said that If he had offended the queens maiestie or anie man else he was sorie and so conditionallie desired forgiuenesse The malicious affection of his heart towards hir highnesse appeared in the trembling passage of death that whereas his treasons were impious odious and damnable as the most wicked to wit his confederats for the most part confessed as the common fame goeth that they excéeded the greatnesse of hir maiesties mercie which maie not be measured where there is anie measure in offending And yet in his desire of remission at hir highnesse hands he added this condition If as one that doubted if he had offended hir person Next vnto this préest Anthonie Babington was made readie to the gallowes who in euerie point was handled like vnto Ballard in whome a signe of his former pride was to be obserued For whereas the rest through the cogitation of death were exercised in praier vpon their knées and bare-headed he whose turne was next stood on his féet line 10 with his hat on his head as if he had béene but a beholder of the execution Concerning his religion he died a papist His treasons were so odious as the sting of conscience compelled him to acknowledge himselfe a most gréeuous trespasser against the diuine maiestie and the quéens highnesse Next vnto Babington Sauage was likewise prepared for the execution This notable traitor as the fame goeth was the man that conferred with doctor Gifford at Paris and by the confirmations of the line 20 English fugitiues at Rhemes was resolued and resolutelie determined to kill the quéene It is likewise said that vpon the apprehension of Ballard the préest Babington accellerated and hastened this Sauage to dispatch his resolution and that he onelie deferred the matter for the making of a court-like sute of apparell When Sauage was executed Barnewell was made readie to die an obstinat papist who for his treason made conscience his best excuse howbeit a line 30 rotten conscience which was infected with the murther of a vertuous quéene which sith it was so bad few there were that heard him but forbad their conscience to pitie him otherwise than charitablie to be sorowfull for his offense deseruing so shamefull a fall and damnable before God and man After this Barnewell Tichborns turne was serued a proper yoong gentleman whose humilitie and mone moued much compassion Tilneie one of the queens maiesties pensioners next vnto Tichborne made worke for the hangman a wretch well worthie of line 40 death who went about to take awaie hir highnesse life The last of these seuen that suffered was Edward Abington whose father was an officer of good credit in hir highnesse house and for manie aduancements was bound to saie God saue good Q. Elisabeth But his sonne was a notable papist an archtraitor who at his death did all that in him laie to fix a feare in the hearts of the ignorant multitude with this speech that there could not choose but be great effusion of bloud in England verie shortlie But line 50 Gods prouidence maketh it apparant that the prophesies of traitors prooue not euermore scripture For Throgmorton the traitor said that before one yeare was expired the prosperitie peace of England should be turned into generall calamitie Howbeit the date of that diuination is out they both as maie béetide the rest of that rebellious rout in their appointed time by Gods grace partakers of semblable destinie This Abington was the last of the first seuen that were executed and thus ended line 60 that daies worke to the comfort of Israell for that the execrable thing which troubled the whole land and highlie offended the diuine maiestie was taken awaie On the daie following according to generall expectation being the one and twentith daie of September Salisburie was laid alone vpon an hurdell and other six two and two in like maner all drawne from Tower hill through the citie of London vnto the former place of execution Salisburie was the first
authorities of this kind the number being so great as that they would fill vp Erotostthenes siue and to saie somewhat of seueritie that by opposition of countrie to countrie in that respect we maie sée the great difference betwéene ours and theirs It is seueritie to flea men quicke to chaine them aliue to a stake in such sort as they maie run round line 60 thereabout the fier inuironing them on all sides it is seueritie to haue collops of flesh pluckt from the bodie with hot burning tongs it is seueritie to be cast downe from a stéepe place starke naked vpon sharpe stakes it is seueritie to be torne in péeces with wild horsses and to haue the bones broken vpon a whéele All these be extremities of torments awarded by law and at this daie practised in forren regions for treason and sometime for crimes of nothing so dangerous a nature Finallie if we confer the seueritie of this execution exercised vpon rebellious and traitorous subiects in a superlatiue degree of disloialtie with that of other nations commonlie vsed namelie in principall affaires which concerne peace and warre and matters of gouernment to accept theseruice of runnagate slaues to place them in authoritie to change or depose at pleasure anie whatsoeuer yea to strangle them vpon the least suspicion or dislike our seueritie is clemencie For in this is ripe reason and iudiciall processe in the other will without wit as commonlie they saie Omnia pro imperio nihil pro officio And therefore we conclude that ingratitude being counted vnnaturall and treason a vice vomited out of hell mouth linked togither with manie knots of other shamefull sinnes and all concurring in the hearts and liues of these outragious conspirators as in a centre whie should it be thought seueritie to haue iustice iustlie administred that traitors should be drawne vpon hurdels strangled in a halter cut downe aliue dismembred their bellies ripped their bowels taken out and burned their heads chopt from their shoulders their bodies clouen in foure quarters and set ouer the gates of London for the foules of the aire to féed vpon at full Unto which fowle end maie all such come as meane anie mischiefe against good quéene Elisabeth the lords of hir highnesse councell the bodie politike of the land the slander or innouation of true religion c wherein God make prince and people of one mind and plant in all subiects a reuerend regard of obedience and contentment of present estate supported with iustice and religion least longing after nouelties it fare with them as with the frogs who liuing at libertie in lakes and ponds would néeds as misliking their present intercommunitie of life with one consent sue to Iupiter for a king and so did Whereat he woondering granted their desires and cast them an huge trunke of a trée which besides that it made a great noise in the water as it fell to their terrifieng so it was cumbersome by taking vp their accustomed passage insomuch that discontented therewithall they assaulted Iupiter with a fresh petition complaining that besides diuerse mislikes otherwise the king whom he gaue them was but a senselesse stocke and vnworthie of obedience wherefore it would please him to appoint them another indued with life Wherevpon Iupiter sent the herne among them who entring into the water deuoured vp the frogs one after another insomuch that the residue séeing their new king so rauenouslie gobling vp their fellowes lamentablie wéeping besought Iupiter to deliuer them from the throte of that dragon and tyrant But he of purpose vnchangeable made them a flat answer that will they nill they the herne should rule ouer them Whereby we are taught to be content when we are well and to make much of good quéene Elisabeth by whom we enioie life and libertie with other blessings from aboue beséeching God we maie sée a consummation of the world before the scepter of the kingdome be translated to another For as the prouerbe saith seldome commeth the better But to the purpose this execution being dispatched and the testimonies thereof dispersed and visible in diuerse places about the citie as at London bridge where the traitors heads were ranged into their seuerall classes manie rimes ballads and pamphlets were set foorth by sundrie well affected people wherein bréefelie were comprised the plot of their conspiracie the names of the traitors and their successiue suffering which growing common and familiar both in citie and countrie were chanted with no lesse alacritie courage of the singer than willinglie and delightfullie listened vnto of the hearer So that what by one meane and what by another all England was made acquainted with this horrible conspiracie not so much admiring the maner of the mischéefes intended as comforted that hir highnesse had the holie hand of God ouershadowing hir the surest protection that prince or people can haue against perill So that England is replenished with faithfull and louing subiects though here and there like darnell among wheate lurke a viper or aspe waiting opportunitie to bite or sting Now to make a complet discourse of all these heauie tragicall accidents hauing thus far continued line 10 much important matter concerning the same the reader is with due regard to peruse the addition following wherein is argument of aggrauation touching these treasons which being aduisedlie read considered and conferred with the former narration will yéeld as sound pithie and effectuall information for the knowledge of the conspirators purposed plot as anie subiect would desire and more than without gréefe or teares anie true English heart can abide to read or heare Where by the waie is to be line 20 noted that Marie the Scotish Q. was a principall It is apparant by the iudiciall confessions of Iohn Ballard preest Anthonie Babington and their confederats that the said Iohn Ballard being a preest of the English seminarie at Rheims in Lent past after he and sundrie other Iesuits and preests of his sect had trauelled throughout all parts almost of this realme labored to their vttermost to bréed in hir maiesties subiects an inclination to rebell against hir he went into France and there treated line 30 and concluded with Barnardino de Mendoza the Spanish ambassador resiant at Paris with Charles Paget Thomas Morgan two English fugitiues and inexcusable traitors for an inuasion to be made by forren forces into this kingdome And because no assurance could then be made vnto Mendoza for the interteining assisting and good landing of those whome the king his maister the pope and the house of Guise should dispatch for that seruice he sent the said Ballard into England at Whitsuntide last line 40 with expresse charge to informe the catholikes that for sundrie important considerations the king his maister had vowed vpon his soule to reforme England or to loose Spaine and for that purpose had in readinesse such forces warlike preparations as the like was neuer séene in
these parts of christendome And therefore willed him to stirre the people and worke the meanes to make some faction to giue them landing interteinment at their comming speciallie to preserue the Scotish Q. in that confusion line 50 letting the catholiks vnderstand that in case they did not assist the inuaders they would then enter as conquerors put no difference betwixt man man With this dispatch Ballard by the speciall direction of Morgan a notorious traitor to this state yea a professed sworne seruant vnto the Scotish quéene repaired to Anthonie Babington a gentleman to whom the said Scotish Q. vpon the commendation of Morgan the bishop of Glascow had long before line 60 written letters of gratulation with whom she had secret intelligence by sending of letters other messages the space almost of two yeares before To this gentleman Ballard discouered at large the whole purpose of Mendoza Paget Morgan and said as he had in charge that if happilie a strong partie could be made here to assist the inuasion and aduance the Scotish queene men munition monie and vittels should be abundantlie supplied from beyond the seas and therefore persuaded Babington to sound the whole realme and to vndertake the action Babington at the first proposed manie difficulties but principallie this that the inuaders or their assistants could haue no hope the state being so well setled to preuaile during hir maiesties life Wherevpon Ballard presentlie replied that hir life could be no hinderance therein For vpon like doubts mooued beyond the seas by meanes alreadie laid Iohn Sauage a conspirator conuicted hereof by his owne confession through the persuasion and procurement principallie of one William Gifford an English fugitiue and reader of diuinitie in the English seminarie at Rheims had vowed and sworne to kill hir maiestie as a thing resolued vpon to be lawfull honorable and meritorious This difficultie being thus remooued and Ballard from daie to daie continuing his persuasions and highlie commending the murthering of hir maiestie as a deed of great honor singular merit and easie to effectuat Babington vndertooke the managing of the whole action and hauing first with his complices entred into manie seuerall propositions of sundrie treasonable natures as to surprise hir maiesties person by force to kill the lord treasuror the earle of Leicester and sir Francis Walsingham to remooue hir councellors and to place new to murther the nobilitie whilest they were set in administring iustice to sacke the citie of London to fire the nauie of the realme to surprise some forces and hauens to furnish the paie of their forces by an vniuersall spoile and robbing of the richer sort hauing I saie first entred into these and such like propositions in fine he with Ballard and others resolued vpon these thrée principall points first that the inuaders should be assisted by a prepared readinesse in the people to rebell in diuerse places and to ioine with them vpon their first landing that hir maiestie should be murthered by six gentlemen of resolution and lastlie that the Scotish quéene should be aduanced to the crowne of England For the better performance of these resolutions Ballard and Babington sounded diuerse and dealt with manie and so farre Babington proceeded in short time that a choise was made by him of the six that should execute the attempt against hir maiesties person that some others were especiallie assigned by him to attend and assist the inuasion with direction from Babington to be popular vnto their vttermost and that himselfe resolued vpon the first assurance either of hir maiesties death or of the strangers arriuall to proclame the quéene of Scots queene of England Things standing in these terms and Babington deferring onelie the execution of this plot vntill signification therof were giuen to the Scotish queene and hir good pleasure knowne therein God so ordeining it the Scotish quéene in Iune last wrote vnto Babington a short letter in cipher signifieng hir discontent for the breach of their intelligence and requiring him to send by that bearer a packet receiued for hir in Aprill before and vntill that time reteined by Babington as wanting good meanes of conueieng and therefore fearing the danger of that seruice Wherevpon Babington vsing that opportunitie both deliuered hir packet vnto that messenger and by him wrote vnto hir touching euerie particular of this plot aboue mentioned and how farre he had procéeded therein signifieng amongst manie other things how desirous he was to doo hir some seruice how well it might be performed if assurance were giuen from beyond the seas for that which was vndertaken thense and how necessarie it were that rewards were promised vnto the chéefe actors for their better incoragement and to be giuen to their posterities in case they miscaried in the execution And therefore he required that she would grant authoritie to some such as it might like hir to giue certeine offices and dignities necessarie for this action Unto this letter Babington about twentie daies after in the same cipher by which he did write before receiued answer from the Scotish quéene with which she also sent inclosed as hir secretarie now confesseth a new alphabet in cipher to be vsed betwéene them from that time forward And in this hir letter she not onelie declared hir good opinion of Babington gaue him due thanks for his readinesse to doo hir seruice promised correspondencie in all that she might and willed line 10 that the resolution being taken he should with all spéed impart it to Barnardino de Mendoza considering first what forces on foot or horssebacke he could make what place for their assemblie what leaders in euerie shire what generall or chéefe leaders but also amongst infinit other traitorous directions apparant by the verie letters she aduised that vpon returne of answer from Mendoza with assurance that all things were in a readinesse then and not before it should be conuenient to sound the line 20 countrie And to colour the prouision and preparation it should be giuen out that what they did was not vpon anie euill or disloiall disposition towards hir maiestie but for the iust defense of catholikes their bodies liues lands against the violence of the Puritans the principall wherof being in the low countries with the chéefe forces of the realme purposed at his returne to ruine not onelie the whole catholikes but also meant to depriue hir maiestie of the crowne And that they should giue it out that line 30 therefore the preparation was for the defense of hir maiestie and hir lawfull successors not naming the Scotish quéene vnder which pretense an association also might be made amongest the catholikes Which being doone and all things in readinesse both within and without the realme it should be then time for the six gentlemen to worke taking order that because the time would be somewhat vncerteine of the exploit vpon hir maiesties person there should be continuallie some men
in readinesse line 40 about the court well horssed to bring word in post into the countrie by foure seuerall waies for feare of intercepting when that designment was performed to the end she might be taken awaie before hir kéeper could either conueie hir awaie or fortifie the place She wished that some fire might be kindled in Ireland to the end the councellors attention might be distracted from that part whense the stroke should come which was from Flanders Spaine and the house of Guise She aduised Babington to deale carefullie and vigilantlie to prouide all things line 50 necessarie for effecting the enterprise in such sort that it might take good effect by the grace of God for so it pleaseth hir to vse the phrase Lastlie after great promises of large requitall to all the conspirators and manie other particular aduises tending wholie to the subuersion of this state and depriuation of hir maiesties life she groweth towards a conclusion with praier for his good successe in the aforesaid conspiracie It were néedlesse to expresse more particularlie the contents of his or hir letters the originals line 60 themselues being extant and surprised To these letters Babington wrote for answer by the same messenger that so soone as the resolution was fullie taken with Mendoza he would informe hir more and therevpon within thrée daies after addressed Ballard towards Mendoza with signification that all things were here in a readinesse and attended onelie the arriuall of their forces But God who hath alwaies protected hir maiestie in all mercie beyond the expectation of man euen almost in the verie point of execution discouered the conspiracie And therevpon Ballard being readie to imbarke himselfe was taken vpon whose apprehension Babington forced as he said with the extreme danger to be discouered and the no hope of anie pardon for so hatefull an offense entred a new resolution with Sauage aforenamed Charnocke to take hir maiesties life awaie presentlie otherwise intended to haue béene respited vntill the inuasion which as Ballard from the mouth of Mendoza swore must at the vttermost haue beene performed by September But Babington finding himselfe restreined before he wist and thereby assuring himselfe that all was knowne found the meanes to escape in hope to haue recouered the sea and so to haue saued himselfe and his confederats Yet after ten daies search through all countries adioining to London though disguised in clownes attire and discolored with walnut leaues he was discouered apprehended and with some other of the conspirators brought vnto London with greater manifestation of true ioie in the people for their surprise than toong can expresse or pen maie write The apprehension of Ballard and flight of Babington dismaied the rest and dispersed the other conspirators yet not so farre but that iustice hath since laid hold vpon the most of them And though in the beginning they seemed all resolued to stand vnto the deniall of euerie part of this action yet such is the force of truth that without either hope of fauor or feare of torture they haue all acknowledged the conspiracie and confessed their seuerall offenses agnising the Scotish quéene to be the principall comforter directer and imbracer of these treasons and imputing this error to their deceiuable expectation of hir future greatnesse in this land the hope whereof ioined with hir allurements hath heretofore as the world can witnesse though these could not beware thereby bred diuerse rebellions within this kingdome ouerturned manie happie estates and defiled sundrie families of vnspotted fidelitie in former time All which notwithstanding our catholikes and others owe and attribute so great a priuilege to hir person onelie that being past expectation as they terme it of anie good from the king hir sonne and not regarding the interest of anie other to the succession of this state if she by death or otherwise maie not be aduanced vnto this kingdome they are then determined to set the crowne on the house of Spaine either by pretense of some putatiue title to which effect some pamphlets haue béene alreadie composed or rather to auoid all controuersies by some grant and inuesture from the see apostolike for the dispatch wherof as the conspirators confesse doctor Allen an English fugitiue and some others attend in Rome to sollicit the pope Which being once performed some of the grauer and more reuerend sort as they call them of our fugitiue diuines must secretlie make their repaire hither and in auricular confession persuade the principall catholikes of this land and such as are able to swaie the rest to fauor mainteine and aduance that title of Spaine against all others vnder paine of damnation By meanes whereof it is intended that Spaine shall mount to so huge a greatnesse as to be able of himselfe to giue lawes to all the states of christendome ¶ With this note being the verie flower and grace of all the former discourse we will conclude hauing now no more to saie touching the conspiracie but these few verses which we will vse in lieu of a conclusion and so procéed vnto other matters of consequence conuenient for the booke Quid non papa ruens spondet modo iussa capessas En diadema tibi sceptráque pactus Hymen Dissimilem votis mercedem nacta sed ausis Et sceleri retulit turba nefanda parem Successere rogi regno coriúque coronae Pro sceptro laqueus pro thalamo tumulus In this meane time to wit on thursdaie the 22 daie of September sir Philip Sidneie knight a most valiant towardlie gentleman sonne heire to sir Henrie Sidneie late deceased as is before shewed in seruice of his prince and defense of his countrie in the warres of the Netherlands was shot into his thigh with a musket at Zutphen in Gelderland whereof he died on the 17 of October line 10 whose bodie was conueied into England to be honourablie buried On the eight of October Iohn Low Iohn Adams and Robert Dibdale being before condemned for treason in being made préests by authoritie of the bishop of Rome since the feast of Iohn Baptist in the first yeare of hir maiesties reigne and remaining here after the terme of fourtie daies after session of the last parlement were drawne to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartered line 20 On the same daie at night being saturdaie there arose the greatest storme that happened since the wind which some doo call Douer wind and some others the wind that blew awaie Calis which was in the time of the reigne of quéene Marie For besides great harmes which happened that night vpon the seas there were vpon the land in euerie quarter ouerthrowne thereby houses cottages barnes haiestacks tiles chimneies pales and gates innumerable and manie trées both great line 30 and small were not onelie torne and rent asunder but grubd vp by the roots in so much as vpon the mondaie next in manie places men could not passe on
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
〈◊〉 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
Chaseth The monsieurs posie interpreted in a shew The ornaments of the arch aloft A monstrous sea horsse of twentie foot high what it signified Three score and ten pillers with a space of two and twentie foot betweene each Proper emblems and their meanings Enuie and Slander Concord holding Discord in a chaine c. Light with torches and cressets as cléere as the noone daie Thrée graces Uertue Glorie and Honor in a compartement Twentie or thirtie thousand harquebusses shot off The night resembled the daie Solemnities vsed whiles the monsieur was taking his peculiar oth to Antwerpe Two pageants one of mount Parnassus and the other a mossie rocke A scaffold hoÌ„g with scarlet and richlie adorned A chaire of estate of cloth of gold frized Beautifull emblems about the chaire of estate what they signified 1 A little vnder at the right hand vnder the armes of Brabant were these verses 2 On the left hand vnder the armes of Antwerpe was written thus 3 This was written somwhat lower Banished and condemned men in fetters crauing mercie pardoned All promises kept on the monsieurs part they could doo no lesse The monsieur is readie to take his oth of the magistrate people of Antwerpe Good successe wished to the mutuall othâ—akers The monsieurs o th red in French The monsieur casteth largesse of gold siluer among the people Two peales of great ordinance with other signes of ioy What was doone by the waie of courteous dutie when all the triumphs were ended Dukes of Burgognie issued out of the house of France Under whom the state hath beene aâ—uanced Philip duke of Burgognie surnamed the hardie Duke Iohn the second and Philip the second aduancers of the state Philip the second a verie rich prince surnamed Philip the good He directeth his spéech to the monsieur A suâ—e mooued to the monsieur Francis the monsieurs grandfather commended A good sute to the moÌ„sieur the like of all princes and great men to be preferred and granted Learning and chiualrie must go togither Causes that mooued the making of this sute He speaketh in the behalfe of all the rest of like profession and facultie The monsieur speaketh well whatsoeuer his meaning was A good beginning in prince and people Iohn Paine executed at Chelmsford A blasing â—tarre Execution of Thomas Foord Iohn Shert and Robert Iohnson priests of the popes order To perseuere in wickednes is no constancie but obstinacie Consolation ministred to them as they went to their â—eaths The shiriffe himselfe trieth what he can doo to conuert them He was the eccho of a false and antichristian voice Thomas Foord his words touching his innocencie * The writer of this pamphlet who séemed to be acquainted with all their dealings A shamelesse negatiue voice to a manifest charge of offense and euident conuiction Iohn Shert his vaine spéeches at the sight of Tom Foords dead bodie dismembred Sherts oration to the people iustifieng the forme of a goâ—lie martyres death Note Sherts obstinacie Shâ—rt is peremptorie in his spéech to iustifie his religion Hudling vp of praiers mangled and â—eeced togither after the popish maner * Who séemed acquainted with all their practises Execution of Luke Kirbie William Filbie Thomas Coteham and Laurence Richardson préests of the popes order * Who was an obseruer as he pretended of all their dooings Most manifest and vndoubted toâ—ens of a resolute votarie to the pope his 〈◊〉 * Thâ—obseruer â—nd writer of 〈◊〉 their plots and deuises â—s he pretended One of these two must néeds be in a fowle errour for both holding contraries could not speake truth Repetitio beneficij est exprebratio Master shiriffes words vttered by the waie of interception This was great verie mercifull forbearance to let all this talke passe to and fro at the place of execution Men indéed vse to repose their trust in such whom they suppose to be like themselues Mercie offered to Kirbie notwithstanding his conuiction of treason To such as are proditoriouslie minded it is a matter disputable but to a good subiect a matter determinable Prou. 8.15 16. Rom. 13.1 2 3 4. This counsell of the apostle they had not the grace to follow Iohn 19.10 11. This demand implieth a kind of suspicion or secret charge that hir maiestie is such a one Not of the pope then belike who is not to â—oore into oâ—her princes prouinces c. Vox popili Dei vox fertur esse Dei Laurence Richardson and Thomas Coteham their gestures and spéeches of their deaths For he was not so furnished for England as to 〈◊〉 seules so easilie to papistrie * He should haue said Daemon Philip Price hanged in Fleetstreet for killing of a sergeant Lord Willoughbie ambassador sent into Denmarke The lord ambassadors oration in Latine to the king of Denmarke c The king of Denmarke inuested into the right honorable order of the garter Misfortune by gunpowder Strange tempest in Norffolke Anno reg 2â— Terme kept at Hertford Thames water conueied ouer saint Magnus stéeple Iustice Randolph hâ—s charitie Publike lecture of surgerie founded in London presentlie red as also in the life of the founder by doctor Forster to his high praise credit What exercises are to be followed in the said college by the will of the founder The first yeares exercises The second years exercises The third yeares and fourth yeares exercises The fift and sixt yeares exercises and so to continue with Reâ—eâ—nâ—iâ— principâ— Ab. Fl. Spectator auditor Doctor Gilsord president of the college of physicians Francis of Ualois attempteth diuerse exploits the issue whereof fell out to his misfortune The monsiâ—urs ambition spreading like â— canker The French gentlemen ware armor vnder their garments with good meaning no doubt The monsieur was glad to retire notwithstanding this confident clamor Noblemen othâ—r French 〈◊〉 prisonâ—â—s Noblemen of France slaine Francis duke of Aniou and Alanson retireth Generall Norris with 23. ensignes Francis duke of Alanson and of Aniou sickeneth Abr. Fl. ex lib. cui tit Regret funebre contenant le discours de la morâ— de Monseigneuâ— fils de France frere vnicque du roy * Meaning Berson the monsieurs preacher and the writer of this discourse The maner of the monsieurs sickenesse Bersons words of comfort to the monsieur whether his disease were naturall or procéeding â—rom God The monsiâ—urs resoluâ—e to die * Namelie Berson * Berson who was then busie about certeine ceremonies incident to the time and his office Great hope conceiued of the monsieur if he had not beene preuented with dâ—ath The monsieur falleth into an extremitie of his maladie and past hope of recouerie Doo men â—te thus saith the monsieâ—r drawing tâ— his end Bersons words to the monsieur in the hearing of diuerse gentlemen present His will meaning Gods be doone saith the monsieur with a forced spéech on his death bed The institution and vse of the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of Christ. Bersons
thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish couÌ„tries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused thâ— statutes of Ireland to bâ— imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fuâ—therer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all plâ—â—ces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Solâ—â—ario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace 〈◊〉 Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor oâ— Uâ—â—ssingen commonlie called Flâ—â—shing He surpriseâ— Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making 〈◊〉 entrie into thâ— sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facÃtque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condigâ—liâ— punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie â—as a knight 〈◊〉 his gift to 〈◊〉 of â—ondon pag. â—â— â—50 The ambasâ—â—dor deparâ—â—th home toâ—ards Denâ—arke â—ord Edâ—ard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated â— league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. 〈…〉 The horrible conspiracie of â—abington â—ther his 〈◊〉 traitors 〈◊〉 sâ—oursed by â— F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England 〈◊〉 his last 〈◊〉 finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion
high treason by the Iurie On fridaie being the first of December Edmund line 30 Campion Iesuit Ralfe Sherwin Alexander Brian seminarie priests being condemned for high treason against hir maiesties most roiall person as also for traitorous practises touching the subuersion of the true vndoubted religion here mainteined with the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of this realme of England were drawne from the Tower of London on hurdles to the place of execution appointed garded with such a sufficient companie as might expresse the honor of iustice the larger in line 40 that behalfe Being come to the place of execution where diuerse of hir maiesties honorable councell with manie honorable personages and gentlemen of worship and good account beside a multitude of people not here to be remembred attended their comming Edmund Campion was first brought vp into the cart where after the great rumor of so manie people somewhat appeased he spake thus First he began the people then present expecting his confession with a phrase or two in Latine line 50 when immediatlie after he fell into English in this maner I am here brought as a spectacle before the face of God of angelles and of men satisfieng my selfe to die as becommeth a true christian catholike man As for the treasons that haue béene laid to my charge and I am come here to suffer for I desire you all to beare witnesse with me that thereof I am altogither innocent Wherevpon answer was made to him by one of the councell that he might line 60 not seeme to denie th'obiections against him hauing béene prooued so manifestlie to his face both by sufficient witnesse and euidence Well my lord quoth he I am a catholike man and a priest in that faith haue I liued hitherto and in that faith I doo intend to die and if you esteeme my religion treason then of force I must grant vnto you as for anie other treason I will not consent vnto Then was he mooued as concerning his traitorous and hainous offense to the quéenes most excellent maiestie Whereto he answered She is my lawfull princesse and quéene There somwhat he drew in his words to himselfe whereby was gathered that somwhat he would haue gladlie spoken but the great timiditie and vnstable opinion of his conscience wherein he was all the time euen to the death would not suffer him to vtter it Here is with iudgement a deepe point and high matter to be considered that this man alwaies directing the course of his life to a vaineglorious imagination and alwaies couetous to make himselfe famous at this instant made a perfect discouerie of himselfe For being somewhat learned all matters whatsoeuer as you haue heard before he bare awaie with a maiesticall countenance the visor of vanitie aptlie fitting the face of onelie hypocrisie what was sound he would make sophisticall what was the infallible truth of it selfe he would carrie in his owne conceipt and delude the people with a pleasant quirke or some such stuffe onlie to purchase him credit and affection And he was not to learne to set a coragious countenance on euerie such slight reason whereby he peruerted manie deceiued more and was thought such a champion as the pope neuer had the like But now behold the man whom neither racke nor rope should alter whose 〈◊〉 was such as he boasted inuincible feare had caught hold on this braue boaster and terror entred his thoughts whereby was discouered his impudent dissimulations Now let it with patience be mooued a little that the outward protestations of this man vrged some there present to teares not entring into conceipt of his inward hypocrisie to make a plausible definition of this perillous deceiuer not by coniecture but by proofe it shall be thus answered Edmund Campion as it is by men of sufficient credit reported at what time he spent his studie here in England both in the hospitall and also at the vniuersitie of Oxford was alwaies addicted to a maruellous suppose in himselfe of ripe iudgement prompt audacitie and cunning conueiance in his schoole points wherethrough he fell into a proud and vaineglorious iudgement practising to be eloquent in phrase and so fine in his quirks and fantasticall coniectures that the ignorant he woon by his smooth deuises some other affecting his pleasant imaginations he charmed with subtiltie and choked with sophistrie The learned who beheld his practises and peremptorie order of life pitieng his follie and wishing him a more staied determination lothed his maners yet loued the man bicause christian charitie willed them so to doo Now this glorious Thraso hauing by his libels made himselfe famous and vnder shew and suppose of great learning though indeed being approoued found verie simple to the speeches giuen of him subdued manie to affect him verie much when he was taken he knew it stood him vpon not to loose the credit openlie he had woone secretlie Wherefore in his former ridiculous maner both in prison at his arreignment yea and at his death he continued the same in all points which the foulnesse of his treasons blemished euerie waie Now indéed as our English nation is both louing and pitifull so manie seeing the gifts of God so well bestowed on the man and by him applied to so great abuse through naturall kindnesse bemoned his case wishing he had not fallen into so traitorous a cause Then was mooued to him againe his treasons and hainous offenses against the quéenes maiestie which impudentlie he still denied séeming to vtter words on the behalfe of one Richardson one likewise of the condemned traitors taking on his conscience that it was not be Which hath bin prooued to the contrarie for that it is knowne how this Richardson is he who distributed Campions libels and bookes abrode and when he was put to his oth whether it was he or no he refused to sweare on his behalfe And because the world might be fullie resolued that notwithsâ—anding all the pretended colourable meanes be could vse for his excuse and innocencie he was to suffer death deseruedlie as a traitor c. There was read to his face in the hearing of the assemblie a pamphlet published by authoritie as followeth An aduertisement and defense for truth against hir backebiters and speciallie against the whispering fauourers and colourers of Campâ—nâ— and the rest of his confederats line 10 treasons ALthough at the late arreignements at Westminster of Edmund Campion other his complices condemned there of sundrie high tresons it was manifestlie declared and fullie prooued how they all vnder pretense of the names of Iesuits seminarie priests other persons of like condition had secretlie come into this realme by sending of sundrie persons authorised line 20 by the pope to mooue the people by their secret persuasions to change their professions in the matter of religion of long time quietlie established in this realme and to be reconciled to the obedience of the pope and