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 âhe 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 âo râsâraine 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
destitute of sobrietie and wisedome and therfore could not like of him that so abused his authoritie Herevpon there were sundrie of the nobles that lamented these mischéefes and speciallie shewed their greefes vnto such by whose naughtie counsell they vnderstood the king to be miââed and this they did to the end that they being about him might either turne their copies and giue him better counsell or else he hauing knowledge what euill report went of him might mend his maners misliked of his nobles But all was in vaine for so it fell out that in this parlement holden at Shrewsburie Henrie duke of Hereford accused Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke of certeine words which he should vtter in talke had betwixt them as they rode togither latelie before betwixt London and Brainford sounding highlie to the kings dishonor And for further proofe thereof he presented a supplication to the king wherein he appealed the duke of Norfolke in field of battell for a traitor false and disloiall to the king and enimie vnto the realme This supplication was red before both the dukes in presence of the king which doone the duke of Norfolke tooke vpon him to answer it declaring that whatsoeuer the duke of Hereford had said against him other than well he lied falselie like an vntrue knight as he was And when the king asked of the duke of Hereford what he said to it he taking his hood off his head said My souereigne lord euen as the supplication which I tooke you importeth right so I saie for truth that Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke is a traitour false and disloiall to your roiall maiestie your crowne and to all the states of your realme Then the duke of Norfolke being asked what he said to this he answered Right déere lord with your fauour that I make answer vnto your coosine here I saie your reuerence saued that Henrie of Lancaster duke of Hereford like a false and disloiall traitor as he is dooth lie in that he hath or shall say of me otherwise than well No more said the king we haue heard inough and herewith commanded the duke of Surrie for that turne marshall of England to arrest in his name the two dukes the duke of Lancaster father to the duke of Hereford the duke of Yorke the duke of Aumarle constable of England and the duke of Surrie marshall of the realme vndertooke as pledges bodie for bodie for the duke of Hereford but the duke of Northfolke was not suffered to put in pledges and so vnder arrest was led vnto Windsor castell and there garded with kéepers that were appointed to sée him safelie kept Now after the dissoluing of the parlement at Shrewsburie there was a daie appointed about six wéeks after for the king to come vnto Windsor to heare and to take some order betwixt the two dukes which had thus appealed ech other There was a great scaffold erected within the castell of Windsor for the king to sit with the lords and prelats of his realme and so at the daie appointed he with the said lords prelats being come thither and set in their places the duke of Hereford appellant and the duke of Norfolke defendant were sent for to come appeare before the king sitting there in his seat of iustice And then began sir Iohn Bushie to speake for the king declaring to the lords how they should vnderstand that where the duke of Hereford had presented a supplication to the king who was there set to minister iustice to all men that would demand the same as apperteined to his roiall maiestie he therefore would now heare what the parties could say one against an other and withall the king commanded the dukes of Aumarle and Surrie the one being constable and the other marshall to go vnto the two dukes appellant and defendant requiring them on his behalfe to grow to some agréement and for his part he would be readie to pardon all that had beene said or doone amisse betwixt them touching anie harme or dishonor to him or his realme but they answered both assuredlie that it was not possible to haue anie peace or agréement made betwixt them When he heard what they had answered he commanded line 10 that they should be brought foorthwith before his presence to heare what they would say Herewith an herald in the kings name with lowd voice commanded the dukes to come before the king either of them to shew his reason or else to make peace togither without more delaie When they were come before the king and lords the king spake himselfe to them willing them to agree and make peace togither for it is said he the best waie ye can take The line 20 duke of Norfolke with due reuerence herevnto answered it could not be so brought to passe his honor saued Then the king asked of the duke of Hereford what it was that he demanded of the duke of Norfolke and what is the matter that ye can not make peace togither and become friends Then stood foorth a knight who asking and obteining licence to speake for the duke of Hereford said Right deare and souereigne lord here is Henrie of Lancaster duke of Hereford and earle of Derbie line 30 who saith and I for him likewise say that Thomas Mobwraie duke of Norfolke is a false and disloiall traitor to you and your roiall maiestie and to your whole realme and likewise the duke of Hereford saith and I for him that Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke hath receiued eight thousand nobles to pay the souldiers that keepe your towne of Calis which he hath not doone as he ought and furthermore the said duke of Norfolke hath béene the occasion of all the treason that hath beene contriued in your realme line 40 for the space of these eighteene yeares by his false suggestions and malicious counsell he hath caused to die and to be murdered your right déere vncle the duke of Glocester sonne to king Edward Moreouer the duke of Hereford saith and I for him that he will proue this with his bodie against the bodie of the said duke of Norfolke within lists The king herewith waxed angrie and asked the duke of Hereford if these were his woords who answered Right déere lord they are my woords and hereof I require line 50 right and the battell against him There was a knight also that asked licence to speake for the duke of Norfolke and obteining it began to answer thus Right déere souereigne lord here is Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke who answereth and saith and I for him that all which Henrie of Lancaster hath said and declared sauing the reuerence due to the king and his councell is a lie and the said Henrie of Lancaster hath falselie and wickedlie lied as a false and disloiall knight and line 60 both hath béene and is a traitor against you your crowne roiall maiestie realme This will I proue and defend as becommeth a loiall knight to
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
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 âlâech 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 passâng 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
insufficiencie of learning 12 a 10. His miracle whereby he kept his bishoprike 12 a 10. Submitteth himselfe to duke William 1 a 50. Dieth 27 b 60. Woluerhampton and how to be rightlie called note 796 a 40 Womans request preuaileth in a great matter with a great personage 32 a 50. Pitifull note 378 a 20. Their dissimulation 336 b 30. Hanâed drawne and quartered 944 a 60. Ones request denied occasion of much broile 327 b 40 328 a 10. One treateth for peace preuaileth betwéene two kings note 360 a 30 One brought to bed of a monster note 1314 a 40. One of fourscoure yeres old brought a bed of a monster 1313 b 60 1314 a 10. One brought to bed of foure children at one burthen 1261 b 60 Women will hardlie be of one mind 158 a 60. Their boldnes in ecclesiasticall matters note 484 a 50 60. That to be seuere against them is dishonorable note 314 a 10. Causers of mischéefe note 562 a 20. Counterfeiting themselues one our Ladie the other Marie Magdalen 203 b 50. Their ãâã what mischéefe it bréeâe â note 626 b 6â 627 a all Reuenge a murther doone vpon one 605 b 60. Hard to be reconciled 378 a 60. Their peace 115â a 60 Wonders 37 a 40 38 a 40. âââ b 10 44 b 40.82 a 60 b 10 10â a 30.102 b 30.166 a 60.204 b 60 c. 210 b 50 216 b 10 20 30 225 b 60.226 a 10 239 b 20 245 b 30.252 a 50 c. 277 b 40 395 a 40 439 b 40 484 b 10 c 493 b 60.645 b 10.793 b 10 c 40. Of a Dutchman standing on Pauls wethercocke note 1091 a 60 b 10. Of peâson without tilth growing vpon hard stone pible 1129. a 60 b 10. Of a man preserued from drowning 1223 b 10 Of a lad drowned in a kennell 1259 b 60 1260 a 10. Of a child speaking strange spéeches 1315 a 10 c. Of mice deuouring grasse 1315 a 60. Of the ground swallowed vp 1413 b 20 30. Strange estéemed to be warnings note 26 b 10. Strange in heauen and earth 21 a 30. In the aire or element 142 a 10. Great and whereof they were tokens 204 b 50. What they betoken 156 b 60.157 a 10 b 10 Of baie trées 496 b 60. Of a fish like a man note 168 a 10. Of fighting fishes 115 a 10. Of Rosamunds coter 115 b 60. In the sunne moone and the earth 102 b 40 50 60. Of a dead carcase 1066 a 30. To be noted in a dead corps that laie long in the ground 779 a 40. ¶ Sée Fish Mirâcle and Monsters Worcester assalted 58 b 20. By the Normans 17 a 60. With the valiantnâsse of the people b 10. Besieged and taken 266 a 60. The citie burnt by casualtie 37 b 50 Words malicious and foolish of a French lord note 771 a 20 Of Henrie the second that cest Becket his lâfe 78 b 30 Of displeasure vttered by the father to his sonne 114 a 40 Stout of a prelat to a peere 458 a 20. Of a graue gentleman spoken on his death bed doo good 197 b 40. Whet Henrie the third vnto warre 209 a 10. Faire ouercome 32 a 50. Make fooles faine 191 b 60. 144 a 20. Preuaile not 112 a 20. With fraud note 111 a 30 Smooth how mightilie they preuaile euen in the enimie 673 a 60 b 10. Faire with ill meaning note 136 a 10. Procure wounds and death 954 a 20. Procure wounds and bloudshed 447 a 40. Wounds and slaughter note 13 b 40. Shamefull slanderous against Edward the fourth 698 b 30. Obscure and doubtfull to be opened 480 b 40. Unaduisedlie spoken against the prince the price of life note 703 a 10. Undecent to the lord chancellor punished in the speaker 1081 a a 50. Gentle appeased strife 880 b 50. That kindled heat and indignation to reuenge 172 b 10. Of wrath kindle displeasure and warre 3â b 10 Faire and gentle wich like behauiour how forceable 518 a 10. Purchase displeasure though trââlie spoâen 513 b 40 50 60. Miscontruâd by the Scots note 423 a 20. Multiplied kindle displeasure 487 b 50 60. Roiall and well bâséeming a king to rebellious lords note 400 a 10 Wische vttered appease the wrath of a king 458 a 10 c 50. Opprobrious procure ill will note 421 a 20. Of reproch how mischéefous in issue note 412 a 20. Great with litle manhood 23 b 60 24 a 10. Of desdaine bréeding mischéefe note 645 a 30. Punished with standing on the pillorie and losse of both the cares 1084 a 20. Mixed with breadfull allegation preuaile much note 143 b 60. ¶ Sée Gifts Oth and Promises Works good of duke William before his death 14 b 50 Of king Henrie the first to win the peoples fauour 28 b 20 Workemanship verie cunning of comprising much matter in a little roome 1262 b 10. Of a locke and a keie weighing but one wheatcorne 1299 b 50 60 Worship to creatures not permitted to be doone without the bishops authoritie 31 a Wotton embassador into Scotland of an ancient familie note 1402 b 30 c. 1403 c. Wrecks by sea pardoned by K. Richard the first through all his dominions 126 a 60 Wrestling at the hospitall of S. Iames betwixt the Londoners and all commers 204 a 10 20 c. At Clerkenwell a great fraie there 641 a 60 Wrâothesleiâ lord ¶ See Erle of South hampton Writing of much matter within a penie compasse 1262 b 10 Y. YArd ¶ Sée Mesure Yeoman of the gard his shift to saue himselfe from hanging 844. One hanged 812 b 10. Two hanged for robbing 953 a 60 b 10. Their institution or first bringing in 763 b 50. Defend the preacher at Pauls crosse 1089 b 30 1090 a 20 Yeare of Iubile 788 a 60. Of woonders 1588 note 1356 b 60. More talked of than feared 1357 a 10 20 Yorke besieged by duke William 7 a 60. Burned by the Normans and whie 6 b 60 7 a 10 The shire subdued to Lewis the French kings son 193 a 10. The people in a perplexitie by the means of two aduerse parties 6 b 60. The castell 6 a 40 Yorke place inâcoffed to Henrie the eight 923 a 10 Yorkeshire ¶ Sée Commotion Ypres William warlike 43 b 30 52 a 10. A Fleming earle of Kent 54 a 30. Departeth the realme 65 b 20 Ypresse besieged 443 b 20. The siege broken vp 444 a 10 These faults to be amended For sir Iohn Perot read Pollard pag. 1551 b 20. For sealed seldome 1555 b 50 For Henrie the first read the second 1548 b 50 The rest good reader as iudgement shall lead thee reforme FINIS propositi laus Christo nescia FINIS Finished in Ianuarie 1587 and the 29 of the Queenes Maiesties reigne with the full continuation of the former yeares at the expenses of Iohn Harison George Bishop Rafe Newberie Henrie Denham and Thomas Woodcocke AT LONDON Printed in Aldersgate street at the signe of the Starre
thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish couÌtries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused thâ statutes of Ireland to bâ imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fuâtherer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all plââces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Solââario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace ãâã Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor oâ Uââssingen commonlie called Flââshing He surpriseâ Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making ãâã entrie into thâ sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facÃtque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condigâliâ punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie âas a knight ãâã his gift to ãâã of âondon pag. ââ â50 The ambasââdor deparââth home toâards Denâarke âord Edâard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated â league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. ãâ¦ã The horrible conspiracie of âabington âther his ãâã traitors ãâã sâoursed by â F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England ãâã his last ãâã finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion
of Arundell Warwike and others Then sir Iohn Bushie stept foorth and made request on the behalfe of the communaltie that it might please the kings highnesse for their heinous acts attempted against his lawes and roiall maiestie to appoint them punishment according to their deseruings and speciallie to the archbishop of Canturburie who then sat next the king whome he accused of high treason for that he had euill counselled his maiestie inducing him to grant his letters of pardon to his brother the earle of Arundell being a ranke traitor When the archbishop began to answer in his owne defense the king willed him to sit downe againe and to hold his peace for all should be well Herewith sir Iohn Bushie besought the king that the archbishop should not be admitted to make his answer which if he did by reason of his great wit and good vtterance he feared least he should lead men awaie to beléeue him so the archbishop might be heard no further Sir Iohn Bushie in all his talke when he proponed any matter vnto the king did not attribute to him titles of honour due and accustomed but inuented vnused termes and such strange names as were rather agreeable to the diuine maiestie of God than to any earthlie potentate The prince being desirous inough of all honour and more ambitions than was requisite seemed to like well of his speech and gaue good eare to his talke Thus when the archbishop was constreined to keepe silence sir Iohn Bushie procéeded in his purpose requiring on the behalfe of the commons that the charters of pardons granted vnto the traitors to wit the duke of Glocester and the earles of Arundell and Warwike should be reuoked by consent of all the estates now in parlement assembled The king also for his part protested that those pardons were not voluntarilie granted by him but rather extorted by compulsion and therefore he besought them that euerie man would shew foorth their opinions what they thought thereof There were two other persons of great credit with the king besides sir Iohn Bushie that were as before yee haue heard verie earnest to haue those charters of pardon reuoked and made void to wit sir William Bagot and sir Thomas Gréene But bicause this matter séemed to require good deliberation it was first put to the bishops who with small adoo gaue sentence that the said charters were line 10 reuocable and might well inough be called in yet the archbishop of Canturburie in his answer herevnto said that the king from whome those pardons came was so high an estate that he durst not saie that anie such charters by him granted might be reuoked notwithstanding his brethren the bishops thought otherwise not considering saith Thomas Walsingham that such reuoking of the kings charters of pardon should sound highlie to the kings dishonor line 20 forsomuch as mercie and pardoning transgressions is accompted to be the confirmation and establishing of the kings seat and roiall estate The temporall lords perceiuing what the bishops had doone did likewise giue their consents to reuoke the same pardons but the iudges with those that were toward the law were not of this opinion but finallie the bishops pretending a scrupulositie as if they might not with safe consciences be present where iudgement of bloud should passe they appointed line 30 a laie man to be their prolocutor to serue that turne To conclude at length all maner of charters of pardon were made void for that the same séemed to impeach the suertie of the kings person When sir Iohn Bushie and his associats had obteined that reuocation it was further by them declared that the earle of Arundell had yet an other speciall charter of pardon for his owne person which he had obteined after the first And therefore sir Iohn Bushie earnestlie requested in name of the communaltie that line 40 the same might likewise be reuoked The question then was asked of the bishops who declared themselues to be of the like opinion touching that charter as they were of the other At that selfe time the archbishop of Canturburie absented himselfe from the parlement in hope that the king would he his fréend and stand his verie good lord for that he had promised nothing should be doone against him in the parlement whilest he was absent But neuerthelesse at the importunate sute of the said line 50 sir Iohn Bushie and others the archbishop was condemned vnto perpetuall exile and appointed to auoid the realme within six wéekes And therewith the king sent secretlie to the pope for order that the archbishop might be remooued from his sée to some other which sute was obteined and Roger Walden lord treasuror was ordeined archbishop in his place as after shall appeare On the feast daie of saint Matthew Richard fitz Aleine earle of Arundell was brought foorth to line 60 sweare before the king and whole parlement to such articles as he was to be charged with And as he stood at the bar the lord Neuill was commanded by the duke of Lancaster which sat that daie as high steward of England to take the hood from his necke and the girdle from his waste Then the duke of Lancaster declared vnto him that for his manifold rebellions and treasons against the kings maiestie he had béene arrested and hitherto kept in ward and now at the petition of the lords and commons he was called to answer such crimes as were there to be obiected against him and so to purge himselfe or else to suffer for his offenses such punishment as law appointed First he charged him for that he had traitorouslie rid in armour against the king in companie of the duke of Glocester and of the earle of Warwike to the breach of peace and disquieting of the realme His answer herevnto was that he did not this vpon anie euill meaning towards the kings person but rather for the benefit of the king and relme if it were interpreted aright and taken as it ought to be It was further demanded of him whie he procured letters of pardon from the K. if he knew himselfe giltlesse He answered that he did not purchase them for anie feare he had of faults committed by him but to staie the malicious speach of them that neither loued the king nor him He was againe asked whether he would denie that he had made anie such rode with the persons before named and that in companie of them he entred not armed vnto the kings presence against the kings will and pleasure To this he answered that he could not denie it but that he so did Then the speaker sir Iohn Bushie with open mouth besought that iudgement might be had against such a traitour and your faithfull commons said he to the king aske and require that so it may be doone The earle turning his head aside quietlie said to him Not the kings faithfull coÌmons require this but thou and what thou art I
regni 28. 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 Bueâ 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
great triumphs princelie feastings Touching the pompe had and vsed at the setting forward of this ladie on hir voiage it is a note worth the reading and therefore necessarilie here interlaced for honours sake ¶ On the eightéenth of Iune Margaret sister to K. Edward the fourth began hir iornie from the Wardrobe in London toward hir marriage with Charles duke of Burgognie first the offered in the church of saint Paule and then rode thorough the citie the earle of Warwike riding before hir with earles and barons a great number the duchesse of Norffolke with other ladies and gentlewomen in great number And at hir entrie into Cheape the maior of London and his brethren the aldermen presented hir with a paire of rich basons in them an hundred pounds of gold and that night she lodged at the abbeie of Stratford where the king then laie from thense she tooke hir iournie to Canturburie The king riding after to sée hir shipping on the first of Iulie she tooke the sea at Margate and there tooke leaue of the king hir brother and departed There returned backe againe with the king the duke of Clarence the duke of Glocester the earles of Warwike Shrewesburie and Northumberland And there abode with hir in the ship the lord Scales the lord Dacres hir chamberlaine sir Iohn Wooduile sir Iohn Howard and manie other famous knights and esquiers She was shipped in the new Ellen of London and in hir nauie the Iohn of Newcastell the Marie of Salisburie and manie other roiall ships and on the morrow landed at Sluis in Flanders Now as soone as hir ship companie of ships were entered into the hauen there receiued hir sir Simon de Lelein and the water bailiffe in diuerse boats and barks apparelled readie for hir landing The first estate that receiued hir was the bishop of Utright well accompanied and the countesse of Shorne bastard daughter to duke Philip of Burgognie and with hir manie ladies and gentlewomen and so procéeding in at the gate of the towne the same towne was presented to hir she to be souereigne ladie thereof also they gaue to hir twelue marks of gold Troie weight the which was two hundred pounds of English monie and so procéeded thorough the towne to hir lodging euerie housholder standing in the street with a torch in his hand burning On the morow the old duchesse of Burgognie came to hir accompanied with manie great estates On the third of Iulie came the duke of Burgognie to Sluis with twentie persons secretlie and was there openlie affianced to the ladie Margaret by the bishop of Salisburie and the lord Scales in presence of the lord Dacres the duchesse of Norffolke the ladie Scales and all the knights esquiers gentlewomen inuironing the chamber line 10 On the 8 of Iulie being saturdaie by the duke of Burgognies appointment the lady Margaret remoued by water to the Dame And on the sunday in the morning betwixt fiue and six of the clocke the mariage was solemnized betwixt them by the bishops of Salisburie and of Turneie there being present the old duches of Burgognie the lord Scales the lord Dacres with the knights esquiers ladies gentlewomen that came out of England The great triumphs feastings shewes of pageants with other line 20 strange deuises and iustings were such as I haue not read the like and would be ouer long in this place to set downe ¶ Of this aliance with other more mention is honorablie made in the declaration of the causes that moued the Quéene of England to giue aid to the defense of the people afflicted oppressed in the low countries by the Spaniards namelie for the maintenance of perpetuall amitie Which declaration is so set foorth in this booke as the same in the seuen and twentith line 30 yeare of hir maiesties reigne was published vnto which yeare I remit the reader for the further search thereof for that it conteineth much memorable matter touching the manifest causes of concord to be continued betwéene them of the low countries and vs English Sir Thomas Cooke late maior of London was by one named Hawkins appeached of treason for the which he was sent to the Tower and his place within London seized by the lord Riuers and his wife and line 40 seruants cleerelie put out therof The cause was this The forenamed Hawkins came vpon a season vnto the said sir Thomas requesting him to lend a thousand markes vpon good suertie wherevnto he answered that first he would know for whome it should be and for what intent At length vnderstanding it should be for the vse of queene Margaret he answered he had no currant wares whereof anie shifts might be made without too much losse and therefore required Hawkins to line 50 mooue him no further in that matter for he intended not to deale withall yet the said Hawkins exhorted him to remember what benefits he had receiued by hir when she was in prosperitie as by making him hir wardrober and customer of Hampton c. But by no meanes the said Cooke would grant goods nor monie although at last the said Hawkins required but an hundred pounds he was faine to depart without the value of a penie and neuer came againe to mooue him which so rested two or three years line 60 after till the said Hawkins was cast in the Tower and at length brought to the brake called the duke of Excesters daughter by meanes of which paine he shewed manie things amongst the which the motion was one that he had made to sir Thomas Cooke and accused himselfe so farre that he was put to death By meane of which confession the said sir Thomas was troubled as before is shewed when the said sir Thomas had laine in the Tower from Whitsuntide till about Michaelmas in the which season manie inquiries were made to find him guiltie and euer quit till one iurie by meanes of sir Iohn Fog indicted him of treason after which an oier and terminer was kept at the Guildhall in which sat with the maior the duke of Clarence the earle of Warwike the lord Riuers sir Iohn Fog with other of the kings councell To the which place the said Thomas was brought and there arreigned vpon life and death where he was acquited of the said indictement and had to the counter in Breadstreet and from thence to the kings bench After a certeine time that he was thus acquited his wife got againe the possession of hir house the which she found in an euill plight for such seruants of the lord Riuers and sir Iohn Fog as were assigned to kéepe it made hauocke of what they listed Also at his place in Essex named Giddihall were set an other sort to kéepe that place the which destroied his déere in his parke his conies and his fish without reason and spared not brasse pewter bedding all that they might carie for the which might neuer one penie be gotten in recompense
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 reforâe 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 wâs to mooue the king to marie the emperours daughter âhe 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
houre of his death ¶ I cannot tell saith master Hall whether I should call him a foolish wise man or a wise foolish man for vndoutedlie he beside his learning had a great wit but it was so mingled with taunting and mocking that it seemed to them that best knew him that hée thought nothing to be well spoken except he had ministred some mocke in the communication Insomuch as at his comming to the Tower one of the officers demanded his vpper garment for his fee meaning his gowne and he answered he should haue it and tooke him his cap saieng it was the vppermost garment that he had Likewise euen going to his death at the Tower gate a poore woman called vnto him and be sought him to declare what he had doone with euidences of hirs in the time that he was in office which after he was apprehended shée could not come by and that he would intreat shée might haue them againe or else she was vndoone He answered good woman haue patience a little while for the king is so good vnto me that euen within this halfe houre he will discharge me of all businesse and helpe thée himselfe Also when he went vp the staiers on the scaffold he desired one of the shirifes officers to giue him his hand to helpe him vp and said When I come downe againe let me shift for my selfe as well as I can Also the hangman knéeled downe to him asking him forgiuenesse of his death as the maner is to whome he said I forgiue thée but I promise thee thou shalt neuer haue honestie by striking off my head my necke is so short Also euen when he should laie downe his head on the blocke he hauing a great graie beard stroked out his beard and said to the hangman I praie you let me laie my beard ouer the blocke least you should cut it Thus with a mocke he ended his life God had in most bountifull sort powred his blessings vpon this man induing him with eloquence wisedome and knowledge but the grace of God withdrawne from him he had the right vse of none no not of reason as it should be rightlie vsed God had extraordinarilie blessed his children and namelie his thrée daughters to whome he had giuen an admirable dexteritie in the science of toongs and arts as Iohn Leland our reuerend antiquarie noteth in a proper and learned epigramme saieng Desine facundas nimiùm laudare diserti Natas Hortensi maxima Roma tuiâ Candida tres Charites nam Mori cura politi Obscurant multis nomina vestra modis Non illis studium Milesia vellera dextra Carpere non facili ducere fila manuâ Sed iuuat eloquij crebro monumenta Latini Versare doctis pingere verba notis Nec minùs authores Graecos euoluere Homerum Et quem dicendi gloria prima manet Vt nec Aristotelis dicam quo pectore librââ Scrutentur sophiae mystica dona deae Turpe viris posthac erit ignorare Mineruae Artes greâ adeò quas muliâbris amet And yet was not the will of God for the infusing of spirituall graces so linked to that of temporall as because the one was granted therefore the other must not be denied For the blessings of God which be outward are common to the wicked with the good the sun shinesh vpon all the raine is kept from none naie God with a sparing hand reacheth out those things to the faithfull which with full gripes he filleth out and powreth into the laps and bosoms of infidels and epicures insomuch that the prophet Dauid noting no lesse with a kind of indignation opened his mouth saieng I was grieued at the wicked I doo also see the vngodlie in such prosperitie these florish in the world these haue riches in possession and I said Then haue I cleansed my heart in vaine line 10 and washed my hands in innocencie yea and I had almost said euen as they but lo then should I haue condemned the generation of Gods children But the end of these men being set in slipperie places are cast downe and destroied yea suddenlie doo they consume and come to a fearefull end euen like as a dreame when one awaketh so dooth God make their image to vanish out of the citie And albeit the fall of this sir Thomas More was reprochfull issuing from a treasonable offense yet as in pagans manie times there is somwhat which line 20 may teach christians lessons for their lerning to their shame so in this papist was one praise-worthie propertie among the rest most eminent which I will note to the rebuke of protestants ¶ The reuerend father doctor Elmer bishop of London in a sermon at Paules crosse by him made in a solemne audience assembled at the parlement time 1584 teaching diuerse points of doctrine and the duties of sundrie degrées said that it was commendable for noble men and gentlemen and a great furtherance to line 30 the loue of religion to be deuout he brought an example of sir Thomas More a man for his zeale saith the bishop to be honored but for his religion to be abhorred This knight would diuerse times put on a surplesse and helpe the préest in proper person to saie seruice insomuch that vpon a time being at Chelsie and busie about that exercise the duke of Norffolke then liuing came to the said sir Thomas then line 40 lord chancellor of England about speciall affaires and being informed that sir Thomas was at the church thither went the duke expecting the end of seruice In the end the duke and the lord chancellor met and after mutuall gréeting the duke said thus What! is my lord chancellor become a parish clarke What will the kings maiestie saie to this geere when he shall vnderstand that the lord chancellor of England a speciall péere of the realme and in highest roome of honor in the land next the prince is become line 50 a parish clarke Now trulie saith sir Thomas I thinke and verelie beléeue that his highnesse will be so farre to misdéeme or mislike me herein that when he shall heare of the care which I haue to serue both his maister and mine he will accept and take me for a faithfull seruant And thus much of him This yéere in the time that the king went his progresse to Glocester and to other places westward the king of Scots was installed knight of the garter at Winsore by his procurator the lord Erskin line 60 and in October following Stephen Gardner which after the cardinls death was made bishop of Winchester was sent ambassador into France where he remained thrée yeeres after ¶ In August the lord Thomas Fitzgerard sonne to the earle of Kildare was taken in Ireland and sent to the tower of London In the moneth of October doctor Lée and other were sent to visit the abbeies priories and nunries in England who set all those religious persons at libertie that
twentith of Maie the French armie came and incamped beyond Bullongne at the church on the hill and the morrow after the earle of Hertford marched with his power to a place within two miles of them and certeine footmen and horssemen went foorth and skirmished with them and in the meane time the artillerie ceassed not to shoot off as well from the French campe and fortresse as from line 60 Bullongne and the Old man This daie were slaine fouretéene Frenchmen and two taken prisoners and thrée of the English part were likewise taken and so the earle of Hertford returned to his campe and left the lancequenets vpon the hill incamped before the enemies faces not two miles distant from them in which place a fort was begun to be raised which was after called the fort of Bullongne Berg. The next daie to wit the thrée and twentith of Maie the soldiors of Bullongne and the lancequenets skirmished with the Frenchmen slue and tooke of them seuen score and aboue of the which there were fortie that were in cotes of veluet and diuerse also with chaines Here you must vnderstand that now in this meane while by the motion of diuerse princes a méeting was had of sundrie commissioners appointed to treat of some peace to be concluded betwixt the two kings of England and France Herevpon there came to Guisnes for the king of England the earle of Hertford the bishop of Winchester sir Iohn Dudleie vicount Lisle baron of Maupas and high admerall of England sir William Paget the kings secretarie and doctor Nicholas Wootton deane of Canturburie For the French king there came to Ard monsieur Claude Danebault admerall of France being also one of the foure marshals of that realme the bishop of Eureux monsieur Reimund chiefe president of Rone the secretarie Bouchetell Diuerse times they met betwixt Ard and Guisnes and after long debating of matters and diuerse breakings off yet at length the seauenth of Iune a peace was concluded and proclamed as well in the court as in the citie of London on Whitsundaie the thirtéenth of Iune with sound of trumpet according to the manner and in like sort the same daie it was proclamed at Paris and at Rone The chiefest article of which peace was this that the French king paieng to the king of England 800000 crownes within the terme of eight yeares should haue Bullongne againe to him restored which in the meane time should remaine in the hands and possession of the king of England as a pledge and gage for assurance of the said moneie On the seuen twentith of Iune doctor Crome recanted at Paules crosse which recantation was vrged vpon this occasion When the chanteries colleges were giuen by act of parlement into the kings hands as is aboue remembred which was about the moneth of December 1545 the next lent following doctor Crome preaching in the mercers chappell among other reasons and persuasions to rouse the people from the vaine opinion of purgatorie inferred this grounding vpon the said act of parlement that if trentals and chanterie masses could auaile the soules in purgatorie then did the parlement not well in giuing awaie monasteries colleges chanteries which serued principallie to that purpose But if the parlement did well as no man could denie in dissoluing them bestowing the same vpon the king then is it a plaine case that such chanteries and priuat masses doo nothing conferre so reléeue them in purgatorie This Dilemma of doctor Crome no doubt was insoluble but notwithstanding the charitable prelats for all the kings late exhortation vnto charitie were so charitable to him that they brought him Coram nobis and so handled him that they made him recant his words ¶ On the sixtéenth of Iune were letters patents deliuered to sir Thomas Cheinie treasuror of the kings houshold and lord warden of the cinque ports wherby he was authorised to be the kings agent in christening the Dolphins daughter of France named Elizabeth A true copie of which letters patents is here recorded bicause the said action hath béene ignorantlie transferred from the said sir Thomas Chemie to sir Henrie Kneuet as appeareth in Holinsheds chronicle published 1577 pag. 1608. A true copie of the kings letters patents to sir Thomas Cheinie HEnricus octauus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae rex fidei defensor in terra ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae supremum caput Praedilecto fideli consiliario nostro Thomae Cheinie sacri ordinis nostri garterij militi domino gardiano quinque portuum hospitij nostri thesaurario salutem Cùm illustrissima princeps ac consanguinea nostra charissima domina Katharina illustrissimi principis consanguinei filij nostri charissimi Henrici Franciae Delphini christianissimi principis Francisci Francorum regis fratris amici confoederati nostri perpetui filij primogeniti coniunx praeclarissima nuper diuina cooperante clementia prolem foeminam enixa sit nos summoperè cupientes pacis amicitiae vnionis vinculum line 10 inter praefatum christianissimum Francorum regem nos iam nuper redintegratum firmioribus quibus possumus nexibus astringi admaiorem ipsius corroborationem firmitatem ac vt dicto illustrissimo filio nostro in hac parte gratificemur etiam compaternitatisfoedus duximus adijciendum Quocirca ad leuandum de sacro fonte vice nomine nostro dictam prolem ex praefata illustrissima domina Katharina dicti illustrissimi line 20 principis coniuge consanguinca nostra a charissimanatam illique nomen Elisabethae imponendum ipsam nomine Elisabethae in illius baptismo nominandaÌ caeteráque omnia singula in praemissis circa ea necessaria seu quouismodo oportuna nomine nostro faciendum exercendum etiamsi maiora existant superiùs expressis mandatum de se exigant magis speciale quà m superiùs est insertum te commissarium ac ambassiatorem line 30 procuratorem nostrum specialem ordinamus facimus constituimus per praesentes promittentes nos ratum gratum firmum habituros quicquid per te gestum procuratum siue actum fuerit in praemissis In cuius reitestimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste me ipso apud Greenewich sextodecimo die Iunij anno regni nostri tricesimo octauo Henrie Rex The king hauing passed ouer the foresaid letters line 40 patents to sir Thomas and he in forwardnesse to execute his charge to the intent that his retinue and attendants should no waies offensiuelie behaue themselues against the French with whom the king was verie carefull to continue and mainteine the peace interchangeablie agreed vpon and concluded his maiestie to preuent and cut off all occasions that might anie waie impeach interrupt or violate this peace commanded the lords of his councell to direct letters with all expedition to the said sir Thomas line 50 then vpon his voiage into France conteining a
prescript forme of demeanor which the gentlemen yeomen attendant vpon him in France should vse during the time of their abode in those forren parts a copie of which letter being a testimoniall of the king of Englands inclinable mind to peace hereafter followeth out of the verie originall as the same was subscribed by the lords A copie of the said letters sent in post to sir Thomas Cheinie being vpon his voiage into France AFter our right hartie commendations to your good lordship The kings maiestie hath willed vs to signifie vnto you that his highnesse expresse pleasure and commandement is ye should in his maiesties name declare to such gentlemen as accompanie you into France that they haue in remembrance so to vse behaue them selues among the Frenchmen as well on the waie as at the court in such sort as they by communication vpon feats of the warre passed giue no occasion of priuat displeasure Wherein therefore it shall be expedient that either they saie nothing vnlesse they be prouoked or in that case call the things happened fortune de la guerre without comparison of things chanced on our part or on theirs but turne the communication to reioise in peace In the conditions whereof they shall pretend ignorance without speaking of the keeping still of Bullogne or deliuerance of it againe but as shall please the princes for the continuance of peace wherein by Gods grace the crueltie of warre shall be conuerted into extreamitie of friendship to the weale and commoditie of both realmes And forsomuch as there want not in the world naughtie men of the state of moonks and friers who for malice of the alteration of their estate here would gladlie defame our religion towards God as though we had with them cast out all his highnesse expresse pleasure and commandement is that considering at this first entrie of you the behauiour of your companie shall be much marked and noted in matters of religion and circumstances of the same they should therfore haue so much the more regard both to their communications and also behauiors and not onelie in speech to forbeare to dispute or intermedle with the state of their policy there but also in their diet on the fish daie and deuout hearing of masse follow the order of the kings maiesties relme so as their conuersation behauior maie be coÌfusion to such as would defame this realme in the contrarie Thus fare your good lordship right hartilie well From Greenewich the ninteenth of Iune 1546. Your lordships assured louing friends Thomas Wriothesleie canc W Saint-Iohn I Russell Cutâ Duresme Steph Winton Anthonie Brenne William Petres This letter was thus indorsed ¶ To our assured louing friend sir Thomas Cheinie knight of the order treasuror of the kings maiesties houshold and lord warden of the cinque ports presentlie in speciall commission from the kings maiestie into France Hast post hast for thy life to Douer Calis or where he shall chance to be hast hast Thus farre of sir Thomas Cheinie imploied about the kings affaires in France namelie the christening of the Dolphins daughter wherein we haue béene the more copious in words bicause it hath béen published that sir Henrie Kneuet was there vnto personallie deputed which to be vntrue both the letters patents and the letter missiue doo sufficientlie prooue both which we receiued at the hands of an ancient seruitor attendant vpon the same sir Thomas at his béeing in France to execute his charge in the kings behalfe Of which woorthie knight when we come to the yeare and daie of his death we will deliuer further report to his high commendation but yet none otherwise than as by warranted intelligence we shall be directed The same time was a combat fought before the French king betwixt two Spaniards Iulian Romerou and one Morow They both serued the king of England in the last wars against France but Morow had reuolted from his seruice to the French kings and for certeine spéeches which he had vttered was chalenged to fight the said combat by the said Iulian for whome sir Henrie Kneuet vndertooke that he should stand to his chalenge and trie it with his aduersarie which he now did and vanquished him in lists the fight being appointed on horssebacke Incontinentlie after sir Henrie Kneuet sickned and died at Corbell and was buried in Paris within the church of S. Paule Moreouer for the full establishment of the peace and to receiue the French kings oth the vicount Lisle lord admerall with the bishop of Duresme and diuerse other lords and gentlemen to the number of one hundred and aboue all in veluet cotes and chaines of gold with fiue and fortie yeomen right séemelie appointed went into France departing from Bullogne the tenth of Iulie and came to Mellune a towne beyond Paris where the French king then laie by whome and the Dolphin his sonne they were roiallie receiued feasted and banketted and hauing doone that for the which he was sent the said lord admerall Dudleie the first of August tooke his leaue of the French king line 10 who rewarded him with a cupboord of plate all gold valued at 1500 pounds The lords also and gentlemen had chaines of gold giuen to them and the yeomen had two hundred crownes bestowed amongst them and so the lord admerall returned into England This lord admerall during the time that he had to deale with the French so valiantlie demeaned himselfe and was such a terror and astonishment to the enimie as it is left written of him that they durst not quéech in his presence but were like a line 20 sort of timorous cattell giuing roome to the raging lion ranging ouer the pastures with hir yoonglings and making the verie heauens to ring with hir roring after she hath filled hir selfe with bulles flesh and laid hir selfe downe to rest being wearie with eating the comparison verie aptlie followeth Vtque iracundo cedunt armenta leoni Pascua cum plenus bacchante furore peragrat Solus cum catulis coelum rugitibus implens Conspicitur postquam taurorum carnibus atra line 30 Sit saturata fames lassúsque recumbit edendo Tantus terror erat Gallis Dudleius Heros In the same moneth of August monsieur Danebalt high admerall of France accompanied with the bishop of Eureux the earle of Nauteuill knight of the order the earle of Uilliers the chiefe president of Roan secretarie Bouchetell monsieur de Canaples knight of the order monsieur de Taies knight of the order monsieur de Masilerie viceadmerall of France monsieur de Desse the baron de la Gard line 40 with diuerse other lords and capteines of honor beside two hundred gentlemen well appointed leused from Déepe with twelue gallies and a right faire ship called the Sacre of Déepe and so making saile he staied not anie where to take land till he came into the Thames where at Blackewall he was receiued into the kings barge by the
earles of Darbie and Essex who brought him to Gréenewich where he landed and lodged there that night The next daie he came vp with all his gallies line 50 and landed at the Tower wharfe Upon all the banks by the water side were laid péeces of artillerie which shot off freelie and so likewise did all the artillerie in the ships but speciallie from the Tower was shot a maruellous great peale of ordinance From whence being landed they rode thorough London in great triumph the maior and the crafts standing in the streets in verie good order vnto the bishops palace by Paules where the French admerall lodged till Bartholomew euen on which daie he was conueied line 60 toward Hampton court where in the waie the prince hauing with him the archbishop of Yorke the earles of Hertford and Huntington and aboue two thousand horsse met him and imbrased him in such courteous and honorable wise that all the beholders greatlie reioised and much maruelled at the said princes high wit and great audacitie and so the French admerall came to the court giuing the prince the vpper hand as they rode And at the vtter gate of the court the lord chancellor and all the kings councell receiued him and brought him to his lodging On Bartholomew daie the king admitting him to his presence welcomed him and in great triumph went to the chappell where the king receiued his oth to performe the articles of the league as it was couenanted To speake of the bankettings huntings and such like honorable sorts of interteinements it were much to vtter and hard to beléeue But on fridaie following being the seuen and twentith of August he being rewarded with a cupboord of plate to the value of twelue hundred pounds returned to London and on the sundaie next insuing tooke his gallies and departed Beside the kings gifts he had giuen to him by the citie of London two flaggons guilt and two other that were parcell guilt valued at one hundred thirtie six pounds beside wine wax and torches There were diuerse of his companie also that went not awaie vnrewarded hauing both plate and also manie horsses and greihounds giuen them Although this peace pleased both the English and French nations yet suerlie both mistrusted the continuance therof And verelie the old prouerbe séemed to be throughlie verefied which saith that what the eie séeth the hart rueth for the Frenchmen still longed for Bullogne and the Englishmen meant not willinglie to giue it ouer For during the French admerals being in England monsieur de Chatillon capteine of Montplaisier began to make a new bastilion euen at the verie mouth of the hauen naming it Chatillons garden Wherevpon that noble gentleman the lord Greie of Wilton shortlie after appointed to be deputie of the towne and countie of Bullogne perceiuing the great inconuenience that this new building would bring to the towne if it went forwards did aduertise the king thereof earnestlie beséeching his grace that the matter might be throughlie considered of Sir Thomas Palmer was the messenger The king vpon the intelligence asked his councels aduise which onelie went wholie that the conditions of the peace were not in anie wise to be infringed This resolued secretarie Paget then knight and afterwards lord was commanded accordinglie to draw a letter to the lord Greie the which âhe king himselfe did signe willing that the messenger should further know of his pleasure before he departed Wherevpon sir Thomas Palmer hauing his dispatch at the secretaries hands did get word to be giuen to the king who presentlie sent for him into his priuie chamber and betwixt them two vsed these words Palmer you haue there a letter from vs to the lord Greie that he doo in no wise deale in the matter that he hath by you aduertised vs of Notwithstanding I will that you deliuer him this message from vs. Bid him call to mind how that his brethren and himselfe not a short time but euen from tender yeares nor farre off but still neere to our person we haue brought him vp which tell him not vniustlie if that be in him that we conceiue dooth bréed in vs an od trust of feruencie to serue vs of him more than a common seruant or subiect By that token will him whatsoeuer I haue written to the contrarie that he presentlie impeach the fortification of Chatillons garden and rase it if it be possible and this my message shall be his cléering therein the seruice gratefullie accepted Sir Thomas Palmer somewhat astonied hereat considering the weightinesse of the cause and the contrarietie of the letter and message began to put the king in mind of the small credit that his bare errand of right was like to haue so flat against that which his maiesties letters imported But the king cutting off his tale Deliuer thou the message quoth he at his choise then be the executing thereof Sir Thomas thus dispatched with great spéed arriued at Bullogne immediatlie vpon the opening of the gates at after noone His letters and message deliuered the lord Greie streight assembled the councell shewed them the kings letters which read he caused sir Thomas to pronounce before them the message also Euerie man was to saie his aduise it went roundlie through the boord without anie question that the letter was to be followed the message not to be staied on The lord Greie hauing heard and not replieng anie thing willed sir Thomas to be called line 10 in againe bad him repeat his message and therwhilest made a clearke of the councell to write the same Verbatim This doone he praied the whole table to set their hands vnto it which they did and the lord Greie taking the same into his hands without further opening declaring his resolution brake vp councell commanded streight the gates to be shut gaue priuie warning that certeine bands with armour and weapon and likewise pioners should that night by an houre be in a readines line 20 The houre came himselfe with the warned companie issued out passed ouer the water and without anie alarum of the enimie did ouerthrow in thrée or foure houres what in two or three moneths had bin raised and so in great quietnesse returned into the towne Presentlie he dispatched sir Thomas Palmer backe againe to the king with the newes whose returne was so sudden as the king himselfe being in the chamber of presence séeing him said alowd What Will he doo it or no Sir Thomas giuing no line 30 other answer but presenting his letters and saieng that thereby his maiestie should know The king againe in earnest mood Naie tell vs I saie whether he will doo it or not Then sir Thomas told him that it was doone and the whole fortification cleane rased Whereat the king taking great ioy presentlie called to certeine of the lords of the councell that were by and said How saie you my lords Chatillons garden the new fort is laid as flat
line 50 made The seauenteenth of Februarie the lord protector was created duke of Summerset the earle of Essex was created marquesse of Northhampton the lord Lisle high admerall of England was created earle of Warwike and high chamberlaine of England sir Thomas Wriothesleie lord chancellour was created earle of Southhampton sir Thomas Seimer was aduanced to the honour of lord of Sudleie and high admerall of England which office the earle of Warwike then resigned sir Richard Rich was made lord Rich and sir William Willoughbie was created lord Willoughbie of Parrham sir Edmund Sheffield was made lord Sheffield of Butterwike and as saith a late writer of this action Vt quisque est ditione potentior auctus honore Et noua virtutis sumens insignia fulget At the same time great preparation was made for the kings coronation so that the foure and twentith of Februarie next insuing his maiestie came from the Tower and so rode through London vnto Westminster with as great roialtie as might be the stréets being hoong and pageants in diuerse places erected to testifie the good willes of the citizens reioising that it had pleased God to deale so fauourablie with the English nation to grant them such a towardlie yoong prince to their king and souereigne thus to succéed in place of his noble father ¶ Now as he rode through London toward Westminster and passed on the south part of Pauls churchyard an Argosine came from the battlements of the stéeple of Paules church vpon a cable being made fast to an anchor by the deanes gate lieng on his breast aiding himselfe neither with hand nor foot and after ascended to the middest of the cable where he tumbled and plaied manie pretie toies whereat the king and the nobles had good pastime The morrow after being Shrouesundaie and the fiue and twentith of Februarie his coronation was solemnized in due forme and order with all the roialtie and honour which therevnto apperteined Shortlie after the coronation to wit the sixt of March the erle of Southhampton lord chancellour of England for his too much repugnancie as was reported in matters of councell to the residue of the councellors about the king was not onelie depriued of his office of chancellor but also remooued from his place and authoritie in councell and the custodie of the great seale was taken from him and deliuered vnto sir William Paulet lord Saint-Iohn that was lord great maister of the kings houshold Also shortlie after his coronation the kings maiestie by the aduise of his vncle the lord protector and other of his priuie councell minding first of all to séeke Gods honor and glorie and therevpon intending a reformation did not onelie set foorth by certeine commissioners sundrie iniunctions for the remoouing of images out of all churches to the suppressing and auoiding of idolatrie and superstition within his realmes and dominions but also caused certeine homilies or sermons to be drawne by sundrie godlie learned men that the same might be read in churches to the people which were afterward by certeine of these commissioners sent foorth as visitors accompanied with certeine preachers thâroughout the realme for the better instruction of the people published and put in vre At Easter next following he set out also an order thorough all the realme that the supper of the lord should be ministred to the laie people in both kinds ¶ On the fifteenth of Maie doctor Smith recanted at Paules crosse All these things doone concerning religion as before is said the lord protector and the rest of the councell calling to mind the euill dealing and craftie dissimulation of the Scots concerning the matter of line 10 marriage betwixt the kings maiestie and the quéene of Scotland which marriage as ye haue heard in the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight was by authoritie of parlement in Scotland fullie concluded thought it not to stand with the kings honor to be in such maner by them deluded and withall considering how greatlie it shuld turne to the quietnesse and safetie of both realmes to haue these two princes conioined in matrimonie they did deuise line 20 sundrie waies and meanes how the same might be brought to passe and the rather as some doo write for that king Henrie before his death had giuen them in speciall charge by all indeuours to procure that the said marriage might take place as wholie wishing by the coniunction of those two yoong princes the vniting of the two kingdoms in perpetuall amitie and faithfull league of loue as our poet saith Optat coniugio duo regna coire fideli Aeternam pacem hinc aeternáque foedera iungi line 30 But the lords of Scotland were so inueigled and corrupted by the French king and abused by cardinall Beton archbishop of saint Andrewes and other of their clergie that they not onelie shranke from that which they had promised but also sought to destroie those that fauored the king of Englands part wherevpon a great and puissant armie was now prepared to passe by land into Scotland and likewise a nauie to passe by sea to attend vpon the same whereof the great gallie and foure and twentie tall ships were thoroughlie furnished with men and munition line 40 for the warres besides manie merchants ships and other small vessels which serued for carriage of vittels and other necessaries But now to shew what noble men and other were ordeined officers and assigned to haue the conduction as well of the armie by land as of the fleete by sea ye shall vnderstand that first the duke of Summerset lord protector tooke vpon him to go himselfe in person as generall of the whole armie and capteine line 50 also of the battell or middle-ward wherin were foure thousand footmen The marshall erle of Warwike appointed lord lieutenant of the same armie led the fore-ward conteining thrée thousand footmen The lord Dacres gouerned in the rere-ward wherein were other thrée thousand footmen The lord Greie of Wilton was ordeined high marshall of the said armie capteine generall of all the horssemen being in number six thousand Sir Rafe Sadler knight treasuror of the armie Sir Francis Brian knight capteine of the light horssemen in number two thousand line 60 Sir Rafe Uane knight lieutenant of all the men of armes and demilances Sir Thomas Darcie knight capteine of all the kings maiesties pensioners and men at armes Sir Richard Leigh knight deuiser of the fortifications Sir Peter Mewtas knight capteine of the harquebutters which were in number six hundred Sir Peter Gamboa knight capteine of two hundred harquebutters on horssebacke Sir Francis Fleming knight was master of the ordinance Sir George Blaag sir Thomas Holcroft commissioners of the musters Edward Shelleie the lord Greies lieutenant of the men of armes of Bullongne who was the first that gaue the onset in the daie of battell and died most honorablie in the same Iohn Brenne capteine
account of their enimies forces Herevpon within few daies after the Scots fiue or six hundred light horssemen onelie excepted brake vp their campe and returned home After this my lord Greie remaining at Berwike ment to make a voiage himselfe in person for the reliefe of them that line 50 were thus besieged in Hadington Now when all things were so farre in a readinesse as the next daie he ment to haue set forward letters were brought that night from the court willing him to performe that seruice by a deputie and to staie himselfe till the comming of the earle of Shrewesburie who was appointed with an armie to come verie shortlie as generall into those parties My lord Greie herevpon appointed in his stead sir Robert Bowes and sir Thomas Palmer to go line 60 thither who comming to Dunglas left there certeine bands of footmen and with the horssemen being in number thirtéene hundred whereof seuen hundred lances were appointed vnder the charge of sir Thomas Palmer they rode forward to accomplish their enterprise but the French capteins hauing knowledge of their comming they prouided the best they could to repell them appointing foure venlins or ensignes of lanceknights to kéepe a standing watch that night in the trenches and the like number of French ensignes to watch about their campe All the other of their bands were commanded to take rest but yet with their armour on their backs Their generall monsieur de Desse himselfe monsieur de Mailleraie admerall of their fléet monsieur Dandelot coronell of the French footmen Piero Strozzi coronell of the Italians the Reinsgraue coronell of the lanceknights and all other the noble men and capteins of honour among them were all night long in armour trauelling vp and downe some on horssebacke and some on foot to visit the watches and scouts set in places and waies by the which they suspected that the Englishmen ment to come The lord Hume riding abrode to learne what he might of the Englishmens demeanour earlie in the morning returned to the campe and certified monsieur de Desse that they were at hand Herewith were the Scotish and French horssemen that kept the scout called in and monsieur Dandelot with great expedition ranged his battell of footmen in order and so likewise did the Reinsgraue his Almans The Englishmen diuided into two bands came and shewed themselues in the sight of the towne and charging such Scots and Frenchmen as came foorth to incounter them gaue them the ouerthrow at two seuerall charges but finallie presuming too farre vpon their good lucke thus chancing to them in the beginning followed in chase those that fled before them vntill at length they were inclosed and shut vp betwixt the French footmen on the one side and the Almans on the other And herewith the Scotish horsmen vnder the conduct of the lords Humes Dune the French horssemen led by monsieur de Etauges their generall being assembled togither eftsoones after they had beene so repelled were now readie to come forward againe and perceiuing their footmen so to haue inuironed the Englishmen that they were not able to recouer themselues nor to get out of danger but by disordring their ranks to take them to flight followed amaine so that those which escaped the Frenchmens hands were taken by the Scots that pursued them in chase so that few were saued that were not either slaine or taken My lord Greie lost thréescore and twelue great horsses and an hundred geldings with all the men vpon them armed with his lordships owne furniture onelie foure or fiue of his men came home of the which Thomas Cornwallis now groome porter to the quéenes maiestie was one and Robert Car esquier an other then page to my said lord Greie The vnaduised rashnesse of sir Thomas Palmer was thought to be the chiefe occasion of this distresse of those horssemen who after they had doone sufficientlie for that time would needs haue them to giue a new charge and so were discomfited After this ouerthrow and chase of our horssemen the armie that was leuied to passe into Scotland was hasted forward with all spéed possible for although before the comming of the English horssemen the French vpon aduertisement giuen that they meant to come had plucked backe their great artillerie and sent the same vnto Edenburgh kéeping onelie with them six field-péeces and herewith remooued their campe further off from the towne yet by forestalling vitels and all other necessarie things from them within they were driuen to such distresse that they must of force haue left the towne to the enimies if some power had not come within a while to remooue the siege that laie thus to annoie them When therefore the armie was come to Newcastell the earle of Shrewesburie generall lieutenant of the same was there arriued they passed forward to Berwike and from thense marched streight towards Hadington The number of the Englishmen and strangers was reported at the point of fifteene thousand whereof thrée thousand were Almans vnder the conduct of a right woorthie and expert chiefteine named Conrad Phenning commonlie called Cortpenie Beside this armie by land there was also furnished foorth a fléet by sea vnder the conduct of the lord Clinton high admerall of England and other capteins of great experience in affaires and seruice by sea This fléet was appointed so to kéepe course with the armie by land that the one might be euer in sight of the other Monsieur de Desse aduertised of the comming forward of this armie durst line 10 not abide their comming but raised his field and retired with his armie toward Edenburgh howbeit they were no sooner dislodged but that a great troope of the English horssemen were got within sight of them and coasted them all the waie as they marched for the space of seuen or eight miles in maner to as farre as Muskelburgh where the Frenchmen staied and incamped in a place chosen foorth to their most aduantage The earle of Shrewesburie and the lord Greie line 20 with the armie comming vnto Hadington were ioifullie receiued of the capteins and soldiours within where it might appeare how valiantlie they had defended that towne during the siege being so destitute of all things necessarie for their reléefe and the fortifications so weake that if the noble prowesse of their woorthie generall sir Iames Wilford and the incomparable manhood of the rest of the capteins and soldiours had not supplied all other wants it was thought impossible that they should haue defended the place so long a time against such forces as had line 30 beene there imploied against them But such was the vndanted valiancie of that noble crue and garrison that euen the verie enimies themselues could not but yeeld high commendations to the capteins and soldiours for the hardie forwardnesse and manhood which at all times they had found and tried in them at all points of seruice when
the erle of Deuonshire speciallie in the west parts insomuch as they drew not all by one line line 10 Then Throckmorton asked how the Kentishmen were affected to the Spaniards Wiat said The people like them euill inough and that appeered now at the comming of the countie of Egmount for they were readie to stur against him and his traine supposing it had bin the prince But said Wiat sir Robert Southwell maister Baker and maister Moile and their affinitie which be in good credit in some places of the shire will for other malicious respects hinder the libertie of their countrie Then Throckmorton line 20 should saie Though I know there hath béene an vnkindnesse betwixt maister Southwell and you for a monie matter wherein I trauelled to make you fréends I doubt not but in so honest a matter as this is he will for the safegard of his countrie ioine with you and so you may be sure of the lord Aburgauennie his force Then Wiat said It is for another matter than for monie that we disagree wherein he hath handled me and others verie doublie vnneighborlie howbeit he can doo no other neither to me nor line 30 to anie other man therefore I forgiue him Item with sir Peter Caroe Throckmorton had conference touching the impeachment of the landing of the said prince and touching prouision of armour and munition as insueth that is to saie that sir Peter Caroe told Throckmorton that he trusted his countriemen would be true Englishmen and would not agrée to let the Spaniards to gouerne them Item the said sir Peter Caroe said the matter importing the French king as it did he thoght the French king would worke to hinder the Spaniards comming hither line 40 with whome the said sir Peter did thinke good to practise for armour munition and monie Then Throckmorton did aduise him to beware that he brought anie Frenchmen into the realme forceablie inasmuch as he could as euill abide the Frenchmen after that sort as the Spaniards And also Throckmorton thought the French king vnable to giue aid to vs by meanes of the great consumption in their owne warres Maister Caroe said As touching line 50 the bringing in of the Frenchmen he meant it not for he loued neither partie but to serue his owne countrie and to helpe his countrie from bondage declaring further to Throckmorton that he had a small barke of his owne to worke his practise by so he said that shortlie he intended to depart to his owne countrie to vnderstand the deuotion of his countrimen Item Throckmorton did saie he would for his part hinder the coÌming in of the Spaniards as much as he could by persuasion Item to sir Edward Warner he had and did béemone his owne line 60 estate and the tyrannie of the time extended vpon diuerse honest persons for religion and wished it were lawfull for all of ech religion to liue safelie acording to their conscience for the law Ex officio will be intollerable the clergies discipline now maie rather be resembled to the Turks tyrannie than to the teaching of christian religion ¶ This was the summe of the matter which was read in the foresaid confession as maters most greeuous against the prisoner Then Throckmorton said Sithence maister sergeant you haue read and gathered the place as you thinke that maketh most against me I praie you take the pains and read further that hereafter whatsoeuer become of me my words be not peruerted and abused to the hurt of some others and especiallie against the great personages of whom I haue béene sundrie times as appeareth by my answers examined for I perceiue the net was not cast onelie for little fishes but for the great ones Iuxta adagium It shall be but losse of time and we haue other things to charge you withall and this that you desire dooth make nothing for you And for the better confirmation of all the treasons obiected against the prisoner and therein to prooue him guiltie you of the iurie shall heare the duke of Suffolks depositions against him who was a principall and hath suffered accordinglie ¶ Then the said sergeant read the dukes confession touching the prisoner amounting to this effect that the lord Thomas Greie did informe the said duke that sir Nicholas Throckmorton was priuie to the whole deuises against the Spaniards was one that should go into the west countrie with the earle of Deuonshire But what dooth the principall authour of this matter saie against me I meane the lord Thomas Greie who is yet liuing Why be not his depositions broght against me for so it ought to be if he can saie anie thing Will you know the truth Neither the lord Thomas Greie hath said can saie or will saie anie thing against me notwithstanding the duke his brothers confession and accusation who hath affirmed manie other things besides the truth I speake not without certeine knowledge for the lord Thomas Greie being my prison-felow for a small time informed me that the duke his brother had misreported him in manie things amongst others in matters touching me which he had declared to you maister Southwell and other the examinors not long ago I am sure if the lord Thomas could or would haue said anie thing it should haue beene here now And as to the dukes confession it is not materiall for he dooth referre the matter to the lord Thomas report who hath made my purgation And it please you my lords and you my maisters of the iurie besides these matters touching Wiats rebellion sir Peter Caroes treasons and confederating with the duke of Suffolke and besides the prisoners conspiracie with the earle of Deuonshire with Crofts Rogers Warner and sundrie others in sundrie places it shall manifestlie appeare vnto you that Throckmorton did conspire the quéenes maiesties death with William Thomas sir Nicholas Arnold and other traitors intending the same which is the greatest matter of all others and most to be abhorred And for proofe hereof you shall heare what Arnold saith ¶ Then was sir Nicholas Arnolds confession read saieng that Throckmorton shewed to him riding betwixt Hinam and Crosse laund in Glocestershire that Iohn Fitz Williams was verie much displeased with William Thomas William Thomas deuised that Iohn Fitzwilliams should kill the queene and Throckmorton knew of it as appeareth by Arnolds confession First I denie that I said anie such thing to maister Arnold and though he be an honest man he may either forget himselfe or deuise meanes how to vnburthen himselfe of so weightie a matter as this is for he is charged with the mater as principall Which I did perceiue when he charged me with his tale and therefore I doo blame him the lesse that he seeketh how to discharge himselfe vsing me as a witnesse if he could so transferre the deuise to William Thomas But trulie I neuer spake anie such words vnto him And for my better declaration I
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 restâd 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 thât 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 coÌmon 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 morâans 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 âort 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 sâitches 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
the plague himselfe and his men still bearing helping the poore creatures on shipboord A rare fact worthie reward and no doubt in remembrance with God the true recorder of mercifull deserts Thus was the towne of Newhauen reduced againe into the hands of the French more vndoubtedlie through the extreme mortalitie that so outragiouslie afflicted the soldiors and men of warre within the same than by the enimies inforcements although the same was great and aduanced to the vttermost of the aduersaries power Besides the meaner sort of those that died of the pestilence during the siege these I doo find noted as chiefe Cutbert Uaughan comptrollor of the towne Francis Summerset coosine to the earle of Worcester Auerie Darcie brother to the lord Darcie Iohn Zouch brother to the lord Zouch Edward Ormesbie Thomas Drurie alià s Poâgnard Richard Croker Iohn Cockson Thomas Kemish Iohn Proud William Saule Wilfreid Antwisell Besides these being capteins in chiefe dieng there in that towne or else sickening there and dieng vpon their returne into England there were diuerse other gentlemen and such as had charge which likewise ended their liues by force of that cruell and most gréeuous pestilent infection There were diuerse also that were slaine as well by canon shot as otherwise in the field in skirmish as both the Tremains brethren of one birth Nicholas and Andrew capteine Richard Sanders with master Robinson and master Bromfield of which two before ye haue heard also one Leighton a gentleman diuerse mo whose names I know not worthie neuerthelesse to be remembred placed in ranke with such worthie men as in their countries cause haue lost their liues and are therefore by writers registred to liue by fame for euer But now to passe to other matters at home As ye haue heard the plague of pestilence being in the towne of Newhauen thorough the number of souldiors that returned into England the infection therof spread into diuerse parts of this realme but especiallie the citie of London was so infected that in the same whole yeare that is to saie from the first of Ianuarie 1562 vntill the last of December in 1563 there died in the citie and liberties thereof conteining one hundred eight parishes of all diseases twentie thousand three hundred thrée score and twelue and of the plague being part of the number aforesaid seuentéene thousand foure hundred and foure persons And in the outparishes adioining to the same citie being eleuen parishes died of all diseases in the whole yeare thrée thousand two hundred foure score and eight persons and of them of the plague two thousand seuen hundred thirtie and two So that the whole number of all that died of all diseases as well within the citie and liberties as in the outparishes was twentie thrée thousand six hundred and thréescore and of them there died of the plague twentie thousand one hundred thirtie and six The eight of Iulie in the morning happned a great tempest of lightning and thunder where thorough a woman and thrée kine were slaine in the Couent garden néere to Chaxingcrosse At the same time in Essex a man was torne all to péeces as he was carieng haie his barne was borne downe and his haie burned both stones and trées were rent in manie places The councell of king Philip at Bruxels commanded proclamation to be made in Antwerpe and other places that no English ship with anie cloths should come into anie places of the low countries their colour was as they said the danger of the plague which was at that time in London other places of England Neuerthelesse line 10 they would gladlie haue gotten our woolles but the quéenes maiestie thorough sute of our merchant aduenturers caused the wooll fleet to be discharged and our cloth fléet was sent to Emden in east Friseland about Easter next following in the yeare of our Lord 1564. Forsomuch as the plague of pestilence was so hot in the citie of London there was no tearme kept at Michaelmasse To be short the poore citizens of London were this yeare plagued with a thréefold plague pestilence scarsitie of monie and line 20 dearth of vittels the miserie whereof were too long here to write no doubt the poore remember it the rich by flight into the countries made shift for themselues c. An earthquake was in the moneth of September in diuerse places of this realme speciallie in Lincolne Northamptonshires After the election of the maior of London by the councels letters the quéens maiesties pleasure was signified vnto sir Thomas Lodge then maior that forsomuch as the plague line 30 was so great in the citie the new maior elected shuld kéepe no feast at the Guildhall for doubt that thorough bringing togither such a multitude the infection might increase For that wéeke there died within the citie and out parishes more than two thousand wherefore sir Iohn Whight the new maior tooke his oth at the vttermost gate of the tower of London From the first daie of December till the twelfe was such continuall lightning and thunder especiallie the same twelfe daie at night that the line 40 like had not béene séene nor heard by anie man then liuing In the moneth of December was driuen on the shore at Grimsbie in Lincolnshire a monstruous fish in length ninetéene yards his taile fiftéene foot broad and six yards betwéene his eies twelue men stood vpright in his mouth to get the oile For that the plague was not fullie ceassed in London Hilarie tearme was kept at Hertford castell beside line 50 Ware year 1564 This yeare the thirtéenth of Aprill an honorable and ioifull peace was concluded betwixt the quéenes maiestie and the French king their realmes dominions and subiects and the same peace was proclamed with sound of trumpet before hir maiestie in hir castell of Windsor then being present the French ambassadors And shortlie after the quéenes grace sent the right honourable sir Henrie Careie lord of Hunnesdon now lord chamberleine of whose honourable and noble descent it is thus written line 60 cuius fuerat matertera pulchra Reginae genitrix Henrici nobilis vxor accompanied with the lord Strange beside diuerse knights and gentlemen vnto the French king with the noble order of the garter who finding him at the citie of Lions being in those parties in progresse he there presented vnto him the said noble order and Garter king at armes inuested him therewith obseruing the ceremonies in that behalfe due and requisit The plague thanks be to God being cleane ceassed in London both Easter and Midsummer tearmes were kept at Westminster ¶ And here by the waie to note the infection of this plague to haue béene dispersed into other countries besides England it is read in Schardius In epitome rerum gestarum sub Ferdinando primo imperatore that the pestilence did so rage in Germanie and poisoned such peopled places namelie Norimberge
this rebellion persuaded him first to trie treat the freendship of certeine wild Scots that then laie incamped in Clan Iboie line 40 vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge and Mac Gilliam Buske whose father and vncle Shane Oneil had latelie killed in an ouerthrow giuen to the Scots Neuerthelesse he well liking this persuasion went to the said campe the second of Iune where after a dissembled interteinement quaffing of wine Gilliam Buske burning with desire of reuenge for his fathers and vncles death and ministring quarrelling talke issued out of the tent and made a fraie vpon Oneils men and then gathering togither his line 50 Scots in a throng suddenlie entred the tent againe who there with their slaughter swords hewed in péeces Shane Oneil his secretarie and all his companie except a verie few which escaped by flight On saint Iohns euen at night was the like standing watch in London as had beene on saint Peters euen in the yeare last before mentioned This yeare the emperour Maximilian the second of that name being elected into the most honourable order of the garter the right honourable Thomas earle line 60 of Sussex c knight of the same most noble order was appointed by the quéenes maiestie to go vnto the said emperour with the said order of the garter according to his said election Who being honorablie accompanied with the lord North sir Thomas Mildmaie knight Henrie Cobham esquier one of the pensioners and others departed from London the fiue and twentith of Iune 1567 vnto Douer and there imbarked landed at Calis and his traine at Dunkirke and so passed through the low countries to Antwerpe in Brabant where he was honourablie receiued by the English merchants and others and being there went to visit madame de Parma regent of the said countries then resident within the same towne From thence he passed vnto Colen where as his lordship and traine mounted the riuer of Rhene by sundrie continuall daies iourneies passed by the citie of Ments or Magunce vnto Oppenham there taking his waie by land passed through the countrie by the cities of Wormes and Spires till he came to Ulmes standing on the riuer of Danow where hée arriued the one and twentith of Iulie and the thrée and twentith his lordship rode in post to Auspurge called in Latine Augusta Vindelicorum nine Dutch miles from Ulmes From thence he departed the fiue and twentith of Iulie and met with his traine at Donwert being come thither vpon flotes downe by the said riuer of Danow From thence he kept vpon his iourneie by Ingolstat Reinspurge in Latine Ratisbona by Passaw and other townes till hée came to Linz where his lordship staied the first second and third of August by reason of the high waters And departing from thence on the fourth of August he passed by Stoan Cremz by the said riuer of Danow and so arriued at the citie of Uienna the fift of August in this foresaid yeare 1567 where hée was receiued of the lord Smeckouites hauing twelue horsses readie with their footclothes for his lordship and the most respected of his traine and so brought him to the presence of the emperour at that present within his castell there in that citie by whom he was right honourablie receiued and afterwards conducted to his assigned lodging where as all prouision was prepared and made at the emperours charges Here his lordship continued till the fouretéenth of Ianuarie In which meane time the emperour verie often as time serued had the said earle foorth with him vnto such pastimes of hunting the hart boare and such like as the plentifulnesse of that countrie yéeldeth Moreouer during the time of his lordships abode there at Uienna Charles archduke of Austria and Carinth arriued in that citie whom my lord went to salute After this vpon the quéenes maiesties letters brought out of England by maister Henrie Brooke alià s Cobham one of hir gentlemen pensioners the said earle of Sussex vpon sundaie the fourth of Ianuarie in the after noone year 1568 presented and deliuered vnto the emperours maiestie in his chamber of presence the habiliments and ornaments of the most noble order of the garter sir Gilbert Dethike knight alià s Garter principall king of arms and officer for the said order and William Dethike then Rougecrosse also officer of armes giuing their attendance in their cotes of armes And the emperour at his inuesture of the said habiliments gaue vnto the said Garter his short gowne and vnder garment furred throughout with luzerns and then proceeded thence into a great chamber adorned in forme of a chappell where as all the other ceremonies belonging vnto the said noble order were obserued and accomplished And the same night the said earle supped with the emperours maiestie both being in their robes of the said order Now shortlie after his lordship with certeine of his companie taking leaue of the emperour departed from Uienna the fourtéenth of Ianuarie aforesaid vnto Newstat and so through the countrie of Stire vnto Graâz the chiefe citie of Carinth where he tooke also leaue of the said archduke Charles and from thence returning passed those parts of the Alpes vnto Saltzburgh where he met with the other part of his traine and so by continuing iourneies came againe into England to the queenes maiestie towards the latter end of March. After a drie summer folowed an extreme sharpe winter namelie the latter part therof with such great scarsitie of fodder and haie that in diuerse places the same was sold by weight as in Yorkeshire and in the Peake of Darbishire where a stone of haie was sold for fiue pence There followed also a great death of cattell namelie of horsse and sheepe This yeare in the moneth of Ianuarie the queens maiestie sent into the narrow seas thrée of hir ships and one barke named the Anthelop the Swallow the Aid and the Phenix the which were manned with line 10 fiue hundred men And hir highnesse appointed the charge of the said ships and men to hir trustie seruant William Holstocke of London esquier comptrollor of hir highnesse ships who had commandement to staie the subiects of king Philip. And according to his dutie he vsed such diligence as one hauing care vnto his charge in garding as well the French as the English coasts did the eleuenth daie of March next following méet with eleuen saile of Flemmish hoies open vpon Bullongne which came line 20 from Rone and had in them foure hundred and od tuns of Gascoigne and French wines which they intended to haue caried into Flanders but the said Holstocke staid all the said eleuen hoies and sent them to London where they made their discharge and the Flemmings disappointed of those wines Moreouer the eight and twentith daie of the foresaid moneth of March the said William Holstocke seruing in the Anthelop at that present admerall and in his companie being William Winter the line 30 yonger
at that time his viceadmerall seruing in the Aid and Iohn Basing capteine of the Swallow and Thomas Gouarlie capteine of the Phenix met in the narrow seas with fouretéene saile of great hulkes which were come out of Portugall and bound to Flanders their chiefe lading being Portugall salt and yet had good store of Spanish roials of plate and also of good spices The which fourteene hulkes did mainteine their fight for the space of two houres And after that they did perceiue that they could not line 40 preuaile hauing tasted of the ordinance of the queens ships to their great hurt as well in slaughter of their men as also in spoile of their ships the said Holstock and his companie tooke eight of the said hulks wherof six were sent into the riuer of Thames And the admerall and viceadmerall in the said hulks being two great ships which the said Holstocke himselfe did take were caried vnto Harwich and there discharged The eightéenth of March through vehement rage line 50 and tempest of winds manie vessels on the Thames with two tiltbotes before Grauesend were sunke and drowned The six and twentith of Iune deceased Thomas Yoong archbishop of Yorke at the manour of Sheffield and was honourablie buried at Yorke The eleuenth of October were taken in Suffolke at Downam bridge neere vnto Ipswich seuentéene monstrous fishes some of them conteining seuen and twentie foot in length the other foure and twentie or one and twentie foot at the least At the costs line 60 and charges of the citizens of London a new conduit was built at Walbrooke corner neere to Dowgate which was finished in the moneth of October the water whereof is conueied out of the Thames The seuen and twentith of Ianuarie Philip Mestrell a Frenchman and two Englishmen were drawne from Newgate to Tiburne and there hanged the Frenchman quartered who had coined gold counterfeit the Englishmen the one had clipped siluer the other cast testons of tin The eight and twentith of March the pensioners well appointed in armor on horsbacke mustered before the queenes maiestie in Hide parke beside Westminster A great lotterie being holden at London in Poules church yard at the west doore was begun to be drawne the eleuenth of Ianuarie and continued daie and night till the sixt of Maie wherein the said drawing was fullie ended Sir Thomas Ro lord maior of London caused to be inclosed with a wall of bricke nigh one acre of ground néere vnto Bedlem without Bishops gate to be a place of buriall for the dead of such parishes in London as lacked conuenient ground within their said parishes ¶ On the southside whereof ouer a folding gate this inscription is grauen in stone in great letters Thomas Ro miles cùm praetor esset Londinensis hunc locum Reipublicae in vsum publicae sepulturae communem suo sumptu dedicauit Anno Domini 1569. Which writing I haue here recorded for that in viewing the same I saw some of the letters defaced and vtterlie made awaie which in time might likewise befall to the residue and so the memorie of the gentleman there fixed to so good an end vanish and die He also of a godlie motion builded a conuenient roome in Pauls churchyard on the southside of the crosse to receiue a certeine number of hearers at the sermon time as may appeare by some remembrances of his name there fixed Howbeit this gentleman thus well disposed and like inough to haue procéeded in more such godlie actions was called out of this life the next yeare immediatlie following forgoing all the pompe of this life with no lesse good will than he was forward by death to passe to eternall rest His bodie was buried in Hacknie church in the southside of the chancell where besides a monument of himselfe and his wife this epitaph remaineth to be read in faire great letters as followeth An. 1570. Septemb. 2. Sir Thomas Ro lieth buried heare Of London knight and alderman Who late was maior and rule did beare To right the cause of euerie man A merchant venturer was he Of merchant tailors companie A citizen by birth also And eke his wife dame Marie Ro. In wedlocke one and thirtie yeare They did continue man and wife Eleuen children she did beare But fiue of them haue left this life And six aliue doo yet remaine Foure of them sons and daughters twaine His soule with God we hope is blest And dooth remaine in Abrams brest A standing watch on S. Iohns euen at Midsummer and sir Iohn White alderman rode the circuit as the lord maior should haue doone The seuen and twentith of August Andrew Gregorenich Sauin ambassador from Muscouie landed at the tower wharfe and was there receiued by the lord maior of London the aldermen and shiriffes in scarlet with the merchants aduenturers in cotes of blacke veluet all on horssebacke who conueied him riding through the citie to the Muscouie house in Seding lane there to be lodged The plague of pestilence somewhat raging in the citie of London Michaelmas terme was first adiourned vnto the third of Nouember and after to Hilarie terme next following The eleuenth of October Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was brought from Burnam beside Windsore by land to Westminster and from thence by water to the tower of London prisoner sir Henrie Neuill being his kéeper This yeare the lord maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his oth as hath béene accustomed but kept no feast at the Guildhall least through comming togither of so great a multitude infection of the pestilence might haue increased That wéeke from the one and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October there died in the citie and out parishes of all diseases one hundred fiftie and two of the which one and fiftie were accounted to die of the plague On thursdaie the ninth of Nouember Thomas Persie erle of Northumberland receiued the queens maiesties letters to repaire to the court And the same night other conspirators perceiuing him to be wauering and vnconstant of promise made to line 10 them caused a seruant of his called Beckwith after he was laid in his bed to bustle in and to knocke at his chamber doore willing him in hast to arise and shift for himselfe for that his enimies whome he termed to be sir Oswold Ulstrop and maister Uaughan were about the parke and had béeset him with great numbers of men Wherevpon he arose conueied himselfe awaie to his kéepers house In the same instant they caused the bels of the towne to be roong backeward and so raised as manie as they line 20 could to their purpose The next night the earle departed thense to Branspith where he met with Charls earle of Westmerland and the other confederats Then by sundrie proclamations they abusing manie of the queens subiects commanded them in hir highnesse name to
other things mo to the great hinderance of manie a man Also in Walderâwicke Dunwich and Blaâbrooke was great losse of boord planke timber and salt A great part of the bridge by Magdalene college was borne cleane awaie and manie trées were line 60 turned vp by the root The thrée and twentith of Ianuarie the quéenes maiestie accompanied with hir nobilitie came from hir house at the Stranâ called Summerset place and entered the citie of London by Temple bar Fléetstreet Cheape and so by the north side of the Bursse to sir Thomas Greshams in Bishops gate stréet where she dined After dinner hir grace returning through Cornehill entred the Bursse on the southside and after hir highnesse had viewed euerie part thereof aboue ground especiallie the Pawne which was richlie furnished with all sorts of the âânest wares in the citie she caused the same Bursse by an herald and a trumpet to be proclamed the Roiall exchange so to be called from thensefoorth and not otherwise The seuenteenth of Februarie at a place called Kinnaston néere Marlech hill in the countie of Hereford was séene the ground to open and certeine rockes with a péece of ground remooued and went forward the space of foure daies making at the first a terrible noise as it went on the earth It remooued it selfe betwéene six of the clocke in the euening seuen the next morrow fortie pases carrieng great trees and shéepecotes some sheepecotes with threescore sheepe in them some trées fell into the chinkes other that grew on the same ground grow now as firmelie on a hill and some that stood east stand west and those that stood west stand east The depth of the hole where it first brake out is thirtie foot the breadth of the breach is eight score yards and in length aboue twentie score yards It ouerthrew Kinnaston chapell Also two high waies be remooued nigh one hundred yards with the trées of the hedgerowes The ground in all is six and twentie acres and where tillage ground was there is pasture left in place and where was pasture there is tillage ground gone vpon it The ground as it remooued draue the earth before it at the lower part ouerwhelmed the ground so that it is growen to a great hill of twelue fadams high It remooued from saturdaie till mondaie at night following and so staied Moreouer this yeare about Candelmas sir Thomas Sackuille baron of Buckhurst was sent in ambassage from the quéenes maiestie to Charles the ninth French king as well to congratulate for his marriage with the daughter of the emperour Maximilian as for other weightie affaires And as his ambassage was great so was his charge no lesse in furnishing himselfe and traine accordinglie being both in number and furniture such in euerie point as did apperteine and his receiuing and interteinement in France by the king and others was agréeable thereto for he was receiued vpon the coast by the gouernours of the fortified townes right honorablie by order from the king Among other the baron of Bournoisell was one who being verie well mounted and appointed left not his lordship before he came to the court and from thense accompanied him backe vntill his imbarkement homewards In the maine countries he was accompanied with the gouernours and nobles of the places about And in the good townes where he passed he was presented by the chiefe magistrates wherein their good wils were to be thankefullie accepted though his lordships rewards far ouervalued their presents At his approch néere to Paris he was incountred on the waie for courtesie sake by two marquesses of Trans and Saluces this being of the house of Sauoie and the other of the worthie familie of Foâx These wanted not such as accompanied them and the same euen of the best sort At the lord ambassadors first audience which was at the castell of Madrill otherwise called Bullogne néere Paris where the king then laie the quéenes Almane coches verie brauelie furnished were sent to Paris for him in one of the which his lordship with the marquesse of Trans rode towards the court verie narrowlie escaping from a shrewd turne and great mischance by reason the same coâh was ouerthrowen by the Dutch wagoners their negligence who in a brauerie gallopping the field made an ouer short ãâã wherewith the ãâã was sore bruâed The lord ambassador at his arriuall at the place was right honorablie receiued he was banketted by diuerse and that verie sumptuouslie which by him was not left vnrequâted to the vttermost and rather with the better For his liberalitie vnto the French was verie large but his reward at the kings hands was onelie a chaine waieng a thousand French crownes At that present there was a great dearth scarsitie of vittels in France The riuer of Saine that runneth through Paris was not passable with vessels by reason of the great frosts and thereby not onelie all kind of vittels but also haie and wood hard to come by and not to be had but at excessiue prices the countrie thereabouts hauing before béene sore harried and spoiled by the ciuill tumults By reason line 10 whereof not onlie the lord of Buckhurst for the space he remained there but also sir Henrie Norrice now lord Norrice and maister Francis Walsingham hir maiesties ambassadors ligiers successiuelie were driuen to an increase in expenses paieng for euerie thing they bought an higher price than ordinarilie had béene accustomed After that the lord Buckhurst had béene feasted and banketted by the king and other of the French nobilitie and had accomplished the points of his ambassage line 20 he tooke leaue of the king departed homewards arriuing here in England a little before Easter The second of Aprill a parlement began at Westminster year 1571 wherein was granted to the quéenes maiestie toward hir great charges in repressing the late rebellion in the north and pursuing the said rebels and their fautors which were fled into Scotland by the cleargie a subsidie of six shillings in the pound and by the temporaltie two fiftéens with a subsidie of two shillings and eight pence in the line 30 pound The first the second and third of Maie was holden at Westminster before the quéenes maiestie a solemne iust at the tilt tourneie and barriers The chalengers were Edward earle of Oxford Charles Howard sir Henrie Lée and Christopher Hatton esquier who all did verie valiantlie but the chiefe honour was giuen to the earle of Oxford The first of Iune Iohn Storie a doctor of the canon law who before had beene condemned of high treason was drawen from the tower of London to Tiborne line 40 and there hanged bowelled and quartered his head was set on London bridge and his quarters on the gates of the citie Of this monster disguised in the likenesse of a man it is verie materiall to record what maister Fox hath noted in his historie ¶
great galleasses The Turks had their gallies galliots and foists to the number of two hundred and fiftie as appeareth by the account afore made of those that were taken line 40 abandoned and escaped There were deliuered and set at libertie about twelue thousand some say fourteene thousand christian captiues whome the Turks kept for slaues and had them chained there aboord with them in their gallies But this victorie was not got without great losse of the christians for beside Augustine Barbarigo the principall proueditore of the Uenetians there died seuentéene other gentlemen of Uenice being men of good estimation Iohn Cardone Barnardine Cardone Spaniards line 50 Uirginio and Horatio Ursini Romans Troilo Sabello Marco Molino besides diuerse other nobles and gentlemen of name as well Italians as Spaniards and Almans In all there died of the christians to the number of seauen thousand six hundred fiftie and six beside those that were hurt being in like number to them that were slaine among whom was don Iohn de Austria generall of all the christian armie there Sebastian Ueniero the Uenetians generall the counte de Santa Fiore with diuerse others Moreouer line 60 there were christian gallies bouged thrée of the Uenetians one of the popes one belonging to the duke of Sauoie and another to the knights of Malta There was one also taken led awaie by Ochialie and his companie Such was the successe of this battell which continued for the space of six houres in the end whereof the victorie remaining with the christians caused no small reioising through all parties of christendome For if this victorie had béene followed with his gratious helpe and assistance that was the giuer thereof the proud and loftie horne of the Ismaelite had béene so brused as peraduenture his courage would haue quailed to put foorth the same so spéedilie as he did But such is the malice of the time that the christians haue more pleasure to draw their weapons one against another than against that common enimie of vs all who regardeth neither protestant nor catholike they may be sure those of the Gréekish church nor others as if the mercifull prouidence of the Lord of hosts doo not in time disappoint his proceedings it will be too soone perceiued though happilie too late to stop the breach when the floud hath got head and once woone passage through the banke It were therfore to be wished of all those that tender the suertie of the christian commonwealth that princes would permit their subiects to liue in libertie of conscience concerning matters of faith and that subiects againe would be readie in dutifull wise to obeie their princes in matters of ciuill gouernment so that compounding their controuersies among themselues with tollerable conditions they might emploie their forces against the common enimie to the benefit of the whole christian world which the more is the pitie they haue so long exercised one against another to each others destruction And as for matters in variance about religion rather to decide the same with the word than with the sword an instrument full vnfit for that purpose and not lightlie vsed nor allowed of by the ancient fathers in time of the primitiue church But fith this is rather to be wished than hoped for by anie apparant likelihood considering the strange contrarietie of humors now reigning among men in sundrie parts of christendome let vs leaue the successe of our wish to the plesure of God the author of all good haps who ruleth the harts of princes as the poet saith verie trulie eius In manibus sunt regum animi quotúnque voluntaâ Fert sua vertit eos and frameth the peoples minds as séemeth best to his diuine prouidence And withall let vs also humblie offer to him our praiers instantlie beseeching him to spare vs in mercie and not to reward vs after our iniquities but rather by his onmipotent power to turne from vs the violence of our enimies in abridging their forces as it may séeme good to his mercifull fauour and great clemencie The thirtith of December Reinold Greie was by the quéenes maiestie restored earle of Kent ¶ The thirtéenth of Ianuarie deceassed sir William Peter knight who for his iudgement and pregnant wit had béene secretarie and of the priuie councell to foure kings and quéenes of this realme and seauen times ambassador abroad in forren lands he augmented Exceter college in Oxford with lands to the value of an hundred pounds by yeare and also builded ten almes houses in the parish of Ingerstone for twentie poore people ten within the house and ten without the house hauing euerie one two pence the daie a winter gowne and two load of wood and among them féeding for six kine winter and summer and a chapleine to saie them seruice dailie The sixteenth of Ianuarie the lord Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke was arreigned at Westminster hall before George lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie high steward of England for that daie and there by his péeres found giltie of high treason and had iudgement accordinglie The eleuenth of Februarie Kenelme Barneie and Edmund Mather were drawen from the tower of London and Henrie Rolfe from the Marshalsea in Southworke all thrée to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered for treason Barneie and Mather for conspiracie and Rolfe for counterfeiting of the quéens maiesties hand ¶ The queenes maiestie hearing crediblie by report that certeine lewd persons vnder pretense of executing commissions for inquiries to be made for lands concealed contrarie to hir maiesties meaning chalenging lands stocks of monie plate c letting not also to make pretense to the bels led and other such things belonging vnto parish churches or chappels Hir maiestie meaning spéedilie to withstand such manner of vnlawfull practises commanded that all commissions then extant and not determined for inquisition of anie manner of concealements should be by Supersedias out of hir excheker reuoked line 10 And also appointed speedie remedie to be had against such extorcioners as more at large appeareth by proclamation concluding thus Finallie hir maiestie would hir iustices of assise to haue some speciall care not onelie to the premisses but also to the reforming of certeine couetous iniurious attempts of diuerse that of late time by other colour than for hir maiesties vse had taken awaie the led of churches and chappels yea and bels also out of steeples and other common goods belonging to parishes an line 20 example not to be suffered vnpunished nor vnreformed And so hir maiestie eftsoones chargeth hir iustices of hir assise to prouide seuere remedie both for punishment and reformation thereof Dated at Westminster the thirtéenth daie of Februarie the fourtéenth yeare of hir reigne The tenth of March deceased sir William Paulet knight lord saint Iohn earle of Wilshire marquesse of Winchester knight of the honorable order of the garter one of the quéenes maiesties
duke of Summerset earle of Hertford vicount Beauchampe lord Seimor vncle to the kings highnesse of England gouernor of his most roiall person and protector of all his realmes dominions and subiects lieutenant generall of his maiesties armies both by sea and land treasuror and earle marshall of England gouernor of the iles of Gerneseie and Ierseie and knight of the most honorable order of the garter c. This stile he had which I haue béene the more willing to set downe because I doo not remember that anie subiect did with like shew publish anie such stile before his time Which honors he did not long inioie for were it for malice of some of the nobilitie disdaining such honor or for cause in him offending the laws or for his ouer carelesse good disposition that suspected no such euill from his enimies he was the second time on the sixt of October in the fift yeere of king Edward the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1551 committed prisoner to the tower and the two and twentith daie of Ianuarie folowing he was beheaded at tower hill and buried in the tower chappell He had two wiues wherof the first was Katharine the daughter of sir William Filioll of Woodland knight by whome he had a son called Edward his second wife was Anne the daughter of sir Edward Stanhope by whom he had issue Edward earle of Hertford Henrie now liuing and Edward with Anne married the third of Iune in the fourth yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt in the yéere one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie to Iohn lord Dudleie eldest sonne to Iohn earle of Warwike and duke of Northumberland Ione Marie Katharine and Elisabeth Henrie Greie marquesse Dorset lord Ferrers of Groobie Harrington Boneuile and Asleie was at Hampton court created duke of Suffolke on the eleuenth of October in the fift yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one who in the first yeere of quéene Marie being the yéere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée supposing that the quéene would marrie a stranger did flie into Leicester and Warwikeshires with a small companie making proclamation against the quéenes marriage with the prince of Spaine but the people inclined not vnto him Wherevpon a companie being sent out after him vnder the leading of the earle of Huntington the first daie of Februarie proclamation was made at London that the duke was discomfited and fled with his two brethren After which the tenth of Februarie the duke with his brother sir Iohn Greie was brought from Couentrie where he remained three daies after his taking in the house and custodie of Christopher Warren alderman of that towne by the earle of Huntington attended with thrée hundred men to the tower Where remaining a certeine space he was on the thrée and twentith of Februarie beheaded at tower hill and buried in the chappell of the tower as I haue heard He married Francis one of the daughters to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke by whom he had issue Iane married to Gilford the sonne of Iohn duke of Northumberland and died without issue Katharine and Marie Iohn Sutton of Dudleie created by king Henrie the eight vicount Lisle being admerall lord great chamberleine lord great maister and earle of Warwike was after on the eleuenth daie of October the fift yéere of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one created duke of Northumberland He after the death of king Edward tooke armes and proclamed quéene Iane daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke meaning to exclude quéene Marie But shortlie after perceiuing quéene Marie to be proclamed at London this duke did also proclame hir at Cambridge Notwithstanding all which he was arested in the Kings college there by one maister Sleg sergeant at armes and after anew arrested by the earle of Arundell Henrie Fitzallen sent thither for that cause who brought him to London where this duke was the fiue and twentith of Iulie in the said first yeare of quéene Marie commited to the tower Shortlie after which he was the eightéenth of August following arreigned at Westminster there condemned and beheadded on tower hill the two and twentith of the same moneth whose bodie with the head was buried in the tower he being the last duke that was created in England He maried Iane the line 10 daughter of sir Edward Gilford knight the sister and heire to sir Henrie Gilford knight of whose children I will not speake bicause they are yet fresh in memorie And thus farre Francis Thin touching the creation and the succession in lineall descents of all the dukes of England since the conquest About the ninth of Iune Francis duke of Montmorencie chiefe marshall of France gouernour and lieutenant of the I le of France generall to Charles the ninth king of France and Paule de Foix of the line 20 priuie councell of the said king and Bertrand de Saligners lord de la Mothfenelon knights of the order of S. Michaell ambassadors for the same king arriued at Douer The fourtéenth daie they shot London bridge toward Summerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The fifteenth daie being sundaie the said ambassadors repaired to the White hall where they were honourablie receiued of the quéenes maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces chappell about one of the clocke in the line 30 after noone the articles of treatie league or confederacie and sure friendship concluded at Blois the ninteenth of Aprill as is afore shewed betwixt the quéenes maiestie and the French king being read the same was by hir maiestie and his ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that daie with great part of the night following was spent in great triumph with sumptuous bankets The eightéenth of Iune the feast of saint George line 40 was holden at Windsor where the French ambassadors were roiallie feasted Francis duke of Montmorencie was stalled knight of the most honourable order of the garter The eight and twentith daie of Iune the forenamed ambassadors departed from London toward France ¶ The fourtéenth of Iune Thomas lord Wharton deceased in his house of Chanon row at Westminster The thirtéenth daie of Iulie the quéenes maiestie at Whitehall made sir William Cicill lord of Burghleie lord high treasuror line 50 of England lord William Howard late lord chamberleine lord priuie seale the earle of Sussex lord chamberleine sir Thomas Smith principall secretarie and Christopher Hatton esquier capteine of the gard A treatise of the treasurors of England set downe out of ancient histories and records as they succeeded in order of time and in the reigne of the kings line 60 THis adorning of sir William Cicill knight lord Burghleie with the honour of lord treasuror of England hath rowsed my enuied
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 clefâ 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
of the citie of Norwich which was supposed almost two miles Before she came there maister maior brake to my lord chamberlaine that he was to vtter to hir maiestie an other oration whereof my lord seemed to haue good liking but before they came to the said confines maister maior was wilâed to forbeare the vtterance of the same his oration bicause it was about seauen of the clocke and hir maiestie had then fiue miles to ride Neuerthelesse he gaue to hir maiestie both his orations in writing which she thanked him for She also thanked the maior euerie alderman and the commoners not onelie for the great chéere they had made hir but also for the open housholds they kept to hir highnesse seruants and all others Then she called maister maior and made him knight and so departing said I haue laid vp in my breast such good will as I shall neuer forget Norwich and proceeding onward did shake hir riding rod and said Farewell Norwich with the water standing in hir eies In which great good will towards vs all I beséech God to continue hir maiestie with long and triumphant reigne ouer vs Amen Now to come to the returne of the queenes maiestie from Norfolke and Suffolke in which two counties hir highnesse knighted certeine gentlemen as namelie in Suffolke George Colt Philip Parkar Robert Iermine William Spring Thomas Barnardiston Thomas Kidson Arthur Hedingham In Norffolke Thomas Knouât Nicholas Bacon William Pastons Edward Cléeâe Rafe Shelton Henrie Woodhouse Thomas Gaudie Robert Wood maior Roger Woodhouse Thâse gentlmen hir maiestie knighted for that they should all their life time after haue the greater regard to God and their prince Now the queenes maiestie passing from Norwich she came to sir Roger Woodhouses that night where she was well receiued and noblie interteined From thense to Wood rising at sir Edward Cleeres From thense to sir Thomas Kidsons where in verie déed the fare and bankets did so excéed a number of other places that it is worthie the mention A shew representing the feiries as well as might be was there séene in the which shew a rich iewell was presented to the queenes highnes From thense to master Reuets where all things were well and in verie good order and meat liberallie spent But now to speake a little by the waie of Gods mightie hand and power that framed mens hearts so âell in manie parts before the quéenes highnesse câââe to Cambridgeshire and to tell how blessedlie oâr great and good God did deale with our deere souereigne ladie in causing euerie person to shew the dutie is a matter of great discourse and of no little weight and comfort to all good minds that shall consider of the same Such a Lord is our great God that can frâme all things to the best and such a souereigne ladie we haue that can make the crooked paths streight where she commeth draw the harts of the people after hir whersoeuer she trauelleth So from master Reuets hir highnesse came to my lord Norths who was no whit behind anie of the best for a franke house a noble heart and well ordered interteinement And there was an oration made by a gentleman ofCambridge with a statelie and a faire cup presented from the vniuersitie all the ambassadors of France beholding the same And the gentlemen line 10 of the shire as in manie other places did beare the quéenes meat to the table which was a great liking gladnesse to the gentlemen a solemne sight for strangers subiects to looke vpon From my lord Norths to sir Giles Allingtons where things were well and well liked From thense to sir Iohn Cuts From thense to M. Kapels where was excellent good cheere interteinement From thense to Hide hall where I heard of no great cheere nor banketting line 20 From thense to Rockwood hall but how the traine was there interteined I am ignorant of From thense to master Stonars and from thense to my lord of Leicesters house where the progresse ended to knit vp all the good chéere was reuiued not onelie with making a great feast to the quéene and the French ambassador but also in feasting solemnelie at seuerall times the whole gard on sundaie and mondaie before the queene came at his owne table vsing such courtesie vnto them for the space of two daies as was and is worthie of perpetuall line 30 memorie Thus much of the quéenes highnesse returne whom God hath so well preserued that she like a worthie prince to our great comfort prospereth in peace to the great disgrace of the enimies of God and aduersaries of our common weale and countrie wherin God continue hir maiestie Amen The quéenes maiestie now gone from Norwich carried awaie with hir all the gladnesse of the citie which sprang from hir presence in place whereof succéeded line 40 melancholie sadnes in somuch that the verie aier altered with the change of the countrie cheere proceeding from the departure of hir highnes roiall person which he meant that made these verses wherwith the description of this progresse shall end Splendide Phoebe redi cur te sub nube recondis Innuba Pallas adest splendide Phoebe redi Hasta minax procul est non Gorgonis ora videbis Pallas inermis adest splendide Phoebe redi Scilicet à tanto metuis tibi lumine forsan line 50 Ne superet radios foemina Phoebe tuos Pulcher Apollo tibi ne sit regina rubori Ipse decore tuo vincis illa suo Euge redux reducem quia pulsa nocte reducis Phoebe diem toto est gratius orbe nihil Haec pepulit tetri tenebras noctémque papismi Et liquidum retulit relligione diem Euge nigras nebulas radijs quiasaepe repellis Phoebe tuis pene est gratius orbe nihil Texuerant remoras discrimina mille papistae line 60 Neceptum princeps continuaret iter Nec tamen hunc nebulae potuerunt condere solem Quamuis tu nebulis cedis Apollo tuis Ergô iubar nostrum repulisse obstaculo cernis Sic age sol nebulas lumine pelle tuo Splendide Phoebe redi cur te sub nube recondis Innuba Pallas adest splendide Phoebe radi Sustinet ornat habet regnum literaria formam Prouida docta decens Iuno Minerua Venus Singula dona trium simul Elizabetha dearum Prouida docta decens sustinet ornat habet Esse deas lusi diuinam dicimus istam Quamuis nec liceat nec libet esse deam In shadowing clouds why art thou cloâd O Phebus bright âetire Unspoused Pallas present is O Phebus bright retire The thretning speare is flong far off doubt not grim Gorgââs ire Unarmed Pallas present is O Phebus bright retire Perhaps thou art afraid And why at this so large a light Least that a woman should excell thy beams O Phebus bright Let not a queene a virgine pure which is and euer was O faire
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
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 coÌtinuallie 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
iustice of the common plées sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker sir Thomas Gawdie knight one of the iustices of the plees before hir maiestie to be holden William Pâriam one of the iustices of the common plées by vertue of hir maiesties commission to them and others in that behalfe directed the same Parrie was indicted of high treason for intending and practising the death and destruction of hir maiestie whome God long prosper and preserue from all such wicked attempts The tenor of which indictment appeareth more particularlie in the course of his arreignment following The maner of the arreignment of William Parrie the 25 of Februarie 1584 at Westminster in the place where the court commonlie called the Kings bench is vsuallie kept by vertue of hir maiesties commission of oier and terminer before Henrie lord Hunsdon gouernour of Barwike sir Francis Knolles knight treasuror of the queenes maiesties houshold sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of the same houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vicechamberleine to hir maiestie sir Christopher Wraie knight chiefe iustice of England sir Gilbert Gerrard knight line 10 master of the rols sir Edmund Anderson knight chiefe iustice of the common plees sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker and sir Thomas Hennage knight treasuror of the chamber FIrst thrée proclamations for silence were made according to the vsuall course in such cases Then the lieutenant was commanded to returne his precept who did so and brought the prisoner to the bar to whome line 20 Miles Sands esquier clerke of the crowne said William Parrie hold vp thy hand and he did so Then said the clerke of the crowne Thou art here indicted by the oths of twelue good and lawfull men of the countie of Midlesex before sir Christopher Wraie knight and others which tooke the indictment by the name of W. Parrie late of London gentleman otherwise called W. Parrie late of London doctor of the law for that thou as a false traitor against the most noble and christian prince quéene Elisabeth line 30 thy most gratious souereigne and liege ladie not hauing the feare of God before thine eies nor regarding thy due allegiance but being seduced by the instigation of the diuell and intending to withdraw and extinguish the hartie loue and due obedience which true faithfull subiects should beare vnto the same our souereigne ladie diddest at Westminster in the countie of Midlesex on the first daie of Februarie in the six and twentith yeare of hir highnesse reigne and at diuerse other times and places in the same line 40 countie maliciouslie and traitorouslie conspire and compasse not onelie to depriue and depose the same our souereigne ladie of hir roiall estate title and dignitie but also to bring hir highnesse to death and finall destruction and sedition in the realme to make and the gouernement thereof to subuert and the sincere religion of God established in hir highnesse dominions to alter and supplant And that whereas thou William Parrie by thy letters sent vnto Gregorie bishop of Rome diddest signifie vnto the same bishop thy purposes and intentions line 50 aforesaid and thereby diddest praie and require the same bishop to giue thée absolution that thou afterwards that is to saie the last day of March in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid diddest traitorouslie receiue letters from one called cardinall de Como directed vnto thée William Parrie whereby the same cardinall did signifie vnto thée that the bishop of Rome had perused thy letters and allowed of thine intent and that to that end he had absolued line 60 thee of all thy sinnes and by the same letter did animate and stir thée to procéed with thine enterprise and that therevpon thou the last daie of August in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid at saint Giles in the fields in the same countie of Midlesex diddest traitorouslie confer with one Edmund Neuill esquier vttering to him all thy wicked and traitorous deuises and then and there diddest mooue him to assist thee therein and to ioine with thee in those wicked treasons aforesaid against the peace of our said souereigne ladie the queene hir crowne and dignitie Whaâ saiest thou William Parrie art thou guiltie of these treasons whereof thou standest here indicted or not guiltie Then Parrie said Before I plead not guiltie or confesse my selfe guiltie I praie you giue me leaue to speake a few words and with humbling himselfe began in this maner God saue quéene Elisabeth God send me grace to discharge my dutie to hir and to send you home in charitie But touching the matters that I am indicted of some were in one place and some in another and doone so secretlie as none can see into them except that they had eies like vnto God wherefore I will not laie my bloud vpon the iurie but doo mind to confesse the indictment It conteineth but the parts that haue béene openlie read I praie you tell me Whervnto it was answered that the indictment conteined the parts he had heard read no other Whervpon the clerke of the crowne said vnto Parrie Parrie thou must answer directlie to the indictment whether thou be guiltie or not Then said Parrie I doo confesse that I am guiltie of all that is therein conteined and further too I desire not life but desire to die Unto which the clerke of the crowne said If you confesse it you must confesse it in maner and forme as it is comprised in the indictment Wherevnto he said I doo confesse it in maner and forme as the same is set downe and all the circumstances thereof Then the confession being recorded the quéenes learned councell being readie to praie iudgement vpon the same confession master vicechamberleine said These matters conteined in this indictment and confessed by this man are of great importance they touch the person of the quéenes most excellent maiestie in the highest degrée the verie state and weldooing of the whole commonwealth and the truth of Gods word established in these hir maiesties dominions and the open demonstration of that capitall enuie of the man of Rome that hath set himselfe against God and all godlinesse all good princes and good gouernement and against good men Wherefore I praie you for the satisfaction of this great multitude let the whole matter appéere that euerie one may see that the matter of it selfe is as bad as the indictment purporteth and as he hath confessed Whereto in respect that the iustice of the realme hath béene of late verie impudentlie slandered all yeelded as a thing necessarie to satisfie the world in particular of that which was but summarilie comprised in the indictment though in the law his confession serued sufficientlie to haue procéeded therevpon vnto iudgement Wherevpon the lords and others the commissioners hir maiesties lerned councell and Parrie himselfe agréed that Parries confession taken the eleuenth and thirteenth of Februarie 1584 before the
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
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
Carie. Edmund Lacie George Neuill Iohn Booth Peter Courtneie Richard Fox Oliuer King Richard Redman Iohn Arundell Hugh Oldham Iohn Uoiseie Miles Couerdale Iohn Voiseie Iames Troblefield William Alleie William Bradbridge I. Stow. A traiâorous fact oâ Thomas Appletreé Iohn Fox an Englishman deliuered two hundred and threé score christians froÌ captiuitie of the Turke Winds and high waters Anno reg 22. Sir Thomas Gresham deceassed Glouer a murtherer hanged in Cheape Dod executed for murther A great earthquake A waterquake A ferrie drowned William Lambe esquier deceased his almesdeéds The erection of a grammar schoole necessarie allowance to the maister and vsher Almes houses built for the poore Allowance for poore mens children to be kept at schole The common-wealth remembred A reliefe to poore clothiers in diuerse places London the better by master Lambe A remembrance of Holborne conduit founded and finished in An. 1577. The wast water at the iudge running at the standard Prouident considerations Poore women benefited by the conduit The right worshipfull Clothworkers remembred Allowance for foure yearelie sermons Euerie poore man and poore women a shirt a smock a gowne and a paire of shooes c. Saint Giles without Criplegate benefited Reliefe for the poore people M. Lambes loue to the worshipfull Stationers Perpetuall prouision for the poore Reliefe for Christes hospitall A purchase for the said hospitall Reliefe for S. Thomas spittle Why he staid his beneficence from the hospitall of the Sauoie Prisons for offendors Reléefe for poore prisoners A charitable worke indéed Marriage monie for poore maids His loue towards his seruants His faith was fruitfull I. Stow. An earthquake in Kent T. C. Castels and ships séene in the aier T. C. T. C. Woonders in Wiltshire and Summersetshire T. C. Haile stones of strange shapes A monstrous birth ãâã oratio apud Hââerum Soldiors transported into Ireland Monstrous birth Blasing star Sergeants least âroclamation against the familie of loue The quéenes maiesties purpose to root out this pestilent sect Victorie against the Irish and other in Ireland Anno reg 23. Randoll hanged for coniuring Strange spéeches of a child Pride in great ruffes reprooued and reformed in a seruingman Ab. Hart. in R. L. Against Iesuiâs and massing priests One executed for counterfeiting the quéenes hand Parlement at Westminster Iusting at Westminster Mice deuoure the grasse in Daneseie hundred Banketting house at Westminster How this banketting house was garnished and decked with artificiall deuises The costs and charges of this banketting house Noblemen of France arriued at Douer The excellent inuention of the triumph The first defie of challenge Desire and hâr foure fostered children Uertuous desire not to be excluded from perfect Beautie The challenge made and how to be tried The fortresse of Beautie Urgent causes why the challenge was deferd The order of the rowling trench with most excellent inuentions The earle of Arundels entrie the first daie and his attendants The lord Windsors entrie the first daie and his attendants M. Sidneis entrie now sir Philip Sâdneie and his attendants M. Fulke Greuils entrie with his traine of attendants The second defie or chalenge Meaning the musike within the mount Wherewith the mount mooued rosâ vp in height The rowling trench mooued néere to the quéene The fortresse summoned in soong The alarme soong The shooting off of the two canons the one with swéet water and the other with swéet powder The maner of the defendants comming in The defendants names that run at ãâã The spéech of sir Thomas Perot and maister Cooke to the quéene ãâã the sun is meant hir maiestie called before The fortresse of beautie Sir Thomas Perot maister Cooke were both in like armour beset with apples and fruit the one signifieng Adam the other Eâe who had haire hoong all downe his helmet The angell speaketh to the quéene He speaketh to the chalengers in the behalfe of the two knights Adam and Eue. Magnis excidimus ausis the crie of Phaeton at his fall The defendants gantlet throwne downe c. The defendants âuâe and desire M. Ratclifs sâéech to the quéenâ A mossâe cliffe Mosse and nothing but mosse A claime or conquest of beautie conteined in a scroll A similitude Here the ãâã deliuered M. Ratclifs shield to the quéene Here enter the foure âoes of sir Francis Knolles The spéech of the foure sons of sir Francis Knollâs ãâã by ãâã page being apparââââ like vnto Mercurie ãâã and Beautie Why desire ââserues least to win beautie The foure sonnes of sir Francis Knolles The running ãâã the tilt The boie that vttered the defianââ in this speech tooke his good night of the queene Here entereth a most excellent and braue charriot with raâe curious and costlie worke with the foure challengers in it which charriot was verie curiouslie shadowed with fine lawne The first spéech the second daie Hope the supplier to desirs armie Tourneies barriers couragiouslie tried The last spéech to the quéene signifieng the humble hearted submission of the foure foster children of desire An oliue branch presented to the quéene Crosse in Cheape defaced Thomas Butcher whipped and rescued Foure men whipt and set on the pillorie Bishop of Elie deceassed Two men of strange statures to be ãâã Euerard Hance executed Men arreigâââ for not âââning to ââârch Monsieur ãâã of ãâ¦ã into England Ex libro cui titulus A discouerie of Edmund Campion dedicated to certeine ãâã of the councell Edmund Campion with diuerse o hers arreigned of high treason The foreââââ ãâ¦ã ãâ¦ã why ãâ¦ã The rebellion in the north onlie through the popes meanes The sum of the popes bull which our Englishmen beyond the seas hold as their authoritie to rebell against hir maiestie Doctor Sanders his rebellion in Ireland through whome the people were seduced to fight against their lawfull princesse This bull remaineth in his former force by this pope onelie a tollerâtion for the straitnesse to the subiects therâ in amended Campion desireth not to heare how these treasons âookâ their originall and how from time to time they haue béene enterprised and confounded wherefore to blind the peoples cies he maketh this counterfeit answer Ex libello quedaâ faâose Doctor Sanders and doctor Bristows bookes were there read vnto them wherin most traitorously they defended the rebellion against hir maiestie They denied what one of their owne felows had confessed subscribed to and what euerie one of the witnesses knew to be most certeine * M. A. * M. A. Campion answered this point subtilie because in the last edition of the booke the chiefe matters against themselues were abridged The generall determination how to bring to passe their intent in this realme Their owne confession how they behaue themselues when they come into England Campion coââreth their coÌming ouer affirming it was for the safegard of soules When he had no other shift he fell into these words The depositioÌ of G. Eliot Meaning the quéene of Scots A most traitoâous and vâllanâus answer of
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 hoÌg 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 othâakers 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 aâuanced 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 suâe mooued to the monsieur Francis the monsieurs grandfather commended A good sute to the moÌsieur 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 âtarre 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 âeaths 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 goâlie martyres death Note Sherts obstinacie Shârt is peremptorie in his spéech to iustifie his religion Hudling vp of praiers mangled and âeeced 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 toâens of a resolute votarie to the pope his ãâã * Thâobseruer ând writer of ãâã their plots and deuises âs 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 âoore into oâher 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 ãâã 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 hâs 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 Reâeânâiâ 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 monsiâurs 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 othâr French ãâã prisonââs 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 ârom God The monsiâurs resoluâe 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 dâath The monsieur falleth into an extremitie of his maladie and past hope of recouerie Doo men âte thus saith the monsieâr 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
Anselme to doubt of the archbishop of Yorke his meaning as after it appéered For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie as alreadie yee haue heard through counsell of the canons of Yorke he refused so to doo bicause they informed him that if he so did it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie so that he was bound line 60 onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Canturburie but in no wise to acknowledge anie subiection vnto that sée ¶ For ye must vnderstand that there was great stomaching betwixt the clergie of the two prouinces Canturburie and Yorke about the metropolitane prerogatiue and euer as occasion serued and as they thought the fauor of the prince or oportunitie of time might aduance their quarels they of Yorke sticked not to vtter their gréefes in that as they tooke it some iniurie was offered them therein The archbishop of Yorke being thus instructed by the canons of his church year 1019 signified to archbishop Anselme the cause why he came not at his summons The copie of a parcell whereof is here exemplified Causam qua differtur sacratio mea quam nemo studiosius quà m ego vellet accellerare qui protulerunt non desistunt corroborare Quamobrem quà m periculosum quà m turpe sit contra consensum ecâlesiae cui praefici debeo regimen ipsius inuadere vestra discretio nouerit Sed quà m sormidabile quà m sit euitandum sub specie benedictionis maledictionem induere c that is The cause why my consecration is deferred which no man liuing would wish to be doone with more speed than I my selfe those that haue prolonged it ceasse not to confirme Wherefore how dangerous and how dishonest it should be for me to inuade the gouernment of that church which I ought to rule without coÌsent of the same your discretion rightwell vnderstandeth Yea and how dreadfull a thing it is and how much to be auoided to receiue a cursse vnder colour of a blessing c. Anselme hauing alreadie written twice vnto the said Thomas archbishop of Yorke about this matter and now receiuing this answer could not be quiet in mind and therevpon taking aduice with certeine bishops whom he called vnto him determined to send two bishops vnto the said Thomas of Yorke and so the bishop of London as deane to the archbishop of Canturburie the bishop of Rochester as his household chapleine were sent to commune with him who met them at his manour of Southwell where they declared to him the effect of their message but he deferred his answer till a messenger which he had sent to the king as then being in Normandie was returned and so without any full answer the bishops came backe againe Howbeit shortlie after there came to Canturburie a messenger on the behalfe of the archbishop of Yorke with letters inclosed vnder the kings seale by the tenour whereof the king commanded Anselme that the consecration of the archbishop of Yorke might staie till the feast of Easter and if he might returne into England by that daie he promised by the aduice had therein of the bishops and barons of his realme that he would set a direction betwixt them in all matters whereof anie controuersie had beene moued heretofore or if he could not returne so soone he would yet take such order that brotherlie loue concord might remaine betwixt them When he that brought these letters required an answer Anselme answered that he would signifie his mind to the king and not to his maister Immediatlie therefore was the deane of Chichester sent ouer from Anselme with a moonke of Bechâllouin to the king to informe him of all the matter and to beséech his maiestie by his authoritie to prouide that no discord should rise to the diuiding of the present state of the church of England Furthermore whereas he had commanded him to grant vnto Thomas the archbishop of Yorke a time of respit he should take for certeine answer that he would rather suffer himselfe to be cut in peeces than to grant so much as one hours space on the said Thomas of Yorke whome he knew alreadie to haue set himselfe vniustlie against the ancient constitutions of holie fathers and against the Lord himselfe The messengers declared these things to the king and brought word backe againe at their returne that the king had heard their message with fauourable mind and promised by the power of God to declare to the world that he coueted vnitie and not any diuision in the church of England All this while Anselme was deteined with long and gréeuous sicknesse and yet not forgetfull of the obstinate dealing of Thomas of Yorke he wrote letters vnto him by vertue whereof he suspended him from exercising all pastorall function till he had reformed his errour submitted himselfe to receiue his blessing and acknowledged his subiection to the church of Canturburie as his predecessours Thomas and Gerard had doone and before them other ancients as custome had prescribed Thus he charged him vpon paine of cursing except he would renounce his archbishops dignitie for in so dooing he did grant him licence to vse the office and ministerie of a préest which before time he had taken vpon him or else not line 10 In the same letters he prohibited all the bishops within the precinct of the I le of Britaine that in no wise they should consecrate him vpon paine of curssing and if he should chance to be consecrated by any stranger that in no wise they should vnder the like paine receiue him for archbishop or communicate with him in any condition Euerie bishop also within the whole I le of Britaine had a copie of these leters directed to him from Anselme vnder his seale line 20 commanding them to behaue themselues therein according to the contents and as they were bound by the subiection which they owght to the church of Canturburie The letters were dated alike in March Notwithstanding all this vpon the 21. of Aprill insuing Anselme ended his life in the sixtéenth yéere after his first preferment to that sée being thréescore and sixtéene yeeres of age He was an Italian borne in Piemont néere to the Alpes in a citie called Aosta he was brought vp by Lanfranke and before he was made archbishop was abbat of the monasterie line 30 of Bechellouin in Normandie About the same time was the bishops sée of Elie erected by the king who appointed one Haruie to be the first bishop there who before had béene bishop of Bangor Cambridgeshire was annexed to that see which bicause it had of former time belonged to the see of Lincolne the king gaue vnto the bishop of Lincolne as it were in recompense the towne of Spalding which was his owne The prior of Elie line 40 named Richard desirous
know Then the eight appellants standing on the other side cast their gloues to him and in prosecuting their appeale which alreadie had béene read offered to fight with him man to man to iustifie the same Then said the earle If I were at libertie and that it might so stand with the pleasure of my souereigne I would not refuse to prooue you all liers in this behalfe Then spake the duke of Lancaster saieng to him What haue you further to saie to the points before laid against you He answered that of the kings grace he had his letters of generall pardon which he required to haue allowed Then the duke told him that the pardon was reuoked by the prelates and noble men in the parlement and therefore willed him to make some other answer The earle told him againe that he had an other pardon vnder the kings great seale granted him long after of the kings owne motion which also he required to haue allowed The duke told him that the same was likewise reuoked After this when the earle had nothing more to saie for himselfe the duke pronounced iudgement against him as in cases of treason is vsed But after he had made an end and paused a little he said The king our souereigne lord of his mercie and grace bicause thou art of his bloud and one of the peeres of the realme hath remitted all the other paines sauing the last that is to saie the beheading and so thou shalt onelie lose thy head and foorthwith he was had awaie led through London vnto the Tower hill There went with him to sée the execution doone six great lords of whome there were thrée earles Notingham that had married his daughter Kent that was his daughters son and Huntington being mounted on great horsses with a great companie of armed men and the fierce bands of the Cheshire-men furnished with axes swords bowes and arrowes marching before and behind him who onelie in this parlement had licence to beare weapon as some haue written When he should depart the palace he desired that his hands might be losed to dispose such monie as he had in his pursse betwixt that place and Charingcrosse This was permitted and so he gaue such monie as he had in almes with his owne hands but his armes were still bound behind him When he came to the Tower hill the noble men that were about him mooued him right earnestlie to acknowledge his treason against the king But he in no wise would so doo but mainteined that he was neuer traitour in word or deed and herewith perceiuing the earles of Notingham and Kent that stood by with other noble men busie to further the execution being as yée haue heard of kin and alied to him he spake to them and said Trulie it would haue beséemed you rather to haue béene absent than here at this businesse But the time will come yer it be long when as manie shall meruell at your misfortune as line 10 doo now at mine After this forgiuing the executioner he besought him not to torment him long but to strike off his head at one blowe and féeling the edge of the sword whether it was sharpe inough or not he said It is verie well doo that thou hast to doo quicklie and so knéeling downe the executioner with one stroke strake off his head his bodie was buried togither with his head in the church of the Augustine friers in Breadstréet within the citie of London The death of this earle was much lamented among line 20 the people considering his sudden fall and misârable end where as not long before among all the noblemen of this land within the which was such a number as no countrie in the world had greater store at that present there was none more esteemed so noble and valiant he was that all men spake honour of him After his death as the fame went the king was sore vexed in his sléepe with horrible dreames imagining that he saw this earle appeare vnto him threatning him putting him in horrible line 30 feare as if he had said with the poet to king Richard Nunc quóque factorum venio memor vmbra tuorum Insequor vultus ossea forma tuos With which visions being sore troubled in sleepe he curssed the daie that euer he knew the earle And he was the more vnquiet bicause he heard it reported that the common people tooke the erle for a martyr insomuch that some came to visit the place of his sepulture for the opinion they had conceiued of his holinesse And where it was bruted abroad as for a line 40 miracle that his head should be growne to his bodie againe the tenth daie after his buriall the king sent about ten of the clocke in the night certeine of the nobilitie to sée his bodie taken vp that he might be certified of the truth Which doone and perceiuing it was a fable he commanded the friers to take downe his armes that were set vp about the place of his buriall and to couer the graue so as it should not be perceiued where he was buried But now to returne to the parlement After the death of this earle the lord Thomas Beauchampe line 50 earle of Warwike was brought foorth to abide his triall by parlement and when his accusers charged him in like points of treason such as before were imposed to the earle of Arundell he answered that he neuer meant euill to the kings person nor thought that those rodes and assemblies that were made in companie of the duke of Glocester the earle of Arundell and others might not be accompted treason But when the iudges had shewed him that they could line 60 not be otherwise taken than for treason he humblie besought the king of mercie and grace The king then asked of him whether he had rid with the duke of Glocester and the earle of Arundell as had beene alledged He answered that he could not denie it and wished that he had neuer seene them Then said the king Doo yee not know that you are guiltie of treason He answered againe I acknowledge it and with sobbing teares besought all them that were present to make intercession to the kings maiestie for him Then the king and the duke of Lancaster communed and after the king had a while with silence considered of the matter he said to the earle By saint Iohn Baptist Thomas of Warwike this confession that thou hast made is vnto me more auailable than all the duke of Glocesters and the earle of Warwikes lands Herewith the earle making still intercession for pardon the lords humblie besought the king to grant it Finallie the king pardoned him of life but banished him into the I le of Man which then was the lord Scroopes promising that both he and his wife and children should haue good interteinment Which promise notwithstanding was but slenderlie kept for both the earle and the countesse liued in great penurie as some write
thought that they would leauie a power and come downe to rescue Chierburgh The duke of Glocester therefore ãâã his camps to be stronglie intrenched and manie defensiâle 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 coÌtinued 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 seruiâns 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 releâijs eschetis forisfacturis feodis militum aduocationibus ecclesiarum aliorum beneficiorum ecclesiasticoruÌ quorumcúnque terris pratis pasturis boscis wareÌnis chaseis aquis vijs stagnis moleÌdinis viuarijs moris mariscis ac alijs coÌmoditatibus 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 IohaÌnes 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 praâed me first for kinred sake secondarâlie for the loue that I bare to my grandfather duke Humfrie which was sworne brother to hir father so mooue the king to be good to hir sonne Henrie earle of Richmond and to licence him with his fauour to returne againe into England And if it were his pleasure so to doo she promised that the earle hir sonne should marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the king without anie thing to be taken or demanded for the said espousals but onelie the kings fauour which request I soone ouerpassed and gaue hir faire words and so departed But after in my lodging when I called to memorie with a deliberate studie and did circumspectlie ponder them I fullie adiudged that the Holie-ghost caused hir to mooue a thing the end whereof she could not consider both for the securitie of the realme as also for the preferment of hir child and the destruction and finall confusion of the common enimie king
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 âhe 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 coÌuenient 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 diueâse 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
sore shaken and the maid died two daies after The one and twentith of December began a frost which continued so extremlie that on Newyeares euen people went ouer and alongst the Thames on the I se line 60 from London bridge to Westminster Some plaied at the football as boldlie there as if it had béene on the drie land diuerse of the court being then at Westminster shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames and the people both men and women went on the Thames in greater numbers than in anie strèet of the citie of London On the third daie of Ianuarie at night it began to thaw and on the fift daie was no I se to be seene betwéene London bridge and Lambeth which sudden thaw caused great floods and high waters that bare downe bridges and houses and drowned manie people in England especiallie in Yorkshire Owes bridge was borne awaie with others The third daie of Februarie Henrie Stuart lord Darleie about the age of ninetéene yeares eldest sonne to Matthew earle of Lineux who went into Scotland at Whitsuntide before hauing obteined licence of the quéenes maiestie tooke his iourneie towards Scotland accompanied with fiue of his fathers men where when he came he was honorablie receiued lodged in the kings lodgings and in the summer following he maried Marie quéen of Scotland About this time for the quéenes maiestie were chosen and sent commissioners to Bruges the lord Montacute knight of the honourable order of the garter doctor Wotton one of hir maiesties honourable councell doctor Haddon one of the masters of requests to hir highnesse with others master doctor Aubreie was for the merchant aduenturers of England they came to Bruges in Lent Anno 1565 and continued there till Michaelmasse following and then was the diet prolonged till March in the yeare 1566 and the commissioners returned into England The two and twentith of Aprill year 1565 the ladie Margarite countesse of Lineux was commanded to kéepe hir chamber at the Whitehall where she remained till the two and twentith of Iune and then conueied by sir Francis Knolles and the gard to the tower of London by water On s. Peters euen at night was the like standing watch in London as had béene on the same night twelue moneths past The sixtéenth of Iulie about nine of the clocke at night began a tempest of lightning and thunder with showers of haile which continued till three of the clocke in the next morning so terriblie that at Chelmesford in Essex 500 acres of corne was destroied the glasse windowes on the east side of the towne and of the west and south sides of the church were beaten downe with the tiles of their houses also besides diuerse barnes chimneis and the battlements of the church which was ouerthrowne The like harme was doone in manie other places as at Leeds Cranebroke Douer c. Christopher prince and margraue of Baden with Cicilie his wife sister to the king of Swethland after a long and dangerous iournie wherein they had trauelled almost eleuen months sailing from Stockholme crossing the seas ouer into Lifeland from whence by land they came about by Poland Prussie Pomerland Meckelburgh Friseland and so to Antwerpe in Brabant then to Calis at the last in September landed at Douer and the eleuenth daie of the same they came to London and were lodged at the earle of Bedfords place neere to Iuie bridge where within foure daies after that is to saie the fiftéenth of September she trauelled in childbed and was deliuered of a man child which child the last of September was christened in the quéenes maiesties chappell of White hall at Westminster the quéenes maiestie in hir owne person being godmother the archbishop of Canturburie and the duke of Norffolke godfathers At the christening the quéene gaue the child to name Edwardus Fortunatus for that God had so gratiouslie assisted his mother in so long and dangerous a iournie and brought hir safe to land in that place which she most desired and that in so short time before hir deliuerance The eleuenth of Nouember the right honorable Ambrose earle of Warwike maried Anne eldest daughter to the earle of Bedford For the honor and celebration of which noble mariage a goodlie chalenge was made and obserued at Westminster at the tilt each one six courses at the tournie twelue strokes with the sword thrée pushes with the punchion staffe and twelue blowes with the sword at barriers or twentie if anie were so disposed At ten of the clocke at night the same daie a valiant seruiceable man called Robert Thomas maister gunner of England desirous also to honour the feast and mariage daie in consideration the said earle of Warwike was generall of the ordinance within hir maiesties realmes and dominions made thrée great traines of chambers which terriblie yéelded foorth the nature of their voice to the great astonishment of diuerse who at the firing of the second was vnhappilie line 10 slaine by a péece of one of the chambers to the great sorow and lamentation of manie The foure and twentith of December in the morning there rose a great storme and tempest of wind by whose rage the Thames and seas ouerwhelmed manie persons and the great gates at the west end of S. Paules church in London betwéene the which standeth the brasen piller were through the force of the wind then in the westerne part of the world blowne open In Ianuarie monsieur Rambulet a line 20 knight of the order in France was sent ouer into England year 1566 by the French king Charles the ninth of that name with the order who at Windsore was stalled in the behalfe of the said French king with the knighthood of the most honorable order of the garter And the foure and twentith of Ianuarie in the chappell of hir maiesties palace of Whitehall the said monsieur Rambulet inuested Thomas duke of Norffolke and Robert earle of Leicester with the said order of S. Michaell line 30 The marquesse of Baden and the ladie Cicilie his wife sister to the king of Swethen who came into this land in the moneth of September last past as before is declared being then by the quéenes especiall appointment at their arriuall honorablie receiued by the lord Cobham an honorable baron of this realme and the ladie his wife one of the quéenes maiesties priuie chamber now in the moneth of Aprill 1566 departed the realme againe the marquesse a few daies before his wife being both conducted by line 40 a like personage the lord of Aburgauennie to Douer Certeine houses in Cornehill being first purchased by the citizens of London were in the moneth of Februarie cried by a belman and afterward sold to such persons as should take them downe and carie them from thence which was so doone in the moneths of Aprill and Maie next following And then the ground being made plaine at the
this Iohn Sitsylt and had by hir sir Iohn Baskeruile knight 11 Sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Alicia the sister of the said sir Roger Baskeruile and sir Roger married his sister as is aforesaid This sir Iohn Sitsylt had Iohn Sitsylt and Roger Sitsylt In the time of the warres that king Edward the third made against Scotland at a place called Halidon hill néere Barwike anno 6. of Edward the third there arose a great variance and contention betweene sir William de Facknaham knight on the one side approuant this sir Iohn Sitsylt knight on the other side defendant for an ensigne of armes that is to saie The field of ten barrets siluer and azure supported of fiue scutcheons sable charged with so manie lions of the first rampants incensed geuls which ensigne both the parties did claime as their right But as both parties put themselues to their force to mainteine their quarrell and vaunted to mainteine the same by their bodies it pleased the king that iustice should be yéelded for triall of the quarrell without shedding of bloud and so the bearing of the ensigne was solemnelie adiudged to be the right of the said sir Iohn Sitsylt as heire of blood lineallie descended of the bodie of Iames Sitsylt lord of Beauport slaine at the siege of Wallingford as before is declared The finall order and determination of which controuersie is laid downe by Iohn Boswell gentleman in his booke intituled The concords of Armorie fol. 80. This sir Iohn Sitsylt had a charge of men at arms for the custodie of the marches to Scotland in the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the third 12 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of sir Iohn Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Ione daughter of sir Richard Monington knight and had by hir Iohn Sitsylt that died his father being aliue and Thomas Sitsylt 13 Thomas Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter and heire of Gilbert de Winston and had by hir Philip Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt This man was a great benefactor to the moonks of Dore and forgaue them great sums of monie which they did owe him 14 Philip Sitsylt married Margaret the daughter of Iohn Philips and had by hir Richard Iohn and Margaret 15 Richard Sitsylt or Cecill married Margaret the daughter of Philip Uaughan and had by hir Philip Cecill Margaret Cecill Iohn Cecill Dauid Cecill and Iames or Ienkin Cecill * These pedegrées descents I gathered faithfullie out of sundrie ancient records and euidences wherof the most part are confirmed with seales autentike therevnto appendent manifestlie declaring the antiquitie and truth therof which remaine at this present in the custodie of the right honourable sir William Cecill knight of the noble order of the garter lord Burghleie and lord high treasuror of England who is lineallie descended from the last recited Richard Sitsylt father to Dauid Cecill grandfather to the said sir William Cecill now lord Burghleie And at this daie William Sitsylt or Cecill esquier coosen german to the said lord Burghleie remooued by one degrée onelie is possessed of the foresaid house of Halterennes in Ewyas land as the heire male of the house of Sitsylts and is descended of Philip Cecill elder brother to the said Dauid This sir William Cecill lord Burghleie liuing at this instant in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred eightie and six to the great support of this commonwealth dooth worthilie inioy the place of the lord treasuror of England of whome for auoiding the note of flatterie I may not saie that good which we the subiects of England doo féele by his meanes and all the world dooth sée in his rare and wise gouernment And therefore leauing what may be said of him for his honorable deserts from his countrie his prince and his countriemen as well for rare gouernement at home as for graue managing of the matter of state abroad I beseech the almightie Lord to lengthen his yeares with perfect health and happie successe of all his good desires to answer the worth of those his honourable deserts Thus knitting vp this discourse of the treasurors with no lesse honorable person of the temporaltie in this our age than I began the same discourse with a rare person of the spiritualtie in that their age this being knowne as singular in policie as the other line 10 was supposed to be in prelacie I here set end to that which with much labour of bodie trauell of mind and charge of pursse I haue brought to this forme what so euer it be Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the treasurors of England The 22 of August Thomas Persie earle of Northumberland late of Topclife who had beene before attainted by parlement of high treason as one of the principall conspirators in the late rebellion and line 20 now brought out of Scotland whither he had fled was beheaded at Yorke about two of the clocke in the afternoone on a new scaffold set vp for that purposâ in the market place In this moneth of August sir Thomas Smith one of the quéenes maiesties priuie councell carefullie tendering the reformation of Ireland sent his son Thomas Smith esquier thither with a certeine number of Englishmen to inhabit the Ards in Ulster after the maner of a colonie vsed by the Romans The eighteenth of Nouember in the morning was line 30 séene a star northward verie bright and cléere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir chaire which with thrée chéefe fixed stars of the said constellation made a geometricall figure losengwise of the learned men called Rhombus This starre in bignes at the first appeering séemed bigger than Iupiter not much lesse than Uenus when she seemeth greatest Also the said starre neuer changing his place was caried about with the dailie motion of heauen as all fixed starres commonlie are and so continued line 40 by little and little to the eie appearing lesse for the space of almost sixtéene moneths at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of off vewing might imagine the place than anie eie could iudge the presence of the same And one thing is herein cheefelie to be noted that by the skill and consent of the best and most expert mathematicians which obserued the state propertie and other circumstances belonging to the same starre it was found line 50 to haue beene in place celestiall far aboue the moone otherwise than euer anie comet hath béene séene or naturallie can appéere Therefore it is supposed that the signification therof is directed purposelie and speciallie to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the world neuer was the like The foure and twentith of Nouember Edward earle of Darbie lord Stanleie Strange of Knocking lord and gouernor of the Iles of Man knight line 60 of the noble order of the garter and one of the quéens maiesties priuie
like a fether being hollow with one eare growing on the lower part of the chéeke his bellie big and hard the armes big hauing fiue fingers and a thumbe on either hand and in place of toes on the left foot fiue fingers and a thumbe on the right foot a thumbe and seuen fingers in the place of priuitie the shape both of male female a strange sight to be seene and I feare signifieth our monstrous line 50 life which God for his mercie giue vs grace to amend without procrastination or putting off from daie to daie as the poet significantlie saith Cras vultis sed vult hodie vindex Deus cras Aut non vult aut vos obruet atra dies The eight daie of October immediatlie after the new moone there appeared a blasing star in the south bushing toward the east which was nightlie séene the aier being cléere more than two moneths The eighteenth of October were made eight sergeents line 60 at law to wit William Fléetwood recorder of London Edward Flowerdue Thomas Snag William Periam Robert Halton Iohn Clench Iohn Pickering Thomas Warmsleie maister Snag before named was sicke and therefore was sworne in his chamber at Greies inne the other seuen were sworne at Westminster and held their feast at the new Temple at London The quéenes maiestie being informed that in sundrie places of this realme certeine persons secretlie taught damnable heresies contrarie to diuers principall articles of our beléefe and christian faith who to colour their sect named themselues the familie of loue and then as manie as were allowed by them to be of that familie to be elect and saued and all others of âhat church soeuer they be to be reiected and damned And for that vpon conuenting of some of them before the bishops ordinaries it was found that the ground of their sect is mainteined by certeine lewd hereticall and seditious books first made in the Dutch toong and lastlie translated into English and printed beyond the seas secretlie brought ouer into the realme the author whereof they name H. N. c. And considering also it is found that those sectaries held opinion that they may before anie magistrat or ecclesiasticall or temporall or anie other person not being professed to be of their sect by oth or otherwise denie anie thing for their aduantage so as though manie of them are well knowne to be teachers and spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable sects yet by their owne confession they can not be condemned Therefore hir maiestie being verie sorie to sée so great an euill by malice of the diuell to be brought into this hir realme and by hir bishops and ordinaries she vnderstandeth it verie requisit not onelie to haue those dangerous heretiks and sectaries to be seuerelie punished but that also all other meanes be vsed by hir maiesties roiall authoritie which is giuen hir of God to defend Christs church to root them out from further infecting of hir realme she hath thought méet and conuenient and so by hir proclamation commandeth that all hir officers and ministers temporall shall in all their seuerall vocations assist the bishops of hir realme and all other person to search out all persons dulie suspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable sects and by all good meanes to proceed seuerelie against them being found culpable by order of the lawes ecclesiasticall or temporall and that all search be made in all places suspected for the books and writings mainteining the said heresies and sects and them to destroie and burne c as more at large may appéere by the said proclamation giuen at Richmond the third of October and proclamed at London on the ninetéenth daie of the same moneth About this time there arriued vpon the west coast of Ireland a certeine companie of Italians and Spaniards sent by the pope to the aid of the earle of Desmond in his rebellion which fortified themselues stronglie néere vnto Smerwike in a fort which they called castell del Ore there erecting the popes banner against hir maiestie Which when the lord Greie of Wilton deputie of Ireland vnderstood he marched thitherward and on the sixt of Nouember hearing of the arriuall of the Swift the Tigre the Aid the Merlion other of the quéenes maiesties ships and also of thrée barks fraughted from Corke and Limerike with vittels on the morrow after marched towards the fort vnto the which he gaue so hot an assault that on the ninth of Nouember the same was yéelded all the Irishmen and women hanged and more than foure hundred Spaniards Italians and Biscaies put to the sword the coronell capteins secretarie and others to the number of twentie saued for ransome In which fortresse was found good store of monie bisket bakon oile wine and diuerse other prouisions of vittels sufficient for their companie for halfe a yeare besides armour powder shot and other furniture for two thousand men and vpwards The eight and twentith daie of Nouember were arreigned in the kings bench William Randoll for coniuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth and goods felloniouslie taken were become Thomas Elks Thomas Lupton Rafe Spacie and Christopher Waddington for being present aiding and procuring the said Randoll to the coniuration aforesaid Randoll Elks Spacie and Waddington were found guiltie had iudgement to be hanged Randoll was executed the other were repriued About the 24 of December in the town of Walsham in the countie of Sussex a child of eleuen yéers old named William Withers laie in a trance for the space of ten daies without anie sustenance and at the last comming to himselfe he vttered to the standers by manie strange spéeches inueieng against pride couetousnesse coldnesse of charitie and other line 10 outragious sins To behold this child there resorââd diuerse godlie zelous preachers as also knights esquiers gentlemen all of them hearing and séeing that which was woonderfull And among others that came thither there was a gentleman of great credit and worship with certeine of his men to heare and behold the child who hauing espied a seruingman that had béene there with his maister two times whom he had sharplie tawnted for his great and monstrous ruffes spake vnto him verie vehementlie line 20 and told him that it were better for him to put on sackecloth and mourne for his sinnes than in such abhominable pride to pranke vp himselfe like the diuels darling the verie father of pride and lieng who sought by the exercise of that damnable sinne to make himselfe a preie to euerlasting torments in helfire Wherevpon the seruingman as one prickt in conscience sore sorowed and wept for his offense rent the band from his necke tooke a knife and cut it in péeces and vowed neuer to weare the like againe line 30 This for the strangenesse thereof will be condemned as a lie speciallie of vnbeléeuers and peruers
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 deârat 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
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 Londân 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 disseât 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 consumâd 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 twântith 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
realme than to suffer the iustice line 60 of hir lawes to be executed against them although they haue deserued the same in the highest degrée hath giuen power to vs of hir maiesties priuie councell others by commission and warrant vnder the great seale of England bearing date the fiftéenth daie of this present month of Ianuarie to sée this hir purpose and determination for their banishment put in execution By vertue whereof we haue procéeded therevnto and haue committed to the charge of these bearers William Bolles one of hir maiesties yeomen of hir chamber and Anthonie Hall the persons whose names doo follow that is to saie Iames Bosgraue Iohn Hart Edward Rushton Iaspar Heiwood William Tedder Samuell Coniers Arthur Pits William Wharmington Richard Slake William Hartlie Richard Norris William Dean William Bishop Robert Nutter Thomas Stephanson Iohn Coliton Christopher Tomson Thomas Worthington Iohn Barns William Smith clearks being Iesuits seminaries and other wandering and massing priests and Henrie Orton gentleman all which haue béene apprehended in this realme to be by them imbarked and transported beyond the seas according to such direction as they haue receiued in that behalfe These shall be therefore by the authoritie aforesaid to will and require you and in hir maiesties name strictlie to charge and command you and euerie of you hir maiesties officers as well within the realme of England and Iceland as in anie other parts of hir maiesties dominions and countries to whome it may and shall apperteine not onelie to suffer them to passe vnder the charge of the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall but also that in case by contrarietie of winds or extremitie of weather they shall be after their imbarking driuen into anie port or creeke within anie of your iurisdictions that vpon the sight of this pasport ye aid and assist the said Bolles and Anthonie Hall if they shall so require you in séeing them safelie reteined committed kept in custodie if they shall come aland till such time as they the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall may with safetie put againe into the sea to transport them to such place beyond the sea as by our direction they are appointed and to suffer them eftsoones to imbarke and depart without staie or interruption Foreseeing that they the said Iesuits and seminaries and other the wandering and massing priests aforesaid nor anie of them nor the said Henrie Orton be suffered to conueie or transport out of the realme anie thing that by the lawes be prohibited or forbidden Whereof as of the rest commanded herein we require you not to faile as you will answer to the contrarie at your perils Giuen vnder our hands at Gréenewich the twentith daie of Ianuarie in the seuen and twentie yeare of hir maiesties reigne ¶ Now followeth a certificat of the maister that transported the forenamed one and twentie banished persons as followeth To the right honorable lords and others of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell and all other officers to whome it may apperteine THese may be to certifie c that William Bolles yeoman vsher of hir maiesties chamber and Anthonie Hall of London skinner hauing imbarked at the Tower wharffe of London the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie 1584 one and twentie persons being banished men into my barke called the Marie Martin of Colchester to be transported and conueied into Normandie for sixtéene of which said one and twentie persons they had compounded with me aforehand The same William Bolles and Anthonie Hall haue satisfied and paid me for all their passages and vittels and haue also hired at Douer an experimented pilot for the coasts of Normandie which said Bolles and Hall with the said banished men in their charges after their being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith at Grauesend in Tilberie hope at Lée at the Spaniard at the Downes at Douer and at Rie were by force of weather and chase of pirats driuen to Bullen and there arriued all safelie the second day of Februarie 1584 and thense sent the said banished men some by horsse but most on foot with conducts to Abbiuile in the coasts of Normandie Witnesse my hand herevnto this fift of Februarie 1584. ¶ By me Matthew Strut An other certificat written and directed into England by the said banished men TO all magistrats officers ministers within the realme of England or elsewhere to whome it may in anie wise apperteine line 10 this may be to giue certification that we whose names are here vnder written who were imbarked at the Tower wharffe of London the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie 1584 and there receiued into the charge of maister William Bolles and maister Anthonie Hall by commission from their lordships and other hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell haue béene by them the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall verie friendlie honestlie intreated and with carefull diligence line 20 safelie conducted transported conueied to the prouince of Normandie by them left this third daie of Februarie according to the English computation in the yeare of Christ 1584 which said Bolles and Hall haue in our presence paid the maister of the barke which transported vs for his whole fraught and vittels in the ship for the time of our remaining abroad and generallie so well vsed vs in all respects that we can not but acknowledge our selues much beholding to them fullie satisfied in hauing béene line 30 committed to the charge of so courteous officers sith the case standeth so with vs that we are banished our countrie contrarie to our desires wherein we take no little griefe of mind For testimonie wherof we haue herevnto set our seuerall hands this present third daie of Februarie 1584. Iaspar Halwood Edward Rushton Iohn Hart c. ¶ O Lord what a mercifull quéene is this in such sort to forgiue and forget iniuries yea treasonable iniuries as by banishment onelie to chastise them line 40 that deserued extreame punishment Yea with a banishment scarse fitlie to be so termed sith in the execution thereof there was such clemencie shewed as that the banished by their owne confessions haue left acknowledged vnder their owne handwriting a notable kind of courtesie receiued by the meanes of hir maiestie And therefore they cannot but in conscience commend hir highnesse tender affection so gratiouslie exchanged for seuere affliction insomuch that it may rightlie be reported of hir gighnesse line 50 which the poet spake of Caesar that is to saie Est piger ad poenas princeps ad praemia velox CuÃque dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Henrie earle of Darbie appointed to be hir maiesties ambassador to Henrie the third French king and to inuest him with the order of the garter tooke his leaue of the quéenes maiestie at Greenewich on the twentith daie of Ianuarie and with him such gentlemen as were present were admitted to kisse hir highnesse hand Maister Robert Cooke
him practised as maie appeare by the discourse that followeth published vpon his execution to giue generall intimation of his notorious trecheries vnto all the quéenes maiesties subiects A true and plaine declaration of the horrible treasons practised by William Parrie against the queenes maiestie and of his line 50 conuiction and execution for the same the second of March 1584 according to the account of England THis William Parrie being a man of verie meane and base parentage but of a most proud and insolent spirit bearing himselfe alwaies far aboue the measure of his fortune after he had long led a wastfull and dissolute life and had committed a great outrage against one Hugh Hare a gentleman of the inner line 60 temple with an intent to haue murthered him in his owne chamber for the which he was most iustlie conuicted séeing himselfe generallie condemned with all good men for the same and other his misdemeanors he left his naturall countrie gaue himselfe to trauell into forren parts beyond the seas In the course of this his trauell he forsooke his allegiance and dutifull obedience to hir maiestie and was reconciled and subiected himselfe to the pope After which vpon conference with certeine Iesuits and others of like qualitie he first conceiued his most detestable treason to kill the quéene whose life God long preserue which he bound himselfe by promise letters and vowes to performe and execute and so with this intent he returned into England in Ianuarie one thousand fiue hundred foure score thrée and since that did practise at sundrie times to haue executed his most diuelish purpose and determinatition yet couering the same so much as in him laie with a veile and pretense of great loialtie vnto hir maiestie Immediatlie vpon his returne into England he sought to haue secret accesse to hir maiestie pretending to haue some matter of great importance to reueale vnto hir which obteined and the same so priuatlie in his highnesse palace at Whitehall as hir maiestie had but one onelie councellor with hir at the time of his acresse in a remote place who was so far distant as he could not heare his spéech And there then he discouered vnto hir maiestie but shadowed with all craftie and tratiorous skill he had some part of the conference and procéeding as well with the said Iesuits and other ministers of the popes as especiallie with one Thomas Morgan a fugitiue residing at Paris who aboue all others did persuade him to proceed in that most diuelish attempt as is set downe in his voluntarie confession following bearing hir maiestie notwithstanding in hand that his onelie intent of proceeding so farre with the said Iesuits and the popes ministers tended to no other end but to discouer the dangerous practises deuised and attempted against hir maiestie by hir disloiall subiects and other malicious persons in forren parts albeit it hath since appeared most manifestlie as well by his said confession as by his dealing with one Edmund Neuill esquier that his onelie intent of discouering the same in sort as he craftilie and traitorouslie did tended to no other end but to make the waie the easier to accomplish his most diuelish and wicked purpose And although anie other prince but hir maiestie who is loth to put on a hard censure of those that protest to be loiall as Parrie did would rather haue procéeded vnto the punishment of a subiect that had waded so farre as by oth and vow to promise the taking awaie of hir life as he vnto hir maiesties selfe did confesse yet such was hir goodnesse as in stead of punishing she did deale so gratiouslie with him as she suffered him not onelie to haue accesse vnto hir presence but also manie times to haue priuat conference with hir and did offer vnto him vpon opinion once conceiued of his fidelitie towards hir as though his wicked pretense had béene as he protested for hir seruice a most liberall pension Besides to the end that he might not grow hatefull to the good and well affected subiects of the realme from whome he could in no sort haue escaped with safetie of his life if his diuelish purpose had beene reuealed hir maiestie did conceale the same without communicating it to anie creature vntill such time as he himselfe had opened the same vnto certeine of hir councell and that it was also discouered that he sought to draw the said Neuill to haue béene a partie in his diuelish and most wicked purpose A verie rare example and such as dooth more set forth the singular goodnesse and bountie of hir maiesties princelie nature than commend if it be lawfull for a subiect to censure his souereigne hir prouidence such as ought to be in a prince and person of hir maiesties wisdome and qualitie And as the goodnesse of hir maiesties nature did hereby most manifestlie shew it selfe to be rare in so extraordinarie a case and in a matter of so great perill vnto hir owne roiall person so did the malice of Parrie most euidentlie appeare to be in the highest and extreamest degrée who notwithstanding the said extraordinarie grace and fauour extended towards him did not onlie persuade the said Neuill to be an associat in the said wicked enterprise but did also verie vehementlie as Neuill confesseth importune him therein as an action lawfull honourable and meritorious omitting nothing that might prouoke him to assent therevnto But such was the singular goodnesse of almightie God who euen from hir maiesties cradle by manie euident arguments hath shewed himselfe hir onelie and especiall protector that he so wrought in Neuils heart as he was mooued to reueale the same vnto hir maiestie and for that purpose made line 10 choice of a faithfull gentleman and of good qualitie in the court vnto whome vpon mondaie the eight of Februarie last past he discouered at large all that had passed betwéene Parrie and him who immediatlie made it knowne to hir maiestie Wherevpon hir highnesse pleasure was that Neuill should be examined by the earle of Leceister and sir Christopher Hatton who in the euening of the same daie did examine him and he affirmed constantlie all which he had before declared to the said gentleman line 20 In the meane time hir maiestie continued hir singular and most princelie magnanimitie neither dismaied with the rarenesse of the accident nor appaled with the horror of so villanous an enterprise tending euen to the taking awaie of hir most gratious life a matter especiallie obserued by the councellor that was present at such time as Parrie after his returne did first discouer vnto hir maiestie his wicked purpose who found no other alteration in hir countenance than if he had imparted vnto hir some matter line 30 of contentment which sheweth manifestlie how she reposeth hir confidence wholie in the defense of the almightie And so hir maiestie following the woonted course of hir singular clemencie gaue order that
deliuered in the Star-chamber and after published in a booke intituled A true and summarie report of the declaration of some part of the earle of Northumberlands treasons deliuered publikelie in the court at the Starchamber by the lord Chancellor and others of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell councell learned by hir maiesties speciall commandement togither with the examinations depositions of sundrie persons touching the maner of his most wicked and violent murther committed vpon himselfe with his owne hand in the Tower of London the 20 daie of Iune 1585. MAlice among other essentiall properties perteining to hir ouglie nature hath this one not inferior to the rest and the woorst incredulitie wherewith the commonlie possesseth the minds and affections of all those that are infected with hir so blinding the eies iudgement of the best and clearest sighted that they cannot see or perceiue the bright beames of the truth although the same be deliuered with neuer so great puritie proofe circumstance and probabilitie It is said that no truth passeth abroad vnaccompanied with hir contrarie and as they go truth is euer constreined to yeeld the precedence and preheminence to hir yokefellow falshood whose lodging is alwaies first made and prepared without a harbenger in the corrupt nature of mankind by whome she is first receiued interteined and harbored at all times wherof in our dailie experience there happen manie and dangerous demonstrations especiallie in matters of the highest moment tending to excuse or accuse the actions of the greatest personages There was of late deliuered in publike by persons of honour credit and reputation a large declaration of certeine treasons practised by the late earle of Northumberland of the maner of his vntimelie death being with his owne hand murthered in the Tower and of the causes that wrought him therevnto The particularities whereof are such and so manie as for the helpe of my memorie comming then to the Starchamber by occasion and not looking for anie such presence of the nobilitie and priuie councell as I found there at that time and not looking for anie such cause of that nature to haue béene handled there that daie I tooke notes of the seuerall matters declared by the lord chancellor maister attourneie and solicitor generall the lord chiefe baron and maister vicechamberlaine for as I remember they spake in order as they are here marshalled and therefore I place them in this sort and not according to their precedence in dignitie Upon the hearing of the treasons with their proofs and circumstances and the desperat maner of the earles destruction deliuered in that place and by persons of that qualitie I supposed no man to line 10 haue beene so void of iudgement or the vse of common reason that would haue doubted of anie one point or particle thereof vntill it was my chance falling in companie with diuerse persons at sundrie times as well about the citie of London as abroad to heare manie men report variablie and corruptlie of the maner and matter of this publike declaration possessing the minds and opinions of the people with manifest vntruths as that the earle had béene vniustlie deteined in prison without proofe or line 20 iust cause of suspicion of treason and that he had beene murthered by deuise and practise of some great enimies and not destroied by himselfe These slanderous reports haue ministred vnto me this occasion to set forth vnto thy view and consideration gentle reader this short collection of the said treasons and murther as neere vnto the truth as my notes taken may lead and permit me with the view of some of the examinations them selues concerning this cause for my better satisfaction since obteined Which I line 30 haue vndertaken for two respects the one to conuince the false and malicious impressions and constructions receiued and made of these actions by such as are in heart enimies to the happie estate of hir maiesties present gouernement the other because it may be thought necessarie for the preuenting of a further contagion like to grow by this créeping infection in the minds of such as are apt though otherwise indifferent in these and the like rumors to receiue the bad as the good and they the most in number Wherein if I haue séemed more bold than line 40 wise or intermedled my selfe in matters aboue my reach and not apperteining vnto me I craue pardon where it is to be asked and commit my selfe to thy friendlie interpretation to be made of my simple trauell and dutifull meaning herein Upon the three and twentith daie of Iune last assembled in the court of Starchamber sir Thomas Bromleie knight lord chancellor of England William lord Burleigh lord treasuror of England line 50 George earle of Shrewsburie lord marshall of England Henrie earle of Derbie Robert earle of Leicester Charles lord Howard of Effingham lord chamberlaine Henrie lord Hunsdon lord gouernor of Berwike sir Francis Knollis knight treasuror sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of hir maiesties houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vice-chamberlaine to the quéenes maiestie the lord chiefe iustice of hir maiesties bench the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the excheker line 60 and others The audience verie great of knights esquiers and men of other qualitie the lord chancellor began briefelie and summarilie to declare that whereas Henrie late earle of Northumberland for diuerse notable treasons and practises by him taken in hand to the danger not onelie of hir maiesties roiall person but to the perill of the whole realme had béene long deteined in prison and looking into the guilt of his owne conscience and perceiuing by such meanes of intelligence as he by corrupting of his keepers and other like deuises had obteined that his treasons were by sundrie examinations and confessions discouered grew thereby into such a desperat estate as that therevpon he had most wickedlie destroied murthered himselfe Which being made knowen to the lords of hir maiestees priuie councell order was therevpon taken and direction giuen to the lord chiefe iustice of England the maister of the rolles and the lord chiefe baron of the eâcheker to examine the maner and circumstances of his death which they with all good indeuor and diligence had accordinglie performed And least through the sinister meanes of such persons as be euill affected to the present estate of hir maiesties gouernement some bad and vntrue conceipts might be had as well of the cause of the earles deteinement as of the maner of his death it was therefore thought necessarie to haue the truth thereof made knowen in that presence and then he required hir maiesties learned councell there present to deliuer at large the particularities both of the treasons and in what sort the earle had murthered himselfe Then began Iohn Popham esquier hir maiesties attourneie generall as followeth The earle of Northumberland about the time of the last rebellion in the north in
earle of these confederacies but the lord Paget onlie who stood in danger to be discouered by Francis Throckmorton the safetie therefore of the line 10 earle rested altogither vpon the lord Pagets departing out of the realme Which was procured by the earle with so great expedition as that Throckmorton being coÌmitted to the Tower about the seuenth daie of Nouember 1583 the earle made meanes the twelfe daie to haue the lord Paget prouided of shipping in all hast by William Shelleie wherin the earle vsed such importunat intreatie sent so often to hasten the preparation of the ship that the same was prouided and the lord Paget imbarked by the line 20 14. of the same moneth following or thereabout The departure of the lord Paget soone after discouered and how and by whom he was conueied awaie hir maiestie vpon good cause taking offense thereat the earle being then at London had notice thereof and of the confessions of Throckmorton who began to discouer the treasons came presentlie down to Petworth sent immediatlie for William Shelleie who comming to him to Petworth the next morning about dinner time met the earle in a dining line 30 parlour readie to go to his dinner The earle tooke Shelleie aside into a chamber and as a man greatlie distracted and troubled in mind entred into these speeches Alas I am a man cast awaie And Shelleie demanding what he ment by those spéeches the earle answered The actions I haue entred into I feare will be my vtter vndooing and thervpon desired Shelleie to kéepe his counsell and to discouer no more of him than he must néeds The earle moreouer at this méeting intreated William Shelleie to line 40 conueie away all such as he knew to haue béene emploied and were priuie of the lord Pagets going awaie and of Charles Pagets comming ouer which was accordinglie performed by Shelleie and the earle for his part conueied awaie a principall man of his own whom he had often vsed in messages into France and had béene of trust appointed by the earle to attend on Charles Paget all the time of his staie at Connigar lodge Maister solicitor pursuing the matters that made line 50 the earles practises and deuises for the concealing of his treasons manifest declared further that after the earle and Shelleie had obteined some libertie in the Tower after their first restreint the earle found meanes to haue intelligence with Shelleie was aduertised from him of all that he had confessed in his first examinations taken before they were last restreined since which time the earle by corrupting of his kéeper hath practised to haue continuall aduertisements as before as well of things doone within the Tower as abroad in so much as by his said keeper he had sent and conueied twelue seuerall letters out of the Tower within the space of nine or ten wéekes and one of those on sundaie the twentith daie of Iune in the morning when he murthered himselfe the night following By the same corruption of his kéepers he sent also a message to William Shelleie by a maidseruant in the Tower by the which he required him to stand to his first confessions and to go no further for so it would be best for him and he should keepe himselfe out of danger Wherevnto Shelleie returned answer by the same messenger that he could hold out no longer that he had concealed the matters as long as he could and willed the earle to consider that there was a great difference betwéene the earles estate and his for that the earle in respect of his nobilitie was not in danger to be dealt withall in such sort as he the said Shelleie was like to be being but a priuat gentleman and therefore to be vsed with all extremitie to be made confesse the truth wherefore he aduised the earle to deale plainlie and to remember what spéeches had passed at his house at Petworth when Charles Paget came last thither Iames Price by the same corruption of the earls kéeper came to William Shelleie on the fridaie or saturdaie before Trinitie sundaie last and told him that the erle was verie desirous to vnderstand how farre he had gone in his confessions and at Prices instance Shelleie did set downe in writing the effect of the said confessions and sent the same to the said earle who vpon the sight therof perceiuing the treasons reuealed and discouered and knowing thereby how heinous his offenses were fearing the iustice and seueritie of the lawes and so the ruine and ouerthrow of his house fell into desperation so to the destruction of himselfe For confirmation whereof it was confessed by one Iaques Pantins a groome of the earles chamber who had attended on the earle in the Tower by the space of ten wéeks before his death that he had heard the earle often saie that maister Shelleie was no faithfull fréend vnto him and that he had confessed such things as were sufficient to ouerthrow them both that he was vndoone by Shelleies accusations affirming that the earle began to despaire of himselfe often with teares lamenting his cause which the earle said to proceed onlie of the remembrance of his wife and children saieng further that such matters were laid vnto his charge that he expected no fauour but to be brought to his triall and then he was but a lost man repeating often that Shelleie had vndoone him and still mistrusting his cause wished for death Herewith maister solicitor concluded and then sir Roger Manwood knight lord chiefe baron of hir maiesties excheker entered into the description of the earles death and in what sort he had murthered himselfe shewing first how the same had beene found by a verie substantiall iurie chosen among the best commoners of the citie impanelled by the coroner vpon the view of the bodie and diligent inquirie by all due meanes had according to the law and declared that vpon the discouerie of the intelligence conueied betweene the earle and Shelleie it was thought necessarie for the benefit of hir maiesties seruice by such of hir highnesse most honourable priuie councell as were appointed commissioners to examine the course of these treasons that Iaques Pantins attending vpon the earle and the earles corrupt kéepers should be remooued Wherevpon Thomas Bailiffe gentleman sent to attend on the earle of Northumberland vpon the remoouing of Palmer and Iaques Pantins from about the said earle who from the beginning of his last restreint attended on him for the reasons lastlie before mentioned was by the lieutenant of the Tower on the sunday about two of the clocke in the after noone being the twentith of Iune shut vp with the earle as appointed to remaine with him and serue him in the prison for a time vntill Palmer Pantins and Price then committed close prisoners might be examined how the earle came by such intelligences as were discouered to haue passed betwéene the earle and Shelleie and betweene the
Bedfordshire on the eight of September next following On the three and twentith of Iulie certeine souldiers were pressed in the seuerall wards of the citie of London which souldiers being furnished for the warres and clothed in red cotes all at the charges of the companies and citizens set forth toward the seas on the thirtéenth of August and were transported ouer into Holland Zeland c as other the like souldiers out of other parts of the realme before had béene to serue for the defense of the low countries vnder generall Norris and other approoued capteins On the fourth daie of August betwixt the hours of foure and fiue of the clocke in the morning at the end of the towne called Motingham in Kent eight miles from London in a lane not farre from the houses the ground began to sinke thrée great elmes being swallowed vp the tops falling downward into a hole with the rootes vpward turning round in the falling and driuen into the earth past mans sight to the woonderfull amazement of manie honest men of the same towne being beholders of this strange sight and before ten of the clocke that present day the ground trees were soonke so low that neither the one or other might be discerned the hole or vaut being sometimes filled with water and otherwhiles neither bottome trées or water maie be perceiued the compasse of this hole is about fourescore yards and being sounded with a lead and line of fiftie fadams cannot therewith find or féele anie bottome Ten yards distant from this place there is another péece of ground soonke in like maner which parcell of ground falleth still into the high waie to the great feare of that whole towne but especiallie to the inhabitants of a house not far distant from the aforesaid places On the fiftéenth daie of September to the number of two thirtie seminaries massing priests and others late prisoners in the tower of London Marshalsée Kings bench and other places were imbarked in the Marie Martine of Colchester on the southside of the Thames right ouer against S. Katharines to be transported ouer into the coasts of Normandie to be banished this realme for euer by vertue of a commission from hir maiestie before specified in pag. 1379. A copie of the certificat written and directed into England by the said banished men WHereas vpon your honors commission directed vnto Anthonie Hall and Thomas Stockar for the transporting of vs whose names are vnder written into the coasts of Normandie who accordinglie tooke vs into a barke called the Marie Martine of Colchester on the south side of the Thames right ouer that part of saint Katharines next to London bridge the fiftéenth day of September 1585 according to the computation of England our will is to testifie vnto your good honors that they the said Anthonie Hall Thomas Stockar haue generallie so well vsed vs in all respects that we can not but acknowledge our selues much beholding as much as in them laie to so courteous louing officers Neuerthelesse comming along the sea and meeting with hir maiesties admerall in the downes who promising that we should not be disturbed in our course into the prouince of Normandie according to your honors said commission we had not from him departed two leagues when as a Flushinger with his people suddenlie entred vpon vs being peaceablie stowed vnder line 10 the hatches and in our quiet rest with their swords drawne their calleiuers and their matches fired in their hands to our great terror discomfort the most of vs being verie sore sea sicke expecting at that instant nothing but either the rigorous dint of sword or bullet of calleiuer Howbeit parlee being had by our said commissioners with them they departed after which time we considering the generall danger on the seas besought with one consent your honors commissioners to set vs on land at Calice line 20 but they in no wise yéelding therevnto at last by reason of our importunitie in such danger weakenesse yéelded to set vs on shore at Bullogne partlie by reason of the feare we were then put in partlie for that we feared afterward more vnreasonable measure but speciallie the greatest number of vs so sore sicke that verie tedious vnto vs it séemed to beare so long and dangerous a passage In witnes whereof to this our certificat we haue all subscribed our names the nineteenth of September 1585. W. line 30 Gimlets R. Fen Io. Nele Christopher Small c. ¶ Ye haue heard before that certeine souldiers out of diuers parts of this realme were transported ouer the seas into Holland and Zeland c with such conuenient and seruiceable furniture as might be presupposed necessarie for defense whom we will leaue vpon their gard and more cleerelie to set foorth the reasons of their transportation we doo meane héere as we promised before page 1413 when we line 40 came to due place to deliuer a booke published by authoritie concerning that argument the title and substance whereof in all points agréeable with the printed copie first extant doth orderlie follow A declaration of the causes moouing the queene of England to giue aid to the defense of the people afflicted and oppressed in the low countries ALthough kings and princes soueregnes owing their homage and seruice onelie vnto the almightie God the King of all kings are in that respect not bound to yéeld account or render the reasons of their actions to anie others but to God their onelie souereigne Lord yet though amongst the most ancient and christian monarchs the same Lord God hauing committed to vs the souereigntie of this realme of England and other our dominions which we hold line 60 immediatlie of the same almightie Lord and so thereby accountable onelie to his diuine Maiestie we are notwithstanding this our prerogatiue at this time speciallie mooued for diuerse reasons hereafter brieflie remembred to publish not onelie vnto our owne naturall louing subiects but also to all others our neighbors speciallie to such princes states as are our confederats or haue for their subiects cause of commerce with our countries and people what our intention is at this time and vpon what iust and reasonable grounds we are mooued to giue aid vnto our next neighbours the naturall people of the low countries being by long warres and persecutions of strange nations there lamentablie afflicted and in present danger to be brought into a perpetuall seruitude First it is to be vnderstood which percase is not perfectlie knowne to a great number of persons that there hath béene time out of mind euen by the naturall situation of those low countries and our realme of England one directlie opposit to the other and by reason of the readie crossing of the seas and multitude of large and commodious hauens respectiuelie on both sides a continuall traffike and commerce betwixt the people of England and the naturall people of those low
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 doctoâs the one Edmund Grindall late deceased the other Iohn Whiâegift now liuing of whom no more but silence for vertue dooth sufficientlie commend hâr 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 honoraâle 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
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
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 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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 ââmmeth at ãâã houre of ââdience The words of Clarenceâux 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 EnglaÌd 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 âf 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 coÌmanded 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 sâauen twentith ââth Guic. pag. 1ââ1 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 10ââ 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 ãâã of all his ãâ¦ã that he ãâã gaue his faith to ãâã of his ãâã ergo not to the emperour The king ârosecuteth the discourtesâe of the emperour in his âeclaration The field that is a place where they may safelie come to fight in ãâã 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 emperoââ defied by the kings of England and France English merchants staied in Spaine The incoÌmoditie 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 ãâã 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 pââhie 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 câmmunication 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 coÌceiueth 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 ââ Angolesme méet about â treatie oâ peace Edw. Hall in H. 8. fo clxxxââ Read more hereof in Guic. pag. 1145. deinceps The womens peace Sir Thomas Moore lord chancellor Edw. Hall in H. 8. fo clxxxââ 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 âudleie chosen speaker An oration made by the speaker of the parlement The commoÌs 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 ââhâbited against the cardinall of Yorke Creation of earles at Yorke place A speciall argument in disproofe of the
ãâã know the meaning of euerie reprâsentation The meaning of the pageant opened by thâ spéech of â child The same verses in Latine These verses ãâ¦ã The conduit ãâã Cornehill ââcked and a noise of loud instruments ân 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 triâmed 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 ãâã ioifull ãâã at the queenes comming The citie giâeth 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 âââpublica ãâã âââpublica bene ãâã 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 bréeâe 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 ãâã foresaid ãâã The children ãâã Christs âââpitall stand â S. Dunstans Temple bar ãâã with Gogmagog ãâã giants Quinque arcuâ quam significationem implicitaââ 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 pâssagâ 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 douââ in heauen vpon God The quéens maiestie is ãâã 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 Sâittle The pulpit ãâã Paules ãâã all ãâã and ãâã A conference appointed ââncerning râligion The best learned of ech side to be chosen ãâã âhâs conâerence The persons ãâã the ãâ¦ã Order taken for quâeâ 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 coÌference * Afterwards bishop of Winchester Another order taken for the next méeting to conâer A new assemblâe 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 ãâ¦ã The articles of the peace betwixt the ââeenes maâââtie and the French king Sir Iohn Mason A generall peace betwixt the kings of France and Spaine The peace proclamed Plâies and interludes forbidden for ãâ¦ã The lord Wentworth arreigned and acquited A subsidie granted oââââââables ãâ¦ã 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 FreÌch 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 ãâã Par. in act ãâã 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 accoÌpanied 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 sâat Conference betwéene the English and Scotish Sir Iames Croât and sir George Howard went to talke with the ãâã My lord Greis message sent to the Frenchmen A sharpe and âlong skirmish betwéene âoth parts The Frenchmen repelled by the Englishmen â Churchâââd The number ãâã the English ãâã French ãâã 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
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 ãâã 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 notwithsâanding 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 Campânâ 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