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 Bue◠whome king Henrie the fift made earle of Longeuile and knight of the garter whose ancestors were euer true to England Which agréed that he and his sonne Iohn de Fois whome king Henrie the sixt made earle of Kendale and also knight of the garter should enioy all their lands in Aquitaine giuen to them by the kings of England or by the dukes of Aquitaine And sith their intent was still to serue the king of England they agréed to deliuer into the custodie of the earle of Fois the sonne and heire of the said earle of Kendale being of the age of thrée yeares to the intent that if he at his full age denied to become subiect to the French king or before
apperteined I assure you my lord ambassador that beside that I doubt not but your maister will recompense you for the same yée may be assured that where particularlie in anie thing I may pleasure you I will doo it with as good a will as you can require me line 30 And to make answer to that which your maister by word of mouth hath said vnto Guien and Clarenceaux kings of armes of the king my good brother and perpetuall and best alie and of me vpon the intimation of the warre which hath beene made by vs consisting in eight points I will that each one vnderstand it First as to the which he saith he maruelleth that he hauing me a prisoner by iust warre and hauing also my faith I should defie him and that in reason I neither may nor ought to doo it I answer line 40 thereto that if I were his prisoner here and that he had my faith he had spoken true but I know not that the emperor hath euer at anie time had my faith that may in anie wise auaile him For first in what warre so euer I haue béene I know not that I haue either séene him or encountred with him When I was prisoner garded with foure or fiue hundred harquebuzers sicke in my bed and in danger of death it was an easie matter to constreine me but not verie honorable to him that should doo it and after that I returned into France I know not line 50 anie that hath had power to compell me to it and to doo it willinglie without constraint it is a thing which I waie more than so lightlie to bind my selfe thereto And bicause I will not that my honor come in disputation although I know well that euerie man of warre knoweth sufficientlie that a prisoner garded is not bound to anie faith nor can bind himselfe thereto in anie thing I doo neuerthelesse send to your master this writing signed with mine owne line 60 hand the which my lord ambassadour I praie you read and afterwards promise me to deliuer it vnto your master and not to anie other And herewith the king caused it to be deliuered to the said ambassador by master Iohn Robertet one of the secretaries of the estate and of his chamber The ambassador tooke the writing in his hand and after excused himselfe to the king saieng That as to him by the letter which his master souereigne lord had written vnto him now lastlie his commission was alreadie expired and that he had no further commandement nor instructions from his maiestie but to take leaue of the king with as much spéed as he might and to returne home Which he most humblie besought him to permit him to doo without further charge or commission although he knew that he was at his commanddement and that he might at his pleasure constreine him as seemed to him good Herevnto the king answered My lord ambassador sith you will not take vpon you to read this writing I will cause it to be read in this companie to the end that euerie one may vnderstand and know that I am cleered in that whereof against trueth he goeth about to accuse me Beside that if you afterwards will not beare it deliuer it to him I will send one of my heralds here present to go in companie with you for whom you shall procure a good auailable safe conduct that he maie passe vnto your master protesting demanding that an act maie be registred before this companie that if he will not it should come to his knowledge that I am discharged in that I doo my best to cause him to vnderstand it accordinglie as I ought to doo and in such sort as he can not pretend cause of ignorance ¶ After the king had ended these words he called to him the said Robertet and commanded him to reade the said writing with a lowd voice which was doone word for word The copie of the said writing directed to the emperour WE Francis by the grace of God king of France lord of Genes c. To you Charles by the same grace chosen emperour of Rome and king of Spaine We doo you to wit that being aduertised that in all the answers that you haue made to our ambassadors and heraulds sent to you for the establishing of peace in excusing your selfe without all reason you haue accused vs saieng that we haue plight you our faith and that therevpon besides our promise we departed out of your hands and power In defense of our honour which hereby might be burthened too much against all truth we thought good to send you this writing by which we giue you to vnderstand that notwithstanding that no man being in ward is bound to keepe faith and that the same might be a sufficient excuse for vs yet for the satisfieng of all men and our said honor which we mind to keepe and will keepe if it please God vnto the death that if ye haue charged or will charge vs not onelie with our said faith and deliuerance but that euer we did anie thing that became not a gentleman that had respect to his honor that ye lie falslie in your throat and as oft as ye saie it ye lie and we determine to defend our honor to the vttermost drop of our bloud Wherefore seeing ye haue charged vs against all truth write no more to vs hereafter but appoint vs the field and we will bring you the weapons Protesting that if after this declaration ye write into anie place or vse anie words against our honor that the shame of the delaie of the combat shall light on you seeing that the offering of combat is the end of all writing Made at our good towne and citie of Paris the eight and twentith daie of March. In the yere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred twentie and eight before Easter Thus signed Francis After that Robertet had read this writing there in presence of the emperours ambassadors the king made further replie vnto the points conteined in the emperours answers to the defiance and withall to conclude told the said ambassador that his master the emperor had constreined him by such message line 10 as he had sent to him to make the answer in truth which he had made and further willed him to deliuer vnto the emperour the writing which he had signed with his hand and to saie to him that he tooke him for so honorable a prince that considering the matter wherewith he charged him and the answer that he made he would not faile but to answer him like a gentleman and not by writing like an aduocate For if he otherwise doo said the king I will answer his chancellor by an aduocate and a man of line 20 his estate and a more honest man than he Shortlie after the emperors ambassadors returned home into Spaine in safetie and well intreted And vpō their returne the ambassadors of France were set
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 cōfusion 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 Cut◠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
fell to secret consultation for redresse of things but namelie for the displacing of the lord protector And suddenlie vpon what occasion manie maruelled but few knew Euerie line 30 lord and councellor went through the citie weaponed and had their seruants likewise weaponed attending vpon them in new liueries to the great woondering of manie And at the last a great assemblie of the said councellors was made at the earle of Warwiks lodging which was then at Elie place in Holborne whither all the confederats in this matter came priuilie armed and finallie concluded to possesse the towre of London which by the policie of sir William Paulet lord treasuror of England line 40 was peaceablie obteined who by order of the said confederats immediatlie remooued sir Iohn Markam then lieutenant of the towre and placed in that roome sir Leonard Chamberleine And after that the said councell was broken vp at Elie place the earle of Warwike remooued foorthwith into the citie of London and laie in the house of one Iohn Yorke a citizen of London who was then chéefe maister of the mint kept at Suffolke place in Southworke The lord protector hearing of the maner of the assemblie line 50 of this councell and of the taking of the towre which séemed to him verie strange and doubtfull did presentlie the said night remooue froÌ„ Hampton court taking the king with him vnto the castell of Windsore and there began to fortifie the same and withall wrote a letter to that noble gentleman the lord Russell lord priuie seale remaining as yet in the west countrie aduertising him of these troubles as followeth A letter of the lord protectors â—o the lord Russell lord priuie seale concerning troubles working against him AFter our right hartie commendations to your good lordship Here hath of late risen such a conspiracie against the kings maiestie vs as neuer hath béene séene the which they can not mainteine with such vaine letters and false tales surmised as was neuer ment nor intended on vs. They pretend and saie that we haue sold Bullongne to the French and that we doo withhold wages from the soldiers other such tales and letters they doo spread abroad of the which if anie one thing were true we would not wish to liue the matter now being brought to a maruellous extremitie such as we would neuer haue thought it could haue come vnto especiallie of those men towards the kings maiestie and vs of whome we haue deserued no such thing but rather much fauour and loue But the case being as it is this is to require praie you to hasten you hither to the defense of the kings maiestie in such force and power as you maie to shew the part of a true gentleman and of a verie friend the which thing we trust God shall reward and the kings maiestie in time to come and we shall neuer be vnmindfull of it too We are sure you shall haue other letters from them but as ye tender your dutie to the kings maiestie we require you to make no staie but immediatlie repaire with such force as ye haue to his highnesse in his castell of Windsor and cause the rest of such force as ye maie make to follow you And so we bid you right hartilie farewell From Hampton court the sixt of October Your lordships assured louing friend Edward Summerset An answer to the lord protectors letter TO this letter of the lord protectors sent the sixt of October the lord Russell returning answer againe vpon the eight of the said moneth first lamented the heauie dissention fallen betweene the nobilitie and him which he tooke for such a plague as a greater could not be sent of almightie God vpon this realme being the next waie said he to make vs of conquerors slaues and like to induce vpon the whole realme an vniuersall thraldome and calamitie vnlesse the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord doo helpe and some wise order be taken in staieng these great extremities And as touching the dukes request in his letters forsomuch as he had heard before of the broile of the lords and feared least some conspiracie had beene meant against the kings person he hasted forward with such companie as he could make for the suertie of the king as to him apperteined Now perceiuing by the lords letters sent vnto him the same sixt daie of October these tumults to rise vpon priuat causes betwéene him and them he therefore thought it expedient that a conuenient power should be leuied to be in a readinesse to withstand the woorst what perils soeuer might insue for the preseruation both of the king and state of the realme from inuasion of forren enimies and also for the staieng of bloudshed if anie such thing should be intended betwixt the parties in the heat of this faction And this he thinking best for the discharge of his allegiance humblie besought his grace to haue the same also in speciall regard and consideration first that the kings maiestie be put in no feare and that if there be anie such thing wherein he hath giuen iust cause to them thus to procéed he would so conforme himselfe as no such priuat quarrels doo redound to the publike disturbance of the realme certifieng moreouer the duke that if it were true which he vnderstood by the letters of the lords that he should send about proclamations and letters for raising vp of the commons he liked not the same Notwithstanding he trusted well that his wisedome would take such a waie as no effusion of bloud should follow And thus much being conteined in his former letters the eight of October in his next letters againe written the eleuenth of October the said lord Russell reioising to heare of the most reasonable offers of the lord protector made to the lords wrote vnto him and promised to doo what in the vttermost power of him and likewise of sir William Herbert ioined togither with him did lie to worke some honorable reconciliation betwéene him them so as his said offers being accepted and satisfied some good conclusion might insue according to their good hope and expectation signifieng moreouer that as touching the leuieng of men they had resolued to haue the same in readinesse for the benefit of the realme to occurre all inconueniences whatsoeuer that either by forren inuasion or otherwise might happen so hauing line 10 their power at hand to draw néere wherby they might haue the better oportunitie to be solicitors and meanes for this reformation on both parts c. And thus much for the answer of the lord Russell to the lord protectors letters But now to procéed and go forward with the matter of the lords who togither with the earle of Warwike vpon what occasion God knoweth were assembled at London as ye haue heard against line 20 the lord protector When the king with his councell at Hampton court heard therof first secretarie Peter with the kings
message was sent vnto them whome the lords notwithstanding deteined still with them making as yet no answer to the message Wherevpon the lord protector wrote as followeth A letter of the lord protectors to the councell at London line 30 MY lords we commend vs heartilie vnto you And wheras the kings maiestie was informed that you were assembled in such sort as you doo and now remaine and was aduised by vs and such other of his councell as were then here about his person to send master secretarie Peter vnto you with such a message as whereby might haue insued the suertie of his maiesties person with the preseruation of his realme and subiects and the quiet both of vs and your selues as line 40 master secretarie can well declare to you his maiestie and we of his councell here doo not a little maruell that you staie still with you the said master secretarie haue not as it were vouchsafed to send answer to his maiestie neither by him nor yet by anie other And for our selues we doo much more maruell and are sorie as both we and you haue good cause to be to see the maner of your dooings bent with force of violence to bring the kings maiestie vs to these extremities line 50 Which as we intend if you will take no other waie but violence to defend as nature and allegiance dooth bind vs to extremitie of death and to put all to Gods hand who giueth victorie as it pleaseth him so if that anie reasonable conditions offers would take place as hitherto none hath béene signified vnto vs from you nor we doo not vnderstand what you doo require or séeke or what you doo meane and that you doo séeke no hurt to the kings maiesties person line 60 as touching all other priuat matters to auoid the effusion of christian bloud and to preserue the kings maiesties person his realme and subiects you shall find vs agréeable vnto anie reasonable conditions that you will require For we doo estéeme the kings wealth and tranquillitie of the realme more than all other worldlie things yea than our owne life Thus praieng you to send vs your determinate answer herein by master secretarie Peter or if you will not let him go by this bearer we beséech God to giue both you and vs grace to determinate this matter as maie be to Gods honor the preseruation of the king and the quiet of vs all which maie be if the fault be not in you And so we bid you most hartilie farewell From the kings maiesties castell of Windsor the seuenth of October 1549. Your lordships louing friend Edward Summerset After the receipt of these letters the lords séeming not greatlie to regard the offers conteined therein persisted in their intended purpose and continuing still in London conferred with the maior of London and his brethren first willing them to cause a good and substantiall watch by night and a good ward by daie to be kept for the safegard of the citie and the ports and gates thereof which was consented vnto and the companie 〈◊〉 London in their turnes warned to watch and 〈◊〉 accordinglie Then the said lords and councellors demanded of the lord maior and his brethren fiue hundred men to aid them to fetch the lord protector out of Windsor from the king But therevnto the maior answered that he could grant no aid without the assent of the common councell of the citie whervpon the next daie a common councell was summoned to the Guildhall in London But in this meane time the said lords of the councell assembled themselues at the lord maiors house in London who was then sir Henrie Amcotes fishmonger and Iohn Yorke and Richard Turke shiriffes of the said citie And there the said councell agréed and published foorthwith a proclamation against the lord protector the effect of which proclamation was as followeth 1 That the lord protector by his malicious and euill gouernement was the occasion of all the sedition that of late hath happened within the realme 2 The losse of the kings peeces in France 3 That he was ambitious and sought his owne glorie as appeared by his building of most sumptuous and costlie buildings and speciallie in the time of the kings warres and the kings soldiers vnpaied 4 That he estéemed nothing the graue councell of the councellors 5 That he sowed sedition betweene the nobles the gentlemen and commons 6 That the nobles assembled themselues togither at London for none other purpose but to haue caused the protector to haue liued within his limits and to haue put such order for the kings maiestie as apperteined whatsoeuer the protectors dooings were which as they said were vnnaturall ingrate and traitorous 7 That the protector slandered the councell to the king and did what in him laie to cause variance betwéene the king and his nobles 8 That he was a great traitor and therefore the lords desired the citie and commons to aid them to take him from the king And in witnesse and testimonie of the contents of the said proclamation the lords subscribed their names and titles as followeth The lord Rich lord chancellor the lord S. Iohn lord great maister and president of the councell the lord 〈…〉 of Northampton the earle of Warwike 〈◊〉 great chamberleine the earle of Arundell lord chamberleine the earle of Shrewesburie the earle of Southampton Wriothesleie sir Thomas Cheinie knight treasuror of the kings house and lord warden of the cinque ports sir Iohn Gage knight conestable of the tower sir William Peter knight secretarie sir Edward North knight sir Edward Montague chéefe iustice of the common plees sir Rafe Sadler sir Iohn Baker sir Edward Wootton doctor Wootton deane of Canturburie sir Richard Southwell After the foresaid proclamation was proclamed the lords or the most of them continuing and lieng in London came the next daie to the Guildhall during the time that the lord maior and his brethren sat in their court or inner chamber and entered and communed a long while with them and at the last the maior and his brethren came foorth vnto the common councell where was read the kings letter sent vnto the maior and citizens commanding them to aid him with a thousand men as hath maister Fox and to send the same to his castell at Windsore and to the same letter was adioined the kings hand and the lord protectors On the other side by the mouth of the line 10 recorder it was requested that the citizens would grant their aid rather vnto the lords for that the protector had abused both the kings maiestie and the whole realme and without that he were taken from the king made to vnderstand his follie this realme was in a great hazard and therefore required that the citizens would willinglie assent to aid the lords with fiue hundred men herevnto was none other answer made but silence But the recorder who at that time was a worthie gentleman called
maister Brooke still cried vpon them for answer line 20 At the last stepped vp a wise and good citizen named as maister Fox saith George Stadlow and said thus In this case it is good for vs to thinke of things past to auoid the danger of things to come I remember saith he in a storie written in Fabians chronicle of the warre betwéene the king and his barons which was in the time of king Henrie the third and the same time the barons as our lords doo now commanded aid of the maior and citie of London line 30 and that in a rightfull cause for the common-weale which was for the execution of diuerse good lawes wherevnto the king before had giuen his consent and after would not suffer them to take place and the citie did aid the lords Now it came to an open battell wherein the lords preuailed and tooke the king and his sonne prisoners and vpon certeine conditions the lords restored againe the king and his sonne to their liberties And among all other conditions this was one that the king should not onelie line 40 grant his pardon to the lords but also to the citizens of London which was granted yea and the same ratified by act of parlement But what followed Was it forgotten No suerlie nor yet forgiuen during the kings life The liberties of the citie were taken awaie strangers appointed to be our heads and gouernours the citizens giuen awaie bodie and goods and from one persecution to another were most miserablie afflicted such it is to enter into the wrath of a prince as Salomon saith The wrath and indignation of a prince is death Wherefore forsomuch line 50 as this aid is required of the kings maiestie whose voice we ought to hearken vnto for he is our high shepheard rather than vnto the lords and yet I would not wish the lords to be clearlie shaken off but that they with vs and we with them may ioine in sute and make our most humble petition to the kings maiestie that it would please his highnesse to heare such complaint against the gouernement of the lord protector as may be iustlie alledged and prooued And I doubt not but this matter will be so pacified line 60 that neither shall the king nor yet the lords haue cause to séeke for further aid neither we to offend anie of them both After this tale the commons staied and the lord maior his brethren for that time brake vp and afterward communed with the lords The lords sat the next daie in councell in the Star chamber and from thence they sent sir Philip Hobbie with their letters of credence to the kings maiestie beséeching his highnesse to giue credit to that which the said Philip should declare vnto his maiestie in their names the king gaue him libertie to speake and most gentlie heard all that he had to saie And trulie he did so wiselie declare his message and so grauelie told his tale in the name of the lords yea therewithall so vehementlie and gréeuouslie against the protector who was also there present by the king that in the end the lord protector was commanded from the kings presence and shortlie was committed to ward in a tower within the castell of Windsore called Beauchamps tower And soone after were staied sir Thomas Smith sir Michaell Stanhope and sir Iohn Thin knights master Whalleie master Fisher Woolfe of the priuie chamber Graie of Reading and diuers other gentlemen that attended vpon the lord protector And the same daie the lords of the councell came to Windsore to the king and the next daie they brought from thence the lord protector and the other that were there staied and conueied them through the citie of London with as much woonderment as might be vnto the tower where they remained prisoners ¶ Touching the manner of the dukes comming to the tower from Windsore I find that it was on the fouretéenth of October in the after noone at which time he was brought on horssebacke through Holburne in at Newgate and so to the tower of London accompanied with diuerse lords and gentlemen with thrée hundred horsse the lord maior sir Rafe Warren sir Iohn Gresham maister recorder sir William Locke and both the shiriffes and other knights sitting on their horsses against Soper lane with all the officers with halberds and from Holburne bridge to the tower certeine aldermen or their deputies on horssebacke in euerie street with a number of housholders standing with billes as he passed Shortlie after the lords resorted to the tower and there charged the protector with sundrie articles as followeth Articles obiected against the lord protector IN primis you tooke vpon you the office of a protector and gouernour vpon condition expresselie and speciallie that you would doo nothing in the kings affaires publikelie or priuatlie but by the assent of the late kings executors 2 Also you contrarie to the said condition of your owne authoritie did staie and let iustice and subuerted the lawes as well by your letters as by your commandements 3 Also you caused diuerse persons being arested and imprisoned for treason murther manslaughter and felonie to be discharged and set at large against the kings lawes and statutes of this realme 4 Also you haue made and ordeined lieutenants for the kings armies and other weightie affaires vnder your owne writing and seale 5 Also you haue communed with the ambassadors of other realmes discoursing alone with them in the weightie causes of this realme 6 Also you haue sometime rebuked checked and tawnted as well priuatlie as openlie diuerse of the kings most honorable councellors for shewing and declaring their aduises and opinions against your purposes in the kings weightie affaires saieng somtimes to them that you néed not to open matters vnto them and would therefore be otherwise aduised and that you would if they were not agréeable to your opinion put them out and take other at your pleasure 7 Also you had and held against the law in your owne house a court of requests and thereby did inforce diuerse the kings subiects to answer for their free holds and goods and determined the same to the subuersion of the same lawes 8 Also you being no officer without the aduise of the councell or the more part of them did dispose of the offices of the kings gift for monie and granted leases and wards of the kings and gaue presentations to the kings benefices and bishopriks hauing no authoritie so to doo And further you did meddle with the selling of the kings lands 9 Also you commanded multiplication and alcumistrie to be practised to abuse the kings coine line 10 10 Also you caused a proclamation to be made concerning inclosures whereby the common people haue made diuerse insurrections and leuied open war and distreined and spoiled diuerse of the kings subiects which proclamation went foorth against the will of the whole councell 11 Also you haue caused a commission
was admonished of his physician to absteine from all swines flesh for that it was noisome for his gâ—ut and yet would not follow his counsell the physician line 30 afterward gaue warning to his steward or orderer of his diet that he should set no more porke flesh before him Wherevpon when the pope perceiued the said porke flesh to be lacking in his accustomed seruice Where said he is my porke And when his steward had answered that his physician had forbidden anie porke to be serued then the pope bursting out in great rage said in these words Bring me said he my porke flesh Al dispetto di Dio that is to saie in English In the despight of God line 40 At an other time he sitting at dinner pointing to a peacocke vpon his table which he had not touched Kéepe said he this cold peacocke for me against supper and let me sup in the garden for I shall haue ghests So when supper came and amongst other hot peacocks he saw not his cold peacocke brought to his table the pope after his woonted manner most horriblie blaspheming God fell into an extreame rage c. Wherevpon one of his cardinals sitting by line 50 desired him saieng Let not your holinesse I praie you be so mooued with a matter of so small weight Then this Iulius the pope answering againe What said he if God was so angrie for one apple that he cast our first parents out of paradise for the same whie maie not I being his vicar be angrie then for a peacocke sithens a peacocke is a greater matter than an apple Behold here good reader by this pope the holinesse of that blasphemous sée and yet thou shalt sée here what affection was borne vnto this line 60 pope here in England by the diâ—iges hearses and funerals commanded to be had and celebrated in all churches by the quéene and hir councell as may appeare by the copie of their letters here following A letter from the bishop of Winchester being lord chancellour vnto Boner bishop of London touching the celebrating of the popes funerals AFter my hartie commendations to your good lordship The king and queenes maiesties hauing certeine knowledge of the death of the popes holinesse thought good there should be as well solemne obsequies said for him throughout the realme as also these praiers which I send you herein inclosed vsed at masse times in all places at this time of vacation and therefore willed me to signifie their pleasures vnto you in this behalfe that therevpon ye might proceed to the full accomplishment therof by putting the same in due execution within your owne diocesse and sending word to the rest of the bishops to doo the like in theirs Thus doubting not but that your lordship will vse such diligence in this matter at this time as shall be necessarie I bid your lordship hartilie well to fare From my house at Asher the tenth of Aprill 1555. Your assured freend and brother Stephanus Winton Cancel Praiers commanded to be vsed in the funerall masses for the pope Apostolica sede vacante Supplicite Domine humilitate deposcimus vt tua immensa pietas sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesiae concedat pontificem illum qui pro in nos studio semper tibi gratus tuo populo pro salubri regimine sit assiduè ad gloriam tui nominis venerandus per Dominum nostrum Secreta Tuae nobis Domine pietatis abundantia indulgeat vt gratum maiestati tuae pontificem sanctae matris ecclesiae regimini praeessâ— studeamus per Dominum nostrum Post communionen Pretiosi corporis sanguinis tui Domine sacramento refectos miâ—ifica tuae maiestatis gratia de illius summi pontificis assumptione laetificet qui plebem tuam virtutibus instruat fidelium mentes spiritualium aromatum odore perfundat per Dominum nostrum Upon this commandement on wednesdaie in Easter wéeke there were hearses set vp diriges soong for the said Iulius in diuerse places At which time it chanced a woman to come into S. Magnus church at the bridgefoot in London there séeing an hearse and other preparation asked what it meant and other that stood by said that it was for the pope and that she must praie for him Naie quoth she that will I not for he néedeth not my praier and séeing he could forgiue vs all our sinnes I am sure he is clean himselfe therefore I need not to praie for him She was heard speake these words of certeine that stood by which by and by caried hir vnto the cage at London bridge and bad hir coole hir selfe there And héere saith master Fox commeth to be remembred the notable working of Gods hand vpon a certeine priest in Kent named Nightingall parson of Crondall besides Canturburie who vpon Shrouesundaie which was about the third daie of the said moneth of March and yeare of our Lord aforesaid reioising belike not a little at this alteration of religion began to make a sermon to his parishioners taking his theame out of the words of saint Iohn He that saith he hath no sinne is a lier and the trueth is not in him c. And so vpon the same verie impertinentlie declared to them all such articles as were set foorth by the popes authoritie and by the commandement of the bishops of this realme saieng moreouer vnto the people in this wise Now masters and neighbors reioise and be merrie for the prodigall sonne is come home For I know that the most part of you be as I am for I know your hearts well enough And I shall tell you what hath happened in this wéeke past I was before my lord cardinall Pooles grace and he hath made me as cleane from sinne as I was at the font stone and on thursdaie last being before him he hath appointed me to notifie I thanke him for it the same vnto you And I will tell you what it is And so reading the popes bull of pardon that was sent into England he said he thanked God that euer he had liued to sée that daie adding moreouer that he beleeued that line 10 by the vertue of that bull he was as cleane from sinne as that night that he was borne and immediatlie vpon the same fell suddenlie downe out of the pulpit and neuer stirred hand nor foot and so laie he Testified by Robert Austen of Cartham which both heard and saw the same and is witnessed also by the whole countrie round about About this time Edward Courtneie earle of Deuonshire of whom before yée haue heard how he was appointed to remaine at Fodringheie vnder line 20 safe custodie at length was set at libertie came to the court and got licence to passe the seas went into Italie where shortlie after he sickened and died within foureteene daies after his sicknesse first tooke him he was honorablie buried in Padwaie This Courtneie was the onelie sonne and heire of Henrie
departed to the lord chamberleins chamber and shifted them the said lord Robert in his surcot with the hood his mantle borne before him by the lord Hunsâ—on and led by the lord Clinton lord admerall by the right hand and the lord Strange on the left hand in their parlement robes Garter bearing the patent before him the officers of armes and so procéeded into the chamber of presence where the quéenes highnesse sat vnder the cloth of estate with the noblemen on ech side of hir the ambassador of France was also present with another stranger an Italian And when the said lord with the other came in the quéenes sight they made their obeisance three times the said lord knéeled downe after the which Garter preseâ—â—ed the letters patents to the lord chamberleine and he presented the same to the quéenes highnesse who gaue it to sir William Cecill secretarie who read the same with a lowd voice at the words of Creauimus the lord of Hunsdon presented the mantle to the quéens maiestie who put on the same wherby he was created baron of Denbigh for him and his heires Then the patent was read out to the end after the which he deliuered it to the quéene againe and hir highnesse gaue it to the said lord who gaue hir maiestie most humble thanks and he rose vp and departed to the chamber they came from the trumpets sounding before him Then he shifted him of those robes and put on the robes of estate of an earle and being led by the earle of Sussex on the right hand and the erle of Huntington on his left hand the earle of Warwike bearing his sword the pomell vpward and the girdle about the same all in their robes of estate the lord Clinton lord admerall in his parlement robes bearing his cap with the coronall Garter before him bearing his patent and the other officers of armes before him they proceeded as afore into the chamber of presence where after they had made their obeisance the said earle knéeled downe and Garter deliuered his patent to the lord chamberleine who gaue the same to the quéenes maiestie hir highnesse gaue the same to sir William Cecill secretarie to read who read the same And at the words Cincturam gladij the earle of Warwike presented the sword to the quéenes highnesse who girt the same about the necke of the said new earle putting the point vnder his left arme and after hir maiestie put on his cap with the coronall Then his patent was read out to the end and then the said secretarie deliuered it againe to the quéene and hir highnesse gaue it to the said new erle of Leicester who gaue hir humble thanks for it And then he arose and went into the councell chamber to dinner the trumpets sounding before and at dinner he sat in his kirtle and there accompanied him the foresaid ambassador of France and the said Italian with diuerse other erles and lords And after the second course Garter with the other officers of armes proclamed the quéenes maiesties stile and after the stile of the said earle for the which they had fiftéene pounds to wit for his baronie fiue pounds for his earledome ten pounds and Garter had his gowne of blacke veluet garded with thrée gards of the same laid on with lace lined through with blacke taffata and garded on the inner side with the same and on the sléeues eight and thirtie paire of aglets of gold The earles stile was as followeth Du tresnoble puissant seigneur Robert conte de Leicestre baron de Denbigh cheualier du tresnoble ordre de la iarretièrre grand esquier de la royne nostre souuereigne On whole scutchion conteining sundrie cotes inuironed with the cognisances of both orders as well S. Michaels as S. Georges with other ornaments were made these verses now common to be read Quot clypeos atauûm clypeo coniungis in vno Tot tibi virtutes atauûm sunt pectore iunctae Somerij pietas vis imperterrita Greij Intemerata fides Hastingi nobile pectus Ferrarij Quinci probitas bonitásque Boghani Martia Talbotti virtus fidissima dextra Beauchampi Herculei mens inconcussa Guidonis Barklaei vigor generosa modestia Lisli The second of October in the afternoone and on the morrow in the sorenoone was a solemne obsequie at Paules church in London for Ferdinando late emperor departed ¶ Of this emperor it is said line 10 that lieng sicke and so sicke that Zichard a precher of his court then present could not hold him vp howbeit comming at last to himselfe and somewhat in recouerie he said to the standers by You thought that I would neuer come againe naie mine houre is not so soone I doo certeinlie know that I shall not die before Whitsuntide Now when he had liued till that daie and eight daies after as hauing the verie time of his departure told him by secret reuelation and satisfied at full touching the request that Dauid line 20 made to God about the length of his life saieng Da mihi nosse meae quae sint stata tempora vitae Et quando vltima sint fata futura mihi he said to them that were about him It is the holie ghosts pleasure that I should not die before saint Iames tide that as he was a pilgrime among vs so I with him should passe my pilgrimage out of this my natiue countrie After which words spoken his disease grew to greater force and sharpnesse insomuch that at last euen at the verie time prefixed namelie S. Iames daie he departed this life after line 30 he had liued sixtie yeares nine moneths and od daies He gouerned the empire aboue the space of seauen yeares had to wife Anne queene of Hungarie and Boheme by whom he had fiftéene children some male namelie Maximilian Ferdinand Iohn and Charles also eleuen females to wit Elisabeth married to Sigismund king of Poland Anne Marie Mawdline Catharine Elenor Margarite Barbare Ursule Helen and Ione He is commended line 40 for his carefulnesse his watchfulnesse his bountifulnesse his gentlenesse his vprightnesse his discréetnesse his peaceablenesse and other qualities wherin he had a kind of singularitie And thus much of him by waie of praise as I found it readie to my hand The seauenth of October at night from eight a clocke till after nine of the clocke all the north parts of the element séemed to be couered with flames of fire procéeding from the northeast and northwest toward the middest of the firmament where after it line 50 had staied nigh one houre it descended west and all the same night being the next after the change of the moone seemed nigh as light as it had béene faire daie The twentith of Nouember in the morning through negligence of a maiden with a candell the snuffe falling in an hundred pounds weight of gunpowder thrée houses in Bucklersburie were
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 Graâ—z 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
answer the lord lieutenant thought good to send the said master Drurie vnto the place appointed who comming thither met with the said lord Hume And after they had debated the matter togither at length the lord Hume was contented that the castell should be surrendered into the hands of the lord lieutenant with condition that his people therein might depart with life which the lord lieutenant was contented to grant so that there weâ—â— nâ— English men among them Héerevpon about eight of the clocke in the euening the gates were opened and the keies deliuered to the marshall who presented them to the lord lieutenant and then the lord Hunnesdon the said marshall and diuerse other gentlemen entered into the castell and by by tooke possession thereof in the quéene of Englands name pulled downe their banner of defiance and in place thereof set vp the English banners against all those in Scotland that would saie the contrarie The Scots that were within it being in number an hundred thrée score and eight persons were put out in their common wearing apparell without armour weapon or anie baggage They comming to the lord lieutenant that was then at the place of the batterie on horssebacke presented themselues to line 10 him who according to his word and promise of honour caused them to be safelie conducted through the watch and scouts to such place as they required Amongst them there were two Englishmen the one of them named Hilliard the earle of Northumberlands man the other was a vagarant person or a roge as we may call him named William God saue hir alià s Lions which both were caried to Barwike there executed the thirtéenth of Maie next insuing In all this siege there were but foure line 20 persons slaine on both parts two Scots two Englishmen but there were manie hurt as well on the one part as the other The castell of Hume being thus woone the lord lieutenant the morow after placed therein to kéepe the house to the quéenes maiesties vse capteine Wood and capteine Pikman with two hundred souldiours This doone his lordship returned towards England and came to Barwike During this siege there were diuerse townes and villages situate within thrée or foure miles of the campe set line 30 on fire by the Englishmen and vtterlie spoiled The lord lieutenant vpon his returne to Barwike staied there for a time verie euill at ease hauing in trauell about the siege taken such cold as therewith he was brought into an extreame ague The fourth of Maie his lordship sent maister William Drurie the marshall of Barwike accompanied with diuerse gentlemen and capteins hauing with them about two thousand souldiours to take Fast castell the which vpon the first summons line 40 was deliuered into his hands who receiuing the keies being presented to him entered the hold and tooke possession thereof in the queenes maiesties name and expelling the Scots being about the number of halfe a score who according to couenant were suffered to depart with their liues saued he put ten or as some haue fouretéene Englishmen into that castell which were thought able and number sufficient enough to kéepe it against all the power of Scotland the situation thereof is so strong In this meane time the troubles increasing among line 50 the Scots by reason of the murther committed in the person of the earle of Murreie the late gouernour the duke of Chatellerault and other his partakers gathered a power of thrée thousand men and comming to Lithquo midwaie betwixt Sterling and Edenburgh remained there for a time and afterwards came to Edenburgh in purpose to make warre against the lords of the kings part who hauing sent to the earle of Lennox then remaining in England earnestlie requested him to repaire line 60 into Scotland Wherevpon he by the queenes maiesties licence tooke his iourneie thitherwards and came to Barwike where he was also visited with sickenesse and so remained certeine daies in that towne And vnderstanding that the said duke of Chatelleraults power was such that the lords of the kings side were not able to come togither nor he to go to them without the quéene of Englands aid he humblie sued vnto hir maiestie by letters to haue some power by hir appointment to conduct him into Scotland and there to aid him and the other lords of that side against their aduersaries the duke and his complices Héerevpon by hir maiesties commandement the earle of Sussex as yet not fullie recouered of his sicknesse ordeined master William Drurie the marshall of Barwike with such forces as were thought conuenient to go with the said earle of Lennox for the execution of such exploits in seruice as séemed most expedient And about the same time to wit the sixt of Maie the lord Scroope lord warden of the west marches made a rode into Scotland incamping the first night on the hither side of the water of Annan and the next daie marched towards the water of Milke burning and spoiling all on that side of Annandale namelie the lard Iohnsons lands finding small resistance sauing that the forreie was a little troubled with a fortie or fiftie Scots horssemen and so hauing doone his pleasure he quietlie returned without receiuing other impeachment notwithstanding the lord Herries was in Dunsrise hauing gathered a great power in purpose to hinder his enterprise But now to returne to the earle of Sussex who hauing instituted sir William Drurie generall of those bands that should passe with the earle of Lennox into Scotland bicause each gentleman souldior and seuerall bands should dutifullie obeie the said sir William their new ordeined generall in all points of warlike order the said earle made an oration in such pithie forme and manner as throughlie expressed the whole substance of the seruice the vnsuertie of the season the strange and malicious dealing of diuerse aduersaries which points he so cunninglie handled as the excellencie of a perfect orator appeared fullie in his speach At whose eloquence the herers rather séemed astonied than vnsatisfied in anie point or parcell of those matters for he opened the verie bowels of rebellion the practises of enimies and suborning of traitors and therefore persuaded euerie honest mind to haue a dutifull consideration of his prince and countrie in the defense and libertie whereof both life lands and goods are alwaies to be offered After which oration in respect of further aduancement as the custome is for seruice past and incouragement to procéed in the like worthie dooings he made these knights Sir William Drurie sir Thomas Manners sir George Careie and sir Robert Constable and placing the said sir William Drurie the appointed generall in full authoritie he committed them to God and the good conduct of their chéefeteine Now hauing heard the lord lieutenant thus speake and séeing the means that he vsed to incourage them against the enimie how could they one with another but vow in mind euen with the hazzard
worldlings whose hearts are so hardened that they will not beléeue though one rise from the dead or though God should speake vnto them from heauen as the poet noteth trulie which he hath doone in times past solióque tremendus ab alto Altitonans coelo signa stupenda dedit About the twelfe daie of Ianuarie proclamation was published at London for reuocation of sundrie line 40 the quéenes maiesties subiects remaining beyond the seas vnder colour of studie and yet liuing contrarie to the lawes of God and of the realme and also against the reteining of Iesuits and massing priests sowers of sedition and other treasonable attempts c. The thirtéenth of Ianuarie a man was drawne to saint Thomas of Waterings and there hanged headed and quartered for begging by a licence wherevnto the quéenes hand was counterfeited On the sixteenth daie of Ianuarie the lords line 50 and barons of this realme began to sit in the parlement house at Westminster and on the twentith daie of Ianuarie the quéenes maiestie went from White hall to the parlement house by water Whereas a great chalenge of iusts was signified by waie of deuise before hir maiestie on Twelfe night last past to haue beene performed the fiftéenth daie of Ianuarie hir maiesties pleasure was for diuerse considerations the same should be deferred vntill the two and twentith daie of the same moneth on which line 60 daie the same was most couragiouslie accomplished in the accustomed place at Westminster where manie staues were valiantlie broken but through the great concourse of people thither repairing manie of the beholders as well men as women were sore hurt some maimed and some killed by falling of the scaffolds ouercharged This yeare about Hallowntide last past in the marishes of Daneseie hundred in a place called Southminster in the countie of Essex a strange thing happened There suddenlie appéered an infinite multitude of mice which ouerwhelming the whole earth in the said marishes did sheare and gnaw the grasse by the roots spoiling tainting the same with their venemous teeth in such sort that the cattell which grased thereon were smitten with a murreine and died thereof Which vermine by policie of man could not be destroied till now at the last it came to passe that there flocked togither all about the same marishes such a number of owles as all the shire was not able to yeeld whereby the marsh holders were shortlie deliuered from the vexation of the said mice This yeere against the comming of certeine commissioners out of Francis into England by hir maiesties appointment year 1581 on the six and twentith daie of March in the morning being Easter daie a banketting house was begun at Westminster on the south west side of hir maiesties palace of White hall made in maner and forme of a long square thrée hundred thirtie and two foot in measure about thirtie principals made of great masts being fortie foot in length a peece standing vpright betwéene euerie one of these masts ten foot asunder and more The walles of this house were closed with canuas and painted all the outsides of the same most artificiallie with a worke called rustike much like to stone This house had two hundred ninetie and two lights of glasse The sides within the same house was made with ten heights of degrées for people to stand vpon and in the top of this house was wrought most cunninglie vpon canuas works of iuie and hollie with pendents made of wicker rods and garnished with baie rue and all maner of strange flowers garnished with spangles of gold as also beautified with hanging toseans made of hollie and iuie with all maner of strange fruits as pomegranats orenges pompions cucumbers grapes carrets with such other like spangled with gold and most richlie hanged Betwixt these works of baies and iuie were great spaces of canuas which was most cunninglie painted the clouds with starres the sunne and sunne beames with diuerse other cotes of sundrie sorts belonging to the quéenes maiestie most richlie garnished with gold There were of all manner of persons working on this house to the number of thrée hundred seuentie and fiue two men had mischances the one brake his leg and so did the other This house was made in thrée wéeks and three daies and was ended the eightéenth daie of Aprill and cost one thousand seuen hundred fortie and foure pounds nineteene shillings and od monie as I was crediblie informed by the worshipfull maister Thomas Graue surueior vnto hir maiesties workes who serued and gaue order for the same as appeareth by record On the sixteenth daie of Aprill arriued at Douer these noblemen of France commissioners from the French king to hir maiestie Francis of Burbon prince dolphin of Auergne Arthur Cossaie marshall of France Lodouic Lusignian lord of Laneoc Tauergius Caercongin countie of Tillir Bertrand Salignacus lord Mot Fenelon monsieur Manaissour Barnabie Brissen president of the parlement of Paris Claud Pinart monsieur Marchmont monsieur Ueraie these came from Grauesend by water to London where they were honorably receiued and interteined and shortlie after being accompanied of the nobilitie of England they repaired to the court and banketting house prepared for them at Westminster as is afore said where hir maiestie decus illa Britannûm Gemmáque non alijs inuenienda locis with amiable countenance great courtesse receiued them and afterward in that place most roiallie feasted banketted them Also the nobles gentlemen of the court desirous to shew them all courtesie possible fittest for such estates and to sport them with all courtlie pleasure agréed among them to prepare a tâ—iumph which was verie quicklie concluded and being deuised in most sumptuous order was by them performed in as valiant a manner to their endlesse fame and honor The chiefe or chalengers in these attempts were these the earle of Arundell the lord Windsore maister Philip Sidueie and maister Fulke Greuill who calling themselues the foure foster children of desire made their inuention of the foresaid triumph in order and forme following line 10 The gallerie or place at the end of the tiltyard adioining to hir maiesties house at Whitehall wheras hir person should be placed was called and not without cause The castell or fortresse of perfect beautie for as much as hir highnesse should be there included whereto the said foster children laid tiâ—le and claime as their due by descent to belong vnto the them And vpon deniall or anie repulse from that their desired patrimonie they vowed to vanquish and conquer by force who so should séeme to withstand it line 20 For the accomplishing whereof they sent their challenge or first defiance to the quéenes maiestie which was vttered by a boie on sundaie the sixtéenth of Aprill last as hir maiestie came from the chappell who being apparelled in red and white as a martiall messenger of Desires fostered children without making anie precise reuerence
vnto his praiers the preachers desired him to praie in English with them and to saie a praier after them wherein if he could find anie fault he should be resolued thereof O quoth he againe you and I were not one in faith therefore I thinke I should offend God if I should praie with you at which words the people began to crie Awaie with him so he saieng his Pater noster in Latine ended his life Then was Laurence Richardson brought vp into the cart to him Thomas Coteham to be executed togither But Coteham séemed to vtter such words as though there had béene hope he would haue forsaken his wickednesse so that the halter was vntied and he brought downe out of the cart againâ— In which time Laurence Richardson prepared him to death confessing himselfe a catholike and that he would beléeue in all things as the catholike church of Rome did vnto the pope he allowed the onelie supremasie In which traitorous opinion after certeine Latine praiers he was committed to God Then was Coteham brought vp to the cart againe the good opinion had of him before changed into that obstinat nature that was in them all saieng to master shiriffe that before he came into England he was armed for India and thither if he might be suffered he would passe with as much conuenient spéed as might be Then looking to the bodie of Laurence Richardson whereon the executioner was vsing his office he lifted vp his hands and said O blessed Laurence praie for me thy blessed soule Laurence praie for me for which words both tâ—e preachers and the people rebuked him telling him that he ought to praie to none but to God onelie all helpe of man was but in vaine Whereto he answered he was assured that he could praie for him In bréefe his treasons being mooued to him he denied all albeit his owne handwriting was there to affirme it He praied for hir maiestie and said his Pater noster Aue Maria and as the cart was drawing away he said In marius tuas Domine commendo spiritum meum and then he died Thus did the broome of iustice swéepe awaie these noisome cobwebs noisome both to church and commonwealth as being of the diuels hâ—tching but nurssed and fostered of poperie to insnare and trap seelie soules as the spider dooth the flie from whome the Lord God deliuer euerie member of his church On the second daie of Iune Philip Prise was hanged in Fléetstréet for killing one of the shiriffes sergeants that had arrested him This man at his death as inwardlie touched with sorrow for the offense which he had committed and died gaue such apparant tokens and notes of a repentant mind line 10 that partlie with his spéeches which were patheticall and partlie with his teares which were plentifull as also with his vehement sighs and greeuous grones ioined with diuerse other gestures great signes of inward grace he so mooued the beholders that manie which beheld him pitied his wofull end most yea in maner all whereof some were such as a man would haue thought had neuer a teare to shed at such a sight hauing viewed diuerse the like and more lamentable spectacles with wet eies beheld line 20 him and yet in heart reioised that he died reconciled to God On the eight and twentith of Iune Peregrine Bartie lord Willoughbie of Grobie appointed ambassador to Frederike the second king of Denmarke with the garter wherevnto he had béene elected chosen a long time before tooke his leaue of the quéenes maiestie at Gréenewich with whome sir Gilbert Dethicke alià s Garter principall king of armes was ioined in commission for the inuesting of the said king into the order and Robert Glouer line 30 alià s Summerset herald was also present and gaue his attendance in the same voiage as likewise did a competent number of gentlemen and yeomen in all to the number of six and fiftie persons besides mariners c. The said lord ambassador prepared himselfe towards Kingstone vpon Hull where he imbarked with his whole traine on the fourtéenth daie of Iulie and prosperouslie arriued at Elsemore in Denmarke on the one and twentith daie of the same moneth where he was honorablie interteined line 40 On the thirtéenth daie of August he presented himselfe before the king in his castell of Croneborough and made his first spéech vnto him in Latine which spéech being ended the lord Willoughbie deliuered vnto the king hir maiesties letters and withall the commission for the kings inuesture into that honorable order of the garter Which letters the king opened and deliuered them to Henrie Ramelis his chancellor for Germanie to read whom he commanded line 50 to answer my lords former oration From the king my lord was conueied to the quéenes presence vnto whome also he deliuered hir maiesties letters with salutations The next daie being thursdaie the fouretéenth of August the king roiallie prepared receiued the robes of the order with his owne hands and with great contentment accepted and ware the garter the collar and the George when as my lord concluded the whole dedication with sundrie wel-wishings In the end whereof he put the king in mind line 60 of the oth and thankefull acceptation of the order to be testified by a publike instrument as was before promised where vnto the king answered by his chancellor Nicholas Kaas with manie effectuall words and immediatlie in signe of ioie a great volee was discharged of all the great shot in his castell and the lord ambassador with all his traine was roiallie feasted rewarded On thursdaie the sixtéenth daie of August the king tooke my lord ambassador foorth on hunting two leagues from Elsemore and there in the dinner time vttered manie louing spéeches And after to wit on the one and twentith of September the lord ambassador with all his traine imbarked at Emden and arriued at Bromeholme in Norffolke on thursdaie the seauen and twentith daie of September On the nineteenth daie of Iulie certeine ferkins of gunpowder to the number of seauen and as manie or more ferkins of sturgeon laden in a car vpon Galleie keie néere vnto the Tower of London some small portion of the same powder being shed on the ground the horsse in the said carre stroke fire with his foot and fired all togither where-through the sturgeon was blowen awaie some into the Thames some elsewhere one ferkin was driuen through a lome wall that was boorded ouer but all was spoiled and lost the craâ—e on the wharffe with the houses neere adioining shattered manie men and horsses sore blasted the thrée men and seauen horsses died thereof On the twelfe daie of August there arose a great tempest of lightening thunder whirlewind and raine with hailestones fashioned like to the rowels of spurs two or thrée inches about in the countie of Norffolke betweene the market townes of north Walsham and Worsted the towne wherein the making of
that he did sweare to me at diuerse times that all the aduancement she could giue should serue but for hir scourge if euer time and occasion should serue and that although he would not laie hand vpon hir in a corner his hart serued him to strike off hir head in the field Now leauing him to himselfe thus much to make an end I must confesse of my sefe I did meane to trie what might be doone in parlement to doo my best to hinder all hard courses to haue praied hearing of the queenes maiestie to mooue hir if I could to take compassion vpon hir catholike subiects and when all had failed to doo as I intended If hir maiestie by this course would haue eased them though she had neuer preferred me I had with all comfort and patience borne it 13 but if she had preferred me without ease or care of them the enterprise had held ¶ God preserue the quéene incline hir mercifull hart to forgiue me this desperat purpose and to take my head with all my hart for hir better satisfaction line 10 W. Parrie After which for the better manifesting of his treasons on the fouretéenth of Februarie last past there was a letter written by him to hir maiestie verie voluntarilie all of his owne hand without anie motion made to him The tenor whereof for that which concerneth these his traitorous dealings is as followeth line 20 A letter written by Parrie to hir maiestie YOur maiestie maie see by my voluntarie confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented mind how constantlie I pursued my first conceiued purpose in Venice for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes continued it in Lions and resolued in Paris to put it in aduenture for the restitution line 30 of England to the ancient obedience of the see apostolike You maie see withall how it is commended allowed and warranted in conscience diuinitie and policie by the pope and some great diuines though it be true or likelie that most of our English diuines lesse practised in matters of this weight doo vtterlie mislike and condemne it The enterprise is preuented and conspiracie discouered by an honourable gentleman my kinsman and late familiar friend maister Edmund Neuill priuie line 40 and by solemne oth taken vpon the bible partie to the matter wherof I am hardlie glad but now sorie in my verie soule that euer I conceiued or intended it how commendable or meritorious so euer I thought it God thanke him and forgiue me who would not now before God attempt it if I had libertie and oportunitie to doo it to gaine your kingdome I beseech Christ that my death and example maie as well satisfie your maiestie and the world as it shall glad and content me line 50 The queene of Scotland is your prisoner let hir be honourablie intreated but yet surelie garded The French king is French you know it well enough you will find him occupied when he should doo you good he will not loose a pilgrimage to saue you a crowne I haue no more to saie at this time but that with my hart soule I doo now honour loue you am inwardlie sorie for mine offense and readie to make you amends by my death and patience Discharge me A culpa but not A poena good ladie And line 60 so farewell most gratious and the best natured and qualified queene that euer liued in England From the Tower the fourteenth of Februarie one thousand fiue hundred eightie and foure W. Parrie After which to wit the eightéenth of Februarie last past Parrie in further acknowledging his wicked and intended treasons wrote a letter all of his owne hand in like voluntarie maner to the lord treasuror of England and the earle of Leicester lord steward of hir maiesties house the tenor wherof is as followeth William Parries letter to the lord treasuror and the earle of Leicester MY lords now that the conspiracie is discouered the fault confessed my conscience cleared and mind prepared patientlie to suffer the paines due for so hainous a crime I hope it shall not offend you if crieng Miserere with the poore publicane I leaue to despaire with curssed Caine. My case is rare and strange and for anie thing I can remember singular a naturall subiect solemnlie to vow the death of his naturall queene so borne so knowne and so taken by all men for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes and restitution of religion The matter first conceiued in Venice the seruice in generall words presented to the pope continued and vndertaken in Paris and lastlie commended and warranted by his holinesse digested and resolued in England if it had not beene preuented by accusation or by hir maiesties greater lenitie and more gratious vsage of hir catholike subiects This is my first and last offense conceiued against my prince or countrie and dooth I cannot denie conteine all other faults whatsoeuer It is now to be punished by death or most gratiouslie beyond all common expectation to be pardoned Death I doo confesse to haue deserued life I doo with all humilitie craue if it may stand with the queenes honor and policie of the time To leaue so great a treason vnpunished were strange to drawe it by death in example were dangerous a sworne seruant to take vpon him such an enterprise vpon such a ground and by such a warrant hath not beene seene in England to indict him arreigne him bring him to the scaffold and to publish his offense can doo no good to hope that he hath more to discouer than is confessed or that at his execution he will vnsaie anie thing he hath written is in vaine to conclude that it is impossible for him in time to make some part of amends were verie hard and against former experience The question then is whether it be better to kill him or least the matter be mistaken vpon hope of his amendment to pardon him For mine owne opinion though parciall I will deliuer you my conscience The case is good queene Elisabeths the offense is committed against hir sacred person and she may of hir mercie pardon it without preiudice to anie Then this I say in few words as a man more desirous to discharge his troubled conscience than to liue Pardon poore Parrie and releeue him for life without liuing is not fit for him If this may not be or be thought dangerous or dishonorable to the queenes maiestie as by your fauors I thinke it full of honor and mercie then I beseech your lordships and no other once to heare me before I be indicted and afterwards if I must die humblie to intreat the queenes maiestie to hasten my triall and execution which I praie God with all my heart may prooue as honorable to hir as I hope it shall be happie to me who will while I liue as I haue doone alwaies praie to Iesus Christ for hir maiesties long and prosperous reigne From the
the altar and his intent neuer trulie discouered that is to saie that he did it for the catholikes it might be a spot in his race Marke here the verie word intent in his owne confession 7 Morgan assureth him that the lord Fernehurst should go into Scotland and be readie to enter vpon the first newes of our quéenes fall Thus much for his intent beyond the sea and before his coniuration discouered Upon his arriuall in England he wrote to court that he had a speciall seruice of discouerie vnto the quéene but with what intent let his owne words speake 8 More to prepare accesse and credit than for anie care had of hir person Admitted vnto hir gratious audience he discouered the coniuration yet in what maner let himselfe saie euen couered with all the skill he had This intent was with déepe treason for as he saith so he did he disclosed onelie so much as he thought good and necessarie to ground in hir highnesse a setled confidence towards him wherby he might effect his traitorous intent with better opportunitie and his owne safetie He bewraied himselfe so farre as he might couer his chiefe drift manie principall things concealed nothing of lord Fernehurst with his Scotish forces c. 9 Receiuing from the pope himselfe commendation and allowance of his enterprise of incouragement and plenarie indulgence by no meaner man than cardinall di Como though he shewed the letter to hir maiestie not for anie care of hir person but for his better accesse credit as the rest yet let his owne words tell what his intent was at the verie receiuing and shewing of the same letter Forsooth saith he this letter confirmed his resolution to kill the quéene making it cléere in his conscience as a thing lawfull and meritorious Now is his intent grown to a resolution not doutfull but cleere in conscience not alone lawfull but meritorious Papa dixit a cardinall is Nuntio What other thing is this than for the pope and his cardinals like an other Antoninus Commodus to make one Inter sicarios gladiatores The diuell inforcing this traitors heart to execute his intent 10 He was troubled looking vpon the quéene and remembring hir excellencies yet he saw no remedie his vowes were in heauen his letters and promises on earth Yea he stroue to close his eies at these excellencies and obstinated his hart by séeking reasons to quench all sparks of humanitie and allegiance arising in his thoughts For thus reasoneth he against his conscience Why shouldest thou care for hir What hath she doone for thee Hast thou not spent ten thousand marks c. What more diuelish intent could possesse a traitor than to labour to suppresse a small remaine of conscience abhorring to kill so excellent a personage which God stirred vp in his thoughts to his iuster condemnation 11 Doctor Allens booke redoubled his former conceipts euerie word was a warrant to a prepared mind Sée how the smooth words of that catholike booke are interpreted and conceiued One spirit occupieth the catholike reader with the catholike writer and therefore can best expound the writers sense in his readers mouth euen to be a booke fraught with emphaticall speaches of energeticall persuasion to kill and depose hir maiestie and yet dooth the hypocrite writer that traitor catholike dissemble and protest otherwise 12 Parrie suffering repulse in a sute for S. Katharins communeth with maister Neuill recommendeth the enterprise as honorable profitable to the catholike common-weale Being preiudiced in opinion of Allens booke as before he commendeth it and deliuereth it to Neuill thereby to worke the same vile intent in him which it had alreadie confirmed in himselfe He tooke now an other oth vpon the bible after the maner of a protestant to pursue the enterprise and ment he saith to performe it so far foorth as the place and maner of dooing was appointed This second coniuration he neuer bewraied in six moneths till accused by Neuill and then at first denied it 13 Finallie to declare his height of malice he saith if the quéene had preferred him neuer so greatlie yet must this bloudie enterprise haue holden except 〈◊〉 â—ad reléeued the catholikes Was this no inten◠〈◊〉 neither benefit nor bountie could staie Which neither feare of God nor reuerence of excellencie could repell Which neither dread of punishment nor tract of time could remooue Did he conceiue it conferre and aduise of it vow himselfe line 10 to the execrable seruice present and offer it harden his heart against others dissuasions beat backe contrarie motions of his owne conscience go so farre as he could not go backe promise it faithfullie receiue a church sacrament therevpon make certificat thereof propound himselfe the end and reason of his intent discourse vpon the contingent sequele preuenting the spot of his race receiue letters of allowance commendation incouragement and absolution could he vow in heauen and promise on line 20 earth could he doo all this in a thing which he meant not Could he resolue and confirme his resolution of a thing which he intended not yea could he intend meane for all these be his owne words that which he neuer meant nor intended could he redouble his conceits and haue a prepared mind for that he intended not Would such a craftie traitor practise with others by persuasiue speach traitorous booke in such a matter as the onelie broching thereof must line 30 capitallie indamage his kinsman and friend and withall laie his owne head in his friends hand And yet notwithstanding either he meant this treason either else he little loued his friend to tempt him so dangerouslie whom yet he saith he loued so as to suffer his finger in his dish his hand in his pursse But which is aboue all would anie man sweare againe on the bible appoint time and place concealâ— it with as much perill as if he had doone it would he denie it would so ambitious a man discontent himselfe line 40 with all preferment for the atchiuing of that which he meant not Was this mischiefous course begun and continued a long time at home and abroad in manie kingdomes communicated with manie persons of seuerall nation and qualitie as pope cardinall Nuntio friâ—r priest kings secretarie and ambassadors all this while not meant Was it frankelie and voluntarilie confessed meant finallie recorded by pleading guiltie in maner forme with all circumstance and yet could he die an innocent line 50 for intent All this falling vpon no simple man but vpon one not now the first time holding vp his hâ—nd at barre vpon a doctor of law the verie hood whereof is able to giue a man more iudgement than to slip without light in all these things I know not how he maie be excused without strong suspicion of the excuser And if a prince may not iudge a wicked seruant out of his owne mouth nor determine an offense by two or
for his person both by water and by land the quéens maiesties barges and seruants imploied about him to from London the court then being at Gréenwich whither alwaies when he came the nobilitie of England failed in no point of courtesie that might be shewed which he séemed as he could no lesse verie acceptablie to take Now being in England and in the English court he might and no doubt did marke the magnificence of hir maiestie in all respects admirable Whereof a notable president was giuen in Whitsunweeke at what time the said ambassador being at the court was accompanied with certeine English lords to hir highnesse chapell and placed not far from hir excellencie did heare diuine seruice so melodiouslie said and soong both by voice and instruments of consort as a man halfe dead might thereby haue béene quickened The gentlemen of the chapell with the rest of the quier bending themselues both with skill and zeale that daie to honour their prince according to their place The bishop of Salisburie and others distinctlie reading part of diuine seruice and in presence of all the auditorie dooing such obeisance with knée and countenance as the presence of so gratious a souereigne as they had in their eies did require Now when this solemnitie was ended hir maiestie departed and so did the ambassador attended vpon and accompanied vnto the place appointed for dinner where standing néere vnto a faire window fronting into the open court he might being in communication now with one and then with another English lord as the L. Charles Howard L. admerall the lord Cobham lord warden of the cinque ports c behold the roiall seruice of hir maiestie verie personable gentlemen thereto sorted carieng couered dishes all of siluer and gilt verie beautifull themselues in veluet and silke sutable in ech respect and as decentlie made so decentlie worn the trumpets sounding and the drums plaieng therevnto a maruellous delightsome thing to heare a passing gallant sight to behold When dinner was doone the ambassador was made partaker of such courtlie recreations as for that time were fit wherewith he could not but be pleasantlie conceipted considering that as euerie thing was doone with purpose to delight so he with others must needs be accordinglie affected And as the better sort had their conuenient disports so were not the ordinarie people excluded from competent pleasure For vpon a gréene verie spatious and large where thousands might stand and behold with good contentment there bearebaiting bulbaiting tempered with other merrie disports were exhibited whereat it cannot be spoken what pleasure the people tooke Now the daie being far spent and the sun in his declination the pastimes ended and the actors therein wearie the ambassador withdrew vnto his lodging by barge to Crosbies place where no doubt this daies solemnitie was thought vpon and talked of if not by him yet by his traine and perhaps as like enough of both Now after this and manie other English courtesies else where verie bountifullie giuen and taken the ambassador after the finishing of such affaires as he was put in trust withall taking his leaue both of the court citie and countrie returned towards Denmarke on the thirtith line 10 daie of Maie next following whome we will leaue vpon his voiage and touch other matters happening at home In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred foure score and six and on the fourth daie of Iune a commission was directed from the quéens maiestie then at Gréenewich tending to the ratification of a firme league of amitie betwéene the two mightie princes Elisabeth queene of England and Iames the sixt of that name king of Scots vpon certeine line 20 causes necessarie and important the reigne and gouernement of the said princes happening in so doubtfull and dangerous times wherein the princes néere adioining who will be called catholike agnising the popes authoritie by mutuall leagues doo knit friendship for the rooting vp and throwing out of the true pure and sincere religion of the gospell not onelie out of their owne territories and dominions but also out of other forrein kingdoms and thereto haue obliged their faith line 30 Least they therefore that loue the religion of the gospell should seeme lesse carefull for the defense and supportation thereof than they which earnestlie indeuour to mainteine and vphold that of Rome least it should be ouerthrowne the said princes for the greater secuâ—itie of their persons vpon whose safetie the safetie of the whole people dooth depend and for the preseruation of the true ancient and christian religion which they now professe haue thought good that a stricter bond of a mutuall and sociall league than at anie time hitherto hath béene line 40 agreed vpon betweene their maiesties progenitors should now be substantiallie concluded This league was articulated and commissioners thereto appointed the right honorable Edward earle of Rutland a complet noble man answerable to the â—tymon of his name and verie well deseruing the poets report nomen virtutilus aequat Nec â—init ingenium nobilitate premi the lord William Euers and also Thomas Randolph esquier who with their traine of attendants line 50 came to Berwike the ninetéenth of Iune where the ambassadors of Scotland being in like sort present they accomplished the matter whereto they were commissionated the articles of the said league in all and euerie part sufficientlie confirmed on the fift of Iulie All which being dispatched the said earle of Rutland with his traine returned This ambassage is reported in the historie of Scotland wherevnto for the auoiding of tautologie we refer the reader line 60 In the moneth of Iulie a verie dangerous conspiracie was discouered tending to the subuersion of the state and lamentable confusion of all things wherein as the turbulent spirited did what they could to procéed so it pleased God the author of peace to intercept them in the plot of their mischéefous deuise and to ouerthrow them in their owne imagined nets Ringleaders in this pretended treason were certeine gentlemen and others of whome hereafter by particular name we will speake who had waded and ventured so far therein that vpon the notice thereof as God will suffer no such attempts to lie long vndetected order was taken for a verie strict inquirie and search vniuersallie to be made for their apprehension which was accordinglie executed in so much that the conspirators distressed and succorles were put to verie hard shifts by this inquisition and pursuâ—e and in fine apprehended to the great reioising of the citizens of London diuerslie testified as with bonfiers making merrie in the streets at square and round tables singing of psalmes marching about their fiers with tabber anâ— pipe and giuing manie a showt that the aire rang withall In so much that the consideration thereof did so worke in hir highnesse as herevpon a thing rare in a prince she directed letters of thanks to the citie
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 ecâ—lesiae 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 coÌ„sent 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 Bechâ—llouin 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
lodgings the French king to the house of S. Paule and the king line 10 of England to the castell of Louer The next daie the two queenes made their entrie and were receiued with like solemnities as their husbands were the day before During all the season that these two kings laie in Paris there was a great assemblie called as well of the spiritualtie as of the nobles of the temporaltie in the which the kings sat as iudges before whom the duches of Burgognie by hir proctor appealed the Dolphin and seauen other for the murther of duke Iohn hir husband line 20 To the which appeale the counsell of the other part made diuerse offers of amends as well of foundations of chantries for préests to praie for the soule as recompense of monie to the widow and children for the finall determination whereof the kings to take further aduise and counsell therein appointed another daie At this same time the thrée estates of the realme of France assembled at Paris and there euerie person seuerallie sware vpon the holie euangelists to keepe support mainteine and defend the treatie and line 30 finall accord which was concluded betwéene the two kings and thereto euerie noble man spirituall gouernour and temporall ruler set to their seales which instruments were sent to the kings treasurie of his eschecker at Westminster safelie to be kept where they yet remaine The French king at the same time being in good and perfect state of health openlie there in parlement declared that peace was concluded accorded and made by his frée assent and with the aduise line 40 of all the councell of France and that he would for his owne part and that his successors ought for their parts obserue and kéepe the same with all the articles therein conteined And likewise that all his subiects were bound for euer to obserue and kéepe the same without breaking or dooing anie thing preiudiciall therevnto During the time that the two kings thus soiourned in Paris the French king kept a small port verie few and those of the meaner sort resorting vnto line 50 his court but the king of England kept such a solemne state with so plentifull an house and shewed himselfe so bountifull in gifts and setting foorth of warlike shewes and princelie pastimes that all the noble men and other resorted to his palace to see his estate and to doo him honor He tooke vpon him as regent of France to redresse causes remooue officers reforme things that were amisse and caused a new coine to be made called a salute wherein were the armes of France and the armes of England and line 60 France quarterlie stamped Also to set all things in quiet he constituted sir Gilbert Umfreuile capteine of Melun with a good number of valiant soldiers to remaine there in garrison and the earle of Huntington coosine germane to the king was deputed capteine at Blois de Uincenes and the duke of Excester with fiue hundred men of warre was assigned to keepe Paris Thus had king Henrie when he was constituted gouernour of the land the disposing of prouinces townes and castels at his pleasure and the making of lawes and ordinances standing with the drift of his policie to kéepe both people in due obedience as Anglorum praelia bréefelie noteth saieng Rectorem patria postquam rex Gallus omnes Vnanimes proceres Henricum constituerunt Plantageneta dabat princeps iam iura duabus Gentibus effraenes ductis cohibebat habenis The duke of Bauier about the same time with the kings licence departed into his countrie both he and his retinue receiuing large gifts of the kings great liberalitie and amongst other things the king gaue him a cup of gold garnished and set with pretious stones of great price and value Moreouer he had a pension giuen him of a thousand markes by yeare vnder the kings letters patents to be had and receiued of the kings frée and liberall grant during the life of the said duke A right roiall reward worthie the maiestie of a king bestowed vpon the said duke and his retinue partlie in respect of the aliance betwixt the king and him for he had maried the kings sister but speciallie for the notable seruice which they did him at the siege before Melun So that hereby is commended vnto vs an example of gratitude and beneficence teaching vs that to such as haue béene good and gratious vnto vs we should be alwaies forward with a right hand and readie mind to make amends in some proportion and measure When the king had thus ordered his businesse he with the quéene his wife the princes year 1421 nobles of the realme departed from Paris the sixt of Ianuarie and came to Rone but first before his departing he caused processe to be made and awarded foorth against Charles the Dolphin commanding him to appéere at the marble table at Paris where for lacke of appearance he was with all solemnitie in such case requisite denounced guiltie of the murther and homicide of Iohn duke of Burgognie and by the sentence of parlement banished the realme but the Dolphin withdrew into Languedoc and after to Poictiers getting to him such fréends as he could and namelie he found the earle of Arminacke verie faithfull to him not onelie aiding him with men but also with his owne person he continuallie serued him against all his aduersaries The king of England comming to Rone soiourned there a certeine time and receiued the homage of all the nobles of Normandie amongst whome the earle of Stafford did homage for the countie of Perch and Arthur of Britaine likewise for the countie of Yurie He also ordeined his lieutenant generall both of France and Normandie his brother Thomas duke of Clarence and his deputie in Normandie was the earle of Salisburie When the feast of Christmasse was passed he departed from Rone with the quéene his wife and by Amiâ—ns came to Calis where he tooke ship the morow after Candlemasse daie and landed at Douer and came to Canturburie and from thence to Eltham and so through London to Westminster I passe ouer to write what ioy and triumph was shewed by the citizens of London and of all other his subiects in euerie place where he came The king himselfe to render vnto God his most humble hartie thanks caused solemne processions to be obserued and kept fiue daies togither in euerie citie and towne After that doone he made great purueiance for the coronation of his quéene spouse the faire ladie Katharine which was doone the daie of S. Matthew being the twentie fourth of Februarie with all such ceremonies and princelie solemnitie as apperteined Which because it was full of roialtie and honour the qualitie of the principall personages requiring no lesse and recorded by writers of former ages it séemeth necessarie and conuenient in this place to report it in such sort as it is found at large in some though others
the assault a sudden rumor rose in the armie that peace was concluded which brute as it was pleasant to the Frenchmen so was it displesant to the Englishmen bicause they were prest and readie at all times to set on their enimies and brought into great hope to haue béene inriched by the spoile and gaine to haue fallen to their lots of their enimies goods beside the glorious fame of renowmed victorie And therefore to be defrauded hereof by an vnprofitable line 30 peace they were in great fume and verie angrie and namelie for that diuerse of the capteins to set themselues and their bands the more gorgeouslie forward had borrowed large summes of monie and for the repaiment had morgaged their lands and possessions and some happilie had made through sale thereof trusting to recouer all againe by the gaines of this iournie Wherefore offended with this sudden conclusion of peace they spake euill both of the king and his councell But the king like a wise prince asswaged line 40 their displeasure in part with excusing the matter alleaging what losse and bloudshed was like to insue both of capteins and souldiers if the assault should haue béene giuen to the vtterance especiallie sith the towne was so well furnished with men and munitions When he had somewhat appeased their minds with these and manie other reasons he returned backe againe to Calis There were not manie of the English armie lost at this siege of Bullogne few or no men of name line 50 sauing that valiant capteine sir Iohn Sauage knight the which as he and sir Iohn Riselie rode about the wals of the towne to view in what place it might be easiliest assaulted was compassed about by certeine Frenchmen that were issued out of the towne and there slaine standing at defense and vtterlie refusing to yéeld himselfe as prisoner But sir Iohn Riselie escaped by flieng awaie When the K. was thus returned to Calis he began to smell a certeine secret smoke which was like to turne to a line 60 great flame without wise foresight and good looking to For by the craftie inuention and diuelish imagination of the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie a new idoll was set vp in Flanders and by a forged name called Richard Plantagenet second sonne to king Edward the fourth as though he had béene raised from death to life The newes hereof somewhat troubled him so that he was with better will content to receiue the honorable conditions of peace offered of his enimie bicause he should not be constreined at one time to make warre both at home and also in a forren region The conclusion of this agréement made with the Frenchmen was this That this peace should continue both their liues and that the French king should pay to the king of England a certeine summe of monie in hand according as the commissioners should appoint for his charges susteined in this iournie Which as the king certified the maior of London by his letters the ninth of Nouember amounted to the summe of seuen hundred fortie and fiue thousand duckats the which is of sterling monie one hundred foure score and six thousand two hundred and fiftie pounds It was also concluded that he should yearelie for a certeine space paie or cause to be paid for the monie that the K. had spent expended in the defense of the Britans fiue twentie thousand crowns Which yearelie tribute the French king afterwards continuallie occupied in the wars of Italie yearelie satisfied paid so long as K. Henrie liued who after he had taried a conuenient space at Calis tooke the sea and arriued at Douer and so came to his manour of Gréenewich Immediatlie after his returne thus into England he elected into the fellowship of saint George commonlie called the order of the garter Alphonse duke of Calabre sonne and heire to Ferdinando king of Naples Christopher Urswike the kings almoner was sent to him vnto Naples with the garter collar mantell and other habilments apperteining to the companions of that noble order The which was reuerentlie receiued of the said duke who in a solemne presence reuested himselfe with that habit supposing by the countenance of that apparell to be able to resist his aduersarie the French king sith he was now made a fréend and companion in order with the king of England but that little auailed him as after it was right apparant And here bicause in sundrie actions we haue séene and obserued the French kings subtilties his inconstancie lacke of truth honestie and kinglie modestie we maie be bold to set downe the description of his person as we sind the same readie drawne to hand that by a view thereof we maie conclude that his properties were proportioned to his person It is verie certeine saith mine author that king Charles from his infancie was of complexion verie delicate and of bodie vnsound and diseased of small stature and of face if the aspect and dignitie of his eies had béene taken awaie fowle and deformed his other members bearing such equall proportion that he séemed more a monster than a man he was not onelie without all knowledge of good sciences but scarselie he knew the distinct characters of letters his mind desirous to command but more proper to anie other thing for that being inuironed alwaies with his familiars and fauourits he reteined with them no maiestie or authoritie he reiected all affaires and businesse and yet if he did debate and consider in anie he shewed a weake discretion and iudgement And if he had any thing in him that caried apparance of merit or praise yet being thoroughlie weied and sounded it was found further off from vertue than from vice he had an inclination to glorie but it was tempered more with rashnesse and furie than with moderation and counsell his liberalities were without discretion measure or distinction immooueable oftentimes in his purposes but that was rather an ill grounded obstinacie than constancie And that which manie call bountie deserued more reasonablie in him the name of coldnesse slackenesse of spirit This yeare the two and twentith of Iune was borne at Gréenewich the lord Henrie second sonne to this king Henrie the seuenth which was created duke of Yorke after prince of Wales and in conclusion succéeded his father in gouernance of this realme by the name of Henrie the eight father to our gratious souereigne quéene Elizabeth But now to returne to the new found sonne of king Edward coniured by mens policies from death to life ye shall vnderstand that the duchesse of Burgognie euer desiring to cast a scorpion in the bosome of king Henrie year 1492 not for anie displeasure by him towards hir wrought or doone but onelie bicause he was descended of the house of Lancaster being an enimie to hir line began to spin a new web like a spider that dailie weaueth when his kall is torne for after that the earle of Lincolne which
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 nominandā 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
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 â—he 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
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 Poâ—gnard 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
Francford Magdburge Danske Hamburgh and their borders that by estimation saith he there died of that contagion to the number of thrée hundred thousand A grieuous scourge of God saith mine author howbeit verie few thereby so terrified that they reformed their wicked liues Which plague in Germanie I therefore doo here repeat bicause by all likelihoods it is to be gathered that as it raged in the same yeare both there and here so the cause maie be all one that bred so venemous an effect There was on the vigill of S. Peter a watch in the citie of London which did onelie stand in the highest stréets of Cheape Cornehill and so foorth to Algate which watch was to the commons of the same citie as chargeable as when in times past it had béene commendablie doone The fift of August the quéenes maiestie in hir progresse came to the vniuersitie of Cambridge and was of all the students being inuested according to their degrées taken in the schooles honourablie and ioifullie receiued in the Kings college where she did lie during hir continuance in Cambridge The daies of hir abode were passed in scholasticall exercises of philosophie physicke and diuinitie the nights in comedies and tragedies set foorth partlie by the whole vniuersitie and partlie by the students of the Kings college to recreat and delight hir maiestie who both heard them attentiuelie and beheld them chéerefullie At the breaking vp of the diuinitie act being on wednesdaie the ninth of August on the which daie she rode thorough the towne and viewed the colleges those goodlie and ancient monuments of kings of England hir noble predecessors she made within saint Maries church a notable oration in Latine in the presence of the whole learned vniuersitie to the students great comfort ¶ A copie whereof I haue set downe as I receiued it in writing at the hands of one that then was present and noted the same as hir maiestie vttered it Whose words vnto me in a letter wherewith the same oration was sent I doo here set downe Bona fide This hir maiesties extemporall oration saith he lieng among my papers these twentie yeares and more I thought good now to send to you that if anie occasion be fitlie offered in the discourse of hir highnesse reigne you maie if you please insert it In truth I my selfe neuer elsewhere read it which hath made me euen religiouslie to preserue it Master Abraham Hartwell in his Regina literata dwelling vpon this onelie argument of hir comming and dooings at Cambridge glanceth in a disâ—ich or twaine at the effect hereof But this is the thing it selfe as I my selfe as most vnworthie being both an eare and also an eie witnesse can testifie Serenissimae reginae Elisabethae oratio publicè Cantabrigiae habita coram vniuerso academiae coetu anno 1564 regni sui sexto ETsi foeminilis iste meus pudor subditi fidelissimi academia charissima in tanta doctorum turba illaboratum hunc sermonem et orationem me narrare apud vos impediat tamen nobilium meoruÌ„ intercessus erga academiam beneuoleÌ„tia me aliquid proferre inuitat Duobus ad hanc rem stimulis moueor Primus est bonarum literarum propagatio alter est vestra omnium expectatio Quod ad propagationem spectat vnum illud apud Demosthenem memini Superiorum verba apud inferiores librorum locum habent principum dicta legum authoritatem apud subditos retinent Hoc igitur vos omnes in memoria tenere velim quòd semit a nulla praestantior est siue ad bona fortunae acquirenda siue ad principum gratiam conciliandam quà m vt gnauiter vt coepistis studijs vestris exhibeatis operam quod vt faciatis vos omnes oro obsecróque De secundo stimulo line 10 vestra nimirùm expectatione hoc vnum dico me nihil lubenter praetermissuram esse quod vestrae de me animae beneuolae concipiunt cogitationes Iam ad academiam venio Tempore antemeridiano vidi ego aedificia vestra sumptuosa à meis maioribus clarissimis principibus literarum causa extructa Et inter videndum dolor artus meos occupauit atque ea mentis suspiria quae Alexandrum quondam tenuisse feruntur Qui cum legisset line 20 multa à principibus posita monumenta conuersus ad familiarem seu potiùs ad consiliarium multùm doluit se nìhil tale fecisse Haec tamen vulgaris sententia me aliquantùm recreauit quae etsi non auferre tamen minuere potest dolorem Quae quidem sententia haec est Romam non vno aedificatam fuisse die tamen non est ita senilis mea aetas nec tam diu fuit ex quo regnare coepi quin ante redditionem debiti naturae si non nimis citò Atropos line 30 lineam vitae meae amputauerit aliquod opus faciam quandiu vita hos regit artus nunquam à proposito deflectam Et si contingat quà m citò futurum sit nescio me mori oportere priusquam hoc ipsum quod polliceor complere possim aliquod tamen egregium opus post mortem relinquam quo memoria mea in posterum celebris fiat alios excitem exemplo meo vos omnes alacriores faciam ad studia vestra Sed iam videtis quantum intersit inter doctrinam line 40 lectam disciplinam animo non retentam Quorum alterius sunt complures satis sufficientes testes alterius autem vos omnes nimis quidem inconsyderatè testes hoc tempore effeci quae meo barbaro orationis genere tam diu doctas vestras aures detinuerim Dixi. The next daie she went forward on hir progresse to Finchinbrooke by Huntington The thirtith daie line 50 of August was enacted by a common councell of the citie of London that all such citizens as from thence foorth should be constreined to sell their houshold stuffe leases of houses or such like should first cause the same to be cried through the citie by a man wiâ—h a bell and then to be sold by the common outcrier appointed for that purpose and he to reteine one farthing vpon the shilling for his paines The twentith of September arose great flouds in the riuer of Thames where through the marshes néere adioining line 60 were ouerflowed and manie cattell drowned ¶ The creation of sir Robert Sutton alià s Dudleie knight of the garter and master of the horsse to the queenes maiestie who was created baron of Denbigh and after earle of Leicester on Michaelmasse daie at saint Iames with the gift of the manour of Killingworth and other things there to him and his heires to the yéerlie value of foure and twentie pounds better First the said lord attended on the queenes highnesse to the chappell and from the chappell to seruice and when he was returned to the chamber of presence the said lord with other
Now a word or two to shew who they be that die in the Lord and then an end They principallie are said to die in the Lord which suffer death vnder the beast for confession of Christs religion for they properlie die in the Lords cause Such are the martyrs as well of the primitiue church vnder the cruell emperours as the martyrs of all ages since vnder antichrist of Rome They also die in the Lord which though they die not by the crueltie of the beast yet they die in the faith of Iesus Christ and are therefore blessed Of this number was this godlie earle as I haue before declared Wherfore I will conclude and direct my spéech for two or thrée words to this good earle O noble earle of Essex in thy time the pearle of nobilitie the mirrour of vertue and worthie qualities the child of chiualrie the beautifull floure of England the pretious iewell and comfort of Wales the trustie staie of Ireland Thy life was most honourable thy worthinesse incomparable thy death pretious in the sight of God for thou diedst in the Lord a right inheritour of the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Wherefore by authoritie of the heauenlie oracle that saint Iohn was commanded to write thou art to be pronounced blessed for euer Our sins haue shortened thy life so that we could inioie the same no longer Thou hast notwithstanding bequeathed thy bodie to be buried amongst vs here in Wales Of verie dutie therefore O noble earle thy toome shall be with vs in reuerence estimation and honor the fame and name of thy nobilitie valiantnesse vertue and woorthinesse shall neuer be forgotten but shall liue and be kept with vs in memorie from generation to geration while the world standeth Thus far the words of the bishop vttered in a sermon preached in the ears of no meane audience either for reputation or number Now then brieflie considering wherein true and perfect noblenesse consisteth that the heroicall vertues with their naturall vse were most firmelie fixed in his heart and practised by his hand there is great reason to mooue euen his enimies if it were possible for so good a gentleman to haue anie to confesse in him most absolute nobilitie and that this epitaph alluding to his right honorable ensignes is deseruedlie to be recorded being an abstract of that notable line 10 epitaph intituled Epitapium genealogicum in obitum illustrissimi Gualteri comitis Essexiae Euiae comitis marischalli regni Hiberniae vicecomitis Hereford Bourghcher domini Ferrers de Chartleie Bourgcher Louein praenobilis ordinis garterij militis qui obijt Dublinij 21. Septemb. 1576. aetatis suae 36 sepulti apud Maridunum 26. Nouemb. c. Si quisquam claret veterum splendore parentum Aut famam meritus morum probitate perennem line 20 Profiteatur in hijs nomen Essexius heros Qui praeclara virûm gestat monumenta tot vnus Quot rarò licuit multis gestaminaferre Qui intrepidè ob patriam tot mille pericula passus Quot rarò poterint vlla aulica corporaferre Aureolus partus matris patriae decus ingens Quo non exultat moderante Herefordia sola Aut Trinobantum titulo probitatis honorem Plebs referens strenuum validúmue Britannia sola Sensit in aduersos Boreales dum benegessit line 30 Tota sed heroem cognouit marte feroci Eugeniae tellus Hibernica bella probantem Regia cum proprijs expendens bella per annos Dura gerit binos multa pericula tentans Vltoniae fines vultu dextrà que quieti Perficit hinc comitis donatur nomine belli Nec tamen is potuit gladio finire labores Mors nemini parcens Dublinia funera fletu Trans mare transuexit Maridunica sydera voluens Clotho colum tenuit post septem lustra per annum line 40 Quinque die◠Lachesis post haec sua fila trahebat Térque dies septem septeno mense videns heu Atropos eximij fulgentia lumina clausit Quatuor ast pueris illustria stamina spondent In tribus regnis titulos gestabat honoris Nam comitem Euensem cognouit Gallia fortem Aureus heroem demonstrat circulus Essex Ob bello vires comes est is martis Hibernus Nobilitas innata tibi probitatis honorem Armipotens Gualtere dedit probitásque laborem line 50 Perpetuámque labor vitam sic vita salutem This epitaph with the said earles whole genealogie or pedegree comprised in heroicall verse and ioined with the funerall sermon was presented to the right honourable lord Robert now earle of Essex and Ew vicount of Hereford and Bourchier lord Ferrers of Chartleie Bourchier Louaine at such time as he was the quéenes maiesties ward with an epistle of the presenter which bicause it is a veine of godlie deuise tending to a verie honorable purpose line 60 deserueth here to be placed answering the president heretofore set out in print as followeth The epistle of E. W. prefixed before the genealogicall epitaph and funerall sermon published at the interring of the right honourable the lord Walter earle of Essex c. MY lord your absence latelie from the funerals of my lord your father was lamented by such in Wales as would gladlie haue beheld the liuelie image of him in you and if the tendernesse of your yeares vnmeet for so tedious and so vnseasonable trauell had not by necessitie disappointed their hope then should the lamentable speech of the graue and reuerend father the bishop of saint Dauies expressed with abundance of dolour tears haue left in you a déepe impression of griefe for the intollerable losse of so honourable a parent But it maie be iudged that God hath turned your absence to your more benefit sith the importunacie of such as loue honour you and who couet to haue your fathers vertues descend with his inheritance hath obteined the publishing of that learned sermon wherin you maie at good leasure view in the iust report of his life death the paterne forme of true nobilitie The heroicall description that the bishop maketh of nobilitie comparing it vnto a mounteine from which foure famous riuers must issue the mounteine true religion the riuers prudence iustice fortitude and temperance is a rule to you first to follow your father in truth of religion then to be as he was wise iust valiant and temperat The naturall and vnforced courtesie affabilitie that was in your father and that excellent mixture of disposition and aptnesse both for warre and peace dooth promise to the world a singular perfection in you hereafter For as your grandfather who died in his yoong yeares did make shew of much more honour than was in the noble vicount his father and this our earle by famous actions did altogither eclipse the vertuous hope conceiued of your grandfather so considering that God in nature continueth as it were the race by outward shew of good parts in you and that you haue
world which dooth threten continuall ouerflowes of waters and particular deluges in some countries finallie which menaceth much mischiefe The publication off reading and talking of this coniunction with the remembrance of the instant wherin it should be made manie when the daie foretold was come to looke for some strange apparition or vision in the aire and withall put them in mind of an old and common prophesie touching the yeare 1588 which is now so riâ—e in euerie mans mouth That yeare was manie hundred yeares ago foretold and much spoken of amongst astrologers who haue as it were Vnanimi consensu prognosticated that either a maruellous fearfull horrible alteration of empires kingdoms segniories and estates togither likewise with other most woonderfull and verie extraordinarie accidents as extreame hunger and pestilence desperat treasons and commotions shall then fall out to the miserable affliction and oppression of huge multitudes or else that an vtter and finall ouerthrowe and destruction of the whole world shall insue which prophesie is conteined in these verses following Post mille expletos à partu Virginis annos Et post quingentos rursus ab orbe datos Octogesimus octauus mirabilis annus Ingruet is secum tristia fata feret Si non hoc anno totus malus occidet orbis line 10 Si non in nihilum terra fretúmque ruet Cuncta tamen mundi sursum ibunt atque retrorsum Imperia luctus vndique grandis erit So that by this prophesie either a finall dissolution or a woonderfull horrible alteration of the world is then to be expected All these considerations laid togither as well the prediction of the coniunction in expectation as also the dreadfull euents which were to insue therevpon and vpon the necke of these the line 20 great yeare of 1588 in euerie mans mouth the more frequent and common by occasion of a booke extant vnder the title of the end of the world and the second comming of Christ made diuerse diuerslie affected insomuch that some conuersing and conferring looked for no lesse than was prophesied and talking verie religiouslie séemed as though they would become sanctified people howbeit the day of the coniunction being past with a certeine counterchecke against the said astrologicall discourse in line 30 some points defectiue and no such euents palpablie perceiued as were prognosticated people fell to their former securitie and condemned the discourser of extreame madnesse and follie whereof no more but this Scientia nullum habet sibi inimicum praeter ignorantem year 1584 On the tenth of Ianuarie in the yeare 1584 at a sessions holden in the iustice hall in the old bailie of London for goale deliuerie of Newgate William Cartar of the citie of London was there indicted arreigned line 40 and condemned of high treason for printing a seditious and traitorous booke in English intituled A treatise of schisme and was for the same according to sentence pronounced against him on the next morrow which was the eleuenth of Ianuarie drawne from Newgate to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartered And foorthwith against slanderous reports spread abroad in seditious books letters and libels thereby to inflame the hearts of our countriemen and hir maiesties subiects a booke line 50 was published intituled A declaration of the fauorable dealing of hir maiesties commissioners c. Which booke I haue thought good in this place to set downe for the better instruction of the reader euen as the same was printed and published and thus it followeth A declaration of the fauourable dealing of hir maiesties commissioners appointed for the examination of certeine traitors and of tortures vniustlie reported to be done vpon them line 60 for matters of religion GOod reader although hir maiesties most mild and gratious gouernement be sufficient to defend it selfe against those most slanderous reports of heathenish and vnnaturall tyrannie and cruell tortures pretended to haue béene executed vpon certeine traitors who latelie suffered for their treason and others aswell spread abroad by rungates Iesuits and seminarie men in their seditious bookes letters and libels in forren countries and princes courts as also insinuated into the hearts of some of our owne countriemen and hir maiesties subiects yet for thy better satisfaction I haue conferred with a verie honest gentleman whom I knew to haue good and sufficient meanes to deliuer the truth against such forgers of lies and shamelesse slanders in that behalfe which he and other that doo know and haue affirmed the same will at all times iustifie And for thy further assurance and satisfaction herein he hath set downe to the vew of all men these necessarie notes following Touching the racke and torments vsed to such traitors as pretended themselues to be catholikes vpon whom the same haue beene exercised it is affirmed for truth and is offered vpon due examination so to be prooued to be as followeth First that the formes of torture in their seueritie or rigour of execution haue not beene such and in such maner performed as the slanderers and seditious libellers haue slanderouslie maliciouslie published And that euen the principall offendor Campion himselfe who was sent came from Rome and continued here in sundrie corners of the realme hauing secretlie wandered in the greatest part of the shires of England in a disguised sort to the intent to make speciall preparation of treasons and to that end and for furtherance of those his labours sent ouer for more helpe and assistance and cunninglie and traitorouslie at Rome before he came from thense procured toleration for such prepared rebels to kéepe themselues couert vnder pretense of temporarie and permissiue obedience to hir maiestie the state standing as it doth but so soone as there were sufficient force whereby the bull of hir maiesties depriuation might be publikelie executed they should then ioine all togither with that force vpon paine of cursse and damnation that verie Campion I saie before the conference had with him by learned men in the Tower wherin he was charitablie vsed was neuer so racked but that he was presentlie able to walke and to write and did presentlie write and subscribe all his confessions as by the originals thereof may euidentlie appeare A horrible matter is also made of the staruing of one Alexander Briant how he should eat claie out of the wals gathered water to drinke from the droppings of houses with such other false ostentations of immanitie where the truth is this that what soeuer Briant suffered in want of food he suffered the same wilfullie of extreame impudent obstinacie against the mind and liking of those that dealt with him For certeine traitorous writings being found about him it was thought conuenient by conference of hands to vnderstand whose writing they were and thervpon he being in hir maiesties name commanded to write which he could verie well doo and being permitted to him to write what he would himselfe in these termes
Thomas Throckemorton his brother made him priuie to his negotiation at his last being here in England and that therevpon Francis Throckemorton tooke vpon him to be a follower and meane for the effectuating thereof among the confederats in England with the helpe of the Spanish ambassadour whome he instructed how and with whome to deale for the preparing of a conuenient partie here within the realme for that himselfe would not be séene to be a sounder of men least he might be discouered and so indanger himselfe and the enterprise knowing that the ambassadour being a publike person might safelie deale therein without perill That the duke of Guise and other heads of the enterprise had refused some landing places and made speciall choise of Sussex and about Arundell in Sussex both for the néere cut from the parts of France where the duke did or best could assemble his force line 10 and for the oportunitie of assured persons to giue assistance c. That he taking vpon him the pursute of this course shewed the whole plot and deuise of the hauens for landing to the Spanish ambassadour who did incourage him therin he promising that if he might haue respit vntill the next spring the same should be doone more exactlie That at the time of Thomas Throckemortons being here least the negotiation of the enterprise by line 20 sâ—me casualtie might faile in the onelie hand of one man Thomas Throckemorton there was also from the confederats sent ouer into Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring and therof an aduertisement couertlie sent vnto Thomas Throckemorton both that Thomas might vnderstand it and not be offended that an other was ioined with him in his labour That the Spanish ambassador by aduertisements from the confederats was made priuie to this comming line 30 of Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope and yet knowne to him to be Charles Paget That the said ambassador did according to his said aduertisements know affirme that Charles Paget was come ouer to view the hauens and countrie for landing of such forren forces about Arundell and speciallie to sound and conferre with certeine principall persons for assistance The same ambassadour also knew and affirmed that Charles Paget had accordinglie doone his message line 40 and had spoken with some principall persons here according vnto his commission and was returned He moreouer confessed that there was a deuise betwéene the Spanish ambassadour and him how such principall recusants here within the realme as were in the commission of the peace in sundrie counties might vpon the first brute of the landing of forren forces vnder colour and pretext of their authoritie and the defense of hir maiestie leuie men whome they might after ioine to the forren forces and conuert line 50 them against hir maiestie In these few articles is brieflie comprised the whole effect of his confession made at large without anie interrogatorie particularlie ministred other than vpon the two papers before mentioned conteining the names of men and hauens And here you are to note that at the time of his apprehension there was no knowledge or doubt had of these treasons or of his priuitie vnto them but onelie an information and suspicion deliuered and conceiued of line 60 some practise betwéene him and the Scotish quéene as is before mentioned For the discouering whereof after he had béene sundrie times vpon his allegiance commanded to declare his dooings in conueieng and receiuing of letters to and from hir he did voluntarilie confesse that he had written diuerse letters vnto hir and had conueied manie to and fro betwéene hir and Thomas Morgan in France by whose meanes he was first made knowne to hir and that he had receiued as manie letters from hir He also declared the effect of his letters to hir of hirs to him which letters betwéene them were alwaies written in cipher and the cipher with the nullities and marks for names of princes and councellors he sent vnto the queenes maiestie written with his owne hand He also deliuered the names of some by whome he conueied his letters vnto the Scotish quéene as by one Godfrie Fulgeam who fled the realme immediatlie vpon Throckemortons apprehension and one other person whome he described by his stature shape and apparell and the man since apprehended and examined hath confessed the same the mans name is William Ardington The summe and effect of the most part of these confessions although they were at the time of his arreignement opened and dilated by hir maiesties sergeant atturneie and solicitor generall at the bar and therefore seeme not néedfull to be repeated here yet because the purpose of this discourse is to shew sufficient proofe that the matters conteined in his said confessions are neither false nor feigned as Francis Throckmorton most impudentlie affirmed at his triall alledging that they were méere inuentions of himselfe by policie to auoid the torture they haue béene here inserted to the end you may the better iudge of the proofes presumptions and circumstances following by comparing the matters with their accidents and consequentlie sée the falshood of the traitor the iust and honorable procéedings of hir maiestie and the honest and loiall indeuors of hir ministers imploied in the discouering of the treasons First it is true and not denied by himselfe that he was at Spaw about the time by him mentioned and had conference with Ienneie in that place and with sir Francis Englefield in Flanders and that he hath written letters to sir Francis and receiued letters from him for if he should denie the same he were to be conuinced by good proofe for it hath béene noted in him by manie of his countriemen English subiects that both in those parts and in France he did continuallie associat himselfe with English rebels and fugitiues If then you consider with whome he hath conuersed beyond the seas and compare his religion with theirs you will iudge of his conuersation accordinglie And it is to be supposed that those men knowne to be continuall practisers against the quéenes maiestie and this realme from whense for their treasons and vnnaturall demeanours they are woorthilie banished will not in their conuenticles and méetings forget to bethinke them of their banishment and how they might be restored to their countrie where vnto no desert in hir maiesties life time which God long continue can well without hir maiesties great mercie restore them Then I praie you what conferences might maister Throckemorton haue with sir Francis Englefield with Ienneie with Liggons with Owen and with such like who were his dailie companions in France and in the low countries He hath written letters to sir Francis Englefield To what purposes He haunted continuallie two ambassadors in London by whose meanes he sent and receiued letters to and from beyond the seas dailie To whome and from whome Euen to and from Thomas Morgan and Thomas Throckemorton at Paris men knowne to
added and set foorth by the said iustice Manwood who for perpetuall supplie when need should be procured that the ancient contributorie lands almost growne into obliuion should be to that end reduced into a conuenient order answerable vnto right and iustice And likewise for good direction in yearelie elections of wardens and other officers with the accounts prouision works and other such necessaries required for perpetuall maintenance of that bridge obteined an act of parlement in the eightéenth yeare of this quéenes reigne as appeareth in the printed booke of statutes wherein were manie things ordâ—ined for the good ordering of the said bridge and the officers belonging therevnto After all which a charge of fiue hundred pounds was of record demanded and leuied vpon the wardens of the said bridge for arerages of the stipends of chanterie priests sometime seruing in the chappell at the east end of the said bridge to the great damage and ouerthrow of the bridge had not the said iustice Manwood by his trauell vpon due and lawfull triall at the assises deliuered discharged the bridge of that great demand as appeareth by record in the court of the excheker before the said sir Roger Manwood came to be chiefe baron there And yet abuse and slackenesse being had in these things the wardens notwithstanding that great beneuolence and reléefe was at sundrie times and of sundrie persons procured vnto the said bridge by the carefull and diligent trauell of Thomas Wooten of Bocton Maleherbe of Kent esquier a deere father and fauourer of his countrie as well at the times of the elections of the wardens and the accounts of the officers were forced to disburse great sums of their owne monie from time to time to dispatch the néedfull charges and works required for the bridge without anie conuenient allowance of the contributorie persons at the yearelie elections of the wardens and without due regard had for order of the said land belonging and contributorie to the bridge For auoiding wherof the said sir Roger Manwood then now lord chiefe baron of the excheker procured to passe another act of parlment in the seuen twentith yeare of hir maiestie reigne wherein is further prouision made for the said bridge as in the printed booke of statutes at large appeareth By which fullie prouided meaneâ— and by reasonable following the presidents of the works and accounts written in great lâ—gear books by the said chiefe baron and William Lambard esquier in the yeare next after the said last mentioned act of parlement of the seauen and twentith of the quéenes reigne they then executing the office of wardens all néedfull reparations be so doone and prouision before hand so made as it is now growne out of all controuersie that the said famous stone bridge of Rochester for euer like to last according vnto the intent of the first building and the indowment thereof for the good and beneficiall seruice of the commonwealth This sir Roger Manwood hauing had before an other wife issued of the gentlemanlie familie of the Theobalds is at this daie ioined in marriage with Elisabeth descended of an ancient and worshipfull familie the daughter of Iohn Copinger of Alhallowes in the countie of Kent esquier which Elisabeth being a woman of such rare modestie and patience as hir verie enimies must néeds confesse the same occasioned these verses following to be composed touching hir hir husband the said sir Roger Manwood Scaccarij protho barâ— Manwoode beatum Quem faciunt leges lingua loquela virumâ— Coniuge foeliciâ—r tamenes quae nata Copinger Egregâ—â— est summa foemina digna viro Quae viduata thâ—ro Wilkins coniunctáque Manwood 〈◊〉 coniux est â—oriata binis In the moneth of Ianuarie deceassed Edward Fines lord Clinton earle of Lincolne and lord admerall of England knight of the garter and one of hir maiesties priuie councell a man of great yéeres and seruice as well by sea as land he was burieâ— at Windsor leauing manie children behind him honorablie married Of this noble man whiles he liued one to whome the honorable lords of the courâ— were not obscurelie knowne writing of the peaâ—eable regiment of the queenes maiestie comprising in an orderlie discourse their high places of seruice to the crowne amongest others speaketh verie commendablie and deseruedlie of this deceassed earle who at such time as the said booke was published vnder the title aforenamed had béene lord great admerall of England thirtie yeares and of councell vnto thrée princes alwaies of vnspotted report speciallie for allegiance and therefore as singularlie beloued in his life so accordinglie bemoned at his death The words that concerne this noble mans memoriall are thus extant to the aduancement of his honour testified by report of two English poets line 10 O Clintone tuae concessa est regia classis Tutelae totos ter denos circiter annos Consuluisse tribus nec haec tibi gloria parua Principibus veterum satraparum sanguine clares Multa gerens pelago praeclarè multáque terris Hunc decorat comitem grandi Lincolnia fastis And before this namelie in the yeare 1564 at what time the said noble man was honored with the title of Praefectus maris and attendant vppon hir maiestie in presence at hir being in Cambridge where line 20 she was magnificallie interteined with all hir troope of lords and traine of ladies c thus did an academike write in praise of the forenamed earle Regnatórque maris Clintonus cuius in vndis Excellens nomen praecipuúmque decus Ille mihi Neptunus aquas mouet ille tridente Hunc Triton hunc pelagi dijque deaeque colunt On the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie one and twentie Iesuites seminaries and other massing priests late prisoners in the Tower of London line 30 Marshalsee and Kings bench were shipped at the Tower wharffe to be conueied towards France banished this realme for euer by vertue of a commission from hir maiestie as may more fullie appeare by that which followeth A vew of the said commission from the queenes maiestie WHere as the queenes most excellent line 40 maiestie foreseeing the danger that hath and might grow vnto the realme by accesse of Iesuits and seminarie priests and other like wandering and massing priests comming hither to seduce and withdraw hir louing subiects from their due obedience to God and hir maiestie and there withall traitorouslie to practise the mouing and stirring of rebellion within the realme as hath appeared by sufficient proofe against them and line 50 by confession of sundrie of themselues for the which diuerse of the said Iesuits and seminaries haue béene tried condemned and executed by the ordinarie and orderlie course of hir maiesties lawes and yet they haue not refrained dailie to practise and attempt the like treasons Hir maiestie notwithstanding following the accustomed course of hir princelie clemencie liking rather for this time to haue them onelie banished out of the
Morgan assured me that shortlie after my departure the L. Fernehurst then in Paris should go into Scotland and be readie vpon the first newes of the queens fall to enter into England line 10 with 20 or 30000 men to defend the queene of Scotland whom and the king hir sonne I doo in my conscience acquit of anie priuitie liking or consent to this or anie other bad action for anie thing that euer I did know I shortlie departed for England and arriued at Rie in Ianuarie 1583 from whense I wrote to the court aduertised some that I had a speciall seruice to discouer to the quéens maiestie 8 Which I did more to prepare accesse and credit than for anie care I line 20 had of hir person though I were fullie resolued neuer to touch hir notwithstanding anie warrant if by anie deuise persuasion or policie she might be wrought to deale more gratiouslie with the catholikes than she dooth or by our maner of procéeding in parlement meaneth to doo for anie thing yet seene I came to the court then at Whitehall praied audience had it at large and verie priuatlie discouered to hir maiestie this conspiracie much to this effect though couered with all the skill I had she tooke line 30 it doubtfullie I departed with feare And amongst other things I cannot forget hir maiesties gratious speech then vttered touching the catholikes which of late after a sort I auowed in parlement she said to me that neuer a catholike should be troubled for religion or supremasie so long as they liued like good subiects Whereby I mistrusted that hir maiestie is borne in hand that none is troubled for the one or the other It may be trulie said that it is better than it hath béene though it be not yet as it should be line 40 In March last while I was at Gréenewich as I remember suing for saint Katharines came letters to me from cardinall Como dated at Rome the last of Ianuarie before whereby I found the enterprise commended and allowed and my selfe absolued in his holinesse name of all my sinnes and willed to go forward in the name of God That letter I shewed to some in court who imparted it to the quéene what it wrought or maie worke in hir maiestie God knoweth onelie this I know 9 That line 50 it confirmed my resolution to kill hir and made it cléere in my conscience that it was lawfull and meritorious And yet was I determined neuer to doo it if either policie practise persuasion or motion in parlement could preuaile I feared to be tempted and therefore alwaies when I came neere hir I left my dagger at home 10 When I looked vpon hir maiestie remembred hir manie excellencies I was greatlie troubled and yet I saw no remedie for my vowes were in heauen my letters and promises in earth and the case of the catholike recusants and others line 60 little bettered Sometimes I said to my selfe Why should I care for hir What hath she doone for me Haue I not spent ten thousand markes since I knew hir seruice and neuer had penie by hir It maie be said she gaue me my life But I saie as my case stood it had béene tyrannie to take it and I feare me it is little lesse yet If it please hir gratiouslie to looke into my discontentments would to Iesus Christ she had it for I am wearie of it And now to come to an end of this tragicall discourse In Iulie I left the court vtterlie reiected discontented and as hir maiestie might perceiue by my passionate letters carelesse of my selfe I came to London doctor Allens booke was sent me out of France 11 It redoubled my former conceipts euerie word in it was a warrant to a prepared mind It taught that kings maie be excommunicated depriued and violentlie handled It prooueth that all warres ciuill or forren vndertaken for religion is honourable Hir maiestie maie doo well to read it and to be out of doubt if things be not amended that it is a warning and a doctrine full dangerous This is the booke I shewed in some places read and lent to my cousine Neuill the accuser who came often to mine house put his finger in my dish his hand in my purse and the night wherein he accused me was wrapped in my gowne six moneths at least after we had entered into this conspiracie in which space hir maiestie and ten princes in seuerall prouinces might haue béene killed God blesse hir maiestie from him for before almightie God I ioie and am glad in my soule that it was his hap to discouer me in time though there were no danger neere And now to the matter of our méetings He came to me in the beginning of August and spake to me in this or the like sort Cousine let vs doo somewhat sith we can haue nothing I offered to ioine with him and gladlie heard him hoping bicause I knew him to be a catholike that he would hit vpon that I had in my head but it sell not out so He thought the deliuerie of the quéene of Scotland easie presuming vpon his credit and kinred in the North I thought it dangerous to hir and impossible to men of our fortunes He fell from that to the taking of Berwike I spake of Quinborough and the nauie rather to interteine him with discourse than that I cared for those motions my head being full of greater matter 12 I told him that I had an other maner of enterprise more honourable and profitable vnto vs and the catholikes commonwealth than all these if he would ioine in it with me as he presentlie vowed to doo He pressed to know it I willed him to sleepe vpon the motion he did so and belike ouertaken came vnto me the next morning to my lodging in London offered to ioine with me and tooke his oth vpon a bible to conceale and constantlie to pursue the enterprise for the aduancement of religion which I also did and meant to performe the killing of the quéene was the matter The maner and place to be on horssebacke with eight or ten horsses when she should ride abroad about saint Iames or some other like place It was once thought fit in a garden and that the escape would be easiest by water into Shepeie or some other part but we resolued vpon the first This continued as agréed vpon manie moneths till he heard of the death of Westmerland whose land and dignitie whereof he assured himselfe bred belike this conscience in him to discouer a treason in Februarie contriued and agreed vpon in August If it cost him not an ambitious head at last let him neuer trust me He brought a tall gentleman whome he commended for an excellent pistolier to me to Chanon Row to make one in the match but I refused to deale with him being loth to laie my head vpon so manie hands M. Neuill hath I thinke forgotten
lord of Hunsdon master Uicechamberleine and master Secretarie and cardinall de Como his letters and Parries letters to the lord treasuror and lord steward should be openlie read And Parrie for the better satifieng of the people and standers by offered to read them himselfe but being told how the order was that the clerke of the crowne should read them it was so resolued of all parts And then maister vicechamberleine caused to be shewed to Parrie his said confession the cardinals letter and his owne letter aforesaid which after he had particularlie viewed euerie leafe thereof he confessed and said openlie they were the same Then said maister vicechamberleine Before we proceed to shew what he hath confessed what saie you said he to Parrie is that which you haue confessed here true and did you confesse it fréelie and willinglie of your selfe or was there anie extort means vsed to draw it from you Surelie said Parrie I made that confession fréelie without anie constraint and that is all true and more too for there is no treason that hath beene since the first yeare of the queene anie waie touching religion sauing receipt of Agnus Dei and persuading of others wherein I haue not much dealt but I haue offended in it And I haue also deliuered mine opinion in writing who ought to be successor to the crowne which he said to be treason also Then his confession of the eleuenth and thirtéenth of Februarie all of his owne handwriting and before particularlie set downe was openlie and distinctlie read by the clerke of the crowne And that doone the cardinall di Como his letter in Italian was deliuered vnto Parries hand by the direction of line 10 maister vicechamberleine which Parrie there perused openlie affirmed to be wholie of the cardinals owne handwriting and the seale to be his owne also and to be with a cardinals hat on it and himselfe did openly read it in Italian as before is set downe And the words bearing sense as it were written to a bishop or to a man of such degrée it was demanded of him by maister vicechamberleine whether he had not taken the degrée of a bishop He said No but said at first those tearmes were proper to the degrée line 20 he had taken and after said that the cardinall did vouchsafe as of a fauour to write so to him Then the copie of that letter in English as before is also set downe was in like manner openlie read by the clerke of the crowne which Parrie then acknowledged to be trulie translated And therevpon was shewed vnto Parrie his letter of the eightéenth of Februarie written to the lord treasuror and the lord steward which he confessed to be all of his owne handwriting and was as before is set downe line 30 These matters being read openlie for manifestation of the matter Parrie praied leaue to speake whereto maister vicechamberleine said If you will saie anie thing for the better opening to the world of those your foule and horrible facts speake on but if you meane to make anie excuse of that which you haue confessed which else would haue beene and doo stand prooued against you for my part I will not sit to heare you Then hir maiesties atturnie generall stood vp and said It appeareth before you my lords line 40 that this man hath béene indicted and arreigned of seuerall most heinous and horrible treasons and hath confessed them which is before you of record wherefore there resteth no more to be doone but for the court to giue iudgement accordinglie which here I require in the behalfe of the quéenes maiestie Then said Parrie I praie you heare me for discharging of my conscience I will not go about to excuse my selfe nor to séeke to saue my life I care not for it you haue my confession of record that is line 50 inough for my life and I meane to vtter more for which I were worthie to die and said I praie you heare me in that I am to speake to discharge my conscience Then said maister vicechamberleine Parrie then doo thy dutie according to conscience and vtter all that thou canst saie concerning those thy most wicked facts Then said Parrie My cause is rare singular and vnnaturall conceiued at Uenice presented in generall words to the pope vndertaken at Paris commended line 60 and allowed of by his holinesse and was to haue béene executed in England if it had not béene preuented Yea I haue committed manie treasons for I haue committed treason in being reconciled and treason in taking absolution There hath béene no treason since the first yeare of the quéenes reigne touching religion but that I am guiltie of except for receiuing of Agnus Dei persuading as I haue said and yet neuer intended to kill quéene Elisabeth I appeale to hir owne knowledge and to my lord treasurors and maister secretaries Then said my lord of Hunsdon Hast thou acknowledged it so often and so plainelie in writing vnder thy hand and here of record and now when thou shouldest haue thy iudgement according to that which thou hast confessed thy selfe guiltie of dooest thou go backe againe and denie the effect of all How can we beleeue that thou now saiest Then said master vicechamberleine This is absurd thou hast not onelie confessed generallie that thou wert guiltie according to the indictment which summarilie and yet in expresse words dooth conteine that thou haddest traitorouslie compassed and intended the death destruction of hir maiestie but thou also saidst particularlie that thou wert guiltie of euerie of the treasons conteined therein whereof the same was one in plaine expresse letter set downe and read vnto thée Yea thou saiedst that thou wert guiltie of more treasons too beside these And diddest thou not vpon thy examination voluntarilie confesse how thou wast mooued first thervnto by mislike of thy state after thy departure out of the realme And that thou diddest mislike hir maiestie for that she had doone nothing for thée How by wicked papists and popish bookes thou wert persuaded that it was lawfull to kill hir maiestie How thou wert by reconciliation become one of that wicked sort that held hir maiestie for neither lawfull quéene nor christian And that it was meritorious to kill hir And diddest thou not signifie that thy purpose to the pope by letters and receiuedst letters from the cardinall how he allowed of thine intent and excited thée to performe it and therevpon diddest receiue absolution And diddest thou not conceiue it promise it vow it sweare it and receiue the sacrament that thou wouldest doo it And diddest not thou therevpon affirme that thy vowes were in heauen and thy letters and promises on earth to bind thee to doo it And that what soeuer hir maiestie would haue doone for thée could not haue remooued thee from that intention or purpose vnlesse she would haue desisted from dealing as she hath doone with the catholikes as thou callest them All
mercie when thou hadst lost it by iustice desert Yet thou hir seruant sworne to defend hir mentest with thy bloudie hand to haue taken awaie hir life that mercifullie gaue thée thine when it was yéelded into hir hands This is the matter wherein thou hast offended The maner was most subtill and dangerous beyond all that before thée haue committed anie wickednesse against hir maiestie for thou making shew as if thou wouldest simplie haue vttered for hir safetie the euill that others had contriued diddest but seeke thereby credit accesse that thou mightest take the apter opportunitie for hir destruction And for the occasions and meanes that drew thée on they were most vngodlie and villanous as the persuasions of the pope of papists and popish bookes The pope pretendeth that he is a pastor when as in truth he is far from féeding of the flocke of Christ but rather as a woolfe séeketh but to féed on to sucke out the bloud of true christians and as it were thirsteth after the bloud of our most gratious and christian quéene And these papists and popish bookes while they pretend to set foorth diuinitie they doo indéed most vngodlie teach and persuade that which is quite contrarie both to God and his word For the word teacheth obedience of subiects toward princes forbiddeth anie priuat man to kill but they teach subiects to disobeie princes that a priuat wicked person may kill Yea whome a most godlie quéene their owne naturall and most gratious souereigne Let all men therfore take héed how they receiue any thing from him heare or read anie of their bookes and how they confer with anie papists God grant hir maiestie that she maie know by thée how euer she trust such like to come so néere hir person But see the end and why thou diddest it and it will appeare to be a most miserable fearefull and foolish thing for thou diddest imagine that it was to releeue those that thou callest catholikes who were most likelie amongst all others to haue felt the woorst of it if thy diuelish practise had taken effect But sith thou hast béene indicted of the treasons comprised in the indictment and therevpon arreigned and hast confessed thy selfe guiltie of them the court dooth award that thou shalt be had from hense to the place whense thou diddest come and so drawne through the open citie of London vpon an hurdle to the place of execution and there to be hanged and let downe aliue and thy priuie parts cut off and thy entrals taken out and burnt in thy sight then thy head to be cut off and thy bodie to be diuided in foure parts and to be disposed at hir maiesties pleasure and God haue mercie on thy soule Parrie neuerthelesse persisted still in his rage and fond speach and raginglie there said he there summoned quéene Elisabeth to answer for his bloud before God wherewith the lieutenant of the Tower was commanded to take him from the barre and line 10 so he did And vpon his departure the people striken as it were at heart with the horror of his intended enterprise ceased not but pursued him with outcries as Awaie with the traitor awaie with him such like wherevpon he was conueied to the barge to passe to the Tower againe by water the court was adiorned After which vpon the second daie of this instant March William Parrie was by vertue of processe in that behalfe awarded from the same commissioners of oier and terminer deliuered by the lieutenant of the Tower erlie in the morning line 20 vnto the shiriffes of London and Middlesex who receiued him at the Tower hill and therevpon according to the iudgement caused him there to be foorthwith set on the hurdle from whense he was drawne therevpon through the middest of the citie of London vnto the place for his execution in the pallace at Westminster where hauing long time of staie admitted vnto him before his execution he most maliciouslie and impudentlie after some other line 30 vaine discourses eftsoons often deliuered in speach that he was neuer guiltie of anie intention to kill quéene Elisabeth and so without anie request made by him to the people to pray to God for him or praier publikelie vsed by himselfe for ought that appeared but such as he vsed if he vsed anie was priuat to himselfe he was executed according to the iudgement And now for his intent how soeuer he pretended the contrarie in words yet by these his owne writings confessions letters manie other proofes line 40 afore here expressed it is most manifest to all persons how horrible his intentions and treasons were and how iustlie he suffered for the same and thereby greatlie to be doubted that as he had liued a long time vainelie and vngodlie and like an atheist and godlesse man so he continued the same course till his death to the outward sight of men ¶ Here endeth the true and plaine course and processe of the treasons arrest arreignement and execution of William Parrie the traitor line 50 An addition not vnnecessarie for this purpose FOrsomuch as Parrie in the aboundance of his proud and arrogant humour hath often both in his confession and letters pretended some great and grieuous causes of discontentment against hir maiestie and the present state it shall not be impertinent for better satisfaction of all persons to set foorth simplie and trulie the condition and qualitie of the man what he line 60 was by birth and education and in what course of life he had liued This vile and traitorous wretch was one of the yoonger sonnes of a poore man called Harrie ap Dauid he dwelled in Northwales in a little village called Northop in the countie of Flint there he kept a common alehouse which was the best and greatest staie of his liuing In that house was this traitor borne his mother was the reputed daughter of one Conwaie a priest parson of a poore parish called Halkin in the same countie of Flint his eldest brother dwelleth at this present in the same house and there kéepeth an alehouse as his father did before him This traitor in his childhood so soone as he had learned a litle to write and read was put to serue a poore man dwelling in Chester named Iohn Fisher who professed to haue some small skill and vnderstanding in the law With him he continued diuerse yeares and serued as a clerke to write such things as in that trade which his master vsed he was appointed During this time he learned the English toong and at such times of leasure as the poore man his master had no occasion otherwise to vse him he was suffered to go to the grammar schoole where he got some litle vnderstanding in the Latine toong In this his childhood he was noted by such as best knew him to be of a most villainous and dangerous nature disposition He did often run
three monthes it were a notable line 60 world for traitors and murtherers thus to haue all procéedings set loose as well of our common lawes which condemne vpon all euidences as of the ciuill lawes which giue capitall sentence vpon confession onelie yea Moses wisedome is ouerreached and Christes equitie in his euangelicall parable against the lewd seruant not vsing his talent is eluded All this is also ratified by voluntarie letters of his to hir maiestie apart and to hir honorable councell And if anie Italianat papist neuerthelesse will néeds beleeue this â—epugnancie of his last speaches let him yet take this one note of him whereby to consider how credible a man he crediteth Either Parrie meant this monstrous murther according to his vowes in heauen and sworne promises in earth and so died a desperat traitor protesting the contrarie in his last words vpon his soule and damnation or else was he periured to the foule abuse of pope all poperie most execrablie prophaning Gods name by promising swearing vowing c that which he meant not Necessarilie therefore must he perish vpon periured treason or wreckâ— vpon desperat deieration Nothing auoideth this dilemma but a popish bull of dispensation which if he had I know not how princes may not as safelie suffer woolues and beares come to their presence as such papists And verie like it is that Parrie had a speciall bull either else was it comprehended in his indulgence that he might take othes contrarie to his catholike conscience as he did the oth of supremasie in the beginning of the last parlement Which if his coniuratours had not béene priuie with what intention he did sweare he neuer durst haue taken it least they should haue now bewraied him as a man sworne against the pope therefore not to be trusted But the truth is this papist Parrie was both a traitor and a manifold periured traitor whome with all other of the like stampe we leaue to the finall iudgement of God at the last and dreadfull doome registring in the meane time a proper epigram and of no lesse fit than true deuise in memorie of the said capitall traitor requiting that propheticall posie concerning Daruell Gatheren and frier Forrest of whome you shall read in the thirtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight this of Parrie being as followeth William Parrie Was ap Harrie By his name From the alehouse To the gallows Grew his fame Gotten westward On a bastard â—s is thought Wherefore one waie Kin to Conwaie Hath he sought Like a beast With inceast He begon Mother maried Daughter caried Him a sonne Much he borrowed Which he sorrowed To repaie Hare his good Bought with blood As they saie Yet for paiment Had arrainment Of his detter Shee that gaue him Life to saue him Hangd a better Parrie his pardon Thought no guardon For his woorth Wherefore sought That he mought Trauell foorth Which obtained He remained As before And with rashnes Shewd his bashnes More and more He did enter To aduentuer Euen hir death By whose fauor He did euer Draw his breath It was pittie One so wittie Malcontent Leauing â—eason Should to treason So be bent But his gifts Were but shifts Void of grace And his brauerie Was but knauerie Vile and base Wales did beare him France did sweare him To the pope Venice wrought him London brought him To the rope Wherewith strangled And then mangled Being dead Poles supporters Of his quarters And his head In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred eightie foure sir Walter Mildmaie knight one of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell founded a college in the vniuersitie of Cambridge and named it Emmanuell college ¶ The same was sometimes a house of friers and came to king Henrie the eight by dissolution as appeareth by the sequeale being an extract out of a substantiall and large booke written in parchment which I haue seene and whense I had this transcript conteining the entrie or inrolment of certeine letters patents writings and euidences line 10 touching the said college First the premisses came vnto king Henrie the eight by act of parlement touching the dissolution of monasteries afterwards the said king by letters patents vnder the great seale of England dated Decimo sexto Aprilis anno tricesimo quinto regni sui did grant the same to Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe and to the heires of the said Edward for euer After that the said Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe by their déed pold dated Quarto Martij anno tricesimo sexto Henrici line 20 octaui did grant the premisses to William Sherwood gentleman his heires for euer Then George Sherewood gentleman sonne and heire to William Sherwood by déed pold dated Vicesimo nono Septembris anno vicesimo tertio Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Robert Tailor esquier and to his heires for euer And afterwards the said Robert Tailor by déed pold dated Duodecimo Iunij anno vicesimo quinto Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Richard Culuerwell line 30 citizen mercer of London and Laurence Chaderton of Cambridge bachelor of diuinitie and their heires for euer And after that the premisses were conueied to sir Walter Mildmaie who hath conuerted the same into a séedplot of learning for the benefit of the church common-wealth so that the students maie verie trulie saie this and more too of so good so honoorable and vertuous a founder fluuijs dum cruerit aequor Dúmque vagas stellas pascet vterque polus line 40 Dum steriles altis lustrabunt montibus vmbrae Virtutis stabit fama decúsque tuae year 1585 On the nine and twentith daie of March which was in the yeare of Christ 1585 the parlement was dissolued at the breaking vp whereof the quéenes maiestie in the parlement house made an oration to such effect as followeth The queenes maiesties oration line 50 in the parlement house MY Lords and ye of the lower house my silence must not iniurie the owner so much as to suppose a substitute sufficient to render you the thanks that my heart yéeldeth you not so much for the safe keeping of my life for which your care appeareth so manifest as for line 60 the neglecting your priuat future perill not regarding other waie than my present state No prince herein I confesse can be surer tied or faster bound than I am with the linke of your good will and can for that but yeeld a hart hand to séeke for euer all your best Yet one matter toucheth me so neere as I may not ouerskip religion the ground on which all other matters ought to take roote and being corrupted may marre all the trée and that there be some faultfinders with the order of the cleargie which so may make a slander to my selfe the church whose ouer ruler God hath made me whose negligence can not be excused if anie schismes or errors hereticall were suffered Thus much
the eleuenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne then called by the title of Henrie Persie knight had vndertaken the conueieng awaie of the Scotish quéene for the which as appeareth by a record of the fourtéenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne in the court of hir maiesties bench he was indicted he confessed the offense and put himselfe to hir maiesties mercies At which time vpon his said confession submission and faithfull promise of his dutie and allegiance to hir highnesse from thenseforth the quéenes maiestie of hir mercifull nature was pleased not to looke into his offense with the extremitie of hir lawes but dealt therein as by waie of contempt onelie as may appeare by the record the effect whereof was then shewed in the court vnder the hand of one of the clerkes of hir maiesties said bench In haec verba An extract of the said record conteining the said earles indictment MEmorandum that Henrie Persie late of Tinmouth in the countie of Northumberland knight was indicted in the terme of Easter in the fourtéenth yéere of hir maiesties reigne for that hée with diuers others did conspire for the deliuering of the quéene of Scots out of the custodie of the erle of Shrewsburie Upon which indictment the same Henrie Persie did confesse the offense and did put himselfe to the quéenes mercie and therevpon iudgement was after giuen by the court that the said Henrie should paie to the queene for a fine for his said offense fiue thousand marks as appeareth by the record thereof in court Per Micha 14. 15. Elisabethae reginae rotulo quinto inter placista reginae Concordat cum recordo Per Io. Iue By this record it maie appeare that the earle had his hand in that rebellion But for a further proofe thereof it is most manifestlie discouered in a certeine tract written by the bishop of Rosse wherein he sheweth how faithfullie he behaued himselfe in the managing of those treasons at and about the time of that rebellion that the said earle was in effect as farre plunged into the same as the late earle his brother howsoeuer he woond himselfe out of the danger thereof at that time Notwithstanding these traitorous practises the queenes maiestie was contented to remit all within a short time and then accepted most gratiouslie of him both in honor and fauor though vnworthilie bestowed vpon him for that he vtterlie forgetting those graces and fauors receiued at hir maiesties mercifull hands with a gracelesse resolution was contented to enter into a new plot now latelie contriued not onelie for the deliuering of the Scotish queene but for the inuading of the whole realme the ouerthrow of the gouernment aswell concerning the state of religion as otherwise the danger of hir maiesties sacred person and aduancing of the said Scotish quéene to the line 10 regall crowne and scepter of this realme wherevnto hir maiestie is lineallie and lawfullie borne and descended and wherein God of his mercie continue hir long in happie state of gouernement to the increase of hir owne glorie and the comfort of hir louing and obedient subiects Then did maister Atturneie enter into the particularities of the treasons leauing manie parts thereof vntouched because the case stood so as it was not then conuenient to reueale them as he said in line 20 respect that they touched some other persons vndealt withall at that time shewing that Throckemortons treasons were not old but fresh in euerie mans memorie and how far foorth they reached vnto the earle he declared And for that the treasons of Throckemorton tended especiallie to the inuading of the realme with forren forces the purpose of that inuasion long before intended is prooued by sundrie examinations and confessions taken héere within the realme aswell of hir maiestes owne subiects as line 30 others by letters intercepted written from and to the conspirators abroad and at home and by other good aduertisements and intelligences had from forren parts discouering the same He declared that in a letter written from doctor Sanders to doctor Allen out of Spaine in the yeare 1577 it is set downe among other things that the state of Christendome stood vpon the stout assailing of England That in a letter sent to the said Allen from Rome touching audience giuen by the pope to the ambassadors line 40 of certeine forren princes betwéene the pope whom a league was agréed on against the quéenes maiestie there were inclosed certeine articles conteining in effect that the realme should be inuaded with twentie thousand men at the charge of the said pope and princes that hir maiestie should be deposed and some English catholike elected king That it was confessed that the comming ouer of so manie priests into the realme was to win great numbers line 50 to the catholike partie to ioine if opportunitie serued either with forren inuasion or with tumult at home That at Narbonne in Prouince there was met an Englishman being the head preacher there who gaue intelligence to one of hir maiesties subiects that the realme should shortlie be inuaded by a forren king and the popish religion restored and said further that priests came into England and dispersed themselues in countries to make their partie strong A message was sent in Nouember line 60 1581 to doctor Allen from a subiect of this realme by a seminarie priest then returning beyond the seas that whereas he had receiued word from Allen at Alhallontide before that men and all things were in a readinesse if the place of landing might be knowne that Allen should forthwith send word whether things were in such readinesse or not and if they were he would then send him such perfect instructions as he could One Paine executed for treason confessed that this realme could not continue in the state wherein it was for that the pope had a speciall care thereof and would in short time either by forren princes or by some other meanes worke a change of things here From hense maister Atturneie fell into the treasons confessed by Francis Throckemorton shewing that the state of this realme had béene often presented to the consideration of a forren prince who after long hearkening to the motion had resolued to yéeld what furtherance he might and to giue all aids necessarie for the reforming of religion so they might be backed by such as were well affected within this countrie That the duke of Guise had solicited for two yeares together the pope and other princes to supplie him with forces but being crossed by the death of a great personage it was now growne to this passe if there could be a partie found in England to ioine in that action and conuenient places and meanes for landing and other things necessarie there should be a supplie for Guise of forren strength Francis Throckemorton was recommended from beyond the sea to Don Barnardino de Mendoza ambassador resident for the Spanish king here in England who acquainted Throckemorton what
and that the same sundaie morning that the earle murthered himselfe at night he saw the dag lieng vnder the earles beds head The dag was bought not manie daies before of one Adrian Mulan a dagmaker dwelling in east Smithfield as by the said Mulan was testified Viua voce vpon his oth in the open court at the time of the publike declaration made of these matters in the Starchamber All these particularities considered with the depositions and proofs of the witnesse concerning the earles death first how he came by the dag secondlie how long he had kept the same and in what secret maner thirdlie the earles bolting of his chamber dore in the inside fourthlie the blow of the dag fiftlie the breaking vp of the earles chamber doore by the lieutenant of the Tower and lastlie the finding of the earle dead as aforesaid what is he so simple that will thinke or imagine or so impudent and malicious that will auouch and report that the earle of Northumberland should haue béene murthered of purpose by practise or deuise of anie person affecting his destruction in that manner If men consider the inconuenience happened thereby as well in matter of state as commoditie to the quéenes maiestie lost by the preuention of his triall who can in reason coniecture the earle to haue béene murthered of policie or set purpose as the euill affected line 10 séeme to conceiue If the earle had liued to haue receiued the censure of the law for his offenses all lewd and friuolous obiections had then béene answered and all his goods cattels and lands by his atteindor had come vnto hir maiestie and the honour and state of his house and posteritie vtterlie ouerthrowne the consideration and feare whereof appeareth without all doubt to haue béene the principall and onelie cause that made him laie violent hands vpon himselfe If line 20 obiections be made that to murther him in that sort might be a satisfaction to his enimies who could be pacified by no meanes but with his bloud that séemeth to be as improbable for that it is commonlie discerned in the corrupt nature of man that when we are possessed with so profound a hatred as to seeke the death of our enimie we imagine and wish his destruction to be had with the greatest shame and infamie that can be deuised thinke you not then that if the earle of Northumberland had anie line 30 such enimie that knew the danger wherein he stood and that his triall and conuiction by law would draw vpon him the losse of his life lands and goods fame honor and the vtter subuersion of his house would be so kindharted vnto him as to helpe to take awaie his life onelie saue him all the rest I suppose there is no man of iudgement will beléeue it But to returne to the maner of the earles death It was declared by the lord Hunsdon and the lord chiefe baron that the dag wherewith the earle murthered line 40 himselfe was charged with thrée bullets and so of necessitie with more than an ordinarie charge of powder to force that weight of bullets to worke their effect The earle lieng vpon his backe on the left side of his bed tooke the dag charged in his left hand by all likelihood laid the mouth of the dag vpon his left pap hauing first put aside his wastecote and his shirt being onelie betwéene the dag and his bodie which was burnt awaie the breadth of a large hand discharged the same wherewith was made line 50 a large wound in his said pap his heart pearsed and torne in diuerse lobes or péeces thrée of his ribs broken the chinebone of his backe cut almost in sunder and vnder the point of the shoulder blade on the right side within the skin the thrée bullets were found by the lord Hunsdon which he caused the surgion in his presence to cut out lieng all three close togither within the breadth and compasse of an inch or thereabout the bullets were shewed by his lordship at the time of the publication made in the court at the Starchamber line 60 And whereas it hath béene slanderouslie giuen out to the aduantage of the earle as the reporters suppose that he was imprisoned kept in so streict narrow and close roome with such penurie of aire and breath that thereby he grew sickelie and wearie of his life and that to haue béene the cause chieflie why he murthered himselfe if it were so that he died by the violence of his owne hand which they hardlie beléeue To answer that péeuish and senselesse slander there was much spoken by the lord chiefe baron who had viewed and caused verie exactlie to be measured the chambers and roomes within the prison where the earle laie being part of hir maiesties owne lodging in the Tower The particular length and breadth of the said chambers rooms and the qualitie of the lights and windows expressed by the said lord chiefe baron I can not repeat but well I doo remember it was declared that all the daie time the earle had the libertie of fiue large chambers and two long entries within the vtter doore of his prison thrée of which chambers and one of the entries laie vpon two faire gardens within the Tower wall and vpon the Tower wharfe with a pleasant prospect to the Thames and to the countrie more than fiue miles beyond The windowes were of a verie large proportion yéelding so much aire and light as more cannot be desired in anie house Note therefore how maliciouslie those that fauour traitors and treasons can deliuer out these and the like slanderous spéeches to the dishonor of hir maiestie noting hir councellors and ministers with inhumanitie and vncharitable seueritie contrarie to all truth and honestie When the lord chiefe baron had finished this discourse of the manner of the earles death with the circumstances and had satisfied the court and auditorie concerning the qualitie of the prison where the earle had remained sir Christopher Hatton knight hir maiesties vicechamberlaine who as it séemed had béene speciallie imploied by hir maiestie among others of hir priuie councell in the looking into and examining of the treasons aforesaid aswell in the person of the earle as of others and at the time of the earles commitment from his house in S. Martins to the Tower of London sent vnto him from hir maiestie to put the earle in mind of hir maiesties manifold graces and fauors in former times conferred vpon him procéeding from the spring of hir maiesties princelie and bountifull nature and not of his deseruings and to aduise him to deliuer the truth of the matters so cléerelie appearing against him either by his letters priuatlie to hir maiestie or by spéech to maister vicechamberlaine who signified also vnto him that if he would determine to take that course he should not onlie not be committed to the Tower but should find grace fauor at hir maiesties hands
secretarie by whome he hath alreadie a goodlie babe but a daughter This right woorthie and thrise renowmed knight sir Philip Sidneie lord gouernor of Ulissingen hauing spent some time in hir maiesties seruice in the low countries with great honor speciall credit and estimation and withall hauing obteined by his vertue valor and great policie such an entrie of entire good will trust and authoritie with the states as his counsels and persuasions could much more preuaile and worke singular effect with them than anie one mans could doo in anie cause what soeuer that happened to fall in question or debate amongst them therfore earnestlie following the course he then tooke in hand for the aduancement of that seruice and to win fame the onelie marke true nobilitie either dooth or ought to leuell at he imbarked himselfe at Ulissingen accompanied onlie with thrée thousand footmen and bending his course to Arell which lieth in the countie of Flanders vsed both such diligence and secrecie in this eâ—pedition as he surprised the towne before they could haue intelligence of his comming without losse or hurt of anie one of his companie By means whereof the forts and sconses there néere abouts adioining being striken vpon the sudden into such a feare and amazement as doubting some further perils to them intended than anie at the present well appeared voluntarilie and simplie gaue themselues and their holds into his hands yéelded to his disposition and mercie And so after he had well refreshed himselfe and his companie in this towne he had thus new taken he departed thense remained in the countrie not farre off ten or twelue daies next following till he had vittelled the same put in a garrison left monsieur Pernon there gouernor Now in the meane time of his staie attending these seruices and because he would alwaies be occupied in some honorable action he brake a sluse forced a trench and cut out a banke that made such an open passage entrance into the sea as since it hath drowned and destroied the whole countrie being well neere now worne into a chanell the same hauing béene the best and most fertill soile in those parts and far excéeding anie territorie néere thereabouts to so great a preiudice and annoiance of the enimie as by common well grounded opinion neither by sluse or lightlie anie other draine or deuise that countrie can possiblie be recouered or regained And this enterprise was atchiued without making head or other offer of offense inuasion or resistance by Mondragon who was of purpose imploied with sufficient force to defend the countrie and to haue impeached all these attempts and actions Moreouer his aduise for the seruice intended at Grauelin dissenting in opinion from others who were thought the most expert capteins and best renowmed and sorted souldiours gaue such a sufficient proofe of his excellent wit policie and ripe iudgement as his onelie act and counsell with the losse of line 10 a verie few of his companie wrought all their safeties which otherwise by treacherie had béene most likelie to haue béene intrapped And so consequentlie going forward in other seruices at an incounter with the enimie not far from Zutphen where he that daie most valiantlie serued for he bare the inuincible mind of an ancient woorthie Romane who euer where he came made account of victorie he receiued hurt by a musket shot a little aboue the left knée which so brake and rifted the bone and so entred the line 20 thigh vpward towards the bodie as the bullet could not be found before his bodie was opened Of which hurt notwithstanding he liued though in great paine and extreame torment six and twentie daies following and died the seauentéenth daie of October betweene two and thrée of the clocke in the afternoone at Arnam in Gelderland He greatlie abounded in sundrie good vertues which euer where he came procured him loue but chéefelie in iustice and liberalitie a woorthie most line 30 speciall note in a gouernour which gained him hartie loue coupled with fame and honor For the which especiallie those vnder his late charge and gouernment so greatlie loued esteemed honored in a sort adored him when he was aliue as they made earnest meanes and intreatie to haue his bodie remaine there still with them for memorie when he was dead and promised that if they might obteine it to erect for him as faire a monument as anie prince had in christendome yea though the same should cost halfe line 40 a tun of golâ— the building His bodie was most honourablie conueied from Arnam to London where it remained at the Minories certeine daies from thense brought and remooued on the sixtéenth of Februarie alongst the stréets through Cheapside with funerall pompe and solemnitie beseeming so martiall a gentleman the ensignes of warre and pikes trailed vpon the ground the drums and flutes couered with blacke and making a softlie sound with other statelie shewes of mournfull representations the earle of Leicester with other honourable line 50 and woorshipfull personages following the dead bodie which finallie was interred in Paules church of London About this time one Thomas Louelace late of Staple inne gentleman for counterfeiting of false and trecherous letters against his own kinred containing most traitorous matter against hir maiesties owne person was iudged in the Starchamber to be carried on horsse-backe about Westminster line 60 hall with his face to the horsse taile and a paper on his backe declaring his offense then to be set on the pillorie in the palace at Westminster and there to haue one of his eares cut off then to ride in like sort into London and in Cheapside to be set on the pillorie vpon a market daie after that to be conueied into Kent where standing openlie on the pillorie in the place of assise as before he should loose his other eare and lastlie be set vpon the pillorie one market daie in Canturburie and another at Rochester his offense and punishment in euerie of the said places openlie read and published which iudiciall sentence was accordinglie executed On sundaie the eight daie of Maie an ambassador named Henrie Ramelius intituled Cancellarius Germanicus arriued at the tower of London A gentleman he was of goodlie personage somewhat corpulent and of sanguine complexion verie eloquent likewise and learned not onelie in the knowledge of diuerse toongs as Latine French Italian and German but also in sundrie sciences He came in ambassage from Frederike the second of that name king of Denmarke vnto the queens maiestie of England and arriuing as you haue heard at the Tower was honorablie receiued of the lord Cobham and other great estates who conueied him from thense through Tower stréet into Bishopsgate street and so to a faire and large house called Crosbies place where he was well lodged and remained The said Ramelius during the time of his tariance had attendance doone him conuenient
horsebacke in the high waies by reson of the trées that laie blowne and broken downe crosse ouerthwart the stréets And among other strange chances happening in that tempest I thought good for a tast to recite thrée accidents which befell not farre asunder within the countie of Kent The one was at Sittingborne where a woman passing in the line 40 stréet by hir neighbors house saw a great tree standing close by the same to wauer and wag at the verie root in such sort as she suspecting the ruine thereof called vnto hir neighbors who were then in bed and told them the danger thereof who presentlie arising descended from out of the lost where they lodged and were no sooner departed thense but downe fell the trée and brake through the roofe of that house and rested on the bed where they laie There was also blowne downe with the violence line 50 of the same wind not far off a great walnut trée the armes and branches wherof bare and bent a couple of imps in such sort as the owner in the morning to saue them did cut off two branches from the walnut trée and so departed to the church to heare morning praier but before he was returned home to dinner his walnut trée stood as vpright as euer it did and so remaineth and groweth as before The third strange chance happened that night at Dartford in the said shire at the dwelling house of line 60 maister Béere esquire where by the force of the said wind all the coping of one side of a great gable hed of bricke reaching from below the top or roofe of the same house almost to the eaues thereof was blowne quite ouer the house vnder which it stood and neuer touched anie part thereof at anie side By these accidents happening within so small a circuit it maie be conceiued what great harmes were doone that night throughout the whole realme For it was thought vniuersall as was also that which raged in the end of September wherewithall fell such sharpe shewers of raine that the drops thereof beating against the faces of trauellers made them to smart as with twigs of birch and so vehement they were that they persed through their clothing to their skin so that manie wringing wet and sore beaten with wind and weather being verie ill appaid were glad to shorten their purposed iournies by taking the next towne for their present succour where they might sée the roofes and rafters of houses naked of tiles and heare the donging of belles as they hoong in the steeples c. At what time it was reported by people of great age that they had béene in manie tempests they thanked God but none comparable to this which might well be so if a man were disposed to set downe a register of the particular casualties losses damages hurts hinderances c thereby occasioned In the table if you looke for tempests and winds you shall read strange matter and worthie obseruation though some account this and manie more but ridiculus stuffe which kind of people I doubt are not of the number that woonder at Gods works but are too too much addicted to naturall philosophie One of the west gates of the citie of London commonlie called Ludgate being sore decaied and in perill to haue fallen was taken downe the prisoners thereof in the meane time remaining vnder the charge of Thomas Lutwich custos or keeper of Ludgate in the southeast quadrant to the same gate adioining which quadrant for the ease of the prisosoners freemen of that citie was sometime builded by sir Steuen Foster fishmonger lord maior of that citie in Anno 1453. And this yeare the said gate was againe not onelie newlie but also stronglie and beautifullie builded at the charges of the citizens of the same citie the foundation whereof in the name and presence of sir Wolstan Dixie maior certeine of his brethren the aldermen Anthonie Ratclife and Henrie Pranell shiriffes was laid on the second daie of Maie and so foorthwith so diligentlie applied by William Kirwine frée mason and other woorkmen of diuerse crafts vnder his charge who for a certeine sum had taken vpon him for all maner of stuffe workemanship to the same belonging that the same gate was fullie finished in the space of six moneths or lesse So that on the 29 daie of October in the same yeare the said gate was set open to sir William Cicill knight lord treasuror who first entered the same on horsebacke accompanied of diuerse other honorable persons and noble men of hir maiesties priuie councell who all rode to the Guildhall where on the same daie kept his feast George Barnes lord maior of that citie after he had taken his oth and charge in the exchecker at Westminster On the 29 daie of October the archbishop of Canturburie the lord treasuror and the earle of Derbie representing the quéens maiesties person began the high court of parlement by proxe which session of parlement was at this time assembled for triall of matters concerning Marie quéene of Scots as more plainlie shall appeare by that which followeth the end of that session In the moneth of Nouember about the 23 daie the right honorable lord Robert earle of Leicester lieutenant generall of all hir maiesties forces in the vnited prouinces of the low countries returning from thense arriued at London and went late to the court where as he was not so suddenlie come as forwardlie welcome of the principall and others to the great reioising of all estates throughout the whole realme as maie appeare by verses of gratulation in part as followeth Solonem ingenio magnum qui Nestora vincis Consilio pietate Numam grauitate Catonem Gratus ades ter gratus ades Comes inclyte ab oris Teutonicis salsi emensus vada caerula ponti Rauca fuit Wansteda diu te absente nec vllas Laetitiae ediderat voces Ilfordia eclypsin Passa fuit modulis fleuit Laitona canoris Hammáque moestificis vlulauit percita curis At veluti auricomus dispellit nubila Titan Exhilarat tua sic nostros praesentia vultus Magne Comes terrae decus immortale Britannae Magnanimos inter meritò numerande dynastas On the second daie of December the session of parlement begun the nine twentith of October as is afore shewed was dissolued broken vp line 10 and was proroged vntill the fiue twentith of Februarie next following The substance and effect of matters handled in the same parlement is set downe in a letter learnedlie penned and directed to the right honorable the earle of Leicester as followeth THE COPIE OF A LETTER TO the right honorable the earle of Leicester lieutenant generall of all hir maiesties forces in the vnited prouinces of the low countries written line 20 before but deliuered at his returne from thense with a report of certeine petitions and declarations made to the queenes maiestie at two seuerall times from all the lords and
Frenchmen in womens apparell Blacke mondaie The Frenchmen win the trench Maister Barkeleie taken prisoner The Frenchmen repelled and some of them slaine Maister Arthur Greie hurt in the shoulder A new supplie commeth to the armie the capteines names An hot alarum of an houres continuance Ordinance planted in trenches The bishop of Ualence and his companie A skirmish of two houres continuance More ordinance planted The enimies ordinance displaced A sort raiseâ— A skirmish The French repelled The new 〈◊〉 called Montpelham Another skirmish Iames Hamilton taken prisoner Prisoners taken and slaine The armie râ—mooueth from Lesterâ—ke to the red Braies A skirmish and what was doone in the same The planting 〈◊〉 the great artillerie A trench 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 Great ordinance planted 〈◊〉 discharâ—â—â— A skirmish A fire in 〈◊〉 and augmented with shot of ordinance and 〈…〉 weather Capteine Uaughan Maie poles set vp in Leith on Maie daie A trench woon from the French Capteine Uaughan vieweth the enimies flankers The French repelled by the English The mils burnt by the English and the French driuen from thense Capteine Reades arme broken The earle of Argile with his armie commeÌ„th to Edenburgh The assault giuen to Leith the seauenth of Maie The horsmen appointed to gard the field The English men repelled by the policies and deuises of the French The number slaine hurt at the assault Sir George Howard and sir Richard Lée A supplie froÌ„ Barwike of foure hundred and fiftie soldiors Sir Francis Leake bringeth a supplie to the campe A skirmish bâ—â—twéene the English and French The Frenchâ—men chased Summerseâ— mount Sir Peter Carew senâ— from the court 〈…〉 wherein 〈◊〉 French 〈…〉 〈◊〉 English 〈◊〉 taken 〈◊〉 quéene Dowager 〈…〉 life 〈◊〉 French 〈…〉 to their 〈◊〉 Sir William 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Wotton 〈◊〉 to Eâ—â—â—â—urgh Frenchmen 〈…〉 as they gathered 〈◊〉 Scattergood 〈…〉 the Frenchmen Order taken for the restreining of all signes of hostilitie The peace concluded and word sent to the French that it should be proclamed Sir Francis Leake and sir Gerueis Clifton banketted by monsieur Doisell Schardius in rebus gestis suâ— imperatore Maximiliano secundo Whie this historiographer is so large in the description of this siege of Leith The articles of the peace at the siege of Leith The end of this peace thus concluded Sée more herof in ScotlaÌ„d pag. 374. The commenâ—dation of the foresaid concluded peace T. Church-yard The quéeneâ— meaning in remoouing 〈◊〉 French out 〈◊〉 Scotland The quéenes armie reuoke out of Scotland Iohn Stow. A fall of basâ— monie making of new coines Anno Reg. 3. Additions to Lanquet The quéene furnisheth hiâ— land with armour and munition The merchaÌ„t â—â—â—lors frée sâ—hoole William Geffreie whipped A false Christ whipped till he changed his song Paules stéeple on fire by lightening The quéene 〈◊〉 gréeued with the losse of Paules stéeple prouideth means to repare it The quéenes beneuolence to excite others Ouerséers appointed to 〈◊〉 the reparing of Paules All the iles of Paules made and framed of new timber Ten thousand pounds insufficient to repare Paules as it was at the first Good orders nothing worth if they be not put in execution Fréeschoole in Bedford towne founded by William Harper maior of London elect New coines of small péeces as six pence c. Anno Reg. 4. Monstruous births in diuerse places of England France at diuision in it selfe by ciuill warres The quéenes maiesties mistrust of inconuenience and the same remedied Sir Henrie Sidneie sent ambassador into France An other ambassage in Iulie directed into France Ships of LoÌ„don Excester Falmouth spoiled by the French in Britaine the thirtith of Iulie and ninetéenth of August Letters taken from the quéens ambassadors seruants The French troubles touch most the quéene of England The chiefe causes that mooued the quéenes maiestie to send a power into France The earle of Warwike sent into Normandie with an armie The earle of Warwike â—â—ndeth at Newhauen Light horssemen Scots An oth receiâ—ed by the lord lieutenant â—nd other ofâ—â—cerâ— A skirmish betwéene the Scotishmen and them of Mondeuille A prise of winâ—s to the quantitie of two hundred tuns An alarum in 〈◊〉 towne of Newhauen Stephan Medcalfe trumpettor The earle of Warwike and the Reingraue talke togither The church of Hauteuille recouered A proclamation for good orders to be kept by the souldiors A skirmish before Harflue The Englishmen retire to Newhauen with honor Monsieur Beauuois Prises taken and brought to Newhauen A proclamation for harquebut shot An alarum vpon occasion of fier made by the papists Execution A proclamation to restreine the outrage of souldiors Prises brought to Newhauen A supplie of souldiors out of Essex arriue at Newhauen A proclamation for the assemblâ—ng of souldiors at same Addresses Sir Iohn Portinarie a Florentine and an excellent enginer Sir Iohn More bringeth a supplie of soldiors to Newhauen out of Deuonshire A present sent by the Reingraue to the earle of Warwike Edward Dudleie The castell of Tankeruille woone by the Englishmen A skirmish 〈◊〉 Harflue The French 〈◊〉 beaten 〈◊〉 Harflue Monsieur Beauuois 〈◊〉 Antwisell hurt A proclamation for obserâ—ing of orders The death of the lord Greie of Wilton A hoie recouered which the French had taken Certeine apprehended for conspiracie A great tempest in Leicester An alarum giuen to Mondeuille An alarum giuen to Harflue The castell of Tankeruille deliuered to the Reingraue Tremaine Francis Clerke Frenchman Prises taken by him of about 50000 crownes value Capteine Emerie taken by the Scotish horsmen A proclamation for the obseruing of orders A prise brought to Newhauen Thrée other prises of sackes bastards c. A souldier executed for fighting contrarie to the orders in that case giuen Thrée other pardoned The admerall of France summoneth Hunflue The great gallie of Hunflue taken The French beholden to the English Noble men sent from the admerall of France to the earle of Warwike Sir Nicholas Throckmorton arriueth at Newhauen Caen castell besieged The marquesse Dalbeuf brother to the duke of Guise Aid sent to the siege of Caeâ— The counte 〈…〉 a French 〈◊〉 MoÌ„tgomerie â—â—th to Caen to speake with 〈◊〉 admerall The castell of Caen batteâ—â—â— It is rendred to the admerall Baieulx Faleise and S. Lo yéelded to the admerall The canon 〈◊〉 to the â—â—stell of â—â—ndue 〈◊〉 yéelded A proclamaâ—â—on vpon 〈◊〉 of death A proclamaâ—â—â—n in the FreÌ„ch kings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adrian Pâ—â—â—ings 〈◊〉 French appointed to depart out of Newhauen Proclamation for the lawfull taking of prisoners Another proclamation in the behalfe of strangers Another proclamation for the lawfull apprehending of prisoners Exceptions against the foresaid proclamation The Reingraue with his horssemen Execution on Easter euen A proclamation to be packing out of Newhauen Garter king of armes bringeth the garter to the lord lieutenant A proclamation for auoiding Ministers excepted Places forbidden by proclamation to be resorted vnto Execution for pilfering A proclamation for the auoiding of the French out of Newhauen
fauourers of the pope that none hath béene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The bull of Pius Quintus set vp at Paules The first punishment for the bull The third reason Rebellion in the north The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the pope The popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politike aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but scholers and vnarmed Manie are traitours though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others that are traitors without armor The oâ—â—enâ—ors executed 〈…〉 reâ—igion Unreasonable â—nd obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgement 2. Esd. 4. Bishop of Winchester deceased Fiue executed for treason A. F. ex add G. C. Maister Walter Raleigh his viage for the discouerie of that land which lieth betwéene Notembega and Florida Philip Amadis and Arthur Barlow Two sauage men and other things brought from the said land discouered Maister Walter Raleigh prepareth for a second viage to the said land late discouered Gentlemen that associated sir Humfreie Gilbert in his viage to Norembega 1578. The viage hath not wished successe Maister Walter Raleigh sailed as far as Cape de Uerde c. and arriueth in saâ—eâ—ie at Plimouth Sir Humfrie Gilberd seuered from his companie dead and neuer heard of Ab. Fl. horâ—â—â— omnium maâ—imè consâ—ius The deceasse of D. Caldweâ—l physician of whom there is former meÌ„tioÌ„ pag. 1349. The court of Francis the first a vniuersitie c. pag. 1343. The distributions of D. Caldwell in his life times and his bequests after his death His commentaries vpon some part of Paulus Acgineta and other bookes * His ordinarie infirmitie was the colicke which tormented him excéedinglie His age and counterfet which séemed to be made 1571 and in the yeare of his age 5â— The armes of Caldwell blasoned * The crosse forme fiche was the cote of Cedwallader the last king of Britains in An. Dom. 680. These figurs 1 2 3 4 5 6 haue relation to certeine marks namelie the mullet the â—â—nquesoilâ— the floure delice the haÌ„d the cressant or moone and the pansie grauen in the copper plate which markes are referred to their like in and about the armes aboue said Francis Throckmorton arreigned and coÌ„demned of high treason But how can their interpretations be found whose iudgements are corrupt The premisses being all sufficient cannot but answer anie circumstance touching this traitor The bishop of Rosse an enimie to the English state A colour of truth to countenance a manifest lie The maner of procéeding against Throckemorton by commission The intent of this declaration what it is Iennie a notorious knowne traitor conferreâ— with Throckmorton Sir Francis Englefield Thomas Throckemorton and Thomas Morgan A pretention of an inuasion into England The speciall meanes wanting The Spanish ambassadours words tending to this inuasion Landing places for forren forces about Arundell in Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring a confederat in this action This would be feared and therefore alwaies by policie preuented Throckemorton wrote diuerse letters to Marie the Scotish queene Godfrie Fulgeam was glad to 〈…〉 The cause why Throckmortons confessions are here mentioned Throckemorton was at Spaw and elswhere c. This is a principall marke whereat they shoot and therefore they cannot but meditat vpon the meanes The duke of Guise his enterprise to inuade the realme The Spanish ambassador and Throckemorton did often times conuerse and conferre Throckemorton surprised and put to a narrow shift â—eare is an ordinarie tormentor of a guiltie conscience The clouds of lies cannot so darken the truth but it will appeare How William Shellie stood affectioned to these treasonable plots Certeine words and clauses of letters treasonable What mind Throckemorton hath carried towards hir maiestie This vehement speach importeth same secrets of great momeÌ„t betwéene Throckemorton and the Scotish quéene Chi a perso la fede a perso l'honore an Italian prouerbe The cause that mooued Throckemorton to denie his confessioÌ„s at his arreignement These gifts in him were Vivenenum in 〈◊〉 poculo Throckemortons submison in a letter answering Ad verbum with his owne handwriting He sueth for vndeserued mercie to hir maiestie in his miserie in whose fauour he might haue liued by loialtie A declaration c written by Throckemorton to the quéenes maiestie William Ardington The next way to atteine libertie for the Scotish quéene c. The pestilent persuasion of the Spanish ambassador to prefer this pernicious enterprise The resolutioÌ„ was frustrate as also the later of the ploâ— such was Gods iustice to persecute supplant both the one and the other Was this thinke you â— naturall subiects opinion or not rather the conceipt of a tyrannous traitor This Spanish ambassador had no good meaning in moouing this request This Mope was Charles Paget otherwise named Spring as before Throckmortons purpose if his enterprise succéeded not by the next spring Sir Francis Englefield whether excusable or no Throckemortons sute for commiseration to hir maiestie A recapitulation of soâ—e treasonable enterprises by Throckemorton Throckemorton executed Robert baron of Denbigh deceased The charitable déeds of D. S. These letters are placed aboue the quâ—drats or squares of the building Six houses of perpetuall reléefe founded vpon S. Peters hill in Baniard castell ward Rents left in perpetuitie for the maintenance of the said houses Ordinances of the founder to be inuiolablie obserued What kind of widowes are to be admitted into these houses Whom they may lodge and not lodge In order for the auoiding of infection sicknesse annoiance c. What wéeke daies they are to repaire to the church Conuenienâ— vse of water c. Performancâ— of these ordinances intended An order for lanthorne and candle light in winter The loue of the LoÌ„doners to the queenes maiestie A parlement at Westminster An Reg. 27. Addition of Fr. Thin An act for the maintenance of Rochester stone bridge procured by sir Roger Manwood Sir Roger Manwood a fréend to the coÌ„monwealth The place time of Sir Roger Manwoods birth and bringing vp DissolutioÌ„ of chanteries Sir Roger Manwood reader in the inner temple He erected â— faire schoolehouse of bricke and stone He procureth leters patents c for the maintenance of the same in perpetuitie The summe of 40 pounds allowed yearlie c to the maintenance of the said grammar schoole Two scholers roomes obteined in Cambridge two in Oxford for such scholers as remooue from the said schoole to either of the vniuersities Seuen almes houses by him founded for the reléefe of the honest aged Sir Roger Manwoodâ— toome A house of correction for â—ustie idle persons The ancient bridge of Rochester when builded and by whom Diuerse opinions concerning the first founding of the said bridge How the said bridge began to decaie and what meanes are vsed for the reparing of the same Sir Roger Manwoods deuised remedie for the kéeping of the said
thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish couÌ„tries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused thâ— statutes of Ireland to bâ— imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fuâ—therer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all plâ—â—ces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Solâ—â—ario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace 〈◊〉 Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor oâ— Uâ—â—ssingen commonlie called Flâ—â—shing He surpriseâ— Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making 〈◊〉 entrie into thâ— sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facÃtque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condigâ—liâ— punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie â—as a knight 〈◊〉 his gift to 〈◊〉 of â—ondon pag. â—â— â—50 The ambasâ—â—dor deparâ—â—th home toâ—ards Denâ—arke â—ord Edâ—ard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated â— league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. 〈…〉 The horrible conspiracie of â—abington â—ther his 〈◊〉 traitors 〈◊〉 sâ—oursed by â— F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England 〈◊〉 his last 〈◊〉 finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion
hir maiestie and hir councell to be notorious practisers verie inward with the duke of Guise and contriuers of the treasons and deuises for the inuasion intended And for verie certeine knowledge thereof we néed not be beholding to Francis Throckemorton onelie although he hath said much of them but to others of better credit than himselfe That the duke of Guise did vndertake the enterprise to inuade the realme with a forren power to be defraied by the pope and king of Spaine a part of maister Throckemortons confession and he in truth the first discouerer thereof to hir maiestie if he will say that it was but inuention it will approue false For since he discouered the same there haue béene diuerse aduertisements thereof sent to hir maiestie from forren princes hir highnesse louing neighbors and alies as also by other good meanes and intelligences from hir ambassadors and seruants residing in other countries If he denie as he hath doone that he neuer had knowledge of anie such matter when he confessed the same it hath no likelihood of line 10 truth for Throckemorton was neuer knowne to be a prophet to foretell things Defuturo He resorted often to the Spanish ambassador at the least twise a wéeke when he was in London this often repaire could not be to conferre with the ambassador for the exchange of monie for his brother as he pretended at his arreignement there was some other cause When he was apprehended he had a casket couered with gréene veluet verie cunninglie conueied out of his chamber by a maidseruant line 20 of the house taken vp vnder a beds side in his chamber one of the gentlemen who were sent to apprehend him then being in the chamber vnknowing thereof which casket not long after his apprehension was by one Iohn Meredith a follower of Throckemorton conueied to the hands of the Spanish ambassador And why to him If the matters therein might well haue abidden the light why should not the casket haue béene kept still at home And if not there why not sent to some other place of line 30 safetie as well as to the Spanish ambassador It is to be conceiued that this casket was not conueied thither without the direction of Francis Throckemorton though caried by Meredith who did well know of what moment the matters were that were within the casket of what danger to Throckemorton if they had béene disclosed therefore meant to bestowe them in a safe place where they could not readilie be had as he thought and with a person not vnacquainted with the qualitie of them After the line 40 deliuerie of the casket Meredith fled for in truth he was priuie to the treasons and a fellow practiser in them To whome Francis Throckemorton being taken short at the time of his apprehension and forced to run vp a staire to deface a letter which he was then in writing to the Scotish quéene in cipher as he hath confessed being suddenlie apprehended and so forced to depart awaie presentlie out of his house deliuered priuilie into the hands of Meredith either the cipher by the which he was writing his letter line 50 to the Scotish quéene or a letter in cipher by him written vnto hir therefore he trusted Meredith as a man priuie to his dooings You are also to vnderstand that Throckemorton was in verie great feare of the discouering of this casket after his apprehension For remaining two or thrée daies prisoner in the house of one of the gentlemen that were sent to apprehend him before he was committed to the Tower he was permitted to talke with a solicitor of his law causes who brought him line 60 certeine bookes drawne or other like papers written which he made shew to peruse But that was not the matter why he sent for his solicitor for in perusing the bookes he conueied into them a little péece of paper vpon the which he had written with a cole I would faine know whether my casket be safe or to the like effect The solicitor departing from him and resorting to Throckemortons house not far distant from the place where he remained prisoner opening his papers did shake out this peece of paper which he tooke vp and deliuered to one of Francis Throckemortons men but the casket was alreadie conueid to the Spanish ambassador Wherby you wil perceiue what care he had of the casket how much it might import him to haue the writings or matters within the same concealed He being examined touching the casket and what was in the same he denied at the first that euer he had anie such casket but finding afterwards that the casket was discouered he confessed the casket and said there were certeine letters therein that came to his hands for the Scotish quéene from Thomas Morgan at Paris and other letters and papers but confessed not all as it is supposed That Charles Paget came ouer into the realme to euill purposes as Throckemorton dooth declare in his confession could not be inuented for euen at the same time that he mentioneth Paget came ouer in secret and suspicious maner staied not aboue fiftéene daies indeuored in a sort to find the disposition of William Shellie esquier how he might stand affected to giue assistance to the treasons although Paget discouered not directlie his traitorous intents to Shellie therefore all Throckemortons confessions were not forged or inuented But bicause the two papers produced at his arreignement conteining the description of the hauens for the commodious landing of forces doo most apparantlie condemne him and are a manifest argument of his priuitie to the whole treason you may not forget that he acknowledged one of the papers written in the secretarie hand to haue béene of his owne dooing but denied the other written in the Romane hand In the which vnder the title of Cheshire c is said Upon the landing of forren supplies Chester shall be taken But what in your opinions might be vnderstood by that sentence Chester shall be taken when you shall compare the paper in the secretarie hand with the other written in the Romane hand intituled The names of noblemen and gentlemen in euerie countie fit to be dealt withall in this matter which in truth were both one although the Romane were somewhat more inlarged the question is to be asked What matter The answer followeth necessarilie To assist the forren forces that shall come to inuade the realme for that there is an other title in that paper ouer the names of the hauens c Hauens in euerie coast fit for the landing of forces Now iudge you to what end these names of men and descriptions of hauens their entries capacities what winds bring vnto them from Spaine France and Flanders were written and set downe by Throckemorton the papers are both of his owne handwriting and the secretarie but a proiect or copie of the Romane Is it not likelie thinke you that he would acquaint the