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A trve relation of that memorable Parliament which wrought wonders begun at Westminster, in the tenth yeare of the reigne of K. Richard the second : whereunto is added an abstract of those memorable matters, before and since the said kings reigne, done by Parliament : together with a character of the said amiable, but unhappy King, and a briefe story of his life and lamentable death.; Historia sive narracio de modo et forma mirabilis Parliamenti apud Westmonasterium anno Domini millesimo CCCLXXXVI. English
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Fannant, Thomas.
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Saham three thousand markes Robert Lithbury Master of the Râ—lls one thousand markes Roger Leicester one thousand markes Henry Bray Escheater and Judge for the Jewes one thousand markes But Sir Adam Stratton chiefe Baron of the Exchequer was fined in foure and thirty thousand markes These fines as the Rate of money goes now amount to neere three hundred thousand markes a mighty treasure to be gotten out of the hands of so few men which how they could a masse in those dayes when litigation and Law had not spred it selfe into those infiuit wreathings of contention as since it hath may seeme strange even to our greater-getting times In the Parliament Anno 2. of Edward the third held at Nottingham that great aspirer Mortimer was accused and condemned and sent up to London and drawne and hanged at the Common Gallowes at the Elmes now called Tiburne In the 50. yeare of the raigne of Edward the third Anno Dom. 1376 was held a Parliament at Westminster which was called the great Parliament where were divers complaints exhibited by the Parliament charging the Kings Officers with Fraud and humbly craving that the Duke of Lancaster the Lord Latimer then Lord Chamberlaine Dame Alice Peirce the Kings Concubine and one Sir Richard Sturry might be removed from Court their complaints desires are so vehemently urged by their Speaker Sir Peter la Moore that all these persons were presently put from Court By Parliaments all the wholesome fundamentall Lawes of this Land were and are established and confirmed By Act of Parliament the Popes power and Supremacie and all superstition and Idolatry and abrogated abolished and banished out of this Land By Act of Parliament Gods true Religion worship and service are maintained and established By Act of Parliament the two famous Vniversities of Cambridge and Oxford have many wholesome and helpfull Immunities By Parliament one Pierce Gaveston a great favorite and notable misleader of K. Edw. 2. was removed banished and afterwards by the Lords executed So were Hugh Spencer the Father and Hugh the Sonne By Parliament Empson and Dudley two notorious polers of the Common-wealth by exacting penall Lawes on the subjects were discovered and afterwards executed By Parliament the damnable Gun-pouder Treason hatched in Hell is recorded to bee had in eternall Infamie By Parliament one Sir Giles Mompesson a Moderne Caterpiller and poler of the Common-wealth by exacting upon Inholders c. was discovered degraded from Knighthood and banished by Proclamation By Parliament Sir Francis Bacon made by King James Baron Veralam and Viscount St. Albanes and Lord Chancellor of England very grievous to the Common-wealth by bribery was discovered and displaced By Parliament Sir John Bennit Judge of the Prerogative Court pernicious to the Commonwealth in his place was discovered and displaced By Parliament Lyonell Cranfield sometimes a Merchant of London made by K. James Earle of Middlesex and Lord Treasurer of England hurtfull in his place to the Common-wealth was discovered and displaced By Parliament one Sir Francis Mitchell a jolly Justice of Peace for Middlesex in the Suburbes of London another notable Canker-worme of the Common-wealth by corruption in exacting the penall Lawes upon poore Alehouse-keepers and Victuallers c. was discovered degraded from Knighthood and utterly disabled for being Iustice of Peace By Parliament Spaines late fraud was discovered and by Act the two Treaties with that perfidious Nation for the match of the Prince our now gracious King and restitution of the Palatinate were dissolved and annihilated both which had cost the King and his Subjects much monie and much blood We may remember that that sage Counceller of State Sir William Cecill Lord Burleigh and Lord Treasurer of England was ofttimes heard to say Hee knew not what an Act of Parliament might not doe which sage saying was approved by King James and by his Majestie alleaged in one of his published speeches Which being so now the face of Christendome being at this present so torne and miserably 〈◊〉 and the Christian World distracted the Gospell in all places almost persecuted both Church Common-wealth where the Gospell is professed in all places beyond the Seas lying a bleeding as we may say and we our selves at home not without feare and danger To conclude what good may we not hope and pray for by this present and other ensuing Parliaments the onely meanes to rectifie and remedy matters in Church and Common-wealth much amisse The Character RIchard Son of the valiant and vidorious Edward the blacke Prince was borne at Burdeaux and grand-child to King Edward the third being â—1 yeeres old began his Reigne the 21. day of June in the yeare of our Lord 1377. and was crowned King at Westminster the 16. of July In beauty bounty and liberality he â—aâ—re passed all his Progenitors but was overmuch given to ease and quietnesse little regarding Military matters of Armes and being young was most ruled by youâ—g Counsell regarding little the Counsell of the sage wise men of the Realmâ— which thing turned this Land to great trouble and himselfe to extreame misery For being first disgraced by his Cousin Henry of Bullingbroke Duke of Hereford son of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster he was at length by him with the generall consent of the whole Parliament deposed from his Crown and Kingdome the 29. of September 1399. and committed to prison and afterwards wickedly murdered For being sent to Pomfret Castle to be safely kept and Princely maintained he was shortly after by King Henries direction and commandment who feared lest his estate might be shaken whiles King Richard liv'd wickedly assaulted in his lodging by Sir Piers of Exton and 8. other armed men from one of which with a Princely courage he wrested a â—rown Bill and therewith slew 4. of them fought with all the rest untill comming by his owne Chaire in which the base cowardly Knight himselfe stood for his owne safety he was by him stricken with a Pole-Axe in the hinder part of his head that presently hee fell downe and dyed when he had raigned 22. yeares 14 weekes and 2 dayes More Memorable things done by Parliaments BY Parliament Richard Montague since made Bishop of Chichester and now Bishop of Norwich his pernicious Booke entituled Apello Caesarem First confuted by Doctor Carlton then B. of Chichester and divers other Reverend Orthodox Divines was displayed and by Proclamation dated 1628. the booke was called in and prohibited and he the said Montague was discovered to be a notable unorthodox man c. By Parliament Roger Manwayring D. of Divinity Parson of St. Giles in the Fields and the Kings Chaplaine was discovered to be an unorthodox man and brought on his knees to the Bar of the Honourable House of Parliament and the booke of his two seditious Printed Sermons against Parliaments entituled Religion and Allegeance was by Proclamation called in and prohibited and he the said Manwayring was censured and deprived of his Livings not to come neere the Court nor to exercise or use any Ministeriall Office c. But notwithstanding soone after the fatall dissolution of that Parliament 1629. He the said Manwayring by the power of a little great Prelate was not onely restored to his former Livings but soone after hee was preferred and made Deane of Worcester afterwards a Bishop and is now Bishop of St. Davids the first Bishoprick in Wales And in as much as so many Memorable things have bin done by Parliaments somewhereof in former Times have indeed done no lesse than write Wonders for Reformation of Corruptions and Grievances exemplary Executions in the State and Common-wealth And seeing th'other day viz. 22. of February there was that correspondence and happy agreement betwixt his sacred Majesty and both the houses of Parliament now sitting which made the Evening of that Day crowned with Bone-fires and Bells-ringing for joy Let us not cease to pray and beseech the Lord of Hosts still so to unite the heart of the Kings Majesty to the Parliament his great Counsell that the Upper and Lower Houses may unanimously agree and be reciprocally united to the Kings that many matters now much amisse in Church and Common-wealth may be reformed and this Yeare may be accounted Annus Aureus and that this present Parliament begun this Yeare may be inscribed and engraven in Marble and in Letters of Gold By Parliament the Earle of Strafford Deputy of Ireland grievous to the Common-wealth was discovered and after an Honourable Tryaâ—l was attainted of high Treason for which hee suffered death May the twelfth 1641. SACRED TO MEMORY POSTERITY THE LONG EXPECTED HAPPY PARLIAMENT Begun MDC.XL Ended and made a Session Vivat Rex Floreat Regnum Bene valeat Parliamentum Hallelujah FINIS
because the Harvest was now ripe time convenient to cut up those pestiferous Cockles and Thistles by the assent of the King consent of the said Commissioners and Appellants they expulsed divers of the Officers of the Houshold viz. in the place of John Beauchamp Steward of the Houshold they appointed John Devourex Knight one of the Commissioners Peter Couriney Knight was made Chamberlaine in the stead of Robert Duke of Ireland And the aforesaid John de Beauchamp Simon de Burleigh Vice-Chamberlaine John Salisbury Thomas Trynett James Barats William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights and Officers of the Clergie viz. Richard Metford Secretary John Blake Deane of the Chappell John Lincolne Chancelour of the Exchequer and John Clifford Clerke of the Chappell were kept under arrest too and were as partakers in the aforesaid Treason for that they knowing and having intelligence of the said Conspiracie they did not discover them Others also as Servants of the aforesaid Conspirators and drawn in by craft yet guiltless were dismissed and sent away as men unprofitable and good for no use And thus this hideous brood of Monsters so often shaken was quite overthrown And on the Vigil of the Purification of Saint Mary in the Privie Chamber at Westminster by joynt consent of all the Cōmissioners the aforesaid John 〈◊〉 John Holt Roger Fulthorp William Burleigh John Locton and John Carey were displaced from their Offices and without any further adoe arrested of Treason and by the command of the Chancelor were clapt into the Tower and Roger Carleton in the place of Belknap Walter Clapton in the place of Tressilian were constituted and so for that time they departed and went to dinner And because Shrovetide was thought a fit time to punish the Delinquents according to their deserts therefore the great Parliament began the second of February following in this manner All the Peeres as well of the Spiritualty as of the Temporalty being assembled in the great Hall at Westminster the King soone after came and sate down in his Throne and after him appeared the five Noblemen Appellants the fame of whose admired worth ecchoed through all the Land entred the House in their costly Robes leading one another hand in hand with an innumerable company following them and beholding where the King sate all at once with submissive gestures they reverenced the King The Hall was so full of Spectators that the very Roofes were filled with them and yet amongst this infinite multitude of the people there could not be found any of the Conspirators or of their Complices but Brambre was taken a little before and cast into the Gaole of Gloucester The Clergie then placing themselves on the right hand and the Nobility on the left hand of the King according to the ancient Custome of the High Court of Parliament the Lord Chancelor standing with his back towards the King by the Kings command declared the cause of their Summons to the Parliament Which being ended the five foresaid Appellants arising declared their Appellation by the mouth of Robert Pleasington their Speaker who thus spake Behold the Duke of Gloucester comes to purge himselfe of Treasons which are laid to his charge by the Conspirators To whom the Lord Chancelor by the command of the King answered My Lord Duke the King conceiveth so honourably of you that hee cannot be induced to beleeve that you who are of affinity to him in a collaterall Line should attempt any Treason against his sacred Majestie The Duke with his foure Companions upon their knees humbly gave thanks to the King for his gracious opinion of their fidelity Then after silence proclaymed they arose and delivered in certaine Articles in Writing wherein were contained the particularity of the Treason Which said Articles were read by Godfrey Martin the Clerk of the Crowne standing in the midst of the Parliament House by the space of two houres with an audible voice At the reading of which there was a wonderfull alteration in the House For whereas before the people were glad of the discovery of the Treason at the rehearsall of it their hearts were so overcome with griefe that they could not refrain from teares When the Articles were read the Appellants requested the King that sentence of condemnation might be given against the Conspirators and they to receive the guerdon of their deserts which the king promised to grant This was the first dayes worke The second was ended with variation of divers consultations which I will not relate in particular but treat of the whole Parliament in generall And when the third day came of their proceedings against the conspirators the Lord Chancelor in the name of the Clergie in open Parliament made an Oration shewing that they could not by any meanes by present at the proceeding whereas there is any censure of death to be passed For the confirmation whereof they delivered in a Protestation which being read they spake That neither in respect of any favour nor for feare of any mans hate nor in hope of any reward they did desire to absent themselves but onely that they were bound by the Canon not to be present at any mans Arraignment or condemnation They likewise sent their Protestation to the Chappell of the Abbey where the Commons sate which was allowed of And then when the Appellants called for Justice against the conspirators the Lords of the Spiritualty arose and went into the Kings chamber neere adjoyning But the King being moved in conscience and in charitie perceiving that in every worke they are to remember the end and being willing contrary to the rigour of the Law to favour rather these that were guilty then the Actours in that Treason if they were able to alledge any thing in their defence caused the Processe to cease but the Peeres being earnest requested That no businesse past present or to come might be debated untill this Treason were adjudged to which Petition the king graciously granted his assent On the 11 day of February when nothing could be alledged nor no witnesse produced in justification of the conspiratours but that the definitive Sentence of condemnation must be pronounced against them the aforesaid John Devoreux Marshall of the Court and for that time the Kings Lievtenant adjudged them this heavy Doome That the said Archbishop of Yorke Duke of Ireland Earle of Suffolke Tressilian and Brambre should be drawn from the Tower to Tyburne and there to be hanged upon a Gibbet untill they were dead and all their Lands and Goods to be confiscated that none of their posterity might be by them any way enriched On the 12 day of February which was the first day of Shrovetide Nicholas Brambre appeared in Parliament and being charged with the aforesaid Articles of Treason hee craved favour to advise of Counsell learned and some longer time for his more full answer to his Accusation but yet hee desired a thing neither usuall nor allowable by the Law and required a thing which the