the shooting was verie excellent consent of melodie within the mount And after that was store of pretie scaling ladders and the footmen threw floures and such fansâes against the wals with all such deuises as might seeme fit shot for desire All which did line 10 continue till time the defendants came in Then came in the defendants in most sumptuous maner with euerie one his seruants pages and trumpetters hauing some more some lesse in such order as I haue here vnderplaced them with euerie one his sundrie inuention which for that some of them be mysticall and not knowne to manie I omit therefore for breuities sake to speake of anie Yet such spéeches as were spoken or presented for them to hir maiestie so manie as were or at the least as line 20 I could come by I haue here in their order placed them whereby their inuentions for whome they were spoken are therein plainelie declared Therefore I referre you to the reading of them hereafter But thus the defendants entered the tiltyard one after an other as followeth First maister Henrie Greie sir Thomas Perot maister Anthonie Cooke maister Thomas Ratcliffe maister Henrie Knolles maister William Knolles maister Robert Knolles maister Francis Knolles maister Rafe Bowes line 30 maister Thomas Kelwaie master George Goring maister William Tresham maister Robert Alexander maister Edward Dennie maister Hercules Meautus maister Edward Moore maister Richard Skipwith maister Richard Ward maister Edward Digbie maister Henrie Nowell maister Henrie Brunkerd And afterwards in the middest of the running came in sir Henrie Leigh as vnknowne and when he had broken his six staues went out in like maner againe So passing on one after line 40 an other when sir Thomas Perot maister Cooke came to the end of the tilt ouer against the quéenes maiestie one of their pages arraied like an angell vttered these spéeches vnto hir Despaire no not despaire most high and happie princesse could so congeale the frozen knight in the aier but that desire ah swéet desire inforced him to behold the sun on the earth whereon as he was gazing with twinkling eie for who can behold such beames stedfastlie he begun to dissolue into drops line 50 melting with such delight that he séemed to preferre the lingering of a certeine death before the lasting of an vncerteine life Such is the nature of ingrauen loialtie that it chooseth rather to haue the bodie dissolued than the mind disliked Thus consuming with content a swéet sickenesse is conceipt and pining with more than speakeable passions he suddenlie beheld that sun to be besieged which he so deuoutlie serued Wherewith boiling in no lesse disdaine than surprised with immoderat pensâuenesse he vttered these line 60 words O Ioue if thou meane to resolue nature into contraries why doo I liue to sée it If into nothing why doo I liue at all If the foot scale the head there is no rest if desire ouershoot dutie there is no reason and where either of these are there can be no rule And so setting more sighs than maie be numbred by ciphers this present time ah griefe this present time that honest faire hearted frozen knight died what said I euen that which againe with griefe I must say died whose ghost making speedie passage into the Elisian fields for what more swift than a soule in the midst of the infernall multitude with schréeches cries clamors made both heauen hell to redouble this eccho O times O men O corruption of maners The sun is besieged the sun O mischiefe the sun is besieged Which strange and vnacquainted termes caused not onelie murmuring amongst the ghosts beneath but a musing amongst the gods aboue who as well to represse the tumults which might haue risen among the shadows as to reuenge the pride which began to grow on the earth sent downe an angell with this commandement Go descend and cause Adam and Eue to appeare on the earth in that sort as they were in paradise that the world may know them woonder at them For seeing out of their loinâs haue issued those preposterous limmes I know none more fit to correct them Certes none more willing They will attempt anie thing for thy sake and seruice of that earthlie and yet O strange conceipt most heauenlie sun For as they were before driuen from their desire bicause they desired to know the best so now shall they bâ driuen vnto their desire which they couet to honour most This shall be their reward they shall come néere and yet shall not search and be they farre off it shall warme A cloud maie sometimes barre their sight but nothing shall depriue them of the safegard yet command them to be humble in affection though feruent least they séeme to disdaine that pride in others which they desire themselues The sun in the highest delighteth in the shadow which is shortest nourisheth the tree whose root groweth déepest not whose top springeth loftiest This commission and counsell ended all things were in a moment accomplished with such celeritie for to the gods time is tied that they were sped so soone as they were spoken And now most renowmed and diuine sun Adam and Eue being present vouchsafe to heare somwhat in their behalfs pronounced Sir knights if in beséeging the sunne ye vnderstood what you had vndertaken ye would not destroie a common blessing for a priuat benefit Will you subdue the sun Who shall rest in the shadow where the wearie take breath the disquiet rest and all comfort Will ye bereue all men of those glittering gladsome beams What shall then prosper in the shining but you will clime it by the raies O rare exhalations Brothers you may be to desire but sons ye are to ill hap which thinke you can not sinke déepe inough into the sea vnlesse you take your fall from the sun Desist you knights desist sith it is impossible to resist content your selues with the sunnes indifferent succor suffer the inniper shrub to grow by the loftie oke and clame no prerogatiue where the sun grants no priuilege for being of the same mettall that others are the sun will worke the like effects as she doth in others The giants would haue bin gods if they could haue scaled the heauens and you no lesse than stars could you conquer the same but as their throwing hill vpon hill did manifest their pride but nothing further their pretense so your laieng chalenge vpon claime and conquest vpon chalenge may well proue a will but no worthinesse a desire to reach but no possibilitie to recouer In which your soaring assaies if you chance to fall the only comfort you haue is to crie with Phaeton Magnis excidimus ausis But if no persuasions may mooue your minds know yée proud knights there are that haue hearts as big as mounteins and as far aboue you in prowesse as ye are aboue all in presumption yet not so vaine which ye terme valiant to
commandement discharged on the 22 daie of March and Richard Whitington mercer chosen in his place On the eight of Iune being Trinitie sundaie the parlement yet continuing that noble and famous prince Edward the kings sonne departed this life within the kings palace at Westminster His bodie was conueied to Canturburie with great solemnitie and there honorablie buried He died in the 46 yeare of his age a prince of such excellent demeanour so valiant wise and politike in his dooings that the verie and perfect representation of knighthood appeared most liuelie in his person whilest he liued so that the losse of him stroke a generall sorrow into the harts of all the English nation For such was his towardnesse or rather perfection in princelie gouernement that if he had liued and atteined to the crowne euerie man iudged that he would suerlie haue excéeded the glorious renowme of all his ancestors This princes death is bréefelie touched by C. Okland who after mention made of the great victories atchiued by his father the king against his enimies and concluding him to be verie happie and fortunate in the issue of his attempts saith inclytus ille monarchae Vndique ter foelix nisi quòd ârux Atropos occat Ante diem gnati fatalia stamina vitae The French king kept his obsequie in most reuerend wife in the chapell of his palace at Paris After his death the king called to him againe the foresaid persons that had beene from him remooued and the said sir Peers de la Mere that was speaker in the parlement as before yée haue hard for his eloquence shewed in reproouing the misgouernment of the said persons and namelie of the said dame Alice Peres line 10 was now committed to prison within the castell of Notingham About the same time the truce was againe prolonged till the first daie of Aprill next following ¶ King Edward after the deceasse of his sonne prince Edward created the lord Richard sonne to the said prince as heire to him prince of Wales and gaue to him the earledomes of Chester Cornewall ¶ Moreouer bicause the king waxed féeble and sicklie through langor as some suppose conceiued for the death of his sonne he appointed the rule of the line 20 relme to his sonne the duke of Lancaster ordeining him as gouernour vnder him and so he continued during his fathers life A great riot happened betwixt the seruants of the earle of Warwike and the tenants of the abbat of Euesham so that manie of the said abbats seruants were slaine and hurt The fish-ponds and warrens belonging to the abbie were broken and spoiled so that greater hurt would haue followed thereof if the line 30 kings letters had not beene sent downe to the earle commanding him to staie his men from such misdemeanours All the nobles of the realme were caused to sweare that after the kings decease they shuld admit and mainteine Richard prince of Wales for their king and souereigne lord And vpon Christmasse day the king caused him to sit at his table aboue all his owne children in high estate as representing the personage of the heire apparant to the crowne line 40 This yeare being the one and fiftith and last of king Edwards reigne there were sent againe to Bruges as commissioners to treat of peace on the part of king Edward Iohn lord Cobham the bishop of Hereford and the maior of London And for the French part thither came the earle of Salebruch monsieur de Chatillon and Phillibert Lespoit And still the two legats were present as mediatours betwixt the parties moouing a mariage to be had betwixt Richard prince of Wales and the ladie Marie daughter to line 50 the French king But they departed in sunder for this time without anie conclusion But shortlie after in Lent following there was a secret meeting appointed to be had at Montreuill by the sea whither came from the king of England sir Richard Dangle a Poictouine sir Richard Stan Geffrie Chaucer For the French king there appeared the lord Coucie and others These commissioners treated a long season concerning the mariage and when they had vnderstanding and felt each others meaning line 60 they departed and made report of the same to their maisters The truce was againe prolonged till the first daie of Maie And in the meane time the earle of Salisburie the bishop of saint Dauie lord chancellour of England and the bishop of Hereford went ouer to Calis In like case the lord of Coucie and sir William Dorman chancellor of France came to Montreuill But they durst not meet at anie indifferent place on the frontiers for the doubt that either partie had of other for anie thing the legats could saie or doo Thus these commissioners abode in that state till the truce was expired And when the warre was open then sir Hugh Caluerlie was sent ouer to Calis to remaine vpon safe kéeping of that towne as deputie there The earle of Salisburie and the other commissioners returned into England and with them the duke of Britaine On the twelfth day of Aprill this yeare one sir Iohn Minsterworth knight was drawne hanged headed and quartered at Tiborne being first condemned and adiudged to suffer that execution before the maior of London and other the kings iustices in the Guildhall for treason by him committed in defrauding souldiers of their wages for where he had receiued great summes of monie to make paiment thereof to them he reteined the same to his owne vse Moreouer as in the fortie foure yeare of this king yée haue heard he was the chéefe procurer and setter forward of the dissention that rose in the armie which vnder the leading of sir Robert Knolles was sent into France And when in that iournie he had lost most of his men and was escaped himselfe into England he laid all the blame on sir Robert Knolles accusing him to the king of heinous treason so as the king tooke no small displeasure against the said sir Robert insomuch that he durst not returne into England till he had pacified the kings wrath with monie and that the knowne fidelitie of the man had warranted him against the malicious and vntrue suggestions of his enimies Wherevpon the said Minsterworth perceiuing his craft to want the wished successe he fled to the French king and conspiring with him to annoie the realme of England by bringing the Spanish nauie to inuade the same at length he was taken in the towne of Pampilona in Nauarre and brought backe into England where he tasted the deserued fruit of his contriued treason as before yée haue heard About this season there rose in the vniuersitie of Oxenford a learned man Iohn Wiclife borne in the north parts who being a secular preest and a student in diuinitie began to propone certeine conclusions greatlie contrarie to the doctrine of the church in those daies established speciallie he
Henrie the fourth and to the heires of his bodie lawfullie begotten his foure sonnes Henrie Thomas Iohn and Humfrie being named as to whom line 20 the right should descend successiuelie by waie of intaile in case where heires failed to any of them By force of this act king Henrie thought himselfe firmelie set on a sure foundation not néeding to feare any storme of aduerse fortune But yet shortlie after he was put in danger to haue béene set besides the seat by a conspiracie begun in the abbat of Westminsters house which had it not béene hindred it is doubtfull whether the new king should haue inioied his roialtie or the old king now a prisoner restored to his line 30 principalitie But God of whome the poet saith humana rotat Instar volucris pulueris acti Turbine celeri mobilis aurae had purposed a disappointment of their coniuration and therefore no maruell though the issue of their labours were infortunat by their flattering hope But now to make an end with this parlement After that things were concluded and granted so as was thought to stand with the suertie of the king and line 40 good quiet of the realme the king granted a free pardon to all his subiects those excepted that were at the murther of the duke of Glocester and such as had committed wilfull murther or rape or were knowne to be notorious théeues And those that were to take benefit by this pardon were appointed to sue foorth the charters therof betwixt that present and the feast of All saints next insuing and so was this parlement dissolued Immediatlie after the king according to an order taken in the same parlement to giue to vnderstand line 50 vnto all princes and countries about him by what title and occasion he had taken to him the kingdome sent ambassadors vnto them to signifie the same Into Rome were sent Iohn Treneuant bishop of Hereford sir Iohn Cheinie knight Iohn Cheinie esquier Into France master Walter Skirlow bishop of Durham and Thomas Persie earle of Worcester Into Spaine Iohn Trenour bishop of saint Asaph and sir William Parre knight Into Almanie the bishop of Bangor and two others line 60 The Scots in time of the late parlement taking occasion of the absence of the northerne lords and also by reason of great mortalitie that afflicted the northerne people that yeare inuaded the borders tooke the castell of Warke that was assigned to the safe kéeping of sir Thomas Greie knight who then was at the parlement as one of the knights of the shire by meanes of whose absence the enimies the sooner as is to be thought obteined their desire and so kept that castell a certeine time and finallie spoiled it and ouerthrew it to the ground Besides all this they did manie other mischeefes in the countrie to the vndooing of manie of the kings subiects This yeare Thomas Mowbraie duke of Nââffolke died in exile at Uenice whose death might haue béene worthilie bewailed of all the realme if he had not béene consenting to the death of the duke of Glocester The same yeare deceassed the duchesse of Glocester thorough sorrow as was thought which she conceiued for the losse of hir sonne and heire the lord Humfrie who being sent for foorth of Ireland as before ye haue heard was taken with the pestilence and died by the waie But now to speake of the conspiracie which was contriued by the abbat of Westminster as chéefe instrument thereof Ye shall vnderstand that this abbat as it is reported vpon a time heard king Henrie saie when he was but earle of Derbie and yoong of yeares that princes had too little and religious men too much He therfore doubting now least if the king continued long in the estate he would remooue the great beame that then greeued his eies and pricked his conscience became an instrument to search out the minds of the nobilitie and to bring them to an assemblie and councell where they might consult and commen togither how to bring that to effect which they earnestlie wished and desired that was the destruction of king Henrie and the restoring of king Richard For there were diuerse lords that shewed themselues outwardlie to fauor king Henrie where they secretlie wished sought his confusion The abbat after he had felt the minds of sundrie of them called to his house on a day in the terme time all such lords other persons which he either knew or thought to be as affectioned to king Richard so enuious to the prosperitie of king Henrie whose names were Iohn Holland earle of Huntington late duke of Excester Thomas Holland earle of Kent late duke of Surrie Edward earle of Rutland late duke of Aumarle sonne to the duke of Yorke Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie Hugh lord Spenser late earle of Glocester Iohn the bishop of Carleill sir Thomas Blunt and Maudelen a priest one of king Richards chappell a man as like him in stature and proportion in all lineaments of bodie as vnlike in birth dignitie and conditions The abbat highlie feasted these lords his speciall freends and when they had well dined they withdrew into a secret chamber where they sat downe in councell and after much talke conference had about the bringing of their purpose to passe concerning the destruction of king Henrie at length by the aduise of the earle of Huntington it was deuised that they should take vpon them a solemne iusts to be enterprised betweene him and 20 on his part the earle of Salisburie and 20 with him at Oxford to the which triumph K. Henrie should be desired when he should be most busilie marking the martiall pastime he suddenlie should be slaine and destroied and so by that means king Richard who as yet liued might be restored to libertie and haue his former estate dignitie It was further appointed who should assemble the people the number and persons which should accomplish and put in execution their deuised enterprise Hervpon was an indenture sextipartite made sealed with their seales and signed with their hands in the which each stood bound to other to do their whole indeuour for the accomplishing of their purposed exploit Moreouer they sware on the holie euangelists to be true and secret each to other euen to the houre and point of death When all things were thus appointed the earle of Huntington came to the king vnto Windsore earnestlie requiring him that he would vouchsafe to be at Oxenford on the daie appointed of their iustes both to behold the same and to be the discouerer and indifferent iudge if anie ambiguitie should rise of their couragious acts and dooings The king being thus instantlie required of his brother in law and nothing lesse imagining than that which was pretended gentlie granted to fulfill his request Which thing obteined all the lords of the conspiracie departed home to their houses as they noised it to set armorers on
withstand the English puissance for that the Irishmen ouerran all the Isle of France did to the Frenchmen damages innumerable as their writers affirme brought dailie prcies to the English armie burst vp houses laid beds on the backes of the kine rid vpon them carried yoong children before them and sold them to the Englishmen for slaues These strange dooings so feared the Frenchmen within the territorie of Paris and the countrie about that the sorie people fled out of the villages with all their stuffe into the citie The French king and the duke of Burgognie lieng at saint Denis in this season departed from thence with the quéene and hir daughter and went to Trois in Champaigne there to consult of their businesse hauing left at Paris the earle of S. Paule and the lord Lisle Adam with a great puissance to defend the citie The king of England immediatlie after that Pontoise was woone as before yee haue heard came thither in person as well to giue order for the placing of a sufficient garrison there for defense thereof as to proceâd further into the countrie for the getting of other townes and places and so after he had well prouided for the good gouernment safe kéeping thereof the eighteenth daie of August he departed out of the same with his maine armie And bicause they of the garrison that laie in the castell of Uancon Uillers had doone dailie did diuerse and sundrie displeasures to the Englishmen he pight downe his field néere to the same the better to restraine them from their hostile attempts and withall sent part of his armie to besiege the castell which put them in such feare that they despairing of all reléefe or succour and perceiuing they should not be able long to defend the place against the kings puissance yéelded the place with all their coine and other goods into the kings hands The soldiers of that garrison and the inhabitants at the contemplation of a certeine ladie there amongst them were licenced by the king to depart without armor or weapon onelie with their liues saued Iohn of Burgh that was after basliffe of Gisours was appointed capteine of this castell After this all the townes and castels within a great circuit offered to yéeld themselues vnto the English obeisance the strong towne and castell of Gisours onelie excepted which still held out would shew no token of will to yeeld Héerevpon the king the last of August began to approch the same but at the first he could not come néere by reason of the marishes and fennes but yet such was the diligence of the Englishmen aduanced by the presence of the king readie in all places to commend them that were forward in their businesse and to chastise such as slacked their duetie that dailie they came neerer and néerer although the Frenchmen issued foorth dailie to encounter them giuing them manie sharpe skirmishes For the towne being double walled and âensed with those broad marishes so incouraged them within that they thought no force had béene able to haue subdued them But at length calling to remembrance that the king of England came before no towne nor fortresse from which he would depart before he had brought it vnder his subiection they offered to come to a parlée and in the end compounded to render the towne into the kings hands the eight daie of September next insuing and the castell bicause it was the stronger péece they couenanted to deliuer the foure and twentith of the same if in the meane time no rescue came to raise the siege Herevpon when no such releefe could be heard of at the daies limited the soldiers of the garrison the more part of the townsmen also submitted themselues and receiued an oth to be true subiects to the king and so remained still in their roomes The earle of Worcester was made capteine line 10 there About the same time to wit the thrée and twentith of September as some write was castell Galiard surrendred to the hands of the duke of Excester which had beene besieged euer since the last daie of March as before yée haue heard But others write that it held out seauen moneths and was not deliuered vp till the twentith of December This castell was not onelie strong by situation standing vpon the top of a stéepe hill but also closed with mightie thicke walles line 20 and furnished with men and all maner of munition and things necessarie The king appointed the lord Ros capteine of it After that Gisours and castell Galiard were thus yéelded to the English obeisance all the other townes and castels thereabout and in the countrie of Ueulquessin shortlie after yéelded to the king as Gourneie Chaumount Neaufle Dangu and other small fortresses Of Gourneie was sir Gilbert Umfreuile made capteine at Neaufle the earle of Worcester and at Dangu Richard Wooduile line 30 Shortlie after was the castell Daumall yéelded to the earle of Warwike to whome it was giuen And thus was the whole duchie of Normandie Mont saint Michael onelie excepted reduced to the possession of the right heire which had béene wrongfullie deteined from the kings of England euer since the daies of king Iohn who lost it about the yeare one thousand two hundred and seauen To satisfie those that be desirous to know what capteins were appointed by the king in diuerse townes that were yéelded to him of which we haue line 40 made no mention heretofore but in generall here their names doo follow and of the townes as we find them in the chronicles of maister Hall At Crewleie sir Henrie Tanclux an Almaine at Torignie sir Iohn Popham to whome it was giuen at Chamboie the lord Fitz Hugh at Uernueil in Perch sir Iohn Neuill at Essaie sir William Huddleston bailiffe of Alanson at Crulie sir Lois Robsert at Conde Norean sir Iohn Fastolfe at Cawdebecke line 50 sir Lois Robsert at Deepe William lord Bourchier earle of Eu at Aubemarle the earle of Warwike and his deputie thereof William Montfort at Bellincombre sir Thomas Ramston lord thereof by gift at Longueuille the capitall de Beuf or Buz earle thereof by gift at Danuille sir Christopher Burden at Couches sir Robert Marburie at Chierburg sir Iohn Gedding at Bacqueuille the lord Ros at Arques sir Iames Fines bailiffe of Caux at Monceaux sir Philip Leech at Estrie Pagnie line 60 Richard Abraham at Sentler Surget William Basset at Bretueill sir Henrie Mortimer bailiffe of Hunflew But now to returne where we left The wise and graue personages of the realme of France sore lamenting bewailing the miserie of their countrie saw they had puissance inough to defend their enimies if they were of perfect concord amongst themselues And therefore to remooue all rancor and displeasure betwixt the Dolphin and the duke of Burgognie they procured a new méeting which was appointed to be at Monstreau on fault Yonne where the two princes at the daie assigned
obeie new lords and new lawes as our poet saith dominorum serua nouorum Accipit ecce nouas Henrico principe leges But now I must returne to speake of the dooings in the North parts betweene the Englishmen and Scots Whilest the king was occupied in his warres against France in the summer of this yeare as before is mentioned yée haue heard how the king of Scots sent his letters vnto the king as then lieng at the siege before Terwine and what answer was made thereto by the king Immediatlie vpon the sending of those his letters conteining in effect a defiance the king of Scots assembled his people to inuade the English confines but before his whole power was come togither the lord Humes that was lord chamberleine of Scotland on a day in August entered England with seuen or eight thousand men and getting togither a great bootie of cattell thought to haue returned therewith into his countrie But as he came to passe through a field ouergrowne with broome called Milfield the English men vnder the leading of sir William Bulmer and other valiant capteins hauing with them not past a thousand souldiers being laid within that field in ambushment brake foorth vpon him and though the Scots on foot defended themselues right manfullie yet the English archers shot so wholie togither that the Scots were constreined to giue place There were of them slaine at this bickering fiue or six hundred and foure hundred or more taken prisoners the lord chamberleine himselfe escaped by flight but his banner was taken This was called by the Scots the ill rode In the meane time was the whole power of Scotland assembled with the which king Iames approching to the borders and comming to Norham castell laid siege thereto hauing there with him an hundred thousand men After he had beaten this castell with his ordinance for the space of six daies togither the same was deliuered vp into his hands for the capteine was so liberall of his shot and powder spending the same so freelie before he had cause so to doo that when it shuld haue stood him in stead he had none left to aid him so that in the end he yeelded himselfe without more resistance In which meane time the earle of Surreie being lieutenant of the north parts of England in absence of king Henrie had giuen order to assemble a power of six and twentie thousand men and comming to Alnwike the third of September being saturdaie taried there all the next day till the whole number of his people were come which by reason of the foule way were staied and could not come forward with such spéed as was appointed This fourth daie of September then being sundaie his sonne the lord admerall with a thousand souldiers and able men of warre which had beene at sea came to his father whereof he greatlie reioised for the great wisedome manhood and experience which he knew to be in him Then the earle and his councell with great deliberation appointed his battels in order with wings and with horsmen necessarie First of the fore-ward was ordeined capteine the lord Howard admerall of England as well with such as came with him from the sea as others First the lord Clifford the lord Coniers the lord Latimer the lord Scroope of Upsall the lord Ogle the lord Lomlie sir Nicholas Appleyard maister of the ordinance sir Stephan Bull sir Henrie Shirburne sir William Sidneie sir Edward Ichingham sir William Bulmer with the power of the bishoprike of Durham sir William Gascoigne sir Christopher Ward sir Iohn Eueringham sir Thomas Metham sir Walter Griffith and manie others line 10 Of the wing on the right hand of the fore-ward was capteine sir Edward Howard knight marshall of the host with him Brian Tunstall Rafe Brearton Iohn Laurence Richard Bold esquiers sir Iohn Booth sir Thomas Butler knights Richard Done Iohn Bigod Thomas Fitz Williams Iohn Claruis Brian Stapleton Robert Warcop Richard Cholmleie with the men of Hull and the kings tenants of Hatfield and others Of the wing on the left hand was capteine sir Marmaduke line 20 Constable with his sonnes and kinsmen sir William Persie and of Lancashire a thousand men Of the rere-ward was capteine the earle of Surreie himselfe and with him the lord Scroope of Bolton sir Philip Tilneie sir George Darcie sir Thomas Berkleie sir Iohn Rocliffe sir Christopher Pikering Richard Tempest sir Iohn Stanleie with the bishop of Elies seruants sir Brian Stapleton Lionell Persie with the abbat of Whitbies tenants Christopher Clapham sir William Gascoigne the line 30 yoonger sir Guie Dawneie maister Magnus maister Dalbies seruants sir Iohn Normanuile the citizens of Yorke sir Ninian Markanuile sir Iohn Willoughbie with others Of the wing on the right hand was capteine the lord Dacres with his power Of the left hand wing was capteine sir Edward Stanleie knight with the residue of the power of the two counties palantine of Chester and Lancaster Thus was the host appointed and diuided into wards and wings at the first line 40 though afterward vpon occasion this order was somewhat altered And now that euerie man knew what to doo the earle of Surrie with his power comming toward the place where he thought to find the Scotish host was informed how king Iames being remooued six miles from Norham laie imbattelled vpon a great mounteine called Floddon a place of such strength as it was not possible for the Englishmen to come néere him but to their great disaduantage for at the foot of the same hill on the line 50 left hand there was a great marish ground full of réed and water On the right hand it was defended with a riuer called Till the course whereof being so swift and the chanell in some places so deepe that it might not conuenientlie be passed On the backe halfe there were such craggie rocks and thicke woods that it was not possible to assaile him to anie aduantage that waie foorth And on the forepart of the campe where nature had left an easie entrie for men to come to the line 60 same all his ordinance was planted aloft vpon the sides of such trenches as he had caused to be cast for defense on that part The earle of Surrie herevpon considering with himselfe that vnlesse he might deuise some policie to cause the Scotish armie to descend the hill it were not possible for him to accomplish his desire he called about him his councell and with them tooke aduise in this point At length it was concluded and determined among other things to send Rouge Crosse purseuant at armes with a trumpet to the king of Scots with a message and certeine instructions which in substance was to shew and declare vnto the said king of Scots that where he contrarie vnto his oth and league and vnnaturallie against all reason and conscience had entered and inuaded this his brothers realme of England and done
his conscience and not for anie other respect of pleasure or displeasure earthlie These ambassadours comming to Bononie were honorablie receiued and first dooing their message to the pope had answer of him that he would heare the matter disputed when he came to Rome and according to right he would doo iustice The emperour answered that he in no wise would line 60 be against the lawes of God if the court of Rome would iudge that the matrimonie was not good he could be content but he solicited both the pope and cardinals to stand by the dispensation which he thought to be of force inough to prooue the mariage lawfull With these answers the ambassadors departed and returned homewards till they came on this side the mounteins and then receiued letters from the king which appointed the earle of Wilshire to go in ambassage to the French king which then laie at Burdeaux making shift for monie for redéeming of his children and the bishop of London was appointed to go to Padoa and other vniuersities in Italie to know their full resolutions and determinate opinions in the kings case of matrimonie and the kings almoner was commanded to returne home into England and so he did ¶ You haue heard before how the cardinall was attainted in the premunire and how he was put out of the office of the chancellor laie at Asher In this Lent season the king by the aduise of his councell licenced him to go into his diocesse of Yorke year 1530 gaue him commandement to kéepe him in his diocesse and not to returne southward without the kings speciall licence in writing So he made great prouision to go northward and a pparelled his seruants newlie and bought manie costlie things for his houshold and so he might well inough for he had of the kings gentlenesse the bishoprikes of Yorke and Winchester which were no small things But at this time diuerse of his seruants departed from him to the kings seruice and in especiall Thomas Crumwell one of his chiefe counsell and chiefe dooer for him in the suppression of abbeies After that all things necessarie for his iournie were prepared he tooke his waie northward till he came to Southwell which is in his diocesse and there he continued this yeare euer grudging at his fall as you shall heare hereafter But the lands which he had giuen to his colleges in Oxford and Ipswich were now come to the kings hands by his atteindor in the premunire and yet the king of his gentlenesse and for fauour that he bare to good learning erected againe the college in Oxford and where it was named the cardinals college he called it the kings college indowed it with faire possessions and put in new statutes and ordinances And for bicause the college of Ipswich was thought to be nothing profitable therefore he left that dissolued In this yeare the emperour gaue to the lord master of saint Iohnes of Ierusalem and his brethren the Iland of Malta lieng betwéene Sicill and Barbarie there to imploie themselues vpon Christs enimies which lord master had no place sure to inhabit there since he was put froÌ the Rhodes by the Turke that besieged Uienna but missed of his expectation For the christians defended the same so valiantlie against the said Turke and his power that he lost manie of his men by slaughter manie also miscarried by sicknesse and cold so that there perished in all to the number of fourescore thousand men as one of his bassats did afterward confesse which was to him a great displeasure and in especiallie bicause he neuer besieged citie before but either it was yéelded or taken In the time of this siege a metrician did make these two verses in memorie of the same Caesar in Italiam quo venit Carolus anno Cincta est ripheis nostra Vienna Getis In the beginning of this yeare was the hauing and reading of the new testament in English translated by Tindall Ioie and others forbidden by the king with the aduise of his councell and namelie the bishops which affirmed that the same was not trulie translated and that therein were prologs and prefaces sounding to heresie with vncharitable railing against bishops and the cleargie The king therefore commanded the bishops that they calling to them the best learned men of the vniuersities should cause a new translation to be made that the people without danger might read the same for their better instruction in the lawes of God and his holie word Diuerse persons that were detected to vse reading of the new testament and other bookes in English set foorth by Tindall and such other as were fled the realme were punished by order taken against them by sir Thomas Moore then lord chancellor who held greatlie against such bookes but still the number dailie increased ¶ In this yeare in Maie the bishop of London caused all his new testaments which he had bought with manie other bookes to be brought into Paules churchyard in London and there were openlie burned In the end of this yeare the wild Irishmen knowing the earle of Kildare to be in England entered his land and spoiled and burnt his countrie with diuerse other countries And the erle of Osserie being the kings deputie made little resistance for lacke of power Wherfore the king sent the earle of Kildare into Ireland with him sir William Skeuington line 10 knight master of the kings ordinance and diuerse gunners with him which so politikelie ordered themselues that their enimies were glad to offer amends and to treat for truce so sir William Skeuington the next yeere returned into England leauing there the earle of Kildare for the kings deputie Now I will returne to the execution of the treatie of Cambreie in the which it was agréed that the ladie Eleanor and the French kings children should line 20 be deliuered when the ransome appointed was paied as you haue heard in the last yeare Wherefore the French king gathered monie of his subiects with all speed and when the monie was readie he sent the great master of France called Annas de Memorancie and diuerse other nobles to Baion with the monie and to receiue the ladie and the children And thither came to them the great constable of Castile and monsieur Prat for the emperour there the crowns were weied and touched and what fault soeuer the line 30 Spaniards found in them they would not receiue a great number of them and so they carried the children backe from Fontarbie into Spaine Thus the great master of France and his companie laie still at Baion without hauing his purpose performed from March till the end of Iune and longer had lien if the king of England had not sent sir Francis Brian to Baion to warrant the paiement where vpon the daie of deliuerance was appointed to be on saint Peters daie in Iune At which daie the great master with
as this floore One streight amongst them gaue iudgement that he that had line 40 doone it was worthie to lose his head The king streight replied he had rather lose a dozen such heads as his was that so iudged than one such seruants as had doone it and herewith he commanded that the lord Greies pardon should presentlie be made the which with a letter of great thanks and promise of reward was returned by the said sir Thomas Palmer to the said lord Greie but the reward failed the king not continuing long after in life the like hap whereof had oftentimes happened vnto diuerse line 50 of his worthie ancestors vpon their due deserts to haue béene considered of and therefore the case the lesse strange This haue I set downe the more willinglie for that I haue receiued it from them which haue heard it reported not onlie by the lord Greis owne mouth but also by the relation of sir Thomas Palmer and others that were present the same not tending so much to the lord Greies owne praise as to the betokening of the kings noble courage and the great secret trust which he worthilie reposed in the said lord line 60 Greie Here is to be noted also lest any man should mistake the matter as if the king dealt indirectlie herein that his maiestie knowing how the Frenchmen in going about to build this fort did more than they might by the couenants of the peace and therefore was resolued at the first aduertisement thereof to haue it rased But yet for that it might happilie haue béene signified ouer vnto the Frenchmen before my lord Greie could haue accomplished the feat he therefore wiselie wrote one thing in his letters wherevnto manie might be priuie and âenâ secret knowledge by words contrarie to the contents of the same letters so as if the messenger were trustie his pleasure might not be discouered to the hinderance or dispappointing of the same But now to our purpose The French king after this bicause as yet hée would not séeme to breake the peace commanded the trenches and new fortifications made about this fortresse called Chatillons garden thus cast downe to be filled by his owne people and so it rested during the life of king Henrie but afterwards it was begun againe and finished as after ye shall heare About Michaelmas in this present yeare Thomas duke of Norffolke and Henrie earle of Surrie that was his sonne and heire vpon certeine surmises of treason were committed to the tower of London and immediatlie after Christmas the thirtéenth of Ianuarie the king then lieng in the extremities of death the said earle was arreigned in the Guildhall of London before the lord maior the lord chancellor and diuerse other lords and iudges being there in commission Where if he had tempered his answers with such modestie as he shewed token of a right perfect and readie wit his praise had béene the greater Some things he flatlie denied seeking to weaken the credit of his accusers by certeine circumstances other he excused with interpretations of his meaning to proue the same to be far otherwise than was alleged against him And one speciall matter amongest other wherewith he was charged was for bearing certeine arms that were said to belong to the king and to the prince The bearing where of he iustified and maintened that as he tooke it he might beare them as belonging to diuerse of his ancestors and withall affirmed that he had the opinion of heralds therein But yet to his indictment he pleaded not giltie and for that he was no lord of the parlement he was inforced to stand to the triall of a common inquest of his countrie which found him giltie and therevpon he had iudgement of death and shortlie after to wit the 19 of Ianuarie he was beheaded on the tower hill ¶ In this moneth of Ianuarie the church of the late graie friers in London was opened and masse âoong there and that daie preached at Paules crosse the bishop of Rochester who declared the kings gift to the citie of London for the relieuing of the poore people which was by patent vnder his great seale Saint Bartholomews spittle the church of the graie friers and two parish churches the one of saint Nicholas in the shambles the other saint Ewine in Newgate market all to be mâde on parish church of the graie friers church and in lands he gaue for the maintenance of the same 500 markes by yeare for euer this church to be named Christs church founded by king Henrie the eight The duke was atteinted by parlement and the atteindor after reuersed in the first yeare of quéene Marie The euill hap as well of the father as of the sonne was greatlie lamented of manie not onelie for the good seruice which the duke had doone in his daies in defense of this realme but also for that the earle was a gentleman well learned and knowne to haue an excellent wit if he had béene thankefull to God for the same and other such good gifts as he had indued him withall The king now lieng at the point of death made his last will and testament wherein he not onelie yéelded himselfe to almightie God but also tooke order that during the minoritie of his sonne prince Edward his executors should be councellors and aiders to him in all things as well concerning priuate as publike affaires They were sixtéene in number whose names were as hereafter followeth Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Wriothesleie lord chancellor sir William Paulet knight of the order lord Saint-Iohn great master of the houshold sir Edward Seimer knight of the order earle of Hertford and high chamberleine of England sir Iohn Russell knight of the order lord priuie seale sir Iohn Dudleie knight of the order vicount Lisle baron of Maupas high admerall of England Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Durham sir Anthonie Browne knight of the order and master of the horsse sir Edmund Montacute knight chiefe iustice of the coÌmon plees sir Thomas Bromleie knight one of the iustices of the kings bench sir line 10 Edward North knight chancellor of the augmentation sir William Paget knight of the order sir Anthonie Dennie knight sir William Herbert knight sir Edward Wotton knight treasuror of Calis Nicholas Wotton deane of Canturburie and Yorke So soone as the noble king had finished his last will and testament as afore is said he shortlie therevpon yeelded vp his spirit to almightie God departing this world the eight and twentith daie of Ianuarie line 20 in the eight and thirtith yeare of his reigne and in the yeare of our Lord 1546 after the accompt of the church of England but after the accompt which we follow in this booke 1547 beginning our yeare the first of Ianuarie He reigned thirtie and seuen yeares nine moneths and od daies His bodie according to his will in that behalfe was conueied to Windsor with all funerall
Meinthorne Walter Holiburton Richard Hanganside Andrew Car Iames Dowglas of Cauers Iames Car of Mersington George Hoppringle William Ormeston of Enmerden Iohn Grimstow Manie more there were beside but ouerpassed by maister Patten for that they remained in the register with these as he saith The duke of Summerset tendred the furtherance of the worke so much that he forbare not to laie his owne hand to the spade and shouell thereby to incourage others so as there were but few lords knights and gentlemen in the field but with spade shouell or mattocke did therein their parts The fiue and twentith of September being sundaie the Scots began to bring vittels to the campe were so well intreated and paied for the same that during the time of the Englishmens abode there they wanted not of the commodities which their countrie could minister The eight and twentith of September a Scotish herald accompanied with certeine Frenchmen that were perchance more desirous to marke the armie than to wit of their welfare came and declared that within a seauen-night after their commissioners to whome safe conduct had béene granted should come and commune with our councell at Berwike whose comming the earle of Warwike and sir Rafe Sadler with other the commissioners appointed did so long while there abide But what the Scots ment by breaking promise I cannot saie howbeit come they did not therfore escaped not the iust note of dissimulation howsoeuer else they could colour the matter in their owne excuse The same daie after noone the duke of Summerset adorned with titles of dignitie diuerse lords knights and gentlemen the names and promotions of whom master Patten hath set downe out of the heralds booke as followeth Sir Rafe Sadler treasuror sir Francis Brian capteine of the light horssemen sir Rafe Uane lieutenant of all the horssemen these knights were made banerets a dignitie aboue a knight and next to a baron The lord Greie of Wilton high marshall the lord Edward Seimer the duke of Summersets son the lord Thomas Howard the lord Waldike a Cleuelander sir Thomas Dacres sir Edward Hastings sir Edmund Bridges sir Iohn Thin sir Miles Patridge sir Iohn Conweie sir Giles Poole sir Rafe Bagnoll sir Oliuer Laurence sir Henrie Gates sir Thomas Chaloner sir Francis Fleming master of the ordinance sir Iohn Gresham sir William Skipwith sir Iohn Buts sir George Blaag sir William Francis sir Francis Knolles sir William Thornburrow sir George Howard sir Iames Wilford sir Rafe Coppinger sir Thomas Wentworth sir Iohn Meruen sir Nicholas Strange sir Charles Sturton sir Hugh Askue sir Francis Salmin sir Richard Tounleie sir Marmaduke Conestable sir George Audleie sir Iohn Holcroft sir Iohn Southworth sir Thomas Danbie sir Iohn Talbot sir Rowland Clarke sir Iohn Horsleie sir Iohn Forster sir Christopher Dies sir Peter Negro sir Alanzo de Uile sir Henrie Husseie sir Iames Granado Brabander sir Walter Bonham sir Robert Brandling maior of Newcastell and made knight there at the duke of Summersets returne But now that Rockesburgh was sufficientlie made defensible the which to sée it séemed the duke of Summerset had vowed before he would thence depart his grace and the councell did first determine that my lord Greie should remaine vpon the borders there as the kings lieutenant and then tooke order for the forts that sir Andrew Dudleie capteine of Broughticrag had left with two hundred soldiers of harquebutters others and a sufficient number of pioners for his works sir Edward Dudleie capteine of Hume castell threescore harquebutters fortie horssemen and a hundred pioners sir Rafe Bulmer capteine of Rockesburgh thrée hundred soldiers of harquebutters and others and two hundred pioners As things were thus concluded and warning giuen ouer night on this wednesdaie being Michaelmasse euen on the next morrow being Michaelmasse daie euerie man fell to packing apase and got them homewards passing ouer the Twéed there with some trouble and danger also by reason of raine that latelie fell before had raised the streame line 10 which being swift of it selfe and the chanell vneuen in the bottome with great stones made the passage cumbersome so that manie as well horssemen as footmen were in no small perill as they passed thorough and one or two drowned and manie cariages ouerthrowne and in great hazzard of losing The duke of Summerset rode streight to Newcastell and thence homewards The earle of Warwike my lord Greie and sir Rafe Sadler with diuerse other rode to Berwike to abide the comming line 20 of the Scotish commissioners In the meane time of their tarieng there the earle of Warwike made sir knights sir Thomas Neuill the lord Neuils brother sir Andrew Corbet sir Anthonie Strelleie sir Arthur Manering sir Richard Uerneie sir Iohn Berteuille After that the earle of Warwike had taried for the comming of the Scots the full terme of the appointment which was vntill the fourth of October and perceiued they came not the next daie he departed homewards Here ye haue to vnderstand also that in part of line 30 the meane time whilest the duke of Summerset was in dooing of these exploits in Scotland as ye haue heard rehearsed the earle of Lenox and the lord Wharton warden of the west marches with an armie of fiue thousand men entred Scotland on that side and first passing two miles after a daie and a nights defense they wan the church of Annan tooke seuentie two prisoners kéepers of the same burnt the spoile for cumber of cariage and caused the church to be blowen vp with powder passing thence a sixtéene line 40 miles within the land they wan the castell of Milke the which they left furnished with munition and men and so returned But of this ye shall find more in the historie of Scotland by the sufferance of God where we intreat of the dooings there in this yeare Thus much haue I collected out of master Pattens booke or rather exemplified the same not much digressing from his owne words except where I haue line 50 bin forced to abridge his worke in some places wishing to haue inserted the whole if the purpose of this volume would haue so permitted as well for the full vnderstanding of euerie particular point by him remembred as also for his pleasant and apt maâer of penning the same Whilest the lord protector was abrode thus in wars against the Scots the lords of the councell that remained at home chiefelie by the good and diligent calling on and furtherance of the archbishop of Canturburie and others of the cleargie line 60 tooke order for the aduancement of religion causing the bookes of homilies and the paraphrase of Erasmus to be set foorth and had in churches At the comming backe of the lord protector from his iourneie into Scotland the citizens of London determined to haue receiued him with great triumph but he hearing thereof forbad them in anie wise so to doo for
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
line 10 being in deed more chargeable as was thought than profitable sith the garrison there could not be vitteled but with a great power to conduct the cariages in safetie the enimies being still readie to take their aduantage to distresse them vpon anie opportunitie offered It was therefore resolued that the earle of Rutland should go thither to sée the fortifications rased and to conduct from thence the men ordinance in safetie home into England Héerevpon the said earle with the Almans and other souldiours then line 20 remaining on the borders marched thither and caused the bulworks rampiers and trenches to be rased and filled flat with the ground and bringing from thence all the men artillerie and munition bag and baggage returned vnto Barwike without incounter in peaceable and quiet maner Shortlie after this the kings maiestie called his high court of parlement which began at Westminster the foure and twentith daie of Nouember in this third yeare of his reigne and there continued the line 30 same vntill the first daie of Februarie next following which was in the beginning of the fourth yeare of his reigne And among other things there enacted and concluded one statute was made for the punishment of rebels and vnlawfull assemblies the which law was made by occasion of the late rebellion that happened in manner through the realme the yeare passed was not thought nor meant to haue touched anie noble man speciallie such as the duke of Summerset was which after as it shall appeare it did and line 40 by that statute he was condemned within two yeares next after ¶ The nintéenth of Ianuarie sir Iohn Russell lord priuie seale was created earle of Bedford and lord saint Iohn Lord great maister was created earle of Wilshire and sir William Paget comptrollor of the kings house was made lord Paget On the same daie at night were murthered by saint Pulâhres church against the kings head without Newgate of London two capteins that had serued the line 50 king of Bullongne and else-where the one was sir Peter Gambo the other Filicirga Which murther was committed by Charles Gauaro a Flemming who came post from Barwike to doo that act On the morrow he with thrée of his companie was taken in Smithfield by the lord Paget and sent to Newgate and the foure and twentith of Ianuarie they were all foure Charles Gauaro Balthasar Gauaro Nicholas Disalueron and Francis Deualasco had in a cart to Smithfield And by the waie at the place line 60 where the murther was doone Charles Gauaro had his right hand striken off on the cart wheele and then all hanged in Smithfield who being exhorted to reconcile himselfe to God and the world by confessing his fault by repenting himselfe of the offense and asking forgiuenesse that he might with a disburthened conscience resigne his soule into the hands of God obstinatlie and desperatlie answered that he would neuer repent him of the déed About the same time monsieur de Thermes that succéeded monsieur de Desse in gouernement as generall of the French forces in Scotland came before Broughticrag where he did so much by batterie oâher kinds of inforcement that giuing an assault both with his Frenchmen and certeine Scots ioined with him the twentith of Februarie the fort was entered by fine force and all within it either taken or slaine Sir Iohn Lutterell gouernour of that peece remained prisoner amongst the Frenchmen Moreouer now after the end of the parlement the earle of Warwike hauing then highest authoritie and the rest of the lords of the councell calling to remembrance how the last yeare in the time of rebellion the French king had entered Bullongnois and woone diuerse of the English forts there being of great importance for defense of the towne and countrie the default whereof was imputed to the negligent gouernment of the lord protector and for so much as they well vnderstood that the French king vpon further practise had placed a capteine called the Reingraue with diuerse regiments of Almaine lancequenets and certeine ensignes also of Frenchmen to the number of foure or fiue thousand at the towne of Morguison being the midwaie betwéene Bullongne and Calis to the great perill and danger as well of the countiâ of Bollongnois as al-of Calis Guisnes and all the low countrie The king therefore for the defense of the said frontiers caused all the strangers which had serued that yeare against the rebels being to the number of two thousand to be transported ouer the sea to the marches of Calis And now at Christmas last past by order of the said earle and of the councellors aforesaid Francis earle of Huntington and sir Edward Hastings his brother sir Iames Croft sir Leonard Chamberleine and diuerse other capteins and souldiers to the number of thrée thousand were set ouer to the marches of Calis to ioine with the said strangers minding with as conuenient speed as they might to remooue the campe and otherwise to annoie the French But in the meane time through the diligent trauell of certeine persons speciallie of one Guidoti an Italian and a Florentine borne there was a motion made for a treatie to be had by certeine commissioners appointed betwixt the kings of England and France for the conclusion of some peace vpon such reasonable conditions and articles as might be thought expedient for the present time and to stand with the honor and commoditie of both the princes This motion tooke such effect that about the seuenth daie of Februarie certeine commissioners appointed for this treatie that is to wit Iohn the earle of Bedford the lord Paget sir William Peter the kings chéefe secretarie and sir Iohn Mason arriued at Calis by reason of whose comming the earle of Huntington and the armie sent ouer before for the defense of the frontiers were countermanded from anie attempt so that little or nothing was doone in that voiage sauing certeine skirmishes at diuerse times not much materiall to be written of These commissioners being thus arriued passed from Calis to Bullongne there to méet with the commissioners appointed for the French king where as a certeine house was newlie erected for the said treatie to be had which was vpon the side of Bullongne hauen next to France where after diuerse méetings conferences of the commissioners of either partie a finall peace was at last concluded betwixt both the realmes But chéeflie among other things for the restitution of Bullongne and Bullongnois to the Frenchmen which were vpon certeine conditions following First that the French king should yeeld and paie to the king of England a certeine summe of monie and the same to be paid at two paiments as it was then agréed and for the same summe the king of England should render the towne of Bullongne and all the forts thereto adioining which he then inioied with all such artillerie and munition as was there
found at the taking of the same to the French king And for the sure paiment of the said sums the French king sent into England for hostages and pledges the counte de Anguien Lewes the duke of Uandosme his brother the Uidame of Charters and the duke de Aumale and others And on S. Markes daie next following being the fiue and twentith daie of Aprill about eight of the clocke in the morning line 10 the Englishmen did deliuer to the Frenchmen the possession of Bullongne and the castels and forts in the countie of Bullognois according to the agreements and articles of peace afore mentioned And the fiftéenth daie next following the French king entered into the said towne of Bullongne with trumpets blowne with all the roiall triumph that might be where he offered one great image of siluer of our ladie in the church there which was called our ladie church the which image he had caused speciallie to be made in the honor of the said ladie and caused the line 20 same to be set vp in the place where the like image before did stand the which before was taken awaie by the Englishmen at the winning of the towne ¶ On Candlemasse daie William lord S. Iohn earle of Wilshire lord great maister and president of the councell was made lord treasuror Iohn Dudleie earle of Warwike lord great chamberleine was made lord great maister William Parre marquesse of Northampton was made lord great chamberleine Lord Wentworth was made lord chamberleine line 30 of the household Sir Anthonie Wingfield capteine of the gard was made comptrollor of the kings house And sir Thomas Darcie knight was made vicechamberleine capteine of the gard And the earle of Arundell late lord chamberleine with the earle of Southampton were put off the councell and commanded to kéepe their houses in London ¶ On the 10 of Februarie one Bell a Suffolke man was hanged and quartered at Tiburne for moouing a new rebellion in Suffolke and Essex This time line 40 the lord maior of London and the aldermen purchased all the liberties of Southworke which were in the kings hands Soone after the aforesaid agreement betwéene England and France was concluded vpon the fore remembred capitulations bicause of suspicion of displeasure and hatred that was thought to remaine betwéene the earle of Warwike and the duke of Summerset latelie before deliuered out of the line 50 tower a meane was found that their fréendship should be renewed through aliance and a mariage was concluded betweene the earle of Warwikes eldest sonne and the duke of Summersets eldest daughter the which marriage was solemnized at Shene the king being then present After the solemnitie of this marriage there appeared outwardlie to the world great loue and fréendship betwéene the duke and the earle but by reason of carietales and flatterers the loue continued not long howbeit manie line 60 did verie earnestlie wish loue and amitie to continue betwéene them ¶ About this time was a new rebellion in Kent but it was soone suppressed and certeine of the chiefe were apprehended and put to death namelie Richard Lion Goddard Gorram and Richard Ireland This yeare was a parlement holden at Westminster where among other things by the authoritie of the said parlement priests children were made legitimate and vsurie for the loane of monie forbidden ¶ On wednesdaie in Whitsunweeke at a court of aldermen kept at the Guildhall sir Iohn Aliffe knight and maister of Blackwell hall was sworne alderman of the Bridge ward without to haue iurisdiction of the borough of Southworke and thus was he the first alderman that euer was there who made vp the number of six and twentie aldermen of London whereas befoâe that time had beene but fiue and twentie Trinitie tearme was adiourned till Michaelmasse for that the gentlemen should keepe the commons from commotion The eleuenth of Iune being S. Barnabies daie was kept holiedaie all London ouer and the same daie at night the high altar in Paules church was pulled downe and a table set where the altar stood with a veile drawne beneath the steps and on the sundaie next a communion was soong at the same table and shortlie after all the altars in London were taken downe and tables placed in their roomes This yeare was no such watch at Midsummer as had béene accustomed The thirtith of Iulie Thomas lord Wriothesleie erle of Southampton knight of the garter and one of the executors to king Henrie the eight deceassed at Lincolne place in Holborne and was buried in S. Andrewes church there Sir Andrew Iude for this yeare maior of London and skinner erected one notable fréeschoole at Tunbridge in Kent wherein he brought vp and nourished in learning great store of youth as well bred in that shire as brought from other countries adioining A noble act and correspondent to those that haue beene doone by like worshipfull men and other in old time within the same citie of London He also builded almesse houses for six poore almesse people nigh to the parish church of saint Helens within Bishopsgate of London gaue land to the companie of the skinners in the same citie amounting to the value of thréescore pounds thrée shillings eight pence the yeare for the which they be bound to paie twentie pounds to the schoolemaister and eight pounds to the vsher of his free schoole at Tunbridge yearelie for euer and foure shillings the wéeke to the six poore almesse people at S. Helens aforesaid eight pence the péece wéekelie and fiue and twentie shillings foure pence the yeare in coles amongst them for euer About this time there was at Feuersham in Kent a gentleman named Arden most cruellie murthered and slaine by the procurement of his owne wife The which murther for the horriblenesse thereof although otherwise it may séeme to be but a priuate matter and therefore as it were impertinent to this historie I haue thought good to set it foorth somewhat at large hauing the instructions deliuered to me by them that haue vsed some diligence to gather the true vnderstanding of the circumstances This Arden was a man of a tall and comelie personage and matched in marriage with a gentlewoman yoong tall and well fauoured of shape and countenance who chancing to fall in familiaritie with one Mosbie a tailor by occupation a blacke swart man seruant to the lord North it happened this Mosbie vpon some misliking to fall out with hir but she being desirous to be in fauour with him againe sent him a paire of siluer dice by one Adam Foule dwelling at the Floure de lice in Feuersham After which he resorted to hir againe and oftentimes laie in Ardens house in somuch that within two yeares after he obteined such fauour at hir hands that he laie with hir or as they terme it kept hir in abusing hir bodie And although as it was
also of other bands of the quéenes assured friends Wherevpon Wiat who comming towards the citie made himselfe sure of his enterprise now desperat of the same was faine to turne his face retiring backe againe to Temple-barre where he with the rest of his retinue determined as it seemed to trie their last fortune The earle of Penbroke who all this while kept his force togither in the field hearing of Wiats approch to London sent to him an herald called Clarenceaux with great communication to desist from his rebellious enterprise Which herald did his message accordinglie albeit that some said he promised the said Wiat his pardon which should not séeme to be true as well for that the herald had no such commission as also that it was not like that the said Wiat being then disarmed of all his forces would haue refused mercie in such a case For true it is that he with a verie few of his forlorne fellowship not manie aboue the number of one hundred persons stood still as men amazed at the gate of the Temple-barre till such time as sir Maurice Barkleie knight by chance riding towards London vpon his horsse with footcloth without anie armour finding the said Wiat there persuaded him to repaire to the court and to yéeld himselfe to the quéene Whose aduise he followed and incontinent mounted vp on the said sir Maurice horsse behind him and so road to the court voluntarilie to yéeld himselfe prisoner This comming of Wiat to the court being so little looked for was great cause of reioising to such as of late before stood in great feare of him But more than maruell it was to sée that daie the inuincible heart and constancie of the quéene hir selfe who being by nature a woman and therefore commonlie more fearefull than men be shewed hir selfe in that case more stout than is credible For she notwithstanding all the fearefull newes that were brought to hir that daie neuer abashed Insomuch that when one or two noblemen being hir capteins came in all hast to tell hir though vntrulie that hir battels were yéelded to Wiat. She nothing mooued thereat said it was their fond opinion that durst not come néere to sée the triall saieng further that she hir selfe would enter the field to trie the truth of hir quarrell and to die with them that would serue hir rather than to yéeld one iot vnto such a traitor as Wiat was and prepared hir selfe accordinglie But by the apprehension of Wiat that voiage tooke none effect for after his comming to the court line 10 he was immediatlie committed to the Tower As soone as the taking of Wiat was knowne the armie whereof mention is made before that laie in saint Iames field was discharged and euerie man licenced to depart to his home And foorthwith proclamation was made as well in the citie of London as in the suburbs of the same that none vpon paine of death should kéepe in his or their houses anie of Wiats faction but should bring them foorth immediatlie before the lord maior and other the quéenes line 20 iustices By reason of which proclamation a great multitude of their said poore caltifs were brought foorth being so manie in number that all the prisons in London sufficed not to receiue them so that for lacke of place they were faine to bestow them in diuerse churches of the said citie And shortlie after were set vp in London for a terrour to the common sort bicause the white cotes being sent out of the citie as before ye haue heard reuolted from the quéenes part to the aid of Wiat twentie paire of gallowes line 30 on the which were hanged in seuerall places to the number of fiftie persons which gallowes remained standing there a great part of the summer following to the great griefe of good citizens and for example to the commotioners ¶ As for the principals of this faction namelie Thomas Wiat William Kneuet Thomas Cobham two brethren named Mantels and Alexander Bret were brought by sir Henrie Ierningam by water to the tower prisoners where sir Philip Denie receiued line 40 them at the bulworke as Wiat passed by he said Go traitor there was neuer such a traitor in England To whom sir Thomas Wiat turned and said I am no traitor I would thou shouldst well know thou art more traitor than I it is not the point of an honest man to call me so and so went forth When he came to the tower gate sir Thomas Bridges lieutenant tooke in through the wicket first Mantell and said Ah thou traitor what hast thou and thy companie wrought But he holding downe his head said line 50 nothing Then came Thomas Kneuet whom master chamberleine gentleman porter of the tower tooke in Then came Alexander Bret whome sir Thomas Pope tooke by the bosome saieng Oh traitor how couldest thou find in thy heart to worke such a villanie as to take wages and being trusted ouer a band of men to fall to hir enimies returning against hir in battell Bret answered Yea I haue offended in that case Then came Thomas Cobham whome sir Thomas Poines tooke in and said Alas maister line 60 Cobham what wind headed you to worke such treason And he answered Oh sir I was seduced Then came in sir Thomas Wiat whom sir Iohn Bridges tooke by the collar and said Oh thou villen vnhappie traitor how couldest thou find in thy hart to worke such detestable treason to the quéenes maiestie who gaue thée thy life and liuing once alreadie although thou diddest before this time beare armes in the field against hir and now to yéeld hir battell c. If it were not saith he but that the law must passe vpon thee I would sticke thée through with my dagger To the which Wiat holding his arms vnder his side and looking grieuouslie with a grim looke vpon the lieutenant said It is no maisterie now and so passed on Thomas Wiat had on a shirt of maile with sleeues verie faire theron a veluet cassocke and a yellow lace with the windlace of his dag hanging thereon and a paire of boots on his legs and on his head a faire hat of veluet with a broad bone-worke lace about it William Kneuet Thomas Cobham and Bret were the like apparelled On the morrow and the next daie following were brought into the tower prisoners George Cobham sir William Cobham Anthonie Kneuet Hugh Booth Thomas Uane Robert Rudstone sir George Harper Edward Wiat Edward Fog George Moore and Cutbert Uaughan The tenth of Februarie the earle of Huntington and other gentlemen and to the number of thrée hundred horssemen brought to the tower as prisoners the duke of Suffolke and the lord Iohn Greie his brother from Couentrie where the duke had remained thrée daies after his taking in the house and custodie of Christopher Warren alderman there The eleuenth daie sir Henrie Isleie who had fled was brought into the tower in an
written that he should at his last going downe into the countrie make proclamation in his daughters name that is not so for whereas he stood by in Leicester when at his commandement the proclamation was there made against the queenes mariage with the prince of Spaine c master Damport then maior of that towne said to him My lord I trust your grace meaneth no hurt to the quéenes maiestie No saith he maister maior laieng his hand on his sword he that would hir anie hurt I would this sword were through his hart for she is the mercifullest prince as I haue trulie found hir that euer reigned in whose defense I am will be readie to die at hir foot ¶ On mondaie the ninetéenth of Februarie the lord Cobhams thrée sonnes and foure other men were brought to Westminster the yoongest of the Cobhams to wit maister Thomas Cobham was condemned with the other foure men but the other two Cobhams came not to the barre ¶ On the wednesdaie the one and twentith of Februarie âhe lord Thomas Greie that had beene taken as beââre ye haue heard in Wales was brought togither with sir Iames Croft through London to the tower by a number of horssemen Upon the fridaie the thrée and twentith of Februarie about nine of the clocke the duke of Suffolke was brought foorth of the tower vnto the scaffold on the tower hill And in his comming thither there accompanied him doctor Weston as his ghostlie father notwithstanding as it should séeme against the will of the said duke For when the duke went vp the scaffold the said Weston being on his left hand pressed to go vp with him The duke with his hand put him downe againe off the staires and Weston taking hold of the duke forced him downe likewise And as they ascended the second time the duke againe put him downe Then Weston said that it was the quéenes pleasure he should so doo wherewith the duke casting his hands abrode ascended vp the scaffold and paused a prettie while after and then he said The duke of Suffolks words to the people at the time of his death MAisters I haue offended the queene and hir lawes and thereby am iustlie condemned to die and am willing to die desiring all men to be obedient and I praie God that this my death maie be an example to all men beseeching you all to beare mee witnesse that I die in the faith of Christ trusting to be saued by his bloud onelie and by none other trumperie the which died for me and for all them that doo trulie repent stedfastlie trust in him And I doo repent desiring you all to pray to God for me that when ye see my breath depart from me you will praie to God that he maie receiue my soule And then hee desired all men to forgiue him saieng that the queene had forgiuen him Then maister Weston declared with a lowd voice that the quéenes maiestie had forgiueâ him Then diuers line 10 of the standers by said with audible voice Such forgiuenes God send thee meaning doctor Weston Then the duke kneeled vpon his knees and said the psalme Misereremei Deus vnto the end holding vp his hands and looking vp to heauen And when he had ended the psalme he said In manus ãâã Domine commeâdo spiritum mâum Then he arose and stood vp and deliuered his cap and soârffe to the executioner and therewith the executioner kneeled downe and asked line 20 the duke forgiuenesse and the duke said God forgiue thee and I doo and when thou doost thine office I praie thee doo if quicklie and God haue mercie to thee Then sâod there a man and said My lord how shall I doo for the monie that you doo owe me And the duke said Alas good fellow I praie thée trouble me not now but go thy waie to my officers Then he knit a kercher about his face and knéeled downe and said Our father which art in heauen c vnto the end and then he said Christ haue mercie vpon me and laid line 30 downe his head on the blocke and the executioner toke the axe and at the first chop stroke off his head and held it vp to the people according to the common custome of execution Such was the end of this duke of Suffolke a man of high nobilitie by birth and of nature to his friend gentle and courteous more easie in déed to be led than was thought expedient of stomach neuerthelesse stout and hardie hastie and soone kindled but pacified streight againe and sorie if in his heat ought line 40 had passed him otherwise than reason might séeme to beare vpright and plaine in his priuat dealings no dissembler nor well able to beare iniuries but yet forgiuing forgetting the same if the partie would séeme but to acknowlege his fault and seeke reconcilement Bountifull he was and verie liberall somwhat learned himselfe and a great sauourer of those that were learned so that to manie he shewed himselfe a verie Mecoenas as frée from couetousnesse as void of pride and disdainefull hautinesse of mind line 50 more regarding plaine meaning men than clawbacke flatterers And this vertue he had he could patientlie heare his faults told him by those whome he had in credit for their wisdome and faithfull meaning toward him although sometime he had the hap to reforme himselfe thereafter Concerning his last offense for the which he died it is to be supposed he rather tooke in hand that vnlawfull enterprise through others persuasions than of his owne motion for any malicious ambition in himselfe line 60 But now to let this duke rest with God we will procéed with the storie The same daie or as some haue noted the day before a number of prisoners had their pardon and came through the citie with their halters about their necks They were in number aboue two hundred Upon the saturdaie the eight and twentith of Februarie sir William Sentlow was committed as prisoner to the maister of the horsse to be kept This sir William was at this time one of the ladie Elizabeths gentlemen Upon the sundaie being the fiue and twentith of Februarie sir Iohn Rogers was committed to the tower Upon the tuesdaie in the same weeke being the seuen twentith of Februarie certeine gentlemen of Kent were sent into Kent to be executed there Their ãâ¦ã were the ãâã the two Mantels two Kneuets and Bret with these maister Rudston also and certeine other were condemned and should haue beene executed but they had their pardon Sir Henrie Isleie knight Thomas Isleie his brother and Walter Mantelâ suffered at Maidstoâ where Wiat first displaied his banner Anthonie Kneuet and his brother William Kneuet with an other of the Mantels were executed at Seugnecke Bret at Rochester was hanged in chains On saturdaie the third of March sir Gawen Carew and maister Gibs were brought thorough London to the tower with a companie of horssemen
eleuenth of Aprill next folowing he was brought to the Tower hill and there was pardoned of his drawing and hanging but had his head stricken off and his bodie cut in foure quarters and set vp in diuerse places about the citie but his head was set vppon the gallowes at Haie hill beside Hide parke line 60 Now here by the waie is to be noted that he being on the scaffold readie to suffer declared that the ladie Elizabeth and sir Edward Courtneie earle of Deuonshire whome he had accused before as it séemed were neuer priuie to his dooings as farre as he knew or was able to charge them And when doctor Weston being then his confessor told him that he had confessed the contrarie vnto the councell he answered thus That I said then I said but that which I saie now is true This was the end of Wiat and his conspiracie as also the like hath béene of others attempting anie rebellion For as their enterprise being according to the proper qualitie thereof considered is flat against Gods ordinance who hath ordeined magistracie to be reuerenced of inferiors so it is vnlikelie to bring other than infortunatnesse and shamefull ouerthrowes vnto the attempters in whome although will want not to compasse anie worke yet force failing they misse the marke all bicause rashnesse giueth them a false aime Wherefore to conclude this tragicall discourse of Wiat it were to be wished that the sage and safe counsell of Cato were put in common practise of all men which is to vndertake doo nothing aboue their strength Quod potes id tentes operis ne pondere pressus Succumbat labor frustra tentata relinquas The seuenth daie of Aprill next following sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight was brought from the tower to Guildhall in London and there arreigned of high treason as adherent and principall counsellor to the said Wiat and the duke of Suffolke and the rest in the fore remembred conspiracie against the quéene But he so stoutlie and therwithall so cunninglie answered for himselfe as well in cleering of his cause as also in defending auoiding such points of the lawes of the realme as were there alleaged against him that the quest which passed vpon his life death found him not giltie With which verdict the iudges and councellors there present were so much offended that they bound the iurie in the summe of fiue hundred pounds a péece to appeare before the councell in the Starchamber at a daie appointed And according to their bond they appeared there before the said councell vpon Wednesdaie being the one and twentith of Aprill and saint Marks daie from whense after certeine questioning they were committed to prison Emanuell Lucar and master Whetston to the tower and the other to the Fléet But now forsomuch as a copie of the order of sir Nicholas Throckmortons arreignement hath come to my hands and that the same maie giue some light to the historie of that dangerous rebellion I haue thought it not impertinent to insert the same not wishing that it should be offensiue to anie sith it is in euerie mans libertie to weie his words vttered in his owne defense and likewise the dooings of the quest in acquitting him as maie séeme good to their discretions sith I haue deliuered the same as I haue found it without preiudicing anie mans opinion to thinke thereof otherwise than as the cause maie mooue him The order of the arreignement of sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight in tâe Guildhall of London the seuenteenth daie of Aprill 1554 expressed in a dialog for the better vnderstanding of euerie mans part SIr Thomas White knight lord maior of London the earle of Shrewesburie the earle of Derbie sir Thomas Bromleie knight lord chiefe iustice of England sir Nicholas Hare knight master of the rolles sir Francis Englefield knight master of the court of wards and liberties sir Richard Southwell knight one of the priuie councell sir Edward Walgraue knight one of the priuie councell sir Roger Cholmeleie knight sir William Portman knight one of the iustices of the Kings bench sir Edward Sanders knight one of the iustices of the common plees master Stanford master Dier sergeants master Edward Griffin attournie generall master Sendall and Peter Tithbourne clearks of the crowne First after proclamation made and the commission read the lieutenant of the tower master Thomas Bridges brought the prisoner to the barre then silence was commanded and Sendall said to the prisoner as followeth Nicholas Throckmorton knight hold vp thy hand thou art before this time indicted of high treason c that thou then and there didst falselie and traitorouslie c conspire and imagine the death of the quéenes maiestie c and falselie and traitorouslie diddest leuie warre against the quéene within hir realme c and also thou wast adherent to the quéenes enimies within hir realme giuing to them aid and comfort c and also falselie and traitorouslie diddest conspire line 10 and intend to depose and depriue the quéene of hir roiall estate and so finallie destroie hir c and also thou diddest falselie and traitorouslie deuise and conclude to take violentlie the tower of London c. Ofall which treasons and euerie of them in maner forme c art thou giltie or not giltie Maie it please you my lords and maisters which be authorised by the queenes commission to be iudges this daie to giue me leaue to speake a few words which dooth both concerne you and me before line 20 I answer to the indictement and not altogither impertinent to the matter and then plead to the indictment No the order is not so you must first plead whether you be giltie or no. If that be your order and law iudge accordinglie to it You must first answer to the matter wherewith you are charged and then you maie talke at your pleasure line 30 But things spoken out of place were as good not spoken These be but delaies to spend time therefore answer as the law willeth you My lords I praie you make not too much hast with me neither thinke not long for your dinner for my case requireth leasure and you haue well dined when you haue doone iustice trulie Christ said Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousnesse I can forbeare my dinner as well as you and care line 40 as little as you peraduenture Come you hither to checke vs Throckmorton We will not be so vsed no no I for mine owne part haue forborne my breakefast dinner and supper to serue the queene Yea my good lord I know it right well I meant not to touch your lordship for your seruice and pains is euidentlie knowne to all men Master Throckmorton this talke néedeth not we know what we haue to doo and you would teach vs line 50 our duties you hurt your matter go to go to Master
the prisoner The iurie did as they were inioined How saie you is maister Throckmorton knight there prisoner at the bar giltie of the treasons wherof he hath bene indicted and arreigned in maner and forme yea or no No. How saie you did he flie vpon them No we find no such thing I had forgotten to answer that question before but you haue found according to truth and for the better warrantie of your dooings vnderstand that I came to London and so to the quéenes councell vnbrought when I vnderstood they demanded for me yet I was almost an hundred miles hence where if I had not presumed vpon my truth I could haue withdrawne my selfe from catching How saie you the rest of you is Whetstons verdict all your verdicts The whole inquest answered Yea. Remember your selues better haue you considered substantially the whole euidence in sort as it was declared recited the matter dooth touch the quéenes highnesse and your selues also take good héed what you doo My lord we haue throughlie considered the euidence laid against the prisoner and his answers to all these matters and accordinglie we haue found him not giltie agréeable to all our consciences If you haue doone well it is the better for you It is better to be tried than to liue suspected Blessed be the Lord God of Israell for he hath visited and redéemed his people and hath raised vp a mightie saluation for vs in the house of his seruant Dauid And it may please you my lord cheefe iustice forsomuch as I haue bene indicted and arreigned of sundrie treasons and haue according to the law put my triall to God and my countrie that is to saie to these honest men which haue found me not giltie I humblie beseech you to giue me such benefit acquitall and iudgement as the law in this case dooth appoint ¶ When the prisoner had said these words the commissioners consulted togither Maie it please you my lord chéefe iustice to pronounce sentence for my discharge Whereas you doo aske the benefit that the law in such case dooth appoint I will giue it you to wit that where you haue béene indicted of sundrie high treasons haue béene héere this daie before the queenes commissioners and iustices arreigned of the said treasons where vnto you haue pleaded not giltie and haue for triall therein put your selfe on God your countrie and they haue found you not giltie the court dooth award that you be cléerlie discharged paieng your fees Notwithstanding master lieutenant take him with you againe for there are other matters to charge him withall It maie please you my lords masters of the Q. highnesse priuie councell to be on my behalfe humble sutors to hir maiestie that like as the law this daie God be praised hath purged me of the treasons wherewith I was most dangerouslie charged so it might please hir excellent maiestie to purge me in hir priuat iudgement and both forgiue forget my ouerrash line 10 boldnesse that I vsed in talke of hir highnes marriage with the prince of Spaine matters too far aboue my capacitie and I verie vnable to consider the grauitie thereof a matter impertinent for me a priuat person to talke of which did apperteine to hir highnesse priuie councell to haue in deliberation And if it shall please hir highnesse of hir bountifull liberalitie to remit my former ouersights I shall thinke my selfe happie for triall of the danger that I haue this daie escaped and maie thereby admonish line 20 me to eschue things aboue my reach and also to instruct me to deale with matters agréeable to my vocation And God saue the quéens maiestie and grant the same long to reigne ouer vs. And the same Lord be praised for you the magistrats before whome I haue had my triall this daie indifferentlie by the law and you haue procéeded with me accordinglie the grace of God be amongst you now and euer ¶ There was no answer made by anie of the bench to the prisoners sute but the atturnie did speake these line 30 words And it please you my lords forsomuch as it séemeth these men of the iurie which haue strangelie acquited the prisoner of his tresons wherof he was indicted will foorthwith depart the court I praie you for the quéene that they and euerie of them maie bée bound in a recognisance of fiue hundred pounds a péece to answer to such matters as they shall bée charged with in the quéenes behalfe whensoeuer they shall be charged or called line 40 I praie you my lords be good to vs and let vs not be molested for discharging our consciences trulie We be poore merchantmen and haue great charge vpon our hands our liuings doo depend vpon our trauels therefore it maie please you to appoint vs a certeine day for our appearance for perhaps some of vs maie be in forren parties about our businesse ¶ Thus much for sir Nicholas Throckmortons arreignement wherein is to be considered that the repealing of certeine statutes in the last parlement line 50 was the chiefe matter he had to alledge for his aduantage whereas the repealing of the same statutes was meant notwithstanding for an other purpose as before you haue partlie heard which statutes or the effect of the chiefe branches of them haue béene since that time againe reuiued as by the bookes of the statutes it maie better appeare to the which I referre the reader The eight and twentith of Aprill the lord Thomas Greie brother to the duke of Suffolke was beheaded at the tower hill a proper gentleman and one that had serued right valiantlie both in line 60 France and Scotland in the daies of the late kings Henrie and Edward Upon saturdaie the eight and twentith of Aprill sir Iames Crofts and maister William Winter were brought from the tower to the Guildhall in London where sir Iames Crofts was arreigned but bicause the daie was farre spent maister Winter was not arreigned but caried backe againe to the tower with the said sir Iames Crofts William Thomas of whome mention is made before in the historie of sir Thomas Wiat with certeine other were arreigned and condemned for the conspiring of the murther and killing of the quéene vpon the sudden and for that offense the said William Thomas was the eightéenth daie of Maie drawne hanged and quartered at Tiburne The ninetéenth daie of Maie next following the ladie Elisabeth sister to quéene Marie was deliuered out of the tower and committed to the custodie of sir Iohn Williams knight afterward lord Williams of Tame by whome hir grace was more courteouslie intreated than some would haue wished Wherefore shortlie after she was committed to the manour of Woodstocke vnder the custodie of sir Henrie Beningfield of Oxenborough in the countie of Norffolke knight at whose hands she found not the like
riding in veluet coates and chaines of gold who bare all his costs and charges from the time of his entrie into England out of Scotland for thither by tempest of weather he was driuen and there forced to land ¶ The lord Montacute with the quéens pensioners met him at Islington townes end and at Smithfield barres the lord maior and aldermen in scarlet receiued him and conueied him through the citie vnto maister Dimmocks house in Fanchurch street where he lodged vntill the twelfe of Maie all which time he wanted no resort And after his message and ambassage doone to the quéene he departed againe with thrée faire ships from Grauesend into his countrie when he had remained here by the space of two moneths and more Also about this time the lord Sturton for a verie shamefull and wretched murther committed by him vpon two gentlemen the father and the son of the surnames of Hargill being his neere neighbors whom he caused to be smitten downe with clubs then their throtes to be cut and after to be buried in his owne house fiftéene foot deepe for the which heinous offense he was apprehended and committed to the tower of London And although the quéene séemed to fauour him much as one professing the catholike religion yet when she vnderstood the truth of his vile line 10 déed she abhorred him commanded that he should be vsed according to iustice wherefore shortlie after he was brought to Westminster there arreigned found guiltie had iudgement as a murtherer to be hanged And for the same fact were likewise condemned foure of his seruants And the second daie of March next following the said lord with his foure seruants were conueied by the queens gard from the tower of London through the citie he hauing line 20 his armes pinioned at his backe his legs bound vnder the horsse bellie and so caried to Salisburie where the sixt daie of March next he was hanged in the market place and his foure seruants were hanged in the countrie neere vnto the place where the murther was committed ¶ This yeare before haruest wheat was sold for foure marks the quarter malt at foure fortie shillings the quarter beans rie at fortie shillings the quarter pease at six and fortie shillings and eight line 30 pence but after haruest wheat was sold for fiue shillings the quarter malt at six shillings eight pence rie at thrée shillings foure pence So that the penie wheat loafe that weied in London the last yéere but eleuen ounces Troie weied now six and fiftie ounces Troie In the countrie wheat was sold for foure shillings the quarter malt at foure shillings eight pence and in some places a bushell of rie for a pound of candles which was foure pence The seauenth of September at seauen of the clocke at night in a line 40 blacke rainie cloud in the west was séene a rainbow the moone in the east risen one houre before and faire shining and at the full the daie before This present moneth of March king Philip who a long season had béene in Flanders to take possession gouernment of the low countries as is aforsaid did now returne into England and passed through London being accompanied with the quéene and diuerse nobles of the realme The foure and twentith of Aprill Thomas Stafford line 50 second sonne to the lord Stafford with other to the number of two and thirtie persons comming forth of France by sea arriued at Scarborough in Yorkeshire where they tooke the castell and held the same two daies and then were taken without effusion of bloud by the earle of Westmerland The said Stafford and Richard Sanders otherwise called capteine Sanders with three or foure others of the which one was a Frenchman were sent vp to London there committed to prison in the tower line 60 The said Stafford and foure others were arreigned and condemned Wherevpon the eight and twentith of Maie being fridaie the said Stafford was beheaded on the tower hill and on the morrow thrée of his companie as Strellie Bradford and Proctor were drawen from the tower to Tiborne and there executed Their heads were set ouer the bridge and their quarters ouer the gates about the same citie Capteine Sanders had his pardon and so escaped The first of Maie Thomas Persie was made knight and after lord and on the next daie he was created earle of Northumberland The queene gaue vnto him all the lands which had béene his ancestors remaining at that time in hir hands In this season although the French king as was said was verie loth to hâue warres with England yet the quéene tangling hir selfe contrarie to promise in hir husbands quarrell sent a defiance to the French king by Clarenceaux king of armes who comming to the citie of Remes where the said king then laie declared the same vnto him the seuenth of Iune being the mondaie in Whitsunwéeke On the which daie Garter and Norreie king of armes accompanied with other heralds and also with the lord maior and certeine of the aldermen of the citie of London by sound of three trumpets that rode before them proclamed open war against the said French king first in Cheape side and after in other parts of the citie where customarilie such proclamations are made the shiriffes still riding with the heralds till they had made an end although the lord maior brake off in Cheape side and went to saint Peters to heare seruice and after to Paules where according to the vsage then he went on procession King Philip bicause of the warres towards betwixt him and the French king the sixt of Iulie passed ouer to Calis and so into Flanders where on that side the seas he made prouision for those warres at which time there was great talke among the common people muttering that the king making small account of the quéene sought occasions to be absent from hir Neuerthelesse she shortlie after caused an armie of a thousand horssemen and foure thousand footmen with two thousand pioners to be transported ouer to his aid vnder the leading of diuerse of the nobilitie and other valiant capteins whose names partlie follow the earle of Penbroke capteine generall sir Anthonie Browne vicount Montacute lieutenant generall vnder the said earle the lord Greie of Wilton lord marshall the earle of Rutland generall of the horssemen the lord Clinton earle of Lincolne coronell of the footmen the lord Russell earle of Bedford the lord Robert Dudleie earle of Leicester and maister of the ordinance the lord Thomas Howard sir William West lord de la Ware sir Edward Windsore after lord Windsore the lord Braie sir Edmund Briges lord Shandois the lord Ambrose Dudleie earle of Warwike the lord Henrie Dudleie Edward Randall esquier sergeant maior maister Whiteman treasuror of the armie Edward Chamberleine esquier capteine of the pioners sir Richard Leigh trenchmaster Iohn Higate esquier prouost marshall Thomas
Haruie esquier muster-muster-master sir Peter Carew sir William Courtneie sir Giles Stranguish sir Thomas Finch master of the campe and other nobles knights and gentlemen of right approoued valiancie although diuerse of them were suspected to be protestants Furthermore to make king Philips power the stronger there came aid vnto him from sundrie places whereby as his armie increased in number so likewise grew the same more puissant in strength The people that assisted him are thus remembred by C. O. in his discourse of this warre as here followeth Misit in auxilium Germania lecta virorum Corpora ferratas acies peditúmque cateruas Nec deerat miles Latia de gente cruentus Dalmata non deerat bello huic nec defuit Hunnus At tamen ante alios fiducia summa locata est In quibus armatus validè conuenerat Anglus Foedus amicitiae vetus id poscebat vxor Cui cum regefuit sociâ commune periclum The fiftéenth of Iulie the ladie Anne of Cleuâ departed this life at Chelscie and was honorablie buried at Westminster the fift of August a ladie of right commendable regard courteous gentle a good housekéeper verie bountifull to hir seruants The eightéenth of August was a solemne obsequie celebrated in the church of S. Paule in London for Iohn king of Portingale who departed this life in Iulie last past The lord treasuror was chéefe moorner The queenes armie being transported ouer to Calis as before ye haue heard marched to some with king Philips power the which alreadie being assembled had inuaded the French confines and being come before saint Quintins planted a strong siege before that tower To the rescue whereof the line 10 French king sent a great armie both of horssemen and footmen vnder the leading of the conestable of France which armie consisted of about nine hundred men at armes with as manie light horssemen seuen or eight hundred Roisters two twentie ensignes of lancequenets and sixteene ensignes of French footmen They had also with them fiftéene péeces of great artillerie to wit six double canons foure long culuerings the rest bastard culuerings and other péeces of smaller mould The conestable line 20 thus garded vpon saint Laurence daie which is the tenth of August approched the towne meaning to put into the same succours of more soldiors with Dandelot the admerals brother that was within the towne not furnished with such a garrison as was thought expedient for the defense therof against such a power as king Philip had prepared against it The duke of Sauoie and other capteins of the armie that laie at siege before the towne aduertised of the conestables comming towards them assembled the most part of their horssemen togither and line 30 with all speed made towards a passage distant from the place where the French armie stood houering about a two English miles and being got ouer they diuided themselues into eight troopes of horssemen led by the earles of Egmond Horne Mausfield the dukes of Brunswike and others being in all to the number of fiue thousand men of armes beside the swart Rutters and light horssemen Which gaue such a furious cruell charge vpon the Frenchmen that they not able to resist the same were altogither defeated line 40 and their battels as well horssemen as footmen put to flight Wherof king Philip hauing knowlege pursued them with all his force in which pursute there were slaine of the Frenchmen a great number the chiefe wherof were these that follow Iohn of Burbon duke of Anghien the vicount of Turraine eldest sonne of Roch du Maine the lord of Chandenier with a great number of other gentlemen that bare armes in the field There were taken these prisoners following the duke of Montmorencie line 50 constable of France hurt with an harquebuz shot in the hanch the duke of Montpenser hurt in the head the duke of Longueuille the marshall of saint Andrews the lord Lewes brother to the duke of Mantoa monsieur de Uasse the baron of Curton monsieur de la Roch du Maine the Reingraue coronell of the Almans moreouer the counte de Roch Foucault monsieur d' Obignie monsieur de Meru monsieur de Montbrun monsieur de Biron sonnes to the conestable monsieur de la chapelle de Biron line 60 monfieur de saint Heran beside manie other gentlemen and capteins of good account and estimation Yet there escaped the more part of the French horssemen and manie of their footmen with certeine of their capteins of honor as the duke of Neuers the prince of Conde brother to the king of Nauarre the earle of Montmorencie eldest sonne to the conestable the earle of Sancerre monsieur de Burdillon and other of the barons of France Within two or three daies after this ouerthrow king Philip with the English armie vnder the gouernement of the earle of Penbroke and others came to the siege afore saint Quintins so was the siege greatlie reinforced and on the seuen and twentith of August by the speciall aid helpe of the Englishmen the towne of saint Quintins was taken For when the other soldiours after diuerse assaults were repelled and gaue ouer the Englishmen of a stout courage gaue a new onset by reason whereof the âowne was taken And in reward of their well dooing king Philip granted them the saccage of the said towne But then the swart Rutters which keepe no rule when they be strongest set vpon the Englishmen in taking of the spoile and killed a great number of them This grudge was with much difficultie appeased men thought that if the Englishmen being much fewer in number had not béene oppressed with the multitude of the other that it would haue growne to a great slaughter on both parts At the assault the lord Henrie Dudleie yoongest sonne to the duke of Northumberland was slaine with the shot of a great péece as he stooped vpon his approch vnto the wall and staid to rip his hose ouer the knée thereby to haue béene the more apt and nimble to the assault This was his end of whome one saith thus Henricus Dudleius heros Ille annis generosam animam inuenilibus efflat Quem referunt socij slentes in castra peremptum Vt mos christicolae est velatum sindone gentis After the winning of this towne newes in post were brought into England to the queene who caused generall processions to be made and Te Deum to be soong giuing all laud and praise to almightie God for this great victorie And in the stréets of euerie citie and towne of the realme were made bonefires with great reioising which sudden short gladnesse turned verie shortlie after to great long sorow For if ought were woone by hauing of saint Quintins England got nothing at all for the gaine thereof came onelie to king Philip. But the losse of Calis Hammes and Guisnes with all the countrie on that side the sea which followed soone after
An qua Budaeum Gallia docta suum Candidus ille studet Graecam celebrare Mineruam Graecorum celebras tu monumenta patrum Ille colit veteres intento pectore leges Sunt studij leges cura diserta tui Ille rudes assis docuit cognoscere partes Tu numeros primus verba Latina loqui Gallia causidicum tecum dignare Britannum Conferri niueis dignus vtérque notis In this meane time through controuersie raised betwixt the Scotish nobilitie and the queene Dowager of Scotland which chanced especiallie about matters of religion certeine of the lords there minding a reformation therein and the quéene resisting them to hir power in purpose to mainteine the old popish religion which some name catholike diuerse companies of souldiers and men of war were sent out of France into Scotland to aid the said quéene where they were placed in diuerse townes and forts to the high displeasure of the more part of the Scotish nobilitie who lothing to be oppressed with strangers in that sort were forced to sue vnto the quéene of England for aid to expell the French who sought to subuert the ancient state of that realme and to annex the same vnto the crowne of France Their sute was the better liked of for that it was doubted least the Frenchmen vnder pretense of bringing an armie into Scotland to appease the Scots might attempt some inuasion here in England considering that by procurement as was thought of the duke of Guise vncle to the quéene of France and Scotland a title should seeme to be pretended by his néece the foresaid quéene as might be gathered by manifest coniectures of the vsurping of armes and so foorth The names of the lords of Scotland that made sute for aid against the Frenchmen at this season were these the duke of Chateau le reault the earle of Arraine his sonne the lord Iames prior of saint Andrews the earle of Argile the earle of Glencarne the earle of Rothouse the earle of Southerland the earle of Mounteith the earle of Huntleie the earle of Cathnes the earle of Erroll the earle Marshall the earle of Morton the earle of Cassils the earle of Eglenton the earle of Montros the lord Ruithuen the lord Boid the lord Ogletrée the lord Erskin the lord Dromond the lord Hume the lord Roose the lord Chreighton the lord Leuingston the lord Somerwell the maister of Lindseie the maister of Maxwell The quéenes maiestie with aduise of hir graces councell considering of this weightie businesse and withall foreseeing the malicious purpose of hir aduersaries and how the queene of Scots was in France married and gouerned so as she was not able to vse the libertie of hir crowne did thinke it best to preuent such mischiefs as might insue if timelie remedie were not vsed to displace such dangerous neighbours the Frenchmen that began to nestle themselues thus stronglie so néere at hand for no good purpose as easilie might be ghessed Herevpon was a power raised and sent foorth both by sea land line 10 the duke of Norffolke being appointed generall and sent into the north for the direction thereof And first maister William Winter appointed viceadmerall of the quéens nauie northwards made saile toward Scotland and wasting alongst the coast in Ianuarie year 1560 came into the Forth so to the road of Leith and there cast anchor as well to impeach the landing of such Frenchmen as might happilie be sent foorth of France to the aid of the French there against the Scotish lords named of the congregation as also to line 20 keepe them that laie in Insketh from vittels and likewise to sée that none of the Frenchmen by water should passe to or from Leith but to watch them so as they shuld not inioy any commoditie that might come to either place by the same water Moreouer after that the armie by land was come togither into the north parts and had soiourned at Berwike and thereabouts the lord Greie of Wilton being appointed generall of the said armie departed with the same out of the bounds of Berwike and marched to Coldingham where they incamped that line 30 night Saturdaie the thirteenth of March sir Iames Croft and sir George Howard departed Berwike to the armie with all the lances and light horssemen conteining the number of twelue hundred and fiftie horsses The number of the footmen amounted to aboue six thousand in all The chiefe gouernours of which armie were thâse the lord Greie of Wilton lieutenant generall sir Iames Croft assistant with him in that charge the lord Scroope lord marshall sir line 40 George Howard generall of the men at armes and demilances maister Barnabie Fitz Patrike his lieutenant sir Henrie Persie generall of the light horssemen Thomas Hugghens esquier prouost marshall Thomas Gower master of the ordinance master William Pelham capteine of the pioners Edward Randoll esquier sergeant Maior masâer Thomas Burrough master Cutbert Uaughan master Williams and master Cornewall corporals This saturdaie at night the armie incamping at line 50 Dunglas the horssemen lodged in sundrie villages néere about Sir Iames Croft laie that night at Coberspeth in the lard of Whitlaies house Sundaie the last of March the armie remooued from Dunglas and marching by Dunbar there issued out of the towne certeine horssemen and footmen offering a skirmish towards whome certeine of the English lances and pistoliers with certeine harquebutters made forwards but they kept themselues within their strength Yet some of the English horssemen line 60 approched them so néere that in skirmish two of the enimies horssemen and one footman were slaine The Englishmen receiued little damage sauing that Peter Mince one of their horsmen was hurt there This doone the armie marched on to Linton brigs where the footmen incamped that night The horssemen laie at Hadington and in diuerse other small townes and sir Iames Croft laie at Clarkington west of Hadington at the lard of Cockburns house Mondaie the first of Aprill the campe remooued from Linton brigs vnto salt Preston and there incamped This euening sir Iames Croft with diuers of the capteins in his companie mât with the earle of Arraine the lord Iames prior of saint Andrews the master of Maxwell sir William Kirkaudie lard of Grange and diuerse other of the Scotish nobilitie with thrée hundred horsse in their traine After they were met and had saluted each other they rode altogither vnto salt Preston where at the end of the towne my lord Greie lord lieutenant met them and imbraced them so they lighted from their horsses and entered into communication for the space of an houre and after tooke leaue each of other and so departed for that night Tuesdaie the second of Aprill my lord Greie sir Iames Croft my lord Scroope sir George Howard with diuerse of the capteins rode to Musklebourgh church and there taried the comming of the duke of Chateau
therof by Thomas Knell minister appéereth the effect whereof insueth About midnight the water ouerflowed so much that men were faine to forsake their beds one woman drowned where also were lost a great number of sheepe oxen kine horsse and other cattell Among other there one maister Cartwright gentleman hauing his house inclosed round about the water came in so much that a cart being laden with thornes did swim about the ground Hée lost by the same floud sheepe and other cattell to the value of an hundred pounds The same gentleman had a close gate by the high waies side where the water ran ouer so extremelie that at the fall thereof it made such an hole that it was fortie foot déepe so that no man could passe that waie without great danger To the filling vp of the said hole or pit was cast in by the men of the said towne fiue and twentie lodes of faggots twentie lodes of horsse doong which said faggots and horsse doong filled not the hole Also one maister Lée at the friers in Bedford hauing a faire yard wherein was great store of elmetrees whereof thréescore were blowen downe with the roots pulled cleane out of the ground Also he had a close of conies that were cleane destroied The sea brake in betwixt Wisbich and Walsocken and at the crosse keies drowning Tilneie and old Lin saint Marie Teding saint Marie Tid saint Iohns Wauple Walton Walsocken Emneie Iarmans and Stow bridge all being the space of ten miles At the crosse keies the goodman of the inne had built an house with a strong foundation ioining vnto an other house being old and not so strong wherein were certeine ghests And when the water came in so violentlie the goodman of the house being in the stronger house called the men out of the old house and they would haue gone downe the stairs but the water was so high that they could not come downe wherefore they went backe againe and brake an hole into the other house where they went thorough and the last man was no sooner in but the old house fell downe The walles of the houses were broken downe and the horsses that were tied at the manger which was made fast in the ground did swim in the water when the stable was cleane carried awaie vntill the waters were asswaged and were saued aliue and the people were constreined to get vp to the highest parts of the house and so to be carried awaie in botes At Yarmouth a great part of the bridge was carried awaie The house vpon the hauen called the hauen house wherein was one Nicholas Iossellin the hauen man his son with all their tooles were caried into the marishes six miles from the hauen where it stood vpright and where they abode long without meat or drinke Also at Iermans Bridgestréet was verie much hurt doone by the extreame floods that were there Also one Thomas Smith of Yarmouth lost a ship with seauen men and a boie in it Also at Newarke by Yarmouth were lost twelue saile Also a great hulke laden with oile and pitch was lost at Worreie sand and about twentie men lost therein and thirtie saued by the hulke bote These townes and villages were ouerflowne that is to saie Wisbich Gutborne Parson Droue and Hobshouse This Hobshouse being an almes house and the water breaking downe the wals of it the wind blew the cloths off from the bed of a poore man his wife who being cold awaked and suddenlie stept out of his bed to reach vp his cloths and slipt vp to the bellie in water and then he thinking himselfe to be in danger as he was in déed and knowing the best waie to escape the danger of the water he tooke his wife on his necke and carried hir awaie and so were both saued At the same time in Wisbich was a garden a tennise plaie a bowling allie walled about with bricke which was worth twentie pounds by yeare to the line 10 owner was quite destroied by the water Mumbie chappell the whole towne was lost except thrée houses A ship was driuen vpon an house the sailers thinking they had béene vpon a rocke committed themselues to God and thrée of the marriners lept out of the ship and chanced to take hold on the house top and so saued themselues and the wife of the same lieng in childbed by climing vp into the top of the house was also saued by the marriners hir husband and child being both drowned Likewise the line 20 church was wholie ouerthrowne except the stéeple Betwéene Boston and Newcastell were threescore sea vessels as small ships craires and such like lost vpon the coasts of Boston Humerston Marsh chappell Tetnie Stepneie Nercots Kelbie Grimsbie where no ship can come in without a pilot which were all lost with goods corne cattell with all the salt cotes where the chiefe and finest salt was made were vtterlie destroied to the vtter vndooing of manie a man and great lamentation both of old and line 30 yoong Wentford bridge being verie strong of eight arches in length had three of the arches broken and cleane carried awaie Master Smith at the swan there had his house being thrée stories high ouerflowed vnto the third storie and the wals of the stable were broken downe and the horsses tied to the manger were all drowned Manie men had great losse as well of sheepe kine oxen great mares colts of the breed of the great horsses and other cattell line 40 innumerable of which the names manie of them shall here follow Master Pelham lost eleuen hundred shéepe at Mumbie chappell In Summercote were lost fiue hundred sheepe that were of the inhabitants there Also betwéene Humerston Grimsbie were lost eleuen hundred shéepe of one master Spensers whose sheepheard about middaie comming to his wife asked his dinner and she being more bold than manerlie said he should haue none of hir Then he chanced to looke toward the marishes line 50 where the sheepe were and saw the water breake in so fiercelie that the shéepe would be lost if they were not brought from thense said that he was not a good shéepheard that would not venture his life for his shéepe so went streight to driue them from thense but he his shéepe were both drowned and after the water being gone he was found dead standing vpright in a ditch Master Thimblebie lost two hundred and twentie sheepe master Dimocke lost foure hundred sheepe line 60 master Marsh fiue hundred master Madison lost a ship master William Askugh of Kelseie sir Hugh Askugh master Merin master Fitz Williams of Maplthorpe lost by estimation twentie thousand cattell one and other Boorne was ouerflowne vnto the midwaie of the height of the church Steeping was wholie carried awaie where was a waine lode of willow tops the bodie of the waine with the willowes carried one waie and the axiltrée and whéeles an other
the prince she on the new yeares daie following made a new chancellor Nicholas Heath bishop of Rochester almoner to the king ambassador into Germanie bishop of Worcester president of Wales and archbishop of Yorke was vpon new yeares daie in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue being the third yeare of the reigne of quéene Marie aduanced to the honorable dignitie of the chancellorship But quéene Marie deceasing the seauentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare of grace one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and eight and the sixt yere of hir gouernement this Heath vpon the placing of the worthie quéene Elisabeth vpon the throne of the English gouernment was remooued from his office and maister Bacon aduanced Sir Nicholas Bacon esquier attourneie of the court of wards was made knight and lord kéeper of the great seale the two and twentith of December in the yeare of our redemption 1558 being the first yeare of the now reigning Elisabeth the Saba of England Which name of lord kéeper he still kept during his life and the time of his office In whose time there was an act of parlement established to make the power of the keeper of the great seale equall with the authoritie of the chancellor This man continued in this office and woorthilie executed the same being a man of rare wit and déepe experience during the time of his life which continued vntill the twentith of Februarie in the yeare of our saluation 1578 after the account of England being the one and twentith yeare of the rare and singular gouernement of the worlds woonder the famous quéene Elisabeth which place this man kept eightéene yéeres being as I suppose double as long time as anie other chancellor or kéeper of the great seale possessed that place except Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester and Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath and Wels both which held it equallie eighteene yeares with him a strange thing that in the course of almost 600 yeares no such officer might possesse that place by twentie years togither Thomas Bromleie the generall solicitor of quéene Elisabeth a councellor of the law and one of the inner temple was aduanced to the dignitie of lord chancellor on the fiue and twentith day of Aprill in the yeare of our redemption 1579 being in the one twentith yeare of the reigne of the said quéene Elisabeth which office at this daie he beareth Thus although I maie be a little wetshod in passing ouer the deepe sea of this difficultie of the chancellors in which I am sure I am not ouer head and eares I haue at length brought my chancellors to end a worke of some labour and difficultie of some search and charge which I haue doone onelie of my selfe without the furtherance or help of some others who more inconsideratlie than trulie doo disorderlie report that I haue atteined vnto this in obteining line 10 those names by some sinister means from the priuat bookes of them who haue trauelled in the same matter In which as I said in the begining so I saie againe if anie imperfection for hast by reason of the printers spéedie calling on me haue now fallen out of my pen it shall hereafter God willing be corrected in the large volume of their liues Wherefore as I neither estéeme nor feare the secret reports of some others so for their countries good it shall be well that they would deliuer something to the world line 20 to bring truth to perfection if other men haue vnwillinglie set downe error and not as they doo for a litle commoditie gaine to themselues neither benefit their countrie nor speake well of such as would and doo helpe posteritie Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the chancellors of England ¶ Here though somewhat out of place for it should haue béene entered in 1578 it were better to record the receiuing of the quéenes maiestie into Suffolke line 30 Norffolke than making no commemoration therof at all to let it perish in thréehalfepenie pamphlets and so die in obliuion It maie also serue for a rest of recreation after so long an introduction of serious matters as also and that most woorthilie maie remaine in record to signifie what well affected subiects the quéens maiestie hath within hir dominions to whome goods lands friends kindred or life none of these seuerallie nor all iointlie are so pretious and deere but for hir sake they can find in their hearts to line 40 esteeme them as doong And now to the matter The truth is saith one that wrote the whole interteinment that albeit they had but small warning certeinlie to build vpon of the comming of the queenes maiestie into both those shires the gentlemen had made such readie prouision that all the veluets and silks were taken vp that might be laid hand on and bought for anie monie and soone conuerted to such garments and sutes of robes that the shew thereof might haue beautified the greatest triumph that was line 50 in England these manie yeares For as it was said there were two hundred yoong gentlemen clad all in white veluet and three hundred of the grauer sort apparelled in blacke veluet cotes and faire chaines all readie at one instant and place with fiftéene hundred seruing men more on horssebacke well and brauelie mounted in good order readie to receiue the quéenes highnesse into Suffolke which surelie was a comelie troope and a noble sight to behold and all these waited on the shiriffe sir William Spring during line 60 the quéenes maiesties abode in those parties and to the verie confines of Suffolke But before hir highnesse passed to Norffolke there was in Suffolke such sumptuous feasting and bankets as seldome in anie part of the world haue béene seene before The maister of the rolles sir William Cordall was one of the first that began this great feasting and did light such a candle to the rest of the shire that manie were glad bountifullie and frankelie to follow the same example with such charges and costs as the whole traine were in some sort pleased therewith And neere Burie sir William Drurie for his part at his house made the quéenes highnesse a costlie and delicat dinner and sir Robert Germine of Roeshbrooke feasted the French ambassadors two seuerall times with which charges and courtesie they stood maruellouslie contented The shiriffe sir William Spring sir Thomas Kidson sir Arthur Higham and diuerse others of worship kept great houses and sundrie either at the quéenes comming or returne solemnelie feasted hir highnesse yea and defraied the whole charges for a daie or twaine presented gifts made such triumphs and deuises as indéed was most noble to behold and verie thankfullie accepted The Norffolke gentlemen hearing how dutifullie their neighbors had receiued the prince prepared in like sort to shew themselues dutifull and so in most gallant maner they assembled and set forward with fiue and twentie hundred horssemen
Holieghost that sanctified him and according to the saieng of S. Augustine desired Iesus that he would be to him Iesus as much to saie as his sauiour and redéemer He likewise confessed himselfe a catholike man and a préest intending to die in that faith But when the treasons were mooued to him he likewise did make deniall thereof line 20 He asked the quéenes maiestie forgiuenesse and desired that she might long liue and reigne ouer vs. Then was read to him the booke of the aduertisement which before had beene read to Campion and after a few praiers he likewise ended his life Alexander Brian séemed more obstinate and impious vsing verie little signe of repenâance and hartie humilitie he vsed manie praiers to himselfe and spake verie little worthie the rehearsall Iustice being executed on him he and Sherwin were quartered according line 30 as Campion had beene before them ¶ No sooner had iustice giuen the blow of execution and cut off the foresaid offendors from the earth but certeine enimies to the state politike and ecclesiastike greatlie fauouring them and their cause which they falslie gaue out to be religion dispersed abroad their libels of most impudent deuise tending to the iustifieng of the malefactors innocencie to the heinous and vnrecompensable defamation of the course of iustice and iudgement against them commensed line 40 and finished in somuch that speaking of the daie whereon they died they blushed not to intitle them martyrs saieng among other things not publishable as in these few verses extracted followeth Vna dies viuos pariter caesósque videbat In coelum missos vidit vna dies AeternÃsque breui gaudent pro morte coronis Haec sunt martyribus dona parata pijs Foelix illa dies mensis fuit illa Decembris Martyrijs donans coelica regna tribus line 50 Foelix quae sanctum suscepit terra cruorem Quem caecata odij fuderat ira tui Supremúmque manens foelix constantia finem Atque in conspectu mors pretiosa Dei c. Thus slanderouslie against the administration of iustice scattered these vipers brood their lieng reports therein to the skies aduancing the children of iniquitie as spotlesse yea forging most monstruous fables put them in print as though God and nature had suffered violence to their vnappeaseable indignation line 60 for that men of such integritie forsooth and extraordinarilie sanctified suffered to shamefull a death in somuch that it was bruted abroad not by men but brute beasts that on the selfe same daie wheron Campion was executed the riuer of Thams did neither eb nor flow but stood still O miracle Whether this were a lie or not as all the world may sweare it was no truth this is certeine and vndoubted that there was found a facultie about Campion a litle before his death wherein authoritie was giuen him from the bishop of Rome Gregorie the thirtéenth to execute the sentence of the bull published by Pius Quintus against all the quéens maiesties subiects as heretiks c and yet this man forsooth albeit notorious died not for treason but for religion as with fowle mouths they are not ashamed to saie Relligio crimen non mala vita fuit But of this matter inough now to the processe of English accidents after this tragicall narration When the quéene of England and the monsieur euen duke of Aniou vnderstood by report made to hir maiestie and his highnesse by monsieur de Pruneaux who had béene sent ouer a litle before from the duke to the prince of Orange and had prosecuted the treatie the former yeares as his ordinarie ambassador what good will and great longing he had found in the prince of Orange who was come into the I le of Walkeren with a great number of gentlemen and with the deputies of the states and of the chiefest of the best cities of the low countrie to receiue his highnesse and to doo him most humble seruice and when they had also heard the ambassage of the lords of Ohain Iunius sent from the lords of the state to the duke to shew vnto him the excéeding great desire which all the people had to sée his highnes for the present ratifieng of the former couenants that had passed betwixt them for accomplishing whereof it was néedfull that he should passe ouer with all spéed whereby the same thing was confirmed which had béene declared oft afore by the lord of mount saint Aldegond ordinarie ambassador to hir maiestie and his hignes vpon the intelligence of these things it was resolued by hir maiestie his highnes that the monsieur should depart Wherevpon the quéene calling the lord Howard commanded him for the earle of Lincolne was then sicke to take vpon him the charge of the admerals ship and to go to Rochester and there to choose vessels méet for transporting of the monsieur his traine to furnish them with men of war mariners and all manner of necessaries as well of war as of vittels Which thing was doone with such diligence and speed that the ships being readie with all things in lesse than eight daies passed out of the riuer of Rochester and the Thames and were conueied to the downes néere to the towne of Sandwich where the monsieur was to take shipping And for so much as the monsieur came into England accompanied but with a few princes and lords they also had left their traine in France some of the same lords were sent backe againe afterward by his commandement and for his seruice the quéene determined to giue him a companie traine méet for his greatnesse taking his iournie about so great noble exploit And therfore as agréeing with hir highnesse hart she commanded the earle of Leicester master of hir horsses the lord of Hunsdon gouernour of Berwike hir maiesties néere kinsman cuius fuerat matertera pulchra Reginae genetrix Henrici nobilis vxor and the lord Howard the viceadmerall of whom the first two were of hir priuie councell and all thrée were knights of the order of the garter to attend vpon him and to assemble as great a number of English lords and gentlemen as could be gotten in so litle time to honour him withall wherevnto the said lords obeied verie willinglie And there went with them to accompanie them the lord Willoughbie the lord Windsore the lord Sheffield the lord Howard the lord Awdleie second sonne to the late duke of Norffolke master Philip Sidneie nephue to the forenamed erle of Leicester sir George Careie and master Iohn Robert Careie all thrée sonnes of the said lord of Hunsdon master William Howard brother of the said lord Howard sir Thomas Sherleie sir Thomas Perot sir William Russell sir William Drurie sir George Bowser knights and a great number of gentlemen namelie master Henrie Windsore brother to the lord Windsore master Iohn Borough brother to the lord Borough master Walter Ralegh master George Carew
Clarencieux line 60 appointed to attend in that voiage in place of Garter whose rome was void and Robert Glouer Sumerset herald likewise appointed to that iourneie were referred to the two and twentie daie of the same moneth Noble men and gentlemen attending on the earle of Derbie the lord Sands with eight seruants lord Windsore eleuen seruants maister Scroope sonne and heire to the lord Scroope two seruants maister Windsore brother to the lord Windsore thrée seruants sir Richard Sherborne thrée seruants sir Randolph Brereton six seruants maister Clarencieux for Garter foure seruants maister Anthonie Cooke foure seruants maister Gerard sonne and heire to sir Thomas Gerard maister Fléetwood maister Nudigate maister Stallage gentleman vsher the quéenes seruants Maister Sumerset herald of armes two seruants maister Crompton maister Smith maister Denton maister Thomas Mils one seruant The earls owne maister Thomas Arden stuard two seruants maister Fox controllor one seruant maister Newton gentleman vsher one seruant maister Philips chapleine one seruant maister Alexander gentleman of the horsse one seruant maister Morecroft physician one seruant The earls waiting gentlemen maister Dawnie sonne and heire to sir Iohn Dawnie one seruant maister Legh son and heire to sir Piers a Legh one seruant maister Warren one seruant maister Thomas Shereborne sonne to sir Richard Shereborne maister Doâlie had one seruant maister Market one seruant maister Richard Starkie one seruant maister Stanlie one seruant maister Brierton maister Hanmer one seruant maister Flood one seruant maister Salisburie one seruant maister Bushie my lords page maister Donnes one seruant maister Francis Starkie one seruant maister Baptist one seruant maister Randolph one seruant maister Tusser maister Chambers one seruant maister Forton maister Russell one seruant The earles yeomen fiftie This traine had to carie trunks males and chests fiue carts and a wagon throughout from Calis to Paris besides the earls sumpter horsse and garde viands on horsse backe On the six and twentith daie of Ianuarie the earle with his traine passed from London to Grauesend in a tiltboat called a light horsseman and there taking post horsses rid to Sittingborne and there lodged from whense they rid to Douer where they imbarked and landed at Calis on the first of Februarie the earle of Derbie lord ambassador with the lords Sands and Windsor transported in the quéens ship named the Skout the other gentlemen traine in craiers of Douer to the number of eight in the whole where they were all receiued and welcomed to the towne by monsieur de Gourdon gouernour therof and rested there the next daie on which daie at night the said earle barons and principall gentlemen were inuited to a supper by the said monsieur de Gourdon which was prepared for them in a merchants house in verie sumptuous sort and great interteinement and after supper musicke and dansing some ladies and gentlewomen of the towne being purposelie brought to the place to interteine and to danse with the noblemen and others On the third of Februarie the whole traine went from Calis to Bullogne to bed where they were verie well interteined the gouernors deputie presenting the earle with certeine pots of wine of sundrie sorts On the fourth of Februarie they rid to Monstrell to bed and there were likewise presented On the fift they went to Albeuill to bed and were met with one hundred and fiftie shot of harquebuzers at the entrie of the towne where on either side the streets were made ranks of shot all the way as they passed to their lodging after marched off about the market place giuing manie a volée of shot till it waxed darke the gouernor of the towne presenting sundrie sorts of wine And the daie following they tooke their iournie to Amiens to bed where of monsieur Creuicure called Boniuet lieutenant of Picardie for the king accompanied with an hundred gentlemen and best citizens met the earle halfe a mile without the towne and so rid talking with him his traine That night the said Creuicure presented the earle with great store of verie large and good fresh water fish and the towne with wine of diuerse sorts and the daie following being sundaie the said Creuicure inuited the earle to dinner which dinner was greatlie commended After dinner his lordship traine went to Brethnill to bed the next daie to Cleremont where he staied tuesdaie and on wednesdaie the tenth of Februarie to Luzarch On the 11 he went to S. Denise where by the waie his lordship was met by sir Edward Stafford hir maiesties ambassador resident with the French king who brought with him diuerse gentlemen of England to the number of thirtie horsse and so accompanied line 10 him to S. Denise where they kept companie all the daie following being fridaie On saturdaie his lordship made his entrie into Paris about two or thrée of the clocke at after noone there being of the lord ambassadors traine more than two hundred horsse and midwaie betwéene saint Denise and Paris there met with their lordships sent from the king the duke of Montpensier a prince of the bloud the lords of Cauignie le Chapelle aux Ursins countie de Lude de Pienne de Malicorne de la Moth line 20 Fenelon who had sometimes béene ambassador liger in England Destrie D'abin de Fontaines de Cormisson the marques of Curton the countie de Grignan all councellors in the councell knights of the holie ghost The duke of Tremouille the counties de Brissac de Creance Sancerre and of Lasuze with a great number of lords and barons gentlemen of the chamber which all were coÌmanded by the king to mount on horssebacke and accompanie the said duke de Montpensier who met the earle of line 30 Derbie and the English traine midwaie betwixt Paris and saint Denise and did accompanie him vnto hostell de Longueuille sometime called the hostle of Aniou At his lordships entrie into the said lodging the siers de Marle and de Gonaix maistres de hostell to his maiestie gaue him to vnderstand how they were appointed by the king to haue care of his good vsage and interteinement who likewise had appointed mesiers de la Moth Fenelon the marques de Curton the countie de Grignan to keepe line 40 his lordship companie at all times And so was his lordship with the other lords and gentlemen lodged in the said hostell de Longueuille where was thrée tables verie sumptuouslie furnished for them all of the kings cost the one table in the great chamber for the lords and gentlemen seruants to hir maiestie the other in the hall for the erle of Derbies gentlemen and the third in a gallerie beneath for gentlemens seruants besides liuerie into euerie chamber both of wax wood wine and such like in as great line 50 plentie as could be desired On sundaie the fouretéenth of Februarie after the English account and the foure and twentith after the French reckoning the said earle betwixt the houres
Tower the eighteenth of Februarie 1584. W. Parrie ANd where in this meane time sir Francis Walsingham secretarie to hir maiestie had dealt with one William Creitchton a Scot for his birth and a Iesuit by his profession now prisoner also in the Tower for that he was apprehended with diuerse plots for inuasions of this realme to vnderstand of him if the said Parrie had euer dealt with him in the parties beyond the seas touching that question whether it were lawfull to kill hir maiestie or not The which at that time the said Creitchton called not to his remembrance yet after vpon better calling it to mind vpon the twentith daie of Februarie last past he wrote vnto maister secretarie Walsingham thereof voluntarilie all of his owne hand to the effect following William Creitchtons letter to sir Francis Walsingham Febr. 20. line 10 RIght honorable sir when your honor demanded me if maister Parrie did aske me if it were leason to kill the queene in deed and veritie then I had no remembrance at all thereof But since thinking on the matter I haue called to mind the whole fashion of his dealing with me and some of his arguments for he dealt verie craftilie with me I dare not say maliciouslie For I did in no wise thinke of anie such deseine of his or of anie other and did answer him simplie line 20 after my conscience and knowledge to the veritie of the question For after that I had answered him twise before Quòd omninò non liceret he returned late at euen by reason I was to depart earlie in the next morning toward Chamberie in Sauoie where I did remaine and being returned out of the closse within one of the classes of the college he proponed to me of new the matter with his reasons and arguments First he alleged the vtilitie of the deed for deliuering of so manie catholikes out of miserie and restitution line 30 of the catholike religion I answered that the scripture answereth thereto saieng Non sunt facienda mala vt veniant bona So that for no good how great that euer it be may be wrought anie euill how little that euer it be He replied that it was not euill to take awaie so great euill and induce so great good I answered that all good is not to be doone but that onelie Quòd bene legitimè fieri potest And therefore dixi Deum magis amare aduerbia quà m nomina Quia in actionibus magis ei placent bene legitimè line 40 quà m bonum Ita vt nullum bonum liceat facere nisi bene legitimè fieri possit Quòd in hoc casu fieri non potest Yet said he that seuerall learned men were of the opinion Quòd liceret I answered that they men perhaps were of the opinion that for the safetie of manie in soule and bodie they would permit a particular to his danger to the occult iudgement of God or perhaps said so mooued rather by some compassion and commiseration of the miserable estate of the catholikes nor for anie such doctrine that they did find in line 50 their bookes For it is certeine that such a thing is not licit to a particular without speciall reuelation diuine which exceedeth our learning and doctrine And so he departed from me Out of the prison in the Tower the 20 of Februarie Your honors poore seruitor in Christ Iesu W. Creitchton prisoner ANd where also the same Parrie was on the same twentith daie of Februarie examined by sir Francis Walsingham knight what was become line 60 of the letter conteined in his confession to be written vnto him by the cardinall de Como hâ then answered that it was consumed and burnt And yet after the next daie following being more vehementlie vrged vpon that point in examination because it was knowne that it was not burnt he confessed where he had left it in the towne wherevpon by Parries direction it was sent for where it had beene lapped vp togither with other friuolous papers and written vpon the one side of it The last will of William Parrie The which letter was in the Italian toong as hereafter followeth with the same in English accordinglie translated Amon Signore mon signor Guglielmo Parrie MOn Signore la Santita di N.S. haveduto le lettere di V.S. del primo con la fede inclusa non può se non laudare la buona dispositione che scriue di tenere verso il seruitio beneficio publico nel châ la Santita sua lessorta di perseuerare con farne riuscireli effâtti che V.S. promette accioche tanto maggiormente V.S. sia aiutata da quel buon spirito chel ha mosso le concede sua beneditione plenaria indulgenza remissione di tutti li peccati secondo che V.S. ha chiesto assicurandossi che oltre il merito chen hauera in cielo vuole anco sua Santitata constituirsi debitore a reconoscere li meriti di V.S. in ognimiglior modo che porta cio tanto piu quanto che V. S. vsa maggior modestia in non pretender niente Metta dunque ad effetto li suoì santi honorati pensieri attenda a star sano Che per fine io me le offero di core le desiderio ogni buonâ felice successo Di Roma a 30 di Gennaro 1584. Al piacerdi V.S. N. cardinali di Como Al Sig. Guglielmo Parri Cardinall de Comos letter to D. Parrie 30. Ian. 1584 by account of Rome MOn signor his holinesse hath seene your letter of the first with the certificat included and cannot but commend the good disposition resolution which you write to hold towards the seruice and benefit publike wherein his holines dooth exhort you to perseuere to bring to effect that which you haue promised And to the end you may be so much the more holpen by that good spirit which hath mooued you therevnto he granteth vnto you his blessing plenarie indulgence and remission of all your sinnes according to your request Assuring you that besides the merit that you shall receiue therfore in heauen his holines will further make himselfe debtor to acknowledge your deseruings in the best maner that he can and so much the more in that you vse the greater modestie in not pretending anie thing Put therefore to effect your holie and honorable purposes and attend your health And to conclude I offer my selfe vnto you hartilie and doo desire all good and happie successe From Rome the 30 of Ianuarie 1584. At the pleasure of your Signorie N. Card. of Como VPon all which former accusation declaration confessions and proofes vpon mondaie the two and twentith daie of Februarie last past at Westminster hall before sir Christopher Wraie knight chiefe iustice of England sir Gilbert Gerrard knight master of the rolles sir Edmund Anderson knight chiefe
which doo reach to a faire chamber at the vpper end whereof on high was placâd a cloth of estate in the middest of which were the armes of England and against them my lord was seated on each side of him two steps descending line 40 sat twelue of the principall states below them sat the residue to the number of twentie right before my lord but foure or fiue steps descending On the right hand of my lord did stand the prince of Portugall next him the lord Morleie next master Norris gouernor of Munster next sir William Russell and sir Robert Germin with diuerse men of great account On the left hand of my lord did stand the Graue Morris next the earle of Essex sir William Stanleie sir Robert Stapleton and sir Thomas line 50 Parrat with diuers others of great account Thus being placed a Dutchman made a large oration in Dutch declaring the causes of the matter in hand with thanks to the quéenes maiestie and the lord lieutenant Then was read in Latine the couenants betwéene the states the queene and my lord this doone the couenants were deliuered to my lord which he deliuered to the states and the states deliuered an other to him then was my lord demanded to vow line 60 the same by oth who holding his hand to heauen did sweare to the couenants The like did the states holding vp their hands vow to performe Then againe were the states sworne to the queene and my lord hir lieutenant in those affaires This doone my lord gaue to them seuerall thanks and they seuerallie did giue to him the like which being doone my lord passed through to his chamber the trumpets all sounding before him And héere as matter of conueniencie requireth we purpose to touch the peremptorie authoritie committed to the said lord lieutenant by common consent of the states being as followeth in the placard A placard conteining the authoritie giuen by the states of the low countries vnto the mightie prince Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh c for the gouernment of the said low countries translated out of Dutch into English as followeth THe generall states of the vnited prouinces of the low countries to all those which shall sée or heare these present writings health and dilection Euen as it hath pleased hir maiestie of England mercifullie to send ouer into these countries the high and mightie prince and lord lord Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh and one of the priuie councell knight of the noble order of the garter and not onlie to admit and institute his excellencie as chéefe head aboue all militarie souldiers on horse or foot which hir maiestie hath sent or shall send ouer hereafter into these countries to the end to assist vs with counsell aid aduise according to his great experience policie and wisedome in the direction of publike affaires of the land as well touching the feates of warre as other waies in conseruation of all that which most tendeth to the profit of the foresaid land to bring backe and reduce the same into such good order and rule as it hath béene in times past to the end that so much the better and orderlie he maie resist the force and tyrannie of our enimies and to frustrate all his practises but also besides this to honour and inrich his foresaid excellencie with greater authoritie might and commandement aboue all hir maiesties admerals and viceadmerals and ships of war to command them all to emploie them to the seruice of these countries and in such order as his excellencie shall find néedfull for the same countrie and that his excellencie following hir maiesties commandement desirous to shew the effect of the good will and affection which he beareth to these affaires and to the preseruation of the same and also of the true christian religion and hath imploied himselfe so willinglie in the foresaid matters that his excellencie for that onlie cause hath left and abandoned his natiue countrie and goods and transported himselfe hitherward amongst vs so that hir maiestie and his excellencie could neuer haue doone or shewed vnto vs a greater benefit than this Therefore are we resolued with good and ripe deliberation to certifie all men by these presents that we haue desired accepted and authorised the foresaid mightie and honorable prince lord Robert earle of Leicester c to be our gouernor and generall captaine ouer all the vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same And we giue vnto his excellencie besides the authoritie of hir maiestie giuen vnto him the highest and supreme commandement and absolute authoritie aboue and in all matters of warfare by sea and by land to execute administrat the same to the resistance of the enimie euen as his excellencie shall thinke most commodious to the preseruation of these countries and so further to doo all such things as apperteine to the office of a generall capteine And furthermore we commit the administration vse of policie and iustice ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same into his hands to execute and administrat the same with such power and authoritie as haue had in times past all the other gouernors of these low countries before him and especiallie as haue béene exercised and lawfullie administred in the time of Charles the fift reserued onelie the lawes and priuileges of the foresaid countries also with especiall power to collect profits and receiue and administrat all the contributions which are agreed and condescended or shall hereafter be consented or agréed to the maintenance of the warres and also that which is or shall be deliuered hereafter into his excellencies hands and this all according to the vertue of other letters and missâues written more at large touching the same agreement All which former charge and commission his excellencie through our earnest desire hath accepted and hath deliuered solemne oth and assurance into our hands first of all for the preseruation line 10 of the true christian religion and maintenance of the priuileges and rights of these lands and prouinces members and cities of the same We therefore ordeine and command all gouernors of prouinces and cities all admerals and viceadmerals all officers coroners capteins their officers and souldiors by sea and land and furthermore all other councellors officers treasurors receiuers bailiffs burgomaisters marshals magistrats gentlemen burgers other inhabitants subiects of line 20 these lânds of what qualitie or condition soeuer that they euerie of them doo acknowledge his foresaid excellencie in the qualitie of gouernement and capteine generall ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces to honor respect and obeie him as they ought to doo without making anie difficultie in dooing the same vpon paine of falling in the displeasure and anger of his excellencie and to be punished according to the heauines of the fault and as reason shall require And to the end
240. Gentlemen sent into Kent to be executed Execution Ladie Elizabeth and lord Courtneie prisoners in the tower Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foâi maâtyrologio A point of practise of StephaÌ Garâdiner against the ladie Elizabeth Doctor Westââ against the lââdie Elizabetâ The lord maiors iudgmeââ of D. Westââ SââphaÌ ãâã tale in ãâã Star-chamber against the ladie Elizabeth The Lord âhandois ãâã report in the Star-chamber against the ladie Elizabeth and lord Courtneie A parlement summoned at Oxford but noâ holden All nations in the world against the mariage of the sun and why Iohn Stow. A cat hanged in cheape The bishops Cranmer Latimer and Ridleie sent to Oxford Commissioners Io. Fox in acts and monuments Sir Thomas Wiat arreigned The effect of Wiats indictment Wiat answereth not directlie to the question guiltie or vnguiltie A rebels report touching rebellion Wiats exhortation to loialtie by his owne example Wiat altereth his mind touching the quéenes mariage The fruits of rebellion by Wiats confession The quéenes attornie speaketh to Wiat. Wiats ãâã to the quéenes attorneie The iudge speaketh Sir Edward Hastings spéech to Wiat. Maister Corâell late maister of the ãâã speaketh William Thomas meanâ to murther quéene Marie Wiats confession Wiat is sorie that he refused the quéens pardon when it was offred The execution of sir Thomas Wiat. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton arreigned of high treason cleéreth himselfe The names of the commissioners The quéenes learned counsell gaue euidence against the prisoner Sendall Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Shrewesburie Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Then the iurie was called Throckmorton Cholmeleie Throckmorton Throckmorton Sâanford Throckmortân Stanford Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Winters confession read by Stanford Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Attourneâe Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Dier Throckmorton Attourneie Throckmorton Stanford Uaughans confession was read by Stanford Stanford Southwell Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Attournie Throckmorton Attournie Throckmorton Southwell Hare Throckmorton Stanford Stanford Dier Throckmorton The atturnie Attourneie Throckmorton The atturnie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Stanford Bromleie Southwell Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Hare Cholmleie The atturnie Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton The atturnie Cholmleie Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie The attornie Throckmorton Stanford Bromleie Throckmorton Happie for Throckmorton that those statutes stood then repealed Stanford Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Sâanford Throckmorton Southwell The attornie Throckmorton The attornie Throckmorton The attornie Bromleie ãâã Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Pirtman Sanders Throckmorton Stanford Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Englefiâld Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Hare Throckmorton The attârnie Throckmorton âââdall Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Sendall Iurie Sendall Whetston Sendall Whetston Throckmorton Bromleie Iurie Bromleie Whetston Bromleie Throckmorton Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton The atturnie Whetston The lord Tho. Greie beheaded William Thomas arreigned condemned The ladie Elisabeth ââliuered out of the tower Sir Henrie Beningfield knight * Elisabetha Rich. Grafâon Quéene Elisabeths words to Beningfield hir butcherlie kéeker in the time of hir durance A gun shot as the preacher Sée before pag. 1102. Anno Reg. 2. The lord Iohn Greie arreigned pardoned and released Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 109â A spirit in a wall without Aldersgate doth penaÌce at Paules crosse for abusing the people c. The prince of Spaine preparation to ãâã into England The Englââh ambassadors meet him ãâã S. Iames ãâã CoÌpostâlla The arriuall of the prince of Spaine in SâuthamptoÌ ãâã is receiued ãâã the nobilitie ãâã lords ãâã commeth ãâã Winchester ãâã the ãâã was ãâã of ãâã to ãâã him The quéens lodging in the bishops palace The mariage solemnized and what states of Italie Spaine were present at it The names of the noble men that came ouer from Spaine with the prince He to be intituled king during the matrimonie c. She to be intituled to his dominions during the mariage Hir dowrie if she suruiued him Touching the issue of hir bodie male or female Touching the prince of Spaines disposing of his lands after his decease Touching the lord Charles and his descendents if heire male came by this mariage What is to be doone if heire male faile and there be none but issue female What for want of issâe by the lord Charles A prouiso touching succession Touching a perpetuall league or ãâã of fraternitie c. No stranger to be admitteâ to anie office c in England Englishmen to attend at the court The state in no point to ãâã innouated The quéene not to be conueied out of hir owne territories The prince ãâã Spaines ãâã to end with the quéenes death The iewels c of the ãâã not to be carried out ãâã vsurped c. ãâã ships ãâã ordiââânce c to be ãâ¦ã c out of the land Peace to be ãâã in ãâã realme without ãâã in other ãâ¦ã warres The empeââs gift to the prince his ãâã The title of ãâã belongââg both to Pâilip and Marie proclamed by the ãâã ãâã Fox in ãâã Acts and âânuments These verses are answered in master Fox by the lerned King Philip stalled at Windsor Iohn Fox A generall hunting The king and quéene come through London to Westminster Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foxi martyrologiâ Uaine pageants of London Winchester cannot abide the booke called Verbum Dei The painter sent for to the bishop of Winchester The painters answer Fiue Philips The erecting vp of the rood at Paules Bishop Boners god the rood of Pauls set vp with Te Deum Salutation to the rood of Paules A proclamation for the auoiding of maisterlesse men out of thâ citie of London Death of the Duke of Norâfolke A Spaniard hanged Iohn Stow. Eight of master Throckmortons ãâã appéere in thâ starchamber The hard iudgement ãâã the lords against those eight honest men The L. ãâã Greie set at libertie Further ãâã mine ãâã Throckmoâtons ãâã Iohn Fox A parlement whereat the king quéene ât present Cardinall Poole arriâeth at Douer An act for the restitution in ãâã of cardinall Poole Cardinall Poole coÌmeth ãâã the parlement house The words of the bishop of Winchester ãâã lord chancellor ãâã Grafton The effect of the cardinals ââââmblie in the ãâã of parlement He sheweth the speciall cause oâ his comming into England He exhorteth to a generall returne into the bosome of the church He declareth how wonderfullie god had preserued Q. Marie He exhorteth to obedience and treateth of restoring this realme to the vnitie of the church He protesteth that he ment the preiudice of no man c. He sheweth the meanes of procuring the foresaid reconciliation This supplication was exhibited to the king and quéene Promise in signe of repentance
fourth of Nouember 5500 one with another slain drowned and burned A conclusion of peace betwéene the parties before diuided Walter Deuereux earle of Essex departeth this life Abr. Fl. ex concione funebri vt patet in contextu The place of the erls birth what losse all EnglaÌd hath of him What noblemen are the wals of the realme The praise of the earle for sundrie considerations Comparison of true nobilitie vnto a riuer or floud c. âanor lib. ââ it rebââ gesââ Alphoâsi The disposition of the earle to inlarge and augment his nobilitie Prudence a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indueâ How he bestowed his youthfull yeares The bishops report of him vpon his own knowledge The erle perfect in the scriptures and matters of religion He was a fauourer of preachers His expertnesse in chronicles histories c. Fortitude a noble vertue wherewith ãâã earle was ãâã Exod. 28 21 The earles chiualrie marâiall knowledge and prowesse aduanced Fortitude néedfull both in time of peace and warre Iustice a noble vertue wherwith this erle was indued The bishop reporteth of the earles iustice vpon his owne knowledge Iob. 29 15. The paterne of a good earle indéed Suetonius The humanitie courtesie affablenesse and other verâues of this earle Temperance a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indued The bishops report of the earle vpon his owne knowledge Eccles. 7.9 Luke 6.45 The earle could not awaie with swearing chasing nor anie disordered dealing c. The disposition and deuotion of this earle in the time of his sickenesse Numb 21. â The heauenlie contemplation of this earle drawing to his end A woonderfull gift of the holie Ghost and most worthie to be chronicled How his seruants were affected at his last spéeches Who they be that die in the Lord. A spéech conclusorie of the bishop directed to the earlâ departed The earle eternâllie blessed The death of the earle much lamented The heroicall description of true nobilitie A persuasorie reason to mooue the yoong earle now liuing to an excellent imitation of his ancestors Notable counsell to the earle to deserue well of his souereigne and countrie The quéenes testimonie of the earle Uertues naturallie incident to the erle by coursâ of descent To what end âhe epitaph genealogicall was added to the funerall sermon The old earls counsell at his death to the yoong earle now aliue touching the shortnesse of life A proclamation for the fââe traffike of merchants as before c. â Stow. An vnnaturall brother murthereth his naturall brother but the vnnaturall brother was hanged as he well dâserued Anno Reg. 19. A tempest in Richmondshire Tower on LondoÌ bridge ââken downe Robinson hanged for clipping of gold Second voiage to Cataia StraÌge sickenesse at Oxford Ab. Fl. ex relatu W. B. impress 1577. Tempest in Suffolke The tower on London bridge new builded Anno Reg. 20. Cutbert Maine executed An example of sorcerers and such as seeme to worke woÌders to deceiue men of their monie Nelson and Sherewood executed Counterfetters of coine executed Pirats hanged Frobishers third voiage Anno Reg. 21. The receiuing of Cassimere Déepâ snow Great land waters A murtherer hanged on Mile end gréene Lord kéeper deceased Ab. Fl. collect ex epitaph ãâã praenobilis On the south side these verses On the north side these Great snow in the moneth of Aprill Sir Thomas Bromleie lord chancellor The collection of Francis Thin Turketill Saint Swithin Wlfinus Adulphus Hist. Eliens lib. 2. written in the time of K. Stephan Leofricus Wlfinus Resenbaldus Mauricius Osmundus Arfastus Hirmanus William Uelson William Gifford Robert Bluet Ranulphus Waldricus Herbertus Roger. Galfridus Ranulphus Reginald Roger. Godfreie Alexander bishop of Lincolne This was about the beginning of the fourth yeere of K. Stephan being An. Do. 1138 but Mat. ãâã giueth it to An. Dom. 1139 who saith Collo ãâã qui ãâã fuit ãâã anne ãâã c. And Henrie Huntington agreeth wholie with W. Parââs Robert Philip. Reinold Iohn Thomas Becket * Christes church in Canturburie Rafe Warneuile Walterus de Constantijs Geffreie William Longchamp Eustachius Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert Simon Hugh de Welles Walter Braie Richard de Marischo Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester Geffreie the Templer Hugh Pateshall chanon of Paules Simon the Norman Richard Grasse abbat of Euesham Iohn de Lexinton Ranulfe Briton Syluester de Euersden Iohn Mansell Iohn de Lexinton Iohn Mansell Radulphus de Diceto William of Kilkennie Henrie de Wingham Walter Merton Nicholas of Elie. Walter Merton the second time Iohn de Chesill Viâa Thomae Cantelupi Walter Gifford bishop of Bath Geffreie Gifford Iohn de Chesill Richard de Middleton Iohn de Kirbie Walter Merton Robert Burnell Iohn de Langhton Matthew Paâker Iohn Drokensford William de Greinfield William de Hamelton Ralfe Baldocke Iohn Langhton William Melton Walter Reinolds Iohn de Sandall Iohn Hotham Iohn Salmon bishop of Norwich * Or Pabeham * Yorke * Twelue miles from Yorke Robert Baldocke Histor. episc Norwich William Airemee kéeper of the seale Iohn Hotham bishop of Elie. Henrie Cliffe master of the rolles Henrie Burghwash bishop of Lincolne Iohn Stratford Richard de Burie or Richard de Angeruile Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert de Stratford Richard de Bintwoorth bishop of London Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert bishop of Chichester Robert de Bourchier Robert Perning iustice at the law Robert de Saddington Iohn Offord or Ufford Iohn Thorsbie William de Edington Simon Langham William de Wikeham Robert Thorpe Sir Iohn Kniuet Adam de Houghton * Ralfe Neuill ãâã Sir Richard Scroope Simon Sudburie Sir Richard Scroope lord Scroope of Bolton Robert Braibrooke bishop of London Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke * Michael de puteaco or of the Poole Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie. William Wickham Thomas Arundell Iohn Serle master of the rols Edmund Stafford Henrie Beauford Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Thomas Fitzalen Thomas Beauford Iohn Wakering clearke Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie Henrie Beauford bishop at Winchester Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester Iohn Kempe bishop of London Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath Iohn Kempe bishop of Yorke Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Thomas Bourchier bishop of Elie. In vita Thomae Boââcheri âpisco ãâã William Patan or Paten ãâã William Wanfled George Neuill archbishop of Yorke Robert Kirkham maister of the rolles Robert Stillington doctor of the lawes Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex Laurence Booth bishop of Durham Thomas Scot aliâs Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Rochester Thomas Rotheram Iohn Russell bishop of Lincolne Thomas Barow maister of the rolles Thomas Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Worcester Iohn Moorton bishop of Elie. William Warham archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Woolseie Thomas Moore Thomas Audleie Hâsto Cântab per Caium 78. Thomas Wriotheslie William Paulet Sir Richard Rich Sir Nicholas Hare Stephan Gardener Nicholas Heath Nicholas Bacon Thomas Bromleie Ab. Fl. ex publicis aeditionibus B.G. T.
bridge well repared His deuised remedie tending to so good a purpose was impugned The yearelie reuenues of the said bridge amount vnto more in value by triple than they were before A further remedie deuised An act of parlement obteined for the behoofe of the said bridge Maister Thomas Wooten of Kent esquire a father and fauourer of his countrie * Sir Roger Manwood and maister William Lambard esquier wardens of the said bridge Elisabeth daughter of Iohn Copinger esquier second wife to sir Roger Manwood hir modestie c. The earle of Lincolne deceassed * ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã siue Elisabethâ C. O. Iesuits seminaries and massing priests set ouer the seas and banished out of this realme of England for euer The quéenes maiesties mercies notable The names of such Iâbusites Iesuits I should say as by vertue of the queenes commission were banished out of the queéenes dominions A further charge vpon the said seminaries touching transportation A certificat to the lords of the councell c concerning the foresaid maiter A certificat worthie to hang vpon perpetuall record wherein the Iesuits doo acknowledge the excéeding courteous and bountifull vsage shewed vnto them at and in their banishment c. Note good reader note Ouid. lib. 1. de Pons Earle of Derbie ambassador into France Attendants vpon the said ambassador The lord ambassadour passeth from LoÌdon to Grauesend and so to Douer and arriueth at Calis Monsieur de Gourdon gouernour of Calis interteineth the ambassadour Monsieur Creuicure lieutenant of Picardie méeteth the lord ambassadour c. Sir Edward Stafford the quéenes ambassador resident with the French king c. The lord ambassadors interteinement and vsage The statelie the honorable receiuing at the lord ambassadour before he came in presence ¶ audience of the French king The chamber roiall manner of receiuing and conducting of the lord ambassadour therevnto and other notable obseruations The earle of Darbie sir Edward Stafford c are courteouslie receiued of the king The lord ambassador sâluted the quéene mother The lord ambassadour conueied to the quéene Regents chamber The French king inuested into the order of the garter Gifts of roâall magnificence bestowed and receiued William Parrie hanged and quartered at Westminster A description of William Parrie William Parrie reconciled to the pope and of hiâ treason In superlatiuo gradu O papisticall dissimulation Thomas Morgan a fugitiue and furtherer of Parries purpose Edmund Neuill not ignorant of this attempt O gratious quéene and too too fauourable euen to thine enimies The malice of Parrie groweth to an extremitie of mischiefe against the quéene Neuill discouereth the intended treason against hir maiestie Did euer anie man read or heare of the like magnanimitie in a woman Parrie is committed to the custodie examination of sir Francis Walsingham Parrie denieth with protestations whatsoeuer is demanded of him Parrie is desirous to haue some spéech with maisteâ secretarie Parrie is examined before certeine lords of the councell c. Neuill chargeth Parrie so preciselie that he is committed to the Tower Note the malicious humor of Parrie because he might not obteine preferment to his liking A triple reason that moued Parrie to his pretended treason Parrie counted it an act meritorious to murther hir maiestie O villanous persuasion or inducement to be accessarie to the treason Note Parries pestilent humor of malice against hir maiestie These doubts were of aduantage to Neuill but meanes of reprochfull ruine to Parriâ Note the traitorous pâoctise of Parrie laid downe in order as it should haue béene come Marke the resolutenes of Parrie to accomplish his treason by oft frequenting the action Neuill iâ resolued at no hand to be partaker with Parrie in his treason Parries voluntarie confession in the hearing of certein lords c. Alacke good and gratious ladie whose hard hap it was to interteine so bad gracelesse a seruant Parrie sueth âor licence to trauell beyond sea and obteineth it Parrie iustifieth himselfe in religion before the inquisitor of Millaine Parrie is resolued in the plot of his treacherous deuise Note with what felows enimiâs to God and his church Parrie linketh himselfe Note the diuelish confereÌce betwéene Morgan and Parrie Parrie boweth to vndertake the killing of the quéene * O Lord what a lameÌtable hearing is this Parrie is now become altogither past grace and growne resolute with Iudas to kill the Lords annointed A prouiso for a Scotish inuasioÌ after the deuise of Parrie executed Note the villans ill mind to hir maiestie Note hir maiesties vndeserued gratiousnes to pretended catholikes Note Parries resolution by letters from cardinall Como Parrie is in a mammering what to doo as maie be noted by these spéeches interrogatorie Parrie desperat How long the conspiracie was in handling yeâ it was detected Note the actions that should haue béene commensed and finished in this conspiracie This oth and all of the like qualitie and nature are violable Saâuâ interiâ anima The death of Westmerland reported Parrrie chargeth Neuill with grieuous spéeches of curssed disloialtie God no doubt will preserue good quéene Elisabeth though a thousand such traitors as Parrie conspire hir death to their owne destruction Parries purpose conceiued in Uenice continued in Lions resolued in Paris to be executed in England Neuill charged by Parrie to be accessarie to the treason Compare these warnings with the euents in Anno 1585 1586 speciallie about August Parries guiltie conscience exonerateth it selfe by voluntarie confession A traitor of singular note by his owne confession was Parrie An offense sufficient to hang 1000 traitors without drop of mercie Parrie had more glosing rhetorike than faithfull obedience Good Lord with what heart might Parrie hope after anie thing but death hauing béene so capitall a traitor Creitchton apprehended with diuerse plots for inuasions of this realme Note Creitchtons report of Parries craft and malice Creitchtons reasons to repell Parries traitorous allegations Deum magis amare aduerbia quà m nomina Creitchton holdeth Parries attempt vnlawfull note Parrie saith and vnsaith like a traitor to shift off the heauie charge of treason Cardinall de Como his animating letter to Parrie to perseuere in his diuelish deuise But as God would Parries enterprise wanted that wished Buâno seââcâ successo A good cleargie in the meane time that allow treasons in this sort * Good spirit naie malignaÌt spirit more than diabolicall * Naie curssed and abhominable purposes with destruction to the vndertaker Parrie coâuented and arreigned aâ Westminster hall the 22 of Februarie The names of such personages of ãâ¦ã The lieutenant of the tower returneth his prâcâpt The indictment against Parrie wherin his ââinous âreason appeereth Parrie sent letters to Gregorie the ââ bishop of Rome and whaâ was the scoââ of them Parrie moouââ Neuill to assiââ him in his treasons Parries ansâer to the indictment wherein he cânfesseth ãâã Parrie confesseth that he is guiltie of all things coÌteined in the indictment Sir Christopher Hattons
thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish couÌtries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused thâ statutes of Ireland to bâ imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fuâtherer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all plââces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Solââario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace ãâã Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor oâ Uââssingen commonlie called Flââshing He surpriseâ Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making ãâã entrie into thâ sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facÃtque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condigâliâ punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie âas a knight ãâã his gift to ãâã of âondon pag. ââ â50 The ambasââdor deparââth home toâards Denâarke âord Edâard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated â league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. ãâ¦ã The horrible conspiracie of âabington âther his ãâã traitors ãâã sâoursed by â F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England ãâã his last ãâã finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion
I looked to haue found aid I was destitute thereof to my great hinderance and vexation Consider furthermore I praie you how my lords and brethren the bishops are readie at the pleasure of the Noble men of the court to giue sentence against me so that all men being about to run vpon me I was almost oppressed and therfore am now come as it were to take breath in the audience of your clemencie which dooth not forsake your children in their extreme necessitie before whom I here stand readie to declare and testifie that I am not to be iudged there nor yet at all by them For what other thing should that be but to plucke awaie the right of the church What else then to submit spirituall things to temporall This example therefore once sproong vp might giue an occasion to manie enormities to follow The bishops doo say Those things that are Cesars ought to be restored to Cesar. But admit that in manie things the king is to be obeied is he therefore to be obeied in things wherein he is no king For those belong not to Cesar but to a tyrant Wherein if for line 10 my sake they would not yet ought the bishops for their owne sakes to haue resisted him For what should be the cause of such deadlie and vnnaturall hatred that to destroie me they should destroie themselues Therefore whilest for temporall things they neglect spirituall they faile in both Weigh then most holie father my fleeing awaie and my persecution and how for your sake I haue beene prouoked with iniuries vse your rigour constraine them to amendement through whose motion this hath chanced line 20 let them not be borne out by the king who is rather the obstinate minister than the finder out of this practise The pope hauing heard his words tooke deliberation in the matter with the aduice of his cardinals and therevpon answered the archbishop in effect as followeth That the lower power may not iudge the higher and chéefelie him whome he is bound to obeie all the lawes both of God and man doo witnesse and the ordinances of the ancient fathers doo manifestlie line 30 declare Herevpon we to whome it apperteineth to reforme disorders doo clearelie reuerse and make void the iudgement pronounced against you by the barons and bishops whereby as well against the order of law as against the customes of the church your goods were adiudged forfeit whereas the same goods were not yours but the churches of Canturburie ouer which you haue the onelie cure and charge But if those that haue violentlie entred vpon the possessions and goods of your church and haue thereby line 40 wronged either you or yours will not vpon admonition giuen to them make restitution with sufficient amends then may you if you shall thinke conuenient exercise ecclesiasticall iustice vpon them and we shall allow of that which you shall reasonablie doo in that behalfe Howbeit as touching the king himselfe we will not giue you any speciall commandement neither yet doo we take from you any right belonging to your bishoplike office which you receiued at your consecration But the king onlie we will spare line 50 and exempt from your excommunications and censures After these and manie by-matters were ouerpassed the archbishop resigned his pall vnto the pope but the pope gaue it him againe and appointed him to remaine at Pountney an abbeie of moonks Cisteaux in the diocesse of Auxerre till the variance were brought to some good end betwixt the king and him This was doone in the yeare of our Lord 1164. The king hauing knowledge by his ambassadors line 60 what answer the pope had made became gréeuouslie offended in his mind and therevpon confiscated all the goods that belonged to the archbishop and his complices and seized their reuenues into his hands appointing one Randall de Broc to haue the custodie of all that belonged to the see which Broc was nothing fréendlie to the archbishop being his knowne enimie of old but fauoured the moonkes and would not suffer that they should take wrong or displeasure at any hand year 1165 In the yeare 1165. queene Elianor was deliuered of a daughter which was named Ioane Also on the 26. day of Ianuarie there chanced a maruellous earthquake in Northfolke in the I le of Elie and in Suffolke so that men as they stood on the ground were ouerthrowne therewith and buildings so shaken that the belles in stéeples knolled the like had also chanced in the Aduent season then last before passed The Welshmen this yeare spoiled a great part of those countries that bordered vpon them wherewith the king being sore mooued leuied an armie with all spéed as well of Englishmen as strangers and without regard of difficulties and dangers did go against the rebels and finding them withdrawne into their starting holes I meane the woods aâd strait passages he compassed the same about in verie forceable maner The Welshmen perceiuing themselues now to be brought into such ieopardie as that they could not well deuise how to escape the same consulted what was best to be doone After consultation casting awaie their weapons they came foorth to the king asking mercie which somewhat hardlie they obteined Few of them were executed in comparison of the numbers that offended but yet the capteines and chéefe authors of this rebellion were so punished that it was thought they would neuer haue presumed so rashlie to offend him in like sort againe For as some writers affirme he did iustice on the sonnes of Rice or Rees also on the sonnes and daughters of other noble men that were his complices verie rigorouslie causing the eies of the yoong striplings to be pecked out of their heads and their noses to be cut off or slit and the eares of the yoong gentlewomen to be stuffed But yet I find in other authors that in this iournie king Henrie did not greatlie preuaile against his enimies but rather lost manie of his men of warre both horssemen and footmen for by his seuere proceeding against them he rather made them more eger to séeke reuenge than quieted them in any tumult They tooke the castell of Cardigan and in besieging of Briges the king was in no small danger of his life for one of the enimies shooting directlie at him had persed him through the bodie if Hubert de Saint Clere conestable of Colchester perceiuing the arrow comming had not thrust himselfe betwixt the king and the same arrow and so preseruing his maister receiued the stripe himselfe whereof he died presentlie after beséeching the king to be good lord to one onelie daughter which he had whome the king bestowed in mariage vpon William de Langualée togither with hir fathers inheritance which William begat of hir a sonne that bare both his name and surname ¶ A president of gratitude thankfulnes is here committed to memorie And surelie the king could doo no lesse than
fierce assault of the English but were either beaten downe or else constreined to saue themselues by flight The king with a few other who at the first had begun the battell was taken Also manie of the Scots who being far off and yet hearing of the skirmish came running toward the place were taken yer they could vnderstand how the matter had passed This taking of the king of Scots was on a saturdaie being the seuenth of Iulie The English capteines hauing thus taken the Scotish king in the midst of his armie conteining the number of 80000 men returned to Newcastell greatlie reiâising of their good successe aduertising king Henrie the father hereof with all speed who as then was come ouer from Normandie and was the same day that the Scotish king was taken at Canturburie making his praiers there before the sepulture of the archbishop Becket as after it shall appéere In the meane while and somewhat before this time the earle of Leicesters men which laie at Leicester vnder the conduct of Robert Ferreis earle of Darbie as some write or rather of Anketille Malorie line 10 constable or gouernour if we shall so call him as Roger Houeden saith came to Northampton where they fought with them of that towne and getting the victorie tooke two hundred prisoners and slue or wounded néere hand as manie more and so with this good successe in that enterprise returned againe to Leicester from whence they first set foorth The kings horssemen herevpon came streightwaies to Northampton and following the enimies could not ouertake them line 20 Robert Ferreis earle of Darbie being now come vnto Leicester in aid of them that laie there staied not past ten daies but finding meanes to increase his number of horssemen suddenlie made to Notingham which Reignold de Lucie had in kéeping and comming thither earelie in the morning tooke it droue out the kings souldiers that laie there in garison burned the towne slue the inhabitants and diuided their goods amongst his souldiers which thing put the countrie about in such feare that manie of line 30 the inhabitants submitted themselues vnto him King Henrie the sonne being hereof aduertised by letters oftentimes sent vnto him by this Robert Ferreis and other his fréends here in England estsoones conceiâed some good hope to obteine his purpose and therefore determined to prepare for the warre Herevpon he purchased aid of king Lewes who bicause the truce which he had taken with king Henrie the father was now expired thought it was reason to further his sonne in lawes enterprise so line 40 farre as in him laie Wherfore he made his prouision at Graueling and there incamping with his people staied till his ships were readie to transport him and his armie which consisted of certeine horssemen and of a number of Brabanders King Henrie the father being informed both of his sonnes purpose and of the dooings in England with all possible spéed determined to passe ouer into England and therefore got his souldiers a shipboord among whom were certeine bands of his Brabanders line 50 and so soone as the wind blew to his mind he caused the sailes to be hoised vp and the nauie to set forward Being landed he repaired first vnto Canturburie there to make his praiers doubting least the bloud of the archbishop Thomas Becket being shed through his occasion did yet require vengeance against him for that fact From Canturburie he came to London and tooke order for the placing of capteins with their bands in certeine townes about the coast to defend the landing places where he line 60 thought his sonne was like to arriue Then went he to Huntington and subdued the castell there the 19. of Iulie for the knights and other souldiers that were within it yéelded themselues to the kings mercie their liues and lims saued After this assembling his people on all sides he made his generall musters at S. Edmundsburie and determined to besiege the castels of Bunghey and Fremingham which the earle Hugh Bigot held against him who mistrusting that he was not able to defend himselfe and those places against the king agréed with the king to haue peace paieng him the summe of a thousand markes by composition This agréement was concluded the 25. of Iulie Herevpon a multitude of the Flemings which Philip earle of Flanders had sent into England as before is mentioned vpon their oth receiued not afterwards to come as enimies into England had licence to returne into their countrie Also the bands of souldiers that came into the realme with Rafe de la Haie departed without impechment by the kings sufferance The king hauing thus accomplished that which stood with his pleasure in those parties remoued from thence and drew towards Northampton To which towne after his comming thither the king of Scots was brought with his féet bound vnder the horsses bellie Thither also came the bishop of Durham and deliuered to the king the castels of Durham Norham and Allerton Thither also came to the king Roger Mowbraie and surrendred to him the castell of Treske and Robert earle Ferreis deliuered vp into his hands the castels of Tutburie and Duffield and Anketill Mallorie and William de Diue constables to the earle of Leicester yeelded to the king the castels of Cicester Grobie and Mountsorell to the intent that he should deale more courteouslie with the earle their maister Also William earle of Glocester and earle Richard of Clare submitted themselues to the king and so he brought all his aduersaries within the realme of England vnto such subiection as he himselfe wished so that the king hauing atchiued the vpper hand of his enimies returned to London ¶ All this hurlie burlie and bloudie tumult was partlie to be ascribed to the king himselfe who ouer tenderlie fauouring his sonne did deiect and abase himselfe to aduance the other partlie to the ambitious disposition of the youth who was charged with roialtie before he had learned sufficient loialtie else would he not haue made insurrections against his father that himself might obteine the monarchie and the old king doo him homage and partlie to the quéenes discontented or rather malicious mind whose dutie it had béene notwithstanding such dishonour doone hir by the king in abusing his bodie vnlawfullie so little to haue thought of stirring commotions betwixt the father and the sonnes that she should rather haue lulled the contention asléepe and doone what she possiblie could to quench the feruent fier of strife with the water of pacification But true it is that hath béene said long ago Mulier nihil nouit nisi quod vult Et plenum malorum est onus But what insued herevpon euen by waie of chastisement but that which commonlie lighteth vpon tumult-raisers namelie either losse of life or at least restraint of libertie For the king after this happie atchiuement of his warlike affaires being ruled
king Iohn also came the 15 daie of Iune and shewed such friendlie countenance towards euerie one of them that they were put in good hope he meant no deceipt Being thus met they fell in consultation about an agréement to be had On the kings part as it were sate the archbishops of Canturburie and Dublin the bishops of London Winchester Lincolne Bath Worcester Couentrie Rochester and Pandulph the popes Nuncio with Almerike master of the knights templers the earles of Penbroke Salisburie Warren Arundell Alane de Galoway William Fitz Gerald Peter Fitz Herbert Alane Basset Hugh de Neuill Hubert de Burgh seneschall of Poictou Robert de Ropley Iohn Marshall and Philip de Albenie On the barons part there were innumerable for all the nobilitie of England was in a maner assembled there togither Finallie when the king measuring his owne strength with the barons perceiued that he was not able to resist them he consented to subscribe and seale to such articles concerning the liberties demânded in forme for the most part as is conteined in the two charters Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta beginning Iohannes Deigratia c. And he did not onlie grant vnto them their petitions touching the forsaid liberties but also to win him further credit was contented that they should choose out certeine graue and honourable personages which should haue authoritie and power to sée those things performed which he then granted vnto them There were twentie fiue of those that were so elected namelie these The earles of Clare Albemarle Glocester Winchester and Hereford also earle Roger earle Robert earle Marshall the yoonger line 10 Robert Fitz Walter the yoonger Gilbert de Clare Eustace de Uescie Hugh Bigot William de Mowbray the maior of London Gilbert de la Uale Robert de Roos Iohn constable of Chester Richard de Percie Iohn Fitz Robert William Mallet Geffrey de Saie Roger de Mowbray William de Huntingfield Richard de Mountfichet and William de Albenie These fiue and twentie were sworne to sée the liberties granted and confirmed by the king to be in euerie point obserued but if he went against line 20 the same then they should haue authoritie to compell him to the obseruing of euerie of them Moreouer there were other that were sworne to be obedient and as it were assistant vnto these fiue and twentie péeres in such things as they should appoint which were these The earle of Arundell the earle Warren by his attornie Henrie Doilie Hubert de Burgh Matthew Fitz Herbert Robert de Pinknie Roger Huscarle Robert de Newburgh Henrie de Pont Audoin Rafe de la Hay Henrie line 30 de Brentfield Warren Fitz Gerald Thomas Basset William de Buckland William de saint Iohn Alane Basset Richard de Riuers Hugh de Boneuale Iordain de Sackuille Ralfe Musgraue Richard Siflewast Robert de Ropeley Andrew de Beauchampe Walter de Dunstable Walter Folioth Foukes de Brent Iohn Marshall Philip Daubnie William de Perca Ralfe de Normandie William de Percie William Agoilum Engerand line 40 de Pratellis William de Cirenton Roger de Zuche Roger Fitz Barnard and Godfrie de Grancombe It was further ordered that the chatelains or constables as I may call them of the foure castels of Northampton Killingworth Notingham and Scarborow should be sworne to the fiue and twentie péeres to gouerne those castels in such wise as they should haue in commandement from the said fiue and twentie péeres or from the greater part of them and that such should be placed as chatelains in the same as were thought to be most true and line 50 faithfull vnto the barons and the realme ¶ It was also decreed that certeine strangers as Flemings and other should be banished out of England The king herevpon sent his letters patents vnto the shiriffes of all the counties of this realme commanding them to see the ordinances and liberties which he granted and confirmed to be diligentlie obserued And for the more strengthening of this his grant he had gotten the pope to confirme a like charter line 60 granted the yeare before For the pope sith king Iohn was become his obedient vassall and the apostolike king easilie granted to gratifie both him and his lords herein and so was the grant of the liberties corroborated made good with a double confirmation and so sealed that it was impossible for them to be separated in sunder the kings grant being annexed to the popes bull Immediatlie also vpon the confirmation now made by the king diuerse lords came to him and required restitution of such possessions lands and houses as he had in his hands the right whereof as they alledged apperteined to them but he excused the matter and shifted them off till by inquest taken it might appeare what right euerie man had to those things which they then claimed and furthermore assigned them a daie to be holden at Westminster which was the sixtéenth day of Iulie But yer he restored at that time the castell of Rochester vnto the archbishop of Canturburie the barons hauing obteined a great peece of their purpose as they thought returned to London with their charter sealed the date whereof was this Giuen by our owne hand in the medow called Kuningsmede or Rimemede betwixt Stanes and Windsore the fifteenth of Iune in the eighteenth yeare of our reigne Great reioising was made for this conclusion of peace betwixt the king and his barons the people iudging that God had touched the kings heart and mollified it whereby happie daies were come for the realme of England as though it had béene deliuered out of the bondage of Aegypt but they were much deceiued for the king hauing condescended to make such grant of liberties farre contrarie to his mind was right sorowfull in his heart curssed his mother that bare him the houre that he was borne and the paps that gaue him sucke wishing that he had receiued death by violence of sword or knife in stéed of naturall norishment he whetted his teeth he did bite now on one staffe and now on an other as he walked and oft brake the same in péeces when he had doone and with such disordered behauiour and furious gestures he vttered his gréefe in such sort that the Noble men verie well perceiued the inclination of his inward affection concerning these things before the breaking vp of the councell and therefore sore lamented the state of the realme gessing what would follow of his impatiencie and displesant taking of the matter Herevpon they said among themselues Wo be to vs yea rather to the whole realme that wanteth a sufficient king and is gouerned by a tyrant that séeketh the subuersion therof Now hath our souereigne lord made vs subiect to Rome and to the Romish court so that we must henceâoorth obteine our protection from thence It is verie much to be feared least we doo féele hereafter some further peece of mischéefe to light vpon vs suddenlie
should haue come Héere is to be noted that during the siege of Rochester as some write there came out of France to the number âeere hand of seauen thousand men sent from the French king vnto the aid of the barons at the suit of Saer de Quincie earle of Winchester and other ambassadours that were sent from the barons during the time of this siege although it should seeme by Matthew Paris that the said earle was not sent till after the pope had excommunicated the barons as after yée shall heare The Frenchmen that came ouer at this first time landed at Orwell and at other hauens there neere adioining About this season the canons of Yorke bicause the archbishops sée there had remained void a long time obteining licence of the king assembled togither about the election of an archbishop And though the king had once againe earnestlie mooued them to preferre Walter Graie bishop of Woâcester yet they refused so to doo and therefore chose Simon de Langton brother to the archbishop of Canturburie which election was afterward made voâ by the earnest trauell of the king to the pope bicause his brother the said archbishop of Canturburie was known to fauour the part of the barons against him so that the said Walter Graie was then elected and promoted to the guiding of the sée of Yorke according to the kings speciall desire in that behalfe About the same time also pope Innocent being certified how the barons of England would not obeie his prescript iudged them enimies to the church and gaue commandement to Peter the bishop of Winchester to the abbat of Reading and to the subdeacon Pandulph to pronounce the sentence of excommunication against them But they could not at the first execute the popes commandement herein by reason that the archbishop of Canturburie who fauoured the barons cause would not permit them Wherefore the same archbishop was interdicted out of the church and from saieng diuine seruice and also being cited to appeare at Rome was in danger to be depriued of his miter had not certeine cardinals intreated for him and obteined his pardon The archbishop being gone to Rome as well to excuse himselfe in this matter as to be present at the generall councell there holden at that time for he was readie to go take the sea thitherwards when the bishop of Winchester and Pandulph came to him with the popes letters the said bishop of Winchester Pandulph proceeded to the pronouncing of the excommunication against the barons renewing the same euerie sundaie and holieday albeit the barons bicause none of them were expresselie named in the popes letters made none account of the censure reputing it as void and not to concerne them in any manner of point But now to returne to king Iohn After he had woone the castell of Rochester as before you haue heard he hasted to S. Albons and there diuided his armie into two parts appointing the one to remaine about London whilest he himselfe with the other might go into the north to waste and destroie the possessions of certeine lords there which as he was informed went about to raise an armie against him He made capteins of that armie line 10 which he left behind him his brother William earle of Salisburie Sauerie de Mauleon Will. Brewer Walter Buc and others He himselfe departed from S. Albons about the 21 day of December leading his said armie northwards in which were chiefe capteins these that follow William erle of Albemarle Philip de Albeney and Iohn Marshall Also of strangers Gerard de Sotigam and Godstall with the Flemings the crossebowes and others The first night he laie at Dunstable and from thence passing forwards towards Northampton he destroied by the waie all the manours places and houses which belonged to the aduersaries and so kept on his iournie till he came to Notingham where he laie in the castell on Christmasse day year 1216 and in the morning being S. Stephans day he went to Langar and lodged there that night sending his summons in the morning to the castell of Beauer willing them within to yeeld This castell apperteined to William Albeney who had committed the custodie line 30 thereof vnto his sonne Nicholas de Albeney préest to sir William de Stodham and to sir Hugh Charnelles knights the which came to the king with the keies of the castell and surrendered the same vnto him with condition that he should be good to their master the said William Albeney and grant vnto them their horsses and armour wherwith they would remaine with him vnder his peace and protection On the next morrow being S. Iohns day the king line 40 went to the castell and receiuing the same deliuered it to the kéeping of Geffrey Buteuile and his brother Oliuer After this the castell of Iohn Lacie at Dunnington was taken and laid flat to the ground by commandement of the king who hauing accomplished his will in those parties drew towards Yorkeshire and at his comming thither destroied the houses townes and manours of those lords and gentlemen which were against him It is horrible to heare and line 50 lothsome to rehearse the crueltie which was practised by the souldiers and men of warre in places where they came who counting no honour or renowme more excellent nor glorie as warriours say Maior nulla quidem quà m bello parta videtur Horrida Mauortis tractare ferociter arma Hostilìque suam temerare in sanguine dextram and therfore were wholie bent to spoile and ransacke the houses of the people without pitie or compassion besides the robberies spoiles and great outrages line 60 vsed by the souldiers generallie against the common people Few there were in that countrie of great linage or wealth whom the king for their assembling themselues with the barons either spoiled not or put not to execution Thus with his armie to the great desolation of the countrie he passed foorth to the borders of Scotland and entring that realme tooke the castell of Barwike and other places of strength in those parts meaning to haue woone more from the Scots if other vrgent businesse had not called him backe againe This being doone he committed the countrie which lieth betwixt the riuer of These and the confines of Scotland to the keeping of Hugh de Balioll and Philip de Hulcotes assigning to them such conuenient number of men of warre as was thought expedient and the custodie of the castels in Yorkeshire he deliuered to Robert de Uepount to Brian de Lisle and to Geffrey de Lucie Finallie when he had so ordered things in the North parts as stood with his pleasure so that there remained no more but two castels that is to saie Mountsorrell and another in Yorkeshire that apperteined to Robert de Roos in possession of the barons he returned by the borders of Wales into the south parts and by all the way
bicause they possessed nothing of their owne On the first daie the king came into their chapter that he might be partaker of their praiers and found them meat and drinke that day and dined there with them to doo them the more honour Another day the quéene likewise fed them and afterwards the bishop of London the abbats of Westminster S. Albon and Waltham with others About the same season the citizens of London found themselues greeued verie sore for such liberties as the king granted to the abbat of Westminster to the great hinderance and decaie of the franchises of their citie The maior and communaltie resisted all that they might against those liberties and finallie by the good helpe and fauour of the lords as the earles of Cornewall and Leicester they obteined their purpose This yeare maister William de Kilkennie a sober faithfull and learned man was made keeper of the great seale ¶ The same yeare vpon inquisition made by Geffrey de Langley one of the kings councell of transgressors in forrests and chases manie that had offended were presented and most gréeuouslie punished by imprisonment fines and exceeding great amercements and namelie in the north countrie On the nineteenth of Maie died Robert de Lexinton clearke the which hauing continued a long time in the office of a iudge purchased to himselfe great fame and also most large possessions But certeine yéeres before his death bicause he was diseased with the palsie he gaue ouer that office and drew himselfe into a quiet trade of life so ending his daies in praiers and dooing of almesdeeds About the feast of S. Margaret died Henrie Hastings a noble baron and one Robert de Muschampe a man of great renowme in the north parts Also Walter bishop of Winchester departed this life about the feast of S. Matthew in whose place through the kings earnest line 10 suit his halfe brother Athelmare was promoted to succéed Moreouer in the east parts that valiant erle of Salisburie William de Longespee with Robert de Ueer and others was slaine in that vnfortunate battell in the which the Saracens vanquished the christian armie and tooke Lewes the French king prisoner On the first day of October the moone vpon hir change appearing excéeding red and swelled began to shew tokens of the great tempest of wind that line 20 followed which was so huge and mightie both by land sea that the like had not bene lightlie knowne and sildome or rather neuer heard of by men then aliue The sea forced contrarie to hir naturall course flowed twice without ebbing yeelding such a roring noise that the same was heard not without great woonder a farre distance from the shore Moreouer the same sea appeared in the darke of the night to burne as it had béen on fire and the waues to striue and fight togither after a maruellous sort so that the line 30 mariners could not deuise how to saue their ships where they laie at anchor by no cunning nor shift which they could deuise At Hertburne three tall ships perished without recouerie besides other smaller vessels At Winchelsey besides other hurt that was doone in bridges milles breakes and banks there were thrée hundred houses and some churches drowned with the high rising of the water course The countrie of Holland beyond the sea and the marish land in Flanders susteined inestimable damage and line 40 in manie other places by reason that riuers beaten backe and repelled by the rising of the sea swelled so high that they ouerflowed their chanels and much hurt was doone in medowes bridges milles and houses About the beginning of the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henries reigne the bishops of England vnderstanding that the archbishop of Canturburie was about to purchase of the pope a grant to gather monie through his whole prouince of the cleargie and line 50 people for synods and procuracies they thought to preuent him and therefore made a collection euerie one through his owne diocesse of two pence in euerie marke which any beneficed man might dispend which monie so collected they ment to imploie about charges in the popes court for the staie of the archbishops suit that the grant should not passe About the same time to wit vpon saint Lucies day there was a great earthquake at S. Albons and line 60 in the parts thereabouts with a noise vnder the ground as though it had thundred This was strange and maruellous bicause the ground there is chalkie and sound not hollow nor loose as those places be where earthquakes for the most part happen Doues rookes and other birds that sat vpon houses and in boughes of trées fearing this strange wonder flickred vp and flue to and fro shewing a token of feare as if a goshauke had beene ouer their heads The pope required by solemne messengers sent to the king of England that he might come to the citie of Burdeaux in Gascoigne there for a time remaine The king wist not well what answer to make for loth he was to denie anie thing that the pope should require and againe he was not willing for sundrie respects that the pope should come so néere vnto him Indeed manie were in doubt least if he came to Burdeaux he would also come into England and rather impaire the state thereof than amend it by his presence sith by such vsurers and licentious liuers as belonged to him the realme had alreadie beene sore corrupted Howsoeuer the matter went there was delaie and such means deuised and made that the pope came not there at that time On Christmasse day in the night great thunder and lightning chanced in Northfolke and Suffolke past measure year 1251 in token as was thought of some euill to follow ¶ The king kept his Christmasse at Winchester but without any great port or liberalitie for hospitalitie with him was greatlie laid aside About this time Guy de Lusignan the kings halfe brother came ouer into England after his returne out of the holie land and was of the king ioifullie receiued Towards the releefe of his expenses made in that iournie the king gaue him fiue hundred pounds which he got of the Iewes Moreouer he gaue to his brother Geffrey the custodie of the baron Hastings lands and so by such liberall and bounteous gifts as he bestowed on them and other strangers he greatlie incurred the hatred of his naturall people the Englishmen On the day of the Epiphanie the earle of Leicester came to the king in great hast out of Gascoigne giuing him to vnderstand that the Gascoignes were reuolted in such number that if spéedie succour were not prouided the whole countrie would fall from the English subiection Héerevpon the king furnished him with monie and the earle himselfe got all that he could make of his owne reuenues and likewise of the Umfreuilles lands the heire whereof he had in custodie He made no long
said earles had remooued and put others in their roomes among the which Iohn Mansell was discharged of his office and sir Hugh Bigod brother to earle Marshall admitted in his roome Also bicause the foresaid gouernours had knowledge that the king minded not to performe the ordinances established at Oxford they thought to make their part as strong as was possible for them to doo and therefore vpon the morrow after the feast of Marie Magdalene the king as then being at Westminster the earle Marshall the earle of Leicester and diuerse other came to the Guildhall of London where the maior and aldermen with the commons of the citie were assembled and there the lords shewed the instrument or writing sealed with the kings seale and with the seales of his sonne prince Edward and of manie other lords of the land conteining the articles of those ordinances which had béene concluded at Oxford willing the maior and aldermen to set also therevnto their common seale of the citie The maior and aldermen vpon aduise amongst them taken required respit till they might know the kings pleasure therein but the lords were so earnest in the matter and made such instance that no respit could be had so that in the end the common seale of the citie was put to that writing and the maior with diuerse of the citie sworne to mainteine the same their allegiance saued to the king with their liberties and franchises according to the accustomed manner Upon the ninth day of August proclamation was made in diuerse places of the citie that none of the kings takers should take any thing within the citie without the will of the owner except two tunnes of wine which the king accustomablie had of euerie ship comming from Burdeaux paieng but 40 shillings for the tun By meanes of this proclamation nothing was taken by the kings officers within the citie and liberties of the same except readie paiment were made in hand which vse continued not long Herevpon the king held a parlement at Westminster and another at Winchester or else proroged and remoued the same thither Also sir Hugh Bigod lord chéefe iustice with Roger Turksey and other called Itinerarij kept the terme for plées at saint Sauiours for you must vnderstand that in those daies they were kept in diuerse places of the realme which now are holden altogither at Westminster and iudges ordeined to kéepe a circuit as now they kéepe the assises in time of vacation The foresaid iudges sitting on that maner at saint Sauiours punished bailiffes and other officers verie extremelie which were conuict afore them for diuerse trespasses and speciallie for taking of merciaments otherwise than law gaue them After this the same sir Hugh came vnto the Guildhall and there sat in iudgement and kept plees without order of law yea contrarie to the liberties of the citie he punished bakers for lacke of true size by the tumbrell where before they were punished by the pillorie manie other things he vsed after such manner more by will than good order of law There was a bruite raised whether of truth or otherwise we leaue to the credit of the authors that the Poictouins had practised to poison the most part of the English nobilitie Indéed diuers of them were greeuouslie tormented with a certeine disease of swelling and breaking out some died and othersome verie hardlie escaped of which number the earle of Glocester was one who laie sicke a long time at Sunning a place besides Reading At length he recouered but his brother William died of the same disease and vpon his death-bed laid the fault to one Walter Scotenie as the occasioner of his death which afterwards cost the said Walter his life For although he was one of the chéefe councellors and steward also to the said earle of Glocester yet being had in suspicion and thervpon apprehended and charged with that crime when in the yeare next following in Iune he came to be arreigned at Winchester and put himselfe to be tried by a iurie the same pronounced him guiltie and when those that were impanneled vpon that iurie were asked by the iudges how they vnderstood that he should be giltie they answered bicause that where the said Walter was neuer indebted that they could heare of either to William de Ualence or to any of his brethren they were fullie certified that he had late receiued no small sum of monie of the said W. de Ualence to poison both his maister and other of the English nobilitie as was to be thought sith there was no other apparant cause why he should receiue such a gift at the hands of their enimie the said William de Ualence and so was the said Walter executed at Winchester aforesaid The haruest was verie late this yeare so that the most part of the corne rotted on the ground and that which at length was got in remained yet abrode till line 10 after Alhallowentide so vntemperate was the weather with excessiue wet and raine beyond all measure Herevpon the dearth so increased that euen those which had of late releeued other were in danger to starue themselues Finallie solemne fasts and generall processions were made in diuerse places of the realme to appease Gods wrath and as it was thought their praiers were heard for the weather partlie amended and by reason the same serued to get in some such corne as was not lost the price thereof line 20 in the market fell halfe in halfe A good and memorable motiue that in such extremities as are aboue the reach of man to redresse we should by and by haue recourse to him that can giue a remedie against euerie casualtie For Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus Richard Gray the chattellaine of Douer looking diligentlie vnto his charge tooke a thousand marks which the bishop of Winchester had sent thither to haue beene transported ouer into France Erlotus line 30 the popes Nuncio perceiuing the trouble that was like to insue within the realme would no longer tarie but wiselie departed and got him home Herewith certeine wise personages were sent to Rome on the part of the king and baronage to informe the pope in what state the realme stood and to giue him to vnderstand how gréeuouslie the people had beene handled by the practise of certeine Romane prelats promoted in this land This yeare neere to Carmardin Patrike of Chauton line 40 lord of Kedwelli Hugh de Uiun and diuerse other both horsmen and footmen were slaine through treason by the Welshmen yet it should appeare by Matthew Paris that the Englishmen procured this mischéefe to light on their owne heads through their disloiall dealing For where they were come to the place to talke of an agréement some of the marchers supposing they had béene too strong for the Welshmen persuaded the said lord of Kedwellie to assaile them vpon the sudden in hope to haue
of the mischéefe though hands were not laid vpon him nor his adherents perhaps for feare peraduenture for fauour no maruell though the lesse faultie lost their liues as most guiltie for rarus venator ad vrsos Accedit tutos conseruat sylua leones Debilibus robusta nocent grandia paruis A les fulminiger timidos infestat olores Accipiter laniat turdos millésque columbas Versicolor coluber ranas miserâsque lacertas Irretit muscas transmittit aranea vespas The king returning by saint Edmundsburie after he had doone his deuotions to S. Edmunds shrine line 10 began to ware somewhat crasie but after hauing a little recouered his health he called a councell there wherein he went about to haue taken order for the punishment of rebels but his sicknesse againe renewing he brake vp the assemblie and with all spéed hasted to London Prince Edward vpon his returne out of the holie land came to Chalons in Burgogne at the request of the earle he did attempt with his companie to hold a iustes and tournie against the line 20 said earle all other commers And thought through disdaine and spite there was homelie plaie shewed vpon purpose to put the Englishmen to the foile reproch yet by high valiancie prince Edward and his companie bare themselues so worthilie that in the end the aduersaries were well beaten and constreined to leaue the honor of that enterprise to the said prince Edward and his partakers After this he kept on his iornie till he came vnto Paris where he was honourablie receiued of the French king and from line 30 thence he went to Burdeaux and there remained till after his fathers death In this meane time king Henrie being returned to London from saint Edmundsburie as before yee haue heard his sicknesse so increased vpon him that finallie he departed at Westminster on the sixteenth day of Nouember in the yeare of our Sauiour 1272. after he had liued threescore and fiue yeares and reigned fiftie and six yeares and seauen and twentie daies A little before his death when he perceiued line 40 that he could no longer liue he caused the earle of Glocester to come before him and to be newlie sworne to keepe the peace of the land to the behoofe of his sonne prince Edward His bodie was buried at Westminster He had issue by his wife quéene Elianor two sonnes the foresaid Edward prince of Wales that succéeded him and Edmund earle of Lancaster by some authors surnamed Crouchbacke though as other affirme vntrulie that this Edmund was the elder brother but bicause he was a deformed line 50 person therefore his yonger brother Edward was preferred to the kingdome which was deuised of purpose to conueie a right to king Henrie the fourth which fetched the descent from the said Edmund and by force vsurped and held the crowne as after it may appeare Moreouer king Henrie had thrée daughters by the said Elianor as Margaret maried to Alexander king of Scots Beatrice whom the duke of Britaine had to wife and Catharine which died before she was mariable line 60 He was of bodie well cast and strong of a good stature in heigth well fauoured of face with the lid of one of his eies comming downe so as it almost couered the apple of the same eie Of nature he was courteous and of stomach rather noble than stout a deuout prince and liberall towards the poore and néedie Yet he wanted not dispraise in some points namelie for that in ordering of things and weightie affaires he vsed small consideration He was also noted to be a great taker of monie by leanes taxes and subsidies but there vnto he was inforced by necessitie to beare the charges of warre and other publike affaires than of any couetous mind or purpose to serue his owne turne ¶ What capteins of honour among the nobilitie liued in his time it may appeare by the course of the historie of his age Of sundrie learned men these we find mentioned in maister Bales centuries and others Walter of Couentrie an historiographer Radulphus Niger that wrote both histories and other treatises Geruasius de Melkelie Albricius of London Robert Curson a man excellentlie learned both in diuine and humaine letters so that comming to the court of Rome he there grew in such estimation that he became a cardinall of whom we find this recorded by Matthew Westminster and Matthew Paris At the taking of Damiate a citie in Aegypt there was with Pelagius the cardinall of Alba the popes legat master Robert Curson an Englishman a most famous clerke borne of a noble house and cardinall of the church of Rome These are reported to florish in the daies both of king Iohn and king Henrie his sonne In the said kings time also there liued other learned men as these Hugh Kirkestéed Richard of Elie Peter Henham Iohn Giles or de Sancto Egidio an excellent physician Caducan a Welshman borne and bishop of Bangor Alexander a singular learned man that wrote diuerse and manie treatises aswell in diuinitie as philosophie and humanitie both in verse and prose also Stephan Langton that for his singular knowledge was made high chancellor of the vniuersitie of Paris and at length was admitted archbishop of Canturburie against the will of king Iohn in which quarell so great trouble insued as before yée haue partlie heard Rafe Coggeshall also liued in king Henries daies that wrote the appendix vnto the chronicle of Ralfe Niger he was abbat of Coggeshall abbeie in Essex whereof he tooke his surname William Lanthonie Peter of S. Sauior a canon of the house called S. Sauior or of the trinitie by London Alexander Hailes a frier of the order of the minors who wrote manie treatises in diuinitie Richard surnamed Medicus a most learned physician and no lesse expert in philosophie and the mathematicals There be also remembred by maister Bale Randulfe the earle of Chester the third and last of that name who hauing great knowledge and vnderstanding in the lawes of this land compiled a booke of the same lawes as a witnesse of his great skill therein Alexander Wendocke bishop of Chester Iohn Blund Edmund Rich Robert Rich Henrie Bracton that excellent lawier who wrote the booke commonlie called Bracton after his name intituled De consuetudinibus Anglicanis Richard surnamed Theologus Walter de Euesham Ralfe Fresborne Laurence Somercote brother as it is thought to Robert Somercote at that time a cardinall of the Romane church Nicholas Fernham a physician Robert Bacon a notable diuine Simon Langton brother to the archbishop of Canturburie Stephan Langton Richard Fisaker Simon Stokes Iohn of Kent or Kantianus William Shirwood Michaell Blaunpaine Iohn Godard Uincent of Couentrie Alberike Ueer Richard Wich Iohn Basing alià s de Basingstoke Roger Walsham William Seningham Robert Grosted that learned bishop of Lincolne whose memorie amongst the learned will remaine while the world lasteth Thus farre Henrie the third Edward the first surnamed
his commandement went into Scotland but shewed themselues slow inough to procure those things that perteined to peace and quietnesse In the meane time whilest these things were a doing the bishop of Carleill and other which laie there vpon the gard of that citie and castell hauing some mistrust of the loialtie in Robert Bruce the yoonger that was earle of Carrike by his mother they sent him word to come vnto them at a certeine daie bicause they had to talke with him of matters touching the kings affairs He durst not disobeie but came to Carleill togither with the bishop of Gallowaie there receiued a corporall oth vpon the holie and sacred mysteries and vpon the sword of Thomas Becket to be true to the king of England and to aid him and his against their enimies in all that he might and further to withstand that the said king receiued no hurt nor damage so far as in him might lie This doone he returned againe into Scotland and for a colour entred into the lands of William Douglas and burnt part of them bringing the wife and children of the same William backe with him into Annandale but shortlie after he conspired with the Scotish rebels and ioined himselfe with them not making his father priuie to the matter who in the meane while remaind in the south parts of England He would haue persuaded such knights gentlemen and other as held their lands of his father in Annandale to haue gone with him but they would not breake their faith giuen to the king of England and so left him The earle of Surrey assembling togither his power in Yorkeshire sent his nephue the lord Henrie Percie with the souldiers of the countrie of Carleill before into Scotland who passing foorth to the towne of Aire went about to induce them of Gallowaie into peace and hearing that an armie of Scotishmen was gathered togither at a place about foure miles from thence called Irwin he made thitherward and comming neere to the Scotish host might behold where the same was lodged beyond a certeine lake In that armie were capteins the bishop of Glasco Andrew de Murreie steward of Scotland and William Waleis which as it should seeme were not all of one mind There was in the same armie a knight named sir Richard Lundie which neuer yet had doon homage to the king of England but now flieng from his companie he came to the English armie and submitted himselfe with his retinue vnto the king of England saieng that he ment not to serue amongst them any longer that could not agrée togither The residue of the Scotishmen sued for peace vpon condition to haue liues members goods cattels and lands saued line 10 with a pardon of all offenses past The lord Percie vpon pledges writings heerof deliuered was contented to grant their requests so that the king his maister would be therewith pleased who being hereof certified bicause he would not gladlie be staied of his iournie into Flanders granted vnto all things that were thus required Then after that the earle of Surrie was come to the English campe bicause William Waleis ceassed not in the meane time to assemble more people line 20 the Englishmen doubting some treason resolued to giue battell but whilest they were in mind thus to do the bishop of Glasco and William Douglas to auoid the note of disloialtie and treason came and submitted themselues and so the bishop was committed to ward within the castell of Rokesborough and William Douglas in the castell of Berwike It is to be noted that euen in the verie time that the treatie was in hand betwixt the lord Percie and the Scotish capteins the Scots of Gallowaie and other set vpon that part of the English campe where the line 30 trâsâe and baggage laie which they spoiled and ransacked slaieng aboue fiue hundreth persons what of men women and children but the alarum being raised the Englishmen came to the rescue and chasing the Scots slue aboue a thousand of them and recouered the most part of their owne goods with more which they tooke from their enimies In this meane time king Edward at the feast of Lammas held a councell at London where he receiued the archbishop of Canturburie againe into his line 40 fauor restoring vnto him all his goods and lands He appointed him and the lord Reinold Grey to haue his eldest sonne prince Edward in kéeping till his returne out of Flanders But Nicholas Triuet writeth that the said prince Edward being appointed to remaine at home as lieutenant to his father there were appointed vnto him as councellors Richard bishop of London William earle of Warwike and the forenamed lord Reinold Grey with the lord Iohn Gifford and the lord Alane Plokenet men of line 50 high wisedome grauitie and discretion without making mention of the archbishop of Canturburie in that place The two earles Marshall and Hereford being commanded to attend the king into Flanders refused excusing themselues by messenger After this the king caused sir Rafe Monthermer whom his daughter the countesse of Glocester in hir widowhood had taken to husband without knoledge of hir father to be deliuered out of the castell of Bristow wherein he had béene kept prisoner a certeine line 60 time vpon displeasure for the marriage but now he was not onelie set at libertie but also restored to his wife and to all the lands perteining to the earledome of Glocester appointing him to find 50 men at armes to serue in that iournie into Flanders He also deliuered the earles of Cassels and Menteth Iohn Comin and diuers other Scotishmen appointing them also to go with him into Flanders Finallie hauing assembled his armie ouer the which he made the lord Thomas Berklie constable and Geffrey Ienuille marshall he went to Winchelsey and whilst he laie there before he tooke the sea there was presented vnto him from the earles a writing which conteined the causes of the gréefe of all the archbishops bishops abbats earles lords barons and of all the communaltie as well for summoning them to serue by an vndue meane as also for the vnreasonable taxes subsidies impositions paiements which they dailie susteined and namelie the impost augmented vpon the custome of wooll seemed to them verie greeuous For whereas for euerie sacke of whole wooll there was fortie shillings paid and for euerie sacke of broken wooll one marke it was well knowne that the wooll of England was almost in value esteemed to be woorth halfe the riches of the realme and so the custome thereof paid would ascend to a fift part of all the substance of the land The kings answer therevnto was that he could not alter any thing without the aduise of his councell of the which part were alreadie passed ouer into Flanders and part were at London and therfore he required the said earles that if they would not attend
he had of the said archbishop of Yorke within one yeare nine thousand and 500 markes besides the expenses which he was at whilest he laie there and so when this archbishop was returned into England through pouertie he was driuen to gather monie of the persons préests and religious men within his prouince at two sundrie times in one yeare as first in name of a courtesie and gratious beneuolence and the second time by waie of an aid line 40 Moreouer pope Clement ordeined Anthonie bishop of Durham patriarch of Ierusalem dispensing with him so as he held still the bishoprike of Durham notwithstanding his other promotion and this was bicause the bishop was rich and the pope poore For this bishop might dispend in yearelie reuenues by purchases inheritances besides that belonged to his miter aboue fiue thousand marks and he gaue great rewards to the pope and to his cardinals by means whereof he obteined in suit against the prior line 50 of Durham so that he had the charge and ouersight of the monasterie of Durham both the spirituall gouernement and temporall through informing the pope that the prior was not able in discretion to rule the house At his returning home he caused a crosse of siluer and gilt adorned with an image of the crucifix to be borne afore him But where he appointed certeine persons as his deputies to enter into the priorie of Durham and to take charge thereof in place of the prior the moonks line 60 shut the gates against them appealing to the pope and pretending the kings protection which they had purchased But those that thus came in the bishops name accursed the moonks so departed The king héerewith was highlie offended so that he caused them to answer the matter afore the iustices of his bench and for their presumption in pronouncing the cursse without making the king priuie to their dooings they were put to their fines And whereas the bishop was summoned to appeare before the king in person at a certeine daie he made default and departing out of the realme got backe againe to the pope contrarie to the kings prohibition wherevpon the liberties of the see of Durham were seized into the kings hands and the king placed his iustices and chancellor there and in the yeare next insuing he exacted of the tenants of the archbishoprike the thirtéenth penie of their goods and otherwise vexed them with sundrie talages The conclusion of this matter was this that the prior was cited by the pope to appeare at his consistorie whither he went hauing the kings letters in his fauour directed to the pope wherevpon when the pope had examined the matter and heard the prior speake in his owne person he perceiued him to be otherwise than he was informed a sober and discréet man and therefore restored him againe to the gouernment of his house but he remained in the popes court till after the kings death and finallie died there himselfe in the yeare 1307. But now to returne to other dooings of king Edward We find that whilest he lay still at Lauercost he gaue to the earle of Warwike Bernards castell the which he had by escheat through forfeiture thereof made by Iohn Balioll late king of Scotland He also tooke and seized into his hands Penreth with the appurtenances In the octaues of S. Hilarie the king held a parlement at Carleill in the which by the peeres of the realme great complaint was made of the oppressions doone to churches abbeies and monasteries by reason of paiments latelie raised and taxed by one maister William or Guilelmo Testa the ââpes chapleine Commandement therefore was giuen to the same chapleine that from thencefoorth he should not leauie anie such paiments and for further remedie messengers were made foorth vnto the pope to declare vnto him the inconuenience thereof This Testa was sent from pope Clement into England with bulles in the contents whereof it appeared that the pope had reserued to himselfe the first fruits of one yeares reuenues of euerie benefice that fell void by anie manner of meanes within the realme of England Scotland Wales and Ireland and likewise of all abbeies priories and monasteries so that it may well be said of him his retinue according to the processe of all their actions as it was said of old Curia Romana non quaerit ouem sine lana But the king and lords of the land thought it against reason that the pope should take and receiue the profits of those abbeies and monasteries which had beene founded by their predecessors for the seruice of God and the maintenance of almesdeeds and good hospitalitie to be kept and so the pope changed his purpose touching abbeies but granting to the K. the tenth of the English churches for two yéers he obteined the first fruits of the same churches for himselfe as before he required In the same parlement were statutes made concerning religious men which had their head and chéefest houses in forren regions There came also at the same time a cardinall from the pope named Petrus Hispanus to procure the consummation of the mariage betwixt the prince of Wales and the French kings daughter for the same was delaied by reason that all couenants were not kept on the French kings behalfe touching the deliuerie of the townes in Gascoine For whereas in times past the French king had giuen one of those townes that were taken from the Englishmen named Mauleon vnto a French knight he kept the same still and would not deliuer it now at the French kings commandement where-through as was said the marriage had béene hitherto deferred The same cardinall by vertue of his bull would haue had of euerie cathedrall church colledge abbeie and priorie twelue marks of sterling monie and of euerie person of parish churches eight pence of euerie marke of his reuenues But the English cleargie appealed from this exaction so that by the king and his councell it was ordeined that he should haue no more than in times past cardinall Othobon did receiue that is to saie the halfe of his demand Moreouer this cardinall being at Carleill and hauing made a sermon in praise of peace vpon the conclusion of marriage betwixt the prince of Wales and the French kings daughter in the end he reuested himselfe and the other bishops which were present line 10 and then with candels light and causing the bels to be roong they accursed in terrible wise Robert Bruce the vsurper of the crowne of Scotland with all his partakers aiders and mainteiners Neuerthelesse Robert Bruce in this meane while slept not his businesse but ranging abroad in the countrie flue manie that would not obeie him and sent foorth his two brethren Thomas that was a knight and Alexander that was a préest with part of his armie into an other quarter of the countrie to allure line 20 the people vnto his obedience
partlie with gentlenesse and partlie with menaces But the Englishmen came vpon them in the night and tooke them both so that being brought before the iustices they were condemned and therevpon hanged drawen and quartered ¶ Some write that Duncan Magdoili a man of great power in Galloway tooke these two brethren prisoners togither with Reginald Crawford being the principlas on the ninth daie of Februarie as they with certeine other capteins line 30 and men of war came by sea and landed in his countrie vpon whome being seuen hundred men he with three hundred or few aboue that number boldlie gaue the onset and not onelie tooke the said thrée persons prisoners sore wounded as they were with diuerse other but also slue Malcolme Makaile a lord of Kentice and two Irish lords whose heads and the foresaid prisoners he presented vnto king Edward who caused Thomas Bruce to be hanged drawen and quartered but the other two were onelie hanged and line 40 quartered at Carleill where their heads were set vp aloft on the castell and gates of the citie After Easter their brother Robert Bruce calling himselfe king of Scotland and hauing now augmented his armie with manie souldiers of the out-Iles fought with the earle of Penbroke and put him to flight and slue some of his men though noâ manie Within a few daies after he chased also the earle of Glocester into the castell of Aire and besieged him within the same till an armie was sent from king line 50 Edward to the rescue for then the said Robert was constreined to flée and the Englishmen followed till he got into the woods and marishes where they might come néere him without manifest danger to cast themselues awaie ¶ The king of England minding to make a full conquest of the Scots and not to leaue off vntill he had wholie subdued them sent his commissions into England commanding all those that owght him seruice to be redie at Careleill within three wéekes after Midsummer He sent his sonne line 60 Edward into England that vpon knowledge had what the French king did touching the agreement he might accordinglie procéed in the marriage to be made with his daughter After the prince was departed from the campe his father king Edward was taken with sore sickenesse yet he remooued from Carleill where the same sicknesse first tooke him vnto Burrough vpon Sand and there the daie after being the seuenth daie of Iulie he ended his life after he had reigned 34 yeares six moneths and one and twentie daies He liued 68 yeares and twentie daies His bodie was conueied to London and in the church of Westminster lieth buried He had issue by his first wife queene Elianor foure sons Iohn Henrie Alfonse Edward which succeeded him the other died long before their father Also fiue daughters Elianor Ione Margaret and Elizabeth were bestowed in marriage as before in this booke is expressed the fift named Marie became a nunne By his second wife quéene Margaret he had two sonnes Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstoke with one daughter named Margaret after hir mother He was tall of stature some what blacke of colour strong of bodie and leane auoiding grosenesse with continuall exercise of comelie fauour and iettie eies the which when he waxed angrie would suddenlie become reddish and seeme as though they sparkled with fire The haire of his head was blacke and curled he continued for the most part in good health of bodie and was of a stout stomach which neuer failed him in time of aduersitie Moreouer he had an excellent good wit for to whatsoeuer he applied his studie he easilie atteined to the vnderstanding thereof wise he was and vertuous an earnest enimie of the high and presumptuous insolencie of préests the which he iudged to procéed chéeflie of too much wealth and riches and therefore he deuised to establish the statute of Mortmaine to be a bridle to their inordinate lusts and riotous excesse He built the abbeie of the vale roiall in Cheshire he was a constant fréend but if he once tooke displeasure or hatred against any person he would not easilie receiue him into fauour againe whilest he had any vacant time from weightie affaires he spent lightlie the same in hunting Towards the maintenance of his warres and other charges besides the subsidies which he leuied of his people and other reuenues comming to his coffers he had great helpe by reason of the siluer mines which in his daies were found in Deuonshire and occupied greatlie to his profit as in the records remaining in the excheker concerning the accompts and allowances about the same it dooth and may appeare For in the accompts of master William de Wimondham it is recorded that betwixt the twelfth daie of August and the last of October in the 22 yeare of this king Edwards reigne there was tried and fined out at Martinestowe in Deuonshire by times so much of fined siluer as amounted to the summe of 370 pounds weight which being brought to London was there refined by certeine finers that plate might be forged thereof for the ladie Elianor duches of Bar and daughter to the said king married in the yeare then last past to the duke of Bar as before ye haue heard In the 23 yeare of his reigne there was fined at the place aforsaid 521 pounds ten shillings weight of siluer by times which was also brought to London In the 24 yeare of his reigne there were taken vp 337 miners within the wapentake of the Peake in Darbishire and brought into Deuonshire to worke there in those siluer mines as appeareth by the allowance demanded by the said master William de Wimondham in his roll of accounts deliuered that yeare into the excheker and there was brought from thence to London the same yeare of siluer fined and cast in wedges 700 foure pounds thrée shillings one penie weight In the 25 yeare of his reigne there were three hundred and fourtie eight miners brought againe out of the Peake into Deuonshine and out of Wales there were brought also 25 miners which all were occupied about those siluer mines beside others of the selfe countrie of Deuonshire and other places Also Wil. de Aulton clearke kéeper of the kings mines in Deuonshire and Cornewall was accomptant of the issues and profits of the kings mines there from the fourth of March Anno 26 of his reigne till the eightéenth of Aprill Anno 27 and yéelded vp his account both of the siluer and lead But now to conclude with this noble prince king Edward the first he was sure not onelie valiant but also politike labouring to bring this diuided Ile into one entier monarchie which he went verie neere to haue atchiued for whereas he was fullie bent to make a conquest of Scotland in like case as he had alreadie doone of Wales if he had liued any longer time to haue dispatched Robert le
but taking one towne or other would kéepe the same till some liking enterteinment were offered and then would he sell such a towne where he had thus remained to them that would giue him for it according to his mind Barnabe lord of Millane gaue vnto him one of his base daughters in marriage with an honorable portion for hir dower This man was borne in Essex as some write who at the first became a tailor in London afterwards going to the warres in France serued in the roome of an archer but at length he became a capteine and leader of men of war highlie commended and liked of amongst the souldiers in so much that when by the peace concluded at Bretignie in the yeare 1360 great numbers of soldiers were discharged out of wages they got themselues togither in companies and without commandement of any prince by whose authoritie they might make warre they fell to of themselues and sore harried and spoiled diuerse countries in the realme of France as partlie yée haue heard amongst whome this sir Iohn Hawkewood was one of the principall capteins at length went into Italie to serue the marques of Montferrato against the duke of Millane although I remember that some write how he came into that countrie with the duke of Clarence but I thinke the former report be true but it may well be that he was readie to attend the said duke at his comming into Italie And thus much concerning such famous capteins as serued this noble king Edward the third although for bréefenesse I passe ouer diuerse other no lesse famous and worthie for their high manhood and tried valiancie to be remembred than these afore mentioned Of learned men these we find by Iohn Bale registred in the Centuries Iohn Baconthrop borne in Blackney in Northfolke a frier Carmelite and prouinciall of his order so excellentlie learned as well in diuinitie as in both the ciuill and canon lawes that he procéeded doctor in either facultie at Oxenford and Paris and wrote diuerse treatises to his high and singular commendation William Oâkam Iohn Bloxham a Carmelite frier Nicholas Triuet borne in Northfolke sonne to sir Thomas Triuet knight one of the kings iusticiers prooued excellentlie learned and wrote diuerse treatises and amongst other two histories and one booke of annales he was by profession a blacke frier and departed this life about the second yeare of this king Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1328 William Alnewike borne in Northumberland in the towne whereof he tooke name a frier Minor Iohn Tanet borne in the I le of Tanet an excellent musician and a moonke in Canturburie Hugh of saint Neot a Carmelite frier in Hertfordshire a notable diuine as those daies gaue William Alton borne in Hampshire a blacke frier and a diuine Furthermore Richard Stradley borne in the marches of Wales a moonke and a diuine writing certeine line 10 treatises of the scripture William Herbert a Welshman and a frier Minor wrote also certeine goodlie treatises of diuinitie Richard Comington a frier of the order of the Cordeliers a preacher and a writer of diuinitie William Exeter a doctor of diuinitie and a prebendarie canon in Exeter whereas it is thought he was borne Lucas Bosden a westerne man and by profession a Carmelite frier Thomas Walleis a Dominike frier a great diuine as by such bookes as he wrote it may line 20 appeare Thomas Pontius a moonke of Canturburie Iohn Ridewall a graie frier Henrie Costesay or Cossey a frier Minor Geffrie Aleuant borne in Yorkeshire a frier Carmelite Iohn Euersden a moonke in Burie in Suffolke an historiographer Simon Burneston a doctor of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge and prouinciall of the friers Dominike or blacke friers as they called them here in England Walter Burlie a doctor of diuinitie who in his youth was brought vp not onlie in Martine college line 30 in Oxford but also in the Uniuersities and schooles abroad beyond the seas in France and Germanie afterwards for his wisedome good demeanor learning he was reteined with the bishop of Ulmes in Suabenland a region in high Germanie Amongst other treatises which he compiled being manie and namelie of naturall philosophie he wrote a commentarie of the ethikes of Aristotle and dedicated the same vnto the said bishop a worke which hath beene highlie esteemed not onelie in the line 40 Uniuersities of Italie Germanie and France but also here in our Uniuersities of England To conclude such was the same of this doctor Burlie that when the ladie Philip daughter to the earle of Heinault should come ouer into England to be married to king Edward this doctor Burlie was reteined by hir and appointed to be hir almoner and so continued in great estimation in so much that after Edward prince of Wales eldest sonne to king Edward commonlie called the blacke prince was borne and line 50 able to learne his booke the said Burlie among other was commanded to be one of his instructors By reason hereof sir Simon Burlie of whom I haue made some mention heretofore in this kings life and more intend to speake as occasion serueth in the next king being sonne to sir Iohn Burlie néere kinsman to the said doctor Burlie was admitted among other yoong gentlemen to be schoolefelow with the said prince by occasion whereof he grew in such credit and fauour with the said prince that afterwards line 60 when his son Richard of Burdeaux that succéeded king Edward his father was borne the said prince for speciall trust and confidence which he had in the said sir Simon Burlie committed the gouernance education of his son the said Richard vnto him whereby he was euer after highlie in fauour with the said Richard and no lesse aduanced by him when he came to inioy the crowne of this realme But now to other learned men of that age Iohn Barwike a frier Minor and reader to his fellowes of that order in Oxford William Notingham Roger Glacton borne in Huntingtonshire an Augustin frier Iohn Polestéed borne in Suffolke a Carmelite frier in Ipswich or Gippeswich as they write it Walter Kingham a frier also of the order of those Dominikes which they called pied friers Roger of Chester a moonke of that citie and an historiographer Thomas de Hales a frier Minor Robert Eliphat a graie frier Geffrie Grandfield an Augustine or blacke frier Hugh Wirlie a Carmelite frier of Norwich William Eincourt a blacke frier of Boston Hugh Ditton borne in Cambridgeshire a frier preacher Adam Carthusianus a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Luttrell an excellent philosopher and well seene in the mathematicals Walter Cotton and Thomas Eckleston both graie friers Iohn Folsham a Carmelite frier in Norwich Benet of Northfolke William Southhampton so called of the towne where he was borne a blacke frier Moreouer Iohn Burgh a moonke wrote an historie and certeine homilies Adam Nidzard a master of art Edmund Albon Robert Counton a graie frier William Lissie a frier Minor Iohn
in praemissis faciendis assistentes sint consulentes auxiliantes line 40 prout decet In cuius rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vice simo tertio die Maij anno regni nostri vndecimo A copie of the kings commission against the Lollards or Wickleuists and their followers Englished by A.F. RIchard by the grace of God king of England and France and lord of Ireland to his beloued maister Thomas Brightwell doctor in diuinitie deane of the college of the new worke of Leicester and to William Chesulden prebendarie of the prebend of the same college and to our beloued and trustie subiects Richard of Barow Chinall and Robert Langham greeting For so line 60 much as we are certeinelie informed by credible report that by the vnsound doctrine of maister Iohn Wickliffe whiles he liued of Nicholas Herford Iohn Liston and their followers many bookes libels scheduls pamphlets expresselie euidentlie and notoriouslie swarming with manifest heresies and errors to the hurt of the catholike faith the abolishment of sound doctrine are commonlie compiled published and written as well in English as in Latine and therevpon wicked opinions contrarie to sound doctrine doo spring grow and are mainteined and preached to the weakening of the right faith the ouerthrow of holie church and consequentlie which God forbid the misbeleefe of a great many the manifest danger of their soules We being moued with zeale to the catholike faith whereof we are and will be defenders in all things as we are bound vnwilling that such heresies or errors within the limits of our iurisdiction so far as we are able should grow or by any meanes spring vp doo assigne you iointlie and seuerallie all and singular the books libels scheduls pamphlets conteining such doctrine of the said Iohn Nicholas Iohn and their fellow-followers or any of their corrupt opinions wheresoeuer in whose hands possession or keeping soeuer they shal be found within the liberties or without them to search take arrest and cause to be brought before our councell with all possible speed that then and there we may take order for the same accordinglie as by the aduise of our foresaid councell we shall see requisite to be doone And also to proclaime and on our behalfe firmelie to forbid all and euerie one of whatsoeuer state degree or condition he be vnder paine of imprisonment and forfeitures which to vs he shall forfeit any of these wicked and lewd opinions to mainteine teach obstinatlie to defend priuilie or openlie or any of these bookes libels scheduls pamphlets to keepe write or cause to be written but all and euerie such booke and bookes libels scheduls and pamphlets with them had found at our commandement vnto you to deliuer or cause to be deliuered without delaie And all them whome after proclamation and inhibition you shall find dooing contrarie to the premisses and such lewd opinions mainteining to call foorth before you the said Thomas the deane William and them to examine when they shal be lawfullie conuinced therein to commit them to the next officers prisons there to be kept till they haue recanted their errors heresies and wicked opinions or till we for their deliuerance shall otherwise thinke order to be taken And therefore we command that you intend the said premisses with all diligence and effect and the same doo and execute in forme aforesaid We doo also giue in streict commandement and charge to all and euerie as well churchman churchmen as shiriffes maiors bailiffes officers and other our trustie subiects as well within the liberties as without by the tenor of these presents to assist counsell and helpe you and euerie of you in doing the premisses as it is conuenient In witnesse whereof we haue caused these our letters patents to be made Witnesse our selues at Westminster the twentie third day of Maie and the eleuenth yeare of our reigne ¶ About this time or as Henrie Knighton saith in the yeare 1392 maister William Courtenie archbishop of Canturburie brother to the earle of Denshire visited the diocesse of Lincolne and on the feast of saint Faith the virgine he visited maister Iohn Bokingham bishop of Lincolne in the cathedrall church of Lincolnâ with the chapter and an hundred of the canons and he came to Leicester abbeie in visitation the sundaie before the feast of All saints where he ãâã all the tuesdaie and on the eeue also of All saints being mondaie calling togither all the canons of the said monasterie with the chaplines of his owne chappell euerie of them hauing in their hands burning candels The same archbishop confirmed sentence of excommunication against the Lollards or Wickleuists with their fauourers which either now mainteined or caused to be mainteined or hereafter did mainteine or should mainteine the errours and opinions of master Iohn Wickliffe in the diocesse of Lincolne On the morrow next after All saints the same bishop flashed out his sentence of line 10 excommunication like lightning in open sight with a crosse set vpright with candels burning bright and with bels roong alowd and namelie against those of Leicester towne that had too too much defiled and infected the said towne and countrie The archbishop departing from thence went to saint Peters church to a certeine anchoresse named Matildis there kept as in a closet whom he reprouing about the foresaid errors and opinions of the Lollards and finding hir line 20 answers scarse aduisedlie made cited hir that she should appeare before him on the sundaie next insuing in saint Iames his abbeie at Northampton to answer vnto the foresaid erronious and prophane points Now she appeared at the day appointed and renouncing hir errours and hauing penance inioined hir she went awaie reformed But till the second day before the feast of saint Lucie she kept hir selfe out of hir closet and then entred into the same againe Other Lollards also were cited and appeared line 30 at Oxford and in other places as the archbishop had commanded them who renouncing their superstitious errours and for swearing their prophane opinions did open penance Also one William Smith was made to go about the market place at Leicester clothed in linnen or in a white sheet holding in his right arme the image of the Crucifix and in his left the image of saint Katharine bicause the said Smith had sometimes cut in peeces and burned an image of saint Katharine whereof he made a fire to line 40 boile him hearbes in his hunger In those daies there was a certeine matrone in London which had one onelie daughter whome manie daies she instructed and trained vp to celebrat the masse and she set vp an altar in hir priuie or secret chamber with all the ornaments therevnto belonging and so she made hir daughter manie daies to attire hir selfe like a priest and to come to the altar and after hir maner to celebrate the
of euerie thing that was said or doone King Henrie after the returne of his ambassadors determined fullie to line 20 make warre in France conceiuing a good and perfect hope to haue fortunate successe sith victorie for the most part followeth where right leadeth being aduanced forward by iustice and set foorth by equitie And bicause manie Frenchmen were promoted to ecclesiasticall dignities as some to benefices and some to abbeies and priories within the realme and sent dailie innumerable summes of monie into France for the reléefe of their naturall countrimen line 30 and kinsfolke he therefore in fauour of the publike wealth of his realme and subiects in a councell called at London about Michaelmas caused to be ordeined that no stranger hereafter should be promoted to anie spirituall dignitie or degree within this realme without his especiall licence and roiall consent and all they that should be admitted should find sufficient suerties not to disclose the secrets of this realme to anie forren person nor to minister aid or succour to anie of them with monie or by anie other line 40 meanes This was confirmed in a conuocation called at the same time by the new archbishop of Canturburie Moreouer such as were to go vnto the generall councell holden at Constance were named and appointed to make them readie for the king hauing knowledge from the emperor Sigismund of the assembling of that councell thought it not conuenient to sit still as an hearer and no partaker in so high a cause which touched the whole state of the christian line 50 common-wealth as then troubled by reason of the schisme that yet continued Wherefore he sent thither Richard earle of Warwike the bishops of Salisburie Bath and Hereford the abbat of Westminster and the prior of Worcester with diuerse other doctors and learned men of the spiritualtie besides knights and esquiers They were in number eight hundred horsses so well appointed and furnished as well the men as horsses that all nations meruelled to see such an honorable companie come from a countrie line 60 so far distant Diuerse other things were concluded at that present for the king had caused not onelie the lords oâ the spiritualtie but also of the temporaltie to assemble here at London the same time to treat speciallie of his iournie that he purposed to make shortlie into France and herevpon meanes was made for the gathering of monie which was granted with so good a will both of the spiritualtie and temporaltie that there was leuied the summe of thrèe hundred thousand markes English and herewith order was giuen to gather a great hoast of men thorough all his dominions And for the more increasing of his nauie he sent into Holland Zeland and Frizeland to conduct and hire ships for the transporting and conueieng ouer of his men and munitions of war and finallie prouided for armour victuals monie artillerie cariage boates to passe ouer riuers couered with leather tents and all other things requisite for so high an enterprise The Frenchmen hauing knowledge hereof the Dolphin who had the gouernance of the realme bicause his father was fallen into his old disease of frensie sent for the dukes of Berrie and Alanson and all the other lords of the councell of France by whose aduise it was determined that they should not onelie prepare a sufficient armie to resist the king of England when so euer he arriued to inuade France but also to stuffe and furnish the townes on the frontiers and sea coasts with conuenient garrisons of men and further to send to the king of England a solemne ambassage to make to him some offers according to the demands before rehearsed The charge of this ambassage was committed to the earle of Uandosme to maister William Bouratier archbishop of Burges and to maister Peter Fremell bishop of Liseux to the lords of Yvry and Braquemont and to maister Gaultier Cole the kings secretarie and diuerse others These ambassadors accompanied with 350 horsses passed the sea at Calis and landed at Douer before whose arriuall the king was departed from Windsore to Winchester intending to haue gone to Hampton there to haue surueied his nauie but hearing of the ambassadors approching he tarried still at Winchester where the said French lords shewed themselues verie honorablie before the king and his nobilitie At time prefixed before the kings presence sitting in his throne imperiall the archbishop of Burges made an eloquent and a long oration dissuading warre and praising peace offering to the king of England a great summe of monie with diuerse countries being in verie déed but base and poore as a dowrie with the ladie Catharine in mariage so that he would dissolue his armie and dismisse his soldiers which he had gathered and put in a readinesse When his oration was ended the king caused the ambassadors to be highlie feasted and set them at his owne table And after a daie assigned in the foresaid hall the archbishop of Canturburie to their oration made a notable answer the effect whereof was that if the French king would not giue with his daughter in mariage the duches of Aquiteine Aniou and all other seigniories and dominions sometimes apperteining to the noble progenitors of the king of England he would in no wise retire his armie nor breake his iournie but would with all diligence enter into France and destroie the people waste the countrie and subuert the townes with blood sword and fire and neuer ceasse till he had recouered his ancient right and lawfull patrimonie The king auowed the archbishops saieng and in the word of a prince promised to performe it to the vttermost The archbishop of Burges much gréeued that his ambassage was no more regarded after certeine brags blustered out with impatience as more presuming vpon his prelasie than respecting his dutie of considerance to whom he spake and what became him to saie he praied safe conduct to depart Which the king gentlie granted and added withall to this effect I little estéeme your French brags lesse set by your power and strength I know perfectlie my right to my region which you vsurpe except you denie the apparant truth so doo your selues also if you neither doo nor will know it yet God and the world knoweth it The power of your master you sée but my puissance ye haue not yet tasted If he haue louing subiects I am I thanke God not vnstored of the same and I saie this vnto you that before one yeare passe I trust to make the highest crowne of your countrie to stoope and the proudest miter to learne his humiliatedo In the meane time tell this to the vsurper your master that within thrée moneths I will enter into France as into mine owne true and lawfull patrimonie appointing to acquire the same not with brag of words but with déeds of men and dint of line 10 sword by the aid of God in whome is my whole trust and confidence
Venturum virtutis indelebile lumen Celso animâ prorsus leni quoque pectore ciues Nân solum at iustos hostes fideÃquâ probatae Dilexit niueo raro iraâundior ore Of learned men and writers these I find remembred by Bale and others to haue liued in the daies of this noble and valiant king Henrie the fift First Alaine de Lin borne in Lin and professed a Carmelite frier in that towne he at length became prior of that conuent proceeded doctor of diuinitie in Cambridge and wrote manie treatises Thomas Otterborne that wrote an historie of England is thought to liue about this season he was a Franciscan or graie frier as they called them a great student both in diuinitie and philosophie Iohn Seguard an excellent poet and a rhetorician kept a schoole and read to his scholers in Norwich as is supposed writing sundrie treatises reproouing as well the profaning of the christian religion in monks and priests as the abuse of poetrie in those that tooke vpon them to write filthie verses and rimes Robert Rose a frier of the Carmelites order in Norwich commonlie called the white friers both an excellent philosopher and diuine procéeded doctor at Oxenford promoted to be prior of his house and writing diuerse treatises amongst all the sophists of his time as saith Bale he offended none of the Wickleuists who in that season set foorth purelie the word of God as maie appeare by his workes Moreouer Iohn Lucke a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford a sore enimie to the Wiekleuists Richard Caister borne in Norfolke vicar of saint Stephans in Norwich a man of great holinesse and puritie in life fauouring though secretlie the doctrine of the Wickleuists and reproouing in his sermons the vnchast manners and filthie example that appeared in the cleargie Of sir Iohn Oldcastell lord Cobham ye haue heard before William Walleis a blacke frier in Lin and prouinciall of his order here in England made a booke of moralizations vpon Ouids Metamorphôseis comparable to postils vpon Aesops Fables Richard Snetisham a student in Oxenford where he profited so greatlie in learning and wisedome that he was accounted the chéefest in all that vniuersitie in respect whereof he was made chancellor of the same chosen also to be one of the twelue to examine and iudge vpon Wickliffes doctrine by the archbishop of Canturburie Iohn Langdene a monke of Christes church in Canturburie an other of those twelue William Tailor a priest and a master of art in Oxenford a stedfast follower of Wickliffes doctrine burnt for the same in Smithfield at London the second day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1422 last of king Henrie the fift his reigne Furthermore Richard Grasdale student in Oxenford one of those twelue also William Lindwood a lawier excellentlie learned as well in the ciuill as canon lawes aduanced to the seruice of this king and made by him kéeper of the priuie seale sent in ambassage both to the kings of Spaine and Portingale about businesse of most weightie importance It is said that he was promoted to the bishoprike of saint Dauid Bartholomew Florarius supposed as Bale saith by Nicholas Brigham to be an Englishman wrote a treatise called Florarium whereof he tooke his surname and also an other treatise of abstinence in which he reprooueth certeine corrupt manners in the cleargie and the profession of friers mendicants Adam Hemmelington a Carmelite frier studied both in Oxenford and Paris William Batecombe is placed by Bale about the time of other learned men that liued in this kings time he was an excellent mathematician as by the the title of his works which he wrote it should appeare Titus Liuius de Foro Luuisiis liued also in these daies an Italian borne but sith he was both resiant here and wrote the life of this king I haue thought good to place him among other of our English writers One there was that translated the said historie into English adding as it were by waie of notes in manie places of that booke sundrie things for the more large vnderstanding of the historie a copie line 10 whereof I haue séene belonging to Iohn Stow citizen of London There was also about the same time an other writer who as I remember hath followed the said Liuius in the order of his booke as it were chapter for chapter onelie changing a good familiar and easie stile which the said Liuius vsed into a certeine poeticall kind of writing a copie whereof I haue séene in the life of this king partlie followed belonging to master Iohn Twine of Kent who as I was informed meant to leaue to posteritie some fruits of his labours for the due vnderstanding thereof Thus farre Henrie the fift sonne and successor to Henrie the fourth Henrie the sixt sonne and heire to Henrie the fift AFter that death had bereft the world of that noble prince king Henrie the fift his onelie sonne prince Henrie being of the age of nine moneths or thereabouts with the sound of trumpets was openlie proclamed king of England and France line 20 the thirtith daie of August by the name of Henrie the sixt in the yeare of the world fiue thousand three hundred eightie and nine after the birth of our Sauiour 1422 about the twelfe yeare of the emperour Frederike the third the fortith and two and last of Charles the sixt and the third yeare of Mordaks regiment after his father Robert gouernour of Scotland The custodie of this yoong prince was appointed to Thomas duke of Excester to Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester The duke of Bedford was line 30 deputed regent of France and the duke of Glocester was ordeined protectour of England who taking vpon him that office called to him wise and graue councellors by whose aduise he prouided and tooke order as well for the good gouernment of the realme subiects of the same at home as also for the maintenance of the warres abroad and further conâuest to be made in France appointing valiant and expert capteins which should be readie when need required Besides this he gathered great summes of line 40 monie to mainteine men of warre and left nothing forgotten that might aduance the good estate of the realme While these things were a dooing in England the duke of Bedford regent of France studied most earnestlie not onelie to keepe and well order the countries by king Henrie late conquered but also determined not to leaue off warre trauell till Charles the Dolphin which was now assâte because king Charles his father in the moneth of October in this present yeare was departed to God should either be subdued or brought to obeisance And suerlie the death of this king Charles caused alterations in France For a great manie of the nobilitie which before either for feare of the English puissance or for the loue of this king Charles whose authoritie they followed held on the English part did now reuolt to the Dolphin with all indeuour
to driue the English nation out of the French territories Whereto they were the more earnestlie bent and thought it a thing of greater facilitie because of king Henries yoong yeares whome because he was a child they estéemed not but with one consent reuolted from their sworne fealtie as the recorder of the Englishmens battels with forren nations verie aptlie doth note saieng Hîc Franci puerum regem neglectui habentes Desciscunt violátque fidem gens perfida sacro Consilio ante datam The duke of Bedford being greatlie mooued with these sudden changes fortified his townes both with garrisons of men munition and vittels assembled also a great armie of Englishmen and Normans and so effectuouslie exhorted them to continue faithfull to their liege and lawfull lord yoong king Henrie that manie of the French capteins willinglie sware to king Henrie fealtie and obedience by whose example the communaltie did the same Thus the people quieted and the countrie established in order nothing was minded but warre and nothing spoken of but conquest The Dolphin which lay the same time in the citie of Poitâers after his fathers deceasse caused himselfe to be proclamed king of France by the name of Charles the seuenth and in good hope to recouer his patrimonie with an haultie courage preparing war assembled a great armie and first the warre began by light skirmishes but after it grew into maine battels The Dolphin thinking not to lose anie occasions of well dooing sent the lord Grauile to the towne of Pont Meulan standing on the riuer of Seine who comming to the same vpon the sudden the fouretéenth of Ianuarie year 1423 tooke it and slue a great number of English souldiors which he found within it When the duke of Bedford the regent aduertised of this sudden surprise appointed the lord Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie a man both for policie and courage liker to the old Romans than to line 10 men of his daies accompanied with the earle of Suffolke the lord Scales the yoong lord Poinings sir Iohn Fastolfe maister of the houshold with himselfe and diuerse others to besiege the said towne of Pont Meulan which after two moneths siege was rendred to the said earle and the lord Grauile sware âo be true to the king of England euer after that day but shortlie after forgetting his oth he turned French againe The earle of Salisburie appointed sir Henrie line 20 Mortimer and sir Richard Uernon capteins of the towne and from thence went into Champaigne and there besieged the towne of Sens tooke it and sir William Marin the capteine within it and slue all the souldiors that kept it made capteins there sir Hugh Godding sir Richard Aubemond ¶ In this season Humfrie duke of Glocester either striken in loue or vpon some other occasion maried the ladie Iaquet or Iaquelin daughter and sole heire to William of Bauier duke of Holland which was lawfull line 30 wife to Iohn duke of Brabant then liuing who afterwards as after ye shall heare recouered hir out of the dukes hands The chances thus happening as you before haue heard Iohn duke of Bedford Philip duke of Burgognie and Iohn duke of Britaine made a fréendlie méeting in the citie of Amiens where they renewed the old league and ancient amitie made betwéene the noble prince king Henrie the fift and them adding thereto these conditions and agréements ech of them line 40 to be to the other fréend and aider and the enimie of the one to be enimie to the other and all they to be fréends and aiders to the king of England welwiller to his welwillers and aduersarie to his aduersaries And bicause that affinitie is commonlie the bond of amitie there was concluded a mariage betwéene the duke of Bedford and the ladie Anne sister to the duke of Burgognie which was after solemnized at Trois in Champaigne in the presence of the duke of Burgognie brother to the bride and of hir line 50 vncle the duke of Brabant the earles of Salisburie and Suffolke and of nine hundred lords knights and esquiers with such feast and triumph as before that time had not béene séene of the Burgognions Whilest these matters were in hand the Parisiens thinking to blind the eies of the duke of Bedford wrote to him how diuerse castels and fortresses lieng about their territories were replenished with their enimies dailie stopping their passages and robbing their merchants to their vtter vndooing if they line 60 by his helpe were not relieued But this was but a glose of the Parisiens meaning to cause him to go about the winning of some strong hold whilest they in his absence might bring into the citie Charles the Dolphin that then called himselfe French king for so had they appointed assigning to him the daie of his comming and the post of his entrie But their practise being discouered to the duke of Bedford he with a great power entered into Paris one daie before the faire was appointed two nights before he was looked for of his enimies being vnprouided and suddenlie caused the conspirators within the citie to be apprehended and openlie to be put to execution This doone putting a mistrust in the Parisiens he caused the castels and fortresses neere and adioining to the citie to be furnished with Englishmen And to auoid all night-watchers about Paris and the confines thereof he first tooke into his possession either by assault or composition the towne of Trainelle and Braie vpon Seine And bicause two castels the one called Pacie and the other Coursaie were also euill neighbors to the Parisiens he sent sir Iohn Fastolfe great maister of his houshold with a notable armie to win the same castels which he did and with preie and prisoners returned backe againe to his maister the regent In this verie season the Dolphin sent the lord William Steward earle of Buchquhane that was constable of France and the earle of Uentadour in Auuergne and manie other noble men of his part to laie siege to the towne of Crauant in the countie of Auxerre within the parts of Burgognie Wherof hearing the lord regent and the duke of Burgognie they assembled a great armie and appointed the earle of Salisburie to haue the guiding thereof who with his capteins and men of warre English and Burgognions came in good arraie to giue battell to the besiegers And bicause the riuer of Yonne which runneth by the said towne was betweene the English armie and their aduersaries they could not well assaile their enimies which defended the bankes and passages verie stronglie yet notwithstanding both horssemen and footmen of the English part couragiouslie put themselues into the riuer and with fine force recouered the banke whome the Burgognions incontinentlie followed When they were all gotten into the plaine the archers shot the bill men strake and long was the fight in doubtfull balance But in conclusion the Frenchmen not able to resist the force of the English nation were
Iohn duke of Norffolke the worshipfull father in God Thomas bishop of Duresme Philip bishop of Worcester Iohn bishop of Bath the noble lord Humfrie earle of Stafford the worshipfull persons maister William Alnewicke kéeper of the kings priuie seale and Rafe lord Cromwell promising and behighting by the faith of his bodie word of his princehood and kings sonne to doo kéepe obserue and fulfill for him and his behalfe all that shall be declared ordeined and arbitrated by the foresaid archbishop dukes bishops earle keeper of the priuie seale and lord Cromwell in all matters and quarels abouesaid Granting also and promising ouer that to be comprehended in the foresaid arbitrement as toward putting awaie all heauinesses and displeasures in anie wise conteined by my lord of Glocester against all those that haue in anie wise assisted counselled or fauoured vnto his said vncle of Winchester and as toward anie matters that be touching my lord of Glocester remitteth it and the gouernance thereof vnto the king his councell they to déeme it by the aduise of his councell as him thinketh it to be doonâ In witnesse of the which thing to this present compromise my said lord of Glocester hath subscribed his name with his owne hand Humfreie Glocester And in like forme my lord of Winchester in an other compromise hath subscribed with his owne hand vnder the word of his priesthood to stand at the aduise ordinance arbitrement of the persons abouesaid Mutatis mutandis A decree or order taken by the kings councell for the pacifieng of the quarels variances that were betweene the duke of Glocester and the bishop of Winchester THe causes aforesaid and quarels by vs séene heard and diligentlie examined and decréed by the assent of the said parties ordeine and award that my lords of Glocester and of Winchester for any thing doone or spoken by that one partie against that other or by anie of theirs or anie other person or persons afore the seuenth daie of this present moneth of March neuer hereafter take causes quarels displeasures or heauinesses that one against the other ne neither against the counsellers adherents or fauourers of that other for anie thing or things that are past And that my said lord of Glocester be good lord to my said lord of Winchester haue him in loue and affection as his kinsman vncle And that my said lord of Winchester haue to my said lord of Glocester true and sad loue and affection doo and be readie to doo him such seruice as apperteineth of honestie to my said lord of Winchester and his estate to doo And that each of them be good lord vnto all those adherents counsellers and fauourers of that other and shew them at all times fauourable loue and affection as for anie thing by them doone or said before the seauenth daie of March. And we decrée ordeine and award that my said lord of Winchester in the presence of the king our souereigne lord my lord of Bedford and my lord of Glocester and the residue of the lords spirituall and temporall and commons being in this present parlement saie and declare in maner and forme that followeth My souereigne lord I haue well vnderstand that I am noised among the states of your land how that the king our souereigne lord that was at that time being prince and lodged in the great chamber at Westminster by the baieng of a spaniell there was on a night taken behind a tapet in the same chamber a man that should haue confessed that he was there by mine excitation and procuring to haue slaine the foresaid prince there in his bed wherevpon he was sacked and foorthwith also drowned in the Thames Furthermore I am accused how that I should haue stirred the king that last died the time also that he was prince to haue taken the gouernance of this realme and the crowne vpon him his father liuing the same time being king Through which language and noising I féele my name and fame greatlie enblemished in diuerse mens opinions Wherevpon I take first God to my witnes and after all the world that I haue béene at all times and am true louer and true man to you my souereigne lord and shall line 10 be all my life And also I haue béene to my souereigne lord that was your father all the time of his reigne true man and for such he tooke me trusted me and cherished me to his liues end and as I trust no man will affirme the contrarie nor neuer in my life procuring nor imagining death nor destruction of his person ne assenting to any such thing or like thereto the time that he was king or prince or else in other state I was likewise true man to king Henrie the line 20 fourth all the time that he was my souereigne lord and reigned vpon me In which matters in all maner of wise that it liketh to you my souereigne lord for to command me I am readie for to declare me and furthermore where how and when it shall like you by the aduise of your councell to assigne me Wherfore I beséech you my souereigne lord as humblie as I can considering that there is no grounded processe by the which I might lawfullie in these matters abouesaid be conuict blessed be God to hold me line 30 and declare me by the aduise of all the lords spirituall and temporall being in this present parlement true man to you my souereigne lord and so to haue beene vnto my souereigne lords that were your father and grandfather and true man also to haue béene at all times to your said father whilest he was prince or else in anie other estate the said slander and noise notwithstanding and this same declaration to be inacted in this your said present parlement The which words declared in maner as it is abouesaid line 40 it seemeth to my said lords the arbitrators that it is méet that my said lord of Winchester draw him apart and in the meane time the lords being present be singularlie examined therevpon and saie their aduise And if it be assented by them in maner as my said lord of Winchester desireth let him be called againe and that then my lord of Bedford haue these words in effect that follow Faire vncle the king my lord by the aduise of his councell hath commanded me to saie to you that he hath well vnderstand line 50 and considered all the matters which yée haue heere openlie declared in his presence and therevpon yée desire a petition that he will declare you and by the aduise and assent of the lords spirituall and temporall being in this present parlement he declareth you a true man to him and that yée haue so béene to my lord his father and grandfather also true man to my lord his father while he was prince or else in anie other estate the said dislander and noising notwithstanding and will that the said declaration be so line 60 inacted in
robbing houses and spoiling ships And beside this they tooke the principall ships of the kings nauie and had them awaie with them to Calis one excepted called Grace de Dieu which might not be had awaie bicause she was broken in the bottome and there presented them to the line 30 earle of March of whome he was ioifullie receiued For though in the fight he was sore hurt maimed in the leg so as he halted euer after yet he bare himselfe so worthilie in that enterprise that his praise was great amongst all men ¶ Sir Baldwine Fulford vndertooke on paine of loosing his head that he would destroie the earle of Warwike but when he had spent the king a thousand marks in monie year 1460 he returned againe After this good fortune thus chanced to the lords diuerse of the line 40 best ships taken in the hauen of Sandwich were well vittelled and manned and with them the earle of Warwike sailed into Ireland to common with the duke of Yorke of their great affaires and businesse The weather and wind were so fauourable to the earles purpose that within lesse than thirtie daies he passed and repassed from Calis to Dublin and backe againe The duke of Excester being chéefe admerall of the sea laie in the west countrie and durst not once line 50 meddle with the earle of Warwikes nauie as he came by by reason of the mistrust which he had in the capteins and mariners of his owne nauie who by their murmuring well shewed that they wished the earle of Warwikes good successe ¶ But here is to be remembred that after the great discomfiture of the lords as before you haue heard and proclamation made against them as traitors the duke of Yorke and the earles of Salisburie and Warwike had conference and therevpon concluded with one assent line 60 to write a letter excusatorie supposing thereby to salue vp the sore in all their names to the king and so did as followeth A copie of the said letter excusatorie written by the said duke and earles MOst christian king right high and mightie prince and our most dread souereigne lord after as humble recommendations to your high excellencie as will suffice Our true intent to the prosperitie and augmentation of your high estate and to the common-weale of this realme hath beene shewed vnto your highnesse in such writing as we make thereof And ouer that an indenture signed by our hands in the church cathedrall of Worcester comprehending the proofe of the truth and dutie that God knoweth we beare to your said estate and to the preheminence and prerogatiue thereof we sent vnto your good grace by the prior of the said church and diuerse other doctors and among other by maister William Linwood doctor of diuinitie which ministred vnto vs seuerallie the blessed sacrament of the bodie of Iesus wherevpon we and euerie of vs deposed for our said truth and dutie according to the tenor of the said indenture And since that time we haue certified at large in writing and by mouth by Garter king of armes not onelie to your said highnesse but also to the good and worthie lords being about your most noble presence the largenesse of our said truth and dutie and our intent and disposition to search all the motions that might serue conuenientlie to the affirmation thereof and to our perfect suerties from such inconuenient and vnreuerent ieopardies as we haue beene put in diuerse times here before Whereof we haue cause to make and ought to make such exclamation and complaint not without reason as is not vnknowen to all the said worthie lords and to all this land and will offer vs to your high presence to the same intent if we might so doo with our said suertie which onelie causeth vs to keepe such fellowship as we doo in our léefull manner And hereto we haue forborne and auoided all things that might serue to the effusion of christian bloud of the dread that we haue of God and of your roiall maiestie and haue also eschued to approch your said most noble presence for the humble obeisance and reuerence wherein we haue and during our life will haue the same And yet neuerthelesse we heare that we be proclamed and defamed in our name vnrightlie vnlawfullie and sauing your high reuerence vntrulie and otherwise as God knoweth than we haue giuen cause knowing certeinelie that the blessed and noble intent of your said good grace and the righteousnesse thereof is to take repute and accept your true and lawfull subiects and that it accordeth neither with your said intent nor with your will or pleasure that we should be otherwise taken or reputed And ouer that our lordships and tenants béene of high violence robbed and spoiled against your peace and lawes and all righteousnesse We therfore as we suffice beseech your said good grace to take repute and receiue there vnto our said truth and intent which to God is knowne as we shew it by the said tenor of the same indenture And not applie your said blessednesse ne the great righteousnesse and equitie wherewith God hath euer indued your high nobilitie to the importune impatience and violence of such persons as intend of extreame malice to proceed vnder the shadow of your high might and presence to our destruction for such inordinate couetise whereof God is not pleased as they haue to our lands offices and goods not letting or sparing therefore to put such things in all lamentable and too sorowfull ieopardie as might in all wise take effect by the mysterie of Gods will and power Not hauing regard to the effusion of christian bloud ne anie tendernesse to the noble bloud of this land such as serue to the tuition and defense thereof ne not waieng the losse of your true liege men of your said realme that God defend which knoweth our intent and that we haue auoided there from as farre as we may with our suerties not of anie dread that we haue of the said persons but onelie of the dread of God and of your said highnesse and will not vse our said defense vntill the time that we be prouoked of necessitâe whereof we call heauen and earth vnto witnesse and record and there in beseech God to be our iudge and to deliuer vs according to our said intent and our said truth dutie to your said highnesse and to the said common-weale Most christian king right high and mightie prince and most dread souereigne lord we beseech our blessed Lord to preserue your honour and estate in ioy and felicitie Written at Ludlow the tenth daie of October R. Yorke R. Warwike R. Salisburie During this time the king called a parlement in the citie of Couentrie which began the twentith of September in the which were attainted of high treason Richard duke of Yorke Edward erle of March his sonne and heire Richard earle of Warwike Edmund earle of Rutland Richard earle of Salisburie Iohn lord
Bale it should appeare he became a frier Carmelit in Bristow Henrie Wichingham a Carmelit frier of Norwich a notable diuine a great preacher and wrote also sundrie treatises of diuinitie Iohn Lidgate a monke of Burie an excellent poet and chiefe in his time in that facultie of all other that practised the same within this land he trauelled thorough France and Italie to learne the languages and sciences how greatlie he profited in atteining to knowledge the workes which he wrote doo sufficientlie testifie Nicholas Hostresham an excellent physician Iohn Blackeneie a religious man of the order of the Trinitie intituled De redemptione captiuorum and prior of an house of the same order at Ingham in Norffolke he was surnamed Blackeneie of the towne where he was borne Thomas Beckington bishop of Bath wrote against the law Salique by which law the Frenchmen would seclude the princes of this realme from their title vnto the crowne of France Iohn Baringham a Carmelite frier of Gippeswich in Suffolke Dauid Bois borne in Wales and a frier Carmelit professed in Glocester a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Brome an Augustine frier Michaell Trigurie a Cornishman borne whome for his excellencie and learning king Henrie the fift appointed to be gouernour of that schoole or vniuersitie which he instituted in the citie of Caen in Normandie after he had brought it vnder his subiection Iohn Amundisham a moonke of saint Albons Oswald Anglicus a moonke of the Chartreux order Iohn Keningale a Carmelit frier of Norwich Peter De sancta line 10 fide a Carmelit also of Norwich Reginald Pecocke bishop of Chichester of whome ye haue heard before he was borne in Wales and student in Oriall college in Oxenford where he procéeded doctor of diuinitie he wrote manie treatises touching the christian religion Iohn surnamed Burie of the towne where he was borne an Augustine frier in the towne of Clare in Suffolke Robert Fleming a man perfect in the Gréeke and Latine toong among whose works some haue line 20 béene séene vnder these titles namelie Lucubrationum Tiburtinarm lib. 1. a dictionarie in Gréeke and Latine and a worke in verse of sundrie kinds this man was of most fame in the yeare of our Lord 1470 which was in the tenth yeare of Edward the fourth though he were not obscure also in the daies of this Henrie the sixt Thomas Gascoigne borne at Hunfléete in Yorkeshire of that worshipfull familie of the Gascoignes there a doctor of diuinitie and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford William Stapilhart borne in Kent but by profession a white frier line 30 in London Robert Fimingham borne in Norffolke a Franciscan frier in Norwich Nicholas Montacute an historiographer Iohn Chandler chancellor of Welles William Botoner descended of a good house a knight by degrée and borne in Bristow verie studious in antiquities and other sciences Iohn Stow a monke of Norwich but student in Oxenford where he procéeded doctor of diuinitie Thomas Langleie a monke of Hulme Nicholas Bungeie borne in a towne of Norffolke of that line 40 name wrote an historie called Adunationes chronicorum Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester base sonne to Iohn duke of Lancaster of whome before we haue made sufficient mention made cardinall by pope Martine the fourth in the yeare 1426 Adam Homlington a Carmelit frier William Coppinger maister of the vniuersitie of Oxenford Thomas Stacie an expert mathematician and no lesse skilfull in astronomie Iohn Talaugerne a moonke of Worcester William Sutton an astrologian Robert Balsacke wrote a booke intituled De re militari that is to saie of warre or chiualrie so that as is thought he was both a good souldier and a painefull student of good letters Thomas Dando a Carmelit frier of Marleburgh he wrote the life of Alphred king of west Saxons William Graie borne of the noble house of the Graies of Codnor he went to atteine to some excellencie of learning in Italie where he heard that noble clearke Guarinus Ueronensis read in Ferrara he was preferred to the bishoprike of Elie in the yéere 1454 by pope Nicholas the fift when Thomas Bourchier was translated from thense to Canturburie Iohn Kempe archbishop of Yorke and after remooued from thense to Canturburie as before ye haue heard he was made cardinall of S. Albin by pope Eugenie the fourth Adam Molins as Bale calleth him kéeper of the kings priuie seale excellentlie learned in time of the ciuill warre betwixt king Henrie and the duke of Yorke in which he lost his head Thomas Chillenden a doctor both of the law ciuill and canon became at length a moonke in Canturburie Robert Bale surnamed the elder excellentlie learned in the lawes of the realme recorder of London gathered as it were a chronicle of the customes lawes foundations changes restoring magistrats offices orders and publike assemblies of the citie of London with other matters touching the perfect description of the same citie he wrote other works also touching the state of the same citie and the acts of king Edward the third he departed this life in the yeare of our Lord 1461 euen about the beginning of the reigne of king Edward the fourth vnto whome we will now againe returne Thus farre the tragicall historie of Henrie the sixt depriued of his roialtie Edward the fourth earle of March sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke AFter that this prince Edward earle of March had taken vpon him the gouernement of this realme of England as before ye haue heard the morow next insuing being the fourth of March he rode to the church of saint Paule and there offered and after Te Deum soong with great solemnitie he was conueied to Westminster and there set in the hall with the scepter roiall in his hand whereto people in great numbers assembled His claime to the crowne was declared to be by two maner of waies the first as sonne and heire to duke Richard his father right inheritor to the same the second by authoritie of parlement and forfeiture committed by king Henrie Wherevpon it was againe demanded of the commons if they would admit and take the said erle as their prince and souereigne lord which all with one voice cried Yea yea This part thus plaied he entered into Westminster church vnder a canopie with solemne procession and there as king offered and herewith taking the homages of all the nobles there present he returned by water to London and was lodged in the bishops palace and on the morrow after he was proclamed king by the name of Edward the fourth throughout the citie This was in the yeare of the world 5427 and after the birth of our Sauiour 1461 after our accompt beginning the yeare at Christmasse but after line 10 the vsuall accompt of the church of England 1460 the twentith of emperour Frederike the third the nine and thirtith and last of Charles the seuenth French king and first yeare of the reigne of Iames the third king of Scots Whilest
our souereigne lord aforesaid as by certeine writings betwixt the said princes therevpon made more at large plainlie appeares That if it be the pleasure of the said Edward king of England to haue the said mariage to be performed and completed according to the said communication in writing that then it shall be well and trulie line 30 without fraud deceipt or collusion obserued kept and accomplished on the partie of our souereigne lord aforesaid the nobles spirituall and temporall of the realme of Scotland And if it be not the pleasure of the said excellent prince Edward king of England to haue the said mariage performed and completed that then we Walter prouost burgesses merchants and commons of the aboue named towne of Edenburgh line 40 or anie of vs shall paie and content to the king of England aforesaid all the summes of monie that was paied for the said mariage at such like termes daies immediatlie insuing after the refusall of the said mariage and in such like maner forme as the said summes were afore deliuered contented and paied that then this obligation and bond to be void and of no line 50 strength Prouided alwaies that the said Edward king of England shall giue knowledge of his pleasure and election in the premisses in taking or refusing of the said mariage or of repaiment of the said sums of monie to our said souereigne lord or lords of his councell or to vs the said prouost merchants or any of vs within the realme of Scotland being for the time betwixt this the feast of Alhalowes next to come line 60 To the which paiment well and trulie to be made we bind and oblige vs euerie of vs our heires successors executors and all our goods merchandizes things what soeuer they be where soeuer or in what place by water or by land on this side the sea or beyond we shall happen to be found anie league anie truce or safegard made or to be made notwithstanding In witnesse whereof to this our present writing and letters of bond we the said prouost burgesses merchants and communitie haue set our common seale of the said towne of Edenburgh the fourth daie of August the yeare of our Lord God 1482. Giuen in the presence of the right mightie prince Richard duke of Glocester Alexander duke of Albanie the reuerend father in God Iames bishop of Dunkeld the right noble lord Henrie earle of Northumberland Colin earle of Argile Thomas lord Stanleie maister Alexander English and others c. So that you see it was conteined in the said instrument or writing that king Edward should intimate his pleasure vnto the said prouost and burgesses of Edenburgh before the feast of Alsaints next following whether he would the mariage should take place or that he would haue the paiment of the monie According to which article king Edward sent Gartier his principall king of armes and Northumberland herald to declare his refusall of the mariage and the election and choise of the repaiment of the monie They came to Edenburgh eight daies before the feast of Alsaints where according to their commission and instructions Gartier declared the pleasure of the king his maister vnto the prouost and burgesses of Edenburgh to whom he openlie said as followeth The intimation of Gartier king of armes to the Edenburghers I Gartier king of armes seruant proctour and messenger vnto the most high and mightie prince my most dread souereigne lord Edward by the grace of God king of England and of France and lord of Ireland by vertue of certeine letters of procuracie here readie to be shewed come by my said souereigne lord made and giuen make notice and giue knowledge vnto you prouost burgesses merchants and communaltie of the towne of Edenburgh in Scotland that whereas it was sometime communed and agreed betweene my said souereigne lord on the one partie and the right high mightie prince Iames king of Scots on the other partie that mariage and matrimonie should haue beene solemnized and had betweene Iames the first begotten sonne of the said king of Scots and ladie Cicilie daughter to my said souereigne lord the king of England And for the said mariage to haue beene performed certeine and diuers great sums of monie beene paied and contented by my said souereigne lord which summes of monie in case of refusall of the said mariage by my said souereigne lord to be made and declared yee the said prouost burgesses merchants and communaltie and euerie one of you are bound and obliged by your letters vnder your common seale of your towne of Edenburgh to repaie vnto his highnes vnder like forme at such termes as they were first paied So that the king my souereigne lord would make notice and knowledge of his pleasure and election in taking or refusing of the said mariage of the repaiment of the said sums of monie before the feast of Alhalowes next to come like as in your said letters bearing date at Edenburgh the fourth daie of August last past it was conteined all at large The pleasure and election of my said souereigne lord for diuerse causes and considerations him moouing is to refuse the accomplishment of the said mariage and to haue the repaiment of all such summes of monie as by occasion of the said betrusted line 10 mariage his highnesse had paied The said repaiment to be had of you prouost burgesses merchants and communaltie and euerie of you your heires and successours according to your bond and obligation afore rehearsed And therefore I giue you notice knowledge by this writing which I deliuer vnto you within the terme in your said letters limited and expressed to line 20 all intents and effects which thereof may insue When Gartier had thus declared all things giuen to him in charge the prouost and other burgesses made answer that they now knowing the kings determinat pleasure would according to their bond prepare for the repaiment of the said summes and gentlie interteining Gartier conueied him to Berwike from whence he departed to Newcastell to line 30 the duke of Glocester making relation to him of all his dooings which duke with all speed returned to Shrithuton and there abode Shortlie after Gartiers departing the duke of Albanie thinking to obteine againe the high fauour of the king his brother deliuered him out of captiuitie and prison wherin he had a certeine space continued not without the dukes assent which besieged him in the castell of Edenburgh a little before and set him at large of whome outwardlie he receiued great thanks when inwardlie line 40 nothing but reuenging confusion was in the kings stomach fullie setled So that shortlie after in the kings presence he was in ieopardie of his life and all vnprouided for dread of death constrained to take a small balinger and to saile into France where shortlie after riding by the men of armes which incountered at the tilt by Lewes then duke of
the voices of the electors with his huge summes of monie especiallie for that there were amongest them both pensionaries to him and otherwise assured by manie good offices who incouraging him with the facilitie of the enterprise pushed him on to imbrace it And for his part as mortall men are apt to beléeue the thing they desire so he nourished that hope with reasons rather apparant than true he knew that commonlie it was a matter grieuous to the princes of Germanie to haue the emperors mightie being gealous that in so great a puissance they would not either in part or in all quarrell the iurisdictions and authorities imperiall occupied by manie of them In which reason he persuaded himselfe that they would in no sort consent to the election of the Spaniard so of themselues to subiect themselues to an emperor more mightie than had beene since a long descent and race of emperors A matter which in his person séemed to be qualified for that hauing neither estates nor ancient aliances in Germanie they had no occasion of suspicion of his greatnesse The same reason also made him beleeue well of the conformitie of the frée townes in whome much lesse that the regard of the glorie of the nation would carie it from him séeing it would helpe to peize the ballance on his side for that with most men the motions of proper and priuate interest maie doo more than the respect of publike and generall profit He knewe it was not a little grieuous to manie noble houses of Germanie pretending to be capable of such a dignitie to see the empire continue so long time in one house but much more did it discontent them to suffer that so great an estate which of right ought sometimes to be giuen to one of them and sometime to passe to another should become a perpetuall descent and succession in one line insomuch as they might call inheritance and succession that election which durst not leaue the line of the emperors That in that sort the empire was translated from Albert de Austrich to Frederike his brother and from Frederike to Maximilian his sonne and now there was deuise to passe it from Maximilian to the person of Charles his grandchild By these humors and indignations of the princes of Germanie he tooke hope that the discords and gealousies among â themselues might helpe on his cause the rather for that it often happeneth in the contentions of men that he that is excluded or the partie whome he fauoureth runneth with a naturall rashnesse rather to call in and to aduance a third than to giue place to him that hath opposed against his intention Moreouer the French king was not without his hopes in the fauour of the pope both in regard of the amitie and aliance newlie past betwixt them and also for that he was not ignorant how inconuenient it would be to the sée apostolike to haue the imperiall crowne inuested in Charls nor so much for his owne greatnesse as for that by the opportunitie and neighbourhood of the realme of Naples to the estate of the church and the adherencie of the barons of the Gebelins he had a plaine and open passage to run vp to the gates of Rome But in that discourse he considered not that the same reason which he iudged true against Charles was also against himselfe for that the empire being ioined to his person he was no lesse to be feared of line 10 the pope all others than Charles For that though the one of them possessed happilie more realmes and states yet the other was not to be lesse esteemed hauing his power not dispersed nor separate in manie places but was prince of a realme entierlie assembled and vnited where the obedience and fidelitie of his subiects was no lesse woonderfull than his treasure and riches infinite Neuerthelesse not knowing in himselfe that which he considered in an other he had recourse to the pope and implored his fauor vnder line 20 the offer and protestation of his person and kingdoms with all other deuotions of a louing son Notwithstanding all this the French king was abused by his vaine hope which fed him with fansies of the empire where to he was not allotted nor elected For on the twentie eight of Iune was elected to be emperor Charles king of Castile and nephue to the quéene by the whole assent of the electors of the empire namelie the archbishop of Maience the archbishop of Cullen the count Palatine and the duke line 30 of Saxon. Although the French king sent his great maister to cause him to be elected to the high maiestie of the empire yet his ambassador and great maister of his houshold called Gonffier lord of Boisie and brother to William Gonffier lord Boneuet admerall of France which was ambassador in England the last yéere as you haue heard did not so his message that it tooke anie effect The king which had sent doctor Pace his secretarie for the aduancement of his nephue the king of Castile to the dignitie imperiall line 40 because he had the duchie of Austrich and manie other seigniories in Almaine was verie ioious of this election and caused a solemne masse to be soong at Paules the seuenth daie of Iulie at which masse was present the cardinall Campeius the cardinall of Yorke the duke of Buckingham of Norffolke Suffolke with the ambassadours of Spaine France Uenice and Scotland After masse was doone the quier sang Te Deum and then all the lords departed to Bainards castell to line 50 dinner and that night were solemne fires made thorough London and great plentie of wine giuen by Italians Dutchmen and Spaniards for these newes In this yeare the king with all the knights of his order being in England rode on double horsses with the henchmen following the king from Colbrooke to Windsore in gorgious apparell and there he kept with great solemnitie the feast of saint George and dined in the hall The bishop of Winchester prelat of the order sat at the boords end alone The king line 60 was solemnelie serued and the surnap cast like the feast of a coronation All things were plentious to strangers that resorted thither At the masse of Requiem were offered the banner other habillements of honour belonging to Maximilian the emperour late deceassed After this feast ended the king came to Richmond and so to Gréenewich and there laie all Maie In which moneth the kings councell secretlie communed togither of the kings gentlenesse and liberalitie to all persons by the which they perceiued that certeine yoong men in his priuie chamber not regarding his estate or degree were so familiar and homelie with him that they forgat themselues Which things although the king of his gentle nature suffered and not rebuked nor reprooued it yet the kings councell thought it not méet to be suffered for the kings honour and therefore they all togither came to the king beseeching him to haue more
thinking that notwithstanding the answer before made yet because the most part of the citizens were of their opinions and of the like affections in religion would not resist them as also that they had manie friends within the citie more readie to ioine with them than to follow the maior if they might haue the choise what to doo they came being in number about two thousand persons to the citie vpon the second of Iulie 1â49 first making proclamation that if the citie would not yeeld line 60 and ioine with them they would enter with force and take the spoile of it so then they vpon the deniall compassed the same round about and gained vnto them at the first all the suburbs And hereof they conceiued such a vaine hope to haue their full desire vpon the citie that not onelie the number in hope did dailie more more increase but also manie of them brought their wiues horsses and pâniers persuading themselues and promising them by such a daie and vpon such a daie to enter into the citie and then to measure veluets and silks by the bow and to lade their horsses home with plate monie and other great riches The maior and his brethren forecasting the perils which might in such a case insue doo prouide all things necessarie and méet wherewith to defend themselues and to annoie the enimie The citie therefore is viewed for armor men are mustered soldiers are reteined capteins in euerie ward appointed warders for the daie and watchmen for the night assigned great péeces of ordinance laid in euerie gate and placed in all conuenient places of the wals mounts in sundrie places erected as well for laieng of ordinance as for sauing of the soldiers watchmen from the enimies shot and nothing was left vndoone which in anie respect that present state and necessitie required The rebels likewise intrench the high waies plash downe trées breake downe bridges kéepe watches and wards in euerie place so that no man could passe to or from the citie without their sufferance The markets are stopped vittels are kept from it and all dealings and intercourses shut and cut off and hauing as they bragged penned and shut vp the townesmen in a coope or mew they plant their ordinance against euerie gate and in all other such places as best to serue their turne and to hurt them within they burnt the gates they brake vp the pipes and conduits aswell for the taking awaie of the water comming to the citie as also to haue the led to serue for their shot and pellets But for the burning of the gates there followed rather a benefit than a hurt thereof for foorthwith there were made certeine rampiers within the gate which were farre stronger and of more defense than the gates as also there were fiers continuallie kept euerie night betwéene the rampiers and the gates and as for water the citie so standeth vpon a little hill that it is full of springs in euerie quarter within the same and by that means full and plentifull of euerie good and swéet waters Also they in sundrie places did vndermine the wals minding thereby with gunpowder and with other matters fit for fier to haue blowne vp the wals and so to haue entered in that waie but herein they were also preuented by this means and in this maner The citie it selfe as is before said is set vpon a little hill and lieth verie stéeping towards two of the gates And at one of these named the west gate the said rebels had vndermined on the one side and filled the place with certeine barels of powder pitch and other stuffe méet and apt to receiue fier and had appointed the night when the same should be set on fier and so to haue blowne the wals vp At the same time there was a certeine tinner in the citie whose dwelling was at Teingemouth named Iohn Newcombe who depended much vpon the goodwill and fréendship of maister William Hurst one of the aldermen of the citie and he vnderstanding of such an vndermining to be in working aduertised the same to maister Hurst and maketh him priuie how he would preuent the same which was doone in this maner For whereas he by a noise vnder the ground did suspect the vndermining to be in working he tooke a pan of water did put the same on the ground by shaking of the water in the pan he by remoouing the pan from place to place came at length to the verie place whereas the miners were working and foorthwith he countermined against the same and wrought so néere vnto it vntill that he might and did sée looke into it That âoone he caused all the wals and tirpits in the citie towards euerie stréet hauing a fall that waie to be drawne at one time and euerie man to fill therewith a great tub of water at his foredoore which being ãâã he caused them all at one instant to be cast out and emptied which water running in great abundance towards the said west gate was conueied into the place countermined so entered and drowned the place which before was mined at which time also by the goodnesse of God there fell a great showre as the like for the time had not beene séene manie years before and which at that instant greatlie serued this turne The rebels perceiuing themselues disappointed of their purpose gaue ouer to deale anie further in those attempts howbeit otherwise they left nothing vndoone which might be to annoie the citizens For sometimes they made alarums as though they with all might and maine would haue giuen the line 10 scale and indeed they had prouided ladders for the same purpose Sometimes they by policies would séeke to come to the gates to burne them and herein they vsed this stratagem They prouided carts laden with old haie driuing the whéeles before them would come to the gate without danger and so set fier in the gate But notwithstanding they escaped not scotfrée for both at the west gate and at the south-gate their commings being perceiued the great port péeces were charged with great bags of flint-stones line 20 and haileshot and as they were approching vnto the gates the gates were secretlie opened and the said port péeces discharged and so they were spoiled diuerse of them by that means they had small pleasure to follow those deuises as also the citizens to preuent the same did from thensefoorth kéepe the gates open Likewise they would kéepe themselues close in sundrie houses in the suburbs neere the wals and would so watch the garrets that if anie within the citie would looke out at the garrets was line 30 in the danger of their shot and some thereby were killed and manie hurt Upon which occasion the citizens set some part of the suburbs on fier and some part which was next to the wals they beat and brake downe and so draue the rebels out
and scope of libertie to talke and conferre with them euerie man at his pleasure there wanted no deuises vnder colour of freendlie conferences to deuise how to compasse their intents howbeit it pleased the eternall God so to carrie and rule the hearts of the magistrats that albeit being nuzled in the Romish religion they were affected therevnto yet they so much respected their dutie to their prince and the safetie to their common-wealth line 30 that they openlie professed they would neuer yéeld the citie so long as they liued and were able to kéepe and defend the same For the maior himselfe maister William Hurst maister Iohn Buller maister Iohn Britnall maister William Periam others of the ancientest of the citie were by sundrie means waies deuises and reasons persuaded to conioine themselues in this rebellion with the commoners They all with one mind and one voice gaue a flat answer that in the citie line 40 they had béene brought vp there they had gotten their liuings there they had sworne their fidelitie and allegiance to their king and prince there they had faithfullie hitherto serued him and there would so continue so long as they could to the vttermost of their powers all which their promises auowries the Lord be praised they performed But to the matter Sundrie other trecheries deuises were practised which particularlie to recite were verie tedious to no purpose The last but the line 50 most perillous practise was this When these male-contents saw themselues to be preuented in all their deuises which before they had but secretlie and priuatlie practised now they conioining themselues togither doo openlie shew and declare themselues being persuaded that bicause they were the greater number and that also the most part of the poore people were wearie and for want of vittels would not indure to be pinned in anie longer that therefore manie would ioine against a few and that the game line 60 would go on their side And so on a sundaie being but two dais before the deliuerie of the citie about eight of the clocke in the forenoone a companie of them in euerie quarter of the citie hauing their consorts in a readines to ioine serue with them if need so required get into the streets walking with their weapons and in their armour as to fight with their enimies and crie out Come out these heretikes and twopenie bookemen Where be they By Gods wounds bloud we will not be pinned in to serue their turne We will go out and haue in our neighbors they be honest good and godlie men Their pretense and meaning being then that if anie of the contrarie side had come out they would haue quarelled with them and haue taken occasion to set vpon him and so raise a new tumult But by the prouidence and goodnesse of God it so fell out that some being in their houses and some at their parish churches the maior and magistrates were first aduertised herof before the others heard anie thing of the matter and they according to their wisedoms pacified the matter and ãâã Iohn Uincent Iohn Sharke and others the belwedders of this flocke vnto their houses ãâã in the south gate stréet and at the south gate there was a little stur which being soone stopped there insued no hurt therof other than a broken pate or two for as it fell out the warders of that gate at that time were against them and of the greater companie These and manie other like practises were dailie and continuallie vsed on the one side which in the end came to no effect bicause the Lord kept the citie The others on the other side being altogither bent to honor God obeie the king and to serue in their commonwealth were fullie resolued to kéepe and defend the citie whose cause being iust and good was sufficient of it selfe to kéepe them in that mind and yet their courage was the more for that they saw the good bent of the maior and magistrates who howsoeuer they were affected otherwise in religion yet they were wholie bent and determined to kéepe and defend the citie and therefore they seeing the industrie carefulnesse seruice and painefulnesse of these men doo fauour incourage and countenance them and to saie the truth by the industrie and good seruice of them the citie was cheeflie kept and preserued For there was no seruice to be doone within nor exploit to be aduentured without vpon the enimie as manie times there were sallies giuen but these were the chiefest and commonlie the onelie dooers for which cause the contrarie side maruelouslie maligned at them and sought by all means how to impeach and indanger them Which thing being dailie perceiued more and more by sundrie arguments and as wise men séeking how to preuent the same did manie and sundrie times confer among themselues herein and in the end made a couenant and a faithfull promise among themselues being then about the number of one hundred persons that they would stand firmelie and faithfullie to the defense and kéeping of the citie to their vttermost powers And if it so fell out that the rebell and enimie should haue accesse and entrie into the citie that then they should all méet at the lord Russels now the earle of Bedfords house and there to issue out at the posterne of the garden and to giue the aduenture to passe and to escape awaie as also if they were resisted that then they to stand togither to their defense And for this purpose they had then named some one man to be their capteine for this enterprise And in the meane time to doo all things circumspectlie for the preseruation of the citie by a particular couenant among themselues did take order that during the whole beseeging of the citie and their aboad therein a certeine number by course and besides the ordinarie set watch should watch ward and walke about continuallie both by daie and night by which means no sleight nor treacherie could be practised but that they should haue an inkeling and vnderstanding thereof and which indéed stood and came to such effect that it was the chiefest if not the onelie cause of the preseruation of the citie for that time For there was no seruice no diligence no care nor anie thing wanting or left vndoone which by these men was not doone Howbeit the diuell the author of all diuision and strife who cannot abide anie vnitie concord and agréement in good causes did here also hurle in a bone among these men whereof had insued a great detriment to the common state and an ouerthrow to themselues had it not in due time beene preuented There were two gentlemen within this citie and both of this companie the one was borne of a honorable house and parentage named Iohn Courtneie a yoonger sonne to sir William Courtneie of Porederham knight and a man of verie good knowledge and experience in seruice The other also was
chéeflie or rather vpon men and those also of the best age as betwéen thirtie fortie yeers The spéedie riddance of life procured by this sicknes did so terrifie people of all sorts that such as could make shift either with monie or freendship changed their soile and leauing places of concourse betooke them for the time to abodes though not altogither solitarie yet lesse frequented to conclude manifold meanes were made for safetie of life The first wéeke died in London eight hundred persons The manner of this sweat was such that if men did take anie cold outwardlie it stroke the sweat in and immediatlie killed them If they were suffered to sléepe commonlie they swooned in their sleepe and departed or else died immediatlie vpon their waking But the waie to escape danger was close keeping moderatlie with some aire and a little drinke and the same to be posset-ale and so to kéepe them thirtie houres then was the danger past but beware of sudden cold Before men had learned the manner of keeping an infinit number perished This disease at that time followed Englishmen none other nation for in Antwerpe and other countries our Englishmen being there amongst diuerse other nations onelie our Englishmen were sicke thereof and none other persons The consideration of which thing made this nation much afraid thereof who for the time began to repent and giue almes and to remember God from whom that plague might well séeme to be sent among vs. But as the disease in time ceased so our deuotion in short time decaied At this time also the king with the aduise of his priuie councell and hauing also great conference with merchants and others perceiuing that by such coins and copper monies as had beene coined in the time of the king his father and now were commonlie currant in the realme and indéed a great number of them not worth halfe the value that they were currant at to the great dishonor of the kings maiestie the realme and to the deceit no little hinderance of all the kings maiesties good subiects did now purpose not onelie the abasing of the said copper monies but also meant wholie to râduce them into bullion to the intent to deliuer fine and good monies for them And therefore in the moneth of Iulie by his graces proclamation he abased the péece of twelue pence commonlie called a teston vnto nine pence and the péece of foure pence vnto three pence And in August next following the peece of nine pence was abased to six pence and the peece of thrée pence vnto two pence and the pennie to an halfepennie On the eleuenth daie of October there was a great creation of dukes and earles as the lord marquesse Dorset was created duke of Suffolke the earle of Warwike made duke of Northumberland and the earle of Wilshire made marquesse of Winchester sir William Herbert maister of the horsse he also made William Cicill his secretarie knight maister Iohn Chéeke one of his schoolemaisters knight maister Henrie Dudlie knight maister Henrie Neuill knight The sixtéenth daie of the said moneth being fridaie the duke of Summerset was againe apprehended his wife also committed to the tower with him also were coÌmitted sir Michaell Stanhope sir Thomas Arundell sir Rafe Uane sir Miles Partrige other for suspicion of treason and felonie whereof they were all shortlie after indicted And so standing indicted the second daie of December next following the said duke was brought out of the tower of London with the ax of the tower borne before him with a great number of billes gleaues halberds pollaxes attending vpon him so came into Westminster hall where was made in the middle of the hall a new scaffold where all the line 10 lords of the kings councell sate as his iudges and there was he arreigned and charged with manie articles both of felonie and treason And when after much mild speech he had answered not guiltie he in all humble manner put himselfe to be tried by his péeres who after long consultation among themselues gaue their verdict that he was not guiltie of the treason but of the felonie The people there present which was a great number hearing the lords saie not guiltie which was to the treason thinking line 20 most certeinlie that he was cléerelie acquited and chieflie for that immediatlie vpon the pronouncing of those words he that caried the ax of the tower departed with the ax they made such an outcrie and âoâe as the like hath not béene heard Which was an euident declaration of their good willes and hartie fauors vnto him whose life they greatlie desired to haue saued for that he had deserued right well of most though the good gentleman had some priuat enimies and had béene as a man maie iustlie saie Solamen magnum patriae solamen amicis line 30 But neuerthelesse he was condemned to the death whereof shortlie after he tasted The felonie that he was condemned of was vpon the statute made the last yeare against rebelles and vnlawfull assemblies wherein amongst other things is one branch that whosoeuer shall procure the death of anie councellor that euerie such attempt or procurement shall be felonie And by force of that statute the duke of Summerset being accompanied with certeine line 40 others was charged that he purposed and attempted the death of the duke of Northumberland the lord marquesse the lord of Penbroke and others of the priuie councell which by statute was felonie After the duke was thus condemned he was againe returned to the tower and landed at the crane of the vinetree and so passed through London where were both exclamations the one cried for ioie that he was acquitted the other cried out that he was condemned But howsoeuer they cried he was conueied line 50 to the tower of London where he remained vntill the two and twentith daie of Ianuarie next folowing The duke being condemned as is aforesaid the people spake diuerslie and murmured against the duke of Northumberland and against some other of the lords for the condemnation of the said duke and also as the common same went the kings maiestie tooke it not in good part Wherefore as well to remooue fond talke out of mens mouths as also to recreat and refresh the troubled spirits of line 60 the yoong king who as saith Grafton séemed to take the trouble of his vncle somewhat heauilie it was deuised that the feast of Christs natiuitie commonlie called Christmasse then at hând should be solemnlie kept at Gréenwich with open houshold and franke resort to court which is called kéeping of the hall what time of old ordinarie course there is alwaies one appointed to make sport in the court called commonlie lord of misrule whose office is not vnknowne to such as haue beene brought vp in noble mens houses and among great house-keepers which vse liberall feasting in that season
said they ye shall haue them or we will throw them line 20 into the bottome of the sea But the capteins said foorthwith that they would serue quéene Marie willinglie and so brought foorth their men and conueied with them their great ordinance Of the comming of these ships the ladie Marie was woonderfull ioious afterward doubted little the dukes puissance but when newes thereof was brought to the tower each man there began to draw backward and ouer that word of a greater mischeefe was brought to the tower that is to saie that the noblemens tenants line 30 refused to serue their lords against quéene Marie The duke thought long for his succors and wrote somewhat sharplie to the councell at the tower in that behalfe as well for lacke of men as munition but a slender answer had he againe And from that time forward certeine of the councell to wit the erle of Penbroke and sir Thomas Cheineie lord warden and other sought to get out of the tower to consult in London but could not On the sixtéenth of Iulie being sundaie doctor Ridleie bishop of London line 40 by commandement of the councell preached at Paules crosse where he vehementlie persuaded the people in the title of the ladie Iane late proclamed quéene and inueied earnestlie against the title of ladie Marie c. The same sixteenth of Iulie the lord treasuror was gone out of the tower to his house in London at night and foorthwith about seauen of the clocke the gates of the tower vpon a sudden were shut vp and the keies borne vp to the ladie Iane which was for feare of some packing in the lord treasuror line 50 but he was fetched againe to the tower about twelue of the clocke in the night The lords of the councell being in this meane while at London after they vnderstood how the better part of the realme were inclined and hearing euerie daie newes of great assemblies began to suspect the sequell of this enterprise So that prouiding for their owne suertie without respect of the duke who now was at Burie they fell to a new councell and lastlie by assent made proclamation at London in the name of the ladie Marie by the name of Marie quéene of England France Ireland defender of the faith of the churches of England Ireland supreme head Of which proclamation after the duke of Northumberland being then at Burie was aduertised by letters of discomfort from the councell he incontinentlie according to the new order receiued from them returned with his power againe to Cambridge Now so sudden change of minds foorthwith appeared in his armie that they which before séemed most forward in that quarrell began first to flie from him so euerie man shifting for himselfe he that late before was furnished of such multitude of souldiers was suddenlie forsaken of all sauing a few whose perils were ioined with his But now before I proceed anie further in the historie of quéene Marie who was now receiued and proclamed quéene as then to succeed hir brother I will speake somewhat of the learned men that wrote published anie pamphlets or treatises in his daies as in deed there were manie but for that the more part of them died in quéene Maries time or in the quéenes maiesties time that now is or else are yet liuing I doo omit those here meaning to speake of them hereafter if God shall permit as occasion maie serue For the residue that ended their liues in this kings daies these I find Dauid Clapham a lawyer and well séene in the Latine toong wrote sundrie treatises Robert Talbot a prebendarie of Norwich verie skilfull in antiquities Edward Hall a counsellor in the common law but excellentlie séene in histories wrote a notable chronicle of the vnion of the two houses of Yorke Lancaster Furthermore Richard Tracie of Todington in Glocestershire an esquier and verie well learned sonne to William Tracie doctor Ioseph an excellent preacher George Ioie a Bedfordshire man that wrote diuerse treatises concerning diuinitie and died either in the last yeare of king Edward or in the beginning of quéene Maries reigne as appeareth by master Bale Alexander Barkleie a Scot a notable poet and a good rhetorician departed this life in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two William Hugh a Yorkeshireman wrote besides other things a notable treatise called the troubled mans medicine he deceassed by the bursting of a veine in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fortie and nine Thomas Sternehold borne in South-hampton turned into English méeter seuen thirtie psalmes chosen foorth of Dauids psalter Of strangers that liued and died here in this kings daies excellentlie learned and renowmed for such treatises as they published to the world Martine Bucer and Paulus Fagius are most famous To end now with this part of the booke concerning king Edward I haue thought good to set downe Ierom Cardans verses written as an epitaph of him and recorded by master Fox in his historie as here followeth Flete nefas magnum sed toto flebilis orbe Mortales vester corruit omnis honor Nam regum decus iuuenum flos spésque bonorum Deliciae secli gloria gentis erat Dignus Apollineis lachrymis doctaeque Minerua Flosculus heu miserè concidit ante diem Te cumulo dabimus musa supremáque flentes Munera Melpomene tristia fata canet Thus farre the good and vertuous yoong prince Edward the sixt successor to Henrie the eight of most famous memorie Marie the eldest daughter of king Henrie the eight successor to Edward the sixt MArie eldest daughter of K. Henrie the eight by the ladie Katharine of Spaine his first wife and sister vnto king Edward the sixt by the fathers side began hir reigne the sixt daie of Iulie which daie the king hir brother died and she was proclamed at London as is before remembred in the end of the historie of king Edward the sixt the nineteenth line 30 daie of the same moneth year 1553 in the yeare of our Lord 1553 after the creation of the world 5520 in the fiue and thirtith yeare of Charles the fift emperor of Almaine in the seuenth yéere of Henrie the second of that name K. of France in the eleuenth of Marie quéene of Scotland The twentith of Iulie the duke of Northumberland being come backe to Cambridge heard that the proclamation of queene Marie was come thither whereof he being aduertised called for a trumpetter and an herald but none line 40 could be found Whervpon he riding into the market place with the maior and the lord marques of Northampton made the proclamation himselfe and threw vp his cap in token of ioy ¶ Within an houre after he had letters from the councell as he said that he should forthwith dismisse his armie and not come within ten miles of London for if he did they would fight with him the rumor whereof was no sooner
did see Iohn Fitzwilliams here euen now who can testifie that he neuer shewed me of any displesure betwixt them and as I know nothing of the displeasure betwixt them so I know nothing of the cause I pray you my lords let him be called to depose in this matter what he can Then Iohn Fitzwilliams drew to the barre and presented himselfe to depose his knowledge in the matter in open court I praie you my lords suffer him not to be sworne neither to speake we haue nothing to doo with him Why should he not be suffered to tell truth And why be ye not so well contented to heare truth for me line 10 as vntruth against me Who called you hither Fitzwilliams or commanded you to speake You are a verie busie officer I called him and doo humblie desire that he maie speake and be heard as well as Uaughan or else I am not indifferentlie vsed especiallie séeing maister attourneie dooth so presse this matter against me Go your waies Fitzwilliams the court hath nothing to doo with you peraduenture you would not be so readie in a good cause Then Iohn Fitzwilliams line 20 departed the court and was not suffered to speake Sithence this gentlemans declaration may not be be admitted I trust you of the iurie can perceiue it was not for anie thing he had to saie against me but contrariwise that it was feared he would speake for me And now to maister Arnolds depositions against me I saie I did not tell him anie such words so as if it were materiall there is but his yea and my naie But bicause the words be not sore strained against line 30 me I praie you maister atturneie why might not I haue told maister Arnold that Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas and yet know no cause of the anger It might be vnderstand to disagrée oftentimes Who dooth confesse that I know anie thing of William Thomas deuise touching the quéenes death I will answer No man For maister Arnold dooth mention no word of that matter but of the displeasures betwixt them And to speake that dooth neither proue treason nor knowledge line 40 of treason Is here all the euidence against me that you haue to bring me within the compasse of the indictment Me thinke the matters confessed by others against you togither with your owne confession will weie shrewdlie But how saie you to the rising in Kent and to Wiats attempt against the quéens roiall person at hir palace Why doo you not read Wiats accusation to him which dooth make him partener to his treasons line 50 Wiat hath gréeuouslie accused you and in manie things that others haue confirmed Whatsoeuer Wiat hath said of me in hope of his life he vnsaid it at his death For since I came into this hall I heard one saie but I know him not that Wiat vpon the scaffold did not onelie purge my ladie Elizabeth hir grace and the erle of Deuonshire but also all the gentlemen in the tower saieng they were all ignorant of the sturre and commotion In which number I take my selfe line 60 Notwithstanding he said all that he had written and confessed to the councell was true Naie sir by your patience maister Wiat said not so that was maister doctors addition It appeareth you haue had good intelligence Almightie God prouided that reuelation for me this daie since I came hither for I haue bin in close prison these eight and fiftie daies where I heard nothing but what the birds told me which did flie ouer my head And now to you of my iurie I speake speciallie whome I desire to marke attentiuelie what shall be said I haue béene indicted as it appeareth and now am arreigned of compassing the queenes maiesties death of leuieng war against the quéene of taking the tower of London of deposing and depriuing the quéene of hir roiall estate and finallie to destroie hir and of adherence to the quéenes enimies Of all which treasons to proue me guiltie the quéens learned councell hath giuen in euidence these points materiall that is to saie for the compassing or imagining the quéenes death and the destruction of hir roiall person sir Nicholas Arnolds depositions which is that I should saie to the said sir Nicholas in Glocestershire that maister Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas Wherevnto I haue answered as you haue heard both denieng the matter and for the proofe on my side doo take exceptions because there is no witnesse but one And neuerthelesse though it were granted the depositions proue nothing concerning the quéenes death For leuieng of warre against the quéene there is alleged my conference with sir Thomas Wiat sir Iames Crofts sir Edward Rogers sir Edward Warner Against the mariage with Spaine and the comming of the Spaniards hither which talke I doo not denie in sort as I spake it and ment it and notwithstanding the malicious gathering this daie of my conference proueth yet no leuieng of warre There is also alleged for proofe of the same article sir Iames Crofts confession which as you remember implieth no such thing but generall talke against the mariage with Spaine And of my departing westward with the earle of Deuon which the said Iames dooth not auow therefore I praie you consider it as not spoken There is also for proofe of the said article the duke of Suffolks confession with whome I neuer had conference and therefore he auouched the tale of his brothers mouth who hath made my purgation in those matters and yet if the matter were proued they be not greatlie materiall in law There is also alleged for the further proofe of the same article and for deposing and depriuing the quéene of hir roiall estate and for my adhering to the quéenes enimies Cutbert Uaughans confession whose testimonie I haue sufficientlie disprooued by sundrie authorities and circumstances and principallie by your owne law which dooth require two lawfull and sufficient witnesses to be brought face to face Also for the taking of the tower of London there is alleged Winters depositions which vttereth my misliking when he vttered vnto me sir Thomas Wiats resolution and deuise for attempting of the said péece And last of all to inforce these matters mine owne confession is ingréeued against me wherein there dooth appeare neither treason neither concelement of treason neither whispering of treason nor procurement of treason And forsomuch as I am come hither to be tried by the law though my innocencie of all these points materiall obiected be apparant to acquit me whereto I doo principallie cleaue yet I will for your better credit and satisfactions shew you euidentlie that if you would beléeue all the depositions laid against me which I trust you will not doo I ought not to be attainted of the treason comprised within my indictment considering the statute of repeale the last parlement of all treasons other than
to be subiect vnto the lawes and ordinances of that realme That the fortifications about Leith should be razed and demolished and likewise the fort which had béene built and raised before the castell of Dunbar by the French for a strength thereto That the Frenchmen should not conueie into Scotland anie men of warre or munitions without consent of the parlement assembled of thrée estates of that realme That the king and quéene of France Scotland should not froÌ thensefoorth beare the arms line 60 of England sith the same apperteined onelie to the queens maiestie of England and to no other person These and other articles were comprised and established in the conclusion of this peace as well to the honour and suertie of the quéenes maiestie of England hir realmes dominions and subiects as also for the wealth and preseruation of the realme of Scotland the nobles and other subiects of that realme After that this peace then was fullie established agréed and concluded the Frenchmen were imbarked at Leith in English vessels those onelie excepted that were appointed to remaine as pledges with the Englishmen till the ships came backe againe and a few other that were permitted to passe through England into their countrie Thus were the French forces remooued out of Scotland a matter so much importing to the confirmation of peace betwixt vs and that realme and also to the auoiding of further perils that this iournie ended with so honorable and profitable a peace concluded by the high industrie and prudent policie of our quéenes maiesties commissioners afore mentioned may be accompted one of the most necessarie expeditions and most beneficiall seruices that had béene made and put in practise in manie yeares before For the quéenes maiestie as some haue trulie written had not onlie hir chiefe desire by remoouing of the French hir dangerous neighbors that were about to nestle themselues so neare hir elbow but also a perfect peace with the Scots was therby procured like to continue manie yeares if the said Scots shall not seeke their owne wo being full vnable to aduantage themselues by warres against vs as to the wiser and best sort of them I trust is not vnknowne But to leaue the further consideration of the benefit that may grow herof to this realme vnto their iudgements that haue riper heads to vnderstand the same I will procéed and herewith make an end of this matter concerning the siege of Leith After that the Frenchmen were departed and the forts about Leith and Dunbar razed and demolished according to the couenants of peace the quéenes maiestie called backe hir armie without reteining anie péece within Scotland to hir owne vse In which honorable and vpright dealing she wan more fame and estimation than if she had seized and kept in hir possession halfe the realme of Scotland speciallie regarding the perplexed state of the people by war which she redressed by the establishment of peace a thing which she alwaies loued as the contrarie she mortallie hated as one hath noted of hir grace saieng Virgo pacis amans quae stat contraria bellis The quéenes maiestie by the aduise of hir most honorable councell meaning to abolish all corrupt base and copper monies then currant in this realme of England coined in the times and reignes of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt to the great hinderance and decaie of the commonwealth of this realme and therewith to restore vnto all hir subiects fine and pure sterling monies both of gold and siluer to the great honor and benefit of the whole realme published a proclamation on Michaelmasse euen before noone that the teston coined for twelue pence and in the reigne of king Edward embased by proclamation to six pence should now foorthwith that of the best sort marked with the portâuleis be currant for foure pence halfepenie the second marked with the greihound for two pence farthing the third and worst sort not marked as afore not to be currant at all nor receiued for anie value The grote to be currant for two pence the former péece of two pence for a penie c. It was not long after this but that hir grace restoring to hir subiects fine sterling monie called all the said base and corrupt coines into hir maiesties mint allowing to them therefore after the rate before mentioned so much of the said fine monies as they brought in of the said base monies year 1560 About the same time hir grace also finding this realme greatlie vnfurnished of armour munitions and powder for the defense thereof in time of necessitie did so largelie and plentifullie prepare and cause to be brought into the same such sufficient furniture of armour and weapons as England hath iust cause to praise and giue thanks to God and hir maiestie for that it is certeine that the realme was neuer so amplie stored nor prouided of all maner of kinds of conuenient armor and weapons as it is at this present The one and twentith of March a notable Grammar schoole was founded by the maister wardens and assistants of the right worshipfull companie of the merchant tailors of London in the parish of S. Laurence Pontneie in the same citie the right worshipfull Emanuell Lucar Robert Rose William Merike Iohn Sparke Robert Duckington then maister and wardens of that companie The tenth of Aprill was one William Geffreie line 10 whipped from the Marshalsea in Southworke to Bedlem without Bishops gate of London year 1561 for that he professed one Iohn Moore to be Christ our sauior on his head was set a paper wherein was written as followeth William Geffreie a most blasphemous heretike denieng Christ our sauiour in heauen The said Geffreie being staied at Bedlem gate Iohn Moore was brought foorth before whome William Geffreie was whipped till he confessed Christ to be in heauen Then the said Iohn Moore being examined line 20 and answering ouerthwartlie was commanded to put off his cote doublet and shirt which he séemed to doo verie willinglie and after being tied to the cart was whipped an arrowes shot from Bedlem where at the last he also confessed Christ to be in heauen and himselfe to be a sinfull man Then was Iohn Moore sent againe into Bedlem and Geffreie to the Marshalsea where they had laine prisoners nigh a yéere and a halfe the one for professing himselfe to be Christ the other a disciple of the same line 30 Christ. On wednesdaie the 4 of Iune betwéene foure fiue of the clocke in the afternoone the stéeple of Paules in London being fired by lightning brast forth as it séemed to the beholders two or three yards beneath the foot of the crosse and from thence burnt downe the spire to the stoneworke and bels so terriblie that within the space of foure houres the same stéeple with the roofes of the church so much as was timber or otherwise combustible were consumed which
came to Douer there laie till fridaie at thrée of the line 10 clocke at after noone and then taking ship againe sailed foorth but finding the wind nothing prosperous for his course after he had lien all that night the daie following tossing tumbling on the seas he was constreined to come backe againe and arriued in the hauen of Douer about ten of the clocke on saturdaie at night and so remained there till tuesdaie next insuing at thrée of the clocke in the after noone and then went to shipboord againe in the said ship called the New barke and directing his course forwards line 20 on thursdaie morning about eight of the clocke his lordship landed at Newhauen where he was most ioyfullie receiued with a great peale of artillerie The next daie being fridaie the thirtith of October there came to Newhauen from Diepe fiftie light horssemen Scots brought by one of maister Killigrues seruants On saturdaie the last of October the earle of Warwiks commission was proclamed in Latine English and French by Blewmantell line 30 purseuant at armes which being ended his lordship went into the church and there sir Adrian Poinings knight marshall gaue him his oth and then my lord gaue the said sir Adrian his oth And after him were sworne Cutbert Uaughan controllor Iohn Fisher knight porter William Bromfield maister of the ordinance William Robinson water bailife and capteine Thomas Wood clearke of the councell On mondaie the second of Nouember the earle of Warwike with the knight marshall line 40 and the controllor rode out of Newhauen to Hauteuille and so towards Mondeuille accompanied with all the horssemen English and Scotish and a thousand footmen The Scotishmen Montgomeries band passed foorth and skirmished with them of Mondeuille and the Scots brought awaie with them a bootie of thrée hundred shéepe but in the morning they were returned backe againe by commandement of the earle of Warwike Maister controllors souldiors went as far as line 50 Harflue and there skirmished with them of that garrison but without anie hurt to either part My lord lieutenant riding all about the hils viewed the countrie and at night returned On wednesdaie the fourth of Nouember a barke of Newhauen belonging to Francis Clearke brought into the hauen of the same towne foure Britons laden with wines to the quantitie of two hundred tuns of good Gascoigne wines which they ment to haue brought to the enimies but being thus taken as a line 60 good prise it was discharged in Newhauen and stood the Englishmen and others of that towne in good stead On fridaie the sixt of Nouember about nine of the clocke in the morning a great alarum rose in the said towne of Newhauen for vpon the hils on the north side of the towne the Reingraue and the sonne of the viceadmerall of France shewed themselues accompanied with two thousand footmen and fiue hundred horssemen And herewith the Reingraue sent a trumpettor to the towne to aduertise the lord lieutenant that he was on the hils there at hand and that vnderstanding his lordship was come into the countrie and entred into Newhauen if it would please him to promise vpon his honor and by the faith of a gentleman that he might come and returne in safetie he would be glad to come sée him Wherevpon the lord lieutenant taking with him certeine capteins and gentlemen rode foorth of the towne and sent before him sir Adrian Poinings the marshall with Stephan Medcalfe hir maiesties trumpettor vnto the Reingraue who talking with him returned and met with the lord lieutenant who therewith passed forward and méeting with the Reingraue they imbraced each other and conferred togither as they had occasion And the Reingraue told the lord lieutenant among other talke that he was come to be his neighbor and so with such merie speech they communed togither and after taking their leaue either of other they returned vnto their homes The counte Montgomerie and monsieur Beauuois had some talke also with the Reingraue casting out bitter and sharpe words in reproofe of the duke of Guise and others that were of his faction The Reingraue comming backe to his armie the same afternoone forraied all the countrie and droue awaie the most part of all the cattell that they might meet with and comming to the church of Hauteuille where an hundred and fiftie of Montgomeries band laie they skirmished with them and in the end Montgomeries souldiors were forced to retire and abandon the place leauing it to the enimies and comming awaie withdrew the same night into Newhauen The Almans the same euening diuiding their armie into two parts the one halfe of them went and lodged at Mondeuille and the other halfe at Harflue The morrow after the Frenchmen that had abandoned the church of Hauteuille the night before went thither againe tooke and kept it against the enimies in like manner as they held it before The eleuenth of Nouember a proclamation was made in the name of the lord lieutenant by the officer at armes Blewmantell as well for good orders to be kept by the souldiors against the French inhabitants of the towne reforming of certeine gréeuances whereof the French had made complaint as also for their comming to church to heare common praier and preaching at due times for the auoiding of vnlawfull games whordome wicked othes and other blasphemies and likewise concerning diuerse other good orders to be obserued and disorders to be eschewed as was thought necessarie to giue warning of with condigne paines appointed for punishment of such as should transgresse in the same On thursdaie the twelfe of Nouember there went out of the towne of Newhauen towards Harflue thrée bands of Frenchmen conteining about six hundred footmen and suddenlie they were béeset by the Almans and Frenchmen of the garrison of Harflue so that the French protestants were driuen to take a village called Grauille where they mainteined the skirmish for the space of two houres till the lord lieutenant hearing of the perill in which they stood sent foorth with the controllor the number of a thousand footmen and all the English and Scotish horssemen and monsieur Beauuois with diuerse French horssemen who comming before Harflue fell in skirmish with the enimies to whose succor there issued foorth of Harflue a great number of the Almans both horssemen and footmen But the Englishmen behaued themselues so valiantlie that they beat them out of the field and droue them in the end to the verie gates of their towne with such lionlike courage as was woonderfull choosing rather to die in battell if hap had so cut their cards in an honest cause than in their sicke beds as moued by the poets reason not amisse for a souldior to remember and resolutelie to rest vpon to wit Absumpti longis animam cruciatibus edunt Languentes morbis in bello pulchra paratur Mors homo momento pugnans extinguitur
after a sallie made by the Englishmen and a faire skirmish betwixt them and the Frenchmen that laie afore the fort de Lheure on the tuesdaie the seauen and twentith of Iulie maister William Pelham capteine of the fort with another gentleman and a trumpetter went foorth by appointment and was receiued first by monsieur de Losses who brought him to the marshall Montmorencie and after by his appointment went with him by the Reingraues campe to the conestable and till his returne a truce was accorded on that side of the fort After that maister Pelham had talked a space with the conestable the matter was put ouer till the next daie and so he returned The morrow after being wednesdaie and the eight and twentith of Iulie the conestable about seauen of the clocke came to the end of the trenches next to the towne where sir Maurice Denis treasuror of the towne sir Hugh Paulet capteine Horseie capteine Pelham capteine Iohn Shute prouost marshall and Nicholas Malbie secretarie to my lord lieutenant came foorth and passed ouer the hauen to commune with him And during the parlee betwixt them a truce was accorded and assented to by both parts the which neuerthelesse was broken two seuerall times through the vnrulie insolencie of certeine harquebutters And though by the good diligence of the capteins they were incontinentlie quieted and staied yet the valiant earle of Warwike standing at a breach in his hose and dublet in sight of his enimies was by a lewd soldior of the French contrarie to the law of armes shot through the thigh with an harquebuse The conestable and the English commissioners appointed had long conference togither and before they concluded the marshals Montmorencie and Burdellion and at length the marshall Brissac also came to the place where they were thus in parlee but the conestable tooke vpon him to haue onelie authoritie to accept or refuse such conditions as should be offered or agreed vnto by the English commissioners in this treatie And so at length they passed certeine articles in forme as followeth The articles of agreement touching the surrender of Newhauen FIrst that the earle of Warwike should render againe the towne of Newhauen into the hands of the said conestable of France with all the artillerie and munitions of war then being in that towne and belonging to the French king and his subiects 2 Item that he should leaue the ships that were in the said towne at that present belonging either to the king or his subiects with all their furniture and generallie all such merchandize and other things being likewise at that present within that towne as either belonged to the king or his subiects 3 Item for the more suertie of the premisses the said earle should presentlie deliuer into the hands of the said conestable the great tower of the said hauen so that the soldiors which were placed therin enter not into the towne and that the said earle of Warwike should cause the gates there towards the towne to be warded till it were in the possession of the said conestable without planting anie ensigns on the said tower according to the said agréement line 10 and also that the said earle should deliuer foure such hostages as the said conestable should name 4 Item that the next daie by eight of the clocke in the morning the said earle should withdraw his soldiors which are in the fort to deliuer it immediatlie into the hands of the said conestable or such as should be by him appointed to receiue the same at the said houre 5 Item that all prisoners which haue béene taken before the said hauen should be deliuered on either side without paieng anie ransome line 20 6 Item that the conestable should for his part suffer the said earle of Warwike and all those that are in garrison in the said Newhauen to depart with all things whatsoeuer that belonged to the quéene of England and hir subiects 7 Item that for the departure as well of the said earle as the remoouing of his soldiors and other things before rehearsed the said conestable agréed to giue them six whole daies beginning the morrow then next following to wit the nine and twentith of line 30 Iulie during which six daies they might frankelie and fréelie take and carrie awaie all the said things And if wind or foule weather shuld hinder that their passage could not be made within the said terme in this case the said conestable should grant them such further time of delaie as might be thought reasonable 8 Item the said conestable did likewise permit that all the ships and English vessels and all other that should be appointed for the portage and conueieng awaie line 40 of the said things should safelie and fréelie passe into and fro the said hauen without anie staie or impeachment either by the French armie or anie other The said foure hostages were appointed to be maister Oliuer Maners brother to the earle of Rutland capteine Pelham capteine Horseie and capteine Leighton In witnesse wherof the said lords the conestable of France the earle of Warwike signed these articles the eight and twentith of Iulie 1563. Thus the earle of Warwike as he had during the whole time of his abode there in that towne of Newhauen shewed himsefe a right hardie valiant capteine so now in the end he prooued himselfe to be both prudent and politike For by accepting of these honorable conditions to go with all armor munition ships goods bag and baggage in anie wise apperteining or belonging either to the quéenes maiestie or to anie of hir graces subiects he saued the liues of line 60 a great number which otherwise scaping the scourge of the infectiue plague must néeds haue fallen vnder the edge of the sword The conestable during the time of the parlée sent his yoongest sonne monsieur de Thorree to the king and queene mother to aduertise them of the treatie of this peace And after it was once concluded and signed by the erle of Warwike he sent his eldest sonne the marshall Montmorencie to present the same vnto them at Criquetot halfe waie betwéene Newhauen and Fescampe who were right ioifull of the news and the next daie they came to the campe shewing great signes of their conceiued gladnesse for the recouering of that towne thus out of the Englishmens hands On saturdaie the most part of the Englishmen tooke ship and departed homewards for glad might he thinke himselfe that could get soonest out of that vnwholsome and most vnsauorie aire Manie sicke persons yet were left behind impotent and not able to helpe themselues The miserie whereof Edward Randoll esquire high marshall of the towne who was appointed to tarrie and sée the vttermost of the composition accomplished perceiuing mooued with naturall pitie of his countrimen relinquished without comfort caused the said sicke persons to be caried aboord not sparing his owne shoulders at that time féeble and full of
Hunnesdon master Drurie and diuers other capteins and souldiours to the number of thrée thousand or thereabouts set from Barwike about fiue of the clocke in the afternoone towards Warke where they arriued about nine of the clocke in the night and continuing there till the next morning in the meane time he put things in order necessarie for the assiegging of Hume castell the winning whereof his lordship seemed to haue vowed About the breake of the daie he sent foorth master Drurie with certeine horsmen and shot before to inuiron that castell and to choose there such a plot of ground where he might incampe best in safetie froÌ the shot of the same Which line 10 the said master Drurie accordinglie performed and there remained till the comming of the said lord lieutenant with the armie who setting forward the footbands cariage and ordinance made hast to follow But yet yer he could passe the riuer of Twéed and set ouer all the men ordinance and carriage it was almost ten of the clocke Héere at this riuer the lord lieutenant caused all the horssemen to staie and to take ouer the footmen This doone with good circumspection he appointed line 20 the demilances and other horssemen to remaine behind in the rereward and put the footmen in the battell for the more safegard of themselues the ordinance and cariages Then his lordship himselfe with his owne standard and the lord of Hunnesdons guidon marched forward towards Hume castell commanding the rest of the armie with the ordinance to follow after and so about one of the clocke in the afternoone he came before the castell out of the which the enimies shot at his standard verie hotlie but line 30 God be praised without dooing hurt either to man or horsse and incamped vnder a rocke or crag which the marshall had possessed with his band of horssemen and certeine footmen as in a place most apt from danger of shot out of the castell Héerewith a companie of curriours and caliuers were put forward and appointed to take an other rocke néerer to the castell which shot at them in the said castell and the defendants within it answered them againe verie roundlie although without anie great hurt on line 40 either part In the meane time the lord lieutenant himselfe accompanied onelie with the marshall master Drurie rode sundrie times round about the castell to view and surueie the same at whome they within shot verie sore both with their great artillerie and small shot yet missing them as God would though verie narrowlie About six of the clocke in the euening came the whole battell ordinance and cariages with ensignes spread shewing themselues verie line 50 brauelie at whome also the castell shot lustilie but as God would haue it without hurting either man or boie They lodged vnder another rocke neere adioining vnto the lord lieutenant vpon the west side where there were appointed more small shot to go to the trench which shadowed themselues vnder the old wals of the houses which the Scots had burnt before the comming of the Englishmen and occupied them so within the said castell that one of them could not so soone looke out at a loope but three or foure were line 60 readie to salute him and kéeping them in such sort that they durst not well shew their heads the capteine of the pioners the same night by commandement of the lord lieutenant raised a mount vpon the northeast side of the castell wherevpon the péeces of artillerie might be planted in batterie This worke was so well applied and with so great diligence aduanced that by fiue of the clocke in the next morning it was finished The eight and twentith of Aprill the marshall maister Drurie verie earlie rode about the castell to surueie and view euerie thing which doone the great ordinance was brought to the appointed place and bent against the castell to wit thrée canons and two falcons Héerewith also the lord lieutenant caused summons to be giuen vnto them within to yéeld And about seauen of the clocke the same morning the whole tire began to go off and a great showt was made by the armie to the great terrour of the defendants and of all the countrie neere adioining The foresaid péeces continued shooting till two of the clocke in the afternoone discharging within that space a thrée score shots During the time of this batterie there was no great store of shot discharged by the great peeces within the castell bicause their master gunner within after he had first shot off a péece and doone no hurt therewith as he was about to shoot againe the master gunner of the two English falcons hauing espied him tooke his leuell so right that discharging therewith one of the falcons he displaced the enimies péece and stroke the gunners leg off whereby their great ordinance within ceassed which was an happie turne for the Englishmen About two of the clocke they within sent foorth a trumpet vnto the lord lieutenant requiring a respit that they might talke with the marshall master Drurie and to send a messenger to the lord Hume their master to know his further pleasure for that being put in trust by him with the kéeping of that fortresse they could not giue it vp without his consent And then vpon the returne of the messenger they trusted to giue his lordship contented answer The marshall master Drurie talked with them twise and the lord lieutenant was contented to grant vnto William Trotter and Gilbert Greie the lord Humes wiues brother being principall capteins appointed to the kéeping of the said castell three houres respit with condition that they should not vse therein anie subtiltie or for the delaieng of time swearing by his honour that if they so did he would not depart the field till he had woone it by force and further that there should not one of them escape with life They being brought in doubt of their owne safeties hereby sent one in post togither with a seruant of master Druries the marshall to the lord Hume And presentlie heerevpon they shewed themselues vpon the walles and rampires of the said castell but immediatlie the lord lieutenant sent to them a commandement strictlie inhibiting them that not one of them should once on paine of death looke ouer the wals or rampires to the end to view the breach of the batterie forsomuch as in the time of parlée it was against the law of armes so to doo But now the messenger that was thus sent to the lord Hume comming to him declared iâ what case his house and people stood who being as was supposed not so farre off but that he might heare how lustilie the English canons did canuasse and batter his Humish castell walles did now agrée to méet the marshall master Drurie two miles distant from the said castell and there to commune further with him in that matter Upon the comming backe of the messenger with this
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 weââ 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
nine of the clocke and then sir Ierome Bowes brought him to his tent Thorne being in the tent with sir Henrie line 50 Cheinie long before About ten of the clocke the court of common plées remooued came to the place prepared When the lord chiefe iustice with two other his associats were set then Low was called solemnlie to come in or else to lose his writ of right Then after a certeine time the suerties of Henrie Nailer were called to bring in the said Nailer champion for Simon Low And shortlie therevpon sir Ierome Bowes leading Nailer by the hand entred with him the lists bringing him downe that square by which he entred being line 60 on the left hand of the iudges and so about till he came to the next square iust against the iudges and there making courtesie first with one leg and then with the other passed foorth till he came to the middle of the place and then made the like obeisance and so passing till they came to the barre there he made the like courtesie and his shield was held vp aloft ouer his head Nailer put off his netherstocks and so barefoot and barelegged saue his silke scauilones to the ankles and his dublet sleeues tied vp aboue the elbow and bareheaded came in as is aforesaid Then were the suerties of George Thorne called to bring in the same Thorne and immediatlie sir Henrie Cheineie entering at the vpper end on the right hand of the iudges vsed the like order in comming about by his side as Nailer had before on that other side and so comming to the barre with like obeisance held vp his shield Proclamation was made that none should touch the barres nor presume to come within the same except such as were appointed After all this solemne order was finished the lord chiefe iustice rehearsing the maner of bringing the writ of right by Simon Low of the answer made therevnto by Paramore of the procéeding therein and how Paramore had challenged to defend his right to the land by battell by his champion Thomas Thorne and of the accepting the triall that was by Low with his champion Henrie Nailer then for default of appearance in Low he adiudged the land to Paramore dismissed the champion acquiting the suerties of their bands He also willed Henrie Nailer to render againe to George Thorne his gantlet Whereto the said Nailer answered that his lordship might command him anie thing but willinglie he wold not render the said gantlet to Thorne except he could win it And further he challenged the said Thorne to play with him halfe a score blowes to shew some pastime to the lord chiefe iustice to the other there assembled But Thorne answered that he came to fight would not plaie Then the lord chiefe iustice commending Nailer for his valiant courage coÌmanded them both quietlie to depart the field c. On the sixtéenth of Iulie Rebecca Chamber late wife to Thomas Chamber of Heriettesham was found culpable of poisoning the said Thomas Chamber hir husband at the assises holden at Maidstone in the countie of Kent For the which fact she hauing well deserued was there burnt on the next morrow The seuenth of September the duke of Norffolke was remooued from the Charterhouse to the tower of London prisoner The two and twentith of September deceassed Iohn Iewell bishop of Salisburie in his life a most eloquent and diligent preacher but a far more painefull and studious writer as his workes remaining doo beare witnesse wherby his fame shall neuer die The ninth of Nouember a sermon was preached in Paules church at London by maister William Foulks of Cambridge to giue thanks to almightie God for the victorie which of his mercifull clemencie it had pleased him to grant to the christians in the Leuant seas against the common enimies of our faith the Turks the seuenth of October last past His theame was taken out of the sixtéenth psalme of Dauids psalter the fourth verse There were present at this sermon the lord maior of London sir William Allen with the aldermen and craftsmen in their liueries And in the euening there were bonefiers made through the citie with banketting and great reioising as good cause there was for a victorie of so great importance vnto the whole state of the christian common-wealth In the which were taken one hundred and thirtie vessels that is one hundred and seuentéene gallies and thirtéene galleots beside other vessels that were bouged abandoned and let go at large abroad in the seas as gallies foists and galleots to the number of fourescore or thereabouts And of their chiefeteins slaine in that bloudie battell these we find by name as principall Halie Bassa high admerall of the whole nauie Amar Beie capteine of the Ianissaries Assan Beie the sonne of Barbarossa with his sonne Mehemet Beie gouernor of Mitellene Gider Beie gouernour of Chio Capsan Beie gouernour of the Rhodes Peruis Aga gouernour of Affrica otherwise Mahomeda Mustafa Scelubie high treasuror Affis Clueaga capteine of Gallipolie Tramontana chiefe maister of the Turkish emperours owne gallie Caracoza and also manie others whose names were too long to rehearse but the whole number that were slaine of the Turks could not be perfectlie knowne by reason that manie were drowned in the sea which came not to sight Some yet affirme that there were slaine of them in all to the number of one and twentie thousand although other speake but of fifteene thousand But Contareno writeth that there were slaine and taken 29990. Of which number he reckoneth 3846 to line 10 haue remained prisoners and among them were these persons of name Mahemet Beie Sainus Beie and Sirocho Beie There escaped yet from this discomfiture Partau generall of all the men of warre and souldiors by land Ochialie Murate Raie with his sonne and Hali Genouese and with them about fortie gallies foists and fregats Moreouer there were found in the Turkish gallies that came into the hands of the christians one hundred and sixteene double canons two hundred sixtie and line 20 fiue demie canons and sixtéene other great peeces of brasse For it is to be remembred that not onelie the Turkish gallies but also the christians were throughlie armed furnished and appointed with men munition and ordinance in euerie behalfe In Halie Bassa his gallie there were aboord three hundred harquebusiers Ianissaries and an hundred archers In the gallie of Don Giouan de Austria chiefe admerall of the christians were foure hundred harquebusiers Spaniards of the fierse of line 30 Sardigna beside a great number of lords and gentlemen and also beside the rowers and in euerie other gallie were 200 fighting men at the least beside the rowers in some 300 othersome 400 according to the mould of the vessels The number of the christian gallies and galliots were in all two hundred and two besides six
through both armes and mooued him out of his place For the which fact the said Thomas being apprehended and condemned to death was on the one and twentith of Iulie brought to the water side where was a gibbet set vp directlie placed betwixt Dartford and Gréenewich But when the hangman had put the halter about his necke the right honorable sir Christopher Hatton capteine of the gard and one of hir maiesties priuie councell shewed the queenes maiesties most gratious pardon and deliuered him from execution This yeare Iohn Fox of Woodbridge William Wickneie of Portsmouth and Robert More of Harwich Englishmen hauing béene prisoners in Turkie about the space of thirteene or foureteene yeares with more than two hundred and sixtie other christians of diuerse nations by killing their kéeper maruellouslie escaped and returned into their natiue countries This yeare in the moneths of September and October fell great winds and raging flouds in sundrie places of this realme as in the towne of Newport the cotages were borne downe the corne lost pasture ground ouerwhelmed and cattell drowned In the towne of Bedford the water came vp to the market place where cup boords chests stooles and fourms swam about the houses their fewell corne and haie was wrackt borne awaie Also the towne of saint Edes in Huntingtonshire was ouerflowed suddenlie in the night when all men were at rest the waters brake in with such force that the towne was almost all defaced the swans swam downe the market place and all the towne about the botes did flote The towne of Gormanchester was suddenlie supprest their houses flowed full of water when men were at rest and their cattell with other things were destroied The one and twentith of Nouember sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the quéenes highnesse who had in his life built the roiall Exchange in London betwéene six and seuen of the clocke in the euening comming from the same Exchange to his house which he had sumptuouslie builded in Bishopsgate stréet of London suddenlie fell downe in his kitchin and being taken vp was found spéechlesse and presentlie dead who afterwards was solemnlie buried in his owne parish church of saint Helen there where he had prepared for himselfe a sumptuous toome or monument without anie epitaph or inscription therevpon This sir Thomas Gresham in his testament which long before his death he had ordeined bequeathed diuerse large legacies not yet performed The eight and twentith daie of March year 1580 one Francis alià s Marmaduke Glouer was hanged on a gibet set vp for that purpose by the standard in Cheape for wilfullie murthering sergeant Grace after he was by him arrested Also on the next morrow being the nine and twentith daie of March the same gibet was set vp at Hog lane end vpon east Smithfield néere vnto the tower of London thereon to haue hanged one Richard Dod for murthering of mistresse Skinner a widow in hir house there by But sir Owen Hopton lieutenant of the tower coÌmanding the officers perteining to the shiriffes of London backe againe to the west side of the crosse tooke the shiriffe of the out shire with the prisoner into an house and after long talke brought the prisoner forth againe deliuered him to the officers to be by them brought backe to London Then he caused the gibet to be taken downe and carried awaie line 10 at his pleasure and without further contention to my knowledge the said Richard Dod was in the after noone of the same daie hanged at Tiborne On the sixt of Aprill being wednesdaie in Easter weeke about six of the clocke toward euening a sudden earthquake happening in London and almost generallie throughout all England caused such an amazednesse among the people as was woonderfull for the time and caused them to make their earnest praiers to almightie God The great clocke bell in line 20 the palace at Westminster strake of it selfe against the hammer with the shaking of the earth as diuerse other clocks bels in the stéeples of the citie of London and elsewhere did the like The gentlemen of the Temple being then at supper ran from the tables and out of their hall with their kniues in their hands The people assembled at the plaie houses in the fields as at the Whoreater the Theater I would saie were so amazed that doubting the ruine of the galleries they made hast to be gone A péece of the line 30 temple church fell downe some stones fell from saint Paules church in London and at Christs church neere to Newgate market in the sermon while a stone fell from the top of the same church which stone killed out of hand one Thomas Greie an apprentise and an other stone fell on his fellow seruant named Mabell Eueret and so brused hir that she liued but foure daies after Diuerse other at that time in that place were sore hurt with running out of the church one ouer another for feare The tops of diuerse chimneies line 40 in the citie fell downe the houses were so shaken a part of the castell at Bishops Stratford in Essex fell downe This earthquake indured in or about London not passing one minute of an houre and was no more felt But afterward in Kent and on the sea coast it was felt thrée times as at Sandwich at six of the clocke the land not onelie quaked but the sea also fomed so that the ships tottered At Douer also the same houre was the like so that a péece of the cliffe fell into the sea with also a péece of line 50 the castell wall there a péece of Saltwood castell in Kent fell downe and in the church of Hide the bels were heard to sound A peece of Sutton church in Kent fell downe the earthquake being there not onlie felt but also heard And in all these places and others in east Kent the same earthquake was felt three times to moue to wit at six at nine and at eleuen of the clocke The nineteenth daie of Aprill the ferrie at Lambeth was drowned with fiue men and foure horsses other two men and fiue horsses swam to land and were saued line 60 On the one and twentith of Aprill in the yeare 1580 departed this life master William Lambe esquier sometime gentleman of the chappell in the reigne of king Henrie the eight citizen of London and frée of the clothworkers Of this mans almes-deeds and manifold charities some before some since his death put in effectuall practise thus reporteth a memoriall recorded in print agréeing in truth with his last will and testament an extract whereof for others imitation is necessarilie here to be inserted This gentleman remembring that learning bringeth preferment yea euen to them which are put baselie borne as it pleased God to mooue him by his good and gratious spirit he prooued himselfe by testimonials of his dooings a louer of learning and a fauourer of euerie honest profession For in the
master Edward Hobbie master Francis Darcie master Michaell Stanhoope master William Knols master Francis Knolles master George Digbie master Thomas Uauasor master Anthonie Mildemaie master Henrie Nowell master Nicholas Gorges master Michaell Harecourt master Fulke Greuill so as the whole traine that attended vpon the said earle was to the number of an hundred gentlemen and more than three hundred seruingmen line 10 The lord of Hunsdon had of gentlemen and others togither to the number of a hundred and fiftie and the lord Howard had as manie besides manie more whereof diuerse were hir maiesties seruants The quéene determined to accompanie the monsieur to the sea side yet neuerthelesse commanded the said lords to kéepe their course and to attend vpon his highnesse to the said place with all maner of solemnities interteinments and feastings He on the other side desired and besought hir maiestie not to depart line 20 from London as well for that the iournie would be painefull vnto hir and for that he saw the weather faire and wind fauorable and therefore was loth to loose anie occasion of performing his voiage with all spéed But he could not preuaile Wherevpon hir maiestie tooke hir iournie with hir whole court the first daie of Februarie lodged that night at Rochester The next daie abiding still at Rochester hir maiestie shewed him all hir great ships which were in that place into most whereof his line 30 highnesse and the prince and lords of his traine entered not without great admiration of the French lords gentlemen who confessed that of good right the quéene of England was reported to be ladie of the seas Also he beheld how all those ships were readie furnished and well appointed And hir maiestie told him that all those vessels the furniture of them should doo him seruice when soeuer he would imploie them for the which he most humblie thanked hir maiestie and so after all the great ordinance had béene line 40 shot off they returned for that daie againe to Rochester The third day they went to Sittingborne where dining both togither the queene was serued after the English manner by the greatest ladies of hir court and the monsieur after the French manner by the gentlemen of his traine which ladies and gentlemen dined afterwards togither Then his highnesse besought hir maiestie againe to go no further declaring vnto hir that the faire weather passed awaie line 50 But notwithstanding his intreatance the quéene went on still to Canturburie At which place after one daies tarriance when she had openlie feasted all the French nobilitie either part tooke their leaue of other not without great griefe and shew of verie great amitie especiallie betwéene hir maiestie and the monsieur Which thing was perceiued also in the lords and gentlemen of both nations likewise in the ladies to all whome it was like griefe to depart after they had béene conuersant and had liued line 60 friendlie and brotherlie togither by the space of three moneths without anie change or alteration of good willes But the honor which inforced his highnesse asswaged his griefe and made him to proceed on his iournie with the said prince and lords of both nations The sixt daie of the same moneth whereas he was determined to haue taken ship he was counselled to lodge that night of Sandwich bicause the wind was somewhat changed Howbeit some of the English gentlemen namelie master Killegreie master Diar and diuerse others to eschew thronging at their imbarking went to Douer and there taking ship the same night laie a while at anchor and somwhat after midnight sailed awaie with certeine other vessels The seuenth daie in the morning about nine of the clocke his highnesse tooke the sea in three great ships of war In the greatest of them named the Discouerer sailed the monsieur himselfe with the erle of Leicester and the lord Howard the viceadmerall in the second called the Sentinell went the prince Dolphin and in the third was the countie of Louall and the lord of Hunsdon Now as his highnesse was yet at anchor there came a post from a lord of England who brought him word that the states of the low countries were reuolted and namelie the citie of Antwerpe and therefore he praied him not to depart vntill he had more certeine newes Notwithstanding this his highnesse determined to depart and so sailed awaie with fifteene ships and he had so faire weather which continued euen vntill after his eniering into Antwerpe and his feasting and solemne interteinement there that the heauen the winds the sea and the earth séemed all to fauour his voiage and to further the gladnesse which the people shewed in receiuing him with so great good will In the meane time the prince of Orange séeing the time fit departed from Middleborough where he had taried the monsieurs comming six weekes and more and came to Flushing to take order for all things that were requisit for the honorable and commodious interteinement of so great a prince At the which place vnderstanding by the letters of the said lords ambassadours and others that the monsieur was departed from London and come to Canturburie and therefore thinking it would not be long yer he arriued there he dispatched monsieur Treslon his viceadmerall of Zeland with a litle pinnesse called the Chase to go before to meet the monsieur commanding him that as soone as he had discouered his fléet he should giue him a watchword thereof by the shot of two cannons Monsieur Treslon hauing about noonetide discouered the ships that were parted from Douer and thinking that they had béene the great fléet gaue his watchword which was the cause that a certeine vessell went foorth to the sea to méet his highnesse but anon after perceiuing his errour he returned to Flushing where by and by the fléet of Douer arriued Then monsieur Treslon going foorth found the monsieur and the great fleet betwéene Newport and Dunkirke where after salutation giuen and taken on either side the monsieur standing vpon the hatches of his ship espied his owne secretarie named Nephue standing likewise vpon the hatches of the Chase to whome he sent his shipbote commanding him to come aboord to him which thing he did and there aduertised the monsieur that as concerning the reuolting of the states there was no such matter but that all things went verie well that his highnesse was waited for with great longing That daie by reason the wind was turned northeast they could go no further but were faine to cast anchor ouer against a place called Ostend where they passed that night waiting for the tide the next morning His ships were perceiued by them of Flushing where after midnight arriued the lord of S. Aldegond who assured the prince of Orange that the next morning the monsieur would arriue there with the tide Wherevpon the prince of Orange and the prince of Espinoie with a great number of
realme than to suffer the iustice line 60 of hir lawes to be executed against them although they haue deserued the same in the highest degrée hath giuen power to vs of hir maiesties priuie councell others by commission and warrant vnder the great seale of England bearing date the fiftéenth daie of this present month of Ianuarie to sée this hir purpose and determination for their banishment put in execution By vertue whereof we haue procéeded therevnto and haue committed to the charge of these bearers William Bolles one of hir maiesties yeomen of hir chamber and Anthonie Hall the persons whose names doo follow that is to saie Iames Bosgraue Iohn Hart Edward Rushton Iaspar Heiwood William Tedder Samuell Coniers Arthur Pits William Wharmington Richard Slake William Hartlie Richard Norris William Dean William Bishop Robert Nutter Thomas Stephanson Iohn Coliton Christopher Tomson Thomas Worthington Iohn Barns William Smith clearks being Iesuits seminaries and other wandering and massing priests and Henrie Orton gentleman all which haue béene apprehended in this realme to be by them imbarked and transported beyond the seas according to such direction as they haue receiued in that behalfe These shall be therefore by the authoritie aforesaid to will and require you and in hir maiesties name strictlie to charge and command you and euerie of you hir maiesties officers as well within the realme of England and Iceland as in anie other parts of hir maiesties dominions and countries to whome it may and shall apperteine not onelie to suffer them to passe vnder the charge of the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall but also that in case by contrarietie of winds or extremitie of weather they shall be after their imbarking driuen into anie port or creeke within anie of your iurisdictions that vpon the sight of this pasport ye aid and assist the said Bolles and Anthonie Hall if they shall so require you in séeing them safelie reteined committed kept in custodie if they shall come aland till such time as they the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall may with safetie put againe into the sea to transport them to such place beyond the sea as by our direction they are appointed and to suffer them eftsoones to imbarke and depart without staie or interruption Foreseeing that they the said Iesuits and seminaries and other the wandering and massing priests aforesaid nor anie of them nor the said Henrie Orton be suffered to conueie or transport out of the realme anie thing that by the lawes be prohibited or forbidden Whereof as of the rest commanded herein we require you not to faile as you will answer to the contrarie at your perils Giuen vnder our hands at Gréenewich the twentith daie of Ianuarie in the seuen and twentie yeare of hir maiesties reigne ¶ Now followeth a certificat of the maister that transported the forenamed one and twentie banished persons as followeth To the right honorable lords and others of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell and all other officers to whome it may apperteine THese may be to certifie c that William Bolles yeoman vsher of hir maiesties chamber and Anthonie Hall of London skinner hauing imbarked at the Tower wharffe of London the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie 1584 one and twentie persons being banished men into my barke called the Marie Martin of Colchester to be transported and conueied into Normandie for sixtéene of which said one and twentie persons they had compounded with me aforehand The same William Bolles and Anthonie Hall haue satisfied and paid me for all their passages and vittels and haue also hired at Douer an experimented pilot for the coasts of Normandie which said Bolles and Hall with the said banished men in their charges after their being by contrarie winds driuen to staie against Erith at Grauesend in Tilberie hope at Lée at the Spaniard at the Downes at Douer and at Rie were by force of weather and chase of pirats driuen to Bullen and there arriued all safelie the second day of Februarie 1584 and thense sent the said banished men some by horsse but most on foot with conducts to Abbiuile in the coasts of Normandie Witnesse my hand herevnto this fift of Februarie 1584. ¶ By me Matthew Strut An other certificat written and directed into England by the said banished men TO all magistrats officers ministers within the realme of England or elsewhere to whome it may in anie wise apperteine line 10 this may be to giue certification that we whose names are here vnder written who were imbarked at the Tower wharffe of London the one and twentith daie of Ianuarie 1584 and there receiued into the charge of maister William Bolles and maister Anthonie Hall by commission from their lordships and other hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell haue béene by them the said William Bolles and Anthonie Hall verie friendlie honestlie intreated and with carefull diligence line 20 safelie conducted transported conueied to the prouince of Normandie by them left this third daie of Februarie according to the English computation in the yeare of Christ 1584 which said Bolles and Hall haue in our presence paid the maister of the barke which transported vs for his whole fraught and vittels in the ship for the time of our remaining abroad and generallie so well vsed vs in all respects that we can not but acknowledge our selues much beholding to them fullie satisfied in hauing béene line 30 committed to the charge of so courteous officers sith the case standeth so with vs that we are banished our countrie contrarie to our desires wherein we take no little griefe of mind For testimonie wherof we haue herevnto set our seuerall hands this present third daie of Februarie 1584. Iaspar Halwood Edward Rushton Iohn Hart c. ¶ O Lord what a mercifull quéene is this in such sort to forgiue and forget iniuries yea treasonable iniuries as by banishment onelie to chastise them line 40 that deserued extreame punishment Yea with a banishment scarse fitlie to be so termed sith in the execution thereof there was such clemencie shewed as that the banished by their owne confessions haue left acknowledged vnder their owne handwriting a notable kind of courtesie receiued by the meanes of hir maiestie And therefore they cannot but in conscience commend hir highnesse tender affection so gratiouslie exchanged for seuere affliction insomuch that it may rightlie be reported of hir gighnesse line 50 which the poet spake of Caesar that is to saie Est piger ad poenas princeps ad praemia velox CuÃque dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox Henrie earle of Darbie appointed to be hir maiesties ambassador to Henrie the third French king and to inuest him with the order of the garter tooke his leaue of the quéenes maiestie at Greenewich on the twentith daie of Ianuarie and with him such gentlemen as were present were admitted to kisse hir highnesse hand Maister Robert Cooke
iustice of the common plées sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker sir Thomas Gawdie knight one of the iustices of the plees before hir maiestie to be holden William Pâriam one of the iustices of the common plées by vertue of hir maiesties commission to them and others in that behalfe directed the same Parrie was indicted of high treason for intending and practising the death and destruction of hir maiestie whome God long prosper and preserue from all such wicked attempts The tenor of which indictment appeareth more particularlie in the course of his arreignment following The maner of the arreignment of William Parrie the 25 of Februarie 1584 at Westminster in the place where the court commonlie called the Kings bench is vsuallie kept by vertue of hir maiesties commission of oier and terminer before Henrie lord Hunsdon gouernour of Barwike sir Francis Knolles knight treasuror of the queenes maiesties houshold sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of the same houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vicechamberleine to hir maiestie sir Christopher Wraie knight chiefe iustice of England sir Gilbert Gerrard knight line 10 master of the rols sir Edmund Anderson knight chiefe iustice of the common plees sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker and sir Thomas Hennage knight treasuror of the chamber FIrst thrée proclamations for silence were made according to the vsuall course in such cases Then the lieutenant was commanded to returne his precept who did so and brought the prisoner to the bar to whome line 20 Miles Sands esquier clerke of the crowne said William Parrie hold vp thy hand and he did so Then said the clerke of the crowne Thou art here indicted by the oths of twelue good and lawfull men of the countie of Midlesex before sir Christopher Wraie knight and others which tooke the indictment by the name of W. Parrie late of London gentleman otherwise called W. Parrie late of London doctor of the law for that thou as a false traitor against the most noble and christian prince quéene Elisabeth line 30 thy most gratious souereigne and liege ladie not hauing the feare of God before thine eies nor regarding thy due allegiance but being seduced by the instigation of the diuell and intending to withdraw and extinguish the hartie loue and due obedience which true faithfull subiects should beare vnto the same our souereigne ladie diddest at Westminster in the countie of Midlesex on the first daie of Februarie in the six and twentith yeare of hir highnesse reigne and at diuerse other times and places in the same line 40 countie maliciouslie and traitorouslie conspire and compasse not onelie to depriue and depose the same our souereigne ladie of hir roiall estate title and dignitie but also to bring hir highnesse to death and finall destruction and sedition in the realme to make and the gouernement thereof to subuert and the sincere religion of God established in hir highnesse dominions to alter and supplant And that whereas thou William Parrie by thy letters sent vnto Gregorie bishop of Rome diddest signifie vnto the same bishop thy purposes and intentions line 50 aforesaid and thereby diddest praie and require the same bishop to giue thée absolution that thou afterwards that is to saie the last day of March in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid diddest traitorouslie receiue letters from one called cardinall de Como directed vnto thée William Parrie whereby the same cardinall did signifie vnto thée that the bishop of Rome had perused thy letters and allowed of thine intent and that to that end he had absolued line 60 thee of all thy sinnes and by the same letter did animate and stir thée to procéed with thine enterprise and that therevpon thou the last daie of August in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid at saint Giles in the fields in the same countie of Midlesex diddest traitorouslie confer with one Edmund Neuill esquier vttering to him all thy wicked and traitorous deuises and then and there diddest mooue him to assist thee therein and to ioine with thee in those wicked treasons aforesaid against the peace of our said souereigne ladie the queene hir crowne and dignitie Whaâ saiest thou William Parrie art thou guiltie of these treasons whereof thou standest here indicted or not guiltie Then Parrie said Before I plead not guiltie or confesse my selfe guiltie I praie you giue me leaue to speake a few words and with humbling himselfe began in this maner God saue quéene Elisabeth God send me grace to discharge my dutie to hir and to send you home in charitie But touching the matters that I am indicted of some were in one place and some in another and doone so secretlie as none can see into them except that they had eies like vnto God wherefore I will not laie my bloud vpon the iurie but doo mind to confesse the indictment It conteineth but the parts that haue béene openlie read I praie you tell me Whervnto it was answered that the indictment conteined the parts he had heard read no other Whervpon the clerke of the crowne said vnto Parrie Parrie thou must answer directlie to the indictment whether thou be guiltie or not Then said Parrie I doo confesse that I am guiltie of all that is therein conteined and further too I desire not life but desire to die Unto which the clerke of the crowne said If you confesse it you must confesse it in maner and forme as it is comprised in the indictment Wherevnto he said I doo confesse it in maner and forme as the same is set downe and all the circumstances thereof Then the confession being recorded the quéenes learned councell being readie to praie iudgement vpon the same confession master vicechamberleine said These matters conteined in this indictment and confessed by this man are of great importance they touch the person of the quéenes most excellent maiestie in the highest degrée the verie state and weldooing of the whole commonwealth and the truth of Gods word established in these hir maiesties dominions and the open demonstration of that capitall enuie of the man of Rome that hath set himselfe against God and all godlinesse all good princes and good gouernement and against good men Wherefore I praie you for the satisfaction of this great multitude let the whole matter appéere that euerie one may see that the matter of it selfe is as bad as the indictment purporteth and as he hath confessed Whereto in respect that the iustice of the realme hath béene of late verie impudentlie slandered all yeelded as a thing necessarie to satisfie the world in particular of that which was but summarilie comprised in the indictment though in the law his confession serued sufficientlie to haue procéeded therevpon vnto iudgement Wherevpon the lords and others the commissioners hir maiesties lerned councell and Parrie himselfe agréed that Parries confession taken the eleuenth and thirteenth of Februarie 1584 before the
plot was laid for the enterprise of the duke of Guise and that he was willed to conferre with Throckemorton in the matter who therevpon acquainted the said ambassador with the plot of the hauens and with the noble men and gentlemen that he had set downe as fit to be dealt withall in that cause Throckemorton said that the bottome of this enterprise which was not to be knowne to manie was that if a toleration of religion might not be obteined without alteration of the gouernement that then the gouernment should be altered the quéene remoued That the Scotish quéene was made acquainted from the duke of Guise with the intention to relieue hir by these forces It was in debate betweene Throckemorton and the Spanish ambassador how the Scotish quéene might be deliuered as by an enterprise to be made with a certeine number of horsses and it was told Francis Throckemorton by his brother Thomas Throckemorton that it was a principall matter in debate beyond the seas how she might be deliuered with safetie the lacke of resolution wherin was the principall staie of the execution of the attempt of inuasion Mendoza told Francis Throckemorton about Bartholomewtide 1583 that one Mope was come into England to sound the earle of Northumberland and other principall men in Sussex and about the end of September following the same Mendoza told him that Mope was Charles Paget and that he came not onelie to sound the men but to view the places the hauens the prouisions and meanes and néerenesse and commoditie of mens abidings that should ioine with the forren forces It was deuised that such noble men and others as would be contented to assist the forren forces being iustices of peace of credit in their countries might by colour of their authoritie leuie men as for hir maiesties defense and yet emploie them to assist the forren forces The lord Paget was made acquainted with this deuise and answered that it was a good course and that he had thought vpon it before Mendoza told Throckemorton that Charles Paget had béene in Sussex and had spoken with those that were there and that he came to moue the earle of Northumberland and others The night before Throckemorton was apprehended he came to the lord Paget and desired him that he would not acquaint the earle of Northumberland and certeine others whome he named with such matters as had passed betwéene them two touching the practise of this inuasion and the lord Paget willed him to deale as wiselie for his part as he would doo for himselfe and all should be well but quoth the lord Paget the earle of Northumberland knoweth you well enough It was once agreed among the confederats that the duke of Guise should land in Sussex being ouer against Déepe and Normandie which after was misliked because those parts laie too néere to hir maiesties greatest force and store and that the people thereabout for the most part were protestants Maister attourneie shewed further that in summer last there was taken vpon the seas sailing towards Scotland a Scotish Iesuit about whome line 10 there was found a discourse written in Italian of a like enterprise to be attempted against England which should haue beene executed in September or October then last past wherein assurance is made that the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland Dacres that is dead whom they termed lord Dacres and of all the catholike lords and gentlemen in the north parts where the inuasion should haue béene attempted setting it downe that it is not said by coniecture that these men are assured line 20 but that it is certeinlie knowne that they will ioine with the forren forces In the said discourse it is also affirmed that the priests dispersed in the realme can dispose of the other catholikes of the realme as they shall be ordered and that the popes excommunication should be renewed and pronounced against hir maiestie and all those that shall take hir part and that all such should be holden traitors that did not ioine with that armie by a daie When maister attourneie had thus prooued the line 30 purpose of inuasion he procéeded to the proofe of Charles Pagets comming ouer about the practise and prosecution of that enterprise And first that Paget came to Petworth in September 1583 was secretlie receiued and brought in the night laâe to the earle of Northumberland into his gallerie at Petworth by one of the earles seruants where the earle and he had secret conference together by the space of a large houre from thense Paget was likewise conueied backe into the towne by the same line 40 seruant and there lodged all that night and the next night following was conueied secretlie to a ãâ¦ã And for better proofe thereof it was alleaged by master attorneie that Charles Paget returning from Petworth to the house of one William Dauies néere to the place where Paget had landed in Sussex and tooke shipping againe at his departure beyond the seas sent to William Shelleie esquire residing then at his house at Michelgroue distant about a mile from the house of William Dauies to come vnto him who within few daies before had béene at the lodge at Petworth with the said Paget and now at their méeting in a coppice néere to Dauies house Paget entred into speech and discourse with him of diuers matters and at the last among other things he began to be inquisitiue of the strength and fortification of Portesmouth and what forces and strength hir maiestie had in the other parts westward Paget brake out and declared vnto him that forraine princes would séeke reuenge against hir maiestie of the wrongs by hir doone vnto them would take such time and opportunitie as might best serue them for that purpose and said that those princes disdeined to see the Scotish queene so kept vsed here as she was and would vse all their forces for hir deliuerie that the duke of Guise would be a dealer therin and that the earle of Northumberland would be an assistant vnto them willing Shelleie whatsoeuer should happen to follow the earle of Northumberland affirming that there was not a noble man in England of conduct and gouernment like to the said earle saieng further that the earle of Northumberland was affected to the Scotish quéene would do what he could for hir aduancement that the duke of Guise had forces in a readinesse to be emploied for the altering of the state of religion here in England and to set the forenamed Scotish queene at libertie ãâ¦ã awaie the lord Paget grew vpon the apprehension of Throckmorton who being committed to the Tower and charged with high matters was in case to be delt withall by waie of extremitie to be made to confesse the treasons charged vpon him in reuealing whereof Charles Pagets comming to Petworth and the cause of his repaire thither could not be conceled No man at this time within the realme could accuse the
countries and had dealt much about Woolwich and Erith breaches offered his seruice for the accomplishing of these works affirming that it was an easie matter to bring the same to passe in such sort as there should soone be a good harborough refusing not to haue taken the worke to doo by great either by a plot of his owne deuising or else by the plot agréed on by the commissioners and allowed by the lords of the councell But this Ferdinando Poins although he séemed a verie good executioner either of his owne or another mans deuise concerning such affaires yet was he verie loth to discouer his order and maner of working or anie other deuise of his owne least as he said he might be preuented by some other that would vndertake to doo it by his deuises better cheape than him selfe could affoord it and so he to loose and other to gaine the benefit of his inuention Howbeit in the end he was content to be imploied anie waie so as therewithall he might haue monie before hand for Woolwich works did so sticke in his fingers as moneie was verie palpable and plausible vnto him In fine he vndertooke to make certeine groins or knocks which at the hauens mouth should cause such a depth as thereby the whole harborough should lie drie at a low water whereby the works about the wals might the better and more conuenientlie bée performed and the present entrie amended For it was concluded that there should bée made a perfect pent within the baie conteining in quantitie about sixtéene acres which should be inuironed with a long wall reaching from aboue the water gate néere to the Castell Raie extending in length about a hundred and twentie rods alongst within the shelfe of beach directlie towards the end of the pierre where the blacke bulworke was placed and at the end of the said long wall a crosse wall of length about fortie rods reaching from that wall directlie crosse to the shore at the northerne cliffe not far from the townes end And this should make a perfect pent to conteine and reteine the water of the riuer which when the sâuse standing in the crosse wall should bee opened might be of force to make and mainteine a depth for an entrance or hauens mouth for shipping to come into the rode which lieth betwixt the maine sea and the pent In this worke there appeared great difficultie and so much the more in that for the most part the place where the wall should stand was continuallie surrounded and also the sea did euerie tide ouerflow the same and besides that annoiance the crosse wall also must crosse the riuer the course whereof could not be diuerted anie other waie but with extreme charge The speciall cause whie this harborough was continuallie surrounded euen at the low water was for want of a depth at the hauens mouth which might at an ebbe conueie thense into the sea more speedilie and abundantlie all those waters which remained vpon the face of the hauen To the execution line 10 hereof I saie the said Ferdinando Poins was appointed and towards his charge therabouts there was first deliuered vnto him one thousand pounds by force of a warrant sent by the commissioners for Douer hauen to Thomas Smith of Ostinhanger esquire farmer of hir maiesties customes inwards in the ports of London Sandwich Chichester Southhampton and Ipswich with their créeks and members and the créeke of Woodbridge being a member of the port of Yarmouth line 20 who is neuerthelesse called by the name of Customer Smith because in times past his office was by letters patents to collect the said custome and to yeeld account thereof as other customers vsuallie doo hauing for his fée one hundred and thrée score pounds yearelie Now for that he was so trustie and sufficient a person euerie waie there was committed vnto his charge the receipt of all such summes of monie as were due either for the aforesaid tunnage or for the licence of frée transportation of line 30 corne and béere the which summes as néed required were by him to be deliuered to the treasuror for Douer harborough vpon the councels direction and a warrant of six of the said commissioners hands There might be much written in the renowme and commendation of this man for his great affaires and aduentures as also for other singular vertues but for that he yet liueth and is generallie knowne it maie with modestie be deferred yet thus much I haue said of him for that he was a speciall sauorer and furtherer of these works neuer making line 40 delaie of anie paiment appointed or required but rather disbursing great summes of monie out of his owne cofers to set forwards the same After the receipt of this thousand pounds the said F. Poins had 200 more as it appeareth in those accounts Trulie this Ferdinando Poins applied the works industriouslie and performed some thing profitablie for the draining of the harborough by making two groins whereby there was a depth made at the hauens mouth But as it is thought his worke either line 50 was or might haue béene performed with lesse than halfe that monie which if he had doone I would more willinglie haue published his praises By the premisses it maie appeare that the life of the hauen consisteth in the pent and consequentlie in the long wall and crosse wall without the which no pent could be made so as wals must be erected But now the question grew to be how and whereof they should be framed which were to be wrought in the sea vpon line 60 the sand or beach through a riuer c and the same wall to withstand the violence and rage of the sea at the one side and to hold and reteine a mightie weight of fresh at the other so as no water might soke through or vnder the same Maister True as you haue heard would haue made stone wals verie costlie and without limitation of time Maister Ferdinando Poins would haue raised them with ouze and beach shoueled and cast togither without anie more adoo An other would haue made a coffin dam wherof the cost would haue béene infinite Pet and Baker being skilfull shipwrights with certeine other coparteners thought a woodden wall most conuenient and presented to the commissioners a module thereof deuised and framed for the most part by one Andrew a carpentar then seruant to the said Pet which deuise maister William Burroughs a verie expert seaman excéedinglie liked and commended Maister True his deuise was reiected as impossible and intollerable Maister Poins his workemanship was easie for a plaine man of the countrie to conceiue and performe but verie few could be persuaded that his wall would be tight inough to make a pent consisting onlie of slub and beach shoueled together and lieng so hoouer for that was his dâuise Neuerthelesse sir William Winter a man verie skilfull and of great experience in sea matters being sent to Douer
by the lords of hir maiesties priuie councell with maister William Burroughs and others to surueie and confer about that hauen with the said commissioners vnderstanding Ferdinando Poins had delt in the inning of Woolwich Erith marshes being also willing to doo him good gaue fauourable eare vnto him as to one that propounded an easie and a cheape platforme and not much vnprobable in his opinion whose desire was to haue it well performed and with as small charge as might be for that he was the greatest preferrer of that bill in the parlement house and yéelded the best reasons for a hauen to be there placed At this assemblie were proposed other sundrie mens deuises namelie of one Thomas Brooker gentleman Iohn Stoneham carpentar Bedwell c and among the rest sir Thomas Scot being a man carefull for the affaires of his countrie and therewithall verie perspicuous being wearied with manie fruitlesse conferences delaies strange and vntoward deuises chargeable and vaine attempts and contrarie procéedings and among other things hauing had great experience in Romneie marsh matters the greatest businesse whereof consisteth in making and reparing of wals to defend the same marsh from the inuasion and inundation of the sea and dailie seeing the nature and effects therof weieng also in his mind that Romneie marsh wals are of greater bulke and force than these need to be for that they lie more open to the maine sea and without comparison more subiect to the weight and violent rage thereof and further knowing that the marsh wals are placed not farre from thense vpon that coast vpon a foundation in all respects like vnto the same if not woorse for sometimes they build vpon a verie quicke sand where one maie thrust downe a pole of a doozzen or twentie foot and not find or feele the bottome and after he had compared these workes together perceiuing no impediment whie one rule should not direct two workes of one kind he conferred with his neighbours of Romneie marsh therein who allowed and confirmed his deuise and afterward redilie attended on him to Douer there to approue his opinion with their reasons and experience and not so onelie but also to vndertake and performe what soeuer he had set downe or promised in that behalfe The residue of the commissioners hearing and conceiuing sir Thomas Scots reasons ioined and confirmed with experience not far fetcht but ratified by neere neighbours being persons of good account which were expert from their childhood in the practise of those kind of works inclined greatlie vnto his motion and the rather for that they knew him to be such a one as would not séeke for priuat gaines Howbeit they which exhibited the woodden worke could not well conceiue hereof nor easilie consent herevnto And no waie was thought by them more fit to preferre their owne worke than to make some offer to doo it by great which the lords of the councell greatlie desired as whereby they might vnderstand the vttermost charge and time required for the accomplishing thereof But the price of the woodden wall grew to be so large for fiue thousand and fiue hundred pounds was the lowest rate of their demand for the long wall onelie that it was much misliked For first there was no likelihood or possibilitie that the same should be set fast and vnmoueable wher the slub or sléech is fiftéene foot déepe at the least and the maine rocke immediatlie vnderneath it Secondlie if the same could be erected yet it must line 10 in short time be so shaken by reason of the weight of the pent water on the one side at low water and by the violence of the sea on the other side at the floud that through the vnstedinesse thereof it could not continue tight Thirdlie the nature of the sand and slub was thought to be so different from the condition of woodden boords and planks whereof this wall was to consist that though there were no weight or wether that could impech the stedie standing thereof yet there could be no such firme coniunction betwixt line 20 them but that the verie weight of the wall it selfe must néeds cause the same to decline to one side or other whereby water would draine betwixt by reason of the thinnesse of the slub or sleech which could minister no certeine staie therevnto nor likelihood that the same should so vnite with the wood as to stand stedie and to make a perfect pent in that place but to helpe that matter they meant to haue shored and braced the said timber wall in such sort as the same should haue staid the whole worke yet no line 30 bracing could as the best opinion was haue preuailed to bring that wall to be good or stedie Fourthlie it was thought that such a wall so placed would be subiect to more than ordinarie decaie by reason that anie woodworke lieng in water especiallie when it is sometimes wet and sometimes drie will in short time rot and disioint so as if the same could be repared whereof there was great doubt made yet the reparations would be in respect of charge verie intollerable Fiftlie the delaie of time herein was also line 40 disliked for two yeares being demanded for the accomplishing of that one wall no time could be promised Sixtlie they being demanded whether they had euer séene either on this side or beyond the seas anie such wall or worke they answered No but affirmed it to be in their opinions so probable as they would aduenture to vndertake it for thirtie pounds the rod but in what space to finish it they could not saie Seuenthlie there was required for line 50 the building of this wall 7000 tun of timber which all Kent and Sussex without vnrecouerable hurt in depriuation of their timber was not able to yeeld and the necessarie carriages for such a prouision could haue béene by no meanes procured without the vndooing of the inhabitants and spoile of the countrie These causes were of force inough to ouerthrow a woodden wall The deuise neuerthelesse deserued commendation These matters thus mentioned were afterwards debated before the lords of the councell and line 60 these reasons with manie others were deliuered vnto their lordships by maister Thomas Digs the first elected surueior of the works as from the commissioners The credit of the parties who were to vndertake this woodden wall and their reasons preuailed so much as diuerse noble and wise men grew to conceiue good liking thereof But the lord treasuror whose voice and iudgement in all causes of importance hath in all his time worthilie caried the swaie allowed rather of the marsh works saieng that if he erred therein as not seeing but hearing the matter in question he would erre with discretion as led by the reasons of the commissioners who had séene and tried the experience of that kind of worke Diuerse liked of Poins his worke or at the least of his communication partlie as it is said
admerall Clinton sent against the rebels The rebels dare not stand to the triall of battell The earles of Northumberland Westmerland flie into Scotland Rebelles executed at Durham A prentise hanged in London for killing his maister Rich. Grafton Lord Leonard Dacres rebelleth The lord Dacres readie with his power to set vpon the lord of Hunsdon Stout women among the rebels Leonard Dacres put to flight taketh his waie into Scotland Iohn Stow. Rebelles executed at Yorke Knaues mire The earle of Penbroke deceased D. Powell in hist. Camb. pag. 399. The earle of Sussex inuââdeth Scotland The Mosse tower Sir Iohn Forster witâ his companiââ enter inâo Tiuidall They come to Iedworth and are interâââed The lard of Sesford with the principals of his alies submit themselues The castell of Ferniherst burned At Minto âoth the armies met The Scots of Howike their breach of coâenant Why the lord of Drumlanerikes goods were saued from the fire ãâã An house of the lard of Buclewghs blowne vp with powder Nothing but wast spoile by fire and sword The lord lieutenants purpose to besiege Hume castell What castels piles were ouerthrowne and spoiled in this voiage The lord Scroope with his power The marches of England garded against the enimie The marshall sent before to Hume castell The order taken by the earle of Sussex for the safeâie of the armie Hume castell besieged The earle of Sussex vieweth the castell of Hume A Mount raised at the lord lieutenants commandement Batterie made against Hume castell The master gunner within the castell hurt The Scots sue for a respit of war The capteins within Hume castell The lord lieutenant sweareth The lord lieutenants commandement on painâ of death The castell of Hume deliuered to the marshall Two Englishmen staied and after executed Capteine ãâã and capteine Pikman The lord lieutenant ãâã of an ãâã Iohn Stow Englishmen put into the castell to keepe it The earle of Chatellerault âs complices purpose war against the âings part Master William Drurie goeth with the earle of Lennox against the earle of Chatellerault c. The lord lieutenants oration implieng obedience of the souldiors to their new generall Knights made by the earle of Sussex Comes Sussexiââ Camerarius Hostages deliuered by the Scotish lords on the kings side The horsmen and footmen incampe at Dunbar Scotish lords of the kings side The duke of Chatellerault breaketh vp his campe The yoong king at Sterling The generall goeth to view Dunbreton The generall sendeth to know who was within the castell c. Lord Fleming is required to come to parlee with the generall The dishonorable dealing of the lord Fleming Sir William Drurie goeth againe towards Dunbreton He sendeth to view the ground where he should ãâã with the lord Fleming This is a coÌmon fault in the Scots Scotish honestie The lord Flemings double âââling Sir George Cââeis sute â Churchââââ A letter of chalenge sent to the lord Fleming The lord Fleming charged with treacheââ With pride harmefull meaning and vaineglorie The lord Flemings defense against the charge of treacherie Lord Fleming beareth him bold of his gentrie Sir George Carie voweth to mainteine no lesse than he hath written The lord Fleming in séeking to excuse accuseth himselfe the more manifestlie Sir George Careie his answer to the lord Flemings brag of his gentrie Oh valiant heart A muster of Scotishmen to the number of 4000. The armie goeth toward Hamilton Sir William Drurie talketh with the capteine of Hamilton castell The English ordinance shooteth at the castell The duchesse of Chatellerault committed to the charge of an English knight Great ordinance sent for The earles of Lennox and Morton The abbeit of Kilwinnings burnt The castell summoned The castell of Hamilton battered The castell eftsoones summoned The capteine of the castell demandeth parlée The ladie of Lidington ãâã Churchâââd ãâ¦ã of ãâã threatââ to be ãâã The earle of Morton an ââtercessor for ãâã towne of ãâã Lithquo spaâed from deserued destruction The prouost ãâã other enâââands The duke of Chatelleraults palace burned Neitherie The ladie Seton Some of the English armie spoiled in Edenburgh T. Church-yard Sir Thomas Maners with his two bands vnder one ensigne Restitution made of things taken awaie from the souldiors Seton castell spared at the sute of the ladie Anderwike saued from ruine by occasion The happie successe of the foresaid viage vndertaken by the English I. Stow. A bull from Rome hanged on the bishop of Londons gate A. F. Sée the view of a seditious bull ripped vp by Iohn Iewell late bishop of Salisburie printed 1582. a Pag. 3. b Pag. 7. c Pag. 23. d Pag. 36. e Pag. 42. f Pag. 4â g Pag. 49. h Pag. 50. i Pag 63. k Pag. 67. l Pag. 74. m Pag. 79. a Pag. 3. b Pag. 7. c Pag. 23. d Pag. 36. e Pag. 42. f Pag. 45. g Pag. 49. h Pag. 50. i Pag. 63. k Pag. 67 l Pag. 74. m Pag. 79. Sée the vâe ãâã of the seditious bull pag. 72 73. The quéenes words Multiplââ Elisabethâ virius The Nortons executed Conspiracie in Norffolke and wherevpon it tooke beginning The duke of Norffolke remooued Felton arreigned with other offendors and all âondemned Felton and others executed for treason A iourneie into Scotland by the earle of Sussex âast by fire and sword in Scotland Knights made by the earle of Sussex Tempest by sea and land which did much hurt Tho. Knell What hurt this tempest did in Bedfordshire A woonder of an hole made in the ground by a water-course What hurt this tempest did in the countie of Norffolke A péece of Yarmouth bridge borne awaie with water What hurt this tempest did in the bishoprike of Elie. What hurt this tempest did in Lincolneshire Thréescore sea vessels lost in this tempest Great losse of cattell both great and small Scripture abused What hurt this tempest did in Huntingtonshire A man woonderfullie preserued from drowning What hurt this tempest did in Staffordshire and Warwikeshire Hurt in Buâkinghamshire by this tempest Hurt in Sussex by this sudden inundation of waters A strange euent wrought by the inflowing of the water A new hauen and the same like to continue Hurt in Kent by the same tempest and breaking in oâ the streame A boie drowned after he was dead Hurt in Essex Hurt doone by ãâã teÌpest in Suffolke and Oxford Anno Reg. 13. The quéenes ââing to the Bursse after ãâã was finiâhed She giueth it ãâã name the Roiall exchange A strange kind of earth moouing in the countie of Hereford Sir Thomas Sackuille ambassador to the French king His interteinement verie honorable The first ãâã of the lord ambassadors audience The lord ambassadors liberalitie The riuer of Saine not passable with vessels The ambassador returneth into EnglaÌd A parlement at Westminster A subsidie Iusts at Westminster at the tilt iourneie and barriers Doctor Storie executed for high treason Abr. Fl ex Iohan. Foxi martyrologio Stories ââucation and birth Storie a bloudie
haue it causing a certeine number of harquebutters vpon appointment before to beset the castell and to watch that none should passe in or out that in the end the ladie of the house and other that were within in charge with it yéelded it vp to the lord protectors hands for the ladie doubting the losse of hir son that was prisoner with the Englishmen hauing the first daie béene with the lord protector and got respit till the next daie at noone in the meane time consulted with hir sonne and other hir friends the kéepers of the castell returned at the time appointed the next daie being the one and twentith of that moneth and made sute for a longer respit till eight of the clocke at night and therewith safe conduct for Andrew Hume hir second son and Iohn Hume lard of Coldan Knows a kinsman of hir husbands capteins of this castell to come and speake with his grace in the meane while It was granted hir Wherevpon these capteins about thrée of the clocke came to the lord protector and after other couenants with long debating on both parts agréed vpon she and these capteins concluded to giue their assent to render the castell so far foorth as the rest of the keepers would therewith be contented for two or thrée within said they were also in charge with kéeping it as well as they for knowledge of whose minds the duke sent Summerset his herald with this ladie to the castell vnto them who as the herald had made them priuie to the articles would faine haue had leisure for foure and twentie hours longer to send to their lord to Edenburgh where he laie hurt as before you haue heard and in danger of death which followed of the fall that he caught at the fridaies skirmish before the battell to know his will and plesure in this point of rendering vp the castell but being wiselie and sharplie called vpon by the herald they agréed to the couenants afore by their ladie and capteins concluded on whereof part as the sequele shewed were these That they should depart thense the next daie in the morning by ten of the clocke with bag and baggage as much as they could carie leauing all munition and vittels behind them in the castell Howbeit to be assured of them the lord protector prouiding ech waie to be readie for them caused eight péeces of ordinance fensed with baskets of earth to be planted on the southside toward the castell within power of batterie and the harquebutters to continue their watch and ward On thursdaie morning being the two and twentith of September the lord Greie was appointed to receiue the rendring of the castell into his hands and sir Edward Dudleie now lord Dudleie after to be capteine there They both departed to it and at the time set Andrew Hume and foure other of the chiefest there with him came out and yéelding the castell deliuered the keies to the said lord Greie his lordship causing the residue to come out then sauing six or seuen to keepe their baggage within who all were in number seuentie and eight entred the same with maister Dudleie and diuerse other gentlemen with him He found there indifferent good store of vittels and wine of ordinance two bastard culuerings one sacre also thrée falconets of brasse and of iron eight péeces beside The keeping of this castell the lord Greie betaking vnto sir Edward Dudleie accordinglie returned to the campe This doone the next daie being fridaie and the thrée and twentith of September they dislodged and went that morning to Rockesburgh incamping in a great fallow field betwixt Rockesburgh and Kelseie standing eastward a quarter of a mile off Here at Rockesburgh they began to build a fort within the compasse of an old ruinous castell the plot and site whereof standeth line 10 naturallie verie strong vpon a hill east and west of an eight score in length and three score in breadth drawing to a narrownesse at the east end the whole ground whereof the old walles did yet inuiron Beside the heigth and hardnesse to come to it is stronglie fensed on either side with the course of two great riuers Tiuet on the north and Twéed on the south both which ioining somwhat nigh togither at the west end of it Tiuet by a large compasse about the fields line 20 in which the campe laie at Kelseie dooth fall into this Twéed which with great depth and swiftnesse runneth from thense eastward into the sea at Berwike Ouer this betwixt Kelseie and Rockesburgh there hath béene a great stone bridge with arches the which the Scots in times past haue all to broken because the Englishmen should not that waie come to them Soone after the lord protectors surueie of the plot and determination to doo as much in déed for making line 30 it defensible as shortnesse of the time season of the yéere could suffer which was that one great trench of twentie foot broad with depth according and a wall of like depth bredth and heigth should be made crosse within the castell from the one side wall to the other and fortie foot from the west end and that a like trench and wall should likewise be cast a trauerse within about a coits cast from the east end and hereto that the castell walles on either side where néed was should be mended with turffe and made with lowps as well for shooting directlie forward line 40 as for flanking at hand the worke of which deuise did make that beside the safegard of these trenches and walles the keepers should also be much defended from the enimies force by both the end walles of the castell the pioners were set a worke and diligentlie applied in the same The lard of Sesseforth and manie other lards and gentlemen of Tiuidall and the Mers hauing come and communed with the lord protector and the councell made an assurance or as it were a truce for that line 50 daie till the next daie at night and on the next daie while assurance lasted these lards and gentlemen being the chiefest in the whole Mers and Tiuidale came in againe whome the dukes grace with wisedome and policie without bloudshed did win then vnto the kings obedience for the which they did willinglie then receiue an oth whose names in part insue The lard of Sesseforth the lard of Fernihurst the lard of Greenehead the lard of Hunthill the lard of Huntleie the lard of Markeston by Merside the line 60 lard of Boniedworth the lard of Ormeston the lard of Mailestaine the lard of Warmeseie the lard of Linton the lard of Egerston the lard of Marton the lard of Mow the lard of Reddell the lard of Reamerside George Trombull Iohn Holliburton Robert Car of Greiden Adam Kirton Andrew Kirton Andrew Meither Sander Spur of Erleston Marke Car of Littleden George Car of Faldenside Alexander Makdowell Charles Rotherford Thomas Car of the Yere Iohn Car of
courteous kéepers God may make you one if not I trust he will giue me strength and patience to beare your hard dealing with me Saith Thomas Waie Doo you then mind to stand to your religion Yea saith doctor Sands by Gods grace Trulie saith the keeper I loue you the better I did but tempt you What fauor I can shew you you shall be sure of and I shall thinke my selfe happie if I may die at the stake with you The said kéeper shewed doctor Sands euer after all friendship he trusted him to go into the fields alone and there met with maister Bradford who then was remoued into the Bench and there found like fauor of his kéeper He laid him in the best chamber in the house he would not suffer the knight marshals men to laie fetters on him as others had And at his request he put maister Sands in to him to be his bedfellow and sundrie times suffered his wife who was maister Sands daughter of Essex a gentlewoman beautifull both in bodie soule to resort to him There was great resort vnto doctor Sands and maister Sanders they had much monie offered them but they would receiue none They had the communion there thrée or foure times and a great sort of communicants Doctor Sands gaue such exhortation to the people for at that time being yoong he was thought verie eloquent that he mooued manie tears and made the people abhorre the masse and defie all poperie When Wiat with his armie came into Southworke he sent two gentlemen into the Marshalsea to doctor Sands saieng that maister Wiat would be glad of his companie and aduise that the gates should be set open for all the prisoners He answered Tell maister Wiat if this his rising be of God it will take place if not it will fall For my part I was committed hither by order I will be discharged by like order or I will neuer depart hence So answered maister Sanders and the rest of the preachers being there prisoners After that doctor Sands had béene nine wéekes prisoner in the Marshalsea by the mediation of sir Thomas Holcroft then knight marshall he was set at libertie Sir Thomas sued earnestlie to the bishop of Winchester doctor Gardiner for his deliuerance after manie repulses except doctor Sands would be one of their sect and then he could want nothing He wroong out of him that if the queene could like of his deliuerance he would not be against it for that was sir Thomas his last request In the meane time he had procured two ladies of the priuie chamber to mooue the quéene in it who was contented if the bishop of Winchester could like of it The next time that the bishop went into the priuie chamber to speake with the quéene maister Holcroft followed and had his warrant for doctor Sands remission readie and praied the two ladies when as the bishop should take his leaue to put the quéene in mind of doctor Sands So they did And the queene said Winchester what thinke you by doctor Sands is he not sufficientlie punished As it please your maiestie saith Winchester That he spake remembring his former promise to maister Holcroft that he would not be against Sands if the quéene should like to discharge him Saith the quéene Then trulie we would that he were set at libertie Immediatlie maister Holcroft offered the quéene the warrant who subscribed the same and called Winchester to put to his hand and so he did The warrant was giuen to the knight marshall againe sir Thomas Holcroft As the bishop went foorth of the priuie chamber doore he called maister Holcroft to him commanding him not to set doctor Sands at libertie vntill he had taken suerties of two gentlemen of his countrie with him euerie one bound in fiue hundred pounds that doctor Sands should not depart out of the realme without licence Maister Holcroft immediatlie after met with two gentlemen of the north friends cousins to doctor Sands who offered to be bound in line 10 bodie goods and lands for him At after dinner the same daie maister Holcroft sent for doctor Sands to his lodging at Westminster requiring the keeper to accompanie with him He came accordinglie finding maister Holcroft alone walking in his garden maister Holcroft imparted his long sute with the whole procéeding and what effect it had taken to doctor Sands much reioising that it was his good hap to doo him good to procure his libertie and that nothing remained but line 20 that he would enter into bonds with his two suerties for not departing out of the realme Doctor Sands answered I giue God thanks who hath mooued your hart to mind me so well I thinke my selfe most bound vnto you God shall requite and I shall neuer be found vnthankfull But as you haue dealt friendlie with me I will also deale plainlie with you I came a frée man into prison I will not go foorth a bondman As I cannot benefit my friends so will I not hurt them and if I be set line 30 at libertie I will not tarie six daies in this realme if I may get out If therefore I may not go frée foorth send me to the Marshalsea againe and there you shall be sure of me This answer much misliked maister Holcroft who told doctor Sands that the time would not long continue a change would shortlie come the state was but a cloud and would soone shake awaie and that his cousine sir Edward Braie would gladlie receiue him and his wife into his house where he should neuer line 40 need to come at church and how the ladie Braie was a zealous gentlewoman who hated poperie adding that he would not so deale with him to loose all his labor When doctor Sands could not be remoued from his former saieng maister Holcroft said Seeing you can not be altered I will change my purpose and yéeld vnto you come of it what will I will set you at libertie and seeing you mind ouer sea get you gone so quicklie as you can One thing I require of you that while you are there you line 50 write nothing to come hither for so ye may vndoo me He freendlie kissed doctor Sands bad him farewell and commanded the kéeper to take no fées of him saieng Let me answer Winchester as I may Doctor Sands returned with the kéeper to the Marshalsea and taried all night There on the morrow gaue a dinner to all the prisoners bad his bedfellow and sworne stakefellow if it had so pleased God maister Saunders farewell with manie teares and kissings the one falling on the others necke and so line 60 departed clearelie deliuered without examination or bond From thence he went to the Bench and there talked with maister Bradford and maister Farrar bishop of S. Dauids then prisoners Then he comforted them they praised God for his happie deliuerance He went by Winchesters house and there tooke boate and came to
a freends house in London called William Banks and taried there one night On the morrow at night he shifted to an other fréends house and there he learned that search was made for him Doctor Watson and maister Christopherson comming to the bishop of Winchester told him that he had set at libertie the greatest heretike in England and one that had of all other most corrupted the vniuersitie of Cambridge doctor Sands Wherevpon the bishop of Winchester being chancellor of England sent for all the conestables of London commanding them to watch for doctor Sands who was then within the citie and to apprehend him and who so euer of them should take him and bring him to him he should haue fiue pounds for his labor Doctor Sands suspecting the matter conueied himselfe by night to one maister Barties house a stranger who was in the Marshalsea with him prisoner a while he was a good protestant and dwelt in Marke lane There he was six daies and had one or two of his fréends that repaired to him Then he repaired to an acquaintance of his one Hurlestone a skinner dwelling in Cornehill he caused his man Quintin to prouide two geldings for him minding on the morrow to ride into Essex to maister Sands his father in law where his wife was At his going to bed in Hurlestons house he had a paire of hose newlie made that were too long for him For while he was in the tower a tailor was admitted him to make him a paire of hose One came vnto him whose name was Beniamin a good protestant dwelling in Birchin lane he might not speake to him or come vnto him to take measure of him but onelie looke vpon his leg he made the hose and they were two inches too long These hose he praied the good wife of the house to send to some tailor to cut his hose two inches shorter The wife required the boy of the house to carie them to the next tailor to cut The boy chanced or rather God so prouided to go to the next tailor which was Beniamin that made them which also was a conestable and acquainted with the lord chancellors commandement The boy required him to cut the hose He said I am not thy maisters tailor Saith the boy Because ye are our next neighbor and my maisters tailor dwelleth far off I come to you for it is far nights and he must occupie them timelie in the morning Beniamin tooke the hose and looked vpon them he tooke his handie woorke in hand and said These are not thy maisters hose but doctor Sands them I made in the tower The boy yéelded and said it was so Saith he Go to thy mistresse praie hir to sit vp till twelue of the clocke then I will bring the hose and speake with doctor Sands to his good At midnight the goodwife of the house and Beniamin the tailor commeth into doctor Sands chamber The wife praieth him not to be afraid of their comming He answereth Nothing can be amisse what God will that shall be doone Then Beniamin telleth him that he made his hose and by what good chance they now came to his hands God vsed the meane that he might foretell him of his perill aduise him how to escape it telling him that all the constables of London whereof he was one watched for him some were so gréedilie set that they praied him if he tooke him to let them haue the carriage of him to the bishop of Winchester and he should haue the fiue pounds Saith Beniamin It is knowen that your man hath prouided two geldings and that you mind to ride out at Alogate to morrow and there then yée are sure to be taken Follow mine aduise and by Gods grace yée shall escape their hands Let your man walke all the daie to morrow in the stréet where your horsses stand booted and readie to ride The goodmans seruant of the house shall take the horsses and carrie them to Bednoll gréene The goodman shall be booted and follow after as if he would ride I will be here with you to morrow about eight of the clocke it is both terme and parlement time here we will breake our fast and when the stréet is full we will go foorth Looke wildelie and if you meet your brother in the street shun him not but outface him and know him not Accordinglie doctor Sands did clothed like a gentleman in all respects and looked wildlie as one that had beene long kept in prison out of the light Beniamin carried him through Birching lane and from one lane to another till he came at Moore gate there they went foorth vntill they came to Bednoll gréene where the horsses were readie and maister Hurleston to ride with him as his man Doctor Sands pulled on his boots and taking leaue of his friend Beniamin line 10 with teares they kissed ech other he put his hand in his purse and would haue giuen Beniamin a great part of that little he had but Beniamin would take none Yet since doctor Sands hath remembred him thankfullie He rode that night to his father in law maister Sands where his wife was he had not béen there two houres but it was told maister Sands that there was two of the gard which would that night apprehend doctor Sands and so they were appointed line 20 That night doctor Sands was guided to an honest farmer neere the sea where he taried two daies and two nights in a chamber without all companie After that he shifted to one Iames Mower a ship-master who dwelt at Milton shore where he expected wind for the English fléet readie into Flanders While he was there Iames Mower brought to him fortie or fiftie mariners to whome he gaue an exhortation they liked him so well that they promised to line 30 die for it yer that he should be apprehended The sixt of Maie being sundaie the wind serued he tooke his leaue of his host and hostesse and went towards the ship In taking leaue of his hostesse who was baren and had beene married eight yeares he gaue hir a fine handkercher and also an old roiall of gold in it thanking hir much and said Be of good comfort yer that an whole yéere be past God shall giue you a child a boie And it came to passe for that daie twelue moneths lacking one daie God gaue hir a faire sonne line 40 At the shore doctor Sands met with maister Isaac of Kent who had his eldest sonne there who vpon the liking he had to doctor Sands sent his sonne with him who afterward died in his fathers house in Frankford Doctor Sands and doctor Cox were both in one ship being one Cokrels ship They were within the kenning when two of the gard came thither to apprehend doctor Sands They arriued at Antwerpe being bid to dinner to maister Locke And at dinner time one George Gilpin being secretarie to the English house and kinsman to doctor line