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A01354	The flovver of fame Containing the bright renowne, & moste fortunate raigne of King Henry the viii. Wherein is mentioned of matters, by the rest of our cronographers ouerpassed. Compyled by Vlpian Fulwell. Hereunto is annexed (by the aucthor) a short treatice of iii. noble and vertuous queenes. And a discourse of the worthie seruice that was done at Hadington in Scotlande, the seconde yere of the raigne of king Edward the sixt.	Fulwell, Ulpian, fl. 1586.; Harman, Edmund.	1575 (1575)	STC 11475; ESTC S102758	42,413	130

The Flovver Of Fame Containing the bright Renowne moste fortunate raigne of King Henry the viii Wherein is mentioned of matters by the rest of our Cronographers ouerpassed Compyled by Ulpian Fulwell ¶ Hereunto is annexed by the Aucthor a short treatice of iii. noble and vertuous Queenes And a discourse of the worthie seruice that was done at Hadington in Scotlande the seconde yere of the raigne of king Edward the sixt Viuit post funera virtus 1575. Imprinted at London in Fleete streate at the Temple gate by VVilliam Hoskins To the ryght honorable and his singuler good lorde sir William Cecill Baron of Burghleygh Knight of the moste noble order of the Garser Lorde high Treasorer of Englande master of the courtes of wardes and Liueries Chauncellour of the Uniuersitie of Cambridge and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsaile Ulpian Fullwell wisheth long health with encrease of honor BEeing at stryse with my selfe Right honorable whether I might presume to exhibite the dedication of this my vnpolished labour vnto your good Lordship or not I was as oft abashed as I vewed the homelinesse of my style and eftsons vtterly discomfited But contrary wise while I considered with my selfe as it were waying in the other Balaunce your noble nature in accepting the good will of the geeuer aboue the valure of the gift I am againe recomforted And in the ende of this conflict the noble curtesie of your honour wonne in mee the victorie whereupon I was not onely enboldened my self humbly to desyre your L. Patronage but also as muche as in mee laye encouraged my Aucthour master Edmunde Harman to offer vnto you the grosse fruites of this our labours The matter meriteth the Pen of the best writer although it hath nowe happened to the handes of an vneloquent Compyler But if it may please your honour to accept the protection hereof I doubt not but bothe the matter and the worthinesse of the Patrone will stirre vp some of exquisite skill to furnishe my defect by the renuyng of this my begonne attempt VVhich I confesse to be by mee taken in hande more willingly then wittilye respecting more the truthe of the woorkes then the eloquence of wordes Thus ceasing to trouble your good Lordship any longer at this present with my rough and ragged style In moste humble wise I submit my selfe and this my sclender trauaile vnto your honour praying allmightie God to preserue and prosper you in all your noble affaires to the great comfort of this Realme Your honours most humble Vlpian Fulwell A Table of the contents of this booke A Commendations of King Henries noble vertues Fol. 1 A Resitall of King Henries fortunate raigne 2 A briefe discourse of the vnyting the two noble houses of Lancaster and Yorke From whych vnyted house King Henrye was the first kinge that proceaded 4 Of the Battaile fought at Bosworth betweene King Henry the seuenth and king Richarde 8 Of the byrth of King Henry the eyght 10 Of King Henry the eyght in the tyme of his minoritie 12 Of his ryding to the Tower of London before his Coronation 13 Of his Coronation 14 Of the winning of Turwin and Turney 16 The Historie of King Iames of Scotlande that was slayne at Branxston fielde And of his lamentation 22 The Historie of King Iamies sonne who after the death of his father was king of Scottes being but a chylde That tooke his death after the ouerthrowe of his menne at Solomos and of his Complaint 24 How the Kinges of England and of Fraunce met at Morguison An. 1532. 29 Of the winning of Bullaine 32 Of the death of King Henry the eight 36 An Epitaph of his death 37 A Treatice of iii. noble vertuous Queenes 39 The Historie of the noble seruice that was at Hadington in Scotlande 49 A Commendation of the English Souldiers that serued at this siege of Hadington with the Capitaines names as neare as coulde be called to remembraunce 56 To the frindly Reader Vlpian Fullwell wisheth health THE wyse sage Philosopher Solon noting the insolencie of Cressus who esteemed him self the happiest man lyuing because of his abundant welth tolde him that no man is to bee reputed happie during his lyfe tyme because he knoweth not whether it shall ende with renowne or infamie Concluding hereby that a goodly lyfe a godly death maketh a perfect happie man. Nowe seing our late soueraigne Lorde Kynge Henrye the eyghth hath hit the marke of trewe felicitie and wonne the game of ioyfull immortalitie what ruthe were it that so singuler an example shoulde not be recorded in the golden booke of perpetuall Fame His noble lyfe his Godly proceedinges his inuicted raygne his fortunate successe his whole race of lyfe and ende of the same deserueth to be engraued in letters of pure Golde If Alexander the myghtie Monarche of Macedon was offended with a Schoolemaster in whose Schoole he founde not the fame of Vlisses written by Homer howe much more maye wee deeme he woulde checke and reproue all Englyshe Gentlemen that laye not before their faces the booke of King Henryes lyfe if he were nowe amongst vs But happely it will be sayd vnto mee Sir if you weare as good an Englyshe Poet as Homer was in Greeke or if the worthinesse of your style were comparable to the matter wee would the better esteeme of your woorke If that bee thy obiection gentle Reader I cannot excuse my selfe For I confesse I haue not the gifte of flowing eloquence neyther can I enterlace my phrase with Italian termes nor powder my style with frenche Englishe or Inkhorne Rhethoricke neyther cowche my matter vnder a cloake of curious inuentions to feede the daintie eares of delicate yonkers And as I cannot So if I could I woulde not For I see that manye men are so affected with these premisses that manye good matters are obscured the Aucthors encombred the woorkes but meanely commended and the Reader deceaued For while he coueteth to come to the purpose he is lead amasked in the wylde Desert of circumstance and digression seeking farre and finding little feeding his humor on pleasant woordes of slender wayght guyded or rather giddyed with plaucible eloquence I do not herein condempne neither discomende the noble Science of Rhethorike nor the eloquent Rhethoritian but rather wishe that excellent skill to be employed onlye on such matters as may both commende the speaker and the thing spoken or the writer and the thing written hauing alwayes the cheefe respect to tyme place For as it would sounde verye absurde to the eares of the skilfull Musitian to heare a gallyard or any other daunce playde on the solemne Organs So no lesse contrarie is it to daunce after an Hymn or other cunning voluntarie Thus gentle Reader I desyre at thy handes that thou accept the matter beare with my crabbed meeter Considering well that often tymes is founde good graffes vppon a Crab tree stocke Take then the fruite and accepte my good will. 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Their enemies within the towne with hope for to preuayle No engin was omitted then that myght their purpose gayne The battry was so fierce and sharpe that they in th ende were fayne To parle and to entreat for peace their states for to maintayne In fine they craude for mercye then Acknowleging their faulte Desyring his most noble grace ▪ to cease his sharpe assault And they his vassayls woulde become and faithfull to his Crowne In token of their loyaltie they yelde to him their towne And all the furniture thereof to vse at his owne will Desyring that he will vouchsafe their bloods not for to spill Whose noble aunswer was againe Sith you for mercy craue We mercy graunt you for your lyues from bloody Swoorde to saue With Trump and Banner then displayde he entreth this his towne Saint George his flagg is then aduaunst And all the rest throwne downe Anno Domini 1513. KIng Henry being confederate with the Emperour Maximilian and manye of the nobilitie of Brabant Flaunders and Holland hauing the sayde Emperor in wages vnder his Banner inuaded Fraunce and first assaulted Turwin with a puissant Armye Whiche towne in the ende was enforced to yelde it selfe vnto the mercye of king Henry who mercyfully graunted them pardon of their lyues and free leaue to departe in safegarde yelding vp their towne with all their furniture and munition vnto the king who entred the sayde towne with Banner displaide as a conquerour And hauing taken the ordnaunce with the rest of the spoyle within a whyle after he consumed the towne with Fyer which thing pleased the Emperor very well for that the sayd town was oftentymes a scourge vnto him The king at this tyme to solace him self rode to Lisley which is a town of the Emperours where as he was nobly entertained And at his entrie in to the towne the keyes of the gates were offered vnto him to dispose at his pleasure who receiued them thankfully rendring them againe to him of whome he tooke them And when he had recreat him selfe thear three dayes he returned vnto his campe againe Whose returne was ryght ioyfull vnto his Souldiers For as his presence encreased their ioyes so his absence augmented their dolours so entire he was vnto all his loiall Subiectes Shortly after he marched forwardes with his whole Armie towardes the great Citie of Turney which Citie is saied to haue as manye Towers in it as be dayes in a yere which is in nomber 365. And in fine after sharpe assault he obtained the towne and after possession taken hee built there a strong Castle In this meane season he enuy●ed the Emperour and the Empresse his wyfe to this his new wonne towne of Turney who ryght ioyousely came thither and were there royally feasted and his trayne had both greate entertainment and bountifull rewardes In these warres were manye feates of Armes tryed and sundry noble exploites atchyued and in conclusion the cheefe power of Fraunce discomfited But among the tragicall euents that there happened one pretie accident chaunced by master Henry Norace who at that tyme being a yong Gentleman and one of the kinges Henchemen hauing on his head the kinges Helmet was by the fiercenesse of his horse caryed from the kings Campe into the middest of the Frenche armye that then lay without the towne of Turnay in battaile ray And being thus among his enemies against his will at laste founde the meanes to turne his horse hed againe and so by good happe came backe vnto the king wherof the king was ryght glad And being thus escaped the king offered to make him knight for this aduenture But he tolde the king that his horse rather deserued that dignitie which caryed him among his enemies against his will. Whereat the king pleasantly laughed for he loued this yong gentleman verie well And because my Aucthor was brought vp vnder this saide Gentleman and by him preferred vnto the king I am occasioned somewhat to digresse by remembraunce of his worthinesse This forenamed master Norace grewe in suche fauour and grace with the king that he became to be the chiefe gentleman of his priuie Chamber and also was master of the blacke Rodd Which is an office to the noble Order of the Garter which office hath a large Prerogatiue He was rightfullye termed the father of the Court nexte vnder the king for his singuler order of education in courtly ciuilitie As dyuers noble men and gentlemen by him brought vp can full well witnesse Namely The Lorde Henry Dudley the Lord Sheafield The Lorde Edmund Shandos with many more His nature was to do good to as manye as hee might and harme to none His pursse was neuer shut from the needie Finally he was endued with all godly and vertuous condicions liuing in the courte in great fauour and estimation vntill enuye who alwaies pursueth vertue threw at him her spytefull and poysoned dartes to his decaye After whose death the king to shewe his good will towardes him shewed him selfe gracious Lord vnto as manye as were seruauntes vnto the sayde master Norace in his lyfe tyme and to expresse the same more at large he bestowed his daughter mistresse Marie Norace in Mariage on Sir George Carew which mariage was solempnised in the Court at the proper costes and charges of the king to the same and furtherance of the saide knight and the yong ladye his wife Now to returne to my matter againe Whyle the king was in Fraunce king lames of Scotlande notwithstanding his league and solempne vowe before mencioned made an inuasion vppon the Borderers adioyning vnto Scotlande And sent an Ambassadour vnto the kyng into Fraunce accusing the Borderers for breache of the truce betweene them taken When the king vnderstoode by the Ambassadour of the king of Scottes pretence He rewarded the Ambassadour and so dismissed him Nowe the king of Scottes supposed that all the power of Englande was in Fraunce with king Henry knowing also that king Henry could not nor woulde not breake vp his Campe to come against him And thought that nowe he had a plaine gappe opened vnto him to enter into Englande and there to woorke his will. But by the prouidence of the Queene who was left Regent of the Realme by the king at his setting foorth by the balyanties of the Earle of Surrey the kinges lieftenaunt he was preuented of his purpose For when he thought to haue entered this Realme with all his power he was mett by the Earle of Surrey at a place called Brampston where betweene them was fought a cruell battayle not without great effusion of blood on both parties but in the ende by Gods prouidence the victorie fell vnto the englishe men The King of Scottes himselfe being slayne in this fielde with xi of his noble men being all of them Earles besydes a number of his knyghtes and gentilmen of name and his whole power made very weake This battaile being ended to the renoune of the Queene the