col 2. lin 10. for charges read Churches pa. 729. c. 1. li. 25. for arras read Artois page 733. col 2. line 15. for two s. of siluer read two s of siluer by the day pa. 761. col 2. l 52. for these read thence page 768. col 1. line 19. for Monthenisey read Montechensie pag. 770. col 2. li. 58. for to make against them read to make warre against theÌ„ pag. 773. co 1 li. 43. for Richard South well read Robert Southwell page 781 col 1. line 50. for the prince read that prince page 786 col 2. in the mergent ouer against the .27 line for Mountfort read Leycester Pag. 788. col 2. in the mergent ouer against the .42 line for Yorke reade Canterburie Pa 789. co 1. lin 2â—… and made knight put it out Page 790. col 2. line 31. the said Lord put out sayd Pa. 796. co 1. â—â— y e mergent ouer against the 24. line for Bristow faire reade Boston faire Pa. 808. c. 1. l 27. he there put out there Ead. col 1. line 36. for ceasse read seise Ea. c. 2. l. 9. for Turnim read Turmin Eadem col 2. line 15. for all read that Ead. col 2. line 33. for and other reade and the other Pa. 823. c. 1. in the mergeÌ„t oueragainst y e. 20. l. for K. Iohn read K. Edward Page 840. col 1. line 52. for contemptu read comitatu The same page and columne line 58. for mercariis read mercatis Pa. 843. c. 1. l. 5. for HeÌ„ry read HuÌ„frey Page 844. col 1. line 5. for accused read accursed Pa. 845 col 1. line 24. for might come read might not come Pa. 847. c. 2. li. 15. for lord chamberlain of the realme read Lord Chamberlaine of his house Pa. 858. c. 1. l. 14. for high chamberlein of Englande read high chamberleyn of the kings house P. 873. c. 1. li. 28. for HeÌ„ry read Herny Page 891. col 1. line 20. for Earle of Marche read Earle Marshall Page 895. co 2. li. 15. for Gleanor read Elizabeth P. 897. c. 2. l. 8. for scepter read charter Ead. col 1. lin 11. for kings read king Page 905. col 2. line 2. for Bethon read Bethuine Page 909. col 1. line 5. for Peter adde thereto or rather as some bookes haue Nichol Bahuchet Page 912. co 2. line 50. for the towne read the tower Page 917. for Countesse of Richmond read of MoÌ„tfort for as I take it she was not countesse til after that time Page 923. col 1. line 1. and so the diametre or compasse read thus and so the diametre that is the space ouerthwart the circle or compasse The same page col 2. line 58. for Henrie duke of Lancaster reade Henrie Earle of Lancaster for he was not created duke till the .27 yeare of king Edwarde the thirdes raigne as appeareth Page 937. col 2. line first for Earle of Norffolke read Earles of Norffolk and warwike for so hath one copie of Robert Auesbury although as I take it there was no Earle of Norffolke at that season Page 962. col 1 line 48. for Richmont read Montfort Page 967. col 2. line 13. and 14. for steward of England read stewarde of the kings house P. 969. co 1. li. 31. to the sea put out to Page 990. in the mergent for sir Simon Minsterworth read sir Iohn Minsterworth Page 1004. col 1. li 56. for Bond read Baude Pa. 1006. co 1. line 10. for benedicat de read benedicat to p. 1010. c. 1. l. 33. for abroad read abourd Pag. 1012. col 2. line 27. for partakers read partaker Pa. 1049. c. 2. line 1 for Hartelle read Hartecelle for so hath Froissart Pa. 1051. col 2. li. 11. for yoi read yuo Ea. co 2. li. 47. for Deberoux read Deueroux Pa. 1073. c. 2. li. 28. for erle read erles Ea. c. 2. li. 2. for returned read reformed Pag. 1097. co 2. lin 29. and .30 for earle of Marshal the duke read erle marshall duke Page 1098. col 1. lin 30. for Edmonde read Edward Pa. 1108. col 2. lin 55. Holt castell put in the mergent I take it not to bee Holt castell but rather Beeston as by the circumstances of the situation it should appeare Page 1110. col 2. line 10. for comming read communing Pa. 1117. col 1. li. 8. for his read theirs Page 1124. col 1. line 58. for following in this wise read in this wise following p. 1138. c. 2. l. 13. for Brone read Brone Page 1139. col 2. line 24. for sir Blunt read sir walter Blunt Page 1147. col 2. line 1. for townes read as of the townes Page 1150. col 1. line 17. for he should read they should Page 1153. col 1. line first vnder the picture for his kings read this kings Page 1156. col 2. li. 32. for Augus read Angus and so in other places where ye finde the u for the n. Page 1158. col 1. line 17. for casteau Chinou read chasteau Chinon Page 1174. co 2. li. 31. for nor read or Page 1180. co 2. line 27. for diuine persecution read permission Page 1187. col 2. line 13. for Kirkeley read Kikeley or Kighley Pa. 1205. c. 2. l. 27. for xl M. read lx M Page 1212. co 2 line 26. for which was read which were Page 1214. col 1. line 37 and 38. for la Marche read le Marche Page 1218. co 1. line 30. for 38. read 36 Page 1236. col 1. line 48. At the same time put out the period before at and make it a comma and the capitall A would be a small a. Page 1249. col 2. li. 18. for Motaigne read Mortaigne Page 12â—…4 col 2. line 1. for this indubitate read the indubitate The same page and columne lin 30. for Neures read Neuers Page 1262. col 2. liue 56. sent the Lord Fauconbridge read sent the Lorde Talbot with the L. Fauconbridge Page 1265 col 1 line 24. for Captain rede Captaines The same page col 2 liue 14 for taking rede takeÌ„ Page 1258 col 2 liue 19 for Frauncis Sureymes rede Francois de Surienne Page 1258 col 2 line 27 but steaderly manned adde tooke resolution â—â—â— attempt the gaming therof in this order Page 1268 although wrongly noted 1276 col 2 line 13 for by them rede by him Page 1275 co 2 line 37 for deuie rede deuice Page 1277 wrongly marked 1269 col 2 line 14 for aduancers reade aduancer Page 1280 col 1 line 18 put out and other places Page 1290 col 2 line 24 for Burstlier reade Burcheir Page 1295 col 1 line 27 of the Duke put out of Page 1297 col 1 line first all things adde to all things Page 1305 col 1 line 48 for prickes reade prickers Page 1310 col 2 line 31 for of the army reade of the same Page 1317 col 1 line 43 for King the seuenth rede King Henry the seuenth Page 1319 colum 1 line 3 for with hir person rede with
the greatest part of Shropshyre which the Welch occupied not Lancaster Glocester Hereford alias Hurchforde Warwijc and Hertforde shyres the rest of whose territories were holden by such princes of other kingdomes thorow force 〈◊〉 bordered vpoÌ„ the same And thus much haue I thought good to leaue in memorye of the aforesaid kingdomes not omitting in y e meane time somewhat here to remember of the diuision of the Island also into Prouinces as the Romaines seuered it whiles they remayned in these parts Which being done I hope that I haue fullye discharged whatsoeuer is promised in the title of this Chapter The Romaines therefore hauing obteined the possession of this Island deuided the same at y e last into fiue Prouinces The first wherof was named BritaÌ„nia prima â—…itannia â—…ma conteined the east part of England as some doe gather froÌ„ y e Trent vnto y e Twede The second was called Valentia â—…lentia included the West side as they note it froÌ„ Lirpole vnto Cokermouth The thirde hight Britannia secunda â—…itannia â—…cunda and was that portion of the Ile which laye Southwardes betwéene the Trent and the Thames The fourth was surnamed Flauia Cesariensis â—…auia Ceâ—…iensis and contayned all the countrey which remayned betwéene Douer the Sauerne I meane by south of the Thames and wherevnto in lyke sort Cornewall and Wales were orderly assigned The fift and last part was then named Maxima Cesariensis â—…axima â—…esarienâ—… now Scotland The most barren of all the reast yet not vnsought out of the Romaines bicause of the great plentie of fishe and foule fine Alabastar and harde Marble that are ingendred and to be had in the same for furniture of housholde and curious buylding wherein they much delited Of the auncient Religion vsed in this Island from the comming of Samothes vnto the conuersion of the same vnto the faith of Christ Cap. 8. IT is not to be doubted but at the first and so long as the posteritie of Iaphet onelye reigned in this Islande that the true knowledge and forme of religion brought in by Samothes â—…amothes was exercised among the Britains And although peraduenture in processe of time either thorow curiositie or negligence y e onely corrupters of true pietie and godlynesse it might a little decay yet when it was at the woorst it farre excéeded the best of that which afterwarde came in with Albion and his Chemminites as maye be gathered by vewe of the supersticious rites which Cham and hys successours dyd plant in other countries yet to be found in Authors What other learning Magus the sonne of Samothes taught after his fathers death wheÌ„ he also came to the kingdome Magus beside thys which concerned the true honoring of God I can not easily saye but that it shoulde bée naturall Philosophie and Astrology wherby his disciples gathered a kinde of foreknowledge of thinges to come the verye vse of the worde Magus among the Persians doth yéeld no incerteine testimony In lyke maner Sarron it shoulde séeme that Sarron sonne vnto the sayde Magus diligentlye followed the steppes of hys father thereto opened Schooles of learning in sundrie places both among the Celtes and Britaines whereby such as were his Auditours grewe to be called Sarronides notwithstanding Samothei Semnothei that aswell the Sarronides as the Magi otherwise called Magusei Druiydes were generally called Samothei or Semmothei of Samothies stil among the Grecians as Aristotle in his de magia doth confesse and calling them Galles hée addeth thereunto that they first brought the knowledge of Letters and good learning vnto the Gréekes Druiyus the sonne of Sarron as a scholler of his fathers owne teaching séemed to be exquisite in all thinges Druiyus that pertayned vnto the deuine or humaine knowledge and therfore I may safely pronounce that he excelled not onely in the skill of Philosophie and the Quadriuialles but also in the true Theologie whereby the right seruice of God was kept preserued in puritie He wrote moreouer sundry precepts and rules of religious doctrine which among the Celtes were reserued very religiously and had in great estimation among such as sought vnto them Howe and in what order this Prince left the state of religioÌ„ Corrupters of religion I meane for those publike orders in administration of particular rites and ceremonies as yet I do not reade howbeit this is most certayne that after he dyed the purity of his doctrine began somewhat to decaye for such is the nature of man that it wil not suffer any good thing long to remaine as it is left but either by additioÌ„ or substraction of this or that to or from the same so to chop chaunge withal froÌ„ time to time that there is nothing of more difficulty for such as doe come after theÌ„ then to find out the puritie of the originall and restore the same againe vnto hir former perfection In the beginning this Druiyus did preach vnto his bearers Caesar that the soule of man is immortall that God is omnipotent mercyfull as a father in shewing fauor vnto the godly and iust as an vpright Iudge in punishing of the wicked That the secrets of mans hart are not vnknowen and only knowen to him and that as the worlde and all that is therein had their beginning by him at his owne will so shall all things likewise haue an end when he shal sée his time He taught them also howe to obserue the courses of y e heauens Strabo li. 4. Socton lib. success Cicero diuinat 1. and motions of the planetes to finde out the true quantities of the celestiall bodyes and thereto the compasse of the earth and hidden natures of thinges contayned in the same But alas this integritie continued not long among his successours for vnto the immortality of the soule they added that after death it went in to another bodye the seconde or succedent being alwayes eyther more noble or more vile than the former as the partie deserued by his merites whylest he liued here on earth Plinius lib. 16. cap. vltimo For said they of whoÌ„ Pythagoras also had and taught this errour if the soule appertayned at y e first to a king he in this estate did not leade his lyfe woorthie of this calling it should after his decease be shut vp in y e bodie of a slaue begger cocke Owle Dogge Ape Horse Asse Worme or Monster there to remaine as in a place of purgation punishmeÌ„t for a certaine periode of time Beside this it should peradueÌ„ture sustaine often translation from one bodie vnto another according to the quantitie and qualitie of his dooinges here on earth till it should finally be purified and restored againe to all other humaine bodie wherein if it behaued it selfe more orderly then at the first after the next death it shoulde be preferred eyther to the bodie of a king or other great estate And thus they
and Turrington the other from Sudbrooke and likewyse beneath Byrlinges with the third comming from Barkeworth by Stansted and ioining all in one soone after it is not long ere it fall into the chanell of Witham and so are neuer more hearde of There is also a brooke by southwest that commeth from Kyrâ—…y to Cateley Billingaiâ—â— and the ferry Bane At Tatersall it méeteth with the Bane which ryseth aboue Burghe and néere vnto Ludford goeth downe to Dunnington Stanygod Hemmingsby Bamburghe Fillington Horne castell where it crosseth a rill from Belcheworth Thorneton Marton Halton Kyrkeby Comsby Tatersall and so to Dogdike ferry Aboue Boston likewise it taketh in a water comming from Luseby by Bolingbrooke Stickeford Stickney Sibbesey and Hildrike And to Boston towne it selfe doe finally come sundry brookes in one chanell called Hammond becke which rising at Donesby runneth on to Wrightbold where it casteth one arme into Holly well water Thence it hasteth towarde Donnington Bollingborow Sempringham receyuing foure brookes by the waye whereof the first commeth from Milthorp the second from Fokingham called Bollingbrowe or Sempringham water the thirde froÌ„ Bridge ende the fourth from Sempringham and afterwardes the maine streame is founde to runne by Kyrton holme and so into the Witham Into the Wylande likewyse falleth the Hallywell which ryseth of a spryng that runneth towarde the east from Halywell to Oneby Esonden Gretforde and so to Catbridge where it receyueth another rysing at Witham and West of Manthorpe and the seconde comming from Laund and so runne from thence togither to Willesthorp Catbridge and then into the Hallywell which after these confluences goeth to Tetforde Eastcote where it méeteth with a Drayne comming from Bourne and so thorowe the Fennes to Pinchebeck Surflete and Fosdike where it méeteth with the Welland in y e mouth of the washe as I haue béene aduertised And thus much of the smaller brookes wherby the greater are augmented ouer all the realme of Englande Certes I would if it had béene possible haue dealt more orderly in their descriptions but sith many occasioÌ„s hindered my purpose that which I haue done I hope shall suffice for this time sith here after I may happen to take farder trauaile herein bring the whole discourse to some more perfite order as better instruction and good acceptation of that which is done alreadie shall encourage me thereto Of the deuision of Englande as it is now generally named into Shyres Cap. 4. Trinobantes Ordolukes Tegenes Silures Brigantes Cankes Canges IN reading of auncient writters as Caesar Tacitus and others we finde mention of sundrie regions to haue béene sometyme in this Islande as of the Trinobantes Ordolukes Tegenes Silures Icenes Brigantes CaÌ„ges and Kentishmen and such like but sith the seuerall places where most of them laye are not perfitelye knowne vnto the learned of these dayes I doe not meane to pronounce my iudgement also vpoÌ„ such doubtfull cases least that in so dooing I shoulde but increase coniectures and leading peraduenture the reader froÌ„ the more probable intangle him in the ende with such as are of lesse value nothing so lykely to be true Alfride brought Englande into shires which the Britons diuided by Cantredes and the Daxons by famillies as those which other men haue set downe before me It shall suffice therfore to begin with such a ground as from whence some better certaintie of thinges may be deriued and that is with the estate of our Islande in the time of Alfrede who first deuided England into shyres whiche before his tyme and sithence the coÌ„ming of the Saxons was limited out by familes and hydelandes as Wales hath also béene by hundreds of townes which then were called Cantredes as olde recorde doth witnesse Into how many shyres the sayde Alfrede did first make this particion of the Islande it is not yet founde out howbeit if my coniecture be any thing at all I suppose that he left not vnder eyght and thirtie sith we finde by no good author that aboue fiftéene haue bene added by any of his successours 〈◊〉 shâ—…re 〈◊〉 one sith the time of his decease This prince therefore hauing made the generall partition of his kingdome into shyres or shares he deuided againe the same into lathes as lathes into hundreds hundredes into tithinges or denaries as diuers haue written and M. Lambert following their authorities hath also giuen out saying almost after this manner in his description of Kent The Danes saith he both before and in the time of king Alfrede had flocked by the sea coastes of this Islande in great numbers sometimes wasting and spoiling with sworde and fire wheresoeuer they might arriue sometime taking great boties with theÌ„ to their ships 〈…〉 sâ—…me 〈◊〉 their 〈…〉 without dooing any farder hurt or damage to the countrey Thys inconuenience continuing for manye yeares togither caused our husbandmen to abandon their tillage and gaue occasion and hardnesse to euill disposed persons to fall to the lyke pillage as practising to followe the Danes in these theyr theftes and robberies And the better to cloake their mischiefe with all they feigned theÌ„selues to be Danish Pyrates and woulde sometime come alande in one port and sometime in an other driuing dayly great spoyles as the Danes had done vnto their ships before them The good king Alfrede therfore who had marueylously traueyled in repulsing the barbarous Danes espying this out rage thinking it no lesse the part of a politicke prince to roote out the noysome subiect then to holde out the forren aduersarie by the aduice of his nobilitie and thexample of Moses who followed the counsell of Iethro his father in law to the like effect deuided the whole realme into certaine partes or sectioÌ„s which of the Saxon worde Schyran signifying to cut he termed shires or as we yet speake shares or portions Erle 〈…〉 and appointed ouer euery such one shire an Erle or Alderman or both to whome he committed the gouernement of the same These shyres also he brake into lesser partes wherof some were called lathes of the worde Gelathian which is to assemble togither other hundredes for that they coined iurisdiction ouer an hundred pledges other tithinges bycause there were in eache of them to the number 〈◊〉 persons whereof euery one froÌ„ time to time was 〈◊〉 for others good abearing He prouided also that euery man shoulde procure himselfe to be receyued into some tithing to the ende that if any were founde of so small and hâ—…sse a credite that 〈◊〉 man woulde become pledge or suretie for him he shoulde foorthwith â—…e committed to pryson lest otherwise he might happen to do more harme abrâ—â—de Hitherto M. Lambeâ—â— â–ª by whose 〈…〉 we may gather very 〈◊〉 of the state of this Islande in the time of â—â—â—fride whose institution continued after a sort vntill the comming of the Normans who chaunged the gouernement of the realme 〈◊〉 such wise by bringing in of new
Rome 333. ducates as I haue reade of late One Edbert was the first bishop there theÌ„ one Cella succéeded after whom the sie was voyd by many yeres It was erected also 711. by y e decrée of a Synode holden in Sussex Winchester The Byshoppe of Winchester was sometime called bishop of the WestsaxoÌ„s or of Dorchester which town was giuen to Birinus his successours by Kinigils of the West saxons and Oswald king of the NorthuÌ„bers which separated it froÌ„ the iurisdiction of y e sie of Winchester wherof before it was reputed a parcell Winchester hath Hamshyre and Surry in olde time the Wight wherein are eyght Deanaries and 276. Parish churches and beside that the Bishoppe of thys Diocesse is perpetuall Prelate vnto the honorable order of the Garter his taxe at his institution was 12000. ducats or florens If the old cataloge of the Bishoppes of this Sie be well considered of and the actes of the greatest parte of them indifferently weighed as they are to be reade in our Hystories you shall finde the most egregious hypocrites the stoutest warriours the cruellest tyrauntes the richest money mongers polliticke counsellours in temporall affayres to haue I wote not by what secrete worcking of the diuine prouidence béene placed here in Winchester sith the foundation of that Sie which was erected by Birinus 639. whome Pope Honorius sent hycher out of Italy and first planted at Dorchester in the tyme of Kynigils then translated to Winchester where it doth yet continue Salisbury Salisbury hath nowe Barckeshyre and Wilshyre onely for after y e death of Hedda which was 704. Winchester was deuided in two so that onely Hampton and Surrey were left vnto it Wilton Dorset Barkeshyre Somerset Deuon Cornwall assigned vnto Salisbury tyll other order was taken The valuation hereof in Rome was lately 4000. Ducats or florens as the taxe therof yet recordeth Certes I haue not read of any bishop that hath béene a greater ornament to this Sie then Bishop Iewell lately deceased sith the tyme that Adelme dyd first beginne that Byshoprijcke 704. which was before a percell of the iurisdiction of Winchester founded at Shirburne afterward translated to Salisbury but I can not well tell in what yeare after the conquest Excester Excester hath Deuonshyre and Cornewall the valuation of this liuing was 6000. ducates which were payde at euery alienation vnto the Bishoppe of Rome Bathe Bathe whose Sie was sometyme at Welles hath Somersetshyre onely and the value therof was rated at 430. Ducates in y e Popish taxation except I be deceyued This Bishoprijcke was erected 905. in a counsell holden among the Gewises whereat king Edwarde of the Westsaxons Plegimund Archebishop of CaÌ„torbury were present For that part of the country had béene seauen yeres without any Pastorall cure and therfore in this counsel it was agréed that for the two Bishoprijcks wherof one was at Winchester another at Shireburne there should be fiue ordayned whereby the people there myght be the better instructed By thys meanes Frithstan was placed at Winchester The Byshoprijck of Shireburne diuided into 3. and Etheline at Shireburne both of theÌ„ being then voyde Shireburne also sustained the subdiuision so that Werstane was made Bishop of Cridioc or Deuonshire whose Sie was at Kyrton Herstan of Cornewall and Eadulf of Welles vnto whome Barkshyre Dorsetshyre were appointed but now you see what alteratioÌ„ is made by consideration of the limites of their present iurisdictions Worcester sometime called EpaÌ„tus wicciorum hath Worcester part of Warwijcshyres Worcester and before the Bishoprijc of Glocester was taken out of the same it payde to the Pope 2000. Ducates of golde at euery chaunge of Prelate This Sie was begunne either in or not long before the time of Offa king of the east Angles and Boselus was the first Bishop there after whome succéeded Ostfort then Egwine who went in pilgrimage to Rome with Kinredus of Mercia the sayde Offa and there gate a Monasterie which he buylded in Worcester confirmed by Constantine the Pope Glocester hath Glocestershyre only Glocesâ—â— wherin are nyne Deanaries and to the number of 294. Parishe churches as I finde by good record But it neuer payd any thing to rome bycause it was erected by king Henry the eyght after he had abolished the vsurped authoriyt of y e Pope except in Quéene Maries if any such thing were demeaned as I doubt not but it was Hereforde hath Herefordeshyre and part of Shorpshyre and payde to Rome at euery chaunge of Bishop 1800. Herefâ—… Ducates or florens at the least Lechfield wherunto CoueÌ„try is added Licheâ—… whose 〈◊〉 was hâ—…den 〈◊〉 time at Westâ—…ter thâ—… now hâ—… a 〈◊〉 of Biâ—… owne hath Staffordeshyre Darbyshire part of Shropshire the rest of Warwijc that is voyde of subiection to the sie of Worcester It was erected in the time of Peada king of the south Mertians which lay on this side of y e Trent therin one Dinas was enstalled about the yeare of grace 656. after whom succéeded Kellac theÌ„ Tunher an Englishman but consecrated by the Scottes It paid to the Pope 1733. Ducates in mine opinion a good round fine but not without a iust punishment sith that in times past vz. 765. Eldulf Bishoppe there vnder king Offa of Mertia woulde haue bereft the sie of Cantorbury of hir pall in the time of Pope Adriane and so dyd for a season till thinges were reduced into their former order Oxforde hath Oxforde shyre onely Oxforâ—â— a verye yonge Iurisdiction erected by kyng Henry the eyght and where in the time of Quéene Mary one Goldwell was Bishop who as I remember was a Iesuite dwelling in Rome and more conuersant as the fame went in the blacke Arte then skilfull in the Scriptures and yet he was of great countenaunce amongst the Romayne monarches It is said that obseruyng the Canons of hys order he regarded not the temporalities but I haue heard sithens that he wist well ynough what became of those commodities Ely hath Cambridgeshyre the Isle of Ely It was erected 1109. by Henry the first Ely being before a riche and welthy abbay One Heruy also was made Bishoppe there as I haue fouÌ„d in a Register beloÌ„ging sometime to that house Finallye it payde to the Pope at euery alienation 7000. Ducates as the Registers there doth testifie at large â—â—wiche Northwich called in old time Episcopatus domucensis whose sée was first at HelmehaÌ„ then at Thetforde hath Suffolke and Norfolke The circuite hereof was once all one with that of the Kinges of the east Angles till Ely was taken from the same it began about the yeare 632. vnder Eorpenwalde king of the East Saxons and one Felix of Burgundy was first Bishop there who sate seuentéene yeares and was placed therein by Honorius the Pope finally it payde at euery alienation 5000. Ducates to Rome of curraunt money as I reade
or huske The best mault is tryed by the hardnesse colour for if it will write lyke a péece of chalke after you haue bytten a kyrnell in sunder in the middest then you may assure your self y t it is dryed downe In some places it is dryed with woode alone or strawe alone in other with woode and straw togither but of all the strawe dryed is the most excellent For the woode dryed mault when it is brued beside that if is higher of collour it doth hurt and annoye the heade of him that is not vsed thereto because of the smoke Such also as vse both indiffereÌ„tly do cleane and drye theyr woode to remooue all moysture that shoulde procure the smoke thys mault is in the seconde place and with the same likewise that which is made wyth dryed fyrze brome c. whereas if they also bée occupyed gréene they are in manner so preiudiciall to the corne as the moist woode And thus much of our Maultes in bruyng whereof they grynde the same somewhat groselye â—…ruing Béere and in séethyng well the liquour that shall bée put vnto it they adde to euerye nine quarters of mault one of headecorne which coÌ„sisteth of sundry graine as wheate Otes Peason c. They séeth theyr woort also twise that is once before they mashe or mixe it with the mault and once after after adding furthermore vnto this later seething a certeine number of englishe hops for the outlandish are founde nowe to be the woorst according to whose quantitie the continuaunce of the drinke is determined For it féedeth vpon the hoppe and lasteth so long as the force of the same continueth which being extinguished the drinke dyeth and becoÌ„meth of no value In this trade also our bruers obserue very diligently the nature of the water which they daily occupye for all waters are not of lyke goodnesse in thys busynesse wherefore the diligent workeman doth redéeme the iniquity of that element by changing of his proportions which trouble in ale sometime our onelye but nowe taken with many only for olde sâ—…ctâ—…ens drinke is neuer seene nor harde of Howbeit as the béere well brued and stale is câ—â—ere and well coloured as muâ—…aâ—…ell or mâ—…lâ—…esey so our ale which is not at all or verye little sodden and without hoppes is more thicke fulsome and of no such continuance which are thrée oâ—…able thynges to bée considered in that liquor but what for that Certes I knewe some ale knightes so much addicted therevnto that they will not cease from morow vntyll euen to â—…istâ—…e the same clensing house after house till they deale themselues Such sleights also haue the alewines for the vtterraunce of this drinke that they wyll mixe it with rosen and salt but if you heate a knyfe redde hotte and quench it in the ale so néere the bottome of the pot as you can put it you shal sée the rose hanging on the knife As for the force of salt it is well knowne by the effecte for the more the drinker tipleth y e more he may and so doth hée cary a dry drunken soule to bed with him except his lucke be the better but to my purpose In some places of england there is a kind of drink made of apples which they call cidar or pomage Cidar Perry but y t of peares is named pirry Certs these 2. are very common in Kent Worcester other stéedes where these kindes of fruites doe abounde howbeit they are not theyr onelye dryncke at all tymes but referred vnto the delicate sortes of drinke as Metheglin is in Wales Metheglin wherof the welchmen make no lesse accompt then the Gréekes did of theyr Ambrosia or Nectar which for the pleasantnesse thereof was supposed to bée such as the goddesse themselues did vse There is a kind of swish swash made also in Essex and dyuers other places wyth Hony and water which the countrey wines putting some pepper a little other spice among call meade Mede verye good in myne opinion for such as loue to bée losse bodied otherwise it differeth so much from the true Metheglin as chalke doth from chéese Truely it is nothing else but the washing of the combes wheÌ„ the hony is wrong out and one of the best things that I knowe belonging thereto is y t they spend but little labour and lesse cost in making of the same and therefore no great losse if it were neuer occupyed Hetherto of the dyet of my Countreymenne and some what more at large peraduenture then manye menne will like of wherefore I thinke good nowe to fynishe thys chapter and so will I when I haue added a few other thinges incident vnto that which goeth before wherevy the whole processe of the same shall fully be deliuered and my promise to my friend in this behalfe performed Heretofore there hath béene much more tyme spent in eating and drincking theÌ„ commonly is in these dayes Lesse time spent in eating theÌ„ heretofore for whereas of olde we had breakfastes in the forenoone beuerages or nuritions after dinner therto rere suppers generally when it was tyme to go to rest a toy brought in by hard Canutus nowe these odde repastes thancked be God are verye well left and eache one in maner except here in there some young hungry stomacke that cannot fast till dinner tyme contenteth himselfe with dinner and supper onely The Normans mislyking the gurmandize of Canutus ordayned after their arriualle that no table shoulde be couered aboue once in the day which Huntingdon imputeth to their auarice but in the ende either wexing weary of their owne frugalitie or suffering the cockle of olde custome to ouergrowe the good corne of their newe constitution they fell to such libertie that in often féeding they surmounted Canutus surnamed the hardy Canutus a gloutton but the Normans at the last excéeded him in that vice For wheras he couered his table but thrée or foure times in the day they spred their clothes fiue or sixe tymes and in such wise as I before rehearsed They brought in also the custome of long and stately sitting at meate which is not yet left although it be a great expence of tyme and woorthye reprehension For the nobilitie gentlemen marchant men especially at great méetings doe sit coÌ„monly till two or thrée of the clocke at afternoone so that with many it is an hard matter Long fitting reprehended to ryse from the table to go to euening prayer returne from thence to come tyme ynough to supper For my part I am perswaded that the purpose of the Normans at the first was to reduce the auncient Romaine order in féeding once in the day and towarde the euening as I haue reade noted In déede the Romaines had such a custome and lykewyse the Gretians as maye appeare by the wordes of Socrates who sayd vnto y e Atheniens Oriente sole consilium occidente conuiuium est cogitandum Plato called the Siciliens monsters in
shée was deade and gone did name the Mertian statutes Who turned them into latine as yet I doe not read howbeit as I said before of the lawes of Mulmutius so the same Alfrede caused those of thys excellently well learned Lady whome dyuers coÌ„mende also for hir great knowledge in the Gréeke tong to bée turned into hys owne language wherevpon it came to passe that they were dailye executed among hys subiectes afterwarde allowed of among the rest by the Normans and finally remaine in vse in these dayes notwithstanding that we can not disseuer them very redily from the other The 7. alteratioÌ„ of lawes was practised by the Saxons for I ouerpasse the lawes made by the Romaines whose order do partly remaine in publike notice vnder y e names of the mercian â—…ercian 〈◊〉 â—…xon 〈◊〉 â—…ne law and the Saxon Lawe Beside these also I reade of the Danelawe so that the people of middle england were ruled by the first the west Saxons by the seconde as Essex Norffolke Suffolke Cambridgshire and part of Herford shyre were by the third of al the rest the most inequal intollerable Among other things also vsed in the time of y e Saxons it shal not be amysse to set downe the forme of their Ordalian law which they brought hither with them from beyonde the Seas and vsed onely in the tryall of giltye and vngiltinesse Certes it conteyned not an ordinary procéeding by dayes and termes as in the Ciuile and common lawe we sée practised in these dayes but a shorte dispatch and tryall of the matter by fyre or water whereof at this present I wil deliuer the circumstance as I haue faithfully translated it out of an auncient volume and conferred wyth a prynted coppie lately published by M. Lambert nowe extaunt to be redde The Ordalian saith the aforesayd authour was a certaine maner of purgation vsed two wayes whereof the one was by fire the other by water In th execution of that which was done by fire the party accused shoulde go a certaine number of paces with an hote péece of yron in his hande or else bare footed vpon certaine plough shares redde hotte according to the maner This Iron was sometime of one pounde weight and then was it called single Ordalium sometimes of three then named treble Ordalium and whosoeuer did beare or treade on the same without hurt of his body he was adiudged giltlesse otherwyse if his skin were scorched he was foorthwith condemned as gylty of the trespasse wherof he was accused There were in lyke sorte two kinds of triall by y e water that is to say either by hote or colde in this tryall the partye thought culpeable was eyther tumbled into some pond or huge vessel of colde water wherein if he continued for a season without wrestling or strugling for lyfe he was foorthwyth acquited as giltlesse of the facte whereof hée was accused but if he beganne to plunge labor once for breath immediately vpon his falling into that lyqour he was by and by condemned as gilty of the crime Or else he did thurst his arme vp to the shoulder into a leade copper or Caldron of séething water from whence if he withdrewe the same without any maner of damage he was discharged of farder molestation otherwyse hée was taken for a trespasser and punished accordingly The fiery maner of purgation belonged onely to noble men and women and such as were frée borne but the husbandmen and villaines were tryed by water whereof to shewe the vnlearned dealing and blynde ignoraunce of those times it shall not bée impertiment to set foorth the whole maner which continued here in England vntill the time of King Iohn who séeyng the manifold subtilties in the same did extinguish it altogither as flat lewdenesse and bouerye The Rubrik of y e treatize entereth thus Here beginneth y e execution of Iustice whereby the giltie or vngiltie are tried by hote Iron TheÌ„ it followeth After accusatioÌ„ lawfully made and thrée dayes spent in fasting and prayer the Priest being cladde in all his holly vestâ—…es sauing his vestiment shall take the Iron layde before the alter with a payre of tongues and singing the himme of the thrée children that is to saye O all yée wookes of God the Lorde and in latine Benedicite omnia opera c. he shall cary it solemly to y e fire already made for y e purpose first say these words ouer the place where y e fire is kindled wherby this purgation shall bée made in latin as insueth Benedic domine deus locum istum vt sit nobis in eo sanitas sanctitas castitas virtê° et victoria et sanctimonia humilitas bonitas lenitas et plenitudo Legis et obedieÌ„tia deo patri et filio etspiritui sancto Hec Benedictio sit super hunc locum et super omnes habitantes in eo in English Blesse thou O Lorde this place that it may be to vs health holynesse chastity vertue and victory purenesse humilitie goodnesse gentlenesse and fulnesse of the lawe and obedience to God the father the sonne the holy ghost This blessing be vpon this place and all that dwel in it Then followeth the blessing of the fire Domine deus pater omnipotens lumen indeficiens exaudi nos quia tu es conditor omnium luminum Benedic domine hoc lumen quod aute sanctificatum est qui illuminasti omneÌ„ hominem venientem in hunc munduÌ„ vel mundum vt ab eo lumine accedamur igne claritatis tuae sicut igne illuminasti Mosen ita nunc illumina corda nostra et sensus nostros vt ad vitam eternam mereamur peruenire per christum c. Lord God father almightie light euerlasting heare vs sith y u art the maker of all lyghtes Blesse O Lord this light y t is already sanctified in thy sight which hast lightned all men that come into the worlde or the whole worlde to the ende that by the same lyght we may be lightned wyth the shining of thy brightnesse As thou diddest lighten Moyses so nowe illuminate our hearts and our senses that we may deserue to come to euerlasting lyfe thorowe Christ our c. Thys beyng ended let him saye the pater noster c. then these wordes Saluum fac seruum c. Mitte ei auxilium deus c. De Sion tuere eum c. Dominus vobiscuÌ„ c that is O Lorde saue thy seruant c. Sende him helpe O God froÌ„ thy holy place defende him out of Syon c. Lorde here c. The Lorde be with you c. The prayer Benedic domine sancte pater omnipotens deus per inuocationem sanctissimi nominis tui et per aduentum fihj tui atque per donum spiritus paracleti ad manifestaÌ„dum verum iudicium tuum hoc genus metalli vt sit sanctificatum et omni demonum falsitate procul remota veritas veri iudicij tui fidelibus
〈…〉 about 〈…〉 my maisters doe make small account of this blew garter here and therewith heâ—â—e it out but if God lende me lyfe for a fewe monethes PeradueÌ„ture it was but a blew Ribbon I will make the prowdest of you all to reuerence the like and euen vpon this â—â—ender occasion he gaue himselfe to the 〈◊〉 of this order Certes I haue not read of any thing that hauing had so simple a beginning hath growne in the ende to so great honour and estimation But to procéede after he had stuâ—…yed a whyle about the performaunce of his deuise had set downe such orders as he himselfe had inuented concerning y e same he proclaimed a royall feast to be holden at Windsore whyther all his nobilitie resorted with their Ladyes where he published his institutioÌ„ and furthwith inuested an appointed number into the aforesayd fellowship whose names insue himself being the Soueraigne and principall of that companie Next vnto him also he placed Edwarde Prince of Wales Henry duke of Lancaster N. Earle of Warw. N. Capt. de Bouche N. Earle of stafford N. Earle of Sarum N. L. Mortimer Sir Iohn Lisâ—…e Sir Bartholomewe Burwash N. Sonne of S. Iohn Beauchamp Sir N. de Mahun S. Hugh Courtnay S. Thomas Holland S. Iohn Gray S. Rich. Fitzsimon S. Miles Stapleton S. Thomas Wale S. Hugh Wrotosley S. Neale Lording S. Iohn Chandos S. Iames Dawdley S. Oâ—…ho Holland S. Henry Eme. Sir Sanchet Dambricourt Sir Walter Pannell alias Paganell What order of electioÌ„ and what estatutes were prescribed vnto the elected at this first institution as yet I can not exactely vnderstande neyther can I learne what euerye Prince afterwarde added therevnto before the sixe and thirtieth yeare of king Henry the eyght and thirde of king Edwarde the sixt wherfore of necessitie I must resort vnto the estate of the sayde order as it is at this present which I will set downe so briefely as I may When any man therefore is to be elected vpon a rowme found voyd for his admissioÌ„ into this fellowship the king directeth his letters vnto him notwithstanding that he before hande be nominate vnto the same to this effect Right trustie and welbeloued we greete you well assertayning you that in consideration aswell of your approoued trueth fidelitie as also of your couragious and valiant actes of knighthoode with other your probable merites knowne by experieÌ„ce in sundrie parties and behalfes we with the companions of the noble order of the Garter assembled at the election holden this day within our manour of N. haue elected chosen you amongst other to be one of the companions of the sayd Order as your desertes doe condignely require Wherfore we will y t with conuenient diligence vpoÌ„ the sight herof you repaire vnto our presence there to receyue such thinges as to the sayde order appertayneth Dated vnder our signet at our maner of Grenewich the 24. of April These letters as it shoulde séeme were written An. 3. Edwardi sexti vnto the Earle of Huntingdon the Lorde George Cobham your Lordshippes honourable father at such time as they were called vnto the aforesaide company I finde also these names subscribed vnto the same Edwarde Duke of Somerset Vncle to the king The Marq. of Northhampton Earle of Arundell L. Chamberleine Earle of Shrewesbury L. Russell Lord priâ—…y seale L. S. Iohn L. great maister Sir Iohn Gage S. Anthony Wingfielde Sir Wylliam Paget Beyng elected preparation is made for his enstalling at windsore the place appointed alwaies for this purpose wherat it is required that his Banner be set vppe at twoo yardes and a quarter in length and thrée quarters in bredth besides the frynge Secondly his sworde of whatsoeuer length hym séemeth good thyrdely his helme which froÌ„ the charnell vpwards ought to be of thrée ynches at the least fourthly the crest wyth mantelles to the helme belonging of such conuenient stuffe and biggenesse as it shall please him to appoint Item a plate of armes at the backe of hys stall and crest with mantelles and beastes supportant to be grauen in mettall Item lodging scoucheons of hys armes in the garter to be occupyed by the way Item two mantelles one to the remayne in the colledge at Windsore the other to vse at hys pleasure with the scocheon of the armes of S. George in the garter with Laces Tasselettes and knoppes of blewe silcke and Golde belonging to the same Item a Surcote or Gowne of redde or crimosine veluet with a whodde of the same lyned wyth white Sarcenet or Damaske Item a collor of the garter of thirtie ounces of golde troye weight Item a tablet of S. George rychely garnished with precious stones or otherwyse Item a Garter for his left legge hauing the buckle and Pendaunt garnished wyth Golde Item a booke of the statutes of the sayde order Item a scocheon of y e armes of S. George in y e garter to set vpon the mantell And thys furniture is to be prouided against his instalation When any Knight is to bée installed he hath with hys former letters a garter sent vnto him and when he commeth to be installed 〈…〉 or his depâ—…tie 〈◊〉 him hys collor and so he shall haue the 〈…〉 of his habit As for his 〈…〉 not giueÌ„ according vnto the calling 〈◊〉 of the receyuer but as the place 〈◊〉 that happeneth to be vâ—…ydâ—… so that eache one called vnto this knyghthoode the sâ—…uereigne Emperours and Kinges and Princes alwaies excepted shall haue the same 〈◊〉 which became voyd by the death of hys predecessor howsoeuer it fall out whereby a knight onely oftentimes doth sit before a Duke wythout anye murmuring or gâ—â—dgyng at hys roome except it please the souereigne once in hys lyfe to make a generall alteration of those seates and so sette eache one according to hys degrée Nowe as touching the apparell of these Knyghtes it remaineth such as King Edwarde the first deuisor of thys order left it that is to say euery yere one of the cullours that is to say Scarlet Sanguine in graine blewe and white In lyke sorte the Kinges Grace hath at his pleasure the content of cloth for hys Gowne whodde lyned wyth white Satine or Damaske and multitude of garters with letters of Golde The Prince hath fiue yardes of cloth for his Gowne and whoodde and garters with letters of Golde at his pleasure beside fiue timber of the fynest mineuer A tymber containeth fourtie skinnes A Duke hath fiue yardes of wollen cloth fyue timber of mineuer 120. garters with title of Golde A Marquise hath fiue yardes of woollen clothe fiue timber of mineuer 110. garters of silke An Earle fiue yardes of woollen clothe fiue timber of mineuer and 100. garters of silke A Viscount fiue yardes of woollen cloth fiue timber of mineuer 90. garters of silke A Baron fiue yardes of woollen cloth thrée timber of mineuer gresâ—…e 8â—… garterâ—… of silke 〈…〉 degrées of reprâ—â—h which 〈…〉 from the 〈◊〉
commodity but especially our pewterers who in time past employed the vse of pewter only vpon dishes and pottes and a fewe other trifles for seruice whereas nowe they are growen vnto such exquisite cuÌ„ning that they can in maner imitate by infusion any forme or fashion of cuppe dish salt bowle or goblet whyche is made by Goldsmithes craft though they be neuer so curious very artificially forged In some places beyond the sea a garnish of good flat English pewter I say flat because dishes and platters in my time begyn to be made depe like basons and are in déede more conuenient both for sawse and kéeping the meat warme is almost estemed so precious as the like number of vessels that are made of fine siluer and in manner no lesse desired amoÌ„gst the great estates whose workemen are nothing so skilfull in that trade as ours neyther theyr mettall so good nor plenty so great as we haue héere in England There were mines of Lead sometimes also in Wales which indured so long till the people had consumed all theyr woode by melting of the same as they did also at Comerystwith sixe miles from Stradfleur And here by the way it is worthy to be noted of a Crow which a miner of tinne dwelling néere Comerystwith had made so tame that it would daily flie folow him to hys worke and other places where so euer he happened to trauaile Thys laborer working on a time in the bottome where the first Myne was knowne to be did lay his purse and girdle by him as men coÌ„monly doe that addresse them selues to apply theyr businesse earnestly and he him selfe also had vsed from time to time before The Crow likewyse was very busie flittering about him and so much molested hym in déede that he waxed angry wyth the byrde in his fury threatned to wring of his necke if he myght once gette hym into hys hands To be short in the ende the Crow hastily caught vp his girdle and pursse made away wyth all so fast as hir wyngs coulde cary hyr Héerevpon the poore man fallyng into great agony for he feared to lose peraduenture all hys money threwe downe hys mattocke at aduenture and ranne after the bird curssing and menacing that he should lose hys life if euer he gotte him againe but as it fell out the Crow was y e meanes wherby hys lyfe was saued for he had not bene long out of the mine ere it fell downe and killed all his fellowes If I should take vpon me to discourse of the dealing of thys byrde at large I should peraduenture set my selfe further into the bryers then wel finde which way to come out agayne yet I am perswaded that the Crow was Gods instrument herein wherby the lyfe of thys poore laborer was preserued It was done also in an other order then that whych I reade of an other tame Crow kept vp by a shomaker of Dutch laÌ„d in hys shop or stone who séeing the same to sitte vpon the pearch very heauily drousie sayde vnto the birde What ayleth my Iacke why art thou so sad and pensiue The Crow hearyng his master speake after this sort vnto him answeared or else the Deuill wythin it out of the Psalter Psal 76. Cogitaui dies antiquos eternos in mente habui but whether am I digressed froÌ„ lead vnto Crowes and from Crowes vnto Deuils Certes it is now high time to retourne vnto our mettals and resume the tractation of such things as I had earst in hand Iron Iron is found in many places as in Sussex Kent Weredale Mendip Walshall Manchester and elsewhere in Wales of which mines diuers doe bryng forth so fine and good stuffe as any that commeth from beyond the sea It is also of such toughnesse that it yéeldeth to the makyng of Claricord wire in some places of the realme Copper is lately not fouÌ„d Copper but rather restored againe to light for I haue read of Copper to haue béene heretofore gotten in our Ilande Howbeit as straungers haue most commonly the gouernaunce of our mines so they hytherto make small gaines of thys in hande in the North partes for as I am informed the profit doth very hardly counteruaile the charges whereat wyse men doe not a little maruayle considering the aboundaunce whych that mine do séeme to offer and as it were at hande Lelande our countryman noteth sundrie great lykelyhoodes of copper Mines to be Eastwardes as betwéene Dudman and Trewardith in the sea cliffes beside sundry other places wherof diuers are noted here there in sundry places of this booke already and therfore it shal be but in vaine to repete them here agayne In Dorset shyre also a copper Mine lately found is brought to good perfection Stéele As for our stéele it is not so good for edge toole as that of Cullen and yet the one is often solde for the other and lyke tale vsed in both that is to say thirtie gaddes to the shiefe and sixe shiefes to the burdeÌ„ Our Alchumy is artificiall thereof our spoones and some saltes are commonly made preferred before our pewter The common sort call it Alcamine Some tell me y t it is a mixture of brasse lead and tinne but when I know more of the substance and mixture of this metall my selfe I will not let to write thereof at large wheras now I must néedes conclude bicause I haue no more to say of the mettalles of my country except I should talke of brasse bell mettall such as are brought ouer for marchandize from other countries but what is that to my purpose Of precious stones Cap. 19. THe olde writers remember fewe other stones of estimation to be founde in this Island then that which we call Geat Geat they in latine Gagates wherevnto furthermore they ascribe sundry properties as vsually practized here in times past whereof none of our writers doe make any mencion at all Laon. CalchoÌ„dyle Howbeit whatsoeuer it hath pleased a number of strangers to write of y e vsages of thiâ—… oure Countrie aboute the tryall of the virginitie of our maidens by drincking of the powder of thys stone against the tyme of their bestowing in maryage certaine it is than euen to this day there is some plenty to be had of this commoditie in Darby shyre about Barwticke although that in many mens opinions nothing so fine as that which is brought ouer by marchauntes from the mayne But as these men are drowned with the common errour of our nation so I am sure that in discerning the price and value of things no man now liuing can go beyond y e iudgemeÌ„t of the old Romaines who preferred the geate of Britain before y e like stones bred about Luke all other couÌ„tries Moreouer as Geat was one of y e first stones of this Isle wherof any forrein account was made 〈…〉 so our pearles also did match with it in renowne in
in pasture or corne to be impounded 181.79 Beauclerke Henry created Kyng of England 261.16 Beauclearke Henrye marrieth Maude sister to K. Edgar 261.24 Beauclerke Henries issue by Maude 261.34 Beauford Iohn Erle of Somerset 248. 30 Beda cited 154.98 Beda cited 17.69 Belles melted in the Steeples by fire 297.64 Benefices bestovved after Floddō field in Scotland 426.109 Bercklay Thomas Knight sent into Scotlande vvith a greate povver 346.45 Berklay Dauid knight slain 352.26 Bertha drovvned by inundation of vvaters 280.87 Beuerley saued from the spoyle of the Scottes for a summe of money 324.69 Bible in Englishe published vniuersally through the Realme of Scotland 458.65 Bishop Thomas 461.5 Bishop Thomas sent by the Earle of Lennox to the King of Englande to aduertise the King of his proceedings 463.66 Bishop Thomas of Vtheltree forfalted in Scotlād by acte of Parliamente and all his landes and goodes giuen and annexed to the Crovvne 464.100 Bishops seat of Candida Casa first instituted 94.113 Bishops trauell betvvixt the Britaines and Picts to bring them to communication of peace 133.65 Bishops sea planted at Dunkelde 137. 49 Bishops sea at Abimethy translated to Saint Andrevves 182.18 Beringonium looke Castell of Beringonium Bishops vvithout any certain Dioceses 182.28 Bishoppes and ordinaries to haue authoritie to looke to all mennes faith as vvell of them that are publique as priuate 1◅2 20 Bishops sea of Abirden vvher first erected 232.27 Bishops seas restored and nevvly erected by Malcolme 257.20 Bishopprickes erected by Dauid the first 263.91 Bishops of Scotland summoned to a Conuocation at Northampton 275.56 Bishoppes Sea at Arguile erected 280. 81 Bishop a Scottishman richly revvarded by King Henrye the eyght 474.16 Bissare Iohn and VValter Bissart banished the Realme 286.37 Biron Chapelle Monster a french Captaine 477.23 Brudus chosen K. of Pictes 170.24 Blacke Prince taketh the King of France and his sonne prisoners 353. 73 Blacke Agnes of Dunbar 345.22 Blacke den or Diuels den 190.58 Blacke houre 381.4 Blacke Friers sent into Scotlande 285. 50 Blacke Parliament 322.67 Bladus King of Orkney sleyeth himselfe 26.46 Blasphemy and svvearing notably punished 199.80 Blasphemers to haue their tungs cut out 180.113 Bloudy custome of Scottes 17.23 Bloudy bickering for a Greyhoūd 80. 26 Boares tuskes of exceeding bignes 262.88 Boartinke landes vvhy so called 262. 86 Boclough Lord comming to assist King Iames the fifth vvith a povver .438 is discomfited and put to flight 438.73 Bogdale vvherof so named 99.74 Boyd Thomas Barle of Arrane in the Kings displeasure 400.26 Boyd Thomas Earle of Arrane diuorced from his vvife 400.37 Boyd Thomas Earle of Arrane being cited refuseth to appeare 400. 97 Boyd Thomas Earle of Arrane fleeth into Englande and from thence into Denmarke 400.104 Boyd Thomas Earle of Arrane murthered 401.11 Bonifacius Quirinus a godly precher commeth into Scot. 144.10 Bonifacius Quirinus buildeth many Churches in Scotlād 144.27 Bonifacius Quirinus dyeth in Rosse 144.75 Booke called Regia Maiestas 238 Bookes of Chronicles and other Scottish matters burnt 308.59 Borderers desirous of vvarre .356 line 124 Borthvvike Iohn accused of heresie condemned and his picture burned 446.41 Boundes betvveene England and Scotland in the dayes of VVilliam Cōquerour and Malcolme 255. 58 Bounds of the Scottish kingdome 182. 41 Bouchetell Guillame Knight .480 line 86 Bovves Robert Knight takē personer and deteyned in Scotlād 447.88 .474 97 Bovves Robert knight sent home out of Scotlande into Englande 458. 34 Bourgh vnder Stanemore sacked by the Scottes 321.115 Boyd Thomas Knight slaine .386 line 94 Boys Alexanders vvife and hyr aduentures 308.10 Bracehara a Citie in Po◅tingale builded 2.27 Brayes a point of land in Angus 214. 61 Brechin vvith the Churche there destroyed by the Danes 234.5 Bredus inuadeth the Scots vvith a povver of Irishmen 27.54 Bredus Shippes burned 27.60 Bredus and his povver vanquished 28.3 Bredus brother to Gilchrist .276 line 60 Brek Simon a valiant Scot sente for into Ireland 5.31 Brek crovvned King of Scottes in the marble seate 5.41 Brek first King of Scots in Irelād 5. 45 Brek brought the marble seate into Ireland 5.38 Brek dyeth 5.58 Bren and Cornelius heads of a faction in Ireland 196.13 Bren and his army slaine and chased 196.67 Brenna daughter to the Kyng of Mertia 168.54 Brenna married vnto tvvo brothers 168.55 Brennius Lieutenaunte or the Thane of the I le of Man slain 140. 88 Brezey Pierce sent into Englande vvith an army to aide K. Henry the sixt againste Edvvarde the fourth 398.107 Brezey Pierce besieged by Englishmenne and rescued by the Scottes 399.16 Bridge ouer Dee nigh Aberdene builded 429.31 Bright Starre like a Comete appeareth in the Skie 413.86 Britaines driuen from their seates by the Pictes 6.23 Britaines mislike the Scottes and Pictes alliance 6.62 Britains practise to set discord betvvene the Picts and Scots 6.72 Britaines sende Ambassadours to the Picts 6.93 Britaines and Picts come againste the Scottes 7.83 Britains purposed to destroy both Picts and Scottes 8.9 Britaines treason reuealed vnto Fergusius 8.13 Britaines reputed cōmon enimies both to Scottes and Pictes 9.3 Britains rob both Scots and Picts to set them at discord 9.50 British armye put to flight by the Scottes and Picts 9 Britaines require peace of the Scottes and Pictes 10.9 Britaines inuade the Pictes 15.74 Britaines inuade the Scottes .16 line 18 Britaines discomfited by the Scots and Pictes 17.51 Britaines proude for repulsing the Romanes 28.63 Britaines refuse ayde againste the Romaynes at their seconde cōming 28.72 Britaines vanquished by the Romaines 28.85 Birth of our Sauioure Christe .31 line 32 Britaines vveeried through trauel and hunger 33.90 Britaines leuie an army against the Ronmines 39.10 Britaines pardoned for their Rebellion 36.16 British lavves abrogated in Britaine and the Romaine established 36.23 Britaines eftsoones rebell 39.1 Britaynes by Ostorius the most part slayne and taken 39.33 Brigantes vvhere they inhabited 39. 43 Birth of a monstrous childe 41.5 Britaines moue a nevve Rebelliō 43. 80 Barvvike and Carelile burnt 44. line 16 British commons rise againste the Romanes 67.98 Britaine receyueth the Christian faith 70.18 Britaines vvith the Scottes and Pictes spoile their ovvne countrey 71.66 Buckle of King Iames the fourthes helmet gnavven vvith Mice 421. 24 Britaines betray the Romanes 81. line 97 Britaines by the Scottes sharpely repulsed out of VVestmerland 84. 4 Britishe Kings constreyned to gouerne at the Romaines appointment and order 93.30 Britaines ioyne vvith Maximianus against the Scottes 101.25 Britaines require aide of Valentinianus the Emperoure 103.33 Britaines flee out of Pictand and come ouer the Riuer of T◅ne 104. 53 Britaines send to Etius in Fraunce for aide agaynst the Scottes and Pictes 104.86 Britaines though forsaken of the Romanes determine to resist the Scottes and Pictes 104.107 Britaines sue to the Scottes and Pictes for peace 105.89 Britaines send to Etius into Frāce for aide 105. ◅2 Britaine 's put to flight and slayne by the Scottes and Picts ◅07 32 Britaines made tributaries to the Scottes and Pictes 108.4 Britaines sende into Britaine
of the Englishe nobilitie were slayne Eustace Fitz Iohn and Robert de Curâ—…y and amongst other Eustace Fitz Iohn and Robert de Curey men of great honor and reputation and namely the sayde Eustace Those that escaped in returning backe not knowing how the King was got through y e straites without daunger declared to theyr fellowes that followed and were approching to the straightes that so farre as they knew the Kyng and all the residue were lost These newes so discomforted the companies Henry of Essex that Henry of Essex whiche bare the Kings standerd by right of inheritaÌ„ce threw downe the same staÌ„derd and fledde which dishonorable doing was afterward layd to his charge by one Roberte de Mountfort Math. VVest VVi. Paruus A combate betwixt Henry de Essex and Robert de Montford with whome by order taken of the King hee fought a combate in triall of the quarrell and was ouercome but yet the K. qualifying the rigor of the Iudgement by mercy pardoned him of life and appoynted hym to be shorne a Monke Mat. VVest and put into the Abbey of Reading taking his landes and possessions into his handes as forfeyted but this Combate was not tried till about the ninth yeare of thys Kyng Henries raigne The king hearing that his army was thus discomforted came to his men shewing himselfe to them with open visage greatly reioyced the whole multitude and then proceding foorth against the enimies his people were afterwardes more ware in looking to themselues and so at length when the King prepared to inuade the Welchmen both by water land The Welchmen submit themselues they sought to him for peace and wholly submitted theÌ„selues vnto his grace and mercy The Castell of Rutland and Basingwerke built Math. Paris About the same time King Henry builded the Castell of Rutland and also the Castell of Basingwerke and one house also of Templers In the moneth of September this yeare the Kyngs thirde sonne was borne at Oxeforde and named Richard An. Reg. 4. Thomas Becket Lorde Chauncellour 1158 Math. Paris Also the same yeare was Thomas Becket preferred to be the Kings Chauncellour The K. holding his Christmas at Worceter in great royaltie sate in the Church at seruice with his Crowne on his head as the Kings vsed in those dayes on solemne feastes but as soone as Masse was ended The King layeth hys Crowne on the Aulter hee tooke his Crowne besydes his head and set it downe vpoÌ„ the Aulter in signe of humblenesse so that hee neuer after passed for the wearing of a Crowne The same yeare also the King altered his Coyne Coine altred abrogating certaine peeces called Basels To conclude they would in no wise renounce theyr opinions The Vallâ—â—s conâ—â—â—ned so that they were condemned brenned in the forehead with an hote iron and in the colde season of winter stripped naked from the girdle steede vp and so whipped out of y e Town with proclamation made that no man shoulde be so hardie as to receyue them into anye house relieue them with meate They are forbidden meate and drinke They are sterueÌ„ to death drinke or by any other kynd of wayes or meanes and so they were staruen to deathe through colde and hunger and yet in suche their affliction they seemed to reioyce in that they suffered for Gods cause as they accompted of it The same yeare Mathew sonne to the Earle of Flaunders married the Lady Mary the Abbesse of Ramsey daughter to King Stephen Nic. Triuet and with hir had the Countie of Bolongne The first falling out betwixt the king and Thomas Becket Anno reg Mat. Par. Math. VVesâ—… 1161 and about this marriage chaunced the firste falling out betwixte the King and his Chauncellor Thomas Becket as some haue written but chiefly the saide Mathewe was much offended with the sayd Chancellor bycause he was so sore agaynst the sayd contract Kyng Henry shortly after the marriage consummate betwixt his sonne and the French Kings daughter got into hys handes the Castell of Gisors with two other Castels situate vppon the Riuer of Eata in the confynes of Normandy and Fraunce For it was accorded betwixt the two Kings that when the marriage should be consummate King Henry should haue those three Castels bycause they apperteyned to Normandy and in the meane time the same Castels were delyuered into the handes of Roberte de Poyron Tostes de Saint Omer and Roberte Hastings three Knightes templers Rob. Houed the whiche vpon the consummation hadde of the marriages as before is sayd and according to the trust committed to them surrendred the possession of the saide Castels into the handes of Kyng Henry But y e French King was not a little moued for that King Henry had seysed vpon them withoute his licence in so muche that hee reysed a power of menne and sente them into Normandie where they fought one cruell conflict aboue the rest with the Normans till the nyghte parted them in sunder Gaguinus The Frenche and Normans fight by meane whereof the Frenchemen withdrew to Chaumount and the Romains vnto Gysours The next daye as the Frenchmen came forth again purposing to haue wonne Gisors they were beaten back by y e Normans which came forth of y e towne to skyâ—…ish with them N. Triuet Thus was the warre begon agayne betwixt thiese two Princes and by the seâ—â—ingâ—…on of Theobalde Erle of Bloys the matter grewe to that point that the 〈◊〉 French powers comming forth with into the fielde and marching one against an other they were almost approched so neare together that battayle was presently looked for first in Veulgessyne and after in the territorie of Dune but yet in the end a means was made and concluded betwixt them so their armies brake vp Thre knightes Templers Rog. Houed The .iij. Templers also ranne in displeasure of the French king for the deliuerie of the castels before they knew his mynde so that he banished them the realm of France for euermoâ—â— but K. Henry receiued them and gaue them honorable entertaynement Some write that there were but two Castels Gisors and Meall whiche wer thus put into their haÌ„ds M. Paris by them dâ—â—â—uered as before is mentioned The death of Theobald Archebishop of Canterbury But to proceed â–ª About this time Theobald Archbish of Canterbury departed this lyfe after he had gouerned that sea the space of .22 yeares which Theobald at his going to Rome and receipt of the Pall of Pope Innocent the second was also created Legate of the sea Apostolike which office he exercised so diligently and so much to the auaile of the church there that the dignitie of Legateship remayned euerafter to the Archbishop of Canterbury by a special decree The povver Legantine annexed to Cant. VV. Paruus so that they were entitled Legati nati that is to say born Legates as myne author doth report This Theobald fauored
Cisteaux order Helias Ros Walter Recluse Hugh de Euesham Iohn Euersden a writer of Annales whome I haue partly followed in thys Kyngs life William Pagham Henry Esseborne Iohn de Hayde Roger Bacon a Franciscane Frier an excellent Philosopher and lykewise a Mathematician Iohn Derlingon a Dominike Frier Iohn Chelmeston Thomas Borstale a Northfolke man borne Gregorie Cairugent a Monke of Gloucester a writer of annales Gregorie de Bredlington Thomas Bungey a Frier Minor borne in Northfolke an excellente Mathematicien prouinciall ruler of hys order heere in Englande hee flourished in the dayes of Kyng Edwarde the first although there were another of the same name that liued in the time of Kyng Edward the thirde Hugh de Manchester a Dominike Frier and prouinciall gouernour of hys order heere in Englande Richarde Knapwell a Dominike Frier Iohn Peckham borne in the diocesse of Chichester a Franciscane Frier excelleÌ„tly learned as by his workes it appereth he was aduaunced by Pope Honorius the third to the Archbishops see of Canterbury Thomas de Illey a Suffolke man borne and a white or Carmelike Frier in the house of Gippeswiche Michaell surnamed Scotte but borne in the Bishopricke of Durham as Leland hath an excellent Phisition and likewise very expert in the Mathematicals Hugh de Newcastell a Frier Minor professed in the same Towne Thomas Sutton a blacke Frier that is of the order of S. Dominicke Iohn Reade an Historiographer William de la Mare a Frier Minor Thomas Wicke a Chanon of Osney in Oxforde Simon de Gaunt Wiliam Hothun prouinciall of the Frier Dominikes in England Iohn de Hide a Monke of Winchester Roberte Crouche a cordelier or a Franciscane Frier Richarde Middelton a Frier Minor Thomas Spirman a blacke Frier William Lidlington a doctor of Diuinitie and a Carmelike Frier in Stanford Iohn Fiberie or Beuer a Monke of Westminster William Makelesfield borne in Cheshire in a market Towne whereof he beareth the name a blacke Frier by profession and an excellente Philosopher Edward the second Edward the seconde 1307 EDward the second of that name the son of Edward y e first borne at CarnaruaÌ„ in Wales begaÌ„ his raigne ouer EnglaÌ„d y e seuenth day of Iuly in the yeare of our Lord .1307 of the worlde 5273. of the comming of y e Saxons 847. after the CoÌ„quest 241. about the tenth yere of Albert Emperor of Rome the 22. of y e fourth Philip surnamed le beau as then K. of FraÌ„ce and in the third yere after y t Robert le Bruce had taken vpoÌ„ him the Crown gouernement of ScotlaÌ„d as Wil. Harrison doth witnesse in his Chronologie whoÌ„e I follow in this accoÌ„pt of the yeres of y e worlde â—…ontinuation Ma. West His fathers corpse was conueyed froÌ„ Burgh vpoÌ„ Sands vnto the Abbey of Waltham there to remayn til things were ready for the buriall which was appoynted at Westminster within three days after when the Lord Treasorer Walter de Langton Bishop of Couentrie Lichfielde thorough whose complaint Peers de Gauaston had bin banished the laÌ„d was going towards Westminster to make preparation for the same buriall he was vpon commandement from the newe King arrested committed to prison and after deliuered to the handes of the sayde Peers â—…e Bishop Couentrie â—…mitted â—…on beeing then returned agayne into the Realme who sente hym from Castell to Castell as a prisoner Hys landes and tenementes were seysed to the Kyngs vse but his mouables were giuen to the foresayde Peers Walter Reignalde that had bin the Kyngs tutor in his childhood was then made Lord treasorer and after wheÌ„ the Sea of Worcetor was voyde at the Kinges instance he was by the Pope to that Bishopricke preferred â—…ers reâ—…ed Also Raufe Bishop of London was deposed from the office of Lord Chauncellour and Iohn Langton Byshop of Chichester was thereto restored Likewise the Barons of the Exchequer were remoued and other put in their places And AmerieÌ„ de Valence Earle of Pembroke was discharged of the Wardenship of Scotlande and Iohn de Britaigne placed in that office whome he also made Earle of Richmont But nowe concerning the demeanor of this newe K. whose disordred maners brought himselfe and many others vnto destructioÌ„ We finde that in y e beginning of his gouernement though he was of nature giuen to lightnes yet being restrained with the prudent aduertisemeÌ„ts of certain of his Counsellors Polidor w e y e end he might shew some likelihood of good profe he couÌ„terfeited a kind of grauitie vertue modestie but yet he could not throughly be so bridled but that forthwith he began to play diuers wanton light partes at the first indeede not outragiously but by little and little and that couerâ—…ly for hauing reuoked again into England Peers de Gauaston The yeare next ensuing the I le of Man was taken by Robert Bruce his olde mate y e said Peers de Gaueffon he receiued him into most high fauoure creating hym Earle of Cornewall and Lord of Man his principall secretarie and Lord Chamberlaine of the Realm through whose company societie hee was suddainely so corrupted that he burst out into most hainous vices for then vsing the said Peers as a procurer of his disordred doings he begaÌ„ to haue his nobles in no regarde to set nothing by theyr instructions and to take small heede vnto y e good gouernemeÌ„t of y e coÌ„mon wealth so that within a while he gaue himself to waÌ„tonnes passing hys time in voluptuous pleasure riottous excesse to help theÌ„ forward in that kinde of life y e foresaid Peers who as it may bee thought he hadde sworne to make the K to forget himself and the state to the whiche hee was called furnished hys court with coÌ„panies of Iesters ruffiaÌ„s flattering parasites musitions and other vile and naughty ribaulds y t the K. might spend both dais nights in iesting playing banqueting in such other filthy dishonorable exercises and moreouer desirous to aduance those that were like to himselfe he procured for them honorable offices The VVâ—… Sir 〈…〉 weâ—… 〈◊〉 and thust to deâ—… Continuation of Nâ—… Triuet There was such prase and throng of people at this Coronation that a Knighte called Sir Iohn Bakewell â—…as Blackwell was thrust to death On the daye of the circumcision this yeare a great tempest of thunder and lightning beganne about euen long time that coÌ„tinued the most part of the night following On Wednesday after the Epiphany the Knightes templers in England were apprehended all in one day by the kings commaundement vpon suspition of haynous crimes and great enormities by them practised coÌ„trary to the articles of the Christian fayth The order taken for the apprehension of the teÌ„plers The order of their apprehension was on this wife the King directed hys writtes vnto al and euery the Sherifes of Counties within y e Realm y t they shuld giue summonance to a certayne number of
of Elie certaine persons whiche being armed mette the Bishoppe of Rochester Lorde Tresourer deliueryng to hym Letters from the Pope the contentes of the whiche were not knowen and foorthwith they shranke awaye but the Kinges seruauntes made suche pursute after them that some of them they tooke and bringing them before the Kynges Iustices Suche as deliuered the Pope letters hanged vppon their arreignement they were condempned and suffred deathe on the gallowes Great discorde rose also aboute thys time Dyscorde betvvixt Priestes and Friers or rather afore betwixte the Clergie and the foure orders of Friers as in the booke of Actes and Monumentes sette foorthe by master Foxe yet maye reade more at large In this yeare Iohn of Gaunt Earle of Richemont sonne to the Kyng Tho. VVals Iohn fo Gau◅ married 1359 An. reg 33. the nineteenth daye of Maye married the Ladie Blaunche daughter to Henrye Duke of Lancaster at Reading and bicause they were cousins within the degrees of consanguinitie forbidden by the Churche Lawes to marrie a dispensation was procured of the Pope to remoue that obstacle and lette This yeare the Kyng sette workemenne in hande to take downe muche olde buildings belonging to the Castel of Windsor VVinsor castell repared Additions to Triuet and caused diuers other faire and sumptuous workes to bee erected and sette vp in and aboute the same Castell so that almoste all the Masons and Carpenters that were of any accompte within this lande were sente for and employed aboute the same workes the ouerseer wherof was Wyllyam Wickham the Kyngs Chaplein by whose aduice the Kyng tooke in hande to repaire that place the rather in deede bycause hee was borne there and therefore hee tooke greate pleasure to bestowe coste in beautifying it with suche buildings as maye appeare euen vnto this daye Moreouer this yeare in the Rogation weeke was a solempne Iustes enterprised at London for the Maior A solempne Iustes at London and his four and twentie brethren as chalengers did appoint to aunswere all co◅ers in whose name and steede the Kyng wyth hys four sonnes Edwarde Caxton The king vvith his four ◅onnes are of the chalengers parte Lionell Iohn and Edmunde and nineteene other greate Lordes in secrete manner came and helde the fielde with honour to the great pleasure of the citizens that behelde the same Yee haue hearde howe the Frenchemen refused the peace whiche was accorded betwixte King Edwarde and theyr King as then prisoner here in Englande Wherevppon King Edwarde determined to make suche warre againste the Realme of Fraunce that the Frenchemen shoulde bee gladde to condiscende and agree to reason and firste hee commaunded all manner of Frenchemenne other than suche as were prisoners to auoide out of Englande The Frenche King remoued He departed from Hertfourt the .xxix. of Iulie Hee also appointed the Frenche King to bee remoued from the Castell of Hertforde where hee then remained vnto the Castell of Somerton in Lincolneshire vnder the garde and conduct of the lord William Deincourte Polidore beeyng allowed fourtie shillyngs the daye for the wages of twoo and twentie men at armes twentie archers and twoo watchemenne as thus for himselfe and Sir Iohn Kirketon Banerettes eyther of them foure shillings the daye for three Knightes Sir Wyllyam Collevill in place of the Lorde Roberte Collevill that coulde not trauayle hymselfe by reason of sickenesse Sir Iohn Deincourte and Syr Saer de Rocheforte eche of them twoo shillings the daye seuenteene Esquiers eche of them twelue pence the daye eight archers on horse backe euery of them sixe pence the daye and twelue archers on foote three pence and the twoo watchemen eyther of them sixe pence the daye whiche amounteth in the whole vnto nyne and thirtie shillings the daye and the odde twelue pence was allowed to the saide Lorde Deincourte to make vp the summe of fortie shillings This haue I noted the rather to giue a lighte to the reader to consider howe chargeable the reteining of men of warre is in these dayes in respect of the former times But now to our purpose The King prepareth to make a iourney into Fraunce Froissart The Duke of Lancaster The King meanyng to passe ouer hymselfe in person into Fraunce he caused a mightie army to bee mustered and put in a redinesse and sente beefore hym the Duke of Lancaster ouer to Callais with foure hundreth speares and twoo thousande Archers where the saide Duke ioyned with suche strangers as were alreadye comme to Callais in greate numbers and togyther with them entred into the Frenche dominious and passing by Saincte Omers and Bethune came to Mount sainct Eloy a goodly Abbey and a rich a two leagues distant from Arras and there the hoste tarried foure dayes and when they hadde robbed wasted all the Countrey thereaboute Bray ass◅l◅d they rode to Bray and there made a greet assaulte at the which a Baneret of England was slain with diuers other When the Englishemenne sawe they coulde winne nothing there they departed and followyng the water of Some came to a town called Che◅sye where they passed the riuer and there ◅ried Allhallowen daye and the night following The same daye the Duke of Lancaster was aduertised The Kyng◅ arri◅ C◅e that the Kyng was arriued at Callais the seuenteenth daye of October Froissart commaunding hym by letters to drawe towardes him with all his companye The Duke according to the Kings commaundement obeyed and so retourned towarde Callais The King beeyng there arriued with all his power tooke counsell whiche way he shulde take Polidor Some aduised him first to inuade Flaunders and to reuenge the iniurious dealing of the Earle and the Flemings but hee woulde not agree to that motion for hee purposed fully eyther by plaine force to make a conqueste of Fraunce or else vtterlye to destroye and waste the countrey throughoute with fire and sworde Herevppon hee sette forewarde the fourthe of Nouember and passing throughe the countreys of Arthois and Vermendois hee came before the Citie of Reimes There wente ouer with him in this iourney and with the Duke of Lancaster Froissart his foure sonnes Edwarde Prince of Wales Lionell Earle of Vlster Iohn Earle of Richemond and the Lorde Edmunde his yongest sonne Also ther was Hēry y e said Duke of Lancaster with the Earles of Marche Warwike Suffolke Herford who also was Earle of Northampton Salisburie Stafford and Oxford the Byshoppes of Lincolne and Durham the Lords Percie Nevyll Spēcer Kirdistō Rosse Manny Cobhā Moubrey de la Ware Willoughbie Felton Basset Fitz Water Charleton Audeley Burwasche and others beside Knyghtes and Esquiers as Sir Iohn Chandos Sir Stephan Goussanton Sir Nowell Loring sir Hugh Hastings sir Iohn Lisle Sir Richarde Pembruge and others The siege was layde before Reimes aboute Sainct Andrewes tide Rei◅s ◅sieged and continued more than seuen weekes but the Citie was so well defended by the Bishop and the earle
perceued his natural strength in such wise to decay that there was liste hope of recouerie in the cuÌ„ning of his phisitioÌ„s whiche hee perceyued only to prolong hys life forâ—… small time wherefore he began to make readye for his passage into an other world not forgetting as after shal appeare to exhorte the nobles of his realme aboue all thinges to an vnitie among themselues hauing as he tooke if made an attonement betwixte the parties that were knowen to be frant friends he coÌ„mended vnto their graue wisedoms the gouernmeÌ„t of his son the prince of his brother the Duke of Yorke during the time of their teÌ„der yeres And thus hauing set things in good stay as might be supposed hee shortely after departed this life at Westminster the .ix. of April in the yere .1483 After he had reigned .xxij. yeres one moneth viij dayes his body was with funerall pompe conueyed to Windsor there buried he left behinde him issue by the Quene his wife ij sons Edward and Richard with .v. daughters Elizabeth that was after Quene maried to Henry the .vij. Cicilie maried to the vicount Welles Briget a Nunne professed in Sion or Dertfort as sir Tho. More hath Anne maried to the L. Thomas Howarde after erle of Surrey and duke of Norffolke Katherin wedded to the L. WilliaÌ„ Courtney son to the earle of Deuonshire beside these he left behinde him likewise a base son named Arthur that was after vicouÌ„t Lisle for the description of his person quallities I will referre you to that whiche sir Tho. More hath written of him in that historie which he wrote and left vnfinished of his son Edward the fift of his brother king Richard the third which we shall god willing hereafter make you partaker of as wee finde the same recorded among his other workes word for word when firste we haue according to our begâ—… morâ—… rehearsed suche writers of our nation as â—…ed in his dayes As first Nicholas Hentâ—… borne an Suffolke a Carmelit Frier in Gippâ—…wich prâ—…uinciall of his order throughe Englande Henry Parker a carmelite Frier of Doucaster preached againste the pride of prelates and for suche doctrine as he set forthe was imprisoned wyth his fellowe Tho. Holden and a certaine blacke Frier also for the like cause Parker was forced to recant .iij. speciall articles as Balenoteth out of Lelande Iohn Harding an esquier borne in the Northe partes wrote a Chronicle in English verse among other speciall points therein touched he gathered all the submissions and homages had and made by the Scottishe kings euen from the dayes of King Athelstons Whereby it euidently may appeare howe the Scottishe Kingdome euen in maner from the firste establishing thereof here in Britaine hath bene apperteining vnto the kings of England and houlden of them as their chiefe and superior Lordes William Ive a doctor of Diuinitie and prehendarie of Sainct Poules in London Thomas Wilton a diuine and Deane of the sayde Churche of Poules in London Iulian Pemes a gentlewoman endued with excellent giftes bothe of body and minde wrote certaine treatises of hauking and hunting delighting greatly hirselfe in those exercises and pastimes she wrote also a booke of the lawe of armes and knowledge apperteyning to Harolds Iohn Stambery borne in the Weaste partes of this Realme a Carmelite Frier and confessor to King Henry the sixte hee was also Maister of Gaton Colledge and after was made Bishop of Bangor and remoued from thence to the See of Hereforde Iohn Slueley an Augustine Frier prouinciall of hys order Iohn Forteskew a Iudge and Chauncellor of England wrote diuers treatises concerning the lawe and pollitike gouernement Rochus a Charterhouse Monke borne in London of honeste parentes and studied in the Vniuersitie of Paris he wrote diuers epigrammes Iohn Phreas borne also in London was fellowe of Bailioll Colledge in Oxforde and after wente into Italy where hee hearde Guarinus that excellent Philosopher read in Ferrara he proued an excellent phisition and a skilfull lawier There was not in Italy whilest hee remained there that passed hym in eloquence and knowledge of bothe the tongues Greeke and Latin â–ª Walter Hunt a Carmelite Frier a greate deuine and for his excellency in lerning sent from the whole body of this realme vnto the generall counsell houlden firste at Ferrara and after at Florence by Pope Eugenius the .iiij. where he disputed among other wyth the Greekes in defence of the other and ceremonies of the latine Churche Thomas Wighenhall a Monke of the order called Premonstratensis in the Abbey of DeraÌ„ in Nortfolke Iohn Gunthorpe went into Italy where he hearde that eloquent learned man Guarinus read in Farrara After his commyng home into England he was Deane of Welles and keeper of the priuy seale Iohn Hamvoys an excellent Musicion and for hys notable cunnyng therein made doctor of Musicke WilliaÌ„ Caxton wrote a Chronicle called Fruâ—…â—…porum an appendix vnto Treuisa beside diuers other bookes translations Iohn Miâ—…ton a carmelite Frier of Bristow and prouintiall of his order through England Irelande and Scotland at lengthe bycause he defended such of his order as preached against endowments of the church with temporall possessions he was brought into trouble committed to prison in castell saint Angelo in Rome where he continued .iij. yeares and at length was deliuered throughe certaine of the Cardinalles that were appointed hys Iudges Dauid Morgan a Welcheman Threasourer of the church of Landaffe wrote of the antiquities of Wales and a discriptioÌ„ of the country Iohn Tiptot a noble man borne a greate trauailer excellently learned and wrote diuers treatises finally lost his head in the yero .1471 in time of the ciuill warre betwixt the houses of Yorke Lancaster Iohn Shirwood bishop of Durham Thomas Kent an excellent philosopher Roberte Huggon borne in Norffolk in a town called Hardingham wrote certayne vayne prophecies Iohn Maxfielde a learned phisition William Greene a carmelite Frier Thomas Norton borne in Bristow an Alcumiste Iohn Meare a Monke of Norwich Richarde Porlande borne in Norffolke a Franciscan Frier and a doctor of diuinitie Thomas Milling a Monke of Westminster a Doctor of diuinitie and preferred to the Bishopricke of Hereforde Skogan a learned Gentleman and student for a time in Oxforde of a pleasaunte witte and bent to mery deuises in respect whereof he was called into the Courte where giuing himselfe to his naturall inclination of mirthe and pleasaunt pastime he plaied many sporting parts althoughe not in suche vnciuill maner as hath bene of hym reported ¶ The historie of king Edward the fifth and king Richard the third vnfinished written by Maister Thomas Moore then one of the vnder Sheriffes of London about the yeare of our lorde .1513 according to a Copie of his owne hande Printed among his other woorkes Edward the .v. KIng Edward of that name the fourth after that hee had liued fiftie and three yeres 1483 seuen monethes and sixe dayes and therof raigned twoo
at the Buclerâ—… and a great mâ—…ny of yong men looking on them for the coÌ„â—…̄dement was then scarce knowne he commaunded them to leaue off and for that one of them asked him why hee woulde haue hadde into the Counter Then all the yong prentisâ—… stept to and resisted the Alderman taking the yong fellow from him and cryed prentises and clubbes Then out at euery doore came clubbes and weapons The Alderman fled and was in great daunger Then more people arose oute of euery quarter and forth came seruing men watermen courtiers and other so that by 〈◊〉 of the clocke there were in Cheape sir or seuen C. and out of Pauls Church yeard came three C. which knew not of the other So out of all places they gathered and brake vp the counters tooke out the prisoners that the Maior had thither committed for hurting the straungers and came to Newgate and tooke out Studley and Petit committed thither for that cause The Maior and Sherifes were present there and made proclamation in the kings name but nothing was obeyed Herewith being gathered in plumpes they ran through S. Nicholas Shambles and at Saint Martines gate there mette with them sir Thomas More and other desiring them to go to their lodgings And as they were thus eâ—…mating and had almoste perswaded the people to departe they within Saint Martyns threw out stones and â—…attes so that they hurt diuerse honest persons that were ther with sir Thomas Moore perswading the rebellious persons to crasse insomuche as at length one Nicholas Downes a Sergeant of armes being there with the sayde sir Thomas Moore and sore hurt amongst other in a furie cryed downe with them and then all the misruled persons ranne to the doores and windowes of the houses within saint Martines and spoiled all that they found After that they ran headlong into Cornehil and there likewise spoiled diuerse houses of FreÌ„ch men that dwelled within y e gate of master Mewtas house called greene gate This master Mewtas was a Picard borne and repâ—…ed to be a great bearer of Frenchmen in their occupyings trades contrarie to the lawes of the Citie If the people had found him they would surely haue striken off his head but when they found hym not the watermen and cortaine yong priestes that were there fell to ryfling and some ranne to Blanchchapelton brake vp the straungers houses and spoyled them Thus from tenne or eleuen of the clocke these ryotous people continued in theyr outragious doings tyll aboute thâ—…e of the clocke at what tyme they beganne to withâ—…e and wâ—…t to theyr places of resort as 〈◊〉 the way they were taken by the Maior and the handes of the Citie and sent same of theÌ„ to the tower some to Newgate and soâ—… to the Court 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 of three C. Many fled and specially the watermen priests and â—…ing men but the premises wâ—… caught by the backe and had to prison In the meane time whilest the hotest of this â—…fling lasted the Cardinall was aduertised thereof by sir Thomas Naâ—… whervpon the Cardinal strengâ—… thened his house with men and ordinance and sir Thomas Paâ—…e rode in all hast to Richmonde where the king lay and enâ—…med him of the matter who incontinently sent forth hastilye the London to vnderst and the state of the Citie and was truly aduertised howe the ryot was crased and many of the myâ—…ders apprehended The Lieuetenant of the Tower sir Roger Cholmeley during the time of this hâ—…ling then off certaine peeces of 〈◊〉 â—…gayntâ—… the Câ—…tie and though they did us great â—…e yet hee wanne muche euill will 〈◊〉 his hastie doing bycause men thought he did it of malice rather theâ—… of any discration About fiue of the clocke the Erles of Shrewsburie and Suâ—…ey Thomas Doâ—…erey Lorde of Saint Iohns George Neuill Lorde of Burgeyny and other which had heard of thys ryot come to London with suche strength as they coulde make vpon that sodaine and so 〈◊〉 the Iâ—…s of Court but before they tanâ—… whether with feare of the bruyte of theyr coâ—…ing or of her wyfe 〈◊〉 ryotous assemble was broken vp and manye of the misdoers taken as ye haue heard Then to the the prisoners examined and the Sermon of Doctour Bele called to remembrance and he taken and sent to the Tower Herewith was a Commission of Oyre and determiner directed to the duke of Norffolkes A Commissiâ—… of Oier add determiner and to diuerse other Lordes to the Lorde Maior of London and the Alderbury and to all the Iustices of Englande for punishment of this insurrection whervpon all the Iustices with 〈◊〉 the kings Counsaile learned in the lawes asseâ—… at the house of sir Iohn Fineux Lorde chiefe Iustice of Englande neare to S. Brides by Fleetestreete to take aduice and conclude vpon the order which they shoulde follow in this matter and first there was read the Staâ—…tâ—… of the thirde of Henrie the fifth the effect whereof ensueth in these wordes following The statute quinto of H. the fifth bycause that dyuerse â—…aâ—…ons comprised within the â—…es concluded as well by oâ—…er soâ—…aigne Lorde the King that nowe is as by his ryght noble father 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 â—…ne robbed and spoyled by 〈◊〉 Kings Liâ—…ges ofâ—… subiectes as well on the mayne Seas as wyth 〈◊〉 the portes and coastes of Englande Irelande and Wales by reason whereof the truses and safeconductes haue beene broken and violated to the domage dishonour and flaunder of the king and agaynst hys dignitie and the mansleyers spoylers robbers and violaters of the same truses and safeconductes as before is declared haue beene recetted procured counsayled vpholden and mainteined by diuerse of the kings liege people vpon the coastes our sayde soueraigne Lorde the king by the aduice and assent abouesayde and at the prayer of the sayd Commons hath ordeyned and established that all such manslears robbers spoylers breakers of truses and safecoÌ„ducts graunted by the king and the wilfull recetters abetters procurers counsaylers susteyners and mainteyners of such persons hereafter in time to come being any of the lieges and subiectes of thys Realme of Englande Irelande and Wales are to be adiudged and determined as guiltie of high treason cowmitted agaynste the Crowne and dignitie of the king And further in euerie Hauen and port of the sea there shall be from henceforth made and assigned by the king by his letters patents one lawfull officer named a conseruator of truses and safeconducts graunted by the king which officer shall dispend at the least tenne pound in land by yeare c as in the statute more at large is expressed The which statute being read and well considered of bycause there were diuerse leagues of truses betwixt the king and diuerse other princes as one betwixt him the French king an other betwixt him and the Archeduke of Burgongne and an other betwixt him and the king of Spain all the which truces were violated by the sayd insurrection it was determined by
of our part wee haue our selues caused and as God shall ayde strength vs shall cause oure right and tytle in this behalfe to be published and proclaymed accordingly And albeit this so weyghtie a matter seemeth straunge that the dying of oure sayde brother vppon Thursdaye at night last past wee hitherto had no knoweledge from you thereof yet wee consider youre wisedomes and prudence to be such that hauing estsoones amongst you debated pondered and well weyghed this present case with our estate with your owne estate the Common wealth and all our honours wee shall and maye conceyue great hope and trust with muche assurance in your loyaltie seruice and therefore for the time interprete and take things not to the worst and that ye yet will lyke noble men worke the best Neuerthelesse wee are not ignoraunt of your consultations to vndoe the prouisions made for our preferrement nor of the great bandes and prouisions forcible wherevnto ye be assembled and prepared by whom and to what ende God and you knowe and nature can feare some euill But bee it that some consideration politicke or whatsoeuer thing else hath moued you thereto yet doubt you not my Lordes but wee can take all these your doings in gracious part being also right readie to remitte and fullye pardon the same with that freelye to eschewe bloudshedde and vengeaunce against all those that can or will intende the same trusting also assuredly you will take and accepte this grace and vertue in good part as appertayneth and that wee shall not be inforced to vse this seruice of other oure true subiectes and frendes whiche in this oure iust and rightfull case God in whome oure whole affiaunce is shall sende vs. Wherefore my Lordes we require you and charge you and euerye of you that euerye of you of youre allegiaunce whiche you owe to God and vs and to none other for oure honoure and the suretie of oure Realme onelye employe yourselues and forthwith vpon receypie hereof cause our righte and tytle to the Crowne and gouernemente of thys Realme to bee proclaymed in oure Citie of London and suche other places as to youre wisedomes shall seeme good and as to this case appertayneth not fayling hereof as our verie trust is in you and thus our letter signed with our owne hande shal be your sufficient warrant in this behalfe Yâ—…uen vnder our signe that one manour of Keningall the ix of Iuly 〈◊〉 To this letter of the Ladie Marie the Lordes of the Counsayle answered agayne as followeth Madame wee haue receyued your letters the 〈◊〉 is instant declaring your supposed into â—…don iudge your selfe to haue to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme and all the Durmuned is thereto belonging For aunswere whereof this is to aduertise you that forasmuch as our Soueraigne Ladie Queene Iane is after the death of our Souereygne Lorde Edwarde the sixth a Prince of most noble memory inuested and possessed with the iust and right tyme nothe Imperiall Crowne of this Realme not only by good order of old ancient good lawes of this Realme but also by our late soueraigne Lordes letters patentes signed with his owne hande and sealed with the great seale of Englande in presence of the moste part of the Nobles Counsaylours Iudges with diuerse other graue and sage personages assenting and subserâ—…bing to the same Wee must therefore as of most bonnde dutie and allegiaunce assent vnto hir sayde Grace and to none other except we shoulde whiche faithfull subiectes cannot fall into grieuous and vnspeakeable enormities wherefore wee can no lesse doe but for the quiet both of the Realme you also to aduertise you that forasmuche as the diuorse made betweene the King of famous memorie King Henrie the eyght and the Ladie Katherine your mother was necessarie to bee had both by the euerlasting lawes of God and also by the Ecclesisticall lawes and by the most parte of the noble and learned Vniuersities of Christendome and confirmed also by the sundrie actes of Parliaments remayning yet in their force and thereby you iustly made illegitimate and vnheritable to the Crowne Imperiall of thys Realme and the Rules Dominions and possessions of the same you wil vpoÌ„ iust consideration herof of diuers other causes lawfull to be alledged for the same and for the iust inheritance of the right lyne and godly orders taken by the late King our Soueraigne Lorde King Edwarde the sixth and agreed vpon by the Nobles and greatest personages aforesayde surcease by any pretence to vexe and molest any of our sonereygne Ladie Queene Iane hir subiects from the true sayth and allegiance due vnto his Grace assuring you that if you will for respecte the way oure selfe quiet and obedient as you ouâ—… you shall finde vs all and seuerall readie to doe you any seruice that we with dutie maye and to be gladde of your quietnesse to preserue the common state of this Realme wherin you may be otherwise grieuous vnto vs to your selfe and to them And thus we byd you most hartilye well to face From the tower of London this ix of Iuly Your Ladyshippes frendes shewing your selfe an obedient subiect Thomas Canterburie The Marques of Winchester Iohn Bedforde Willyam Northampton Thomas Ely Chauncelour Iohn Northumberlande Henrie Suffolke Henrie Arundell Frauncis Shrewesburie Willyam Penbroke Cobham R. Riche Huntington Darcie Cheyney R. Cotton Iohn Gates Willyam Peter Willyam Cecill Iohn Cheeke Iohn Mason Edwarde North. Robert Bowes All these aforesayde except onely the Duke of Northumberlande and sir Iohn Gates were eyther by speciall fauour or speciall or generall pardon discharged for this offence against hir committed after hir comming to bee Queene But nowe vpon the receyt of this aunswere vnderstanding by hir frendes that she coulde not lye in suretie at Kenningall being a place open and easie to bee approched remoued from thence vnto hir Castell of Fremingham standing in a woode countrie and not so easie to be inuaded by hir enimies So soone as the Counsell hearde of hir sodain departure coÌ„sidering that all came not to passe as they supposed They caused speedily a power of men to be gathered togither And first they agreed that the Duke of Suffolke father to the newe made Quene should haue the conduction and leading of the armie But afterwardes vppon further considerations it was deuised that the Duke of Northumberlande shoulde haue the charge of this greate enterprise whiche Duke hauing Commission from the whole counsaile and his warrant vnder the brode seale of England The Duke of Northumberlande sent against the Ladie Marie without mistrust of that which after fortuned tooke in hande that vnhappie voyage to his owne destruction as in the hystorie of Queene Marie shall appeare so that setting apart the feare of all perils whiche in other lesse cases he neuer vsed when all things were in a readinesse he being accompanied with no small number of Lordes and Gentlemen set forwarde on his iourney hauing notwithstanding hys times prescribed
hym as then was supposed what the matters shoulde be And as for the tyme it was thought meete to bee as soone as possible myght bee agreed vpon And then after certaine dayes past it was signifyed by the sayde Archbishoppe that there was appoynted by suche of the Byshoppes to whome hee hadde imparted this matter eight persones that is to saye foure Byshoppes and foure Doctours who were content at the Queenes Maiesties commaundement to shewe theyr opinions and as he tearmed it render accounte of theyr fayth in those matters whiche were mentioned and that specially in wryting although he sayd they thought the same so determined as there was no cause to dispute vpon them It was herevppon fullye resolued by the Queenes Maiestie with the aduice aforesayde that according to theyr desyre it shoulde bee in wryting on both partes for auoyding of muche altercation in woordes and that the sayde Byshoppes shoulde bycause they were in authoritie of degree Superiours fyrste declare theyr myndes and opinions to the matter with theyr reasons in wryting and the other number beeing also eyght menne of good degree in Schooles and some hauing beene in dignitie in the Churche of Englande if they had any thing to say to the contrarie shoulde the same day declare theyr opinions in lyke manner And so eche of them shoulde delyuer theyr Wrytings to the other to be consydered what were to bee improoued therein and the same to declare agayne in wryting at some other conuenient daye and the lyke order to bee kept in all the rest of the matters all this was fully agreed vpon with the Archbishop of Yorke and so also signifyed to both partyes And immediately herevpon diuerse of the Nobilitie and States of the Realme vnderstanding that such a meeting and conference shoulde bee and that in certayne matters wherevpon the Courte of Parliament consequentlye following some lawes myght bee grounded they made earnest meanes to hir Maiestie that the partyes of thys conference myghte putte and reade theyr assertions in the Englishe tongue and that in the presence of them of the Nobilitie and others of the Parliament house for the better satisfaction and inhabling of theyr owne Iudgementes to treate and conclude of such lawes as myght depende herevpon Thys also beeing thought verie reasonable was signifyed to both partyes and so fully agreed vppon and the daye appoynted for the first meeting to bee the Fryday in the forenoone being the last of Marche at Westmynster Church where both for good order and for honour of the conference by the Queenes Maiesties commaundement the Lordes and others of the priuye Counsayle were present and a great part of the Nobilitie also and notwythstanding the former order appoynted and consented vnto by both partes yet the Bishoppe of Wynchester and his Colleges alleging they had mystaken that theyr assertions and reasons should be written and so onely recyted out of the Booke sayde theyr booke was not readie then written but they were readie to argue and dispute and therefore they woulde for that tyme repeate in speache that which they had to say to the fyrst proposition This variation from the order and specially from that whiche themselues had by the sayde Archbishoppe in wryting before requyred adding thereto the reason of the Apostle that to contende wyth wordes is profitable to nothing but to subuersion of the hearer seemed to the Queenes Maiesties Counsayle somewhat straunge and yet was it permytted wythoute any greate reprehension bycause they excused themselues with mistaking the order and agreed that they would not fayle but put it in writing according to the former order deliuer it to the other part and so the sayd Bishop of Wynchester and his Colleges appointed Doctor Cole Deane of Paules to be the vtterer of theyr myndes who partlye by speeche onely and partlye by reading of authorities written and at certayne tymes beeyng infourmed of hys Collegees what to saye made a declaration of theyr meanings and theyr reasons to theyr fyrst proposition which beeing ended they were asked by the priuie Counsaile if any of them had any more to be sayde and they sayde no. So as then the other parte was lycenced to shewe theyr myndes which they did according to the first order exhibiting all that whiche they mente to bee propounde in a Booke written which after a prayer and inuocation made most humbly to Almightie God for the enduing of them wyth hys holy spirite and a protestation also to stande to the Doctrine of the Catholike Church buylded vpon the Scriptures and the doctrine of the Prophetes and the Apostles was distinctly read by one Robert Horne Bachelour in Diuinitie late Deane of Duresme And the same beeing ended wyth some likelyhoode as it seemed that the same was muche allowable to the audience certaine of the Bishoppes began to saye contrarie to their former answere that they had nowe muche more to say to this matter wherein although they myght haue beene well reprehended for such manner of cauillation yet for auoyding of any mistaking of orders in thys colloquie or conference and for that they should vtter all that which they had to say It was both ordered and thus openlye agreed vppon of both partes in the full audience that vpon the Monday following the Bishops shoulde bring theyr myndes and reasons in wryting to the seconde assertion and the last also if they coulde and first reade the same and that done the other parte shoulde bring likewise theyrs to the same And being read eche of them shoulde deliuer to other the same wrytings And in the meane tyme the Bishops should put in writing not onely al that which Doctour Cole had that day vttered but all suche other matters as they anye otherwise coulde thinke of for the same and as soone as they might possible to sende the same booke touching that first assertion to the other part and they shoulde receyue of them that wryting which Maister Horne had there read that day and vpon Monday it shoulde be agreed what day they shoulde exhibite their aunswers touching the first proposition Thus both partes assented thereto and the assemblie quietly dismissed And therefore vpon Monday the like assembly beganne againe at the place and houre appoynted and there vpon what sinister or disordered meaning is not yet fully knowne though in some part it be vnderstanded the Bishop of Winchester and his Colleages and especially Lyncolne refused to exhibite or reade according to the former notorious order on Fryday that whiche they had prepared for the seconde assertion And therevppon by the Lorde keeper of the great Seale they being first gentlye and fauourably requyred to keepe the order appoynted and that taking no place bring secondly as it behoued pressed with more earnest request they neyther regarding the authoritie of that place nor theyr owne reputation nor the credite of the cause vtterly refused that to doe And finally being againe particularly euerie of them a parte distinctly by name requyred to vnderstande theyr
opinions therein they all sauing one whiche was the Abbot of Westminster hauing some more consideration of order and his duetie of obedience than the other vtterly and plainly denied to haue theyr booke read some of them as more earnestly than other some so also some other more vndiscretely and vnreuerently than others Wherevpon gyuing such example of disorder stubbornnesse and selfe will as hath not beene seene and suffered in such an honourable assembly beeing of the two estates of this Realme the Nobilitie and the Commons besides the presence of the Queenes Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsaile the same assembly was dismissed and the Godly and most Christian purpose of the Queenes Maiestie made frustrate And afterwarde for the contempt so notoriously made the Bishoppes of Winchester and Lyncolne hauing most obstinately both disobeyed common authoritie and varyed manifestly from theyr owne order and specially Lyncolne who shewed more folly than the other were condignly commytted to the Tower of London and the rest sauing the Abbot of Westmynster stoode bounde to make dayly their personall apparance before the Counsaile and not to departe the Citie of London and Westminster vntil further order were takeÌ„ with them for their disobedience and contempt The three propositions wherevpon conference was determined to haue bene at VVestminster 1 It is agaynst the worde of God and the custome of the auncient Church to vse a tongue vnknowne to the people in common prayer and the administration of the Sacraments 2 Euerie Church hath authoritie to appoynt take awaye and chaunge Ceremonies and Ecclesiasticall rytes so the same bee to edification 3 It cannot bee proued by the worde of God that ther is in the Masse offred vp a sacrifice propiciasorie for the quicke and the dead The names of such as had conference in the propositions aforesayde The B. of Winchest The B. of Lichfield The B. of Chester The B. of Carliel The B. of Lincolne Doctor Cole Doctor Harpesfeld Doctor Langdall Doctor Chedsye D. Scorie B. of Chich. Doctor Coxe Maister Whitehead Maister Grindall Maister Horne Maister doctor Sandes Maister Gest Maister Aylmer Maister Iuell The Byshops and Doctors sate on the one side of the queere at a table of them prepared and the other learned men sate at an other table on the other side the same queere And at y e vpper ende thereof at an other table sate the Queenes Maiesties Counsell desirous to haue seene some good conclusion of the sayde conference although as ye may perceyue by that whiche is aboue recited it came to small effect A treatie for peace In his meane time a treatie of peace which had bin in hande the last yeare first at Lisle and after at the Abbey of Cercamp a three leagues from Dorlens betwixt y e two kings of Spaine and France was nowe renued againe and the Deputies were appoynted to meete at Chasteau Cambresi a sixe leagues distant from Cambray For the K. of Spayne the Duke of Alua the Prince of Orange the Byshop of Arras Rigomes de Silua Earle of Mellito Monsieur Viglius Zwichem Knight presidente of the priuie Counsell in the low Countreys who neuerthelesse came not bycause hee was letted by sicknesse The Deputies recommissioners appointted for the Princes For the French King there came the Cardinall of Lorayne the Connestable the Marshall of Saint Andrew the Byshop of Orleans and Claude de Aubespine y e said kings Secretarie For the Queene of England the Byshop of Elie the Lorde William Howard Baron of Effingham Lorde Chamberlayne to the sayde Queene Doctor Nicholas Wutton Deane of Caunterbury and Yorke For the Duke of Sauoy there were the Erle of Stropiana and the president of Asti And as a meane or mediatrix betwene the parties there was Christierna Duches of Loraine with hir sonne the yong Duke whiche Duches as well heere as before at Cercamp trauelled most earnestly to doe good betwixte the parties and to bring them to a small accord whose endeuoure therein was to the greate good liking and contentation of all the said parties After that this treatie had continued a long time and nowe rested nothing to stay them froÌ„ concluding a generall peace but only the article touching Calais Caâ—â—nico Saâ—… ardini The articles of the peace betwixt the Queenes Maiestie and the French kyng at length that matter was also accorded by a speciall treatie betwixte the Queenes Maiestie of England and the French King Guido Caualcanti a Gentleman of Florence beeing the meane to bring the same to effect The substaunce of whiche article was that Calais should rest in the Frenche mens handes for the tearme of eyght yeares and at the end of that tearme they couenaunted to render y e same or else for defaulte to forfeite to the Queenes highnesse the summe of fiue hundred thousande Crownes and for Puretie heereof to deliuer four hostages such as hir Maiestie should thinke sufficient and in case the towne were not deliuered at the ende of the sayde eyghte yeares although the money were payde according to the couenauntes yet notwithstanding the right and title to the saide Towne and Countrey adioyning shoulde alwayes remayne and be reserued vnto the Crowne and Realme of England It was further concluded also that a peace should be firmed and had betwixt the Realmes of England and Scotland such fortresses to be rased as had bin built and made by the Scottes and French on the bordures towards EnglaÌ„d as Hay mouth and others Sir Iohn Mason Knighte Sir Iohn Mason Secretarie for the Frenche tong was sente ouer in post wyth instructions vnto the Englishe commissioners after whose comming A generall peace betwixt the Kings of Fraunce and Spayne within two or three dayes a generall peace was concluded betwixte all the parties the articles whereof not touching England we haue of purpose omitted But nowe after the conclusion of this peace the sayde Sir Iohn Mason returned in post with the same and so therevpon the seauenth of Aprill the sayde peace was proclaymed to wit The peace proclaymed betwixt the Queenes Maiestie on the one part and the French K. on the other their Realmes dominions and subiects and likewise betwixte hir sayde Maiestie and the King Dolphin and Queene of Scottes his wife their Realmes dominions and subiects This Proclamation was made by Garter and Norrey Kinges at armes accompanyed with three other Herraultes and fyue Trumpettors the Lorde Maior of London and the Aldermed in their scarlet gownes beeing also present and riding in company of the said Herraultes The same time also Playes and enterludes forbidden for a time was another Proclamation made vnder the Queenes hand in writing inhabiting that from thenceforth no playes nor enterludes shuld be exercised til Alhallowen ride next ensuing Vppon Saterday the two and twentith of Aprill the Lorde Wentworth The Lords Wentworth arraigned and acquited late Deputie of Calais was araigned at Westminster vppon an enditemente of treason found agaynst him in
line of the Earles of Richmond 301.69 Order of the English and Norman battailes in the battail fought at Hasting 286.59 Ordalium law what and how executed 269.64 Orwell 433.55 Oration of Henry the fifth pag. 1186. co 1. lin 48. Order of the E◅rter founded 923.36 a. Oriall Colledge founded 884.47 a. Orlians besieged by the Englishe pag. 1239. col 1. lin 47. Ordinance for consecration of Byshops 149.53 Ordmer Duke father to Queene Egelfrida 235.7 Ordinances set forth by Kyng Richard the first for his fleete to be obserued in his viage towards the Holy land 484.53 Ordinances deuised to be obserued in the campes of the kings of England France in their viage towardes the Holy land 488.16 Orreford 431.53 Orkney Iles recouered by the Britaines 141.80 Original of al nations for the most part vncertaine 1.14 Original of the Philosophers called Samothei 2.69 Original of the Philosophers called Sarronides 3.17 Original of the Philosophers called Druides 3.47 Original of Herauldes and Heraultrie 3.113 Original of the Philosophers called Bardi 4.1 Oronius a Barde 4.41 Osfride sonne to Edwine baptised 161.114 Osfride sonne to Edwin slaine 163.58 Osrike sonne to Elfricke taketh vpon hym the kingdome of Deira 164.38 Osrike falleth from Christe to his former idolatrie 164 51. Osrike with al his army slaine 164.58 Oswald sonne to Edelfert created king of Northumberland 164.74 Oswald baptised in Scotland 164.82 Oswald cōmeth against Cudwallo with an army 164.104 Oswald slaine by Penda 167 23. Osunus succeedeth his brother Oswald in the kingdome of Northumberland 167.25 Osunus sueth to Cadwallo for peace 167.29 Oswald zealous to set forth the sincere worde of life sendeth into Scotland for preachers 167.67 Oswald interpreteth Aydans Sermons to the people in the Saxon tongue 168.57 Oswald had in estimation among his neyghbours 168.92 Osbright king of Northambers expulsed his countrey 209.32 Osbright Ella made friends go forth against the Danes 209.38 Osbright and Ella slaine by the Danes 209.46 Osbright burnt in the citie of Yorke 209.62 Osrec a Dane looke Basreeg Osberne a Dane slaine 210 37. Osbright rauisheth the wyfe of one Bearne 211.60 Osoulphus succeedeth his father Egbert in the kingdom of Northūberland 195.102 Osoulphus trayterously murdred 195.103 Oswyn Earle rebelleth agaynst king Molle 195.113 Osrike a man of great aucthoritie among the west Saxōs 198.36 Osred succeedeth Aswald in the kingdome of Northumberland 201.16 Osred expulsed his kingdome 201.18 Osred betrayed put to death 201.41 Oswald succeedeth Ethelbert in the kingdome of Northūberland and is immediately constrayned to forsake his Realme 201.52 Osmond a captaine slaine 204 64. Osburga wife to king Ethelwolfus 205.115 Osberne Pētecost constrained to forsake the land 274.35 Osulfe expulsed out of the gouernment of the Northumbers Copsius 312.20 Osull slayne by a thiefe 312 29. Ostorius Scapula entreth into the British campe 53.89 Ostorius entreth into the defenced place of the Britains and discomfiteth them 56.6 Ostorius entreth the Citie of Rome in triumph for taking Cataracus 57.15 Ostorius dyeth 57.78 Oswaldes liberalitie towardes the poore 168.102 Oswald Godfather to Cinegiscus at his christnyng 169 9. Oswald slaine by Penda 170 8. Oswald canonized a Saint and sheweth myracles 170.21 Oswy sueth to Penda for peace and cannot obtaine it 175 39. Oswy voweth vnto God for victorie 175.46 Oswy commeth against Penda with an army 175.51 Oswy sickneth and dyeth 179 72. Oswy brother to Oswald succedeth his father in the kingdome of Northumberland 170.26 Oswy and Oswin begynne to make warre ech against other 170.48 Oswyn betrayed to Oswy and slaine 170.59 Oswin an humble Kyng 171 12. Ostorius Scapula the new lieutenant of Britaine his exploites at his first cōmyng thyther 53.50 Fitz Osbert accuseth his brother of treason 529.5 Osred sonne to Alfride succeedeth his father in the Kyngdome of Northumberland 190.59 Osred slaine in battaile by his kinsfolkes 190.73 Osyris father to Neptune and Hercules 5.5 Osyris slaine by his nephewes 5.96 Osrike Kyng of Northumberland 186.12 Ostorius M sonne to the Lieutenant deserueth a ciuica corona against the Britains 53.98 Osrick and Kenred succede Osred in the Kingdome of Northumberland 190.76 Oswald rebelleth against Ethelard 191.44 Oswald fleeth out of the countrey 191.49 Osberne permitted to take vp vitail for his armie vppon condition to depart the Realme 302.26 Osmond second Byshoppe of Salisburie 316.47 Ossestrie thrise burnt within xxx yeares 1837.37 Osgote Clappa a Noble Dane 268.2 Osmear an English souldiour like to king Edmond slayne 254.53 Osca and Otha wast and destroy the West partes of Britayne 124.59 Osca and Otha with their armie discomfited 124.65 Osyris came into Britayne 9.1 Osberne Vncle to king Swanus of Denmarke sent with an armie into England 300 27. Osgote Clappa receyueth his wife and returneth into Denmarke 270.73 Osrryda cruelly murdered 189.13 Oswin partner with Oswy in the kingdome of Northumberland 170.42 Oswald Byshop remoued from Worceter to Yorke 232.28 Osgote Clappa banished the Realme 269.116 Ostrydo wife to Ethelred 189.8 Ostreham 395.19 Otho or Othobon Cardinal commeth into England 651.40 is highly commended 651.55 appeaseth much controuersie among the Nobilitie 651.63 Othe made by the Kynges of England and Fraunce 967.23 Othe of obedience 1103.10 a. Othe made by the Welchmen 788.4 a. Othe made by the Scots 822.40 b. Othe ministred by the Kentish rebels to passingers 1025.7 b. Othe of the Kyngs of England and Fraunce 1089.26 a. Othe cōstreyned nothing worth in lawe 283.48 Othe of a mayde concernyng the bestowing of her bodye without her Parents consent is voyde 283.52 Othes dispensed withal by the Pope 396.62 and. 403 89. Othe taken by the Lordes spiritual and temporal to be true to king William and his Heires 314.21 Otho elected Emperour 535.45 Otho sonne to Maude sister to Kyng Richard the fyrst made Earle of Yorke and of Poictou 490.45 Oth sonne to Occa succeedeth his father in the kingdome of Kent 129.111 Otho the first Emperour marrieth Edgina daughter to King Edward 223.20 Othobon Cardinal sent Legate from the Pope into England 774.57 lodged in the Towre 778.30 Oteford or Okeford battel fought by the English men agaynst the Danes 255.50 Othon made Custos or Gardein of the Citie of London 774.75 Othe of the Duke of Burgone to Henry the fift pag. 1204. col 1. lin 36. of the three estates of France pag. 1211 col 1. lin 20. Othe of the Lordes 1231. col 2. lin 16. Othe of allegiancy taken anew by king Iohn of his subiectes 567.74 Othe of obedience to king Iohn 542.64 Othe taken by king Iohn in Normandie 543.72 Othe taken by the Byshoppe of Beauuois 546.58 Othe taken by diuers of the Nobilitie in Fraunce to asist king Iohn agaynst the French 547.3 Otha looke Osca and Otha Otwel brother to Richard Earle of Chester drowned 357.109 Othe of the kings of England at their Coronatiō 476.35 Othe exacted of Henry the third and of Edward his sonne Prince of Wales 751.37 Othobone Cardinal Legate returneth to Rome 780.6 is chosen Pope
Maxâ—…mulion the King of the Romaines 439.18 Vserers called Caorsini excommunicated 647. line 44 Vserers come from Rome into England â—…35 23 Vserers the Popes Merchants 725.50 Vter Pendragon sente with a power into Ireland 123.30 Vter Pendragon sente with an armie againste â—…alâ—â—mius 123.50 Vter Pendragon and Aurelius Ambrose returne into great Britain with an army 123.19 Vnseasonable weather 552. â—…3 Vthred Earle 241.29 and 252.45 Vter Pendragon carried ouer into little Britain 110.19 Vthred submitteth hymselfe deliuereth pledges to Cnute 252.68 Vthred taken and put to death 252.71 Vripreds landes giuen to Iricius 252.71 Vter Pendragon brother to Aurelius Ambrose made King of Britaine 127.32 Vter Pendragon why so called 127.36 Vter Pendragon faileth in loue with Agwarne wife to Gorolus Duke of Cornewall 128.32 Vter Pendragon slayeth Gorolus D. of Cornewall 128.35 Vter Pendragon marrieth Igwarne sometyme wife to the D. of Cornewall 128.38 Vter Pendragon dyeth of poyson 129.18 Vther a Danishe Earle slayne 22â—… 64 Vulthere King of Mercia selleth the Bishopricke of London 17â—… 77 VV. VVAuerley 445.7 Warning of seauen dayes giuen to Ceadda before hys death 179.61 Wade Duke rebelleth against King Ardulfe and is chased out of the field 201.61 Walley battaile fought by King Ardulfe againste Duke Wade and his coÌ„federates 201.64 Wales harrowed by King Egherre from East to west 213.18 Walcâ—… reduced into forme of good order 277.84 Walasco a Frier sent froÌ„ the Pope into England 757.30 Warlamchester nowe called Sainte Albons 88. line 16 Warlamchester destroyed 88.20 Wall builded the thirde time of turfes betweene the Britaines Scots 100.13 Wall builded the fourthe tyme of stone ouerthwart the Ilande betweene the Britaynes and Scottes 100.53 Wales subdued by Kyng William and the Princes do him homage 310. line 8 Warine Earle of Shrewsburie appointed gouernour of the marches of Wales 359.6 Walles of the Citie of LoÌ„don repaired and turrers builte at the costes of the Citie by the commaundements of Henry the third 747.16 Wales furnisheth EnglaÌ„d with horses and Cattel 748.57 Wallingford Castel besieged 373.47 Waltham Castel builded 377.52 Walter Bishop of Worceter dyeth 775.41 Wardens of the cinque portes reconciled to K. Henry the third 776.18 Wallingford taken by the Danes 244.34 Wassaile what it signifyeth 113.81 Warres left vnto Renulf as it were by succession 200.96 Wake Baldwine taken prisoner 777.29 Waterfoorde in Irelande made a Bishoppes Sea 328.5 Walkelme made Byshop of Winchester 305.12 Walcher Bishop of Durham slayne in a tumult 311.15 and .311.72 Walcher Bishop of Durham made gouernoure of Northumberlande 312.44 Walter Bishoppe of Winchester dyeth 723.25 Warram Castell 368.78 Walton Castell 369.1 Walkeline yeeldeth the Castell of Douer 369. line 16 Warre betwixt breethren cannot bee mainteyned without reproch 344.36 Warlewest William hys replye vnto Pope Pascall 342.52 Warlewast sente to Rome in Ambassage to y e Pope 342.23 Walter Bishoppe of Alba bringeth the Pall to Anselme the Archbishoppe 333.5 Waterforde Citie in Ireland wonne by the Englishmen 419.10 Waleton Castell made playne with the ground 445.19 Walkhem Bishop of winchester 320.94 Walstod Bishop of Herford 192.16 Walton 431.40 Walwine looke Gawain Waltheof sonne to Siwarde made Earle of Northumberlande 307. line 71 Waltheof ioyneth in conspiracie againste K William and bewrayeth it 308.22 Walteof beheded at Winchester 308.54 WalthaÌ„ Abbey by whome founded 288.32 Walteof marrieth Iudith neece to Kyng William 308.72 Walteofes issue and honors 309.1 Walter Huberte Archbishop of Canterbury 523. line 19 Waltham Colledge altered froÌ„ Priests to Chanons regular 447.56 VValdene Earle looke VValteof VValdene Castel deliuered to King Stephen 380.41 VVallingforde newe Castell ouer against the old Castell builded 381.29 VVaterforde Citie giuen to Robert de Poer 450. line 18 VValthir Bishop of Durham 307.112 VValter Bishop of Hereford submitteth hymselfe to King VVilliam 291. line 57 VValter Archbishoppe of Yorke dyeth 739.48 VVarrham Castell besieged and rendred vp 378. line 98 VVarrham VVilliam Doctor of the Lawes sente Ambassador vnto Philip the Archeduke 1443.18 his Oration vnto the Archduke eadem 30. Bishoppe of London 1455.40 is created Archbishoppe of Canterburie 1458.35 is of the counsell to king Henry the eyght and Lorde Chauncellor 1464.47 Crownoth HeÌ„ry the eyght and Queene Katherine 1465.46 is Godfather to Henry the firste begotten sonne of Henry the eyght 1468.48 his oration in the Parliament house 1472.44 giueth vp his office of Chancellorshippe and why 1497.33 withdraweth himselfe from the Courte and why 1499. line 23 VVallop Iohn Knighte burneth 21. Townes and Villages in Normandie 1494.44 VVoulston Iohn Counsellor to Prince Arthur 1456.55 VVatkins Richard Herrauld of armes attainted 1425.50 VVatche kept on Sainte Peters cue 1838.50 and 1839.45 and .1837.35 1839.58 VValter Herbert knight page 1413. col 1. line 55. col 2. line 5. page 1414. col 1. line 26. line 42. line 55. page 1415. col 2. line 15 VValter Hungerforde Knighte page 1415. col 2. line 40. page 1416. col 1. line 22 VValter Lorde Ferrers of Chartley slayn page 1422. col 1. line 15 VVelchmen acknowlege to holde their kingdome of the Englishmen 225. line 27 VVertermore in Scotland 225.68 VVerlewod 232.105 VVebbeley Castel 371.20 VVest Countreys submitte themselues to Cnute 252.20 VVestminster Towne and parish Church spoiled 778.115 VVelchmenne conspire with the Scots againste King Adelstane 225.18 VVelchmen subdued by King Adelstane 225.21 VVelchmeÌ„s presumptuous fiercenesse tamed by the Flemings 347.42 VVestwod or Lesnes Abbey founded 447.8 VVelche Kings submitte themselues to King Edgar 231.80 VVelchmen inuade and wast the English Marches 352.33 VVelchmen trust more to the aduautage of places than to theyr owne strength 352.40 VVelchmen slayne and taken by the Englishmen in greate numbers 352.52 VVerstan ordeyned Byshoppe of Shirebourne 223.57 VVestminster Hall founded 329.9 VVestminster Hal should haue bin larger 329.14 VVellsloweth with bloud at Finchamsteede 329. line 40 VVestefoord Citie gyuen to VVilliaÌ„ Fitz Adeline 450.17 VVelchmen wast Chesshire and are distressed 381.41 VVestminster little Hall consumed with fyre 761. line 15 VVelchmen rebell and are inuaded 397.35 VVelchmen submit theÌ„selues to the King and are pardoned 397.74 VVestminster new church begun to be builded 617. line 56 VVeights and measures ordered after one vniforme order throughout all England â—…34 53 WelchmeÌ„ not to passe armed ouer Offaes ditch 288.63 Welchwomen permitted to ioyne in marriage with Englishmen 288. line 71 Welchmen rebell and do diuers displeasures on the Marches 401.8 Welchmenne spoyle the marches and hardly obteyne pardon of the K. for their rebellion 408.5 Welchmen generally seuerely punished for their Rebellion 408.27 Welche rebels ouerthrowen and vsed very cruelty 328.92 Welchmen so tamed that they dare not shew theyr faces 329.3 Welchmen ouerthrowen at Brecknocke by the Englishmen 324.36 Welchmenne tamed and broughte to obedience 324.49 Welchmenne inuade the Englishe marches and destroy the Countreys 325.90 Wexford Citie in IrelaÌ„d 421.31 Welchmenne wrongfully accused of Rebellion detect Earle Godwin of a commotion 271.39 Welchmen rebell and ouercome the Englishe power 372.58 Weston Doctor