indictement and line 30 action of trespasse found there the same daie against the said Richard Draiton and others for a like disorder and riot by them committed on the thursday next after the feast of the Purification of our ladie in the same first yeare of this king at what time they did not onelie breake into the abbie and beat the abbats men but also tooke the abbat himselfe being then at home with certeine of his moonks kéeping both him and them as prisoners till the next daie that they were constreined to seale certeine writings line 40 And amongst other a charter in which it was conteined that the abbat and his conuent did grant vnto the inhabitants of the towne of Burie to be a corporation of themselues and to haue a common seale with a gild of merchants and aldermen also they were compelled to seale another charter wherein was conteined a grant to the said inhabitants that they should haue the custodie of the towne gates and likewise the wardship of all pupils and orphans within the same towne beside diuerse other liberties line 50 Moreouer they were in like manner constreined to seale thrée seuerall obligations in which the abbat and conuent were bound to the said inhabitants as to a communaltie of a corporation in seauen thousand pounds as in two thousand by one obligation and in two thousand by an other and in three thousand by the third obligation and further they were driuen to seale a letter of release of all trespasses and other things that might be demanded against the line 60 said inhabitants with a generall acquittance of all debts Beside this the said riotous persons tooke at the same time foorth of the abbie great riches as well in plate armor books apparell as in other things They also brake downe two houses or messuages that belonged to the abbeie and situate within the towne of Burie they also destroied his fish-ponds and tooke out such store of fish as they found in the same they cut downe also thréescore ashes there growing on the soile that belonged to the said abbat and did manie other great outrages and enormities so that it was found by the inquest that the abbat was damnified to the value of other fortie thousand pounds These riots may seeme gréeuous and verie strange but yet the same were not so heinouslie taken as an other which the said inhabitants of Burie attempted against the said abbeie in manner of a plaine commotion vpon saint Lukes day in the same yeare at what time as by the records of that abbeie it should appeare both the abbat and his house were in the kings speciall protection and the said inhabitants prohibited by his letters to attempt anie iniurie against him or his conuent But neuerthelesse we find that not onelie the inhabitants of Burie but also a great number of other misgouerned persons that resorted to them from places there about arraied and furnished with horsse armor and weapons after the manner of warre came and assaulted the abbeie gates set fire on them and burned them with diuerse other houses néere adioining that belonged to the abbeie and continued in that their riotous enterprise all that day and the night following The same night also they burnt a manor of the abbats called Holdernesse barne with two other manors called the Almoners barne and Haberdone also the granges that stood without the south gate and the manour of Westlie in which places they burned in corne graine to the value of a thousand pounds The next daie they entered into the abbeie court and burnt all the houses on the north side as stables brewhouses bakehouses garners and other such necessarie houses and conuenient roomes of offices and on the other side the court they burnt certeine houses belonging to the Almonrie On the next daie they burned the mote hall and Bradford hall with the new hall and diuerse chambers and sollers to the same halles annexed with the chapell of saint Laurence at the end of the hospitall hall Also the manor of Eldhall the manor of Horninger with all the corne and graine within and about the same The next day they burnt the soller of the Sollerer with a chapell there also the kitchin the larder and a part of the farmarie On the thursdaie they burnt the residue of the farmarie and the lodging called the blacke lodging with a chapell of S. Andrew therein In executing of all these riotous disorders one Geffrie Moreman was an aider who with diuerse other persons vnknowne departed foorth of the towne of Burie and by the assent of the other his complices he burnt the manor of Fornham The same day also other of their companie as William the sonne of Iames Neketon Rafe Grubbe Richard Kerie and a great number of other persons vnknowne by the assent and abbetment of the other that committed the said disorders burnt two manors belonging also to the said abbeie in great Berton with all the corne and graine there found Upon knowledge had of these great riots and perillous commotions there was a commission directed from the king vnto Thomas earle of Northfolke high marshall of England to Thomas Bardulfe Robert Morlie Peter Wedall Iohn Howard and Iohn Walkfare authorising them with the power of the countesse of Suffolke and Norffolke to apprehend trie and punish such lewd disordered persons and rebellious malefactors which had committed such felonious enterprises to the breach of the kings peace and dangerous disquieting of his subiects but the said commissioners procéeded not according to the effect of their commission in triall of anie felonies by the same persons committed and doone but onelie caused them to be indicted of trespasse albeit Robert Walkfare and Iohn Clauer with their associats iustices of peace in their sessions holden at Elueden the tuesdaie next after the feast of the apostles Simon and Iude in the said first yeare of this K. Edward the third procéeded in such wise against the said malefactors that Iohn de Berton cordwainer Robert Foxton and a great number of other were indicted of felonie for the misdemenours afore mentioned and the indictements so found were after sent and presented vnto Iohn Stonore Walter de Friskenie Robert Malberthorpe and Iohn Bousser who by vertue of the kings commission of oier and determiner to them directed sat at S. Edmundsburie the wednesdaie next after the feast of saint line 10 Lucie the virgine and then and there sent foorth precepts to the shiriffe commanding him to apprehend the said Berton Foxton and others that were indicted of the foresaid felonies and also to returne a sufficient iurie to trie vpon their arreignment the said malefactors by order of law the fridaie next after the said feast of S. Lucie Herevpon Alane de Latoner and Robert Dalling with seauenteene others being arreigned were found guiltie and suffered death according to the order appointed for felons line 20 One Adam Miniot stood mute and refused
the countie of Kent began an insurrection in disobedience of the statute of labourers and were atteinted therfore of high treason and had iudgement line 40 to be drawne hanged and quartered He shewed where and when this chanced It was further determined by the said Fineux and all the iustices of the land that vpon the said commission of oier and terminer in London the iustices named in the said commission might not arreigne the offendors and proceed to the triall in one selfe daie no more than might the iustices of peace But iustices in oier might so doo aswell as the iustices of gaole deliuerie and as the sufficiencie of the iurors within the citie line 50 to passe betwixt the king and the said traitors the iustices determined that he that had lands and goods to the value of an hundred marks should be inabled to passe vpon the said indictments And this by the equitie of the statute of Anno vndecimo Henrici septimi the which will that no man be admitted to passe in anie inquest in London in a plée of lands or other action in which the damages shall passe the value of fourtie shillings except he be woorth in lands or goods the value of an hundred markes line 60 On saturdaie the second of Maie in this ninth yeare all the commissioners with the lord maior aldermen and iustices went to the Guildhall where manie of the offendors were indicted as well of the insurrection as of the robberies by them committed against the truces Herevpon they were arreigned pleading not guiltie had day giuen till monday next insuing On which daie being the fourth of Maie the lord maior the duke of Norffolke the earle of Surrie and others came to sit in the Guildhall to procéed in their oier and terminer as they were appointed When the lords were set the prisoners were brought through the stréets tied in ropes some men and some lads of thirtéene yéeres of age Among them were diuerse not of the citie some priests some husbandmen and labourers The whole number amounted vnto two hundred thrée score and eightéene persons This daie was Iohn Lincolne indicted as a principall procurer of this mischieuous insurrection and therevpon hée was arreigned and pleading not giltie had daie giuen ouer till wednesdaie or as Hall saith till thursday next insuing He was charged with such matter as before ye haue heard concerning his sute vnto doctor Standish and doctor Bele for the reading of this bill in their sermons and opening the matter as before ye haue heard all which matter with the circumstances he had confessed on sundaie the third of Maie vnto sir Richard Cholmleie sir Iohn Dansie sir Hugh Skeuington Diuers other were indicted this mondaie and so for that time the lords departed The next daie the duke came againe the erle of Surrie with 2000 armed men which kept the stréets When the maior the duke the earles of Shrewesburie and Surrie were set the prisoners were arreigned and thirtéene found guiltie and adiudged to be hanged drawne and quartered For execution whereof were set vp eleuen paire of gallowes in diuerse places where the offenses were doone as at Algate at Blanchappelton Gratious stréete Leaden hall and before euerie counter one also at Newgate at saint Martins at Aldersgate and at Bishopsgate Then were the prisoners that were iudged brought to those places of execution and executed in most rigorous maner in the presence of the lord Edmund Howard son to the duke of Norffolke knight marshall who shewed no mercie but extreme crueltie to the poore yoonglings in their execution and likewise the dukes seruants spake manie opprobrious words some bad hang some bad draw some bad set the citie on fire but all was suffered On thursdaie the seuenth of Maie was Lincolne Shirwin and two brethren called Bets and diuerse other adiudged to die Then Lincolne said My lords I meant well for if you knew the mischiefe that is insued in this realme by strangers you would remedie it manie times I haue complained and then I was called a busie fellow now our Lord haue mercie on me They were laid on hardels drawne to the standard in Cheape and first was Iohn Lincolne executed And as the other had the ropes about their neckes there came a commandement from the king to respit the execution Then the people cried God saue the king and so was the oier and terminer deferred till another daie and the prisoners sent againe to ward the armed men departed out of London and all things set in quiet On the eleuenth daie of Maie the king came to his manor of Gréenwich where the recorder of London and diuerse aldermen came to speake with his grace and all ware gownes of blacke colour And when they perceiued the king comming out of his priuie chamber into his chamber of presence they knéeled downe and the recorder said Our most naturall benigne and souereigne lord we know well that your grace is displeased with vs of your citie of London for the great riot late doone we ascerteine your grace that none of vs nor no honest person were condescending to that enormitie and yet wée our wiues and children euerie houre lament that your fauour should be taken from vs. And forsomuch as light and idle persons were the dooers of the same we most humblie beséech your grace to haue mercie of vs for our negligence and compassion of the offendors for their offense and trespasse Trulie said the king you haue highlie displeased and offended vs and you ought to waile and be sorie for the same And where as you saie that you the substantiall persons were not consenting to the same it appeareth to the contrarie For you neuer mooued to let them nor stirred once to fight with them which you say were so small a number of light persons Wherefore we must thinke and you can not denie that you did winke at the matter but at this time we will grant to you neither our fauour nor good will nor to the offendors mercie but resort to the cardinall our lord chancellour and he shall make you an answer and declare our pleasure And with this answer line 10 the Londoners departed and made relation to the maior On the eightéenth day of this moneth the quéene of Scots which had béene at the court and at Bainards castell a whole yeare at the kings charge and was richlie appointed of all things méet to hir estate both of iewels plate tapistrie arras coine horsses all other things of the kings gift liberalitie departed out of London toward Scotland with great riches albeit she came into England with great pouertie line 20 and she entered into Scotland the thirtéenth daie of Iune whome hir husband receiued at Berwike but the Englishmen smallie regarded him All hir charges within the realme comming to the court and returning were of the kings pursse On thursdaie the
On fridaie the thirteenth daie of Iulie the emperour did intend to haue departed from Calis but the counsell was such that he departed not that night On saturdaie the fouretéenth of Iulie the emperour tooke his leaue of the queene of England his aunt and departed toward Graueling being conducted on his waie by the king of England to a village towards Flanders called Waell and there line 30 they imbraced and tooke their leaue either of other in most louing maner They did not altogither spend the time thus while they were togither in vaine pleasures and sporting reuels for the charters before time concluded were read ouer and all the articles of the league tripartite agréed betwixt the emperour the king of England and the French king were at full declared to the which the French king had fullie condescended And for the more proofe thereof and exemplification of the same he sent monsieur de Roch line 40 with letters of credence to signifie to the emperour that in the word of a prince he would obserue fulfill performe and kéepe all the same articles for him his realme and subiects Shortlie after that the emperour and the king had taken leaue each of other and were departed the king shipped and with the quéene and all other the nobilitie returned safelie into England The king kept his Christmas at Greenwith this yeare with much noblenesse and open court And the tenth daie of Februarie in his owne person iusted line 50 with all commers On Twelfe daie his grace and the earle of Deuonshire with foure aids answered at the tourneie all commers which were sixtéene persons noble and rich was their apparell but in feats of armes the king excelled the rest About this time the king hauing regard to the common welth of his realme year 1521 considered how for the space of fiftie yeares past and more the nobles and gentlemen of England being giuen to grasiâ—â— of cattell and kéeping line 60 of shéepe had inuented a meane how to increase their yearelie reuenues to the great decaie and vndooing of husbandmen of the land For the said nobles and gentlemen after the maner of the Numidians more studieng how to increase their pastures than to mainteine tillage began to decaie husband tacks tenements and to conuert arable ground into pasture furnishing the same with beasts and shéepe and also deere so inclosing the field with hedges ditches and pales which they held in their owne hands ingrossing woolles and selling the same and also shéepe and beasts at their owne prices and as might stand most with their owne priuate commoditie Hereof a thréefold euill chanced to the common wealth as Polydor noteth One for that thereby the number of husbandmen was sore diminished the which the prince vseth chieflie in his seruice for the warres an other for that manie townes and villages were left desolate and became ruinous the third for that both wooll and cloth made thereof and the flesh of all maner beasts vsed to be eaten was sold at far higher prices than was accustomed These enormities at the first begining being not redressed grew in short space to such force and vigour by euill custome that afterwards they gathered to such an vnited force that hardly they could be remedied Much like a disease which in the beginning with litle paine to the patient and lesse labour to the surgeon maie be cured whereas the same by delaie and negligence being suffered to putrifie becommeth a desperate sore and then are medicines nothing auailable and not to be applied according to his opinion that said Helleborum frustra cùm iam cutis aegratumescit Poscentes videas venienti occurrite morbo The king therefore causing such good statutes as had beene deuised and established for reformation in this behalfe to be reuiued and called vpon tooke order by directing foorth his commissions vnto the iustices of peace and other such magistrats that presentment should be had and made of all such inclosures and decaie of husbandrie as had chanced within the space of fiftie yeares before that present time The iustices and other magistrates according to their commission executed the same And so commandement was giuen that the decaied houses should bée built vp againe that the husbandmen should be placed eftsoones in the same and that inclosed grounds should be laid open and sore punishment appointed against them that disobeied These so good and wholesome ordinances shortlie after were defeated by meanes of bribes giuen vnto the cardinall for when the nobles and gentlemen which had for their pleasures imparked the common fields were loth to haue the same againe disparked they redéemed their vexation with good sommes of monie and so had licence to keepe their parks and grounds inclosed as before Thus the great expectation which men had conceiued of a generall redresse prooued void howbeit some profit the husbandmen in some parts of the realme got by the moouing of this matter where inclosures were alreadie laid open yer mistresse monie could preuent them and so they inioied their commons which before had beene taken from them After that this matter for inclosures was thus dispatched the cardinall boiling in hatred against the duke of Buckingham thirsting for his bloud deuised to make Charles Kneuet that had beene the dukes surueior and put from him as ye haue heard an instrument to bring the duke to destruction This Kneuet being had in examination before the cardinall disclosed all the dukes life And first he vttered that the duke was accustomed by waie of talke to saie how he meant so to vse the matter that he would atteine to the crowne if king Henrie chanced to die without issue that he had talke and conference of that matter on a time with George Neuill lord of Aburgauennie vnto whome he had giuen his daughter in marriage and also that he threatned to punish the cardinall for his manifold misdooings being without cause his mortall enimie The cardinall hauing gotten that which he sought for incouraged comforted and procured Kneuet with manie comfortable words and great promises that he should with a bold spirit and countenance obiect and laie these things to the dukes charge with more if he knew it when time required Then Kneuet partlie prouoked with desire to be reuenged and partlie mooued with hope of reward openlie confessed that the duke had once fullie determined to deuise meanes how to make the king away being brought into a full hope that he should be king by a vaine prophesie which one Nicholas Hopkins a monke of an house of the Chartreux order beside Bristow called Henton sometime his confessor had opened vnto him The cardinall hauing thus taken the examination line 10 on of Kneuet went vnto the king and declared vnto him that his person was in danger by such traitorous purpose as the duke of Buckingham had conceiued in his heart and shewed how that now there is manifest
durst not to represse the rages of the people which they might haue done so therof also insued such a scab as passed their cure and such a fire as they were not able to quench For the commons hauing now their willes were set vpon a pin that the game was theirs and that they had woone the garland before they had runne the race nothing forecasting what might insue nor yet accounting what follie it is to triumph before the victorie Wherfore they assemble confederat themselues throughout the whole shire in great troops and companies and doo associat and flocke vnto them the Cornish people minding to ioine togither and foolishlie to mainteine what rashlie they had begun The king and councell then occupied in the weightie causes concerning the state of Scotland being aduertised of this towards rebellion respecting the speedie redresse thereof sent foorthwith for sir Peter Carew knight who then was in Lincolneshire and for sir Gawen Carew who was then attendant at the court and to them commandement was giuen that foorthwith and with all spéed they should hasten and depart into Deuon and there to vse by the aduise of the iustices all the best meanes and waies that they might for the appeasing of this rebellion quieting of the people and pacifieng of the countrie and to cause euerie man quietlie to returne to his home and to refer the causes of their griefs and complaints if they had anie vnto the king and councell and if they then refused so to doo they to vse such other good means and waies as might be for the suppressing of them And the councell being dailie more and more aduertised that these begun rebellions did more and more increase and doubting of the sequele thereof by reason that in other places of the realme the like tumults were begun though not for the like causes doo direct and giue an order to the lord Russell then lord priuie seale and after earle of Bedford that he also should follow and dispatch himselfe into Deuon and he had a commission to deale in such order as he might best doo for the pacifieng of the said tumults and vprores The foresaid two knights hauing receiued their commission vnder the kings hand came in post into the countrie and making their repaire to this citie doo foorthwith send for sir Péers Courtneie then shiriffe and the iustices of the peace of the countrie and vnderstanding that a great companie of the commons were assembled at Crediton which is a towne distant about seauen miles from Excester and that among them were the Sampford men who were the chiefe of them tooke councell aduise what was best to be doone and what waie méetest to be taken In the end it was concluded that the said sir Peter and sir Gawen with others should ride to Crediton there to haue conference and spéeches with the said commons and to vse all the good waies and meanes they might to pacifie appease them they then supposing and being persuaded that by good spéeches and gentle conferences they should haue béene able to haue compassed and persuaded the said commons But the people being by some secret intelligence aduertised of the comming of the gentlemen towards them and they fullie resolued not to yéeld one iote from their determinations but to mainteine their cause taken in hand doo arme and make themselues strong with such armors and furnitures as they had they intrench the high waies and make a mightie rampire at the townes end and fortifie the same as also the barns next adioining to the said rampires with men and munition hauing persed the walles of the barns with loopes and holes for their shot The foresaid gentlemen knowing nothing hereof line 10 rode on their iourneie and being come almost to the towne they were aduertised how the waies were stopped and rampired and that they could not ride into the towne Whervpon they alighted from their horsses and after a little conference had they agréed to go into the towne on foot nothing thinking lesse that they should be stopped or denied to go in on foot But when they came to the rampires they found the contrarie for they not onelie were denied to come néere the rampire but vtterlie were refused to be talked withall no offers of persuasions nor motions line 20 of conference at all could be allowed For the sun being in cancer the midsummer moone at full their minds were imbrued in such follies and their heads caried with such vanities that as the man of Athens they would heare no man speake but themselues and thought nothing well said but what came out of their owne mouths The gentlemen vpon such checks taking the matter in euill part to be so vnreuerentlie and discourteouslie intreated with one consent doo agree to line 30 make waie ouer the rampire But in the aduenture thereof they were so galled both by them which kept the rampires and speciallie by such as were within the barnes that they were faine to retire and giue place with the losse of some and the hurt of manie In which distresse a certeine seruing man named Fox and reteining to sir Hugh Pollard suddenlie set one of the barnes on fire wherevpon not onelie such as were therein but all they also which were in the rampires fled and ran awaie And then the gentlemen line 40 hauing recouered the rampire went into the towne but there they found none except a few poore and old people the residue trusting better to their héeles than to their armes were fled to a further place and then they returned againe to Excester without anie thing doone The noise of this fire and burning was in post hast and as it were in a moment carried and blazed abroad throughout the whole countrie and the common line 50 people vpon false reports and of a gnat making an elephant noised and spread it abroad that the gentlemen were altogither bent to ouer-run spoile and destroie them And in this rage as it were a swarme of wasps they cluster themselues in great troops and multitudes some in one place and some in an other fortifieng and intrenching themselues as though the enimie were readie to inuade and assaile them And among other places one was at a village belonging to the lord Russell named S. Marie Clift distant from Excester about two miles line 60 where the commons of the countrie thereabout had begun to fortifie the towne for their defense safetie The cause and pretense of their dooings herein was not onelie the burning of the barnes at Crediton aforesaid which all the commons generallie did vse for a cloke of this their rising and rebellion but this one thing also increased their disposition It happened that a certeine gentleman named Walter Raleigh dwelling not far from thense as he was vpon a side holie daie riding from his house to Excester ouertooke an old woman going to the parish church of saint Marie
houshold chapleine in armes against the king 17. a 60. Founder of vniuersitie colledge in Oxford 13. a 60. Besieged at Durham forced to yeeld and exiled 18. a 10. Restored and dieth for sorrow and whie 18. a 30 William earle of Ew renounceth Robert and becommeth king William Rufus man 22. a 10 Willoughbie lord ambassador into Denmarke his oration in Latine to the king inuesteth the king into the order of the gâ—rter returneth and arriueth in England 13 48. a 20 c. Willoughbie knight found frozen to death in his ship note 1083. a 60. Willoughbie capteine honourablie buried 1428. a 60 Wincâ—ester an erls sonne bishop there 42. a 60. ¶ See Bishop Wind monstrous and big and dooing much harme 170 b 50. Full of annoiance 914. b 30. 245. a 60 1310. b 30.1579 a 20 c. That troubled the skie 226 a 10. Extreme terrible 243. a 20. Big and boisterous that blew open Paules gates 1209. a 20. Tempestuous out of the south 1260. a 40. That ouerthrew houses 348. b 40. 220. a 60. In diuerse places of England note 19. b 10. Continuing six or seuen daies 395 b 40. For three moneths space hindering the spring 250. a 50. Prognosticating trouble 861. a 10. Upon the seas 1211. a 50 Windsore castell repared 392. a 50. And of the chamber there built called the round table 366 a 20 Windsore lord ¶ See Iusts triumphant Wine prised at a rate 161. a 20. Sold for thirteene shillings foure pense the tun 455. a 10 Winter sharpe following a drie summer 1210. a 60. With great frost 1257. b 30. An enimie to warlike enterprises 7. a 30. Extreame note 38. a 50. More than ordinarie 163. a 50. Neuer the like 166. a 60 That killed all kind of small foules 534. a 10. With a deth 892. b 30 Winter sir William knight and viceadmerall saileth towards Sotland 1187. a 10. Wisedome of Richard the first in making his answer 138 b 40 Witch hanged at Feuershom wherein note the indirect course of iustice 1560. a 10. Of one that allured the Dolphin of France to take vpon him the title of K. of France 602. a 20 Witchcraft punished with famine 203. b 60.204 a 10 Wood knighted ¶ See Maior of Norwich Woodstocke manour by whome builded 45. b 30 Wooduile lord aideth the duke of Britaine without Henrie the seauenths consents 768. a 40. Slaine 768. b 40 Wooll sold dog chepe by the stone 476. b 50. Sessed at a certeine price and what for the transporting out of the realme 365 a 40. Transporting ouer sea an act against it 353 a 60. What K. Edward the third might spend a daie there by that which was transported 383. b 10 Granted in subsidie by the merchants 440 a 20. ¶ Sée Subsidie Staple Wolâ—en cloth of two shillings the â—rode yard 789 b 40 Waites wiâ—e a notable harlot 〈◊〉 shamefull end 937 b 30 c. Wolâ—eâ—â— described 829 b 60.830 a â—â— Made bishop of Durâ—am 〈◊〉 demandeth a great subsidie his obstinat answer to the motion of the commons 877 a 50 60 b 10. Taketh it in scorne to be called brother by the archbishop 848 a 10. Reprooued by Henrie the eight dissolueth the archbishop of Canturburie his conuocation 878 a 20.40 His princelie pâ—rt at a banket and other recreations note 848 b 50 60. He will haue euerie man sworne what he is woorth 874 b 60 Deuiseth 〈◊〉 destruction of the duke of Buckingham 862 b 50. Imboldeneth Kneâ—â—t against him b 60. Accuseth him to Henrie the eight 863 b 10 20. What forren chronicâ—ers report of him 886 b 30. Altereth the state of Henrie the eight his household 892 b 40. Erecteth twâ— new colleges he excuseth himselfe touching the streiâ—â— commission for the tax 891 a 10 40 60. His authoritie impugned 884 a 10. Offended at a plaie and punisheth the author and actors of the same â—94 a 50. Goeth ambassador into France his pompe the maner of his receiuing by the French king 897 b 10 20 40 Suspected to be against Henrie the eight his mariage with quéene Kathâ—rine his brothers wife 906 b 30. Articles exhibited against him 911 b 20. At his manor of Câ—wood kéepeth a good house was to be arrested of treason prognostications of his fall arrested taketh the action in good part 915 a 10 30 b 50 60 His commissions to take vp monie by anticipation 882 a 50. His ambitious humor the ordering of the two kings of England and Spaine their interuiew committed to him 853 a 20 c. b 10 20 c. 854 all 855 a 10 c. His great pompe put in great trust by the king of England and France 858 a 20 30. His liberalitie by vertue forsooth of his spirituall power 872 b 50. He hateth the duke of Buckingham causeth the earle of Kildare to be committed to ward 855 b 20 30 c. His crueltie 894 b 30. His excessiue pride 845 a 60 b 10 847 b 50. A caueat giuen him by a libell set vp in London he cannot abide the citizens 895 a 30 40 50. His pompe when he receiued the emperor Charles at Douer his pride at high masse 873 a 50 b 40 Returneth out of France 898 a 60. Is sent ouer to Calis the emperor receiueth him carrieth the great seale with him and there sealeth writs and patents 870 a 40 b 10 20 40. Maketh means to be elected pope 871 b 10. Singeth masse before the two kings of England France 861 a 20. Desireth to sée the commission of the arrest committed to the custodie of certeine gentlemen sickneth sitting at the table falleth into a flux that cost him his life 916 a 20. In displesure with Henrie the eight articles exhibited against him sued in a premunire loth to part from the great seale but yet discharged calleth all his officers to accounts goeth to Asher and hath his plentie turned into penurie condemned in a premunire 909 a 10 20 30 40 60 b 30 50. Archbishop of Yorke cardinall chancellor of England his cardinals hat receiued by Kentish gentlemen with great solemnitie iustice executed by him vpon offendors he erecteth new courts by Henrie the eights commission 838 b 50 60. He taketh vpon him to determin causes diuerse péeres offended at him he hindereth the duke of Suffolks hope an enimie to peace 839 a 50 60 b 10. His aduise to the maior of London at Ill Maie daies riot 841 b 30 40. Licenced to repaire into Yorkeshire his college lands seized vpon to the behoofe of Henrie the eight 913 b 10. Remooue â—o Richmond prepareth for his iourneie into the North 914 a 60 b 10. Auoucheth that he cannot liue ascribeth his fall to the iust iudgement of God the complet historie of his behauiors life and death 917 918 919 920 921 922 Wolstan bishop of Worcester and others resist the erle of Hereford rebelling 11 a 50. Refuseth a place of safegard against the Normans 17 a 60 b 10. Like to haue béene deposed for his
some copies haue Neuille and manie other There was also sir Eustace Dambreticourt and of the companions sir Perducas Dalbreth who in the beginning of these warres being turned French was by the persuasion of sir Robert Knols procured to returne againe to the princes seruice before the siege of Durmelle The prince being thus accompanied with these line 40 worthie capteins and men of armes to the number of twelue hundred beside a thousand archers and other footmen indeuored by all waies he could deuise to indamage them within In the end he caused the walles to be vndermined and quite reuersed into the ditch then giuing assault entered by the breach and made an huge slaughter of them within in somuch that of men women and children for none were spared in respect of age or sex there were slaine and beheaded that daie aboue thrée thousand The bishop line 50 with certeine knights and capteins were taken and had their liues granted though the bishop was in great danger to haue lost his head bicause he was a cheefe dooer in yéelding the citie before vnto the Frenchmen Whilest the prince laie at siege before Limoges a litle before he wan it thither came to him his brethren the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Cambridge the lord Ros sir Michaell de la Pole sir Robert Rous sir Iohn Saintâ—o and sir William Beauchampe line 60 with a faire number of men of war spears and archers The prince then after he had woone Limoges and executed some crueltie there to the terrour of other his maladie which still continued vpon him rather increased than diminished so that he was aduised by physicians to returne into England in hope that change of aire should restore him to health For the which consideration and other causes of businesse which he had to doo with his father touching certeine weightie affaires he tooke the sea and came ouer into England leauing the gouernement of Aquitaine vnto his brother the duke of Lancaster as his lieutenant there he landed at Plimmouth in the beginning of Ianuarie Moreouer in this 44 yeare of king Edward the king of Nauarre came ouer into England and at Claringdon found the king and there talked with him of such matters as they had to conclude betwixt them two But for that the king of Nauarre could not assure the king of such couenants as should haue passed betwixt them two it was not thought meet by the kings councell to worke too far vpon his bare word that had before time shewed apparant proofes of his inconstant dealing And suerlie this doubt arose not without cause as his dooings shortlie after declared for although he séemed now at this present to be a verie enimie to the French king yet shortlie after he was reconciled to him againe and became his great freend for the time it lasted This yeare in the moneth of Februarie was a parlement called in the which there was demanded of the spiritualtie a subsidie of fiftie thousand pounds and as much of the laitie The temporall men soone agréed to that paiment but the cleargie excused themselues with faire words and shifting answers in somuch that the king tooke displesure with them and deposed certeine spirituall men from their offices of dignitie as the chancellor the priuie seale the treasuror and such others in whose roomes he placed temporall men The bishop of Winchester and the bishop of Beauuois being both cardinals were put in commission by pope Gregorie the eleuenth to treat betwixt the kings of England and France for a peace But albeit they did their indeuour therein and mooued both kings to the vttermost of their powers yet their motions tooke none effect and therefore was the warre pursued to the vttermost betwixt the parties namelie in Aquitaine where the fortresses were so intermedled one with an other some English and some French that one knew not how to beware of an other nor to auoid the danger so that the countrie of Poictou and other the marches thereabout were in great tribulation Sir Robert Knols sir Thomas Spenser sir Iohn Triuet and sir Hugh Hastings diuiding their powers insunder went to recouer townes some in one quarter and some in an other and certeine they assaied but preuailed not the inhabitants doubting to be punished for their vntruths made such stout resistance After this the duke of Lancaster appointed sir Robert Knols to repaire againe to Calis and by the waie if occasion serued to attempt the recouerie of Ponthieu Sir Robert taking his iournie through France by Paris came into the marches of Picardie and bicause in comparison to this man all the English capteins were litle feared of the Frenchmen sir Berthram de Cleaquin the constable of France leauing the fortresses in the marches of Aquitaine sufficientlie stuffed with men of warre and munition followed sir Robert Knols still readie to assaile the hindermost companies or else to set on the sides of his enimies So that there chanced manie skirmishes betwixt them manie men were slaine on both parts but at length when sir Robert Knols saw no likelihood to atchiue his purposed intent in recouerie of the townes of Ponthieu as Abuile and other he drew streight to Calis and the constable retired backe into France In this 46 yeare sir Robert Ashton was sent into Ireland as lord deputie there and in the same yeare the duke of Lancaster being as then a widower maried the ladie Constance eldest daughter to Peter king of Spaine which was slaine by his bastard brother Henrie as before ye haue heard ¶ Also the lord Emund earle of Cambridge maried the ladie Isabell sister to the same Constance ¶ Their other sister named Beatrice affianced to Don Ferdinando son to Peter king of Portingale was departed this life a little before this time at Baionne where they were all three left as hostages by their father when the prince went to bring him home into his countrie as before yée may read Froissard writeth that the duke married the ladie Constance in Gascoigne and that shortlie after he returned into England with his said wife and hir sister leauing the capitall de Bueffz and other lords of Gascoigne and Poictou in charge with the rule of those countries By reason of that marriage the duke of Lancaster as in right of his wife being the elder sister caused himselfe to line 10 be intituled king of Castile and his said wife quéene of the same realme The earle of Hereford being sent to the sea with certeine ships of warre was incountered by the Flemish fléet before an hauen in Britaine called the Baie where was fought a sore battell and long continued for the space of thrée houres howbeit finallie the victorie abode with the Englishmen notwithstanding that the Flemings were more in number line 20 and better prouided for the matter There were taken of them fiue and twentie ships with their
queene his wife the thirtith daie of Maie being Whitsun éeuen they remooued all togither vnto Paris where the king of England lodged in the castell of Loure and the French king in the house of saint Paule These two kings kept great estate with their quéenes at this high feast of Pentecost but the king of Englands court greatlie excéeded so that all the resort was thither The Parisiens that beheld his princelie port high magnificence iudged him rather an emperour than a king and their owne king to be in respect of him like a duke or marquesse The Dolphin hauing knowledge by espials where the king of England and his power laie came with all his puissance ouer the riuer of Loire and besieged Cosneie a towne situate vpon that riuer a six score miles distant from Paris and appointed part of his armie to waste and destroie the confines of the duchie of Burgognie to the intent to diuide the power of the king of England from the strength of the duke of Burgognie supposing as it came to passe indéed that the duke would make hast towards Burgognie to defend his owne lands In the meane time they within Cosneie were so hard handled that they promised to render their towne to the Dolphin if they were not rescued by the king of England within ten daies King Henrie hearing these newes would not send anie one creature but determined to go himselfe to the raising of that siege and so with all diligence came to the towne of Corbeill and so to Senlis where whether it were with heat of the aire or that he with his dailie labour were féebled or weakened he began to wax sicke yea and so sicke that he was constreined to tarrie and send his brother the duke of Bedford to rescue them of Cosneie which he did to his high honor For the Dolphin hearing that the duke of Bedford was comming to raise his siege departed thence into Berrie to his great dishonor and lesse gaine About the same time the duke of Britaine sent his chancellor the bishop of Maunts with the bishop of Uannes and others of his councell as ambassadors from him vnto king Henrie with full commission to ratifie and allow for him and his people the peace concluded at Troies but by reason of the kings gréeuous sicknesse nothing was then doone in that matter Neuerthelesse the duke himselfe in person came afterwards to Amiens and there performed that which he had appointed his ambassadors at this time in his name to haue doone and accomplished In the meane season king Henrie waxed sicker and sicker and so in an horsselitter was coueied to Bois de Uincennes to whome shortlie after repaired the dukes of Bedford and Glocester the earles of Salisburie and Warwike whome the king louinglie welcomed and séemed glad of their presence Now when he saw them pensife for his sicknesse and great danger of life wherein he presentlie laie he with manie graue courteous and pithie words recomforted them the best he could and therewith exhorted them to be trustie and faithfull vnto his sonne line 10 and to see that he might be well and vertuouslie brought vp And as concerning the rule and gouernance of his realms during the minoritie and yoong yeares of his said sonne he willed them to ioine togither in fréendlie loue and concord keeping continuall peace and amitie with the duke of Burgognie and neuer to make treatie with Charles that called himselfe Dolphin of Uienne by the which anie part either of the crowne of France or of the duches of line 20 Normandie and Guien may be lessened or diminished and further that the duke of Orleance and the other princes should still remaine prisoners till his sonne came to lawfull age least returning home againe they might kindle more fire in one daie than might be quenched in thrée He further aduised them that if they thought it necessarie that it should be good to haue his brother Humfreie duke of Glocester to be protector of England during the nonage of his sonne and his brother line 30 the duke of Bedford with the helpe of the duke of Burgognie to rule and to be regent of France commanding him with fire and sword to persecute the Dolphin till he had either brought him to reason and obeisance or else to driue and expell him out of the realme of France And herewith he protested vnto them that neither the ambitious desire to inlarge his dominions neither to purchase vaine renowme and worldlie fame nor anie other consideration had mooued him to take the warres in hand but onelie that in prosecuting his iust title he might in the end line 40 atteine to a perfect peace and come to enioie those péeces of his inheritance which to him of right belonged and that before the beginning of the same warres he was fullie persuaded by men both wise and of great holinesse of life that vpon such intent he might and ought both begin the same warres and follow them till he had brought them to an end iustlie and rightlie and that without all danger of Gods displeasure or perill of soule The noble men present promised to obserue his line 50 precepts and to performe his desires but their hearts were so pensife and replenished with sorrow that one could not for weeping behold an other Then he said the seauen psalmes and receiued the sacrament and in saieng the psalmes of the passion ended his daies héere in this world at Bois saint Uincent the last of August in the yeare a thousand foure hundred twentie and two This Henrie was a king of life without spot a prince whome all men loued and of line 60 none disdained a capteine against whome fortune neuer frowned nor mischance once spurned whose people him so seuere a iusticer both loued and obeied and so humane withall that he left no offense vnpunished nor fréendship vnrewarded a terrour to rebels and suppressour of sedition his vertues notable his qualities most praise-worthie In strength and nimblenesse of bodie from his youth few to him comparable for in wrestling leaping and running no man well able to compare In casting of great iron barres and heauie stones he excelled commonlie all men neuer shrinking at cold nor slothfull for heat and when he most laboured his head commonlie vncouered no more wearie of harnesse than a light cloake verie valiantlie abiding at needs both hunger and thirst so manfull of mind as neuer seene to quinch at a wound or to smart at the paine not to turne his nose from euill sauour nor close his eies from smoke or dust no man more moderate in eating and drinking with diet not delicate but rather more meet for men of warre than for princes or tender stomachs Euerie honest person was permitted to come to him sitting at meale where either secretlie or openlie to declare his mind High and weightie causes as well betweene men of warre and other he would
kings all the princes of christendome trauelled so effectuouslie by their oratours and ambassadours that a diet was appointed to be kept at the citie of Tours in Touraine where for the king of England appeared William de la Poole earle of Suffolke doctor Adam Molins kéeper of the kings priuie seale also sir Robert Ros and diuers other And for the French king were appointed Charles duke of Orleance Lewes de Bourbon earle of Uandosme great maister of the French kings houshold Piers de Bresse steward of Poictou and Bertram Beautian lord of Prâ—signie There were also sent thither ambassadours from the empire from Spaine from Denmarke from Hungarie to be mediatourâ— betwixt the two princes The assemblie was great but the cost was much greater insomuch that euerie part for the honour of their prince and praise of their countrie set foorth themselues as well in faâ—e as apparell to the vttermost Manie meetings were had and manie things mooued for a fiâ—all peâ—ce but in conclusion by reason of manie doubts which rose on both parties no full concord could be agreed vpon but in hope to come to a peace a certeine truce as well by sea as by land was concluded by the commissioners for eighteene moneths which afterward againe was prolonged to the yeare of our Lord 1449. In treating of this truce the earle of Suffolke aduenturing somewhat vpon his commission year 1444 without the assent of his associats imagined that the next waie to come to a perfect peace was to contriue a mariage betwéene the French kings kinsewoman the ladie Margaret daughter to Reiner duke of Aniou and his souereigne lord king Henrie This Reiner duke of Aniou named himselfe king of Sicill Naples and Ierusalem hauing onlie the name and stile of those realmes without anie penie profit or foot of possession This mariage was made strange to the earle at the first and one thing seemed to be a great hinderance to it which was bicause the king of England occupied a great part of the duchie of Aniou and the whole countie of Maine apperteining as was alledged to king Reiner The earle of Suffolke I cannot saie either corrupted with bribes or too much affectioned to this vnprofitable mariage condescended that the duchie of Aniou and the countie of Maine should be deliuered to the king the brides father demanding for hir mariage neither penie nor farthing as who would saie that this new affinitie passed all riches and excelled both gold and pretious stones And to the intent that of this truce might insue a finall concord a daie of enteruiew was appointed betwéene the two kings in a place conuenient betwéene Chartres and Rone When these things were concluded the earle of Suffolke with his companie returned into England where he forgat not to declare what an honourable truce he had taken out of the which there was a great hope that a finall peace might grow the sooner for that honorable mariage which he had concluded omitting nothing that might extoll and set foorth the personage of the ladie or the nobilitie of hir kinred But although this mariage pleased the king and diuerse of his councell yet Humfrie duke of Glocester protector of the realme was much against it alledging that it should be both contrarie to the lawes of God and dishonorable to the prince if he should breake that promise and contract of mariage made by ambassadours sufficientlie thereto instructed with the daughter of the earle of Arminacke vpon conditions both to him and his realme as much profitable as honorable But the dukes words could not be heard for the earles dooings were onelie liked and allowed So that for performance of the conclusions the French king sent the earle of Uandosme great maister of his house and the archbishop of Reimes first peere of France and diuerse other into England where they were honorablie receiued and after that the instruments were once sealed and deliuered on both parts the said ambassadours returned againe into their countries with great gifts and rewards When these things were doone the king both for honour of his realme and to assure to himselfe mo fréends created Iohn Holland earle of Huntington duke of Excester as his father was Humfrie earle of Stafford was made duke of Buckingham and Henrie earle of Warwike was elected to the title of duke of Warwike to whome the king also gaue the castell of Bristowe with the I le of Ierneseie and Garneseie Also the earle of Suffolke was made marquesse of Suffolke which marquesse with his wife and manie honorable personages of men and line 10 women richlie adorned both with apparell iewels hauing with them manie costlie chariots and gorgeous horslitters sailed into France for the conueiance of the nominated queene into the realme of England For king Reiner hir father for all his long stile had too short a pursse to send his daughter honorablie to the king hir spouse This noble companie came to the citie of Tours in Touraine where they were honorablie receiued both of the French king and of the king of Sicill line 20 The marquesse of Suffolke as procurator to king Henrie espoused the said ladie in the church of saint Martins At the which mariage were present the father and mother of the bride the French king himselfe which was vncle to the husband and the French quéene also which was aunt to the wife There were also the dukes of Orleance of Calabre of Alanson and of Britaine seauen earls twelue barons twentie bishops beside knights and gentlemen When the feast triumph bankets and iusts were ended the ladie line 30 was deliuered to the marquesse who in great estate conueied hir through Normandie vnto Diepe and so transported hir into England where she landed at Portesmouth in the moneth of Aprill This ladie excelled all other as well in beautie and fauour as in wit and policie and was of stomach and courage more like to a man than a woman Shortlie after hir arriuall she was conueied to the towne of Southwike in Hamshire where she with all nuptiall ceremonies was coupled in matrimonie line 40 to king Henrie the sixt of that name ¶ On the eightéenth of Maie she came to London all the lords of England in most sumptuous sort méeting and receiuing hir vpon the waie and speciallie the duke of Glocester with such honour as stood with the dignitie of his person Now when she came to Blackheath the maior aldermen and men of occupations in blew gownes imbrodered with some deuise expressing their art and trades whereby to be knowne did all shew themselues with congratulation line 50 of hir comming from whence they attended hir to London where with goodlie pageants and sundrie gallant historicall shewes in diuers places erected she was verie magnificallie welcomed The maner and order of which pompe in sundrie places exhibited to the high honour of the king queene states is verie amplie set foorth by Fabian pag. 423 424
the common enimie abroad as by that which followeth you may plainelie perceiue For whilest the French thus triumphed in Normandie thrée cruell enimies among manie as by ciuill warre and sedition insuing appeared sore vrged the vtter ruine of this reame at home One was presumption in gouernance by some that were most vnméet to rule as the queene with hir priuie counsellors and minions then the deadlie malice and pride with insatiable couetise in the states both spirituall and temporall and lastlie the generall grudge of the people for the vniuersall smart that through misgouernment euerie where they suffered who thus forweried with the peise of burthens too heauie for them line 10 anie longer to beare Heerewith perceiuing how through want of prouident wisedome in the gouernour all things went to wracke as well within the realme as without they began to make exclamation against the duke of Suffolke charging him to be the onelie cause of the deliuerie of Aniou and Maine the chéefe procuror of the duke of Glocesters death the verie occasion of the losse of Normandie the swallower vp of the line 20 kings treasure the remoouer of good and vertuous councellours from about the prince and the aduancer of vicious persons and of such as by their dooings shewed themselues apparant aduersaries to the common-wealth The quéene hereat doubting not onelie the dukes destruction but also hir owne confusion caused the parlement before begun at the Blackfriers to be adiourned to Leicester thinking there by force and rigor of law to suppresse and subdue all the malice and line 30 euill will conceiued against the duke hir At which place few of the nobilitie would appeare wherefore it was againe adiourned to Westminster where was a full appearance In the which session the commons of the nether house put vp to the king and the lords manie articles of treason misprision and euill demeanor against the duke of Suffolke the effect whereof with his answers héere insueth Articles proponed by the commons line 40 against the duke of Suffolke line 1 FIrst they alleged that he had traitorouslie excited prouoked and counselled Iohn earle of Dunois bastard of Orleance Bertram lord Presignie William Cosinet enimies to the king and fréends and ambassadours to Charles calling himselfe French king to enter into this realme and to leauie warre line 50 against the king and his people to the intent to destroie the king and his freends and to make Iohn his sonne king of this realme marieng him to Margaret sole heire to Iohn duke of Summerset pretending and declaring hir to be next heire inheritable to the crowne for lacke of issue of the kings bodie lawfullie begotten 2 Item the said duke being of the kings priuie and néere councell allured by great rewards and line 60 faire promises made by the said earle of Dunois caused the king to deliuer and set at libertie Charles duke of Orleance enimie to the king and the kings noble father which deliuerance was prohibited by expresse words in the last will of the kings most victorious father 3 Item that before the departing of the said duke of Orleance the aforenamed duke of Suffolke traitorouslie fast cleauing to Charles called the French king counselled prouoked and intised the said duke of Orleance to mooue the same king to make warre against England both in France and Normandie According to which procurement counsell the said French king hath recouered the whole realme of France and all the duchie of Normandie and taken prisoners the earle of Shrewesburie the lord Fauconbridge and manie other valiant capteins ¶ These thrée articles aforenamed he denied either for fact or thought 4 Further it was alleged that he being ambassadour for the king of England to Charles calling himselfe the French king promised to Reiner king of Sicill and to Charles d'Angiers his brother enimies to the king the release of Aniou with the deliuerance of the countie of Maine and the citie of Maunt or Mans without the knowledge of the other ambassadours with him accompanied Which promise after his returne he caused to be performed to the kings disinheritance and losse irrecouerable and to the strength of his enimies and feeblishment of the duchie of Normandie ¶ To this article he answered that his commission was to conclude and doo all things according to his discretion for the obteining of a peace bicause without deliuerie of those countries he perceiued that the truce could not be obteined he agreed to the release and deliuerance of them 5 Also they had great cause to iudge by the sequele that the said duke being in France in the kings seruice and one of the priuiest of his councell there traitorouslie declared and opened to the capteins and conductors of warre apperteining to the kings enimies the kings counsell purueiance of his armies furniture of his townes all other ordinances whereby the kings enimies instructed aforehand by his traitorous information haue gotten townes and fortresses and the king by that meanes depriued of his inheritance 6 Item the said duke declared to the earle of Dunois to the lord Presignie and William Cosâ—net ambssadours for the French king lieng in London the priuities of the kings councell both for the prouision of further warre and also for the defense of the duchie of Normandie by the disclosing whereof the Frenchmen knowing the king secrets defeated the kings appointments and they obteined their purpose 7 Item that the said duke at such time as the king sent ambassadours to the French king for the intreating of peace traitorouslie before their comming to the French court certified king Charles of their commission authoritie and instructions by reason whereof neither peace nor amitie succéeded and the kings inheritance lost and by his enimies possessed 8 Item the same duke said openlie in the Star-chamber before the lords of the councell that he had as high a place in the councell-house of the French king as he had there and was as well trusted there as here and could remooue from the French king the priuiest man of his councell if he would 9 Item when armies haue béene prepared and souldiers readie waged to passe ouer the sea to deale with the kings enimies the said duke corrupted by rewards of the French king hath restreined staid the said armies to passe anie further 10 Item the said duke being ambassadour for the king comprised not in the league as the kings alies neither the king of Aragon neither the duke of Britaine but suffered them to be comprised on the contrarie part By reason whereof the old amitie of the K. of Aragon is estranged from this realme and the duke of Britaine became enimie to the same Giles his brother the kings sure freend cast in strong prison and there like to end his daies All these obiections he vtterlie denied or faintlie auoided but none fullie excused Diuerse other crimes were laid to his charge as inriching himselfe with the kings goods and
the father to whose cursed counsels he became a wicked instrument Thus much by waie of digression of Alexander a pope as you heare well qualified and therefore forward enough to creat cardinals both in England and elsewhere of like disposition But to returne to the storie After that the king had got the vpper hand of his enimies he remooued to Lincolne and there taried thrée dais causing euerie of the same daies solemne processions to be made in rendering thanks to God for his fortunate victorie Then caused he execution to be done of such rebels traitors as were taken in the field either at the battell or in the chase And shortlie after he went into Yorkshire there coasted the countrie ouerthwart searching out such as had aided his enimies and were thought to be seditious persons whome he punished some by imprisonment some by fines and some by death according to the qualitie of their offenses and as was thought most expedient not by extremitie of rigor inclining to tyrannie but by due moderation of iustice tempering execution with clemencie according to the good rule of iustice prescribed by the wise man saieng Sobria commissum plectat clementia crimen Parua neg at poenam culpa subire grauem About the middest of August entering into the third yere of his reigne he came to Newcastell vpon Tine and from thence sent in ambassage into Scotland Richard Fox latelie before made bishop of Excester and with him Richard Edgecombe knight controller of his house to conclude some peace or truce with king Iames of Scotland The English ambassadors were honorablie receiued and louinglie interteined of the said king who gladlie would haue concluded a perpetuall peace with the king of England if he might haue bene licenced so to haue doone but his people being stedfast in their old accustomed vsage would not agrée to anie peace but yet were contented to gratifie their king that he should take truce with England for the tearme of seuen yeares which was concluded Then was secret promise made by king Iames that he would not onlie obserue peace continue in perfect amitie with the king of England during his life but also would renew againe this truce new taken for other seuen yeers before the first seuen yeers were fullie expired The king of Scots indéed was as desirous of the king of Englands friendship as the king of England was of his bicause that his subiects bare him much euill will misliking with all things that either he could doo or saie So that his regiment was no longer liked than they were in a good mood which was when they were well minded and that was neuer for that if by gentlenesse he allured them they esteemed him a flatterer if by seueritie a tyrant And therefore it stood him vpon to strengthen himselfe against such a people of whose line 10 pleasure displeasure depended his estate K. Henrie after the returne of his ambassadors out of Scotland came from Newcastell to Yorke and so toward London and in the way being at Leicester there came to him ambassadors from Charles the French king which declared both the recouerie of certeine townes out of the hands of Maximilian king of Romans which he had wrongfullie deteined from the crowne of France before that time and also that their maister king Charles had now wars line 20 in hand against Francis duke of Britaine bicause that he succoured and mainteined diuers noble men as the duke of Orleance and others that were rebels and traitors against him and the realme of France Wherefore his request was that for the old familiaritie that had bene betwixt them he would either assist and helpe him or else stand neuter betwixt them neither helping nor yet hurting the one nor the other Upon good and deliberate aduise taken in this matter bicause it was iudged weightie the king for line 30 answer told the French ambassadors that he would neither spare paine nor cost to set some reasonable staie betwixt their souereigne lord king Charles and the duke of Britaine so that a finall end and some perfect conclusion of friendship might be had betwixt them And so as soone as the French ambassadors were returned home the king sent his chapleine Christopher Urswike ouer into France to king Charles as well to shew that he was glad of the victorie which he had against Maximilian as to declare line 40 what a tempestuous storme of ciuill rebellion himselfe had escaped ouercome heere in England But the chiefest point of Urswikes errand consisted in this that he should intimate to the French king how his maister king Henrie offered himselfe as a mediator betwixt him and the duke of Britaine to make them friends and if he perceiued that the French king gaue eare herevnto then should he go into Britaine to mooue the duke there to be contented that some reasonable order might be taken for a line 50 quietnesse to be had betwixt the French king and him Whilest Urswike was trauelling in this matter according to his commission the king came backe againe to London where he was receiued of the citizens with great ioy and triumph they being heartilie glad and greatlie reioising that he with such good successe had subdued his enimies Shortlie after he deliuered the lord Thomas marques Dorset out of the Tower receiuing him againe to his former fauor and old familiaritie bicause his line 60 truth and loialtie by diuers assaies and sundrie arguments had béene throughlie tried and sufficientlie prooued In which meane time the king for the great loue that he bare to his wife quéene Elizabeth caused hir to be crowned and anointed quéene on saint Katharins day in Nouember with all solemnitie as in such cases apperteineth In the meane season Christopher Urswike according to his commission trauelled betwéene the French king and the duke of Britaine in the king of Englands name to make them friends But although the French king séemed willing enough to haue peace yet meant he nothing lesse For he had as manie subtilties in his heart as â—here be faces in the world according to the poet Pectoribus fraudes tot sunt quot in orbe figurae For whilest he went about with faire words courteous letters and swéet promises to beare the king of England in hand to labour a peace betwixt him and the Britains he inforced his whole puissance to subdue them and besieged the citie of Nants And on the other part the duke of Orleance being with drawne to the duke of Britaine and one that râ—led most about him had no liking to heare of peace but did what he could to hinder it The English ambassador Christopher Urswike hauing thus passed from the French king to the duke of Britaine and backe againe to the French king returned shortlie after into England and shewed vnto king Henrie what he had doone betwixt them Immediatlie after came to the
within the said palace and sometime without vpon the greene before the gate of the said palace In which iustes sir Iames Parker knight running against a gentleman named Hugh Uanghan by casualtie was so sore hurt and brused that he died thereof This yeare also two pardoners were set on the pillorie in Cornehill thrée market daies for forging of false pardons wherewith they had deceiued the people got much monie And for that one of them had feined himselfe to be a priest hee was sent to Newgate where he died the other was line 40 driuen out of London with shame enough ¶ Also this yere was Robert Fabian shiriffe of London alderman who made a chronicle of England of France beginning at the creation of the world and ending in the third yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight which booke is now imprinted to the end of Richard the third Maximilian king of Romans intending to be reuenged on the Frenchmen for the manie iniuries line 50 doone to him of late and especiallie for that king Charles had forsaken his daughter ladie Margaret and purposed to take to wife the ladie Anne of Britaine bicause he was not rich enough to mainteine the warre of himselfe he sent his ambassadour one Iames Contibald a man of great wisedome to require the king of England to take his part against the French king making diuers great offers on his owne behalfe if it should please him so to doo King Henrie no lesse desirous than Maximilian to put the French king to trouble and chieflie to aid the line 60 Britains in the extremitie of their businesse gladlie consented to the request of Maximilian and promised to prepare an armie with all speed and in time conuenient to passe the seas with the same and inuade the French territories In this verie season Charles the French king receiued the ladie Anne of Britaine as his pupill into his hands and with great solemnitie hir espoused hauing with hir in dower the whole duchie of Britaine Now was Maximilian in great chase toward the French king not onelie for that he had refused his daughter but also had béereued him of his assured wife the said ladie Anne contrarie to all right and conscience Wherefore he sent vnto king Henrie desiring him with all speed to passe the seas with his armie that they might pursue the warre against their aduersarie with fire sword and bloud King Henrie hearing this and hauing no mistrust in the promise of Maximilian with all speed leuied an armie and rigged his nauie of ships And when all things were readie he sent his almonâ—r Christopher Urswike and sir Iohn Riseleie knight vnto Maximilian to certifie him that the king was in a readinesse and would arriue at Calis as soone as he should be aduertised that Maximilian and his men were readie to ioine with him These ambassadors comming into Flanders perceiued that Maximilian was neither purueâ—ed of men monie nor armor nor of any other thing necessarie for the setting foorth of warre sauing onlie that his will was good although his power was small King Henrie being aduertised hereof by letters sent to him from his said ambassadors was sore disquieted in his mind and was almost brought to his wits end to consider how his companions in arms should thus faile him at néed but taking aduise of his counsell at length he determined not to stay his prepensed iournie and therfore he so increased his numbers before he tooke ship that he with his owne power might be able to match with his aduersaries When he had thus gathered and assembled his armie hée sailed to Calis the sixt day of October and there incamped himselfe for a space to see all his men and prouision in such readinesse as nothing should be wanting In this place all the armie had knowledge by the ambassadours which were newlie returned out of Flanders that Maximilian could not set foorth anie armie for lacke of monie and therefore there was no succour to be looked for at his hand But the Englishmen were nothing dismaid therewith as they that iudged themselues able enough to match the Frenchmen without the helpe of anie other nation In the meane season although the French king had an armie togither both for number and furniture able to trie in battell with the Englishmen yet he made semblance as though he desired nothing more than peace as the thing much more profitable to him than warre considering the minds of the Britains were not yet wholie setled And againe he was called into Italie to make warre against the king of Naples whose kingdome he pretended to apperteine to him by lawfull succession from his father king Lewes to whome Reine duke of Aniou last king of Sicill of the house of Aniou had transferred his right to that kingdome as partlie before ye haue heard wrongfullie and without cause disinheriting his coosine godsonne and heire Reine duke of Lorraine and Bar. The lord Chordes hauing commission from his maister the French king to make some entrie into a treatie for peace with the king of England wrote letters to him before he passed ouer to Calis signifieng to him that if it might stand with his pleasure to send some of his councellors to the borders of the English pale adioining to France there should be so reasonable conditions of peace proffered that he douted not but his grace might with great honour breake vp his campe and retire his armie home againe The king of England considering that Britaine was cléerelie lost and past recouerie and that Maximilian for lacke of monie and mistrust which he had in his owne subiects laie still like a dormouse dooing nothing and herewith weieng that it should be honorable to him and profitable to his people to determine this great warre without bloudished appointed the bishop of Excester and Giles lord Daubenie to passe the seas to Calis and so to commun with the lord Chordes of articles of peace which tooke effect as after ye shall perceiue In the meane time whilest the commissioners were communing of peace on the marches of France the king of England as ye haue heard was arriued at Calis from whense after all things were prepared for such a iournie he remooued in foure battels forward till he came néere to the towne of Bullogne there pitched his tents before it in a conuenient place for his purpose meaning line 10 to assaile the towne with his whole force puissance But there was such a strong garison of warlike souldiers within that fortresse and such plentie of artillerie and necessarie munitions of warre that the losse of Englishmen assaulting the towne as was doubted should be greater damage to the realme of England than the gaining thereof should be profit Howbeit the dailie shot of the kings battering peeces brake the wals and sore defaced them But when line 20 euerie man was readie to giue
least he should the more irritate and prouoke them by that displeasant sight he changed his purpose for doubt to wrap himselfe in more trouble than néeded While these things were adooing in England the king of Scots being aduertised of the whole matter and rebellion of the Cornishmen thought not to let passe that occasion and therefore he eftsoones inuaded the frontiers of England wasting the countrie burning townes and murthering the people spareing neither place nor person and while his light horsmen were riding to forraie and destroie the bishoprike of Durham and there burned all about he with an other part of his armie did besiege the castell of Norham The bishop of Durham Richard Fox being owner of that castell had well furnished it both with men and munitions aforehand doubting least that would follow which came now to passe The bishop after that the Scots made this inuasion aduertised the king as then being at London of all things that chanced in the North parts and sent in all post hast to the earle of Surrie to come to the rescue The â—arle being then in Yorkeshire and hauing gathered an armie vpon knowledge giuen to him from the bishop with all diligence marched forward and after him followed other noble men out of all the quarters of the North euerie of them bringing as manie men as they could gather for defense of their countrie Amongst these the chéefe leaders were Rafe earle of Westmerland Thomas lord Dacres Rafe lord Neuill George lord Strange Richard lord Latimer George lord Lumleie Iohn lord Scroope Henrie lord Clifford George lord Ogle William lord Coniers Thomas lord Darcie Of knights Thomas baron of Hilton sir William Persie sir William Bulmer sir William Gascoigne sir Rafe Bigod sir Rafe Bowes sir Thomas a Parre sir Rafe Ellecker sir Iohn Constable sir Iohn Ratcliffe sir Iohn Sauill sir Thomas Strangweis and a great number of other knights and esquiers besides The whole armie was little lesse than twentie thousand men beside the nauie whereof the lord Brooke was admerall When the Scots had diuerse waies assaulted and beaten the castell of Norham but could make no batterie to enter the same they determined of their line 10 owne accord to raise the siege and returne and that so much the sooner in verie déed bicause they heard that the earle of Surrie was within two daies iournie of them with a great puissance Wherefore king Iames raised his siege and returned home into his owne realme When the earle knew of the kings returne he followed him with all hast possible trusting suerlie to ouertake him and to giue him battell When the earle was entred Scotland he ouerthrew and defaced the castell of Cawdestreimes the tower line 20 of Hetenhall the tower of Edington the tower of Fulden and he sent Norreie king at armes to the capteine of Haiton castell which was one of the strongest places betwixt Berwike and Edenburgh to deliuer him the castell Which he denied to doo affirming that he was sure of spéedie succours The earle héerevpon laid his ordinance to the castell and continuallie beat it from two of the clocke till fiue at night in such wise that they within rendered vp the place their liues onelie saued The earle line 30 caused his minors to rase ouerthrow the fortresse to the plaine ground The Scotish king was within a mile of the siege and both knew it and saw the smoke but would not set one foot forward to the rescue While the erle laie at Haiton the king of Scots sent to him Machemont and an other herald desiring him at his election either to fight with whole puissance against puissance or else they two to fight person to person requiring that if the victorie fell to the Scotish king that then the earle should deliuer line 40 for his ransome the towne of Berwike with the fishgarths of the same The earle made answer hereto that the towne of Berwike was the king his maisters and not his the which he neither ought nor would laie to pledge without the king of Englands assent but he would gage his bodie which was more pretious to him than all the townes of the world promising on his honour that if he tooke the king prisoner in that singular combat he would release to him all his part of line 50 the fine and ransome and if it chanced the king to vanquish him he would gladlie paie such ransome as was conuenient for the degree of an earle and thanked him greatlie for the offer for suerlie he thought himselfe much honored that so noble a prince would vouchsafe to admit so poore an earle to fight with him bodie to bodie When he had rewarded and dismissed the heralds he set his armie in a readinesse to abide the comming of the king of Scots and so stood all daie But king Iames not regarding his offers would line 60 neither performe the one nor the other fearing to cope with the English nation in anie condition and so therevpon fled in the night season with all his puissance When the earle knew that the king was reculed and had béene in Scotland six or seuen daies being dailie and nightlie vexed with continuall wind and raine vpon good and deliberate aduise returned backe to the towne of Berwike and there dissolued his armie tarieng there himselfe till he might vnderstand further of the kings pleasure In the meane time there came an ambassadour to the K. of Scots from the K. of Spaine one Peter Hialas a man of no lesse learning than wit policie to mooue intret a peace betweene the two kings of England Scotland that their people might fall to their necessarie trades of aduantage with quietnesse and friend with friend husband with wife father with children and maisters with seruants dwell and accompanie a dissolution and separation of whome one from another is procured by bloudie warre wherein as there is no pitie so is there is no pietie as one saith full trulie Nulla fides pietásque viris qui castra sequuntur Nulla salus bello This Spanish ambassadour so earnestlie trauelled in his message vnto the king of Scots that at length he found him comformable to his purpose and therefore wrote to the king of England that it would please him to send one of his nobilitie or councell to be associat with him in concluding of peace with the Scotish king The king of England was neuer dangerous to agree to anie reasonable peace so it might stand with his honour and therefore appointed the bishop of Durham doctor Fox to go into Scotland about that treatie which Peter Hialas had begun The bishop according to his commission went honorablie into Scotland where he and Peter Hialas at the towne of Iedworth after long arguing and debating of matters with the Scotish commissioners in stéed of peace concluded a truce for certeine yeares vpon condition that Iames king of Scots should conueie Perkin Warbecke
to studie and knowledge So that vnto these hopes was much helping the manner of the election being made in his person sincerelie and line 10 without simonie or suspicion of other corruption The first act of this new pope was his coronation which was represented according to the vsage of his predecessors in the church of saint Iohn de Lateran The pompe was so great both of his familie and his court and also of the prelates and multitudes that were there togither with the popular and vniuersall assemblies of people that by the opinion and iudgement of men the pride and maiestie of that action did farre surpasse all the celebrations doone in Rome line 20 since the tyrannies of the Goths and sauage nations In this same solemnitie the Gonfalon of the church was caried by Alfonso de Este who hauing obteined a suspension of his censures paines was come to Rome with great hope that by the clemencie and facilitie of the pope he should be able to compound for his affaires The Gonfalon of the religion of Rhodes was borne by Iulio de Medicis mounted vpon a statelie courser armed at all points by his nature he bare an inclination to the profession of line 30 armes but by destinie he was drawen to the life ecclesiastike in which estate he maie serue as a wonderfull example of the variation of fortune One matter that made the memorie of that daie wonderfull was this consideration that the person who then in so high rare pompe was honored with the most supreme and souereigne dignitie of the world was the yéere before and on the verie same daie miserablie made prisoner The great magnificence that appéered vpon his person and his expenses confirmed in the generalitie and multitude of men line 40 the expectation that was had of him euerie one promising that Rome should be happie vnder a pope so plentifullie indued with the vertue of liberalitie whereof that daie he had giuen an honorable experience his expenses being aboue an hundred thousand duckats But wise men desired in him a greater grauitie and moderation they iudged that neither such a maiestie of pompe was conuenient for popes neither did the condition of the present time require line 50 that he should so vnprofitablie disperse the treasures that had beene gathered by his predecessour to other vses The vessell of amitie betwéene the king of Enggland the French being first broched by this popes letters the French king by an herald at armes sent to the king of England requiring of him a safe conduct for his ambassadors which should come to intreat for a peace and attonement to be concluded betwixt them and their realmes Upon grant obteined thereof the French king sent a commission with the line 60 president of Rome and others to intreat of peace and aliance betwixt both the princes And moreouer bicause they vnderstood that the mariage was broken betwéene the prince of Castile and the ladie Marie they desired that the said ladie might be ioined in mariage with the French king offering a great dowrie and suerties for the same So much was offered that the king mooued by his councell and namelie by Woolsie the bishop of Lincolne consented vpon condition that if the French king died then â—he should if it stood with hir pleasure returne into England againe with all hir dowrie and riches After that they were accorded vpon a full peace and that the French king should marrie this yoong ladie the indentures were drawen ingrossed sealed and peace therevpon proclamed the seuenth daie of August the king in presence of the French ambassadors was sworne to kéepe the same and likewise there was an ambassage sent out of England to see the French king sweare the same The dowrie that was assigned vnto the bride to be receiued after hir husbands deceasse if she suruiued him was named to be 32000 crownes of yearelie reuenues to be receiued out of certeine lands assigned foorth therefore during all hir naturall life And moreouer it was further agreed couenanted that the French king should content and paie yearelie vnto king Henrie during the space of fiue yeares the summe of one hundred thousand crownes By conclusion of this peace was the duke of Longuile with the other prisoners deliuered paieng their ransoms and the said duke affied the ladie Marie in the name of his maister king Lewes In September following the said ladie was conueied to Douer by the king hir brother the queene and on the second daie of October she was shipped and such as were appointed to giue their attendance on hir as the duke of Norffolke the marquesse Dorset the bishop of Durham the earle of Surreie the lord de la Ware the lord Berners the lord Monteagle the foure brethren of the said marques sir Maurice Berklie sir Iohn Pechie sir William Sands sir Thomas Bulleine sir Iohn Car and manie other knights esquiers gentlemen and ladies They had not sailed past a quarter of the sea but that the wind arose and seuered the ships driuing some of them to Calis some into Flanders and hir ship with great difficultie was brought to Bullen not without great ieopardie at the entering of the hauen for the maister ran the ship hard on shore But the boats were readie and receiued the ladie out of the ship and sir Christopher Garnish stood in the water and tooke hir in his armes and so caried hir to land where the duke of Uandosme and a cardinall with manie other great estates receiued hir with great honor From Bullen with easie iournies she was conueied vnto Abuile there entered the eighth of October where she was receiued by the Dolphin with great honour she was apparelled in cloth of siluer hir horsse was trapped in goldsmiths worke verie richlie After hir followed 36 ladies all their palfries trapped with crimsin veluet embrodered After them followed one chariot of cloth of tissue the second cloth of gold the third crimsin veluet embrodered with the kings armes hirs full of roses After them followed a great number of archers and then wagons laden with their stuffe Great was the riches in plate iewels monie apparell and hangings that this ladie brought into France On the morrow following being mondaie and S. Denise day the mariage was solemnized betwixt the French king and the said ladie with all honour ioy roialtie both apparelled in goldsmiths worke Then a great banket and sumptuous feast was made where the English ladies were honorablie interteined according to the dignitie of the persons and to the contentment of them that had no dregs of malice or misliking settled in their harts For vnpossible it is that in a great multitude meeting togither though all about one matter be it of pleasure and delight there should not be one of a repugnant disposition and though not apparantlie perceiued trauelling with grudge malignant mind as we sée some apples
bound to defend their estates mutuallie and reciprocallie with ten thousand footmen if the warre went by land and with six thousand onelie if the warre were made by sea that the French king should be bound to serue the king of England in all his affaires with twelue hundred lances and the king of England likewise to minister to his seruices with ten thousand footmen the expenses to be defraied by either of them that should haue néed of the men both the one and the other of them named the Scotish king the archduke the empire but Cesar and the king catholike were not named the Swizzers had a nomination but it bare a condition that whosoeuer would defend against the French king the estate of Millan Genes or Ast should be excluded out of the nomination This peace which was made with a woonderfull readinesse was confirmed by the marriage of the kings sister of England with the French king vnder condition that he should acknowledge to haue receiued foure hundred thousand crownes for hir dowrie the contract or handfastings were made in England where the king catholiks ambassador was not in presence for the great hatred the king of England bare to the king his maister And euen vpon the conclusion and resolution of this peace came to the court of France the instrument of ratification which Cesar had made togither with his commission and the king catholiks for conclusion of the marriage that was solicited betweene Ferdinando de Austrich and the second daughter of France not yet foure yeares of age but the practise of that marriage vanished presentlie by reason of the peace that was now established and the French king to satisfie better the king of England gaue order that the duke of Suffolke capteine generall of the lance-knights that were in his paie should depart the dominions of France in whome the honours and recompenses that the king made to him ouercame all occasions of discontentment the bountie and liberalitie of the one being no greater than the affabilitiâ— and disposition of the other In December one Richard Hun a merchant tailor of London that was laid in Lollards tower by commandement of the bishop of London called Richard Fitz Iames and his chancellor doctor Horssie was found dead hanging by the necke in a girdle of silke within the said tower That ye maie vnderstand line 10 the cause of his imprisonment the beginning was this The same Hun had a child that died in his house being an infant the curat claimed the bearing shéet for a mortuarie Hun answered that the infant had no propertie in the shéet Wherevpon the préest ascited him in the spirituall court He taking to him counsell sued the curat in a premunire and when this was knowne meanes was found that Hun being accused of heresie was attached and laid in Lollards tower where he was found dead as ye line 20 haue heard Much adoo was made about his death for the bishop and the chancellor said that he hanged himselfe But manie of the temporaltie affirmed that he was murthered greatlie lamenting the case for he was well beloued and namelie of the poore which cried out against them that were suspected to haue made him awaie He was a good almes-man and greatly reléeued the needie The question of his death was so farre put foorth that vpon the suspicion he line 30 should be murthered twelue men were charged before the coroner After they had taken view of the bodie the same was burned in Smithfield by the bishops appointment notwithstanding the coroners quest indicted doctor Horssie with one Iohn Spalding otherwise called Belringer and Charles Ioseph the summoner of the murthered howbeit vpon his arreignement through great sute and corruption of monie as manie iudged the kings attorneie declared doctor Horssie not to be giltie line 40 This Christmasse on Newyeares night the king the duke of Suffolke two other were in mantels of cloath of siluer lined with blew veluet the siluer was pounst in letters that the veluet might be séene thorough the mantels had great capes like to the Portingall slops and all their hosen dublets and coats were of the same fashion cut and of the same stuffe With them were foure ladies in gowns after the fashon of Sauoie of blew veluet lined with cloath of gold the veluet all cut and mantels like line 50 tipets knit togither all of siluer and on their heads bonets of burned gold the foure torch-bearers were in sattin white and blew This strange apparell pleased much euerie person and in especiall the quéene And thus these foure lords foure ladies came into the quéenes chamber with great light of torches and dansed a great season and then put off their visors and were all well knowne and then the quéene hartilie thanked the kings grace for hir goodlie pastime and disport line 60 Likewise on the Twelfe night the king and the quéene came into the hall of Greenewich suddenlie entered a tent of cloath of gold and before the tent stood foure men of armes armed at all points with swords in their hands and suddenlie with noise of trumpets entered foure other persons all armed and ran to the other foure and there was a great and a fierce fight And suddenlie came out of a place like a wood eight wildmen all apparelled in gréene mosse made with sleued silke with ouglie weapons terrible visages and there fought with the knights eight to eight and after long fighting the armed knights droue the wild men out of their places and followed the chase out of the hall and when they were departed the tent opened and there came out six lords and six ladies richlie apparelled and dansed a great time when they had dansed their pleasure they entered the tent againe which was conueied out of the hall then the king the quéene were serued with a right sumptuous banket On the third day of Februarie the king made a solemne iusts and he and the marquesse Dorset would answer all commers their apparell and barâ—s were of blew veluet and cloath of siluer all to cut in subtill knots richlie embrodered all the seruitours in white blew silke The counterpart which were foureteene in number richlie apparelled in veluet cloath of gold and embroderie euerie man after his owne deuise The king was that daie highlie to be praised for he brake thrée and twentie speares beside atteints and bare downe to ground a man of armes and his horsse the lord marquesse and all other did valiantlie and had much praise for euerie man did passing well which is seldome séene in such a case But the king for a suertie excéeded all other On the fourth daie of October the king remooued to Lambeth and on the morow began the high court of parlement sir Thomas Neuill was then speaker In this parlement were diuerse acts made but in especiall two which were much spoken of the one was the act of apparell and
commissions to treat and conclude of peace as should appeare But yet when it came to the point as the one partie seemed conformable to reasonable offers so the other would not incline that waie insomuch that they were neuer at one time agreeable to anie indifferent motion that could be made There were also the popes ambassadors whervpon the cardinall would haue furthered a league betwixt the emperour the king of England the king of France and the pope but the popes ambassadors wanted commission thereto and therefore were letters sent to Rome in all hast and the Frenchmen taried still in Calis till answer came from thence The cardinall rode into Flanders to speake with the emperour which as then laie in Bruges A mile without Bruges the emperour receiued him and did to him as much honour as could be deuised The chéere was great which was made to the Englishmen and of euerie thing there was such plentie that there was no want of things necessarie insomuch that of the fare both for plentifulnesse delicatnesse and statelinesse of seruice a man might haue said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 magnorum dixisses esse deorum The cardinall after he had soiorned in Bruges the space of thirtéene daies and concluded diuerse matters with the emperour and accomplished his commission he tooke leaue of his maiestie and by conuenient iorneis returned to Calis where the ambassadors of France taried his comming and immediatlie after his returne to Calis he treated with them of peace but not so earnestlie as he did before In fine nothing was concluded but onelie that fishermen of both the princes might fréelie fish on the seas without disturbance till the second of Februarie next When no conclusion of agréement could be accorded the cardinall sent to the emperour the lord of S. Iohns and sir Thomas Bullen knight to aduertise his maiestie what had béene doone and likewise to the French king as then lieng in campe with a mightie armie in the marches about Cambreie The earle of Worcester and the bishop of Elie were sent to informe him of all things that had béene motioned exhorting him to incline to peace but he gaue little eare thereto and then after they had béene a ninetéene or twentie daies in his host they returned During the continuance of the cardinall in Calis all writs and patents were there by him sealed and no shiriffes chosen for lacke of his presence hauing there with him the great seale full power in things as if the king had béene there in person ¶ Ambassadors comming from the king of Hungarie towards the king of England were receiued honourablie of the Cardinall during his abode in Calis After the returne of the English ambassadours which the cardinall had sent to the emperour and to the French king he returned into England hauing as some write concluded a new league with the emperour and signified by waie of intendment to the French king in the treatie with his ambassadors that the king of England meant him not so much fréendship as of late he had doone for diuerse causes But speciallie this was vttered that where it was concluded that the king of Scots should be included within the league as before yée haue heard contrarie to that agréement the said king refused to enter as a confederate into the same league and this no doubt procéeded through counsell of the French king by whom he was wholie guided This quarrell was laid as an occasion whie to mooue the king of England perceiuing himselfe to be dissembled with to withdraw his good will from the French king Who when he vnderstood the drifts of the cardinall and conclusion of the new league confirmed betwixt the king of England and the emperour he condemned the cardinall of vntruth accused him of dissimulation abhorred his practises as by the which he lost the fruition of the king of England his freendship and might no longer inioy it And herewith he determined with himselfe neuer to put confidence in anie Englishman after nor to bestow anie gifts or pensions vpon them For he vsed yéerelie to send to diuerse of the kings councell after the maner of his predecessors sundrie gifts and summes of monie bicause he had imploied more on the cardinall than on the residue he was the more offended toward him as the head of all this iniurious dooing Yet he found not himselfe so much gréeued as to vtter anie bitter words towards the king but contrarilie within a while after directed his letters vnto him signifieng that he meant to continue the league as his freend but it maie be he did this after a dissembling sort bicause he would not be at warres with two so mightie line 10 princes at one time In this meane while the warre was pursued betwixt the emperour the French king as well on the confines towards Flanders as beyond the mounteins in the parties of Lombardie Tornaie was besieged by the lord Hugh de Moncada a Spaniard the which comming vpon the sudden tooke manie abroad in the fields yer they knew of his approch and after this comming before the citie he inuironed it with a siege to kéepe the citizens from stirring foorth and line 20 sent part of his armie with the light horsemen to forlaie the stréets and passages that no succour should come to them within The French king assembled an armie in hope to aid them of Tornaie with men munitions and vittels the which armie assaied twise or thrise with all endeuor to haue approched the citie but in vaine for with no small losse the French were repelled by the imperials which neuerthelesse felt their part of slaughter loosing sundrie of their capteins as bastard Emerie and the capteine of Gant Finallie line 30 the French armie brake vp was dispersed into fortresses Wherevpon they of Tornaie perceiuing the succours which they hoped for to faile them thus at néed rendered the citie to the emperor the last of Nouember in this 13 yeare of king Henries reigne ¶ Pope Leo died this yeare suddenlie on the first of December as he laie at the village of Magliana wither he went oftentimes for his recreation He had heard the first reapport of the taking of Millan line 40 which stirred in him such an extreame passion of ioy that the same night he entered into a small feauer and for his better remedie he caused himselfe the next daie to be remooued to Rome where he died within a verie few daies after notwithstanding the physicians in the beginning made no great reckoning of his disease There was great suspicion that he was poisoned by Barnabie Malespina his chamberleine whose office was alwaies to giue him drinke And yet though he was made prisoner through the suspicion of the fact the vehement reasons of the same yet line 50 the matter was dashed and the examination thereof for that the cardinall de Medicis as soone as he came to Rome set him at
came vnto this citie and kept his Christmasse in the same and therevpon a composition was made betweene the bishop and the citie for inclosing of the churchyard and building of certeine gates there as appéereth by line 30 the said composition bearing date in Festo annunciationis beatae Mariae 1286. The king at the sute of the earle of Hereford who at his being here was lodged in the house of the Greie friers which then was néere the house of S. Nicholas obteined of the bishop that they should be remoued from thense to a more wholesome place which was to the place without the south gate wherof after the kings departure grew some controuersie bicause the bishop refused to performe his promise made to the king This man also impropriated line 40 the parish of S. Newleine and the parish of Stoke Gabriell and vnited the same to the office of the chancellor of the cathedrall church vnder condition that the said chancellor should continuallie read a lecture within the said citie of diuinitie or of the decretals and if he should faile to doo this that then it might and should be lawfull to the bishop to resigne the said parsonages impropriated and to bestow it at his pleasure as appeereth by the said grant vnder the seales of the said bishop deane and chapter line 50 dated the twelfe of the calends of Maie 1283. This bishop not long after and in the eleuenth yeare of his bishoprike died being choked in drinking of a sirrup in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred ninetie and two was buried in his owne church The Franciscans or Greie friers of this citie imputed his death to his hard dealing with them For whereas he had promised the king to prouide a conuenient place for them to build their house in and had willed their warden named Deodatus to line 60 séeke out and make inquirie for the same yet notwithstanding when he had so doone bicause the same was in his sée he did swarue from his said promise and did vtterlie denie to performe the same by the persuasion of one Peter Kenefeld a Dominican or Blacke frier and Confessor vnto the said bishop For he enuieng the good successe of the Franciscans persuadeth with the bishop that in no wise he should permit them to inioy the place which they had gotten nor to build therein bicause it was within his sée for saith he as vnder colour of simplicitie they créepe into the hearts of the people and hinder vs poore preachers from our gaines and liuings so be ye sure that if the canons put foot within your liberties they will in time so incroch vpon the same as that they will be cleane exempted from out of your libertie and iurisdiction The bishop being soone persuaded and contented contrarie to his promise to yéeld thervnto denieth the Franciscans and vtterlie forbiddeth them to build or to doo anie thing within his sée or libertie About two yeares after the bishop kept a great feast vpon the sundaie next before saint Francis daie and among others was present with him one Walter Winborne one of the kings chiefe iustices of the bench and who was present when the bishop at the request of the king made promise to further and to helpe the Franciscans and who in their behalfe did now put the bishop in mind thereof and requested him to haue consideration both of his owne promise and of their distresse The bishop misliking these spéeches waxed somewhat warme and offended and in open termes did not onelie denie to yeeld herevnto but wished himselfe to be choked what daie soeuer he did consent or yéeld vnto it It fortuned that the same wéeke and vpon the daie of saint Francis eue the bishop tooke a certeine sirrup to drinke and in too hastie swallowing thereof his breath was stopped and he forthwith died The Franciscans hearing thereof made no little a doo about this matter but blazed it abrode that saint Francis wrought this miracle vpon the bishop bicause he was so hard against them 26 Thomas Bitton the yeare following was elected bishop the sée of Canturburie being void he was consecrated by Iohn Roman archbishop of Yorke He left no memoriall of anie great things doone by him sauing that he continued in the building of his church as also was a fauourer of such learned men as were in his diocesse in his time namelie Robert Plimpton a regular canon of Plimpton and professor of diuinitie and who wrote two bookes Walter of Exon a Franciscane frier of Carocus in Cornewall who at the request of one Baldwin of Excester wrote the historie of Guie of Warwike William of Excester doctor of diuinitie and warden of the Franciscane friers of this citie Godfrie surnamed Cornewall a subtill schooleman and a reader of diuinitie sometimes in Paris This bishop after fouretéene yeares that he had occupied this sée died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and six and was buried in his owne church 27 Walter Stapledon in the yere of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred and seauen being elected bishop of this citie was consecrated by Robert Winchelseie archbishop of Canturburie He descended of a most noble parentage which ioined with his learning wisedome politike head did him great credit and fauour with the king who had him not onelie one of his priuie councell but also made him lord treasuror of England At his inthronization or installing he kept a solemne obseruation For being come first to the citie immediatlie after his consecration as soone as he came to the east gate he alighted from his horsse and went in on foot all the stréet being couered and laied with blacke cloth he was led on both sides with two men of worship and sir Hugh Courtneie knight who clamed to be steward of his feast went next before him The feast it selfe was verie sumptuous and liberall A controuersie was betweene him the said sir Hugh Courtneie concerning his chalenge to be his steward but it was compounded and ended This bishop as he grew and increased in wealth so he was carefull in the well disposing of part therof For the increase of learning he builded and erected two houses in Oxenford the one named Stapledons inne but since Excester college the other Hart hall He was also a speciall benefactor vnto the hospitall of saint Iohns in Excester vnto the which for the reléeuing of certeine poore children therein he impropriated the rectorie or personage of Ernescome In the controuersie betwéene his maister king Edward the second and Charles the French king he was sent ambassadour to the French king and ioined in commission with the quéene for the treatie of a peace and reconciliation which though it were obteined yet he ioining with the Spensers who fauoured not the queene he line 10 returned into England leauing the queene behind him And whereas they practised what they could to put enimitie betweene the king and hir
Thomas Throckemorton his brother made him priuie to his negotiation at his last being here in England and that therevpon Francis Throckemorton tooke vpon him to be a follower and meane for the effectuating thereof among the confederats in England with the helpe of the Spanish ambassadour whome he instructed how and with whome to deale for the preparing of a conuenient partie here within the realme for that himselfe would not be séene to be a sounder of men least he might be discouered and so indanger himselfe and the enterprise knowing that the ambassadour being a publike person might safelie deale therein without perill That the duke of Guise and other heads of the enterprise had refused some landing places and made speciall choise of Sussex and about Arundell in Sussex both for the néere cut from the parts of France where the duke did or best could assemble his force line 10 and for the oportunitie of assured persons to giue assistance c. That he taking vpon him the pursute of this course shewed the whole plot and deuise of the hauens for landing to the Spanish ambassadour who did incourage him therin he promising that if he might haue respit vntill the next spring the same should be doone more exactlie That at the time of Thomas Throckemortons being here least the negotiation of the enterprise by line 20 sâ—me casualtie might faile in the onelie hand of one man Thomas Throckemorton there was also from the confederats sent ouer into Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring and therof an aduertisement couertlie sent vnto Thomas Throckemorton both that Thomas might vnderstand it and not be offended that an other was ioined with him in his labour That the Spanish ambassador by aduertisements from the confederats was made priuie to this comming line 30 of Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope and yet knowne to him to be Charles Paget That the said ambassador did according to his said aduertisements know affirme that Charles Paget was come ouer to view the hauens and countrie for landing of such forren forces about Arundell and speciallie to sound and conferre with certeine principall persons for assistance The same ambassadour also knew and affirmed that Charles Paget had accordinglie doone his message line 40 and had spoken with some principall persons here according vnto his commission and was returned He moreouer confessed that there was a deuise betwéene the Spanish ambassadour and him how such principall recusants here within the realme as were in the commission of the peace in sundrie counties might vpon the first brute of the landing of forren forces vnder colour and pretext of their authoritie and the defense of hir maiestie leuie men whome they might after ioine to the forren forces and conuert line 50 them against hir maiestie In these few articles is brieflie comprised the whole effect of his confession made at large without anie interrogatorie particularlie ministred other than vpon the two papers before mentioned conteining the names of men and hauens And here you are to note that at the time of his apprehension there was no knowledge or doubt had of these treasons or of his priuitie vnto them but onelie an information and suspicion deliuered and conceiued of line 60 some practise betwéene him and the Scotish quéene as is before mentioned For the discouering whereof after he had béene sundrie times vpon his allegiance commanded to declare his dooings in conueieng and receiuing of letters to and from hir he did voluntarilie confesse that he had written diuerse letters vnto hir and had conueied manie to and fro betwéene hir and Thomas Morgan in France by whose meanes he was first made knowne to hir and that he had receiued as manie letters from hir He also declared the effect of his letters to hir of hirs to him which letters betwéene them were alwaies written in cipher and the cipher with the nullities and marks for names of princes and councellors he sent vnto the queenes maiestie written with his owne hand He also deliuered the names of some by whome he conueied his letters vnto the Scotish quéene as by one Godfrie Fulgeam who fled the realme immediatlie vpon Throckemortons apprehension and one other person whome he described by his stature shape and apparell and the man since apprehended and examined hath confessed the same the mans name is William Ardington The summe and effect of the most part of these confessions although they were at the time of his arreignement opened and dilated by hir maiesties sergeant atturneie and solicitor generall at the bar and therefore seeme not néedfull to be repeated here yet because the purpose of this discourse is to shew sufficient proofe that the matters conteined in his said confessions are neither false nor feigned as Francis Throckmorton most impudentlie affirmed at his triall alledging that they were méere inuentions of himselfe by policie to auoid the torture they haue béene here inserted to the end you may the better iudge of the proofes presumptions and circumstances following by comparing the matters with their accidents and consequentlie sée the falshood of the traitor the iust and honorable procéedings of hir maiestie and the honest and loiall indeuors of hir ministers imploied in the discouering of the treasons First it is true and not denied by himselfe that he was at Spaw about the time by him mentioned and had conference with Ienneie in that place and with sir Francis Englefield in Flanders and that he hath written letters to sir Francis and receiued letters from him for if he should denie the same he were to be conuinced by good proofe for it hath béene noted in him by manie of his countriemen English subiects that both in those parts and in France he did continuallie associat himselfe with English rebels and fugitiues If then you consider with whome he hath conuersed beyond the seas and compare his religion with theirs you will iudge of his conuersation accordinglie And it is to be supposed that those men knowne to be continuall practisers against the quéenes maiestie and this realme from whense for their treasons and vnnaturall demeanours they are woorthilie banished will not in their conuenticles and méetings forget to bethinke them of their banishment and how they might be restored to their countrie where vnto no desert in hir maiesties life time which God long continue can well without hir maiesties great mercie restore them Then I praie you what conferences might maister Throckemorton haue with sir Francis Englefield with Ienneie with Liggons with Owen and with such like who were his dailie companions in France and in the low countries He hath written letters to sir Francis Englefield To what purposes He haunted continuallie two ambassadors in London by whose meanes he sent and receiued letters to and from beyond the seas dailie To whome and from whome Euen to and from Thomas Morgan and Thomas Throckemorton at Paris men knowne to
England receiuing an oth not to preiudice the realme 239 b 60. He maketh shift for monie 240 a 10. Two Iohn and Peter sent into England in commission from the pope 8 b 60. Two robbed and the robbers executed 323 a 60 they cursle the Scots 3 b 10. Two from the pope to accord the two kings of England and France 377 b 50. Two come into England about a treatie of peace 354 a 30. Their returne to Rome a 60. Appointed to treat a peace betwéene England and France 406 b 30. Sent to the king of England and France to treat of peace they gather monie 295 a 10. Cardinals of England all from the first to the last collected 1165 b 10 c 1166 1167 1168. Careie George knight desirous of combat with the lord Fleming his letter of challenge and replie to a former answer 1218 a 10 30 b 30 Carew baron slaine with a bullet shot 817 b 10. Knight taken of the French 960 b 60. Beheaded note 946 a 60. Used as an instrument to appease rebellion in Deuon 1015 b 30. Charged with the rebellion in Deuonshire 1022 b 30. ¶ Sée Dinham Carlill destroied by the Danes repaired and peopled by William Rufus 19 b 50 60. Assalted by the Scots 447 b 40 Carter an Englishman seruing among the French but to their disaduantage an hardie soldiour and good seruitor 997 a 20 b 10 Cassimere ambassador from the emperor Maximilian note 791 a 30. His comming into England receiuing at London going to the court made knight of the garter 1271 b 10 c. Castell of Banbourgh how woone and gotten 21 b 50. Yéelded vnto king William Rufus 21 b 60. Of Beauer summoned to yéeld to king Iohn 189 a 30. Of Biham yéelded 203 a 30. Chartleie and Beston built 202 b 50. Of Doll in Britaine belonging to earle Rafe besieged 11 b 40. Of Douer Windsor could Lewis neuer subdue 192 a 60. Yéelded vnto the quéene 49 a 10. Dooth Lewis the French labour to get but in vaine 193 a 30. Of Durham by whom built 10 b 60. Of Faringdon buiâ—â— 56 b 20. Oâ— Fodringheie taken by dissimulation 203 a 20. Galiard besieged and woone by the French 166 b 50. Builded by Richard the first 155 a 60 b 10. Of Horne ouerthrowne by William Rufus 17 b 40. Of Huntington woone 92 a 60. Of Maâ—uaisin built by William Ruâ—us and whie 21 b 50. Of Montgomâ—rie built 203 a 60. Woon by the Welshmen 21. Of Newarke in whose kéeping 192 b 20. Where king Iohn died 194 a 60. Of Newberrie woone 59 b 30. Norham by whome begun 42 a 40. Notingham woone by Richard the first 142 a 60. In whose kéeping 192 b 60. Of Ramseie where Odolaie fortified against William Rufus 17 b 40. Of Richmont néere Gillingham builded 7 b 10. Of Rochester ¶ Sée Rochester Of Rockingham 25 a 10. Of Rutland builded 67 a 30. Of Tickhill yéelded 142 b 10. Of Tunbridge yéelded into William Rufus his hands 17. b 40 Castels besieged and surrendered to Lewis the French kings sonne 198 b 20. Woone by the bishop of Durham 307 a 40. Builded by duke William for the suppressing of rebellions 6 a 40. Fortified by king Iohn 192. Besieged by bishops 142 a 30 40. Deliuered to king Richard the first 128 a 60. Deliuered by the king of Scots 95 a 30. Woone by the Scots 91 a 60. Held by great men against king Stephan 48 b 60. Licenced to be builded 47 a 30. Manie builded in king Stephans daies 65 a 10. In number 1115 to be rased 61 b 20. Fortified by the bishop of Winchester 54 a 20. Built by the bishop of Salisburie 50 b 20. Recouered by K. Stephan 50 a 50. Of Bristow Cardiff c by whome builded 37 a 50. Fortified against Henrie the first 30 a 30 Castell séene in the aire and armed men 395 a 60 Casteller ¶ Sée Shoomaker Castile inuaded by the duke of Lancaster and the king of Portingale 450 a 30. Philip king thereof saileth out of Flanders into Spaine cast by casualtie of sea vpon the English coasts promiseth to deliuer to Henrie the seuenth the earle of Suffolke 794 a 20 30 50 Cat hanged in Cheape disguised like a masâ—ing préest 1102 b 50 Cataia ¶ Sée Frobisher Catesbie and his conditions described 722 a 30 Cauendish lord chéefe iustice of England beheaded by the rebels 434 b 10 20 Cementarius and his mischéefous preaching 173 b 60 Chancellor lord elected bishop 20 b 10 Chancellors of England first last laid downe in a collection 1272 a 30 1273 c. 1286 b 60 Chancerie court by whome instituted 8 a 60. It and Kings-bench kept at Yorke from thense remooued to London 480 a 10 Chanell from Torkseie to Lincolne made by hand 42 a 40 Chapell of our ladie of peace 486 b 60 Chapels none to be newlie built without the bishops consent 30 b 40 Charing crosse and others erected 285 b 40 Charles de Ualois chaseth the Englishmen his returne into France 294 a 40 b 60. Sent to Bruges and disappointed of his preie 304 b 40 50 ¶ Sée French king Charles Iames yoong prince of Scots christened 1209 b 50 Charitie of Henrie the fift 566 b 20. Of Henrie the seauenth 797 a 20. Of Londoners towards the hospitals 1083 a 10 c. Of sir Rowland Hill note 1060 b 50 60. Of William Lambe esquier 1311 a 60 b 10 c 1312 1313. Of sir Andrew Iude 1062 b 20. Of Iustice Randolph 1349 a 40 1354 a 40. Of archb Parker 1261 a 20 30 c. Of sir William Harper 1194 b 40. Of sir Roger Manwood 1377 a 60 b 10 c. Of sir William Peters 1227 b 50. Of Dauid Smith 1375 b 50 1376. Of Iohn Ligh a préest 796 a 10 20 c. Of Kneisworth maior of London 792 b 10 20. Of sir Iohn Allen twise maior of London 961 a 60 b 10 c. Of George Monex maior of London 830 a 30. Of Thomas Huntlow shiriffe of London 948 a 10. Of Thomas Gibson shiriffe of London 945 b 60. Of sir Thomas White 1092 a 30. Of sir Iohn Gresham 1131 b 10. Preached before Edward the sixt and the effects that followed note 1081 b 20 c. It and concord in a commonwealth be things most necessarie note 971 b 30 ¶ Sée Almeshouses Pittie and Mercie Charta de Foresta 308 b 10 185 b 60 207 a 40 306 a 40. Charter of Alexander king of Scotland made to Henrie the third 233 b 60. The same confirmed by the pope 235. Of articles concerning a league betwéene Henrie the third the nobles of Wales 226 b 60. Of the articles of Dauid of Wales his submission 227 b 60. Wher Edward the first is acknowledged superior lord of Scotland 286 b 10 c 287 a all Of king Iohns submission as it was conueied to the pope at Rome 177 b 50. Of Richard the first concerning turnaments 146 a 10 Conteining articles of the peace and
incountreth a tall and strong Alman The duke foiles the Alman The yoong lord Greies prowesse A description of the pompe and brauerie in apparell at this solemne tilt Anthonie Bounarme with his ten speares all at once about him Abr. Fl. eâ— Guic. pag. 6â—5 Difficulties about the practise of peace The French councell accord for peace The 〈◊〉 of the capitulation for peace The French king marriâ—â—â— the ladie Mâ—â—rie sister to the king of England Richard Hun â—â—nged in â—ollards 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Edw. Hall H. â— fol. l li 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 death 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hall in 〈…〉 fol. lv vlj. 〈◊〉 gorgious 〈◊〉 maske 〈◊〉 the â—ing was 〈…〉 A tent of cloth â—f gold with a â—hâ—w of â—râ—ed men The king and the marquesse Dorset make a challenge at iusts A parlement wherein sir Thomas Neuill was prosâ—quutor or speaker Doctor Benbrike archbishop of Yorke and cardinall poisoned at Rome The K. in person purposed to passe the seas to sée the French king his brother Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag 684. The variablenesse of his fortune The duke of Suffolke and others sent into France to bring the French quéene into England Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 685. Francis the first coms to the crowne His praise-worthie properties The duke of Suffolke winneth the good will of the quéene Dowager of France Polydor Edw. Hall Anno Reg. 7. The French quéene married to the duke of Sufâ—folke Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol lvj Robin hood and his twâ— hundred men present theâ—â—selues to the king 〈◊〉 in a 〈◊〉 A shew of two ladies in a rich chariot drawne with fiue horsses The king and certeine nobles ran their horsses volant The archbishop of Yorke elected cardinall A parlement at Westminster Cardinall Wolsie made lord chancellor Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. lvij The cardinals hat recâ—iued by the Kentish gentlemen with great solemnitie Guic. pag. 682. Two elefants presented to the pope Gu. Hâ— The lord Mountioy made gouernour of Tornaie A mutinie amongst the soldiers at Tornaie The king kept his Christmasse at Eltham Courtlie pastime on the Twelf night The birth of Margaret daughter to the queene of Scots and of the earle Angus afterwards maried to the earle of Lenox Edw. Hall The queene of Scots and the earle of Angus hir husband come into England The birth of ladie Marie the kings daughter afterwards queene Anno Reg. 8. The king sendeth for the queene of Scots and hir husband to his court The queene of Scots comming to London and so to Greenewich Three queenes in the English court at once The second daie of solemne iusts held by the king and others against all commers A castell buâ—â—â—ded by the king at Tornaie Iustice execâ—ted by cardinal Wolsie vpâ— offendors of sundrie quaâ—â—ties and degrees Erection of new courts by the kings commissio◠〈◊〉 Hall Polydor. 〈◊〉 is â—â—â—trarie to 〈◊〉 â—â—lla in lac 4. The duke of Suffolkes â—ope hindeâ—ed by the cardinall Edw. Hall An ambassaâ—â—â— from the emâ—erour Maximilian The cardinall an enimie to peace Ed. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. lix A moueable garden called the garden of Esperance verie costlie artificiallie wrought Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell Corpus Christi college in Oxford founded by Richard Fox bishop of Winchester Bishop Oldom of Excester is vtterlie against Foxs mind to found a college for moonks Oldom giueth Fox the name of â—ounder contenteth himselfe with the name of benefactor Hall in H. 8. fol. lix The insolent sawcinesse of the Frenchmen against the English The diuelish malice of the Frenchmen Strangerâ— outlace Eâ—gâ—lishmâ— all honestiâ— equitie 〈◊〉 conscience Iohn Lincolne the â—â—thor of the â—â—surrection 〈◊〉 ill Maie 〈◊〉 The gréeâ—eâ— particularâ—â—â— in Lincolâ—â— bill for the cities behooft Lincolne a great enimiâ— to strangerâ— Lincolne pâ—â—secuteth his information 〈◊〉 gréeuances by specialties 〈◊〉 Hall in Hen. 8. fol. 60. In vndiscret preacher Note the saâ—cie brode shamelesse and dishonest boasting of the strangers in their lewdnes Anno Reg. 9. Strangers iniuriouslie abused of diuerse yoonkers The cardinals aduise to the maior in this hurli-burlie Councell taken by the maior and his brethren how to preuent the hurt at hand Euill Maie daie as Edw. Hall noteth it The heat of the hurlie burlie The raging madnesse of the mutiners Nicholas Downes sore hurt The rioters malicious purpose against one Mewtas Sir Thomas Parre informeth the king of the riot and rebellion Certeine lords with their powers come to London about this riot A 〈◊〉 of oier and determiner to â—â—â—quire and pâ—nish the oâ—â—â—â—dors Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. lxiâ— The cause why the citie thought the duke of Norffolke bare them an old grudge Sir Iohn Fineux This statute bringeth the rioters wâ—â—â—in compasse of treason Diuers truâ—es betweene 〈◊〉 king and 〈◊〉 forren princes Iudge Fineux interpreteth the said statute Order for proceeding against the said offendors Manie of the offendors indicted at Guildhall The whole number of the rebellious râ—nt What was laid to Lincolnes charge Eleuen paire of gallows erected for the executing of the rebels Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. lxij Iohn Lincolne the author of ill Maie daie executed in Cheape side Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. lxii The recordeâ— in the behalfe of the citie speaketh humblie to the K. touching the riot The kings answer wherin their sute is denied The quéene of Scots returneth toward Scotland The king coÌ„meth to Westminster hall and there sitteth in iudgement himselfe The kings gratious and generall pardon The blacke wagon that followed ill Maie daie Solemne â—â—stes between the king and others A gallant and glorious shâ—â— The king the duke run personallie The sweting sicknesse peremptorie and deadlie Abr. Flem * Sée before pag. 763 764 1519 Anno Reg. 1â— The tearme begun at Oxford and adiourned to Westminster â—ardinall 〈…〉 from 〈◊〉 pope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hall 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 at 〈◊〉 â—br Fl. ex Edw. Hall in H â— fol. lxiiij Cardinall Câ—â—peius â—â—ceiued with â—reat pompe What trumperie was in dosed in the lord legats chests The glorious shewes or pompous port of the two cardinals going to the court Sée after in the extract out of Guicciardine A craftie feare of the pope The court of the legat erected by the cardinall Examples of great ones what it dooth Gu. Ha. in Eccl. cap. 10. Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 756. The pope soliciteth all the princes of christendome against the Turke The ambition and tyrannie of Selim against his father affines Selim ouerthroweth the Sophi of Persia. The state of the Soldan king of Soria and Aegypt By whole election the Soldans were chosen The Turks slaieth the 〈◊〉 Soldans and subdueth all Soria and Aegypt The Turks ambition hath no bounds oâ— circumscription The pope put of feare that 〈◊〉 Turke 〈◊〉 ouerrun 〈◊〉 territories 〈◊〉 Italie The pope 〈◊〉 him 〈◊〉 his securiâ—â—â—â—â— tuition â—â—litike deuiâ—â—s to 〈◊〉 preueÌ„t â—he Turkes â—â—â—poses Why it was generallie thought that this warre would haue â—â—ckie succes This opeâ—â—â—h the