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A29176	A true and exact history of the succession of the crown of England collected out of records, and the best historians, written for the information of such as have been deluded and seduced by the pamphlet, called, The brief history of the succession, &c., pretended to have been written for the satisfaction of the Earl of H.	Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.	1681 (1681)	Wing B4195; ESTC R19500	55,203	51

however the Lancastrians imposed upon the People For Edward was born June 16. 1239. and Edmund upon the 16th of January 1245. being Marcellus his Day six Years after Edward by that time he was a Year old was acknowledged the First-born of his Father his Brother Edmund not then born Per idem tempus Rex Cives Londinenses quinque portuum custodes multos alios fecit jurare fidelitatem ligantiam Edwardo primogenito suo In the Letter from the Loyal to the Rebellious Barons he is styled the First-born of King Henry Richardus Dei gratia Rex Romanorum semper Augustus Edwardus illustris Regis Angliae primogenitus c. And very frequently Matthew Paris who lived at this time and was Historiographer to his Father calls him his First-born So that there can be no doubt in History that he was the eldest Son for King Henry the Third had only these two Sons Edward and Edmund After the death of Edward the First his Son Edward the Second succeeded him and as Men of purely Commonwealth-Principles tell us he degenerating from so great a Father the People grew weary of his Irregular Arbitrary Government deposed him and chose Edward his Son to reign in his stead A plain Argument say they of the Peoples Power in chusing their Kings aud of limiting and binding the Succession But whoever reads this story will not find the ordinary People had much if any thing to do in this matter further than as they were excited to Tumults and Railing at the Government by many of the Popular Bishops and Barons for they always have been and ever will be Instruments of designing Men against the Government if by remissness thereof and easiness of Governors they be permitted This King was deposed and murdered by a wicked Confederacy and Rebellion of many Bishops and Barons And there is nothing to justifie this Rebellion Deposition and Murther in which our Anti-Monarchical Men instance so often as an Example to be followed but the meer doing of it And if a fact be therefore lawful only because it is done we have no need of Laws Lawyers or Officers of Justice to maintain plead for or defend it The truth is this King was not of so brisk a temper as his Father nor endowed with so much Courage he was more soft and easie and used too great and unseasonable Indulgence to such as he permitted to guide his Affairs and the Affairs of the Kingdom in his Name From hence many Rebellious Barons under pretence of the Honour of God and Holy Church the Honour of the King and Realm made Confederations to remove evil Counsellors reform the Court and to force the King to let them name all Judges the Chancellor Treasurer and other great Officers in Court Gascoigne Ireland and Scotland Thomas Duke of Lancaster one of those Commissioners and Ordainers was always the Head of these Confederacies who pretended great Affection to the King to the common profit of the Realm and great care to see these Ordinances cited in the Margin maintained in all points and many things amended in the King's Houshold Court and Realm At length this great Earl of Lancaster behaved himself very indecently towards the KIng and used him with much Scorn and Contempt until at last in the fifteenth of his Reign he and many of his Confederates brake out into open Rebellion at Burton upon Trent and flying before the King's Army Northward was with many others taken at Burrough-Bridge in York-shire and being tried by his Peers was adjudged to be Hanged Drawn and Quartered which Sentence was pardoned by the King and he was only beheaded The like Sentence had Warren de Insula William Toket Thomas Maudut Henry de Bradborn William Fitz-William and William Cheyne the Lord Roger Clifford the Lord John de Mounbray the Lord Henry Tyes the Lord Bartholomew de Badlesmere Joscelin de Invilla most of them Barons Propter Roberias Felonias resistentiam quam fecerunt contra Regem ad villam de Burton Occidentes Regis familiares Regis transitum prohibentes partem villae praedictae comburentes c. For Robberies and Felonies and the Resistance they made against the King at the Town of Burton killing the King's Friends and Servants and burning part of the Town upon their Retreat The Ordinances before-mentioned in number forty one were revoked and the Confederations and Tumultuous Barons and their Actions consured in a Parliament holden at York 15 Ed. 2. The Ordinances were revoked upon Examination of them before the Prelates Earls Barons amongst which were all the Ordiners then alive and the Commons of the Realm For that by the things which were ordained The King 's Royal Power was restrained in many things against the due Greatness of his Seigniory Royal and contrary to the State of the Crown And also for that in times past by such Ordinances and Provisions made by Subjects over the Power Royal of the Ancestors of the Lord the King Troubles and Wars came upon the Realm by which the Nation was in danger and it was accorded and established in the said Parliament by the Lord the King and by the said Prelates Earls and Barons and all the Commonalty of the Realm at that Parliament assembled That all those things by the Ordiners ordained and contained in the said Ordinances from henceforth for the time to come should cease and lose their Force Vertue and Effect for euer And that from hence forward in no time no manner of Ordinances or Provisions made by the Subjects of the Lord the King or his Heirs by any Power or Commission whatsoever over and upon the Power Royal of the said Lord the King or his Heirs or against the State of the Crown shall be of no value or force But the things which shall be established for the Estate of the King and his Heirs and for the Estate of the Realm and People may be treated accorded and established in Parliament by the King and by the Assent of the Prelates Earls Barons and Communalty of the Realm Roger de Mortuo-Mari Lord of Wigmore submitted himself to the King which much weakned the Barons Forces before the Engagement at Burton and was sent to the Tower of London from whence he made his Escape after two Years Imprisonment in the seventeenth of this King's Reign and went over Sea to the King of France who at this time required the King of England to do him Homage for Gascoygn and other Territories he held of him in France But he delaying to do it and excusing himself by Messengers who prevailed not the King of France with an Army seized Gascoign and the County of Pontheu yet by the means of Edmund of Woodstock the King's Brother and other English Noble-men then in France a Truce was made with the King of France for a certain time until a Peace might be treated of

The Year following the Bishops of Winchester and Norwich with John de Britannia Earl of Richmond were employed to that purpose and after much desceptation about it they received a Form of Peace from the King of France And at length the Queen by Advice given by the Bishops and Great Men to the King was sent to her Brother the King of France for making up and Confirmation of the Peace and it was accorded that King Edward should give the Prince his Son the Dutchy of Aquitain and County of Pontheu that he should go over into France and do Homage for them which he did accordingly But the Prince being in France with his Mother she had no mind to return The King sent divers Letters to his Son Edward and his Queen Isabel expostulating the Cause of their stay in France against his Will and the Confederation they made there with Roger Mortimer his Enemy and Rebel and others Walsingham says Some affirmed she stayed there against her Will Alii voro asserebant quod voluntarie propter nimiam familiaritatem tunc contractam inter Reginam Rogerum de Mortuo-mari si●● quo aliis Nobilibus de Anglia profugatis nolluit dicta Regina redire maxime in odium dispensatorum But others affirmed she stayed voluntarily by reason of the too great Familiarity she had contracted with Earl Roger Mortimer without whose Advice she did nothing and without whom and the other Noble-men that had fled out of England she would not return and especially for the Hatred she bare towards the Spencers proud ambitious haughty and covetous Men by whom the King was too much swayed in the Management of his Affairs which might give a dissatisfaction to the Nobility though not warrant their Actions The next Year having married the Prince not then fourteen Years old to the Earl of Hanault's Daughter who furnished her with Shipping and two thousand seven hundred and fifty Men led by his Brother John she with Edmund Earl of Kent and Roger Mortimer Lord of Wigmore and many other Great Men who had sled out of England landed at Harwich to whom the Earl Marshal the Earl of Leicester and other Barons and Knights of those Parts and almost all the Bishops did adhere and proceeding her Army daily increased so as at last she took her Husband the King Prisoner and put to death both the Spencers the Younger without Hearing or Answering ' The imprisoned King was carried and removed from place to place but at last fixed at Berkeley-Castle in Glocester shire under the Guard of Thomas Berkeley and John Maltravers who had allowed an hundred Shillings a Day for his Expences arid Keeping The Queen never would see him during his Imprisonment Regina misit sibi Indumenta delicata Literas blandientes sed tamen ipsum videre nolebat fingens quod communitas regni non permisit The Queen sent him gay Cloaths and flattering Letters but would not see him feigning the Community of the Kingdom would not permit her He was made Prisoner November 16. and the Morrow after Twelfth-Day all the Nobility of the Kingdom being summoned to Parliament met at London and judged the King unit to rule and for several Reasons to be deposed and his Son Prince Edward to be chosen King Convenit Londoniis tota Nobilitas regni citata per prius ad Parliamentum tenendum ibidem in crastino Epiphaniae ubi cuncti censuerunt Regem indignum Diademate propter plures Articulos deponendum Edvardum filium ejus primogenitum in Regem unanimiter eligendum quod etiam consequenter factum est Of which Transaction when the Queen had notice she was full of Grief outwardly ut for is apparuit saith Walsingbam But the Prince affected with this outward Passion of his Mother as young as he was would not accept of this Title whether out of his own Apprehension of things or by grave and mature Advice which is most probable Et Juravit quod invito patre nunquam susciperet coronam Regni And swore that without his Father's Consent he would never take upon him the Crown of the Kingdom Whereupon several Messengers being dispatched to the King then Prisoner at Kenelworth-Castle who told him what had been done and concluded of and diligently required him to resign his Royal Dignity and Crown and permit his Son to reign in his stead He was much disturbed with the Message and said Since it could be no otherwise he thanked them for chusing his First-born Son making his Resignation and delivering up the Royal Ensigns or Tokens of Sovereignty This done Edward the Third directs his Writs to the Sheriffs of the several Counties for preserving and keeping the Peace with this Preamble Rex Vicecom Ebor. Salutem Quia Dominus Edwardus nuper Rex Angliae Pater Noster de Communi Consilio assensu Praelator Com. Baron alior Magnat necnon Communitat totius Regni praedict SPONTANEA VOLUNTATE se amovit a Regimine dicti Regni VOLENS CONCEDENS quod nos tanquam ipsius primogenitus HAERES ipsius regni qubernationem regimen assumemus nosque ipsius patris nostri beneplacito in hac parte de consilio avisamento Praelator Com. Baron Magnat Comitat. praedict annuentes Gubernacula suscepimus dicti regni side litates Homag ipsorum Praelator Magnat recepimus ut est moris Teste Rege apud Westmonas●erium 29 Jan. The King to the Sheriff of Tork-shre Greeting Because Edward late King of England our Father by Common Council and Assent of Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and also of the Communities of the said Kingdom of his own Free Will removed himself from the Government of the said Kingdom Willing and Granting that We as his First-born and Heir of his Kingdom should take upon us the Rule and Government And We yielding to the good Pleasure of our Father by the Counsel and Advisement of the Prelates Earls Barons Great Men and Communities aforesaid have taken upon Us the Government of the said Kingdom and received the Fealties and Homages of the said Prelates and Great Men according to Custom Witness the King at Westminster Jan. 29. Nine days after he was invested with Kingship and not long after that King Edward the Second was murdered in Berkeley-Castle Any Man though but of an indifferent Capacity that seriously considers the story of this unfortunate Prince will easily perceive he was deposed by notorious Rebellion raised by factious Bishops and Tumultuous Barons and not without great suspition of an intended Vsurpation by Thomas Earl of Lancaster and may easily see through the Contrivance of the Queen and Mortimer afterwards and from thence cannot but judge it to have been a Design of wicked popular Barons and not the Action much less the Choice of the People In the Fourth of Edward the Third Roger Mortimer Earl of March