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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02633	A brefe chronycle concernynge the examinacyon and death of the blessed martyr of Christ syr Iohan Oldecastell the lorde Cobham, collected togyther by Iohan Bale ...	Bale, John, 1495-1563.	1544 (1544)	STC 1276; ESTC S100610	48,945	113

troden vndre fote The Christen fayth was ruyuouslye decayed Gods seruyce was lawhed to scorne The spirituall iurisdiccyon auctoryte honour power polycye lawes rytes ceremonyes curses keyes censures and canonycall sanccyons of the churche were had in an vttre contemt So that all in a maner was come to nought And the cause of this was that the heretyques and lol●ars of Vvycleues opynyon were suffered to preache abrode so boldelye to gather conuentycles vnto them to hepe scoles in mēnys houses to make bokes compyle treatyses and wryte balettes to teache pryuatlye in angles and corners as in wodes feldes medowes pastours groues and in caues of the grounde This wolde be they sayd a destruccyon to the commen welthe a subuersyon to the lande and an vttre decaye of the kynges estate ryall yf remedye were not sought in tyme. And this was theyr polycye to cople the kynges auctoryte with that they had done in theyr former counsell of craft and so to make yt therby the strongar For they perseyued themselues verye farre to weake els to folowe against theyr enemyes that they had so largelye enterprysed Vpon this complaynt the kydge immedyatlye called a Parlament at Leycestre It myght not in those dayes be holden at Vvestmynstre for the great fauer that the lorde Cobham had both in London and abought the cyte yet were they deceyued That they doubted most lyghted there sonest vpon them A byll was put in there agayne by y e commons agaynst theyr cōtynuall wastynge of the temporaltees lyke as yt had bene twyse afore by procurement of the seyd lorde Cobham both in y e dayes of kynge Rycharde the seconde anno 1395. and also of kynge Henrye the .iiii. annadomini 1410 whervpon was growne all this malyce afore specyfyed but this was than workemanlye defeated by an other propre practyse of theyrs They put the kynge in remembraunce to clayme his ryght in Fraunce graūted him thervnto a dyme with other great subsydye of moneye Thus were Christes people betrayed euerye waye and theyr lyues bought and solde by these most cruell theues For in the seyd Parlament the kynge made this most blasphemouse and cruell acte to be as a lawe for euer That what so euer they were that shulde reade the scripturs in the mother tonge which was than called Vvycleues lernyng they shuld forfet lande cattell bodye lyfe and goodes from theyr heyres for euer and so be condemned for heretyques to God enemyes to the crowne and most errande trayters to the lande Besydes this yt was enacted that neuer a sanyctwarye nor pryuyleged grounde within the realme shuld holde them though they were styll permytted both to theues and mourtherers And yf in case they wolde not geue ouer or were after theyr pardon relapsed they shuld suffre death in two maner of kyndes That is They shuld fyrst be hanged for treason agaynst the kynge and than be burned for heresye agaynst God and yet neyther of both commytted The begynnynge of that acte is this Pro eo quod magni rumores c. Anon after was yt proclamed through out the realme and than had the Bysshoppes Prestes Monkes and fryers a worlde somwhat to theyr myndes For than were manye taken in dyuerse quarters and suffred most cruell death And manye fledde out of the lande into Germanye Boheme Fraunce Spayne Portyngale and into the welde of Scotlande Vvalys and Irelande workynge there manye marueyls agaynst theyr false kyngedome to longe to wryte In the Christmas folowynge was syr Roger Acton knyght mastre Iohan Browne esquyre syr Iohan Beuerlaye a letned preacher dyuerse other more attached for quarellynge with certen prestes and so inpresoned For all menne at that tyme coude not pacyentlye suffre theyr blasphemouse bragges The complaynt was made vnto the kynge of them that they had made a great assemblye in saynet Gyles felde at London purposynge the destruccyon of the lande and the subuersyon of the cōmon welthe As the kynge was thus infourmed he erected a banner sayth Vvalden with a crosse thervpon as y e Pope doth commonlye by his Legates whan he pretendeth to warre agaynst the Turke and with a great nombre of menne entred the same felde where as he founde no soche companye yet was the complaynt iudged true bycause the Bysshoppes had spoken yt at the infourmacyon of theyr Prestes All this hath Thomas Vvalden in dyuerse of his workes which was at the same tyme a Vvhyght or Carmelyte fryre and the kynges confessour partlye yt is towched both by Robert Fabyane and by Polydorus Vergilius in theyr Englyshe chronycles but not in all poyntes ●yghtlye as is to be s●ane in the preface asore In the meane season syr Iohan Oldecastell the lorde Cobham escaped out of the tower of London in the nyght and so fledde into Vvalys where as he contynued more than .iiii. yeares after Some wryters haue thought this escape to come by the seyd syr Roger Acton and other gentylmenne in dyspleasure of the Prestes and that to be the chefe occasyon of theyr deathes which myght wele be but Vvalden doth not so vttre yt which regned the same selfe tyme. In Ianuarye next folowynge was the afore named syr Roger Acton mastre Iohan Browne syr Iohan Beuerlaye and .xxxvi. more of whom y e more part were gentyll menne of byrthe conuicted of heresye by the Byshoppes and condemned of treason by the temporalte and accordynge to the acte were fyrst hanged and than brent in the seyd saynct Gyles felde In the same yeare also was one Iohan Claydon a skynner and one Rycharde Turmyne a baker both hanged and brent in Smyth felde by that vertuouse acte besydes that was done in all other quarters of Englande which was no small nombre yf yt were now througlye knowen ☞ The latter enpresonynge and death of the lorde Cobham IN the yeare of oure Lorde a. M. CCCC and .xv. dyed Thomas Arundell which had bene Archebysshop of Caunterburye more than xxxii yeares to the great destruccyon of Christen beleue yet dyed not his prodygyouse tyrannye with him but suceeded with his offyce in Henrye Chycheleye and in a great sort more of that spyghtfull spiritualte For theyr malyce was not yet satled agaynst the good lorde Cobham But they confedered with the lorde Powys which was at that tyme a great gouernor in Vvalys fedynge him with lordelye gyftes and promyses to accomplysshe theyr desyre He at the last thus monyed with Iudas and outwardlye pretendynge him great amyte fauour most cowardlye and wretchedlye toke him and in conclusyon so sent him vp to London where as he remayned a moneth or two inprysoned agayne in the Tower And after longe processe they condemned him agayne of heresye and treason by force of the afore named a 〈◊〉 renderynge thankes ▪ vnto God that he had so appoynted him to suffre for his names sake And vpon the daye