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A61485 Florus Britannicus, or, An exact epitome of the history of England, from William the Conquerour to the twelfth year of the reign of His Sacred Majesty Charls the Second, now flourishing illustrated with their perfect portraictures in exact copper plates ... / by Mathew Stevenson, Gent. Stevenson, Matthew, fl. 1654-1685. 1662 (1662) Wing S5501; ESTC R18156 64,856 62

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since Instead of aiming at anothers Crown As did his Father tamely yeelds his own Has Mars begot Clineas then O strange Sure all the world is moulded up of Change And to the Waves we may compare them well One threatens Heaven another sinks to Hell Such is the State of sublunary things Nothing is fixt no not the Throne of Kings Peace out of doubt would be perpetuall But that our sins our sins for battels call HENRY the Fourth King of England THe Crowne of England Richard the deposed King dying without issue did rightfully descend upon Edmund Mortimer Earl of March the Son and Heir of Edmund Mortimer by Philip his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Lionel Duke of Clarence the third Son of Edward the Third Yet his Cousin Henry Bullingbrook Duke of Hartford and Son and Heir of Iohn of Gaunt younger brother unto the said Lionel was elected and crowned King forthwith he created his Eldest Son Henry Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester and summoned his high Court of Parliament in which an order was taken for the safe keeping and honourable attendance and maintaining of Richard the late King but his deposing imprisonment and all former proceedings against him were in the same assembly publickly condemned and reproved by Iohn Bishop of Carlile as hatefull unto God traiterous towards the King and infamous among good men for he averred boldly that if he were not a good King yet more wrong was done to him then ordinarily is done to theeves and murtherers because they are not as he was condemned before they had made their answer to the Crime objected before Judges who were indifferent and pronounced their Judgment upon good proof But so soon as he had ended his speech he was attached by the Earl Marshall and committed to strait prisonment in the Abbey of St. Albans and then among many other things in the same Parliament done the Crown of England was entailed to King Henry and his Heirs for ever No sooner was this Parliament ended but a conspiracy of some of the greatest Lords that outwardly made much shew of joy for the high dignity and advancement of King Henry The Confederates were the Kings Cousin Edward Plantaginet Duke of Aumarle and Heir apparent to Edmund of Langley Duke of York Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey and Iohn Holland his Brother Duke of Exeter both which were halfe Brothers to King Richard Iohn Montague Earl of Salisbury Hugh Spencer Earl of Glocester Sr Thomas Blunt and one Magdalen who was somtime a Chamber-waiter to the deposed King and who both in Stature and in Countenance and Behaviour was not much unlike him The Plot was to take away the Kings Life at solemne jests held at Oxford whither the King was invited and promised there to be present because he supposed that triumph was appointed only for his honour and delight The Treachery was cunningly contrived by the Conspirators who by Indentures under their hands and seals bound themselves each unto other both for secrecy and for the resolute effecting and performing thereof to their utmost power all which they solemnly confirmed by their Oaths The Conspirators all m●t at the time and place appointed but the Duke of Aumarle who being at dinner his Father perceiving a Lay-bill hang out of his Bosome took hold of it and drew the whole writing out which being he takes Horse and hasts to the King but the Duke his Son b●ing b●avely mounted and perceiving his imminent danger posts after and ge●ting to the King fi●st confessed the conspiracy and obtains his pardon The King being thus certified of the Treason turns his journey to the Tower of London where he prepares for his defence He levies a strong power and marcheth against the Traitors But when the Conspirators understood that all the Plot was revealed they attired the said Magdalen in Royall Rob●s and caused him to affirm himself King Richard and with him and all their Troops which were very warlike and strong they resolve to oppose themselves to the King in the open field But the King speedily marching towards them with 20000 men at the noise of whose approach the Companies under command of the Conspirators cowardly forsook them and left them a prey to the King who took and executed them in severall places some few escaped but over-oppressed with fear and sorrow soon after died The French King his Father in Law resolves to redeem him from imprisonment but ascertained of his death desists Yet for all this King Henry still distrusting the weaknesse of his usurped Title and endeavouring to support it with a more firm foundation entreats Charls the French King to give in marriage his Daughter Isabel somtime King Richards Wife unto his eldest Son Henry Prince of Wales But her Father observing that marriages betwixt E●gland and France were seldome fortunate denied the Kings request whereupon she was honourably sent back into France The Welch and Scots rebell and are overthrown by the Piercies who take many Noble Prisoners which the King demands and is denied In the 3. year of his Reigne the King demands the Scotch Prisoners of the Piercyes but is denied whereupon unkindnesse arose and they extended to joyne with Glendor They get the Earl of Stafford the Arch-Bishop of York a great company of Scots English to joyne with Owen Glendor but before they proceed to Battel they publish an accusation against the King consisting of severall Articles 1. That he usurpt the Crown and murdered the King 2. He unjustly detained the Crown from Edm Mortimer 3. That without any need he oppressed the people with grievous Taxes 4. No justice was to be expected from him who contrary to his coronation oath had in sundry Shires forestalled Elections and procured Burgeships and bestowed them on his own creatures Lastly that he would not release his Cousin Mortimer from Prison For which Treasons they defied him as a Traytor The King with a strong Army fights the Conspirators near Shrewsbury where the King wins the day and the Prince marching against Glendor is forsaken by his Welch and dies of famine in the woods where he hid himself The Duke of Burgoyne attempts to regain Callic● in vain Presently another conspiracy is plotted detected and the Traytors executed Lastly the Earl of Northumberland and Lord Bardolph rebelled and are taken and beheaded Thus was King Henry's Reign a majesticall misery and a soveraignty of sorrow so having reigned 13. years and 6. months wanting 5 dayes he died and was royally buried at Canterbury The right noble Prince Henry the 4th King of England and Fraunce Lord of Ireland c. Who died at t●e age of 46 yeares in Anno 1413. after he had raigned 13 yeares 6 moneths and 4 dayes and lieth buried at Canterbury Was 't not enough thy Cousin's Crown to take And it a prey to thy ambition make But that his Bloud his Royall Bloud must be A Sacrifice too to thy jealousie
the age of 65 yeares after he had raigned 56 yeares and lieth intombed at Westminster 1272. The groaning Kingdome being rid of John Has found his very Image in his Son King Henry the Third nine years of Age Enters a troubled and a doubtfull Stage The Realme he found Rebecca like become With divers Nations strugling in her Womb All which he clear'd at last with promise fair With Oaths Vowes which prov'd nothing but Ai● He pill'd his subjects so that at his need Give him they nothing would nor could indeed He marries then with a mean Family And spoyles his Realme to lard their Poverty EDVVARD the First King of England WHen King Henry died Edward his son and heir was in Palestine very intent about the holy war where he underwent a grievous danger having received 3 desperate wounds from his adversary with a poysoned weapon But he was cured by the wonderfull Piety of his Wife who with her mouth in time sucked out the venome from his wounds In his way being made more certain of his fathers death he made great journeyes and travelled in all hast into England where with the generall applause both of his Nobles and Common-people he was crowned King when he was of the age of 35 years At the beginning of his Reigne he used the Nobility well but to abate the insolence of the Clergy he commanded their wealth to be brought into his Exchequer and he afflicted them otherwise and so drew upon himself their envy The Welch rise against him but he luckily intercepts Monfort's daughter espoused to Lluellen their Prince upon surrender of whom that storm blew over and obedience was promised by the Welch to King Edward But within few years three or four at most Lluellen puts an end to his Oath and obedience for his wife Eleoner being dead he breaks forth into new Rebellions also David forgetting the great love of King Edward to him falls off to his brother and so with joynt forces they enter England and does some mischief to Edward both of them wonderfully inflamed by a false prophesie of Merlin whereby the Crowne of Brutus was promised to Lluellen but the battle being set Lluellen was killed by a private Soldier and his Head brought to King Edward his Brother David also was taken and had his Head struck off and with his Brothers it was set upon the Tower of London where it remained a long time after but his four Quarters were sent to four Principall Cities in England to be set up for a terrour to all Traitors hereafter so Edward revenged the Rebellion of the Welch and the death of Alphonsus his first Borne who was slain in the same battle In the eighteenth year of King Edward's Reigne Alexander the King of Scots not having any Issue of his body fell with his horse and unfortunately brake his neck He had three sisters the eldest of which was married to Iohn Balioll Lord of Galloway the second to Robert le Bruse Lord of Valley-Andrew and the third was married into England to Iohn Hastings Lord of Abergavenny amongst these three each of them backed with his best friends sharp bickerings and civill wars arose to the destruction of many worthy persons on all sides Whilst the matter thus was handled King Edward promises the Kingdome of Scotland to Bruse for ever so he would do him homage for it but Bruse refuseth it preferring his Countries Liberty before his own honour Yet Balioll yields to those conditions and so got the Kingdome of Scotland but the ill will of all his Country-men Envy against him increased for refusing Justice upon the death of the Earl of Fife who was slaine for Baylioll exempted Alberme●h from punishment that slew him whereupon Baylioll cited before Edward's Tribunall is forced to plead his cause he was angry at this disgrace and denies Homage to Edward and proclaims warre making a Covenant with the French King Hence arose the cause of a most bloudy warre between the two Nations which lasted for three hundred years only some feigned cessations passed between No lesse than four times did this victorious King Edward subdue the false and fraudulent Scots compelling them with extraordinary tokens of subjection and humility to submit themselves to his mercy In the mean time a new warre breaks forth between King Edward and the French King Philip the fair by a controversie between the subjects of either King for Kings that envy one another easily break forth into open Hatred but Edward had other grudges against the French for conniving at the death of his Cousen Henry the Emperors Son Edward therefore when a day was appointed him hath a stipendary to plead his cause before King Philip he refused to appeare whereupon a great Army being raised Philip enters upon the Territories of King Edward in France by force of Armes the King of England by the assistance of neighbour Princes the Earl of Flanders the Duke of Brabant with Adolphus of Nassaw the Roman Emperour presently marches against the King of France but finding the French divided in two parts and defrauded with the Emperours delayes when he had held his winters quarters at Gaunt not without the murmuring of the Citizens and great want of his souldiers At the beginning of the spring truce being made with the French for three years the King tooke Margaret the Dukes sister to wife for Eleoner died in the former Expedition against the Scots And the daughter of Philip being betrothed to King Edwards sonne he retreated for England About the same time Doctor Langton then Bishop of Chester complained grievously to the King upon Edward the young Prince who by the lewd advice of Pierce Gaveston his loose and gracelesse Companion brake forcibly into his Park and made havock of his Game for which the Prince was committed to Prison and Gaveston banished for ever Lastly making an incursion into Scotland he is taken with a Disentery and dies of it and lies buried at Westminster He was very tall of Countenance somwhat sorrowfull of Chastitie like his Father but in fortitude farre before him Religious he was and wise The noble and Victorious Prince EDWARD the first surnamed Long-shanks King of England Duke of Aquitaine Earle of Poictices and Anjou Lo of Ireland c He Conquered Scotland and brought from thence the Marble Chaire He subdued and overcame llewelyn Prince of Wales and made his sonne Edward Prince Hereof he died at the age of 68 yeares 1307. after he had raigned 34 yeares 8 monthes buried at Westminster King Edward Saraceus Head Sholder sunders Where Christ wrought miracles this Prince did wonders His wife with such so pious love abounds She sucks the venome from his poysoned wounds 'T were Treason to their merits to conceal So great a Valour and so sweet a zeal The haughty Welch he soon did over-run And left them Vassalls to his Princely Son And by his sword so weighed down Fortunes scales That Englands heir succeeds stil Prince of
the 31 of August 1422. and crowned King of England at Westminster the 6. of Nouember 1429. and of Fraunce the 7 of December 1432. he reigned 38 yeres 6 monthes he died by violence May 21. aged 52. Anō 1471. first buried at Chertsey Abbey thence remoued to Windsore wher he was solemhley interd R E. 〈◊〉 Mars begets Clineas Henry a Son That has lost more then all his Father won For he lost Normandy and France put to 't England and Ireland and his Life to boot Twice crown'd and twice depos'd at last he took Deaths fatall Errand from Yorks desperate Duke He was a Prince do Rebels what ye will Like Archimedes drawing Figures still Who not unlike some Gamesters I have seen Winning and losing still the same has been He was not Politick in the Worlds controle But he is wise enough that saves his Soul EDVVARD the Fourth King of England EDward Duke of York having overthrown the King and Queen and having overthrown and executed many of his greatest enemies at Towton field returned triumphantly to the City of London and was proclaimed King of this Realme the 4 of March 1461. and was crowned the 19. day of Iune then next following In the beginning of his Reigne he removed from all Offices all such as oppressed the people and to strengthen his part with powerfull and faithfull friends he creates his two brothers George Duke of Clarence and Richard Duke of Gloucester and Sr. Iohn Nevell brother to the Earl of Warwick he created Lord Montacute and Henry Bourchier who had married the Lady Elizabeth Aunt unto the King and was brother unto Thomas Bourchier Arch-bishop of Canterbury was created Earl of Essex and William Lord Fawc●nbridge was made Earl of Kent The Duke of Sommerset and Sr. Ralph Percy with divers others the Kings professed enemies finding no further hope for the house of Lancaster came voluntarily in and submitted to the King and were received to pardon and favour but hearing that the Queen by the assistance of the Scots had raised an Army they slank away and revolted to her and afterwards taken at the battel of Exham were executed The Lord Montacute to whose valour the fortune of that day was ascribed is created Marquess Montacute to whom and others Edward gave great gifts After this Henry is taken in a disguise and sent to the Tower Then Warwick is sent to the Duke of Savoy and prevails for a Match between Edward and Bona the Dukes daughter but Edward in the mean time marries Elizabeth the widow of Sr. Iohn Grey at which Warwick vexed calls to his part his two Brothers and Clarence the Kings Brother and the King at Banbury The King notwithstanding these evill tidings marched confidently against Warwick and his northern Rebels but to prevent mischief many of the Nobillity endeavoured to conclude a peace so that Letters and Heraulds of Armes passed from one Army to the other for both were glad of peace by means of this Parlee King Edward became more carelesse of himself then was fitting whereof when the Earl of Warwick was informed he with some other well appointed rushed into the Kings Army slew his watches and surprised the King in his bed and secretly sent him to Midleham Castle in York-shire there to be safely kept by the Arch-bishop of York his brother who either repenting him of what he had done against the King or being won by large promises of great favour and good rewards suffered him with his Guarders to hunt and hawk by means whereof he made his escape and got to London where between the King and the Rebels another Parlee was had in Westminster Hall in which nothing was done but objections of good deserts and unthankfull requitals were proudly and insultingly urged by the Earl of Warwick in conclusion they departed each from other in great fury the King went to Canterbury and the confederated Lords to Lincolne Armies are raised on both sides they fight and the King wins the field The Lords Clarence and Warwick fly to the King of France who honourably entertains them and aids them with all necessaries for the levying of another Army with which they fight and drive King Edward out of the Kingdome who by the help of the Duke of Burgoyne returns with a small Army into the City of York where he is received upon solemn Oath that he claimed nothing but the Dukedome of York and that he would work no Treason against King Henry now again re-established in his Throne but he presently forfeits his faith and raising another great Army beats Warwick recovers the Crown and re-imprisons King Henry who soon after was murdered by the bloody hands of Richard Duke of Gloucester The King having through much trouble obtained peace betakes himself to dalliance with Iane Shore in the mean while his brother Duke of Clarence is drowned in a Butt of Malmsey The Scots threaten Warre and Richard Duke of Gloucester is sent against them a Peace was procured and King Edward dyed having reigned two and twenty years and is buried at Windsor He was doubtlesse a brave Prince however the clearest day is not without some clouds his perjury at York when he swore to the Citizens he would claim nothing but that Dukedome which was his right by inheritance and that he would in no sort interrupt King Henry's peace all which he falsified which afterward his innocent Sonnes sadly suffered for His lustfull Embraces with Shores wife got him the envy of his owne who was a chast and vertuous Lady in whom he got a good Wife though many enemies and though unfortunate in her Sons yet in her Daughter is composed all the fewd of York and Lancaster The right noble Prince EDWARD the 4th King of England and Fraunce Lord of Ireland He raigned 22. yeares and 5 weekes Died at the age of 52 yeares buried at Windsor 1483. R. Elstracke sculpsit Now sixty years out York obtains the Crowne And Lancaster with all his friends puts down Betwixt which Houses while the difference stood Fell more then fourscore of the Noble Bloud For which but think how many thousands bled And you will Iudge the Roses both were Red. Warwick advances Edward to the Crown And in distast againe he pulls him down But Edward to the Duke of Burgoine flyes And with his aid and his own perjuries Reerowns himself for Kingdomes men will dare A thousand Oaths and count them solemne Aire EDVVARD the Fifth King of England EDward the Fourth being dead his Eldest Son Edward succeeded him but he in his Reign was under Governors Anthony Lord Rivers Thomas Wagham Chamberlain and Richard Grey Knights who being sent for by the Queens Letters came in hast to London with the Prince Then also Richard Duke of Gloucester being at York and hearing of the Kings Death came to London with a small Army and being mindfull to usurp the Kingdome he overtook the young King Edward on his way to London and takes him into his own charge
one hundred and thirty tall ships of Warre in which were nineteen thousand two hundred and ninety souldiers eight thousand three and fifty Marriners two thousand and eighty Gally-slaves two thousand six hundred and thirty great Ordnance and the 19. of Iuly 1588. they came in sight of England and were in hopes to devour it But by the valour of the English and the Dutch the Fleet was partly worsted partly hindered but especially by a Tempest that rose against it the Spaniard was disappointed of his hopes They often after fought by Sea in Portugall and the West-Indies doing and receiving much harm This great Tempest being blown over the Queen causeth a day of Thanksgiving to be proclaimed and rid Triumphantly to London Notwithstanding all this she had many troubles but strangled all in the birth and England was made the Receptacle of persecuted and afflicted men both from France and Holland by reason of the Wars there In the mean while Sir Francis Drake was sent into the West-Indies and the Earl of Essex to the Coasts of Spaine when after many Victories atchieved by each the Spaniards by the mediation of the French seek peace but the Dutch hinder it In the year 1598. Philip King of Spain died in the seventieth year of his age He aimed at great matters but was unfortunate in most of them whereupon it came to passe that the three Keyes of the Spanish Empire which his Father so called and willed him to keep diligently to wit Gulet in Africa Flushing in Holland and Cades in Spain were neglected The first taken in by the Turks the second by the Confederates of the United Provinces the third much impaired in its strength and impoverished by the English which his father foreseeing in his Life time admonished to make peace with the English and Dutch Anno 1599. died that Reverend and famous Divine Mr. Richard Hooker a man moderate temperate meek and vertuous even to the best imitation and left behind him a living monument of his reall worth his Book entituled Ecclesiastical Pollicy Then peace was confirmed between the Spaniard and the French but the English and the Dutch refused to be comprehended in it because they held it disadvantageous to their bu●iness but making a Covenant with joynt Forces they invade Spain The Spaniard stirs up the Earl of Tyrone who made a great Rebellion in Ireland Essex was sent thither to subdue the Rebells and to make them conformable but he scurvily neglected an opportunity of conquering the enemy and beyond his commission treats with the Rebells concerning peace He was therefore called home and commanded to answer for his fault by his submission he found the Queens savour afterward prompted on either by shame or his ambition to the Kingdome he raised an Army and entered London and he purposed to have forced the Queen His Forces ran away from him and he was taken prisoner accused of high Treason and lost his head for it Charls Blunt was sent in his Place who in divers fights wonderfully subdued the enemy though the Spaniard had sent many supplies to relieve them in a set battel he overthrew Tyrone and the Auxiliary Spaniards and then made conditions driving them out of Ireland Tyrone afterwards when he had tried all wayes submitted and humbly entreated the Queens pardon In the mean time Richard Levison and William Monson with eight great Ships and some small ones went and wasted the Spanish Coasts and meeting the Spanish Fleet coming from America with abundance of wealth set upon them but was too weak being disappointed After that he master'd a great rich Ship riding at Anchor in Portugall and burning some lesser Ships returned with her to England At that time the Jesuits and Seminaries were banished At last the Queen died Anno 1602 having reigned 44. years 4. months was buried at Westminst ELISABET D. G. ANG FRAN. ET HIB REGINA FIDEI CHRISTIANAE PROPVGNA TRIX ACERRIMA Thus dy'd Elizabeth Did I say she dy'd Away my babling Muso away ye ly'd She is alive and ever so shall be Could England dote and lose all memory The Neatherlands yea France Spain would give All satisfaction that she still does live And shall untill unknown diseases vex The Vniverse into an Apoplex Of whom this Nation may with comfort say An Evening red foretold a morning gray Thus from the Briny Ocean of our tears The joyfull Venus of our Peace appears JAMES King of Great Britain France Ireland THE losse that England sustained by the death o● Queen Elizabeth was abundantly recompenced by her most worthy Successor King ●ames in the happy union of the two warlike Kingdomes England and Scotland He was inferiour to he● neither for Religion nor any thing else and by new rejoycings he extinguished that grief the Subjects had conceived for the losse of so dear a Mother to her Countrey He was a King the more happy because he obtained a Kingdom by lawfull succession that was no wayes embroyled with wars and tumults but setled in exceeding great peace But as the calmest weather is not secure from clouds so the affairs of Brittany though in a co●dition most peaceable were endangered by the malice and conspiracy of some male-contents ●he Ring-leaders were Henry Cobham and George his Brother Thomas Grey of Wilt-shire Walter Raleigh and others their purpose was to kill the King but newly Crowned to change Religion to raise Tumults to let in Forreigners a terrible design but this flame vanished into smoak the principall being either executed or condemned to perpetual imprisonment or had their par●ons granted to them but least peace should be disturbed by new wars he made peace with the King of Spain who was a sworn enemy to England it was solemnly confirmed by both In Northampton and Warwickshire new tumults arose first by Fines then by Iohn Reignold that led them but this faction was soon allayed and the Authors thereof severely punished In the mean time Frederick Count Elector Palatine came to London to marry Elizabeth King Iames his Daughter the marriage was solemnized with wonderfull pomp but all these joyes were overshadowed with Clouds of sorrow for on the sixt day of November 1612. Prince Henry departed this life various reports were spread abroad by the Vulgar as if indirect means had been used but his Physitians gave it under their hands that he dyed of a violent malignant Feaver Charls the Kings second Son succeeds him in the Principallity of Wales About this time that learned gallant and noble spirit Sir Walter Raleigh after 14 years imprisonment made addresses to the King to give him leave to visit the New found World in America to which he gave him liberty and a Commission under the great Seal to set forth Ships and Men for that service his reputation and merit caused many Gentlemen of Quality to adventure their persons and estates on the design many considerable adventures were performed though with great difficulty but especially that of
and tranquillity He bountifully recompenced the Duke of Britaine for all his former love and kindnesse to him and also repaid unto him all such sums of mony as at any time he had disbursed for him for his maintenance and relief The like he did to the French King and so redeemed his Hostages the Lord Marquesse Dorset and Sir Iohn Bourchin whom he left there But while King Henry was thus carefull to please all men and to preserve peace a Rebellion is raised in the north by Francis Lord Lovel Humfrey Stafford and Thomas his Brother but the King with great celerity marches against them and their Leaders hearts failing them they steal from their Army by night Lovell was shrouded by Sir Thomas Broughton and the two Staffords took Sanctuary but because no Sanctuary could protect malefactors in case of high Treason they were pulled out by violence and arraigned condemned and Humphrey the elder brother executed but the other was pardoned by the Kings favour it being supposed he did it not out of malice but was drawn in by his unpeaceable brother But this flame being quenched a greater is kindled For a certain Priest named Symond erected a mock Prince called Lambert who joyning with the Dutchesse of Burgoyne and the Irish invaded England but was routed and being taken Lambert was put into the Kings Scullery who not long after was made chief Faulconer to the King Then was the Kings wife with all honour and princely solemnity crowned Queen and Thomas Bourchier Arch-Bishop of Canterbury dying he is succeeded by Iohn Morton Bishop of Ely who was also made Lord Chancelour of this Kingdome and not long after he was dignified with the Hat and Habit of a Cardinall by Pope Alexander the sixth A difference falls between the French and the Britains the King having been beholding to both mediates a peace but in vain they fall to Arms and the King aids the Duke of Britain with eight thousand men for maintenance whereof a Parliament gives the King the tenth penny of all moveable goods and chattels but the Duke dyed and those wars ended But this Tax begot a Rebellion for the rustick swads about York and Durham would not pay a penny of the Tax but being numerous they rifled severall places where they came and barbarously murdered the Earl of Northumberland imployed by the King to levy the tax but the King soon routed them and executed the Ringleaders of them in severall places The French King by his gifts corrupts the attendants of the Duke of Britains Daughter heir of the Dukedome and though affianced to the Emperors Daughter before yet he returns her to her father and marries the Young Heir of Britain w●o was contracted to the Emperour making both contracts void and nullities by proclamation But the Emperor scorning to be thus disgraced sends to King Henry and craves aid whereupon the King partly for love he bare to the Emperour and partly because he saw the French King was become Lord of Britain and endeavoured to subject the low Countries also under him promised his assistance for support of which he spared the poor and got great sums from the Nobles and richer sort The King sends a well appointed Army over under the conduct and command of the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Oxford whom the King in person followed with a Royall Army but the French King sues for peace and gave him for his charges in that expedition almost two hundred thousand pounds Sterling so Henry and his Army returned safe into England having concluded an honourable and profitable Peace But the Kings ancient enemy the Dutchesse of Burgoyne with another upstart counterfeit named Perkin Warbeck whom she pretends to be Richard Duke of York Edward the Fourth's Second son The Burgoyns Irish French and Scots favour him some out of mischief others out of mistake which begets great troubles to King Henry but he is taken imprison'd and for endeavouring an escape is executed The Scots invade England under pretence of aiding Perkin he drives them out and another Tax is levied which begets a rebellion which the King overthrows and hangs up the Heads of it Prince Arthur about this time married Katharine Daughter to Ferdinand King of Aragon King Henry's eldest Daughter marries the King of Scots Iames the Fourth but Prince Arthur five months after his Marriage died to his Fathers great grief about his latter end he grew covetous but repented of it He died soon after and was buried at Westminster in his own Chappel he died at 52. years old and reigned 23. years The most Mighty and Prudent Prince Henry the seaventh by the grace of god King of England Fraunce and Ireland As after a sharp Winter Birds do sing Encomiums to a Comfortable Spring So did this Kingdome entertain with joy Great Lancaster and sung Vive le Roy. Henry from Britain came and claim'd his due By Vertue Valour and by Title true And that he might becalme all stormy weather He joyn'd the White Rose and the Red together He was a prudent Prince and govern'd well But that to be too Covetous he fell At last he much restor'd and gave among The poor which mercy cancel'd all his wrong HENRY the Eighth King of England KIng Henry the Eighth being of the age of eighteen years began to Reigne the two and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord God 1509. And being dispensed with by the Pope he married the Lady Katharine Daughter to Ferdinando King of Aragon Aunt to Prince Charls of Castile who afterwards was Emperour whenas not long before she had been his brother Prince Arthur's Wife by which match much trouble afterwards ensued In the beginning of his Reigne he was very gracious and tender to his people in rescuing them from the greedy Jaws of their oppressors that toward the end of his Fathers Reigne had so vexed and tormented them and the more freely to content such as had been justly offended by those extreamities he caused the Heads of those two devouring Caterpillars Empson and Dudley to be stricken off at the Tower Hill and the rest of that rascall rabble were disgracefully corrected by the Stocks and Pillories in sundry places of this Realme Thus when the King had well bu●ied himself in the settlement of his Kingdome for the first two years of his Reigne he was by his wifes father Ferdinando King of Aragon entreated to assist him against the Moores but by reason of a cessation of those Jarres returned out of Spain having been rudely entertained and spent all About the same time the King of France invades Italy making great havock but Henry in favour of the Pope led an Army into France Maximilian the Emperour fighting under the English Banner and took many prisoners and Towns In the mean time the Scots upon the French account infest the North parts of England with sixty thousand men but the Earl of Surrey encountered them with six and twenty thousand and
Wales He paid the Scots for all their Treacheries And 4 times brought them on their humbled knees EDVVARD the Second King of England EDward the Second succeeds his Father in the Throne who was too unmind●ull of his ●athers commands in his ●ast Will and Testament in which he was enjoyned and solemnly prot●sted to performe three things especially namely that he should carry his fathers Bones along with him till he had conqu●red Scotland Secondly that he should expend thirty thousand pounds in the Holy Warre and Thirdly that he should never recall Peirce Gaveston whom for just reasons his Father had banished for Life But he never performed any of these for his fathers bones he did well enough to let them rest but for Gaveston he recalled him and bestowed on him all the money designed to the Holy War longing more to brake his Oath touching him then to take his Coronation Oath The Noble men who perfectly knew how wickedly this Gaveston was enclined perceiving that the King doted on him and that his affections towards him were unlimited being perplexed with inward grief and foreseeing that his insolence would be the ruine of the Realme emboldened themselves to put the King in mind of his Oath But as his conscience nothing troubled him for the breach thereof so their disliking encreased his desires towards Gaveston and to make him great which was the next thing he took in hand and now none but Gaveston must rule all in all frown who would the King cared not Gaveston must and shall be great and therefore first he is Lorded with the Baronie of Wallingford and soon after he is created Earl of Cornwall and if this was not enough to make him rich he is made sole Commander over the Kings Jewells and Treasures in which O●fice so absolute was his power and so cunning his crafty pate to provide in the time of his prosperity for adverse Fortune which might ensue that secretly he conveyed beyond the seas a fair Table and Tressells all made of beaten Gold and many rich and precious Ornaments to the great hurt of the King and dammage of this Realme He also took much pleasure to feed the Kings fancy with great variety of delights and by his example he inured him to excessive banqueting and drunkennesse and his vile and unchast all urements made him carelesse of the bed and society of his Religious and Vertuous Queen Isabel the Daughter of the French King Philip the fair Sister to Charls his successor and trained him to the adulterous Consortship of wanton curtizans and shameless Whores The Queen who sorrowed hereat beyond measure reposed all her means for redresse of those unsufferable wrongs in her prayers to God and her modest wooing for her K●ngs love but all endeavours came to nothing for the beams of her excellent vertues could not pierce the thick clouds of his vanities neither could her pious tears mollifie his heart hardened in too much variety and plenty of loathsome sins The Nobles and those of the Kings Counsell secretly and severall tim●s enformed the King what notice at offence strangers and his own people even the Vulgar at the lewd and vicious courses of Gaveston and how strangely they spoke of him and of his Government altogether eclipsed by the interposition of his fowle vices betwixt himself and it but all avail●d nothing with him who was resolved rather to lose his Crown than his Companion Then at the Lords Petition the King sends him into Ireland not as a person proscribed but a President at length the Nobles perceiving the Kings heavinesse for his absence petition his recall in hope of his amendment and to please the King but he growes more insolent the● before At last the Barons hopelesse to redresse and unable to support so despised a burthen besi●ge this wicked Gaveston in a strong castle win it and cut off his head Then the King to vex his Nobility he entertained into his Society and Counsels the two Spencers father and son men as gracelesse and odious to the Nobles and common people as the other was They advised him to Whores and Concubines and to forsake the sweet Company of his modest and vertuous Queen which made him a scorne to forraigne Princes and all honest men yet the King in spight of his greatest Lords supported the Spencers in all whatever they took in band But this evill Government begets him envy and contempt at home and ene●ies abroad ●or R●●liruse being re-crowned in Scotland invades England four or five dayes marcheth with fire and Sword making havock of all before him But King Edward had behav●d himself so ill a● home in over-favouring his Minions altogether neglecting his Nobles that his ●athers bones could stand him now in little stead for no lesse then three ●imes is he overthr●wne by the Scots yea with numbers farre inferiour to his own to the shame of this Realme famous for the best Souldiers in the World At home he became too fortunate for he overthrows his Barons Army beheads 22. Lords by the advice of these villanous perfidious Spencers But the Queen with the Prince her Son saile beyond Sea obtains assistance of her Cousin Sr. Iohn Henault and his friends returns into England and joyning with the Nobles and the City of London overthrowes the Kings Forces and besieging him and the Spencers in Bristoll Castle takes it and them and executes these miscreants the Spencers father and Son and other their Confederates and committed the King to Prison whence he never escaped Then a Parliament is called wherein they consulted to depose the King and to Crown his Son but he was so piously conscientious that he would not accept the Crowne unlesse his father willingly resigned it which he freely did being glad they would Crowne his Son in his stead And not long after he miserably ended his dayes in Barkly Castle by piercing his bowels with a red hot Spit through his fundament and at the Age of 43 he was buried at Gloucester He was tall and comely of Stature but of immoderate dotage on his Minions and given to drunkenness which made him too open of his Counsels too much addicted to lasciviousnesse his own nature being rather corrupted by his vicious Minions than otherwise Edward the 2d. King of England Duke of Aquitaine Earle of Poictou Anjou and Pontieu Lord of Ireland He raigned 19. yeares 7 mo ths and was deposed the 25th of Ianuary 1327. and shortly com●●●ted to prison in Barkley Castle and there cruelly murdered 〈◊〉 the age of 43 yeares huried at Glocester Edward the Second doth deserve to have All his Remembrance buryed in his grave He lead to Scotland many thousand men And having seen it e'ne came home agen Pierce Gaveston enthralled his jale heart So close that nothing but the axe could part Next come his dearling Spencers to his view Rid of one Rakeshame now he must have two Honour and Princely prudence are thrown down And Dotage takes