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A19622	The mansion of magnanimitie Wherein is shewed the most high and honorable acts of sundrie English kings, princes, dukes, earles, lords, knights and gentlemen, from time to time performed in defence of their princes and countrie: set forth as an encouragement to all faithfull subiects, by their example resolutely to addresse them selues against all forreine enemies. Published by Richard Crompton an apprentice of the common law. 1599. Whereunto is also adioyned a collection of diuerse lawes ... with a briefe table, shewing what munition ought to be kept by all sorts of her Maiesties subiects ...	Crompton, Richard, fl. 1573-1599.	1599 (1599)	STC 6054; ESTC S105166	85,768	121

often exceeded vs in number although they were and be right valiant Princes mighty people in armes to all which haue trauelled in our Chronicles that is euident whereby the inuincible courages and valour of our nation in martiall acts hath appeared which ought exceedingly to incourage vs in this seruice of defence for that we are descended of them and not to doubt or dispayre any whit if we be true amongst our selues though the force of our enemies be great and their number exceede vs farre for God neuer fayleth them which put their trust in him and walke in his wayes as by diuerse examples out of the Scriptures of God afore remembred appeareth most euidently Did not the English fleete in the yeare of our Lord 1350 which was in the foure and twentieth yeare of Edward the third meete with the Spaniards comming out of Flaunders loden with Marchandize Holinsh 946. and slue a great number and drowned also many of them and tooke sixe and twentie of their ships vpon the coast of Sussex Did not the great army of the king of Spaine at the siege of Barke when it was bruted that the Earle of Lecester her Maiesties Lieutenant generall with the English forces came to relieue the towne and yet they retired without so doing did not they come to remoue the siege which we made against Dusborow and the great Sconce of Sutfen where that most renowmed Knight S. Philip Sidney was slaine neither could they haue euer won those things againe from vs had not treason more preuailed then force and valiant courage Haue not we seene a few yeares sithens the mighty preparation by sea of the king of Spaine and his Allies appointed with such number of huge ships souldiers armour weapon shot powder and other things incident to the warres sent to conquer our countrey as the like was neuer seene on the seas in so much that they called the same the inuincible nauy they trusted in their forces but yet God confounded their purpose and deuises for did not we with a few ships and furniture of men and munition litle in respect of theirs send some of their mightiest vessels to the bottome of the Sea with great numbers of their men in them Did not we with our shot and artillerie slay many of them Did not we chase diuerse of them into Irish coastes where about xvij of their greatest ships perished so that Lucans verse Lucan which in those dayes he did write to the glory of our nation against the Romaines may be verified in this seruice Territa quaesitis ostendunt terga Britannis And were not numbers of their souldiers which entred into Ireland with the sword destroyed Spaniards slaine in Ireland Did not we also in the Low countries kÃ©epe diuerse other of their ships in their hauen so as they could not come foorth into the seas to ioyne with the rest of the Spanish Nauy This was done without hand-fight and is to be taken as the only worke of God and to him therefore we ought to yeeld our most humble thankes and say with the Prophet Dauid A Domino factum est istud est mirabile This is the Lord his doing and is maruellous in our sight and therfore Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam Not vnto vs Lord not vnto vs but to thy name be all glory and thankes And we may further say as the Prophet Dauid sayth If the Lord himselfe had not bene on our side now may Israell say if the Lord himselfe had not bin on our side when men rose vp against vs they had swallowed vs vp quicke when they were so wrathfully displeased at vs yea the waters had drowned vs and the streame had gone ouer our soules The deepe waters of the proud had gone ouer our soules But praysed be the Lord which hath not giuen vs ouer for a pray vnto their teeth our soule is escaped euen as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are deliuered Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord which hath made both heauen and earth Neither did they though they were as the report went thirtie thousand strong at that time land a man And did not the noble Earle of Essex Sir Iohn Norris and Sir Frauncis Drake the next yeare following with a little Nauy Landing in Spaine contayning not aboue eleuen thousand men land in Spaine burned their ships and put their people to the sworde and their townes to the fire and so coasted thence along into Portugall Portugall and there landing marched vp into the countrey euen to the gates of Lisbone with drums sounding and with Ensignes displayed from whence they returned vnfought withall by any of his forces either by sea or laud Did not the Duke of Lancaster with a compaine of souldiers saile into Spaine The Duke of Lancasters voyage into Spaine Stow. 1390. 14 R. 2. Gallicia Indies to claime the realme of Castile for that he had maried the eldest daughter of Peter king of Spaine that was expelled by Henrie his bastard brother he conquered the Countrie of Gallicia against Don Iohn sonne of the said Henrie And some doings we haue had at the Iudies where our couragious English Captaines and souldiers conquered manie Cities and townes How valiantly did they likewise behaue themselnes at S. Domingo Carthagena Cales and in manie other places where the Englishmen were few in number and the enemies infinite and in their owne countrie whose valiant actions there haue deserued such fame as lenght of time shall neuer take away for that the like hath neuer bene performed or read of in any age before our dayes In the yeare of our Lord God 1365 Hol. 971. and in the 39 yeare of Edward the third was not Peter king of Castile chased out of his realme by his bastard brother Henrie by reason wherof the said Peter was constrained to flie and came to Burdeaux to sue for ayde at the hands of the Prince of Wales the said king Edward his sonne who thereof aduertised his father by aduise from whom The Prince of Wales his voyage into Spaine the said Prince determined to bring home the said king Peter and to restore him againe to his kingdom by force of armes maugre his enemies The Prince indÃ©ed was verie desirous to take this enterprise vpon him both of a certaine pitifull affection mouing him to relieue this miserable state of king Peter and also of an ardent desire which he had to purchase a glorious fame through martial dÃ©eds noble acts of chiualrie Therefore hauing this occasion to imploy his time in such exercises and now commaunded thereto of his Father he was excÃ©eding glad in his mind and with all the spÃ©ed that might be made his prouision both of a sufficient armie of men of warre and also of all other things necessarie for the furniture of such an enterprise but first he

better able to liue then any other nation vnder the Sunne Camd fol. 3 Camden maketh mention of an old Orator speaking in praise of England as followeth O fortunata omnibus beatior terris Britannia This Constantine receiued the faith of Christ first in England Annales I. Stow â— 46. An. 306. quae ConstantinuÌ„ Caesarem prima vidisti meritÃ² te omnibus Coeli ac soli bonis natura donauit in qua nec rigor est nimius hyemis nec ardor aestatis in qua segetuÌ„ taÌ„ta est foecuÌ„ditas vt munerib vtriusque sufficiat et Cereris et Liberi in qua nemora sine immanibus bestijs terra sine serpentib noxijs coÌ„trÃ pecorum mitium innumerabilis multitudo lacte distenta onusta velleribus certe quod propter vitam diligitur longissimi dies et nullae sine aliqua luce noctes dum illa littorum extrema planities non attollit vmbras noctisque metam coeli siderum traÌ„sit aspectus vt sol ipse qui nobis videtur occidere ibi appareat praeterire That is O thou happy England and more blessed then all lands that first of all hast seene Constantine the Emperor whom nature hath indued with all the commodities of the firm ament and land wherin is neither too much rigor of winter nor heat oâ— summer where is great fruitfulnes of Corne for bread and drinke Woods also without hurtfull Beasts the Land without noysome Serpents where likewise are innumerable multitudes of Cattel giuing milke and Sheep loaden with fleeses of wooll and that which Life doth greatly desire the daies are there very long neither is there any night without some glimmering of light by reason that the Plaines of the Sea coasts doth not yeeld much shaddow and the sight of the Starres and firmament doth passe away so quietly that the Sunne which seemeth to vs to go downe may there appeare as it were but to passe by Also in that this Realme is replenished with infinit thousands of valiant and couragious Men The second cause of incouragement valiant men able to giue battell to the greatest prince in Europe for Castles are of smal account where valour in armes wanteth Cleomines the Emperor beholding a towne by arte and nature mightily defended called such latebras muliebres Castles Cleomines Bod. lib. 5. c. 5 alurking place for Women saying Neque Ciuitatis robur positum est in mutis lapidibus What should moue a man to fight sed in praestanti fortissimorum ciuium virtute qui pro aris pro liberis pro libertate pro ciuitate pro fama pro vita dimicabunt The strength of a Citty saith he resteth not in dumb wals but in the force of valiant Men which fighte for their religion Children libertie Cities fame and for their liues And such as are desperate and resolute are most mÃ©etest for the same as he writeth also Nihil periculosius est quam desperatis hominibus praeliuÌ„ coÌ„mittere There is nothing more dangerous then to fight with desperate men Bod. lib. 5. c. 5 And remember as an example the battell of Poytiers in France where Iohn the french King with a great number of his nobilitie were taken prisoners Poytiers the rest were put to flight Stow 15 â—â€¦ with about ten thousand Englishmen the french being almost fifty thousand This was done by Edward prince of Wales eldest sonne to King Edward the thirde and Erasmus saith also ij demum vtiles suÌ„t Bello milites Eras Append. Apoth 337. quibus decretum est in praelio aut vincere aut mortem oppetere They are meetest for War which determinne to win the fielde or else to die Castles But yet Castels and Fortresses are not to be condemned but must be vsed as a meane for the better defence of the enimy Â¶ How much we are bound to the Almighty God that hath giuen vs so gratious a Prince to raigne ouer vs and what good things we daily receiue of her gracious goodnesse toward vs and also how happy we are that are her Highnesse subiects in respect of other Nations which are charged with continuall Taxes Tallages and Impositions and besides that liue in great bondage and seruitude of which things we are freed Chap. 2. NOw in respect of a most singular and further cause of incouragment herein Third cause of incouragement let vs consider how much we are bound to god in that it hath pleased him to giue vs so gratious a Soueraigne Lady and QuÃ©ene to raigne ouer vs one of our owne nation which is obserued in the sacred scripture as a great blessing of god as in the booke of Deuteronomy doth appeere and of the right line and descent of the noble kings and Princes of this Realme for forren princes are alwayes misliked of the people to raign ouer them Osor fol. 19. as Osorius saith Quoties accidit vt in aliqua regione vel haereditario iure vel matrimonio vel quauis alia ratione princeps aliquis ex exteris gentib ad regnanduÌ„ vocetur id populis sibi perniciosum fore suspicatur One vnder whom we haue enioyed such common peace and quietnesse these 39. yeares more as the like hath not bÃ©ene heard of neither is to be founde in any record or Chronicle sithence the Eonquest to this daie for the like time of gouernment One studious to aduance set foorth and maintaine the honour and glory of Almightie God one desirous to raigne with mercy with loue with pitty and tender compassion and not by tyranny not by effusion of bloud neither alwaies by inflicting the extremitie of her lawes vpon such as iustly haue deserued the execution of the same And is the rather induced to mercy and pittie by experience of her owne troubles most vniustly laid vpon her in her sisters daies so as it is rightly said Nihil est enim quod magis inuitat homines ad misericordiam tribuendam quam humanam miseriam experiri Aeneid lib. 1. vnde rectissime Regina Dido apud VergiliuÌ„ inquit Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco There is nothing that more doth moue men to bee mercifull then to haue experience of the misery of man whereof Queene Dido as Virgill maketh mention said very well I haue learned being not ignorant of euill how to helpe them that are in miserie She is also bountifull to such as deserue well of her Maiestie and of their countrey Ouid de ponto lib. 2. in whom the saying of Ouid the Poet which he spake of the clemencie and liberality of Cesar is verified Est piger ad poenas princeps adpraemia velox Cuique dolet quoties cogitur esse ferox The Prince is slow to punish and ready to rewarde and sorrowfull when he is forced to punish any And again he saith of him Qui cum triste aliquid statuit fit tristis ipse Cuique fere poenam sumere poena sua

was slaine with a small shot and this was the end of this noble Earle after he had with much honor more fame and great renowne serued his Prince in warrs foure and twenty years in France and was honorably interred amongst them on whose Tombe in ingrauen as followeth Inscription on the tomb of Iohn first Earle of Shrewsbury Here lieth the right noble knight Iohn Talbott Earle of Shrewsbury Washford Waterford and Valence Lord Talbot of Goodrige and Vrchengfield Lord Strange of the blacke Meere Lord Verdon of Alton Lord Crumwell of Wingfield Lord Louetoft of Worsop Lord Furniuall of Sheffield Lord Faulconbrige knight of the most noble order of S. George S. Michaell and the Golden fleece Great Marshall to king Henry the sixt of his realme of France who died in the battell of Burdeaux in the yeare of our Lord 1453. 1453. If I should set downe euery particular seruice of such as haue discended of this noble house done from time to time in the warres for their prince and countrey it would aske very long time therefore he that desireth to knowe more thereof I referre him to the Chronicles of this realme where they are set forth at large to their great honor and glory And touching the loyalty of this noble house to the Crowne I find it not attainted for any disloyalty to the same sithens the conquest of this realme for which they are most deepely bound to yeeld their most humble thankes to the goodnesse of Almighty God that so from time to time hath blessed the same and so much the more for that a great number of other Peeres and Nobles of this land haue bene attainted sithens that time for their disloyalty In honor of which house of the Lord Talbot I haue made these few verses following TAlbot I am that euer haue bene true Vnto my Prince her crowne and dignity And hope in God my fathers to ensue So as my bloud shall neuer stained be Prest I will be my countrey to defend As doth belong to men of my degree And on her foes my life and land will spend As each man ought for her securitie The acts of warre performed by my name I shall increase as God shall giue me might To serue my Prince when she commands the same As doth belong vnto a faithfull knight My gracious Prince hath honored me With name of thorder of the garter knight Of which great kings haue much desired to be Wherein these words with golden letters bright Hony soyt qui mal y pense are seene As much to say as ill to him befall That ill doth wish vnto so good a Queene And so I pray and during life I shall And for some among many examples of the loyaltie of that noble house Holinsh 368. first I find that William Lord Talbot in king Stephen his time tooke vppon him to defend Hereford in Wales as diuerse other nobles of this Realme did other Castles and townes in England to the vse of Maud the Empresse and her sonne against the sayd king Stephen who vsurped and detayned the Crowne against her sayd son contrary to his oath made to the sayd Empresse her said son being the right heyre to Henry the first his Realme of England Iohn Earle of Shrewsbury was slaine at North taking part with Henry the sixt against the Duke of Yorke others then I find how Sir Gilbert Talbot was sent by the yong Earle of Shrewsbury being within age and ward to Richard the third with two thousand of his tenants and friends to ayde Henry Earle of Richmond against the sayd King Richard Stow. 121. being not onely an horrible murtherer of his Nephewes king Edward the fourth his childreÌ„ but also an vsurper of the Crowne whom the sayd Earle ouerthrew at Bosworth field and so obtayned the Scepter Royall of this Realme I note also the great loyalty of the right noble George fourth Earle of Shrewsbury that where diuerse euill disposed persons in the rebellion in the North parts of this Realme about the 28 yeare of the raigne of King Henry the eight gaue forth very slanderous and dishonorable speeches against the sayd Earle Holinsh 1567. as though he had fauored more the part of the rebels then of the king his Maister for a full testimony and declaration of his truth to his Prince he caused his Chapleyn to minister to him an oath in the presence of a great number of people assembled by him to represse the sayd rebels by which oath he did protest that as his Auncesters had bene euer true to the Crowne so be wold not staine his bloud in ioyning with a sort of rebels and traytors against their Prince but sayd he would liue and die in defence of the Crowne if it did stand but vpon a stake How faithfully did the Lord George last Earle of Shrewsbury discharge the great trust reposed in him by her Maiestie and her whole Councell in the garding safe keeping of the QuÃ©ene of Scots by the space of seuenteene yeares at the least a matter of such importance as the like so long time was neuer committed to any State or PÃ©ere of this Realme sithens the conquest thereof and how carefully he did preuent the sundry deuises and subtill practises wrought by her selfe and others for her escape it is sufficiently knowne The trust was the greater for that if she had escaped no small danger might haue ensued to the person of our most gracious Queene and to the whole Realme as may appeare by her sundry conspiracies against the same In like manner when any matter of great importance for the seruice of the Realme in those parts was committed to him as often many were how carefully and painefully Camden 463. and with what expedition he would dispatch the same the world can testifie what great confidence was reposed in him by the Queenes Maiestie when he was made Lieutenant of the counties of Darby and Stafford in those dangerous dayes and how he performed the same trust to the preseruation of the common peace and quietnesse of those Shires is well knowne to all men what great trust was committed to himselfe also when he had authority in times of rebellion and other outrageous actions in those parts to suppresse the same in forcible manner and to execute the offenders by Marshall iustice without further proceeding in law against theÌ„ by the large Commission directed vnto him is manifest Gilbert now the seuenth Earle of Shrewsbury And lastly was not the right honourable Gilbert now Earle of Shrewsbury in the xxxviij yeare of her Maiesties most gracious Raigne sent into Fraunce to receiue the oath of the French king for the confirmation of the most honorable league betwixt her Maiestie and the said king and did not he performe that Embassage to his great honour And did not the sayd king in proofe of his great good acceptation thereof His Embassage most honorably performed in Fraunce giue him

stung to death with strange kinds of fiery serpents sometime the earth hath opened and swallowed theÌ„ vp quicke the Captains and bands of such murmurers with their wiues children families Then if such strange and horrible plagues haue hapned to such subiects as did but only murmure and speake euil against their heads what shall become of such subiects as conspire arme themselues assemble great numbers of men in armes encourage and leade theÌ„ against their Prince countrie spoyling robbing slaying as manie of their good subiects as do withstand them and against whom they may preuaile We are forbidden by the holy Scripture Eccle. 10. so much as to think euill to the Prince for the birds of the aire shall betray thee with their wings shal bewray they voyce If we may not think euil much lesse may we do anie thing that shal or may tend to her danger as rebellions do alwayes imply peril to her person state Sam 24. King Saule was a wicked Prince sought the life of Dauid the seruant of God diuerse wayes yet Dauid wold not hurt him no when he might haue slaine him in his caue but said The Lord keepe me that I lay not my hands vpon the Lords annointed 2. Tim. 2. S. Paule saith I exhort that aboue all things prayers supplications and intercessions and giuing of thanks be made of all men for kings and all that are in authoritie that we may liue a quiet life with all godlinesse for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour So did the people of God Apol. cap. 30. which liued vnder Pagans and tyrants as Tertullian witnesseth If the Princes be good they are a great blessing of God bestowed on the people if they be vngodly tyrants then they are appointed for their punishment yet must they pray for them whatsoeuer they be for when S. Paule taught to pray for rulers then Caligula Clodius and Nero who were no Christians but Pagans and most cruel tyrants were gouernors rulers of the people When Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon after he had slain their kings nobles wiues children the people of God wasted their country spoyled their cities yea and Ierusalem it selfe the holy temple and caried the residue with him captiue to Babylon Baruc. 1. 11. yet Baruc the Prophet of God exhorted the people being in captiuity saying Pray you to God for the life of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon and of Balthaser his son that their dayes may be as the dayes of heauen vpon the earth that God also may giue vs strength lighteÌ„ our eyes that we may liue vnder the defence of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon vnder the protectioÌ„ of Balthaser his sonne that we may long do them seruice and find fauor in their sight If they then prayed for tyrants and vngodly kings how much more ought we to pray to God for the life preseruation and prosperons estate of so gracious a QuÃ©ene soueraigne Gouernour as we haue What shall I say of you shal I call you subiects that assemble your selues in this forcible maner and breake the common peace of the realme and in stÃ©ed of quietnesse ioy and felicitie which do follow of blessed peace and due obedience do bring all trouble sorrow disquietnesse of mind and bodie and all mischiefes and calamities and turne all good order vpside downe bring all good lawes in contempt and tread them vnder foot oppresse all vertue and honestie and all vertuous and honest persons and set all vice and wickednesse and all vitious and euill men at libertie to worke their vngodly willes and vngracious purposes which were before bridled with wholsome lawes and do weaken ouerthrow and consume the strength of the realme aswell by wasting and spending the treasure thereof as by slaying the good subiects of the same and make our countrie readie as it were to be a pray and spoyle to all outward enemies and to bring vs our wiues children and posterities to perpetuall captiuitie slauerie and bondage that strangers may possesse our lands goods liuings to our vtter vndoing destruction Though God do often prosper iust lawfull enemies which be no subiects against forraine enemies and though a small number vpon wars begun vpon iust causes hath many times prospered against huge nuÌ„bers of their aduersaries that haue offered them wrong and iniurie yet neuer did rebel prosper against their Prince Note how noble or great soeuer their Captaine or number of people haue bene and whether their pretence of rebelling haue bene for reformatioÌ„ of religion or for any other cause whatsoeuer yet they haue bin alwayes ouerthrowne by the iust iudgemeÌ„t of God and so Sir Thomas Wyat vpoÌ„ his arraignmeÌ„t for the sayd rebellion of Kent Hol. 1. ma. affirmed openly lamenting heartily his brutish and beastly fall as he rightly tearmed it into the horrible offence of the law requiring all the audience there present to remember his spÃ©eches and to be taught by his infelicitie and most wretched case as in the Chronicle doth appeare If you be grieued with any thing which is to be reformed exhibit your supplication to her Maiesties Lieutenant here present and make your humble submission confessing your great offences and crauing together on your knees her most gracious pardon with faithfull promise that by Gods grace you will not enter into the like horrible offence hereafter against her highnesse and her lawes and so ye may the rather obtaine the same which her sayd Lieutenant hath authority vnder her great seale of England to graunt to such of you as shall do as is afore remembred herein you shall do as was vsed in king Edward the sixt his time Holinsh by some which then opposed themselues against the sayd king as you do now against her Maiestie who vppon their like submission had their pardon and by order from the king also present redresse of their griefes If ought be to be remedied it belongeth not to the subiect to performe it for if the Prince should make a law neuer so hard against the subiect impose a great punishment to the breakers thereof yet the subiect may not presume to attempt to remedy the same but must submit himselfe to the punishment of the law as Saint Perer saith Peter submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the king as to the head or to the rulers as to them sent of him for the punishment of euil doers but for the cherishing of such as do well for so is the will of God If you will not take this course but stand to the vttermost assure your selues that you shall be consumed with the sword and such as escape that death shall suffer the execution due by law to traitors in such terrible manner as is aboue remembred To conclude if neither the feare of God your dutie to your

tooke good assurance of king Peter for the paiment of the souldiers wages 1367. The Prince setteth forward to Spaine Thus when the Prince had taken order for his iourny in each condition as was thought behoofefull he with the king of Spaine in his companie passed forth with an army of thirtie thousand men Henrie king of Spaine hauing knowledge that the Prince of Wales was thus comming against him to restore his brother king Peter to his former degrÃ©e assembled of the French and of his owne people to the number of fourescore seuen thousand or there about of men of warre wherof seuen thousand were horsemen King Henrie sent to the Prince an Herald of armes with a letter The king of Spaine sendeth to the Prince requiring to know of him for what cause he moued warre against him sith he had neuer offered him any such occasion The Prince dispatched the Herald with an answer to the Letter containing in effect that for great considerations he had taken vpon him to aide the rightfull king of Spaine thased out of his realme by violent wrong and that if it might be he would gladly make an agrÃ©emeÌ„t betwixt them but so algates that king Henry of necessitie must then forsake all the title of the kingdome of Spaine which by no rightful meanes he could enioy and therfore if he refused thus to do he was for his part resolued how to procÃ©ed The Herald departed with this answer and came therewith to king Henrie and deliuered it vnto him as then lodged with his puissant armie at Nouarret which he liked not whereupon both parties prepared themselues to battell and ioyned The battell was eagerly fought the victorie fell to the Prince There were staine of men of armes fiue hundred and thrÃ©e score The number slaine at this battell at Nouarret and of Commons about seueÌ„ thousand and fiue hundred of the kings part and of the English part there was slaine of men of account but verie few viz. foure knights two Gascoynes one Almaine and the fourth an Englishman and of other meane Souldiers not past foure hundred Froissard as Froissard saith but other affirme that there was slaine of the Princes part about sixtÃ©ene hundred which shold sÃ©eme to be more like a truth if the battel were fought so sore fiercely as Froissard himselfe doth make report This battell was fought vpon a Saturday Caxton the third of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord 1367. There was taken prisoners of the kings part to the number of two thousand and amongst them the Earle of Dene Sir Berthram de Cleaquine the Marshall Dandrehen or Dandenhien and many other men of great account After the battell King Peter went to Burgis and was receiued into the Citie and shortly the Prince came thither Froissard and there held his Easter with king Peter and taried there aboue thrÃ©e wÃ©eks in the meane time they of Austergus Toledo Lisbon Cordeua Gallice Ciuill of all other places of the kingdome of Spaine came in did homage to King Peter promising him to be true to him euer after for they saw that resistance would not auaile so long as the Prince should be in the Countrie I note by this discourse Note the mightie courage of this noble Prince that durst enterprise to displace a king of his royall seat in his owne kingdome being there a mÃ©ere stranger and to encounter him in so great an action hauing not aboue thirtie thousand in his Campe the king being about fourescore sixe thousand strong whereof aboue seuen thousand were horsmen and in his owne countrey where he might be furnished to supply his want And here I may not omit to speake of the notable and valiant seruice performed by the said noble Earle of Essex and the right noble Charles Haward now Earle of Nottingham high Admirall of England and diuerse other Lords Knights Esquires and Gentlemen at Cales in Spaine in the thirtie eight yere of her Maiesties raigne where they found fiue Gallions of the king of Spaines that is to say the Philip being Admirall the S. Matthew the S. Andrew the S. Thomas the S. Iames three Leuantices two great ships of Noua Hispania and diuerse gallies and 20 marchant ships richly loden for the Indies at which time the English had fight with the said Gallies about an houre the next day the English men and the Spaniards incountred each the other valiantly which conflict continued from seauen of the clocke in the morning till one in the after noone which was so sharpe that some of the Spanish ships did runne vp the riuer further into the country to saue themselues The said ships called S. Mathew and S. Andrew were taken and brought into England the Philip another being Uiceadmirall ranne themselues on ground and the English entred the Philip to haue had the spoile of her which the Spaniards perceiuing did set on fire and went out and the English men escaped the fire with danger some other of their ships were fired by vs there the Generall landed about sire thousand men and marched towards Cales citie being led by the said noble Earle of Essex giuen in the head of that troupe whome certaine of the Spaniards met some on foote and some on horsebacke out of the citie about halfe a mile but they did not tarie but retired to the towne The said Eerle of Essex pursued them resolutely and with such inuincible courage vnto their walles where they played vpon them with their ordinance and small shot awhile but in the end they entred by plaine force with small losse of their men The Earle of Essex was one of the first that entred with many voluntarie Gentlemen and they which entred were not aboue 1000 men which wanne the towne but there was good ayde at hand In the towne there were 500 horsemen and a thousand footmen besides a great number of other townesmen and great store of munition ordinance and victualles The towne was strongly walled hauing a castle strongly edified in the midst thereof and so fortified and victualled that it was thought impossible to haue bene wonne without cannon shot and the houses were all of stone very strongly and defencibly builded so as if they had stood to it it had not bene possible with a far greater number to haue bene so soone surprised We tooke the spoyle of the Citie being very rich in Iewels Plate Money Cloth of gold Silke Sugars Wine Oyle Rice and other marchandise which was esteemed with the losse of the said ships and goods in them to be worth a huge suÌ„me of money The said noble Earles of Essex and Nottingham knowing the loosenesse of soldiers very honorably caused the Ladies and gentlewomen wherof there were diuerse in that Citie with the rest of the women and children with 500 men to be safely conueyed out of the Citie and a straite proclamation made that none should offer to any of them any

THE MANSION of Magnanimitie WHEREIN IS SHEWED THE most high and honorable acts of sundrie English Kings Princes Dukes Earles Lords Knights and Gentlemen from time to time performed in defence of their Princes and Countrie set forth as an encouragement to all faithfull subiects by their example resolutely to addresse themselues against all forreine enemies Published by RICHARD CROMPTON an Apprentice of the common Law 1599. Whereunto is also adioyned a collection of diuerse Lawes and Statutes meete to be knowne of all men with a briefe Table shewing what munition ought to be kept by all sorts of her Maiesties subiects for the defence of her Highnesse Realmes and Dominions LONDON Printed for VVilliam Ponsonby 1599. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX AND EWE EARLE MARshall of England Viscount Hereford Lord Ferrers of Charâ—ley Bourchier and Louaine Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Maister of her Maiesties Horse and Ordenance Chauncellor of the Vniuersity of Cambridge and one of her Highnesse most honorable Priuy Counsell RICHARD CRVMPTON desireth eternall felicitie THere is no kingdome Right honorable so strongly seated or with Castles so fortified or that so aboundeth in wealth which without valiant men trained vp in martiall discipline can be defended from the force of the enemy for the stronger or richer the countrey is the more are the snares and sleights prepared by the enemy to compasse and conquer the same for which cause and for that also occasions of warre are often offered vpon the sodaine it is necessary that some number of men should be trained vp continually in martiall actions as in other countries is vsed and so much the rather where long peace hath bene had which often taketh away the feare of warre causeth men to liue too securely and without regard of forreyne danger whereby they are vnskilfull in warres affaires and that such trained men may be alwaies ready and able to informe and leade others vnexperieÌ„ced in that seruice for it is not the number of men that alwayes obtayneth the victory in battell but such as are couragious and well exercised in martiall skill as Erasmus sayth well Erasmus Non refert quÃ m numerosum militem ducas in praelium sed quÃ m fortem quÃ m exercitatum Homer in these few verses following Homer setteth forth the whole military discipline which resteth in the valour of the souldiers and their obedience to their Captaines and Leaders Graeci fidentes animis audacibus ibant Ductorum quamuis premerent formidine vocem VVhere he sayth that they trusting in their couragious minds went against their enemies there he commendeth and extolleth their valours in armes and where he sayth they feared the commandement of their Captaines there he highly praiseth their great discretion and modesty VVhat bred such fame to the ATHENIANS who being but ten thousand ouerthrew great numbers of the PERSIANS in one battell in that time when they most florished in their conquests and did rule ouer many nations but valour and skill in the souldiers and obseruation of orders in battell By order all things are preserued and maintayned and without order all things come to ruine and confusion as the Scripture sayth Vbi nullus ordo ibi est confusio And as these things are requisite in the souldiers so is experience valour and skill also in the Captaine for if the blind leade the blind both fall into the ditch as the Gospell witnesseth therefore such Captaines are alwayes highly to be honoured imbraced aduanced and rewarded according to their places callings and deserts as the defenders in the time of warre of the Prince and state of the kingdome and common-wealth that they may be incouraged in that seruice and such as lightly esteeme these men or preferre them which liue idlely and daintily afore them are enemies to the Common-wealth as Osorius writeth and to be taken as the destroyers thereof in that they doe as much as in them lyeth to lay open their Countrey to the force of the enemie And because the matter of this Treatise concerneth the defence of our Prince and Countrey against the enemie which seruice appertaineth most properly to men of honour who ought to hold nothing more deere to them then the safety of the same of which they be the chiefe props stayes defenders and mayntainers vnder her Maiestie I haue thought it conuenient to dedicate this little Treatise to a man of such state and vnto your honour chiefly to the ende you may therein see the notable actes of Chiualrie performed in that seruice that thereby you may be incouraged to followe their steppes and increase the fame honour and renowme which you haue attayned in your late valiant seruice at CALES in SPAINE and else where Humbly beseeching your honor to accept this my small labour as a token of my desire to coÌ„mend your Honourable name to posteritie At your Honors commaund RICHARD CROMPTON AN ORATION TO BE MADE BY THE GENERAL TO THE WHOLE ARMIE AFORE THE BATTEL ALthough Warres are by all good meanes to be eschued for the auoiding of the great effusion of bloud that thereby often doth ensue yet when intollerable wrongs and iniuries are offered either by a forreine Prince or his subiects no recompence is made for the same The cause of the war must be published that it may appeare to arise vpon iust occasions which much doth encourage the souldier to fight warre must be taken in hand and Bodinus saith Bella non nisi propulsandae iniuriae ac pacis causa suscipienda sunt that is Warres are to be entred into to withstand iniuries and to procure peace The causes which haue drawne vs at this present into the field against these our enemies are knowne to many of you namely how these our enemies most violently and in warlike maner with Ensignes displayed in the time of peace without anie proclamation of Warre first made according to the lawes of Armes haue entred into our territories and countrey burned some of our Churches defaced the auncient monuments of our elders put multitudes of her Maiesties people to the sword yea women and children wasted their dwellings with fire despoiled them of their goods and rauished most shamefully their wiues daughters kinswomen euen afore their faces to be short there is no cruelty or tyrannie whatsoeuer which might be deuised but they haue afflicted her Highnesse subiects therewith without all pitie or mercie For which due recompence hath bene diuerse times by her Malesties Embassadours required and yet none is made Therefore either we must with sword and fire be reuenged of these most extreme dealings or otherwise they will be encouraged to attempt the like yea they will account vs men of no courage but cowards and base hearted a name which to our nation hath bene alwayes most odious in that it hath bin accounted valorous in armes in all countries as one writeth Anglia Bistonio gens semper inclita Marte Euerie man is borne

once to die and how when or where is most vncertaine and to giue our liues for our countrie hath alwayes among all nations and among the heathen bene reputed an honorable thing whereby euerlasting fame is attained and left to posteritie as the noble Orator Tully saith Hijs maiores nostri qui ob rem publicam obierunt pro breui vita diuturnam memoriam reddiderunt that is To them which haue lost their liues for the common wealth for a short life they haue yeelded euerlasting memorie There is no difference betwixt the greatest person the meanest man wheÌ„ they are both dead if there be no vertues or deedes of fame done by them whereby to commend their name to posteritie Therefore euerie man that desireth to liue in name when he is dead ought to endeuour himselfe to leaue some memorie of his vertues or worthie acts that it may appeare that once he liued here else being laid in his graue he shall soone be forgotten Riches and beautie saith Salust do vanish soone away but vertues and deeds of fame are euerlasting which sith our liues are short momentanie we must by this meanes make perpetuall A glorious death is alwayes to be preferred afore a life stained with reproch and infamie If you will consider what miseries and calamities happen where the enemy preuaileth look backe into the hard dealing of William Duke of Normandie when he conquered this Lande it ought greatly to encourage you in this seruice against the enemy Did not he alter the whole state and gouernment of our Countrey Did he not make new Lawes altogither profitable for himselfe and his Normans and hurtfull to our Nation Did he not spoile sundry of the English Nobles and others of their lands and possessions contrary to promise yea euen to those English Lords who ayded him in that Conquest Did not hee lay greeuous taxes tallages and impositions vpon our Nation There was no cruelty no misery no seruitude or bondage which could be deuised but he afflicted them therewith as by our Chronicles euidently appeareth and shall we looke for any other if our enemies shoulde preuaile The wise Cato said Cato Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum Happy is he that can beware by others daÌ„gers mishap Now therefore if euer you will shew your loyaltie to your Prince and loue to your Countrey your naturall affection to your old father and aged mother to your deer wiues and sweet children which cannot defend themselues if euer you will shew your selues careful to preserue your posterities that shall succeed if euer you desire to maintaine the Honour and Worship of the houses whereof you are descended if euer you will shewe your selues to come of the seed and generation of your valiant auncestors couragious forefathers if euer you will leaue Honor or fame to your posterities of your valour in Armes wherby your ofspring may be incouraged to follow your steps nowe is the time or neuer Plucke vppe therefore your hearts like men and set your rest vppon it determining with your selues rather to die in field in defence of your Prince and countrey then that these myseries shoulde happen vnto vs if you turne your faces which God defend then shall our Prince bee indangered the state of our Common-wealth ouerthrowne we shall be slaine as thicke as motes in the sunne our fathers mothers wiues and children shall be destroyed our wiues our daughters and kinswomen rauished and defloured afore our faces straungers shall possesse our lands and liuings and wee that now liue in honor worship and credit and as it were at our owne hearts ease shall then be made subiects bondmen slaues and pesaunts to Forreners and strangers and then shall al the myseries before remembred or which can be deuised be laide vpon vs. There is no cause my good friendes and fellowes in Armes why wee should stande in feare or doubt of these proud Spaniardes though they farre exceede vs in number nor of their hauty lookes or great bragges for they are of no greater force or strength now then they were in former times when vnder the conduct of that worthy couragious Prince of Wales eldest son to K. Edw. the 3. a small Army of Englishmen passed in despite of them through Nauarre into Spaine there euen in the midst and bowels of their own countrey ouerthrewe at Nadres the vsurping K. Henry the bastard with diuers of his Nobility and 60000. of the brauest fighting men in Spaine erected in his place Don Pedro their lawful Prince coÌ„pelling the Nobility and citties to receiue him Besides the valorous conquest atchieued by Iohn Duke of Lanc. brother to the said Prince in Galicia against Don Iohn sonne of the said Henry the vsurping bastard What famous victorie the noble K. Rich. the first obtained against the Souldan of Egypt and the K. of Cypres in their owne territories and made the said K. of Cypres do homage for that kingdome to the crown of Engl. Besides other Nations which haue often receiued sundry great ouerthrowes at our hands thogh they were mighty in Armes such was the wil of God who giueth victory where he pleaseth And for that praise and rewards are due for iust deserts if you will shew your selues valiant Captains and couragious souldiors in this seruice of which I haue no doubt and wherof I wil God willing make true report vnto her Ma. you may be assuted that as she wil highly commend you so you shal be rewarded accordingly for she holds such as you to be the chiefe defenders of her state and Common-wealth against the enemy and regardeth not such as liue daintily at ease before men of your quality For they as Osorius affirmeth which prefer such before men of your condition are to be held subuerters of their countrey in laying it open to the enemy in defrauding the same of her necessary defence safeguard And for my part I assure you on my Honor that whatsoeuer persons you shall take prisoners whatsoeuer thing shall fal into your haÌ„ds of the spoile after the battel you shal enioy the same with good wil as the law of Armes requireth to the end ye may the rather be incouraged in this action now in hand for I hold it no reason that you should abide the brunt of battell and not retaine and enioy the same which you shall obtaine with the venturing of your liues and losse of your bloud And againe the rather to encourage you in this seruice see how gratiouslie and carefully her Ma. and the whole state of the Parliament haue prouided for the keeping and releefe of such of you which bee common souldiers which shal happen to be maimed in her wars which afore her daies was neuer done And now to the end we may the rather preuaile against our enemies I exhort and aduise you noble Captains valiant Gentlemen attempt nothing in your fury without due consideration first had for such

this seruice of defence Shall we now distrust more of the ayde of our mercifull Lord God then our forefathers did whom he so graciously assisted against their enemies or think he wil forsake vs now more then our elders whom he hath alwaies defended in their iust and lawfull accions Surely if we indeuour our selues to serue and feare him to walke in his waies to call vpon him in our troubles and necessities no doubt hee will ayde vs according to his promise Call vpon me saith he by his Prophet Dauid in the time of trouble We must call vpon God to ayde vs against our enimies and I will heare thÃ©e and thou shalt praise me And agaiue Knock and it shal be opened vnto you aske and you shall haue Whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my name he will surely giue it you Did not the children of Israell ouercome their enimies in battell so long as Moyses held vp his hands and praied vnto God for victorie and when he ceased the enimie preuailed Moyses 2 Chron. 14. Did not the Almighty turne away his displeasure from the children of Israell at the praier of Moyses when they worshipped the golden Calfe as it is written in the 106. psalme So he said he would haue destroyed them Psal 106. had not Moyses his chosen stood before him in the gap to turne away his wrathful indignation least he should destroy them Did not Asha the godly king of Iuda when Sarache king of Ethiopia came against him with an hoast of aboue ten hundred thousand chariots 2 Chron. 14 when they ioyned battell in the vale of Zephera cry to God for aide against Sarachc saying Help vs O Lord our God for wee do put our trust in thee and in thy name wee go against this huge multitude thou art our Lorde God and no man shall preuaile against thee And the Lorde smote the Ethiopians before Asha and Iuda and they were ouerthrowue that there was none of them lefte but were destroyed before the lord and his hoast Did not the good king Iehosophat when the grat number of Iehosophat the Amorytes and Moabites ioyned battell with him before the battell began 2 Chron. 20 stand vp and said Heere O Iuda and inhabitants of Ierusalem put your truste in the Lord your God that you may be found faithfull giue credit to the prophet and so shall you prosper and their enimies were ouerthrowne without stroke amongst themselues and with their owne forces consumed themselues Besides the example of Senacherib king of Assour who with an hoaste of one hundred foure score and fiue thousand as the prophet Esay witnesseth Esay 37. could not preuail when he inuaded Hesechia king of Iuda for Hesechia did put on sackcloth and went vp to the temple and prayid and sent Heliachym and other prophets to Esay that he shuld pray to God for them and God sent his Angels who slew the Assirians hoast Wherby it doth appear that it is not the great multitude of men of war horses chariots but the lord God that giueth victory in battell who is called the lord of hostes who euer fighteth for his owne people and neuer leaueth them distitute that put their trust in him These are left to vs for examples that we should not put trust in our owne forces and strength Psal 127. but repose our confidence in him that hath made all and therfore hath power of al things Psal 108. he must keep and defend the City or els the watchmen that kÃ©ep it watch in vaine as the prophet saith and so he must aide and fight for vs or else we cannot preuaile And againe he saith O helpe vs against the enimy for vaine is the helpe of man through God wee shall doe great things it is he that shall tread downe our enimies There is no king that can bee saued by the multitude of an hoast neither is any mightie man deliuered by much strength A horse is counted but a vaine thing to saue a man neither shal he deliuer any man by his great strength Behold the cie of the Lord is vpon them that feare him and vppon them that put their trust in his mercy And yet we may not leaue forces and other ordinary waies deuised and ordained for defence but must vse them as the said godly Kings and princes did against their enimies Psal 118. alwaies hoping in the gratious aid and assistance of almighty God and if he be on our side who is against vs as the Proph. saith The Lord is on my side I will not feare what man doth vnto me Now therefore considering these miseries and calamities which happen where the enimy doth preuaile and the great preparation which they haue made to bring vs vnder their subiections and bondage if euer we will shew our loyalties to our Prince our cuntrey or naturall affection to our parents our loue to our wiues Persvvations to encounter the enemy children and litle infants which cannot defend themselues our good will to our kinsfolkes friends and allies if euer we will shew our selues carefull to preserue our posterity to succÃ©ed vs if euer we will haue desire to mantaine the honour worship and fame of the houses wherof we are descended if euer we will shew our selues to come of the sÃ©ed and generation of our valiant ancestors and couragious forfathers if euer we will leaue honour or fame to our posterities of our valour in arms wherby our ofspring may be also incouraged to follow our steps therein for vertues and acts of fame liue when men are dead as the saying is viuit post funera virtus nowe is the time for it or neuer Therfore let vs pluck vp our harts like meÌ„ make ready our horses scowre our armor sharpen our swordes and make bright our weapons which wÃ©e are charged to haue by the lawe of this Realme whereof we may haue a view in this booke and furnish our selues further with things mÃ©et for the warres according to our ability and when we shall be commaunded by her maiestties authoritie let vs be ready and sette our rest vppon it determining rather to die in field in defence of our Prince and Countrey then that the enimy should preuaile whereby the miseries calamities and bondages afore remembred should fall vpon vs. If we stand to it like men then shall we preserue the word of God amongst vs our gratious QuÃ©ene and her most honorable Counsel the state of our common wealth our owne liues and our fathers mothers wiues children friends kinsfolkes allies then shal we posesse our lands our goods and liuings in peace then shall wee preserue and continue our liberties and frÃ©edomes and saue our selues and our posteritie from thrawledome and bondage and we shall passe the rest of our liues to our owne good contentment and likewise according to Gods good pleasure On the other side if we flie which God defend then shall the word of

presented her selfe before him in his chamber and promised him faire vntill she had lulled him asleepe with drinke and then making her praiers to Almighty God to assist her against the proud Assyrian Holofernes she tooke out his sword and stroke of his head and passed through his host with her maid hauing Holofernes head in a bagge and so came to her castle in the night and the next day fixed his head vpon a powle for the view of all his army wherevpon they remoued and so she deliuered her Citie by the great mercy and fauor of God towards her What shall I say of Curtius that noble Romaine and Assurus the kings sonne of Phrigia either of which seeing in their country a dangerous breach of cliffe in the earth which they were perswaded would not be closed vp againe vntill the best thing in the citie which they tooke to be a man were cast into it willingly threw themselues into the same for the safety of the people But forraine examples are innumerable and not so well knowne vnto vs as our owne Â¶ This Chapter sheweth sundrie examples of diuerse Noblemen of this land who haue aduentured their liues in defence of their countrey and how that euerie man ought to indeuour him selfe to follow their steps and most valiantly and resolutely to fight in defence of his Prince and countrey against all foreine enemies CHAP. 5. IT is not vnknowne vnto you Aduentures of the Nobilitie how valiantly the Kings Princes and Nobles of this our Nation haue in diuerse and sundrie warres ventured their owne persons and with their owne handes incountred their enemies As for example Did not Henrie the first in a battell in France Holinsh 356. smite downe to the ground Crispio Earle of Eureux by meanes wherof he was taken prisoner at the kings fÃ©et IbideÌ„ 1181. 1170. Was not king Henrie the fifth in person in the battell at Agincourt in Fraunce and there likewise fought in his owne person Battell of Agincourt in FraÌ„ce fought by K. Henrie the 5. and caried away the stroke of the enemie vpon his helmet and man of the French at that time a glorious victorie And concerning the valiant seruice in field of a great number of the Nobilitie and others of this realme how they haue also endaungered them selues in the defence of their Prince and countrey against the enemie performed most famous actes of chiualrie therein to their great honors immortal fames which obliuion the cankred enemie to fame shall neuer be able to blemish but they shall remaine as spectacles to posterities for euer to behold and to encourage them to ensue their martiall actes and enterprises Among other what valiant and faithfull seruice hath the noble house of the Lord Talbot done from time to time to their Princes and countrey The valiant seruice of the noble house of the Lord Talbot Hall 596. Mauns in Fraunce when the Earle of Suffolke hauing the charge of Mauns in France and the magistrates specially the cleargy of the same citie conspired with the French assuring them that if they would come to surprise the citie they should find them ready to receiue them and so they did by meanes whereof the said Earle with the rest of the said English men were forced to take the castle there and keepe it and in all hast sent to the Lord Talbot who then lay at Alaunson certifying him in what state they stood hauing neither victuall nor munition and their castle almost vndermined so that yeelding now must follow for resistance would not helpe if they were not aided with speed Did not the said Lord Talbot hearing this newes with all hast assemble his Captaines and souldiers to the number of seauen hundred men of warre and in the euening departed from Alaunson and that night entred into the said castle of Mans at a posterne gate secretly Whereupon about sixe of the clocke in the morning the English men issued out of the Castle crying aloud S. George Talbot The Frenchmen within thinking nothing lesse then of this sudden approchment rose out of their beds and fled leauing all their horses armour and riches behind them at which time there was slaine and taken foure hundred gentlemen of the French And thus was the Citie of Mans reduced againe vnto English Mauns takeÌ„ by the Lord Talbot Holins 1262. Awians Ibid. 1262. mens possessions by this most noble seruice and bold enterprises of this Lord Talbot Did not the Lord Talbot likewise with a companie raise the siege of the French at Awrans then being in the allegiance of the king of England Did not he the Lord Scales and others hearing the Frenchmen to be come within foure leagues of Rone which then was then also Rone vnder the subiection of the king of England by night issue out of that citie and in the morning by day came to the place where the Frenchmen were and then set vpon them where many of them were slaine and taken prisoners Also did not the Duke of Burgundie when he beseeged the towne of Cretoy with ten thousand men Ibidem 1263 Cretoy hearing of the comming of the Lord Talbot raise his siege the sayd Lord Talbot sending him word that he would giue him battell if he would not that the said Earle would wast and destroy his countrey in Picardy and according to his promise so he did Was not Iohn Lord Talbot for his approued prowesse and tried valiancy performed in the warres of France Ibidem 1276 Camden 462. Iohn first Earle of Shrewsburie Normandy Hall 31 h. 6. Aquitaine Burdeux taken Diuers other cities and townes taken created Earle of Shrewsburie about the ninteenth yeare of Henrie the sixt and after sent againe with 3000. men into Normandie for the better defence thereof who neither forgot his duty nor forslowed his businesse but daily labored and hourely studied how to molest and indanger his enemies Did not the kings Counsell then send the said Earle with an army into Aquitaine at the earnest sute of the Magistrates and inhabitants of the citie of Burdeaux who receiued him and his power into that citie by a posterne gate where they siue many of the Captaines and others of the Frenchmen and so was Burdeaux taken by the said Earle which he fortified and after rode into the countrey thereabout and obtained diuers cities and townes without dint of sword And among others did not he take the strong towne of Castillon in Perigot Castillon in Perigot where the French king wheÌ„ he vnderstood thereof assembled twenty thousand men and entred into Aquitaine Aquitaine Castillon befieged by the french where Castillon is and besieged the said towne of Castillon with a strong siege where vpon the Earle of Shrewsbury assembled 800. horsmen and 5000. footmen and went to the rescue of the said towne in which battell very valiantly he behaued himselfe Earle of Shrewsbury slaine Anno 1453. Camden 462. and there

a ring with a diamond therein as I haue heard valued at xv hundreth pounds a thing meet to remaine as an heire loome to that house for euer for a remembrance thereof And now to returne to the valiant seruice of diuerse others to their Prince and countrey let me tell you of Iohn late Duke of Northumberland Iohn Duke of NorthuÌ„berland of whose fall by his disloyalty to his Prince though there be great pitie yet his courage valiancy and hardinesse in wars and his great aduenture therein I trust without offence may here be remembred as an incouragement to others to follow his steps therein who being in king Edward the sixt his time sent as Generall to suppresse the rebellion of Ket in Norfolke Holinsh 1672. his number being but small by reason his whole power was not yet come to him and the rebels were many was by some of his army aduised to regard his owne safety and to leaue the City of Norwich for that it was thought he was not able with his small company to defend the same against the sayd rebels to whom with noble courage shewing an inuincible hart he sayd that so long as any life was in him he would not consent to such dishonor but rather would suffer whatsoeuer either fire or sword should worke against him and thereupon did draw out his sword as other of the honourable and worshipfull then there present likewise did and commaunded that each one should kisse the others sword according to an auncient custome vsed amongst meÌ„ of war in time of great danger wherupon they all made a vow binding it with a solemne oath that they would not depart from thence vntill they had either vanquished the rebels or lost their liues in manfull fight for defence of the kings honour Ambrose Earle of Warwicke Ibid. 1532. How valiantly did Ambrose Earle of VVarwicke in the fourth yeare of the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lady the Queenes Maiestie that now is defend the towne of Newhauen in Fraunce notwithstanding they died in great numbers of the plague so as they wanted men and other things necessarie for defence yet would not yÃ©eld the towne by force but manfully stood ready in the breaches to receiue the assault wheÌ„ the Frenchmen had with their Cannon made great breaches verie easie for the enemie to enter wherupon the Frenchmen perceiuing the resolutenesse of the Englishmen sounded their Trumpet of parley and so vpon honorable agrÃ©ement then concluded vpon the towne was yÃ©elded vp to the Frenchmen Besides how valiantly did Sir Iames Wilford and other Captaines with their souldiers defend the towne of Haddington in Scotland against the French and Scots being about eightÃ©ene thousand in king Edward the sixt his dayes and would not yÃ©eld it although they had scarsitie of men and munition and were also greatly visited with the plague so as manie died thereof dayly but most valiantly and with inuincible courages defended the same Holinsh 1638. so as it was not surprised by the enemie How valiantly resolutely did the Lord Gray of Wilton Lord Iohn Gray the Lord Ed. Seymer Edward Shelley Preston and others to the number of seuen and twentie all Gentlemen set vpon the foreward of the battell of the Scots at Musclebrough in Scotland Expedition paten folio in king Edward the sixt his time meaning to haue broken their array but the Scots had so strongly fortified themselues that they could not enter and so in their retiring they were all slaine sauing the Lord Gray of Wilton and the Lord Iohn Gray and Lord Ed. Seymer who not without wounds and marks vpon their bodies of their being there escaped By these examples it appeareth that those Noblemen and others respected not their liues nor any painfull seruice or extremities in the seruice of their Prince and countrey for which they shall liue in fame for euer MeÌ„ may not respect any trauell or pain to serue their Prince and country He that hath desire to liue in name when he is dead in bodie must indeuour himselfe according to his calling as God hath indowed him to leaue some memorie whereby it may appeare that once hee liued as these verses following shew 1 THough Death the fatal threed of ech man cuts in twaine Yet vertues ay shall liue and worthie acts remaine 2 For others to ensue their painefull steps therein Whereby they may attaine like lasting praise to winne 3 But such as not regard to leaue some deed of fame When they are dead shall lie without regard or name 4 And soone shall be forgot as they had neuer bin And shall not be thought of no scarce amongst their kinne 5 What difference shall be then twixt great and meanest man When of their worthie acts no booke record ought can 6 What booteth titles great of honour for to haue Or Croesus golden store when men lie in the graue 7 More worth a thousand fold t is famous for to be For vertues and noble acts then all the rest to thee 8 That moued mightie kings and great States of this land And manie others mo great things to take in hand 9 Some kingdomes to subdue by sword both farre and neare Their persons ventred haue and dangers did not feare 10 And manie worthy Peeres their Prince to serue in field And countrey to defend great acts with speare and shield 11 Performed haue which fame with blast of trumpe hath spread Whereby they liue in name though they in graue ly dead 12 And some haue Churches built in honor of our Lord Where they did giue him thanks and praise with one accord 13 Some Colledges for such as learning list embrace Their countrey and their Prince to serue in euerie place 14 Some Schooles to traine vp youth in skill and vertues lore While tender yeares do last in age to haue in store 15 Some Hospitals for poore where they may be relieued When crooked age of strength to worke hath them bereaued 16 And these they haue endow'd with liuing and with land To their immortall fame for euermore to stand 17 These for their Founders pray and benefactors all And for their off-spring eke on God cease not to call 18 For their prosperitie and foes eke to withstand That all things prosper may which they do take in hand 19 And when they are gone hence that in the latter day They may rise vp with Christ in ioyes to dwell alway 20 None only for himselfe but for his countrey too Is borne and bound for her the best he can to do 21 The Brutish kings that long did beare the scepter here Faire temples to their gods and Castles strong that were 22 And cities large and townes erected manie one The enemie to defend they walled them with stone 23 And manie famous men the founders of our skill Their learned works haue left to studie on that will 24 Before that Christ was borne whose glorie liues this day And while the

Spaine by ciuill warres when it was deuided into many kingdomes The Mores did ouercome it on the one side the French and the Englishmen deuoured it on the other side And Hungarie which had valiantly resisted the Turke almost two hundreth yeares together Hungarie was at the length subdued by them by the diuisions that happened amongst themselues What a great slaughter was there of the Nobilitie of Fraunce Fountaine at the battell of Fountaine neare to Anserre by the ciuill warres that were betwixt Lithargus Lewes and Charles the Bald What ciuill warres and bloudsheds did ensue of the diuision betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster here with vs in EnglaÌ„d The houses of Yorke Lancaster which being beguÌ„ in king Henrie the fourth his dayes continued till Henrie the seueÌ„th who maried the eldest daughter and heire of Edward the fourth by which the said two houses were vnited together and so all ciuill wars then ceased These sactions continued diuerse yeares in which time there died in sundrie battels and skirmishes Camden 474. as Philippus Comineus saith aboue foure score of the bloud royall with the floure of the Nobilitie of England besides a great number of the Lords Knights Esquires and Gentlemen and infinite thousands of the common people And to passe ouer manie examples of like sort Fraunce in what pitifull state doth Fraunce now stand which hath bene one of the most flourishing realmes of Europe by ciuill warres and dissention which hath afflicted that kingdome aboue thirtie yeares wherof hath ensued not only the slaughter of manie noble persons but also infinite thousands of other subiects and in the end the shamefull murther of their owne naturall liege Lord and King Murther of their Prince These miseries may be examples to vs to beware of such like sedition and diuision and happie are they that can beware by others dangers as the wise Cato saith Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum Sedition is perillous Cato although it shew to haue neuer so good a countenance of honest cause and it were better for the authour of such sedition to suffer anie losse or iniurie then to be the cause of so great an euill Bodynus lib. 4. fol. 168. Vt morbi ac vulnera ipsaeque animae egritudines ac perturbationes tum corporibus tum mentibus noxiae sunt ita quoque bella ciuilia rebus publicis ac ciuitatibus pestifera sunt ac perniciosa As diseases wounds and the griefes and troubles of the mind both to the bodie and mind are hurtfull so likewise ciuill warres to the common wealth are pestiferous and daungerous For ciuill warres bring forth and nourish want of reuerence towards God contemneth authoritie lawes and gouernment without which Nec domus vlla nec ciuitas nec gens nec rerum natura nec ipse mundus stare potest No house no nation no citie nor the nature of things nor the world it selfe can stand The fruits of sedition Sedition causeth change of lawes contempt of iustice base estimation of sciences it procureth horrible reuenge forgetfulnesse of pareÌ„tage consanguinitie and friendship it causeth extortions violence robberies wastings of countries sacking of townes burning of buildings coÌ„fiscations vanishments sauage murthers alterations and ouerthrow of pollicies with other infinite and intollerable miseries pitifull to behold sorowfull to expresse and lamentable to thinke of Non Virgil. mihi silinguae centum sunt oraque centum Ferrea vox omnes scelerum comprendere formas Possem If I an hundred tongues and mouthes had for to tell And voyce as yron hard expresse I could not well The perils to a state and kingdome that may fall By ciuill warre which makes to strangers bond thrall SeditioÌ„ armeth the father against the son brother against brother kinsman against kinsman men of the same nation prouince and citie one against another Hereupon the fields which before were fruitful are left vntilled corne groweth where townes did stand there the ground with bloud of men is made ranke which before was barren that a man may say as Ouid writeth of Troy Iam seges est vbi Troia fuit resecandÃ¡que falce Luxuriat Phrigio sanguine pinguis humus What doth not the fire and furie of sedition ciuill wares bring with it as one writeth well Quid non discordia frangit Epist 1. Dissipat eneruat fera cum dominatur Erynnis What doth not discord breake waste and make weake when Erynnis which is fayned by the Poets to be the Lady of dissention and strife doth rule Erynni 1. And in the ende the bodies thus dismembred and the parts thereof infected with the same poyson of discord 2. Reg. cap. 24. destroy themselues Dauid the Prophet iudged war worse theÌ„ either famine or pestilence he did rather chuse a plague amongst his subiects then ciuill warres and tumults Pythagoras saith that three things are by all meanes to be remaued a disease from the body ignorance from the soule and sedition from the city Plato affirmeth that no euill is worse in a city then that which diuideth and of one maketh it twoÌ„ and that nothing is better then concord which tyeth and vniteth it together Concordia res paruae crescuâ—t discordia antem maximae dilabuntur By concord small things do increase but by discord great things come to confusion Let vs heare what the noble Orator Tully sayth Senten lib. 1. fol. 190. of the miseries which ensue by ciuill wars Omnia sunt misera in bellis ciuilibus sed miserius nihil quÃ m ipsa victoria quae etiamsi ad meliores venit tamen eos ipsos ferociores impotentiorÃ©sque reddit vt etiamsi natura tales non sunt necessitate tamen esse cogantur multa enim victori eorum arbitrio per quos vicit etiam inuito facienda sunt All things are miserable in ciuill warres but nothing is more miserable then the victory it selfe which although it happen to the best sort yet it maketh them cruell in so much that though they be not so by nature yet of necessity they are compelled so to be for many things by the ouercommer at the pleasure of such by whose ayd he doth ouercome euen against his will are to be done King Henrie the fift When king Henry the fift not hauing aboue fifteene thousand men gaue a great ouerthrow to the French king at Agincourt in Fraunce where he had assembled to the number of forty thousand of the flower of all his countrey had taken many prisoners of the french Hol. 1181. both Nobles and others the french as they are men of great courage and valour so they assembled themselues againe in battell array meaning to haue giuen a new battell to king Henry which king Henry perceiuing gaue speciall commaundement by proclamation that euery man should kill his prisoners whereupon many were presently slaine whereof of French king hauing intelligence dispersed his army and so departed

4. fol. 480 for as Bodinus writeth wheÌ„ ciuill warres were raised amongst the Florentines and great slaughter and bloudshed happened amongst them in the Citie and no force of man could restraine the same Frauncis Soderinus the Bishop hauing on his pontificall ornaments and a companie of Priests attending on him and the Crosse borne before him entred into the middest of the Citizens thus assembled whereupon they forthwith for the feare they had of religion did put off their armour so did Iudas Bishop of the Hebrues High Priest when Alexander the great came to the citie of Ierusalem with a great host being apparelled in his holy vestiments met him which sight and the brightnesse whereof being feared Alexander did reuerence the Bishop did not spoile the countrie nor holy Citie but with great benefites did inlarge the same By like meanes Vrbane the Pope is said to haue turned and remoued away the siege of Attila from the citie of Aquila 5. Ioseph in anti as Iosephus writeth but when none of these will serue then the extermitie of armes must be vsed And because good perswasions and mild spÃ©eches are thought so conuenient to be vsed to appease such vprores I haue thought good to set downe this simple exhortation which followeth After that Almightie God had destroyed the world for the finne of man Exhortation to rebels sauing Noah and his family who were preserued in the Arke by Gods prouidence and that nations and people did againe increase and multiply vpon the face of the earth knowing in his euerlasting wisedome how necessarie good and wholsome lawes should be for the gouernment and direction of his people he gaue the lawes of the tenne commandements in the mount Sinay wherein is contained first our dutie to almighty God and next to our neighbour then he also ordained Kings Princes and Gouernors to rule and order their subiects and to punish the offenders thereof by these lawes and gaue them power to make lawes as Salomon saith Prou. 8. By me kings raigne through me Princes make good lawes And lastly he gaue straight commandemeÌ„t to the subiects touching their obedience to their Soueraigne Lords and rulers Rom. 13. as Saint Paule saith Let euerie soule submit himselfe to the higher Powers there is no power but of God all powers that be are ordained of God whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist procure to themselues damnation for rulers are not fearefull to them that do well but to them that do euill Wilt thou be without feare of the power do well then and so thou shalt be praised of him for he is the minister of God ordained for thy wealth But if thou do euill then feare for he beareth not the sword in vaine for he is the minister of God to take vengeance of them that do euill Wherfore we must obey not onely for feare of vengeance but for conscience sake also for that cause we pay tribute for they are Gods ministers seruing for that purpose Now what euill counsel hath moued you thus to enter into armes against your naturall Prince and Liege Ladie whom Almightie God hath ordained to supply his place and to raigne ouer you Who hath be witched you thus to abuse the great loue and fauour of so gracious a QuÃ©ene which she hath borne alwayes and doth dayly shew to her good subiects to oppose against her that is studious to set forth the Gospell that is and hath bene so carefull to maintaine such common peace amongst vs these fortie yeares and more Though this be touched afore yet it is not vnmeet to be vsed here to these men as the like hath not bin sÃ©ene nor heard of neither is to be found in anie record or Chronicle of this realme sithence the conquest therof which is aboue 528 yeares for the like time of gouernment that is desirous to raigne with mercie with loue with pitie and tender compassion and not by tyrannie nor by effusion of bloud neither alwayes by inflicting the extremitie of her lawes vpon such as most iustly haue deserued the execution of the same that is mercifull to offenders bountifull to well deseruers of her Maiestie and their conntrey that to her great charge hath fortified this realme with strong Castles and a Nauie of warlike shippes and all other things necessarie for the warres in great aboundance for the defence of her kingdome and people that hath not laid vpon vs any taxes or tallages but the like thereof hath bene before her time and greater also that hath made good lawes and taken a solemne oath in the day of her coronation to endeuour her selfe that the same shall be holden kept and executed vnto all her subiects indifferently without respect of persons and is also well pleased to be ordered by the same her selfe If you consider the horrible murthers of great persons the pitifull slaughter of man woman and child by fire and sword the lamentable rauishments of maids wiues and widowes the ransacking and spoiling of Cities and townes with many other miseries and calamities which haue hapned continued in other countreys not farre hence these many yeares by occasion of ciuill warres and dissention you shall find that we haue cause to thinke our selues most bound of all nations to the goodnesse of God in that he hath not suffered vs to be afflicted and visited with the like all which haue bene preueÌ„ted by the great wisedome and prouidence of her Maiestie her graue Councell These besides other infinite great kindnesse and benefites her highnesse hath daily most graciously bestowed vpon vs that more nor greater no Prince can extend to her people and shall we now be vnthankfull for the same shall we yÃ©eld vnkindnesse for kindnesse shall we recompence her daily care studie to do vs good by seeking danger to her person and perill to her state which may ensue by your forcible and violeÌ„t opposing against her There is nothing worse bestowed then that is done to the vngratefull and forgetfull man as Erasmus writeth Nihil peius confertur quÃ m quod hemini ingrato atque non scienti A man that receiueth a good turne if there be any good nature in him will alwayes be thankful and so much the more when he is not able to deserue or requite the least part thereof king Dauid that receiued many good things at the hands of God shewed not himselfe vnthankfull but breaking out as it were on a suddaine sayd vnto himselfe Quid retribuam Domino pro omnibus quae retribuit mihi calicem salutaris accipiam nomen Domini inuocabo Psal 116. 107. What shall I yeeld vnto God for all that he hath done vnto me I will take the cup of thankesgiuing and call vpon the name of the Lord. It is all that Almighty God doth looke for at our hands that we should be thankfull vnto him for all his mercies louing kindnesse that

he doth daily bestow vpoÌ„ vs as Almightie God saith by his Prophet He that giueth me praise and thankes the same is he that honoreth me And all that her Maiestie looketh for at our hands is to be true faithfull and thankefull to her Is there any thing that doth more open the gate to forrein inuasion then ciuill warres and dissention the Gospell saith Euery kingdome in it self deuided shal be desolate Did not William Duke of Normandie when ciuil warres diuision was in the realme coÌ„quere the same and likewise in Henrie the third his dayes when the great warres were betwixt him and his Barons did not Philip the French king send hither Lewes his sonne with a great number of men of warre and got sundry Cities Castels Townes and holdes thinking to haue made a conquest of this land and so had done if the sayd Barons who conspired with the sayd Lewes had not reuolted froÌ„ the French and driuen them out of this countrey besides diuers other like examples to be found in our English Chronicles If there be any thing mÃ©ete to be redressed do you thinke by this meanes though your number were far greater to haue your wils or to be relÃ©eued No no assure your selues the nobilitie and thousands of thousands of the good and dutiful subiectes of this realme will ioyne together as they ought to destroy you and you shal be slaine as thicke as motes are in the sunne before you shall obtaine your purpose for it standeth not with the honour and name of a Prince to be forced by the subiect to do any thing against his will and such of you as shal escape the sword shal be sure to be executed by course of law that is you shal be drawne vpon hurdles to the places of execution and there hanged vntill you be halfe dead and then cut downe aliue your priuities shal be cut off your bowels taken out of your bellyes and being aliue they shal be burned before your faces then shall your heads be smitten off and your bodies deuided into foure quarters and as the vse is shal be set vpon stakes in the towers and highest places in good Cities and townes where it shall please the Prince to appoint Thus shall your carcases be meate for the fowles of the ayre and a spectacle ioyfull to your enemies and wofull to your parents kinsfolks and friends to behold besides you shall leaue to your posterities name of perpetual shame ignominy and reproch that is the names of rebels and false traitors yea rather monsters to your Prince and countrey you shall also vndo your wife and children in that you shal forfet to the Prince all your lands leases goods and chattels besides your blud shal be corrupted so as none of your ofspring shal be able to haue or claime by you any lands as heyres to your fathers mothers or other auncesters And this forfaiture and corruption of bloud shal be as well where you shal be slaine in field as condemned by course of law Where haue you euer heard or read that rebels whether they haue bene of nobilitie or others did euer preuaile but haue bin alwayes ouerthrowne and brought to confusion whatsoeuer their pretences haue bene And amongst many examples I will put you in minde of a tew Rebellion in Lincolnshyre Hol. 1567. when as the Lincolnshyre men to the number of 40000. rebelled about the 28. yeare of Henry the eight for religion was not Doctour Makerell and others of the ring leaders of that vnruly companie executed in such maner as is aboue remembred AbridgemeÌ„t of Grafton 140. West countrey Rebels in Norfolke as Ket and others Hol. 1734. Wiats rebellion and many of the rest of them slaine in the field and so subdued Was not Syr Humfrey Arundale Winslade Holins Burie and diuerse others of the chief of the rebellion in the West parts of this realme raised in Edward the sixt his dayes executed also as traitors Did it not likewise happen so to Ket and many others of the rebels in Norfolke in the same kings dayes which sought to haue layed Parkes and Commons inclosed open Was not Wiat Isley and diuers Knights Esquiers and Gentlemen of Kent who rebelled in the first yeare of QuÃ©ene Marie opposed themselues against the Prince in armes to stay the alteration of religion and her mariage with the king of Spaine executed for the same rebellion and were not aboue fifty of the common sort of these rebels hanged vp in London in diuerse places there Holin 1732. And were not sundrie other Esquires and Gentlemen condemned and should haue bene executed for that commotion had not QuÃ©ene Marie giuen them pardon Were not the Earles of Northumberland and Westmerland and about fiftie knights Esquiers and Gentlemen attainted for the insurrection of the North parts of this realme Insurrection in the North in the eleuenth yeare of the QuÃ©enes Maiesties raigne And was not the sayd Earle of Northumberland beheaded at Yorke And did not manie others of the said Esquires and Gentlemen suffer for that offence in other places Holin 1840. And did not the said Earle of Westmerland and diuerse other of the said attainted persons fly ouer the seas to saue their liues which other wise had tasted of that sauce And were not diuerse of the common sort executed by martiall law for the same rebellion The matter is yet fresh in memorie so that it nÃ©edeth no proofe of the end of rebels and such as beare traiterous harts against their Prince We haue diuerse examples also out of the holy Scriptures and among other a notable example of Absolon who conspired the death of his father king Dauid who rebelling against him riding vnder a trÃ©e was by Gods prouidence hanged vp on a bough thereof by the long haire of his head Ignatius Epist 2. Of whom Ignatius the ancieÌ„t father writeth Absolon parricida existens Dei iudicio arbori appensus cor eius quod malÃ¨ cogitabat sagitta tansfixum est And so you may sÃ©e the vengeance of God on the heart which conceiued the treason and on the body that executed the same Achitophel likewise the mischieuous Counseller to Absolon in that wicked rebellion for lacke of an hangman hanged himselfe a worthie end of all false rebels who rather then they shold lacke due execution will by Gods iust iudgement become hangmen vnto themselues Thus it hapned to the Captaines of this rebellion 2. Reg. 187. besides fortie thousand of the common sort which were slaine in the field for that rebellion And as the holy Scriptures do shew so doth dayly experience proue that the counsels coÌ„spiracies atteÌ„pts of rebels neuer tooke effect but came euer to a most horrible end Now concerning such as haue bin murmurers against their rulers you shall sÃ©e what hath hapned to theÌ„ some haue bene strickeÌ„ with foule leprosie some burnt with fire sodainly froÌ„ heauen sometime they were consumed with the pestileÌ„ce sometime were

They remeÌ„bred not that the Fowlers whistle soundeth swÃ©etly when he deceiueth the bird most cunningly according to the saying Fistula dulce canit volucrem dum decipit auceps Neither Cato lib. 1. that faire words make fooles faine and that vnder the grÃ©ene grasse often lurketh the suttle serpent nor that in the fairest floure a man may soonest find a canker Poemata Ciceronis 249. fol. 161. Nullae sunt occultiores insidiae quÃ m quae latent in simulatione officij aut in aliquo necessitudinis nomine Tully de amicitia saith ApertÃ¨ enim adulantem nemo non vidit nisi qui admodum est excors callidus ille occultus ne se insinuet studiosÃ¨ cauendum est They had also forgotten the counsell which Vicount de Melloir a Frenchman gaue to certaine of them in his sicknesse at London Holinsh 603 Booke of Martyrs fol. 214. which was as followeth I lament saith he for your destruction and desolation at hand because you are ignorant of the perils hanging ouer your heads for this vnderstand that Lewes and with him sixtÃ©ene Earles and Barons of Fraunce haue secretly sworne and vowed that if fortune should fauour him so much as to conquer this realme of England The oth of Lewes the French kings sonne with other his Earles â— Barons and to be crowned king to kill banish and consume all those of the English Nobilitie which now do serue vnder him persecute their owne king as traitors and rebels and furthermore to dispossesse all their linage of such inheritance as they now hold in England And because saith he you shall not haue doubt hereof I which lie here at the point of death do now affirme vnto you and take it on the perill of my soule that I am one of those sixtÃ©ene that haue sworne to performe these things and therefore I aduise you to prouide for your owne safeties and also of your realme which you now destroy and that you kÃ©epe this thing secret which I haue vttered vnto you After this he shortly died but the curteous offer of Lewes to the Barons as is aboue remembred so lulled theÌ„ on slÃ©epe as it were Holinsh 601. that they regarded not this good aduise for after this diuerse of those which before had taken part with king Iohn as William Earle Warren William Earle of Arundell William Earle of Salisburie William Marshall the younger and diuerse other supposing verily that the said Lewes should now attaine the kingdome reuolted to Lewes but after that Lewes was setled Note here what followed by trusting of faire words and had gotten the tower of London diuerse other holds Castles defencible places of this realme into his hands and thought himselfe in maner sure of the kingdome then the Frenchmen began to shew their inward disposition and hatred towards the Englishmen and forgetting all former promises such is the nature of strangers wheÌ„ they are become Lords of their desire they did manie excessiue outrages in spoiling robbing the people of that country without pitie or mercie and bare little good will towards the Engish men as it appeareth sundry wayes and first of all in that they had them in maner in no regard or estimation but rather sought by all meanes to spoyle and kÃ©epe them vnder Booke of Martyrs fol. 257. not suffering them to beare any rule nor putting them in trust with the custodie of such places as they had brought them in possession of Secondly they called them not to counsell so oft as at the first they vsed to do neither did they procÃ©ede by their directions in their businesse as before they were accustomed and thirdly in all their conuersation neither Lewes nor his Frenchmen vsed them so familiarly as at the first comming they did but shewed more loftie countenance towards them whereby they greatly encreased the indignation of the English Lords against them who might euill abide to be so ouerruled To conclude Holinsh 602. where great promises were made at their entring into the land they were slow enough in performing the same so as the expectation of the English Barons was made quite voyd for they perceiued daily that they were despised and scoffed at for their disloyalty shewed towards their owne naturall Prince hearing now and then nips taunts openly by the Frenchmen saying that as they had shewed themselues false and vntrustie to their owne lawfull king Note so they would not continue anie long time true to a stranger Hereupon the Barons better considering the words of the sayd Vicount of Melloit and withall the great daunger that the realme was brought in by their dissention and opposition against their soueraigne Lord and the litle account the Frenchmen made of them Booke of Martyrs 247. gaue them iust occasion to take a better course and so they reuolted to king Henrie their naturall Liege Lord for King Iohn shortly after the comming of Lewes into England departed this life and they ioyned with the King in battell against Lewes where he had a great ouerthrow whereupon he and all his companie departed into Fraunce and king Henrie possessed the Crowne after that in quiet Caesar was wont to say of such as were false to their Prince and countrey Caesar that he loued Traitors to serue his turne but abhorred them as monstrous to the common wealth It is written of Alexander the Great Alexander who had conquered many countreys that he did long time sÃ©eke many wayes to winne a certaine countrey pertaining to Darius king of Persia and perceiuing that it was inuincible he dealt with a noble man that had the charge thereof vnder the king for a great summe of money to yÃ©eld that countrey to his possession and so did Alexander giue good countenance in his Court to this noble man a good space and in the end entring into a dÃ©epe consideration of the matter and meaning thereby to make an example to such as hÃ©e might commit trust vnto to beware of such treasonable practises he suddenly commaunded execution to be done of this noble man who hearing thereof and litle deseruing the same as he thought desired to come to Alexanders presence which was graunted besought him to know the cause of this sudden execution who sayd thou hast bene false to thine own Prince how can I then trust thÃ©e or hope thou wilt deale truely with me or be my true subiect Tullie lib. 2. officiorum Alexander if I should credit thÃ©e with the like and so he was executed Philip king of Macedon did greatly blame his sonne AlexaÌ„der in an Epistle which he did write to him saying what occasion or consideration hath brought thÃ©e into this hope that thou shouldest thinke that they wil be and continue true and faithfull vnto thÃ©e whom thou hast corrupted with money I reade of one Christopher Paris Holinsh 98. Christopher Paris Irish Chron. that had the charge of a Castle in

Ireland to the vse of his Lord Thomas Fitzgerauld and being dealt withall by the king of England his Lieutenant there to yÃ©eld to him to the vse of the king the sayd Castle for a certaine summe of money agrÃ©ed in the end so to do and deliuered vp the hold accordingly and receiued his money After the Lieutenant considering the vniustnesse of this man to his Lord which had put him in trust with the safe kÃ©eping of his Castle and to whom he was dÃ©epely beholden meaning to make an exaÌ„ple of such treacherie caused this Captaine presently to be executed declaring thereby though for the time he imbraced the benefite of his treasoÌ„s yet after he could not disgest the vnfaithfull dealing of this traitor to his Maister that had trusted him with a place of such great credence and defence Christian van de Veque betrayed for a great pension the the Castle of S. ChristiaÌ„ van de Veque Iohn being one of the most importaÌ„t fortresses of Portugall to king Philip who in the end was rewarded with such as a traitor deserueth for being a while entertained with hope was at last banished to the wars of Affrica for ten yeares The like vsage in maner receiued all his fellowes which betrayed the king of Portugall their lawfull king by deliueries of such places as they had in gouernement or by doing the king of Spaine any other seruice to the preiudice of Don Anthonio king of Portugall Haue we not sÃ©ene the vnnaturall practises of Shelley Charles Paget and others with the Spaniards to inuade our countrey and to haue ouerthrowne this happy state and gouernement thereof looke into a litle treatise published 1585 where it is set downe at large Esay 22. Sobna The Prophet Esay speaketh of one Sobna whom the king Hesekiah had greatly aduaunced who outwardly shewed that he would liue and dye with him but he had a false hart to his Prince and more fauoured the Assirians the kings enemies who sought to inuade his countrey but he was caried captiue into a forreine countrey farre off according to Gods ordinance and there dyed in confusion Such as are traitors to their owne countrey may be well compared to the viper Rhetorik Wilso fo 64. Plinie whose nature and propertie is as Pliny writeth that when by course of time he is to come foorth of the belly of his damme he eateth a hole through the same by meanes whereof she dyeth and so is he the cause and the destruction of her that did breed nourish and preserue him It is a commoÌ„ saying He is an euill bird that defileth his owne neast and so is he a monster and no man that conspireth or intendeth any perill or daunger to his natiue country Who that desireth to know what hath bene the end of traitors and false conspirators against their Prince and countrey in old time may reade M. Renegers booke Reneger wherein they are disclosed at large As ciuill warres Ciuill wars and dissentions are perillous to all states so are all occasions to be preuented which may brÃ©ed the same amongst which there is no one thing that sooner ingeÌ„dreth such discord Contention for religion breedeth oftentimes ciuil dissentioÌ„ then contention for religion which carieth away men with such vehement passions that they will fight for the same more willingly then for their wiues or children lands or goods in respect of it they regard nothing through the diuersitie thereof French Academie ca. 63 the father is against the son and the son against the father they which are nearest of kinne loose their naturall loue they which are of the same country and linage persecute one another as mortal enemies sundry nations abhorre one another for the same cause To raise seditioÌ„ tumults in a Citie Bodinus li. 4. fo 486. nothing is more daungerous saith Bodinus then to be diuided in opinioÌ„ whether it be in matters of state or of lawes and customes or for religion therefore the causes whereof such mischiefes may ensue by all pollicies in the beginning are to be looked vnto He is not counted a good Phisition onely that cureth the disease but that preserueth health and preuenteth sicknesse to come A small sparke raiseth great flames of fire as the saying is Concitat ingentes flammas scintilla minuta In the beginning a fire with litle water may be suppressed Nota. which if it increase to great flames without much ado will not be quenched Ouid. as the Poet Ouid verie well saith Ignis ab exigua nascens extinguitur vnda Sed postquam creuit volitantque ad sydera flammae Vix putei fontes fluuij succurrere possunt And the same Poet writeth also De arte amandi Principijs obstat serÃ² medicina paratur CÃ¹m mala per longas conualuÃªre moras WithstaÌ„d the beginning for the medicine is too late prouiuided when the disease by ouerlong tarying is increased Afore religion is established Not meet to argue against religion setled by authority Bodinus li. 4. fo 481. Paradox fo 1 to argue of religioÌ„ to try the truth is allowable but when it is set downe by common authoritie it is not after to be disputed vpon or brought in question as Bodinus affirmeth for there is nothing so firme or stable which by force of argument can not be peruerted and to that effect Tullie writeth Nihil est tam incredibile quod non dicendo fiat probabile nihil tam horridum aut incultum quod non splendescat oratione taÌ„quam excolatur And Plutarke affirmeth Quod extat Licurgi lex antiquissima Plutarke 5. quam Florentini disputatores omnium acutissimi in populari statu inferunt nec scilicet de legibus semel receptis ac probatis disserere liceret Bodinus li. 4. fo 48. intelligit leges disputatas in dubium reuocari dubitationem verÃ² iniusticiae opinionem afferre ex quo legum ac magistratuum contemptum reip interitum sequi necesse est Quod si Philosophi Mathematici suarum disciplinarum principia in dubitationem reuocari non patiuntur quae demeÌ„tia est de religione non modo priuatim sed etiam publicÃ¨ disputare velle There is an ancient law saith he amongst the Ligurians which the Florentines most quicke in disputation did commaund to be holden that of lawes once receiued and allowed to dispute it should not be lawfull for to call in questioÌ„ lawes afore determined vpon doth bring in doubt the thing afore agrÃ©ed vnto as though it were not right and iust whereupon contempt of the lawes and gouernement and the ouerthrow of the common wealth doth consequently ensue If the Philosophers Mathematikes will not suffer the grounds of their learning to be brought in question what madnesse is it then priuately or publikely to dispute of religion once set downe and allowed Fo. 5. Doctour Smith in his booke de Repub. Angl. saith Certaine it is

that it is alwayes a doubtfull and hazardous matter to meddle with changing of lawes and gouernement or to disobey the orders of rule and gouernement which a man doth finde already established Bodinus sheweth Bodinus li. 4. fo 482. that the people of the East and of Affrica and the kings of Spaine most straightly did prohibite the same when great contention was amongst the Muscouites for religion the king deliuered to the Bishop and certaine men called Curiones a booke wherein was set downe what he would haue taught touching diuine matters to be preached taught to the people and commaunded that none vpon paine of death should adde or withdraw from it The Princes of Germanie by mutuall agrÃ©emeÌ„t after long ciuill battels amongst them for religion ordained that the religion of Rome and Saxonie should be suffered and that none should dispute of religion vpon paine of death Ibid. fol. 482. None to dispute of religion setled vpon paine of death Martin Mar-prelate which the Gouernours of Germanie especially of Augusta did execute whereby all Germany was quieted If then to dispute of religioÌ„ once allowed by authoritie or to encounter the same it be so dangerous to moue sedition ciuill discord was it not high time thinke you to suppresse Martin Mar-prelate who by seuerall writings did not let to affirme that we haue no Church no Bishop no Ministers nor Sacraments and therefore that all which loue Iesus Christ with all spÃ©ed ought to separate themselues from our Congregation affirming that our assemblies are prophane wicked and AntichristiaÌ„ Could there be a greater dishonour offered to her Maiestie and to the state of the learned Cleargie yea to the whole Parliament whereby the religion now professed is established Was it not time to look vpon such as denied publike Baptisme if it be not done by a Preacher and bring in question what is become of them which were not so baptized as though they should not be saued Was it not high time to looke about when some of them durst vtter that if reformation were not had with spÃ©ed of such things as they disliked that the subiects ought not to tarie anie longer but to do it themselues and moreouer durst say that he and his fellowes are forced in conscience to speake for this new order and to vse it and that there is manie a thousand which desire that which he doth and that great troubles will come if it be not prouided for Was it not time to looke to such as by these means distracted the minds of her Maiesties subiects in drawing them into factions and encouraging the number of malecontents and mislikers of the state which make no account of religion but to make cheir coÌ„moditie though it be with the spoile of their owne countrie if oportunitie serued in pulling away the good and faithfull hearts of many subiects from her Maiestie because she maintaineth the state of the Church gouernment which they mislike and which is protested by them to be prophane and Antichristian Was it not time to looke to those sorts of meÌ„ the publish such libels and such seditious books tending to such dishonor of this state gouernment as the like neuer was offred in any age Was it not time to looke to such as haue attempted these things with such impudent and desperate boldnesse as if they thought there were neither Prince law ruler nor magistrate that durst controll or sÃ©eke to represse them Was it not time to looke to such as haue vttered such bold spÃ©eches against our setled state law the loose boldnesse of mind towards the superiors is ioyned with contempt contemptuous boldnesse is the verie roote and spring of discord dissention vprores ciuill warres and all desperate attempts that may breede trouble or danger to the state yea and if they might be hardened with some continuance of time and hope of impunity some multitude of assistaÌ„ts gathering to theÌ„ what hereof might follow I leaue to the graue iudgement of those to whom it appertaineth All which matters aforesaid with manie other of like sort concerning Martin Marprelate are grauely answered by the the reuereÌ„d Father in God the Bishop of Winchester B. of Winchester The mischiefes which might haue ensued by this seditious sect was so greatly disliked by her Maiestie her Counsell that her Highnesse did publish her ProclamatioÌ„ with the aduise of her honorable Counsel in the one and thirtith yeare of her raigne to the effect as followeth Her Maiestie considering how within few yeares certaine seditious euill disposed persons towards her Maiestie ProclamatioÌ„ 31. Eliz. the gouernmeÌ„t established for causes Ecclesiastical within her Highnesse dominions had deuised writteÌ„ printed or caused seditiously secretly to be published dispersed sundrie schismaticall seditious bookes defamatorie libels and other fantasticall writings amongst her Maiesties subiects containing in them verie erronious doctrine and other matters notoriously vntrue slanderous to the state and against the godly information of religion and gouernment Ecclesiasticall established by law and so long quietly continued and also against the persons of the Bishops and other placed in authoritie Ecclesiasticall vnder her Highnesse by her authoritie in rayling sort beyond all good humanitie all which bookes libels writings tend by their scope to perswade and bring in a monstrous and apparant daungerous innouation within her Maiesties domions and countries of all maner Ecclesiasticall gouernment now in vse and to the abridgement or rather to the ouerthrow of her Highnesse lawfull prerogatiue allowed by Gods lawes and established by the lawes of this realme and consequently to reuerse dissolue and set at libertie the present gouernment of the Church and to make a dangerous change of the forme of doctrine and vse of diuine seruice of God and the ministration of the Sacraments now also in vse with a rash and malicious purpose also to dissolue the state of the Prelacie being one of the three ancient estates of this realme vnder her Highnesse whereof her Maiestie mindeth to haue such reuerend regard as to their places in the Church and common-wealth appertaineth all which sayd seditious practises doe directly tend to the manifest wilfull breach of a great number of good lawes and Satutes of this Realme inconueniences nothing at all regarded by such innouations In consideration whereof her Highnesse graciously minding to prouide for good and speedy remedy to withstand such notable dangerous and vngodly attempts and for that purpose to haue such enormous malefactors discouered and condignly punished doth signifie by the same proclamation her Highnesse disliking and indignation of such dangerous and wicked enterprises and for that purpose doth thereby will and straightly charge and command that all persons whatsoeuer within any her Maiesties Realmes and dominions who then had or then after should haue any of the sayd seditious bookes pamphlets libels or writings or any of the like nature already published or then after to

violence vpon paine of death and shortly after they fired the towne and tooke the seas and they brought also with them into England diuerse of the best sort of the Spaniards taken in the said Citie as prisoners to abide their ransome what the king will do being herewith moued I know not but no doubt her Maiestie will prouide to defend the worst as good pollicie willeth Salomon saith Beatus qui semper timet hoc est qui cautus prouidens est ad omnia mala quae possunt in illum incursare depellenda paratissimus How most graciously Almighty God hath dealt for her Maiestie to defend her her kingdomes from forraine forces inuasion you may sÃ©e in that in the beginning of winter about three yeares last past when the king of Spaine had gathered together as great a number of Shippes as he could furnish from all partes of his dominions or could recouer by imbarking all other shippes of seruice which came for trade into Spaine or Portugall intending to haue inuaded her Maiesties realme of England and yet such was the prouidence of God contrary to his expectation inteÌ„tion by hastening of his enterprise in a time vnlooked for to surprise some place in England or Ireland before her Maiesty could haue had her owne force in readinesse she still prouiding to haue liued in peace which she professeth both to her self all ChristeÌ„dome it pleased him who froÌ„ heauen with iustice beholdeth all mens purposes sodainly most straÌ„gely to drowne make vnseruiceable diuerse of his best ships of warre being vnder saile comming from Lisbone and verie neare to the deffined hauen of Ferroll with destruction of no smal numbers of souldiers and mariners among which manie of those Irish rebels which were entertained in Spaine to haue accompanied either that Nauy or some part therof into IrelaÌ„d were also cast away by which manifest act of Almightie God the Armie was so weakened as the same could not put to the seas according to his former purpose And here I protest that I write not anie thing to disgrace anie Prince or nation against whom our nation hath so often preuailed but that you may by the said examples sÃ©e that God giueth the victorie where it pleaseth him although the said other Princes be right couragious and valiant in armes That notwithstanding the difference of religioÌ„ or anie other cause whatsoeuer we ought all to ioyne together for the defence of our Prince and countrey against the enemie with a repetition of certaine lawes tending chiefly to the preseruation of her Maiesties person and the safetie and defence of the realme CHAP. 12. ANd though we be deuided for religion which God of his mercie bring to vnitie yet I trust that we will wholly Though we be deuided for religion yet we must ioyne against the enemie faithfully and as we are bound and belongeth to good and loyall subiects and naturall men to their countrey ioyne together in this seruice of defence of our Prince and countrey against the enemie following the good example of the Iewes who although great dissention and ciuill discord was among themselues as Iosephus writeth in his booke de bello Iudaico yet when the enemie did inuade their countrie Lib. 6. cap. 10 they ioyned together and valiantly defended theÌ„selues So did the Romans as Bodinus writeth his words be these Bodinus 563 CÃ¹m enim aliquando in visceribus vrbis Romanae patres cum plebe capitalibus odijs inter se contenderent hostis in Capitolium inuasit repentÃ¨ ciues ad concordiam adducti hostem repulerunt rursus parta pace cÃ¹m ciuiles discordias relapsas intuerentur venientes Romanos agros vastare coeperunt repent Ã¨ ciuilis motus conquieuit vt hostes propulsarent That is When the chiefe of the citie of Rome with the common sort of the Citizens there were at deadly hate the enemie entred the Capitoll wherupon sodainly the Citizens being reduced to concord they did driue away the enemie and by that meanes peace being obtained when they againe fell into ciuill discord the enemy that perceiuing they destroyed the fields at Rome whereupon the commotion ceased that they might repulse the enemie To that effect he writeth of the troubles of Spaine Ibidem 563. thus Nec verÃ² motus ciuiles Hispanorum aliter sedare potuerunt cum absente Carolo quinto Imperatore nouum creauissent regem Gallorum exercitu in Cantabriam Nauarram tunc irruente quas regiones Galli occupauerant sed Hispani repentÃ¨ conciliatis animis hostiles impetus represserunt amissa recuperarunt That is The ciuill warres and troubles in Spaine could not otherwise be appeased when Charles the fift Emperour being absent they made a new King at which time an armie of the Frenchmen entredinto CaÌ„tabrie and Nauarre and possessed the same but the Spaniards sodainely according within themselues did expell them and recouered againe those losses By these examples the naturall affection which these men had and euerie man ought to haue to the preseruation and safetie of their countrie doth euideÌ„tly appeare And whatsoeuer the cause be that moueth ciuill warres yet that ought not to worke such malice in them as the safetie and good of their countrie should thereby be endangered or neglected wherby the saying of the Poet Ouid may appeare to be true Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine cunctos Ducit immemores non sinit esse sui And because there are many good lawes ordained Diuerse lawes meet to be set downe and knowne in these dangerous dayes as well in the time of our most gracious Soueraigne Ladie that now is as also of her noble Progenitors by the authority of their high Courts of Parliament touching the securitie of her Highnesse person and the safety and defence of the realme which be necessarie at all times but especially now in these dangerous dayes to be knowne I haue thought good here to make mention of them to the end men should not be ignorant thereof although in truth the ignorance of the law doth not excuse German fol. 52. but of the dÃ©ed as the saying is Ignorantia legis non excusat sed ignorantia facti And first touching her Maiesties person 25. E. 3. cap. 2 Compasse or imagine the death of the Queene it is ordained by a Statute made in the fiue and twentieth yeare of Edward the third which some hold to be but a confirmation of the common law that if anie compasse or imagine the death of her Maiestie whom Almightie God of his great mercy vouchsafe to preserue and to graunt her life with most prosperous health in high felicitie long to coÌ„tinue and to raigne ouer vs to the ouerthrow of her enemies confusion of all traitors this is high treason Treason B. 24. 1. Mariae These words ompasse or imagine the death of the King or QuÃ©ene are large words for he that doth deuise how the Prince shall come

to her death by words or otherwise doth some act to explaine the same as in assaying of harnesse sending of letters or message or such like this is treason And he that doth intend to depriue the Prince in that is intended the Princes death and therefore it is treason Withhold Castle 14. El. cap. Dyer 145. Treason B. 24. Leuie warre 25. Edward 3. cap. 2. Adhere to her enemies Conspire to commit treason 2. Li. ass 49. Messenger 21. Eliz. 3. 23. 45. E. 3. 25. Ayde Brytton 114. lib. 1. Stamf. 1. Misprision Treason B. 2. Armes No access in treason Com. Plo. 262. Slaine in field And the withholding of a Castle Fortresse or such like against the Prince is a leauying of warre against her Maiestie and is treason If a stranger borne in the time of peace betwixt his Prince and the QuÃ©enes Maiestie come into this realme and take rebelliously anie of her Castles and the same detaine against her this is treason and is in law as a leauying of warre against her If any leauie warre against her Maiestie within this realme or be adherent vnto her enemies in this realme giuing them aide and comfort in this realme or else where and thereof he probably attainted of ouert dÃ©ed this is also treason If one moue another to commit any treason and the other assent that it shold be done and it is committed indÃ©ed by the one of them this is treason in theÌ„ both It is treason by the coÌ„mon law to kill him that is sent on her Maiesties message or that goeth to ayd her in her warres It is treason if any worke anie thing against her host or be assenting counselling or consenting to the same If any do know another to haue committed treason though he be not consenting to the same yet if he do not reueale it to some that hath the law in gouernment it is misprision of treason If anie ioyne the armes of England with his armes this is treason 38. Henrie the eight I thinke this is meant when it is without difference Note that in cases of treason there are no accessaries but all be traitors principals If a man leauy warre against the Prince and be slaine in the field this is treason without any attaynder by the auncient law of the Realme for he was the cause that the course of law could not passe vpon him he shal loose his lands goods in this case his bloud is corrupted Dower F. 106. the wife looseth her dower by the coÌ„mon law If a treason be committed by the Queenes subiect out of the realme against the realme it shall be tried in England in the Kings bench 8. E. 3. Dier 132. Treason out of the Realme Dyer 298. Buls Obedience Adherent to the enemies Triall F. 54. 5. R. 2. Prophecies Rebellion or where the Prince shall please 33. H. 8. cap. 23. 35. H. 8. cap. 2. sÃ©e the case of Story afore Chap. 10. touching this As touching the bringing into this realme of Buls practising to withdraw her Highnesse subiects from their naturall obedience which is treason see afore Chap. 10. If a man be adherent to the kings enemies in Fraunce his land shal be forfeit his adherence shall be tried where the land is as it shal be of such as adherre to the kings enemies in Scotland He that shall publish any prophecy vppon any mans armes or things vsed in armes to the intent to make any rebellion insurrection disturbance or losse of life shall forfeit ten pounds and be imprisoned one yeare and the second time being conuicted of the first offence shall forfeit all his goods and be imprisoned during his life if any by erecting or setting vp of any figure by calculation Figure Witchcrafts Natiuity witchcraft sorcery or inchantment or by casting of natiuity or by publishing of any prophecy to such intent shall seeke to know or vnderstand and shall publish the same abroad how long her Maiestie shal liue Prophecies how long her Maiestie shall liue 13. El. cap. 1. Compasse her Maiesties death or who shall be King or Queene after her it is felonie It is ordayned also by a Statute made in the thirteenth yeare of her Maiesties Raigne that if any shall without the Realme or within compasse intend or imagine the death or destrustion or any bodily harme tending to the death destruction mayming or wounding of the Queenes Maiesties person or to depose or depriue her from the Crowne or any her dominions Leuy warre Inuade this Realme Dyer 298. Vtter by words Treason or to leauy warres against her within this Realme or without or to moue or stir any forreyners or straungers with force to inuade this Realme or any other dominions being vnder her obeisance and the same shall maliciously aduisedly and expresly vtter or declare by any printing ciphering or saying this is treason aswell in the principall offender as in their counsellers procurers ayders and comforters knowing the same offence to bee done and committed in any place within this Realme or without And because Castles fortresses and holds are necessary things for the defence of the realme it is ordayned by a Statute made in the fourteenth yeare of the Queenes Maiesties raigne 14. El. cap. that if any either within this realme or else where Conspire to take any of her Maiesties Castles c. do conspire or deuise to take or detayne or to waste or destroy any of her Castles Bulwarkes or fortresses or any part of them hauing any munition or ordenance therein or appointed to be garded for defence of this realme and the same conspiracies or deuises shall aduisedly by any expresse words Withhold any Castle of her Maiesties Ships act or writing vtter or declare for any the malicious or rebellious intents aforesayd this is felony in euery such offender counseller comforter and abbetter knowing thereof and shall loose their cleargy sanctuary And by that Satute it is further ordayned that if any person shall with force maliciously rebelliously withhold from her Maiestie any of her Castles or holds or any of her ships ordenance artillery or other of her munitions or fortifications of war and do not giue vp the same to her Highnesse or to such person as her Maiestie shall appoint to receiue the same to her vse Proclamation within sixe dayes next after such offender shall be in her name commanded so to do by open proclamation vnder the great seale of England Burne to be made within any place or market towne within the County wherein any such offence shall be committed or shall wilfully Ships Hauen Barre maliciously or rebelliously burne or destroy or cause to be burned or destroyed any of her Maiesties ships or shall barre or cause to be barred any hauen within any of her dominions Imbesill Armour Victuals this is treason in euery such offender and in their counsellers and abbetters this act is made

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