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A12738	The history of Great Britaine under the conquests of ye Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans Their originals, manners, warres, coines & seales: with ye successions, lives, acts & issues of the English monarchs from Iulius Cæsar, to our most gracious soueraigne King Iames. by Iohn Speed.	Speed, John, 1552?-1629.; Schweitzer, Christoph, wood-engraver.	1611 (1611)	STC 23045; ESTC S117937	1,552,755	623

persons but in the familiar conuersation of those that be neither farre vnder nor farre aboue his age and neuerthelesse of estate conuenient to accompany his noble Maiesty wherefore with whom rather then with his owne brother And if any man thinke this consideration which I thinke no man thinketh that loueth the King let him consider that sometimes without small things greater cannot stand And verily it redoundeth greatly to the dishonour both of the Kings Highnesse and of vs all that are about his Grace to haue it runne in euery mans mouth not in this Realme onely but also in other lands as euill words walke farre that the Kings brother shall bee faine to keepe Sanctuary for euery man I deeme will suppose that there is occasion giuen why it should so be and such euill opinions once fastened in mens hearts hardly can bee screwed out againe and may grow to more griefe then any man here can diuine Wherefore I thinke it were not the worst to send vnto the Queene for the redresse of this matter some honourable trusty man such as both tendreth the kings weale and the honour of this Councell and is also in fauour and credence with her For all which considerations none seemeth to mee more meere then is our reuerend Father here present my Lord Cardinall who may in this matter doe most good of any man if it please him to take the pains which I doubt not of his goodnesse hee will not refuse for the Kings sake and ours and weale of the young Duke himselfe the Kings most honourable brother and after my Soueraigne himselfe my most deere Nephew Considering that thereby shall be ceased the slanderous rumor and obloquie now going and the hurts auoided that thereof might insue and much rest and quiet grow to all the Realme And if she be percase so obstinate and so precisely set vpon her owne will that neither his wise and faithfull aduertisement cannot moue her nor any mans reason content her then shall we by mine aduise and by the Kings authority fetch him out of that Prison bring him to his noble presence in whose continuall company he shall be so well cherished and so honorably intreated that all the world shall to our honor and her reproach perceiue that it was only malice frowardnes or folly that caused her to keepe him there this is my minde in this matter for this time except any of your Lordships any thing perceiue to the contrary for neuer shall I by Gods Grace so wed my selfe to my owne will but that I shall be ready to change it vpon your better aduises 26 When the Protector had said all the Councell affirmed that the motion was good and reasonable and to the King and the Duke his brother honorable and the thing that should cease great murmur in the Realme if the mother might be by good meanes induced to deliuer him Which thing the Archbishop of Yorke whom they all agreed also to be thereto most conuenient tooke vpon him to moue her and therein to doe his vttermost endeauour how beit if shee could by no meanes be entreated with her good will to deliuer him then thought he and such other of the Clergy then present that it were not in any wise to be attempted to take him out against her will For it would bee a thing that should turne to the great grudge of all men and high displeasure of God if the priuiledge of that holy place should now be broken which had so manie yeeres beene kept which both Kings and Popes so good had granted so many had confirmed and which holy ground was more then fiue hundred yeeres agoe by S. Peter in his owne person in spirite accompanied with great multitude of Angels by night so specially hallowed and dedicated to God for the proofe whereof they haue yet in the Abbey S. Peters Cope to shew that from that time hitherward was there neuer so vndeuout a King that durst violate that sacred place or so holy a Bishop that durst presume to consecrate it and therefore quoth the Archbishop of Yorke God forbid that any man should for any thing earthlie enterprize to breake the immunity and liberty of that sacred Sanctuary that hath beene the safegard of many a good mans life and I trust quoth he with Gods grace we shall not need it But for what need soeuer I would not we should doe it I trust that shee shall be with reason contented and all things in good manner obtained but if it happen that I bring it not so to passe yet shall I toward it with my best and you shall all well perceiue that there shall be of my indeauour no lacke if the mothers dread and womanish feare be not the let 27 Womanish feare nay womanish frowardnes quoth the Duke of Buckingham for I dare take it vpon my soule shee wel knoweth there is no need of any feare either for her sonne or for her selfe For as for her here is no man that will be at warre with a woman Would God some of the men of her kin were women too and then should al be soone in rest Howbeit there is none of her kin the lesse loued for that they be of her kin but for their owne euill deseruing And nay the lesse if we loued neither her nor her kin yet were there no cause to thinke that we should hate the Kings noble brother to whose Grace we our selues be of kin whose honor if shee as much desired as our dishonor and as much regard tooke to his wealth as to her owne will shee would be as loth to suffer him from the King as any of vs bee For if shee haue wit as would God shee had as good will as shee hath shrewd wit shee reckneth her selfe no wiser then shee thinketh some that be here of whose faithfull minde shee nothing doubteth but verily beleeueth and knoweth that they would be as sorry of his harme as her selfe and yet would haue him from her if shee bide there and we all I thinke content that both be with her if shee come thence and bide in such place where they may be with their honour Now then if shee refuse in the deliuerance of him to follow the Counsell of them whose wisdome shee knoweth whose truth shee well trusteth it is easie to perceiue that frowardnes letteth her and not feare But goe to suppose that shee feare as who may let her to feare her owne shadow the more shee feareth to deliuer him the more ought wee to feare to leaue him in her hands For if shee cast such fond doubts that she feare his hurt then will shee feare that hee shall bee fetcht thence For shee will soone thinke that if men were set which God forbid vpon so great a mischiefe the Sanctuary would little let them which good men might as I thinke without sin somewhat lesse regard then they doe Then if shee

neither wife nor child that I can reade of 3 It is not greatly to be wondered at in that these times to much ouershadowed with superstitious zeal the holy acts of men which no doubt were many the habit of Monks the accounted holy garments of humility were so meritoriously respected and reputed in the deuout hearts of the religious when by the Clergy that are accounted the light of the world in a Councell at Rome held vnder Pope Constantine the first it was decreed and commanded that carued Images which neither had action nor life nor could saue themselues from the stroke of destruction should bee made to the memoriall of Saints and should be set vp in Churches with respectiue adoration contrary to Gods most expresse commandement and condemned for idolatry by the warrant of sacred Scripture CHELRED THE NINTH KING OF THE MERCIANS AND THE FOVRTEENTH MONARCH OF THE ENGLISH HIS RAIGNE AND SVCCESSION CHAPTER XXVI CHelred the sonne of King Ethelred was of sufficient yeeres and well able of rule at such time as his father resigned his Scepter vnto his Nephew Kenred had not the pricke of that sinne touched his conscience which made him to bestow the same as he did notwithstanding the Crown being too waighty for Kenred to weare he as freely againe gaue it the sonne as he had receiued it of the father before and relinquished his claime and title thereto 2 Chelred thus aduanced before he it expected entred his gouernment with great applause of the people in whose opinions he was held the onely man worthy of their Crowne Ouer the Mercians he raigned the ninth King and of the English Monarchs the fourteenth in number beginning them both in the yeere of grace seuen hundred nine and the fourth of Iustinian the younger Empire 3 His quietnes was disturbed by Inas the West-Saxon whose fame for his fortunes beganne then to grow great For Kent he had forced to buy their peace with mony the Britaines subdued and had inlarged his confines vpon them And now against Chelred this new rise Monarch he meant to try chance whose glory he looked at with an ouer enuious eye 4 His greatnesse likewise Chelred suspected who either to himselfe or successors by the foundation which he laid would diuert the Monarchy from him and his Mercians and entaile it to himselfe or his West-Saxons Hereupon great preparation was made and each set forward with all the powers the one to attaine and the other to keep the glory and title that both of them so much thirsted after At Wodnesbury they met and with vndaunted spirits so fought that the victory was doubtfull for neither could say the battell was his or that he departed with the lesser losse 5 These emulations were followed betwixt these two Princes the space of seuen yeeres and longer had done if Chelred had liued or Inas not been strucke with remorse of conscience for his ouermuch spilling of bloud Of this Chelred some Authors haue censured that he was maruellous in prowesse and valiant of courage but his Country miserable by his vntimely death whose raigne lasted only seuen yeeres and death in the yeere of our Lord seuen hundred and sixteene his body was buried in the Cathedrall Church of Lichfield and he died without any issue His Wife 6 Wereburg the wife of King Chelred is mentioned by Marianus the learned Scotish Historian and by Florence of Worcester who was the follower and continuer of his History whom we may reasonably credit in this matter being not incredible although she must of necessity be thought to haue been married very young or to haue died very old because they record her decease to haue beene in the yeere of Christ seuen hundred eightie one which was almost sixtie yeeres after the death of her husband and towards the end of the long raigne of King Offa. ETHELBALD THE TENTH KING OF THE MERCIANS AND THE FIFTEENTH MONARCH OF THE ENGLISHMEN HIS RAIGNE AND ACTS CHAPTER XXVII EThelbald cosen germane once remoued vnto King Chelred succeeded him in the kingdome of the Mercians whereof he was the tenth in number and of the Monarchs ouer the Englishmen the fifteenth in account He beganne his raigne in the yeere of grace seuen hundred sixteene and with great honour raigned ouer all the Kings on the South side of Humber whose time for the most part was spent in peace yet some wars he had and those with variable euents 2 For in the eighteenth yeere of his raigne hee besieged Sommerton and wanne it and inuading Northumberland without proffer of resistance returned with great riches by spoile The Britaines also that were ioined confederates with the West-Saxons hee molested and ouercame for whose reuenge King Cuthred gaue him battell neere vnto Burford where he with his Mercians receiued the foile and lost the Banner wherein was portracted a Golden Dragon the thirty seuenth yeere of his raigne 3 The sinnes of these times both in Prince and people were many and great as by the Epistles of Boniface an Englishman and Archbishop of Mentz is most manifest wherein he reprooued his adulterous life who refraining to marry wallowed in filthy lecheries by whose example the Noblemen of Mercia did the like and their women as well Nunnes as others made away their chilaren borne out of wedlocke whereby the graues were filled with dead bodies as hell it selfe with damned soules And in another Epistle sent vnto Cuthbert Archbishop of Canterbury he complaineth of the English Nunnes who wandring in pilgrimage vnder shew of deuotion liued in pleasure and wanton fornications through all the Cities of France and of Lumbardy 4 This his Epistle tooke so good effect that in repentance King Ethelbald released and priuiledged the Church from all tributes to himselfe and built the Abbey of Crowland in Lincolnshire for the pacifying of Gods wrath towards his sinnes when also it was enacted by Cuthbert and his Clergy in a Conuocation held in his Prouince that the sacred Scriptures should be read in their Monasteries the Lords Praier and Creed taught in the English tongue which accordingly was done Which Councell was held in the thirty yeere of this Kings raigne and of Christs incarnation seuen hundred forty eight 5 Finally when he had ruled forty two yeeres fighting against Cuthred the West-Saxon in a warre not prudently vndertaken he was traiterously slaine by his owne subiects at the procurement of Bernred a Leader of them who affecting the kingdome by this stratagem of Treason sought to attaine it but was himselfe slaine by Offa the Mercian before that this ill sowen seed could take any roote The place of this Great Ethelbalds death was Secondone three miles from Ta●…worth in the County of Warwicke and of his buriall Rept●…n in Darby-shire where with honourable obsequies he was enterred the yeere of Christs humanity seuen

thousand men and Harold in Souldier-like exequies borne vnto Waltham in Essex there honourably enterred as we haue said William the Conqueror for so now may wee stile him returned to Hasting and thence set forward with spoile of the Country ouer Thamesis towards London 2 Where Edwine and Morcar the Brethren of the Queen were in working the English that one of them should be King or rather saith Simon of Durham to crowne Edgar Etheling the rightfull heire in such esteeme with the People that he was commonly called Englands Darling vnto whose side most of the Nobles a●…ered with the Citizens of London and the Nauall forces to which part also ioined Aldred Archbishop of Yorke though presently he fel off and stuckt to the stronger for the Prelates though secretly affecting the right claime yet terrified with the flashing thunderbolts of the Papall curse durst not goe forward with their purpose so powerful was the Pope euen then to defeat the rightfull heires of kingdomes but refused to side with the Lords whereupon all their designements were suddainely quashed 3 For William hauing wasted through Kent Sussex Surrey Hampshire and Barkshire came vnto Wallingford and crossing there the Thamesis passed through the Counties of Oxford Buckingham and Hertford where staying at Berkhamsted Aldred Archbishop of Yorke Wolstane Bishop of Worcester Walter Bishop of Hereford with the Earles Ed●… and Morcar yea and Edgar himself yeelded their allegiance vnto the Duke This curse so preuailing farre engaged William to the Pope 4 William intending for London being on his way found the passage stopt vp with multitudes of great trees which by the policy of Frethericke Abbot of S. Albanes a man descended from the Saxons noble bloud as likewise from Canutus the Dane to secure his Monasterie from the destruction of the Normans were so cut downe whereat the Duke both wondring and fretting sent for the Abbot vnder his assurance of safe returne and demanding the cause why his woods were so cut Frethericke answered very stoutly I haue done said he the duety both of my birth and profession and if others of my ranke had performed the like as they well might and ought it had not beene in thy power to haue pierced the land thus farre 5 W●…lliam hearing the bold answere of this Prelate and knowing it was now a time fitter to pacifie then exulcerate the English spirits gaue way to the present necessity and withall hastned as good policy required his coronation which at Westminster was solemnized vpon Monday being the day of Christs Natiuity and yeere of saluation 1066. where he receiued the crowne at the hands of Aldred Archbishop of Yorke causing the Bishops and Barons to take the oath of allegiance vnto him and himselfe likewise at the altar of S. Peters tooke a solemne oath to defend the rights of the Church to establish good lawes and to see iustice vprightly administred as became a good King and thereupon chose for his counsell such men as he knew to bee of great wisedome and experience next applying his thoughts for the security of his new gotten Empire fortified such places as lay open to danger bestowed strong Garrisons vpon the coasts ships to ride in those Harbours which were most exposed to inuasion 6 And the better to assure the south of the land best seruing his purpose if any new troubles should arise hee tooke his way towards Douer the locke and key of the Kingdome as Mathew Paris terms it that so hee might commaund the seas from his enemies arriuage and ouer-awe the Kentish a most strong and populous Prouince When Stigand therfore Archbishop of Canterbury and Eglesine the Politicke Abbot of Saint Augustines being the chiefest Lords and Gouernours of Kent vnderstoode of his approch they assembled the Commons at Canterbury laying forth the perils of the Prouince the miseries of their neighbours the pride of the Normans and the wronges of the Church all which now were too apparantly seene the English till then they sayd were borne free and the name of bond-men not heard of among them but now seruitude only attend vs if wee yeeld sayd they to the insolency of this griping enemy These two Prelates therefore after the example of the vndaunted Machabees offered themselues to die in the defence of their Country whose forwardnesse drew the people vnto the like resolution which by their aduertisements were assigned to meet at a day the place was Swanscombe two miles west from Graues end 7 Where accordingly conuening and keeping secret in the woods they waited the comming of the Conquerour all iointly agreeing for that no way lay open saue onely a front to carry in their hands great branches of trees wherewith they might both keepe themselues from discouery and if need were impeach the passage of the Normans which deuice tooke so strange an effect that it daunted the Duke euen with the sight at his approch who being as he thought free from the enemy was now suddainly beset on all sides with woods whereof seeing some before him to moue he knew not but that all the other vast woods were of like nature neither had hee leasure to auoide the danger The Kentish inclosing his Army about displaied their banners cast downe their boughes and with bowes bent prepared for battle so that hee which euen now had the Realme to his seeming in his fist stood in despaire of his owne life of which his sodaine amazement the reuerend Prelates Stigand and Eglesine taking notice also aduantage presented themselues before him and in the behalfe of the Kentish thus spake 8 Most noble Duke behold here the Commons of Kent are comeforth to meete and receiue you as their Soueraigne requiring your Peace their own free condition of estate and their ancient lawes formerly vsed if these be denied they are here presently to abide the veraite of battaile fully resolued rather to die then to depart with their lawes or to liue seruile in bondage which name and nature is and euer shall be strange vnto vs and not to be endured The Conquerour driuen into this strait and loath to hazard all on so nice a point their demaunds being not vnreasonable more wisely then willinglie granted their desires and pledges on both parts giuen for performance Kent yeeldeth her Earledome and Castle of Douer to their new King William 9 All things established for Englands securitie and subiection now to the Normans hee ordained his halfe brother by the surer side Odo Bishop of of Bayeux whom he created Earle of Kent and his cosen William-Fitz-Osburne by him made Earle of Hereford to bee Gouernours in his absence ouer the Realme and in the Lent following sailed into Normandy leading with him many pledges for their fidelity besides other Nobles especially such as he feared to be too potent amongst whom Stigand the Archbishop of Canterbury the two great Earles