thence yearelie in reuenues and profits comming to his owne cofers the summe of thirtie thousand pounds the king now laid foorth no lesse a summe to repell the enimies which by absence of those that were come ouer hither could not otherwise be resisted sith the power of the rebels was so increased and the force of the countries subiect thorough lacke of the former inhabitants so diminished ¶ About the feast of the Natiuitie of our ladie line 60 the king set forward to passe into Ireland hauing made such preparation for that iournie as the like for Ireland had not béene heard of at anie time before There went out with him the duke of Glocester the earles of March Notingham and Rutland the lord Thomas Persie lord steward and diuerse other of the English nobilitie The duke of Lancaster that in the thirteenth yeare of king Richards reigne had beene created by authoritie of parlement duke of Aquitaine was about this present time sent thither with fiue hundred men of armes a thousand archers to take possession of that duchie according to the kings grant by his letters patents thereof had made and confirmed with his seale in presence of the most part of all the nobles and great lords of England to hold all that countrie to the said duke and his heires for euer in as large manner and forme as his father king Edward the third or anie other kings of England or dukes of Aquitaine before time had holden and as king Richard at that season had held the same the homage alwaies yet reserued to the kings of England for euer But all this notwithstanding at his comming thither so farre were the Gascoignes and other people of those marches from receiuing him with ioy and triumph that they plainelie told him they would not atturne to him nor be vnder his iurisdiction at anie hand although he had brought ouer with him commissioners sufficientlie authorised both to discharge them of their former allegiance to the king and to inuest him in possession of that duchie in maner and forme as before is said But now to returne to king Richard ye shall vnderstand that when all his prouision and roiall armie was readie about Michaelmas he tooke the sea and landed at Waterford the second of October and so remained in Ireland all that winter his people were lodged abroad in the countrie and lay so warilie as they might For although the Irishmen durst not attempt anie exploit openlie against the Englishmen after the kings arriuall with so puissant an armie yet they would steale sometimes vpon them where they espied anie aduantage and disquiet them in their lodgings But when the English still preuailed diuerse of the greatest princes among them came in and submitted themselues Amongst other foure kings are mentioned as the great Onell king of Meth Brine of Thomond king of Thomond Arthur Macmur king of Lineister and Conhur king of Cheueno and Darpe these kings were courteouslie interteined and much made of by king Richard who kept his Christmas this yeare at Dubline year 1395 And after that feast was ended he held a parlement there to the which all his subiects of Ireland vnto whom it apperteined resorted as well those that had continued vnder the English gouernement aforetime as those that were latelie yéelded Also at the same time after the octaues of the Epiphanie the duke of Yorke lord warden of England now in the kings absence caused a parlement to be called at Westminster to the which was sent forth of Ireland the duke of Glocester that he might declare to the commons the kings necessitie to haue some grant of monie to supplie his want hauing spent no small quantitie of treasure in that iournie made into Ireland The dukes words were so well heard and beléeued that a whole tenth was granted by the clergie and a fiftéenth by the laitie but not without protestation that those paiements were granted of a meere good will for the loue they bare to the king and to haue his businesse go forwards which because it required great expenses both for that his owne roiall person was abiding in Ireland about the subduing of the rebels as also because his retinue and power could not be mainteined without excessiue charges they seemed to be no lesse desirous to haue the same ended than they which were dailie agents in the same not without feare of misfortune likelie to befall them hauing to deale with a people of such barbarous and rebellious behauior At the same time those that followed Wickliffes opinions set vp publikelie on the church doore of Paules in London and the church doores of Westminster certeine writings conteining accusations of the clergie and conclusions such as had not commonlie béene heard against ecclesiasticall persons and the vse of the sacraments as the church then mainteined They were incouraged thus to doo as it was said by some noble men and knights of great worship as sir Richard Sturrie sir Lewes Clifford sir Thomas Latimer sir Iohn Montacute others who comforted pricked forward those kind of men then called heretikes Lollards to the confounding of monks friers and other religious persons by all waies they might Herevpon the archbishop of Yorke the bishop of London and certeine other as messengers from the whole state of the clergie passed ouer into Ireland where to the king they made a line 10 grieuous complaint as well against those that had framed and set foorth such writings as against them that mainteined them in their dooings and therefore besought him with spéed to returne home into England there to take such order for the restreining of those misordered persons as vnto the reliefe of the church might be thought expedient being then in great danger of susteining irrecouerable losse and damage if good reformation were not the sooner had King Richard hearing these things vpon good deliberation line 20 had in the matter determined to returne home but first on the day of the Annuntiation of our ladie he made the foure aboue remembred kings to wit Onell Brine of Thomond Arthur of Mackmur and Conhur knights in the cathedrall church of Dublin and one likewise sir Thomas Orphen sir Ioatas Pado and his coosine sir Iohn Pado This doone and now after that they were set in quiet in that countrie the rebels not being so hardie as to stirre whilest such a mightie armie was there line 30 readie at hand to assaile them the king about Easter came backe into England without anie more adoo so that the gaine was thought nothing to counteruaile the charges which were verie great for the king had ouer with him in that iournie foure thousand men of armes and thirtie thousand archers as Froissard saith he was informed by an English esquier that had béene in that iournie The king at his comming ouer did not forget what complaint the archbishop of Yorke and the bishop of London
fauourers of the pope that none hath béene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The bull of Pius Quintus set vp at Paules The first punishment for the bull The third reason Rebellion in the north The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the pope The popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politike aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but scholers and vnarmed Manie are traitours though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others that are traitors without armor The oâ—â—enâ—ors executed 〈…〉 reâ—igion Unreasonable â—nd obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgement 2. Esd. 4. Bishop of Winchester deceased Fiue executed for treason A. F. ex add G. C. Maister Walter Raleigh his viage for the discouerie of that land which lieth betwéene Notembega and Florida Philip Amadis and Arthur Barlow Two sauage men and other things brought from the said land discouered Maister Walter Raleigh prepareth for a second viage to the said land late discouered Gentlemen that associated sir Humfreie Gilbert in his viage to Norembega 1578. The viage hath not wished successe Maister Walter Raleigh sailed as far as Cape de Uerde c. and arriueth in saâ—eâ—ie at Plimouth Sir Humfrie Gilberd seuered from his companie dead and neuer heard of Ab. Fl. horâ—â—â— omnium maâ—imè consâ—ius The deceasse of D. Caldweâ—l physician of whom there is former meÌ„tioÌ„ pag. 1349. The court of Francis the first a vniuersitie c. pag. 1343. The distributions of D. Caldwell in his life times and his bequests after his death His commentaries vpon some part of Paulus Acgineta and other bookes * His ordinarie infirmitie was the colicke which tormented him excéedinglie His age and counterfet which séemed to be made 1571 and in the yeare of his age 5â— The armes of Caldwell blasoned * The crosse forme fiche was the cote of Cedwallader the last king of Britains in An. Dom. 680. These figurs 1 2 3 4 5 6 haue relation to certeine marks namelie the mullet the â—â—nquesoilâ— the floure delice the haÌ„d the cressant or moone and the pansie grauen in the copper plate which markes are referred to their like in and about the armes aboue said Francis Throckmorton arreigned and coÌ„demned of high treason But how can their interpretations be found whose iudgements are corrupt The premisses being all sufficient cannot but answer anie circumstance touching this traitor The bishop of Rosse an enimie to the English state A colour of truth to countenance a manifest lie The maner of procéeding against Throckemorton by commission The intent of this declaration what it is Iennie a notorious knowne traitor conferreâ— with Throckmorton Sir Francis Englefield Thomas Throckemorton and Thomas Morgan A pretention of an inuasion into England The speciall meanes wanting The Spanish ambassadours words tending to this inuasion Landing places for forren forces about Arundell in Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring a confederat in this action This would be feared and therefore alwaies by policie preuented Throckemorton wrote diuerse letters to Marie the Scotish queene Godfrie Fulgeam was glad to 〈…〉 The cause why Throckmortons confessions are here mentioned Throckemorton was at Spaw and elswhere c. This is a principall marke whereat they shoot and therefore they cannot but meditat vpon the meanes The duke of Guise his enterprise to inuade the realme The Spanish ambassador and Throckemorton did often times conuerse and conferre Throckemorton surprised and put to a narrow shift â—eare is an ordinarie tormentor of a guiltie conscience The clouds of lies cannot so darken the truth but it will appeare How William Shellie stood affectioned to these treasonable plots Certeine words and clauses of letters treasonable What mind Throckemorton hath carried towards hir maiestie This vehement speach importeth same secrets of great momeÌ„t betwéene Throckemorton and the Scotish quéene Chi a perso la fede a perso l'honore an Italian prouerbe The cause that mooued Throckemorton to denie his confessioÌ„s at his arreignement These gifts in him were Vivenenum in 〈◊〉 poculo Throckemortons submison in a letter answering Ad verbum with his owne handwriting He sueth for vndeserued mercie to hir maiestie in his miserie in whose fauour he might haue liued by loialtie A declaration c written by Throckemorton to the quéenes maiestie William Ardington The next way to atteine libertie for the Scotish quéene c. The pestilent persuasion of the Spanish ambassador to prefer this pernicious enterprise The resolutioÌ„ was frustrate as also the later of the ploâ— such was Gods iustice to persecute supplant both the one and the other Was this thinke you â— naturall subiects opinion or not rather the conceipt of a tyrannous traitor This Spanish ambassador had no good meaning in moouing this request This Mope was Charles Paget otherwise named Spring as before Throckmortons purpose if his enterprise succéeded not by the next spring Sir Francis Englefield whether excusable or no Throckemortons sute for commiseration to hir maiestie A recapitulation of soâ—e treasonable enterprises by Throckemorton Throckemorton executed Robert baron of Denbigh deceased The charitable déeds of D. S. These letters are placed aboue the quâ—drats or squares of the building Six houses of perpetuall reléefe founded vpon S. Peters hill in Baniard castell ward Rents left in perpetuitie for the maintenance of the said houses Ordinances of the founder to be inuiolablie obserued What kind of widowes are to be admitted into these houses Whom they may lodge and not lodge In order for the auoiding of infection sicknesse annoiance c. What wéeke daies they are to repaire to the church Conuenienâ— vse of water c. Performancâ— of these ordinances intended An order for lanthorne and candle light in winter The loue of the LoÌ„doners to the queenes maiestie A parlement at Westminster An Reg. 27. Addition of Fr. Thin An act for the maintenance of Rochester stone bridge procured by sir Roger Manwood Sir Roger Manwood a fréend to the coÌ„monwealth The place time of Sir Roger Manwoods birth and bringing vp DissolutioÌ„ of chanteries Sir Roger Manwood reader in the inner temple He erected â— faire schoolehouse of bricke and stone He procureth leters patents c for the maintenance of the same in perpetuitie The summe of 40 pounds allowed yearlie c to the maintenance of the said grammar schoole Two scholers roomes obteined in Cambridge two in Oxford for such scholers as remooue from the said schoole to either of the vniuersities Seuen almes houses by him founded for the reléefe of the honest aged Sir Roger Manwoodâ— toome A house of correction for â—ustie idle persons The ancient bridge of Rochester when builded and by whom Diuerse opinions concerning the first founding of the said bridge How the said bridge began to decaie and what meanes are vsed for the reparing of the same Sir Roger Manwoods deuised remedie for the kéeping of the said
into the hatred of all his people notwithstanding he gaue the lords most heartie thanks that they had so forgotten their receiued iniuries and ceassed not to beare so much good will towards his sonne Edward as to wish that he might reigne ouer them Therefore to satisfie them sith otherwise it might not be he vtterlie renounced his right to the kingdome and to the whole administration thereof And lastlie he besought the lords now in his miserie line 10 to forgiue him such offenses as he had committed against them Ah lamentable ruine from roialtie to miserable calamitie procured by them chéefelie that should haue beene the pillers of the kings estate and not the hooked engins to pull him downe from his throne So that here we see it verefied by triall that miser atque infoelix est etiam rex Nec quenquam mihi crede facit diadema beatum The ambassadours with this answer returning to London declared the same vnto all the states in order line 20 as they had receiued it whervpon great ioy was made of all men to consider that they might now by course of law proceed to the choosing of a new king And so thervpon the nine and twentith day of Ianuarie in session of parlement then at Westminster assembled was the third king Edward sonne to king Edward the second chosen and elected king of England by the authoritie of the same parlement first as before is said confirmed by his fathers resignation and the first day of his reigne they agréed to line 30 be the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie in the yeare 1326 after the account of the church of England beginning the yeare the fiue twentith day of March but by the common account of writers it was in the yeare 1327. ¶ On the same daie sir William Trussell procurator for the whole parlement did renounce the old king in name of the whole parlement with all homages and fealties due to him so that the same fiue and twentith day of Ianuarie hath béene reputed line 40 and taken for the first day of the beginning of king Edward the third his reigne so that whatsoeuer chanced before that day is ascribed to be doone during the reigne of his father But now to make an end of the life as well as of the reigne of king Edward the second I find that after he was deposed of his kinglie honour and title he remained for a time at Killingworth in custodie of the earle of Leicester But within a while the queene was informed by the bishop of Hereford line 50 whose hatred towards him had no end that the erle of Leicester fauoured hir husband too much and more than stood with the suertie of hir sonnes state wherevpon he was appointed to the kéeping of two other lords Thomas Berkley and Iohn Matreuers who receiuing him of the earle of Leicester the third of Aprill conueied him from Killingworth vnto the castell of Berkley situate not farre off from the riuer of Seuerne almost the midwaie betwixt Glocester and Bristow line 60 But forsomuch as the lord Berkley vsed him more courteouslie than his aduersaries wished him to doo he was discharged of that office and sir Thomas Gourney appointed in his stead who togither with the lord Matreuers conueied him secretlie for feare least he should be taken from them by force from one strong place to another as to the castell of Corfe and such like still remoouing with him in the night season till at length they thought it should not be knowne whither they had conueied him And so at length they brought him backe againe in secret maner vnto the castell of Berkley where whilest he remained as some write the queene would send vnto him courteous and louing letters with apparell and other such things but she would not once come neere to visit him bearing him in hand that she durst not for feare of the peoples displeasure who hated him so extreamelie Howbeit she with the rest of hir confederats had no doubt laid the plot of their deuise for his dispatch though by painted words she pretended a kind of remorse to him in this his distresse would séeme to be faultlesse in the sight of the world for Proditor illudit verbis dum verbera cudit But as he thus continued in prison closelie kept so that none of his fréends might haue accesse vnto him as in such cases it often happeneth when men be in miserie some will euer pitie their state there were diuerse of the nobilitie of whome the earle of Kent was chéefe began to deuise means by secret conference had togither how they might restore him to libertie discommending greatlie both quéene Isabell and such other as were appointed gouernours to the yoong king for his fathers streict imprisonment The queene and other the gouernours vnderstanding this conspiracie of the earle of Kent and of his brother durst not yet in that new and greene world go about to punish it but rather thought good to take awaie from them the occasion of accomplishing their purpose And herevpon the queene and the bishop of Hereford wrote sharpe letters vnto his keepers blaming them greatlie for that they dealt so gentlie with him and kept him no streictlier but suffered him to haue such libertie that he aduertised some of his freends abroad how and in what manner he was vsed and withall the bishop of Hereford vnder a sophisticall forme of words signified to them by his letters that they should dispatch him out of the waie the tenor whereof wrapped in obscuritie ran thus Edwardum occidere nolite timere bonum est To kill Edward will not to feare it is good Which riddle or doubtfull kind of spéech as it might be taken in two contrarie senses onelie by placing the point in orthographie called Cōma they construed in the worse sense putting the Comma after Timere and so presuming of this commandement as they tooke it from the bishop they lodged the miserable prisoner in a chamber ouer a foule filthie dungeon full of dead carrion trusting so to make an end of him with the abhominable stinch thereof but he bearing it out stronglie as a man of a tough nature continued still in life so as it séemed he was verie like to escape that danger as he had by purging either vp or downe auoided the force of such poison as had béene ministred to him sundrie times before of purpose so to rid him Wherevpon when they sawe that such practises would not serue their turne they came suddenlie one night into the chamber where he laie in bed fast asléepe and with heauie featherbeds or a table as some write being cast vpon him they kept him down and withall put into his fundament an horne and through the same they thrust vp into his bodie an hot spit or as other haue through the pipe of a trumpet a plumbers instrument of iron made verie hot the which passing vp into his
commandement discharged on the 22 daie of March and Richard Whitington mercer chosen in his place On the eight of Iune being Trinitie sundaie the parlement yet continuing that noble and famous prince Edward the kings sonne departed this life within the kings palace at Westminster His bodie was conueied to Canturburie with great solemnitie and there honorablie buried He died in the 46 yeare of his age a prince of such excellent demeanour so valiant wise and politike in his dooings that the verie and perfect representation of knighthood appeared most liuelie in his person whilest he liued so that the losse of him stroke a generall sorrow into the harts of all the English nation For such was his towardnesse or rather perfection in princelie gouernement that if he had liued and atteined to the crowne euerie man iudged that he would suerlie haue excéeded the glorious renowme of all his ancestors This princes death is bréefelie touched by C. Okland who after mention made of the great victories atchiued by his father the king against his enimies and concluding him to be verie happie and fortunate in the issue of his attempts saith inclytus ille monarchae Vndique ter foelix nisi quòd â—rux Atropos occat Ante diem gnati fatalia stamina vitae The French king kept his obsequie in most reuerend wife in the chapell of his palace at Paris After his death the king called to him againe the foresaid persons that had beene from him remooued and the said sir Peers de la Mere that was speaker in the parlement as before yée haue hard for his eloquence shewed in reproouing the misgouernment of the said persons and namelie of the said dame Alice Peres line 10 was now committed to prison within the castell of Notingham About the same time the truce was againe prolonged till the first daie of Aprill next following ¶ King Edward after the deceasse of his sonne prince Edward created the lord Richard sonne to the said prince as heire to him prince of Wales and gaue to him the earledomes of Chester Cornewall ¶ Moreouer bicause the king waxed féeble and sicklie through langor as some suppose conceiued for the death of his sonne he appointed the rule of the line 20 relme to his sonne the duke of Lancaster ordeining him as gouernour vnder him and so he continued during his fathers life A great riot happened betwixt the seruants of the earle of Warwike and the tenants of the abbat of Euesham so that manie of the said abbats seruants were slaine and hurt The fish-ponds and warrens belonging to the abbie were broken and spoiled so that greater hurt would haue followed thereof if the line 30 kings letters had not beene sent downe to the earle commanding him to staie his men from such misdemeanours All the nobles of the realme were caused to sweare that after the kings decease they shuld admit and mainteine Richard prince of Wales for their king and souereigne lord And vpon Christmasse day the king caused him to sit at his table aboue all his owne children in high estate as representing the personage of the heire apparant to the crowne line 40 This yeare being the one and fiftith and last of king Edwards reigne there were sent againe to Bruges as commissioners to treat of peace on the part of king Edward Iohn lord Cobham the bishop of Hereford and the maior of London And for the French part thither came the earle of Salebruch monsieur de Chatillon and Phillibert Lespoit And still the two legats were present as mediatours betwixt the parties moouing a mariage to be had betwixt Richard prince of Wales and the ladie Marie daughter to line 50 the French king But they departed in sunder for this time without anie conclusion But shortlie after in Lent following there was a secret meeting appointed to be had at Montreuill by the sea whither came from the king of England sir Richard Dangle a Poictouine sir Richard Stan Geffrie Chaucer For the French king there appeared the lord Coucie and others These commissioners treated a long season concerning the mariage and when they had vnderstanding and felt each others meaning line 60 they departed and made report of the same to their maisters The truce was againe prolonged till the first daie of Maie And in the meane time the earle of Salisburie the bishop of saint Dauie lord chancellour of England and the bishop of Hereford went ouer to Calis In like case the lord of Coucie and sir William Dorman chancellor of France came to Montreuill But they durst not meet at anie indifferent place on the frontiers for the doubt that either partie had of other for anie thing the legats could saie or doo Thus these commissioners abode in that state till the truce was expired And when the warre was open then sir Hugh Caluerlie was sent ouer to Calis to remaine vpon safe kéeping of that towne as deputie there The earle of Salisburie and the other commissioners returned into England and with them the duke of Britaine On the twelfth day of Aprill this yeare one sir Iohn Minsterworth knight was drawne hanged headed and quartered at Tiborne being first condemned and adiudged to suffer that execution before the maior of London and other the kings iustices in the Guildhall for treason by him committed in defrauding souldiers of their wages for where he had receiued great summes of monie to make paiment thereof to them he reteined the same to his owne vse Moreouer as in the fortie foure yeare of this king yée haue heard he was the chéefe procurer and setter forward of the dissention that rose in the armie which vnder the leading of sir Robert Knolles was sent into France And when in that iournie he had lost most of his men and was escaped himselfe into England he laid all the blame on sir Robert Knolles accusing him to the king of heinous treason so as the king tooke no small displeasure against the said sir Robert insomuch that he durst not returne into England till he had pacified the kings wrath with monie and that the knowne fidelitie of the man had warranted him against the malicious and vntrue suggestions of his enimies Wherevpon the said Minsterworth perceiuing his craft to want the wished successe he fled to the French king and conspiring with him to annoie the realme of England by bringing the Spanish nauie to inuade the same at length he was taken in the towne of Pampilona in Nauarre and brought backe into England where he tasted the deserued fruit of his contriued treason as before yée haue heard About this season there rose in the vniuersitie of Oxenford a learned man Iohn Wiclife borne in the north parts who being a secular preest and a student in diuinitie began to propone certeine conclusions greatlie contrarie to the doctrine of the church in those daies established speciallie he
plainelie to subscribe to king Edwards will in the disheriting of his sister Marie and alledging manie reasons and arguments for the legitimation of both the kings sisters was in the Guildhall in London arreigned and attainted of treason namelie for aiding the duke of Northumberland with horsse and men against the line 30 queene as aforesaid At the same time also the ladie Iane of Suffolke who for a while was called queene Iane and the lord Gilford hir husband the lord Ambrose and lord Henrie Dudleie sonnes to the duke of Northumberland were likewise arreigned and attainted and thervpon led backe againe to the tower In the beginning of Ianuarie next following Charles the fift emperor sent into England an honorable ambassage amongest whome was the Conte de Aiguemont admerall of the low countries line 40 with Charles Conte de la Laing Iohn de Montmorancie lord of Curriers and the chancellor Nigre with full commission to conclude a mariage betwéene Philip prince of Spaine his sonne heire and queene Marie as you haue heard which ambassage tooke such place that shortlie after all things were finished accordinglie ¶ On the fouretéenth of Ianuarie doctor Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester lord chancellour of England in the chamber of presence at Westminster line 50 made to the lords nobilitie and gentlemen an oration verie eloquent wherein he declared that the queenes maiestie partlie for amitie and other weightie considerations had after much sute on the emperours and prince of Spaines behalfe made determined by the consent of the councell and nobilitie to match hir selfe with the said prince in most godlie and lawfull matrimonie and declared further that she should haue for hir iointer thirtie thousand ducats by the yeare with all the low countrie of Flanders line 60 and that the issue if there happened anie betwéene them two lawfullie begotten should be heire as well to the kingdome of Spaine as also to the said low countrie He said therefore that they were all bound to thanke God that so noble worthie and famous a prince would vouchsafe so to humble himselfe as in this marriage to take vpon him rather as a subiect than otherwise For the queene hir councell should rule all things as she did before and that there should be of the councell no stranger neither to haue custodie of any forts or castels c nor to beare anie rule or office in the quéenes house or else where in all England with diuerse other articles there by him rehearsed Wherefore he said the quéenes pleasure and request was that like good subiects for hir sake they would most louinglie receiue him with reuerence ioie and honour On the next daie the lord maior of London with his bretheren the aldermen were sent for to the court and to bring with them fortie of the head commoners of the citie vnto whome before the councell the lord chancellor made the like oration desiring them to behaue themselues like good subiects with all humblenesse and reioising But this marriage was not well thought of by the commons nor much better liked of manie of the nobilitie who for this and for the cause of religion conspired to raise war rather than to see such change of the state Of the which conspiracie though there were manie confederats yet the first that shewed force therein was one sir Thomas Wiat a knight in Kent who in verie deed was driuen to preuent the time of the purposed enterprise by this hap Diuerse of the partakers in this conspiracie being withdrawne from London where they had deuised their drift home into their countries amongst whome the said sir Thomas Wiat was one it fell out that whilest he was returned into Kent where his lands and liuings chieflie laie a gentleman of that shire one to the said sir Thomas Wiat most déere was by the councell for other matters committed to the Fléet Wherevpon he verelie suspecting his secrets were bewraied had no other shift as he tooke it but to put on armour and to begin the attempt before the time appointed with his complices And herevpon giuing intelligence of his determination to his associats as well at London as else-where on the thursdaie next following being the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie at Maidstone being accompanied with master Thomas Isleie and others published a proclamation against the quéenes marriage desiring all his neighbors fréends and Englishmen to ioine with him and others to defend the realme in danger to be brought in thraldome vnto strangers and herewith he gat him to Rochester and met with sir George Harper by the waie that was one appointed afore to ioine with him in that quarrell They brake vp the bridge at Rochester and fortified the east part of the towne staid there abiding the comming of more strength and in the meane while suffered all passengers to passe quietlie thorough the towne to London or to the sea taking nothing from them but onelie their weapons In the meane while sir Henrie Isleie Anthonie Kneuet esquier and his brother William Kneuet were busie in west Kent to raise the people there and likewise in east Kent there were other that were of the same confederacie which set forth the like proclamations at Milton Ashford and other towns there in that part of the shire and thus in each part of Kent in a maner was great stur But yet such was the diligence and warie circumspection of Iohn Twine at that present maior of Canturburie for that he misliked their disordered attempts that there was not any of that citie knowne to stur or go forth to ioine themselues with the said sir Thomas Wiat or with anie other of his confederats and yet verelie the more part of the people in all other parts of that shire were maruellouslie affected to the said sir Thomas Wiats quarrell doubting that which might follow of the quéenes matching hir selfe thus with a stranger At Milton when a gentleman of those parts named Christopher Roper went about to resist them that set forth this proclamation he was taken and conueied to Rochester vnto master Wiat. Likewise maister Tucke and maister Dorrell iustices of peace were fetched out of their owne houses likewise brought to Rochester where they with the said Roper were kept as prisoners Sir Thomas Wiat had written vnto sir Robert Southwell shiriffe of Kent to moue him in respect of the preseruation of the common-wealth now in danger to be ouerrun of strangers through the pretensed marriage if it should go forward to ioine with him and others in so necessarie a cause for the disappointing of the same marriage and to worke so with the lord of Aburgauennie with whom he might doo much that it might please him also to ioine with them But as well the said sir Robert Southwell as line 10 the said lord of Aburgauennie and one George Clerke assembled themselues with such power as they might make against the
church And although those peeces laie a quarter of a mile off the peeces of ordinance that laie in the same stâ—eple were dismounted by them and likewise those that laie in the stéeple of saint Nicholas church at the which diuerse peeces were leuied and within six or seuen tire the péeces that laie in that stéeple were also displaced and a gunner slaine that stood at one of them the péece and the gunner comming tumbling downe both togither In this church as was reported their store of vittels and munition was laid so that batterie was made against the same all that daie and a great peece of the church wall beaten downe and the stéeple defaced The bishop of Ualence after he had talked with the quéene Dowager returned to commune with the lords of the congregation Tuesdaie the thrée and twentith of Aprill being saint Georges daie the pioners Scotish and English were busilie applied in worke about the casting of trenches to make a fort and still the artillerie went off against the towne Wednesdaie the foure and twentith of Aprill about three of the clocke in the after noone there issued out of Leith seauentéene horssemen who offered the skirmish and vnder the place called little London where they were busie in fortifieng all that daie thrée or foure hundred of their shot were placed readie to breake out if occasion serued At length certeine of the English lances gaue a charge vpon their horssemen who therewith retiring drew the Englishmen within danger of their shot But although the Frenchmen that daie shewed themselues verie valiant in skirmishing euen in the face of the English artillerie yet being now egerlie pursued by those lances they were forced to retire without anie great hurt doone to the Englishmen although the skirmish continued néere hand two houres In this last charge yoong maister Browne was hurt Thursdaie the fiue and twentith of Aprill the pioners laboured sore for the most part of the daie in finishing the new fort named Montpelham to the gard whereof capteine Uaughan was appointed gouernor with twelue hundred soldiors This fort was raised on the south side of the towne the plot whereof was cast square with foure bulworks at euerie corner and twâ—â—â—e battering peeces planted in places conuenient within the same This thursdaie also about fiue of the clocke in the after noone there issued out of Leith on the east side seauentie or eightie horssemen and two hundred harquebusiers offering the skirmish towards whome certeine of the English light horssemen roundlie made and charging them droue them backe to their footmen who with their shot receiued the light horssemen so sharplie that they were forced to retire In which retire Iames Hamilton a Scotishman was taken prisoner for the rescue of whome the horssemen made forward againe but the enimies shot was so hot that they were not able to recouer him but yet they slue two of the French horssemen in sight During the time of this skirmish there was great shooting off with the great ordinance on both sides much hurt doone as well to the English as French This daie capteine Perith and capteine Haies hauing charge of a troope of light horssemen vnder sir Henrie Persie and the lord of Grange were taken prisoners before Dunbar and to the number of twentie or thirtie others were likewise taken or slaine the same time The same night also two thousand footmen with the pioners were sent to the other side of the towne beyond the canon milles where the pioners cast a trench for the safe lodging of the armie which remooued the next day being fridaie and the six and twentith of Aprill from Lesterike downe into the vallie by the said canon milles called the red Braies néere to the riuer side on the south part of the towne of Leith As the armie was thus remoouing from Lesterike towards the said place called the red Braies the Frenchmen within Leith shot off manie of their great péeces of artillerie but without dooing anie great hurt As the armie was incamping certeine of the enimies horssemen and line 10 footmen skirmished with the English lances and light horssemen a long time there were two Frenchmen slaine and their horsses also In the time of this skirmish two canons were conueied and planted in the new trench which discharged diuerse shots at the enimies Saturdaie the seauen and twentith of Aprill the great artillerie was planted aloft on the hill aboue the campe within lesse than a curriers shot of the towne walles and the pioners were set a worke to line 20 cast new trenches from the place where the same ordinance was lodged vnto Montpelham drawing so néere vnto Leith as the harquebus might reach them that watched and warded within the gréene bulworke There issued out of Leith vnder the west bulworke certeine of the Frenchmen the which were chased into the towne by the lard of Grange and others The French kept the same daie a trench which they had made without the towne continuallie shooting at the Englishmen in the campe but the same night the Englishmen wan that trench from them line 30 slue diuerse of them therein togither with their scout And this doone they gaue a great alarum to the towne both by land and water the shipbotes shooting off against the towne verie hotlie and they within the towne likewise at the Englishmen The same night was the great ordinance planted and maister Markham hurt On sundaie the eight and twentith of Aprill the said great ordinance went off and shot continuallie the more part of that daie The line 40 bishop of Ualence departed the same daie towards Berwike and this night sir George Howard that had béene sent backe to Berwike to signifie to the duke of Norffolke the state of the siege returned with sir Richard Lee being conducted with fiue hundred horssemen Mondaie the nine and twentith of Aprill the péeces of the great artillerie were occupied in shooting off verie hotlie and the French likewise shot off theirs and comming foorth of the towne skirmished line 50 with the Englishmen This night the pioners made new trenches toward the south bulworke Tuesdaie the last of Aprill was spent in shooting off the great artillerie into the towne About fiue of the clocke in the after noone a sudden fire was raised within the towne which hugelie increased and continued the most part of that night At the beginning when it first appeered the English ordinance was shot off to the place where the fire was which shot togither with helpe of the wind and being verie great at that present line 60 did maruellouslie augment the same fire yet neuerthelesse the French at that present time offered a skirmish and continued the same néere hand for the space of two houres manned their walles and made the best prouision they might for doubt of some assault It was indéed appointed that certeine bands
places and the court was so swift line 20 that there could be no staie made but the courts must run ouer them and yet no great harme hath happened that waie And I my selfe haue séene a court loden with earth passe ouer the bellie or stomach of the driuer and yet he not hurt at all therby Manie courts also being vnloden for expedition were driuen at low waters through the chanell within the pent from maister lieutenants wall whereby they gained more than halfe the waie and so long as by anie possibilitie they might passe that line 30 waie they were loth to go about And when the flood came the chanell did so suddenlie swell as manie horsses with their courts and driuers which rode in them were ouertaken or rather ouerwhelmed with water and were forced to swim with great hazard of life though therat some tooke pleasure For sometimes the boies would strip themselues naked and ride in that case in their courts through the chanell being so high as they were ducked ouer head and eares but they knew their horsses would swim and carrie them through the streame which ministred line 40 to some occasion of laughter and mirth Finallie this summer being in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred eightie and thrée was verie hot and contagious the infection of the plague that yeare more vniuersallie dispersed through England than in manie yeares before and that towne verie much subiect therevnto by means of through-fare and common passage and had béene extremelie visited therewith not long before so as the towne line 50 was abandoned of most men yea of some of the inhabitants themselues for that cause and yet God blessed so the works as in this extraordinarie and populous assemblie there was in no part of the towne anie death or infection either of townsmen or workmen which resorted thither from all the parts of England And one thing more in mine opinion is to be noted and commended herein that is to saie that in all this time and among all these people there was neuer anie tumult fraie nor falling out to the disquieting line 60 or disturbance of the works which by that means were the better applied and with lesse interruption For they neuer ceased working the whole daie sauing that at eleuen of the clocke before noone as also at six of the clocke in the euening there was a flag vsuallie held vp by the sargent of the towne in the top of a tower except the tide or extraordinarie busines forced the officers to preuen◠the houre or to make some small delaie staie therof And presentlie vpon the signe giuen there was a generall shout made by all the workers and wheresoeuer anie court was at that instant either emptie or loden there was it left till one of the clocke after noone or six of the clocke in the morning when they returned to their businesse But by the space of halfe an houre before the flag of libertie was hanged out all the court driuers entered into a song whereof although the dittie was barbarous and the note rusticall the matter of no moment all but a iest yet is it not vnworthie of some briefe note of remembrance because the tune or rather the noise thereof was extraordinarie and being deliuered with the continuall voice of such a multitude was verie strange In this and some other respect I will set downe their dittie the words whereof were these O Harrie hold vp thy hat t' is eleuen a clocke and a little little little past My bow is broke I would vnyoke my foot is sore I can worke no more This song was made and set in Romneie marsh where their best making is making of wals and dikes and their best setting is to set a néedle or a stake in a hedge howbeit this is a more ciuill call than the brutish call at the theatre for the comming awaie of the plaiers to the stage I thinke there was neuer worke attempted with more desire nor proceeded in with more contentment nor executed with greater trauell of workemen or diligence of officers nor prouided for with more carefulnesse of commissioners nor with truer accounts or duer paie nor contriued with more circumspection of the deuisers and vndertakers of the worke nor ended with more commendation or comfort sauing that vpon the seuen twentith of Iulie being S. Iames his daie the verie daie when the crosse wall and the long wall met and were ioined together and in effect finished for both wals were brought aboue the high water marke and nothing remained to be done of the same but highthening which might be doone at anie time after sir Thomas Scot the principall piller of that worke fell sicke vpon the wals and was conueied thense in a wagon to his house where he remained six wéeks more likelie to die than to liue whose ladie and wife being a most vertuous and noble matrone a liuelie paterne of womanhood and sobrietie the daughter of sir Iohn Baker knight and the mother of seuentéene children vsed such diligent attendance and continuall care for hir husbands recouerie of helth as thereby she brought hir selfe into so weake state of bodie as being great with two children she fell sicke and after hir vntimelie trauell being deliuered of a sonne and a daughter she ended hir mortall life This sicknesse of sir Thomas Scot and that which fell out therevpon was no small discomfiture to him and all his And the workmen at Douer made such mone for his sicknesse and also for his absence that euerie stréet was replenished with sorrow and gréefe and the people would be comforted with nothing more nor anie waie be better incouraged to worke lustilie than to be told that sir Thomas Scot was well recouered and would shortlie be amongst them againe And in truth they translated their barbarous musicke into a sorrowfull song and in stéed of calling to Harrie for their dinner they called to God for the good health and returne of their best freend sir Thomas Scot and that with a generall and continuall outcrie euen in their old accustomed tune time But the courts procéeded in highthening the wals vntill they were raised about two foot higher than they were on S. Iames his daie when the wals met togither so as the crosse wall is ninetie foot broad in the bottome and about fiftie foot in the top The long wall is seuentie foot in the bottome and almost fortie foot in the top in so much as vpon either wall two courts may méet and passe or turne without troubling ech other The length of the crosse wall is fortie rods the length of the long wall a hundred and twentie rods The charge of these two wals with the appurtenances amounted to two thousand and seauen hundred pounds as appeareth in the expenditors books If there were anie issue or draining of water vnder the wals it was soone stopped by the peise
Anselme to doubt of the archbishop of Yorke his meaning as after it appéered For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie as alreadie yee haue heard through counsell of the canons of Yorke he refused so to doo bicause they informed him that if he so did it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie so that he was bound line 60 onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Canturburie but in no wise to acknowledge anie subiection vnto that sée ¶ For ye must vnderstand that there was great stomaching betwixt the clergie of the two prouinces Canturburie and Yorke about the metropolitane prerogatiue and euer as occasion serued and as they thought the fauor of the prince or oportunitie of time might aduance their quarels they of Yorke sticked not to vtter their gréefes in that as they tooke it some iniurie was offered them therein The archbishop of Yorke being thus instructed by the canons of his church year 1019 signified to archbishop Anselme the cause why he came not at his summons The copie of a parcell whereof is here exemplified Causam qua differtur sacratio mea quam nemo studiosius quà m ego vellet accellerare qui protulerunt non desistunt corroborare Quamobrem quà m periculosum quà m turpe sit contra consensum ecâ—lesiae cui praefici debeo regimen ipsius inuadere vestra discretio nouerit Sed quà m sormidabile quà m sit euitandum sub specie benedictionis maledictionem induere c that is The cause why my consecration is deferred which no man liuing would wish to be doone with more speed than I my selfe those that haue prolonged it ceasse not to confirme Wherefore how dangerous and how dishonest it should be for me to inuade the gouernment of that church which I ought to rule without coÌ„sent of the same your discretion rightwell vnderstandeth Yea and how dreadfull a thing it is and how much to be auoided to receiue a cursse vnder colour of a blessing c. Anselme hauing alreadie written twice vnto the said Thomas archbishop of Yorke about this matter and now receiuing this answer could not be quiet in mind and therevpon taking aduice with certeine bishops whom he called vnto him determined to send two bishops vnto the said Thomas of Yorke and so the bishop of London as deane to the archbishop of Canturburie the bishop of Rochester as his household chapleine were sent to commune with him who met them at his manour of Southwell where they declared to him the effect of their message but he deferred his answer till a messenger which he had sent to the king as then being in Normandie was returned and so without any full answer the bishops came backe againe Howbeit shortlie after there came to Canturburie a messenger on the behalfe of the archbishop of Yorke with letters inclosed vnder the kings seale by the tenour whereof the king commanded Anselme that the consecration of the archbishop of Yorke might staie till the feast of Easter and if he might returne into England by that daie he promised by the aduice had therein of the bishops and barons of his realme that he would set a direction betwixt them in all matters whereof anie controuersie had beene moued heretofore or if he could not returne so soone he would yet take such order that brotherlie loue concord might remaine betwixt them When he that brought these letters required an answer Anselme answered that he would signifie his mind to the king and not to his maister Immediatlie therefore was the deane of Chichester sent ouer from Anselme with a moonke of Bechâ—llouin to the king to informe him of all the matter and to beséech his maiestie by his authoritie to prouide that no discord should rise to the diuiding of the present state of the church of England Furthermore whereas he had commanded him to grant vnto Thomas the archbishop of Yorke a time of respit he should take for certeine answer that he would rather suffer himselfe to be cut in peeces than to grant so much as one hours space on the said Thomas of Yorke whome he knew alreadie to haue set himselfe vniustlie against the ancient constitutions of holie fathers and against the Lord himselfe The messengers declared these things to the king and brought word backe againe at their returne that the king had heard their message with fauourable mind and promised by the power of God to declare to the world that he coueted vnitie and not any diuision in the church of England All this while Anselme was deteined with long and gréeuous sicknesse and yet not forgetfull of the obstinate dealing of Thomas of Yorke he wrote letters vnto him by vertue whereof he suspended him from exercising all pastorall function till he had reformed his errour submitted himselfe to receiue his blessing and acknowledged his subiection to the church of Canturburie as his predecessours Thomas and Gerard had doone and before them other ancients as custome had prescribed Thus he charged him vpon paine of cursing except he would renounce his archbishops dignitie for in so dooing he did grant him licence to vse the office and ministerie of a préest which before time he had taken vpon him or else not line 10 In the same letters he prohibited all the bishops within the precinct of the I le of Britaine that in no wise they should consecrate him vpon paine of curssing and if he should chance to be consecrated by any stranger that in no wise they should vnder the like paine receiue him for archbishop or communicate with him in any condition Euerie bishop also within the whole I le of Britaine had a copie of these leters directed to him from Anselme vnder his seale line 20 commanding them to behaue themselues therein according to the contents and as they were bound by the subiection which they owght to the church of Canturburie The letters were dated alike in March Notwithstanding all this vpon the 21. of Aprill insuing Anselme ended his life in the sixtéenth yéere after his first preferment to that sée being thréescore and sixtéene yeeres of age He was an Italian borne in Piemont néere to the Alpes in a citie called Aosta he was brought vp by Lanfranke and before he was made archbishop was abbat of the monasterie line 30 of Bechellouin in Normandie About the same time was the bishops sée of Elie erected by the king who appointed one Haruie to be the first bishop there who before had béene bishop of Bangor Cambridgeshire was annexed to that see which bicause it had of former time belonged to the see of Lincolne the king gaue vnto the bishop of Lincolne as it were in recompense the towne of Spalding which was his owne The prior of Elie line 40 named Richard desirous
Robert with manie other of the Nobles that staied behind till she and other might get out of danger were taken prisoners And bicause the king was kept at Bristow vnder the custodie of the said Robert the queene caused him to be hardlie handled that he might prooue the words of the gospell true With what measure yée meat vnto other with the same by other shall it be line 60 remeasured vnto you He had deserued verie euill of the king heretofore and therefore it was now remembred He was taken in maner abouesaid on the feast day of the exaltation of the crosse Dauid king of Scotland was not at the battell himselfe but hearing of the discomfiture got him out of the countrie and by helpe of trustie guides returned into Scotland whilest Alberike de â—éer was slaine at London in a seditious tumult raised by the citizens The kingdome being thus diuided into two seuerall factions was by all similitudes like to come to vtter ruine for the people kindled in hatred one against another sought nothing else but reuenge on both sides and still the land was spâ—iled and wasted by the men of warre which lodged within the castels and fortresses and would often issue out to harrie and spoile the countries But now that the two cheefest heads were prisoners there was good hope conceiued that God had so wrought it whereby might grow some ouerture of talke to quiet such troubles by fréendlie peace and agreement Herevpon those lords that wished well to the common-wealth began to intreate betwixt them and articles were propounded for a concord to be had and an exchange of prisoners on both sides But the empresse and hir brother would not hearken to any agréement except that the realme might wholie remaine to the said empresse Whereby the enimies were rather increased than decreased by this treatie so that at length the king and the earle weried with tedious yrksomnesse of yrons and hard imprisonment and putting all their hope in the chance of war about the feast of All saints made exchange by deliuering of the one for the other without making mention of any peace at all and so kindled with new displeasures they renewed the warre King Stephan being deliuered in such wise as you haue heard comming to London and there being accompanied with his brother Henrie bishop of Winchester then the popes legat Theobald archbishop of Canturburie and others he called a parlement wherein the king declared the present state how the enimie was brought to this point that if it would please the Nobles of the realme to mainteine him with men monie he trusted now so to worke as they should not need to feare submission to the yoke of a womans gouernment which at the first they seemed much to mislike and now sithens to their great gréefe had prooued to be intollerable The summe of his talke tended to this end that those which were able of themselues to aid him with their owne persons should prepare them out of hand so to doo and the residue that were not meet as bishops and such like maner of men should be contributors to aid him with hired souldiers armour and monie This was gladlie agréed vpon with the generall consent of all the assemblie And bicause the bishops shewed themselues verie liberall towards the aduancing of the kings purpose there was a statute made at the same parlement that who so euer did laie any violent hands on a sacred person or else tooke vpon him to apprehend any of them for what fault soeuer without the bishops licence he should be accursed and not be assoiled of any maner of person except of the pope as by a canon it was alreadie decréed but not obeied among the Englishmen till that daie ¶ The cause of making this statute was chéeflie for that preests during the time of the ciuill wars were dailie either slaine or taken prisoners and so put to their ransoms or charged with great penalties and gréeuous fines The bishop of Winchester at this councell also began an other brall among the cleargie for being brother to king Stephan armed with the popes authoritie as his legat in England by reason of exercising his authoritie fell at variance with the bishop of Canturburie who tooke himselfe for his superior bicause he was his primat This quarell grew so far in question that they went both to Rome to haue the controuersie decided and so bringing their sutes thither contented well the eares of them that had the hearing of the same for the more weightie the cause seemed the better it liked them ¶ A late writer noting in clergiemen of his age countrie not onelie the aspiring vice of ambition but other disorders also and monstrous outrages after a complaint made that gold by which title he calleth those of the ecclesiasticall order is turned into drosse and swéet wine become tart vineger concludeth with the illation of the cause hereof comprised in this metricall accouplement saieng Dum factor rerum priuaret flamine clerum Ad satanae votum successit turba nepotum Which he inferred vpon occasion against the preposterous elections of vnmeet men into episcopall â—ées for that they were not so qualified as the dignitie of the place required otherwise peraduenture enabled with competent knowledge and learning And suerlie we may note these inordinate affections line 10 from the beginning of this our chronicle in the best I meane in respect of their estates of this liuerie and may iustlie impute it to the defection of Gods spirit in them whose nature is to plant peace and méekenesse in the harts of his tenants not discord not ambition not the works of darknesse which beséeme not the children of light But to the purpose As the king began after his libertie obteined to prouide for warres so earle Robert after he was line 20 discharged sailed ouer into Normandie taking with him the sonnes of diuerse Noble men who fauored the empresse whome he deliuered to hir husband the earle of Aniou to be kept as pledges earnestlie besought him to passe ouer into England with an armie to aid the empresse Howbeit bicause he was newlie intred into the conquest of Normandie and had alreadie won the most part thereof he thought good to make first an end of his warres there hauing somewhat to doo against certeine rebels of his owne countie of Aniou which did not a little molest line 30 him But he recouered whilest the earle of Glocester was there with him Alney Mortaigne Tenerchbray and diuerse other places perteining chieflie to the earle of Mortaigne about the same time also they of Constances submitted themselues vnto him Thus the earle of Aniou being occupied in those parties could not well come into England Wherevpon the earle of Glocester came backe againe himselfe and bringing with him somewhat lesse than foure hundred men of armes imbarked in line 40 52. ships landed with
the countries adioining line 50 were sore vexed with a great mortalitie of people and immediatlie after followed a sore dearth and famine King Henrie held his Christmas at Windsor and about the feast of the conuersion of saint Paule he came to Northampton after the mortalitie was well ceassed he called a parlement whereat was present a deacon cardinall intituled of S. Angelo being sent into England as a legat from the pope to take order in the controuersies betwixt the two archbishops line 60 of Canturburie and Yorke This cardinall whose name was Hugh Petro Lion assembled in the same place a conuocation or synod of the bishops and cleargie as well of England as Scotland in which conuocation after the ceassing of certeine strifes and decrées made as well concerning the state of common-wealth as for the honest behauiour of mans life the cardinall consented that according as by the kings lawes it was alreadie ordeined all maner of persons within the sacred orders of the cleargie which should hunt within the kings grounds and kill any of his deare should be conuented and punished before a temporall iudge Which libertie granted to the king did so infringe the immunitie which the cleargie pretended to haue within this realme that afterwards in manie points préests were called before temporall iudges and punished for their offenses as well as the laitie though they haue grudged indéed and mainteined that they had wrong therein as they that would be exempted and iudged by none except by those of their owne order Moreouer in this councell the matter came in question touching the obedience which the bishops of Scotland did owe by right vnto the archbishop of Yorke whom from the beginning the popes of Rome had constituted and ordeined to be primat of all Scotland and of the Iles belonging to that realme as well of the Orkeneis as all the other Which constitution was obserued by the bishops of those parts manie yeares togither though after they renounced their obedience Whervpon the archbishops of Yorke for the time being continuallie complained so that these popes Paschall the second Calyxt the second Honorius Innocentius Eugenius the third and Adrian the fourth had the hearing of the matter and with often sending their letters went about to reduce them to the prouince of Yorke But the Scots still withstanding this ordinance at length the matter thus in controuersie was referred to pope Alexander who sent the foresaid cardinall Hugh as well to make an end of that contention as of diuerse other but yet he left it vndecided William king of Scotland came personallie vnto this parlement at Northhampton by commandement of king Henrie and brought with him Richard bishop of S. Andrew and Iosseline bishop of Glascow with other bishops and abbats of Scotland the which being commanded by king Henrie to shew such subiection to the church of England as they were bound to doo by the faith which they owght to him and by the oth of fealtie which they had made to him they made this answer that they had neuer shewed any subiection to the church of England nor ought Against which deniall the archbishop of Yorke replied and brought foorth sufficient priuileges granted by the forenamed popes to prooue the subiection of the Scotish bishops and namelie Glascow and Whiterne vnto the see of Yorke But bicause the archbishop of Canturburie meant to bring the Scotish bishops vnder subiection to his see he wrought so for that time with the king that he suffered them to depart home without yéelding any subiection to the church of England The letters which the foresaid popes did send touching this matter were remaining safe and sound amongst other writings in the colledge at Yorke when Polydor Virgil wrote the histories of England the copies whereof in an old ancient booke he confesseth to haue séene and read But to speake further of things ordered and doone at this parlement holden at Northampton the king by common consent of his Nobles and other states diuided his realme into six parts appointing thrée iustices itinerants in euerie of them as here followeth Hugh de Cressie Walter Fitz Robert and Robert Mantell were deputed vnto Northfolke Suffolke Cambridgeshire Huntingtonshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Essex and Hertfordshire Hugh de Gundeuille William Fitz Rafe and William Basset were appointed to Lincolnshire Notinghamshire Derbishire Staffordshire Warwikeshire Northamptonshire and Leicestershire Robert Fitz Bernard Richard Gifford Roger Fitz Remfrey were assigned to Kent Surrey Hampshire Sussex Berkshire and Oxfordshire William Fitz Stephan Berthram de Uerdon Thurstan Fitz Simon were ordeined to Herefordshire Glocestershire Worcestershire and Salopshire Rafe Fitz Stephan William Ruffe and Gilbert Pipard were put in charge with Wilshire Dorsetshire Summersetshire Deuonshire Cornwall Robert de Wals Ranulf de Glanuile and Robert Pikenet were appointed to Yorkeshire Richmondshire Lancashire Copeland Westmerland Northumberland and Cumberland The king caused these iustices to sweare vpon the holie euangelists that they should kéepe his assises which he first had ordeined at Clarendon and after had renewed here at Northampton also caused line 10 all his subiects within the relme of England to kéepe and obserue the same Moreouer at this councell king Henrie restored vnto Robert earle of Leicester all his lands both on this side the sea and beyond in maner as he held the same fiftéene daies before the warre To William de Albenie earle of Arundell he gaue the earledome of Sussex About midlent the king with his sonne and the legat came to London where at Westminster a conuocation of the cleargie was called but line 20 when the legat was set and the archbishop of Canturburie on his right hand as primat of the realme the archbishop of Yorke comming in and disdaining to sit on the left where he might séeme to giue preheminence vnto the archbishop of Canturburie vnmanerlie inough indeed swasht him downe meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the legat and the archbishop of Canturburie And where belike the said archbishop of Canturburie was loth to remooue he set his buttocks iust in his lap but he scarslie touched line 30 the archbishops skirt with his bum when the bishops and other chapleins with their seruants stept to him pulled him away and threw him to the ground and beginning to lay on him with bats and fists the archbishop of Canturburie yeelding good for euill sought to saue him from their hands Thus was verified in him that sage sentence Nunquam periculum sine periculo vincitur The archbishop of Yorke with his rent rochet got vp line 40 and awaie he went to the king with a great complaint against the archbishop of Canturburie but when vpon examination of the matter the truth was knowne he was well laught at for his labour and that was all the remedie he got As he departed so bebuffeted foorth of the conuocation house towards the king they cried out
of warre except such as were taken to mercie and saued aliue being about 200 in the whole whereas there were aboord the same ship 500 men of warre as some write though other haue but 800. ¶ But now to other accidents that chanced this yere On Midsummer eeue there was such an eclipse of the sunne the moone being the same time 27. daies old that for the space of thrâ—e houres for so long it lasted such darknesse came ouer the face of the earth that euen in the daie time for this eclipse began about nine of the clocke in the morning the stars appeared plainelie in the element In the same moneth of Iune Richard de Camville whome the king had left as ye haue heaâ—d gouernour in Cypres chanced to fall sicke and comming without licence to the siege of Acres there died After whose death the Cypriots and those called Griffones and â—râ—â—ians reuolted from the English obedience and chose to them a king one that was a moonke of the familie of Isâ—chus their former 〈◊〉 but Robert de Turneham who after the deceasse of Richard Camuille remained soâ—â— gouernour of the I le gathered a power of men togither and giuing battest to the new king whom â—oueden nameâ—â— also emperour vanquished him with his complices tooke him prisoner and hanged him on a paire of galowes The same moneth also died â—afe Fiâ—z Geffrey who had the other king Isac in cuâ—â—odie and then king Richard deliuered him to the â—nights of the hospitall who sent him to the caâ—â—ell of Margâ—â—â—t there safelie to be kept as prisoner to the vse of the king of England Now will we returne vnto the affaires of England and make 〈◊〉 mention of â—he dooings there Yee shall vnderstand that aâ—â—er king Richard was set forward on his iournie William Longchampe lord chanâ—ellour and bishop of Eâ—ie appointed as ye haue hearâ— gouernour of the realme began to exercise his aâ—â—â—oritie to the vâ—termost taking vpon him the state of a prince rather â—han of a subiect He had 〈…〉 late as before 〈◊〉 heard procured such fauor at the hands of pope Clement that he was instituted by him lâ—gat of the apostolike see here in England line 10 so that pretending a rule â—oth ouer the clergie and temporaltie and by reason that he had both the authoritie of pope and king 〈◊〉 his hands he vsed the same to his most aduantage as well in causes ecclesiasticall as temporall whereby he wrought manie oppressions both against them of the clergie and temporaltie He mainteined such a port and countenance in his dooings that he would ride with a thousand horsses by meanes wherof â—hen he came to lie at abbeis and other places bringing with him such a traine he line 20 was verie burdenous vnto them speciallie when he laie at their houses any space of time This man called a conuocation at Westminster wherein at the suit of Hugh Nouant bishop of Chester it was decreed that the moonks of Couentrie should be displaced and secular canons brought into that house to supplie their roomes Which was doone by the authoritie of the said lord chancellour being bribed by the foresaid bishop of Chester as some writers haue recorded for displeasure which he bare to line 30 the moonks by reason of a fraie which they had made vpon the said bishop in their church at Couentrie and drawne bloud of him before the altar there as he alledged But some haue written that the bishop of Chester procured a licence of the pope to alter the state of that church in sort aboue mentioned which is most likelie surmising against the moonks that they were most manifest and stubborne disturbers of that peace and quietnesse which ought to remaine amongst line 40 churchmen and yet he himselfe sowed the strife and dissention amongst them and namelie betwéene the prior and his couent Moreouer the said lord chancellour depriued such rulers of their administrations and gouernements as the king had appointed to beare any high authoritie within the realme pretending not onelie the kings commandement but also alleadging a reason which mooued him so to doo as thus that he might thereby take awaie all occasions of grudges from the people which line 50 otherwise might thinke and would not sticke to saie that they were oppressed by the rule of manie kings in stéed of one king He did also depriue Hugh the bishop of Durham of all his honour and dignitie and put the bishop of Winchester to great trouble Moreouer doubting least the Nobles of the realme would rise against him and put him out of his place he sought to keepe them lowe and spoiled them of their monie and substance Likewise pretending a colour of doubt least earle Iohn the kings brother line 60 should attempt any thing against his brother the king now in his absence he sought also to kéepe him vnder To be breefe he plaied in all points the right part of a tyrant and shewed himselfe such a one in all respects as mainteined his title Non disceptando aut subtilibus argumentis Vincere sed ferro mauult sua iura tueri Pontifices nunc bella iuuant sunt caetera nuga Nec praecepta patrum nec Christi dogmata curant Iactant se dominos rerum sibi cuncta licere At length the king receiued aduertisement from his mother queene Elianor of his demeanor and that there was great likeliehood of some commotion to insue if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided Wherevpon being then in Sicile he sent Walter the archbishop of Rouen into England with commission to ioine in administration of the kingdome with his chancellor the said bishop of Elie. But the archbishop comming into England was so slenderlie interteined of the chancellour and in effect so litâ—e regarded that notwithstanding his commission and instructions brought from the king he could not be permitted to 〈◊〉 any rule But the chancellour deteininâ— the same whoâ—â—e in his hâ—â—ds ordered all things at his pleasure without 〈◊〉 the archbish 〈◊〉 Rouen or any other of counsell with him except such aâ— it pleased him to 〈◊〉 for the seruing of his owne turne ¶ He certeinlie beléeued as maâ—â—e other 〈◊〉 that king Richard would neuer returne with life into England againe which caused him to attempt so manie vnlawfull â—nterprises and therefore he got into his hands all the castels and fortresses belonging to the crowne and furnished them with garisons of souldiers as he thought necessarie depriuing such capteins of their roomes as he suspected not â—o fauour his procéedings One Gerard de Camuille had bought of the king the kéeping of the castell of Lincolne vnto whom also the shiriffewike of the shire was committed for a time but the lord chancellour perceiuing that he bare more good will vnto earle Iohn the kings brother than to him which Iohn he most suspected he tooke from him the shiriffewike
Rouen in his place who would not take vpon him to doo anie thing touching the rule of the land without consent of his associats assigned to him and the barons of the eschecker The same day earle Iohn and the archbishop of Rouen and other of the kings iustices granted to the citizens of London the priuilege of their communaltie and the said earle and archbishop and in maner all the bishops erls and barons of the realme sware to mainteine the said priuilege firme and stable so long as should please their souereigne lord And the citizens of London sware to be true and to doo their faithfull seruice vnto king Richard and his heirs and if he chanced to die without issue then to receiue earle Iohn the brother of king Richard for their king and souereigne lord and therevpon sware fealtie to him against all men sauing that which they owed vnto his brother king Richard The chancellour perceiuing the multitude to be such which he had with him in the tower as the place was not able to hold them any long time after he had remained within it one night he came foorth vnto earle Iohn and to the other that were thus entred the citie and now readie to besiege him of whome he got licence for them that were inclosed within the tower to depart without damage and therewith deliuered vp the tower vnto the hands of the archbishop of Rouen with the castell of Windsor and certeine other castels which he held within the realme but not all notwithstanding he couenanted to make deliuerie of the residue which yet remained in the hands of them whome he had appointed to the kéeping of the same And for assurance of that couenant to be performed before he departed the realme he deliuered his brethren and one that was his chamberleine to remaine with the lords as hostages This doone he hasted to Canturburie where he promised to receiue the crosse of a pilgrime to go into the holie land and to render vp the crosse of his legatship which he had vsurped a yeare and a halfe after the death of pope Clement to the preiudice of the church of Rome and to the detriment and great hinderance of the English church For there was not any church within the realme which had not béene put to fine and ransome by that crosse nor any ecclesiasticall person went frée but the print of the crosse appeared in him and his purse From Canturburie he got him to Douer to his brother in law and finallie séeking means to passe ouer into France and doubting to be discouered he apparelled himselfe in womans raiment got a web of cloth on his arme as though he had beene some housewifelie woman of the countrie but by the vntowardlie folding and vncunning handling of his cloth or rather by a lewd fisherman that tooke him for an harlot he was suspected and searched so narrowlie that by his priuie members he was prooued to be a man and at line 10 length knowne attached and committed to prison after he had beene reprochfullie handled by them that found him and by the wiues of the towne in such vnséemelie apparell Earle Iohn would haue had him punished and put to some open reproofe for his passed tyrannicall dooings but the bishops and other of the barons for reuerence of his order procured his deliuerance with licence to passe ouer into Normandie where he was borne Thus was the bishop of Elie a man full line 20 of pride and couetousnesse ouerthrowne with shame and receiued for his hie climing a reprochfull downefall for none are more subiect to ruine and rebuke than such as be aloft and supereminent ouer others as the poet noteth well saieng Summa petit liuor perflant altissima venti Summa petunt dextra fulmina missa Iouis In time he was deposed from his office of being chancellour and not without warrant for in verie deed king Richard hauing receiued aduertisements line 30 from the lords and peeres of the realme of the chancellours presumptuous and hautie demeanour with wrongs offered to diuerse persons wrote to them againe as followeth A letter of king Richard directed to the States of the land for the deposing of the bishop of Elie from his office of lord chancellour line 40 RIchard king of England sendeth greeting to William Marshall to Gilbert Fitz Peter and Henrie Berdulfe and to William Brewer peeres If it so chance that our chancellour hath not faithfullie handled the affaires and businesse of our realme committed vnto him by the aduise and counsell of you and others to whom we haue also assigned the charge of gouernement of the same realme line 50 we command you that according to your disposition in all things to be doone concerning the gouernement thereof you order and dispose as well for eschetes as all other things c. By force of this commission the lords were the bolder to procéed against him as ye haue heard Now after his comming into the parties beyond the seas he ceassed not with letters and messengers to present his complaint to the pope of Rome and to line 60 king Richard of the iniuries receiued at the hands of earle Iohn and his complices Herevpon pope Celestine wrote in déed to all the archbishops and bishops that were within the realme of England in behalfe of the said bishop of Elie declaring that for so much as the king of England was gone into the holie land to warre against the enimies of our faith leauing his kingdome vnder the protection of the apostolike see he could not but haue speciall regard to see that the state rights and honour thereof were preserued from all danger of decaie Wherefore vnderstanding that there had beene certeine attempts made by Iohn erle of Mortaigne and others both against the king and the bishop of Elie that was not onelie legat of the apostolike sée but also gouernour of the land appointed by the king which attempt sounded greatlie to the reproch of the church of Rome and danger of damage to insue to king Richard if remedie were not the sooner found therefore he commanded them by the vertue of their obedience to excōmunicat the earle of Mortaigne or any other that was knowne to haue laid any violent hands vpon the said bishop of Elie or deteined him as captiue or inforced him to any oth or else had changed the state of rule in the kingdome of England to other forme than king Richard had ordeined at his setting forward towards the holie land and that not onelie all the councellours authors aiders and complices of those that had committed such outrage but also their lands should stand interdicted so that no diuine seruice should be vsed within the precinct of the same except penance and christning of infants This to remaine till the said bishop kingdome were restored into the former estate and that the parties excommunicated should present themselues with
Stephan de Longchamp Seguin de Barret Roger de Glanuille Raimond Fitz Prince Bartholomew de Mortimer Gerard Furniuall Rafe de Malleon Roger de Saâ—ie William de Poole Hugh de Neuill Henrie Teutch or if ye will Teutonicus the kings standardbearer with diuerse others as well Englishmen Frenchmen Normans Poictouins Aniouines Britans Gascoignes as other nations of whome partlie mention is alreadie made before in this booke and partlie for breefenesse diuerse are omitted But now to returne sure it is that king Richard meant to haue recouered the citie of Ierusalem and all the holie land out of the Saracens hands by the assistance of almightie God if the doubt which he had of his brother the earle of Mortaigns practises the French kings dooings which were brought to him with a greeuous report had not reuoked him home For diuerse messengers were sent dailie into the holie land to aduertise him of such dangers as were like to insue if by his speedie returne the same were not preuented And first after Easter there came to him the prior of Hereford with letters from the bishop of Elie conteining a sore information against his brother earle Iohn for hauing expelled those whom he had appointed rulers ouer the realme of England and altered the state of things there contrarie to the ordinances by him deuised afore his setting forward vpon his iournie as before ye haue partlie heard Upon receipt of which letters he meant inmediatlie at the first to haue returned and to haue left behind him a conuenient power of men to wit thrée hundred knights or men of armes and two thousand chosen footmen to abide vpon the defense of the holie land with other christians at his costs and charges But yet at length he was persuaded to tarrie speciallie till things were set in some better state which then were out of order by the death of the marques of Montferrato lord of Tire whom two traitorous Saracens of the kind which they name Assassini had murthered After whose death Henrie earle of Champaigne nephue to king Richard married his wife and was made king of Ierusalem Guido resigning to him his title vnto whome as it were in recompense king Richard gaue the I le of Cypres although some write that the knights Templers had bought it of him before Thus king Richard remaining still in the holie land shortlie after Whitsuntide there came an other messenger to him one Iohn de Alanzon a clearke bringing worsse newes out of England than the prior of Hereford had brought before which in effect conteined that his brother earle Iohn was alied as a confederat with the French king and meant through his setting on to seize into his possession the whole realme of England notwithstanding the persuasion of his mother quéene Eliâ—nor and other his fréends to the contrarie Herevpon king Richard was fullie persuaded to returne home but yet through the admonition of certeine persons and namelie of one William dâ— Poicters a chapleine of his he estsoones altered his purpose and so remained there till at length through enuie and malice still increasing amongst the câ—ristians he perceiued how no good purpose could go forward since that which séemed good to some was misliked of other and speciallie our writers put great blame in the French men who either vpon disdaine or other displeasure would not be persuaded to follow their aduise which were knowne bâ—st to vnderstand the state of things in those parties And herevpon when the armie was aduanced to Betenoble a place not past foure leagues distant from Ierusalem bicause their mind might not be fulfilled for the besieging of Ierusalem which they had intended to take in hand whereas the residue would rather that they shuld haue gone to besiege Babylon in Aegypt and that vpon sundrie great respects the Frenchmen raised their field and returned againe to Acres in great despite putting the rest of the armie also so much as in them laie in danger of vtter ruine and distresse line 10 Then king Richard and the other christian capteins perceiuing how the matter inclined and giuing ouer all hope of any more good successe followed them So that after they were thus returned to Acres king Richard still doubting least his long absence from home might put him in danger of more losse here than he saw hope of present gaine to be had there in such diuersitie of humours and priuie malice which reigned among them he determined fullie to depart homewards with no lesse purpose to line 20 returne thither againe after he had setled things at home in such sure stay as was expedient for the suertie of his owne estate and quietnesse of his people Herevpon being readie to enter into his ships at Acres or as some haue being on his iournie homewards in Cypres he was aduertised that the Souldane Saladine had taken the towne of Iaph slaine a great number of the christians within it and besieged the residue within the castell the which constreined through feare had compounded to yéeld if within line 30 thrée daies there came no succour King Richard being hereof aduertised and turning gréef into valiancie with all spéed sailed backe vnto Iaph and landing there with his people caused his enimies to forsake the towne but anon assembling themselues againe togither they turned once more to besiege it wherevpon he issued foorth into the fields and fought with them sundrie daies togither till finallie they were content to forsake their enterprise and to depart thence for altogither In these line 40 conflicts the valiant courage of king Richard and the worthie manhood of his souldiers right well appeared for he brought not with him at that time vnto Iaph aboue 80 men of armes and foure hundred other souldiers with crossebowes and yet with that small handfull of men and some aid of them that he found there in the castell he did not onelie bid battell to the enimies which were numbred to 62 thousand but also put them to the woorsse and caused them to flee backe to their great shame and confusion line 50 Thus Iaph being deliuered out of the enimies hands king Richard fell sicke at a castell called Cephas and so remained there certeine daies till he had recouered his health In which meane time the Soldane Saladine seeming to lament his â—ase sent vnto him certeine of his councellors to common with him of peace declaring that although he well vnderstood that king Richard ment shortlie to returne into his countrie and that after his departure out of the east parts he could with small adoo recouer line 60 all that the christians yet held within the holie land he would neuerthelesse in respect of king Richards high prowes and noble valiancie grant a peace for a certeine time so that not onelie Ascalon but also all other such townes and places as the christians had fortified or woone since the conquest of Acres should be raced as touching
an abstinence of warre to indure from the feast of S. Hilarie for one whole yere purposing in the meane time to make a finall peace and agréement In which season Baldwine earle of Flanders came into England to doo his deuotions vnto the shrine where Thomas the archbishop laie buried at Canturburie The same yeare also some what before this time Rise ap Griffin king of Wales departed this life after whose death there fell discord betwixt his sonnes for the succession till the archbishop Hubert went to the marshes of that countrie and made an agréement betwixt them Not long after Roger the brother of Robert earle of Leicester elected bishop of saint Andrews in Scotland receiued the order of priesthood and was consecrated bishop by the hands of the bishop of Aberdine This yeare it was ordeined that measures of all manner of graine should conteine one quantitie throughout the realme that is to saie one resonable horsselode and that the measures of wine and ale with all maner of liquors should be of one iust quantie according to the diuersitie of the liquor also that weights should be of like rate throughout the relme and that cloth should conteine two yards in breadth within the lists of perfect goodnesse throughout as well in the middest as by the sides and that one manner of yard should be vsed through the relme It was also ordeined that no merchants within the realme should hang any red or blacke clothes before their windowes nor set vp any pentises or other thing whereby to darken the light from those that come to buy their cloth so as they might be deceiued in choosing thereof Also it was enacted that there should be foure or six substantiall honest men chosen in euerie towne and likewise in shires with the head officers of cities and boroughes which had a corporation to see that the assises aforesaid were truelie kept and that if any were found to be offending in the premisses to cause their bodies to be attached and committed to prison and their goods to be seized to the kings vse and if those that were chosen to haue regard thereto were tried to be negligent so that by others and not by them any offendors chanced to be conuicted before the iustices then should the regarders be put to their fines for the negligent looking to their offices King Richard held his Christmasse this yeare at Roan and Hubert the archbishop of Canturburie legat of the apostolike sée year 1198 named lord chéfe iustice of England was about the same time in the marshes of Wales at Hereford and there receiued into his hands the castels of Hereford Bridgenorth and Ludlow remoouing those that had the same in kéeping and appointing others in their roomes Afterwards comming by Couentrie he placed the moonks againe in the cathedrall church of that citie by commandement of pope Celestine and chased out the secular canons which the bishop Hugh Nouant had brought into the same church when he remooued the moonks In the Christmasse wéeke also there came messengers to Rouen from the archbishops of Cullen and Mentz and from other states of the empire which declared vnto king Richard that all the princes of Germanie were appointed to assemble at Cullen the two twentith of Februarie about the choosing of a new emperour in place of the late deceassed Henrie and therefore they commanded him by force of the oth and league in which he was bound to the emperour and empire that all excuse of deniall or occasions to the contrarie ceasing and set apart he should make his repaire vnto Cullen at the aforesaid day to helpe them in choosing of some worthie personage that might and was able to haue the empire King Richard doubting to put himselfe in danger bicause he had not discharged all the debts due for his ransome staied at home but yet he sent diuerse noble men thither and did so much in fauour of his nephue Otho that by the helpe of the foresaid two archbishops of Cullen and Mentz the same Otho was elected emperour But of this matter more shall be said hereafter Moreouer about the same time king Richard required by the archbishop of Canturburie his chéefe iustice an aid of 300 knights to be found by his subiects of England to remaine with him in his seruice for one whole yeare or else that they would giue him so much monie as might serue to reteine that number after the rate of thrée shillings a daie of English monie for euerie knight Whereas all other were contented to be contributors herein onelie Hugh line 10 bishop of Lincolne refused and spake sore against the archbishop that moued the matter But how soeuer that request tooke place king Richard as we find leuied this yeare a subsidie of fiue shillings of euerie hide of land within the realme two commissioners that is to say one of the spiritualtie a knight of the temporaltie being appointed as commissioners in euerie shire with the assistance of the shiriffe and others to see the same assessed rated after an hundred acres of land to the hide of land according line 20 to the custome The same yeare also the moonks of the house of the holie Trinitie otherwise called Christes church in Canturburie exhibited their complaint vnto pope Innocent that their archbishop Hubert contrarie to his order and dignitie exercised the office of high iustice and sate in iudgement of bloud being so incumbred in temporall matters that he could not haue time to discharge his office touching spirituall causes wherevpon the pope sent vnto king Richard line 30 admonishing him not to suffer the said archbishop to be any longer troubled with temporall affaires but to discharge him thereof and not to admit any spirituall person from thencefoorth vnto any temporall administration He further prohibited by vertue of their obedience all manner of prelats and men of the church that they should not presume rashlie to take vpon them any maner of secular function or office Whervpon the archbishop was discharged of his office of line 40 chéefe iustice and Geffrey Fitz Peter succeeded in gouernement of the realme in his steed ¶ Geruasius Dorobernensis saith that the archbishop resigned that office of his owne accord and that not till after his returne from the marshes of Wales where he had ouerthrowne the Welshmen and slaine fiue thousand of them Which victorie other ascribe vnto Geffrey Fitz Peter which Geffrey as the said Dorobernensis saith succeeded the archbishop in the office of lord cheefe iustice but not vntill August in the line 50 tenth yeare of the kings reigne In this yeare immediatlie vpon the expiring of the truce which was taken till haruest might be ended the warre betwixt the two kings of England France began eftsoones to be pursued with like earnestnesse as before wherevpon manie encounters chanced betwixt the parties with taking of townes and fortresses as commonlie in such cases
with the king of France without either others consent first thereto had and that if after anie agréement taken betwixt them and the king of France he should chance to make warre against either of them then should the other aid and assist him against whom such warre should be made to the vttermost line 60 of his power This league was accorded to remaine for euer betwixt them and their heires with suerties sworne on either part and for the king of England these whose names insue William Marshall earle of Penbroke Ranulfe earle of Chester Robert earle of Leicester Baldwine earle of 〈◊〉 William earle of Arundell Ralfe earle of Augi Robert de Mellet Hugh de Gourney William de Kaeu Geffrey de Cella Roger câ—â—estable of Chester Ralfe Fitz Water William de Albanie Robert de Ras Richard de Montfichet Roger de 〈◊〉 Saer de Quincie William de Mâ—ntchenise Peter de Pratellis William de Pooâ—e alias de 〈◊〉 Adam de Port Robert de Turneham William Mallet Eustace de Uescie Peter de Brus William de Presennie Hubert de Burgh William de Maâ—sey and Peter Sauenie For the earle these were suerties Anselme de Kaeu Guy Lieschans Ralfe the said earles brother c. But now to returne After that the earle of Bullongne was expelled out of France as before ye haue heard he came ouer to king Iohn and was of him ioifullie receiued hauing thrée hundred pounds of reuenues in land to him assigned within England for the which he did homage and fealtie vnto him Shortlie after this also died William de Breuse the elder which fled from the face of king Iohn out of Ireland into France and departing this life at Corbell was buried at Paris in the abbeie of S. Uictor In the meane time pope Innocent after the returne of his legats out of England perceiuing that king Iohn would not be ordered by him determined with the consent of his cardinals and other councellours and also at the instant suit of the English bishops and other prelats being there with him to depriue king Iohn of his kinglie state and so first absolued all his subiects and vassals of their oths of allegiance made vnto the same king and after depriued him by solemne protestation of his kinglie administration and dignitie and lastlie signified that his depriuation vnto the French king and other christian princes admonishing them to pursue king Iohn being thus depriued forsaken and condemned as a common enimie to God and his churcâ— He ordeined furthermore that whosoeuer imploied goods or other aid to vanquish and ouercome that disobedient prince should remaine in assured peace of the church as well as those which went to visit the sepulchre of our Lord not onlie in their goods and persons but also in suffrages for sauing of their soules But yet that it might appeare to all men that nothing could be more ioifull vnto his holinesse than to haue king Iohn to repent his trespasses committed and to aske forgiuenesse for the same he appointed Pandulph which latelie before was returned to Rome with a great number of English exiles to go into France togither with Stephan the archbishop of Canturburie and the other English bishops giuing him in commandement that repairing vnto the French king he should communicate with him all that which he had appointed to be doone against king Iohn and to exhort the French king to make warre vpon him as a person for his wickednesse excommunicated Moreouer this Pandulph was commanded by the pope if he saw cause to go ouer 〈◊〉 England and to deliuer vnto king Iohn such letters as the pope had written for his better instruction and to séeke by all means possible to draw him from his naughtie opinion In the meane time when it was bruted through the realme of England that the pope had released the people absolued them of their oth of fidelitie to the king and that he was depriued of his gouernement by the popes sentence by little and little a great number both of souldiers citizens burgesses capteins and conestables of castels leauing their charges bishops with a great multitude of preests reuolting from him and auoiding his companie and presence secretlie stale awaie and got oueâ— into France Notwithstanding that diuerse in respect of the popes cursse and other considerations them 〈◊〉 otherlie refused in this manner to obeie king Iohn yet there werâ— manie others that did take his Part and mainteine his quarell verie earnestlie as his brother William earle of Salesburie Alberâ—ke de â—â—eere erle of Oxford Geffrey Fitz Peter lord chéefe iustice of England also thrée bishops Durham Winchester and Norwich Richard de Marish lord chancellour Hugh Neuill chiefe forrester William de Wroshing lord warden of the ports Robert Ueipount and his brother Yuan Brian de Lisle Geffrey de Lucie Hugh Ballioll and his brother Barnard William de Cantlow and his son William Fulke de Cantlow Reginald de Cornehull shiriffe of Kent Robert Braibrooke and his son Harrie Philip de Louecotes Iohn de Bassingborne Philip March line 10 Chatelaine of Notingham Peter de Maulley Robert de Gaugy Gerard de Athie and his nephue Ingelrand William Brewer Peter Fitz Hubert Thomas Basset and Foulks de Brianta Norman with many other too long here to rehearse who as fautors and councellors vnto him sought to defend him in all causes notwithstanding the censures of the church so cruellie pronounced against him knowing that they were bound in conscience to sticke to him now speciallie in this generall apostasie of his péeres and line 20 people For they were opinioned that it was Turpe referre pedem nec passu stare tenaci Turpe laborantem deseruisse ratem The same yeare king Iohn held his Christmasse at Windsor year 1212 and in the Lent following on midlent sundaie being at London he honoured the lord Alexander sonne and heire to the king of Scots with the high order of knighthood And as I find it mentioned by some writers wheras he vnderstood how there were diuerse in Scotland that contemning their naturall line 30 lord and king by reason of his great age king Iohn went thither with an armie to represse the rebels and being come thither he sent his men of war into the inner parts of the country who scowring the coasts tooke Guthred Macwilliam capteine of them that moued sedition whom king Iohn caused to be hanged on a paire of gallowes This Guthred was descended of the line of the ancient Scotish kings and being assisted with the Irishmen and Scots that fauoured not the race of the kings that presentlie line 40 reigned wrought them much trouble as his father named Donald had doone before him sometime secretlie vnder hand and sometime againe by way of open rebellion Shortlie after the Welshmen began to sturre also who rushing out of their owne confines fell vpon their next neighbours within the English marshes wasted the countrie and ouerthrew diuerse castels
mortalia gaudia sese Abdicet a curâ—s terrenis assiduòque Conetur studio ad superos extollere mentem Tunc etenim sapiens fiet poterÃtque futura Cerâ—ere vel vigilant vel sâ—mno oppressus inerti Hoc pacto cecinêre olim ventura prophetae were wanting and that he was contrarilie qualified to that which this heptastichon comprehendeth necessarilie it foloweth that he was not as he was taken line 50 but rather a deluder of the people and an instrument of satan raised vp for the inlargement of his kingdome as the sequele of this discourse importeth This Peter about the first of Ianuarie last past had told the king that at the feast of the Ascension it should come to passe that he should be cast out of his kingdome And whether to the intent that his words should be the better beléeued or whether vpon too much trust of his owne cunning he offered himselfe to suffer death for it if his prophesie prooued not true line 60 Herevpon being committed to prison within the castell of Corf when the day by him prefixed came without any other notable damage vnto king Iohn he was by the kings commandement drawne from the said castell vnto the towne of Warham there hanged togither with his sonne The people much blamed king Iohn for this extreame dealing bicause that the heremit was supposed to be a man of great vertue and his sonne nothing guiltie of the offense committed by his father if any were against the king Moreouer some thought that he had much wrong to die bicause the matter fell out euen as he had prophesied for the day before the Ascension day king Iohn had resigned the superioritie of his kingdome as they tooke the matter vnto the pope and had doone to him homage so that he was no absolute king indeed as authors affirme One cause and that not the least which mooued king Iohn the sooner to agree with the pope rose through the words of the said heremit that did put such a feare of some great mishap in his hart which should grow through the disloialtie of his people that it made him yéeld the sooner But to the matter againe King Iohn after his capteins in Flanders had sped so well as before yee haue heard prepared to make a voiage into Guien not much regarding the matter in that the realme stood as yet interdicted But when he vnderstood by his lords that they would not go with him except the interdicting might first be released and he clearlie absolued of the popes cursse to the end that Gods wrath and the popes being fullie pacified towards him he might with better speed mooue and mainteine the warres he was constreined to change his purpose and so comming to Winchester dispatched foorth a messenger with letters signed with the hands of foure and twentie earles and barons to the archbishop of Canturburie and the bishops of London Lincolne and Hereford as then soiourning in France requiring them with all the other banished men to returne into England promising them by his letters patents not onelie a sure safeconduct for their comming ouer but that he would also forget all passed displeasures and frankelie restore vnto euerie man all that by his means had beene wrongfullie taken from them and as yet by him deteined The archbishop and the other bishops receiuing the kings letters with all speed made hast to come into England and so arriuing at Douer the sixtéenth day of Iulie with other the banished men they went to Winchester where the king yet remained who hearing that the bishops were come went foorth to receiue them and at his first méeting with the archbishop of Canturburie he knéeled downe at his féet and besought him of forgiuenesse and that it would please him and the other bishops also to prouide for the releefe of the miserable state of the realme Herewith the water standing in diuerse of their eies on both sides they entred into the citie the people greatlie reioising to behold the head of the commonwealth agrée at length with the members This was in the yeare after the birth of our Sauiour 1213. King Iohn required of the archbishop hauing as then the popes power in his hands bicause he was his legat to be absolued promising vpon his solemne receiued oth that he would afore all things defend the church and the order of priesthood from receiuing anie wrongs Also that he would restore the old lawes made by the ancient kings of England and namelie those of S. Edward which were almost extinguished and forgotten And further that he would make recompense to all men whom he had by anie meanes in damaged This doone he was absolued by the archbishop shortly after he sent his oratours to Rome to intreat with the bishop to take awaie the interdiction of the land On the morrow after also the king sent his letters vnto all the shiriffes of the counties within the realme commanding them to summon foure lawfull men of euerie towne belonging to the demeans of the crowne to make their appearance at S. Albons vpon the 4 daie of August that they and other might make inquisition of the losses which euerie bishop had susteined what had beene taken from them and what ought to be restored to them as due for the same The archbishop for that time taking his leaue of the king went to Canturburie where he restored the moonks to their abbie and then tooke possession of his see being the two and fortith archbishop that had ruled the same In the meane time the king repaired to Portesmouth there to take the sea to saile ouer into Poictow committing the rule of the realme vnto Geffrey Fitz Peter or Fitz Peers lord chéefe iustice and to the bishop of Winchester commanding them to vse the counsell and aduise of the archbishop of Canturburie in gouerning things touching the common-wealth Herewith there came also line 10 to the king a great multitude of men of warre alledging that they had spent in staieng for him and his going ouer sea all their monie so that he must now needs giue them wages if he would haue them to passe ouer with him into France The which when he refused to doo he was constreined to take the water with his owne seruants arriuing about a thrée daies after at the I le of Iersey but perceiuing that none of his lords followed him according to his commandement as one disappointed of aid he returned line 20 backe againe into England there to take further order for this their misdemeanour Whilest these things were thus in dooing Geffrey Fitz Peter and the bishop of Winchester were come to S. Albons togither with the archbishop of Canturburie and other bishops and peeres of the realme where the kings peace being proclaimed to all men it was on his behalfe streitlie commanded that the lawes of K. Henrie his grandfather should be obserued vniuersallie within his realme
going into Italie had a great number of English souldiers with him which king Henrie furnished for his aid vnder the leading of a right valiant warriour named Henrie de Trubleuille with whome went also Iohn Mansell whose valiancie in that iournie well appeared and William Hardell a citizen of London was treasurer and paimaister to the souldiers Herewith the pope was sore offended and wrote his mind thereof to the king who foorthwith returned an eloquent answer requiring him to be more fauourable to the emperour considering his cause was such as could not iustlie offend his holinesse About the same time or rather as by some writers it should appeare line 10 somwhat before the kings sister Ioane quéene of Scotland comming into England to see hir brother fell into a sicknesse and died Moreouer the archbishop of Canturburie returned into England who at his comming to Rome obteined little or nothing touching the suit which he had before the pope for as some haue written the legat Otho being his heauie fréend had so stopped the popes eares from hearing any of his complaints line 20 that all his whole trauell did come to none effect In like manner Peter des Roches bishop of Winchester died this yeare in his manor at Farnham about the ninth of Iune which prelat had gouerned that see about 32 yeares He was a man of great wisedome and dexteritie in ordering of weightie affaires touching the state of temporall regiment He builded manie goodlie monasteries as the abbeies of Hales Tikborne and Seleborne with the hospitall at Portesmouth He made also a notable testament line 30 and besides his bequests which were great he left his bishoprike so stored and throughlie furnished that there was not so much diminished of that which he found at his comming in value as the cattell that serued to draw the verie ploughs About this time a learned esquire or rather a clearke of the vniuersitie of Oxenford bearing some malice toward the king fained himselfe mad and espieng thereby the secret places of his house at Woodstoke where he then laie vpon a night by a window line 40 he got into the kings bedchamber and comming to the beds side threw off the couerings and with a dagger strake diuers times into a pillow supposing that the king had beene there but as GOD would that night the king laie in another chamber with the quéene In the meane time one of the queenes chambermaids named Margaret Biset hauing espied the traitor made an outcrie so that the K. seruants which came to vnderstand what the matter meant presentlie apprehended the said clearke who being line 50 conueied to Couentrie was there arreigned and by lawfull proofe had of his malicious intent was condemned and executed as a traitor At his death he confessed that he was sent from William de Marisch the sonne of Geffrie de Marisch to murther the king by such manner of means not caring what had become of himselfe so he might haue dispatched his purpose ¶ These practises of treason In summo gradu which cannot be committed without irrecouerable detriment line 60 to the whole estate speciallie where succession is vncerteine are of an old brewing though they be neuer so newlie broched And trulie if the curssed miscreant which vndertaketh an enterprise of this qualitie had the grace to consider how manie murthers he committeth by implication in giuing the roiall person of the prince a deadlie wound I doubt not if he were a man and not a ranke diuell he would be weaned from that outragious villanie For in wounding and killing the prince he is guiltie of homicide of parricide of christicide nay of deicide And therefore a thousand woes light on his hart that shall stretch out his hand naie that shall once conceiue in thought a murther so heinous as both God and nature dooth abhorre speciallie if it be commensed against a christian prince and such a one as to whome true and vndefiled religion is no lesse pretious and déere than life it selfe Princes therefore had need to sée to the safegard of their persons sithens the safetie of manie millians dependeth therevpon For certeine it is that the state of a poore priuat man is lesse perillous by manie degrées than the state of a potentat which is ment by this true allegorie following Quatiunt altas sapèprocellae Aut euertit fortuna domos Minùs in paruis fortuna furit Raros patitur fulminis ictus Humida vallis In the thrée and twentith yeare of his reigne king Henrie held his Christmasse at Winchester where a great grudge arose betwixt him and Gilbert the earle of Penbroke by reason that the said earle with his seruants hauing tipstaues in their comming to the court were not suffred to enter within the gates but were kept backe by the porters and other Of which iniurie when he had complained the king made him such an ouerthwart answer that the earle perceiuing him not to like verie well of his seruice departed foorthwith and rode into the North countrie so that from that day foorth neither he nor his brother Walter loued the king as they ought to haue doone Soone after this departure of earle Gilbert vpon Candlemas day the king gaue the earldome of Leicester vnto Simon de Mountford and inuested him thereinto hauing first pacified earle Almerike that was elder brother to the same Simon Yet about the beginning of the next August the king was so incensed against earle Simon that both he and his wife were glad to get them ouer into France till the kings wrath were more pacified Upon the sixtéenth day of Iune the kings eldest sonne named Edward and after surnamed Longshanke by the Scots in mockage bicause he was a tall and slender man was borne at Westminster who after his fathers decease succeeded him in the kingdome ¶ Before the birth of this Edward there appeared earlie in the morning certeine daies togither before the sunne was vp a star of a large compasse the which with swift course was caried through a long circuit of the aire sometimes shewing as it had borne fire with it and sometimes leauing as it were smoke behind it so that it was after iudged that the great déeds which were to be atchiued by the same Edward were by this wonderfull constellation foreshewed and signified About the same time by reason of an accusation made by a prisoner against Ranulfe Briton sometime the kings chancellour but now leading a priuat life being a canon of the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London the same Ranulfe by commandement from the king sent to the maior of the citie William Ioiner was taken out of his house had to the tower and there imprisoned whervpon the deane of Paules maister G. Lucie in absence of the bishop accurssed all those that had presumptuouslie attempted to laie hands on the said Ranulfe and further he put his owne church of saint Paule
he required by way of a tallage eight thousand marks of the Iewes charging them on paine of hanging not to deferre that paiment The Iewes sore impouerished with gréeuous and often paiments excused themselues by the popes vsurers and reprooued line 10 plainelie the kings excessiue taking of monie as well of his christian subiects as of them The king on the other side to let it be knowne that he taxed not his people without iust occasion and vpon necessitie that droue him thereto confessed openlie that he was indebted by his bonds obligatorie in thrée hundred thousand marks and againe the yearelie reuenues assigned to his sonne prince Edward arose to the summe of fifteene thousand marks and aboue where the reuenues that belonged vnto the crowne were line 20 greatlie diminished in such wise that without the aid of his subiects he should neuer be able to come out of debt To be short when he had fléeced the Iewes to the quicke he set them to farme vnto his brother earle Richard that he might pull off skin and all but yet considering their pouertie he spared them and neuerthelesse to relieue his brothers necessitie vpon a pawne he lent him an huge masse of monie These shifts did the king vse from time to time not caring with what exactions and impositions he burthened line 30 the inhabitants of his land whereby he procured vnto himselfe the name of an oppressor and couetous scraper But what woonder is it in a king sith Maxima paris hominum morbo iactatur eodem About the same time Lewes the French king sent vnto king Henrie for a present an elephant a beast most strange and woonderfull to the English people sith most seldome or neuer any of that kind had béene séene in England before that time The French queene also sent for a present vnto the king of England line 40 an ewer of pearle like to a peacocke in forme and fashion garnished most richlie with gold siluer and saphires to furnish him foorth in all points of fine and cunning workemanship to the verie resemblance of a liuing peacocke ¶ Manie woonders chanced about this time The sea rose with most high tides riuers were so filled with abundance of water by reason of the great continuall raine that maruellous flouds followed therevpon A comet also appeared and manie high buildings were striken by force of line 50 tempests The death of Walter archbishop of Yorke followed these prodigious wonders who had gouerned that sée the space of fortie yeares After him succeeded one Seuall the 34 archbishop of that citie About the feast of S. Etheldred the ladie Elianor wife of prince Edward the kings son came to London where she was honorablie receiued of the citizens conueied through the citie to S. Iones without Smithfield and there lodged for a season and yer long she remooued to the Sauoy It was not long line 60 after that the king seized the liberties of the citie of London into his hands for certeine monie which the quéene claimed as due to hir of a certeine right to be paid by the citizens so that about the feast of S. Martine in Nouember they gaue vnto the king foure hundred marks and then had their liberties to them againe restored and the kings vnder-treasuror discharged which for the time was made custos or kéeper of the citie About the same time came another legat from the pope namelie one Ruscand a Gascoigne borne to whom with the archb of Canturburie and the bishop of Hereford the pope had granted authoritie to collect and gather the tenths of the spiritualtie within England Scotland and Ireland to the vse of the pope and the king notwithstanding all priuiledges for what cause or vnder what forme of words so euer the same had passed This Ruscand also absolued the king of his vow made to go into the holie land to the end he might go against Manfred king of Sicill He also preached the crosse against the same Manfred promising all those remission of their sins which should go to war against Manfred as well as if they should go into the holie land to warre against Gods enimies there whereat faithfull men much maruelled that he should promise as great méed for the shedding of christian bloud as the bloud of infidels The craftie and slie fetches which were vsed in this season by this Ruscand the bishop of Hereford and other their complices to get monie of the prelats and gouernors of monasteries within this realme were wonderfull verie greeuous to those that felt themselues oppressed therewith and namelie for the debt which the said bishop of Hereford had charged them with they being not priuie to the receipt nor hauing any benefit thereby Ruscand called a councell at London propounded great causes why the prelats ought to aid the pope and so therevpon demanded great summes of monie Amongst other summes he demanded six hundred marks of the house of S. Albons To conclude his demands were estéemed vnreasonable so that the bishops and abbats were in a maruellous perplexitie perceiuing into what miserable state by reason of immoderate exactions the church of England was brought The bishop of London sticked not to saie that he would rather lose his head than consent that the church should be brought to such seruitude as the legat went about to inforce And the bishop of Worcester openlie protested that he would sooner suffer himselfe to be hanged than to sée the church subiect to such oppression by their examples Other also taking a boldnesse vnto them affirmed that they would follow the steps of Thomas sometime archbishop of Canturburie which for the liberties of the church suffered himselfe to haue his braines cut out of his head Yet were those prelats euill troubled for the king was against them on the one side and the pope gaping after monie was become their vtter enimie on the other neither were the Noble men much mooued with pitie towards the church their mother as the terme then went now thus in miserie Finallie the prelats appealed from Ruscand vnto the popes presence and would not obeie the wilfull and violent oppressions of the same Ruscand so that much adoo there was and a great complaint made to the king by Ruscand of the stubborne disobedience of the prelats and namelie of the bishop of London The king was in a great chafe with him and threatned that he would cause the pope to punish him according to â—hat he well deserued but the bishop answered thereto Let the pope and king saith he which are stronger than I am take from me my bishoprike which by law yet they cannot doo let them take awaie my miter yet an helmet shall remaine This yeare after S. Lukes daie the king assembled a great number of the nobilitie at London and thither came the bishop of Bologna la grasse from the pope bringing with him a
paie for the bonds made to the merchants by the bishop of Hereford as before is recited In this season the deuotion which manie had conceiued of the pope and the church of Rome began to wax cold reputing the vertue which he shewed at his entring into the papasie to be rather a colourable hypocrisie than otherwise sith his proceedings answered not to his good beginnings for as it was manifest where sutors brought their complaints into the court of Rome such sped best as gaue most bribes and the two priors of Winchester the one expelled and the other got in by intrusion could well witnesse the same and all the world knoweth that the viperous generation of Romanists reckoning from the ringleader to the simplest shaueling haue made gaine the scope of their holinesse and as it is truelie said Quae libet arripiunt lucri bonus est odoâ— ex re Qualibet imponunt hos scelus omne iuuat Accipiunt quoduis si non sonat aere crumena Siue siligo adsit sordida siue pecus c. This yeare died William of Yorke bishop of Salisburie which had beene brought vp in the court euen from his youth This bishop first caused that custome to be receiued for a law whereby the tenants of euerie lordship are bound to owe their suit to the lords court of whom they hold their tenements In the feast of Easter this yeare the king adorned Magnus king of Man with the order of knighthood and bestowed vpon him great gifts and honors ¶ The countesse of Warren Auesia or Atesia as some bookes haue sister to the king by his mother line 10 departed this life in hir flourishing youth vnto the great griefe of hir brother but speciallie of hir husband Iohn earle of Waren that loued hir intierlie ¶ About the midst of Maie the Iewes that were in the towre and in other prisons for the murther of the child at Lincolne and had béene indited by an inquest vpon the 〈◊〉 of him that had suffered at Lincolne were 〈…〉 and set at libertie to the number of 〈…〉 of them ¶ In Whitsuntide was holden a 〈…〉 at Blie where the line 20 lord Edward the 〈…〉 sonne first began to shew proofe of his chiualâ—â—â— There were diuerse ouerthrowen and hurt and aâ—â—â—gst other William de Longspee was so brused 〈…〉 neuer after recouer his former strength The king caused a proclamation is be set foorth that all such as might dispend â—â—â—eene pounds in lands should receiue the 〈◊〉 of knighthood and those that would not or could not should paie their fines This yeare thrée daies after the feast of S. line 30 Ciricus a maruellous sore tempest of wind raine haile and thunder chanced that did excéeding much hurt Mill-whéeles by the violeâ—â—e of waters were carried away and the wind-milles were no lesse tormented with the rage of wind Arches of bridges stackes of haie houses that stood by water sides and children in cradels were borne awaie that both woonderfull and no lesse pitifull it was to see At Bedford the riuer of Duse bare downe six houses togither and did vnspeakeable hurt thereabouts line 40 Alexander the third king of Scots with his wife quéene Margaret came about the beginning of August into England and found the king at his manor of Woodstoke where he solaced him a season and had the lands of the earle of Huntington restored vnto him which his grandfather king William in his time lost and forfeited Here he did homage to king Henrie Upon the day of the decollation of S. Iohn the two kings with their quéenes came to London where they were honorablie receiued and so conueied line 50 vnto Westminster On the day of S. Augustine the bishop being the eight and twentith of August Iohn Mansell the kings chapleine besought the two kings and other states to dine with him on the morrow following which they granted and so he made a maruellous great dinner There were seuen hundred messes serued vp but the multitude of ghests was such that scarse the same sufficed his house was not able to receiue them all and therefore he caused tents and booths to be set vp for theâ— The like dinner line 60 had not beene made by any chapleine before that time All those that came were worthilie receiued feasted and interteined in such sort as euerie man was satisfied About foure daies before the feast of S. Edward K. Henrie came into the excheker himselfe there deuised order for the appearance of shiriffes and bringing in of their accompts At the same time also there was fiue marks set on euerie shiriffes head for a fine bicause they had not distreined euerie person that might dispend 15 pounds land to receiue the order of knighthood as was to the same shiriffes commanded The king of Scots after he had remained a while with the king of England returned backe into Scotland and left his wife behind with hir mother till she should be brought to bed for she was as then great with child In the 41 yeare of the reigne of king Henrie his brother Richard earle of Cornewall was elected emperour by one part of the Cornosters and diuerse lords of Almaine comming ouer into this land vpon the daie of the innocents in Christmasse presented vnto him letters from the archbishop of Colen and other great lords of Almaine year 1257 testifieng their consents in the choosing of him to be emperour and withall that it might stand with his pleasure to accept that honor Finallie vpon good deliberation had in the matter he consented therevnto whervpon the lords that came with the message being right glad of their answer returned with all spéed to signifie the same vnto those from whom they had béene sent The treasure of this earle Richard now elected king of Almaine was esteemed to amount vnto such a summe that he might dispend euerie day a hundred marks for the terme of ten yeares togither not reckoning at all the reuenues which dailie accrewed to him of his rents in Almaine and England In this meane time the vnquiet Welshmen after the death of their prince Dauid chose in his stéed one Leolin that was son to the same Griffin that brake his necke as he would haue escaped out of the towre of London and herewith they began a new rebellion either driuing out such Englishmen as laie there in garisons within the castels and fortresses or else entring into the same by some traitorous practise they slue those which they found within them to the great displeasure of their souereigne lord Edward the kings eldest sonne who coueting to be reuenged of their rebellious enterprises could not bring his purpose to passe by reason of the vnseasonable weather and continuall raine which fell that winter so raising the waters setting the marishes on flouds that he could not passe with his armie Moreouer his father the king wanted monie and treasure
vnburnt The Englishmen Gauntiners that were withdrawne into Berge got togither all the waggons in the countrie about placing the same vpon the diches and rampiers to fortifie the same against their enimies line 20 Some write that after the breaking of the siege at Ypres the bishop of Norwich would gladlie haue persuaded the lords and knights that were there with him to haue entred into Picardie and there to haue offered the French king battell before his whole puissance had beene assembled but sir Thomas Triuet and sir William Elmham with other would in no wise consent therevnto so that the bishop taking with him sir Hugh Caluerlie that did neuer forsake him bad the other farewell and first making a road line 30 into Picardie he after withdrew into Grauelin whiles the other went to Bruckburge But by Froissard and other writers it appeareth that sir Hugh was certeinlie at Berge with other that were retired thither in purpose to defend it against the French king who still followed them and recouered diuerse places out of their hands by force as Mont Cassell the castell of Crincham and other Also at his comming to Berghen the said sir Hugh Caluerlie and other that were within it perceiuing that they were line 40 not able to defend it against such a puissance as the French king had there with him being greater than euer sir Hugh Caluerlie that ancient capteine wold haue thought that France had béene able to haue set foorth departed and left the towne to be spoiled of the Britons and other French souldiers which executed there all kinds of crueltie The more part of the Englishmen went to Bruckburge but sir Hugh Caluerlie went to Grauelin and so to Calis as one sore displeased in his mind for that his counsell could not line 50 be regarded in all this voiage which if it had béene followed would haue brought it to a better issue than now it was as was supposed The French king following the tract of good fortune that guided his sterne marched foorth to Bruckburge so that the vaward of his armie came before that towne on Holie rood daie in September vnder the leading of the earle of Flanders the duke of Britaine the lord Oliuer de Clisson high constable of France and the lord Ualeran earle of S. Paule line 60 the which demeaned themselues in such sort that although the Englishmen within valiantlie defended the Frenchmens assault yet the third daie after the Frenchmens comming thither the Englishmen by composition that they might depart with bag and bagage yeelded vp the towne which on the ninetenth of September being saturdaie as that yeare came about was abandoned to the French souldiers to rifle and spoile at their pleasure in the which feat the Britons bare the bell awaie dooing more mischeefe vnto the poore inhabitants than with toong can be recited The duke of Britaine holpe greatlie to make the composition that the Englishmen might depart in safetie for the which dooing he was in great hatred and obloquie of the souldiers who affirmed that he was not onelie a friend to the Englishmen but an enimie to his countrie and a traitour to the common-wealth The Englishmen comming to Grauelin set it on fire and departed streight to Calis leauing the countrie of Flanders to the Frenchmen and so returned into England where they were not greatlie commended for their seruice but were put so farre in blame that sir Thomas Triuet sir William Elmham were committed to prison within the tower of London as men suspected of euill dealing in the deliuerie of Bruckburge and Grauelin to the Frenchmens hands for immediatlie after that they had left Grauelin the Frenchmen came thither and fortified it for a countergarison to Calis ¶ There be that write how the French king offered to giue the bishop of Norwich fiftéene thousand marks to race the towne of Grauelin and so to leaue it vnto him the bishop hauing libertie with all his people and goods to depart in safetie The bishop required to haue libertie for certeine daies to make herevnto a full and deliberate answer which was granted and in the meane time he sent into England to aduertise the king in what state he stood and how the French king laie before him with a mightie armie and therefore if he meant euer to trie battell with the Frenchmen now was the time In the same summer the king with the queene went abroad in progresse visiting in their waie the rich abbeis of the realme as Burie Thetford Norwich other going about a great part of the realme And when these newes came to him from the bishop of Norwich he was at Dauentrie in Northamptonshire and being the same time at supper he put the table from him and rising with all hast got him to horsbacke and rode in post that night changing horsse diuerse times with such spéed that he came to S. Albons about midnight and making no staie there longer than he had borowed the abbats gelding hasted foorth till he came to Westminster so that it appeared he would neuer haue rested till he had passed the sea and giuen battell to the Frenchmen But after his comming to Westminster wearied with that hastie iournie he got him to bed and liked so well of ease that he thought good to send a lieutenant in his stead to passe the seas to deliuer the bishop from danger of his enimies Herevpon was the duke of Lancaster sent for that he might with such power as was readie to passe the seas go ouer with the same and giue battell to the French king but he protracted time till the respit granted to the bishop to make answer was expired and so the bishop when he saw no succour come foorth of England raced the towne as the couenant was but monie he would not or did not receiue bicause he thought in so dooing he should offend the councell At his comming backe into England he found the duke of Lancaster at the sea side with a great power of men readie to haue come ouer although some thought that he deferred time of purpose for that he misliked of the bishops whole enterprise and now bicause it had thus quailed he blamed the bishop for his euill gouernement therein but sir Hugh Caluerlie he reteined with him a time dooing him all honour by reason of the old approoued valiancie that had béene euer found in him And this was the end of the bishop of Norwich his iournie The Scots in the meane while sate not still but made roades into England tooke and burnt the castell of Warke Moreouer whilest the siege laie before Ypres the Frenchmen armed certeine vessels and sent them to the sea namelie fiue balengers as well to intercept such as should passe betwéene England and Flanders as also to stop such as were appointed to go ouer into Gascoine that were soldiers also of the croisie appointed thither vnder the leading
this rule he was to be punished as a traitor 7 Item it was asked whether the king when soeuer it pleased him might not dissolue the parlement and command the lords and commons to depart from thence line 30 or not Wherevnto it was answered that he might 8 Item it was inquired that for somuch as it was in the king to remooue such iustices and officers as offend and to punish them for their offenses whether the lords commons might without the kings will impeach the same officers and iustices vpon their offenses in parlement or not To line 40 this answer was made that they might not and he that attempted contrarie was to suffer as a traitor 9 Item it was inquired how he is to be punished that mooued in the parlement that the statute wherin Edward the sonne of king Edward great grandfather to the king that now is was indicted in parlement might be sent for by inspection of line 50 which statute the said new statute or ordinance and commission were conceiued and deuised in the parlement To which question with one accord as in all the residue they answered that as well he that so summoned as the other which by force of the same motion brought the said statute into the parlement house be as publike offendors and traitors to be line 60 punished 10 Item it was inquired of them whether the iudgement giuen in the parlement against Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke were erronious and reuocable or not To which question likewise with one assent they said that if the same iudgement were now to be giuen the iustices and sergeant aforesaid would not giue the same bicause it seemed to them that the said iudgement is reuocable and erronious in euerie part In witnesse of the premisses the iustices sergeant aforesaid to these presents haue set their seals these being witnesses Alexander archbishop of Yorke Robert archbishop of Dubline Iohn bishop of Durham Thomas bishop of Chester Iohn bishop of Bangor Robert duke of Ireland Michaell erle of Suffolke Iohn Ripon clearke and Iohn Blake Now beside these iustices and sergeant there were called at that present vnto Notingham all other iustices of the realme and the shiriffes Also diuerse of the citie of London which the king knew would incline to his will the rather for that some of them hauing aforetime confessed treason against the king by them imagined and obteining pardon for the same were readie at his commandement to recompense such fauour in the accomplishment of whatsoeuer they knew might stand with his pleasure Herevpon they being impanelled to inquire of certeine treasons that were supposed to be committed by the lords which in the last parlement had so caused things to passe contrarie to the kings pleasure indicted the same lords of manie crimes informed against them ¶ The Londoners indeed were euill reported of in those daies by some writers for their vnstablenesse one while holding on the kings part and with such as were chéefe in counsell about him and an other while on the lords side that were of a contrarie faction according as the streame of their affections draue them and as they were carried awaie perforce by the floud of their variable willes whereby they were diuided into differing passions as they were assaulted by sundrie and vncerteine desires which is the nature of the people as the poet noteth saieng Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus But now as concerning the cause whie the shiriffes were called hither it was chéeflie to vnderstand what power of men they might assure the king of to serue him against the lords and barons whome he tooke to be his enimies and further that where he meant to call a parlement verie shortlie they should so vse the matter that no knight might be chosen but such as the king and his councell should name But answer was made herevnto by the shiriffes that the lords were so highlie beloued of the commons that it laie not in their powers to assemble any great forces against the lords and as for choosing the knights of the shires they said that the commons would vndoubtedlie vse their ancient liberties and priuileges in choosing such as they thought meetest But yet after that the indictments were found according to the desire of the king and his councellors and that those which had béene called about this matter were licenced to depart home the king and the duke of Ireland sent messengers into euerie part of the realme to reteine men of warre to assist them in the quarell against the lords if néed were Manie made answer that sith they knew the lords to be faithfull and loiall to the king euen from the bottome of their hearts and were readie to studie to deuise and to doo all things that might tend to his honor and wealth of the realme they might not by anie meanes beare armour against them But a great number of other that tooke it that they were reteined for a good and necessarie purpose promised to be readie whensoeuer it should please the king to send for them The lords being in this meane while aduertised of these dooings were striken with great heauinesse for that not knowing themselues as they tooke it giltie of anie offense the king should thus seeke their destruction Herewith the duke of Glocester meaning to mitigate the kings displeasure receiued a solemne oth before the bishop of London and diuerse other lords protesting by the same oth that he neuer imagined nor went about any thing to the kings hinderance but to his power had alwaies doone what he might to aduance the kings honor prosperous state and good liking except onelie that he had giuen no good countenance to the duke of Ireland whom the king so much loued And suerlie for that the said duke had dishonored his kinswoman and the kings line 10 also he was firmelie determined to reuenge that iniurie vpon him and herewith he besought the bishop of London to declare what his words were vnto the king The bishop comming to the king made report of the duke of Glocesters protestation confirmed with his oth in such wise as the king began somewhat to be persuaded that it was true But when the earle of Suffolke perceiued that fearing least the reconciliation of the king and the duke his vncle should turne line 20 to his undooing he began to speake against the duke till the bishop bad him hold his peace and told him that it nothing became him to speake at all And when the earle asked why so Bicause said the bishop thou wast in the last parlement condemned for an euill person and one not worthie to liue but onelie it pleaseth the king to shew thée fauour The king offended with the bishops presumptuous words commâ—nded him to depart get him home to his church who foorthwith departed and declared to the duke of line 30 Glocester what he had heard and séene Herevpon the
duke and with the archbishop of Canturburie his cousins And further he desired to haue a bill drawne of the said resignation that he might be perfect in the rehearsall thereof After which bill drawne and a copie thereof to him by me the said earle deliuered we the said lords and other departed and vpon the same afternoone the king looking for the comming of the duke of Lancaster at the last the said duke with the archbishop of Canturburie and the persons afore recited entered the foresaid line 10 chamber bringing with them the lords Roos Aburgenie and Willoughbie with diuerse other Where after due obeisance doone by them vnto the king he familiarlie and with a glad countenance as to them and vs appeered talked with the said archbishop and duke a good season and that communication finished the king with glad countenance in presence of vs and the line 20 other aboue rehearsed said openlie that he was readie to renounce and resigne all his kinglie maiestie in maner and forme as he before had promised And although he had and might sufficientlie haue declared his renouncement by the reading of an other meane person yet for the more suertie of the matter and for that the said resignation should haue his full force and strength line 30 himselfe therefore read the scroll of resignation in maner and forme as followeth The tenor of the instrument whereby king Richard resigneth the crowne to the duke of Lancaster IN the name of God Amen I Richard by the grace of God king of England and of France c lord of line 40 Ireland acquit and assoile all archbishops bishops and other prelats secular or religious of what dignitie degree state or condition so euer they be and also all dukes marquesses earles barons lords and all my liege men both spirituall and secular of what manner or degree they be from their oth of fealtie and homage and all other deeds and priuileges made vnto me and from all manner bonds of line 50 allegiance regalitie and lordship in which they were or be bounden to me or anie otherwise constreined and them their heires and successors for euermore from the same bonds and oths I release deliuer and acquit and set them for free dissolued and acquit and to be harmelesse for as much as longeth to my person by anie manner waie or title of right that to me might follow of the foresaid things or anie of line 60 them And also I resigne all my kinglie dignitie maiestie and crowne with all the lordships power and priuileges to the foresaid kinglie dignitie and crowne belonging and all other lordships and possessions to me in anie maner of wise perteining of what name title qualitie or condition soeuer they be except th◠lands and possessions for me and mine obits purchased and bought And I renounce all right and all maner of title of possession which I euer had or haue in the same lordships and possessions or anie of them with anie manner of rights belonging or apperteining vnto anie part of them And also the rule and gouernance of the same kingdome and lordships with all ministrations of the same and all things and euerie each of them that to the whole empire and iurisdictions of the same belongeth of right or in anie wise may belong And also I renounce the name worship and regaltie and kinglie highnesse clearelie freelie singularlie and wholie in the most best maner and forme that I may and with deed and word I leaue off and resigne them and go from them for euermore sauing alwaies to my successors kings of England all the rights priuileges and appurtenances to the said kingdome and lordships abouesaid belonging and apperteining For well I wote and knowledge and deeme my selfe to be and haue beene insufficient and vnable and also vnprofitable and for my open deserts not vnworthie to be put downe And I sweare vpon the holie euangelists here presentlie with my hands touched that I shall neuer repugne to this resignation demission or yeelding vp nor neuer impugne them in anie maner by word or deed by my selfe nor none other nor I shall not suffer it to be impugned in as much as in me is priuilie or apertlie But I shall haue hold and keepe this renouncing demission and giuing vp for firme and stable for euermore in all and euerie part thereof so God me helpe and all saints and by this holie euangelist by me bodilie touched and kissed And for more record of the same here openlie I subscribe and signe this present resignation with mine owne hand Now foorthwith in our presences and others he subscribed the same and after deliuered it vnto the archbishop of Canturburie saieng that if it were in his power or at his assignement he would that the duke of Lancaster there present should be his successour and king after him And in token heereof he tooke a ring of gold from his finger being his signet and put it vpon the said dukes finger desiring and requiring the archbishop of Yorke the bishop of Hereford to shew and make report vnto the lords of the parlement of his voluntarie resignation and also of his intent and good mind that he bare towards his cousin the duke of Lancaster to haue him his successour and their king after him ¶ All this doone euerie man tooke their leaue and returned to their owne Upon the morrow after being tuesdaie and the last daie of September all the lords spirituall and temporall with the commons of the said parlement assembled at Westminster where in the presence of them the archbishop of Yorke and the bishop of Hereford according to the kings request shewed vnto them the voluntarie renouncing of the king with the fauour also which he bare to his cousine of Lancaster to haue him his successour And moreouer shewed them the schedule or bill of renouncement signed with king Richards owne hand which they caused to be read first in Latine as it was written and after in English This doone the question was first asked of the lords if they would admit and allow that renouncement the which when it was of them granted and confirmed the like question was asked of the commons and of them in like manner confirmed After this it was then declared that notwithstanding the foresaid renouncing so by the lords and commons admitted and confirmed it were necessarie in auoiding of all suspicions and surmises of euill disposed persons to haue in writing and registred the manifold crimes and defaults before doone by king Richard to the end that they might first be openlie declared to the people and after to remaine of record line 10 amongst other of the kings records for euer All this was doone accordinglie for the articles which before yee haue heard were drawne and ingrossed vp and there shewed readie to be read but for other causes more néedfull as then to be preferred the reading of those articles at that season was deferred Then forsomuch as the lords
of the parlement had well considered the voluntarie resignation of king Richard and that it was behoouefull and as they thought necessarie for the weale of the realme line 20 to proceed vnto the sentence of his deposing there were appointed by the authoritie of all the estates there in parlement assembled the bishop of saint Asaph the abbat of Glastenburie the earle of Glocester the lord Berkleie William Thirning iustice and Thomas Erpingham with Thomas Graie knights that they should giue and pronounce the open sentence of the deposing of king Richard Whervpon the said commissioners taking counsell togither by good and deliberate aduise therein had with line 30 one assent agréed that the bishop of S. Asaph should publish the sentence for them and in their names as followeth The publication of king Richards deposing IN the name of God Amen We Iohn bishop of S. Asaph Iohn line 40 abbat of Glastenburie Thomas earle of Glocester Thomas lord Berkeleie William Thirning iustice Thomas Erpingham Thomas Graie knights chosen and deputed speciall commissaries by the three states of this present parlement representing the whole bodie of the realme for all such maâ—â—ers by the said estates to vs committed we vnderstanding and considering the manifold crimes line 50 hurts and harmes doone by Richard king of England and misgouernance of the same by a long time to the great decaie of the said land and vtter ruine of the same shortlie to haue beene had not the speciall grace of our God therevnto put the sooner remedie and also furthermore aduerting that the said king Richard by acknowledging his owne insufficiencie hath of his line 60 owne meere voluntee and free will renounced and giuen ouer the rule gouernance of this land with all rights and honours vnto the same belonging and vtterlie for his merits hath iudged himselfe not vnwoorthilie to be deposed of all kinglie maiestie and estate roiall We the premisses well considering by good and diligent deliberation by the power name and authoritie to vs as aboue is said committed pronounce decerne and declare the same king Richard before this to haue beene and to be vnprofitable vnable vnsufficient and vnwoorthie of the rule and gouernance of the foresaid realms and lordships and of all rights and other the appurtenances to the same belonging And for the same causes we depriue him of all kinglie dignitie and worship and of any kinglie worship in himselfe And we depose him by our sentence definitiue forbidding expresselie to all archbishops and bishops and all other prelats dukes marquesses erles barons and knights and all other men of the foresaid kingdome and lordships subiects and lieges whatsoeuer they be that none of them from this daie forward to the foresaid Richard as king and lord of the foresaid realmes and lordships be neither obedient nor attendant After which sentence thus openlie declared the said estates admitted foorthwith the forenamed commissioners for their procurators to resigne and yeeld vp vnto king Richard all their homage and fealtie which in times past they had made and owght vnto him and also for to declare vnto him if need were all things before doone that concerned the purpose and cause of his deposing the which resignation was respited till the morow following Immediatlie as the sentence was in this wise passed and that by reason thereof the realme stood void without head or gouernour for the time the duke of Lancaster rising from the place where before he sate and standing where all those in the house might behold him in reuerend manner made a signe of the crosse on his forhead and likewise on his brest and after silence by an officer commanded said vnto the people there being present these words following The duke of Lancaster laieth challenge or claime to the crowne IN the name of the Father and of the Sonne of the Holie-ghost I Henrie of Lancaster claime the realme of England and the crowne with all the appurtenances as I that am descended by right line of the blood comming from that good lord king Henrie the third and through the right that God of his grace hath sent me with the helpe of my kin and of my freends to recouer the same which was in point to be vndoone for default of good gouernance and due iustice After these words thus by him vttered he returned and sate him downe in the place where before he had sitten Then the lords hauing heard and well perceiued this claime thus made by this noble man ech of them asked of other what they thought therein At length after a little pausing or staie made the archbishop of Canturburie hauing notice of the minds of the lords stood vp asked the commons if they would assent to the lords which in their minds thought the claime of the duke made to be rightfull and necessarie for the wealth of the realme and them all whereto the commons with one voice cried Yea yea yea After which answer the said archbishop going to the duke and knéeling downe before him on his knée addressed to him all his purpose in few words The which when he had ended he rose taking the duke by the right hand led him vnto the kings seate the archbishop of Yorke assisting him and with great reuerence set him therein after that the duke had first vpon his knées made his praier in deuout manner vnto almightie God When he was thus placed in his throne to the great reioising of the people the archbishop of Canturburie began a breefe collation taking for his theme these words written in the first booke of kings the ninth chapter Vir dominabitur in populo c handling the same the whole tenour of his tale to the praise of the king whose setled iudgement grounded wisedome perfect reason and ripe discretion line 10 was such said he as declared him to be no child neither in yeares nor in light conditions but a man able and méete for the gouernement of a realme so that there was no small cause of comfort ministred to them through the fauourable goodnesse of almightie God which had prouided them of such a gouernor as like a discréet iudge shall déeme in causes by skilfull doomes and rule his subiects in vpright equitie setting apart all wilfull pleasures and childish inconstancie This is a summarie of his oration But because the qualitie of this volume is such as that it line 20 hath set foorth matters at large I will laie downe the archbishops words as they are recorded by Fabian in ample manner as followeth The archbishop of Canturburie his oration framed vpon this text Vir dominabitur in populo c written in the first booke of kings and ninth chapter THese be the words of the high and most mightie king speaking to Samuel his prophet teaching him how he should choose and ordaine a gouernor of his people of Israell when the said people asked of him a king to rule them And not
Robinet of Bourneuill and his fellowes as ye haue heard before for his death was their life his life would haue béene their death After the French king had created new officers in hope to relieue the state of his realme and countrie year 1416 sore shaken by the late great ouerthrow it chanced that Thomas duke of Excester capteine of Harflue accompanied with thrée thousand Englishmen made a great rode into Normandie almost to the citie of Rone in which iournie he got great abundance both of riches and prisoners but in his returne the earle of Arminacke newlie made constable of France intending in his first enterprise to win the spurs hauing with him aboue fiue thousand horssemen incountred with the duke The fight was handled on both parts verie hotlie but bicause the Englishmen were not able to resist the force of the Frenchmen the duke was constreined to retire with losse at the least of thrée hundred of his footmen Howbeit being withdrawen into an orchard which was stronglie fensed and hedged about with thornes the Frenchmen were not able to enter vpon the Englishmen but yet they tooke from them all their horsses and spoile assaulted them till it was night and then retired backe to the towne not far distant from the place where they fought called Uallemont this was vpon the 14 day of March. In the morning vpon the breake of the daie the Englishmen issued foorth of the orchard where they had kept themselues all the night drew towards Harflue wherof the Frenchmen being aduertised followed them ouertooke them vpon the sands néere to Chiefe de Caux there set on them but in the end the Frenchmen were discomfited and a great number of them slaine by the Englishmen which afterwards returned without more adoo vnto Harflue The French writers blame the constable for this losse bicause he kept on the high ground with a number of men of war and would not come downe to aid his fellowes In this fourth yeare of king Henries reigne the emperour Sigismund coosine germane to king Henrie came into England to the intent that he might make an attonement betwéene king Henrie and the French king with whom he had beene before bringing with him the archbishop of Remes as ambassadour for the French king At Calis he was honorablie receiued by the earle of Warwike lord deputie there and diuerse other lords sent thither of purpose to attend him Moreouer the king sent thither thirtie great ships to bring him and his traine ouer At Douer the duke of Glocester and diuerse other lords were readie to receiue him who at his approching to land entered the water with their swords in their hands drawen and by the mouth of the said duke declared to him that if he intended to enter the land as the kings fréend and as a mediator to intreat for peace he should be suffered to arriue but if he would enter as an emperour into a land claimed to be vnder his empire then were they readie to resist him This was thought necessarie to be doone for sauing of the kings prerogatiue who hath full preheminence within his owne realme as an absolute emperour When the emperour herevpon answered that he was come as the kings fréend and as a mediator for peace and not with any imperiall authoritie he was of the duke and other his associats receiued with all such honor as might be deuised The king with all his nobilitie receiued him on Blackheath the seuenth day of Maie and brought him through London to Westminster with great triumph Shortlie after there came also into England Albert duke of Holland who was likewise fréendlie interteined Both these princes the emperour and the duke of Holland were conueied to Windsore to saint Georges feast and elected companions of the noble order of the garter and had the collar and habit of the same to them deliuered and sat in their sâ—als all the solemnitie of the feast Shortlie after that the feast was finished the duke of Holland returned into his countrie but the emperour tarried still and assaied all maner of meanes to persuade the king to a peace with the Frenchmen But their euill hap as they that were appointed by Gods prouidence to suffer more damage at the Englishmens hands would not permit his persuasions to take place for whereas peace was euen almost entring in at the gates the king was suddenlie stirred to displeasure vpon a new occasion for he being aduertised of the losse of his men at the late conflict in the territorie of Rone as ye haue heard refused to heare this word peace once named The emperour like a wise princâ— pâ—ssed ouer that time till another season that some fauourable aspect of the planets should séeme to fâ—rther his purpose And when he thought the same was come he brâ—â—â—ed againe the vessell of concord and amitie which he put in so faire a cup and presented it with such effectuous words line 10 that â—uerlie the king had tasted it if word had not béen brought about the same time that Harflue was besieged of the French both by water and land as it was indéed for the constable of France incouraged by his last conflict though the same was not much to his praise assembled an armie and vpon a sudden laid siege to the towne At the same instant Iohn vicount of Narbon the vice-admerall of France brought the whole nauie to the riuage and shore adioining to the towne in purpose to haue entered by line 20 the waterside but the duke of Excester defeated his intent and defended the towne verie manfullie King Henrie aduertised hereof meant at the first to haue gone with his nauie in person to the succors of his men but the emperor dissuaded him from that purpose aduising him rather to send some one of his capteins The king following his louing and reasonable aduertisement appointed his brother the duke of Bedford accompanied with the earles of March Marshall Oxford Huntington Warwike Arundell line 30 Salisburie Deuonshire and diuerse barons with two hundred saile to passe into Normandie for rescue of the towne of Harflue which vsing great diligence shipped at Rie and after some hinderance by contrarie winds at length came to the mouth of the riuer of Seine on the daie of the Assumption of our ladie When the vicount of Narbon perceiued the English nauie to approch he couragiouslie set forward and gat the possession of the mouth of the hauen The duke of Bedford séeing his enimies thus line 40 fiercelie to come forward set before certeine strong ships which at the first incounter vanquished and tooke two French ships the capteins whereof were too rash and forward The duke followed with all his puissance and set on his enimies The fight was long but not so long as perillous nor so perillous as terrible for battels on the sea are desperate till at length the victorie fell to the Englishmen so that
Seuerine which towne he tooke by force slue thrée hundred persons and tooke sir Thomas Rampston prisoner After this he came to the citie of Arques tooke a bulworke by force and had the towne yéelded to him by composition The capteine which was the lord of Montferrant departed with all the English crue to Burdeaux where he found the earle of Longuile the Capdau de Beufe and sir Thomas Rampston which was a little before deliuered After this the fortresses of the Rioll and Mermandie were also yéelded to the French king who notwithstanding at length was constreined for lacke of vittels which were cut off by the Englishmen that laie abroad in diuerse fortresses for the purpose to breake vp his armie to retire into France And then after his departure the Englishmen recouered againe the citie of Arques the other townes by the French king gained and tooke prisoner his lieutenant called Reginald Guilliam the Burgognion and manie other gentlemen and all the meane souldiers were either slaine or hanged While the French king was in Guien the lord Talbot tooke the towne of Couchet and after marched toward Galliardon which was besieged by the bastard of Orleance otherwise called the earle of Dunois which earle hearing of the lord Talbots approch raised his siege and saued himselfe The Frenchmen a little before this season had taken the towne of Eureux by treason of a fisher Sir Francis the Arragonois hearing of that chance apparelled six strong fellowes like men of the countrie with sacks and baskets as cariers of corne and vittels and sent them to the castell of Cornill in the which diuerse Englishmen were kept as prisoners and he with an ambush of Englishmen laie in a vallie nigh to the fortresse The six counterfet husbandmen entered the castell vnsuspected and streight came to the chamber of the capteine laieng hands on him gaue knowledge to them that laie in ambush to come to their aid The which suddenlie made foorth and entered the castell slue and tooke all the Frenchmen and set the Englishmen at libertie which thing doone they set fire in the castell and departed to Rone with their bootie and prisoners This exploit they had not atchiued peraduenture line 10 by force as happilie they mistrusted and therefore by subtiltie and deceit sought to accomplish it which meanes to vse in warre is tollerable so the same warre be lawfull though both fraud bloudshed otherwise be forbidden euen by the instinct of nature to be put in practise and vse and that dooth the poet insinuat in a proper sententious verse saieng Fraus absit vacuas caedis habete manus But now to speake somewhat of the dooings in line 20 England in the meane time Whilest the men of war were thus occupied in martiall feates and dailie skirmishes within the realme of France ye shall vnderstand that after the cardinall of Winchester and the duke of Glocester were as it séemed reconciled either to other yet the cardinall and the archbishop of Yorke ceassed not to doo manie things without the consent of the king or of the duke being during the minoritie of the king gouernor and protector of the realme whereas the duke as good cause line 30 he had greatlie offended therevpon in writing declared to the king wherein the cardinall and the archbishop had offended both his maiestie and the lawes of the realme This complaint of the duke of Glocester was conteined in foure and twentie articles which chieflie rested in that the cardinall had from time to time through his ambitious desire to surmount all others in high degrées of honor and dignitie sought to inrich himselfe to the great and notorious hinderance of the king as in defrauding him line 40 not onelie of his treasure but also in dooing and practising things greatlie preiudiciall to his affaires in France and namelie by setting at libertie the king of Scots vpon so easie conditions as the kings maiestie greatlie lost thereby as in particularities thus followeth A complaint made to king Henrie the sixt by the duke of Glocester vpon the cardinall of Winchester line 50 line 1 THese be in part the points and articles which I Humfrie duke of Glocester for my truth acquitall said late I would giue in writing my right redoubted lord vnto your highnesse aduertising your excellencie of such things in part as haue béene doone in your tender age in derogation of your noble estate and hurt of both your realmes and yet be doone and vsed line 60 dailie 2 First the cardinall then being bishop of Winchester tooke vpon him the state of cardinall which was naied and denaied him by the king of most noble memorie my lord your father whome God assoile saieng that he had as leefe set his crowne beside him as sée him weare a cardinals hat he being a cardinall For he knew full well the pride and ambition that was in his person then being but a bishop should haue so greatlie extolled him into more intollerable pride when that he were a cardinall and also he thought it against his fréedome of the chéefe church of this realme which that he worshipped as dulie as euer did prince that blessed be his soule And howbeit that my said lord your father whome God assoile would haue agreed him to haue had certeine clearks of this land cardinals and to haue no bishoprikes in England yet his intent was neuer to â—oo so great derogation to the church of Canturburie to make them that were his suffragans to sit aboue their ordinarie and metropolitan But the cause was that in generall and in all matters which might concerne the weale of him and of his realme he should haue proctors of his nation as other kings Christen had in the court of Rome and not to abide in this land nor to be in anie part of his councels as béene all the spirituall and temporall at parlements and other great councels when you list to call them And therefore though it please you to doo him that worshop to set him in your priuie councell after your pleasure yet in your parlement where euerie lord both spirituall and temporall hath his place he ought to occupie but his place as a bishop 3 Item the said bishop now being cardinall was assoiled of his bishoprike of Winchester wherevpon he sued vnto our holie father to haue a bull declaratorie notwithstanding he was assumpt to the state of cardinall that the sée was not void where in déed it stood void by a certeine time yer the said bull were granted and so he was exempt from his ordinarie by the taking on him the state of cardinall and the church bishoprike of Winchester so standing void he tooke againe of the pope you not learned thereof ne knowing whereby he was fallen into the case of prouision so that all his good was lawfullie cléerelie forfeited to you my right doubted lord with more as the statute declareth plainelie for your
the said lords that no where vittels nor other thing of refreshing or defense should come out of England to the succour or reliefe of the said towne to the intent that they would haue it lost as it may openlie appeare 9 Item it is déemed and ought greatlie to be déemed that after the same lords would put the same rule of England if they might haue their purpose line 20 and intent into the hands and gouernance of the said enimies 10 Item how continuallie since the pitious shamefull and sorrowfull murther to all England of that noble worthie and christian prince Humfreie duke of Glocester the kings true vncle at Burie it hath beene laboured studied and conspired to haue destroied and murthered the said duke of Yorke and the issue that it pleased God to send me of the roiall bloud and also of vs the said earles of Warwike and line 30 Salisburie for none other cause but for the true hart that God knoweth we euer haue borne and beare to the profit of the kings estate to the common-weale of the same realme and defense thereof 11 Item how the earles of Shrewesburie and Wilshire and the lord Beaumont our mortall and extreme enimies now and of long time past hauing the guiding about the most noble person of our said souereigne lord whose highnesse they haue restreined kept from the libertie freedome that belongeth to line 40 his said estate the supporters fauourers of all the prâ—misses would not suffer the kings said good grace to receiue and accept vs as he would haue doone if he might haue had his owne will into his said presence dreading the charge that would haue beene laid vpon them of the miserie destruction and wretchednesse of the said realme whereof they be causes and not the king which is himselfe as noble as vertuous as righteous and blessed of disposition as anie prince earthlie line 50 12 Item the earles of Wilshire and Shrewesburie and the lord Beaumont not satisfied nor content with the kings possessions and his goods stirred and excited his said highnesse to hold his parlement at Couentrie where an act is made by their prouocation and labour against vs the said duke of Yorke my sonnes March and Rutland and the earles of Warwike and Salisburie and the sonnes of the said earle of Salisburie manie other knights and esquiers of diuerse matters falselie and vntrulie imagined line 60 as they will answer afore almightie God in the daie of doome the which the said earles of Shrewesburie Wilshire and the lord Beaumont prouoked to be made to the intent of our destruction and of our issue and that they might haue our liuelod and goods as they haue openlie robbed and despoiled all our places and our tenements and manie other true men and now procéed to hanging and drawing of men by tyrannie and will therin shew the largenesse of their violence and malice as vengeablie as they can if no remedie be prouided at the kings highnes whose blessednes is neither assenting nor knowing thereof We therefore seeing all the said michiefes hearing also that the French king maketh in his land great assemblie of his people which is greatlie to be dread for manie causes purpose yet againe with Gods grace to offer vs to come againe to the said presence of our said souereigne lord to open and declare vnto him there the mischiefes aboue declared and in the name of the land to sue in as reuerent and lowlie wise as we can to his said good grace to haue pittie and compassion vpon his said true subiects and not to suffer the same mischiefs to reigne vpon them Requiring you in Gods behalfe and praieng you in our owne therein to assist vs dooing alwaie the duetie of liege men in our persons to our souereigne lord to his estate prerogatiue and preheminence and to the suertie of his most noble person wherevnto we haue euer béene and will be as true as anie of his subiects aliue whereof we call God our ladie saint Marie and all the saints in heauen to witnesse In the meane time the earle of Wilshire treasuror of England the lord Scales the lord Hungerford went to Newberie which belonged to the duke of Yorke and there made inquisition of all them that in anie wise had fauoured the said duke wherof some were found guiltie and were drawen hanged and quartered and all the inhabitants of the towne were spoiled of their goods From thense the eâ—rle of Wilshire went to Southampton where vnder colour to take the earle of Warwike he armed fiue great caracks of Iene with souldiers taking vittels of the kings price without paiment and put a great part of his treasure into the said caracks and after sailed about in the sea and at last stale into Dutchland sending backe againe his souldiers into England Then were the kings priuie seales directed to all bishops abbats priors and other states to lend the king monie therewith to wage souldiers to kéepe the sea-coasts After the kings nauie was gained and his capteins as before yee haue heard on the sea taken the lords lieng at Calis being aduertised from the lord Fauconbridge who after the taking of Montford laie still in Kent that the people of that countrie and other parts were altogither bent in their fauor and no lesse addicted to doo them seruice both with bodie and goods than the Irishmen séemed to be at their receiuing of the said duke of Yorke and his yoonger sonne Edmund earle of Rutland whom they so highlie honoured that they offered to liue and die in their quarell they conceiued therevpon so great hope in their fréends within the realme that they determined to passe the sea and therewith entring their ships with fiftéene hundred men landed all at Sandwich But it is to be read in a late writer that the commons of Kent dreading the like vengeance towards them as fell vpon them of Newberie sent priuilie messengers to Calis to the foresaid erles beseeching them in all hast possible to come to their succour Wherevpon the said earles sent ouer into Kent the lord Fauconbridge to know if their déeds would accord with their woods so that anon the people of Kent and the other shires adioining resorted to the said lord Fauconbridge in great number Wherefore when the earles knew the willing harts of those people they prepared to come into this land Against whose comming a long ballet was fixed vpon the gates of Canturburie made in fauour of the duke of Yorke and the said earles beginning thus In the daie of fast and spirituall affliction the celestiall influence of bodies transitorie c. Now as they passed through Kent there came to them the lord Cobham Iohn Gilford year 1460 William Pech Robert Horne and manie other gentlemen so that before they approched to London their number was esteemed aboue fourtie thousand fighting men for the fame of their landing being once knowen
which the day before fought on hir side against his part This doone they went to the abbeie where of the abbat and moonks they were receiued with hymnes and songs and so brought to the high altar and after to the shrine and so to the chamber in which the king was woont to lodge The abbat made sute that order might be taken to restreine the northerne men from spoiling the towne and proclamation indéed was made to that effect but it auailed not for they mainteined that the spoile of things was granted them by couenant after they were once passed ouer the riuer of Trent and so not regarding anie proclamation or other commandement they spared nothing that they could laie hands vpon if the same were meet for them to carie awaie The queene hauing thus got the victorie sent to the maior of London commanding him without delaie to send certeine carts laden with Lenton vittels for the refreshing of hir and hir armie The maior incontinentlie line 10 caused carts to be laden and would haue sent them forward but the commons of the citie would not suffer them to passe but staied them at Criplegate notwithstanding the maior did what he could by gentle persuasions to quiet them During which controuersie diuerse of the northerne horssemen came and robbed in the suburbs of the citie and would haue entred at Criplegate but they were repelled by the commoners and three of them slaine Wherevpon the maior sent the recorder line 20 to Barnet to the kings councell there to excuse the matter and the duches of Bedford the ladie Scales with diuerse fathers of the spiritualtie went to the quéene to asswage hir displeasure conceiued against the citie The queene at this humble request by aduise of hir councell appointed certeine lords and knights with foure hundred tall persons to ride to the citie and there to view and sée the demeanor and disposition of the people and diuerse aldermen were appointed to méet them at Barnet and to conueie line 30 them to London But what man purposeth God disposeth All these deuises were shortlie altered to another forme bicause true report came not onelie to the queene but also to the citie that the earle of March hauing vanquished the earles of Penbroke and Wilshire had met with the earle of Warwike after this last battell at saint Albons at Chipping Norton by Cotsold and that they with both their powers were cōming toward London The queene hauing little trust in Essex and lesse in Kent but line 40 least of all in London with hir husband and sonne departed from saint Albons into the north countrie where the foundation of hir aid and refuge onelie rested The duches of Yorke séeing hir husband and sonne slaine and not knowing what should succéed of hir eldest sonnes chance sent hir two yonger sonnes George and Richard ouer the sea to the citie of Utrecht in Almaine where they were of Philip duke of Burgognie well receiued and so remained there till line 50 their brother Edward had got the crowne and gouernement of the realme The earles of March and Warwike hauing perfect knowlege that the king queene with their adherents were departed from S. Albons rode straight to London entring there with a great number of men of warre the first weeke of Lent Whose cōming thither was no sooner knowne but that the people resorted out of Kent Essex and other the counties adioining in great numbers to sée aid and comfort this lustie prince and flower of line 60 chiualrie in whome the hope of their ioy and trust of their quietnesse onelie consisted This prudent yoong prince minding to take time when time serued called a great councell both of the lords spirituall and temporall and to them repeated the title and right that he had to the crowne rehearsing also the articles concluded betwéene king Henrie and his father by their writings signed and sealed and also confirmed by act of parlement the breaches whereof he neither forgat nor left vndeclared After the lords had considered of this matter they determined by authoritie of the said councell that because king Henrie had doone contrarie to the ordinances in the last parlement concluded and was insufficient of himselfe to rule the realme he was therfore to be depriued of all kinglie estate and incontinentlie was Edward earle of March sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke by the lords in the said councell assembled named elected and admitted for king and gouernour of the realme On which daie the people of the earles part being in their muster in S. Iohns field and a great number of the substantiall citizens there assembled to behold their order the lord Fauconbridge who tooke the musters wiselie anon declared to the people the offenses and breaches of the late agréement committed by king Henrie the sixt and demanded of the people whether they would haue him to rule and reigne anie longer ouer them To whome they with whole voice answered Naie naie Then he asked them if they would serue loue honour and obeie the erle of March as their onlie king and souereigne lord To which question they answered Yea yea crieng King Edward with manie great showts clapping of hands in assent and gladnesse of the same The lords were shortlie aduertised of the louing consent which the commons frankelie and fréelie had giuen Whervpon incontinentlie they all with a conuenient number of the most substantiall commons repaired to the erle at Bainards castell making iust and true report of their election and admission and the louing assent of the commons The earle after long pausing first thanked God of his great grace and benefit towards him shewed then the lords and commons for their fauour and fidelitie notwithstanding like a wise prince he alleged his insufficiencie for so great a roome and weightie burthen as lacke of knowledge want of experience and diuerse other qualities to a gouernour apperteining But yet in conclusion being persuaded by the archbishop of Canturburie the bishop of Excester and other lords then present he agréed to their petition and tooke vpon him the charge of the kingdome as forfeited to him by breach of the couenants established in parlement ¶ Thus farre touching the tragicall state of this land vnder the rent regiment of king Henrie who besides the bare title of roialtie and naked name of king had little apperteining to the port of a prince For whereas the dignitie of princedome standeth in souereigntie there were of his nobles that imbecilled his prerogatiue by sundrie practises speciallie by maine force as seeking either to suppresse or to exile or to obscure or to make him awaie otherwise what should be the meaning of all those foughten fields from time to time most miserablie falling out both to prince péere and people As at saint Albons at Bloreheath at Northampton at Banberie at Barnet at Wakefield to the effusion of much bloud and pulling on of
manned it After this they woone the castell of Dunstanburgh by force and likewise the castell of Banburgh Iohn Gois seruant to the duke of Summerset being taken within Dunstanburgh was brought to Yorke and there beheaded Sir Rafe Greie being taken in Banburgh for that he had sworne to be true to king Edward was disgraded of the high order of knighthood at Doâ—caster by cutting off his gilt spurs renting his cote of armes and breaking his sword ouer his head and finallie he was there beheaded for his manifest periurie After this king Edward returned to Yorke where in despite of the earle of Northumberland who then kept himselfe in the realme of Scotland he created sir Iohn Neuill lord Montacute earle of Northumberland and in reproofe of Iasper earle of Penbrooke he created William lord Herbert earle of the same place But after when by mediation of friends the earle of Northumberland was reconciled to his fauour he restored him to his possessions name and dignitie and preferred the lord Montacute to the title of marques Montacute so that in degree line 10 he was aboue his elder brother the earle of Warwike but in power policie possessions far mener King Edward though all things might séeme now to rest in good case yet he was not negligent in making necessarie prouision against all attempts of his aduersarie king Henrie and his partakers and therefore raised bulworks and builded fortresses on ech side of his realme where anie danger was suspected for the landing of anie armie He caused also espials to be laid vpon the marches fore against Scotland that no person should go out of the realme line 20 to king Henrie and his companie which then soiourned in Scotland But all the doubts of trouble that might insue by the means of king Henries being at libertie were shortlie taken away and ended for he himselfe whether he was past all feare or that hée was not well established in his wits and perfect mind or for that he could not long kéepe himselfe secret in disguised atire boldlie entred into England He was no sooner entred but he was knowne line 30 and taken of one Cantlow and brought toward the king whom the earle of Warwike met on the way by the kings commandement and brought him through London to the Tower there he was laid in sure hold ¶ But it is woorthie the noting which I haue obserued in a late chronographers report touching this matter namelie that king Henrie was taken in Cletherwood beside Bungerleie Hippingstons in Lancashire by Thomas Talbot sonne and heire to sir Edward Talbot of Basshall and Iohn line 40 Talbot his cosin of Colebrie which deceiued him being at his dinner at Wadington hall and brought him toward London with his legs bound to the stirrups where he was met by the earle of Warwike and arested at Esildon doctor Manning deane of Windsor doctor Bedle and yoong Ellerton being in his companie with their feet bound vnder the horsse bellies were brought also to the Tower of London Quéene Margaret hearing of the captiuitie of hir husband mistrusting the chance of hir sonne all line 50 desolate and comfortlesse departed out of Scotland and passed into France where the remained with hir father duke Reiner till she returned into England to hir harme as after ye shall heare The new duke of Summerset and his brother Iohn sailed into France where they also liued in great miserie till duke Charles bicause he was of their kin as descended of the house of Lancaster by his mother succoured them with a small pension which was to them a great comfort The earle of Penbroke went from line 60 countrie to countrie not alwaies at his hearts ease nor in safetie of life As for his dignitie and reputation it was the more obscured for that he had lost the title of his honor and left at his wits end doubtfull and vncerteine in contrarie factions as manie more what to say or doo for his best securitie Neuerthelesse he concealed his inward discontentment and as oportunitie of time ministred matter so he grew in courage and fell to practises of force with other complices therby to accomplish the cloudie conceits of his troubled mind being persuaded that temporall misfortunes are if not vtterlie auoidable yet manfullie to be withstood or at least with audacitie courage to be suffered as the poet properlie saith Tu ne cede malis â—ed contra audentior ito King Edward being thus in more suertie of his life than before distributed the possessions of such as tooke part with king Henrie the sixt to his souldiers and capteins which he thought had well deserued and besides this he left no other point of liberalitie vnshewed whereby he might allure to him the beneuolent minds and louing hearts of his people And moreouer to haue the loue of all men he shewed him selfe more familiar both with the nobilitie and communaltie than as some men thought was conuenient either for his estate or for his honor notwithstanding the same liberalitie he euer after vsed The lawes of the realme in part he reformed and in part he newlie augmented The coine both of gold and siluer which yet at this day is he newlie deuised and diuided for the gold he named roials and nobles and the siluer he called grotes and halfe grotes ¶ In Michaelmasse terme were made sergeants at law Thomas Yoong Nicholas Geneie Richard Neale Thomas Brian Richard Pigot Iohn Greenfield Iohn Catesbie and Gwie Fairfax which held their feast in the bishop of Elies place in Holborne To the which feast the maior of London with the aldermen shiriffes and commons of diuerse crafts being bidden repaired But when the maior looked to be set to keepe the state in the hall as it had beene vsed in all places of the citie and liberties out of the kings presence vnknowne to the sergeants and against their wils as they said the lord Graie of Ruthen then treasuror of England was there placed Wherevpon the maior aldermen and commons departed home and the maior made all the aldermen to dine with him Howbeit he and all the citizens were greatlie displeased that he was so dealt with and the new sergeants and others were right sorie therefore and had rather than much good it had not so happened This was then as my record reporteth more at large registred to be a president in time to come After that king Edward had reduced the state of the publike affaires vnto his liking to purchase himselfe a good opinion and fauourable iudgement among the commons he made proclamations that all persons which were adherents to his aduersaries part would leaue their armour and submit themselues wholie to his grace and mercie should be cléerelie pardoned and forgiuen By this kind of courteous dealing he wan him such fauour of the people that euer after in all his warres he was thorough their aid and support a victor and
nigh one hundred years He bestowed besides his owne labour which was great in hearing of stones c. aboue twentie pounds on the high waies about that towne of Wlfrunehampton This towne of Wlfrunehampton is now corruptlie called Wolnerhampton for in Anno 996 in king Ethelredstime who wrote himselfe Rex Anglorum line 40 princeps Northumbrorum Olympiade tertia regni sui for so he wrote the count of his reigne then which was the fiftéenth yeare it was then called Hampton as appeareth by an old charter written by the notarie of the said king Ethelred which charter I haue seene and read And for that a noble woman named Wlfrune a widow sometime wife to Althelme duke of Northampton did obteine of the said king to giue lands vnto the church there which she had founded the line 50 said towne tooke the addition of the same Wlfrune for that charter so nameth hir Wlfrune and the towne Hampton In this yeare was finished the goodlie hospitall of the Sauoie néere vnto Charing crosse which was a notable foundation for the poore doone by king Henrie the seauenth vnto the which he purchased and gaue lands for the releeuing of one hundred poore people This was first named Sauoie place by Peter earle of Sauoie father to Boniface archbishop of Canturburie about the nine and twentith yeare of line 60 king Henrie the third who made the said Peter erle of Richmond This house belonged since to the duke of Lancaster and at this time was conuerted to an hospitall still reteining the first name of Sauoie King Henrie also builded three houses of Franciscane friers which are called obseruants at Richmond Gréenewich and Newarke and three other of the familie of Franciscane friers which are called conuentuals at Canturburie Newcastell and Southhampton ¶ This yeare was Thomas Ruthall made bishop of Durham by Henrie the seauenth touching whose place of birth being at Cirencester now Cicester and himselfe I will not refuse to set downe what Leland about the yeare 1542 hath written not being vnfit héere to be recorded Cirencester saith he in Latine called Corinium standeth on the riuer Churne There haue beene thrée parish churches whereof saint Cicilies church is cleane downe being of late but a chappell Saint Laurence yet standeth but it is no parish church There be two poore almes women endued with land There is now but one parish church in all Cirencester that is verie faire the bodie of which church is all new worke to the which Ruthall bishop of Durham â—borne and brought vp in Cirencester promised much but preuented by death gaue nothing One Anne Aueling aunt to doctor Ruthall by the mothers side gaue one hundred markes to the building of that church King Henrie the first made the hospitall of saint Iohns at Cirencester Thus farre Leland This man thus borne at Cirencester in Glocestershire and made bishop of Durham was after the death of king Henrie the seauenth one of the priuie councell to king Henrie the eight in whose court he was so continuallie attendant that he could not steale anie time to attend the affaires of his bishoprike But yet not altogither carelesse though not so much as he ought to haue béene of the place and cause from whence and for which he receiued so great reuenues as came vnto his hands from that see He repaired the third part of Tine bridge next vnto the south which he might well doo for he was accompted the richest subiect through the realme To whome remaining then at the court the king gaue in charge to write a booke of the whole estate of the kingdome bicause he was knowne to the king to be a man of sufficiencie for the discharge thereof which he did accordinglie Afterwards the king commanded cardinall Woolseie to go to this bishop and to bring the booke awaie with him to deliuer to his maiestie But see the mishap that a man in all other things so prouident should now be so negligent and at that time most forget himselfe when as it after fell out he had most need to haue remembred himselfe For this bishop hauing written two bookes the one to answer the kings command and the other intreating of his owne priuate affaires did bind them both after one sort in vellame iust of one length bredth and thicknesse and in all points in such like proportion answering one an other as the one could not by anie especiall note be discerned from the other both which he also laid vp togither in one place of his studie Now when the cardinall came to demand the booke due to the king the bishop vnaduisedlie commanded his seruant to bring him the booke bound in white vellame lieng in his studie in such a place The seruant dooing accordinglie brought foorth one of those bookes so bound being the booke intreating of the state of the bishop and deliuered the same vnto his maister who receiuing it without further consideration or looking on gaue it to the cardinall to beare vnto the king The cardinall hauing the booke went from the bishop and after in his studie by himselfe vnderstanding the contents thereof he greatlie reioised hauing now occasion which he long sought for offered vnto him to bring the bishop into the kings disgrace Wherefore he went foorthwith to the king deliuered the booke into his hands and bréefelie informed the king of the contents thereof putting further into the kings head that if at anie time he were destitute of a masse of monie he should not need to séeke further therefore than to the cofers of the bishop who by the tenor of his owne booke had accompted his proper riches and substance to the value of a hundred thousand pounds Of all which when the bishop had intelligence what he had doon how the cardinall vsed him what the king said and what the world reported of him he was striken with such gréefe of the same that he shortlie through extreame sorrow ended his life at London in the yeare of Christ 1523. After whose death the cardinall which had long before gaped after the said bishoprike in singular hope to atteine therevnto had now his wish in effect which he the more easilie compassed for that he had his nets alwaies readie cast as assuring himselfe to take a line 10 trout following therein a prophane mans cautelous counsell and putting the same in practise who saith Casus vbique valet semper tibi pendeat hamus Quo minimè credis gurgite piscis erit The sicknesse which held the king dailie more and more increasing he well perceiued that his end drew néere and therefore meaning to doo some high pleasure to his people granted of his frée motion a generall pardon to all men for all offenses doone committed line 20 against anie his lawes or statutes théeues murtherers certeine other were excepted He paied also the fées of all prisoners in the gaoles in and about London
Notingham and there lodged that night more sicke and the next daie he rode to line 10 Leicester abbeie and by the waie waxed so sicke that he was almost fallen from his mule so that it was night before he came to the abbeie of Leicester where at his comming in at the gates the abbat with all his conuent met him with diuerse torches light whom they honorablie receiued and welcomed To whom the cardinall said Father abbat I am come hither to lay my bones among you riding so still vntill he came to the staires of the chamber where he allighted from his mule and master Kingston line 20 led him vp the staires and as soone as he was in his chamber he went to bed This was on the saturday at night and then increased he sicker and sicker vntill mondaie that all men thought he would haue died so on tuesdaie saint Andrewes euen master Kingston came to him and bad him good morrow for it was about six of the clocke and asked him how he did Sir quoth he I tarrie but the pleasure of God to render vp my poore soule into his hands Not so sir quoth master Kingston with the grace of God yée shall liue and doo verie well if yee will be of line 30 good cheere Nay in good sooth master Kingston my disease is such that I can not liue for I haue had some experience in physicke Thus it is I haue a flux with a continuall feuer the nature whereof is that if there be no alteration of the same within eight daies either must insue excoriation of the intrailes or fransie or else present death and the best of them is death and as I suppose this is the eight daie if yée sée no alteration in me there is no remedie saue though I may liue a daie line 40 or twaine after but death must insue Sir quoth maister Kingston you be in much pensiuenes doubting that thing that in good faith yée néed not Well well master Kingston quoth the cardinall I sée the matter how it is framed but if I had serued God as diligentlie as I haue doone the king he would not haue giuen me ouer in my greie haires but it is the iust reward that I must receiue for the diligent paines and studie that I haue had to doo him seruice line 50 not regarding my seruice to God but onelie to satisfie his pleasure I praie you haue me most humblie commended vnto his roiall maiestie beseech him in my behalfe to call to his princelie remembrance all matters procéeding betwéene him me from the beginning of the world and the progresse of the same c. Master Kingston farewell I can no more saie but I wish all things to haue good successe my time draweth on fast And euen with that he began to draw his spéech line 60 at length his toong to faile his eies being set whose sight failed him Then they did put him in remembrance of Christ his passion caused the yeomen of the gard to stand by to sée him die and to witnesse of his words at his departure incontinent the clocke stroke eight and then he gaue vp the ghost and departed this present life which caused some to call to remembrance how he said the daie before that at eight of the clocke they should loose their master Here is the end and fall of pride and arrogancie of men exalted by fortune to dignitie for in his time he was the hautiest man in all his procéedings aliue hauing more respect to the honor of his person than he had to his spirituall profession wherin should be shewed all meekenes humilitie and charitie An example saith Guicciardin who handleth this storie effectuallie and sheweth the cause of this cardinals ruine in our daies woorthie of memorie touching the power which fortune and enuie hath in the courts of princes He died in Leicester abbeie in the church of the same abbeie was buried Such is the suertie of mans brittle state doubtfull in birth no lesse féeble in life which is as vncerteine as death most certeine and the meanes thereof manifold which as in number they excéed so in strangenesse they passe all degrees of ages diuersities of sexes being subiect to the same In consideration whereof it was notablie said by one that wrote a whole volume of infirmities diseases and passions incident to children A primo vitae diuersos stamine morbos Perpetimur diris affiâ—imúrque malis Donec in occasum redeat qui vixit ab ortu Antea quà m discat viuere vita cadit This cardinall as Edmund Campian in his historie of Ireland describeth him was a man vndoubtedly borne to honor I thinke saith he some princes bastard no butchers sonne excéeding wise faire spoken high minded full of reuenge vitious of his bodie loftie to his enimies were they neuer so big to those that accepted and sought his fréendship woonderfull courteous a ripe schooleman thrall to affections brought a bed with flatterie insatiable to get and more princelie in bestowing as appeareth by his two colleges at Ipswich and Oxenford the one ouerthrowne with his fall the other vnfinished and yet as it lieth for an house of students considering all the appurtenances incomparable thorough Christendome whereof Henrie the eight is now called founder bicause he let it stand He held and inioied at once the bishopriks of Yorke Duresme Winchester the dignities of lord cardinall legat chancellor the abbeie of saint Albons diuerse priories sundrie fat benefices In commendam a great preferrer of his seruants an aduancer of learning stout in euerie quarell neuer happie till this his ouerthrow Wherein he shewed such moderation and ended so perfectlie that the houre of his death did him more honor than all the pompe of his life passed Thus far Campian Here it is necessarie to adde that notable discourse which I find in Iohn Stow concerning the state of the cardinall both in the yeares of his youth and in his settled age with his sudden comming vp from preferment to preferment till he was aduanced to that step of honor which making him insolent brought him to confusion ¶ This Thomas Wolseie was a poore mans sonne of Ipswich in the countie of Suffolke there borne and being but a child verie apt to be learned by the meanes of his parents he was conueied to the vniuersitie of Oxenford where he shortlie prospered so in learning as he was made bachellor of art when he passed not fiftéene yeares of age and was called most commonlie thorough the vniuersitie the boie bachellor Thus prospering in learning he was made fellow of Mawdeline college and afterward appointed to be schoolemaster of Mawdelin schoole at which time the lord marquesse Dorset had thrée of his sonnes there at schoole committing vnto him as well their education as their instruction It pleased the said lord marquesse against a Christmas season to
at our manor of Keningall the ninth of Iulie 1553. To this letter of the ladie Marie the lords of the councell answered againe line 40 as followeth MAdam we haue receiued your letters the ninth of this instant declaring your supposed title which you iudge your selfe to haue to the imperiall crowne of this realme and all the dominions thereto belonging For answer wherof this is to aduertise you that forsomuch as our souereigne ladie quéene Iane is after the death of our souereigne lord Edward the sixt a prince of most noble memorie inuested and possessed line 50 with the iust and right title of the imperiall crowne of this realme not onelie by good order of old ancient good lawes of this realme but also by our late souereigne lords letters patents signed with his owne hand and sealed with the great seale of England in presence of the most part of the nobles councellors iudges with diuers other graue and sage personages assenting and subscribing to the same we must therefore as of most bound dutie and allegiance line 60 assent vnto hir said grace and to none other except we should which faithfull subiects cannot fall into gréeuous and vnspeakeable enormities Wherefore we can no lesse doo but for the quiet both of the realme and you also to aduertise you that forsomuch as the diuorse made betwéene the king of famous memorie king Henrie the eight and the ladie Katharine your mother was necessarie to be had both by the euerlasting lawes of God and also by the ecclesiasticall lawes and by the most part of the noble and learned vniuersities of christendome and confirmed also by the sundrie acts of parlements remaining yet in their force and thereby you iustlie made illegitimate and vnheritable to the crowne imperiall of this realme and the rules dominions and possessions of the same you will vpon iust consideration hereof and of diuers other causes lawfull to be alledged for the same and for the iust inheritance of the right line and godlie orders taken by the late king Edward the sixt and greatest personages aforesaid surcease by anie pretense to vex and molest anie of our souereigne ladie quéene Iane hir subiects from the true faith and allegiance due vnto hir grace assuring you that if you will for respect shew your selfe quiet and obedient as you ought you shall find vs all and seuerall readie to doo you aâ—â—e seruice that we with dutie may and to be glad of your quietnesse to preserue the common state of this realme wherein you may be otherwise gréeuous vnto vs to your selfe and to them And thus we bid you most hartilie well to fare From the tower of London this ninth of Iulie Your ladiships freends shewing your selfe an obedient subiect Thomas Canturburie the marquesse of Winchester Iohn Bedford William Northampton Thomas Elie chancellor Iohn Northumberland Henrie Suffolke Henrie Arundell Francis Shrewesburie William Penbroke Cobham R. Rich Huntington Darcie Cheineie R. Cotton Iohn Gates William Peter William Cecill Iohn Chéeke Iohn Mason Edward North Robert Bowes All these aforesaid except onelie the duke of Northumberland and sir Iohn Gates were either by speciall fauour or speciall or generall pardon discharged for this offense against hir committed after hir comming to be quéene But now vpon the receit of this answer vnderstanding by hir fréends that she could not lie in suertie at Keningall being a place open easie to be approched she remooued from thence vnto hir castell of Fremingham standing in a wood countrie not so easie to be inuaded by hir enimies So soone as the councell heard of hir sudden departure and considering that all came not to passe as they supposed they caused spéedilie a power of men to be gathered togither And first they agréed that the duke of Suffolke father to the new made quéene should haue the conduct and leading of the armie ¶ But afterward it was deuised and decréed vpon further considerations and by the speciall means of the ladie Iane his daughter who taking the matter heauilie with wéeping teares made request to the whole councell that hir father might tarrie at home in hir companie Wherevpon the councell persuaded with the duke of Northumberland to take that voiage vpon him saieng that no man was so fit therefore bicause that he had atchiued the victorie in Norffolke once alreadie and was therefore so feared that none durst once lift vp their weapon against him besides that he was the best man of warre in the realme as well for the ordering of his campes and souldiers both in battell and in their tents as also by experience knowledge and wisdome he could both animate his armie with wittie persuasions and also pacifie and allaie his enimies pride with his stout courage or else to dissuade them if néed were from their enterprise Finallie said they this is the short and the long the quéene will in no wise grant that hir father shall take it vpon him wherefore quoth they we thinke it good if it may please your grace it lieth in you to remedie the matter With these the like persuasions the duke was allured to put himselfe desperatlie vpon hazzard Non morte horrenda non vllis territus armis Insomuch that he reioined vpon their talke and said Well then sith yee thinke it good I and mine will go not doubting of your fidelitie to the queenes maiestie which now I leaue in your custodie So that night he sent for both lords knights and other that should go with him and caused all things to be prepared accordinglie Then went the councell in to the ladie Iane and told hir of their conclusion who humblie thanked the duke for reseruing hir father at home and beséeched him to vse his diligence whereto he answered that he would doo what in him laie The morrow following great preparation was made the duke earlie in the morning called for his line 10 owne harnesse and saw it made readie at Durham place where he appointed all his retinue to méet The same daie carts were laden with munition and artillerie and field péeces were set forward The same forenoone the duke mooued eftsoones the councell to send their powers after him as it was before determined the same to méet with him at Newmarket and they promised they would He said further to some of them My lords I and these other noble personages with the whole armie that line 20 now go foorth as well for the behalfe of you yours as for the establishing of the quéenes highnesse shall not onelie aduenture our bodies and liues amongst the bloudie strokes and cruell assaults of our aduersaries in the open fields but also we doo leaue the conseruation of our selues children and families at home here with you as altogither committed to your truth and fidelities whome if we thought ye would through malice conspiracie or dissention leane vs your fréends in the briers and betraie vs line 30 we could
of my selfe Which Onuphrius maketh this Adam to be bishop line 10 of London and to die in Rome the third calends of Maie in the yéere of our sauior 1397 being the one and twentith of Richard the second vnder Boniface the ninth pope of that name and was buried in the place whereof he was intituled to the honor of a cardinall Philip de Repindone bishop of Lincolne and doctor of diuinitie was by pope Gregorie the twelfe then bishop of Rome in the yeare of Christ 1408 being the tenth yeare of king Henrie the fourth line 20 created cardinall of the title of saint Nereus and Achilleus Thomas bishop of Durham was made as saith Onuphrius in the yeare of our redemption 1411 by Iohn the two and twentith commonlie called Iohn the thrée and twentith priest cardinall Touching which matter there is no mention made in the life of Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham and liuing at this time that this Langleie was a cardinall for this Thomas Langleie was made bishop of Durham line 30 in the yeare of our Lord 1406 and continued in that see one and thirtie yeares departing the world 1437 and so the creation of this Thomas bishop of Durham mentioned by Onuphrius and Matthew Parker bishop of Canturburie in the yeare of Christ 1411 must néedes fall in the life of this Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Robert bishop of Salisburie priest cardinall although it be not shewed of what title was preferred to that place by pope Iohn the thrée and twentith in line 40 the yeare of our redemption 1411 being about the twelfe yere of the reigne of king Henrie the fourth of whom Onuphrius writeth in this sort Roberti episcopi Sarisburiensis presbyteri cardinalis Egidij de campis presbyteri cardinalis gesta exitus quòd nunquam Romanam curiam adierint incerti obscuri omninò sunt Satis tamen constat eos ante papae Martini electionem mortuos fuisse Henrie Beaufort sonne vnto Iohn of Gant and Katharine Swineford being bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England tooke the state of a cardinall line 50 of the title of saint Eusebius at Calis being absent as hath Matthew Parker in the yeare of our redemption 1426 in the fift yeare of king Henrie the sixt He was called the rich cardinall of Winchester being aduanced to that honor by Martine the third commonlie called Martine the fift then pope of Rome This Henrie died vnder pope Nicholas the fift in the yeare of Christ 1447 being about the six twentith yeare of the miserable reigne of king Henrie the sixt line 60 Iohn Stafford bishop of Bash and Welles chancellor of England after bishop of Canturburie was created priest cardinall by Eugenius then bishop of Rome in the yeare that the word became flesh 1434 being the twelfe yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt Iohn Kempe bishop of London twise lord chancellour of England bishop of Yorke and after that archbishop of Canturburie was by Eugenius the fourth then archbishop of Rome made cardinall of the title of saint Sabina as saith Holinshed otherwise by Onuphrius called Balbina contrarie to Polydor who in his thrée and twentith booke of the historie of England affirmeth him to be cardinalited by pope Nicholas the fift He died as saith Onuphrius in the yeare that the godhead was vnited to the manhood to wit one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and foure vnder pope Nicholas the first which yeare of our Lord met with the fiue and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt Thomas Bourcher borne of the noble house of the earles of Essex being chancellor of England bishop of Worcester from thence remooued to Elie from that I le aduanced to the metropolitan sée of Canturburie and priest cardinall of the title of saint Siriacus in Thermis or the Baths was honored with the scarlet hat and siluer pillers by pope Paule the second of that name in the yeare that the second person in trinitie tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant one thousand foure hundred sixtie fiue being the fift yeare of the reigne of the noble prince king Edward the fourth Iohn Morton bishop of Elie chancellor of England archbishop of Canturburie being priest cardinall of the title of saint Anastasius was honored with a scarlet hat by Alexander the sixt of that name then gouernour of the seat of Peter at Rome in the yeare from the birth of Christ 1493 being the ninth yeare of the Salomon of England king Henrie the seauenth He died as saith Onuphrius in the yeare of our Lord one thousand and fiue hundred being about the eight yeare of Alexander the sixt still pope of Rome and the sixteenth yeare of the said Henrie the seauenth then king of England Christopher Bembridge a gentleman borne was archbishop of Yorke priest cardinall of the title of S. Praxidis was aduanced to that scarlet dignitie by pope Iulius the second in the yere that the virgin was deliuered of our sauiour one thousand fiue hundred eleuen being the third yeare of the triumphant reigne of king Henrie the eight He died at Rome as saith Onuphrius by poison in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred and thirtéene yeares being the eleuenth yeare when Leo the tenth did hold the sterne of the Romane bishoprike the fift yeare when the said Henrie the eight did rule the scepter of England and was buried at Rome in the church of the holie trinitie of the English nation Thomas Wolseie the kings almoner deane of Yorke abbat of saint Albons and of saint Austins bishop of Lincolne Winchester and Yorke chancellour of England all which or all saue two he held at one time in his owne hands was made priest cardinall of the title of saint Cicilie wherevnto he was promoted by pope Leo the tenth in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred and fifteene being the seauenth yéere of the reigne of the famous king Henrie the eight of whome Onuphrius somewhat mistaking the pronuntiation of his name thus writeth Thomas Wlcer ex oppido Sufforth diocessis Norducensis c wherein like a stranger to our countrimen he mistaketh both name towne place and the prouince of Suffolke for the towne of Ipswich For this cardinall Wolseie being descended of meane parentage was borne in the towne of Gipswich now called Ipswich in the prouince or countrie of Suffolke in the diocesse of the bishoprike of Norwich Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester priest cardinall of the title of saint Uitalis was although he neuer came at Rome nor for anie thing that I can learne was euer out of England created cardinall at Rome by Paule the third of that name then wearing the triple crowned miter and being bishop of Rome But this Fisher neuer ware his scarlet hat for after this high dignitie and before he might couer his priestlie crowne with the same he lost his
Uernon and Margaret this man was buried in the priorie of Workesop Iames Butler sonne to Iames the fourth of that name earle of Ormond was the second time made lord treasuror of England about the 37 yere of king Henrie the sixt in which office he continued as I suppose in the eight thirtith yeare of the said king This man in the said eight and thirtith yeare of the king conueied himselfe awaie out of England into Dutchland for feare of the nobilitie as the duke of Yorke and others that rebelled against the king sending backe his souldiers into England which he had before assembled vpon the sea but after he returned into England and was againe put to flight at Mortimers crosse by Edward earle of March after king by the name of king Edward the fourth He was made earle of Ormond in the nine and thirtith yeare and last yeare of king Henrie the sixt He maried Eleanor the daughter of Edmund duke of Summerset and died without issue being beheaded at Newcastell in the yeare one thousand foure hundred sixtie one in the first yeare of Edward the fourth Henrie vicount Bourchier was lord treasuror of England the second time in the nine and thirtith and last yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of line 10 our redemption one thousand foure hundred sixtie Who vpon the deposition of the said king Henrie the sixt by Edward the fourth was also remooued from his office Thomas Bourchier made lord treasuror of England in the first yeare of the reigne of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred sixtie and one continued not long in that office but gaue place to Iohn earle of Worcester line 20 Iohn Tiptost earle of Worcester the second time possessed the place of the lord treasuror of England in the second and third yeare of king Edward the fourth Of whom is more spoken before by me in my treatise of the conestables of England pag. 869. Edmund lord Greie of Ruthine the sonne of Iohn lord Greie of Ruthine did inioy the office of the lord treasurorship of England in the fourth yeare of the noble prince king Edward the fourth being the yere of our redemption 1464. This man secretlie line 30 in hart forsaking the part of king Henrie the sixt for iniuries receiued at the same king Henries hands aided the said Edward the fourth and was the chiefe means whereby he atteined the crowne In Michaelmas tearme in the said fourth yeare of the king there was a sergeants feast held in Holborne in the bishop of Elies house to which the maior and aldermen repaired being bidden thither But when the maior looked to be set to kéepe the state in the hall forgetting that he was out of his owne liberties for line 40 the bishops palace was an exempt place as it had béene vsed saith Iohn Stow in all places of the citie liberties of the same out of the kings presence the lord Greie of Ruthine then treasuror of England vnknowne to the sergeants and against their wils as they said was placed in the highest â—oome Wherevpon the maior aldermen and commons departed This Edmund dooth Matthew Parker in the life of Thomas Bourchier archbishop of Canturburie make to be treasuror in the third yeare of Edward line 50 the fourth being the yeare of Christ 1463 which may well inough stand with the former being treasuror to Iohn earle of Worcester in the said third yeare of the king For vpon the remoouing of the said earle in the third yeare of Edward the fourth came this lord Greie in place The words of which Matthew Parker with a note of the yeare of Christ 1463 in the margent are in this order Edwardus rex duobus iam annis foeliciter gesto regno parliamentum Westmonasterij tenuit quo etiaÌ„ tempore archiepiscopus which was Thomas line 60 Bourchier the brother of Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex clerus in synodo conuenerunt In hac synodo Iohannes comes Wigorniae Henricus comes Essexiae D. Edmundus Grey thesaurarius Angliae D. Humfridus Cromewell D. Wenlocke D. Iohannes prior sancti Iohannis Robertus Stillington legum doctor custos priuati sigilli regis conciliarij allatis literis regijs petierunt a clero decerni regi ad Scotos repellondos subsidium Quod quidem gratissimis omnium animis tam munifico regi concessum est qui superiori anno ecclesiae immunitates atque iura iniquis iudiciorum calumnijs vti in Iohanne Stafford antea diximus conuulsa labefactata diplomate regio restaurauit Besides which thus writeth Iohn Whethamsted that learned abbat of saint Albons of this lord Greie declaring in what authoritie he was at first in the daies of Henrie the sixt and then in the reigne of Edward the fourth His words be these Anno 36 H. 6. venerunt tres viri monachi de coenobio Cluniacensi quibus ad audiendum eoruÌ„ nunt ium missi sunt episcopus Dunelmensis custos priuati sigilli dominus Edmundus Greie de Ruthine secretarius regis quibus isti viri dixerunt eorum aduentum esse ob tria Primò ad aperiendum quomodo reges Angliae praecipuè Henricus secundus fuerunt tam magni benefactores ad eorum ecclesiam vt potiùs pro nunc dicatur earum patronus aâ— praecipuus fundator Secundò venerunt ad petendum possessionem confirmationem bonorum illorum quae dicti progenitores eis contulerant per tempus non paucum iamdudum à manibus eorum detenta distracta erant Tertiò ad impetrandum liberam licentiam ad ingrediendum singula loca religiosa ab eorum coenobio dependentia quae per nobiles progenitores regis posita fueruÌ„t sub eorum regimine Sed nihil hîc eis gratuÌ„ fuit actum ita vt tristes discederent Out of the which words of Whethamsted maie other things be gathered besides the dooings of the lord Greie as that the kings of England and speciallie Henrie the second haue beene great benefactors and founders of the Charterhouse moonks with manie mo matters conteined in the same which I referre to the wise and learned reader which made me the willinger to set downe his words so largelie Moreouer the same Whethamsted continuing the historie of Henrie the sixt writeth of the battell of Northampton wherin was this lord Greie in this sort In praelio Northamptonensi Edmundus Grey dominus Ruthine corpore licèt praesens euen as the lord Stanleie was in the battell fought betwixt Richard the third Henrie erle of Richmond after king by the name of Henrie the seuenth in campo domini regis Henrici sexti steterat cor tamen eius non erat rectum in eo néque omnino fidelis habitus aut inuentus suit Nam venientibus turmis dictis ad fossam circumuallationis ipsam noÌ„ multùm promptè propter eleuationem verticis in parte vlteriore ascendere
great seale vntill some part of the two and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third in the yeare of Christ 1248. Iohn Mansell againe kéeper of the great seale line 60 who at Woodstocke in the two and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the third did receiue the great seale of the said Iohn Lexinton which he kept as I suppose and that with some good proofe vntill the thrée thirtith yeare of the said king being the yeare of our redemption 1248. Of which Iohn Mansell thus writeth an old anonymall chronicle concerning the barons warres Sed Iohannes Mansell multarum in Anglia ecclesiarum rector seu potiùs incubator reddituum quoque quorum non erat numerus possessor magnificus ita quòd ditior eo clericus non videbatur in orbe episcopali puta dignitate minimè insignitus metu baronum aufugit latenter vltra mari de turri London in qua rex Angliae regina sua tunc temporis tenuerunt se. Quem quum Henricus filius regis Alemaniae fugientem insequeretur ipse capitur quum applicuisset Bononiae à magistro Gerando de Fenes procuratore vt putabatur reginae c. Radulphus de Diceto was chancellor as I read suppose much about this time but for certeintie I refer the same to the large booke of their liues where he shall not faile to haue his right time and place William of Kilkennie being a modest wise and faithfull man learned in the canon and ciuill lawes was made kéeper of the great seale in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and fiftie being the foure thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third He was elected to the bishoprike of Elie as saith the historie of Elie the eighteenth kalends of September in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie fiue being about the nine and thirtith yere of Henrie the third But others saie that he being then vicechancellor was elected bishop of Elie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred fiftie and foure being the eight and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third after that he had faithfullie and to his great commendation vsed and borne the great seale he was coÌ„secrated to that bishoprike in the yere of Christ 1255 and died in the yere 1256 being about the one and fortith yeare of king Henrie the third whose heart was buried at Elie. Henrie de Wingham was made chancellor in the nine and thirtith yeare of Henrie the third and continued in the one and fortith and two and fortith yeare of Henrie the third in which yeare as some haue and in the 43 of Henrie the third as others haue He was chosen bishop of Winchester vpon condition that he should giue place to Athelmer halfe brother to king Henrie the third son to Hugh Brune earle of March and of Eleanor king Henrie the thirds mother being banished by the barons if that he should againe returne into England and then leaue the bishoprike of Winchester vnto him which he did vpon the comming againe of the said Athelmer into England and for that cause was after chosen bishop of London being chosen thereto in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie and nine being the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the third and still chancellor and is buried in Paules on the south side of the quier next to Eustachius bishop of London in a monument of marble with this inscription on the wall to tell who it was Hîc iacet Henricus de Wingham quondam epicscopus huius ecclesiae qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sancti Pauli Walter Merton chancellor in the foure and fortith yere of king Henrie the third being the yeare 1260. Nicholas of Elie made chancellor by the barons in the said yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred and sixtie and Walter Merton displaced But king Henrie the third disdaining to haue officers appointed him by his subiects did in the moneth of October following in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and sixtie or rather one thousand two hundred sixtie and one depriue the said Nicholas and replaced the said Walter Merton Walter Merton bishop of Rochester the second time made chancellor as before appeareth Iohn de Chesill archdeacon of London and treasuror of England was made keeper of the great seale in the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie and foure being the eight and fortith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third This man was consecrated bishop of London in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie foure the third kalends of Maie as hath Matthew Westminster he died in the yeare that the word of the father became flesh one thousand two hundred seuentie and nine the fourth ides of Februarie in the seuenth yeare of the scourge of the Scots and Welshmen Thomas de Cantelupe borne of the noble house of the lords Cantelupes the son of William Cantelupe and Millesent 〈◊〉 as saith Leland drew hir originall from the counteâ—ses of Yorke being archdeacon of Stafford was doctor and after bishop of Hereford in the yeare one thousand two hundred seuentie and six and before that made chancellor after the feast of saint Peters chaire in the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie fiue being the nine and fortith yeare of the reigne of king line 10 Henrie the third He died beyond the seas comming from the court of Rome in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie and eight being the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Edward the first or more trulie as others haue in the yeare one thousand two hundred eightie thrée being the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the first whose bâ—nes were brought to Hereford Walter Gifford bishop of Bath and Welles whome manie doo call William did inioy the state line 20 of the chancellor in the yeare of our Lord one thousand two hundred sixtie six being the fiftith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third he was translated from Bath to Yorke in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fiftie and nine being the nine and fortith yeare of the same Henrie the third and died the seuenth kalends of Maie in the twelfe yeare of his bishoprike in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie seuen being the sixt yeare of king Edward the first or as hath Nicholas Triuet line 30 in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred seuentie and nine being the seuenth yeare of king Edward the first Geffreie Gifford was chancellor also in the one and fiftith yeare of king Henrie the third being the yeare of our redemption one thousand two hundred sixtie and seuen This man was bishop of Worcester about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred ninetie and nine where he sat foure and thirtie yeares foure moneths and
6646. Chronicle beginning ChronicoruÌ„ vero quae sunt imagines historiarum Chronicle of genealogies beginning Cuilibet principi congruum The chronicles of S. Swithin The commentaries of Hide The continuances of Roger Houeden beginning Excerpta ex dictis viri religiosi An other chronicle of S. Albons beginning Fecit rex Edwardus tertius comites Historia regia vel sancti Edmundi Chronicle of Elie beginning Anno ab incarnatione dominica 616. qui est annus 21 ex quo Augustinus cum socijs ad praedicandum genti Anglorum missus est Historia Anglorum beginning Considerans historiae Britonum Pictorum Scotorum Saxonum Anglorum Danorum NormannoruÌ„ prolixitatem c. Le mere des histories Les annales de France Les annales d'Acquitaine Les grand cronicqz de Britane Les petit cronicqz de Britane Les cronicqz de Normandi Le Rosarie Les genelogies des line 10 roys Cronicles de Flandres The chronicles of London The chronicle called Brute The Saxon chronicle of the church of Worcester The Saxon chronicle of the abbeie of Peterborrow The Saxon chronicle written in the yeare of Christ eight hundred foure score and fiue The chronicles of England Thus far this catalog Now peraduenture some will looke for a rehearsall omni gatherum of such as haue written in the reigne of our blessed souereigne but herein as it passeth our possibilitie to line 20 satisfie their expectation their number being infinit and manie of them vnknowne and vnworthie of remembrance so it were to be wished that some fauourer of learned mens fame would comprise their names and works in a particular volume therein imitating either the order of Bale or Gesner or else the commendable method of Iohn Iames the Frislander printed at Tigurie one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and thrée either of which courses being taken would well serue the turne line 30 Thus far blessed be Christ the extent of English chronicles a long labour of great care and expense howbeit at length conquered and ouercome by the benefit of his grace who enableth vs to go through with all things that be good his name be praised therefore Wherein if the helpe of such as are furnished with varietie of knowledge or as by gorgeous shew of words and rich pompe of phrase pretend profound skill had béene as forward to aduance line 40 this worke being of vnexpercted magnitude by means of the multitude of contents as some of low saile willing to laie out their poore talent haue affoorded what furtherance they were able somewhat to the satisfieng of those honest minded men and parteners at whose great costs and charges the same is now newlie printed though not to their full contentment who were euer desirous and diuerslie made assaies to haue it so absolute as nothing might want of due perfection if the meanes might haue béene obteined the chronicles of England both for matter maner had béene comparable to anie historie or annals in Christendome Howbeit perfected as it is though not with exquisit curiousnes to please euerie fickle fansie yet according to the proportion of skill vouchsafed of God to the dealers therein men of commendable diligence though not of déepest iudgement somewhat to satisfie the well affected and indifferent mind the same is now come abrode yéelding matter no lesse manifold than the spring dooth floures and the same maruellous frutefull if they haue their right vse and due application which indéed is the verie end of histories and chronicles And so crauing a fauorable acceptation of this tedious trauell with a toleration of all such defaults as haplie therein lie hidden and by diligent reading maie soone be spied we wish that they which best maie would once in their life grow resolute and at a point in this laudable kind of studie most necessarie next to the word of God for common knowledge little or much to exercise their head and hand Finallie beséeching God to blesse the realme of England and the pretious iewell of the same euen good queene Elisabeth to saue as the apple of his eie to protect hir with the target of his power against all the pernicious practises of satans instruments to lengthen the liues of hir highnesse honorable councellors by whose vigilant policie this whole land fareth the better in preuenting intercepting and making frustrat God directing and prospering their consultations and procéedings all the attempts of traitors to whom O Lord in vengeance giue the iudgement of Iudas as they haue beene partakers of his sinne let them be intangled and taken in the traps of their trecheries and swallowed vp in the seas of deserued confusion that they be no more a familie And we beséech God to increase the multitude of loiall subiects to make them strong in faith towards him and in loue one with another that the gospell which is the doctrine of pacification and obedience maie be glorified in the commonwealth of England a corner of the world O Lord which thou hast singled out for the magnifieng of thy maiestie and wherof we praie thee to giue vs a dailie remembrance so shall we make conscience of sin addict our selues to the exercises of righteousnesse Amen FINIS The third table for the Chronicles of England from the conquest vntill this present regiment wherin the reader is to obserue these notes for his better direction namelie to seeke for the surnames of persons as more commonlie knowne than the proper and also when the name faileth to looke for the dignitie title office and degree of such persons as Armenia Cipriots Spaine France Portingall Nauarre Denmarke if they were kings Archbishop Bishop Pope Carnall Legat if they were Clergiemen Chancellors Treasurors Lord high constables Lord wardens of the cinque ports Duke Earle Marquesse Queene Duchesse Countesse if they were great states Maior Sargents at law Officers c if they were of that degree knights and esquires excepted who as they were of renowme are accordinglie noted by their vsuall names Likewise for such as haue beene executed as notorious offendors against the prince and the state to come to the knowledge of their names looke for the qualitie of their offense as counterfeting coineclippers conspiracie and conspirators murther and murtherers rebellion and rebels treason and traitors preests seminarie c of all which this table affoordeth infinit examples Finallie wheresoeuer you find this word Note there dooth matter of consideration come to hand If the reader be not satisfied with this table let him not blame the order but his owne conceipt Gathered by Abraham Fleming A. ABbasie of Winchester obteined for monie 21 a 40 Abbat Agelnothus ¶ Sée Agelnothus Oâ— Batteâ—l in rescuing Winchelseie is put to flight 427 a 50. Egelsin ¶ Sée Egelsin Egelwine ¶ Sée Egelwine Fecknam of Westminster installed 1132 b 20. Frederike ¶ See Frederike Ioachim a man of great fame 126 a 10. Of Glastenburie an erls son 42 a 60. Losauage ¶ Sée Losauage Paule ¶ See Paule Of saint
time 1186 b 40 c. 1187 1188. 1189. The French men driuen into it 1188 b 10. A fire in it and augmented with shot of ordinance and windie wether 1190 a 50. Maipoles set vp therein on Maie daie b 10. Whie the describing of the siege thereof is so largelie set downe 1193 a 20. Peace concluded thereabouts a 40 c. Burned to the ground 963 a 20 Leofwins malicious mind against Liuifus note 12 b 30 Leolin prince of Wales summoned to come and doo his homage 278 a 10. And the Welsh rebels accurssed 281 a 20. His wife taken from him he beginneth to make wars maketh sure for peace 278 a 50 60. Restored to hir husband 279 b 10. He sueth for peace 278 b 10. Beginneth new warres 279 b 60. Inuadeth Edward the firsts fréends 281 b 10. Discomfited 205 a 30. Inuadeth the English borders 213 b 60. His courage 214 a 10. Spoileth the marches of England 217 a 20. Made cuckold and how he reuenged it 211 b 60. Wasteth and spoileth all the marches betwixt Wales and Shrewesburie 218 a 30. Deceaseth 224. Slaine his head presented to Edward the first 281 b 40 60 Leopald ¶ Sée duke of Austrich Lerning in the earle of Mellents sonnes note 44 a 60 Letter of king Iohn to his nobles of England touching his victories and taking of duke Arthur prisoner 165 â— 10. Of the proud bishop of Elie to the shiriffe of Kent 130 b 30. Of the pope to the cleargie of England for the celebrating of a holie daie 85 b 10. Of king Richard the first to the states of England for the deposing the bishop of Elie 132 a 30. Of the emperor to the states of England touching his deliuerance 140 b 20. Of Richard the first to the archbishop of Canturburie touching his deliuerance out of prison 140 a 50. To the duke of Austrich cléering Richard the first of the death of the marquesse of Montferrat 136 a 50. Of Henrie the fourth to pope Gregorie and the cardinals 535 a 40 c. Of William Northbourgh the kings confessor describing the kings voiage into France 373 b 50 c. Seditious of a préest 437 b 30. Of E. W concerning the earle of Essex Walter Deuereux 1266 a 60 b 10 c. Of cardinall Como to Parrie for resolution to kill quéen Elisabeth 1388 b 10. Of Creitchton to sir Francis Walsingham touching Parries intended murthering of the quéene 1388 a 10. Of Boner vnâ—o cardinall Poole concerning persecution 1164 a 10. Of the councell to Edmund Boner as touching quéene Marie conceiued with child 1123 b 60. Of the ladie Marie touching hir chalenge vnto the crowne 1084 b 50. With an answer of the lords 1085 a 40. Of the king to the lord Cheinie at his going into France note 1123. Right excellent of the duke of Summerset to the Scotish nobilitie touching the marriage betwéene Edward the sixt and the quéene of Scots 998 b 10 c. 999 1000 1001 a 10. Of defiance from the Scotish K. to Henrie the eight 820. Of the French king prisoner to his mother the regent of France 884 b 50 60. Of Gefferie the kings base sonne to Richard archbishop of Canturburie 104 b 10. Of Gardiner to Boner touching the celâ—brating of pope Iuâ—ies funerals 1128 a 60 b 10. Of yoong king Henrie touching the disappointment of archbishop Richards consecration 86 a 10. Of Henrie the second touching the pacification betweene him and Thomas Becket 78 a 20. Of the popes ¶ See Pope Letters of the duke of Summerset and the lord Russell 1057 a 60 b 20. Of Henrie the sixt to the duke of Yorke 638 a 60. Of the duke of Yorke to Henrie the sixt 637 b 60 638 a 10 c. Of the duke of Gâ—lderland to Richard the second note 475 b 60 c. 476 a 10 c. Concerning prince Edwards dooings and proceedings beyond sâ—a 384 a 10 c. Of Parrie to quéene Elisabeth lords of the councell after his voluntarie confession note 1387 a 20 b 10. Of submission and sute of one Francis Throckmorton traitor against quéene Eâ—isabeth and the realme 1373 a 60 b 60 1374. He is executed 1375 b 30. Missiue taken from the quéenes ambassadors seruants 1195 b 20. Seditious of a bishop sent into a forren realme note 17 a 10. Treasonable 428 a 60. Of protection from the French king to the king of England 102 a 60 Letters intercepted 329 b 10. Letters patents reuoked 526 b 50 Lewin a Welshman hanged note his treacherie 299 b 60 300 a 10 c Lewis the French king inclineth to peace with Henrie the third 201 b 10. Deceaseth 208 b 60 209 a 10. His sons intituled to the kingdome of England 201 b 20. Sendeth to his father for aid 200 b 60. An armie prepard in France to succour him 201 a 10 His faire 200 b 10. Mainteineth his title pretended to the crowne of England 191 a 50 ¶ Sée French king Lewis le grosse 34 b 60 Lewis ¶ Sée Physician Libell against cardinall Woolseie 895 a 30. Seditious against Henrie the seuenth and the libellors executed 778 a 60. Causing losse of life 746 b 10 Set on the duke of Northfolks gate forewarning him of trecherie against Richard the third and of his owne safetie 759 b 10. Against the quéene and realme are false 1363 a 40. Published in Italian against quéene Elisabeth and the same answered 1418 a 40. Printed against quéene Elisabeth 1370 b 60. Against the cleargie 558 b 20. ¶ Sée Bookes seditious Liberalitie of Richard the first woonderfull 126 b 30. Of the earle of Arundell noâ—e 454 b 50. Of Edward the first to his nobles 308 a 40. Of sir Thomas Sackuill to the French 1224 b 60 1225 a 10. Of William Rufus 27 a 20. Repented note 20 b 10. In a prince commended 16 b 10 Libertie preferred before a kingdome 726 b 60. Obteined by gentle language 673 a 60 b 10. Bought with monie 140 a 20 b 60. ¶ See Ransome Obteined by great words and proud brags 23 b 60 24 a 10. Desired aboue all things note 1046 a 30 60 Liberties ¶ Sée Lawes Londoners Priuileges and Southworke Licence to build castels 47 a 30 Of king Richard the first to gather riches 120 a 60. For the English iusts and turme note 145 b 60. Asked of Henrie the third of the commonaltie to passe ouer sea 262 a 30. To burie the bodies of the rebels 335 a 60. And that without it none should depart the realme 20 b 40. To depart the realme sought and obteined 14 b 10 Liâ— how dangerous to credit note 587 a 50 Life to saue what shifts noblemen can be content to make 460 b 30 Lightening ¶ Sée Thâ—nder Limerike a kingdome 101 b 10 Limoges besieged taken by force 406 a 10 40. Rendered to king Henrie the second 107 b 20 Lincolne besieged 56 b 10. Taken 272 a 10. Wooâ—e oâ— the French 192 b 60 Lincolne castell 6 a 40 Lincolne Iohn the author
〈◊〉 The lord Greie is quarelled against The death of the lord Riuers other The quéene taketh sanctuarie Tâ—â—ul lib. 2. eleg 3. The desolate state of the quéene Neuerthelesse he was depriued thereof shortlie after The kings comming to London The duke of Glocester made protector The bishop 〈◊〉 Lincolne made lord chancellor 〈◊〉 protecâ—ors oration The lord cardinall thought the fittest man â—â— deale with â—he queéne for 〈◊〉 surrenâ—â—â—ing of hir 〈◊〉 Reasons why it was not thought méet to fetch the quéens son out of sanctuarie The duke of BuckinghaÌ„s words against the quéene Of sanctuaries Westminster and saint Martins The abuse of sanctuaries The vse of sanctuaries Protector The quéenes answer The quéene is loth to part with hir son The quéenes mistrust of the lord protector The lord Howard saith Edw. Hall The quéenes replie vpon the lord cardinall This that is heere betwéen this marke * this marke * was not writâ—eÌ„ by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine The lord cardinall vseth an other waâ—â— to persuade the queéne She falleth 〈◊〉 a resolution touching hâ—r sonnes deliuerie O dissimulation This that is here betwene this marke * this marke * was not written by him in English but is translated out oâ— his historie which he wrote in Latine The dukes full resolution to go thorough with his enterprise Catesbie and his conditions described An assemblie of lords in the Tower The behaâ—â—â—â— of the lord pâ—â—â—tector in the assemblie of the lords The lord Stanleie wounded Lord Hastings lord chamberleine beheaded 〈◊〉 in psal â—â— The lord Stanleies dreame 〈…〉 misfortune to the lord Hastings Mani lib. 4 Astro. The description of the lord Hastingâ— The protectors proclamation The life and déeds of the lord chamberleine laid open Shores 〈◊〉 spoiled of 〈◊〉 that she had Shores 〈◊〉 put to open penance The descriptioÌ„ of Shores wife Eob. Hess 〈◊〉 cles Sal. * 〈◊〉 when this storie was written K. Edwards three concubines Sir Richard Ratcliffe The lord Riuers other beheaded Edmund Shaw maior of London Doct. Shaw Frier Penker The chiefest deuise to depose the prince Sée before pag. 667 668. Dame Elizabeth Greie A wise answer of a chast and continent ladie The kings mother The kings answer to his mother Libertie preferred before â— kingdome 〈◊〉 Elâ—zabeth Lucie The kings mariage The king fled The prince borne king Henrie the sixt set vp Of the earle of warwike The earle of warwike sâ—aine Doc. Shawâ— sermon This preacher was taught his lesson yer he came into the pulpit K. Edward sâ—andered in a sermon A maruelous deuise to mooue the assemblie K. Richard commended by the preacher Note the course of Gods iudgement Ouid. lib. 3. met A notable persuaâ—â—n Burdet Markam Cooke Open warre not so ill as 〈◊〉 Ciuill warre the occasion of manie great inconueniences Shores wife more sued vnto than all the lords in England He directeth his spéech to the communaltie of the citie London the kings especiall chamber Doct. Shaw commended by the duke of BuckinghaÌ„ A slanderous lie confirmed The title of K. Richard to the crowne The dignitie and office of a king full of care studie The election of K. Richard hardlie to be preferred Fitz William recorder K. Richards election preferred by â—â—â—ces of confederacie The maiors comming to Bainards castell vnto the lord protector O singular dissimulation of king Richard K. Richard spake otherwise than he meant The protectoâ— taketh vpon him to be king A made match to cousen the people Iuuenal sat 2. Anno Reg. 1. 1483 (*) This that is here betwéene this marke this marke * was not written by maister More in this historie written by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine From this marke * to this * is not found in sir Thomas More but in maâ—â—â—eâ— Hall and Grafton Seuentéene knights of the bath created by king Richard What â—eers stâ—tes were attendant on him going to his coronatâ—â—n The solemne ceremonies vsed at king Richards coronation Quéene Anne wife to king Richard and daughter to Richard earle of Warwike and hir traine The king queene crowned Sir Robert Dimmocke the kings champion his challenge in the behalfe of king Richard A gaâ—e pretense of iustice and equitie Sir Thomaâ— More agaiâ—â— Perkin Werbecke Close dealing is euer suspected Iohn Gréeâ—â— Robert Brakenberie constable of the Tower The murther of the two yoong princes set abroch Sir Iames Tirrell described Authoritie â—â—ueth no partners The constable of the Tower deliuereth the keies to sir Iames Tirrell vpon the kings commandement The two princes shut vp in close 〈◊〉 The two murtherers of the two princes appointed The yoong K. and his brother murthered in their beds at midâ—ight in the Tower The murther confessed The iust iudgement of God seuerelie reuenging the murther of the innocent princes vpon the malefactors Pers. sat 3. The outward and inward troubles of tyrants by meanes of a grudging conscience * Persinall saith Ed. Hall Causes of the duke of Buckingham and K. Richards falling out The duke of Buckingham and king Richard mistrust each other Doctor Nâ—â—â—ton bishop of Elie what pageants hâ— plaied The high â—â—â—nour of 〈◊〉 Morton Bishop Nâ—â—â—tons subâ—â—ll vnderminiâ—â— of the duâ—e Princes matters perillous to meddle in Here endeth sir Thomas Moore this that followeth is taken out â—â— master Hall Bishop Morton buildeth vpoÌ„ the dukes ambition The duke of Buckingham highlie commended Dispraise of the lord protector or king messe Suspicion in a prince how mischéefous it is The bishop adiureth the duke to release the realme by some deuise from the present euill state A new confereÌ„ce betweene the bishop and the duke The duke openeth himselfe and his secrets to the bishop The duke complaineth of want of preferment in king Edwards daies * An vnhappie policie tending to slaughter bloushed The principall cause why the duke of Buckingham coÌ„ceiued such inward grudge against king Richard The imaginations of the duke of Buckingham to depriue K. Richard Note the working of ambition in the duke The office of a king verie hard to discharge The dukes resolution not to medle in seéking to obteine the crowne The duke of Buckinghâ—â— resolued to helpe to depose king Richard and to prefer the 〈◊〉 of Richmond to the crowne * The duke of Glocester now king The 〈◊〉 of the dukâ—s purpose The motion for the coniunction of the two houses of Lancaster Yorke deuised by the duke furthered Bishop Mortons deuise for to be at his owne libertie in his bâ—shoprike of Elie. The bishop of Elie saileth into Flanders to the earle of Richmond Lewes the physician sheweth the quéene the whole conceipt and deuise of the matter The coniunction of the two families mooued to the Q. by the physician The quéenes readinesse to sâ—t forward this coÌ„clusion The countesse of Richmond vttereth the matter to Urswike hir chapleine swearing him to be secret
240. Gentlemen sent into Kent to be executed Execution Ladie Elizabeth and lord Courtneie prisoners in the tower Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foâ—i maâ—tyrologio A point of practise of StephaÌ„ Garâ—diner against the ladie Elizabeth Doctor Westâ—â— against the lâ—â—die Elizabetâ— The lord maiors iudgmeâ—â— of D. Westâ—â— Sâ—â—phaÌ„ 〈◊〉 tale in 〈◊〉 Star-chamber against the ladie Elizabeth The Lord â—handois 〈◊〉 report in the Star-chamber against the ladie Elizabeth and lord Courtneie A parlement summoned at Oxford but noâ— holden All nations in the world against the mariage of the sun and why Iohn Stow. A cat hanged in cheape The bishops Cranmer Latimer and Ridleie sent to Oxford Commissioners Io. Fox in acts and monuments Sir Thomas Wiat arreigned The effect of Wiats indictment Wiat answereth not directlie to the question guiltie or vnguiltie A rebels report touching rebellion Wiats exhortation to loialtie by his owne example Wiat altereth his mind touching the quéenes mariage The fruits of rebellion by Wiats confession The quéenes attornie speaketh to Wiat. Wiats 〈◊〉 to the quéenes attorneie The iudge speaketh Sir Edward Hastings spéech to Wiat. Maister Corâ—ell late maister of the 〈◊〉 speaketh William Thomas meanâ— to murther quéene Marie Wiats confession Wiat is sorie that he refused the quéens pardon when it was offred The execution of sir Thomas Wiat. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton arreigned of high treason cleéreth himselfe The names of the commissioners The quéenes learned counsell gaue euidence against the prisoner Sendall Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Shrewesburie Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Then the iurie was called Throckmorton Cholmeleie Throckmorton Throckmorton Sâ—anford Throckmortâ—n Stanford Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Winters confession read by Stanford Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Attourneâ—e Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Dier Throckmorton Attourneie Throckmorton Stanford Uaughans confession was read by Stanford Stanford Southwell Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Attournie Throckmorton Attournie Throckmorton Southwell Hare Throckmorton Stanford Stanford Dier Throckmorton The atturnie Attourneie Throckmorton The atturnie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Stanford Bromleie Southwell Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Southwell Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Hare Cholmleie The atturnie Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Stanford Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton The atturnie Cholmleie Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Bromleie The attornie Throckmorton Stanford Bromleie Throckmorton Happie for Throckmorton that those statutes stood then repealed Stanford Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Sâ—anford Throckmorton Southwell The attornie Throckmorton The attornie Throckmorton The attornie Bromleie 〈◊〉 Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Pirtman Sanders Throckmorton Stanford Hare Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton Hare Throckmorton Englefiâ—ld Bromleie Throckmorton Stanford Hare Throckmorton The attâ—rnie Throckmorton â—â—â—dall Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Throckmorton Sendall Throckmorton Sendall Iurie Sendall Whetston Sendall Whetston Throckmorton Bromleie Iurie Bromleie Whetston Bromleie Throckmorton Throckmorton Bromleie Throckmorton The atturnie Whetston The lord Tho. Greie beheaded William Thomas arreigned condemned The ladie Elisabeth â—â—liuered out of the tower Sir Henrie Beningfield knight * Elisabetha Rich. Grafâ—on Quéene Elisabeths words to Beningfield hir butcherlie kéeker in the time of hir durance A gun shot as the preacher Sée before pag. 1102. Anno Reg. 2. The lord Iohn Greie arreigned pardoned and released Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 109â— A spirit in a wall without Aldersgate doth penaÌ„ce at Paules crosse for abusing the people c. The prince of Spaine preparation to 〈◊〉 into England The Englâ—â—h ambassadors meet him 〈◊〉 S. Iames 〈◊〉 CoÌ„postâ—lla The arriuall of the prince of Spaine in Sâ—uthamptoÌ„ 〈◊〉 is receiued 〈◊〉 the nobilitie 〈◊〉 lords 〈◊〉 commeth 〈◊〉 Winchester 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 him The quéens lodging in the bishops palace The mariage solemnized and what states of Italie Spaine were present at it The names of the noble men that came ouer from Spaine with the prince He to be intituled king during the matrimonie c. She to be intituled to his dominions during the mariage Hir dowrie if she suruiued him Touching the issue of hir bodie male or female Touching the prince of Spaines disposing of his lands after his decease Touching the lord Charles and his descendents if heire male came by this mariage What is to be doone if heire male faile and there be none but issue female What for want of issâ—e by the lord Charles A prouiso touching succession Touching a perpetuall league or 〈◊〉 of fraternitie c. No stranger to be admitteâ— to anie office c in England Englishmen to attend at the court The state in no point to 〈◊〉 innouated The quéene not to be conueied out of hir owne territories The prince 〈◊〉 Spaines 〈◊〉 to end with the quéenes death The iewels c of the 〈◊〉 not to be carried out 〈◊〉 vsurped c. 〈◊〉 ships 〈◊〉 ordiâ—â—â—nce c to be 〈…〉 c out of the land Peace to be 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 realme without 〈◊〉 in other 〈…〉 warres The empeâ—â—s gift to the prince his 〈◊〉 The title of 〈◊〉 belongâ—â—g both to Pâ—ilip and Marie proclamed by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fox in 〈◊〉 Acts and â—â—numents These verses are answered in master Fox by the lerned King Philip stalled at Windsor Iohn Fox A generall hunting The king and quéene come through London to Westminster Abr. Fl. ex Ioh. Foxi martyrologiâ— Uaine pageants of London Winchester cannot abide the booke called Verbum Dei The painter sent for to the bishop of Winchester The painters answer Fiue Philips The erecting vp of the rood at Paules Bishop Boners god the rood of Pauls set vp with Te Deum Salutation to the rood of Paules A proclamation for the auoiding of maisterlesse men out of thâ— citie of London Death of the Duke of Norâ—folke A Spaniard hanged Iohn Stow. Eight of master Throckmortons 〈◊〉 appéere in thâ— starchamber The hard iudgement 〈◊〉 the lords against those eight honest men The L. 〈◊〉 Greie set at libertie Further 〈◊〉 mine 〈◊〉 Throckmoâ—tons 〈◊〉 Iohn Fox A parlement whereat the king quéene â—t present Cardinall Poole arriâ—eth at Douer An act for the restitution in 〈◊〉 of cardinall Poole Cardinall Poole coÌ„meth 〈◊〉 the parlement house The words of the bishop of Winchester 〈◊〉 lord chancellor 〈◊〉 Grafton The effect of the cardinals â—â—â—â—mblie in the 〈◊〉 of parlement He sheweth the speciall cause oâ— his comming into England He exhorteth to a generall returne into the bosome of the church He declareth how wonderfullie god had preserued Q. Marie He exhorteth to obedience and treateth of restoring this realme to the vnitie of the church He protesteth that he ment the preiudice of no man c. He sheweth the meanes of procuring the foresaid reconciliation This supplication was exhibited to the king and quéene Promise in signe of repentance
priests masse 11. b 60 Deposed by king Henrie the seuenth 1364. b 10. His faculties granted to Parsons and Campian for England 1362 b 60. Parries letters to him wherto they tended 1389. a 50. A lewd sermon and full of papisticall adulation made at his funerals 1397. b 40. c. 1398. c. vnto 1400. Deceaseth 1397. a 20. His new kalendar touched 30.40 c. Pope Honorius his legat a bawdie knaue sent into England about reformation 42. b 40. His legat to king Henrie the third 208 a 10. Mainteiner of king Iohns cause 193. b 50 Pope Hildebrand the first that made warre against the emperor 1364. a 40 Pope Innocent summoneth a generall councell 236. b 20 His request for maintenance of the warres against the Turks 164. a 20. Offereth to king Henrie the third the kingdome of Sicill 250. b 20. And hath England tributarie 177. b 20. Would not confirme archbishop Reignolds of Canturburies election and whie 169. a 60. His answere to the English ambassadors 187. a 60. b 10. His licence to king Richard the first to gather riches 120. a 60. Commandeth that the church of Lameth should be raced 154 a 30. His councell held at Cleremont 44. a 50. He findeth fauor at king Henrie the first his hands and is thankfull 44. a 50. Sendeth cardinals about a treatie of peace 391. a 30. Aided with monie by king Henrie the third against the emperor 224. b 30. Deceaseth 193. b 50. 274. a 30 Pope Iulies election a description of his qualities and how he came to the popedome 811 b 30. c. Sendeth king Henrie the eight a cap of maintenance c. Compared to Anteus his purposes and death a malcontent 830. b 10. c. Intituleth king Henrie the eight Christianissimo his daughters request a description of his properties 831. a 20.50.60 Gaue cardinall Pooles authoritie apostolike 1123. b 10. Dieth a porkish pope his monstrous blasphemie against God about a pecocke 1128. a 10. c 50. Pope Leo the tenth his creation 831. b 60. His coronation a poore prisoner on the same daie twelue moneth of his election and inthronization 832. a 10. 30. He soliciteth all the princes of christendome against the Turke 846. a 10. Receiueth two elephants for a present note 837. b 10. His craftie feare 845. b 30. His decease supposed by poison the maner and order of his death 871. a 40 c Pope Martine legateth the bishop of Winchester vnlegateth him againe 602. a 60. b 60 Pope Othobone named Adrian the fift 274. a 40 Pope Paschall his bulles vnto Anselme of Canturburie 27. b 60. Grieued bicause his authoritie is not regarded in England 37. b 20. Courteouslie receiueth the English ambassadors 31. b 20. Authoriseth Anselm to order things to his owne liking 34. a 10. His stout words to bishop Warâ—wast touching the inuestiture of churches 31. b 50. Hath the determining of the strife about bishops inuesting and consecrating 31. b 10. Writeth most courteouslie to king Henrie the first in Anselms behalfe 32. a 10 Sicke at Beneuento dieth 40. a 10 Pope Paule a Romane borne created 935 b 60 Pope Pius an ambassage to him out of England certeine notes concerning him 794. b 50.60 His bull against queen Elisabeth the effect thereof 1359 a 60. The practises of traitors to execute it b 10.20 Harts confession of the interpretation thereof 1363. a 10. His bull seditious hanged on the bishop of Londons gate 1221. a 20 c. A tresonable action 1366. b 20 Pope Sixtus Quintus successor to Gregorie the thirteenth excommunicateth princes and is by them defied 1401. a 10 Pope Urban in mislike with king William Rufus and whiâ— note 24. b 30. His legat for the crowning of erle Iohn king of Ireland 110. b 20. Whie he could not redresse the English enormities 18. b 40 Calleth a councell at Cleremont and whie 22. a 40. Giueth faculties to a frier Carmelite 455. a 60. His beneficiall pardons to such as would fight against Clement antipape note 441. a 60. b 60.442 a 40 Sendeth to Richard the second for aid against an antipape 421. a 50 Pope Wibteth aduanced by the emperor against pope Urban 24. b 20 Pope sendeth a frier minor into England to restore Henrie the thirds halfe brethren to their possessions 261 b 50. His nuncio commanded to auoid the realme sent awaie 237. a 10.30 Allowed eleuen thousand marks among them of the spiritualtie 239. b 50. Out of fauour with the lords temporall of England 211. a 10. Sendeth his legat to pacifie Henrie the third and his nobles 271. a 20 Complaineth to Henrie the third and blameth him and commandeth offendors to be curssed 214 b 20. Requireth maintenance for his warres against the emperor 210. b 60 His demands out of spirituall liuings in England 208. a 40 50 c. Lacketh monie to mainteine his estate note 208 a 40. His chapleine inhibited to leuie monie 315. b 30. Exhorteth king Edward the first to make war against France 311. a 60. His decree of peace betwixt the king of England and France 308. b 40. His request for the releasing of Iohn Balioll b 40. Intermedleth in princes matters 297. a 10.20 Deâ—â—rous of peace betweene the kings of England and France note 388. b 40. His pretended right to be iudge for the title of the realme of Scotland answered note 309. b 60.310 a 10. c. His letters the deliuerers of them hanged 392. a 20. Sendeth two bishops to the prince of Wales 383. b 50. Interdicteth Flanders 358. a 10. Taketh vpon him to bestow and deale in benefices at his pleasures note 365. a 60. b all 366. a 10. Sendeth a bull for the apprehension of Wicliffe 419. a 20. Two at diuision for the dignitie of S. Peters chaire 484. b 50. Sendeth his nuntio to Richard the second note whie 474. b 60. A disputation betwixt diuines of Oxford and Cambridge for their obedience to him 534 b 50.60 Beareth out the moonks against the king the archbishop of Canturburie 155. a 50. Offended at king Richard the firsts imprisonment 138. b 40. Into what a lamentable case he brought king Iohn and his nobles 186. b 20.30.40 His messengers to persuade the K. of England the French king to peace 146 b 10. Sendeth to take awaie the interdiction vpon conditions 181. b 20. He king Iohn reconciled 178 b 40. His decree and inhibition contemned 187. b 30. Threateneth interdiction against king Iohn and the clergie 171. b 60.172 a 10. Dismisseth two archbishops at strife and electeth a third 170. b 60. His dispensation for a marriage note 160. b 60. Giueth sentence with the moonks of Canturburie against the bishops 170. b 10.20 Interdicteth France and Normandie 160 a 60. Sendeth his nuncio to France 166 b 30. He dispenseth for an oth of allegiance broken by the duke of Yorke 659 b 60. Sendâ—â—â— Lionell bishop of Concorâ—ia to the French king 771. b 10. Poisoned with the
wine that his owne sonne had sent to poison another 795 a 40. He and the states of Italie in a league abandoned of all hope compoundeth with the imperials a hard article and to be maruelled how he might brooke it the castell where he was prisoner infected with the plague 893. a 20.50.60 b 20. He the emperors agents at accord a heauie paiment for him to discharge the manner of his going out of prison 902. a 20. 30.60 He by the instigation of cardinall Poole intendeth mischeefe against England 946. b 60. His supremasie denied in sermons 937. b 10. Cursseth Henrie the eight the realme note 936. a 60. His authoritie banished out of England by proclamation 914. b 40. He with certeine cardinals flie to the castell of S. Angelo 896. a 50. His legats scrape and rake monie togither for him note 226. a 30. c. Hath Henrie the second in a seruile subiection note 83. b 50.84 a 10. His forces vanquished in Ireland 1367. a 40. The cause of rebellions in England and of treasons note 1366. b 10. His cursses no hinderance of Englands prosperitie 1366 a 40. Not to be suffered to make rebellions in England 1365. b 40. Kings of christendome neuer suffer him to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer him to haue rule ouer their people 1365. b 10. And that kings of France Spaine and England haue beene against him note 1365. a 40 50.60 Haue cruellie persecuted emperors note 1364. a 60. His title of vniuersall bishop is a preamble of antichrist 1364. b 60. His authoritie not warranted by Christ or his two apostles Peter and Paule 1363 b 60. His bull the mainteiners thereof onelie condemned of treason 1361. b 20 Supremasie no person for the onelie maintenance thereof charged with capitall crime 1361 b 10. Sendeth aid to the earle of Desmond his banner erected note 1314. b 40. His bull a full proofe that the mainteiners thereof are directlie guiltie of treason note the words of the bull c. 1362 a all His dutie what it is not and what it should be 24. b 40 His decree for confirmation benediction 256. a 50 Mens deuotion to him waxeth cold 253 b 50. He is liberall of another mans pursse 250. b 60. Offreth the kingdome of Sicill to earle of Cornwall 247. a 40. Complained of to Henrie the third the king writeth vnto him 232. b 10. A collect to be said for him another for his election a woman imprisoned for not praieng for him 1128. b 20.40.50 An enimie to peace except he might haue his owne will 226. b 10. Sendeth for monie to mainteine his wars against the emperor 233. b 20. His letters intercepted staied 236 b 30. He French king alied 847. b 30. His decree that all spirituall men dieng intestat their goods should remaine vnto him 238 b 60 237. c. Requireth the French king to make war against England the French king refuseth so to do 238. a 20 Sendeth for the third part of one yeares profit of euerie beneficed man resident 239 b 10. Maketh void the election of archbishop Neuill 213 b 30 Sueth to Henrie the third for licence to soiorne at Burdeaux 243. a 60. His presence more like to impaire than amend things b 10. His bull read at Paules crosse 263. a 10. His grant authorising the bishop of Lincolne to institute vicars in churches impropriat 246. a 40.50 Hath six thousand marks giuen him for a moderation note 244. a 40. Consecrateth William Raleigh bishop of Winchester 231. b 60. He and king Iohn at strife and whie 171. all Two die in one yeare 229. a 10. Sueth vnto Henrie the third for his good will in benefices to bestow on his friends 238. b 40. ¶ See Antipape Cardinals Legats Mariage Rome Poore of three degrees which to be cherished which to be punished 1082. a 50. c. And in what places b 10. c. Their necessitie relieued by Gods prouidence 1129. a 60. b 10. Prouision of corne for them 1092. a 50. Prouided for in time of scarsitie 381. a 50.60 Portingall prince commeth to London 589. b 60 Portingall king sendeth aid to Henrie the fift 566. a 20. Aided with an armie out of England against the king of Castile 429. a 40. He with duke of Lancaster inuade Castile 450. a 30. Sendeth six gallies to king Richard the seconds aid 448. a 10. Deceaseth an obsequâ—e for him 1134. a 10 Portgreeues and the reason of the name 120. a 10 Posie of the duke of Alanson 1337. a 10. c. Interpreted 1340. a 10 Praier and inuocation to God before battell enterprised note 371. a 60. Of queene Elisabeth as she went to hir coronation 1180. a 10. Superstitious of the Scots in a time of mortalitie among the English 423. a 20 Praiers vsed by housholders in the suspicious troublesome time of duke William 5. b 50. 6. a 10. For queene Marie being with child that she may be safelie deliuered 1125. a 20. 50. c. 1126. a 40. ¶ See Collect Papists and Saints Preacher at Paules crosse hath a dagger throwne at him defended by the gard 1089. a 60. b 10.20 1090. a 20. Hath a gun shot at him 1117. b 50 Popish blasphemie in the pulpit and how seuerelie punished by God 1128. b 60. Preaching of pardon at the shew of a relike 240. a 60 To mooue christians to make a iorneie against the Saracens 209. b 40. Of a cardinall 316. a 10. Of the archbishop of Canturburie at the deposing of Edward the second 340. b 10. Of Cementarius incensing K. Iohn to crueltie 173. b 60. Good wanting was the cause of rebellion in Deuonshire 1015. a 10. ¶ See Recantation and Sermon Preferment without looking or seeking obteined 18. b 60 Premunire statute begun 409. a 60. Whereof followed losse of goods 951. a 50. A cause of malcontentment note 927. b 60 928. a 10. ¶ See Woolseie Premise hanged in London for killing his maister 1213. a 10 Killed the offendors hanged 1353. b 20. ¶ See Riot Present of Cambridge vniuersitie to queen Elisabeth 1299 a 10. Of a Dutch minister to queene Elisabeth at Norwich 1293. b 30 1294. a 60. b 10. Of white kine and a bull offered to king Iohn 174. â— 10. Sent by the Rhengraue to the earle of Warwike 1197. b 50. That the emperor Charles sent to Henrie the eight 882 a 40. ¶ See Gift Presents rich sumptuous sent to Henrie the third 252 a 30 Preest excommunicated for incontinencie 242. a 60. Committed a shamefull murther 173. a 30. Killeth a frier being prisoner 568. b 20. Executed for treason 947. b 50. Hanged for fauouring of rebels 943. a 60. b 10. Murthered and the murtherer hanged in chaines 814 b 30. A valiant soldior 988 a 10. Massing ridiculouslie scorned 1102 b 50. Seditious ¶ See Simon Preests that were hunters an act against them 97. a 60. Their concubines forbidden christian buriall 207. b 30.40 c.