to some againe verie dangerous least whilest diuers of those that coueted to professe such cleannesse and puritie of life as passed their powers to obserue might happilie fall into most horrible vncleannesse to the high dishonour of christianitie and offense of the Almightie 2 That no spirituall person should haue the administration of any temporall office or function nor sit in iudgement of life and death 3 That preests should not haunt alehouses and further that they should weare apparell of one maner of colour and shooes after a comelie fashion for a little before that time préests vsed to go verie vnséemelie 4 That no archdeaconries should be let to farme 5 That euerie archdeacon should at the least receiue the orders of a deacon 6 That none should be admitted to the orders of a subdeacon without profession of chastitie 7 That no préests sonnes should succéed their fathers in their benefices 8 That moonks and préests which had forsaken their orders for the loue of their wiues should be excommunicated if they would not returne to their profession againe 9 That préests should weare broad crownes 10 That no tithes should be giuen but to the church 11 That no benefices should be bought or sold. 12 That no new chappels should be builded without consent of the bishop 13 That no church should be consecrated except prouision were first had to the maintenance of it and the minister 14 That abbats should not be made knights or men of war but should sléepe eat within the precinct of their owne houses except some necessitie mooued them to the contrarie 15 That no moonks should inioyne penance to any man without licence of their abbat and that abbats might not grant licence but for those of whose soules they had cure 16 That no moonks should be godfathers nor nuns godmothers to any mans child 17 That moonks should not hold and occupie any farmes in their hands 18 That no moonks should receiue any parsonages but at the bishops hands nor should spoile those which they did receiue in such wise of the profits and reuenues that curats which should serue the cures might thereby want necessarie prouision for themselues and the same churches 19 That contracts made betwéene man and woman without witnesses concerning mariage should be void if either of them denied it 20 That such as did weare their heare long should be neuerthelesse so rounded that part of their eares might appéere 21 That kinsfolke might not contract matrimonie within the seuenth degrée of consanguinitie 22 That the bodies of the dead should not be buried but within their parishes least the préest might lose his dutie 23 That no man should vpon some new rash deuotion giue reuerence or honour to any dead bodies fountaines of water or other things without the bishops authoritie which hath béene well knowne to haue chanced heretofore 24 That there should be no more buieng and selling of men vsed in England which was hitherto accustomed line 10 as if they had béene kine or oxen 25 That all such as committed the filthie sinne of Sodomitrie should be accurssed by the decrée of this councell till by penance confession they should obteine absolution Prouided that if he were a prâ—est or any religious person he should lose his benefice and be made vncapeable of any other ecclesiasticall preferment if he were a laie man he should lose the prerogatiue of his estate Prouided also that no religious man might be absolued of this crime but at the line 20 bishops hands 26 That euerie sundaie this cursse should be read in euerie church The king also caused some necessarie ordinances to be deuised at this councell to mooue men to the leading of a good and vpright life About the third yeare of K. Henries reigne the foundation of saint Bartholomews by Smithfield was begun by Raier one of the kings musicians as some write who also became the first prior thereof line 30 In those daies Smithfield was a place where they laid all the ordure and filth of the citie It was also the appointed place of execution where felons and other malefactors of the lawes did suffer for their misdeeds In this third yeare of king Henries reigne the quéene was deliuered of a sonne called William When the earle of Shrewesburie was banished as ye haue heard the state of the realme seemed to be reduced into verie good order and quietnesse so that line 40 king Henrie being aduanced with good successe in his affaires was now in no feare of danger any maner of waie Howbeit herein he somewhat displeased the cleargie for leaning vnto his princelie authoritie he tooke vpon him both to nominate bishops and to inuest them into the possession of their sées amongst whom was one Remclid bishop of Hereford by the kings ordinance This Remclid or Remeline did afterwards resigne that bishoprike to the king bicause he was persuaded he had greatlie line 50 offended in receiuing the same at a temporall mans hands Trulie not onelie king Henrie here in England but also other princes and high potentates of the temporaltie about the same season challenged this right of inuesting bishops and other cleargie men as a thing due vnto them and their predecessors without all prescription of time as they alledged which caused no small debate betwixt them and the spiritualtie line 60 as in that which is written thereof at large by others may more easilie appeere Howbeit Anselme the archbishop of Canturburie more earnest in this case than any other would not admit nor consecrate such bishops as were nominated and inuested by the king making no account of their inuestiture and further he tooke vpon him to admonish the K. not to violate the sacred lawes rites and ceremonies of christian religion so latelie decréed concerning those matters But so far was the king from giuing any eare to his admonitions â—â—at he stood the more stiffelie in his chalenge And where Thomas the archbishop of Yorke was not long before departed out of this transitorie life he gaue that benefice then void to one Gerard a man of great wit but as some writers report more desirous of honor than was requisite for his calling and willed him in despite of Anselme to consecrate those bishops whom he had of late inuested This Gerard therfore obeieng his commandement did consecrate them all William Gifford bishop of Winchester excepted who refused to be consecrated at his hands wherevpon he was depriued and banished the relme The archbishop Ansâ—lme also was quite out of fauour for that he ceased not to speake against the K. in reproouing him in this behalfe till time that the king was contented to referre the matter to pope Paschall and to stand to his decree and determination also that such as he had placed in any bishoprike should haue licence to go to Rome to
blow at his head chanced to light vpon the arme of a clerke named Edward of Cambridge who cast vp his arme to saue the archbishop but when he was not able to beare the weight of the blow he plucked his arme backe and so the stroke staied vpon the archbishops head in such wise that the bloud ran downe by his face Then they stroke at him one after an other and though he fell to the ground at the second blow yet they left him not till they had cut and pashed out his braines and dashed them about vpon the church pauement All this being doone they rifled his house spoiled his goods and tooke them to their owne vses supposing it lawfull for them being the kings seruants so to doo But doubting how the matter would be taken after they had wrought their feat they got them into the bishoprike of Duresme there to remaine till they might heare how the king would take this their vnlawfull enterprise though as they alledged they had lustilie defended his cause and reuenged his quarell as faithfull seruants ought to doo Howbeit it chanced otherwise than they looked it should haue doone for king Henrie gaue them so litle thankes for their presumptuous act sounding to the euill example of other in breach of his lawes that they despairing vtterlie of pardon fled one into one place and another into another so that within foure yeares they all died an euill death as it hath béene reported Some write that they went to Rome by the kings commandement and there presented themselues before the pope to receiue such penance for their wicked act as he should enioine them Herevpon the pope appointed them to go vnto Ierusalem there to doo their penance where they remained certeine yeares applieng themselues verie diligentlie to performe the satisfaction of their offense according to the maner prescribed to them by the pope and so at length died This was the end of Thomas Becket archbishop of Canturburie which was after he had entred into that see eight yeares and six moneths year 1171 in the yeare after the birth of our Lord 1171. On Christmas day before his death which fell that yeare on the fridaie he preached a sermon to the people and when he had made an end thereof he accurssed Nigell de Sackeuille the violent incumbent of the church of Berges and Robert de Broc both which had vpon spite curtailed the horsse of the said archbishop and as the same day whilest he was at the altar according to his custome altogither in teares and lamenâ—ation so at dinner he shewed himselfe verie pleasant merrie insomuch that when those that were at the table séemed somewhat doubtfull to eat of the flesh that was set before them bicause it was friday Why doo ye abhorre saith he to eat flesh This day flesh hath a great priuilege for this same day the word was made flesh and came into light and appeared vnto vs. These his words greatlie contented all the companie ¶ Thus you haue heard the tragicall discourse of ambitious Becket a man of meane parentage and yet through the princes fauour verie fortunate if he had not abused the beneuolence of so gratious a souereigne line 10 by his insolencie and presumption Wherein we haue to note how vnseemelie a thing it was for him being called to so sacred a function to lead so secular and prophane a life as if he had professed open hostilitie to the vocation which he pretended to honour and reuerence We are also taught that promotions atchiued by ambition are not permanent and are so farre from procuring fame and renowne to the obteiners that they turne them in the end to shame infamie and reproch after losse of life and effusion line 20 of bloud The issue of all which tragedie is to be imputed to the prouidence and counsell of almightie God as one writeth verie agréeablie to this purpose saieng Nam facile extolliâ— facilè elatúmque refraenat Et clarum obscurans obscuri nomen adauget Erigit miserum facilè extinguitque superbum Iuppiter altifremus cui celsum regia coelum But to let this matter passe King Henrie doubtlesse was right pensiue for his death bicause he wist line 30 well inough that it would be iudged that he himselfe was priuie to the thing and euen so came it to passe for immediatlie vpon notice giuen into France of the archbishops death king Lewes and Theobald the earle of Blois as they that loued him most deerelie were most sorowfull for it and iudging straightwaie that king Henrie was the procurer they wrote their letters vnto pope Alexander giuing him to vnderstand both of the slaughter and how king Henrie had caused it to be put in execution requiring most instantlie line 40 that such an iniurie doone to the Christian religion might spéedilie be punished The pope was much offended and determined to haue the matter throughlie considered and ordered so as might stand with his dignitie and accordinglie as the hainous state of the case required King Henrie whilest these things were a dooing lay certein daies at Argenton so much displeased in his mind that he would suffer no man once to speake to him about any maner of businesse line 50 At length he sent his ambassadors to Rome partlie to purge himselfe of the archbishops death partlie to excuse his fault for that in his furie he had vttered words against the archbishop which had giuen occasion to naughtie men to contriue his death partlie to require the pope to send his legats into England to make inquirie both for the death of the archbishop and also of the state of the clergie The kings ambassadors found the pope at Tiuoli and there were heard to declare their message but little credit line 60 was giuen to their words in so much that the pope plainelie told them that he vnderstood the matter to be much otherwise than they had declared Yet according to the kings request he sent two of his cardinals into England which vpon due examination might vnderstand the truth of the matter thoroughlie as apperteined There be that write that the king sent ambassadours twice vnto the pope for the first that went could not come to his presence nor be suffered to declare their message those that were sent the second time were receiued of some of the cardinals but yet onelie with words without anie other way of freendlie interteinement At length when the feast of Easter drew néere on the which either absolution or excommunication was to be denounced against euerie man there were certeine of the cardinals which gaue intelligence to the English ambassadours that the pope by aduice of the colledge meant on the thursdaie before Easter daie to declare the sentence of interdiction against the king of England and against all his dominions and to confirme that which had beene alreadie pronounced against Richard the archbishop of Yorke and the
other bishops his complices The ambassadours being brought to a streict issue herewith by helpe of some of the cardinals found meanes to haue it put into the popes head how the English ambassadours had commission to vndertake that the king of England should obeie in all things what order soeuer it pleased the pope and his court to award him Herevpon they tooke their oth that it should so be and by that meanes they auoided the interdiction The messengers of the archbishop of Yorke the other bishops vsed the like shift but yet the same daie the pope did excommunicate the knights that had murthered the archbishop Thomas and all those that had procured aided succoured or abetted them therein Some write that those ambassadours which the king sent to the court of Rome could not be suffered to come to the popes presence till according to the fashion they had giuen 500. marks in reward and so at length were admitted to his presence Howsoeuer that matter passed the king stood in great feare least his land should be interdicted in so much that he commanded the wardens of the ports both on this side the sea and beyond to take good héed least any coÌ„ming with letters of interdiction should passe into England but if any such came that the bringer should be arrested and committed to prison Also he commanded that no clearke were suffered to come ouer into England except he first tooke an oth that he came about no businesse that might turne to the preiudice of the king or his realme This commandement he set forth at what time he transported ouer into England himselfe where he landed this yeare at Portesmouth the third daie of August About which time it came into the kings mind to make a conquest of Ireland vpon this occasion It chanced whereas diuerse rulers or as we may call them petie kings reigned the same seson in that Iland which was diuided into seuerall estaâ—es or kingdomes that continuall strife and dissention remained amongst them so that oftentimes they made sore war after the manner of their countrie one against an other for Nulla fides regnisocijs omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit Herevpon it fortuned that one of those kings or rulers about the 14. yeare of this kings reigne was sore afflicted and oppressed by his neighbours wherevpon taking aduice what he might best doo for remedie in that case at length he sent his son into England to reteine souldiours and men of warre and to bring them ouer vnto his aid in hope of gaine such commodities as he assured them of Now it came to passe that by the assistance of such Englishmen as then came ouer the foresaid Irish king began to recouer his losses and in the end waxed so strong that he subdued all his enimies When he had thus obteined the victorie he did not onelie not send backe his aiders but so liberallie reteined them still with him that they had no hast to returne home but setled themselues in that countrie where they liued a pleasant and verie licentious life For this cause also the stoutest lords and rulers of and Irish nation began sore to stomach the matter against him that had thus brought the English nation into their countrie in so much that the Englishmen perceiuing their malice and therewithall hauing some feare of themselues bicause of their small number they sent ouer into England for such as wanted liuing and were willing to seeke for it in other countries of which sort great numbers went ouer thither within a short space whereby the multitude of the English greatlie increased but for as line 10 much as they had no ruler to gouerne them they procured Richard Strangbow earle of Struguille alià s Chepstow in Wales to come ouer thither and to receiue the souereigne gouernement with such honorable prouision for maintenance of his estate as should séeme requisit ¶ Some write that this earle Richard being also earle Marshall of England for a rebellion moued against king Henrie had before this time forfeited all his lands but others affirme that through riot and line 20 more sumptuous port than his abilitie might beare he had made awaie and consumed the most part of his liuing and was run so far in debt that he knew not how to satisfie his creditors and therefore was he the readier to incline to their request which made labour vnto him to come ouer into Ireland to haue the gouernance of such English people as had alreadie planted themselues there to inhabit remaine Herevpon he prepared a nauie and assembled togither a great number of such as lacked liuing and shortlie determined to passe ouer into Ireland But line 30 euen as he was readie to set forward there came vnto him messengers from king Henrie commanding him to staie and not to take that iournie in hand Howbeit the earle hauing nothing in England whereof to make anie great accompt notwithstanding the kings commandement tooke the sea and passed ouer into that countrie where he greatlie delited such Englishmen as dailie had looked for his repaire and comming thither line 40 Shortlie after ioining those which he brought ouer with him with the other that were there before his comming he thought to worke some feat whereby he might make his name famous cause the Irishmen to haue him in feare Wherevpon he first assailed the citie of Dublin and by force wan it He likewise wan Waterford diuerse other townes neere vnto the sea side Also to haue some freendship amongst those barbarous people he maried the daughter of the confederate king and so grew into verie line 50 great estimation in that countrie and region Howbeit with these and the like dooings of the earle king Henrie tooke such displeasure but chéeflie for disobeieng his commandement that he confined him the realme seized his lands as forfeited and by proclamation restreined all his subiects from passing into Ireland with any kind of merchandize prouision of vittels or other commodities whatsoeuer By reason whereof earle Strangbow partlie by constreint and partlie in hope to returne into fauour line 60 with king Henrie and for other respects as may be coniectured aduertised him of the whole state of the countrie of Ireland promising him that if it would please his grace to come ouer thither he would so worke that he should be admitted souereigne lord of all the land Heerevpon king Henrie pardoned him of all former trespasses and restored vnto him all his lands and inheritances within England and Normandie and further confirmed to him such liuings abroad in Ireland out of the walled townes as he held alreadie in right of his wife and furthermore ordeined that he should be high steward of Ireland vnder him King Henrie then returning out of Normandie into England about the sixt day of August as is aforesaid caused a nauie of 400. ships to be made readie and
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
of Worcester and his sonne the lord Henrie Persie surnamed Hotspur which were to king Henrie in the beginning of his reigne both faithfull freends and earnest aiders began now to enuie his wealth and felicitie and especiallie they were gréeued bicause the king demanded of the earle and his sonne such Scotish prisoners as were taken at Homeldon and Nesbit for of all the captiues which were taken in the conflicts foughten in those two places theâ—e was deliuered to the kings possession onelie Mordake earle of Fife the duke of Albanies sonne though the king did diuers and sundrie times require deliuerance of the residue and that with great threatnings wherewith the Persies being sore offended for that they claimed them as their owne proper prisoners and their peculiar preies by the counsell of the lord Thomas Persie earle of Worcester whose studie was euer as some write to procure malice and set things in a broile came to the king vnto Windsore vpon a purpose to prooue him and there required of him that either by ransome or otherwise he would cause to be deliuered out of prison Edmund Mortimer earle of March their cousine germane whome as they reported Owen Glendouer kept in filthie prison shakled with irons onelie for that he tooke his part and was to him faithfull and true The king began not a little to muse at this request and not without cause for in deed it touched him somewhat neere sith this Edmund was sonne to Roger earle of March sonne to the ladie Philip daughter of Lionell duke of Clarence the third sonne of king Edward the third which Edmund at king Richards going into Ireland was proclamed heire apparant to the crowne and realme whose aunt called Elianor the lord Henrie Persie had married and therefore king Henrie could not well heare that anie man should be earnest about the aduancement of that linage The king when he had studied on the matter made answer that the earle of March was not taken prisoner for his cause nor in his seruice but willinglie suffered himselfe to be taken bicause he would not withstand the attempts of Owen Glendouer and his complices therefore he would neither ransome him nor reléeue him The Persies with this answer and fraudulent excuse were not a little fumed insomuch that Henrie Hotspur said openlie Behold the heire of the relme is robbed of his right and yet the robber with his owne will not redeeme him So in this furie the Persies departed minding nothing more than to depose king Henrie from the high type of his roialtie and to place in his seat their cousine Edmund earle of Marâ—h whom they did not onlie deliuer out of captiuitie but also to the high displeasure of king Henrie entered in league with the foresaid Owen Glendouer Héerewith they by their deputies in the house of the archdeacon of Bangor diuided the realme amongst them causing a tripartite indenture to be made and sealed with their seales by the couenants whereof all England from Seuerne and Trent south and eastward was assigned to the earle of March all Wales the lands beyond Seuerne westward were appointed to Owen Glendouer and all the remnant from Trent northward to the lord Persie This was doone as some haue said through a foolish credit giuen to a vaine prophesie as though king Henrie was the moldwarpe curssed of Gods owne mouth and they three were the dragon the lion and the woolfe which should diuide this realme betweene them Suâ—h is the deuiation saith Hall and not diuination of those blind and fantasticall dreames of the Welsh propheâ—iers King Henrie not knowing of this new confederacie and nothing lesse minding than that which after happened gathered a great armie to go againe into Wales whereof the earle of Northumberland and his sonne were aduertised by the earle of Worcester and with all diligence raised all the power they could make and sent to the Scots which before were taken prisoners at Homeldon for aid of men promising to the earle of Dowglas the towne of Berwike and a part of Northumberland and to other Scotish lords great lordships and seigniories line 10 if they obteined the vpper hand The Scots in hope of gaine and desirous to be reuenged of their old greefes came to the earle with a great companie well appointed The Persies to make their part séeme good deuised certeine articles by the aduise of Richard Scroope archbishop of Yorke brother to the lord Scroope whome king Henrie had caused to be beheaded at Bristow These articles being shewed to diuerse noblemen and other states of the realme mooued line 20 them to fauour their purpose in so much that manie of them did not onelie promise to the Persies aid and succour by words but also by their writings and seales confirmed the same Howbeit when the matter came to triall the most part of the confederates abandoned them and at the daie of the conflict left them alone Thus after that the conspirators had discouered themselues the lord Henrie Persie desirous to procéed in the enterprise vpon trust to be assisted by Owen Glendouer the earle of March other line 30 assembled an armie of men of armes and archers foorth of Cheshire and Wales Incontinentlie his vncle Thomas Persie earle of Worcester that had the gouernement of the prince of Wales who as then laie at London in secret manner conueied himselfe out of the princes house and comming to Stafford where he met his nephue they increased their power by all waies and meanes they could deuise The earle of Northumberland himselfe was not with them but being sicke had promised vpon line 40 his amendement to repaire vnto them as some write with all conuenient spéed These noble men to make their conspiracie to séeme excusable besides the articles aboue mentioned sent letters abroad wherein was conteined that their gathering of an armie tended to none other end but onlie for the safegard of their owne persons and to put some better gouernment in the common-wealth For whereas taxes and tallages were dailie leuied vnder pretense to be imploied in defense of the realme the same were vainlie wasted and vnprofitablie line 50 consumed and where through the slanderous reports of their enimies the king had taken a greeuous displeasure with them they dâ—â—st not appeare personallie in the kings presence vntill the prelats and barons of the realme had obteined of the king licence for them to come and purge themselues before him by lawfull triall of their péeres whose iudgement as they pretended they would in no wise refuse Manie that saw and heard these letters did commend line 60 their diligence and highlie praised their assured fidelitie and trustinesse towards the common-wealth But the king vnderstanding their cloaked drift deuised by what meanes he might to quiet and appease the commons and deface their contriued forgeries and therefore he wrote an answer to their libels that he maruelled much sith
regni 28. After which proclamation thus published a gentleman of Kent named Alexander Eden awaited so his time that he tooke the said Cade in a garden in Sussex so that there he was slaine at Hothfield and brought to London in a cart where he was quartered his head set on London bridge and his quarters sent to diuers places to be set vp in the shire of Kent After this the king himselfe came into Kent and there sat in iudgement vpon the offendors and if he had not mingled his iustice with mercie more than fiue hundred by rigor of law had beene iustlie put to execution Yet he punishing onelie the stubborne heads disordered ringleaders pardoned the ignorant and simple persons to the great reioising of all his subiects ¶ But saith another the king sent his commissioners into Kent and caused inquirie to be made of this riot in Canturburie where for the same eight men were iudged and executed and in other townes of Kent and Sussex was doone the like execution This yeare the commons also in diuerse parts line 10 of England as in Sussex Salisburie Wiltshire and other places did much harme to manie persons among the which on the nine and twentith of Iune William Ascoth bishop of Salisburie after he had said masse at Edington was by his owne tenants drawne from the altar in his albe with his stole about his necke to the top of an hill and there by them shamefullie murthered and after spoiled to the naked skin they renting his bloudie shirt tooke euerie man a péece and made boast of their wickednesse line 20 The daie before his chariot was robbed to the value of ten thousand markes Soldiours made a fraie against the maior of London the same daie he tooke his charge at Westminster at night comming from saint Thomas of Acres after he had béene at Paules The French king vnderstanding all the ciuill discord and rebellious sturs in England made therof his foundation hoping to get into his hands and possession the duchie of Aquitaine and therevpon sent the earles of Ponthienure and Perigort to laie line 30 siege to the towne of Bergerat situate vpon the riuer of Dourdon of which towne was capteine Iohn Gedding who vpon reasonable conditions rendred the towne But yet the lord Camois sir George Seimor and sir Iohn Arundell with diuers other valiant capteins hauing gouernance of the countrie manned townes gathered people and recomforted the fainting harts of the Gascoignes in all that they could and withall sent letters ouer into line 40 England certifieng to the kings maiestie that without spéedie aid and readie succours the whole countrie was like to be conquered and woone out of the Englishmens possession Manie letters were sent and manie faire answers were brought but reléefe neither appeared nor one man of warre was thither shipped by reason whereof the Frenchmen pursuing the victorie got the fortresses of Iansacke and S. Foie with diuerse other péeces of importance thereabouts Also about line 50 the same time the lord Doruall third sonne to the lord de la Breth with a great number of men as well on horssebacke as on foot departed from Basas to conquer and destroie the I le of Medoc Wherevpon the maior of Burdeaux issuing out and incountring with his enimies was vanquished losing six hundred Englishmen and Gascoignes albeit the Frenchmen gained not this victorie with cléere hands for there were slaine of them to the number of eight hundred persons line 60 After this the bastard of Orleance with his brother Iohn earle of Angolesme year 1451 which had béene long prisoner in England and manie other valiant capteins besieged the castell of Montguion which to them was rendered Afterwards they besieged the towne of Blaie standing on the riuer of Garonne the which in conclusion by verie force was conquered and woone The bastard of Kendall capteine of the castell séeing the towne lost vpon certeine reasonable conditions deliuered his fortresse to the bastard of Orleance the French kings lieutenant After this the townes of Burgh and Liborne after fiue wéekes siege were likewise yéelded to the Frenchmen Then was the citie of Acques besieged by the erle of Fois and the vicount de Lawtrec his brother and other noble men So likewise was the strong towne of Rion by the earle of Arminacke extreame enimie to the realme of England for breach of the mariage concluded betweene king Henrie and his daughter The earle of Ponthienure laid siege to Chatillon in Perigort and the earle of Dunois inuironned with great puissance the towne of Fronsacke The Englishmen perceiuing in what state they stood within the towne couenanted with the said earle that if the towne were not succoured and the Frenchmen fought with before the feast of the natiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist next insuing that then the towne of Fronsacke should be yéelded to them which was the strongest fortresse in all that countrie and the verie keie of Guien Héereof were pledges deliuered and writings made sealed Which agréement once blowne through the countrie the citie of Burdeaux and all other townes except Baion made the like agréement So did all the noble men and gentlemen which were subiects and vassals to the crowne of England Euerie daie was looking for aid but none came And whie Euen bicause the diuelish diuision that reigned in England so incombred the heads of the noble men there that the honor of the realme was cléerelie forgotten so that to conclude the daie appointed came but succour looked for came not By reason whereof all the townes of Aquitaine except Baion deliuered their keies and became vassals to the French nation yet the citizens of Burdeaux in hope of rescue required a longer daie of battell which was granted But at the daie appointed when no reléefe came they rendred themselues and the citie to their aduersaries their liues and goods saued with licence and safe conduct to all persons which would depart and saile into England Then finallie was the citie of Baion besieged and with mines and batterie constreined to yéeld it selfe into the Frenchmens hands Beside the agreements taken and made with the townes diuerse noble men made seuerall compositions as Gaston de Fois Capdaw de Bue◠whome king Henrie the fift made earle of Longeuile and knight of the garter whose ancestors were euer true to England Which agréed that he and his sonne Iohn de Fois whome king Henrie the sixt made earle of Kendale and also knight of the garter should enioy all their lands in Aquitaine giuen to them by the kings of England or by the dukes of Aquitaine And sith their intent was still to serue the king of England they agréed to deliuer into the custodie of the earle of Fois the sonne and heire of the said earle of Kendale being of the age of thrée yeares to the intent that if he at his full age denied to become subiect to the French king or before
sides but in the end king Edward so couragiouslie comforted his men that the other part was discomfited and ouercome who like men amazed fled toward Tadcaster bridge to saue themselues where in the mid waie is a little brooke called line 10 Cocke not verie broad but of a great déepenesse in which what for hast to escape and what for feare of their followers a great number was drowned there It was reported that men aliue passed the riuer vpon dead carcasses and that the great riuer of Wharfe whereinto that brooke dooth run and of all the water comming from Towton was coloured with bloud The chase continued all night and the most part of the next daie and euer the northerne men as they line 20 saw anie aduantage returned againe and fought with their enimies to the great losse of both parts For in these two daies were slaine as they that knew it wrote on both parts six and thirtie thousand seuen hundred thréescore sixteene persons all Englishmen and of one nation whereof the chiefe were the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the lord Dacres and the lord Welles sir Iohn Neuill Andrew Trollop Robert Horne and manie other knights and esquiers and the earle of Deuonshire line 30 was taken prisoner but the dukes of Summerset and Excester fled from the field and saued themselues After this great victorie king Edward rode to Yorke where he was with all solemnitie receiued and first he caused the heads of his father the earle of Salisburie and other his freends to be taken from the gates and to be buried with their bodies and there he caused the earle of Deuonshire and thrée other to be beheaded and set their heads in the same line 40 place King Henrie after he heard of the irrecouerable losse of his armie departed incontinentlie with his wife and sonne to the towne of Berwike and leauing the duke of Summerset there went into Scotland and comming to the king of Scots required of him and his councell aid and comfort The yoong king of Scots lamenting the miserable state of king Henrie comforted him with faire words and friendlie promises and assigned to him a competent pension to liue on during his abode in line 50 Scotland King Henrie in recompense of this courtesie and friendship deliuered to the king of Scots the towne of Berwike whereof he had got possession He faithfullie supported the part of king Henrie and concluded a mariage betwixt his sister and the yoong prince of Wales but the same was neuer consummate as after ye shall heare When king Henrie was somwhat setled in the relme of Scotland he sent his wife and his sonne into France to king Reiner hir father trusting by his aid and succour to assemble line 60 an armie and once againe to recouer his right and dignitie but he in the meane time made his aboad in Scotland to see what waie his friends in England would studie for his restitution The quéene being in France did obteine of the yoong French king then Lewes the eleuenth that all hir husbands friends and those of the Lancastriall band might safelie and suerlie haue resort into anie part of the realme of France prohibiting all other of the contrarie faction anie accesse or repaire into that countrie ¶ Thus ye haue heard how king Henrie the sixt after he had reigned eight and thirtie yeares od moneths was driuen out of this realme But now leauing him with the princes of his part consulting togither in Scotland and queene Margaret his wife gathering of men in France I will returne where I left to proceed with the dooings of king Edward This yoong prince hauing with prosperous successe obteined so glorious a victorie in the mortall battell at Towton and chased all his aduersaries out of the realme or at the least waies put them to silence returned after the maner and fashion of a triumphant conquerour with great pompe vnto London where according to the old custome of the realme he called a great assemblie of persons of all degrees and the nine twentith daie of Iune was at Westminster with solemnitie crowned and annointed king ¶ In which yeare this king Edward called his high court of parlement at Westminster in the which the state of the realme was greatlie reformed and all the statutes made in Henrie the sixt his time which touched either his title or profit were reuoked In the same parlement the earle of Oxford far striken in age and his sonne and heire the lord Awbreie Uéer either through malice of their enimies or for that they had offended the king were both with diuerse of their councellors attainted and put to execution which caused Iohn earle of Oxford euer after to rebell There were also beheaded the same time sir Thomas Tudenham knight William Tirell and Iohn Montgomerie esquiers and after them diuerse others Also after this he created his two yoonger brethren dukes that is to saie lord George duke of Clarence lord Richard duke of Glocester and the lord Iohn Neuill brother to Richard earle of Warwike he first made lord Montacute and afterwards created him marques Montacute Beside this Henrie Bourchier brother to Thomas archbishop of Canturburie was created earle of Essex and William lord Fauconbridge was made earle of Kent To this Henrie lord Bourchier a man highlie renowned in martiall feats Richard duke of Yorke long before this time had giuen his sister Elizabeth in mariage of whome he begat foure sonnes William Thomas Iohn and Henrie the which William being a man of great industrie wit and prouidence in graue and weightie matters maried the ladie Anne Wooduile descended of high parentage whose mother Iaquet was daughter to Peter of Lutzenburgh earle of saint Paule by the which Anne he had lord Henrie earle of Essex one daughter named Cicile maried to Water lord Ferrers of Chartleie and an other called Isabell which died vnmaried The earle of Kent was appointed about this time to kéepe the seas year 1462 being accompanied with the lord Audeleie the lord Clinton sir Iohn Howard sir Richard Walgraue and others to the number of ten thousand who landing in Britaine wan the towne of Conquet and the Isle of Reth and after returned When all things were brought in order and framed as king Edward in maner could wish Henrie duke of Summerset sir Rafe Persie and diuerse other being in despaire of all good chance to happen vnto king Henrie came humblie submitted themselues vnto king Edward whome he gentlie receiued Which clemencie notwithstanding both the one and the other when time serued reuolted from king Edward and betooke themselues to take part with Henrie vnto whom they had béene adherents before bicause they grew in hope that in the end the confederats to whom they so closelie did cleaue both in affection and seriousnesse of labour though they pretended a temporall renunciation of all dutie and seruice for their securitie sake should haue the honor
1185 a 60 b 10 Ambassador ligier of Spaine ¶ Sée Mendoza Ambassage disdainefull 545 a 10. Roiall into France 477 a 60 Amberuilliers castell taken 589 a 60 Amphibalus bodie found and buried at saint Albons 101 b 30 Amphibologie of this woord daughter 156 b 10 Ambition was Anselme loth to be suspected of 28 a 10. Of earle Robert of Northumberland 22 b 10. Of earle Iohn 132 b 40. In the French and Spanish kings aspiring to the empire 851 a 40 c. Of archbishop Thurstane notable 38 b 10. Of bishop Longchampe 129 a 10. Of an old aged bishop of Durham note 119 b 40 50 60. Of earles suing to be kings 1 a 30. Of two archbishops 39 b 60. Of bishops 38 b 20. Contentious 121 a 30. Of two moonks labouring for an abbasie 18 b 60. Of mans nature 76 a 40 714 a 30. The working thereof 739 b 60. And fruits thereof noted in Robert 12 a 30. It will haue a fall note 734 b 60. Note the whole storie from page 1083 a 60 b 10 c. 1084 b 10 c. ¶ Sée Selim and Turke Amsterdam a towne of great concourse and commerce inexpugnable 1430 b 30 50 Anabaptists doo penance and are burned 946 a 40 50. Their heresies recantation and penance at Pauls crosse 1260 b 10 20 30 c. Banished 1261 b 20. Burned in Smithfield 1261 b 40. Manie in Amsterdam 1430 b 40 Anger and what the heat thereof driueth a man vnto note 211 b 10. ¶ Sée Enuie Angiers citie taken 158 b 30. Woone of king Iohn by assault 170 a 30. And by him repared 170 b 30 Angleseie inuironed with the sea 23 a 40 Angolesme recouered by the Frenchmen 369 a 30 Aniou a rode made thereunto by the duke of Clarence 579 b 60 Anne Askew and others arreigned and acquited 968 b 10 c. Anne Bullen created marchionesse of Penbroke 928 b 30. ¶ Sée Quéene Anne of Cléeue a marriage betwéene hir and king Henrie the eight concluded 947 b 60. She is receiued at Calis landeth in Kent the order of hir receiuing on Black heath 948 a 40 b 30 The méeting of hir and the king hir chariot wherein she rode all hir iournie hir welcome to Gréenewich 949 a 50 b 20 60. She is married to king Henrie the eight 950 a 10 c. At quéene Maries coronation 1091 a 30. Deceaseth 1133 b 60 Annates forbidden to be paid to the pope 928 a 40 Annuities ¶ Sée Patents Anselme archbishop of Canturburie elected 20 a 60. At strife with William Rufus and whie 24 a 10. His shift for his paiment to William Rufus and his honest satisfaction 22 b 10. ¶ Sée Archbishop Prepareth to auoid the realme by ship and complaineth to the pope of William Rufus 26 a 10. His admonition from Rome to William Rufus returneth into England 27 b 60. At the instance of Hugh earle of Chester commeth ouer into England 28 a 10. Restored home 28 b 20. Goeth to Rome 31 b 20. Denieth to doo homage to Henrie the first note 29 a 50. Holdeth a councell at Westminster note and what was there decréed 30 a 60. Refuseth to consecrat the bishops inuested by the king 31 a 60. Banished and his sée seized vpon into the kings hands 32 a 10. Receiued into Henrie the firsts fauour and returneth home 33 b 20 30. Held a synod and what was there decréed 34 b 10. Writeth to pope Paschall that he would not send archbishop Thomas of Yorke his pall 35 a 20. His cursse feared of king Henrie the first and his bishops 36 b 30. He falleth sicke 35 b 60. His death and what countrie man he was 36 a 30 Antedating of the kings seale tresonable and so executed 953 a 20 Anticipation ¶ Sée Subsidie Antipape 421 a 50 b 50 475. a 10 535 a 10 24 b 20. ¶ Seé Fitzleo Pope and Schisme Antiquitie reuerenced note the meaning of the proclamation 1321 b 30. Presented vnto quéene Elisabeth at Norwich 1293 b 30 1294 a 60 b 10 Antwerpe entred into by the Spaniards who plaied the cruell tyrants 1263 a 10 Interteineth the duke of Alanson right roiallie note 1332 1333 c to 1344 a 10. Reioiseth at the duke of Alansons comming 1331 a 60 ¶ Sée Duke of Alanson Apparell of king Henrie the eight at his coronation 801 a 40. Running at the ring 805 b 60. Of him and his nobles going to méet Maximilian 820 a 10 20. After the taking of Tornaie 822 b 60. Sumptuous at quéene Annes coronation 931 a 10 c. b 60. Of the duke of Alanson whereat the French woondered 1337 a 10. Of William Rufus counted gorgious then but now verie simple 27 b 40. Of Edward the second gorgious and triumphant 322 a 20. Sumptuous of Richard the second 501 b 40. Of sir Iohn Arundell verie sumptuous 423 b 50. Strange of prince Henrie sonne to Henrie the fourth 539 a 30. Gorgious of Richard the seconds court note at the verie end of his storie 544. Of Edward the fourth at an interview with the French king 699 a 60 b 10 c. Sumptuous of the earle of Northumberland 791 a 60. Sumptuous of the duke of Buckingham 801 a 10. Of great estates 825 a 20. Statelie in France at a tilt 834 a 30. Of the earle of Surie receiuing the French kings ambassadors 148 a 40. Statelie of the duchie of Brabant 1336 a 20. Of the monsieur of Brabant 1333 b 60. Of the king of England and France at an interuiew 851 a 50 b 60 859 a 60 860 a 20 30 40. Right gorgious in a shew 807 b 40. Faire sutes giuen by king Iohn and the archbishop of Canturburie to their seruants note 163 a 60. Disguised souldiers in womens apparell note 1188 b 40. Of women wherein a bishop disguiseth himselfe 132 a 10. Costlie forbidden 111 b 40. An act for it 353 a 40 396 b 40. Of a knight all not worth foure shillings 1099 b 20. Changed from robes to rags note 460 b 30. ¶ Sée Maske Apparition ¶ Sée Uision Appeales to Rome 213 a 40 133 a 60 98 a 50 210 a 30. Forbidden c 74 a 30. Of the prince of Wales before the French king 401 a 20 Appletrée ¶ Sée Gun Apprentises at what time admitted to fellowships of companies 120 a 20 Aques besieged by earle Richard Henrie the seconds sonne 99 b 40 Aquitane full of warre â—03 a 50. The grant thereof to the duke of Lancaster reuoked 485 b 10. Recouereâ— by the French the dignitie â—nd state of that dukedome 641 a 40 50 Arbitrement of certeine graue persons in the strife betwéene William Rufus and his brother Robert reiected and whie 21 a 60 Archbishop Aldred submitteth himselfe to duke William 1 a 50. ¶ Sée Aldred Anselme ¶ Sée Anselme Arundell of Canturburie his answer for the clergie he chafeth the kings answer to him 526 a 20 40 60. Baldwine of Canturburie deceaseth 130 b 50. Exhorted men to go to warre against the Saracens
Montferrat note 136 a 40 50. Is deliuered to the emperor he is committed close prisoner 137 a 30. And the cause of displeasure betwixt him the duke of Austrich 136 a 20 The confession of his leud life in a chapell 126 b 10. Uanquisheth the Cipriots chaseth them out of their campe 127 b 60. His nauie setteth foorth towards the holie land 123 a 20. Returneth home out of the holie land 135 b 20 Slandered for the death of the marquesse Montferrat 30 He commeth to Uienna 50 Submitteth himselfe to the duke of Austrich 136 a 10 Discomfiteth the Saracens néere to port Iaph 134 a 30 Fell sicke at Cephas and recouereth 135 a 50. His talke with king Cancred 126 b 50 His expenses out of reason measure 126 b 30. What were the causes of grudge betwene him and the French king 126 a 30 c. He and the king of France receiued a solemne oth 123 a 40 His demands for the dowrie of his sister wife to king William 124 b 40. Arriueth at Messina 124 b 10. Blameth the court of Rome for couetousnes 123 b 50. Setteth forward to the holie land his fléet staied by contrarie winds 123 b 10 20 Taketh a castell and hangeth the owner 123 a 20. Passeth ouer into Normandie 121 a 20. Desirous of monie and of his shifts 120 b 40. Findeth his fathers treasure the order of his coronation 118 a 20 30. He and the king of France determine to go into the holie land 117 b 30. Besiegeth Chalus he is wounded despaireth of his life ordeineth his testament 155 b 30 c. His bequests and legacies his death his stature shape of bodie his disposition of mind the vices that were in him 156 all Richard the second borne 397 b 60. Counterfeited note 515 a 50. Created prince of Wales 411 a 10. Prince of Chester 492 b 40. Beginneth his reigne the Londoners commend themselues to his fauour before the death of king Edward 415 a 40 b 40. The solemne maner of his coronation note 416 a 60. c. Maried the solemnitie therat 487 a 10 50 60. c. His euill gouernement 493 a 60. The emperor agréeth with him for his ransome 139 a 10. Lands assigned vnto him 30. Order taken for leuieng of monie for his ransome 50. Leaueth Conwaie castell and betaketh himselfe to his enimies 500. b 30. His cognisance or badge 500 b 60. The parlement house aâ— dissention he absenteth himselfe for the space of fortie daies note 452 b 10 50 Loued earle de Ueere of Oxford excéedinglie 453 b 20 ¶ Sée Earle Ueere His inordinat affection towards the duke of Ireland and the earle of Suffolke 454 a 20. Retriâ—eth souldiors on all sides against the lords 457 b 60. His maner of gréeting and speaking to the lords that were banded against him 459 b 30 40 50 60.460 a 10. A report that he ment to yeeld vp Calis into the French kings hands 462 a 10. Kéepeth his Christmas in the Tower of London 462 a 50. Brought to his wits end 462 b 60. His inconstancie he is compelled to the nobles request 463 a 10 30. Ruled not but was ruled note 465 a 40. His question to his lords in the councell chamber taking vpon him the gouernment of all things he displaceth diuerse officers c. 466 b 10 40. Kept open houshold in the bishop of London his palace 474 a 10. Passeth ouer into Ireland with a mightie armie 481 b 20 Knighteth the foure Irish kings and others 481 b 30 482 a 20. Openeth his greeuances in the parlement 490 b 10. Saileth ouer into Ireland with a great armie 497 a 10. Letteth the realme to farme 496 a 60. A gard of Cheshire men about him 489 b 50. Roiallie receiued into London and his fauor recouered with gifts 479 b 50 60 479 a 10. Taketh the death of quéene Anne his wife gréeuouslie 481 a 20. Goeth ouer to Calis the interuiew betwéene him and the French king both their oths 486 a 60 b 20 40. Expenses at the interuiew betwéene him the French king 487 a 40 50. He and the duke of Glocesters priuie grudge 487 b 40. Conspireth the death of the duke of Glocester 489 a 60. He and the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke reconciled 490 a 50 He beareth saitn Edwards arms 492 b 60. Greatlie vexed in his sléepe after the execution of the erle of Arundell 392 a 20. Procureth the popes bull against the breakers of his statutes 493 a 50 His doome betwéene the dukes of Lancaster Norfolke 495 a 60. Affianced and maried to the emperors sister 439 b 50. Sumptuous in apparell he is committed to the Tower 501 b 40 60. Articles obiected against him wherby he was counted worthie to be deposed 502 a 20 c. He is persuaded to resigne the crowne to the duke 503 a 50. A copie of the said voluntarie renunciation b 10 504 a 30. His resignation is confirmed 505 a 10. The publication of the same a 30. Returneth out of Ireland and landeth in Wales 499 a 60. He despaireth of his safetie stealeth awaie from his armie taketh the castell of Flint b 20.30 He and his quéene in progresse 444 b 30. Appointed to be kept in perpetuall prison 513 a 10 20. He and his nobles at dissention 458 a 30. Goeth with an armie against the Scots 447 a 30 Burneth Edenburgh castell b 10. Returneth out of Ireland his dealing against the Wickleuists and their fauourers 482 a 20 40 b 30.483 a 50 c. Remooueth to saint Albans to sée execution doone vpon the rebels 437 a 20 Calleth in his letters of infranchising granted vnto the bondmen 437 a 10. Calleth in all such letters of manumission as the abbat of saint Albans had granted vnto his bondmen 438 a 10. He and the duke of Lancaster accorded 446 b 60. Maketh an agréement betweene the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Northumberland 439 b 20 Depriued he deliuereth to king Henrie the fourth all the goods that he hath his death personage fortune 507 b 50 60. His noble housekéeping and excesse in apparell the state of the relme in his time 508 a 10 20. The commons request against him 513 b 30 His desperat manhood in prison he is murthered he is brought to the Tower he is buried at Langlie forren princes abhor to heare of the shamefull murthering of him how the Gascoignes tooke his death 515 all The sundrie reports of his death 516 b 50 60. Reported to be aliue againe 525 a 60 b 10.520 a 10 533 a 60.522 b 20. And what harme it bred 525 a 60 Richard the third described the maner of his natiuitie his qualities 712 a 60 b 10. Dispraised 737 b 60. Beginneth his vsurped reigne 732 a 20 b 20. He createth seuentéene knights of the Bath what péeres and estates were attendant on him at his coronation the solemne ceremonies vsed thereat his wife quéene Anne and hir traine 733 all Practiseth the murthering of his
〈◊〉 Rome to 〈◊〉 a peace betweene king Henrie and the French king Christâ—pher Coo. The kréekers 〈…〉 The Scots 〈◊〉 England rob the marketâ—â—â— going to Berwike 〈◊〉 The Scots 〈◊〉 to flight 〈◊〉 slaine The popes â—â—bassadour presenteth the 〈◊〉 with a 〈◊〉 Commissioners sent into Ireland to reforme the countrie The earle of Kildare made deputie of Ireland The end of the Kréekers Sée the historie of Scotland pag. 312 Sée these triumphs in Edw. Hall pag. Cxxxiij The friers obseruants impugne the cardinals authoritie Ambassadors from the emperour and their requests Newes of the siege of Pauia the taking of the French king prisoner Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 902 sic deinceps The battell of Pauia wherein the French king is taken prisoner Whie the French king desired to fight in plaine and open field The maâ—â—â— how the French king was vanquished and taken prisonerâ— The number â—â— the French 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 in this battell The number of the slaine in the imperialles side The French king led prisoner to the rocke of Pisqueton 〈◊〉 pag â—04 Guic. pag. 915. The moderation and temperance of the emperour vpon the newes of the victorie A most excellent conceipt and saieng of the emperour Ed. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cxxxvj. This he wrote being the emperors prisoner Guic. pag. 625. The manifold passions or perplexities of the people in generall The ladie regent hir selfe was partaker of these griefs and feares The ladie regents offer to the emperor for the deliuerie of hir sonne The 〈◊〉 standeth 〈◊〉 in feare 〈…〉 king of â—â—â—â—lands 〈◊〉 Note how forren chroniclers could report of cardinall Woâ—lsie The emperours hope to recouer more proâ—â— by the French king in 〈◊〉 than 〈◊〉 â—â—at mooued 〈◊〉 king of England 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 regents â—â—bassadour 〈◊〉 pag. 930. The person of 〈◊〉 French 〈◊〉 led prisâ—â—er into Spaine Mâ—nsieur Montmeraâ—â—â—â— sent to 〈◊〉 ladie reâ—â—nt The emperor commandeth that the French king should be receiued with honour in all places where he should passe A truce for a time betwéene the emperour and the gouernors of FraÌ„ce The French king extremelie sicke in the castell of Madrill Guic. pag. 937. The emperor visiteth the French king in durance The ladie Alanson treateth with the emperour for the kings deliuerie The French king is carefull ouer the crowned France Guic. 961 deinâ—â—ps The treatie of Madriâ—l touching the deliuerie of the French king What was left to the ladâ—â— regents election in this capitulation Couenants concerning the emperour and of him to be kept and performed Tâ—ese 〈◊〉 restraine 〈◊〉 part of the French 〈…〉 The king of England included in this yeare The prince 〈◊〉 Orange â—â—cluded also 〈◊〉 thâ—s peace Whie this accord set all Christendome in a woondering The French king marrieth the emperors sister according to a clause in the capitulation The king of England glad of the French kings deliuerance Guic. pag. 966. The maner of the deliuerie of the French king The French king with the viceroy are imbarked The French K. is not a litle glad of his libertie The king of England the procurer of the French kings libertie Guic. pag. 968. The French king is 〈◊〉 verie 〈◊〉 to ratifie the accord The French king complaâ—neth vpon the empâ—rour to the messengers sent from the pope and the Uenetians The king of England alledged by the French king as a presideâ—â— of humanitie in the case of a captiue king The rebels pardoned after their appearance in the Star chamber Tindale men great robbers K. Henries base sonne created earle and duke in one daie A truce betwéene England France for fortie daies Ambassaâ—â—â—â— sent into Denmaâ—â—â— A peace proclamed betweene England FraÌ„ce The ladie regent sworne to performe the articles of the league A winters death The still Christmasse The cardinaâ—â— altereth the state of the kings houshold The statutes of Eltham Doct. Barneâ— and two merchants of the Stillard beare fagots Anno. Reg. 18. Kâ—ng Henrie sâ—â—rne to perforâ—e the league concluded A secret leagâ—â— betwixt 〈◊〉 pope and 〈◊〉 states of Iâ—alie Read Guic. â—â— 18 Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 1067 The pope being abandoned of all â—opes compâ—â—ndeth with the imperials A hard article â—nd to be meâ—â—â—lled how the pope and his 〈…〉 brooke Guic. pag. 1072 The castell where the pope was prisoner infected with the plague Ed. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cxlix Great grudge against strangers for procuring liceÌ„ces to sell wâ—dad Edw. Hall H. 8. fol. Cliiij Ualuation of certeine coins as angels rials crowns c. Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cliiij An ambassadour from the emperour Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Cliiij A plaie at Graies In. The argument of the plaiâ— The cardinall is offended at it and punisheth the author and actors of the same Ambassadors froÌ„ the FreÌ„ch king Edw. Hall pag. Clv. A iustes Sute by the French ambassadors for the ladie Marie to be married to the duke of Orleance Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. Clv. The dogged nature of the French for a matter of nothing The cardinals crueltâ—â— Ambassadors from the king of Hungarie An oration made by maister Faber The kings answer by the mouth of sir Thomas Moore A verie wet season for a long time by continuall raine Anno. Reg. 19. Edw. Hall in H. 8. fo Clvj. A caueat to the cardinall by a libell set â—y in LoÌ„don The citizens of London are hated of the cardinall and he also of them The French ambassadors in the name of their maister sweare to obserue the league See Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol Clv. deinceps Ambassadors into France An ambassage to the emperor Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 106â— The duke of Burbon incampeth néere Rome The duke of Burbon slain at the assault of Rome The morall of the fore said action woorth the noting Rome taken and sacked The pope with certeine cardinals flie to the castell of saint Angelo The Spaniards enter into Rome by the bridge Xisto The reader is to tolâ—erate the report of this historie though sauouring of superstition This spectacle could not but affoord plentie of hart-greéfe Compositionâ— with the souldiours to saâ—â— certeine places vnsacked The shamefull and lamentable abuse which the souldiors offered to the female sex The value of this sacke in gold siluer and iewels The kings marriage brought in question The cardinall goeth ambassadour into France A procession A new deutsed letanie The cardinall is honourablie receiued by the FreÌ„ch king A league betwéene England and France Monsieur de Lawtrech Sir Robert Ierningham The name of the armie sent into Italie The emperours answer to the ambassadors Articles proponed to the emperor being in number fiftéene Articles sent to the English ambassadors in Spaine The cardinall returneth out of France Ambassadors from the French king The king of England receiueth the order of saint Michaeâ—l The French king receiueth the order of the garter Bilneie and other abiured Dearth of corne in London and elsewhere The emperor releaseth 12 preiudiciall
decrées of the old fathers that might be preiudiciall to the authoritie of the archbishop of Yorke at whose appointment those and the like things were accustomed to be doone In this controuersie or the like it is left written that in a court held at Rome the time is not mentioned the pope perceiuing the strife betwéene these two prelats to be but for the highest place or primasie in the church he solemnelie gaue sentence by decree that the sée of Yorke should haue in title Primas Angliae Canturburie Primas totius Angliae which titles doo yet remain to them both But to leaue this and to speake of other things which chanced in the meane time that this controuersie depended betwixt the two archbishops I find that Edwin and Marchar earles of Mertia and Northumberland hauing of late obteined pardon for their former misdemeanor reconciled to the king began now so much to mislike the state of the world againe as euer they did before For perceiuing how the Englishmen were still oppressed with thraldome miserie on ech hand they conspired began a new rebellion but with verie ill successe as shall herafter appeare The king vnderstanding of their dealings and being not onelie armed throughlie with temporall force but also endued with the spirituall power of his archbishop Lanfranke who aided him in all that he might for the suppressing of those rebels wasted the countries excéedinglie where he vnderstood that they had gotten anie releefe minding vtterlie to vanquish them with sword fire and hunger or by extreame penurie to bring them vnder They on the other part make as stout resistance and perceiuing that it stood them vpon either to vanquish or to fall into vtter ruine they raise a mightie strong host and make Edgar Etheling their capteine a comelie gentleman and a valiant in whome also the whole hope of the English nation was reposed as appeareth by this his accustomed by-word Edgar Etheling Englands dearling Amongst other noble men that were chiefe dooers in the assembling of this armie Frederike abbat of S. Albons a prelate of great wealth and no lesse puissance was a principall The king perceiuing his estate to be now in no small danger is in a great perplexitie what to doo in the end he counselleth with the said Lanfranke archbishop of Canturburie how he might remedie the matter who told him that in such a desperate case the best waie for him should be to séeke by faire words and friendly offers to pacifie the English Nobilitie which by all meanes possible would neuer ceasse to molest him in the recouerie of their liberties Wherevpon he made meanes to come to some agréement with them and so well the matter procéeded line 10 on his side that the Englishmen being deceiued through his faire promises were contented to common of peace for which purpose they came also vnder the conduct of the abbat Frederike vnto Berkamsted where after much reasoning and debating of the matter for the conclusion of amitie betwixt them king William in the presence of the archbishop Lanfranke and other of his lords tooke a personall oth vpon all the relikes of the church of S. Albons and the holie euangelists the abbat Frederike ministring line 20 the same vnto him that he would from thencefoorth obserue and keepe the good and ancient approoued lawes of the realme which the noble kings of England his predecessors had made and ordeined heretofore but namelie those of S. Edward which were supposed to be most equall and indifferent The peace being thus concluded and the Englishmen growne thereby to some hope of further quietnesse they began to forsake their alies and returned each one either to his owne possessions or to giue line 30 attendance vpon the king But he warilie cloking his inward purpose notwithstanding the vnitie latelie made determineth particularlie to assaile his enimies whose power without doubt so long as it was vnited could not possiblie be ouercome as he thought and being now by reason of this peace disseuered and dispersed he thought it high time to put his secret purposes in execution wherevpon taking them at vnwares and thinking of nothing lesse than warres and sudden inuasion he imprisoneth manie line 40 killeth diuers and pursueth the residue with fire and sword taking awaie their goods possessions lands and inheritances and banishing them out of the realme In the meane time those of the English Nobilitie which could escape this his outragious tyrannie got awaie and amongst other Edgar Etheling fled againe into Scotland but Edwin was slaine of his owne souldiers as he rode toward Scotland earle Marchar and one Hereward with the bishop of Durham named Egelwinus got into the I le of line 50 Elie in purpose there to defend themselues from the iniurie of the Normans for they tooke the place by reason of the situation to be of no small strength Howbeit king William endeuouring to cut them short raised a power and stopped all the passages on the east side and on the west part he made a causie through the fennes of two miles in length whereby he got vnto them and constreined them to yeeld But Marchar or as others haue Hereward foreséeing the imminent danger likelie to take effect made line 60 shift to get out of the I le by bote and so by spéedie flight escaped into Scotland The bishop of Durham being taken was sent to the abbey of Abingdon to be kept as prisoner where he was so sparinglie fed that within a short space he died for hunger In this meane time and whilest king William was thus occupied in rooting out the English Malcolme king of Scotland had wasted the countries of Theisedale Cleueland and the lands of S. Cutbert with sundrie other places in the north parts Wherevpon Gospatrike being latelie reconciled to the king made earle of Northumberland was sent against him who sacked and destroied that part of Cumberland which the said Malcolme by violence had brought vnder his subiection At the same time Malcolme was at Weremouth beholding the fire which his people had kindled in the church of Saint Peter to burne vp the same and there hearing what Gospatrike had doone he tooke such displeasure thereat that he commanded his men they should leaue none of the English nation aliue but put them all to the sword without pitie or compassion so oft as they came to hand The bloudie slaughter which was made at this time by the Scots through that cruell commandement of Malcolme was pitifull to consider for women children old and yong went all one way howbeit manie of those that were strong and able to serue for drudges and slaues were reserued and carried into Scotland as prisoners where they remained manie yeares after in so much that there were few houses in that realme but had one or mo English slaues and captiues whom they gat at this vnhappie voiage Miserable was the state of the English at that time
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
line 50 from the bed of hir husband for the space of sixtéene yeares and was as yet deteined in prison in England wrote his letters vnto the rulers of the realme commanding them to set hir againe at libertie and withall appointed hir by his letters patents to take vpon hir the whole gouernment of the kingdome in his absence The quéene being thus deliuered and hauing now the cheefe authoritie rule in hir hands rode in progresse about the realme to sée the estate thereof and as she passed from place to place she shewed gladsome countenance to the people wheresoeuer she came dooing also what she could to pleasure them that she might thereby win their good willes to hir and to hir sonne but speciallie remembring by hir late experience and tast thereof what an irksome most gréeuous thing imprisonment was she caused the gailes to be opened and foorthwith set no small number of prisoners at libertie by the way as she passed through the countries according to the verse of Virgil Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco In the meane time king Richard concluding a league with Philip king of France receiued all those places againe which were taken from his father by the same Philip togither with his wife Adela whom vpon suspicion that she had beene dishonested in hir person before without anie sufficient proofe thereof had he forsooke sent hir home with hir dowrie and otherwise with great and princelie gifts most bountifullie inriched hauing alreadie concluded a marriage with the ladie Berengaria daughter to Garsias king of Nauarre who was sent into Sicill vnto hir sister Ioane that he might marrie hir there as he passed that waie towards the holie land Whilest these things passed thus in these parties the christians in the holie land dailie sent hither for aid wherevpon the two kings of France and England tooke counsell togither and determined with all conuenient speed to ioine their powers with ships prepared for that purpose to saile into Syria Hauing thus concluded they went about to prepare themselues of necessarie prouision for so long a iournie Now when king Richard had set in order his affaires in Normandie and France he came ouer into England landing at Portesmouth the 13. of August With him also came his brother Iohn vnto whom he assigned the castels of Marlebridge Lutegareshall Peake Bollesour the honor of Wallingford Tikehill and Eie with the earledoms of Mortaigne Dorset Sumerset Notingham Derbie Deuonshire and Cornewall with the earledome of Lancaster intituling him earle of the same whereby he was so exalted in state and degree that he séemed in manner of a tetrarch hauing as it were a fourth part of the realme in gouernance but yet the king held some of the castels in those counties and honors thus giuen to his brother in his owne hands Moreouer vnto William Marshall he gaue in marriage the daughter of Richard earle of Chepstow togither with the earledome which hir father possessed and to Gilbert Fitz Roger the sonne of Rainfrey he gaue the daughter of William de Lancaster After he was landed as before ye haue heard he hasted to Winchester where his mother quéene Elianor with the most part of the English nobilitie had laine a good space to attend his comming and there on the euen of the assumption of our ladie the king was by them receiued with great ioy and triumph ¶ Here is to be noted that whilest the quéene and lords laie in Winchester waiting for the kings arriuall Geffrey Riddle the bishop of Elie departed this life He is named by Geruasius Dorobernensis the proud bishop of Elie but he might rather haue named him the rich bishop for he left in his cofers no small quantitie of treasure of the which thrée thousand and two hundred marks came to the kings part towards the charges of his coronation No maruell though Geruasius spake somewhat in his dispraise for as he himselfe confesseth he was no fréend but an enimie to moonks line 10 But to let this passe soone after the kings comming into England he was informed that the Welshmen had broken into the English marshes and destroied certeine townes to represse whose presumptuous attempts he made towards them but was yet staied for that time reuoked by his mother At Salisburie he found his fathers treasure highlie reioising for that the summe was far greater than he thought it would haue prooued for besides the pretious stones apparell and iewels it was reported he line 20 had there the sum of nine hundred thousand pounds in readie coine With this good hap king Richard not a little aduanced came to London on the first of September where he had appointed prouision to be made for his coronation and so calling a councell of the Nobles of the realme he receiued the crowne with all due and accustomed solemnitie at the hands of Baldwin the archbishop of Canturburie the third daie of September At his coronation first the archbishops of Canturburie line 30 Roan Trier and Dublin which were present with all the other bishops abbats and cleargie apparelled in rich copes and hauing the crosse holie water and censures carried afore them came to fetch him vnto the doore of his priuie chamber and there receiuing him they led him vnto the church at Westminster till he came before the high altar with a solemne procession In the middle of the bishops and cleargie went foure barons bearing candlesticks with tapers after whom came Geffrey de Lucie bearing line 40 the cap of maintenance and Iohn Marshall next to him bearing a great and massiue paire of spurs of gold then followed William Marshall earle of Striguill aliàs Pembroke who bare the roiall scepter in the top wherof was set a crosse of gold and William de Patrike earle of Salisburie going next him bare the warder or rod hauing on the top thereof a doue Then came thrée other earles Dauid brother to the king of Scots the earle of Huntington Iohn the kings brother earle of Mortaigne and line 50 Robert earle of Leicester ech of them bearing a sword vpright in his hand with the scabberds richlie trimmed and adorned with gold The earle of Mortaigne went in the midst betwixt the other two After them followed six earles and barons bearing a checker table vpon the which was set the kings scochens of armes and then followed William Mandeuill earle of Albemarle bearing a crowne of gold a great heigth before the king who followed the same hauing Hugh bishop of Durham line 60 on the right hand and Reignold bishop of Bath on the left ouer whom a canapie was borne and in this order he came into the church at Westminster where before the high altar in the presence of the cleargie the people laieng his hand vpon the holie euangelists and the relikes of certeine saincts he tooke a solemne oth that he should obserue peace honour and reuerence to
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
by courteous meanes to persuade the king to his purpose but the king droue him off with faire words and minded nothing lesse than to alter anie one of the lawes which he knew to be profitable to himselfe and his successours after him Wherevpon diuerse misliking his dealing herein withdrew themselues secretlie some into one place and some into an other to the intent they might auoid the dailie sight of such abuses as they for the most part could not well abide to beare Whilest king Henrie thus politikelie prouided line 10 for his affaires at home Sauerie de Mauleon made prouision in Guien to withstand such perils and dangers as he saw most likelie to insue by the practises of the Frenchmen But as he was most busilie occupied about the purueiance of such things as should be verie necessarie for his dooings there sprang a great dissention betwixt him and William the earle of Salisburie who was sent ouer into that countrie with commission to surueie the state thereof and by colour of the same commission tooke vpon him line 20 to order all things at his owne pleasure Whereas the foresaid Sauerie de Mauleon being a man of high parentage in those parts where he was borne iudged it to be a matter nothing standing with his honour that another man should order things at his will and commandement within the countrie whereof he himselfe had the chiefe charge as the kings lieutenant and therefore determined not to suffer it anie longer Herevpon verelie arose the contention betwixt line 30 them which the English souldiers that were there did greatlie increase fauouring the earle as the kings vncle and contemning the lieutenant as a stranger borne by meanes whereof the foresaid Sauerie doubting least if he should fight with his enimies and through such discord as was now amongst them be put to the worse the fault should be laid wholie on his necke he secretlie departed and fled to Lewes the French king who was latelie come to the crowne of France by the death of his father line 40 king Philip as you before haue heard wherein he dealt wiselie in respect of safetie For Quid poterit iusta tutius esse fuga About the same time Fouks de Brent being a man of an vnquiet mind readie to mischiefe and loâ—h to liue in peace as some saie conspired against the king of England and aduertised the king of France that if he would boldlie begin the warres against king Henrie in France he would not faile but raise warre against him here in the middest of his realme line 50 of England hauing diuerse noble men in a readinesse that would willinglie take his part But how soeuer it fell out certeine it is that this Fouks hauing fortified his castell of Bedford attempted manie enterprises greatlie to the preiudice of the kings peace aswell in robbing and spoiling the countrie about him as otherwise And now fearing to be punished therefore by order of law he shewed his malice against such as had the execution of the same lawes chieflie in their line 60 hands Herevpon he tooke prisoner Henrie Braâ—broke one of the kings iustices of his bench and led him to his castell of Bedford and there shut him vp close 〈◊〉 his lawfull prisoner Indeed the said Henrie de Braibroke with Martine de Pateshull Thomas de Multon and other of the kings iustices were come to kéepe their circuit at Dunstable Where vpon information giuen and presented before them Fouks de Brent was condemned to the king in great 〈◊〉 of monie Wherewithall this Fouks tooke such indignation and displeasure that he commanded his men of warre which laie in the castell of Bedford to ride vnto Dunstable and there to apprehend the said iustices and to bring them vnto Bedford where as he said he meant to commen further with them But they hauing knowledge of his purpose fled quicklie out of the towne séeking to escape euerie man which waie he might best deuise Howbeit the souldiers vsed such diligence that Henrie de Braibroke fell into their hands so was brought captiue to Bedford as their maister had commanded them The king aduertised hereof by the gréeuous complaints of his subiects was as then at Northampton where he had assembled his parlement and thervpon hauing gathered speedilie a power with all expedition he hasted towards Bedford At his comming thither he besieged the castell on ech side and at length after two moneths though not without much adoo he wan it and hanged them all which were taken within being in number 80 or aboue and amongst other William de Brent the brother of the said Fouks was one There were but thrée that escaped with life who were pardoned vpon condition they should passe into the holie land there to serue among the Templers The siege began on the Ascension eeuen and continued till the 15 daie of August being the feast daie of the assumption of our ladie Fouks himselfe whilest the siege continued laie aloofe in â—â—eshire and on the borders of Wales as one watching to doo some mischiefe but after the castell was woone he got him to Couentrie and there was yer long apprehended and brought to the king of whom he obteined pardon of life but yet by the whole consent of the nobles and péeres of the realme he was exiled the land for euermore and then went to Rome where he knew to purchase his pardon easilie inough for mony of what crime soeuer he should be iudged culpable His wife bicause she neuer consented to his dooings nor yet willinglie to the marriage had betwixt hir and him was acquited of all blame and so likewise was his sonne Thomas Howbeit at length the foresaid Fouks hauing obteined his purpose at Rome by meanes of his chapleine Robert Paslew an Englishman who was his sollicitor there as he returned towards England in the yeare insuing was poisoned and died by the waie making so an end of his inconstant life which from the time that he came to yeares of discretion was neuer bent to quietnes Which may be reported of him not to his honour or renowme for alas what same is gotten by giuing occasions of euill but to his euerlasting shame and infamie for the same shall neuer die but remaine in perpetuall memorie as one saith right well Hâ—minum immortalis est infamia Etiam tunc viuit cùm essecredas mâ—rtuam But now to leaue these things and returne to the dooings in France where we left Ye shall vnderstand that after Sauerie de Mauleon was reuolted to the French king the said king with all spéed determined to make warre vpon king Henrie and to win from 〈◊〉 certeine townes and fortresses within the countrie of Poictou The French writers affirme that king Lewes to couered out of the Englishmens hands the townes of Niort S. Iohns d'Angeli Rochell before Sauerie de Mauleon reuolted from the French part In deed the chronicle of Dunstable saith that
when such publike plaies or else faire should be kept holden line 40 Iohn Lacie the sonne of the said Roger married Alice the daughter of Gilbert de Aquila and after hir deceasse he married the ladie Margaret the daughter of Robert Quincie earle of Lincolne of whom he begat Edmund Lacie constable of Chester which Edmund after the deceasse of his father married Alice the daughter of the marquesse of Saluces in Italie which ladie was surnamed the quéene of whom he begat Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne which Henrie married the ladie Margaret daughter line 50 to William Long espee earle of Salisburie by whom he had two sons Edmund and Iohn and two daughters Alice and Ioan which Alice Thomas earle of Lancaster married who claimed and had the same rights and priuiledges which ancientlie belonged to the said Roger Lacie and other the constables of Chester concerning the fines of forreners and others ¶ This haue I the more willingly declared that it may appeare in what estimation and credit the Lacies constables Chester by inheritance liued in their line 60 time of whose high valiancie and likewise of other of that familie highlie commended for their noble chiualrie in martiall enterprises ye may read in sundrie histories at large But now to returne and speake of other dooings which chanced about the time in which the said Ranulfe earle of Chester departed this life The king in the meane while seized into his hands a great portion of the treasure which Hubert de Burgh earle of Kent had committed to the kéeping of the templers But whereas there were that trauelled to haue had him put to death the king in respect of the seruice which he had doone to him and to his predecessors king Richard and king Iohn granted him life with those sands which he had either by purchase or by gift of king Iohn but neuertheles he caused him to be kept in frée prison at the castell of the Uées vnder the custodie of foure knights belonging to the earles of Cornewall Warren Penbroke and Ferrers which foure earles were become suerties for him This yeare also about the same time to wit the morow after S. Martins daie chanced great thunder and lightning which continued for the space of 15 daies togither to the great terrour and feare of the people and namelie of the Londoners which haue that kind of weather so familiar to them that if there be anie abroad in the land they haue their part thereof Moreouer on the 23 of March year 1233 was heard an other great and terrible tempest of thunder and after followed a maruellous wet summer with manie flouds Also on the 8 daie of Aprill in the parts about Hereford and Worcester there appeared foure sunnes in the element beside the naturall sunne of red colour and a great circle of christaline colour the which compassed with his largenesse as it had béene the whole circuit almost of the whole realme of England from the sides whereof went foorth certeine halfe circles in whose sections appeared the said foure sunnes The naturall sunne was at the same time in the east part of the firmament for it was about the first houre of the daie or betwixt six and seuen in the morning the aire being the same time verie bright and cleare The bishop of Hereford and sir Iohn Monmouth knight and manie others beheld this woonderfull sight and testified the same to be most true And after this there followed the same yeare in those parts cruell warre slaughter terrible bloudshed a generall trouble through England Wales and Ireland About the same time to wit in Iune in the south parts of England néere to the sea coast two huge dragons appeared fighting in the aire and after a long fight the one ouercome the other and followed him fléeing into the depth of the sea so they were séene no more Moreouer in this yeare great variance and strife rose betwixt the king and his barons for the king tooke great displeasure against all other his officers so much the more mistrusted them for that he found himselfe deceiued in the earle of Kent to whom he had committed a further credit than to anie other and had made him high iustice of England onelie for the good will that he alwaies bare to him Therefore perceiuing this he was doubtfull whom he should trust discharging the most part of those Englishmen that bare any office about him and in their roomes placed strangers as Poictouins and Britains of the which there came ouer vnto him manie knights and other to the number of 2000 which he placed in garrisons within castels of diuerse places of the land and committed the order of all things for the most part to the bishop of Winchester and to his nephue or sonne Peter de Riuales Herwith he offended so much the minds of his Nobles that Richard Marshall erle of Penbroke chiefe of that familie boldest to speake now that Ranulfe of Chester was gone as well in his owne name as in the names of other tooke vpon him openlie to reprooue the kings dooings herein as pernicious and dangerous to the state of the realme Herevnto the bishop of Winchester whose counsell as it séemed he followed made answer that the king had doone nothing in that behalfe vnaduisedlie but vpon good and déepe consideration for sith he might perceiue how the English nobilitie had first pursued his father with malicious hatred open war and now that he found diuerse of them whom he had brought vp and aduanced to high honours vnfaithfull in the administration of their offices he did not without iust cause receiue into his fauour strangers and preferre them before those of his owne nation which were not so faithfull in his seruice and obedience as they This answer of the bishop so pricked and wounded the minds of the English Nobilitie that manie of them amongst whome the said earle of Penbroke was the chéefe began an open rebellion some of them resorting to one place and some to an other to gather people for their purpose The names of such barons as stirred vpon this occasion were these Richard Marshall earle of Penbroke afore named line 10 Gilbert Basset and his brethren men of great honor and right hardie capteins also Richard Sward a warlike personage trained vp in feats of armes from his youth with Walter Clifford a worthie knight and manie others The king hauing knowledge of their dooings proclaimed them all traitors confiscated their goods and sent for a great power of men out of Flanders to serue him in his warres Whilest king Henrie thus prouided himselfe of an armie the lords with their capteine Richard Marshall line 20 ioined themselues to Leolin prince of Wales doubting the comming of the king spoiled all the marshes next adioining to England leauing no vittels nor cattell any where about in those parts wherby the
she had issue a daughter named Deuorgoill which Deuorgoill was married to Iohn Balioll by whom she had issue Iohn Balioll that was afterward king of Scotland The second named Isabell was married to Robert le Bruis The third named Mawd died without issue And the fourth called Alda was married to Henrie Hastings But bicause the land perteining to the earledome of Chester should not go amongst rocks and distaues hauing such roiall prerogatiues belonging thereto the king seized them into his owne hands and in recompense assigned other lands to the forsaid sisters as it had beene by way of exchange Now sith the earles of Chester I meane those of the line of Hugh Lupus tooke end in this Iohn Scot I haue thought it not impertinent for the honor of so noble a linage to set downe the descent of the same earles beginning at the foresaid Hugh the first that gouerned after the conquest as I haue seen the same collected out of ancient records according line 10 to their true succession in seauen descents one after another as here followeth The true genealogie of the famous and most honourable earles of Chester HUgh Lou or Lupus first earle of Chester after the conquest nephue line 20 to William Conquerour by his sister Margaret wife to Richard Uicount of Auranches married a noble ladie named Armetruda by whom he had issue Richard that succeeded him in the earledome Robert abbat of saint Edmundsburie and Otuell He departed this life about the yeere of our Lord 1102 when he had beene earle about 40 yeeres 2 Richard Lupus eldest son to Hugh line 30 Lupus and second earle of Chester married Maud the daughter of Stephan erle of Blois Charters and Champaigne and sister to K. Stephan This Richard with his brother Otuell was drowned in the seas in the yeere of our Lord 1120 as before hath beene shewed after he had beene earle about ninteene yeares 3 Ranulfe or Randulfe the first of that line 40 name called Bohun and otherwise Mestheins the sonne of Iohn de Bohun and of Margaret sister to Hugh Lupus succeeded Richard as cousin and heire to him in the earldome of Chester and was the third earle in number after the conquest He married Maud the daughter of Auberie de Uere earle of Gisney and Oxenford by whome he had issue Ranulfe surnamed line 50 Geruous the fourth earle of Chester He died about the yere of our Lord 1130 after he had continued earle eight yeares 4 Ranulfe or Randulfe Bohun the second of that name and fourth erle in number after the conquest surnamed Geruous succeeded his father and married Alice daughter to Robert erle of Glocester base sonne to king Henrie the first by whome he line 60 had issue Hugh Keuelocke the fift earle of Chester He deceassed about the yeare of our Lord 1153 when he had beéne earle 29 yeares 5 Hugh Bohun otherwise Keuelocke the sonne of the said Ranulfe was the first earle of Chester after the conquest and second of that name He married Beatrice daughter to Richard Lucie lord cheefe iustice of England by whom he had issue Ranulfe the third of that name and foure daughters Mawd married to Dauid that was earle of Angus and Huntington and lord of Galloway Mabell maried to William Dalbegnie earle of Arundell Agnes maried to William Ferrers earle of Derbie and Hauisa ioined in marriage with Robert Quincie a baron of great honour This Hugh died about the yeare 1181 when he had beene earle eight and twentie yeares 6 Ranulfe Bohun the third of that name otherwise called Blundeuille the sonne of Hugh Keuelocke was the sixt earle of Chester after the conquest He was also earle of Lincolne as next cousine and heire to William Romare earle of Lincolne He had three wiues as before yee haue heard but yet died without issue about the yeare of our Lord 1232 after he had beene earle 51 yeares 7 Iohn Scot the sonne of Dauid earle of Angus Huntington was in the right of his mother the seuenth earle of Chester after the conquest He died without issue as before yee haue heard by reason whereof the erldome came into the kings hands in the yeare 1237. Thus much may suffice with that which is said before touching the descent of the earles of Chester And now to proceed The same yeare that Iohn Scot died cardinall Otho by some writers named Othobon about the feast of S. Peter and Paule came into England from pope Gregorie He was receiued with all honour and solemne reuerence as was decent yea and more than was decent the king meeting him at the sea side His comming was not signified afore to the nobles of the realme which caused them to mislike the matter and to grudge against the king seeing that he did all things contrarie to order breaking law faith and promise in all things He hath coupled himselfe said they in mariage with a stranger without consent of his freends and naturall subiects and now he bringeth in a legat secretlie who will take vpon him to make an alteration in the whole state of the realme But this legat shewed himselfe a verie sober and discréet person not so couetous as his predecessors in so much that he refused diuerse gifts which were offered vnto him though some he receiued and indéed commanded the other to be reserued for him He also distributed liberallie the vacant rents vnto such as he brought with him as well persons worthie as vnworthie and pacified such controuersies as were sproong betwixt the nobles and peeres of the realme so that he made them fréends ¶ An act memorable to be kept in record that the instrument and seruant of so bad a maister as he serued namelie the pope should be the procurer of so good a worke considering that from the sée of Rome full tides and violent streames of seditions haue flowed and verie sildome any occasion or means made to plant peace among men which is the daughter of loue and the worthiest thing that is as one saith verie well in these words Gignit amor pacem pax est dignissima rerum The bishop of Winchester the earle of Kent Gilbert Basset Stephen Siward others were by him accorded who had borne secret grudge ech to other a long time which hatred was at point to haue broken foorth and shewed it selfe in perilous wise at a tornie holden at Blie in the beginning of Lent where the Southernmen stroue against the Northerne men and in the end the Southerne men preuailed and tooke diuerse of their aduersaries so that it séemed not to be a triumphant iustes but rather a sharpe challenge and incounter betwixt enimies But amongst all others earle Bigot bare himselfe verie stoutlie After that the legat had thus agréed the noblemen he assembled a synod at London the morrow after the octaues of S. Martin wherein manie ordinances were newlie constituted for the state of the cleargie but not altogither verie acceptable
destroied them all but in the end the Englishmen were distressed line 50 through the valiancie of Dauid one of the sonnes of the great Leolin and other capteines of the Welsh nation Neuerthelesse Matthew Westminster saith brieflie that the English men were treasonablie slaine so that it séemeth that Matthew Paris speaketh rather of an affection and good will which he bare to the Welsh procéedings in those daies than otherwise For who so marketh the course of his historie shall line 60 perceiue that he had no good liking of the state in those daies neither concerning the ecclesiasticall nor temporall policie in somuch that he sticketh not to commend the Welshmen greatlie for their holding togither against the oppression as he meaneth it of the English gouernement and no doubt there was cause that mooued him to such misliking namelie the often paiments and collections of monie by the popes agents and other such misorders as dailie were permitted or rather mainteined to the impouerishing of both estates spirituall and temporall Godfrey de Kinton was consecrated archbishop of Canturburie at Rome about the feast of Christmasse last past and so returned from thence home to his cure There was an ordinance made about this time for punishment to be had of the extortion of shiriffes so that aswell the receiuer as the giuer of bribes was punishable Which law if it were now executed vpon all officers occupiers whatsoeuer there would not be so much wealth and substance so great riches and treasure raked vp togither in the possession of some few men as the old sage saieng importeth Quisquis ditatur rapidos miluos imitatur The bishops of Worcester and Lincolne with the earles of Norfolke and Leicester were sent ouer in ambassage vnto a councell holden at Cambrey for a league and peace to be concluded betwixt the kingdoms of England and France and also the empire but bicause the French king looked to haue the king of England there when he heard that the same king came not he also staied at home and so no conclusion followed at that assemblie Ione countesse of Penbroke the wife of William de Ualence the kings halfe brother demanded hir right of dower in such lands as belonged to hir by title of inheritance At length she had to the value of fiue hundred marks assigned hir of the same lands notwithstanding hir heritage amounted to the sum of a thousand marks and aboue of yearelie reuenues but for that she should not aid hir husband with part thereof the one halfe was thought sufficient for hir maintenance About Aduent next insuing she went ouer vnto hir husband either for the desire she had to inioy his personall presence or for that she thought hirselfe not well dealt with to be abridged of those reuenues which by right of inheritance were hir owne In the first night of December there chanced a maruellous sore tempest of lightning and thunder with mightie winds and raine as a token and signe of the troubles that after followed the more noted for that thunder in the winter season is not commonlie heard of Guy de Rochford a Poictouin to whom about two yeares before the king had giuen the castell of Rochester was now banished the realme and depriued of all that he held in this land About this season there rose great variance amongst the scholers of Oxford being of sundrie countries as Scotishmen Welshmen Northern men and Southern men who fell so farre at square that they raised baners one against an other and fought togither in somuch that diuerse were slaine and manie hurt on both parties ¶ The Welshmen this yeare notwithstanding their good successe had in these late wars considered with themselues that if the barons of England did once ioine in one knot of fréendship they would with maine force easilie subdue them wherefore to preuent that which might chance vnto them by stubborne resistance they made suit to be receiued into the kings peace offering to giue vnto him the summe of foure thousand markes and to his sonne the lord Edward thrée hundred marks and to the queene two hundred marks Yet the king would not accept those offers and so the matter depended in doubtfull balance a certeine time The Welshmen in the meane season attempted not any exploit but rather sate still in hope to come at length to some reasonable agreement ¶ The moonks of Winchester meaning to prouide themselues of a bishop now that Athelmare aliàs Odomare the kings halfe brother was banished the realme elected one Henrie de Wingham the kings chancellor in hope that the K. would be contented with his election and so he was but yet conditionallie that if the pope would allow his said halfe brother for bishop then should the other giue place About the feast of S. Hilarie when knowledge was giuen that king Richard of Almaine meant to returne into England year 1259 there were sent ouer vnto him the bishop of Worcester the abbat of saint Edmundsburie Peter de Sauoy and Iohn Mansell as ambassadours from the baronage and communaltie of the realme to require of him an oth to stand vnto and obeie the ordinances of the late parlement holden at Oxenford When the said ambassadors came before his presence and declared to him the effect of their message he beheld them with a sterne looke and frowning countenance saieng and binding it with an oth that he would neither be sworne line 10 nor kéepe any such ordinances as had beene made without his consent neither would he make them of counsell how long his purpose was to staie within the realme which the ambassadours required also to vnderstand Herevnto he further added that he had no péere in England for he was the sonne of the deceased king and brother of the king that now reigned and also earle of Cornewall and therefore if the barons of England ment to reforme the state of the kingdome their duetie had beene first to haue sent line 20 for him and not to haue proceeded so presumptuouslie in such a weightie cause without his presence or consent When one of the ambassadours was about to haue made answer somewhat roundlie and also nippinglie vnto this spéech vttered by the king of Almaine he was staied by one of his associats And so the ambassadours vnderstanding his mind returned with all conuenient speed The king of Almaine had assembled a great host of men on the further side the sea meaning with all line 30 expedition to haue passed hither into England but when he had aduertisement giuen that there was a power raised in England and bestowed both by sea and land to resist him he changed his purpose by aduise of his freends so that he consented to receiue such manner of oth as the barons required and herewith taking the sea he arriued at Douer on saint Iulians daie with his owne houshold-seruants bringing with him no traine of strangers
others in the countries through which he had passed There were some of the Scots that forraied the countrie fiue miles on this side Preston southwards and thus being fourescore long miles within England they returned homewards and entred againe into Scotland without incounter after they had béene at this time within England the space of three wéeks and thrée daies King Edward being thus beset with two mischiefes both at one time thought good first to prouide remedie against the neerer danger which by the Scots was still at hand and therefore he meant to go against them himselfe and to send his brother Edmund earle of Kent into Guien to defend that countrie from the Frenchmen Herevpon now in the sixteenth yeare of his reigne after that the Scots were returned home with a great bootie and rich spoile he got togither a wonderfull great armie of men and entring into Scotland passed far within the countrie not finding any resistance at all as the most part of our writers doo agree but at length through famine and diseases of the flix and other maladies that fell amongst the Englishmen in the armie he was constreined to come backe and in his waie besieged the castell of Norham which fortresse he wan within ten daies after he had begun to assault it Robert Bruce immediatlie after the English armie was retired home raised a power and entring into England by Sulwaie sands laie at a place called Beaumond not past thrée miles froÌ„ Carleill by the space of fiue daies sending in the meane time the most part of his armie abroad to spoile and harrie the countrie on euerie side and afterwards remouing from thence he passed towards Blackamore hauing knowledge by diligent espials that king Edward was in those parts giuing himselfe more to pastime in hunting there within the woods about Blackamore than to the good ordering of his people which he had then about him Wherevpon the Scotish king Bruce entring into that wild and moorish countrie where he had not beene afore conueied his enterprise so warilie and with such diligent industrie that on saint Lukes daie comming vpon the English armie at vnwares he put the same to flight so that the king himselfe was in great danger to haue béene taken prisoner For as some authors write the Scots had almost taken him at dinner in the abbeie of Beighland Sir Iohn Brittaine earle of Richmond was taken at this battell and the kings treasure was spoiled and carried awaie with the prouision and ordinance that belonged to the host The king escaping awaie got to Yorke and the Scots hauing thus the vpper hand after they had spoiled the monasterie of Rinale and taken their pleasure there they passed foorth into Yorkeswold destroieng line 10 that countrie euen almost vnto Beuerlie which towne they ransomed receiuing a summe of monie for sparing it least they should haue burnt it as they did other The earle of Carleill being commanded by the king to raise the powers of Cumberland Westmerland and Lancashire did so and according to that he had in commandement bringing them belowe the countries vnto Yorke found the K. there in no plight to giue battell to his enimies all things being brought about him into great confusion line 20 wherevpon he licenced his people to depart to their homes againe and the Scots so returned without battell home into their countries entring into Scotland the morrow after All ballowes daie after they had remained in England at this time one whole moneth and foure daies Some write that in their returne they spoiled Northalerton and diuerse other townes and places as they passed In the same yeare there was a great conspiracie line 30 practised by certein persons that had taken part with the barons in the late warres purposing to set at libertie in one selfe night all those noble men and others that were by the king kept in prison for that quarrell Certeine therefore of those conspirators came to the castell of Walingford within the which the lord Maurice Berkelie and the lord Hugh Audlie remained as prisoners The conspirators found shift to enter the castell by a posterne gate towards the Thames side howbeit not so secretlie but that the line 40 townesmen hauing knowledge thereof assembled togither and besieged them that were so entred the castell till the earles of Kent and Winchester came with a great power to reenforce the siege so that in the end they that had made this attempt fled into the chappell of the castell in hope to be saued through sanctuarie of the place but they were against the willes of the deane and preests of the colledge there that sought to defend them taken foorth by force so that sir Iohn de Goldington knight sir Edmund of line 50 the Bech chapleine and an esquire called Roger Walton were sent to Pomfret and there put in prison the esquire was after sent to Yorke and there drawne and hanged This enterprise caused all other prisoners to be more streightlie looked vnto In this yeare was begun a wicked practise of treason vpon this occasion Where K. Edward hauing assaied fortune so froward towards him in chance of warre against the Scots at sundrie times was therby taught to doubt the triall thereof any further and line 60 rather to seeke for peace he appointed Andrew Herklie earle of Carleill to séeke some means whereby a peace might be concluded betwixt him and king Robert The earle by the kings commandement going into Scotland and comming vnto king Robert whome he found at Loghmaban intreated with him of warre and not of peace for whether it were so that he despaired of the state of king Edwards businesse which prospered neither at home nor abroad â—heefelie by reason of his owne wilfull negligence as some write or whether of his owne nature this earle delighted in nothing so much as in deceipt craft and treason he concluded vpon points with the Scotish king how when and where king Edward should be betraied and to the end that couenanted faith on either side might be the more suerlie kept and obserued the sister of K. Robert was affianced vnto the said earle of Carleill a verie beautifull ladie and a comelie as was anie where to be séene or found This practise being thus contriued shortlie after the king got knowledge thereof though by whome it was not certeinlie knowne so hard a thing it is for man to conceale and keepe secret that thing which he goeth about though he studie neuer so much so to doo namelie in matters of treason which hath a thousand feet to créepe abroad and which way soeuer it goeth it leaueth a thousand prints of the footsteps behind it by the which it may be discouered to the world When therefore the earle came backe againe to Carleill he was arrested by commandement from the king and straightwaies being arreigned of the treason he was thereof condemned and put to execution
sonne the lord chamberleine that neither durst go ouer themselues with the king nor abide at home in his absence gaue contrarie counsell and at length preuailed so that it was fullie determined that the kings eldest line 60 sonne Edward should go ouer which turned to their destruction as it appeared afterward Herevpon the king made a charter of grant vnto his sonne of the duchie of Guien and countie of Pontieu to haue and hold to him his heires kings of England with condition that if he chanced to depart this life whilest his father liued those lands should returne to his father againe so as the French king might not marrie the kings sonne at his pleasure nor appoint vnto him any gardians or gouernours This ordinance was made at Douer by the kings charter with consent of the prelats and other noble men of the realme there present the morrow after the Natiuitie of our ladie and on the thursdaie following the kings sonne tooke the sea and with him Walter bishop of Excester and others in competent number and about the feast of saint Matthew the apostle he did homage to his vncle the French king at Bois de Vincennes vnder certeine protestations made as well on the one part as the other The summer this yeare prooued excéeding hot and drie so that springs and riuers failed to yéeld their accustomed course of waters by reason wherof great numbers of cattell and beasts both wild and tame died through lacke of conuenient liquor to asswage their vehement thirst In the beginning of the next spring king Edward sent into France vnto his wife and sonne commanding them now that they had made an end of their businesse to returne home with all conuenient speed The queene receiuing the message from hir husband whether it was so that she was staied by hir brother vnto whome belike she had complained after what manner she was vsed at hir husbands hands being had in no regard with him or for that she had no mind to returne home bicause she was loth to see all things ordered out of frame by the counsell of the Spensers whereof to heare she was wearie or whether as the manner of women is she was long about to prepare hir selfe forward she slacked all the summer and sent letters euer to excuse hir tarriance But yet bicause she would not run in any suspicion with hir husband she sent diuerse of hir folkes before hir into England by soft iournies A lamentable case that such diuision should be betwéene a king and his quéene being lawfullie married and hauing issue of their bodies which ought to haue made that their copulation more comfortable but alas what will not a woman be drawne and allured vnto if by euill counsell she be once assaulted And what will she leaue vndoone though neuer so inconuenient to those that should be most déere vnto hir so hir owne fansie and will be satisfied And how hardlie is the reuoked from procéeding in an euill action if she haue once taken a taste of the same As verie truly is reported by the comedie-writer saieng Malè quod mulier incoepit nisi efficere id perpetrat Id illi morbo id illi senio est ea illi miserae miseria est Si bene facere incoepit eius eam cito odium percipit Nimisque paucae sunt defessae male quae facere occoeperint Nimisque paucae efficiunt si quid occoeperint benefacere Mulieri nimiò malefacere melius est onus quà m benè But to the purpose King Edward not a little offended with king Charles by whole meanes he knew that the woman thus lingered abroad he procured pope Iohn to write his letters vnto the French king admonishing him to send home his sister and hir sonne vnto hir husband But when this nothing auailed a proclamation was made in the moneth of December the nineteenth yeare of this kings reigne that if the quéene and hir sonne entred not the land by the octaues of the Epiphanie next insuing in peaceable wise they should be taken for enimies to the realme and crowne of England ¶ Here authors varie for some write that vpon knowledge had of this proclamation the queene determined to returne into England foorthwith that she might be reconciled to hir husband Others write and that more truelie how she being highlie displeased both with the Spensers and the king hir husband that suffered himselfe to be misled by their counsels did appoint indéed to returne into England not to be reconciled but to stir the people to some rebellion wherby she might reuenge hir manifold iniuries Which as the proofe of the thing shewed séemeth to be most true for she being a wise woman considering that sith the Spensers had excluded put out and remooued all good men from and besides the kings councell and placed in their roomes such of their clients seruants and freends as pleased them she might well thinke that there was small hope to be had in hir husband who heard no man but the said Spensers which she knew hated hir deadlie Wherevpon year 1326 after that the tearme prefixed in the proclamation was expired the king caused to be seized into his hands all such lands as belonged either to his sonne or to his wife About the same time one sir Robert Walkfare knight a right hardie man of his hands but craftie and subtill who being taken in the warres which the line 10 lords raised against the king had beene committed to prison in the castell of Corfe found means now to kill the constable of that castell most cruellie and escaping awaie got ouer to the quéene into France and so the number of them that ran out of the realme vnto hir dailie increased This sir Robert Walkfare was a great procurer of the discord betwixt the king and the lords and a chéefe leader or rather seducer of that noble man Humfrie de Bohune earle of Hereford and whilest other gaue themselues to line 20 seeke a reformation in the decaied state of the commonwealth he set his mind vpon murders and robberies Diuerse other about the same time fled out of the realme vnto the queene and vnto hir sonne the earle of Chester But in the meane time Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester which hitherto had remained with the queene in France stale now from hir and got ouer into England opening to the king all the counsell and whole mind of the queene which thing turned first of all vnto his owne destruction line 30 as shall after appeare About the same time one sir Oliuer de Ingham a yoong lustie and valiant knight was by the kings sonne the duke of Aquitaine not without his fathers consent established lord warden of the marches of Guien the which sir Oliuer gathering an armie of hired soldiers Spaniards Aragons and Gascoins inuaded the countrie of Agenois which the French king held yet in his hands contrarie to
second found means by intelligence had with sir William de Eland constable of the castell of Notingham to take the said earle of March with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey Mortimer and sir Simon Bereford with other Sir Hugh Trumpington or Turrington as line 10 some copies haue that was one of his chéefest fréends with certeine other were slaine as they were about to resist against the lord Montacute and his companie in taking of the said earle The manner of his taking I passe ouer bicause of the diuersitie in report thereof by sundrie writers From Notingham he was sent vp to London with his sonne the lord Roger or Geffrey de Mortimer sir Simon Bereford and the other prisoners where they were committed to prison in the tower Shortlie after was a parlement line 20 called at Westminster chéefelie as was thought for reformation of things disordered through the misgouernance of the earle of March But whosoeuer was glad or sorie for the trouble of the said earle suerlie the queene mother tooke it most heauilie aboue all other as she that loued him more as the fame went than stood well with hir honour For as some write she was found to be with child by him They kept as it were house togither for the earle to haue his prouision the better cheape laid his penie line 30 with hirs so that hir takers serued him as well as they did hir both of vittels cariages Of which mis-vsage all regard to honour and estimation neglected euerie subiect spake shame For their manner of dealing tending to such euill purposes as they continuallie thought vpon could not be secret from the eies of the people And their offense héerein was so much the more heinous bicause they were persons of an extraordinarie degree and were the more narrowlie marked of the multitude or common people line 40 nam lux altissima fati Occultum nil esse sinit latebrásque per omnes Intrat obtrusos explorat fama recessus But now in this parlement holden at Westminster he was attainted of high treason expressed in fiue articles as in effect followeth 1 First he was charged that he had procured Edward of Carnaruan the kings father to be murthered in most heinous and tyrannous maner within the castell of Berklie 2 Secondlie that the Scots at Stanop parke line 50 through his means escaped 3 Thirdlie that he receiued at the hands of the lord Iames Dowglas at that time generall of the Scots great summes of monie to execute that treason and further to conclude the peace vpon such dishonorable couenants as was accorded with the Scots at the parlement of Northampton 4 Fourthlie that he had got into his hands a great part of the kings treasure and had wasted and line 60 consumed it 5 Fiftlie that he had impropried vnto him diuers wards that belonged vnto the king and had béene more priuie with queene Isabell the kings mother than stood either with Gods law or the kings pleasure These articles with other being prooued against him he was adiudged by authoritie of the parlement to suffer death and according therevnto vpon saint Andrewes eeuen next insuing he was at London drawne and hanged at the common place of execution called in those daies The elmes now Tiborne as in some bookes we find His bodie remained two daies and two nights on the gallowes and after taken downe was deliuered to the friers minors who buried him in their church the morrow after he was deliuered to them with great pompe and funerall exequies although afterwards he was taken vp and carried vnto Wigmore whereof he was lord He came not to his answer in iudgement no more than any other of the nobilitie had doone since the death of Thomas earle of Lancaster Sir Simon de Bereford knight that had béene one of the kings iustices was drawne also and hanged at London vpon S. Lucies daie In this parlement holden at Westminster the king tooke into his hand by aduise of the states there assembled all the possessions lands and reuenues that belonged to the quéene his mother she hauing assigned to hir a thousand pounds by yeare for the maintenance of hir estate being appointed to remaine in a certeine place and not to go elsewhere abroad yet the king to comfort hir would lightlie euerie yeare once come to visit hir ¶ After that the erle of March was executed as yée haue heard diuerse noble men that were departed the realme bicause they could not abide the pride and presumption of the said earle now returned as the sonne and heire of the earle of Arundell the lord Thomas Wake the L. Henrie Beaumont sir Thomas de Rosselin sir Foulke fitz Warren sir Griffin de la Poole and diuerse other In the fift yeare of K. Edwards reigne Edward Balioll came foorth of France into England and obteined such fauour through the assistance of the lord Henrie Beaumont the lord Dauid of Strabogie earle of Athole the lord Geffrey de Mowbraie the lord Walter Cumin and others that king Edward granted him licence to make his prouision in England to passe into Scotland with an armie of men to attempt the recouerie of his right to the crowne of Scotland with condition that if he recouered it he should acknowledge to hold it of the king of England as superiour lord of Scotland The comming awaie of Edward Balioll out of France is diuerslie reported by writers some saie that he was aided by the French king whose sister he had married and other saie that he being in prison in France for the escape of an Englishman one Iohn Barnabie esquier which had slaine a Frenchman by chance of quarelling in the towne of Dampierre where the same Barnabie dwelled with the said Edward Balioll so it came to passe that the lord Henrie Beaumont hauing occasion of businesse with the French king that fauoured him well came ouer to France and there vnderstanding of Baliols imprisonment procured his deliuerance and brought him ouer into England and caused him to remaine in secret wise at the manor of Sandhall vpon Ouse in Yorkeshire with the ladie Uesci◠till he had purchased the kings grant for him to make his prouision of men of war and ships within the English dominions In the sixt yeare of king Edwards reigne Reignold earle of Gelderland married the ladie Elianor sister to this king Edward the third who gaue vnto the said earle with hir for hir portion fifteene thousand pounds sterling ¶ Isabell the kings daughter was borne also this yeare at Woodstoke ¶ After that Edward Balioll had prepared and made readie his purueiances for his iournie and that his men of warre were assembled and come togither being in all not past fiue hundred men of armes and about two thousand archers and other footmen he tooke the sea at Rauenspurgh in Yorkeshire and from thence directing his course northward he
this truce it seemeth that this was some second truce and not the first truce which included onelie the marches of Calis and those parts vp to the water of Some But howsoeuer it was the duke of Britaine being in a great forwardnesse to haue recouered his duchie out of the Frenchmens hands and to haue reduced his rebellious subiects vnder due obeisance againe was now by this truce concluded out of time greatlie disappointed and so brake vp his siege from before Campellie and sent home the English armie He went himselfe to Aulroie where his wife was and taking order for the fortifieng and keeping of those places which were in his possession he came backe againe into England and brought his wife with him A litle before the concluding of this truce the Englishmen and others within the fortresse of saint Sauiour le vicount in the I le or rather Close as they call it of Constantine which had beene long besieged made a composition that if they were not rescued by a certeine daie then should they yéeld vp the place to the Frenchmen Now bicause this truce line 10 was agréed before the daie appointed for the rescue of that place with condition that either part should inioy and hold that which at that present they had in possession during the terme of the truce the Englishmen thought that saint Sauiour le vicount should be saued by reason of that treatie but the Frenchmen to the contrarie auouched that the first couenant ought to passe the last ordinance So that when the daie approched the French king sent thither six thousand speares knights and esquiers beside other people line 20 and bicause none appeared to giue them battell they had the towne deliuered to them ¶ In this 49 yeare of K. Edwards reigne a great death chanced in this land and in diuerse other countries so that innumerable numbers of people died and perished of that contagious sickenesse Amongst other the lord Edward Spenser died the same yeare a man of great renowme and valiantnesse Also the earle of Penbroke hauing compounded for his ransome as he was vpon his returne from Spaine line 30 comming homewards through France he fell sicke and being brought in an horsselitter to Arras he died there on the 16 daie of Aprill leauing a sonne behind him not past two yeares of age begot of the countesse his wife called Anne daughter vnto the lord Walter de Mannie Polydor mistaking the matter saith that Marie the countesse of Penbroke who builded Penbroke hall in Cambridge was wife to this Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke whereas in deed she was wife to his ancestor Aimer line 40 de Ualence earle of Penbroke as Iohn Stow in his summarie hath trulie noted She was daughter to Guy earle of saint Pole a worthie ladie and a vertuous tendering so much the wealthfull state of this land a great part wherof consisteth in the good bringing vp of youth and training them to the knowledge of learning that for maintenance of students she began the forsaid commendable foundation about the yeare of Christ 1343 vpon a plot of ground that was hir owne hauing purchased licence thereto of line 50 the king to whom she was of kin During that greeuous mortalitie and cruell pestilence before remembred the pope at the instant request of the English cardinals granted vnto all those that died in England being shriuen and repentant of their sinnes cleane remission of the same by two buls inclosed vnder lead The duke of Lancaster about the feast of All saints met with the French commissioners againe at Bruges There was with him the duke of Britaine the earle of Salisburie line 60 and the bishop of London For the French king there appeered the duke of Burgognie the earle of Salebruch and the bishop of Amiens And at saint Omers laie the duke of Aniou the archbishop of Rauenna and the bishop of Carpentras tooke great paine to go to and fro betwéene the parties but they were so far at ods in their demands and as it were of set purpose on the French behalfe that no good could be doone betwixt them The French king required to haue Calis raced and to haue againe fourtéene hundred thousand franks which were paid for the ransome of king Iohn The king of England demanded to haue all the lands restored to him in Gascoigne and Guien cléerelie exempt of all resorts So when nothing could be concluded touching a finall peace the truce was renewed to indure till the feast of S. Iohn Baptist next insuing which should be in the yeare 1376. In this fiftith yeare king Edward assembled his high court of parlement at Westminster in the which was demanded a subsidie of the commons for the defense of the kings dominions against his enimies Wherevnto answer was made by the common house that they might no longer beare such charges considering the manifold burthens by them susteined in time past And further they said it was well knowne the king was rich inough to withstand his enimies if his monie and treasure were well imploied but the land had béene of long time euill guided by euill officers so that the same could not be stored with chaffer merchandize or other riches The commons also declared whom they tooke and iudged to be chéefe causer of this disorder as the duke of Lancaster the L. Latimer lord chamberleine to the king also dame Alice Perers whom the king had long time kept to his concubine and also one named sir Richard Sturrie by whose sinister meanes and euill counsell the king was misled and the land euill gouerned Wherefore the commons by the mouth of their speaker sir Peers de la Mere required that those persons might be remooued from the king and other more discreet set in their roomes about his person and so put in authoritie that they might sée to his honour and weale of the realme more than the other had doone before them This request of the commons by support of the prince was allowed and granted so that the said persons and other of their affinitie were commanded to depart the court and other such as were thought méet by the prince and the sage péeres of the realme were placed in their stéeds ¶ Shortlie after the commons granted to the king his whole request so that he had of euerie person man and woman being aboue the age of fourtéene yeares foure pence poore people that liued of almesse onelie excepted ¶ Likewise the cleargie granted that of euerie beneficed man the king should haue twelue pence and of euerie priest not beneficed foure pence the foure orders of friers onelie excepted But yer this monie could be leuied the king was constreined to borrow certeine great summes in sundrie places and therefore he sent to the citie of London for foure thousand pounds And bicause Adam Staple the maior was not diligent in furthering that lone he was by the kings
will aduenture to haue my head broken for the duke of Irelands pleasure Likewise the earle of line 20 Northumberland being at that time in the court spake these words to the king Sir there is no doubt but these lords who now be in the field alwaies haue beene your true and faithfull subiects and yet are not intending to attempt anie thing against your state wealth honor Neuerthelesse they féele themselues sore molested and disquieted by the wicked deuises of certeine persons about you that seeke to oppresse them And verelie without faile all your realme is sore greeued therewith both great and small as well line 30 lords as commons and I sée not the contrarie but they mind to aduenture their liues with the lords that are thus in armes speciallie in this case which they reckon to be yours and your realmes And sir now yée be in the cheefe place of your realme and in the place of your coronation order your selfe now therefore wiselie and like a king Send to them to come before your presence in some publike place where they may declare vnto you the intent and purpose of their comming accompanied with so great a line 40 number of people into these parts and I beléeue it verelie they will shew such reasons that you will hold them excused The archbishop of Canturburie and the lord chancellor bishop of Elie and other of the bishops also there present affirmed the earles aduise to be good And the king considering wiselie the case as it stood began to be appeased and accorded to follow their aduise desiring the archbishop of Canturburie and the bishop of Elie to aduertise them of his plesure which line 50 was that he willed them to come to him to Westminster on sundaie then next following and so they repairing to the lords made report to them of the kings mind and purpose But the duke of Glocester and the other lords were so fullie bent in their opinion that they swore all whole togither that they would neuer giue ouer their enterprise so long as they had a penie to spend in maintenance of their cause and if it chanced anie of them to depart this life the ouerliuers should persist therein vntill the time that line 60 they had brought their purpose to some good effect And bicause they doubted least the king might stirre the citie of London against them they determined first to aduertise the maior and the citie how their comming was onlie to reforme certeine great enormities which they set downe in writing sent it to the maior and citizens beseeching them of their fauour and counsell therin This doone they determined yet to kéepe their daie on the sundaie following to appeare before the kings presence but this was not got of them till that the lord chancellor with diuerse other noblemen of good credit had vndertaken vpon their oths for the kings behalfe that no fraud nor deceipt no perill nor euill pretense should be put in practise against the lords wherby they might come to losse either of life limme or goods or otherwise through the kings means but that if he should go about anie such things the said lord chancellor and other the mediators should forwarne the lords therof When therefore the lords were readie according to couenant to come vnto Westminster they were secretlie aduertised that there was an ambush laid in a place called the Mewes and so they staied and came not at the appointed houre Wherevpon when the king demanded how it fortuned that the lords kept not promise the bishop of Elie lord Chancellor made him this answer Bicause saith he there is an ambush of a thousand armed men or more laid in such a place and named it contrarie to couenant and therefore they neither come nor hold you for faithfull of your word The king hearing this was astonied and said with an oth that he knew of no such thing withall sent to the shiriffes of London commanding them to go to the Mewes and vpon search made if they found anie force of men there assembled to take and kill all such as they could laie hands vpon But sir Thomas Triuet and sir Nitholas Brambre knight that had in déed assembled such a number of men when they vnderstood what order the king had giuen therein they sent their men backe to London The lords after this receiuing a safe conduct from the king and perceiuing all to be safe and cleare came vnto Westminster with a strong power of men about them The king when he heard they were come apparelled himselfe in his kinglie robes and with his scepter in hand came into the great hall at Westminster The lords as soone as they had sight of him made to him their humble obeisance went foorth till they came to the nether steps going vp to the kings seat of state where they made their second obeisance then the king gaue them countenance to come néerer to him they so did kneeling downe before him foorthwith he rose from his place and louinglie welcomming them tooke each of them by the hand and that doone sate him downe againe Herewith the bishop of Elie lord chancellor as mouth to the king declared vnto these lords in effect as followeth My lords said he our souereigne lord the king hearing that you were assembled in Haringie parke in other maner than was conuenient would not foorthwith run vpon you with force to destroie you as he might easilie haue doone if he had not wished your safetie for no man doubteth but if his pleasure had béene to gather an armie he might haue had more people than you could haue got to haue taken part with you against him and so happilie much bloud might haue béene spilt which thing certeinlie our souereigne lord the king vtterlie abhorreth and therefore vsing patience and mildnesse he hath rather chosen to talke with you in peaceable wise that he may vnderstand the cause whie yée haue assembled so great a number of people togither The lords for answer héerevnto said that they assembled their forces togither for the profit both of the king and realme and speciallie to take awaie from him such traitors as remained continuallie about him to wit Robert de Ueer duke of Ireland Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke Michaell de la Poole erle of Suffolke Robert Trisilian that false iustice and sir Nicholas Brambre that disloiall knight of London for so they tearmed them all And to prooue their accusations true they threw downe their gloues protesting by their oths to prosecute it by battell Naie saith the king not so but in the next parlement which we doo appoint before hand to begin the morrow after the Purification of our ladie both they and you appearing shall receiue according to law all that which reason shall appoint And now to you my lords I speake by what meane or by what reason durst you so presumptuouslie take vpon
in the beginning of this parlement were openlie called Robert Uéer duke of Ireland Alexander Neuill archbishop of Yorke Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke sir Robert Trisilian lord cheefe iustice of England to answer Thomas of Woodstoke duke of Glocester Richard earle of Arundell Henrie earle of Derbie and Thomas earle of Notingham vpon certeine articles of high treason which these lords did charge them with And forsomuch as none of these appeared it was ordeined by the whole assent of the parlement that they should be banished for euer and their lands and goods mooueable and vnmooueable to be forfeit and seized into the kings hands their lands intailed onelie excepted Shortlie after was the lord chéefe iustice Robert Trisilian found in an apothecaries house at Westminster lurking there to vnderstand by spies dailie what was doone in the parlement he was descried by one of his owne men and so taken and brought to the duke of Glocester who caused him forthwith the same daie to be had to the tower and from thence drawne to Tiburne and there hanged On the morrow after sir Nicholas Brambre that sometime had beene maior of London was brought foorth to iudgement and condemned although he had manie fréends that made sute to saue his life This man had doone manie oppressions within the citie of London as was reported In his maioraltie he caused great monstruous stocks to be made to imprison men therein and also a common axe to strike off the heads of them which should resist his will and pleasure for he was so highlie in the kings fauour that he might doo what he would And the report went that he had caused eight thousand or more to be indicted which before had taken part with the lords intending to haue put them all to death if God had not shortened his daies Manie other euill fauoured reports went abroad of him as that he meant to haue changed the name of London and to haue named it little Troie of which citie baptised with that new name he purposed to be intituled duke But these were forged rumors deuised and spred abroad in those daies as manie other were partlie by the vaine imagination of the people and partlie of purpose to bring those whome the king fauoured further out of the peoples liking But now touching sir Nicholas Brambre in the end being thus called to answer his transgressions he was found giltie and had iudgement neither to be hanged nor drawne but to be beheaded with his owne are which before he had deuised seruing him heerein as Phalaris the tyrant sometime serued Perillus the inuentor of that exquisite line 10 torment of the brasen bull wherein the offendor being put and the counterfet beast by force of fier made glowing hot hauing his toong first cut out through extreamitie of paine made a bellowing alwaies as he cried as if it had béene the verie noise of a naturall bull Of which strange torment Perillus himselfe first tasted suffering death by an engine of his owne deuising which he thought should haue purchased him a good liuing whereof the poet saith Vâ— Phalaris tauro violentus membra Perilli line 20 Torruit infelix imbuit autor opus After this sir Iohn Salisburie sir Iames Berneis both knights and lustie yoong men were by iudgement of parlement drawne and hanged Then folowed Iohn Beauchampe of the Holt lord steward of the kings house that had serued king Edward the third and his sonne Lionell duke of Clarence who likewise by decrée of this parlement was drawne and hanged Also Iohn Blake esquier who in an infortunate houre stood against the lords in the councell line 30 at Notingham was now drawne and hanged and so was one Thomas Uske Last of all or as some hold first of all was sir Simon Burlie beheaded although the earle of Derbie did what he could to saue his life by reason whereof great dissention rose betwixt the said earle and the duke of Glocester for the duke being a sore and a right seuere man might not by any meanes be remooued from his opinion and purpose if he once resolued vpon any matter Some spite he bare as was thought towards the line 40 said sir Simon Burlie both as well for the faithfull fréendship which was growne betwixt the duke of Ireland and the said sir Simon as also for that he looked to haue had such offices and roomes which sir Simon inioied by the kings gratious fauour and grants thereof to him made as the Wardenship of the cinque ports and constableship of the castell of Douer and the office of high chamberleine ¶ But now bicause of all these which were condemned and executed at this parlement in our common chronicles there is least written and in Froissard and line 50 diuerse priuate pamphlets I haue read most of this sir Simon I haue thought good to set downe some part of his life so largelie as this volume may well beare although a great deale more briefe than where I found it This sir Simon was the son of sir Iohn Burlie knight of the garter and brought vp in his youth vnder his kinsman doctor Walter Burlie who as in the latter end of king Edward the third you haue heard was one of the chiefe that had charge in line 60 the bringing vp of the Blacke prince eldest sonne to the said king Edward By this occasion he grew into such fauour with the prince that afterwards the said prince committed vnto him the gouernance of his sonne Richard of Burdeaux who as he was of a genâ—le and courteous nature began then to conceiue so great loue and liking towards him that when he came to the crowne and was king he aduanced him highlie to great honours and promotions in somuch that at one time other he was made knight of the gartâ—r constable of Douer lord Waâ—den of the cinque ports lord chamberleine earle of Huntington and also one of the priuie councell to the king Neither was there any thing doone concerning the affaires apperteining vnto the state without his counsell appointment and direction wherein he so much fauoured and leaned to the partie of the duke of Ireland that he was sore enuied and greatlie hated of diuerse of the rest of the nobilitie speciallie of the kings vncle the duke of Glocester who vpon malice that he bare to the man not so much for his owne demeanour as for his alies and peraduenture for desire of his roomes more than of his life caused him to be accused of diuerse offenses against the crowne realme and church namelie for that he had as they surmized against him spoiled and wasted the kings treasure and withholden the paie of the souldiers and men of warre wherevpon he was arrested called to account hauing no clerke allowed him to make vp the same was found in arrerages 250000 franks And although for one part thereof he demanded allowance of monie which be had
Montacute earle of Salisburie Thomas lord Spenser and the lord William Scroope lord chamberleine In the meane time the king fearing what might be attempted against him by those that fauoured these noblemen that were in durance sent for a power of Cheshire men that might day and night keepe watch and ward about his person They were about two thousand archers paid wéekelie as by the annales of Britaine it appeareth The king had little trust in any of the nobilitie except in his brother the earle of Huntington and the earle of Rutland sonne to the duke of Yorke and in the earle of Salisburie in these onelie he reposed a confidence and not in any other except in certeine knights and gentlemen of his priuie chamber In the meane time whiles things were thus in broile before the beginning of the parlement diuers other beside them of whom we haue spoken were apprehended and put in sundrie prisons The parlement was summoned to begin at Westminster the 17 of September and writs therevpon directed to euerie of the lords to appeare and to bring with them a sufficient number of armed men and archers in their best arraiâ— for it was not knowen how the dukes of Lancaster and Yorke would take the death of their brother nor how other péeres of the realme would take the apprehension and imprisonment of their kinsemen the earles of Arundell and Warwike and of the other prisoners Suerlie the two dukes when they heard that their brother was so suddenlie made awaie they wist not what to saie to the matter and began both to be sorowfull for his death and doubtfull of their owne states for sith they saw how the king abused by the counsell of euill men absteined not from such an heinous act they thought he line 10 would afterwards attempt greater misorders from time to time Therefore they assembled in all hast great numbers of their seruants fréends and tenants and comming to London were receiued into the citie For the Londoners were right sorie for the death of the duke of Glocester who had euer sought their fauour in somuch that now they would haue béene contented to haue ioined with the dukes in seeking reuenge of so noble a mans death procured and brought to passe without law or reason as the common line 20 brute then walked although peraduenture he was not as yet made awaie Here the dukes and other fell in counsell and manie things were proponed Some would that they shuld by force reuenge the duke of Glocesters death other thought it méet that the earles Marshall and Huntington and certeine others as chéefe authours of all the mischeefe should be pursued and punished for their demerites hauing trained vp the king in vice and euill customes euen from his youth But the line 30 dukes after their displeasure was somewhat asswaged determined to couer the stings of their griefes for a time and if the king would amend his maners to forget also the iniuries past In the meane time the king laie at Eltham and had got about him a great power namelie of those archers which he had sent for out of Cheshire in whome he put a singular trust more than in any other There went messengers betwixt him and the dukes which being men of honour did their indeuour line 40 to appease both parties The king discharged himselfe of blame for the duke of Glocesters death considering that he had gone about to breake the truce which he had taken with France and also stirred the people of the realme to rebellion and further had sought the destruction and losse of his life that was his souereigne lord and lawfull king Contrarilie the dukes affirmed that their brother was wrongfullie put to death hauing doone nothing worthie of death At length by the intercession and meanes of those noble line 50 men that went to and fro betwixt them they were accorded the king promised from thencefoorth to doo noâ—hing but by the assent of the dukes but he kept small promise in this behalfe as after well appeared When the time came that the parlement should be holden at Westminster according to the tenour of the summons the lords repaired thither furnished with great retinues both of armed men and archers as the earle of Derbie the earle Marshall the earle of Rutland the lord Spenser the earle of Northumberland line 60 with his sonne the lord Henrie Persie and the lord Thomas Persie the said earles brother also the lord Scroope treasuror of England diuerse other All the which earles and lords brought with them a great strong power euerie of them in their best araie as it were to strengthen the king against his enimies The dukes of Lancaster and Yorke were likewise there giuing their attendance on the king with like furniture of men of armes archers There was not halfe lodging sufficient within the citie suburbes of London for such coÌ„panies of men as the lords brought with them to this parlement called the great parlement in somuâ—h that they were constreined to lie in villages abroad ten or twelue miles on ech side the citie In the beginning of this parlement the king greatlie complained of the misdemeanour of the péeres and lords of his realme as well for the things doone against his will and pleasure whiles he was yoong as for the streit dealing which they had shewed towards the quéene who was thrée houres at one time on hir knées before the earle of Arundell for one of hir esquiers named Iohn Caluerlie who neuerthelesse had his head smit froÌ„ his shoulders all the answer that she could get was this Madame praie for your selfe and your husband for that is best and let this sute alone Those that set foorth the kings greeuances as prolocutors in this parlement were these Iohn Bushie William Bagot and Thomas Gréene The king had caused a large house of timber to be made within the palace at Westminster which he was called an hall couered aboue head with tiles and was open at the ends that all men might see through it This house was of so great a compasse that scarse it might stand within the roome of the palace In this house was made an high throne for the king and a large place for all estates besides to sit in There were places also made for the appellants to stand on the one side and the defendants on the other and a like roome was made behind for the knights and burgesses of the parlement There was a place deuised for the speaker named sir Iohn Bushie a knight of Lincolneshire accompted to be an excéeding cruell man ambitious and couetous beyond measure Immediatlie after ech man being placed in his roome the cause of assembling that parlement was shewed as that the king had called it for reformation of diuerse transgressions and oppressions committed against the peace of his land by the duke of Glocester the earles
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
and search of all secret by-waies sent before all his noble men as though for a certeine familiaritie and kindnesse they should visit and comfort the duke which then for recreation and change of aire laie on the borders and confines of France And secretlie he gaue charge to the earle line 20 of Penbroke which was the leader and conductor of his companie that when they approched the marches and limits of Britaine they should diuert and take the next waie into France The noble men somewhat suspicious of things newlie imagined without any tarieng scowring the waies as fast as their horsses could runne came out of the duchie of Britaine into the duchie of Aniou in the dominion of France where they taried the erles comming which two daies after departed out of line 30 Uannes onelie accompanied with flue seruitors as though he had gone secretlie to visit a familiar friend of his in a small village adioining No man suspected that he would depart considering that a great multitude of Englishmen were left and continued in the citie But after that he had passed directlie fiue miles forward he suddenlie turned into a solitarie wood next adioining where clothing himselfe in the simple coat of his poore seruant made and appointed his said minister leader and maister of his small companie line 40 he as an humble page diligentlie followed and serued his counterfeit gouernor neither resting nor refreshing themselues except the baiting of their horsses till they by waies vnknowne now this way now turning that way came to their companie abiding them in Angiers The fourth day after the earle of Richmond was thus departed that craftie merchant Peter Landoise thirsting still after his preie promised by king Richard was readie to set forward his crew of souldiers line 50 which he priuilie had consigned with certeine trustie capteins for that onelie purpose appointed and elected to performe and atchiue his pretended enterprise dissembling and feining them to be conducted and hired by him to serue the earle of Richmond and him to conduct in his returne toward his natiue countrie meaning no other thing but to apprehend him and the other noble men in his retinue which no such fraud suspected nor yet anie treason imagined vnware and vnprouided and destitute of all aid and line 60 them to cast and commit suddenlie into continuall captiuitie and bondage to the intent that by this his wretched and naughtie act he might satisfie the charitable request and louing desire of good king Richard more for his owne profit than king Richards gaine But when this craftie dissembler Peter Landoise which was no wilier than an old fox perceiued that the earle was departed thinking that to be true that he imagined Lord how currors ran into euerie coast how light horssemen gallopped in euerie street to follow and deteine him if by anie possibilitie hee could be met with and ouertaken and him to apprehend and bring captiue into the citie of Uannes The horssemen made such diligence and with such celeritie set forward their iournie that nothing was more likelie than they to haue obteined yea and seized their preie For the earle of Richmond was not entered into the realme of France scarse one houre but the followers came to the limits and confines of Britaine and durst aduenture no further but vainlie without their desire sorrowfullie returned At which season were left at Uannes about the number of three hundred Englishmen which not being called to counsell and vnware of this enterprise but knowing of the earles sudden departure were so incontinentlie astonied that in maner they were all in despaire both of him and their owne suertie and safegard But fortune turned his saile and otherwise it happened than their feare them incumbered For the duke of Britaine now being somewhat recouered was sore displeased and nothing contented that the earle of Richmond was in his dominion so vncourteouslie vsed and intreated that he should be by fraud and vntruth compelled to leaue and flie out of his duchie and countrie contrarie to his honour Wherfore he tooke verie great displeasure with Peter Landoise his treasuror to whome although he knew not and was ignorant that all the drift was driuen and deuised by him he laid the fault and imputed the crime Herevpon he sent for Edward Wooduile and Edward Poinings valiant esquiers of England and deliuered vnto them monie sufficient for their conduct willing them to conueie the rest of the Englishmen being in Britaine to the erle of Richmonds presence When the earle was thus furnished and appointed with his trustie companie and was escaped all the dangers labirinths and snares that were set for him no maruell though he were iocund and glad of the prosperous successe that happened in his affaires Wherefore least he should séeme to be blotted with the note of ingratitude he sent diuerse of his gentlemen to the duke of Britaine the which should publish and declare to him on the behalfe of the earle that he and his were onelie by his benefit and fauour conserued and deliuered from the imminent danger that they were like to be trapped in Wherefore at that time he rendered vnto him his most hartie thanks in words trusting and not doubting but in time to come liberallie to recompense him with acts and déeds After this the earle tooke his iournie to Charles the French king lieng then at Langes vpon the riuer of Loire to whome after great thanks giuen for manifold pleasures by him to the earle shewed hée disclosed and manifested the cause and occasion of his accesse and repaire to his person After that hée required of him helpe and succour to the intent that by his immortall benefit to him at that time shewed hée might safelie returne vnto the nobilitie of his realme of whome he was generallie called to take vpon him the crown scepter of the realme sith they much hated and abhorred the tyrannie of king Richard King Charles promised him aid and comfort and bade him be of good courage and make good cheare for he assured him that he would gladlie shew to him his beneuolent mind and bountifull liberalitie Which king from thence remooued to Mountargis leading with him the earle of Richmond and all the noble personages of his retinue and faction ¶ This is that Charles the French K. in whose time France was all aflant for the state of that realme is said that then it was verie populous in multitudes of men for wealth and riches euerie particular region most fertile and plentifull for glorie in armes most florishing renowmed a policie well directed discipline administred an authoritie dreadfull and in opinion and hope most mightie lastlie their generall conditions and faculties so well furnished as perhaps it was not more happie in these mortall felicities since the daies of Charlemaine It was newlie amplified in euerie one of the three parts wherein all Gall stood diuided by the ancients for
incontinentlie without delaie to marshall and put in order his battels like a valiant capteine and politike leder and first he made his battels to set forward fiue and fiue in a ranke marching toward that way where his enimies as was to him reported intended to passe In the middle part of the armie he appointed the traffike and cariage perteining to the armie Then he inuironed with his gard with a frowning countenance and cruell visage mounted on a great white courser and followed with his footmen the wings of horssemen coasting and ranging on euerie side and keeping this arraie he with great pompe entered the towne of Leicester after the sunne set full of indignation malice which vttered it selfe from the inward hart by the mouth out of which flowed speaches of horrible heate tempered with cruell threatnings equall to his of whome it was thus said long ago Horrebant saeuis omnia verba minis The earle of Richmond raised his campe and departed from Lichfield to the towne of Tamworth thereto néere adioining and in the mid way passing there saluted him sir Walter Hungerford and sir Thomas Bourchier knights and diuerse other which yeelded and submitted themselues to his pleasure For they being aduertised that king Richard had them in suspicion and gelousie a little beyond stonie Stratford left and forsooke priuilie their capteine Robert Brakenberie and wandering by night and in maner by vnknowne paths and vncerteine waies searching at the last came to earle Henrie Diuerse other noble personages which inwardlie hated king Richard woorse than a tode or a serpent did likewise resort to him with all their power and strength wishing and working his destruction who otherwise would haue béene the instrument of their casting away There happened in this progression to the earle of Richmond a strange chance worthie to be noted For albeit he was a man of valiant courage that his armie increased and dailie more and more he waxed mightier and stronger yet he was not a litle afeard bicause he could in no wise be assured of his father in law Thomas lord Stanleie which for feare of the destruction of the lord Strange his sonne as you haue heard as yet inclined to neither partie For if he had gone to the earle and that notified to king Richard his sonne had béene shortlie executed Wherefore he accompanied with twentie light horssemen lingered in his iournie as a man musing imagining what was best to be doone And the more to aggrauate his pensiuenesse it was shewed him that king Richard was at hand with a strong power a great armie While he thus heauilie dragged behind his host the whole armie came before the towne of Tamwoorth and when he for the deepe darknesse could not perceiue the steps of them that passed on before and had wandered hither thither séeking after his companie and yet not once hearing anie noise or whispering of them he turned to a verie little village being about thrée miles from his armie taking great thought and much fearing least he should be espied and so trapped by king Richards scoutwatch There he taried all night not once aduenturing to aske or demand a question of any creature he being no more amazed with the ieopardie perill that was passed than with this present chance sore feared that it shuld be a prognostication or signe of some infortunate plage afterward to succeed As he was not merie being absent from his armie so likewise his armie much maruelled and no lesse mourned for his sudden absence The next morning earlie in the dawning of the line 10 day he returned and by the conduct of good fortune espied and came to his armie excusing himselfe not to haue gone out of the way by ignorance but that for a policie deuised for the nonce he went from his campe to receiue some glad message from certeine of his priuie fréends and secret alies This excuse made he priuilie departed againe from his host to the towne of Aderston where the lord Stanleie and sir William his brother with their bands were abiding There the erle came first to his father in law in a litle close line 20 where he saluted him and sir William his brother and after diuerse and fréendlie imbracings each reioised of the state of other and suddenlie were surprised with great ioy comfort and hope of fortunate successe in all their affaires and dooings Afterward they consulted togither how to giue battell to king Richard if he would abide whome they knew not to be farre off with an huge host In the euening of the same day sir Iohn Sauage sir Brian Sanford sir Simon Digbie and manie other line 30 leauing king Richard turned and came to the part of the earle of Richmond with an elect companie of men Which refusall of king Richards part by men of such experience did augment and increase both the good hope and the puissance of the earle of Richmond In the meane season king Richard which was appointed now to finish his last labor by the very diuine iustice prouidence of God which called him to condigne punishment for his mischiefous deserts marched to a place méet for two battels to incounter line 40 by a village called Bosworth not farre from Leicester and there he pitched his field on a hill called Anne Beame refreshed his souldiers and tooke his rest The same went that he had the same night a dreadfull and terrible dreame for it séemed to him being asleepe that he did see diuerse images like terrible diuels which pulled and haled him not suffering him to take anie quiet or rest The which strange vision not so suddenlie strake his heart with a sudden feare but it stuffed his head and troubled his mind line 50 with manie busie and dreadfull imaginations For incontinent after his heart being almost damped he prognosticated before the doubtfull chance of the battell to come not vsing the alacritie and mirth of mind and countenance as he was accustomed to doo before he came toward the battell And least that it might be suspected that he was abashed for feare of his enimies and for that cause looked so pitiouslie he recited and declared to his familiar fréends in the line 60 morning his wonderfull vision and fearefull dreame But I thinke this was no dreame but a punction and pricke of his sinfull conscience for the conscience is so much more charged and aggreeued as the offense is greater more heinous in degrée So that king Richard by this reckoning must needs haue a woonderfull troubled mind because the déeds that he had doone as they were heinous and vnnaturall so did they excite and stirre vp extraordinarie motions of trouble and vexations in his conscience Which sting of conscience although it strike not alwaie yet at the last daie of extreame life it is woont to shew and represent to vs our faults and offenses and the paines and punishments which hang ouer our
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
records did sometimes line 30 flow vp to the verie wals of the citie where boats and vessels were woont to be laden and vnladen of all kind of wares and merchandizes at a proper place appointed for the same which at these presents kéepeth his old and ancient name and is called the watergate The decaie thereof hapned about the yeare of our Lord 1312 by one Hugh Courtneie the third of that name and earle of Deuon who being offended and incensed against this citie his wrathfull humor could not be satisfied vntill by some meanes line 40 he did impaire and annoie the state of the common-wealth of the same And séeing that among other commodities the vse of the hauen and watercourse to the citie to be one of the chiefest he was neuer quiet vntill he had destroied the same wherefore minding to performe what he had conceiued he did in the yeare of our Lord 1313 the fift yeare of king Edward the second enterprise begin his pretended deuise and mischéefe And first whereas the ladie Isabella d◠Fortibus countesse line 50 of Aumerle and of Deuon his ancestrix had builded certeine wéers vpon the riuer of Exe the propertie and seignorie whereof did apperteine to the citie the one of the west side of the riuer of Exe in Exminster parish and the other of the east side of the same riuer in the parish of Topesham leauing betwéene the said two wéers a certeine aperture or open space of thirtie foot thorough which all boats and vessels without let or hinderance might haue and line 60 had their vsuall passage and repassage to and from the citie vnto the seas the said earle to abridge and destroie this great benefit and commoditie did leuie and build a new wéere in the said aperture or open roome stopping filling and quirting the same with great trees timber and stones in such sort that no vessell nor vessels could passe or repasse After him Edward Courtneie earle of Deuon and nephue to the said Hugh did not onelie mainteine and continue the dooings of his ancestor by his dailie reparing and defending the same but also to worke an vtter destruction for euer of anie passage or repassage to be had thensefoorth to and from the said citie vnder pretense to build and make certeine mils did erect two other weeres the one at saint Iames ouerthwart the whole riuer and the other at Lampreford by meanes whereof not onelie the citie did susteine the whole losse of the hauen but the whole countrie also was surrounded about it and in processe of time altogither and as it is at these presents couered with salt waters For which gréefs and iniuries vpon complaints made thereof diuerse sundrie writs and commissions of inquirie were awarded and granted by the king and the said earles by sundrie inquisitions and verdicts found giltie And yet notwithstanding such was their power and authoritie and such was the iniquitie of those daies as no iustice could take place nor law haue his due course against them Furthermore also the foresaid Hugh to incroch the gaine and commoditie of the lading vnlading of merchandizes within the port riuer to himselfe did build a keie and a crane in the riuer at his towne of Topesham distant from the citie about thrée miles and by power did inforce and compell all maner of merchants arriuing within that port to vnlade lade all their wares and merchandizes brought within that port to be laden and vnladen there onelie And from thense euer since all wares and merchandizes haue béene caried and recaried to and from the citie by horsse cart and waine though to the gaine of the earle and his tenants yet to the great trouble and hinderance of the citie and merchants of the same Neuerthelesse the port hath euermore and yet dooth kéepe his old and ancient name being called the port of the citie of Excester and alwaies hath béene and presentlie is paied a tribute vnto the citie by the name of the towne custome for all kind of wares and merchandizes discharged within that port or riuer or the members thereof And although the watercourse thus being destroied can hardlie be restored to his old pristinate and naturall estate for that thorough long continuance the old course can not be discerned yet now at length after manie attempts and with great expenses a watercourse and passage begun in the yeare 1564 is recouered and by certeine sluces boats and vessels of fifteene or sixtéene tuns are conueied and brought vp to the citie and there discharged at the old and ancient place called the watergate where is builded a verie faire large keie or wharfe as also an engine called a crane fit for the purpose Within the citie were somtimes but few parish churches vntill the time of Innocentius the third who when in the yeare 1198 he had established the doctrine of transubstantiation and had made it an article of the symbole as appeareth in the decretals Titulo de summa trinitate canone Firmiter then his next successor Honorius the third in the yeare 1218 did not onelie confirme the same but also by decree did establish reseruation candlelight and praieng for the dead as dooth appeare Decret tit de celebratione missarum canone Sane cum Sane cum creatura by which meanes the number of sacrificing massing priests did not onelie increase but churches also and chapels began in all places and euerie where to be builded and erected And among others in this citie in the yeare 1222 and the sixt yeare of king Henris the third the parish churches were limited and increased to the number of ninetéene churches within the citie and suburbs and were called by the name of the christianitie euen to this daie Euerie of which in times past was a sufficient and competent liuing to mainteine a massing sacrificer for such and so great was the blind deuotion of the people then in that Romish religion but the same now being abolished and the gospell preached the liuelihoods are so small as not sufficient for the most part to mainteine a poore clerke or scholar by reason thereof the most part of them doo lie void and vacant without incumbent Besides these parish churches there was also a monasterie sometimes of moonks of saint Benets order but since a cathedrall church being of a verie faire and sumptuous building of fréestone and with beautifull pillers of graie marble It standeth and is situated in the east part of the citie and as some report was first founded and built by king Etheldred the third sonne to king Ethelwolphus Some line 10 thinke that king Edgar did it True it is that euerie of them builded a house for religious persons within this citie of which the one was spoiled and burned by the Danes and the other in processe of time was vnited to the monasterie which is now the cathedrall church But the cathedrall church
attempted anie force or hostilitie against them But the Dane being gone and returned home and knowing nothing of this preparation one Hugh then earle of Deuon as princes lacke no fawners sent his letters into Denmarke to king Sweno certifieng him both of the state and wealth of this citie as also of the great preparation which had bene made to withstand him persuading him not to susteine such an iniurie And as coles will be soone kindled euen so the Dane vpon this aduertisement was in a great heat and foorthwith arreareth his armie and repareth all things in readinesse to crosse the seas anew to worke his will against this citie And accordinglie when time serued in the yeare following line 6 being the yeare of our Lord 1003 he tooke the seas and landed vpon the coasts of Deuon and Cornewall and marched foorthwith to this citie and laid his siege against the same in the beginning of the moneth of August and continued the same vntill the kalends of September during which time were sundrie sharpe fierce and cruell assaults giuen by the Dane and as valiantlie resisted by the citizens But in continuance of time when they saw themselues dailie more and more to be weakened vittels to saile the fire round about them their walles beaten downe themselues slaughtered and murthered and the enimie to increase and be strong and in all these distresses their king Eldred being fled into Normandie to haue no care of them nor to prepare anie rescue aid or helpe for them it was not to be maruelled if in so heauie a distresse they were amazed and astonished And yet considering with themselues that Sweno was a Dane a cruell enimie a line 10 bloudie murtherer an vsurping tyrant hauing no other title to the crowne of England but the sword did with one consent agrée and conclude neuer to yéeld nor giue ouer whilest anie were left liuing able to withstand the same wishing rather to die manfullie for their common wealth than to liue in reproch and infamie and by death to reape an immortall fame than by life to become ignominious infamous and in the end also to be the miserable slaues of a cruell and vsurping tyrant line 20 Whâ—n therefore after manie assaults all or the most part of the ablest men were spent and consumed and none or few left aliue to withstand so mightie and so manie enimies the Dane on the seuen and twentith daie of August with force entered the citie And after that he had serued and satisfied his bloudie appetits in deflowring the women murthering the children and making hauocke of all the people hée spoiled the citie burned the houses rased the walles bet downe the temples and left nothing to be doone line 30 which might by fire sword and spoiles be consumed and this is so witnessed by sundrie writers Reinulph of Chester writeth thus Daci cum suo rege Sweno Excestriam venerunt vrbem funditùs destruxerunt nullare incolumi relicta quae aut serro aut igni vastari poterat omnia spolia cineribus tantùm relictis secum deportauerunt Huntington hath these words Daci ir a exarserunt sicut ignis quem velit aliquis sanguine extinguere aduolantes igitur quasi multitudo locustarum quidam Excestriam venerunt vrbem funditùs destruxerunt omnia spolia cineribus tantùm line 40 relictis secum deportauerunt Houeden thus saith Rex Danorum Sweni periurium proditionem Normannici comitis quem Emma Domnaniae praefecerat ciuitatem Exon infregit spoliauit murum ab orientali vsque ad occidentalem portam destruxit cum ingenti line 7 praeda naues repetijt It was also besieged by William the Conquerour in the first yeare of his reigne Anno 1068. For when he first entered this land and by dint of sword sought the conquest thereof the citizens of this citie and the noble and gentlemen of line 50 all the countrie about entered into one common league conclusion and promise to ioine togither and to withstand the enimie to the vttermost And this confederacie being confirmed by a publike oth preparation on all parts was made accordinglie for the accomplishing of the same But the conquerour hauing preuailed and subdued in a maner the whole land was aduertised that this citie stood vpon their gard and would not yéeld nor submit themselues vnto him Wherevpon he sent his armie from London line 60 and besieged the same and perceiuing the siege to continue marched and came himselfe vnto the same but rather came no further than Salisburie In the meane time the citizens were aduertised how the whole realme had yeelded and seeing also how their confederats did dailie shrinke awaie from them and by that meanes they to grow weaker weaker and therefore the lesse able to withstand so great a force and to keepe out so puissant an armie as was round about them and considering also that small mercie or fauor should they find if the citie by force were taken did by way of intreatie offer submission and desire peace which in the end they obteined and so paâ—eng a grieuous fine they and the citie were restored But yet in token of his conquest the king altered and changed the gates of the castell and tooke an oth of all the citizens to be his liege and true subiects Houeden in his historie maketh mention that Githa king Harolds mother should be within this citie during the time that this siege and assault lasted and perceiuing the bent of the people to submit and yeeld themselues secretlie conueied hirselfe awaie For these be his words Hyeme minuente reâ— Wilhelmus de Normannia in Angliam redijt Anglis importabile tributum imposuit deinde in Dunmoniam hostiliter profectus est ad ciuitatem Excestriam quam ciues nonnulli Anglici ministri contra illum retinebant obsedit inâ—â—egit Githa verò comitissa mater scilicet Haroldi regis Anglorum soror Swani regis Danorum cum multis de ciuitate fugiens euasit Flandriam petijt ciues autem dextris acceptis regi se dederunt Also in the second yeare of king Stephan Anno 1137 the lords and péeres of the realme remembring the oth which they had before made to king Henrie the first to whom they sware line 8 to be true to Mawd the kings onelie daughter and heire and to hir heires and yet contrarie to the same had sworne themselues to king Stephan began to repent themselues consulted how to restore Mawd the empresse and to expell Stephan Wherefore they assembled themselues in armor diuided themselues into sundrie cities townes and castels Among whom one Baldwin Rideuers then erle of Deuon with force entered and tooke this citie But the king so sharpelie followed and pursued him that he draue him from hence into the I le of Wight which was then his lordship But the king when he had receiued the
and apperteining to the treasuror of the cathedrall church After the time of king Athelstane the Danes with great hostilitie and crueltie hauing ouerrun this whole land they also came to this citie and in spoiling the same did also ransacke and spoile the said church whose continuall inuasions the moonks being not able to indure fled and forsooke their house and home and sought places of better safetie By which means this monasterie for sundrie yeares was left destitnted vntill the time of king Edgar who on a time made a progresse into these west parts to visit his father in law Odogarus then earle of Deuon and founder of the abbeie of Tauistoke whose daughter he had married And being come to this citie did here rest and staie himselfe where when he saw the distressed state of the said church pitieng the same caused search and inquirie to be made of the moonks which were scattered and yet left and when he had gotten them togither he restored them vnto their house and liuelihoods and appointed Sidemannus who was afterwards bishop of this diocesse to be abbat of the same And from thensfoorth they continued togither though sometimes in troubles vntill that king Swanus or Sweno the Dane with a mightie and a huge armie came to this citie besieged tooke spoiled and destroied it with sword and fier Howbeit not long after it was restored againe by king Cahutus or Canutus who being aduertised of the great cruelties which his father Sweno had doone to the said monasterie did at the request of Atheldredus one of his dukes make restitution vnto Athelwoldus then abbat of all their lands liuings and priuileges as dooth appeare by his charter dated in the yeare of our Lord 1019. After this about thirtie yeares king Edward the Confessor came to this citie and he by the aduise and at the motion of Leofricus bishop of Crediton and who sometimes was lord chancellor of England vnder the said king and one of his priuie councell partlie for the better safetie of the bishop and his successors who lieng and hauing their houses in the countrie were subiect to manie and sundrie perils and partlie to prouide a more conuenient place for the moonks did remooue the bishops sée from Crediton and remooued the moonks vnto Westminster and he the king in his owne person togither with quéene Edith his wife did install the said Leofricus in possession of this his new church and sée The bishop thus remooued from the old and placed in the new sée and church dooth endow the same with all those lands and liuelihoods which he had of the gift of the said king and which before did apperteine to his former church and to reduce and make his sanctuarie to his mind pulleth downe the two monasteries néere adioining the one being of moonks and the other of nuns and addeth and vniteth them vnto his owne church and hauing brought all things to effect according to his mind deuiseth and maketh lawes orders and ordinances for the good gouernment of his church and cleargie After the death of Leofricus all his successors for the most part procure the augmentation and increase of this their new erected see and church some in liuelihoods some in liberties and priuileges some in buildings and some in one thing and some in another William Warewest the third bishop of this church who had sometimes béene chapleine to the Conqueror and to his two sonnes William and Henrie was in such fauor and good liking with the Conqueror that at his request he gaue vnto him and to this his church Plimpton Brampton and S. Stephans in Excester which gift his said sonnes being kings of England did ratifie and confirme And then the said bishop hauing the ordering and distributing thereof giueth Plimpton to the regular moonkes there for whom he had founded and builded a monasterie and wherein he himselfe shortlie after leauing and yéelding vp his bishoprike became and was a moonke Brampton was reserued to the church and which afterwards was annexed to the deanerie And S. Stephans with the fee to the same apperteining he reserued to himselfe and to his successors whereby they are barons and lords of the parlement This bishop in the yeare of our Lord 1112 first began to inlarge his cathedrall and laid the foundation of that line 10 part which is now the chore or quier for before that time it was no bigger than that which since and now is called the ladie chapell After him William Brewer the bishop made and established in the yeare of our Lord 1235 a deane and a chapter of foure and twentie prebendaries and for the deane whome he appointed and whose name was Serlo and for his successors he gaue and impropriated Brampton and Coliton Rawleigh and for the prebendaries he purchased lands alloting and assigning line 20 to euerie of them Pro pane sale the like portion of foure pounds Peter Quiuell the bishop finding the chancell of his church to be fullie builded and ended beginneth to found and build the lower part or the bodie of his church in the yeare of our Lord 1284 from the chancell of his church vnto the west end of the said church This man first appointed a chanter and a subdeane to be in his church To the one of them he impropriated Paineton and Chudleie and to the other the personage line 30 of Eglosehaile in Cornewall After him Iohn Grandisson in the yeare of our Lord 1340 did increase the length of the bodie of the church from the funt westwards as also vaulted the roofe of the whole church and did fullie end and finish the same And albeit from the time of king Athelstane the first founder in the yeare of our Lord 932 vntill the daie of the death of this bishop Grandisson which was in the yeare 1369 there were about 437 yeares distant and in the meane time this church was continued line 40 in building by sundrie persons yet it is so decentlie and vniformelie compacted as though it had béene builded at one verie time and instant The successour of this Grandisson who was named Thomas Brentingham finished and ended the north tower of the church After this about the yeare of our Lord 1400 and in the time of bishop Stofford the cloister was added to the church and builded at the most part of the charges of the deane and chapiter line 50 And not long after Edmund Lacie bishop began to build the chapiter house which being not ended in his time his next successor George Neuill in the yeare of our Lord 1456 did fullie end and absolue the same and which is a verie faire beautifull and a sumptuous worke And thus much concerning the antiquitie foundation and building of this cathedrall church Thus far Iohn Hooker About the same time that this rebellion whereto all the foresaid discourse tendeth began in the west line
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
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
repaire to them in warlike maner for the defense and suertie of hir maiesties person sometimes affirming their dooings to be with the aduise and consent of the nobilitie of this realme who in deed were wholie bent as manifestlie line 30 appeared to spend their liues in dutifull obedience against them and all other traitors sometimes pretending for conscience sake to séeke to reforme religion sometimes declaring that they were driuen to take this matter in hand least otherwise forren princes might take it vpon them to the great perill of this realme Upon mondaie the thirteenth of Nouember they went to Durham with their banners displaied And to get the more credit among the fauorers of the old line 40 Romish religion they had a crosse with a banner of the fiue wounds borne before them sometime by old Norton sometime by others As soone as they entred Durham they went to the minster where they tare the bible communion bookes other such as were there The same night they went againe to Branspith The fourteenth daie of the same moneth they went to Darington and there had masse which the earles and the rest heard with such lewd deuotion as they had Then they sent their horssemen to gather togither such numbers of men as they could line 50 The fifteenth daie the earles parted he of Northumbeland to Richmond then to Northallerton so to Borowbridge he of Westmerland to Ripon after to Borowbridge where they both met againe On the eighteenth daie they went to Wetherbie and there taried three or foure daies and vpon Clifford moore nigh vnto Bramham moore they mistrusted themselues at which time they were about two thousand horssemen and fiue thousand footmen which was the greatest number that euer they were line 60 From which they intended to haue marched toward Yorke but their minds being suddenlie altered they returned The thrée and twentith of Nouember they besieged Bernards castell which castell was valiantlie defended by sir George Bowes and Robert Bowes his brother the space of eleuen daies and then deliuered with composition to depart with armor munition bag and baggage In which time the quéens maiestie caused the said earles of Northumberland Westmerland to be proclamed traitors with all their adherents and fauourers the foure and twentith of Nouember The lord Scroope warden of the west marches calling vnto him the earle of Cumberland and other gentlemen of the countrie kept the citie of Carleill The earle of Sussex the quéens lieutenant generall in the north published there the like proclamations in effect as had beene published by hir maiestie against the said rebels and also sent out to all such gentlemen as he knew to be hir maiestes louing subiects vnder his rule who came vnto him with such numbers of their friends as he was able in fiue daies to make aboue fiue thousand horssemen and footmen And so being accompanied with the erle of Rutland his lieutenant the lord Hunsdon generall of the horssemen sir Rafe Sadler treasuror the lord William Euers that was after appointed to lead the reareward and diuerse other that with their tenants and seruants were come to him remaining as then within the citie of Yorke he set forward from thense the fift of December being sundaie and marched with his power which he had thus got togither towards the enimies Sir George Bowes hauing surrendred Bernards castell as before ye haue heard met the earle of Sussex thus marching forward with his armie at Sisaie from whence they kept forward to Northallerton and resting two nights there they marched on to Croftbridge then to Akle and so to Durham and after to Newcastell And the twentith of December they came to Heram from whence the rebels were gone the night before to Naworth where they counselled with Edward Dacres concerning their owne weakenesse also how they were not onlie pursued by the earle of Sussex others with him hauing a power with them of seuen thousand men being almost at their héeles but also by the earle of Warwike and the lord Clinton high admerall of England with a far greater armie of twelue thousand men raised by the queens maiesties commissioners out of the south and middle parts of the relme In which armie beside the earle of Warwike the lord admerall chéefe gouernors in the same there was also Walter Deuereux vicount Hereford high marshall of the field with the lord Willoughbie of Perham maister Charles Howard now lord Howard of Effingham generall of the horssemen vnder the earle of Warwike yoong Henrie Knols eldest sonne to sir Francis Knols his lieutenant Edward Horseie capteine of the I le of Wight with fiue hundred harquebusiers out of the same I le and capteine Leighton with other fiue hundred harquebusiers Londoners and manie other worthie gentlemen and valiant capteins The comming forward of these forces caused the rebels so much to quaile in courage that they durst not abide to trie the matter with dint of sword For whereas the earle of Warwike and the lord admerall being aduanced forward to Darington ment the next daie to haue sent Robert Glouer then Portculeis and now Summerset herald who in his iourneie attended on the lord admerall as Norreie king of armes did vpon the earle of Warwike vnto the rebels vpon such message as for the time and state of things was thought conuenient the same night aduertisements came from the earle of Sussex vnto the earle of Warwike and to the lord admerall that the two earles of Northumberland and Westmerland were fled as the truth was they were indéed first from Durham whither the said Glouer should haue béene sent vnto them and now vpon the earle of Sussex his comming vnto Exham they shranke quite awaie and fled into Scotland without bidding their companie farewell The earle of Warwike and his power marched on to Durham But the earle of Sussex pursuing those other rebels that had not meane to flée out of the realme apprehended no small number of them at his pleasure without finding anie resistance among them at all The fourth and fift of Ianuarie did suffer at Durham to the number of thrée score and six year 1570 conestables and others amongst whome the alderman of the towne and a priest called parson Plomtrée were the most notable Then sir george Bowes being made marshall finding manie to be fautors in the foresaid rebellion did sée them executed in diuerse line 10 places of the countrie The one and twentith of Ianuarie a prentise of London was hanged on a gibet at the north end of Finch lane in London to the example of others for that he the thirteenth of December had striken his maister with a knife whereof he died About the later end of Ianuarie Leonard Dacres of Harleseie began to rebell and procured the people of the north parts to assist him so that he raised to the number of thrée thousand men Of
plot was laid for the enterprise of the duke of Guise and that he was willed to conferre with Throckemorton in the matter who therevpon acquainted the said ambassador with the plot of the hauens and with the noble men and gentlemen that he had set downe as fit to be dealt withall in that cause Throckemorton said that the bottome of this enterprise which was not to be knowne to manie was that if a toleration of religion might not be obteined without alteration of the gouernement that then the gouernment should be altered the quéene remoued That the Scotish quéene was made acquainted from the duke of Guise with the intention to relieue hir by these forces It was in debate betweene Throckemorton and the Spanish ambassador how the Scotish quéene might be deliuered as by an enterprise to be made with a certeine number of horsses and it was told Francis Throckemorton by his brother Thomas Throckemorton that it was a principall matter in debate beyond the seas how she might be deliuered with safetie the lacke of resolution wherin was the principall staie of the execution of the attempt of inuasion Mendoza told Francis Throckemorton about Bartholomewtide 1583 that one Mope was come into England to sound the earle of Northumberland and other principall men in Sussex and about the end of September following the same Mendoza told him that Mope was Charles Paget and that he came not onelie to sound the men but to view the places the hauens the prouisions and meanes and néerenesse and commoditie of mens abidings that should ioine with the forren forces It was deuised that such noble men and others as would be contented to assist the forren forces being iustices of peace of credit in their countries might by colour of their authoritie leuie men as for hir maiesties defense and yet emploie them to assist the forren forces The lord Paget was made acquainted with this deuise and answered that it was a good course and that he had thought vpon it before Mendoza told Throckemorton that Charles Paget had béene in Sussex and had spoken with those that were there and that he came to moue the earle of Northumberland and others The night before Throckemorton was apprehended he came to the lord Paget and desired him that he would not acquaint the earle of Northumberland and certeine others whome he named with such matters as had passed betwéene them two touching the practise of this inuasion and the lord Paget willed him to deale as wiselie for his part as he would doo for himselfe and all should be well but quoth the lord Paget the earle of Northumberland knoweth you well enough It was once agreed among the confederats that the duke of Guise should land in Sussex being ouer against Déepe and Normandie which after was misliked because those parts laie too néere to hir maiesties greatest force and store and that the people thereabout for the most part were protestants Maister attourneie shewed further that in summer last there was taken vpon the seas sailing towards Scotland a Scotish Iesuit about whome line 10 there was found a discourse written in Italian of a like enterprise to be attempted against England which should haue beene executed in September or October then last past wherein assurance is made that the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland Dacres that is dead whom they termed lord Dacres and of all the catholike lords and gentlemen in the north parts where the inuasion should haue béene attempted setting it downe that it is not said by coniecture that these men are assured line 20 but that it is certeinlie knowne that they will ioine with the forren forces In the said discourse it is also affirmed that the priests dispersed in the realme can dispose of the other catholikes of the realme as they shall be ordered and that the popes excommunication should be renewed and pronounced against hir maiestie and all those that shall take hir part and that all such should be holden traitors that did not ioine with that armie by a daie When maister attourneie had thus prooued the line 30 purpose of inuasion he procéeded to the proofe of Charles Pagets comming ouer about the practise and prosecution of that enterprise And first that Paget came to Petworth in September 1583 was secretlie receiued and brought in the night laâ—e to the earle of Northumberland into his gallerie at Petworth by one of the earles seruants where the earle and he had secret conference together by the space of a large houre from thense Paget was likewise conueied backe into the towne by the same line 40 seruant and there lodged all that night and the next night following was conueied secretlie to a 〈…〉 And for better proofe thereof it was alleaged by master attorneie that Charles Paget returning from Petworth to the house of one William Dauies néere to the place where Paget had landed in Sussex and tooke shipping againe at his departure beyond the seas sent to William Shelleie esquire residing then at his house at Michelgroue distant about a mile from the house of William Dauies to come vnto him who within few daies before had béene at the lodge at Petworth with the said Paget and now at their méeting in a coppice néere to Dauies house Paget entred into speech and discourse with him of diuers matters and at the last among other things he began to be inquisitiue of the strength and fortification of Portesmouth and what forces and strength hir maiestie had in the other parts westward Paget brake out and declared vnto him that forraine princes would séeke reuenge against hir maiestie of the wrongs by hir doone vnto them would take such time and opportunitie as might best serue them for that purpose and said that those princes disdeined to see the Scotish queene so kept vsed here as she was and would vse all their forces for hir deliuerie that the duke of Guise would be a dealer therin and that the earle of Northumberland would be an assistant vnto them willing Shelleie whatsoeuer should happen to follow the earle of Northumberland affirming that there was not a noble man in England of conduct and gouernment like to the said earle saieng further that the earle of Northumberland was affected to the Scotish quéene would do what he could for hir aduancement that the duke of Guise had forces in a readinesse to be emploied for the altering of the state of religion here in England and to set the forenamed Scotish queene at libertie 〈…〉 awaie the lord Paget grew vpon the apprehension of Throckmorton who being committed to the Tower and charged with high matters was in case to be delt withall by waie of extremitie to be made to confesse the treasons charged vpon him in reuealing whereof Charles Pagets comming to Petworth and the cause of his repaire thither could not be conceled No man at this time within the realme could accuse the
and that the same sundaie morning that the earle murthered himselfe at night he saw the dag lieng vnder the earles beds head The dag was bought not manie daies before of one Adrian Mulan a dagmaker dwelling in east Smithfield as by the said Mulan was testified Viua voce vpon his oth in the open court at the time of the publike declaration made of these matters in the Starchamber All these particularities considered with the depositions and proofs of the witnesse concerning the earles death first how he came by the dag secondlie how long he had kept the same and in what secret maner thirdlie the earles bolting of his chamber dore in the inside fourthlie the blow of the dag fiftlie the breaking vp of the earles chamber doore by the lieutenant of the Tower and lastlie the finding of the earle dead as aforesaid what is he so simple that will thinke or imagine or so impudent and malicious that will auouch and report that the earle of Northumberland should haue béene murthered of purpose by practise or deuise of anie person affecting his destruction in that manner If men consider the inconuenience happened thereby as well in matter of state as commoditie to the quéenes maiestie lost by the preuention of his triall who can in reason coniecture the earle to haue béene murthered of policie or set purpose as the euill affected line 10 séeme to conceiue If the earle had liued to haue receiued the censure of the law for his offenses all lewd and friuolous obiections had then béene answered and all his goods cattels and lands by his atteindor had come vnto hir maiestie and the honour and state of his house and posteritie vtterlie ouerthrowne the consideration and feare whereof appeareth without all doubt to haue béene the principall and onelie cause that made him laie violent hands vpon himselfe If line 20 obiections be made that to murther him in that sort might be a satisfaction to his enimies who could be pacified by no meanes but with his bloud that séemeth to be as improbable for that it is commonlie discerned in the corrupt nature of man that when we are possessed with so profound a hatred as to seeke the death of our enimie we imagine and wish his destruction to be had with the greatest shame and infamie that can be deuised thinke you not then that if the earle of Northumberland had anie line 30 such enimie that knew the danger wherein he stood and that his triall and conuiction by law would draw vpon him the losse of his life lands and goods fame honor and the vtter subuersion of his house would be so kindharted vnto him as to helpe to take awaie his life onelie saue him all the rest I suppose there is no man of iudgement will beléeue it But to returne to the maner of the earles death It was declared by the lord Hunsdon and the lord chiefe baron that the dag wherewith the earle murthered line 40 himselfe was charged with thrée bullets and so of necessitie with more than an ordinarie charge of powder to force that weight of bullets to worke their effect The earle lieng vpon his backe on the left side of his bed tooke the dag charged in his left hand by all likelihood laid the mouth of the dag vpon his left pap hauing first put aside his wastecote and his shirt being onelie betwéene the dag and his bodie which was burnt awaie the breadth of a large hand discharged the same wherewith was made line 50 a large wound in his said pap his heart pearsed and torne in diuerse lobes or péeces thrée of his ribs broken the chinebone of his backe cut almost in sunder and vnder the point of the shoulder blade on the right side within the skin the thrée bullets were found by the lord Hunsdon which he caused the surgion in his presence to cut out lieng all three close togither within the breadth and compasse of an inch or thereabout the bullets were shewed by his lordship at the time of the publication made in the court at the Starchamber line 60 And whereas it hath béene slanderouslie giuen out to the aduantage of the earle as the reporters suppose that he was imprisoned kept in so streict narrow and close roome with such penurie of aire and breath that thereby he grew sickelie and wearie of his life and that to haue béene the cause chieflie why he murthered himselfe if it were so that he died by the violence of his owne hand which they hardlie beléeue To answer that péeuish and senselesse slander there was much spoken by the lord chiefe baron who had viewed and caused verie exactlie to be measured the chambers and roomes within the prison where the earle laie being part of hir maiesties owne lodging in the Tower The particular length and breadth of the said chambers rooms and the qualitie of the lights and windows expressed by the said lord chiefe baron I can not repeat but well I doo remember it was declared that all the daie time the earle had the libertie of fiue large chambers and two long entries within the vtter doore of his prison thrée of which chambers and one of the entries laie vpon two faire gardens within the Tower wall and vpon the Tower wharfe with a pleasant prospect to the Thames and to the countrie more than fiue miles beyond The windowes were of a verie large proportion yéelding so much aire and light as more cannot be desired in anie house Note therefore how maliciouslie those that fauour traitors and treasons can deliuer out these and the like slanderous spéeches to the dishonor of hir maiestie noting hir councellors and ministers with inhumanitie and vncharitable seueritie contrarie to all truth and honestie When the lord chiefe baron had finished this discourse of the manner of the earles death with the circumstances and had satisfied the court and auditorie concerning the qualitie of the prison where the earle had remained sir Christopher Hatton knight hir maiesties vicechamberlaine who as it séemed had béene speciallie imploied by hir maiestie among others of hir priuie councell in the looking into and examining of the treasons aforesaid aswell in the person of the earle as of others and at the time of the earles commitment from his house in S. Martins to the Tower of London sent vnto him from hir maiestie to put the earle in mind of hir maiesties manifold graces and fauors in former times conferred vpon him procéeding from the spring of hir maiesties princelie and bountifull nature and not of his deseruings and to aduise him to deliuer the truth of the matters so cléerelie appearing against him either by his letters priuatlie to hir maiestie or by spéech to maister vicechamberlaine who signified also vnto him that if he would determine to take that course he should not onlie not be committed to the Tower but should find grace fauor at hir maiesties hands
which doo reach to a faire chamber at the vpper end whereof on high was placâ—d a cloth of estate in the middest of which were the armes of England and against them my lord was seated on each side of him two steps descending line 40 sat twelue of the principall states below them sat the residue to the number of twentie right before my lord but foure or fiue steps descending On the right hand of my lord did stand the prince of Portugall next him the lord Morleie next master Norris gouernor of Munster next sir William Russell and sir Robert Germin with diuerse men of great account On the left hand of my lord did stand the Graue Morris next the earle of Essex sir William Stanleie sir Robert Stapleton and sir Thomas line 50 Parrat with diuers others of great account Thus being placed a Dutchman made a large oration in Dutch declaring the causes of the matter in hand with thanks to the quéenes maiestie and the lord lieutenant Then was read in Latine the couenants betwéene the states the queene and my lord this doone the couenants were deliuered to my lord which he deliuered to the states and the states deliuered an other to him then was my lord demanded to vow line 60 the same by oth who holding his hand to heauen did sweare to the couenants The like did the states holding vp their hands vow to performe Then againe were the states sworne to the queene and my lord hir lieutenant in those affaires This doone my lord gaue to them seuerall thanks and they seuerallie did giue to him the like which being doone my lord passed through to his chamber the trumpets all sounding before him And héere as matter of conueniencie requireth we purpose to touch the peremptorie authoritie committed to the said lord lieutenant by common consent of the states being as followeth in the placard A placard conteining the authoritie giuen by the states of the low countries vnto the mightie prince Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh c for the gouernment of the said low countries translated out of Dutch into English as followeth THe generall states of the vnited prouinces of the low countries to all those which shall sée or heare these present writings health and dilection Euen as it hath pleased hir maiestie of England mercifullie to send ouer into these countries the high and mightie prince and lord lord Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh and one of the priuie councell knight of the noble order of the garter and not onlie to admit and institute his excellencie as chéefe head aboue all militarie souldiers on horse or foot which hir maiestie hath sent or shall send ouer hereafter into these countries to the end to assist vs with counsell aid aduise according to his great experience policie and wisedome in the direction of publike affaires of the land as well touching the feates of warre as other waies in conseruation of all that which most tendeth to the profit of the foresaid land to bring backe and reduce the same into such good order and rule as it hath béene in times past to the end that so much the better and orderlie he maie resist the force and tyrannie of our enimies and to frustrate all his practises but also besides this to honour and inrich his foresaid excellencie with greater authoritie might and commandement aboue all hir maiesties admerals and viceadmerals and ships of war to command them all to emploie them to the seruice of these countries and in such order as his excellencie shall find néedfull for the same countrie and that his excellencie following hir maiesties commandement desirous to shew the effect of the good will and affection which he beareth to these affaires and to the preseruation of the same and also of the true christian religion and hath imploied himselfe so willinglie in the foresaid matters that his excellencie for that onlie cause hath left and abandoned his natiue countrie and goods and transported himselfe hitherward amongst vs so that hir maiestie and his excellencie could neuer haue doone or shewed vnto vs a greater benefit than this Therefore are we resolued with good and ripe deliberation to certifie all men by these presents that we haue desired accepted and authorised the foresaid mightie and honorable prince lord Robert earle of Leicester c to be our gouernor and generall captaine ouer all the vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same And we giue vnto his excellencie besides the authoritie of hir maiestie giuen vnto him the highest and supreme commandement and absolute authoritie aboue and in all matters of warfare by sea and by land to execute administrat the same to the resistance of the enimie euen as his excellencie shall thinke most commodious to the preseruation of these countries and so further to doo all such things as apperteine to the office of a generall capteine And furthermore we commit the administration vse of policie and iustice ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same into his hands to execute and administrat the same with such power and authoritie as haue had in times past all the other gouernors of these low countries before him and especiallie as haue béene exercised and lawfullie administred in the time of Charles the fift reserued onelie the lawes and priuileges of the foresaid countries also with especiall power to collect profits and receiue and administrat all the contributions which are agreed and condescended or shall hereafter be consented or agréed to the maintenance of the warres and also that which is or shall be deliuered hereafter into his excellencies hands and this all according to the vertue of other letters and missâ—ues written more at large touching the same agreement All which former charge and commission his excellencie through our earnest desire hath accepted and hath deliuered solemne oth and assurance into our hands first of all for the preseruation line 10 of the true christian religion and maintenance of the priuileges and rights of these lands and prouinces members and cities of the same We therefore ordeine and command all gouernors of prouinces and cities all admerals and viceadmerals all officers coroners capteins their officers and souldiors by sea and land and furthermore all other councellors officers treasurors receiuers bailiffs burgomaisters marshals magistrats gentlemen burgers other inhabitants subiects of line 20 these lâ—nds of what qualitie or condition soeuer that they euerie of them doo acknowledge his foresaid excellencie in the qualitie of gouernement and capteine generall ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces to honor respect and obeie him as they ought to doo without making anie difficultie in dooing the same vpon paine of falling in the displeasure and anger of his excellencie and to be punished according to the heauines of the fault and as reason shall require And to the end
which were a fiftie halberds in scarlet clokes garded with purple and white veluet He being thus honourablie brought vnto the church after due reuerence doone vnto the line 30 quéenes maiesties estate which was there erected on the right hand he tooke his owne stall on the left by certeine degrees lower Then began praiers and a sermon made by maister knewstubs my lords chapleine after which my lord procéeded to the offering first for hir maiestie then for himselfe the which he performed with such decorum princelie behauiour that all generallie spake most honorablie of him These solemnities being doone his lordship returned line 40 as he came leauing behind him the earle of Essex and certeine gentlemen to accompanie the princes and the ladies of the court His court was a faire and large house belonging in times past to the knights of the Rhodes in which was a verie great hall richlie hoong with tapistrie at the vpper end whereof was a most sumptuous cloth and chaire of estate for the quéens maiestie with hir armes and stile thereon and before it a table couered with all things so requisit as if in person she had beene there line 50 on the left hand almost at the tables end was my lords trencher and stoole for he would haue no chaire The tables being couered all degrees assembled my lord before the estate of hir maiestie knighted a Dutch gentleman called sir Martin Skinke for his manifold seruices doone to his countrie the which doone the vshers marshalled the feast At the table on the right side of the hall sat the yoong prince of Portingall the prince elector and his wife the princesse Semeie the earle of Essex the Graue Morris line 60 and his ladie betwéene euerie ladie was an English lord or knight placed On the left side sat the states and chéefe burgers of the towne and the grand prior of Amerford who came to see the feast was by my lords appointment placed vppermost at that table Then began the trumpets to sound in the seruice which was most princelike abundant serued on the knée carued tasted to hir maiesties trencher To prosecute the sumptuousnesse statelinesse and varietie of deuises in seruice at this banket requireth a discourse of manie lines and therefore leauing it to the imagination of the reader hauing relation to the former we will heare surcease remembring thus much to the honour of the lord lieutenant that sundrie militarie exploits or stratagems were with no lesse magnanimitie attempted than with felicitie atchiued against the enimie during the time of his abode in those countries which it were better vtterlie to omit than not with conuenient dignitie to record being heerein semblablie affected to his honour as sometimes was the poet Horace to Agrippa Qui sibi non conuenire tam sublime argumentum asseuerabat proinde Varium poetam rectiùs scripturum eius praeclara facinora dicebat qui ad Homericam foelicitatem proximè accedere videbatur And now to leaue him in the hands of God vpon whome dependeth his honours hope we will héere leaue the netherlands and approach to matters of England On the one and twentith daie of this Ianuarie two seminarie préests before arreigned and condemned were drawne to the Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered Also on the same daie a wench was burnt in Smithfield for poisoning of hir aunt and mistresse and also attempting to haue doone the like wicked offense to hir vncle On the second daie of Februarie or the feast of the purification of our blessed ladie doctor Iohn Whitegift archbishop of Canturburie William lord Cobham lord warden of the fiue ports and Thomas lord Buckhurst were chosen and taken to be of hir maiesties priuie councell the two first to wit the archbishop and the lord Cobham were sworne the same daie and the third on the next morrow And here as in other places of these chronicles where we haue set downe certeine collections of right worthie personages in high calling and verie honourable office we are lead by some reason to deliuer a catalog of the names at least of such archbishops as haue successiuelie possessed the metropolitan see of Canturburie therein implieng their antiquitie and authoritie c and from thense proceed to saie somewhat of the lord Cobhams and lord wardens of the cinque ports as a matter of some consequence by means of the mutuall aduancement at one instant which hir highnesse of speciall grace vouchsafed them both And to begin with Canturburie being first named you shall vnderstand that Augustine the moonke according to the receiued opinion of chronographers was the first archbishop which occupied that metropolitan sée next whome sucéeded one Laurentius then Melitus Iustus Honorius Deusdedit Theodorus Brightwaldus Tatwinus Nothelmus Cutbertus Beguinus Lambertus Athelardus Wilfredus Theologildus Athelredus Plegmundus Athelmus Wolfelmus Odo Seuerus Dunstanus Ethelgarus Siricius Aluricius Elphegus Liuingus Agelnothus Edsinus and so forward with the residue before and after the conquest which being multiplied by vnities doo make vp the complet number of thrée score and twelue Where by the waie we might touch the varietie of their names sith authors therein doo dissent as also the time wherein they liued and flourished with some commemoration of their acts and deeds both in church and commonwealth But this kind of discourse being ecclesiasticall is vnproper for this secular historie wherefore labouring no further therein we will remit the reader to such authors as Ex professo haue amplie treted of that argument minding now by waie of note in a few lines to touch the thrée late primats as they haue succéeded ech other since the coronation and regiment of hir maiestie the first of whom was Matthew Parker whose predecessor Reg. Poole dieng he was aduanced and inioied the same aduancement certeine yeares hauing béen the seuentith archbishop of that see during which time he did much good diuerse waies deseruing well not onelie of the church but also of the commonwealth But hauing spoken elsewhere of this man we will here staie our course concluding this collection of archbishops in their successions with the two reuerend diuines and doctoâ—s the one Edmund Grindall late deceased the other Iohn Whiâ—egift now liuing of whom no more but silence for vertue dooth sufficientlie commend hâ—r selfe Now order would that we should descend into a discourse of the lord Cobhams lord wardens of the cinque ports remembred before page 1435 a 10 but herein the line 10 reader is patientlie to put vp the disappointment of his expectation vpon supposall of some reasonable impediment whie the same was not satisfied And now to the course of our historie orderlie to be continued ¶ In this yeare 1586 certeine of the lords of hir maiesties most honoraâ—le priuie councell made an appointment to haue met at Douer to surueie a notable peece of worke there latelie performed about the hauen to the benefit of the whole
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
for his person both by water and by land the quéens maiesties barges and seruants imploied about him to from London the court then being at Gréenwich whither alwaies when he came the nobilitie of England failed in no point of courtesie that might be shewed which he séemed as he could no lesse verie acceptablie to take Now being in England and in the English court he might and no doubt did marke the magnificence of hir maiestie in all respects admirable Whereof a notable president was giuen in Whitsunweeke at what time the said ambassador being at the court was accompanied with certeine English lords to hir highnesse chapell and placed not far from hir excellencie did heare diuine seruice so melodiouslie said and soong both by voice and instruments of consort as a man halfe dead might thereby haue béene quickened The gentlemen of the chapell with the rest of the quier bending themselues both with skill and zeale that daie to honour their prince according to their place The bishop of Salisburie and others distinctlie reading part of diuine seruice and in presence of all the auditorie dooing such obeisance with knée and countenance as the presence of so gratious a souereigne as they had in their eies did require Now when this solemnitie was ended hir maiestie departed and so did the ambassador attended vpon and accompanied vnto the place appointed for dinner where standing néere vnto a faire window fronting into the open court he might being in communication now with one and then with another English lord as the L. Charles Howard L. admerall the lord Cobham lord warden of the cinque ports c behold the roiall seruice of hir maiestie verie personable gentlemen thereto sorted carieng couered dishes all of siluer and gilt verie beautifull themselues in veluet and silke sutable in ech respect and as decentlie made so decentlie worn the trumpets sounding and the drums plaieng therevnto a maruellous delightsome thing to heare a passing gallant sight to behold When dinner was doone the ambassador was made partaker of such courtlie recreations as for that time were fit wherewith he could not but be pleasantlie conceipted considering that as euerie thing was doone with purpose to delight so he with others must needs be accordinglie affected And as the better sort had their conuenient disports so were not the ordinarie people excluded from competent pleasure For vpon a gréene verie spatious and large where thousands might stand and behold with good contentment there bearebaiting bulbaiting tempered with other merrie disports were exhibited whereat it cannot be spoken what pleasure the people tooke Now the daie being far spent and the sun in his declination the pastimes ended and the actors therein wearie the ambassador withdrew vnto his lodging by barge to Crosbies place where no doubt this daies solemnitie was thought vpon and talked of if not by him yet by his traine and perhaps as like enough of both Now after this and manie other English courtesies else where verie bountifullie giuen and taken the ambassador after the finishing of such affaires as he was put in trust withall taking his leaue both of the court citie and countrie returned towards Denmarke on the thirtith line 10 daie of Maie next following whome we will leaue vpon his voiage and touch other matters happening at home In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred foure score and six and on the fourth daie of Iune a commission was directed from the quéens maiestie then at Gréenewich tending to the ratification of a firme league of amitie betwéene the two mightie princes Elisabeth queene of England and Iames the sixt of that name king of Scots vpon certeine line 20 causes necessarie and important the reigne and gouernement of the said princes happening in so doubtfull and dangerous times wherein the princes néere adioining who will be called catholike agnising the popes authoritie by mutuall leagues doo knit friendship for the rooting vp and throwing out of the true pure and sincere religion of the gospell not onelie out of their owne territories and dominions but also out of other forrein kingdoms and thereto haue obliged their faith line 30 Least they therefore that loue the religion of the gospell should seeme lesse carefull for the defense and supportation thereof than they which earnestlie indeuour to mainteine and vphold that of Rome least it should be ouerthrowne the said princes for the greater secuâ—itie of their persons vpon whose safetie the safetie of the whole people dooth depend and for the preseruation of the true ancient and christian religion which they now professe haue thought good that a stricter bond of a mutuall and sociall league than at anie time hitherto hath béene line 40 agreed vpon betweene their maiesties progenitors should now be substantiallie concluded This league was articulated and commissioners thereto appointed the right honorable Edward earle of Rutland a complet noble man answerable to the â—tymon of his name and verie well deseruing the poets report nomen virtutilus aequat Nec â—init ingenium nobilitate premi the lord William Euers and also Thomas Randolph esquier who with their traine of attendants line 50 came to Berwike the ninetéenth of Iune where the ambassadors of Scotland being in like sort present they accomplished the matter whereto they were commissionated the articles of the said league in all and euerie part sufficientlie confirmed on the fift of Iulie All which being dispatched the said earle of Rutland with his traine returned This ambassage is reported in the historie of Scotland wherevnto for the auoiding of tautologie we refer the reader line 60 In the moneth of Iulie a verie dangerous conspiracie was discouered tending to the subuersion of the state and lamentable confusion of all things wherein as the turbulent spirited did what they could to procéed so it pleased God the author of peace to intercept them in the plot of their mischéefous deuise and to ouerthrow them in their owne imagined nets Ringleaders in this pretended treason were certeine gentlemen and others of whome hereafter by particular name we will speake who had waded and ventured so far therein that vpon the notice thereof as God will suffer no such attempts to lie long vndetected order was taken for a verie strict inquirie and search vniuersallie to be made for their apprehension which was accordinglie executed in so much that the conspirators distressed and succorles were put to verie hard shifts by this inquisition and pursuâ—e and in fine apprehended to the great reioising of the citizens of London diuerslie testified as with bonfiers making merrie in the streets at square and round tables singing of psalmes marching about their fiers with tabber anâ— pipe and giuing manie a showt that the aire rang withall In so much that the consideration thereof did so worke in hir highnesse as herevpon a thing rare in a prince she directed letters of thanks to the citie
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
232 b 40 Whie disherited 232 b 50 Write to Henrie the third to take their part against the French 210 a 50. Preferred to clergie mens roomes and liuings 9 a 10. Rebell against duke William beyond the sea and soone subdued 10 b 60 Their fashion and guise taken vp of the English 5 b 10 They hate the nobles euen in the time of peace 6 a 20. Lieng in garrison at Yorke and their dismall daie 6 b 60 7 a 10. Pursued and slaine by the English 6 b 30. Giue the Danes the discomfiture 7 a 40. Haue the nobilitie communaltie in bondage 1 b 50 Plaie the diuels in wasting spoiling 17 a 60. Slaine by the English at Worcester 17 b 10. Their line touching the heires male in whom ceased 46 b 10. ¶ Seé William duke of Normandie Norris generall with thrée and twentie ensignes 1350 b 20 Taketh the sconse of Lite 1431 b 60. Other exploits by him doone against the enimie 1432 a 10 c. b 30 Northhampton besieged 185 a 50. Taken by force 266 b 50 Northcountries pitifullie wasted by duke William 7 b 40 Northerne men discomfit the Welshmen 672 b 20. Spoile the towne of saint Albons their valiantnes note 660 a 50. Rebellion and how suppressed 942 a 10 c. 943 a 10 Northerne prickers plaie the men 818 a 60 Northumberland an erledome 1 a 30. Rebelleth against duke William is subdued 6 b 10 Taken in possession of the Scots 53 b 30. ¶ Sée Malcolme Northumbers ouer whom duke William placeth and displaceth diuerse nobles 13 a 20 Kill Robert Cumin and his companie 6 b 30 Nortons ¶ Sée Rebels of the north Norwich how ancient 1289 a 40. Besieged by the Normans 11 b 30. Sacked 272 b 10. Sorelie defaced with fire 796 a 10. In commotion their liberties seized into the kings hands 626 a 60 b 10 Notingham taken by the erle of Derbie 92 a 20. The castell 6 a 40. How seated 60 b 50 Nouencourt yéelded to Richard the first 146 b 10 Nowell Henrie ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Nun. ¶ Sée Christine Nuns incontinencie and displaced out of their house 100 a 10. Not to be godmothers 30 b 50 Nunries ¶ Sée Abbeis and Religious houses O. OBedience and what rigorous means duke William vsed to reduce the English therunto 5 b 10 c. 6 a 40 Of erle Richard to his father Henrie the second 109 a 60. Of the church of Scotland to the church of England 97 b 10 Occasion taken to inuade England note 19 b 10 Taken of an inuasion 212 b 40 50 Odo bishop of Baieux gouernor of England in duke Williams absence 5 a 10 In armes against the earle of Cambridge 11 a 50. Conspireth against his nephue William Rufus 17 a 20. Erle of Kent 13 a 60.18 a 60. In arms against king Williams freends in Kent 17 a 30. Is sent into Northumberland to reuenge Walkâ—ers death 12 b 20. Glad to submit himselfe for lacke of vittels 18 a 10 Lost his liuings in England and returneth into Normandie 18 a 10 Offendors couer their faults with contrarie causes 1358 b 60 Offense ¶ Sée Punishment Officer of the maior of London chosen shiriffe and lord maior 764 b 60. ¶ Sée Purueior Sargent Officers called to accounts and of their â—raudulent dealing 149 a 10. Go beyond their commission note 139 a 60 Of king Iohn oppresse the people 183 b 50. About Henrie the seuenth abuse the common people extremelie 792 b 10. The cause of manie mens vndooing and other trouble 794 b 10. Changed throghout the realme 645 b 60. Chosen by sound aduise 543 b 40. Of the king of Spaine full of tyrannicall lordlinesse villanie 1335 a 50. New made 509 b 40. Called to accounts and restitution made out of hand with interest 215 a 30. In displeasure with king Henrie for their deceit 216 b 40. Called to accounts how they had spent the kings treasure 218 b 50. Punished for negligent looking to prisoners 228 b 30 Appointed in an vprore 273 a 30. Displaced and others placed 466 b 40 60. Committed to the Tower and new made in place of old discharged note 360 b 40 50 60. Complained of to king Edward the third and punished 369 b 10. ¶ Sée Excheker and Iustices Offices set to sale for monie 142 b 40. Clamed at the coronation of Henrie the fourth 510. a 20 Oldcastell knight accused of heresie scapeeth out of the Tower 544 a 20 50. Shifteth from place to place he is laid in wait for to be taken 560 a 60. Taken and wounded executed 561 b 20 40 Oneile the great of Ireland made knight 808 a 50 Opportunitie taken by the Welshmen to inuade England 21 b 10. Not to be neglected 694 a 30. ¶ Sée Occasion Oppression punished note 256 b 20. Of the poore communaltie whereto it grew ¶ Sée Cursses Empson Extortion Officers Orange prince commeth into England 1126 b 20. Taketh order for the interteinment of the duke of Alanson 1330. Oration of the earle Baldwine to king Stephans armie 52 b 50. Of the French king to a great assemblie he sitting in his roialties 904 b 40 c. Of the duke of Yorke made vnto the lords of parlement 655 b 20. Of prince Edward to the French king taken prisoner 390 a 30. Of the archbishop of Canturburie after the deposing of Richard the second 506 a 10 c Of the bishop of Elie lord chancellor to the lords of the parlement house note 459 b 40. Of earle Marshall of Penbroke in the assemblie of peeres 197 a 40. Of queene Eliâ—abeth which she made to the parlement house note 1396 a 50 c. Of the deputie of the states of the low countries vnto quéene Elisabeth note 1411 a 60 b 10 c 1412 a 10 c. In Latine and English of a Dutch minister to quéene Elisabeth being in Norwich 1293 a 40 b 50. Of quéene Elisabeth to the vniuersitie in Latine 1206 b 60 1207 a 10 c. Of quéene Elisabeth by waie of answer in the parlement house touching a motion of marriage 1181 â— 40 c. Of Henrie the fift to the king of France 576 a 10. Of the duke of Buckingham to the maior of London aldermen and commoners in the Guildhall 728 a 60 b 10 c. Of Henrie the seuenth to his armie 757 a 60. Of king Edward the fourth lieng on his dethbed note 713 a 50 c. 708 b 50. Of a French herald to Edward the fourth vttered with boldnesse of face and libertie of toong 695 b 40 Of the French king to an English herald giuing him defiance 695 b 60 696 a 10. c. Of Faber summarilie set downe 894 b 50. Of Empson to find fauor 803 b 60. Of Henrie the eight in the parlement house 971 a 20 c. Of the French king before an honorable assemblie and fauoring of displeasure 902 b 60. Of sir Thomas Moore in the parlement house 910 b 10 c. Of two heralds to the
Or rather Goche * Or rather Goche The skirmish betweene the citizens and the rebels vpon London bridge Matthew Goche famous for his acts abroad now slaine on LoÌ„doÌ„ bridge A staie by assent ProclamatioÌ„ of pardon dispersed the rebels Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 661 662. in Quart Capteine of Kent taken beheaded Abr. Fl. ex I. St. 663 664. The bishop of Salisburie murthered A fray in LoÌ„don against the maior The 〈…〉 Arminack a open 〈◊〉 Through dissention at home all last abroad All lost in France Abr. Fl. ex 〈…〉 sub Heâ— 6. Anno Reg. 30. Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell The king receiued into Excester The bishop his cleargie against the K. and the duke of Summerset c. in defense of their ecclesiasticall priuilege The duke of Yorke maketh claime to the crowne 〈◊〉 Stow. WhethaÌ„sted The duke of yorke raiseth a power for recouerie of his right to the crowne Whethamsted The dukes answer to the kings mesage Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 666 667. in Quart Whethamsted The duke of Yorks reconciliation to the king The duke of Yorke accuseth the duke of SuÌ„merset A mutuall charge betweene the two dukes Yorke Summerset of hiâ— treason Destinie cannot be auoided Occasion that set the duke of Yorke frée Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 671 672. in Quart Anno Reg. 31. 1453 The French people soone wearie of the French gouernment The valiant earle of Shrewesburie and his son 〈◊〉 fullie slaine Burdeaux yeelded againe to the French Aquitaine lâ—â—t The dignitie and state of that dukedome The quéene deliuered of hir son prince Edward Abr. Fl. ex I. Sâ— pag. 673. The maior shiriffes and aldermen resisted and abused in a â—raâ—e neére Clerkenwell Fr. Thin Anno Reg. 32. 1454 * In a tretise hereafter following The duke of Yorke séeks the destructioÌ„ of the duke of Summerset He banded himselfe with the Neuils The issue of Richard earle of Salisburie W. P. Anno Reg. 33. The duke of Summerset aâ—rested The king sicke Whethamsted The duke of Summersâ—t set at libertie Made deputie of Calis The duke of Yorke assembled an armie Whethamsted The king with two thousand The duke with thrée thousand Abr. Fl. 〈…〉 pag. 〈…〉 677. in 〈◊〉 Whethamsted The duke of Buckingham sent to the duke of Yorke The duke of Summerset burdned with all things that had happened aâ—isse w. P. The first battâ—ll of saint â—â—bons Whâ—thamsted Edw. Hall The duke of Summerset slaine Thomas lord Clifford saith Whethamsted The kings part vanquished Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 678 679. in Quart Battell of S. Albons on thursday the 23 of Maie Anno Reg. 33. Foure of theÌ„ to wit the duke of SuÌ„merset the earle of Northumberland and the lord Clifford were buried in our ladie chapell Whethamsted Iohn Hooker alià s Vowell A parlement Whethamsted Collaterall A letter kept from the king of purpose The duke of Yorkes comming against the king iustified The duke of Yorke made protector of the realme The king to reigne in name but noâ— in authoritie WhethaÌ„sted An act for the K. to râ—uoke certeine grants Shifting of officers Henrie duke of Summerset The duke of Yorke discharged of his office In vprore in the citie of London A foule disorder A common councell called Abr. Fl. ex I. S. 681. Fabian Anno Reg. 35. Sandwich spoiled by the French Fulnaie The Scots inuade England The lord Egremond committed to Newgate He made an escape A practise to haue intrapped the duke of Yorke Anno Reg 36. 1458 The bishop abiured for moouing against the popes extortion W. P. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 682 68â— 684 685 686. in Quart The quéene atturni◠〈◊〉 〈…〉 the Tower of London The péeres of the realme called to a 〈◊〉 The prouidence of the citie for safegard of peace The lords are brought to agree The clergie were sure in those daies to loose nothing by these contentions how soeuer the world went The lord Egremonâ— They were shiriffes an 1456. A solemne procession at Paules Anno Reg. 37. W. P. The earle of Warwikâ— assaulted The quéenâ—â— purpose Whethamsted The earle of Warwike lord admerall A rich prise Abr. Fl. ex â—â— pag. 686 687. Printing 〈◊〉 inuented It rained bloud Anno Reg. 38. The earle of Salisburie gathereth a power Thrée thousand â—aith Whethamsted The lord Audelie Whethamsted Bloreheath The 23 of September Policie oft times passeth 〈◊〉 The lord Audelie slaine The number slaine in the battell of Bloreheath The earle of Salisburies sonne apprehended The duke of Yorke assembleth an armie Andrew Trollop Iohn Blunt The king raiseth an armie Whethamsted The bishop of Salisburie sent to the duke of Yorke and others Their answer touching the pardon offred A letter from the lords to the king A proclamation Andrew Trollop forsaketh the lords Whethamsted The estimation of Andrew Trollop The duke of Yorke and his complices 〈◊〉 The lords proclamed traitors The duke of Summerset made capteine of Calis â—â—stie heading Iohn Dinham The lord Riuers taken Iohn Stow. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 692. Sir Baldwine Fulford his enterprise Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 688 689 â—â—â— 691. A parlement at Couentrie Duke of Yorke and others attainted Ludlow spoiled Whethamsted The kings inclination to mercie Abr. Fl. Ouid. de Ponto â—â—b 1. Osbert MoÌ„tford esquier saith Whethamsted who should also haue gone ouer to Guines with fiue hundred souldiers to the aid of the duke of Summerset The lord FaucoÌ„bridge was chiefe of this enterprise saith Whethamsted Thirtéene beheaded at once Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 692 693 694 695 â—â—â— 697 in 〈◊〉 The earle of Wilshire and other spoiled Newberie The earle of Wilshire state ouer the seas Priuie seales for monie Abr. Flem. Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 697. The men of Kent sent to Calis for the earles Whethamsted Couentrie the quéenes secret harbour The quéene the better capteine Whethamsted The battell of NorthamptoÌ„ Whethamsted The L. 〈◊〉 of Ruthen Edw. Hall The kings part discomfited The K. takâ—â— The Tower deliuered 〈◊〉 the earle of March. The lord Scales 〈◊〉 Thomas Thorpe 〈◊〉 â—l ex I. S. pag. 7â—0 Anno Reg. 39. Whethamsted The duke of Yorke commeth foorth of Ireland Whethamsted A strange deâ—â—nor of the duke of Yorke Hâ—s bold speâ—ch Edw. Hall in Hen. 6. fol. clxxvij c. Prodigious tokens The castell of Roxburgh besieged The king of Scots thorough misfortune slaine The determination of the parlement coÌ„cerning the entailing of crownâ— Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 700 701 c. in Quart The oth of Richard duke of Yorke The duke of Yorke proclamed heire apparant protectour of the realme The parlemeÌ„t 〈◊〉 Couentrie 〈…〉 The battell at Wakefield The duke of Yorke slaine Onelie seauen hundred southerne men saith Wheâ—hamsted The cruell murther of the yoong earle of Rutland Whethamsted A purchase of Gods cursse with the popes blessing The prisoners beheaded The earle of March now duke of Yorke The earle of Penbroke The battell of Mortimers crosse The cognisaÌ„ce of
euerie true subiect to be read with reuerence of the person No iot of their good will wanted if God did not as he dailie dooth preuent their purposes Campion nor his fellowes will grant to anie thing but raile and vse bold speeches whereby their guiltie consciences were discouered * M. A. Campion couereth their traitorous intenâ—s vnder the sauing of soules A holie kind of life were it not for the B Note here the perfect image of hypocrisie When manifest proofes of their treasons were laid before them they would in no wise granâ— their guiltinesse Consider euerie matter and then iudge how they concord and agreé togither A booke which they vse as their instruction how to answer to euerie question sophisticallie To doo their dutie is a weightie burden to their consciences and therefore they abide in their obstinacie and blindnesse Campion his owne answer as concerning his allegiance to hir maiestie The cause why this pope hath tolerated the former bull of Pius Quinius Our English doctors conferring with the cardinals found out the meane for this toleration An other booke how to handle all maner of persons to win them to their intent Campion sent for from Praga to go with other priests appointed for England The priests are there onelie mainteined for this purpose and none come from thense but about this cause which proueth them altogither giltie Campion granteth he came as the other priests did to reconcile shrine but he wil not allow that he came for anie treason Iames Bosgraue his hastie comming from Uilna wheÌ„ he heard that priests were appointed for England Campion frequenteth his accustomed order of subtil answering Traitors will neuer beleeue anie truth especiallie if it touch themselues Robert Iohnson his comming from Auinion in France Edward Rishtons letter to Richardson one of the condemned Campions letter to maister Pownd in the Tower Campion was resolute in the chiefe matter Sentence of death denounced against Campion and his confederats A verie holie thing but verie méet for his deuotion Execution of Campion Sherwin and Brian Campion in his confession implieth a defense of his innocencie Camâ—ion noted to be verie vainglorious Campion described A further description of Edmund Campion Campions curious care to keepe the credit he had woone in England The true occaâ—ion of Campions other of his stâ—mpe comming into England The euill practises of the Iesuits in Ireland The procéeding of iustice against Campion c defaâ—ned Campion and his comâ—lices offense was ranke treaâ—on The suâ— and driâ—t of pope Pius his sâ—ditious bull Much mischiefe preuented by the timelie attaching of Campion and his like How the traitors stood opinioned to the said factioâ—s bull c. Rafe Sherwins behauiour at his death Alexander Brians demenour at his death Ex libello quodam famoso * Alludit ad Angliam Abr. Fl. Ex concione apud crucem Paulinam per D. Sellar 6. Feb. 1586. Monsieur the duke of Aniou departeth out of England * Nempe Annae Henrici 8 vxâ—â— sereniss reginae Elisabethae genetrix The quéenes maiestie lodgeth at Rochester The quéenes maiestie accoÌ„panied the monsieur to Canturburie where they their traine parted The prince of Orange taketh order for the interteinment of the monsieur Nephue the monsieurs secretarie The lord of S. Aldegond the prince of Orange and the prince of Espinoie c Embracing of the knée The mounsier landeth Lustie discharging of guns on all sides The monsieur verie ioifullie receiued Antwerpe reioiseth at the monsieurs comming English lords and their retinues Thrée waies to Middleborough The monsieur is met going to Middleborough The deputies of the states of the earledome of Zeland The monsieur would doo as the companie did The earle of Leicester and other English lords Burning cressets on each side The monsieur Taiard recorder of Gant A solemne feast held in the townehall The monsieur goeth to see the towne of Ermwiden The monsieurs ships painted with his owne colours The fort of Lislo The monsieur prepareth to make his entrie into Antwerpe The finest shew that can be made what it is The triumphs of the Romans excelled all their other shewes Other shewes of the RomaÌ„s verie gallant A comparison betwéene the pleasures of the bodie and delights of the mind A questioÌ„ vndecided touching gallant and glorious â—hewes The respit that Antwerp had to prouide for this triumphanâ— shew Paris for multitude of people passeth Monsieur of Brabant his attire and habit The cause why this report was published in print The moÌ„sieur saileth toward Antwerpe The monsieur landeth at a village in Brabant A theater erected for the monsieur to shew himselfe vpon to the people Prince Dolphin the earle of Leicester c Kissing the monsieurs hand A chaire of estate Banners with the armes of Aniou The summe of monsieur de Hesseiles oration to the monsieur The states thankefulnes signified They acknowledged themselues indebted to thâ— monsieur The secretarie vnto the states falleth to the point of the matter The king of Spaines officers full of tyrannicall lordlines and villanie The cause why the states of Brabant made the monsieur their prince lord The states loialtie and fealtie signified by their secretarie The monsieurs answer to the foresaid oration The monsieurs promise euen to the shedding of his bloud The monsieur is content to sweare to the articles agréed vpon Two oths that the dukes of Brabant were accustomed to take The mantle and bonnet of the dutchie of Brabant The monsieur created duke of Brabant The states promise their fealtie and obedience An offer of the marquesship of the sacred empire made to the monsieur The magistrates of Antwerps thankfulnesse to the monsieur signified The souereigntie of what places the monsieur had vndertaken Antwerpe and the marquesship promiseth humble subiection The oth that the monsieur should take openlie read to the people A largesse cast among the standers by The monsieurs posie A shew of meÌ„ in armour The Frenchmen maruell at the monsieurs strange habiliments c. The order of the monsieurs entering into Antwerpe Lords of England and France well horssed The earle of Leicester on the right hand of prince Dolphin The companies of the guilds An inscriptioÌ„ congratulaâ—orie to the moÌ„sieur The chariot of the maiden of Antwerpe described 〈◊〉 Wâ—sedome Emblems of peace 〈◊〉 Discréet gouernement Attonement Faithfulnes Watchfulnes Union Defense Offense A canopie carried ouer the monsieurs â—ead The signification of the shâ—wâ—s concerning the K. of Spaine and the monsieur A statelie pageant important to the present purpose An oliphant bearing a castell of stone with soldioâ—s and artillerie A damsell representing Antwerpe holding a coffer of priuileges c. A triumphall arch diuerslie garnished Six ensignes with the ensigne of the youth vnder a greene standard A cunning deuise of a giant turning his head A whale carrieng Neptune what 〈◊〉 betokened An arch wholie applied to the monsieurs owne posie Cherisheth
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
Hunsdon declareth how the dag was more than ordinarilie charged and how the earle dispatched him selfe Thrée bullets found vnder the point of the earls shoulder blade A slanderous report of the quéenes enimies and the earles fauourers answered The earle wanted no prospects for pleasure nor walks of conuenient libertie Sir Christopher Hatton reuealeth to the court and auditorie the gratious dealing of hir maiesâ—ie with the said earle no such fauour deseruing The quéenes maiestie mitigateth the punishmeÌ„t which the law would haue awarded against the earle The quéenes maiesties nature is to loue hir enimies O that they could change their nature and loue hir highnesse againe The earle standeth vpon termes of his innocencie all the world séeing the cause to contrarie * To this petition let all true harted Englishmen saie Amen The arriuall and interteinment of the deputies for the estates of the low countries The names of the said deputies for the estates The quéenes maiesties most gratious fauor acknowledged The distressed state of the 〈◊〉 countriâ—â—â—â—â—ter the death of the prince of Orange The hope that the low countrie people had in hir highnes helpe Spanish seruitude importable The cause whie the deputies for the states came into England and their sute vnto hir highnesse expressed The gouernement principalitie of the low countries presented to the quéenes maiestie Manie good townes and places yet remaining in the low countries defensible against the enimie The vniting of the low countries to the realmes of England c how beneficiall Protection of the reformed religion a part of their sute The loialtie and faithfulnesse of the low countrie people commanded Benefits like to insue vpon the said protection vndertaken of hir highnesse The said deputies doo present certeine articles and conditions to hir maiestie concerning their sute Aufeld and Weblie hanged for publishing of seditious bookes Fiue or rather 〈◊〉 people slain by the fall of a wall in London néere vnto Downegate Earle of Bedford and the lord Russell his sonne deceased Souldiers sent to aid the low countries of Holland Zeland c. Ground and trées soonke and swallowed vp in Kent eight miles from London Seminarie and massing priests banished Note in this certificat an acknowledgment of verie great English courtesie to the seminaries in their transportation The seminaries suddenlie assaulted and in danger of death by a Flushinger as they were passing ouer sea The seminaries are set on shore at Bullogne through their owne importunitie Kings and princes souereignes are to yéeld account of their actions onelie to almightie God the king of kings Naturall causes of the ancient continuall trafficke betwixt the people of EnglaÌ„d them of the low countries Confederatitions both betwixt the kings of England and lords of the low countries and also the subiects of both countries The people of both the countries bound by speciall obligations interchangeablie for mutuall fauours and friendlie offices Treaties extant of ancient time betwixt the kings of England and the dukes of Burgundie for the commerce betwixt their countries Conuentions for the subiects of either side to shew mutuall fauors one to th e other Spaniards and strangers latelie appointed gouernors in the low countries to the violation of the liberties of the countrie The destruction of the nobilitie and the people of the countries by the Spanish gouernement The lamentable violent death of the countie of Egmond the glorie of those countries The rich townes and strengths with the wealth thereof possessed by the Spaniards The French kings offers to haue aided and receiued to his subiection the oppressed people of the low countries The quéene of Englands coÌ„tinuall fréendlie aduises to the king of Spaine for restreining of the tyrannie of his gouernors The quéene of Englands means vsed to staie the states of the lowe countries froÌ„ yéelding their subiection to anie other forreine prince The enterprise of the Spaniards in Ireland sent by the king of Spaine and the pope The refusall of the quéenes messenger and hir letters to the king of Spaine The iust causes of dismissing of Barnardin Mendoza out of EnglaÌ„â— Two turbulent spirited persons Spaniardâ— dâ—uing what they could to set all EnglaÌ„ in a tumult Sée the voâ—luntarie confession of F. Throgmortoâ— in pages 1370 1373. The courteous dealing of hir maiestie with Mendoza a man mortallie hated departinâ— out of England The quéene of EnglaÌ„ds procéeding for the deliuerie of Scotland from the seruitude wherein the house of Guise meant to haue broght it The realme of Scotland restored to the ancient fréedome and so possessed by the present king by the meanes onelie of the quéene of England The conclusion of the causes of sending of certeine coÌ„panies of English souldiors to the defense of the oppressed people of the low countries and to withstand the attempts against this realme Thrée speciall things reasonablie desired by the quéene of England 1. The end of warres with restitution of the low countries to their ancient liberties 2. Suertie froÌ„ inuasion of hir owne realme 3. And renewing of the mutuall traffike betwéene the countries The causes of taking some townes into hir maiesties custodie The summe of a slanderous pamphlet published in the Italian toong against the quéenes maiestie The quéenes maiestie is gelous ouer the conseruation of hir reputation An answer to the first point of the said pamphlet clearing hir highnes of ingratitude The second point of the pamphlet answered to the full satisfaction of anie that is reasonable The prosecution of the warres in the low countries is not like to cease though the prince of Parma were dead This being dulie pondered all the world maie sée how vniustlie hir highnesse is slandered The nature of malice comprised in a senâ—â—nce of few 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a 〈◊〉 of few â—ords The reward â—â—at wicked and infamous â—â—bellors shall â—ape at the hands of God and men The earle of Leicesters paâ—sing ouer 〈◊〉 the low â—â—â—ntries The first shew â—f a woman â—â—presenting Leidon â—he second 〈◊〉 of faâ—e â—he third 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 The fourth shew of Spanish seruituuâ— The fift shew of hope to be succored The sixt shew of aid promised The last shew of libertie victorie and triumph These verses séeme to be made by no metrician perhaps they were deuised by some of Leidon Uerses written vpon the doore of the lord lieutenaÌ„ts lodging The lord lieutenant returneth backe from Leidon to Donhage A géneráll fast proclamed and deuoutlie obserued The lord lieutenant rideth to Skeueling and is presented with a few English verses Titles of honór ascribed to the lord lieutenant with a reioising at his comming The estates sworne to the quéene of England The earle of â—eicester installed at Donhage with the maner and order thereof Persons of honor and worship The couenants betwéen the quéens maiestie and the estates read in Latine and deliuered to and fro Note what â— title and stilâ— of excellencie the states 〈◊〉 to the earle their gouernor and the honorable seâ—â—uice to him â—â—pointed The good
〈◊〉 and affâ—ction of the lord lieutenant to performe the premisses sigâ—nified and by good proofe 〈◊〉 stified The states agnise the pâ—â—â—emptorie authoritie put into the lord lieutenants hands in respect of his gouernment Like authâ—â—â—tie giuen to the lord lieutenant as other gouernours his 〈◊〉 â—â—â—decessors 〈◊〉 had in the 〈◊〉 countries â—n acknowledgement and performance of dutie and elegiance inioined to all persons of the low countries vnder paine of punishâ—ent to the lord lieutenant All pretense of ignorance cut off least the course of obeâ—â—ence might be hindered Councellors 〈◊〉 matters of late elected by the lord â—â—eutenant â—â—wes for capteinâ— and souldiours The lord lâ—eutenant commeth from the Hage to Harlem how he was receiued Utricht people commended for their great kindnes shewed to the Englishmen S. Georges feast solemntlie obserued at Utricht S. Georges feast solemnlie obserued at Utricht L. lieutenant inuested in the robes of order Martin Skinke knighted who promised Portcullis to shew him seuentie ensignes that he had now in the field Seminarie préests execâ—â—tâ—d at Tiburne A wench burnt in Smithfield Archbishop Canturburiâ— lord Cobhaâ— lord Buckâ—hurst of the priuie councell Pag. 1435 〈◊〉 The numâ—â—â— of archbishâ—â— of Canturâ—â—â—rie from thâ— first to the 〈◊〉 Considerations whie the building of Douer hauen is here recorded Douer the néerest place of England to France Douer the most conuenient place of England for a hauen Reasons whie a harbor at Douer would be so beneficiall A true commendation of quéene Elisabeth The 〈…〉 Douer wâ—ll mainteine a hauen there for euer In peramb. Cant. 〈◊〉 Douer Douer castell reedified by queene Elisabeth Edward the fourth bestowed ten thousand pounds vpon reparations of Douer castell The situation of Douer harbour A naturall rode for ships at Douer The hauen of Rie decaied whereby more néed of a harbour at Douer Ships lost for lacke of sufficient harbour at Douer The first benefit bestowed on Douer harbour Little paradise In the reigne of Edward the Confessor Sir Iohn Thomson préest his supplication Fiue hundred pounds giuen by Henrie the eight towards a beginning of Douer works The maison de Dieu of Douer Surueiors ouerséers Sir Iohn Thomsons deuise discouered The Molehead Douer pierre when it was taken in hand and whereof it consisted A notable dâ—uise to carrie great rocks by water Foure pence a daie A Gaboth The charge of the pierre The kings care for Douer pierre The kings repaire to Doâ—er The cause of the decaie of the pierre Officers about the pierre The ruine of Douer pierre Stone called beach or bowlder choked vp Douer hauen Two causes of the decaie of Douer pie rre Someâ—iâ—e no harborough at all at Douer How Douer was made desolat That beach which destroied the pierre helpeth now the hauen A bountifull gift of quéene Elisabeth towards the reparing of Douer hauen The patent of the quéenes gift sold vnto two merchants The act of parlement for Douer hauen 23. Elisab Thrée pence the tun of euerie vessell allowed towards Douer hauen The tunnage amounted to 1000 pounds yearelie The tenure of the quéens commission for Douer hauen Iohn True suruâ—ior generall of Douer hauen The deuise of Iohn True Stone heâ—ed at Folkestone amounting to 1288 pounds Infinit charge to accomplish the stone wall Iohn True had ten shillings a day for his fée Iohn True is dismissed Ferdinando Poins Poins his groine The pent 16 acres The length of the long wall The crosse wall The rode for ships One thousand pounds to Ferdinando Poins Customer Smith Uarietie of deuises Sir W. Winter sent to Douer to surueie the harbor c. Sir Thomas Scot. The wals of Romneie marsh subiect to the raging seas All the commissioners ioine with sir Thomas Scot and allow his deuise Seuen inuincible reasons against the woodden wall The lord treasurors resolution Of Woolwich and Erith breaches Secretarie Walsingham the chiefe director and furtherer of Douer hauen No dealing by great in matters of excessiue charge and danger Sir Thomas Scots notes Douer pent finished in thrée moneths Reinold Scot and Rafe Smith examined by maister secretarie about the wals of the pent Questions propounded to Poins and the Plumsted men Sir Thomas Scots deuise allowed by the lords of the councell The resolution at a conference at Douer Officers elected at Douer The commoditie of the pent Woolwich breach recouerable Euerie degrée willing to set forward this worke Six hundred courts imploied at once in these works Iohn Smith the â—â—penditor Iohn Keies gentleman chiefe purueior A horsâ—e a court and a driuer for twelue pence the daie The quantitie of one court or tumbrell A benefit to 〈◊〉 â—east The 〈◊〉 substance of the walâ—s The disposing of the works Henrie Guilford esquier capteine of Arcliffe castell The beginning of the great works at Doâ—â—r Reasons for the difficultie of the crosse wall This worke vndertaken and other reiected by sir Thomas Scots means Bowle a notable good workman Commissioners Treasuror Two iuraâ—â— called directors Eight guâ—ders Eight vntingers Eight sheâ—uers Eight â—â—â—gers Laborers Scauelmen Béetlemen Armors The order of arming Inferior purueiors Clerke Expenditor The groine kéeper The maneâ— of the wall worke How the wall was saued from being wasted The inconuenience which would haue folâ—owed the diuerting of the riuer another waie A sluse made for diuerse good purposes A difficult and dangerous worke Gods blessing and fauour shewed to the works of Doâ—er Dangers happilie escaped Boies plaie The flag of libertie * Or six A commendation of them which wrought or had anie charge about Douer works Sir Thomas Scot fell sicke in Douer works The death of the ladie Scot. The bredth depth length and charge of the long and crosse wall with the â—â—â—ming c. A necessarie remedie if water draine vnder the wall Expedition necessarie and profitable The state of the wals A sure triall latelie made of the good effect of the pent A gaâ—e of the â—â—use broken Edward Wootton esquire ambassador into France The effect of the pent Of the sluse The lord Cobham remaineth at Douer one whole moneth Sir Francis Walsingham principall fréend to these works Of the latâ— works The note of Iohn Hooker aliâs Vowell concerning the sudden and strange sickenesse of late happening in Excester The originalâ— cause of this infection whereto imputed Barnard Drake esquier The mischiefe of nastie apparell The assise at Excester appointed to be quarterlie kept This sicknes was contagious mortall Principall men that died of that infection Sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset bemoned and commended Eleuen of the iurie with other officers die of this â—â—ckenesse Affliction draweth men to God c. An introductâ—â—â— to the historicall remembrance of the Sidneis the father and the sonne c. The note of Edmund Molineux touching sir Henrie Sidneis life and death His education in his youth His â—â—â—â—â—â—ment in ambassage Foure times lord iustice thrise lord deputie of Ireland He suppressed by force and policie