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A68202	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178	4,305,113	1,536

which doo reach to a faire chamber at the vpper end whereof on high was plac●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 miss●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 l●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

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

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

of the wall it selfe which neuer left sinking till it came to the foundation of the rocke except by some ouersight of the workemen some part thereof were set vpon the beach which should by order haue béene first remooued in that case they benched it digging a trench at the foot of that part of line 10 the wall and filling the same with earth they made it verie tight and so might anie such place be perfected and amended if need should require But at this houre there leaketh not a drop of water vnder or through anie part of the wall that anie man maie perceiue or see so as a full pent shrinketh not anie whit at all betwixt tide and tide whereas the allowance of one foot leakage or fall at the least was required of them which exhibited the plot of the woodden line 20 wall which being measured from the top or face of the high pent diminisheth almost one quarter thereof And thus betwixt the first of Maie and midst of August this pent which was thought vnpossible to be doone in three yeares was perfectlie finished in lesse than thrée months and remaineth in so good and sure state as the longer it standeth the better and tighter it will be If neuer anie thing should be added herevnto this pent by reason of the abundance of water reteined therein and issuing out of the s●use would mainteine line 30 a good hauen in that place for the violent course therof will alwaies open the hauens mouth and make a fret there euen downe to the rocke although it be distant from the same threescore rods in so much as at this instant there ma●e come in at quarter floud a barke of fortie or fiftie tun and at full sea a ship of thrée hundred tun and vpwards But when the two iustie heads are once finished which are now in hand so as the hauens mouth be perfected anie ship what soeuer maie enter in thereat line 40 and remaine within that rode in good safetie But as at manie other times heretofore there hath béene sure triall had of the good effects of this pent so now in this last moneth of October one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and six one gate of the s●use being by mischance broken so as by the space of foure daies there could be no water reteined within she pent to scowre the mouth of the hauen the same was so choked and swarued vp with sand and beach line 50 in that space as no bote could enter in or passe out of the same insomuch as Edward Wootton esquire being then at Douer to passe thense in an ambassage from hir maiestie to the French king was forced to send to Sandwich for a craier to transport him to Calis because no bote of Douer lieng within the rode could passe out at the hauens mouth But assoone as the said gate of the sluse was repared euen the next tide following a vessell of thrée hundred tun might and did easilie passe in and out thereat line 60 one pent of water had so scowred and depthened the same Whereby it maie appeare that neither the cost bestowed nor the worke performed hath béene vnprofitablie imploi●d or vnnecessarilie vndertaken Now you shall vnderstand that the small sluse which was first made and laied in the crosse wall in such sort and for such purpose as hath béene declared was taken vp after the said walles were finished and a sluse of far greater charge was made by the aforesaid Peter Pet who vndertooke to doo it by great and had for the same foure hundred pounds the laieng whereof did cost two hundred pounds more at the least This sluse conteineth in length fourescore foot in bredth sixtéene foot in depth thirtéene and hath in it two draw gates It was one whole moneth in laieng all which time the said lord Cobham made his abode there and kept a most honorable and costlie table furthering those works not onelie with his continuall presence and countenance but also with his good direction and that not at starts but from morning till night and from daie to daie vntill the full accomplishing thereof And in the meane time sir Francis Walsingham hir maiesties principall secretarie was not vncarefull of this action as being the man without whom nothing was doone directing the course and alwaie looking into the state thereof and gaue continuall life thervnto by prouiding monie for it whereof when anie want approched he neuer failed to see or rather to send a sure supplie Since the finishing of these wals and sluses there hath beene much worke and charge imploied about one of the iuttie heads and beautifieng of the harborough wherin one George Carie of Deuonshire esquire and one Iohn Hill an auditor haue béene the principall directors But because that worke remaineth as yet vnperformed the report thereof shall also remaine to be made by others that shall hereafter haue occasion to write of such affairs ¶ At the assises kept at the citie of Excester the fourteenth daie of March in the eight and twentith yeare of hir maiesties reigne before sir Edmund Anderson knight lord chiefe iustice of the common plees and sargeant Floredaie one of the barons of the excheker iustices of the assises in the countie of Deuon and Exon there happened a verie sudden and a strange sickenesse first amongst the prisoners of the gaole of the castell of Exon then dispersed vpon their triall amongst sundrie other persons which was not much vnlike to the sickenesse that of late yeares happened at an assise holden at Oxford before sir Robert ●ell knight lord chiefe baron of the excheker and iustice then of that assise and of which sickenesse he amongst others died This sickenesse was verie sharpe for the time few escaped which at the first were infected therewith It was contagious and infectious but not so violent as commonlie the pestilence is neither dooth there appeare anie outward vlcer or sore The origen and cause thereof diuerse men are of diuerse iudgements Some did impute it and were of the mind that it procéeded from the contagion of the gaole which by reason of the close aire and filthie stinke the prisoners newlie come out of a fresh aire into the same are in short time for the most part infected therewith and this is commonlie called the gaole sickenesse and manie die thereof Some did impute it to certeine poore Portingals then prisoners in the said gaole For not long before one Barnard Drake esquier afterwards dubbed ●●ight had béene at the seas and meeting 〈◊〉 certeine Portingals come from New found land and laden with fish he tooke them as a good prise and brought them into Dartmouth hauen in England and from thense they were sent being in number about eight and thirtie persons vnto the gaole of the castell of Exon and there were cast into the deepe pit and stinking dungeon These men had béene before a

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 o●●en●ors executed 〈…〉 re●igion Unreasonable ●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 sa●e●ie at Plimouth Sir Humfrie Gilberd seuered from his companie dead and neuer heard of Ab. Fl. hor●●● omnium ma●imè cons●ius The deceasse of D. Caldwe●l physician of whom there is former mētiō 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 5● 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 ●●nquesoil● the floure delice the hād 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 cōdemned 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 conferre● 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 aliàs 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 ●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 momēt 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 confessiōs 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 resolutiō was frustrate as also the later of the plo● such was Gods iustice to persecute supplant both the one and the other Was this thinke you ● 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 so●e treasonable enterprises by Throckemorton Throckemorton executed Robert baron of Denbigh deceased The charitable déeds of D. S. These letters are placed aboue the qu●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 Conuenien● vse of water c. Performanc● of these ordinances intended An order for lanthorne and candle light in winter The loue of the Lōdoners 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 cōmonwealth The place time of Sir Roger Manwoods birth and bringing vp Dissolutiō of chanteries Sir Roger Manwood reader in the inner temple He erected ● 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 Manwood● toome A house of correction for ●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

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 quàm ego vellet accellerare qui protulerunt non desistunt corroborare Quamobrem quàm periculosum quàm turpe sit contra consensum ec●lesiae cui praefici debeo regimen ipsius inuadere vestra discretio nouerit Sed quàm sormidabile quàm 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 cōsent 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 Bech●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

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

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 s●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 princ● p●ssed ouer that time till another season that some fauourable aspect of the planets should séeme to f●rther his purpose And when he thought the same was come he br●●●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 ●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

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 affi●imúrque malis Donec in occasum redeat qui vixit ab ortu Antea quàm discat viuere vita cadit This cardinall as Edmund Campian in his historie of Ireland describeth him was a man vndoubtedly borne to honor I thinke saith he some princes bastard no butchers sonne excéeding wise faire spoken high minded full of reuenge vitious of his bodie loftie to his enimies were they neuer so big to those that accepted and sought his fréendship woonderfull courteous a ripe schooleman thrall to affections brought a bed with flatterie insatiable to get and more princelie in bestowing as appeareth by his two colleges at Ipswich and Oxenford the one ouerthrowne with his fall the other vnfinished and yet as it lieth for an house of students considering all the appurtenances incomparable thorough Christendome whereof Henrie the eight is now called founder bicause he let it stand He held and inioied at once the bishopriks of Yorke Duresme Winchester the dignities of lord cardinall legat chancellor the abbeie of saint Albons diuerse priories sundrie fat benefices In commendam a great preferrer of his seruants an aduancer of learning stout in euerie quarell neuer happie till this his ouerthrow Wherein he shewed such moderation and ended so perfectlie that the houre of his death did him more honor than all the pompe of his life passed Thus far Campian Here it is necessarie to adde that notable discourse which I find in Iohn Stow concerning the state of the cardinall both in the yeares of his youth and in his settled age with his sudden comming vp from preferment to preferment till he was aduanced to that step of honor which making him insolent brought him to confusion ¶ This Thomas Wolseie was a poore mans sonne of Ipswich in the countie of Suffolke there borne and being but a child verie apt to be learned by the meanes of his parents he was conueied to the vniuersitie of Oxenford where he shortlie prospered so in learning as he was made bachellor of art when he passed not fiftéene yeares of age and was called most commonlie thorough the vniuersitie the boie bachellor Thus prospering in learning he was made fellow of Mawdeline college and afterward appointed to be schoolemaster of Mawdelin schoole at which time the lord marquesse Dorset had thrée of his sonnes there at schoole committing vnto him as well their education as their instruction It pleased the said lord marquesse against a Christmas season to

at our manor of Keningall the ninth of Iulie 1553. To this letter of the ladie Marie the lords of the councell answered againe line 40 as followeth MAdam we haue receiued your letters the ninth of this instant declaring your supposed title which you iudge your selfe to haue to the imperiall crowne of this realme and all the dominions thereto belonging For answer wherof this is to aduertise you that forsomuch as our souereigne ladie quéene Iane is after the death of our souereigne lord Edward the sixt a prince of most noble memorie inuested and possessed line 50 with the iust and right title of the imperiall crowne of this realme not onelie by good order of old ancient good lawes of this realme but also by our late souereigne lords letters patents signed with his owne hand and sealed with the great seale of England in presence of the most part of the nobles councellors iudges with diuers other graue and sage personages assenting and subscribing to the same we must therefore as of most bound dutie and allegiance line 60 assent vnto hir said grace and to none other except we should which faithfull subiects cannot fall into gréeuous and vnspeakeable enormities Wherefore we can no lesse doo but for the quiet both of the realme and you also to aduertise you that forsomuch as the diuorse made betwéene the king of famous memorie king Henrie the eight and the ladie Katharine your mother was necessarie to be had both by the euerlasting lawes of God and also by the ecclesiasticall lawes and by the most part of the noble and learned vniuersities of christendome and confirmed also by the sundrie acts of parlements remaining yet in their force and thereby you iustlie made illegitimate and vnheritable to the crowne imperiall of this realme and the rules dominions and possessions of the same you will vpon iust consideration hereof and of diuers other causes lawfull to be alledged for the same and for the iust inheritance of the right line and godlie orders taken by the late king Edward the sixt and greatest personages aforesaid surcease by anie pretense to vex and molest anie of our souereigne ladie quéene Iane hir subiects from the true faith and allegiance due vnto hir grace assuring you that if you will for respect shew your selfe quiet and obedient as you ought you shall find vs all and seuerall readie to doo you a●●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

nothing can be cruell and yet vpon whom nothing hath béene doone but gentle and mercifull The execution of iustice in England for maintenance of publike and christian peace against certeine stirrers of sedition and adherents to the traitors and enimies of the realme without anie persecution of them for questions of religion as is falslie reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons IT hath béene in all ages and in all countries a common vsage of all offendors for the most part both great and small to make defense of their lewd and vnlawfull facts by vntruths and by colouring and couering their déeds were they neuer so vile with pretenses of some other causes of contrarie operations or effects to the intent not onelie to auoid punishment or shame but to continue vphold and prosecute their wicked attempts to the full satisfaction of their disordered and malicious appetites And though such hath beene the vse of all offendors yet of none with more danger than of rebels and traitors to their lawfull princes kings and countries Of which sort of late yeares are speciallie to be noted certeine persons naturallie borne subiects in the realme of England and Ireland who hauing for some good time professed outwardlie their obedience to their souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeth haue neuerthelesse afterward beene stirred vp and seduced by wicked spirite first in England sundrie yeares past and secondlie and of later time in Ireland to enter into open rebellion taking armes and comming into the field against hir maiestie and hir lieutenants with their forces vnder banners displaied inducing by notable vntruths manie simple people to follow and assist them in their traitorous actions And though it is verie well knowen that both line 10 their intentions and manifest actions were bent to haue deposed the quéenes maiestie from hir crowne and to haue traitorouslie set in hir place some other whome they liked whereby if they had not béene spéedilie resisted they would haue committed great bloudsheds and slaughters of hir maiesties faithfull subiects and ruined their natiue countrie yet by Gods power giuen vnto hir maiestie they were so spéedilie vanquished as some few of them suffered by order of law according to their deserts line 20 manie the greatest part vpon confession of their faults were pardoned the rest but they not manie of the principall escaped into forren countries there bicause in none or few places rebels and traitors to their naturall princes and countries dare for their treasons chalenge at their first muster open comfort or succour these notable traitors and rebels haue falselie informed manie kings princes and states and speciallie the bishop of Rome commonlie called the pope from whom they all had secretlie their first line 30 comfort to rebell that the cause of their flieng from their countries was for the religion of Rome and for maintenance of the said popes authoritie whereas diuerse of them before their rebellion liued so notoriouslie the most part of their liues out of all good rule either for honest maners or for anie sense in religion as they might haue béene rather familiar with Catiline or fauourers to Sardanapalus than accounted good subiects vnder anie christian princes As for some examples of the heads of line 40 these rebellions out of England fled Charles Neuill earle of Westmerland a person vtterlie wasted by loosenesse of life and by Gods punishment euen in the time of his rebellion bereaued of his children that should haue succéeded him in the earledome and his bodie now eaten with vlcers of lewd causes as his companions doo saie that no enimie he hath can wish him a viler punishment a pitifull losse to the realme of so noble a house neuer before in anie age atteinted for disloialtie And out of Ireland ran line 50 awaie one Thomas Stukeleie a defamed person almost thorough all christendome and a faithlesse beast rather than a man fléeing first out of England for notable pirasies and out of Ireland for trecheries not pardonable which two were the first ringleaders of the rest of the rebels the one for England the other for Ireland But notwithstanding the notorious euill and wicked liues of these others their confederats void of line 60 all christian religion it liked the bishop of Rome as in fauour of their treasons not to colour their offenses as themselues openlie pretend to doo for auoiding of common shame of the world but flatlie to animate them to continue their former wicked purposes that is to take armes against their lawfull quéene to inuade hir realme with forren forces to pursue all hir good subiects their natiue countries with fire and sword for maintenance whereof there had some yeares before at sundrie times procéeded in a thundering sort buls excommunications and other publike writings denouncing hir maiestie being the lawfull quéene and Gods annointed seruant not to be the queene of the realme charging and vpon paines of excommunication comm●●●ing all hir subiects to depart from their naturall allegiances whereto by birth and by oth they were bound prouoking also and authorising all persons of all degrees within both the realmes to rebell And vpon this antichristian warrant being contrarie to all the lawes of God and man nothing agréeable to a pastorall officer not onelie all the rable of the foresaid traitors that were before fled but also all other persons that had forsaken their natiue countries being of diuerse conditions and qualities some not able to liue at home but in beggerie some discontented for lacke of preferments which they gaped for vnworthilie in vniuersities and other places some bankerupt merchants some in a sort learned to contentions being not contented to learne to obeie the laws of the land haue manie yeares running vp and downe from countrie to countrie practised some in one corner some in an other some with séeking to gather forces and monie for forces some with instigation of princes by vntruths to make warre vpon their naturall countrie some with inward practises to murther the greatest some with seditious writings and verie manie of late with publike infamous libels full of despitefull vile termes and poisoned lies altogither to vphold the foresaid antichristian and tyrannous warrant of the popes bull And yet also by some other meanes to further these inuentions bicause they could not readilie preuaile by waie of force finding forren princes of better consideration not readilie inclined to their wicked purposes it was deuised to erect by certeine schooles which they called seminaries to nourish and bring vp persons disposed naturallie to sedition to continue their race trade and to become seedmen in their tillage of sedition and them to send secretlie into these the quéenes maiesties realmes of England Ireland vnder secret maskes some of priesthood some of other inferiour orders with titles of seminaries for some of the meaner sort and of Iesuits for the stagers and ranker sort