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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

should trie out in whose hands the wools and monie remained which were taken vp to his vse and that vpon a line 10 iust accompts had at their hands it might appeare who were in fault that he had not monie brought to him whilest he laie at siege before Tournie as he had appointed and that when the truth was knowne they that were in fault might be worthilie punished And as for his owne cause he signified that he was readie to be tried by his péeres sauing alwaies the state of holie church and of his order c. Further he besought the king not to thinke euill of him and of other good men till the truth might be tried for otherwise line 20 if iudgement should be pronounced without admitting the partie to come to his answere as well the guiltlesse as the guiltie might be condemned The king neuerthelesse still offended towards the archbishop caused Adam bishop of Winchester to indite a letter against him directed from the king to the deane and chapiter of Paules openlie to be published by them the effect whereof was to burthen the archbishop with vnthankfulnesse and forgetting of line 30 his bounden duetie towards his souereigne lord and louing maister namelie in that where he promised the king to sée him throughlie furnished with monie towards the maintenance of his warres when it came to passe none would be had which turned not onelie to the hinderance of the kings whole procéedings but also to his great discredit and causing him to run greatlie in debt by interest through borrowing of monie for the paiment of the wages of his men of warre when through the archbishops negligence line 40 who had the chéefe rule of the land the collectors and other officers slacked their duetie whereby there was no monie sent ouer according to that was appointed and wheras now since his comming ouer he had sent to the archbishop to come vnto him that by his information he might the better learne who they were that neglected their duetie he disobedientlie refused to come pretending some feare of bodilie harme through the malice of some that were about the king Wherevpon when Rafe lord Stafford line 50 lord steward of the kings house was sent with a safe conduct for him to come in all safetie to the court he flatlie made answer that he would not come except in full parlement Manie other misdemeanors was the archbishop charged with towards the king in that letter as maliciouslie slandering the king for vniust oppression of the people confounding the cleargie and greeuing the church with exactions leuies of monie tolles and ●allages Therefore sith he went about to slander the line 60 kings roiall authoritie to defame his seruants to stirre rebellion among the people and to withdraw the deuotion and loue of the earles lords and great men of the lan● from the king his highnesse declared that he meant to prouide for the integritie preseruation of his good name whereof it is said trulie Dulcius est aere pretiosum nomen hab●re and to meet with the archbishops malice And herewith diuerse things were rehersed to the archbishops reproch which he should doo procure and suffer to be doone by his euill and sinister counsell whilest he had the rule of the realme in his hands vnder the king wherein he had shewed himselfe not onelie an acceptor of gifts but also of persons in gratifieng diuerse that nothing had deserued sundrie waies foorth and presuming to doo rashlie manie other things to the detriment of the kings roiall state and hurt of his regall dignitie and to no small damage of the people abusing the authoritie and office to him committed so that if he persisted in his obstinate wilfulnesse and rebellious contumacie the king by those his letters signified that he meant to declare it more apparantlie in due time and place and therefore commanded the said deane and chapiter of Paules to publish all those things openlie in places where they thought conuenient according to their wisedome giuen to them by God so as he might haue cause to commend therein their carefull diligence ¶ This letter was dated at Westminster the tenth of Februarie in the fifteenth yeare of his reigne ouer England and second ouer France Where the Londoners would not permit the kings iustices to sit within the citie of London contrarie to their liberties the king appointed them to sit in the tower and when they would not make anie answer there a great tumult was raised by the commons of the citie so that the iustices being in some perill as they thought feigned themselues to sit there till towards Easter Wherevpon when the king could not get the names of them that raised the tumult no otherwise but that they were certeine light persons of the common people he at length pardoned the offense After this those iustices neither sat in the tower nor elsewhere of all that yeare In the quindene of Easter the king held a parlement at London in the which the prelats earls barons and commons presented manie petitions as to haue the great charter of liberties and the charter of forrests dulie obserued and that they which brake the same should be discharged of their offices if they were the kings officers and that the high officers of the king should be elected and chosen by their peeres in parlement The king withstood these petitions a certeine time yet at length he granted to some of them but as concerning the election of his officers he in no wise would consent but yet he was contented that they should receiue an oth in parlement to doo iustice to all men in their offices c. Upon which article and others a statute was made and confirmed with the kings seale In the meane while the French king had with bribes woone Lewes of Bauaria that named himselfe emperour from further fauouring the king of England in so much that vnder a colourable pretense of finding himselfe greeued for that the king of England had without his knowledge taken truce with the French king he reuoked the dignitie of being vicar in the empire from the king of England but yet signified to him that where the French king had at his request put the matter in controuersie betwixt him and the king of England into his hands to make an end thereof if it so pleased the king of England that he should treat as an indifferent arbitrator betwixt them he promised to doo his indeuour so as he doubted not but that by his means he should come to a good agréement in his cause if he would f●llow his aduise And to receiue answer hereof he sent his letters by one Eberhard a chapleine of his the reader of the ●riers heremits to S. Augustins order requesting the king of England to aduertise him by the same messenger of his whole mind in that behalfe The king for answer signified againe by his letters to the emperour that for

forgiue me O three persons and one God forgiue me And now I praie you that be here to beare me record I die in the catholike faith not doubting in anie article of my faith no nor doubting in anie sacrament of the church Manie haue slandered me and reported that I haue beene a bearer of such as haue mainteined euill opinions which is vntrue but I confesse that like as God by his holie spirit dooth instruct vs in the truth so the diuell is readie to seduce vs and I haue beene seduced but beare me witnesse that I die in the catholike faith of the holie church and I hartilie desire you to praie for the kings grace that he may long liue with you in health and prosperitie after him that his sonne prince Edward that goodlie impe may long reigne ouer you And once againe I desire you to praie for me that so long as life remaineth in this flesh I wauer nothing in my faith Then made he his praier which was long but not so long as godlie and learned and after committed his soule to the hands of God and so patientlie suffered the stroke of the ax by a ragged and butcherlie miser which ill fauouredlie performed the office This man being borne in Putneie a village in Surreie by the Thames side foure miles distant from London was sonne to a Smith after whose deceasse his mother was married to a Shereman But notwithstanding the basenesse of his birth and lacke of maintenance was at the beginning as it happeneth to manie others a great let and hinderance for vertue to shew hir selfe yet through a singular excellencie of wit ioined with an industrious diligence of mind and helpe of knowledge gathered by painefull trauell and marking the courses of states and gouernements as well of his natiue countrie at home as in forren parties abrode he grew to such a sufficient ripenesse of vnderstanding and skill in ordering of weightie affaires that he line 10 was thought apt and fit for anie roome or office wherto he should be admitted Which being perceiued of cardinall Wolseie then archbishop of Yorke he tooke him into his seruice and making him his solicitor imploied him about businesse oftentimes of most importance wherein he acquited himselfe with such dexteritie as answered alwaies the credit committed to him After the cardinals fall he was aduanced to the kings seruice behauing himselfe so aduisedlie in matters line 20 which he tooke in hand that within a small time he rose to high authoritie and was admitted to be of the priuie councell bearing most rule of all other vnder the king as partlie ye haue heard so that by him it well appeared that the excellencie of heroicall vertues which aduance men to fame and honor resteth not onelie in birth and bloud as a priuilege appropriate and alonelie annexed vnto noble houses but remaineth at the disposition of almightie God the giuer disposer of all gifts who raiseth the poore manie line 30 times from the basest degrée and setteth him vp with princes according to the saieng of Ecclesiastes Qui iacuit tetro quandóque in carcere vinctus Parta suis meritis regia sceptra tulit Neuerthelesse concerning the lord Cromwell earle of Essex if we shall consider his comming vp to such high degree of honor as he atteined vnto we maie doubt whether there be cause more to maruell at his good fortune or at his woorthie and industrious demeanor But sith in the booke of Acts and Monuments line 40 ye maie find a sufficient discourse hereof we néed not to spend more time about it saue onelie as master Fox hath trulie noted such was his actiuitie and forward ripenesse of nature so readie and pregnant of wit so discreet and well aduised in iudgement so eloquent of toong so faithfull and diligent in seruice of such an incomparable memorie so bold of stomach and hardie and could doo so well with his pen that being conuersant in the sight of men he could not long continue vnespied nor yet vnprouided line 50 of fauor and helpe of friends to set him forward in place and office Thankefull he was and liberall not forgetting benefits receiued as by his great courtesie shewed to Friscobald the Italian it well appeared a fauourer of the poore in their sutes and readie to reléeue them that were in danger to be oppressed by their mightie aduersaries a fauorer of the gospell and an enimie to the pride of prelates verie stout and not able well to put vp iniuries which wan him shrewd enimies line 60 that ceassed not as was thought to séeke his ●uerthrow till at length they had brought to passe that they wished Carefull he was for his seruants and readie to doo them good so that fearing the thing which came to passe he prouided well for the more part of them notwithstanding his fall And thus much for the lord Cromwell The morrow after Midsummer daie the king caused the queene to remooue to Richmont supposing it to be more for hir health and more for hir pleasure The sixt of Iulie certeine lords came downe into the nether house expresselie declared causes for the which the kings marriage was not to be taken lawfull in conclusion the matter was by the connocation cléerelie determined that the king might lawfullie marrie where he would and so might she And thus were they cléerelie diuorsed and by the parlement it was enacted that she should be taken no more for queene but called the ladie Anne of Cleue In this yeare the lord Leonard Greie brother vnto Thomas marquesse Dorset being the kings lieutenant in Ireland was reuoked home and vpon his comming to London was sent to the Tower In Iulie the prince of Salerne and the lord Lois Dauola came into England to sée the king after they were departed don Frederike marquesse of Padula brother to the duke of Ferrara the prince of Macedonie the marquesse of Terra Noua monsieur de Flagie with other came from the emperors court into England to sée the king the which on Marie Magdalens daie came to the court at Westminster and after they had béene highlie feasted and noblie interteined they were richlie rewarded as the other and so departed The eight and twentith of Iulie as you haue heard before the lord Cromwell was beheaded and likewisewith him the lord Hungerford of Heitesburie who at the houre of his death séemed vnquiet as manie iudged him rather in a frensie than otherwise he suffered for buggerie The thirteenth of Iulie were drawne on hurdels from the Tower to Smithfield Robert Barns doctor of diuinitie Thomas Garard and William Ierom bachellors in diuinitie Ierom was vicar of Stepnie and Garard was person of Honie ●ane also Powell Fetherston and Abell priests The first thrée were drawne to a stake there before set vp and then burned The other three were drawne to the gallowes and hanged beheaded and quartered The

his owne profit but tooke palfries and other presents of religious men line 50 ¶ But to declare all the practises of this the popes agent as it would be too long and tedious a processe so it is nothing strange that these his landloping legats and Nuncios haue their manifold collusions to cousen christian kingdoms of their reuenues For if they were not furnished with forlike fraud and wooluish rauine they were no fit factors for him sith it is required that like maister haue like man And therefore he is aptlie described in the likenesse of a line 60 man his head and face excepted wherein he resembleth a woolfe besides that he is set foorth with a crosiers staffe in his hand at the hooke whereof hangeth his Iudas pursse wherein are powched vp his pilfered Peter pence and I wot not what extorted paiments and pretended duties As for his deceits and crafts he hath more varietie of them than the cat of the mounteine hath spots in his skin or the pecocke hath eies in his taile Wherevpon it is trulie said of a late poet Sydera nemo potest quot sunt numerare polorum Quot neque vere nouo gramina campus habet Sic quoque nemo potest vafri ludibria papae Eius innumeros commemorare dolos Huic scopus immension seducere fraudibus orbem Huic scopus humanum ludificare genus But to proceed when men saw such vnreasonable couetousnes and polling by the popes procurement some of the nobilitie of the realme not able longer to beare it came to the king and exhibited to him their complaint hereof namelie for that the popes procurator bestowed diuers rith prebends and other rooms in churches vpon strangres knowne to be infamed for vsurie simonie and other heinous vices which had no respect to preaching nor to keeping of any hospitalitie for maintenance whereof their ancestors had giuen foorth their lands to the inriching of the church not meaning to haue the same bestowed on such maner of persons The king vnderstood that truth it was which was told him and therefore writ to the pope in humble wise beseeching him of his fatherlie care to take order for some redresse therein About this time the king began to renew his imagination for the following of the warres against the French king and therefore asked the aduise of his councell how he might best attempt the recouerie of those lands in France which were wrongfullie deteined from him The most part of all his ancient councellors were of this opinion that to make warre againe in trust of others aid as had beene attempted so often before without any profit should be no wisedome and therefore he ought either to forbeare or els so to prouide himselfe of power sufficient without trusting to the support of strangers as he might be able with his owne puissance and force to atchiue his enterprise for otherwise his trauell should prooue but vaine and to verie small effect The king persuaded with these sound reasons thought not good to attempt any thing more touching the said warre vnaduisedlie and to the end it should not be said how he trusted in vaine vpon the aid of strangers he caused all such possessions as the Normans held in England to be confiscated to the intent that as well the Normans as Britons and Poictouins might well vnderstand that he minded not from thencefoorth to credit the false promises of rebels as he that would now vse onelie the seruice of his owne people the Englishmen which in respect of others painted promises he had before contemned The occasion that mooued the king so to disherit the Normans did chéefelie rise of the French kings dealing who about the same time calling to him all those that had lands in England required them either to sticke vnto him inseparablie either else to the king of England sith no man might serue two maisters Wherevpon some forsaking their lands in England liued on those which they had in France and other forsooke those liuings which they had in France and came ouer into England to liue on those possessions which they had here But in the French kings dooings was no inforcing of men either to forsake the one or the other wherfore the procéedings of the king of England séemed somewhat more iniurious and partlie sounded to the breach of the truce Howbeit all was passed ouer without apparant trouble Whilest all things were thus in quiet and the king himselfe not troubled with any outward wars the Welshmen who though they were subdued yet could not rest in quiet receiued againe the fornamed Dauid to their prince the which for a policie determined himselfe to make offer to the pope to hold his land of him yéelding therefore yearelie vnto him the summe of fiue hundred marks as is said to the end that vnder the wings of the popes protection he might shadow himselfe and be defended against all men At length by large gifts of no small summes of monie he purchased letters of the pope in his fauour to the preiudice of the crowne of England as touching the right which the king of England had to the dominion of Wales as by the tenour thereof it may appeare beginning as here insueth Illustri viro domino Henrico Dei gratia regi Angliae c. Thus Dauid being incouraged herewith and such other of the Welshmen as tooke his part at time appointed did set vpon the kings capteins as they stragled abroad whom at the first brunt they put to flight and slue manie of them here and there as they tooke line 10 them at aduenture The Englishmen when night was come and that the Welshmen withdrew to rest assembled themselues againe togither and in the morning with new recouered force both of mind and bodie came vpon all the Welshmen and began with them a new battell which continued the space of thrée houres togither till at length the Welshmen which rashlie had entred the fight began to shrinke backe and fled to their woonted places of refuge the woods and mareshes Their chiefe capteine Dauid fled into line 20 Scotland hauing lost in that battell the most part of all his souldiers which he had there with him At his comming into Scotland and whilest he there remained he incensed king Alexander against king Henrie to his vttermost power putting into his head how reprochfullie the Englishmen did speake of the Scots reprouing them of cowardnes lacke of stomach also that they liued according to the prescript of the English nation as subiects to the same and manie other things he forged which had béene able to line 30 haue mooued a most patient man vnto indignation and displeasure Finallie either by the prouoking of this Dauid or by som● other occasion king Alexander meant to make warres vpon king Henrie indéed and in raising an armie made a rode into England and did some hurt by incursions and further signified

ring with the which he inuested Edmund the kings sonne king of Sicill and Naples About the same time the burgesse of Darbie obteined of the king for a summe of monie to haue the iustices itinerants to hold their assises at Darbie for the countie of Darbie and likewise the shiriffes to kéepe their tournies there and not at Nothingham as before they had beene accustomed for both the shires But now to returne to the bishops In the meane time the bishop of Hereford and Ruscand sought to set variance and discord amongst the English prelats whereby being diuided in parts and not consenting togither they should be lesse able to giue true information to the pope how she verie truth rested But finallie bicause the archbishop of Canturburie was in the parts beyond the sea and for that also the sée of Yorke was vacant and diuerse bishops were absent the councell was proroged till the feast of S. Hilarie and so they departed euerie man to his home in a maruellous doubt what waie line 10 were best for them to take sith they saw themselues in great distresse if Ruscand did suspend or excommunicate any of them either iustlie or otherwise For sure they were that the king as a lion lieng in wait whome he might deuoure to get monie after fortie daies were past if they submitted not themselues would spoile them of all their goods as forfeited So that the pope and the king seemed as though the sheepheard and woolfe had béene confederate togither to the destruction of the poore flocke of shéepe line 20 threatning euerie mans vndooing to their owne inriching and not ceasing till with fulnesse they were forced to fall from the flesh much like bloudsucking horsseeches of whose nature it is notablie noted that Non missura priùs carnem quàm plena cruoris Quando haeret tenerae mollis hirudo cuti Sic ignara dolis emungitur aere caterua Imbelles populi quid nisi praeda manent Thus by reason of couetous greedinesse to get monie line 30 for the furnishing of the popes warres against Manfred king of Sicill both the pope and the king of England ran in slander and hatred of the English nation namelie of the spiritualtie so that such as recorded the acts and doings of that time spared not to make manifest to the world by their writings how iniuriouslie they were handled blaming the practises of the court of Rome in plaine terms and affirming that the pope had power in those things which worke to edification and not to destruction line 40 About this season Iohn lord Grey being one of the chéefe councellors to the king a right honourable knight and for his good demeanor and high valiancie greatlie commended of all withdrew himselfe from the court either by reason of age that desireth rest or rather as was thought for that he doubted to beare blame for such errors as were dailie committed by them that bare rule about the king which could not but bring the authors into great infamie at length and therefore was he loth to be partaker with line 50 them of such slander as might haue redounded to him also if he had still continued and taried amongst them Also vpon the two and twentith of Nouember were brought vnto Westminster a hundred and two Iews from Lincolne that were accused for the crucifieng of a child in the last summer in despight of Christes religion They were vpon their examination sent to the towre The child which they had so crucified was named Hugh about an eight yeares of line 60 age They kept him ten daies after they got him into their hands sending in the meane time vnto diuerse other places of the realme for other of their nation to be present at the crucifieng of him The murther came out by the diligent search made by the mother of the child who found his bodie in a well on the backe side of the Iews house where he was crucified for she had learned that hir sonne was lastlie seene plaieng with certeine Iews children of like age to him before the dore of the same Iew. The Iew that was owner of the house was apprehended and being brought before sir Iohn de Lerinton vpon promise of pardon confessed the whole matter For they vsed yearelie if they could come by their preie to crucifie one christian child or other The king vpon knowledge had hereof would not pardon this Iew that had so confessed the matter but caused him to be executed at Lincolne who comming to the place where he should die opened more matter concerning such as were of counsell and present at the crucifieng of the poore innocent Wherevpon at length also eightéene of them that were so brought to London were conuinced adiudged and hanged the other remained long in prison When the feast of saint Hilarie was come year 1256 the cleargie met againe at London and fell to intreat of their former businesse at what time one maister Leonard aliàs Reignold that was chosen prolocutor for all the prelats amongst other answers made to the legat Ruscand when the same Ruscand alledged that all churches were the popes Truth it is said Leonard to defend and not to vse and appropriate them to serue his owne turne as we saie that all is the princes meaning that all is his to defend and not to spoile and such was the intent of the founders Ruscand sore offended herewith said he would that euerie man should speake afterwards for himselfe that as well the pope as the king might vnderstand what euerie man said in their businesse and matters The prelats were striken in a dumpe herewith for they perceiued how the matter went they appealed yet against the demands that were made by Ruscand who would not change a word of that he had written in which was conteined that the prelats had acknowledged themselues to haue borrowed of the merchant strangers no small summes of monie and the same to be conuerted to the vse of their churches which was most vntrue as all men well vnderstood wherevpon the prelats affirmed and not without reasonable cause that there was a greater occasion in this cause of martyrdome than in that of Thomas sometime archbishop of Canturburie Ruscand at length perceiuing their manner became somewhat more mild and promised that he would talke with the pope of this matter But first there was sent to Rome the deane of Pauls in London and certeine others as attornies or agents for the whole cleargie of England These sped so in their suit that the pope tooke order that if the prelats paid the monie by force of the contriued writings whereby they stood bound for them their houses and churches then to ease their burthen they might reteine in their hands such parcell of tenths as they ought to paie to the king for furnishing of his wars against the Saracens amounting to the summe which they should be constreined to

discharged by Iohn Mansell one of the kings iustices afore whom and other the kings councell the inquisition was taken and then was the custodie of the citie assigned vnto the constable of the tower and in place of the shiriffes were appointed Michaell Tonie and Iohn Audrian At length the maior shiriffes and Aldermen that were accused perceiuing the kings displeasure towards them submitted themselues wholie to his mercie sauing to them and to all other the citizens their liberties franchises and so in the excheker chamber at Westminster afore the king there sitting in iudgement vpon the matter they were condemned to paie their fines for their offenses committed and further euerie of them discharged of his ward and office Shortlie after was William Fitz Richard by the kings commandement made maior and Thomas Fitz Thomas and William Grapisgate shiriffes The archbishop of Yorke was accurssed by the popes commandement through all England with booke bell and candle that by such terror his constancie might he weakened But the archbishop saith Matthew Paris informed by the example of Thomas Becket and by the example and doctrine of saint Edmund sometime his instructor and also taught by the faithfulnesse of blessed Robert late bishop of Lincolne despaired not of comfort from heauen in bearing patientlie the popes tyrannie neither would he bestow the wealthie reuenues of his church vpon Italians being vnworthie persons and strangers neither would he obeie and incline to the popes will like a faint-harted person by leaning and setting apart the rigor of the law least therby he might séeme to result from his pastorlike office and animate the woolfe of Rome to breake into the shéepfold of the church whose purpose was to sucke the verie bloud quite and cleane out of euerie veine yea to bite out bowels and all Which qualitie to rest in him wofull experience hath taught and the testimonie of written verities hath shewed among which this one for the truth thereof is worthie to be reported euen to the praise of the deuiser for his prettie deuise therein comprised and here set downe as fit for the purpose Non pontifex sed potifex Non potifex sed panifex Non panifex sed carnifex Est papa pater pontifex About ●he beginning of the two and fortith yeare of king Henries reigne the lord Iames Audelie that had béene ouer with the king of Almaine and was latelie returned home in companie of the lord Henrie sonne to the said king who came backe from his father about the feast of saint Michaell last past vnderstanding how the Welshmen in his absence had burnt wasted and destroied his lands possessions and castels which belonged vnto him in the confines of Wales he meant to be reuenged of those iniuries and inuading them he slue a great number of them so reuenging the death of those his freends seruants and tenants whome they before had murthered The Welshmen were not so discouraged herewith but that they brake vpon him out of their starting-holes and places of refuge through the marishes and slaieng their enimies horsses put them backe to their power ceassed not to doo what mischeefe they could line 10 by spoiling killing and burning houses and castels where they might come vnto them and so the realme of England was dailie put to losses hinderances For out of Wales England was accustomed to be furnished with horsses cattell and other things to the great profit of both the countries About the same time there was an ambassage sent from the king of England to the French king by the bishop of Worcester the elect of Winchester the abbat of Westminster the earle of Leicester Hugh Bigod earle line 20 Marshall with Peter de Sauoy and Robert Walcron The effect of their message was to require restitution of those countries lands cities and townes which had bene euicted out of the hands of king Iohn and others apperteining by right of inheritance to the king of England These lords did their message but as was thought they had no towardlie answer but rather were put off with trifling words scornefull ●awnts so that they returned shortlie againe all of them the abbat of Westminster onelie excepted line 30 who remained there behind for a fuller answer not ●nelie to those requests exhibited on the part of the king of England but also on the behalfe of the king of Almaine The marshes towards Wales in this season were brought almost desert by reason of the continuall wars with the Welshmen for what with fire sword neither building nor liuing creature nor any other thing was spared that fire sword might bring to ruine line 40 In this yeare was an exceeding great dearth in so much that a quarter of wheat was sold at London for foure and twentie shillings whereas within two or thrée yeares before a quarter was sold at two shillings It had beene more déerer if great store had not come out of Almaine for in France and in Normandie it likewise failed year 1258 But there came fiftie great ships fraught with wheat and barlie with meale and bread out of Dutchland by the procurement of Richard king of Almaine which greatlie releeued the poore for proclamation was made and order line 50 taken by the king that none of the citizens of London should buy any of that graine to laie it vp in store whereby it might be sold at an higher price vnto the needie But though this prouision did much ease yet the want was great ouer all the realme For it was certeinelie affirmed that in three shires within the realme there was not found so much graine of that yeares growth as came ouer in those fiftie ships The proclamation was set foorth to restreine the Londoners from ingrossing vp that graine and not without cause for the wealthie citizens were euill spoken of in that season bicause in time of scarsitie they would either staie such ships as fraught with vittels were comming towards the citie and send them some other way foorth or else buy the whole that they might sell it by retaile at their plesure to the needie By means of this great dearth and scarsitie the common people were constreined to liue vpon hearbs roots and a great number of the poore people died through famine which is the most miserable calamitie that can betide mortall men and was well marked euen of the heathen but notablie by Ouid who making a description of famine setteth hir foorth in most ouglie and irkesome sort intending therby the dreadfulnes of that heauie plague saieng Quaesitámque famem lapidoso vidit in antro Vnguibus raris vellentem dentibus herbas Hirtus erat crinis caua lumina pallor in ore Labra incana situ scabrirubigine dentes Dura cutis per quam spectari viscera possent Ossa sub incuruis extabant arida lumbis Ventris erat pro ventre locus pendêre putares Pectus àspinae tantummodo

said to him Sta retine amodo locum c. When these things were finished they began masse the bishop of Worcester read the epistle line 30 and the bishop of Elie the gospell At the offertorie the king rose from his seat and was brought to offer He therfore offered first his sword and after so much gold as he would but no lesse than a marke by reason of the custome for more he might offer to God and S. Peter but lesse he could not After this he offered bread and wine with which he and the archbishop did after communicate This doone the earle to whome it apperteined to beare the sword before the king redéemed the sword which the king had offered line 40 with monie and receiuing the same bare it afore the king When masse should be soong the king was brought againe to the altar there knéeling downe and saieng Confiteor to the archbishop did communicate and so was brought backe to his seat The wardens of the cinque ports by their office as well in time of the procession as when he was annointed also at masse time and as he returned from the church to the palace to dinner held ouer him a large canopie of blew veluet fastened vnto foure slaues at the line 50 foure corners In the meane time sir Iohn Dimmocke that claimed to be the kings champion had béen at the kings armorie and stable where he had chosen according to his tenure the best armour saue one and the best stéed saue one albeit sir Baldwine Freuill claimed the same office but could not obteine it so that the said sir Iohn Dimmocke hauing armed himselfe and being mounted on horssebacke came to the abbeie gates with two riding before him the one carrieng line 60 his speare and the other his shield staieng there till masse should be ended But the lord Henrie Percie lord marshall appointed to make waie before the king with the duke of Lancaster lord Steward the lord Thomas of Woodstoke lord constable and the lord marshals brother sir Thomas Percie being all mounted on great horsses came to the knight and told him that he ought not to come at that time but when the king was at dinner and therefore it should be good for him to vnarme himselfe for a while and take his ease and rest till the appointed time were come The knight did as the lord marshall willed him and so after his departure the king hauing those 〈…〉 To shew what roiall seruice was at this feast it passeth our vnderstanding to describe but to conclude the fare was excéeding sumptuous and the furniture princelie in all things that if the same should be rehearsed the reader would perhaps doubt of the truth therof ¶ In the midst of the kings palace was a marble piller raised hollow vpon steps on the top whereof was a great gilt eagle placed vnder whose feet in the chapiter of the piller diuers kinds of wine came gushing foorth at foure seuerall places all the daie long neither was anie forbidden to receiue the same were he neuer so poore or abiect On the morrow after the coronation there was a generall procession of the archbishop bishop and abbats then present with the lords and a great multitude of people to praie for the king and the peace of the kingdome At the going foorth of this procession the bishop of Rochester preached exhorting them that the dissentions and discords which had long continued betwixt the people and their superiours might be appeased and forgotten proouing by manie arguments that the same highlie displeased God He admonished the lords not to be so extreme and hard towards the people On the other part he exhorted the people in necessarie causes for the aid of the king and realme chéerefullie and without grudging to put to their helping hands according to their bounden duties He further exhorted those in generall that were appointed to be about the king that they should forsake vice and studie to liue in cleanesse of life and vertue For if by their example the king were trained to goodnesse all should be well but if he declined through their sufferance from the right waie the people and kingdome were like to fall in danger to perish After the sermon and procession were ended the lords and prelats went to their lodgings But now bicause the Englishmen should haue their ioies mingled with some sorrowes it chanced that the Frenchmen which about the same time that the kings grandfather departed this life were wafting on the seas within six or seauen daies after his deceasse burnt the towne of Rie Wherevpon immediatlie after the coronation the earles of Cambridge and Buckingham were sent with a power vnto Douer and the earle of Salisburie vnto Southampton but in the meane time to wit the one and twentith of August the Frenchmen entring the I le of Wight burnt diuerse townes in the same And though they were repelled from the castell by the valiant manhood of sir Hugh Tirrell capteine thereof who laid no small number of them on the ground yet they constreined the men of the I le to giue them a thousand marks of siluer to saue the residue of their houses and goods and so they departed from thence sailing still along the costs and where they saw aduantage set on land burning sundrie towns néere to the shore as Portesmouth Dartmouth and Plimmouth They made countenance also to haue set on South-hampton if sir Iohn Arundell brother to the earle of Arundell had not beene readie there with a number of men of armes and archers by whom the towne was defended and the enimies chased to their ships From thence the Frenchmen departed and sailing towards Douer burnt Hastings but Winchels●● they could not win being valiantlie defended by the abbat of Battell and others After this they landed one day not far from the abbeie of Lewes at a place line 10 called Rottington where the prior of Lewes and two knights the one named sir Thomas Cheinie and the other sir Iohn Falleslie hauing assembled a number of the countrie people incountred the Frenchmen but were ouerthrowen so that there were slaine about an hundred Englishmen and the prior with the two knights and an esquier called Iohn Brokas were taken prisoners but yet the Frenchmen lost a great number of their owne men at this conflict and so with their prisoners retired to their ships and gallies and after returned into France line 20 But now touching the dooings about the new K. You shall vnderstand that by reason of his yoong yeares as yet he was not able to gouerne himselfe and therefore Iohn duke of Lancaster and Edmund earle of Cambridge with other péeres of the realme were appointed to haue the administration He was of good disposition and towardnesse but his age being readie to incline which way soeuer a man should bend it those that were appointed to haue the gouernement line 30 of his person

robbing houses and spoiling ships And beside this they tooke the principall ships of the kings nauie and had them awaie with them to Calis one excepted called Grace de Dieu which might not be had awaie bicause she was broken in the bottome and there presented them to the line 30 earle of March of whome he was ioifullie receiued For though in the fight he was sore hurt maimed in the leg so as he halted euer after yet he bare himselfe so worthilie in that enterprise that his praise was great amongst all men ¶ Sir Baldwine Fulford vndertooke on paine of loosing his head that he would destroie the earle of Warwike but when he had spent the king a thousand marks in monie year 1460 he returned againe After this good fortune thus chanced to the lords diuerse of the line 40 best ships taken in the hauen of Sandwich were well vittelled and manned and with them the earle of Warwike sailed into Ireland to common with the duke of Yorke of their great affaires and businesse The weather and wind were so fauourable to the earles purpose that within lesse than thirtie daies he passed and repassed from Calis to Dublin and backe againe The duke of Excester being chéefe admerall of the sea laie in the west countrie and durst not once line 50 meddle with the earle of Warwikes nauie as he came by by reason of the mistrust which he had in the capteins and mariners of his owne nauie who by their murmuring well shewed that they wished the earle of Warwikes good successe ¶ But here is to be remembred that after the great discomfiture of the lords as before you haue heard and proclamation made against them as traitors the duke of Yorke and the earles of Salisburie and Warwike had conference and therevpon concluded with one assent line 60 to write a letter excusatorie supposing thereby to salue vp the sore in all their names to the king and so did as followeth A copie of the said letter excusatorie written by the said duke and earles MOst christian king right high and mightie prince and our most dread souereigne lord after as humble recommendations to your high excellencie as will suffice Our true intent to the prosperitie and augmentation of your high estate and to the common-weale of this realme hath beene shewed vnto your highnesse in such writing as we make thereof And ouer that an indenture signed by our hands in the church cathedrall of Worcester comprehending the proofe of the truth and dutie that God knoweth we beare to your said estate and to the preheminence and prerogatiue thereof we sent vnto your good grace by the prior of the said church and diuerse other doctors and among other by maister William Linwood doctor of diuinitie which ministred vnto vs seuerallie the blessed sacrament of the bodie of Iesus wherevpon we and euerie of vs deposed for our said truth and dutie according to the tenor of the said indenture And since that time we haue certified at large in writing and by mouth by Garter king of armes not onelie to your said highnesse but also to the good and worthie lords being about your most noble presence the largenesse of our said truth and dutie and our intent and disposition to search all the motions that might serue conuenientlie to the affirmation thereof and to our perfect suerties from such inconuenient and vnreuerent ieopardies as we haue beene put in diuerse times here before Whereof we haue cause to make and ought to make such exclamation and complaint not without reason as is not vnknowen to all the said worthie lords and to all this land and will offer vs to your high presence to the same intent if we might so doo with our said suertie which onelie causeth vs to keepe such fellowship as we doo in our léefull manner And hereto we haue forborne and auoided all things that might serue to the effusion of christian bloud of the dread that we haue of God and of your roiall maiestie and haue also eschued to approch your said most noble presence for the humble obeisance and reuerence wherein we haue and during our life will haue the same And yet neuerthelesse we heare that we be proclamed and defamed in our name vnrightlie vnlawfullie and sauing your high reuerence vntrulie and otherwise as God knoweth than we haue giuen cause knowing certeinelie that the blessed and noble intent of your said good grace and the righteousnesse thereof is to take repute and accept your true and lawfull subiects and that it accordeth neither with your said intent nor with your will or pleasure that we should be otherwise taken or reputed And ouer that our lordships and tenants béene of high violence robbed and spoiled against your peace and lawes and all righteousnesse We therfore as we suffice beseech your said good grace to take repute and receiue there vnto our said truth and intent which to God is knowne as we shew it by the said tenor of the same indenture And not applie your said blessednesse ne the great righteousnesse and equitie wherewith God hath euer indued your high nobilitie to the importune impatience and violence of such persons as intend of extreame malice to proceed vnder the shadow of your high might and presence to our destruction for such inordinate couetise whereof God is not pleased as they haue to our lands offices and goods not letting or sparing therefore to put such things in all lamentable and too sorowfull ieopardie as might in all wise take effect by the mysterie of Gods will and power Not hauing regard to the effusion of christian bloud ne anie tendernesse to the noble bloud of this land such as serue to the tuition and defense thereof ne not waieng the losse of your true liege men of your said realme that God defend which knoweth our intent and that we haue auoided there from as farre as we may with our suerties not of anie dread that we haue of the said persons but onelie of the dread of God and of your said highnesse and will not vse our said defense vntill the time that we be prouoked of necessit●e whereof we call heauen and earth vnto witnesse and record and there in beseech God to be our iudge and to deliuer vs according to our said intent and our said truth dutie to your said highnesse and to the said common-weale Most christian king right high and mightie prince and most dread souereigne lord we beseech our blessed Lord to preserue your honour and estate in ioy and felicitie Written at Ludlow the tenth daie of October R. Yorke R. Warwike R. Salisburie During this time the king called a parlement in the citie of Couentrie which began the twentith of September in the which were attainted of high treason Richard duke of Yorke Edward erle of March his sonne and heire Richard earle of Warwike Edmund earle of Rutland Richard earle of Salisburie Iohn lord

not he that would be about to breake line 20 them And in good faith if they were now to begin I would not be he that should be about to make them Yet will I not say naie but that it is a déed of pitie that such men as the sea or their euill debtors haue brought in pouertie should haue some place of libertie to kéepe their bodies out of danger of their cruell creditors And also if the crowne happen as it hath doone to come in question while either part taketh other as line 30 traitors I will well there be some places of refuge for both But as for théeues of which these places be full and which neuer fall from the craft after they once fall thereto it is pitie the sanctuarie should serue them And much more mankillers whome God bad to take from the altar and kill them if their murther were wilfull And where it is otherwise there néed we not the sanctuaries that God appointed in the old law For if either necessitie his owne defense or misfortune draweth him to that déed a pardon serueth line 40 which either the law granteth of course or the king of pitie maie Then looke me now how few sanctuarie men there be whome anie fauourable necessitie compelled to go thither And then sée on the other side what a sort there be commonlie therin of them whom wilfull vnthriftinesse hath brought to naught What a rabble of théues murtherers and malicious heinous traitors and that in two places speciallie the one at the elbow of the citie the other in the verie bowels I dare well auow it weie the good line 50 that they doo with the hurt that commeth of them and ye shall find it much better to lacke both than haue both And this I saie although they were not abused as they now be so long haue be that I feare me euer they will be while men be afraid to set their hands to the mendment as though God S. Peter were the patrones of vngratious liuing Now vnthrifts riot run in debt vpon boldnesse of these places yea and rich men run thither with poore mens goods there they build there they spend bid there line 60 creditors go whistle them Mens wiues run thither with their husbands plate saie they dare not abide with their husbands for beating Théeues bring thither their stollen goods and there liue thereon There deuise they new robberies nightlie they steale out they rob and reaue and kill and come in againe as though those places gaue them not onelie a safegard for the harme they haue doone but a licence also to doo more Howbeit much of this mischiefe if wise men would set their hands to it might be amended with great thanks to God and no breach of the priuilege The residue sith so long ago I wote néere what pope and what prince more pitious than politike hath granted it other men since of a certeine religious feare haue not broken it let vs take a paine therewith and let it a Gods name stand in force as farre foorth as reason will which is not fullie so farre foorth as may serue to let vs of the fetching foorth of this noble man to his honor and wealth out of that place in which he neither is nor can be a sanctuarie man A sanctuarie serueth alwaie to defend the bodie of that man that standeth in danger abroad not of great hurt onlie but also of lawfull hurt for against vnlawfull harmes neuer pope nor king intended to priuilege anie one place for that priuilege hath euerie place Knoweth anie man anie place wherin it is lawfull one man to doo another wrong That no man vnlawfullie take hurt that libertie the king the law and verie nature forbiddeth in euerie place and maketh to that regard for euerie man euerie place a sanctuarie But where a man is by lawfull means in perill there néedeth he the tuition of some speciall priuilege which is the onelie ground and cause of all sanctuaries From which necessitie this noble prince is farre whose loue to his king nature and kinred prooueth whose innocencie to all the world his tender youth prooueth and so sanctuarie as for him neither none he néedeth nor also none can haue Men come not to sanctuarie as they come to baptisme to require it by their godfathers he must aske it himselfe that must haue it and reason sith no man hath cause to haue it but whose conscience of his owne fault maketh him fain néed to require it What will then hath yonder babe which and if he had discretion to require it if néed were I dare say would now be right angrie with them that keepe him there And I would thinke without anie scruple of conscience without anie breach of priuilege to be somewhat more homelie with them that be there sanctuarie men in déed For if one go to sanctuarie with another mans goods whie should not the king leauing his bodie at libertie satisfie the partie of his goods euen within the sanctuarie For neither king nor pope can giue anie place such a priuilege that it shall discharge a man of his debts being able to paie And with that diuerse of the clergie that were present whether they said it for his pleasure or as they thought agréed plainelie that by the law of God and of the church the goods of a sanctuarie man should be deliuered in paiment of his debts and stollen goods to the owner and onlie libertie reserued him to get his liuing with the labor of his hands Uerelie quoth the duke I thinke you say verie truth And what if a mans wife will take sanctuarie bicause she lust to run frō hir husband I would ween if she could alledge none other cause he maie lawfullie without anie displeasure to saint Peter take hir out of saint Peters church by the arme And if no bodie maie be taken out of sanctuarie that saith hée will bide there then if a child will take sanctuarie bicause he feareth to go to schoole his maister must let him alone And as simple as that sample is yet is there lesse reason in our case than in that for therein though it be a childish feare yet is there at the leastwise some feare and herein is there none at all And verelie I haue often heard of sanctuarie men but I neuer heard earst of sanctuarie children And therefore as for the conclusion of my mind who so maie haue deserued to need it if they thinke it for their suertie let them keepe it But he can be no sanctuarie man that neither hath wisdome to desire it nor malice to deserue it whose life or libertie can by no lawfull processe stand in ieopardie And he that taketh one out of sanctuarie to doo him good I saie plainlie that he breaketh no sanctuarie When the duke had doone the temporall men whole and a good part of the spirituall also thinking no hurt earthlie meant toward

to speake ill and ill things vntouched shall be boldlier mainteined Nothing may with praise be redressed where things be measured by changeable disorder rather than by necessarie vse and that is thought most politike that men will be best contented to doo and not that which men should be brought vnto by dutie And with what dutie or vertue in ye can ye quench out of memorie this foule enterprise or gather a good report againe to this realme who haue so vilelie with reproch slandered the same and diuerslie discredited it among others and abated the good opinion which was had of the iust gouernement and ruled order vsed heretofore in this noble realme which is now most grieuous bicause it is now most without cause If this outward opinion without further inconuenience were all yet it might well be borne and would with ease decaie as it grew but it hath not onlie hurt vs with voice but indangered vs in deed and cast vs a great deale behind the hand where else we might haue had a iollie foredeale For that oportunitie of time which seldome chanceth and is alwaies to bée taken hath béene by your froward meanes lost this yeare and so vainlie spent at home for bringing downe of you which should else profitablie haue béene otherwise bestowed that it hath béene almost as great a losse to vs abrode to lacke that we might haue obteined as it was combrance at home to go about the ouerthrow of you whose sedition is to be abhorred And we might both conuenientlie haue inuaded some if they would not reasonablie haue growne to some kind of friendship and also defended others which would beside promise for times sake vniustlie set vpon vs and easilie haue made this stormie time a faire yeare vnto vs if our men had beene so happie at home as our likelihood abrode was fortunat But what is it I praie you either to let slip such an occasion by negligence or to stop it by stubbornnesse which once past awaie can be by no means recouered no not though with diligence ye go about to reinforce the same againe If ye would with wickednes haue forsaken your faith to your naturall countrie and haue sought craftie means to haue vtterlie betraied it to our common enimies could ye haue had anie other speedier waie than this is both to make our strength weake and their weakenesse strong If ye would haue sought to haue spited your countrie and to haue pleased your enimie and follow their counsell for our hinderance could ye haue had deuised of them anie thing more shamefull for vs and ioifull to them If they which lie like spials and hearken after likelihoods of things to come bicause they declare oportunitie of times to the enimie are to be iudged common enimies of the countrie what shall we reasonablie thinke of you who doo not secretlie bewraie the counsels of other but openlie betraie the common-wealth with your owne déeds and haue as much as lieth in you sought the ouerthrow of it at home which if ye had obteined at Gods hand as he neuer alloweth so horrible an enterprise how could yée haue defended it from the ouerthrow of others abrode For is your vnderstanding of things so small that although ye sée your selues not vnfit to get the vpper hand of a few gentlemen that ye be able to beat downe afore the kings power ye and by chance ye were able to doo that would ye iudge your selues by strength mightie enough to resist the power of outward nations that for praise sake would inuade ye Naie thinke trulie with your selues that if yee doo ouercome ye be vnsure both by strength abrode and displeasure of honest men at home and by the punishment of God aboue And now ye haue not yet gotten in déed that your vaine hope looketh for by fansie thinke how certeinlie ye haue wounded the common-wealth with a sore stroke in procuring our enimies by our weakenesse to séeke victorie and by our outward miserie to séeke outward glorie with inward dishonor Which howsoeuer they get thinke it to be long of you who haue offered them victorie before they began warre bicause ye would declare to men hereafter belike how dangerous it is to make sturres at home when they doo not onelie make our selues weake but also our enimies strong Beside th●se there is another sort of men desirous of aduantage and disdainefull of our wealth whose greefe is most our greatest hap and be offended with religion bicause they be drowned in superstition men zealed toward God but not fit to iudge meaning better without knowledge than they iudge by their meaning woorthier whose ignorance should be taken awaie than their will should be followed whome we should more rebuke for their stubbornesse than despise for their ignorance These seeing line 10 superstition beaten downe and religion set vp Gods word taking place traditions kept in their kind difference made betwéene Gods commandements and mans learning the truth of things sought out according to Christes institution examples taken of the primitiue churches vse not at the bishop of Romes ordinance and true worship taught and wil-worship refused doo by blindnesse rebuke that as by truth they should follow and by affection follow that as by line 20 knowledge they should abhorre thinking vsage to be truth and scripture to be error not weieng by the word but misconstruing by custome And now things be changed to the better and religion trulier appointed they see matters go awrie which hurteth the whole realme and they reioise in this mischéefe as a thing worthilie happened mistaking the cause and slandering religion as though there were no cause whie God might haue punished if their vsed profession might still haue taken place They sée not that where Gods glorie is truliest set line 30 foorth there the diuell is most busie for his part and laboureth to corrupt by lewdnesse that as is gotten out by the truth thinking that if it were not blemished at the first the residue of his falsehood should after lesse preuaile So he troubleth by biwaies that he cannot plainlie withstand and vseth subtiltie of sophis●rie where plaine reason saileth and persuadeth simple men that to be a cause which in deed can not be tried and taken for a cause So he causeth religion line 40 which teacheth obedience to be iudged the cause of sedition the doctrine of loue the séed of dissention mistaking the thing but persuading mens minds and abusing the plaine meaning of the honest to a wicked end of religions ouerthrow The husbandman had not so soone throwne séed in his ground but steppeth vp the enimie and hee soweth cockle too and maketh men doubt whether the good husband had doone well or no and whether he had sowne there good séed or bad The fansifull Iewes in Egypt would not beléeue Ieremie but thought their line 50 plague and their miserie to come by his means

yeare 1570 I was sworne hir line 20 maiesties seruant from which time vntill the yeare 1580 I serued honored and loued hir with as great readinesse deuotion and assurance as anie poore subiect in England In the end of that yeare and vntill Midsummer 1582 I had some trouble for the hurting of a gentleman of the Temple In which action I was so disgraced and oppressed by two great men to whome I haue of late béene beholden that I neuer had contented thought since There began my misfortune line 30 and here followeth my wofull fall In Iulie after I laboured for licence to trauell for thrée yeares which vpon some consideration was easilie obteined And so in August I went ouer with doubtfull mind of returne for that being suspected in religion and not hauing receiued the communion in two and twentie yeares I began to mistrust my aduancement in England In September I came to Paris where I was reconciled to the church and aduised to liue without scandale the rather for that it was mistrusted line 40 by the English catholikes that I had intelligence with the greatest councellour of England I staied not long there but remooued to Lions a place of great traffike where bicause it was the ordinarie passage of our nation to and fro betwéene Paris and Rome I was also suspected To put all men out of doubt of me and for some other cause I went to Millaine from whense as a place of some danger though I found fauour there after I had cléered my conscience and iustified my line 50 selfe in religion before the inquisitor I went to Uenice There I came acquainted with father Benedicto Palmio a graue and a learned Iesuit By conference with him of the hard state of the catholikes in England by reading of the booke De persecutione Anglicana and other discourses of like argument 1 I conceiued a possible meane to relieue the afflicted state of our catholikes if the same might be well warranted in religion and conscience by the pope or some learned diuines I asked his opinion he line 60 made it cléere commended my deuotion comforted me in it and after a while made me knowen to the Nuntio Campeggio there resident for his holinesse By his meanes I wrote vnto the pope presented the seruice and sued for a pasport to go to Rome and to returne safelie into France Answer came from cardinall Como that I might come and should be welcome I misliked the warrant sued for a better which I was promised but it came not before my departure to Lions where I promised to staie some time for it And being indéed desirous to go to Rome and loth to go without countenance I desired Christofero de Salazar secretarie to the king catholike in Uenice who had some vnderstanding by conference of my deuotion to the afflicted catholikes at home and abroad to commend me to the duke 〈◊〉 Noua terra gouernour of Millaine and to the countie of Oliuaris Embi then resident for the king his master in Rome which he promised to doo effectuallie for the one and did for the other And so I tooke my iournie towards Lions whither came for me an ample pasport but somewhat too late that I might come go In verbo pontificis per omnes iurisdictiones ecclesiasticus absque impedimento I acquainted some good fathers there of my necessitie to depart towards Paris by promise praied their aduises vpon diuerse points wherein I was well satisfied And so assuring them that his holinesse should heare from me shortlie it was vndertaken that I should be excused for that time In October I came to Paris where vpon better opinion conceiued of me amongst my catholike countriemen I found my credit well setled and such as mistrusted me before readie to trust and imbrace me And being one daie at the chamber of Thomas Morgan a catholike gentleman greatlie beloued and trusted on that side amongst other gentlemen talking but in verie good sort of England I was desired by Morgan to go vp with him to another chamber where he brake with me and told me that it was hoped and looked for that I should doo some seruice for God and his church I answered him I would doo it if it were to kill the greatest subiect in England whom I named and in truth then hated No no said he let him liue to his greater fall and ruine of his house 2 it is the quéene I meane I had him as I wished and told him it were soone doone if it might be lawfullie doone and warranted in the opinion of some learned diuines And so the doubt once resolued though as you haue heard I was before reasonablie well satisfied I vowed to vndertake the enterprise for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the sée apostolike Diuers diuines were named doctor Allen I desired Parsons I refused And by chance came master Wats a learned priest with whome I conferred and was ouerruled 3 For he plainelie pronounced the case onelie altered in name that it was vtterlie vnlawfull with whome manie English priests did agrée as I haue heard if it be not altered since the booke made in answer of the execution of the English iustice was published which I must confesse hath taken hard hold in me and I feare me will doo in others if it be not preuented by more gratious handling of the quiet and obedient catholike subiects whereof there is good and greater store in England than this age will extinguish Well notwithstanding all these doubts I was gone so far by letters and conference in Italie that I could not go backe but promised faithfullie to performe the enterprise if his holinesse vpon my offer letters would allow it grant me full remission of my sinnes 4 I wrote my letters the first of Ianuarie 1584 by their computation tooke aduise vpon them in confession of father Aniball a Codreto a learned Iesuit in Paris was louinglie imbraced commended confessed and communicated at the Iesuits at one altar with the cardinals of Uandosmi and Narbone whereof I praied certificat and inclosed the same in my letter to his holines to lead him the rather to absolue me which I required by my letters in consideration of so great an enterprise vndertaken without promise or reward 5 I went with Morgan to the Nuntio Ragazzoni to whome I read the letter and certificat inclosed sealed it left it with him to send to Rome he promised great care of it and to procure answer and so louinglie imbraced me wished mee good spéed and promised that I should be remembred at the altar 6 After this I desired Morgan that some speciall man might be made priuie to this matter least he dieng and I miscarieng in the execution and my intent neuer trulie discouered it might sticke for an euerlasting spot in my race Diuerse were named but none agréed vpon for feare of bewraieng 7 This being doone

c. Executed note 944 a 50 b 10. ¶ Sée Conspirators Fugitiues Noblemen Sandwich and Traitors Recantation of certeine Anabaptists at Paules crosse 1260 b 50. Of Cranmer how detested of him at his death 1131 b 60. ¶ Sée Barnes and Crome Smith Sermon Reconciliation signified by kissing of the pax 78 a 10 Rées king of Wales slaine in battell 20 b 50 Rées ap Meridoc accused and executed 288 b 30 Reformation ought to be no priuat mans but the princes action 1051 b 20 60 Register for christening and burieng c in euerie church to be kept 945 a 40 Religion altered 1090 b 40 1123 b 30. Trouble persecutions for it 1127 a 20. Professors therof persecuted 1132 a 10. It goeth not by age but by truth 1143 a 60 Aduanced note 992 a 60. Beareth the blame is counted the cause of rebellion note 1054 a 10 20. Reformed in Edward the sixts daies 979 b 40 50 c. A booke touching the reformation thereof published 940 b 60. Laid open to great danger 256 a 50 A conference thereabouts with the clergie on both sides 1182 a 40 c 1183 a 10 c. Restored into the English toong 1172 a 10. Commissioners sent abrode to establish it 1184 b 50. None charged with capitall crimes being of a contrarie religion and professing to withstand forren forces 1360 b 30 50 1361 a 10 c. Of Rome established by act of parlement note 519 a 30. ¶ Sée Moonks Treason Religious houses giuen Henrie the eight in parlement 992 b 10. Giuen to Henrie the eight 939 b 40. Uisited 939 a 60. Henrie the eights promises for the well disposing of them 971 a 60. Suppressed 1184 b 60. ¶ Sée Abbeies Reliks ¶ Sée Becket Christ Hales Remes besieged 392 b 60. The citizens thereof saue their corne fields from destroieng by sending vittels to the English host 426 b 10 Remelie ¶ Sée bishop Remelius ¶ Sée Ramelius Remigius bishop of Dorchester depriued of his crosier ring 9 a 40. Remission of sins granted to as manie as would fight against Clement the antipape note 441 a 60 b 60 442 a 40 Rent for a mans owne lands by the yeare paied 8 a 40 Repentance of yoong king Henrie before his death his superstitious deuotion his death buriall 107 a 10. Of rash aduancement note 76 b 30. Of an act past 128 a 10 Of a déed doone not forséeing losses to insue 170 b 30. Too late 193 b 40 note 32 a 60 1104 a 30 517 50. Of William Rufus in his sicknesse note 20 a 50. Of duke William for his crueltie against the English 14 b 60. Despised of a desperat malefactor at his death 1061 a 60. Report that Richard ment to yéeld vp Calis to the French kings hands 462 a 10. False of Henrie the eights death 823 a 30. Occasion of rebellions 941 b 40. Of great disquietnesse 777 a 10. How hurtfull and troblesome 1006 b 10.47 b 50. In the starre-chamber against ladie Elisabeth 1102 a 10 40 Request granted vpon necessarie constraint 2 b 20. Of the commons denieng a subsidie 410 b 10. ¶ Sée Demands and Petitions Reuenge of the Londoners 338 b 50. Of the people for the death of one whome they fauoured 12 b 60. Against the dead bodie of duke William for iniurie past 15 a 50. Of the duke of Austrich vpon king Richard the first 136 a 10 20. Of king Iohn vpon the white moonks 162 a 40. Of Richard the first a bastard for the death of his father being a king note 160 b 60. Sought by the French king for the death of duke Arthur 167 a 60. Of sir Robert de Twing vpon the Romans 214 b 60. Of the lord Mortimer against the Welshmen 263 b 50. Of Edward the first vpon the Scots 312 a 40. Of duke William for the losse of his subiects 10 b 30 Of a bishop in a riotous maner 247 a 60. Of Henrie the third vpon the bishop of Elie 247 a 10 Of wrongs iniuries multiplied 170 a 10 20 Of iniuries 137 b 10. Of remembred grudge 1089 a 40. A notable example to forbere it note 1117 b 40. Of an old grudge note 636 b 10. Upon reuenge note 840 a 20 841 a 10 c. Counselled and pursued note 204 a 40 50 Of an old grudge 210 a 10 Interchangeable 204 b 10 For cuckoldrie 211 b 60. For wast 257 a 10. Noblie taken note 447 b 60. Upon reuenge 446 a 30. With murther 447 a 50. Neglected where it might haue béene executed note 459 b 30 40. Of murther with murther 368 a 50 Taken as occasion serued 340 a 30. Sought for murthering a bishop 12 b 20. Of almightie God vpon lasciuious disordered liuers note 424 a 10. ¶ Sée Enuie Malice and Murther Reseruations and prouisions apostolike 365 a 60 Resignation by compulsion recompensed 1134 b 40 Restitution of townes to king Edward the third by the French king 360 b 60 Rewards how they preuaile and worke with a wicked mind 747 b 30 40. Uerie large offered to the duke of Britaine to betraie the earle of Richmond into Richard the third his hands 747 a 60 b 10. Corrupt a kéeper of a prisoner 152 a 20. ¶ Sée Bribes Gifts Monie Rhods taken by Soliman Ottoman the Turke 876 b 10 c Rendered vp vnto him 877 a 10 20 Rice ap Thomas swereth fealtie and seruice to the earle of Richmond 753 b 40. ¶ Sée Rées Rich lord saileth into Ireland 1258 b 60 Richard the first crowned king of England 117 a 10. In armes against the French king 146 a 60. His bastard sonne Philips reuenge note 160 b 60. His practises to get monie 143 b 60. 144 a 10 20 Marieth the ladie Berengaria 128 a 40. His letter to the states of England for the deposing of the bishop of Elie 132 a 30. Like to haue béene deliuered into the French kings hands 140 a 10. He the French king in armes they talke togither the emperor disuadeth Richard from peace the war is renewed betwixt them they talke togither againe a peace conditionall concluded 148 all Offended with the bishop of Elie lord chancellor 145 b 30 He transporteth ouer into France 144 b 10 Crowned king anew 143 b 30. His grant of allowance to the king of Scots when he came to England 143 a 50. His commandement not obeied 140 b 50. Winneth Notingham castell 142 a 60. Released out of captiuitie 141 a 10. Returneth into England his triumphant receiuing into London 141 b 40 50. Raiseth his siege from Gisors 152 a 10. He and the earle of Tholouse agréed 151 b 30 His lands wasted by certeine Gascoignes 137 a 60. Setteth things to sale for his going to the holie land 120 a 40 His thrée daughters and how he bestowed them in mariage 156 b 20. Charged by the emperor with iniuries doone to the Sicilians 13● b 20. His wisedome in making his answer 30. Cleared of the murthering of the marquesse of