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 thâ—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 sophisâ—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
it greeueth me I could not leaue the same to posteritie as I wished to their well deserued praise But I haue here imparted what I could learne and craue that it may be taken in good part My speech is plaine without any rhetoricall shew of eloquence hauing rather a regard to simple truth than to decking words I wish I had beene furnished with so perfect instructions and so many good gifts that I might haue pleased all kinds of men but that same being so rare a thing in any one of the best I beseech thee gentle reader not to looke for it in me the meanest But now for thy further instruction to vnderstand the course of these my labours First concerning the historie of England as I haue collected the same out of manie and sundrie authors in whome what contrarietie negligence and rashnesse sometime is found in their reports I leaue to the discretion of those that haue perused their works for my part I haue in things doubtfull rather chosen to shew the diuersitie of their writings than by ouer-ruling them and vsing a peremptorie censure to frame them to agree to my liking leauing it neuerthelesse to each mans iudgement to controll them as he seeth cause If some-where I shew my fansie what I thinke and that the same dislike them I craue pardon speciallie if by probable reasons or plainer matter to be produced they can shew mine errour vpon knowledge whereof I shall be readie to reforme it accordinglie Where I doo begin the historie from the first inhabiâ—ation of this I le I looke not to content ech mans opinion concerning the originall of them that first peopled it and no maruell for in matters so vncerteine if I cannot sufficientlie content my selfe as in deed I cannot I know not how I should satisfie others That which seemeth to me most likelie I haue noted beseeching the learned as I trust they will in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill sith for ought I know the matter is not yet decided among the learned but still they are in controuersie about it and as yet Sub iudice lis est Well howsoeuer it came first to be inhabited likelie it is that at the first the whole Ile was vnder one prince and gouernour though afterwards and long peraduenture before the Romans set any foot within it the monarchie thereof was broken euen when the multitude of the inhabitants grew to be great and ambition entred amongst them which hath brought so manie good policies and states to ruine and decaie The Romans hauing once got possession of the continent that faceth this I le could not rest as it appeareth till they had brought the same also vnder their subiection and the sooner doubtlesse by reason of the factions amongst the princes of the land which the Romans through their accustomed skill could turne verie well to their most aduantage They possessed it almost fiue hundreth yeares and longer might haue doone if either their insufferable tyrannie had not taken awaie from them the loue of the people as well here as else-where either that their ciuill discord about the chopping and changing of their emperours had not so weakened the forces of their empire that they were not able to defend the same against the irruption of barbarous nations But as we may coniecture by that which is found in histories about that time in which the Romane empire began to decline this land stood in verie weake state being spoiled of the most part of all hir able men which were led awaie into forren regions to supplie the Romane armies and likewise perhaps of all necessarie armour weapon and treasure which being perceiued of the Saxons after they were receiued into the I le to aid the Britons against the Scots and Picts then inuading the same ministred to them occasion to attempt the second conquest which at length they brought to passe to the ouerthrow not onelie of the British dominion but also to the subuersion of the Christian religion here in this land which chanced as appeareth by Gildas for the wicked sins and vnthankefulnesse of the inhabitants towards God the cheefe occasions and causes of the transmutations of kingdoms Nam propter peccata regna transmutantur à gente in gentem The Saxons obteining possession of the land gouerned the same being diuided into sundrie kingdoms and hauing once subdued the Britons or at the least-wise remooued them out of the most part of the I le into od corners and mountaines fell at diuision among themselues and oftentimes with warre pursued ech other so as no perfect order of gouernement could be framed nor the kings grow to any great puissance either to mooue warres abroad or sufficientlie to defend themselues against forren forces at home as manifestlie was perceiued when the Danes and other the Northeasterne people being then of great puissance by sea began miserablie to afflict this land at the first inuading as it were but onelie the coasts and countries lieng neere to the sea but afterwards with maine armies they entred into the midle parts of the land And although the English people at length came vnder one king and by that meanes were the better able to resist the enimies yet at length those Danes subdued the whole and had possession thereof for a time although not long but that the crowne returned againe to those of the Saxon line till shortlie after by the insolent dealings of the gouernours a diuision was made betwixt the king and his people through iust punishment decreed by the prouidence of the Almightie determining for their sinnes and contempt of his lawes to deliuer them into the hands of a stranger and therevpon when spite and enuie had brought the title in doubt to whom the right in succession apperteined the Conquerour entred and they remained a prey to him and his who plucked all the heads and cheefe in authoritie so cleerelie vp by the roots as few or none of them in the end was left to stand vp against him And herewith altering the whole state he planted such lawes and ordinances as stood most for his auaile and securitie which being after qualified with more milde and gentle lawes tooke such effect that the state hath euer sithens continued whole and vnbroken by wise and politike gouernement although disquieted sometime by ciuill dissention to the ruine commonlie of the first moouers as by the sequele of the historie you may see For the historie of Scotland I haue for the more part followed Hector Boece Iohannes Maior and Iouan Ferreri Piemontese so far as they haue continued it interlaced somtimes with other authours as Houeden Fourdon and such like although not often bicause I meant rather to deliuer what I found in their owne histories extant than to correct them by others leauing that enterprise to their owne countrimen so that whatsoeuer ye read in the same consider that a Scotishman writ it and an Englishman hath but onelie translated it
before the citie of Mauns were aduertised that our mother was besieged in Mirabeau and therfore we hasted so fast as we possibly might so that we came thither on Lammas daie and there we tooke our nephue Arthur Hugh le line 20 Brun Andrew de Chauenie the vicount of Chateau Erald Raimond de Touars Sauerie de Mauleon and Hugh Bangi and all other enimies of Poictou that were there assembled against vs to the number of two hundred knights and aboue so that not one of them escaped Giue God therefore thanks and reioise at our good successe The French king at the same time lieng in siege line 30 before Arques immediatlie vpon the newes of this ouerthrow raised from thence and returned homewards destroieng all that came in his waie till he was entred into his owne countrie It is said that king Iohn caused his nephue Arthur to be brought before him at Falais and there went about to persuade him all that he could to forsake his freendship and aliance with the French king and to leane and sticke to him being his naturall vncle But Arthur line 40 like one that wanted good counsell and abounding too much in his owne wilfull opinion made a presumptuous answer not onelie denieng so to doo but also commanding king Iohn to restore vnto him the realme of England with all those other lands and possessions which king Richard had in his hand at the houre of his death For sith the same apperteined to him by right of inheritance he assured him except restitution were made the sooner he should not long continue quiet King Iohn being sore mooued with line 50 such words thus vttered by his nephue appointed as before is said that he should be straitlie kept in prison as first in Falais and after at Roan within the new castell there Thus by means of this good successe the countries of Poictou Touraine and Aniou were recouered Shortlie after king Iohn comming ouer into England caused himselfe to be crowned againe at Canturburie by the hands of Hubert the archbishop there on the fourteenth day of Aprill and then went line 60 backe againe into Normandie where immediatlie vpon his arriuall a rumour was spred through all France of the death of his nephue Arthur True it is that great suit was made to haue Arthur set at libertie as well by the French king as by William de Riches a valiant baron of Poictou and diuerse other Noble men of the Britains who when they could not preuaile in their suit they banded themselues togither and ioining in confederacie with Robert earle of Alanson the vicount Beaumont William de Fulgiers and other they began to leuie sharpe wars against king Iohn in diuerse places insomuch as it was thought that so long as Arthur liued there would be no quiet in those parts wherevpon it was reported that king Iohn through persuasion of his councellors appointed certeine persons to go vnto Falais where Arthur was kept in prison vnder the charge of Hubert de Burgh and there to put out the yoong gentlemans eies But through such resistance as he made against one of the tormentors that came to execute the kings commandement for the other rather forsooke their prince and countrie than they would consent to obeie the kings authoritie héerein and such lamentable words as he vttered Hubert de Burgh did preserue him from that iniurie not doubting but rather to haue thanks than displeasure at the kings hands for deliuering him of such infamie as would haue redounded vnto his highnesse if the yoong gentleman had béene so cruellie dealt withall For he considered that king Iohn had resolued vpon this point onelie in his heat and furie which moueth men to vndertake manie an inconuenient enterprise vnbeseeming the person of a common man much more reprochfull to a prince all men in that mood being meere foolish and furious and prone to accomplish the peruerse conceits of their ill possessed heart as one saith right well pronus in iram Stultorum est unimus facilè excandescit audet Omne scelus quoties concepta bile tumescit and that afterwards vpon better aduisement he would both repent himselfe so to haue commanded and giue them small thanke that should sée it put in execution Howbeit to satisfie his mind for the time and to staie the rage of the Britains he caused it to be bruted abroad through the countrie that the kings commandement was fulfilled and that Arthur also through sorrow and greefe was departed out of this life For the space of fiftéene daies this rumour incessantlie ran through both the realmes of England and France and there was ringing for him through townes and villages as it had béene for his funerals It was also bruted that his bodie was buried in the monasterie of saint Andrewes of the Cisteaux order But when the Britains were nothing pacified but rather kindled more vehementlie to worke all the mischeefe they could deuise in reuenge of their souereignes death there was no remedie but to signifie abroad againe that Arthur was as yet liuing and in health Now when the king heard the truth of all this matter he was nothing displeased for that his commandement was not executed sith there were diuerse of his capteins which vttered in plaine words that he should not find knights to keepe his castels if he dealt so cruellie with his nephue For if it chanced any of them to be taken by the king of France or other their aduersaries they should be sure to tast of the like cup. ¶ But now touching the maner in verie deed of the end of this Arthur writers make sundrie reports Neuerthelesse certeine it is that in the yeare next insuing he was remooued from Falais vnto the castell or tower of Rouen out of the which there was not any that would confesse that euer he saw him go aliue Some haue written that as he assaied to haue escaped out of prison and proouing to clime ouer the wals of the castell he fell into the riuer of Saine and so was drowned Other write that through verie gréefe and languor he pined awaie and died of naturall sicknesse But some affirme that king Iohn secretlie caused him to be murthered and made awaie so as it is not throughlie agréed vpon in what sort he finished his daies but verelie king Iohn was had in great suspicion â—â—ether worthilie or not the lord knoweth Yet how extreamelie soeuer he delt with his nephue he released and set at libertie diuerse of those lords that were taken prisoners with him namelie Hugh le Brun and Sauerie de Mauleon the one to his great trouble and hinderance and the other to his gaine for Hugh le Brun afterwards leuied and occasioned sore warres against him but Sauerie de Mauleon continued euer after his loiall subiect dooing to him verie agréeable seruice as hereafter may appeare The Lord Guie sonne to the vicount of Touars who had taken Arthurs mother Constance
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 quà m 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 â—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 â—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 â—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 à spinae tantummodo
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 â—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 lanâ— 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 habâ—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 fâ—llow his aduise And to receiue answer hereof he sent his letters by one Eberhard a chapleine of his the reader of the â—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
some write there were of the rebels at the â—east twentie thousand men Whâ—â— the earle of Westmerland perceiued the force of thâ— aduersaries and that they laie still and attempted noâ—â—o come forward vpon him he subtillie deuised how to â—uaile their purpose and foorthwith dispatched messengâ—â—s vnto the archbishop to vnderstand the cause as it weâ—â— of that great assemblie and for what cause contrarie to the kings peace they came so in amour The archbishop answered that he tooke nothing in hand against the kings peace but that whatsoeuer he did tended rather to aduance the peace and quiet of the common-wealth than otherwise and where he and his companie were in armes it was for feare of the king to whom he could haue no free accesse by reason of such a multitude of flatterers as were about him and therefore he mainteined that his purpose to be good profitable as well for the king himselfe as for the realme if men were willing to vnderstand a truth herewith he shewed foorth a scroll in which the articles were written wherof before ye haue heard The messengers returning to the earle of Westmerland shewed him what they had heard brought from the archbishop When he had read the articles he shewed in word and countenance outwardly that he liked of the archbishops holie and vertuous intent and purpose promising that he and his would prosecute the same in assisting the archbishop who reioising hereat gaue credit to the earle and persuaded the earle marshall against his will as it were to go with him to a place appointed for them to commune togither Here when they were met with like number on either part the articles were read ouer and without anie more adoo the earle of Westmerland line 10 and those that were with him agréed to doo their best to see that a reformation might be had according to the same The earle of Westmerland vsing more policie than the rest Well said he then our trauell is come to the wished end and where our people haue beéne long in armour let them depart home to their woonted trades and occupations in the meane time let vs drinke togither in signe of agreement that the people on both sides maie sée it and know that it is true line 20 that we be light at a point They had no sooner shaken hands togither but that a knight was sent streight waies from the archbishop to bring word to the people that there was peace concluded commanding ech man to laie aside his armes and to resort home to their houses The people beholding such tokens of peace as shaking of hands and drinking togither of the lords in louing manner they being alreadie wearied with the vnaccustomed trauell of warre brake vp their field and returned homewards line 30 but in the meane time whilest the people of the archbishops side withdrew awaie the number of the contrarie part increased according to order giuen by the earle of Westmerland and yet the archbishop perceiued not that he was deceiued vntill the earle of Westmerland arrested both him and the earle marshall with diuerse other Thus saith Walsingham But others write somwhat otherwise of this matter affirming that the earle of Westmerland in deed and the lord Rafe Eeuers procured the archbishop line 40 the earle marshall to come to a communication with them vpon a ground iust in the midwaie betwixt both the armies where the earle of Westmerland in talke declared to them how perilous an enterprise they had taken in hand so to raise the people and to mooue warre against the king aduising them therefore to submit themselues without further delaie vnto the kings mercie and his sonne the lord Iohn who was present there in the field with baâ—ners spred redie to trie the matter by dint of sâ—â—rd line 50 if they refused this counsell and therefore he willed them to remember themselues well if tâ—â—y would not yeeld and craue the kings pardon â—e bad them doo their best to defend themselues Herevpon as well the archbishop as the earle marshall submitted themselueâ— vnto the king and to his sonne the lord Iohn that was there present and returned not to their armie Wherevpon their troops scaled and fled their waies but being pursued manie were taken manie slaine and manie spoiled line 60 of that that they had about them so permitted to go their waies Howsoeuer the matter was handled true it is that the archbishop and the earle marshall were brought to Pomfret to the king who in this meane while was aduanced thither with his power and from thence he went to Yorke whither the prisoners were also brought and there beheaded the morrow after Whitsundaie in a place without the citie that is to vnderstand the archbishop himselfe the earle marshall sir Iohn Lampleie and sir Robert Plumpton ¶ Unto all which persons though indemnitie were promised yet was the same to none of them at anie hand performed By the issue hereof I meane the death of the foresaid but speciallie of the archbishop the prophesie of a sickelie canon of Bridlington in Yorkeshire fell out to be true who darklie inough foretold this matter the infortunate euent thereof in these words hereafter following saieng Pacem tractabunt sed fraudem subter arabunt Pro nulla marca saluabitur ille hierarcha The archbishop suffered death verie constantlie insomuch as the common people tooke it he died a martyr affirming that certeine miracles were wrought as well in the field where he was executed as also in the place where he was buried and immediatlie vpon such bruits both men and women began to worship his dead carcasse whom they loued so much when he was aliue till they were forbidden by the kings fréends and for feare gaue ouer to visit the place of his sepulture The earle marshals bodie by the kings leaue was buried in the cathedrall church manie lamenting his destinie but his head was set on a pole aloft on the wals for a certeine space till by the kings permission after the same had suffered manie a hot sunnie daie and manie a wet shower of raine it was taken downe and buried togither with the bodie After the king accordinglie as séemed to him gooâ— had ransomed and punished by gréeuous fines thâ— citizens of Yorke which had borne armour oâ— their archbishops side against him he departed 〈◊〉 Yorke with an armie of thirtie and seuen thousaâ—â— fighting men furnished withall prouision necâ—sarie marching northwards against the earle of Northumberland At his coÌ„ming to Durham â—e lord Hastings the lord Fauconbridge sir Ioâ—n Colleuill of the Dale and sir Iohn Griffith â—eing conuicted of the conspiracie were there beâ—â—aded The earle of Northumberland hearing â—at his counsell was bewraied and his confeâ—â—rats brought to confusion through too much 〈◊〉 of the archbishop of Yorke with thrée hundred â—orsse got him to Berwike The king comming â—orward quickelie wan the castell of
liege men First praieng and beséeching to our souereigne Christ Iesus of his high and mightie power to giue you vertue of prudence and that through the praier of the glorious martyr S. Albon giue you verie knowledge of our truths and to know the intent of our assembling at this time for God that is in heauen knoweth our intent is rightfull and true And therefore we praie vnto that mightie Lord in these words Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae Wherfore gratious lord please it your maiestie roiall to deliuer such as we will accuse and they to haue like as they haue deserued and this doone you to be honorablie worshipped as most rightfull king and our true gouernour And if we should now at this time be promised as afore this time is not vnknowen haue béene promises broken which haue béene full faithfullie promised and therevpon great othes sworne we will not now ceasse for no such promises nor oth till we haue them which haue deserued death or else we to die therefore The answer by the king to the duke of Yorke I King Henrie charge and command that no manner person of what degrée estate or what condition soeuer he be abide not but that they auoid the field and not be so hardie to make resistance against me in my owne realme For I shall know what traitour dare be so bold to raise anie people in mine owne land wherethrough I am in great disease and heauines By the faith I owe vnto S. Edward and vnto the crowne of England I shall destroie them euerie mothers sonne and eke they to be hanged drawne and quartered that may be taken afterward of them in example to make all such traitors to beware for to make anie rising of people within mine owne land and so traitorouslie to abide their king and gouernour And for a conclusion rather than they shall haue anie lord that here is with me at this time I shall this day for their sake in this quarell my selfe liue and die The words of the duke of Yorke to all gentlemen and other assembled with him SIrs the king our souereigne lord will not be reformed at our beseeching ne praier nor will not in no wise vnderstand the intent wherfore we be here assembled and gathered at this time but onelie is in full purpose to destroie vs all And thervpon a great oth hath made line 10 that there is none other waie but that he with all his power will pursue vs and if we be taken to giue vs a shamefull death léesing our liuelod and goods and also our heires shamed for euer Therefore sirs now sith it will none otherwise be but that we shall vtterlie die better it is for vs to die in the field than cowardlie to be put to an vtter rebuke and shamefull death for the right of England standeth in vs. Considering also in what perill it standeth at this time and for to redresse the mischéefe thereof let euerie line 20 man helpe to his power this daie and in that quarell to quite vs like men to the crowne of England praieng and beséeching vnto that Lord the which is eternall thâ—t reigneth in the glorious kingdome celestiall to kéepe and saue vs this daie in our right and through the gifts of his holie grace we may be made strong to withstand the great abhominable and horrible malice of them that purpose to destroie vs and the realme of England and put vs to a shamefull death Praie we therefore to the Lord to be our comfort line 30 and our defendour saieng these words Domine sis clypeus defensionis nostrae But another historie-writer saith that the king when first he heard of the duke of Yorks approch sent to him messengers the duke of Buckingham and others to vnderstand what he meant by his comming thus in maner of warre The duke of Buckingham to his message was answered by the duke of Yorke and his complices that they were all of line 40 them the kings faithfull liege subiects and intended no harme to him at all but the cause of our comming saie they is not in meaning anie hurt to his person But let that wicked and naughtie man the duke of Summerset be deliuered vnto vs who hath lost Normandie and taken no regard to the preseruation of Gascoigne and furthermore hath brought the realme vnto this miserable estate that where it was the floure of nations and the princesse of prouinces now is it haled into desolation spoile not line 50 so dreadfull by malice of forren enimie that indéed vtterlie as yee know seeketh our ruine as by the intollerable outrages of him that so long ago euen still appeares to haue sworne the confusion of our king and realme If it therefore please the king to deliuer that bad man into our hands we are readie without trouble or breach of peace to returne into our countrie But if the king be not minded so to do bicause he cannot misse him let him vnderstand that we will rather die in the field than suffer such a mischéefe line 60 vnredressed The king aduertised of this answer more wilfull than tollerable appointed him rather to trie battell than deliuer the duke of Summerset to his enimies Whereof they ascerteined made no longer staie but streightwaie sounded the trumpet to battell or rather as Hall saith while king Henrie sent foorth his ambassadours to treat of peace at the one end of the towne the earle of Warwike with his Marchmen entred at the other end and fiercelie setting on the kings fore-ward within a small time discomfited the same The place where they first brake into the towne was about the middle of saint Peters stréet The fight for a time was right sharpe and cruell for the duke of Summerset with the other lords comming to the succours of their companions that were put to the woorse did what they could to beat backe the enimies but the duke of Yorke sent euer fresh men to succour the wearie and to supplie the places of them that were hurt whereby the kings armie was finallie brought low and all the cheefteins of the field slaine and beaten downe For there died vnder the signe of the castell Edmund duke of Summerset who as hath béene reported was warned long before to auoid all castels and beside him laie Henrie the second of that name earle of Northumberland Humfrie earle of Stafford sonne to the duke of Buckingham Iohn lord Clifford sir Barthram Antwisell knight a Norman borne who forsaking his natiue countrie to continue in his loiall obedience to king Henrie came ouer to dwell here in England when Normandie was lost William Zouch Iohn Boutreux Rafe Bapthorp with his sonne William Corwin William Cotton Gilbert Faldinger Reginald Griffon Iohn Dawes Elice Wood Iohn Eith Rafe Woodward Gilbert Skarlock and Rafe Willoughbie esquiers with manie other in all to the number of eight thousand as Edward Hall saith in his chronicle
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 necessitâ—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
the protector intended truth if they should procure hir sonne to be deliuered into his hands in whom they should perceiue toward the child anie euill intended The quéene with these words stood a good while in a great studie And forsomuch as hir seemed the cardinall more readie to depart than some of the remnant and the protector himselfe readie at hand so that she verelie thought she could not kéepe him but that he should incontinentlie be taken thense and to conueie him else-where neither had she time to serue hir nor place determined nor persons appointed all things vnreadie this message came on hir so suddenlie nothing lesse looking for than to haue him set out of sanctuarie which she thought to be now beset in such places about that he could not be conueied out vntaken and partlie as she thought it might fortune hir feare to be false so well she wist it was either néedlesse or bootlesse wherefore if she should needs go from him she deemed it best to deliuer him And ouer that of the cardinals faith she nothing doubted nor of some other lords neither whome she there saw Which as she feared least they might be deceiued so was she well assured they would not be corrupted Then thought she it should yet make them the more warilie to looke to him and the more circumspectlie to sée to his suertie if she with hir owne hands betooke him to them of trust And at the last she tooke the yoong duke by the hand and said vnto the lords My lords quoth she and all my lords I neither am so vnwise to mistrust your wits nor so suspicious to mistrust your truths of which thing I purpose to make you such a proofe as if either of both in you might turne both you and me to great sorow the realme to much harme and you to great reproch For lo here is quoth she this gentleman whom I doubt not but I could here kepe safe if I would what euer anie man say I doubt not also but there be some abroad so deadlie enimies vnto my bloud that if they wist where anie of it laie in their owne bodie they would let it out We haue also experience line 10 that desire of a kingdome knoweth no kinred The brother hath beene the brothers bane and maie the nephues be sure of their vncle Ech of these children is the others defense while they be asunder and ech of their liues lieth in the others bodie Kéepe one safe and both be sure and nothing for them both more perillous than to be both in one place For what wise merchant aduentureth all his goods in one ship All this notwithstanding here I deliuer him and his brother in him to keepe into your hands of whom line 20 I shall aske them both afore God the world Faithfull ye be that wot I well I know well you be wise Power and strength to kéepe him if you list lacke ye not of your selfe nor can lacke helpe in this cause And if ye can not else-where then maie you leaue him here But onelie one thing I beséech you for the trust which his father put in you euer for the trust that I put in you now that as farre as ye thinke that I feare too much be you well ware that you feare not as farre too little And therewithall she said vnto line 30 the child Fare well mine owne sweete sonne God send you good kéeping let me kisse you yet once yer you go for God knoweth when we shall kisse togither againe And therewith she kissed him and blessed him turned hir backe and wept and went hir waie leauing the child wéeping as fast Howbeit she was sorie afterwards that she had so parted from hir son when it was past hir power to procure remedie no hope of helpe left against afterclaps which is the common case of all that kind as the prouerbe saith line 40 Femineus verè dolor est post facta dolere When the lord cardinall and these other lords with him had receiued this yoong duke they brought him into the Star chamber where the protector tooke him in his armes and kissed him with these words Now welcome my lord euen with all my verie heart And he said in that of likelihood as he thought Therevpon foorthwith they brought him vnto the king his brother into the bishops palace at Paules and from thense thorough the citie honourablie into the Tower out line 50 of the which after that daie they neuer came abroad * When the protector had both the children in his hands he opened himselfe more boldlie both to certeine other men and also cheeflie to the duke of Buckingham Although I know that manie thought that this duke was priuie to all the protectors counsell euen from the beginning and some of the protectors fréends said that the duke was the first moouer of the protector to this matter sending a priuie messenger vnto him streict after king Edwards death line 60 But others againe which knew better the subtill wit of the protector denie that he euer opened his enterprise to the duke vntill he had brought to passe the things before rehearsed But when he had imprisoned the queenes kinsfolks gotten both hir sonnes into his owne hands then he opened the rest of his purpose with lesse feare to them whome he thought méet for the matter and speciallie to the duke who being woone to his purpose he thought his strength more than halfe increased The matter was broken vnto the duke by subtill folks and such as were their craftes-masters in the handling of such wicked deuises who declared vnto him that the yoong king was offended with him for his kinsfolks sake and if he were euer able he would reuenge them who would pricke him forward therevnto if they escaped for they would remember their imprisonment or else if they were put to death without doubt the yoong K. would be carefull for their deaths whose imprisonment was gréeuous vnto him Also that with repenting the duke should nothing auaile for there was no waie left to redéeme his offense by benefits but he should sooner destroie himselfe than saue the king who with his brother and his kinsfolks he saw in such places imprisoned as the protector might with a becke destroie them all and that it were no doubt but he would doo it in deed if there were anie new enterprise attempted And that it was likelie that as the protector had prouided priuie gard for himselfe so had he spials for the duke and traines to catch him if he should be against him and that peraduenture from them whome he lest suspected For the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such that a man could not well tell whome he might trust or whome he might feare These things and such like being beaten into the dukes mind brought him to that point that where he had repented the way that he had entered
that she could not pull line 10 him backe so highlie she disdained it that vnder pretext of hi◠dutie to Godward she deuised to disturbe this mariage and rather to helpe that he should marie one dame Elizabeth Lucie whome the king had also not long before gotten with child Wherefore the kings mother openlie obiected against his mariage as it were in discharge of hir conscience that the king was sure to dame Elizabeth Lucie and hir husband before God By reason of which words such obstacle was made in the matter that either the bishops line 20 durst not or the king would not proceed to the solemnization of this wedding till these same were clearlie purged and the truth well and openlie testified Wherevpon dame Elizabeth Lucie was then sent for And albeit that she was by the kings mother and manie other put in good comfort to affirme that she was ensured vnto the king yet when she was solemnlie sworne to saie the truth she confessed that they were neuer ensured Howbeit she said his grace line 30 spake so louing words vnto hir that she verelie hoped he would haue married hir And that if it had not béene for such kind words she would neuer haue shewed such kindnesse to him to let him so kindlie get hir with child This examination solemnelie taken when it was cléerelie perceiued that there was none impediment the king with great feast and honourable solemnitie married dame Elizabeth Greie and hir crowned queene that was his enimies wife and manie times had praied full hartilie for his line 40 losse in which God loued hir better than to grant hir hir boune But when the earle of Warwike vnderstood of this marriage he tooke it so highlie that his ambassage was deluded that for verie anger and disdaine he at his returning assembled a great puissance against the king and came so fast vpon him yer he could be able to resist that he was faine to void the realme and flee into Holland for succor where he remained for the space of two yeares leauing his new wife at Westminster in sanctuarie where she was line 50 deliuered of Edward the prince of whome we before haue spoken In which meane time the earle of Warwike tooke out of prison and set vp againe king Henrie the sixt who was before by king Edward deposed and that much what by the power of the erle of Warwike which was a wise man and a couragious warriour and of such strength what for his lands his aliance and fauor with all people that he made kings and put downe kings almost at his pleasure and not impossible to haue atteined it himselfe if he line 60 had not reckoned it a greater thing to make a king than to be a king But nothing lasteth alwaie for in conclusion king Edward returned and with much lesse number than he had at Barnet on the Easterdaie field slue the earle of Warwike with manie other great estates of that partie so stablie atteined the crowne againe that he peaceablie enioied it vntill his dieng daie and in such plight left it that it could not be lost but by the discord of his verie friends or falshood of his feined fréends I haue rehearsed this businesse about this marriage somewhat the more at length bicause it might thereby the better appeare vpon how slipperie a ground the protector builded his colour by which he pretended king Edwards children to be bastards But that inuention simple as it was it liked them to whome it sufficed to haue somewhat to saie while they were sure to be compelled to no larger proofe than themselues list to make Now then as I began to shew you it was by the protector and his councell concluded that this doctor Shaw should in a sermon at Pauls crosse signifie to the people that neither king Edward himselfe nor the duke of Clarence were lawfullie begotten nor were not the verie children of the duke of Yorke but gotten vnlawfullie by other persons in adulterie of the duches their mother And that also dame Elizabeth Lucie was verelie the wife of king Edward and so the prince and all his children bastards that were begotten vpon the quéene According to this deuise doctor Shaw the sundaie after at Paules crosse in a great audience as alwaie assembled great number to his preaching he tooke for his theame Spuria vitilamina non agent radices altas that is to saie Bastard slippes shall neuer take deepe root Therevpon when he had shewed the great grace that God giueth and secretlie infundeth in right generation after the lawes of matrimonie then declared he that commonlie those children lacked that grace and for the punishment of their parents were for the more part vnhappie which were gotten in base and speciallie in adulterie Of which though some by the ignorance of the world and the truth hid from knowledge inherited for the season other mens lands yet God alwaie so prouideth that it continueth not in their bloud long but the truth comming to light the rightfull inheritors be restored and the bastard slip pulled vp yer it can be rooted deepe And so he did laie for the proofe and confirmation of this sentence certeine insamples taken out of the old testament and other ancient histories Then began he to descend into the praise of the lord Richard late duke of Yorke calling him father to the lord protector and declared the title of his heires vnto the crowne to whome it was after the death of king Henrie the sixt intailed by authoritie of parlement Then shewed he that his verie right heire of his bodie lawfullie begotten was onelie the lord protector For he declared then that king Edward was neuer lawfullie married vnto the queene but was before God husband vnto dame Elizabeth Lucie and so his children bastards And besides that neither king Edward himselfe nor the duke of Clarence among those that were secret in the houshold were reckoned verie suerlie for the children of the noble duke as those that by their fauours more resembled other knowne men than him From whose vertuous conditions he said also that the late king Edward was far off But the lord protector he said the verie noble prince the speciall paterne of knightlie prowesse as well in all princelie behauior as in the lineaments and fauour of his visage represented the verie face of the noble duke his father This is quoth he the fathers owne figure this is his owne countenance the verie print of his visage the sure vndoubted image the plaine expresse likenesse of that noble duke Now was it before deuised that in the speaking of these words the protector should haue comen in among the people to the sermon ward to the end that those words méeting with his presence might haue béen taken among the hearers as though the Holie-ghost had put them in the preachers mouth should haue mooued the people euen there to crie King
péeces of harnesse euerie one mounted on a great courser The one bare his helmet the second his grangard the third his speare the fourth his axe and so euerie one had something belonging to a man of armes The apparell of the nine henchmen were white cloth of line 20 gold and crimsin cloth of gold richlie embrodered with goldsmithes worke the trappers of the coursers were mantell harnesse coulpened and in euerie vent a long bell of fine gold and on euerie pendent a déepe tassell of fine gold in bullion which trappers were verie rich The king and the emperour met betwéene Aire and the campe in the foulest weather that lightlie hath béene seene The emperour gentlie interteined the king and the king likewise him and after a little communication had betwene them bicause the line 30 weather was foule they parted for that time The emperour all his men were at that daie all in blacke cloth for the empresse his wife was latelie deceased Within a day or two after this interuiew and that the king was returned to his campe thither came a king at armes of Scotland called Lion with his cote of armes on his backe who within short time was by Gartier king of armes brought to the kings presence where he being almost dismaid to see the king so noblie accompanied with few words meetlie line 40 good countenance deliuered a letter to the king which his grace receiued and read it himselfe and therewith hauing conceiued the whole contents thereof made this answer immediatly to the herald Now we perceiue the king of Scots our brother in law and your master to be the same person whom we euer tooke him to be for we neuer estéemed him to be of anie truth and so now we haue found it For notwithstanding his oth his promise in the word of a king and his owne hand and seale yet line 50 now he hath broken his faith promise to his great dishonour and infamie for euer and intendeth to inuade our realme in our absence which he durst not once attempt our owne person being present But he sheweth himselfe not to be degenerat from the conditions of his forfathers whose faiths for the most part haue euer béene violated and their promises neuer obserued further than they list Therefore tell thy master first that he shall neuer be comprised in anie league wherein I am a confederat and also that line 60 I suspecting his truth as now the déed prooueth haue left an earle in my realme at home which shall be able to defend him and all his power For we haue prouided so that he shall not find our land destitute of people as he thinketh to doo but this saie to thy master that I am the very owner of Scotland that he holdeth it of me by homage And insomuch as now contrarie to his bounden dutie he being my vassall dooth rebell against me with Gods helpe I shall at my returne expell him his realme and so tell him Sir said the king of armes I am his naturall subiect and he is my naturall lord and that he commandeth me to say I may boldlie say with fauour but the commandements of other I may not nor dare say to my souereigne but your letters with your honor sent may declare your pleasure for I may not say such words of reproch to him to whom I owe onelie mine allegiance and faith Then said the king Wherfore came you hither will you receiue no answer Yes said Lion but your answer requireth dooing and no writing that is that immediatlie you should returne home Well said the king I will returne to your damage and not at thy maisters summoning Then the king commanded Gartier to take him to his tent and to make him good cheare which so did and cherished him well for he was sore abashed After he was departed the king sent for all the capteins and before them and his councell caused the letter to be read the contents wherof were that king Henrie had not dealt with him vprightlie in sundrie points as in mainteining of those which had slaine his people of Scotland by sea and also in succouring bastard Heron with his complices which had vnder trust of daies of méeting for iustice slaine his warden Also his wiues legacie was by him withholden moreouer where first he had desired him in fauour of his dere cousin the duke of Gelder not to attempt anie thing against him yet had he sent his people to inuade the said dukes countrie which did what in them lay to destroie and dishinherit the said duke that had nothing offended against him And now againe where he had made the like request for his brother cousine the most christian king of France yet notwithstanding had the king of England caused him to lose his duchie of Millaine and at this present inuaded his realme with all his puissance to destroie him and his subiects whereas yet the said king of France had béene euer fréend to him neuer giuen him occasion thus to doo In consideration of which iniuries receiued in his owne person and in his friends he must néeds seeke redresse and take part with his brother and cousine the said king of France Wherefore he required him to desist from further inuasion and destruction of the French dominions which to doo if he refused he plainlie declared by the same letters that he would doo what he could to cause him to desist from further pursute in that his enterprise also giue letters of marque to his subiects for the deniall of iustice made to them by the king of England The letters thus sent to the king of England were dated at Edenburgh the six and twentith daie of Iulie and giuen vnder the signet of the said Scotish king When the king had thus caused these letters to be read and throughlie considered of them as apperteined he sent them straight to the earle of Surrie which then laie at Pomfret and caused other letters to be deuised to the king of Scots the effect whereof was that although he well perceiued by the kings letters which he had receiued from him in what sort vnder colour of contriued occasions and feined quarrelles he meant to breake the peace he did not much maruell thereat considering the ancient accustomed manners of some his progenitors Howbeit if loue and dread of God nighnesse of blood honour of the world law and reason had bound him it might be supposed that he would neuer so farre haue procéeded wherein the pope and all princes christned might well note in him dishonorable demeanor which had dissembled the matter whilest he was at home in his realme and now in his absence thus went about vpon forged causes to vtter his old rancor which in couert manner he had long kept secret Neuerthelesse vpon mistrust of such vnstedfastnesse he had put his realme in a readinesse to resist his enterprises as he doubted not
apperteined I assure you my lord ambassador that beside that I doubt not but your maister will recompense you for the same yée may be assured that where particularlie in anie thing I may pleasure you I will doo it with as good a will as you can require me line 30 And to make answer to that which your maister by word of mouth hath said vnto Guien and Clarenceaux kings of armes of the king my good brother and perpetuall and best alie and of me vpon the intimation of the warre which hath beene made by vs consisting in eight points I will that each one vnderstand it First as to the which he saith he maruelleth that he hauing me a prisoner by iust warre and hauing also my faith I should defie him and that in reason I neither may nor ought to doo it I answer line 40 thereto that if I were his prisoner here and that he had my faith he had spoken true but I know not that the emperor hath euer at anie time had my faith that may in anie wise auaile him For first in what warre so euer I haue béene I know not that I haue either séene him or encountred with him When I was prisoner garded with foure or fiue hundred harquebuzers sicke in my bed and in danger of death it was an easie matter to constreine me but not verie honorable to him that should doo it and after that I returned into France I know not line 50 anie that hath had power to compell me to it and to doo it willinglie without constraint it is a thing which I waie more than so lightlie to bind my selfe thereto And bicause I will not that my honor come in disputation although I know well that euerie man of warre knoweth sufficientlie that a prisoner garded is not bound to anie faith nor can bind himselfe thereto in anie thing I doo neuerthelesse send to your master this writing signed with mine owne line 60 hand the which my lord ambassadour I praie you read and afterwards promise me to deliuer it vnto your master and not to anie other And herewith the king caused it to be deliuered to the said ambassador by master Iohn Robertet one of the secretaries of the estate and of his chamber The ambassador tooke the writing in his hand and after excused himselfe to the king saieng That as to him by the letter which his master souereigne lord had written vnto him now lastlie his commission was alreadie expired and that he had no further commandement nor instructions from his maiestie but to take leaue of the king with as much spéed as he might and to returne home Which he most humblie besought him to permit him to doo without further charge or commission although he knew that he was at his commanddement and that he might at his pleasure constreine him as seemed to him good Herevnto the king answered My lord ambassador sith you will not take vpon you to read this writing I will cause it to be read in this companie to the end that euerie one may vnderstand and know that I am cleered in that whereof against trueth he goeth about to accuse me Beside that if you afterwards will not beare it deliuer it to him I will send one of my heralds here present to go in companie with you for whom you shall procure a good auailable safe conduct that he maie passe vnto your master protesting demanding that an act maie be registred before this companie that if he will not it should come to his knowledge that I am discharged in that I doo my best to cause him to vnderstand it accordinglie as I ought to doo and in such sort as he can not pretend cause of ignorance ¶ After the king had ended these words he called to him the said Robertet and commanded him to reade the said writing with a lowd voice which was doone word for word The copie of the said writing directed to the emperour WE Francis by the grace of God king of France lord of Genes c. To you Charles by the same grace chosen emperour of Rome and king of Spaine We doo you to wit that being aduertised that in all the answers that you haue made to our ambassadors and heraulds sent to you for the establishing of peace in excusing your selfe without all reason you haue accused vs saieng that we haue plight you our faith and that therevpon besides our promise we departed out of your hands and power In defense of our honour which hereby might be burthened too much against all truth we thought good to send you this writing by which we giue you to vnderstand that notwithstanding that no man being in ward is bound to keepe faith and that the same might be a sufficient excuse for vs yet for the satisfieng of all men and our said honor which we mind to keepe and will keepe if it please God vnto the death that if ye haue charged or will charge vs not onelie with our said faith and deliuerance but that euer we did anie thing that became not a gentleman that had respect to his honor that ye lie falslie in your throat and as oft as ye saie it ye lie and we determine to defend our honor to the vttermost drop of our bloud Wherefore seeing ye haue charged vs against all truth write no more to vs hereafter but appoint vs the field and we will bring you the weapons Protesting that if after this declaration ye write into anie place or vse anie words against our honor that the shame of the delaie of the combat shall light on you seeing that the offering of combat is the end of all writing Made at our good towne and citie of Paris the eight and twentith daie of March. In the yere of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred twentie and eight before Easter Thus signed Francis After that Robertet had read this writing there in presence of the emperours ambassadors the king made further replie vnto the points conteined in the emperours answers to the defiance and withall to conclude told the said ambassador that his master the emperor had constreined him by such message line 10 as he had sent to him to make the answer in truth which he had made and further willed him to deliuer vnto the emperour the writing which he had signed with his hand and to saie to him that he tooke him for so honorable a prince that considering the matter wherewith he charged him and the answer that he made he would not faile but to answer him like a gentleman and not by writing like an aduocate For if he otherwise doo said the king I will answer his chancellor by an aduocate and a man of line 20 his estate and a more honest man than he Shortlie after the emperors ambassadors returned home into Spaine in safetie and well intreted And vpō their returne the ambassadors of France were set
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 â—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 â—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
said he if anie thing hath béene doone to the honour of the realme it was Gods dooing and therefore willed them to giue him the praise Neuerthelesse the maior and aldermen with certeine of the commoners in their liueries and their hoods hearing of his approch to the citie the eight daie of October met him in Finnesburie field where he tooke each of them by the hand and thanked them for their good wils The lord maior did ride with him till they came to the pound in Smithfield where his grace left them and rode to his house of Shene that night and the next daie to the king to Hampton court The fourth daie of Nouember began a parlement called and holden at Westminster which continued till the foure and twentith of December next following was then proroged In this parlement all colleges chanteries and frée chappels were giuen to the king and the statute of the six articles was repealed with diuerse others tending to the like end Moreouer during this parlement visiters being appointed to visit in London the sixtéenth of Nouember began to take downe the images in Paules church and shortlie after all the images in euerie church not onelie through London but also throughout the whole realme were pulled downe and defaced The lord protector and others of the councell considering now in what sort they had got foothold in Scotland by reason of such peeces as they had taken and fortified within the realme did deuise for the more suertie of those places which they had alreadie got and the better to bring the rest of the countrie vnto reason to haue some holds also more within the land and therefore first they caused a fort to be builded at Lowder where sir Hugh Willoughbie was appointed capteine with a conuenient garrison of soldiers to kéepe it Beside this it was thought expedient to fortifie the towne of Hadington wherevpon the lord Greie lieutenant of the north parts with sir Thomas Palmer and sir Thomas Holcroft were appointed to go thither with a conuenient number of men of warre pioners to sée that towne fensed with trenches rampiers and bulworks as should séeme to his lordship necessarie and behoouefull who therefore entring into Scotland the eightéenth of Aprill passed forth to Hadington where he began to fortifie and there remained to sée the worke brought to some perfection During his abode there diuerse exploits were both valiantlie attempted and luckilie atchiued by his martiall conduct and politike direction as occasions offred might moue him which I would gladlie haue set downe at large if I could haue come to the true vnderstanding thereof but sith I cannot get the same in such full manner as I haue wished that yet which I haue learned by true report as I take it I haue thought good to impart to the reader The eight and twentith of Maie his lordship wan the castell of Yester after he had beaten it right sore with terrible batterie of canon shot for the time it lasted and therewith hauing made a reasonable breach for the soldiers to enter they within yéelded with condition to haue their liues saued which the lord Greie was contented to grant to them all one onelie excepted who during the siege vttered vnséemelie words of the king abusing his maiesties name with vile and most opprobrious termes They all comming foorth of the castell in their shirts humbled themselues to my lord Greie as became them and vpon strait examination who should be the railer that was excepted out of the pardon it was knowne to be one Newton a Scot but he to saue himselfe put it to one Hamilton and so these two gentlemen accusing one an other the truth could not be decided otherwise than by a combat which they required and my lord Greie therevnto assented and pronounced iudgement so to haue it tried which he did the rather bicause all men doo séeme resolute in the triall of truth as in a verie good cause by losse of life to gaine an endlesse name as one saith Mors spernenda viris vt fama perennis alatur At the appointed time they entered the lists set vp for that purpose in the market place of Hadington without other apparell sauing their doublets and hosen weaponed with sword buckler and dagger At the first entrie into the lists Hamilton kneeling downe made his hartie praier to God that it might please him to giue victorie vnto the truth with solemne protestation that he neuer vttred anie such words of king Edward of England as his aduersarie charged him with On the other side Newton line 10 being troubled as it séemed with his false accusation argued vnto the beholders his guiltie conscience Now were the sticklers in a readinesse and the combattors with their weapons drawne fell to it so that betwixt them were striken six or seuen blowes right lustilie But Hamilton being verie fierce and egre vpon trust of his innocencie constreined Newton to giue ground almost to the end of the lists and if he had driuen him to the end in déed then by the law of armes he had woone the victorie line 20 Newton perceiuing himselfe to be almost at point to be thus ouercome stept forwards againe and gaue Hamilton such a gash on the leg that he was not able longer to stand but fell therewith downe to the ground and then Newton falling on him incontinentlie slue him with a dagger There were gentlemen present that knowing as they tooke it for certeine how Newton was the offendor although fortune had fauoured him in the combat would gladlie haue ventured their liues against line 30 him man for man if it might haue béene granted but he chalenging the law of armes had it granted by my lord Greie who gaue him also his owne gowne beside his owne backe and a chaine of gold which he then ware Thus was he well rewarded how so euer he deserued but he escaped not so for afterwards as he was riding betwixt the borders of both the realms he was slaine and cut in péeces On the fourth of Iune the towne of Dawketh was burnt and the castell woone by force where fourteene line 40 Scots were slaine and three hundred taken prisoners amongst whome were these men of name the maister of Morton son in law to sir George Dowglasse the lard of Blengaruie the lard of Wedderburne and one Alexander Hume a man of good reputation among them The same daie the English horssemen burnt all the mils round about Edenburgh within the compasse of six miles on each side the towne The seuenth of Iune they burnt Muskelburgh Now after that my lord Greie had fortified line 50 Hadington and furnished it with vittels and munitions sufficient the twelfe of Iune he departed from thence homewards leauing there in garrison about two thousand footmen and fiue hundred horssemen In this meane time Henrie the French king succeeding his father Francis the first
of Gods office How then doo you take in hand to reforme Be ye kings By what authoritie Or by what occasion Be ye the kings officers By what commission Be ye called of God By what tokens declare ye that Gods word teacheth vs that no man should take in hand anie office but he that is called of God like Aaron What Moses I praie you called you What Gods minister bad you rise Ye rise for religion What religion taught you that If ye were offered persecution for religion ye ought to flie so Christ teacheth you and yet you intend to fight If ye would stand in the truth ye ought to suffer like martyrs and you would sleie like tyrants Thus for religion you kéepe no religion and neither will follow the counsell of Christ nor the constancie of martyrs Why rise ye for religion Haue ye anie thing contrarie to Gods booke Yea haue ye not all things agréeable to Gods word But the new is different from the old and therefore ye will haue the old If ye measure the old by truth ye haue the oldest if ye measure the old by fansie then it is hard because mens fansies change to giue that is old Ye will haue the old still Will ye haue anie older than that as Christ left his apostles taught the first church after Christ did vse Ye will haue that the chanons doo establish Why that is a great deale yoonger than that ye haue of later time and newlier inuented Yet that is it that ye desire Why then ye desire not the oldest And doo you preferre the bishops of Rome afore Christ mens inuentions afore Gods law the newer sort of worship before the older Ye séeke no religion ye be deceiued ye séeke traditions They that teach you blind you that so instruct you deceiue you If ye séeke what the old doctors saie yet looke what Christ the oldest of all saith For he saith Before Abraham was made I am If ye seeke the truest way he is the verie truth if ye séeke the readiest waie he is the verie waie if ye séeke euerlasting life he is the verie life What religion would ye haue other now than his religion You would haue the bibles in againe It is no maruell your blind guides would leade you blind still Why be ye howlets and backs that ye cannot looke on the light Christ saith to euerie one Search ye the scriptures for they beare witnesse of Christ. You saie Pull in the scriptures for we will haue no knowledge of Christ. The apostles of Christ will vs to be so readie that we maie be able to giue euerie man an account of our faith Ye will vs not once to read the scriptures for feare of knowing of our faith Saint Paul praieth that euerie man may increase in knowledge ye desire that our knowledge might decaie againe A true religion ye séeke belike and worthie to be sought for For without the sword indéed nothing can helpe it neither Christ nor truth nor age can mainteine it But why should ye not like that which Gods word establisheth the primitiue church hath authorised the greatest learned men of this realme haue drawen the whole consent of the parlement hath confirmed the kings maiestie hath set foorth Is it not trulie set out Can ye deuise anie truer than Christes apostles vsed Ye thinke it is not learnedlie doone Dare ye commons take vpon you more learning than the chosen bishops and clearks of this realme haue Thinke ye follie in it Ye were woont to iudge your parlement wisest now will ye suddenlie excell them in wisdome Or can ye thinke it lacketh authoritie which the king the parlement the learned the wise haue iustlie approoued Learne learne to know this one point of religion that God will be worshipped as he hath prescribed and not as we haue deuised and that his will is wholie in his scriptures which be full of Gods spirit and profitable to teach the truth to reprooue lies to amend faults to bring one vp in righteousnesse that he that is a Gods man may be perfect readie to all good works What can be more required to serue God withall And thus much for religion line 10 rebels The other rable of Norffolke rebelles ye pretend a common-wealth How amend ye it By killing of gentlemen by spoiling of gentlemen by imprisoning of gentlemen A maruellous tanned common-wealth Whie should ye thus hate them For their riches or for their rule Rule they neuer tooke so much in hand as ye doo now They neuer resisted the king neuer withstood his councell be faithfull line 20 at this daie when ye be faithlesse not onelie to the king whose subiects ye be but also to your lords whose tenants ye be Is this your true duetie in some of homage in most of fealtie in all of allegiance to leaue your duties go backe from your promises fall from your faith and contrarie to law and truth to make vnlawfull assemblies vngodlie companies wicked and detestable campes to disobeie your betters and to obeie your tanners to change your obedience from a king to a Ket to submit your line 30 selues to traitors and breake your faith to your true king and lords They rule but by law if otherwise the law the councell the king taketh awaie their rule Ye haue orderlie sought no redresse but ye haue in time found it In countries some must rule some must obeie euerie man maie not beare like stroke for euerie man is not like wise And they that haue séene most and be best able to beare it and of iust dealing beside be most fit to rule It is an other matter to vnderstand a mans owne gréefe and to know the common-wealths sore and therfore not line 40 they that know their owne case as euerie man doth but they that vnderstand the common-welths state ought to haue in countries the preferment of ruling If ye felt the paine that is ioined with gouernance as ye see and like the honor ye would not hurt others to rule them but rather take great paine to be ruled of them If ye had rule of the kings maiestie committed vnto you it were well doone ye had ruled the gentlemen but now ye haue it not and cannot beare their rule it is to thinke the kings maiestie foolish line 50 and vniust that hath giuen certeine rule to them And séeing by the scripture ye ought not to speake euill of anie magistrate of the people why doo ye not onelie speake euill of them whome the kings maiestie hath put in office but also iudge euill of the king himselfe and thus seditiouslie in field stand with your swords drawen against him If riches offend you because yée wish the like then thinke that to be no common-wealth but enuie to the common-wealth Enuie it is to appaire an other line 60 mans estate without the amendment of your owne And to haue no gentlemen bicause ye be none
fact they had doone therein Not long after this a merrie fellow came into Paules and spied the rood with Marie and Iohn new set vp wherto among a great sort of people he made low curtsie said Sir your maistership is welcome to towne I had thought to haue talked further with your maistership but that ye be héere clothed in the quéenes colours I hope ye be but a summers bird for that ye be dressed in white gréene c. The prince thus being in the church of Paules after doctor Harpesfield had finished his oration in Latine set forward through Fléetstreet so came to White hall where he with the quéene remained foure daies after and from thence remooued vnto Richmond After this all the lords had leaue to depart into their countries with strict commandement to bring all their harnesse and artillerie into the tower of London with all spéed Now remained there no English lord at the court but the bishop of Winchester From Richmond they remooued to Hampton court where the hall doore within the court was continuallie shut so that no man might enter vnlesse his errand were first knowne which séemed strange to Englishmen that had not béene vsed thereto The seuentéenth daie of September was a proclamation in London that all vagabonds and maisterlesse men as well strangers as Englishmen should depart the citie within fiue daies and strictlie charging all inholders vittelers tauerners and ale house kéepers with all other that sold vittels that they after the said fiue daies should not sell anie meat drinke or anie kind of vittels or reléefe to anie seruingman whatsoeuer vnlesse he brought a testimoniall from his maister to declare whose seruant he was were in continuall houshold with his said maister vpon paine to runne in danger of the law if they offend herein In September the duke of Norffolke departed this life at Fremingham castell in Norffolke and there was honorablie buried among his ancestors ¶ The 26 of October a Spaniard was hangd at Charingcrosse for killing an Englishman there was offered for his life by other strangers 500 crownes but all that would not staie iustice On fridaie the same 26 of October those honest men that had béene of Throckmortons quest being in number eight for the other foure were deliuered out of prison for that they submitted themselues and said they had offended like weakelings not considering truth to be truth but of force for feare said so these eight men I saie whereof maister Emanuell Lucar and maister Whetston were chéefe were called before the councell in the Starrechamber where they affirmed that they had doone all things in that matter according to their knowledge and with good consciences euen as they should answer before GOD at the daie of iudgement Where maister Lucar said openlie before all the lords that they had doone in the matter like honest men and true and faithfull subiects and therefore they humblie be sought my lord chancellor and the other lords to be meanes to the king and quéenes maiesties that they might be discharged and set at libertie and said that they were all contented to submit themselues to their maiesties sauing and reseruing their truth consciences and honesties The lords taking their words in maruellous euill part iudged them worthie to paie excessiue fines Some said they were worthie to paie 1000 pounds a péece Other said that Lucar and Whetston were worthie to paie a thousand marks a péece and the rest fiue hundred pounds a peece In conclusion sentence was giuen by the lord chancellor that they should paie a thousand marks a peece he that paid least and that they should go to prison againe and there remain till further order were taken for their punishment The thirtith of October being tuesdaie the lord Iohn Greie was deliuered out of the tower and set at libertie Upon saturdaie the tenth of Nouember the shiriffes of London had commandement to take an inuentarie of each one of their goods which were of maister Throckmortons quest to seale vp their doores which was doone the same daie Maister Whetston and maister Lucar and maister Kightlie were adiudged to paie two thousand pounds a péece and the rest a thousand marks a péece to be paid within one fortnight after From this paiment were exempted those foure which confessed a fault therevpon had submitted themselues whose names are these maister Loe maister Pointer maister Beswicke and maister Cater The 12 of Nouember being mondaie the parlement began line 10 at Westminster to the beginning whereof both the king and quéene rode in their parlement robes hauing two swords borne before them The earle of Penbroke bare his sword and the earle of Westmerland bare the quéenes They had two caps of maintenance likewise borne before them whereof the earle of Arundell bare the one and the earle of Shrewesburie the other During this parlement cardinall Poole landed at Douer vpon wednesdaie being the 21 of Nouember who being receiued with line 20 much honor in all other countries through which hee had passed was receiued here at the first with no great shew for the causes aboue mentioned The same daie on the which he arriued an act passed in the parlement house for his restitution in bloud vtterlie repealing as false and most slanderous that act made against him in K. Henrie the eights time And on the next daie being thursdaie and the 22 of Nouember the king and queene both came to the parlement house to giue their roiall assent and to establish line 30 this act against his comming On saturdaie the foure and twentith of Nouember he came to the court and after went to Lambeth where his lodging was prepared On wednesdaie following in the after noone he came into the parlement house being at that present kept in the great chamber of the court of the White hall for that the quéene by reason of sicknesse was not able to go abrode where the king and quéene sitting vnder the cloth of estate and the cardinall sitting line 40 on the right hand with all the other estates of the realme being present and the knights and burgesses of the common house being also called thither the bishop of Winchester being lord chancellor spake in this maner My lords of the vpper house and you my maisters of the nether house here is present the right reuerend father in God my lord cardinall Poole legat A Latere come from the apostolike sée of Rome as ambassador to the king and quéenes maiesties line 50 vpon one of the weightiest causes that euer happened in this realme and which apperteineth to the glorie of God and your vniuersall benefit the which ambassage their maiesties pleasure is to bee signified vnto you all by his owne mouth trusting that you will receiue and accept it in as beneuolent and thankefull wise as their highnesse haue doone and that you will giue attentiue and
pageant But in the opening when hir grace vnderstood that the bible in English should be deliuered vnto hir by Truth which was therein represented by a child she thanked the citie for that gift and said that she would oftentimes read ouer that booke commanding sir Iohn Parrat one of the knights which held vp hir canopie to go before and to receiue the booke But learning that it should be deliuered vnto hir grace downe by a silken lace she caused him to staie and so passed forward till she came against the aldermen in the high end of Cheape before the little conduit where the companies of the citie ended which began at Fanchurch stood along the stréets one by an other inclosed with railes hanged with cloths and themselues well apparelled with manie rich furres and their liuerie hoods vpon their shoulders in comelie and seemelie maner hauing before them sundrie persons well apparelled in silks and chains of gold as wiflers and garders of the said companies besides a number of rich hangings as well of tapistrie arras cloths of gold siluer veluet damaske sattin and other silks plentifullie hanged all the waie as the queenes highnesse passed from the tower thorough the citie Out at the windowes and penthouses of euerie house did hang a number of rich and costlie banners line 10 and stremers till hir grace came to the vpper end of Cheape Where by appointment the right worshipfull master Ranulph Cholmelie recorder of the citie presented to the quéenes maiestie a pursse of crimson sattin richlie wrought with gold wherein the citie gaue vnto the quéens maiestie a thousand marks in gold as master recorder did declare bréefelie vnto the quéens maiestie whose words tended to this end that the lord maior his brethren and communaltie of line 20 the citie to declare their gladnesse and goodwill towards the quéenes maiestie did present hir grace with that gold desiring hir grace to continue their good and gratious queene and not to esteeme the value of the gift but the mind of the giuers The queens maiestie with both hir hands tooke the pursse and answered to him againe maruellous pithilie and so pithilie that the standers by as they imbraced intirelie hir gratious answer so they maruelled at the couching thereof which was in words truelie reported these I thanke my lord maior his brethren and you line 30 all And whereas your request is that I should continue your good ladie and quéene be yee ensured that I will be as good vnto you as euer quéene was to hir people No will in me can lacke neither doo I trust shall there lacke anie power And persuade your selues that for the safetie and quietnesse of you all I will not spare if néed be to spend my bloud God thanke you all Which answer of so noble an hearted princesse if it mooued a maruellous shout line 40 reioising it is nothing to be maruelled at sith both the haltinesse thereof was so woonderfull and the words so iointlie knit When hir grace had thus answered the recorder she marched toward the little conduit where was erected a pageant with square proportion standing directlie before the same conduit with battlements accordinglie And in the same pageant was aduanced two hilles or mounteins of conuenient height The one of them being on the north side of the same pageant line 50 was made â—ragged barren and stonie in the which was erected one trée artificiallie made all withered and dead with branches accordinglie And vnder the same trée at the foot thereof sat one in homelie and rude apparrell crookedlie and in mourning maner hauing ouer his head in a table written in Latine and English his name which was Ruinosa respublica A decaied commonweale And vpon the same withered trée were fixed certeine tables wherein were written proper sentences expressing the causes line 60 of the decaie of a commonweale The other hill on the south side was made faire fresh greene and beautifull the ground thereof full of floures and beautie and on the same was erected also one tree verie fresh and faire vnder the which stood vpright one fresh personage well apparelled and appointed whose name also was written both in English and Latine which was Respublica bene instituta A flourishing common-weale And vpon the same tree also were fixed certeine tables conteining sentences which expressed the causes of a flourishing commonweale In the middle betweene the said hils was made artificiallie one hollow place or caue with doore and locke inclosed out of the which a little before the quéenes highnesse comming thither issued one personage whose name was Time apparelled as an old man with a sieth in his hand hauing wings artificiallie made leading a personage of lesser stature than himselfe which was finelie and well apparrelled all clad in white silke and directlie ouer hir head was set hir name and title in Latine and English Temporis filia The daughter of Time Which two so appointed went forwards toward the south side of the pageant And on hir brest was written hir proper name which was Veritas Truth who held a booke in hir hand vpon the which was written Verbum veritatis The word of truth And out of the south side of the pageant was cast a standing for a child which should interpret the same pageant Against whome when the quéenes maiestie came he spake vnto hir grace these swéet words This old man with the sieth old father Time they call And hir his daughter Truth which holdeth yonder booke Whome he out of his rocke hath brought foorth to vs all From whence this manie yeares she durst not once out looke The ruthfull wight that sits vnder the barren tree Resembleth to vs the forme when common weales decaie But when they be in state triumphant you may see By him in fresh attire that sits vnder the baâ—e Now sith that Time againe his daughter Truth hath brought We trust ô worthie queene thou wilt this truth imbrace And sith thou vnderstandst the good estate and naught We trust wealth thou wilt plant and barrennes displace But for to heale the sore and cure that is not seene Which thing the booke of truth dooth teach in writing plaine Shee dooth present to thee the same ô worthie queene For that that words doo flie but written dooth remaine When the child had thus ended his spéech he reached his booke towards the quéenes maiestie which a little before Truth had let downe vnto him from the hill which by sir Iohn Parrat was receiued and deliuered vnto the quéene But shée as soone as she had receiued the booke kissed it and with both hir hands held vp the same and so laid it vpon hir brest with great thanks to the citie therefore and so went forward towards Paules churchyard The former matter which was rehearsed vnto the quéenes maiestie was written in two tables on either side the pageant eight verses and in the middest these in
all vertues shall raine For all men hope that thou none error wilt support For all men hope that thou wilt truth restore againe line 10 And mend that is amisse to all good mens comfort And for this hope they praie thou maist continue long Our queene amongst vs here all vice for to supplant And for this hope they praie that God maie make thee strong As by his grace puissant So in his truth constant line 20 Farewell ô worthie queene and as our hope is sure That into errors place thou wilt now truth restore So trust we that thou wilt our souereigne queene endure And louing ladie stand from hensefoorth euermore While these words were in saieng and certeine wishes therein repeated for maintenance of truth line 30 and rooting out of errour she now and then held vp hir hands towards heauen and willed the people to saie Amen When the child had ended shee said Be ye well assured I shall stand your good quéene At which saieng hir grace departed foorth through Templebarre toward Westminster with no lesse showting and crieng of the people than she entered the citie with a noise of ordinance which the tower shot off at hir graces enterance first into Towerstréet The childs saieng was also in Latine verses written line 40 in a table verie faire which was hanged vp there O regina potens quum primam vrbem ingredereris Dona tibi linguas fidáque corda dedit Discedenti etiam tibi nunc duo munera mittit Omnia plena spei votáque plena precum Quippe tuis spes est in te quòd prouida virtuâ— Rexerit errore nec locus vllus erit Quippe tuis spes est quòd tu verum omni reduces Solatura bonas dum mala tollis opes Hac spe freti orant longum vt regina gubernes line 50 Et regni excindas crimina cuncta tui Hac spe freti orant diuina vt gratia fortem Et verae fidei te velit esse basin Iam regina vale sicut nos spes tenet vna Quòd vero inducto perditus error erit Sic quóque speramus quòd eris regina benigna Nobis per regni tempora long a tui Thus the queenes highnesse passed through the citie which without anie forreigne person of it selfe beautified it selfe and receiued hir grace at all places as hath beene before mentioned with most tender obedience line 60 and loue due to so gratious a queene and souereigne a ladie And hir grace likewise of hir side in all hir graces passage shewed hir selfe generallie an image of a worthie ladie and gouernour But priuatlie these especiall points were noted in hir grace as signes of a most princelike courage whereby hir louing subiects maie ground a sure hope for the rest of hir gratious dooings hereafter About the nether end of Cornehill toward Cheape one of the knights about hir grace had espied an ancient citizen which wept and turned his head backe and therewith said this gentleman Yonder is an alderman for so he tearmed him which wéepeth and turneth his face backeward how maie it be interpreted that he so dooth for sorrow or for gladnesse The quéens maiestie heard him and said I warrant you it is for gladnesse A gratious interpretation of a noble courage which would turne the doubtfull to the best And yet it was well knowne that as hir grace did confirme the same the parties cheare was mooued for verie pure gladnesse for the sight of hir maiesties person at the beholding whereof he tooke such comfort that with teares he expressed the same In Cheape side hir grace smiled and being thereof demanded the cause answered for that she heard one saie Remember old king Henrie the eight A naturall child which at the verie remembrance of hir fathers name tooke so great a ioy that all men maie well thinke that as she reioised at his name whome this realme dooth hold of so woorthie memorie so in hir dooings she will resemble the same When the cities charge without parcialitie and onelie the citie was mentioned vnto hir grace shée said it should not be forgotten Which saieng might mooue all naturall Englishmen hartilie to shew due obedience and intiernesse to their so good a queene which will in no point forget anie parcell of dutie louinglie shewed vnto hir The answer which hir grace made vnto maister recorder of London as the hearers know it to be true with melting hearts heard the same so maie the reader thereof conceiue what kind of stomach and courage pronounced the same What more famous thing doo we read in ancient histories of old time than that mightie princes haue gentlie receiued presents offered them by base and low personages If that be to be woondered at as it is passinglie let me sée anie writer that in anie princes life is able to recount so manie presidents of this vertue as hir grace shewed in that one passage thorough the citie How manie nosegaies did hir grace receiue at poore womens hands How oftentimes staid she hir chariot when she saw anie simple bodie offer to speake to hir grace A branch of rosemarie giuen hir grace with a supplication by a poore woman about Fleetbridge was séene in hir chariot till hir grace came to Westminster not without the maruellous woondering of such as knew the presenter and noted the quéens most gratious receiuing and keeping the same What hope the poore and néedie maie looke for at hir graces hand she as in all hir iournie continuallie so in hir hearkening to the poore children of Christs hospitall with eies cast vp into heauen did fullie declare as that neither the wealthier estate could stand without consideration had to the pouertie neither the pouertie be dulie considered vnlesse they were remembred as commended vnto vs by Gods owne mouth As at hir first entrance she as it were declared hir selfe prepared to passe through a citie that most intierlie loued hir so she at hir last departing as it were bound hir selfe by promise to continue good ladie and gouernor vnto that citie which by outward declaration did open their loue vnto their so louing and noble prince in such wise as she hir selfe woondered thereat But because princes be set in their seat by Gods appointing and therefore they must first and chieflie tender the glorie of him from whom their glorie issueth it is to be noted in hir grace that for somuch as God hath so woonderfullie placed hir in the seat of gouernement ouer this realme she in all hir dooings doâ—th shew hir selfe most mindfull of his goodnesse mercie shewed vnto hir And among all other two principall signes thereof were noted in this passage First in the tower where hir grace before she entred hir chariot lifted vp hir eies to heauen and said as followeth The praier of queene Elisabeth as she went to hir coronation O Lord almightie and euerlasting God I giue thee most hartie thanks that thou hast beene
the said Henrie the first being chosen bishop in the yere of Christ one thousand one hundred and two and consecrated in the yeare one thousand one hundred and seuen Galfridus Rufus bishop of Durham witnesse to a déed wherein Henrie the first confirmed to the priorie of Christs church a peece of ground without Aldgate called Knighton guild in the presence of Geffrie chancellor Geffrie Clinton and William Clinton he was also chancellor in the two and twentith yéere of Henrie the first and so vntill the thrée and thirtith yeare of the reigne of Henrie the first and then was made bishop of Durham which Geffrie died about the yere of our redemption one thousand one hundred fortie and one Ranulphus called by Matthew Westminster Arnulphus chancellor to Henrie the first and Richard the chapleine kéeper of the great seale being at one time This Ranulph was chancellor in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and sixtéene being the sixtéenth of king Henrie the first in which office I suppose that he continued vntill the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred twentie and thrée being the thrée and twentith of the said Henrie in which yeare this chancellor for so is he then called fell from his horsse and brake his necke on a hill not far from Dunstable where the king kept his Christmasse Reginald chancellor to king Henrie the first as Leland hath set him downe writing in this sort in his notes of Montacute abbeie Reginaldus cancellarius so named béelike of his office he was a man of gret fame about king Henrie the first he fell to religion and was prior of Montacute and inlarged it with great buildings and possessions c. Roger bishop of Salisburie againe chancellor in the latter end of the reigne of king Henrie the first and in the beginning of king Stephan in the yere of Christ one thousand one hundred thirtie and six which Henrie the first died in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred thirtie and fiue being the fiue and thirtith yeare of the reigne of the said Henrie This Roger died in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred thirtie and nine being about the fourth yeare of king Stephan Godfreie chancellor to Henrie the first as I gather out of Matthew Parker in the life of William Corbell or Corbris the six and thirtith archbishop of â—â—â—â—â—rburie to which dignitie this William was 〈◊〉 in the three and twentith yeare of Henrie 〈…〉 being the yeare of Christ 1123 of which Godâ—â—â—â—e the said Matthew further writeth in this sort speaking of the said William the archbishop returned from Rome with the pall Deinde Alexandrum Lincolniensem episcopum Cantuariae Godefredum regni cancellarium Bathoniensem episcopum Londini conseâ—rauit Concerning which Godfreie we will speake more hereafter in the liues of the chancellors onelie at this time setting downe that this Godefredus was the line 10 quéenes chapleine and could not be that Galfridus before named which was bishop of Durham for this Godefredus died six yeares before that Galfridus for this bishop of Bath died in the yeare of our Lord 1135 being the last of king Henrie Beauclerke and the first of king Stephan that bishop of Durham died in the yeare of our Lord 1141 being about the sixt yeare of the said king Stephan and this Godfreie was the second bishop of Bath and Wels line 20 after the vniting of those two cities to one bishoprike by Iohn de Towres the first bishop of those two places in the yeare of our Lord 1092 being about the fift yeare of William Rufus Alexander bishop of Lincolne as may be after a sort gathered out of Wilhelmus Paruus lib. 1. cap. 6. being cousine or nephue to Roger bishop of Salisburie was chancellor the words of which W. Paruus be these Eidem that was to king Stephan quoque sublimato in regem se that was Roger bishop of Salisburie line 30 talem exhibuit vt obsequiorum gratia praeclaram apud illum habere fiduciam videretur Tantis ille beneficijs ingratus in ipsum episcopum cuius opera nunquam episcopalia fuere vltor diuinitus ordinatus eundem tanquam exigui hominem momenti primo carcerati custodia postmodum etiam cibi inopia nepoti eius qui cancellarius fuerat regis intentato supplicio ita coarctauit vt duo illa praeclara castella which were the castels of Uise otherwise called de Deuises and the castell of Shirburne in quibus thesauri eius erant repositi resignaret Thus much Wilhelmus line 40 Newburgensis the truth whereof I leaue to other to consider sith the words of those authors may be diuerslie expounded either that this Alexander was chancellor or his sonne or else the sonne of Roger bishop of Salisburie But be it any or none of them as the truth shall hereafter be made plaine yet bicause I haue mentioned Alexander in this place I thinke it not amisse to set downe such verses as Henrie Huntington hath recited of this Alexander which are Splendor Alexandri non tam renitescit honore Quà m per eum renitescit honor flos námque virorum line 50 Dando tenere putans thesauros cogit honoris Et gratis dare festinans ne danda rogentur Quod non dum dederit non dum se credit habere Oh decus oh morum directio quo veniente Certa fides hilaris clementia cauta potestas Lene iugum doctrina placens correctio dulcis Libertásque decens venere pudórque facetus Lincoliae gens magna prius nec maxima semper Talis iste diu sit nobis tutor honoris Robert chancellor of England in the time of line 60 king Stephan but I find not in what yeare bicause the charter is without date neither can I learne what he was bicause I know not his surname Philip chancellor to king Stephan about the fourth yeare of his reigne being about the yeare of our Lord 1139 witnesse to manie déedes which king Stephan made to the moonks of Elie and to Nigellus the bishop of that sée Reinold abbat of Walden whome I haue séene in one anonymall briefe written chronicle to be termed chancellor but in what time he liued or what other name he had I doo not yet know but by the course of the historie much about this time Iohn chancellor of England in the time of king Henrie the second but what he was or in what yeare of king Henrie he liued I doo not know and therefore leaue it to him that both can and ought to giue life to these persons whom he imprisoneth in the east castell of London not doubting but in time he will doo his countrie good and correct other men though now he be so streict laced as that he will not procure anie furtherance of other mens trauels Thomas Becket made chancellor as some write in the first yeere of the reigne of king Henrie
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
iustice of the common plées sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker sir Thomas Gawdie knight one of the iustices of the plees before hir maiestie to be holden William Pâ—riam one of the iustices of the common plées by vertue of hir maiesties commission to them and others in that behalfe directed the same Parrie was indicted of high treason for intending and practising the death and destruction of hir maiestie whome God long prosper and preserue from all such wicked attempts The tenor of which indictment appeareth more particularlie in the course of his arreignment following The maner of the arreignment of William Parrie the 25 of Februarie 1584 at Westminster in the place where the court commonlie called the Kings bench is vsuallie kept by vertue of hir maiesties commission of oier and terminer before Henrie lord Hunsdon gouernour of Barwike sir Francis Knolles knight treasuror of the queenes maiesties houshold sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of the same houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vicechamberleine to hir maiestie sir Christopher Wraie knight chiefe iustice of England sir Gilbert Gerrard knight line 10 master of the rols sir Edmund Anderson knight chiefe iustice of the common plees sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker and sir Thomas Hennage knight treasuror of the chamber FIrst thrée proclamations for silence were made according to the vsuall course in such cases Then the lieutenant was commanded to returne his precept who did so and brought the prisoner to the bar to whome line 20 Miles Sands esquier clerke of the crowne said William Parrie hold vp thy hand and he did so Then said the clerke of the crowne Thou art here indicted by the oths of twelue good and lawfull men of the countie of Midlesex before sir Christopher Wraie knight and others which tooke the indictment by the name of W. Parrie late of London gentleman otherwise called W. Parrie late of London doctor of the law for that thou as a false traitor against the most noble and christian prince quéene Elisabeth line 30 thy most gratious souereigne and liege ladie not hauing the feare of God before thine eies nor regarding thy due allegiance but being seduced by the instigation of the diuell and intending to withdraw and extinguish the hartie loue and due obedience which true faithfull subiects should beare vnto the same our souereigne ladie diddest at Westminster in the countie of Midlesex on the first daie of Februarie in the six and twentith yeare of hir highnesse reigne and at diuerse other times and places in the same line 40 countie maliciouslie and traitorouslie conspire and compasse not onelie to depriue and depose the same our souereigne ladie of hir roiall estate title and dignitie but also to bring hir highnesse to death and finall destruction and sedition in the realme to make and the gouernement thereof to subuert and the sincere religion of God established in hir highnesse dominions to alter and supplant And that whereas thou William Parrie by thy letters sent vnto Gregorie bishop of Rome diddest signifie vnto the same bishop thy purposes and intentions line 50 aforesaid and thereby diddest praie and require the same bishop to giue thée absolution that thou afterwards that is to saie the last day of March in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid diddest traitorouslie receiue letters from one called cardinall de Como directed vnto thée William Parrie whereby the same cardinall did signifie vnto thée that the bishop of Rome had perused thy letters and allowed of thine intent and that to that end he had absolued line 60 thee of all thy sinnes and by the same letter did animate and stir thée to procéed with thine enterprise and that therevpon thou the last daie of August in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid at saint Giles in the fields in the same countie of Midlesex diddest traitorouslie confer with one Edmund Neuill esquier vttering to him all thy wicked and traitorous deuises and then and there diddest mooue him to assist thee therein and to ioine with thee in those wicked treasons aforesaid against the peace of our said souereigne ladie the queene hir crowne and dignitie Whaâ— saiest thou William Parrie art thou guiltie of these treasons whereof thou standest here indicted or not guiltie Then Parrie said Before I plead not guiltie or confesse my selfe guiltie I praie you giue me leaue to speake a few words and with humbling himselfe began in this maner God saue quéene Elisabeth God send me grace to discharge my dutie to hir and to send you home in charitie But touching the matters that I am indicted of some were in one place and some in another and doone so secretlie as none can see into them except that they had eies like vnto God wherefore I will not laie my bloud vpon the iurie but doo mind to confesse the indictment It conteineth but the parts that haue béene openlie read I praie you tell me Whervnto it was answered that the indictment conteined the parts he had heard read no other Whervpon the clerke of the crowne said vnto Parrie Parrie thou must answer directlie to the indictment whether thou be guiltie or not Then said Parrie I doo confesse that I am guiltie of all that is therein conteined and further too I desire not life but desire to die Unto which the clerke of the crowne said If you confesse it you must confesse it in maner and forme as it is comprised in the indictment Wherevnto he said I doo confesse it in maner and forme as the same is set downe and all the circumstances thereof Then the confession being recorded the quéenes learned councell being readie to praie iudgement vpon the same confession master vicechamberleine said These matters conteined in this indictment and confessed by this man are of great importance they touch the person of the quéenes most excellent maiestie in the highest degrée the verie state and weldooing of the whole commonwealth and the truth of Gods word established in these hir maiesties dominions and the open demonstration of that capitall enuie of the man of Rome that hath set himselfe against God and all godlinesse all good princes and good gouernement and against good men Wherefore I praie you for the satisfaction of this great multitude let the whole matter appéere that euerie one may see that the matter of it selfe is as bad as the indictment purporteth and as he hath confessed Whereto in respect that the iustice of the realme hath béene of late verie impudentlie slandered all yeelded as a thing necessarie to satisfie the world in particular of that which was but summarilie comprised in the indictment though in the law his confession serued sufficientlie to haue procéeded therevpon vnto iudgement Wherevpon the lords and others the commissioners hir maiesties lerned councell and Parrie himselfe agréed that Parries confession taken the eleuenth and thirteenth of Februarie 1584 before the
40. Made solemnelie wickedlie broken by the F. king 133. b 60. Broken and the hostages executed 597. b 10. Of Edward the fourth made by proclamation broken 688. b 10. Broken with Henrie the seuenth by Maximilian verie dishonorablie note 774. b 20.30 Breaking punished with great forfeture 765 b 40. Of queene Marie made to the gospellers broken 1161 a 50. Of queene Elisabeth in the parlement house howsoeuer God inclined hir heart 1181. b 20. Of queene Elisabeth to the citie on the daie of hir coronation note 1175. a 20. b 60.1179 a 30. Of the duke of Alanson euen to the sheding of his blood 1335. b40 Promises of William Rufus to the English clergie but not kept note 17. b 30. Large prooue light in performance 28 a 40. Faire of king Stephan 47. a 10. Greet and mounteinlike 704. a 20 Promoters cause of murmuring c. among the people 794. b 10. c. Troublesome beasts 791. b 40. Punished 800. a 10 Prophesie of death naturall fell out true in proofe 1208. a 10. Of a cardinall note 388. b 50 Of Ball a seditious preest 437 a 50. Of the reuolting of the subiects from their prince 493 b 60 Of the decay of the Persies stocke 534. a 60. Of an heremite of Wakefield to king Iohn 180. a 30. Of Henrie the fift touching Henrie his sonne the sixt note 581. b 10 Of winning France 546. a 50. Betokening the translation of the crowne 655. a 40. Concerning the duke of Clarence his name beginning with a G 703. a 40. The memorie whereof appalled Richard the thirds spirits note 746. a 10. Of a moonke vnto the duke of Buckingham false 863 a 30 864. a 30. Fantasticall and fallible of the northerne men 1240. b 60. Touching Calis 1141. b 20 note 314. b 20. Fulfilled 281. b 60 282. a 10.945 a 50.678 b 10. Uaine note â—21 b 60 Prophesies of astronomers false in euent note 1356. b 10.20 c. Diuelish fantasies 703. a 50. Deceipâ—full to the Norffolke rebels note 1038. b 40. ¶ See Dreames Signes and Tokens Prophet false serued right 440 a 60 Protection ¶ See Letters Pasport and Safe conduct 102. a 10 Protectors of England from the first to the last collected 1069. b 30. c. 1070. to 1081. Prosperitie persecuted with malice 17. a 50.20 Anstable 412. b 40.413 a 10. Of king Henrie enuied 37. a 50 Prouerbe Ill will neuer said well verefied 626. b 60.627 a 10. c. Man purposeth but God disposeth verefied 230. a 60.316 a 60.317 a 10.541 a 10.835 b 60. Ictus piscator sapit applied 113. a 50. The more knaue the better lucke verefied in a bucher note 113. Profered seruice stinks verefied 1331 b â—0 Hast makes wast verefied 1202. b 10. He falleth into the fire that flieth froÌ„ the smoke verefied 228. b 20 When I lend I am a friend when I aske I am a foe verefied 312. a 10.20 It is good sleeping in a whole skin verefied 444. b 40. Necessitie hath no law verefied 426. b 20. Soone hot soone cold verefied 444 b 40. One mischiefe asketh an other verefied 446 a 30 Wit or cunning dearlie bought verefied 467 b 20. One soweth but an other reapeth verefied 36. a 40. Hast maketh wast verefied note 41. b 30. As good neuer a whit as neuer the better verefied 538. b 40. Pitch and paie verefied 532. a 40. 50. Looke yer you leape practised note 519. b 30. Set a beggar on horsse backe and he will ride full gallop verefied 192. b 30. He is an ill cooke cannot licke his owne fingers verefied 193 a 20. He makes a rod for his owne taile verefied 193 b 10 20. Plaine fashion is best practised 695 b 20. Marriage for pleasure repented by leasure prooued true 667. b 60. c. Mariage goeth by destinie verefied 667 b 60. Ill will neuer said well verefied 727. b 10.729 c. The lambe betaken to the woolfe to keepe 716. b 50. To giuerosemeat and beat with the spit verefied 715 b 40. Crooked of bodie crooked of qualitie verefied 712. a 60. b 10. One ill turne requireth another verefied 778 a 20. After mirth commeth mone 808. b 50. Proffered seruice stinkes verefied 852. b 50.853 a 10. He that gapeth after other mens goods looseth his owne verefied 819. b 60. What the â—ie vieweth the hart rueth verefied 975 b 20. Too much familiaritie breeds contempt verefied 852 a 60. b 10. Delaie breedeth danger verefied 1086. b 40. To come a daie after the faire verefied 1136 b 20. Truth purchaseth hate verefied 332. a 40. In trust is treason verefied 743. b 50.60.744 a â—0 He hath made a rod for his owne taile verefied 464. a 10. Faire words make fooles faine verefied 191. b 60.144 a 20. Pulpit at Paules crosse all beraied and beastlie 1182 a 20 Punishment seuere vpon Welsh men 73. b 10. Of Thomas Louell for counterfetting letters note 1556. b 60. c. Ridiculous for a great offense note 314. a 10 Punishments according to the offense 115 b 10 Purseuant of Henrie the third had his hand cut off 272 a 30 Purueior of king Iohn for wheat resisted and the resistors punished note 171. b 40 Purueiors punished 369. b 20. Proclamed against 2â—9 b 20. A statute against them 396 a 10. Set in the pillorie note 1181 b 60 Q. QUarrell betwixt the bishops and moonks of Canturburie about the archbishops election 169. b 30. That the French king picketh against England 518. a 30. Faint picked against the duke of Glocester 627 a 10. Upon a small cause 126 a 30. Prosecuted vnto great mischeefe note 304 b 30. Ended with murther 568. b 20. ¶ See Debate Fraie Mutinie Riot and Warres Queene Adelicia second wife to Henrie the first descended of the dukes of Loraine barren 41. b 60 Queene Aldgitha sent to Chester and whose sister she was 1. a 30 Queene Annes coronation proclamed the same celebrated with great pompe 930. a 40. c. 931.932.933.934 With child 929. b 40. Brought a bed of queene Elisabeth 934. b 20. Committed to the tower hir imprecation at the towre gate she is arreigned hir words at hir death 940. a 10. 20.60 Queene Anne wife to king Richard the third and daughter to Richard earle of Warwike 733 b 60 Queene Anne wife to king Richard the second deceaseth 481 a 20 Queene Berengaria crowned the wife of Richard the first 128. a 40 Queene Elenor Richard the firsts mother returneth home into England 127. a 50 Queene Elenor king Iohns mother an enimie to hir nephue Arthur 158. a 60. Brought a bed of a daughter 69. a 40. Sendeth for speedie succour to king Iohn 164. b 10. Studieth to mainteine the strife betwixt hir sonnes 86. b 60.87 a 10. Committed to close prison 92 b 50. Set at libertie after long imprisonment 117. a 50. Deceaseth 167. b 60 Queene Elenor the wife of Henrie the third 219. Passeth into Normandie 158 b 10. Forsaketh the world and becommeth a nun 283. b 50.
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
Chaseth The monsieurs posie interpreted in a shew The ornaments of the arch aloft A monstrous sea horsse of twentie foot high what it signified Three score and ten pillers with a space of two and twentie foot betweene each Proper emblems and their meanings Enuie and Slander Concord holding Discord in a chaine c. Light with torches and cressets as cléere as the noone daie Thrée graces Uertue Glorie and Honor in a compartement Twentie or thirtie thousand harquebusses shot off The night resembled the daie Solemnities vsed whiles the monsieur was taking his peculiar oth to Antwerpe Two pageants one of mount Parnassus and the other a mossie rocke A scaffold hoÌ„g with scarlet and richlie adorned A chaire of estate of cloth of gold frized Beautifull emblems about the chaire of estate what they signified 1 A little vnder at the right hand vnder the armes of Brabant were these verses 2 On the left hand vnder the armes of Antwerpe was written thus 3 This was written somwhat lower Banished and condemned men in fetters crauing mercie pardoned All promises kept on the monsieurs part they could doo no lesse The monsieur is readie to take his oth of the magistrate people of Antwerpe Good successe wished to the mutuall othâ—akers The monsieurs o th red in French The monsieur casteth largesse of gold siluer among the people Two peales of great ordinance with other signes of ioy What was doone by the waie of courteous dutie when all the triumphs were ended Dukes of Burgognie issued out of the house of France Under whom the state hath beene aâ—uanced Philip duke of Burgognie surnamed the hardie Duke Iohn the second and Philip the second aduancers of the state Philip the second a verie rich prince surnamed Philip the good He directeth his spéech to the monsieur A suâ—e mooued to the monsieur Francis the monsieurs grandfather commended A good sute to the moÌ„sieur the like of all princes and great men to be preferred and granted Learning and chiualrie must go togither Causes that mooued the making of this sute He speaketh in the behalfe of all the rest of like profession and facultie The monsieur speaketh well whatsoeuer his meaning was A good beginning in prince and people Iohn Paine executed at Chelmsford A blasing â—tarre Execution of Thomas Foord Iohn Shert and Robert Iohnson priests of the popes order To perseuere in wickednes is no constancie but obstinacie Consolation ministred to them as they went to their â—eaths The shiriffe himselfe trieth what he can doo to conuert them He was the eccho of a false and antichristian voice Thomas Foord his words touching his innocencie * The writer of this pamphlet who séemed to be acquainted with all their dealings A shamelesse negatiue voice to a manifest charge of offense and euident conuiction Iohn Shert his vaine spéeches at the sight of Tom Foords dead bodie dismembred Sherts oration to the people iustifieng the forme of a goâ—lie martyres death Note Sherts obstinacie Shâ—rt is peremptorie in his spéech to iustifie his religion Hudling vp of praiers mangled and â—eeced togither after the popish maner * Who séemed acquainted with all their practises Execution of Luke Kirbie William Filbie Thomas Coteham and Laurence Richardson préests of the popes order * Who was an obseruer as he pretended of all their dooings Most manifest and vndoubted toâ—ens of a resolute votarie to the pope his 〈◊〉 * Thâ—obseruer â—nd writer of 〈◊〉 their plots and deuises â—s he pretended One of these two must néeds be in a fowle errour for both holding contraries could not speake truth Repetitio beneficij est exprebratio Master shiriffes words vttered by the waie of interception This was great verie mercifull forbearance to let all this talke passe to and fro at the place of execution Men indéed vse to repose their trust in such whom they suppose to be like themselues Mercie offered to Kirbie notwithstanding his conuiction of treason To such as are proditoriouslie minded it is a matter disputable but to a good subiect a matter determinable Prou. 8.15 16. Rom. 13.1 2 3 4. This counsell of the apostle they had not the grace to follow Iohn 19.10 11. This demand implieth a kind of suspicion or secret charge that hir maiestie is such a one Not of the pope then belike who is not to â—oore into oâ—her princes prouinces c. Vox popili Dei vox fertur esse Dei Laurence Richardson and Thomas Coteham their gestures and spéeches of their deaths For he was not so furnished for England as to 〈◊〉 seules so easilie to papistrie * He should haue said Daemon Philip Price hanged in Fleetstreet for killing of a sergeant Lord Willoughbie ambassador sent into Denmarke The lord ambassadors oration in Latine to the king of Denmarke c The king of Denmarke inuested into the right honorable order of the garter Misfortune by gunpowder Strange tempest in Norffolke Anno reg 2â— Terme kept at Hertford Thames water conueied ouer saint Magnus stéeple Iustice Randolph hâ—s charitie Publike lecture of surgerie founded in London presentlie red as also in the life of the founder by doctor Forster to his high praise credit What exercises are to be followed in the said college by the will of the founder The first yeares exercises The second years exercises The third yeares and fourth yeares exercises The fift and sixt yeares exercises and so to continue with Reâ—eâ—nâ—iâ— principâ— Ab. Fl. Spectator auditor Doctor Gilsord president of the college of physicians Francis of Ualois attempteth diuerse exploits the issue whereof fell out to his misfortune The monsiâ—urs ambition spreading like â— canker The French gentlemen ware armor vnder their garments with good meaning no doubt The monsieur was glad to retire notwithstanding this confident clamor Noblemen othâ—r French 〈◊〉 prisonâ—â—s Noblemen of France slaine Francis duke of Aniou and Alanson retireth Generall Norris with 23. ensignes Francis duke of Alanson and of Aniou sickeneth Abr. Fl. ex lib. cui tit Regret funebre contenant le discours de la morâ— de Monseigneuâ— fils de France frere vnicque du roy * Meaning Berson the monsieurs preacher and the writer of this discourse The maner of the monsieurs sickenesse Bersons words of comfort to the monsieur whether his disease were naturall or procéeding â—rom God The monsiâ—urs resoluâ—e to die * Namelie Berson * Berson who was then busie about certeine ceremonies incident to the time and his office Great hope conceiued of the monsieur if he had not beene preuented with dâ—ath The monsieur falleth into an extremitie of his maladie and past hope of recouerie Doo men â—te thus saith the monsieâ—r drawing tâ— his end Bersons words to the monsieur in the hearing of diuerse gentlemen present His will meaning Gods be doone saith the monsieur with a forced spéech on his death bed The institution and vse of the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of Christ. Bersons
fauourers of the pope that none hath béene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The bull of Pius Quintus set vp at Paules The first punishment for the bull The third reason Rebellion in the north The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the pope The popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politike aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but scholers and vnarmed Manie are traitours though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others that are traitors without armor The oâ—â—enâ—ors executed 〈…〉 reâ—igion Unreasonable â—nd obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgement 2. Esd. 4. Bishop of Winchester deceased Fiue executed for treason A. F. ex add G. C. Maister Walter Raleigh his viage for the discouerie of that land which lieth betwéene Notembega and Florida Philip Amadis and Arthur Barlow Two sauage men and other things brought from the said land discouered Maister Walter Raleigh prepareth for a second viage to the said land late discouered Gentlemen that associated sir Humfreie Gilbert in his viage to Norembega 1578. The viage hath not wished successe Maister Walter Raleigh sailed as far as Cape de Uerde c. and arriueth in saâ—eâ—ie at Plimouth Sir Humfrie Gilberd seuered from his companie dead and neuer heard of Ab. Fl. horâ—â—â— omnium maâ—imè consâ—ius The deceasse of D. Caldweâ—l physician of whom there is former meÌ„tioÌ„ pag. 1349. The court of Francis the first a vniuersitie c. pag. 1343. The distributions of D. Caldwell in his life times and his bequests after his death His commentaries vpon some part of Paulus Acgineta and other bookes * His ordinarie infirmitie was the colicke which tormented him excéedinglie His age and counterfet which séemed to be made 1571 and in the yeare of his age 5â— The armes of Caldwell blasoned * The crosse forme fiche was the cote of Cedwallader the last king of Britains in An. Dom. 680. These figurs 1 2 3 4 5 6 haue relation to certeine marks namelie the mullet the â—â—nquesoilâ— the floure delice the haÌ„d the cressant or moone and the pansie grauen in the copper plate which markes are referred to their like in and about the armes aboue said Francis Throckmorton arreigned and coÌ„demned of high treason But how can their interpretations be found whose iudgements are corrupt The premisses being all sufficient cannot but answer anie circumstance touching this traitor The bishop of Rosse an enimie to the English state A colour of truth to countenance a manifest lie The maner of procéeding against Throckemorton by commission The intent of this declaration what it is Iennie a notorious knowne traitor conferreâ— with Throckmorton Sir Francis Englefield Thomas Throckemorton and Thomas Morgan A pretention of an inuasion into England The speciall meanes wanting The Spanish ambassadours words tending to this inuasion Landing places for forren forces about Arundell in Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring a confederat in this action This would be feared and therefore alwaies by policie preuented Throckemorton wrote diuerse letters to Marie the Scotish queene Godfrie Fulgeam was glad to 〈…〉 The cause why Throckmortons confessions are here mentioned Throckemorton was at Spaw and elswhere c. This is a principall marke whereat they shoot and therefore they cannot but meditat vpon the meanes The duke of Guise his enterprise to inuade the realme The Spanish ambassador and Throckemorton did often times conuerse and conferre Throckemorton surprised and put to a narrow shift â—eare is an ordinarie tormentor of a guiltie conscience The clouds of lies cannot so darken the truth but it will appeare How William Shellie stood affectioned to these treasonable plots Certeine words and clauses of letters treasonable What mind Throckemorton hath carried towards hir maiestie This vehement speach importeth same secrets of great momeÌ„t betwéene Throckemorton and the Scotish quéene Chi a perso la fede a perso l'honore an Italian prouerbe The cause that mooued Throckemorton to denie his confessioÌ„s at his arreignement These gifts in him were Vivenenum in 〈◊〉 poculo Throckemortons submison in a letter answering Ad verbum with his owne handwriting He sueth for vndeserued mercie to hir maiestie in his miserie in whose fauour he might haue liued by loialtie A declaration c written by Throckemorton to the quéenes maiestie William Ardington The next way to atteine libertie for the Scotish quéene c. The pestilent persuasion of the Spanish ambassador to prefer this pernicious enterprise The resolutioÌ„ was frustrate as also the later of the ploâ— such was Gods iustice to persecute supplant both the one and the other Was this thinke you â— naturall subiects opinion or not rather the conceipt of a tyrannous traitor This Spanish ambassador had no good meaning in moouing this request This Mope was Charles Paget otherwise named Spring as before Throckmortons purpose if his enterprise succéeded not by the next spring Sir Francis Englefield whether excusable or no Throckemortons sute for commiseration to hir maiestie A recapitulation of soâ—e treasonable enterprises by Throckemorton Throckemorton executed Robert baron of Denbigh deceased The charitable déeds of D. S. These letters are placed aboue the quâ—drats or squares of the building Six houses of perpetuall reléefe founded vpon S. Peters hill in Baniard castell ward Rents left in perpetuitie for the maintenance of the said houses Ordinances of the founder to be inuiolablie obserued What kind of widowes are to be admitted into these houses Whom they may lodge and not lodge In order for the auoiding of infection sicknesse annoiance c. What wéeke daies they are to repaire to the church Conuenienâ— vse of water c. Performancâ— of these ordinances intended An order for lanthorne and candle light in winter The loue of the LoÌ„doners to the queenes maiestie A parlement at Westminster An Reg. 27. Addition of Fr. Thin An act for the maintenance of Rochester stone bridge procured by sir Roger Manwood Sir Roger Manwood a fréend to the coÌ„monwealth The place time of Sir Roger Manwoods birth and bringing vp DissolutioÌ„ of chanteries Sir Roger Manwood reader in the inner temple He erected â— faire schoolehouse of bricke and stone He procureth leters patents c for the maintenance of the same in perpetuitie The summe of 40 pounds allowed yearlie c to the maintenance of the said grammar schoole Two scholers roomes obteined in Cambridge two in Oxford for such scholers as remooue from the said schoole to either of the vniuersities Seuen almes houses by him founded for the reléefe of the honest aged Sir Roger Manwoodâ— toome A house of correction for â—ustie idle persons The ancient bridge of Rochester when builded and by whom Diuerse opinions concerning the first founding of the said bridge How the said bridge began to decaie and what meanes are vsed for the reparing of the same Sir Roger Manwoods deuised remedie for the kéeping of the said
hir noble person neither was nor could be anie maner ieopardie Whereby should I trust that quoth the quéene in that I am giltlesse As though they were giltie in that I am with their enimies better loued than they When they hate them for my sake in that I am so néere of kin to the king And how far they be off if that would helpe as God send grace it hurt not and therefore as for me I purpose not as yet to depart hence And as for this gentleman my sonne I mind that he shall be where I am till I sée further for I assure you for that I sée some men so greedie without anie substantiall cause to haue him this maketh me much the more fearder to deliuer him Truelie madame quoth he and the fearder that you be to deliuer him the fearder bin other men to suffer you to kéepe him least your causelesse feare might cause you further to conueie him and manie be there that thinke he can haue no priuilege in this place which neither can haue will to aske it nor malice to deserue it And therefore they reckon no priuilege broken though they fetch him out which if yée finallie refuse to deliuer him I verelie thinke they will So much dread hath my lord his vncle for the tender loue he beareth him least your grace should line 10 hap to send him awaie A sir quoth the quéene hath the protector so tender zeale that he feareth nothing but least he should escape him Thinketh he that I would send him hence which neither is in the plight to send out And in what place could I reckon him sure if he be not sure in this sanctuarie whereof was there neuer tyrant yet so diuelish that durst presume to breake And I trust God is as strong now to withstand his aduersaries as euer he was But my sonne can deserue line 20 no sanctuarie and therefore he can not haue it Forsooth he hath found a goodlie glose by which that place that may defend a théefe may not saue an innocent But he is in no ieopardie nor hath no need thereof would God he had not Troweth the protector I praie God he may prooue a protector troweth he that I perceiue not wherevnto his painted processe draweth It is not honourable that the duke bide héere it were comfortable for them both that he were with his brother bicause the line 30 king lacketh a plaifellow Be you sure I praie God send them both better plaifellowes than him that maketh so high a matter vpon such a trifling pretext as though there could none be founden to plaie with the king but if his brother that hath no lust to plaie for sicknesse come out of sanctuarie out of his safegard to plaie with him As though princes as yoong as they be could not plaie but with their peeres or children could not plaie but with their kinred with whome for the more part they agrée much woorse than line 40 with strangers But the child cannot require the priuilege Who told him so He shall heare him aske it and he will Howbeit this is a gaie matter Suppose he could not aske it suppose he would not aske it suppose he would aske to go out If I saie he shall not if I aske the priuilege but for my selfe I say he that against my will taketh him out breaketh the sanctuarie Serueth this libertie for my person onelie or for my goods too Yée may not hence take my horsse fro me and may you line 50 take my child fro me He is also my ward for as my learned counsell sheweth me sith he hath nothing by descent holden by knights seruice the law maketh his mother his gardian Then may no man I suppose take my ward fro me out of sanctuarie without the breach of the sanctuarie And if my priuilege could not serue him nor he aske it for himselfe yet sith the law committeth to me the custodie of him I may require it for him except the law giue a child a gardian onelie for his goods and lands discharging him of the cure and safe line 60 kéeping of his bodie for which onelie both lands and goods serue * And if examples be sufficient to obteine priuilege for my child I need not farre to séeke For in this place in which we now be and which is now in question whether my child may take benefit of it mine other sonne now king was borne and kept in his cradle and preserued to a more prosperous fortune which I praie God long to continue And as all you know this is not the first time that I haue taken sanctuarie For when my lord my husband was banished and thrust out of his kingdome I fled hither being great with child and héere I bare the prince And when my lord my husband returned safe againe and had the victorie then went I hence to welcome him home and from hence I brought my babe the prince vnto his father when he first tooke him in his armes And I praie God that my sonnes palace may be as great safegard vnto him now reigning as this place was sometime to the kings enimie In which place I intend to kéepe his brother sith c. * Wherefore héere intend I to keepe him sith mans law serueth the gardian to kéepe the infant The law of nature will the moother to keepe his child Gods law priuilegeth the sanctuarie and the sanctuarie my sonne sith I feare to put him in the protectors hands that hath his brother alreadie and were if both failed inheritour to the crowne The cause of my feare hath no man to doo to examine And yet feare I no further than the law feareth which as learned men tell me forbiddeth euerie man the custodie of them by whose death he maie inherit lesse land than a kingdome I can no more but whosoeuer he be that breaketh this holie sanctuarie I praie God shortlie send him néed of sanctuarie when he maie not come to it For taken out of sanctuarie would I not my mortall enimie were The lord cardinall perceiuing that the quéene waxed euer the longer the farther off and also that she began to kindle and chafe and spake more biting words against the protector and such as he neither beléeued and was also loth to heare he said to hir for a finall conclusion that he would no longer dispute the matter but if she were content to deliuer the duke to him and to the other lords present he durst laie his owne bodie soule both in pledge not onelie for his suertie but also for his estate And if she would giue them a resolute answer to the contrarie he would foorthwith depart therwithall and shift who so would with this businesse afterwards for he neuer intended more to mooue hir in that matter in which she thought that he all other also saue hir selfe lacked either wit or truth wit if they were so dull that they could nothing perceiue what
which should be appointed foorth for their méeting which they found to be so néere to the castell as was subiect to all their shot both great and small and cleane contrarie to the promise and so they declared to the capteine named Iohn Fleming that was sent foorth of the castell to appoint the same how it was neither indifferent nor méet for such a purpose The capteine answered that his maister was a man of honour and stood vpon the same and therefore would not hazard himselfe among horssemen wholie without the danger of the péece Whereto the messengers replied that the lord Fleming for his late euill dealing was not to be credited in this case neither comparable to the generall of the English armie for he was there for the queene of England And further they said that for somuch as they had of late dealt so vniustlie contrarie to promise and the law of armes and therby so greatlie cracked their credits stained their honesties and honour they could not but wish that their generall should be well aduised yer he did hazard himselfe anie more within their danger vpon their slipperie promises except they would appoint some other place of parlée as might be thought indifferent according to their former offers which would not be granted and so they departed Immediatlie wherevpon to shew some péece of their double dealings and vnfaithfull practises towards the Englishmen the Scots within the castell presentlie sent after the messengers a culuering shot for a farewell Thus did they by practise iustifie the opinion that strangers to them haue long conceiued of their dealing and which he saw full well perhaps also prooued in some part that said of the Scotish nations vntrustinesse c graue pectus abundat Fraudibus ingenitis non eget arte magistra Sir William Drurie then perceiuing that the meaning of the lord Fleming was not to deale simplie in this matter touching a conference to be line 10 had betwixt them returned to Glasco where sir George Careie being maruellouslie inflamed with that vnhonest dealing of the lord Fleming made earnest sute to the generall that he might send to him and offer him the combat in triall of this quarrell sith it was more requisit that a gentleman souldier should stand in those questions than a generall considering his calling and office The generall thanked sir George verie courteouslie but yet said that it stood him vpon to search out these matters to the vttermost as he would haue doone in déed were not line 20 his commission and charge as was well knowne to be otherwise imploied Yet quoth he sith your sute is so reasonable and the whole companie and lawes of armes alloweth of it I grant your request and therein doo as best shall séeme to your birth and estimation Herevpon sir George Careie streightwaies deuised a letter of challenge and deliuered it to an herald to beare from him vnto the said lord Fleming the tenour whereof here insueth line 30 A copie of sir George Careis foresaid letter to the lord Fleming LOrd Fleming if either your birth or bringing vp had wrought in you a noble mind or estimation of credit hardlie would you haue so much forgotten and stained your honour as in a parlée of late with our generall you did At whom vilelie and vnhonorablie line 40 shooting you falsed that assurance of warre which souldiers submit themselues vnto and trained him to your treason vnder trust a thing heretofore not accustomed nor presentlie to be allowed of He assuredlie pretending your owne and your freends good commoditie to your countrie and quietnesse to the state twise abased and submitted himselfe comming to confer with you thereof but your pride ioined with a harmefull meaning to those that you professe best vnto and selfe wilfull vaineglorie without cause line 50 why refused that which reason and honour commanded you to haue doone Therfore bicause his calling is presentlie with his charge better than yours and mine not inferior I summon you reasonablie to excuse that fault supposed to be yours or else to mainteine that traitorous act with your person against mine in fight when where or how you dare Otherwise I will baffull your good name sound with the trumpet your dishonour and paint your picture with the heels vpward and beare it in despite of your selfe In the meane time I attend your answer From line 60 Glasco the 22 of Maie 1570. Subscribed George Careie The copie of the lord Flemings answer GEorge Careie I haue receiued your brainelesse letter making mention of my false and treasonable dealing against your generall in shooting vnder trust so vilelie against my honour and truth traitorouslie trained him vnder my trust which is altogither false and vntrue And howbeit your generall came by the house of Dunglas by my appointment which I suffered and I appointed one place of méeting six men of either partie which he refused and he departed and certeine of his companie came bragging vp the riuers side towards the house viewing the same and the ground thereabouts shooting your harquebusses against the same I could doo no lesse but present you with such as I had Whereas you write of your generals calling to be presentlie better than mine and yours not inferiour when your generall challengeth me therof I shall giue answer And as for you I will not be inferiour to a better than you or anie souldier vnder your generals charge Whereas you summon me as you call it reasonablie to excuse that falt supposed to be mine owne or else to mainteine that traitorous act with my person against yours you shall wit I haue gentlemen of honour seruant souldiers to me as ye are to your generall which may be your fellowes shall defend the same against you and your false and vntrue inuented writing and were not the charge I present or how soone I can be relieued of the same I should lowlie my person to méet you six English miles or anie other person Howbeit ye be but one souldier assure your selfe from this daie foorth I will not receiue no such inuented message for I haue little to doo with Englishmen ye may raile vpon my honorable name as ye please You shall haue as honorable gentlemen as your selfe against you fighting Take this for answer Iohn lord Fleming The replie of sir George Careie vpon the lord Flemings answer LOrd Fleming often the Flemings after noone answer smelleth more of wine than wit But as to that common crime the custome of their countrie yeeldeth them part of pardon so your common acquaintance with the same condition knowne to be verie great shall to me somewhat excuse your witlesse writing wherein first you disalow my right recitall of your traitorous dealing by tearming it false and vntrue For answer know this the truth my pen hath written by the witnesse of a number and my hand I vow shall mainteine the same before
the world at all times But you in denieng it haue both falslie and vniustlie lied in your throte and dare neither defend nor disproue that in deeds which in words you haue doone Whereas you write that our generall passed Dunglas by your appointment which you suffered therein you doo manifestlie saie vnhonorablie and vntrulie for that you had no knowledge of our first comming but saluted vs with your shot and we likewise skirmished with your men euen at their owne strength vntill we viewed the ground about at out pleasure And touching the appointment of six of either part easilie that maie be knowne to be a plaine lie séeing we had neither parlée nor conference with you before to appoint place or méeting But whereas you saie you could doo no lesse but present vs with such as you had therein you confesse and acknowledge the dishonour and treason that I charged you withall taking vpon your selfe that fault which I supposed to haue bin of your seruants for our generall retired his companie farre from him And his trumpet being with you approched himselfe alone to haue parled when vnder trust you discharged two harquebusses against him an act rather séemelie for a cowardlie traitor than one that professeth to be a souldier Finallie whereas you let me wit that you haue gentlemen of honour seruant souldiers vnto you that maie be my fellowes which should defend the chalenge that toucheth so néere your selfe as with honor you should not haue refused it First I thinke scorne to be anie waies inferior to you though but a souldier too honourable a name for you being better in birth and vnsteined with reproch as you haue béene Secondlie I haue more and as good gentlemen vnder my conduct as your selfe haue vnder your charge which shall answer as many as you can bring if with number ye meane to combat and will put them to that which you dare not doo your selfe line 10 But assure you my quarell shall remaine euerlasting except the proofe of your owne person against mine maie end it and when you shall dare come out of your crowes nest I will be readie to ride an hundred Scotish miles to méet with you in anie indifferent place And vntill that time I shall account you deuoid of honestie honor vnworthie to march vpon ground or keepe companie with men From Hamilton the 29 of Maie 1570. Subscribed George Careie line 20 Though manie waies were sought by message and otherwise to mooue the lord Fleming to defend with battell the fault and follie committed yet it would not be for he shifted off the matter so as it well appered it was but lost labor further to attempt him therein The two and twentith of Maie the earle of Lennox accompanied with the earle of Glencarne the lord Simple and other his friends feodaries alies mustered on the moore before the towne line 30 of Glasco the number of foure thousand horssemen and footmen that were there assembled to serue him in presence of sir William Drurie and other of the English capteins The thrée and twentith of Maie sir William Drurie the earle of Lennox and other the Scotish lords and the whole armie marched towards the castell of Hamilton and sending a trumpettor and one with him to parlée with the capteine named Andrew Hamilton he agreed to come foorth and one other with him to talke with sir William line 40 Drurie and one other gentleman such as he should thinke good to bring with him to a place somewhat distant as well from the castell as the campe Herevpon sir William Drurie with his sword and target and sir George Careie with a case of pistols went foorth to the appointed place whither the capteine of the castell also with an halbert and one other with him hauing likewise a case of pistols came according to appointment But after they had talked togither and that the capteine would not in anie line 50 wise consent to deliuer vp the castell he with his associat returned to their hold againe the English generall with sir George Careie came backe to the campe and therevpon the English ordinance was presentlie placed about the castell and shot verie sore all that night but did no great hurt by reason they were but field péeces and not fit for batterie They in the castell likewise shot verie sore at the Englishmen but did no great harme sauing that there were thrée of the footmen hurt In the palace which was a line 60 pretie house the duchesse of Chatellerault was at that time resident to whom sir William Drurie did repaire offering hir all the courtesie he might with all that to hir apperteined willing hir not to feare anie thing and for hir more assurance he committed hir to the charge of sir Thomas Maners The foure and twentith of Maie the generall gaue summons vnto the castell And bicause they within stoode stiffelie in deniall to make surrender thereof vnto him he was driuen to send to Striueling for some great peeces of ordinance méet to make batterie In the meane time the earles of Lennox and Morton with the horssemen and some shot marched into the countrie to a verie faire house of the abbat of Kilwinnings neere adioining whose name was Gawen Hamilton which house they burnt and vtterlie defaced spoiling it and rasing it downe to the earth They burnt and spoiled also seuentéene houses more belonging to men of that surname situate néere thereabouts wherof one belonged vnto a lard that had married with the sister of Iames Hamilton of Bodweie haugh which slue the regent There were also burnt seuen other faire houses belonging to others that were not of that surname but yet were of their friends and alies Moreouer there were diuerse other of their kinred and alies that came in with humble submission and assured themselues firmelie promising from thensefoorth their obedience to the king The fiue and twentith of Maie sir William Drurie the generall retired his people vpon a policie from the castell and left it without either watch or ward for that night The next daie he sent sir George Careie to the castell with a trumpettor to know if they within would deliuer it vp before the great ordinance should come which the capteine vtterlie refused to doo Wherevpon the small shot clapt suddenlie round about the house and kept them within occupied till that a whole culuering a demie culuering came to them from Sterling the which with foure of the English small field péeces were in the night following planted against the castell and being shot off a bullet of one of the great péeces passed through the walles into the castell The seuen and twentith of Maie about foure of the clocke in the morning the generall sent a trumpettor to giue summons againe to the castell vnto whome the capteine answered that he cared not for them so bad them doo their