yet would he go foorth in the same and sith he had once begun he would stoutlie go thorough And therefore to this wicked enterprise which he beléeued could not be voided he bent himselfe and went through and determined that sith the common mischéefe could not be amended he would turne it as much as he might to his owne commoditie Then it was agreed that the protector shuld haue the dukes aid to make him king and that the protectors onelie lawfull sonne should marrie the dukes daughter and that the protector should grant him the quiet possession of the earldome of Hereford which he claimed as his inheritance and could neuer obteine it in king Edwards time Besides these requests of the duke the protector of his owne mind promised him a great quantitie of the kings treasure and of his houshold stuffe And when they were thus at a point betwéene themselues they went about to prepare for the coronation of the yoong king as they would haue it séeme And that they might turne both the eies and minds of men from perceiuing of their drifts other-where the lords being sent for from all parts of the realme came thicke to that solemnitie But the protector and the duke after that they had sent the lord cardinall the archbishop of Yorke then lord chancellor the bishop of Elie the lord Stanleie and the lord Hastings then lord chamberlaine with manie other noble men * to common deuise about the coronation in one place as fast were they in an other place contriuing the contrarie and to make the protector king To which councell albeit there were adhibited verie few and they were secret yet began there here and there abouts some maner of muttering among the people as though all should not long be well though they neither wist what they feared nor wherefore were it that before such great things mens hearts of a secret instinct of nature misgiue them as the sea without wind swelleth of himselfe sometime before a tempest or were it that some one man happilie somewhat perceiuing filled manie men with suspicion though he shewed few men what he knew Howbeit somewhat the dealing it selfe made men to muse on the matter though the councell were close For by little and little all folke withdrew from the Tower and drew vnto Crosbies in Bishops gates stréet where the protector kept his houshold The protector had the resort the king in maner desolate While some for their businesse made sute to them that had the dooing some were by their fréends secretlie warned that it might happilie turne them to no good to be too much attendant about the king without the protectors appointment which remooued also diuerse of the princes old seruants from him and set new about him Thus manie things comming togither partlie by chance partlie of purpose caused at length not common people onelie that woond with the wind but wise men also and some lords eke to marke the matter and muse thereon so farre foorth that the lord Stanleie that was after earle of Derbie line 10 wiselie mistrusted it and said vnto the lord Hastings that he much misliked these two seuerall councels For while we quoth he talke of one matter in the tone place little wot we wherof they talke in the tother place My lord quoth the lord Hastings on my life neuer doubt you for while one man is there which is neuer thense neuer can there be thing once mooued that should sound amisse toward me but it should be in mine eares yer it were well out of their mouths This ment he by Catesbie which was of his neere line 20 secret councell and whome he verie familiarlie vsed and in his most weightie matters put no man in so speciall trust reckoning himselfe to no man so liefe sith he well wist there was no man so much to him beholden as was this Catesbie which was a man well learned in the lawes of this land and by the speciall fauour of the lord chamberlaine in good authoritie and much rule bare in all the countie of Leicester where the lord chamberlains power cheefelie line 30 laie But suerlie great pitie was it that he had not had either more truth or lesse wit For his dissimulation onelie kept all that mischéefe vp In whome if the lord Hastings had not put so speciall trust the lord Stanleie he had departed with diuerse other lords and broken all the danse for manie ill signes that he saw which he now construes all to the best So suerlie thought he that there could be none harme toward him in that councell intended where Catesbie line 40 was And of truth the protector and the duke of Buckingham made verie good semblance vnto the lord Hastings and kept him much in companie And vndoubtedlie the protector loued him well and loth was to haue lost him sauing for feare least his life should haue quailed their purpose For which cause he mooued Catesbie to prooue with some words cast out a farre off whether he could thinke it possible to win the lord Hastings vnto their part But Catesbie whether h◠assaied him or assaied line 50 him not reported vnto them that he found him so fast and heard him speake so terrible words that he durst no further breake And of truth the lord chamberlaine of verie trust shewed vnto Catesbie the distrust that others began to haue in the matter And therefore he fearing least their motion might with the lord Hastings minish his credence wherevnto onelie all the matter leaned procured the protector hastilie to rid him And much the rather for that he trusted by his death to obteine much of the rule that line 60 the lord Hastings bare in his countrie the onelie desire whereof was the allectiue that induced him to be partner and one speciall contriuer of all this horrible treason Wherevpon soone after that is to wit on the fridaie being the thirtéenth of Iune manie lords assembled in the Tower and there sat in councell deuising the honourable solemnitie of the kings coronation of which the time appointed then so neere approched that the pageants and subtilties were in making daie night at Westminster and much vittels killed therfore that afterward was cast awaie These lords so sitting togither communing of this matter the protector came in amongst them first about nine of the clocke saluting them courteouslie and excusing himselfe that he had béene from them so long saieng merilie that he had béene a sléeper that daie After a little talking with them he said vnto the bishop of Elie My lord you haue verie good strawberies at your garden in Holborne I require you let vs haue a messe of them Gladlie my lord quoth he would God I had some better thing as readie to your pleasure as that And therewithall in all the hast he sent his seruant for a messe of strawberies The protector set the lords fast in communing therevpon praieng them to spare him for a
The fifteenth daie of March next following the ladie Elizabeth the queenes sister and next heire to the crowne was apprehended at hir manour of Ashridge for suspicion of Wiats conspiracie And from thence being that time verie siâ—ke with great rigour brought prisoner to London On the sundaie after being the seuentéenth of March she was commited to the tower where also the lord Courtneie earle of Deuonshire of whome before is made mention was for the like suspicion committed prisoner ¶ Touching the imprisonment of the foresaid ladie Elizabeth the lord Courtneie thou shalt note here for thy learning good reader a politike point of practise in Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester not vnworthie to be considered This Gardiner being alwaies a capitall enimie to ladie Elizabeth thinking now by the occasion of maister Wiat to picke out some matter against the lord Courtneie and so in the end to intangle the ladie Elizabeth deuised a pestilent practise of conueiance as in the storie here following maie appeare The storie is this The same daie that sir Thomas died he desired the lieutenant to bring him to the presence of the lord Courtneie who there before the lieutenant and the shiriffes knéeling downe vpon his knées besought the lord Courtneie to forgiue him for that he had falselie accused both the ladie Elizabeth and him and so being brought from thence vntâ— the scaffold to suffer there openlie in the hearing of all the people cleared the ladie Elizabeth and the lord Courtneie to be free and innocent from all suspicion of that commotion At which confession doctor Weston there standing by cried to the people saieng Beléeue him not good people for he confessed otherwise before vnto the councell After the execution doone of sir Thomas Wiat which was the eleuenth daie of Aprill word was brought immediatlie to the lord maior sir Thomas White a little before dinner how maister Wiat had cleared the ladie Elizabeth and lord Courtneie and the words also which doctor Weston spake vnto the people Wherevnto the lord maior answering Is this true quoth he Said Weston so In sooth I neuer tooke him otherwise but for a knaue Upon this the lord maior sitting downe to dinner who dined the same daie at the Bridgehouse commeth in sir Martine Bowes with the recorder newlie come from the parlement house who hearing of the maior and shiriffes this report of Wiats confession both vpon the scaffold and also in the tower maruelled thereat declaring how there was another tale contrarie to this told the same daie in the parlement house which was that sir Thomas Wiat should desire the lord Courtneie to confesse the truth so as he had doone before Upon this it followed not long after that a certeine prentise dwelling in saint Laurence lane named Cut as he was drinking with one Denham a plaisterer being one of quéene Maries seruants amongst other talke made mention how sir Thomas Wiat had cleared the ladie Elizabeth and the lord Courtneie to be no consenters to his rising Which words being brought to Gardiner by what means I know not incontinent vpon the fame sir Andrew Iud was seâ—t by the said bishop to the lord maior commanding him to bring the said prentise to the Starchamber which was accused of these words that he should saie that Wiat was constreined by the councell to accuse the ladie Elizabeth the lord Courtneie Which fellow when he was come to the line 10 Starchamber the aforesaid Gardiner letting passe other matters that were in hand began to declare to the whole multitude how miraculouslie almightie God had brought the quéens maiestie to the crowne the whole realme in a maner being against hir and that he had brought this to passe for this singular intent purpose that this realme being ouerwhelmed with heresies she might reduce the same againe to the true catholike faith And where she tooke the ladie Elizabeth into hir fauour and loued hir so tenderlie and also the lord Courtneie who of long time had line 20 béene deteined in prison and by hir was set at libertie and receiued great benefits at hir hands and notwithstanding all this they had conspired most vnnaturallie and traitorouslie against hir with that heinous traitor Wiat as by the confession of Wiat said he and the letters sent to and fro maie plainlie appeare yet there was some in the citie of London which reported that Wiat was constreined by the councell to accuse the ladie Elizabeth and the lord line 30 Courtneie yet you my lord maior quoth he haue not seene the same punished The partie is here said the lord maior Take him with you said Gardiner and punish him according to his desert and said further My lord take héed to your charge the citie of London is a whirlepoole and a sinke of all euill rumors there they be bred and from thence spred into all parts of this realme There stood by the same time the lord Shandois who being then lieutenant of the tower and now hearing line 40 the bishop thus speake to sooth his tale came in with these words as followeth My lords quoth he this is a truth that I shall tell you I being lieutenant of the tower when Wiat suffered he desired me to bring him to the lord Courtneie which when I had doone he fell downe vpon his knees before him in my presence and desired him to confesse the truth of himselfe as he had doone before and to submit him selfe vnto the quéenes mercie And thus much of this matter I thought to declare to the intent that the reader perceiuing the procéedings of the bishop line 50 in the premisses comparing the same with the true testimonie of Wiat himselfe and with the testimonie of the shiriffes the which were present the same time when sir Thomas Wiat asked the lord Courtneie forgiuenesse maie the better iudge of the whole case and matter for the which the ladie Elizabeth and the lord Courtneie were so long in trouble On saturdaie next following being Easter euen and the foure and twentith of March the lord marques of Northampton the lord Cobham and sir line 60 William Cobham his sonne and heire were deliuered out of the tower where they had remained for a time being committed thither vpon some suspicion about Wiats rebellion as diuerse others were wherof manie were put to death as C.O. reporteth Nunc istos laesae nunc illos quaestio torquet Maiestatis habet multos custodia clausos Firma viros atro parsplurima deditur Orco Not long after quéene Marie partlie offended with the Londoners as fauorers of Wiats conspiracie and partlie perceiuing the more part of them nothing inclined towards hir procéedings in religion which turned manie of them to losse summoned a parlement to be holden at Oxford as it were to gratifie that citie which with the vniuersitie towne and countrie had shewed themselues verie forward in hir seruice but speciallie
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
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
is this your owne confession and will you abide by all that is here written Let me sée it and I will tell you ¶ Then his confession was shewed him Bicause you of the iurie the better may credit him I praie you my lords let Uaughan be sworne ¶ Then was Uaughan sworne on a booke to saie nothing but the truth line 40 It may please you my lords and masters I could haue béene well content to haue chose seauen yeares imprisonment though I had béene a frée man in the law rather than I would this daie haue giuen euidence against sir Nicholas Throckmorton against whome I beare no displeasure but sith I must needs confesse my knowledge I must confesse all that is there written is true How saie you master Throckmorton was there anie displeasure betwéene you and me to mooue me to saie aught against you None that I know How saie you Uaughan what line 50 acquaintance was there betwéene you and me and what leters of credit or token did you bring me from Wiat or anie other to mooue me to trust you As for acquaintance I knew you as I did other gentlemen and as for letters I brought you none other but commendations from master Wiat as I did to diuerse other of his acquaintance at London You might as well forge the commendations as the rest but if you haue doone with Uaughan my lords I praie you giue me leaue to answer line 60 Speake and be short I speake generallie to all that be here present but speciallie to you of my iurie touching the credit of Uaughans depositions against me a condemned man and after to the matter and note I praie you the circumstances as somewhat materiall to induce the better First I praie you remember the small familiaritie betwixt Uaughan and me as he hath aduowed before you and moreouer to procure credit at my hand brought neither letter nor token from Wiat nor from anie other to me which he also hath confessed here and I will suppose Uaughan to be in as good condition as anie other man here that is to saie an vncondemned man yet I referre it to your good iudgement whether it were like that I knowing onelie Uaughans person from an other man and hauing none other acquaintance with him would so frankelie discouer my mind to him in so dangerous a matter How like I saie is this when diuerse of these gentlemen now in captiuitie being my verie familiars could not depose anie such matter against me and neuerthelesse vpon their examinations haue said what they could And though I be no wise man I am not so rash as to vtter to an vnknowne man for so I may call him in comparison a matter so dangerous for me to speake and him to heare But bicause my truth and his falshood shall the better appeare vnto you I will declare his inconstancie in vttering this his euidence And for my better credit it may please you master Southwell I take you to witnesse when Uaughan first iustified this his vniust accusation against me before the lord Paget the lord Chamberleine you master Southwell and others he referred the confirmation of this his surmised matter to a letter sent from him to sir Thomas Wiat which letter dooth neither appeare nor anie testimonie of the said master Wiat against me touching the matter for I doubt not sir Thomas Wiat hath béen examined of me and hath said what he could directlie or indirectlie Also Uaughan saith that yoong Edward Wiat could confirme this matter as one that knew this pretended discourse betwixt Uaughan and me and therevpon I made sute that Edward Wiat might either be brought face to face to me or otherwise be examined Master Throckmorton you mistake your matter for Uaughan said that Edward Wiat did know some part of the matter and also was priuie of the letter that Uaughan sent sir Thomas Wiat. Yea sir that was Uaughans last shift when I charged him before the master of the horsse and you with his former allegations touching his witnesse whome when he espied would not doo so lewdlie as he thought then he vsed this alteration But where be Edward Wiats depositions of anie thing against me Now it appeareth neither his first nor his last tale to be true For you know master Bridges and so dooth my lord your brother that I desired twice or thrice Edward Wiat should be examined and I am sure and most assured he hath béene willed to saie what he could and here is nothing deposed by him against me either touching anie letter or other conference Or where is Uaughans letter sent by sir Thomas Wiat concerning my talke But now I will speake of Uaughans present estate in that he is a condemned man whose testimonie is nothing worth by anie law And bicause false witnesse is mentioned in the gospell treating of accusation hearke I praie you what S. Ierome saith expounding that place It is demanded whie Christs accusers be called false witnesses which did report Christs words not as he spake them They be false witnesses saith S. Ierome which doo ad alter wrest double or doo speake for hope to auoid death or for malice to procure another mans death for all men maie easilie gather he cannot speake truelie of me or in the case of another mans life where he hath hope of his owne by accusation Thus much speaketh S. Ierome of false witnesse By the ciuill law there be manie exceptions to be taken against such testimonies but bicause we be not gouerned by that law neither haue I my triall by it it shall be superfluous to trouble you therewith therefore you shall heare what your owne law dooth saie There was a statute made in my late souereigne lord master his time touching accusation and these be the words Be it enacted that no person nor persons c shal be indicted arreigned condemned or conuicted for anie offense of treason petit treason misprision of treson for which the same offendor shall suffer anie pains of death imprisonment losse or forfeiture of his goods lands c vnlesse the same offendor be accused by two sufficient lawfull witnesses or shall willinglie without violence confesse the same And also in the sixt yeare of his reigne it is thus ratified as insueth That no person nor persons shall be indicted arreigned condemned conuicted or attainted of the line 10 treasons or offenses aforesaid or for anie other treasons that now be or hereafter shall be vnlesse the same offendor or offendors be therof accused by two lawfull and sufficient accusers which at the time of the arreignement of the parties so accused if they be then liuing shall be brought in person before the said partie accused and auow and mainteine that they haue to saie against the said partie to prooue him giltie of the treasons or offense conteined in the bill of indictment laid against the partie arreigned
did see Iohn Fitzwilliams here euen now who can testifie that he neuer shewed me of any displesure betwixt them and as I know nothing of the displeasure betwixt them so I know nothing of the cause I pray you my lords let him be called to depose in this matter what he can Then Iohn Fitzwilliams drew to the barre and presented himselfe to depose his knowledge in the matter in open court I praie you my lords suffer him not to be sworne neither to speake we haue nothing to doo with him Why should he not be suffered to tell truth And why be ye not so well contented to heare truth for me line 10 as vntruth against me Who called you hither Fitzwilliams or commanded you to speake You are a verie busie officer I called him and doo humblie desire that he maie speake and be heard as well as Uaughan or else I am not indifferentlie vsed especiallie séeing maister attourneie dooth so presse this matter against me Go your waies Fitzwilliams the court hath nothing to doo with you peraduenture you would not be so readie in a good cause Then Iohn Fitzwilliams line 20 departed the court and was not suffered to speake Sithence this gentlemans declaration may not be be admitted I trust you of the iurie can perceiue it was not for anie thing he had to saie against me but contrariwise that it was feared he would speake for me And now to maister Arnolds depositions against me I saie I did not tell him anie such words so as if it were materiall there is but his yea and my naie But bicause the words be not sore strained against line 30 me I praie you maister atturneie why might not I haue told maister Arnold that Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas and yet know no cause of the anger It might be vnderstand to disagrée oftentimes Who dooth confesse that I know anie thing of William Thomas deuise touching the quéenes death I will answer No man For maister Arnold dooth mention no word of that matter but of the displeasures betwixt them And to speake that dooth neither proue treason nor knowledge line 40 of treason Is here all the euidence against me that you haue to bring me within the compasse of the indictment Me thinke the matters confessed by others against you togither with your owne confession will weie shrewdlie But how saie you to the rising in Kent and to Wiats attempt against the quéens roiall person at hir palace Why doo you not read Wiats accusation to him which dooth make him partener to his treasons line 50 Wiat hath gréeuouslie accused you and in manie things that others haue confirmed Whatsoeuer Wiat hath said of me in hope of his life he vnsaid it at his death For since I came into this hall I heard one saie but I know him not that Wiat vpon the scaffold did not onelie purge my ladie Elizabeth hir grace and the erle of Deuonshire but also all the gentlemen in the tower saieng they were all ignorant of the sturre and commotion In which number I take my selfe line 60 Notwithstanding he said all that he had written and confessed to the councell was true Naie sir by your patience maister Wiat said not so that was maister doctors addition It appeareth you haue had good intelligence Almightie God prouided that reuelation for me this daie since I came hither for I haue bin in close prison these eight and fiftie daies where I heard nothing but what the birds told me which did flie ouer my head And now to you of my iurie I speake speciallie whome I desire to marke attentiuelie what shall be said I haue béene indicted as it appeareth and now am arreigned of compassing the queenes maiesties death of leuieng war against the quéene of taking the tower of London of deposing and depriuing the quéene of hir roiall estate and finallie to destroie hir and of adherence to the quéenes enimies Of all which treasons to proue me guiltie the quéens learned councell hath giuen in euidence these points materiall that is to saie for the compassing or imagining the quéenes death and the destruction of hir roiall person sir Nicholas Arnolds depositions which is that I should saie to the said sir Nicholas in Glocestershire that maister Iohn Fitzwilliams was angrie with William Thomas Wherevnto I haue answered as you haue heard both denieng the matter and for the proofe on my side doo take exceptions because there is no witnesse but one And neuerthelesse though it were granted the depositions proue nothing concerning the quéenes death For leuieng of warre against the quéene there is alleged my conference with sir Thomas Wiat sir Iames Crofts sir Edward Rogers sir Edward Warner Against the mariage with Spaine and the comming of the Spaniards hither which talke I doo not denie in sort as I spake it and ment it and notwithstanding the malicious gathering this daie of my conference proueth yet no leuieng of warre There is also alleged for proofe of the same article sir Iames Crofts confession which as you remember implieth no such thing but generall talke against the mariage with Spaine And of my departing westward with the earle of Deuon which the said Iames dooth not auow therefore I praie you consider it as not spoken There is also for proofe of the said article the duke of Suffolks confession with whome I neuer had conference and therefore he auouched the tale of his brothers mouth who hath made my purgation in those matters and yet if the matter were proued they be not greatlie materiall in law There is also alleged for the further proofe of the same article and for deposing and depriuing the quéene of hir roiall estate and for my adhering to the quéenes enimies Cutbert Uaughans confession whose testimonie I haue sufficientlie disprooued by sundrie authorities and circumstances and principallie by your owne law which dooth require two lawfull and sufficient witnesses to be brought face to face Also for the taking of the tower of London there is alleged Winters depositions which vttereth my misliking when he vttered vnto me sir Thomas Wiats resolution and deuise for attempting of the said péece And last of all to inforce these matters mine owne confession is ingréeued against me wherein there dooth appeare neither treason neither concelement of treason neither whispering of treason nor procurement of treason And forsomuch as I am come hither to be tried by the law though my innocencie of all these points materiall obiected be apparant to acquit me whereto I doo principallie cleaue yet I will for your better credit and satisfactions shew you euidentlie that if you would beléeue all the depositions laid against me which I trust you will not doo I ought not to be attainted of the treason comprised within my indictment considering the statute of repeale the last parlement of all treasons other than
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
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
beene mooued rashlie betwixt the Englishmen and the Normans without any commission of their princes their minds therefore were not so kindled in displeasure but that there had béen good hope of agréement betwixt them if Charles earle of Ualois the French kings brother being a man of a hot nature desirous of reuenge had not procured his brother to seeke reuengement by force of armes Wherevpon the French fléet made toward the Englishmen who minding not to detract the batell sharplie incountred their enimies in a certeine place betwixt England and Normandie where they had laid a great emptie ship at anchor to giue token where they meant to ioine There were with the Englishmen both Irishmen and Hollanders and with the Normans there were Frenchmen and Flemings and certeine vessels of Genowaies The fight at the first was doubtfull and great slaughter made as in the meeting of two such mightie nauies must néeds insue Yet in the end the victorie fell to the Englishmen and the French ships put to the chase and scattered abroad The number of ships lost is not recorded by such writers as make report of this conflict but they write that the losse was great King Philip being aduertised of this discomfiture of his fléet was sore displeased and as though he would proceed against king Edward by order of law he summoned him as his liegeman to appeare at Paris to answer what might be obiected against him but withall bicause he knew that king Edward would not come to make his appearance he prepared an armie In the meane time king Edward sent his brother Edmund earle of Lancaster to be his attornie and to make answer for him before all such iudges as might haue hearing of the matter but the iudges meaning nothing lesse than to trie out the truth of the cause admitted no reasons that the earle could alledge in his brothers behalfe and so pronounced king Edward a rebell and decreed by arest that he had forfeited all his right vnto the duchie of Guien These things thus doone he sent priuie messengers vnto Burdeaux to procure the citizens to reuolt from the Englishmen and appointed constable of France the lord Arnold de Neale to follow with an armie who comming thither easilie brought them of Burdeaux vnder the French dominion being alreadie minded to reuolt through practise of those that were latelie before sent vnto them from the French king for that purpose After this the said constable brought the people néere adioining vnder subiection partlie mooued by the example of the chéefe and head citie of all the countrie and partlie induced therevnto by bribes and large gifts The Englishmen that were in the countrie after they perceiued that the people did thus reuolt to the French king withdrew incontinentlie vnto the townes situat néere to the sea side but speciallie they fled to a towne called the Rioll which they fortified with all speed Thus saith Polydor Nicholas Triuet writing hereof declareth the beginning of this warre to be on this manner The English merchants being diuerslie vexed vpon the seas made complaint to the king for losse of their line 10 merchandize The king sent Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne vnto the French king instantlie requiring that by his assent there might some waie be prouided with speed by them and their councell for some competent remedie touching such harmes and losses by sea as his people had susteind In the meane time whilest the earle taried for answer a nauie of the parts of Normandie conteining two hundred ships and aboue being assembled togither that they might the more boldlie assaile their enimies and the more line 20 valiantlie resist such as should encounter them sailed into Gascoigne determining to destroie all those of their aduersaries that should come in their waie But as these Normane ships returned backe with wines glorieng as it were that they had got the rule of the sea onelie to themselues they were assailed by thréescore English ships which tooke them brought them into England the friday before Whitsunday all the men were either drowned or slaine those onelie excepted which made shift to escape by botes The line 30 newes hereof being brought into France did not so much mooue the king and the councell to woonder at the matter as to take thereof great indignation Ambassadors were appointed to go into England which on the behalfe of the French king might demand of king Edward restitution of those ships and goods thus taken by his subiects and conueied into his realme without all delaie if he minded to haue any fauour in the French court touching his affairs line 40 that belonged to his countrie of Gascoigne The king of England hearing this message tooke therein deliberation to answer and then sent the bishop of London accompaned with other wise and discréet persons into France to declare for answer vnto the French king and his councell as followeth that is Whereas the king of England hath his regall court without subiection to any man if there were therefore any persons that found themselues hurt or indamaged by his people they might come to his court and vpon declaration of their receiued iniuries line 50 they should haue speedie iustice and to the end they might thus doo without all danger whosoeuer minded to complaine he would giue vnto them a safe conduct to come and go in safetie thorough his land but if this waie pleased not the French king then he was content there should be arbitrators chosen on both sides who weieng the losses on both parts might prouide how to satisfie the complaints and the king of England would for his part enter into line 60 bonds by obligation to stand to and abide their order and iudgement herein so that the French king would likewise be bound for his part and if any such doubt fortuned to arise which could not be decided by the said arbitrators let the same be reserued vnto the kings themselues to discusse and determine and the king of England vpon a sufficient safe conduct had would come ouer to the French K. if he would come downe vnto any hauen towne néere to the sea coast that by mutuall assent an end might bée had in the businesse but if neither this waie should please the French king nor the other then let the matter be committed to the order of the pope to whom it apperteined to nourish concord among christian princes or bicause the see was as then void let the whole colledge of cardinals or part of them take order therein as should be thought necessarie that strife and discord being taken awaie and remoued peace might againe flourish betwixt them and their people as before time it had doone and bring with it the blessings therevpon depending namelie althings that may make an happie fortunat state according to the nature of peace whereof it is said Pax est cunctorum mater veneranda bonorum Fit sub
appeare But now to returne to the armies where we left them After the duke was fled and Thomas Molineux slaine as before ye haue heard the armie of the lords set vpon the people that were come with the duke of Ireland as hath béene said foorth of Chesshire Lancashire and Wales and taking them as enimies spoiled them of their horsse armor bowes and arrowes The knights and esquiers had their armor and horsses againe to them restored and were reteined with the lords to serue them but the commons without either armor or weapon were sent home and had no other harme done vnto them The duke of Irelands cariage being taken letters were found in his trunkes or males which the king had written to him exhorting him with all spéed to repaire vnto London with what power he might make and there he should find him readie to liue and die with him Such was the conclusion of this battell which happened néere vnto Burford fast by Bablake to the great reioising of manie through the realme for that the enimies thereof as they tooke the matter were thus ouerthrowne But yet the escaping awaie of the duke of Ireland did somewhat mitigate their ioy for what was become of him it was vncerteine After this the duke of Glocester and the other lords went to Oxford being sorie that their fortune was not to haue taken the duke of Ireland line 10 At the same time or rather before the archbishop of Yorke and the lord chiefe iustice sir Robert Trisilian fearing the indignation of the lords withdrew out of the waie and durst not be séene But now the lords who after the iournie at Radcote bridge were come as ye haue heard to Oxford we find that the same time a brute was raised whether of truth or not we haue neither to affirme nor denie how there was a messenger taken being sent from the French line 20 king with letters in which was conteined a licence of safe conduct for the king of England the duke of Ireland and others to come to Bullongue with a certeine number limited where they should find the French king come downe thither readie to receiue them to the end that for a certeine summe of monie which the French king should giue to the king of England the towne of Calis and all the fortresses in those parts which were in the Englishmens hands should be deliuered to the Frenchmen and further line 30 that the king of England should doo his homage to the French king for the lands which he held in Gascoigne and so to haue acknowledged himselfe his liege man The lords as was reported hauing got these letters and taken counsell togither how to procéed in their businesse to bring the same to good end remoued from Oxford and on Christmas euen they came to S. Albons and there staied that daie and the next On saint Stephans daie they tooke their waie to line 40 London with an armie of fortie thousand men as some write comming into the fields besides Clerkenwell mustered their men being diuided in thrée seuerall battels verie well appointed with armor and weapon that it was a beautifull sight to behold them The king kept his Christmas not at Westminster but in the Tower not douting but there to be defended what chance soeuer should happen The lords mistrusting the Londoners lodged them with their people in the suburbs They sent yet two knights and line 50 two esquiers vnto the Maior and Aldermen of the citie to vnderstand whether they were minded to take part with them or with the duke of Ireland and his adherents traitors as they tearmed them both to the king and the realme The Londoners were now in no small feare and perplexitie not knowing well what waie was best for them to take weieng diuers perils as first the kings displeasure if they opened their gates vnto the lords and if they shut them foorth they feared the indignation and wrath of the line 60 commons that were come thither with the lords and were readie to breake downe their wals and gates if they were neuer so little prouoked Besides this they stoode most in doubt least if the wealthiest citizens should not giue their consent to receiue the lords into the citie the meaner sort and such as wished rather to sée some hurlie burlie than to continue in peace would séeke by force to set open the gates and make waie for the lords and their people to enter that they might make hauocke and spoile whatsoeuer might be found of value in the rich mens houses These doubts with all the circumstances being well weied and considered the Maior Nicholas Exton and certeine of the chiefe men in the citie went foorth to the lords and offered them to lodge in the citie at their pleasure with all things necessarie as they should deuise The Maiâ—â— caused also wine ale bread and chéese to be distributed among the armie so as ech one had part which courtesie turned greatlie afterwards to the commoditie of the citie The lords vpon search made perceiuing that there was no guile meant by laieng of men in ambushes within the citie to intrappe them or otherwise but that all was sure inough and cleare without anie such euill meâ—ning they entred the citie and there abode quietlie Then went the archbishop of Canturburie and others betwixt the king and the lords to make peace betwixt them But the king at the first séemed little to estéeme the matter saieng to the archbishop Well let them lie here with their great multitude of people hardlie till they haue spent all they haue and then I trust they will returne poore inough and néedie and then I doubt not but I shall talke with them and vse the matter so as iustice maie require The lords being informed hereof were maruelouslie mooued and sware that they would not depart till they had spoken with him face to face and foorthwith they sent part of their companies to watch the Thames for feare the king should scape their hands and then laugh them to scorne When the king then perceiued himselfe to be inclosed on ech side he talked eftsoones with the archbishop and his associats that were messengers betwixt him and the lords willing them to declare to the lords that he would be contented to treat with them in reasonable order wherevpon they required that he should on the morow next insuing come vnto Westminster where he should vnderstand their demands When the king heard that he refused to come vnto Westminster but willed that they should come to him there in the Tower The lords sent him word againe that the Tower was a place to be suspected for that they might there be surprised by some guilefull practise deuised to intrap them The king herevnto made answer that they might send some two hundred men or so manie as they should thinke good to make a through search whether they néeded to
his men without honour or spoile returned line 30 into France After this the admerall of Britaine highlie incouraged for that the last yeere he had taken certeine English ships laden with wines acompanied with the lord du Chastell a valiant baron of Britaine and twelue hundred men of armes sailed foorth with thirtie ships from S. Malos and came before the towne of Dartmouth and would haue landed but by the puissance of the townesmen and aid of the countrie they were repelled in the which conflict the lord du line 40 Chastell and two of his brethren with foure hundred other were slaine and aboue two hundred taken prisoners and put to their ransoms amongst whom the lord of Baqueuille the marshall of Britaine was one All this summer Owen Glendouer and his adherents robbed burned and destroied the countries adioining néere to the places where he hanted and one while by sleight guilefull policie an other while by open force he tooke and slue manie Englishmen line 50 brake downe certeine castels which he wan and some he fortified and kept for his owne defense Iohn Trenor bishop of Assaph considering with himselfe how things prospered vnder the hands of this Owen fled to him and tooke his part against the king About the same time the Britaines and the Flemings tooke certeine ships of ours laden with merchandize and slue all the marriners or else hanged them Also the old countesse of Oxford mother to Robert line 60 Ueere late duke of Ireland that died at Louaine caused certeine of hir seruants and other such as she durst trust to publish and brute abroad thorough all the parts of Essex that king Richard was aliue and that he would shortlie come to light and claime his former estate honor and dignitie She procured a great number of harts to be made of siluer and gold such as king Richard was woont to giue vnto his knights esquiers fréends to weare as cognizances to the end that in bestowing them in king Richards name she might the sooner allure men to further hir lewd practises and where the fame went abroad that king Richard was in Scotland with a great power of Frenchmen and Scots readie to come to recouer his realme manie gaue the more light credit vnto this brute thus set foorth by the said countesse The persuasions also of one Serlo that in times past was one of king Richards chamber greatlie increased this errour for the same Serlo hearing in France whither he was fled that his maister king Richard was in Scotland aliue conueied himselfe thither to vnderstand the truth of that matter and finding there one indéed that greatlie resembled him in all lineaments of bodie but yet was not the man himselfe as he well perceiued vpon malice that he bare to king Henrie aduertised by letters sent vnto diuerse of king Richards freends that he was aliue indéed and shortlie would come to shew himselfe openlie to the world when he had once made his waie readie to recouer his kingdome to the confusion of his enimies and comfort of his fréends These forged inuentions caused manie to beleeue the brute raised by the countesse of Oxford for the which they came in trouble were apprehended and committed to prison The countesse hir selfe was shut vp in close prison and all hir goods were confiscat and hir secretarie drawen and hanged that had spred abroad this fained report in going vp and downe the countrie blowing into mens eares that king Richard was aliue affirming that he had spoken with him in such a place and in such a place apparelled in this raiment and that raiment with such like circumstances About the feast of saint Iohn Baptist at the kings commandement the earle of Northumberland came to Pomfret and brought with him his nephues and his nephues sonnes whereby he cleared himselfe of a great deale of suspicion manie doubting before his comming that he had giuen euill counsell to the yoong men whereby to mooue them to rebellion and to withstand the king Sir William Clifford also came with the earle and brought the foresaid Serlo with him whom he had apprehended vpon his comming to him at Berwike in hope to haue found succour at his hands in consideration whereof the king pardoned the said sir William Clifford of his disobedience shewed in keeping the castell of Berwike against him in which dooing he had committed manifest treason This Serlo being knowen to be the man that had béene the chiefe murtherer of the duke of Glocester when he was made awaie at Calis was diligentlie examined who were helpers with him in the execution thereof and after what sort they made him awaie Serlo knowing there was no waie with him but death would not vtter any other but confessed for his owne part he was worthie for that wicked déed to die ten thousand deaths and shewed such outward appearance of repentance that manie sore lamented his case and promised to hire priests to sing masses as the maner was for his soule of their owne costs and charges He was condemned to die at Pomfret and was drawen from thence through euerie good towne through which those that had the conueiance of him passed with him till they came to London where he was executed confessing euerie thing to be true concerning his wicked pretense as before is recited and further that when he perceiued how their counterfeit practise would come to light and he openlie reuealed he meant to haue returned into France but wanting monie he thought to haue béene relieued with some portion at the hand of the said sir William Clifford and this caused him to come vnto Berwike to shew him his necessitie who to make his owne peace did apprehend him and present him to the king as before ye haue heard King Henrie wanting monie in the feast of saint Faith the virgine assembled at Couentrie his high court of parlement in the which the lord Stephan Scroope of Masham and the lord Henrie Fitz Hugh obteined first to haue places of barons Moreouer it is to be noted that this was called The laie mans parlement bicause the shiriffes were appointed to haue a speciall regard that none should be chosen knights for the counties nor burgesses for the cities and townes that had any skill in the lawes of the land This was doone and when they came togither to talke of the weightie affaires of the realme speciallie line 10 how the king might be relieued with monie to beare such charges as he was knowen to be at as well in defending the realme from the Scots and Welshmen at home as from the Britains Flemings and Frenchmen abroad it was thought most expedient that the spiritualtie should be depriued of their temporall possessions to the reliefe of the kings necessitie Herevpon rose great altercation betwixt the cleargie and the laitie the knights affirming that they had oftentimes serued the king not onelie
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
so well to remember it as you for if you haue not fullie put your greatest things to be had in memorie in your box of obliuion you be not yet out of mind how the French king for all your power tooke from you the faire towne of Amiens and the strong pile of saint Quintins with diuerse other townes which you neither durst nor yet were able either to rescue or defend Since which time how he hath plagued you how he hath taken from you your fréends yea of your priuie chamber and secret councell by whome all your secrets be to him reuealed and made open you know or haue better cause to remember and not to forget them And when you determined to besiege the towne of Nusse you thought your selfe in a great doubt whether you should loose more at home by your absence the French king dreaming and waiting like a for for his preie or gaine more in Germanie by your power and presence And to kéepe the woolfe from the fold that is the French king from your castels and dominions was the cheefe and principall cause whie you so faire praid me so sore laboured and intised me to passe ouer the sea promising mounteins of gold which turned into snow and wasted into water boasting and craking to send horssemen and footmen and yet shewing neither lackie nor page If we had made our enterprise for our selfe solie and in our owne quarell thinke you that we would haue expected your comming If the aduenture had béene for to haue recouered our right imagine you that we would haue passed the sea so slenderlie as we did looking for line 10 your aid Nay nay you should haue well knowen if we had intended a conquest that we would haue so stronglie inuaded set on the realme of France that what with sauour of burning of townes and infection of the aier corrupted by the multitude of dead carcases of our slaine enimies your countries of Flanders Brabant should haue had causes enow to woonder at trusting that that which we had gotten we would haue kept as well as anie of our ancestors haue doone line 20 But bicause the verie occasion of the warre was yours and that you wilfullie I will not saie cowardlie did not prosecute the same the French king who neuer offended me nor my subiects except in mainteining the earle of Warwike for the displeasure that you bare him against me offered me being destitute of all your succour and aid both honourable and honest ouertures of peace which offers I was in maner inforced by verie reason to incline to and accept and so haue concluded a truce which God willing I will both keepe and obserue God send you line 30 ioy quoth the duke and so abruptlie ended his talke for that time Hâ—erwith being in a great rage he bad the king of England farewell and suddenlie tooke his horsse and rode againe to Lutzenburgh promising not to enter into anie league with the French king till king Edward was passed the seas againe into England and had béene there thrée moneths but this promise was not performed for of necessitie he tooke a wiser waie line 40 and agréed with the French king vpon a truce immediatlie after the departure of the English armie out of his countrie The constable of France also doubting that his vntruth would be disclosed to his destruction by means of this agréement betwéene the kings of England and France as soone as he heard they were entred into communication thereof sent to king Edward requiring him not to credit the French kings promises which he would no longer obserue than vntill he should once vnderstand line 50 that he was on the other side of the sea and rather than he should agrée for want of monie he offered to lend him fiftie thousand crownes But the king of England sith the accord was passed and agréed would not change anie thing for the promises of so slipper a merchant as he knew the constable to be ¶ Then was the constable in maner on all sides in despaire but yet he wrote to the French king by his messengers beséeching him to giue no credit or beléefe to anie tale told or fained against him without line 60 hearing his answer affirming that the king had alwaies knowen his truth and fidelitie toward the crowne of France and so should he still find him till his dieng daie promising and warranting him if that it should stand with his pleasure that he would so compasse the duke of Burgognie that they two should vtterlie destroie the king of England and his armie yer they returned The councellors of the French king made answer that their master and the king of England were ioined and confedered in a sure amitie Wherfore they would in no wise know nor condescend to anie thing that might be either preiudiciall or once sound to the detriment of the Englishmen but they said that the king their master much trusted the constable and that for his sake he would talke with them in his priuie chamber The French king before their entrie into his chamber caused the lord of Contaie seruant vnto the duke of Burgognie accompanied with the lord of Argenton one of his priuie councell to stand secretlie behind a séeling or hanging in his chamber he himselfe sat in a chaire directlie before that place so that what soeuer were purposed to him they standing behind the cloth might plainlie sée and easilie heare the same Lewes de Creuell and his fellow entered into the kings chamber of nothing thinking lesse than of the spirits inclosed They declared what paine their master had taken for the French kings sake to send mooue and entise the duke of Burgognie to leaue and cléerelie to forsake the king of England which duke they found in such a rage and furie against the Englishmen that at their request he was not onelie vtterlie determined to forsake and refuse their amitie but also would send out aduenturers and lanceknights to rob and spoile them in their returning And in speaking these words thinking suerlie much to please the king the said Lewes counterfeited the fashion and gesture of the duke of Burgognie and began to stampe with his foot on the ground and beat with his fist on the table swearing by saint George that the king of England was not extracted of anie noble house but was a yeomans sonne and that when he was not woorth one halfepenie he was restored to his kingdome and made king onelie by his aid reprouing and reuiling him with such ill words and so shamefull termes that all the hearers abhorred it The French king faining that he was thicke of hearing caused him to reiterate his saieng againe who so counterfeited the verie gesture of the dukes angrie countenance and roring voice that no man hath séene a better counterfeitor or actor in anie comedie or tragedie The lord of Contaie was sore displeased to sée his master made a iesting
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
number of six hundred horsses was come on his waie to London-ward after secret méeting and communication had eftsoones departed Wherevpon at Northampton the duke met with the protector himselfe with thrée hundred horsses line 20 and from thense still continued with him partner of all his deuises till that after his coronation they departed as it séemed verie great fréends at Glocester From whense as soone as the duke came home he so lightlie turned from him and so highlie conspired against him that a man would maruell whereof the change grew And suerlie the occasion of their variance is of diuerse men diuerselie reported Some haue I heard say that the duke a little before line 30 his coronation among other things required of the protector the duke of Herefords lands to the which he pretended himselfe iust inheritor And forsomuch as the title which he claimed by inheritance was somwhat interlaced with the title to the crowne by the line of king Henrie before depriued the protector conceiued such indignation that he reiected the dukes request with manie spitefull and minatorie words Which so wounded his heart with hatred and mistrust that he neuer after could indure to looke line 40 aright on king Richard but euer feared his owne life so far foorth that when the protector rode through London toward his coronation he feined himselfe sicke bicause he would not ride with him And the other also taking it in euill part sent him word to rise and come ride or he would make him be caried Wherevpon he rode on with euill will and that notwithstanding on the morow rose from the feast feining himselfe sicke and king Richard said it was doone in hatred and despite of him line 50 And they said that euer after continuallie each of them liued in such hatred and distrust of other that the duke verelie looked to haue beene murthered at Glocester from which nathelesse he in faire maner departed But suerlie some right secret at that daie denie this and manie right wise men thinke it vnlikelie the déepe dissembling nature of both those men considered and what néed in that gréene world the protector had of the duke and in what perill the duke stood if he fell once in suspicion of the tyrant line 60 that either the protector would giue the duke occasion of displeasure or the duke the protector occasion of mistrust And verelie men thinke that if king Richard had anie such opinion conceiued he would neuer haue suffered him to escape his hands Uerie truth it is the duke was an high minded man and euill could beare the glorie of another so that I haue heard of some that say they saw it that the duke at such time as the crowne was first set vpon the protectors head his eie could not abide the sight thereof but wried his head another way But men say that he was of truth not well at ease and that both to king Richard well knowne and not euill taken nor anie demand of the dukes vncourteouslie reiected but he both with great gifts and high behests in most louing and trustie maner departed at Glocester But soone after his comming home to Brecknocke hauing there in his custodie by the commandement of king Richard doctor Morton bishop of Elie who as ye before heard was taken in the councell at the Tower waxed with him familiar whose wisedome abused his pride to his owne deliuerance and the dukes destruction The bishop was a man of great naturall wit verie well learned and honorable in behauior lacking no wise waies to win fauour He had béene fast vpon the part of king Henrie while that part was in wealth and nathelesse left it not nor forsooke it in wo but fled the realme with the queene the prince while king Edward had the king in prison neuer came home but to the field After which lost and that part vtterlie subdued the other for his fast faith and wisedome not onelie was content to receiue him but also wooed him to come and had him from thencefoorth both in secret trust and verie speciall fauour which he nothing deceiued For he being as yée haue heard after king Edwards death first taken by the tyrant for his truth to the king found the meane to set this duke in his top ioined gentlemen togither in the aid of king Henrie deuising first the mariage betwéene him king Edwards daughter by which his faith he declared the good seruice to both his masters at once with infinit benefit to the realme by the coniunction of those two blouds in one whose seuerall titles had long disquieted the land he fled the realme went to Rome neuer minding more to meddle with the world till the noble prince king Henrie the seuenth gat him home againe made him archbishop of Canturburie and chancellor of England wherevnto the pope ioined the honour of cardinall Thus liuing manie daies in as much honor as one man might well wish ended them so godlie that his death with Gods mercie well changed his life This man therefore as I was about to tell you by the long often alternate proofe as well of prosperitie as aduerse fortune had gotten by great experience the verie mother and mistresse of wisedome a déepe insight in politike worldlie drifts Whereby perceiuing now this duke glad to commune with him fed him with faire words and manie pleasant praises And perceiuing by the processe of their communications the dukes pride now and then belking out a little breath of enuie toward the glorie of the king and thereby feeling him easie to fall out if the matter were well handled he craftilie sought the waies to pricke him forward taking alwaies the occasion of his comming and so kéeping himselfe so close within his bounds that he rather séemed to follow him than to lead him For when the duke first began to praise and boast the king and shew how much profit the realme should take by his reigne my lord Morton answered thus Suerlie my lord follie were it for me to lie for if I would sweare the contrarie your lordship would not I weene beléeue but that if the world would haue gone as I would haue wished king Henries sonne had had the crowne and not king Edward But after that God had ordered him to léese it and king Edward to reigne I was neuer so mad that I would with a dead man striue against the quicke So was I to king Edward a faithfull chapleine glad would haue béene that his child had succéeded him Howbeit if the secret iudgment of God haue otherwise prouided I purpose not to spurne against a pricke nor labour to set vp that God pulleth downe And as for the late protector and now king And euen there he left saieng that he had alreadie medled too much with the world and would from that daie meddle with his booke and his beads and no further Then longed the duke sore to heare what he
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
and their goods to them deliuered in fauour of intercourse of merchandize But forsomuch as the Spaniards were still deteined the ladie regent also deteined the ships and goods of the English merchants though she set their persons at libertie By this meanes the trade of merchandize was in maner fore let here in England and namelie the clothes laie on their hands whereby the common-wealth suffered great decaie and great numbers of spinners carders tuckers and such other that liued by clothworking remained idle to their great impouerishment line 10 And as this warre was displeasant to the Englishmen so was it as much or more displeasant to the townes and people of the low countries in especiall to the townes of Antuerpe Barrow where the marts are kept So that at length there came ambassadours from the ladie regent the which associating themselues with don Hugo de Mendoza ambassadour for the emperour came to the king at Richmond the twentie and ninth of March and there mooued their sute so effectuallie that an abstinence line 20 of warre was granted till time that a further communication might be had and vpon this point letters were sent into Spaine France and Flanders and so this matter continued vntill answers were brought from thense againe The emperours ambassadours intreated not so earnestlie to mooue the king to haue peace with their maister but the French ambassadours sollicited the king as earnestlie to enter into the warre against him and suerlie they had the cardinall on their side But yet the king wiselie considering with other of line 30 his councell what damage should insue therby vnto his subiects and speciallie to the merchants and clothiers would not consent so easilie to the purpose of the Frenchmen though he had twentie thousand pounds sterling out of France of yearelie pension to continue fréend alie to the French king But he protested euer that he would sée the relme of France defended to his power and studie no lesse to haue a peace concluded which might be as honourable to the French king as to himselfe and beneficiall vnto line 40 their people of whome by warres might be made both slaughter and bloudshed which are companions vnseparable of battell as the poet well saith Hinc breuiter dirae mortis aperta via est On the two and twentith of Februarie the king created at Windsor sir Piers Butler of Ireland erle of Osserie ¶ Also a Dutch craire of Armew chased a French craire vp the Thames from Margate to the Tower wharfe and there as they fought sir line 50 Edmund Walsingham lieutenant of the Tower perceiuing them called his men togither and entering the ships tooke both the capteins The kings councell tooke vp the matter betwixt them for the Fleming chalenged the Frenchman as a lawfull prise An abstinence of the warre was taken in the beginning of this yeare betwixt Flanders and the countries of Picardie on this side the riuer of Some to begin the first of Maie indure till the last of Februarie By means of this truce all the Englishmen line 60 might lawfullie passe into the low countries but not into Spaine which sore gréeued the merchants that haunted those parties It was further agréed that if no generall peace could be had during the time of this truce then all the merchants should haue respit two moneths after to passe into their owne countries with their wares and merchandizes in safetie In the end of Maie began in the citie of London the disease called the sweating sickenesse which afterwards infected all places of the realme and slue manie within fiue or six houres after they sickened This sickenesse for the maner of the taking of the patients was an occasion of remembring that great sweat which raged in the reigne of this kings grandfather and happilie men caused the same remedie then vsed to be reuiued By reason of this sickenesse the tearme was adiourned and the circuit of the assises also There died diuerse in the court of this sicknesse as sir Francis Poins which had béene ambassadour in Spaine and diuerse others The king for a space remooued almost euerie daie till he came to Tintinhangar a place of the abbat of saint Albons and there he with the quéene and a small companie about them remained till the sickenesse was past In this great mortalitie died sir William Compton knight and William Carew esquier which were of the kings priuie chamber ¶ A prisoner brake from the sessions hall at Newgate when the sessions was doone which prisoner was brought downe out of Newgate in a basket he séemed so weake but now in the end of the sessions he brake thorough the people vnto the Greie friers church and there was kept six or seauen daies yer the shiriffes could speake with him and then bicause he would not abiure and aske a crowner with violence they tooke him thense and cast him againe in prison but the law serued not to hang him Ye heaue heard how the people talked a little before the cardinals going ouer into France the last yeare that the king was told by doctor Longland bishop of Lincolne and others that his mariage with queene Katharine could not be good nor lawfull The truth is that whether this doubt was first mooued by the cardinall or by the said Longland being the kings confessor the king was not onelie brought in doubt whether it was a lawfull marriage or no but also determined to haue the case examined cléered and adiudged by learning law and sufficient authoritie The cardinall verelie was put in most blame for this scruple now cast into the kings conscience for the hate he bare to the emperor bicause he would not grant to him the archbishoprike of Toledo for the which he was a suter And therefore he did not onlie procure the king of England to ioine in fréendship with the French king but also sought a diuorse betwixt the king and the quéene that the king might haue had in marriage the duchesse of Alanson sister vnto the French king and as some haue thought he trauelled in that matter with the French king at Amiens but the duchesse would not giue eare therevnto But howsoeuer it came about that the king was thus troubled in conscience concerning his mariage this followed that like a wise sage prince to haue the doubt cleerelie remooued he called togither the best learned of the realme which were of seuerall opinions Wherfore he thought to know the truth by indifferent iudges least peraduenture the Spaniards and other also in fauour of the quéene would saie that his owne subiects were not indifferent iudges in this behalfe And therefore he wrote his cause to Rome and also sent to all the vniuersities in Italie and France and to the great clearkes of all christendome to know their opinions and desired the court of Rome to send into his realme a legat which should
would forsake their habit and all that were vnder the age of foure and twentie yéeres and the residue were closed vp that would remaine Further they tooke order that no men should haue accesse to the houses of women nor women to the houses of men except it should be to heare their seruice The abbat or prior of the house where anie of the brethren was willing to depart was appointed to giue to euerie of them a priests gowne for his habit and fortie shillings in monie the nunnes to haue such apparell as secular women ware and to go whither them liked best ¶ The eleuenth of Nouember was a great procession at London for â—oie of the French kings recouerie of health from a dangerous sicknesse ¶ In December a surueie was taken of all chanteries and the names of them that had the gift of them The princesse Dowager â—â—eng at Kâ—imbalton fell into hir last sicknesse whereof the king being aduertised appointed the emperors ambassador that was legier here with him named Eustachius Caputius to go to visit hir and to doo his commendations to hir and will hir to be of good comfort The ambassador with all diligence did his duetie therein comforting hir the best he might but she within six daies after perceiuing hir selfe to wax verie weake and féeble and to féele death approching at hand caused one of hir gentlewomen to write a letter to the king commending to him hir daughter and his beseeching him to stand good father vnto hir and further desired him to haue some consideration of hir gentlewomen that had serued hir and to sée them bestowed in marriage Further that it would please him to appoint that hir seruants might haue their due wages and a yéeres wages beside This in effect was all that she requested and so immediatlie herevpon she departed this life the eight of Ianuarie at Kimbalton aforesaid and was buried at Peterborow ¶ The nine and twentith of Ianuarie quéene Anne was deliuered of a child before hir time which was borne dead On the fourth of Februarie the parlement began in the which amongst other things enacted all religious houses of the value of three hundred marks and vnder were giuen to the king with all the lands and goods to them belonging The number of these houses were thrée hundred seauentie and six the value of their lands yearlie aboue two and thirtie thousand pounds their moouable goods one hundred thousand the religious persons put out of the same houses amounted to the number of aboue 10000. This yéere was William Tindall burnt at a towne betwixt Bruxels and Maclin called Uillefort This Tindall otherwise called Hichins was borne in the marches of Wales and hauing a desire to translate and publish to his countrie diuerse books of the bible in English and doubting to come in trouble for the same if he should remaine here in England got him ouer into the parties of beyond the sea where he translated not onelie the new testament into the English toong but also the fiue bookes of Moses Iosua Iudicum Ruth the books of the kings and Paralipomenon Nehemias or the first of Esdras and the prophet Ionas Beside these translations he made certeine tretises and published the same which were brought ouer into England and read with great desire of diuerse and of many sore despised and abhorred so that proclamations were procured foorth for the condemnation and prohibiting of his â—â—oks as before you haue heard Finallie he was apprehended at Antwerpe by meanes of one Philips an Englishman and then scholer at Louaine After he had remained in prison a long time and was almost forgotten the lord Cromwell wrote for his deliuerance but then in all hast because he would not recant anie part of his doctrine he was bâ—rned as before you haue heard Of whose conuersation and doctrine innocent in the world and sincere for truth as also of his death and martyrdome read the martyrolologie of Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer Anno 1536. sub Hen. 8. On Maie daie were solemne iusts kept at Gréenwich and suddenlie from the iusts the king departed not hauing aboue six persons with him and in the euening came to Westminster Of this sudden departing many mused but most chéeflie the quéene ¶ On the next morrow the lord Rochford brother to the quéene and Henrie Norris were brought to line 10 the tower of London prisoners Also the same daie about fiue of the clocke in the after noone queene Anne of Bullongne was brought to the tower of London by sir Thomas Audleie lord chancellor the duke of Norffolke Thomas Cromwell secretarie and sir William Kingston constable of the tower and when she came to the tower gate entring in â—he fell on hir knées before the said lords beséeching God to helpe hir as she was not guiltie of that whereof she was accused and then desired the said lords to line 20 beséech the kings grace to be good vnto hir and so they left hir there prisoner On the fiftéenth of Maie quéene Anne was arreigned in the tower of London on a scaffold for that purpose made in the kings hall before the duke of Norffolke who sate vnder the cloth of estate as high steward of England with the lord chancellor on his right hand the duke of Suffolke on his left hand with marquesses and lords c and the earle of Surrie sat before the duke of Norffolke his father as earle marshall of England The kings commission being read the constable line 30 of the tower and the lieutenant brought the queene to the barre where was made a chaire for hir to sit downe in and there hir indictement was read wherevnto she made so wise and discréet answers that she seemed fullie to cleere hir selfe of all matters laid to hir charge but being tried by hir péeres whereof the duke of Suffolke was chiefe she was by them found guiltie and had iudgement pronounced by the duke of Norffolke line 40 Immediatlie the lord Rochford the queenes brother was likewise arreigned and condemned the lord maior of London his brethren the aldermen the wardens and foure persons mo of euerie the twelue principall companies being present The seauenteenth of Maie the lord Rochford brother to the quéene Henrie Norris Marke Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the kings priuie chamber about matters touching the quéene were beheaded on the tower hill the lord Rochfords line 50 bodie with the head was buried in the chappell of the tower the other foure in the churchyard there On the ninetéenth of Maie quéene Anne was on a scaffold made for that purpose vpon the gréene within the tower of London beheaded with the sword of Calis by the hands of the hangman of that towne hir bodie with the head was buried in the quéere of the chappell in the tower The words of queene Anne line 60 at hir death GOod christian people I am come hither to
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
vpon these so false tales persuasions in so euident a matter Therfore all you which will acknowledge vs your souereigne lord and which will heare the voice of vs your king may easilie perceiue how you be deceiued and how subtillie traitors and papists with their falsehood séeke to atchiue and bring their purpose to passe with your helpe Euerie traitor will be glad to dissemble his treason and féed it secretlie euerie papist his poperie and nourish it inwardlie and in the end make you our subiects partakers of treason and poperie which in the beginning was pretended to be a commonweale and holinesse And how are you seduced by them which put in your heads the blessed sacrament of Christes bodie should not differ from other common bread If our lawes proclamations and statutes be all to the contrarie whie shall anie priuat man persuade you against them We doo our selfe in our owne hart our councell in all their profession our lawes and statutes in all purposes our good subiects in all our dooings most highlie estéeme that sacrament and vse the communion thereof to our most comfort We make so much difference thereof from other common bread that we thinke no profit of other bread but to mainteine our bodies but this blessed bread we take to be the verie food of our soules to euerlasting life How thinke you good subiects shall not we being your prince your lord your king by Gods appointment with truth more preuaile than certeine euill persons with open falsehood Shall anie seditious person persuade you that the sacrament is despised which is by our lawes by our selfe by our councell and by all our good subiects estéemed vsed participated and dailie receiued If euer ye were seduced if euer deceiued if euer traitors were beleeued if euer papists poisoned good subiects it is now It is not the christening of children nor the reuerence of the sacrament nor the health of your soules that they shoot at good subiects it is sedition it is high treason it is your destruction they séeke How craftilie how pitiouslie how cunninglie so euer they doo it with one rule iudge yée the end which of force must come of your purposes Almightie God forbiddeth vpon paine of euerlasting damnation disobedence to vs your king and in his place we rule in earth If we should be slow would God erre If your offense be towards God thinke you it is pardoned without repentance Is Gods iudgement mutable Your paine is damnation your iudge is incorruptible your fault is most euident Likewise are ye euill informed in diuerse other articles as for confirmation of your children for the masse for the maner of your seruice of mattins and euensong Whatsoeuer is therein ordered hath beene long debated and consulted by manie learned bishops doctors and other men of great learning in this realme concluded in nothing so much labour and time spent of late time nothing so fullie ended As for seruice in the English toong hath manifest reasons for it and yet perchance seemeth to you a new seruice and yet in déed is none other but the old The selfe same words in English which were in Latin sauing a few things taken out so fond that it had béene a shame to haue heard them in English as all they can iudge which list to report the truth The difference is that we ment godlie that you our subiects should vnderstand in English being our line 10 naturall countrie toong that which was heretofore spoken in Latine then seruing onelie them which vnderstand Latine now for all you that be borne English How can this with reason offend anie reasonable man that he should vnderstand what anie other saith and so to consent with the speaker If the seruice in the church were good in Latine it remaineth good in English for nothing is altered but to speake with knowledge that before was spoken line 20 with ignorance and to let you vnderstand what is said for you to the intent you maie further it with your owne deuotion an alteration to the better except knowledge be worse than ignorance So that whosoeuer hath mooued you to mislike this order can giue you no reason nor answer yours if ye vnderstand it Wherefore you our subiects remember we speake to you being ordeined your prince and king by almightie God if anie wise we could aduance Gods line 30 honour more than we doo we would doo it and sée that ye become subiects to Gods ordinance Obeie vs your prince and learne of them which haue authoritie to teach you which haue power to rule you and will execute our iustice if we be prouoked Learne not of them whose fruits be nothing but wilfulnesse disobedience obstinacie destruction of the realme For the masse we assure you no small studie trauell hath béene spent by all the learned clergie therin and to auoid all contention thereof it is brought line 40 euen to the verie vse as Christ left it as the apostles vsed it as holie fathers deliuered it indeed somwhat altered from that which the popes of Rome for their lucre brought to it And although you maie heare the contrarie of some popish and euill men yet our maiestie which for our honor maie not be blemished nor stained assureth you that they deceiue you abuse you and blow these opinions into your heads for to furnish their owne purposes And so likewise iudge you of confirmation of line 50 children and let them answer you this one question Thinke they that a child christened is damned bicause he dieth before bishopping Marke good subiects what inconuenience hereof commeth Our doctrine therefore is founded vpon true learning and theirs vpon shamelesse errors To conclude beside our gentle maner of information to you whatsoeuer is conteined in our booke either for baptisme sacrament masse confirmation and seruice in the church is by parlement established by the whole clergie line 60 agréed yea by the bishops of the realme deuised further by Gods word confirmed And how dare you trust yea how dare you giue eare without trembling to anie singular person to disalow a parlement a subiect to persuade against our maiestie or anie man of his single arrogancie against the determination of the bishops and all the cleargie anie inuented argument against the word of God But now you our subiects we resort to a greater matter of your vnkindnesse a great vnnaturalnes and such an euill that if we thought it had not béene begun of ignorance and continued by persuasion of certeine traitors amongst you which we thinke few in number but in their dooings busie we could not be persuaded but to vse our sword and doo iustice and as we be ordeined of God for to redresse your errors by auengement But loue and zeale yet ouercommeth our iust anger but how long that will be God knoweth in whose hand our heart is and rather for your owne causes being our christened subiects we would ye
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
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
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
could not prosper so long as she kept in hir hands any possessions of the church did frankelie and freelie resigne and render vnto them all those reuenues ecclesiasticall line 20 which by the authoritie of parlement in the time of king Henrie had béene annexed to the crowne called the first fruits and tenths of all bishopricks benefices and ecclesiasticall promotions The resignation whereof was a great diminution of the reuenues of the crowne ¶ In this parlement was granted to the king queene a subsidie of the laitie from fiue pounds to ten pounds eight pence of the pound from ten pounds to twentie pounds twelue pence of the pound from twentie pounds vpward sixtéene line 30 pence of the pound and all strangers double and the cleargie granted six shillings of the pound Doctor Storie and other were appointed by the cardinall to visit euerie parish church in London and Middlesex to see their relikes repared and the images of the crucifix with Marie and Iohn therevpon to be fixed During the time of this parlement Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England died at his house called Winchester place beside saint Marie Oueries in Southworke the ninth daie of Nouember whose corps was shortlie line 40 after solemnly from thence conueied to his church of Winchester there buried The maner of whose death why should I blush to blaze as I find it by report ¶ One mistresse Mondaie being the wife of one maister Mondaie secretarie sometime to the old lord Thomas duke of Norffolke a present witnes of this that is testified thus openlie reported in the house of a worshipfull citizen bearing office in this citie in words and effect as followeth The same daie line 50 when as bishop Ridleie and maister Latimer suffered at Oxford being about the ninetéenth daie of October there came to the house of Stephan Gardiner the old duke of Norffolke with the foresaid Mondaie his secretarie aboue named reporter héerof The old aged duke there waiting and tarieng for his dinner the bishop being not yet disposed to dine deferred the time till three or foure of the clocke at after noone At length about foure of the clocke commeth his seruant posting in all possible spéed from Oxford line 60 bringing intelligence to the bishop what he had heard and séene of whom the said bishop diligentlie inquiring the truth of the matter hearing by his man that fire most certeinlie was set vnto them commeth out reioising to the duke Now saith he let vs go to dinner Wherevpon they being set downe meat immediatlie was brought and the bishop began merilie to eate but what followed The blouddie tyrant had not eaten a few bits but the sudden stroke of God his terrible hand fell vpon him in such sort as immediatlie he was taken from the table so brought to his bed where he continued the space of fiftéene daies in such intollerable anguish and torments that all that meane while during those fifteene daies he could not auoid by order of vrine or otherwise any thing that he receiued whereby his bodie being miserablie inflamed within who had inflamed so manie good martyrs before was brought to a wretched end And thereof no doubt as most like it is came the thrusting out of his toong from his mouth so swolne blacke with the inflammation of his bodie A spectacle worthie to be noted and beholden of all such bloudie burning persecutors But whatsoeuer he was séeing he is now gone I referre him to his iudge to whom he shall stand or fall As concerning his death and maner thereof I would they which were present thereat would testifie to vs what they saw This we haue all to thinke that his death happened so opportunelie that England hath a mightie cause to giue thanks to the Lord therfore not so much for the great hurt he had doone in times past in peruerting his princesse in bringing in the six articles in murthering Gods saints in defacing Christs sincere religion c as also especiallie for that he had thought to haue brought to passe in murthering also our noble quéene that now is For whatsoeuer danger it was of death that she was in it did no doubt procéed from that bloudie bishop who was the cause thereof And if it be certeine which we haue heard that hir highnesse being in the tower a writ came downe from certeine of the councell for hir execution it is out of controuersie that wilie Winchester was the onelie Dedalus and framer of that engine Who no doubt in that one daie had brought this whole realme into wofull ruine had not the lords most gratious councell thorough maister Bridges then the lieutenant comming in hast to the quéene certified hir of the matter and preuented Achitophels bloudie deuises For the which thanks be to the same our Lord and Sauiour in the congregation of all English churches Amen After whose death Nicholas heath archbishop of Yorke was preferred by the quéene to the office of the chancellor ¶ She likewise gaue the priuie seale to the lord Paget and made him lord priuie seale these were both Londoners borne In this moneth of Februarie the lord maior of London and the aldermen entered into Bridewell and tooke possession thereof according to the gift of king Edward now conâ—â—â—med by queene Marie In the moneth of March next following there was in maner no other talke but of the great preparation that was made for the quéens lieng in childbed who had alredie taken vp hir chamber and sundrie ladies and gentlewomen were placed about hir in euerie office of the court ¶ And now forsomuch as in the beginning of the moneth of Iune about Whitsuntide the time was thought to be nie that this yoong maister should come into the world and that midwiues rockers nurses with the cradle and all were prepared and in a readinesse suddenlie vpon what cause or occasion it is vncerteine a certeine vaine rumor was blowne in London of the prosperous deliuerance of the quéene and the birth of the child insomuch that bels were roong bonefiers and processions made not onelie in the citie of London and in most other parts of the realme but also in Antwerpe guns were shot off vpon the riuer by the English ships and the mariners thereof were rewarded with an hundred pistolets or Italian crownes by the ladie regent who was the quéene of Hungarie Such great reioising and triumph was for the quéenes deliuerie and that there was a prince borne Yea diuerse preachers namelie one the person of saint Anne within Aldersgate after procession and Te Deum soong tooke vpon him to describe the proportion of the child how faire how beautifull and great a prince it was as the like had not béene seene In the middest of this great adoo there was a simple man this I speake but vpon information dwelling within foure miles of Barwike that neuer had béene
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
pen thorough the malicious barking of some who suppose nothing well but what they doo themselues whereby gaine maie rise vnto their posteritie in this liberall sort to set downe the names and times of such treasurors as haue liued in England as hereafter I will doo the chancellors and that with as good authoritie as these secret backbiters can challenge anie cunning to themselues who suppose euerie blast of their mouth to come foorth of Trophonius den and that they spake from the triuet As I will not arrogate anie thing to my selfe for in truth I saie with Socrates Hoc tantùm scio quòd nihil scio or derogate from them that which their worthinesse maie merit so shall I be glad sith nothing is at the first so perfect but that somewhat maie be either augmented or amended to and in it that this maie whet those enuious persons to deliuer anie thing to the world that maie in comptrolling my labours benefit their countrie which if they will not doo let them cease their euill spéeches for Qui pergit dicere quae libet quae non vult audiet And truelie for mine owne part I will Canere palinodiam and yeeld them an honourable victorie if anie better shall be produced and be heartilie glad that truth which is all that I seeke maie be brought to perfection Now how well I haue done it my selfe must not be iudge desiring pardon of such as either with wise modestie can or ought to iudge or with rare antiquities can or will correct what I haue doone if thorough ignorance we haue committed anie escapes or imperfections further promising that if hereafter we espie any of our owne error or if anie other either friend for good will or aduersarie for desire of reprehension shall open the same vnto me I will not for defense of mine estimation or of pride or of contention by wranglings or quarrelling vpon authorities histories and records wilfullie persist in those faults but be glad to heare of them and in the whole and large discourse of the liues of the lord treasurors almost perfected corrected them For as I said it is truth of antiquities that I séeke for which being had either by good intention of my welwilling friends or by occasion and reprehension of my enuious emulators I greatlie esteeme not And so to the matter Saint Dunstane for I vse that name more for antiquities than deuoutnesse cause was treasuror to Eadred or Eldred king of England who began his reigne in the yeare that the word became flesh nine hundred fortie and six of whome thus writeth Matthew Parker in his booke of the archbishops of Canturburie in the life of Odo Seuerus the two and twentith bishop of that see Edmundo the king of England defuncto Eadredus corona regia ab Odone redimitus rem publicam administrans Dunstanum vt in eius vita pleniùs patebit tam singulari amore prosequutus est vt omnes regni thesauros illius custodiae commendaret Hugoline was treasuror and chamberleine to Edward the confessor he gaue Deane and Southâ—righ to Westminster which Edward the confessor did afterward confirme to that house Odo halfe brother to William the conqueror erle of Kent bishop of Baieux and chiefe iustice of England was treasuror in the time of the conqueror who had at his death as saith Anonymus M.S. sixtie thousand pounds Excepto auro gemmis vasis palijs Geffreie lord Clinton treasuror and chamberleine to Henrie the first he about the thirteenth yeare of Henrie the first in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred and twelue did found the priorie of Kenelworth and was after accused of treason in the one and thirtith yeare of the reigne of the said Henrie the first but as it séemed restored in short time after to the kings fauour Ranulph bishop of Durham was treasuror to the king whome Florentius Wigorniensis calleth Praecipuum regis placitatorem regni exactorem whose last word Exactor some men doo English treasuror Of this man is more said in the chancellors of England Roger bishop of Sarisburie treasuror chancellor of England as appeareth by Leland writing in this sort Roger bishop of Sarum treasuror chancellor to Henrie the first made the castell of Uies such a costlie and so strong a fort as was neuer before nor since set vp by anie bishop of England The kéepe or dungeon of it set vpon a hill cast by hand is a peece of worke of incredible cost There appeare in the gate of it six or seauen places for portculices and much goodlie building was in it It is now in ruine and part of the front of the towers of the gate of the keepe and the chappell in it were carried full vnprofitablie to the building of master Beintons house at Bromhame scant thrée miles off There remaine diuerse goodlie towers yet in the vtter wall of the castell but all going to ruine The principall gate line 10 that leadeth into the towne is yet of great strength and hath places of seauen or eight portculices Thus much Leland in his commentaries of England which I haue here set downe partlie to prooue Roger bishop of Salisburie to be treasuror and partlie to commit to the world all such collections and notes as I can get of his Besides which to prooue the same Roger treasuror at the latter end of the reigne of Henrie the first togither with William de Pontlearch at the entering of king Stephan into England line 20 thus writeth one Anonymall chronicle M. S. Stephanus cùm intrauit Angliam RogeruÌ„ Seresberiensem Willielmum de Pontlearcus custodes thesaurorum ad se traduxit which William de Pontlearch was a witnesse with William Stigill to a certeine charter which Ranulph bishop of Durham made to the moonkes of Durham commonlie called S. Cutberts moonks wherin he confirmed to them Blakestone Standrop and Sandropshire with the wood of Henworth on the east part of Marneburne as farre as it goeth to the line 30 sea This Roger bishop of Salisburie died in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred thirtie and nine being about the fourth yeare of king Stephan of whome mention is made in the chancellors of England Nigellus the second bishop of Elie nephue to Roger bishop of Sarum and treasuror to Henrie the first was aduanced vnto that bishoprike of Elie in the yeare of our redemption one thousand one hundred thirtie and three the fift calends of line 40 Iune being the thrée and thirtith yeare of the reigne of Henrie the first at whose going downe to be installed in the said bishoprike he was receiued with such ioie that all the whole street of Elie thorough which he should passe was hanged with curteins and carpets with seats set on ech side and the moonks canons and clerks méeting him with procession with diuers other priests standing round about them After his installation he returned to
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
high treason by the Iurie On fridaie being the first of December Edmund line 30 Campion Iesuit Ralfe Sherwin Alexander Brian seminarie priests being condemned for high treason against hir maiesties most roiall person as also for traitorous practises touching the subuersion of the true vndoubted religion here mainteined with the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of this realme of England were drawne from the Tower of London on hurdles to the place of execution appointed garded with such a sufficient companie as might expresse the honor of iustice the larger in line 40 that behalfe Being come to the place of execution where diuerse of hir maiesties honorable councell with manie honorable personages and gentlemen of worship and good account beside a multitude of people not here to be remembred attended their comming Edmund Campion was first brought vp into the cart where after the great rumor of so manie people somewhat appeased he spake thus First he began the people then present expecting his confession with a phrase or two in Latine line 50 when immediatlie after he fell into English in this maner I am here brought as a spectacle before the face of God of angelles and of men satisfieng my selfe to die as becommeth a true christian catholike man As for the treasons that haue béene laid to my charge and I am come here to suffer for I desire you all to beare witnesse with me that thereof I am altogither innocent Wherevpon answer was made to him by one of the councell that he might line 60 not seeme to denie th'obiections against him hauing béene prooued so manifestlie to his face both by sufficient witnesse and euidence Well my lord quoth he I am a catholike man and a priest in that faith haue I liued hitherto and in that faith I doo intend to die and if you esteeme my religion treason then of force I must grant vnto you as for anie other treason I will not consent vnto Then was he mooued as concerning his traitorous and hainous offense to the quéenes most excellent maiestie Whereto he answered She is my lawfull princesse and quéene There somwhat he drew in his words to himselfe whereby was gathered that somwhat he would haue gladlie spoken but the great timiditie and vnstable opinion of his conscience wherein he was all the time euen to the death would not suffer him to vtter it Here is with iudgement a deepe point and high matter to be considered that this man alwaies directing the course of his life to a vaineglorious imagination and alwaies couetous to make himselfe famous at this instant made a perfect discouerie of himselfe For being somewhat learned all matters whatsoeuer as you haue heard before he bare awaie with a maiesticall countenance the visor of vanitie aptlie fitting the face of onelie hypocrisie what was sound he would make sophisticall what was the infallible truth of it selfe he would carrie in his owne conceipt and delude the people with a pleasant quirke or some such stuffe onlie to purchase him credit and affection And he was not to learne to set a coragious countenance on euerie such slight reason whereby he peruerted manie deceiued more and was thought such a champion as the pope neuer had the like But now behold the man whom neither racke nor rope should alter whose 〈◊〉 was such as he boasted inuincible feare had caught hold on this braue boaster and terror entred his thoughts whereby was discouered his impudent dissimulations Now let it with patience be mooued a little that the outward protestations of this man vrged some there present to teares not entring into conceipt of his inward hypocrisie to make a plausible definition of this perillous deceiuer not by coniecture but by proofe it shall be thus answered Edmund Campion as it is by men of sufficient credit reported at what time he spent his studie here in England both in the hospitall and also at the vniuersitie of Oxford was alwaies addicted to a maruellous suppose in himselfe of ripe iudgement prompt audacitie and cunning conueiance in his schoole points wherethrough he fell into a proud and vaineglorious iudgement practising to be eloquent in phrase and so fine in his quirks and fantasticall coniectures that the ignorant he woon by his smooth deuises some other affecting his pleasant imaginations he charmed with subtiltie and choked with sophistrie The learned who beheld his practises and peremptorie order of life pitieng his follie and wishing him a more staied determination lothed his maners yet loued the man bicause christian charitie willed them so to doo Now this glorious Thraso hauing by his libels made himselfe famous and vnder shew and suppose of great learning though indeed being approoued found verie simple to the speeches giuen of him subdued manie to affect him verie much when he was taken he knew it stood him vpon not to loose the credit openlie he had woone secretlie Wherefore in his former ridiculous maner both in prison at his arreignment yea and at his death he continued the same in all points which the foulnesse of his treasons blemished euerie waie Now indéed as our English nation is both louing and pitifull so manie seeing the gifts of God so well bestowed on the man and by him applied to so great abuse through naturall kindnesse bemoned his case wishing he had not fallen into so traitorous a cause Then was mooued to him againe his treasons and hainous offenses against the quéenes maiestie which impudentlie he still denied séeming to vtter words on the behalfe of one Richardson one likewise of the condemned traitors taking on his conscience that it was not be Which hath bin prooued to the contrarie for that it is knowne how this Richardson is he who distributed Campions libels and bookes abrode and when he was put to his oth whether it was he or no he refused to sweare on his behalfe And because the world might be fullie resolued that notwithsâ—anding all the pretended colourable meanes be could vse for his excuse and innocencie he was to suffer death deseruedlie as a traitor c. There was read to his face in the hearing of the assemblie a pamphlet published by authoritie as followeth An aduertisement and defense for truth against hir backebiters and speciallie against the whispering fauourers and colourers of Campâ—nâ— and the rest of his confederats line 10 treasons ALthough at the late arreignements at Westminster of Edmund Campion other his complices condemned there of sundrie high tresons it was manifestlie declared and fullie prooued how they all vnder pretense of the names of Iesuits seminarie priests other persons of like condition had secretlie come into this realme by sending of sundrie persons authorised line 20 by the pope to mooue the people by their secret persuasions to change their professions in the matter of religion of long time quietlie established in this realme and to be reconciled to the obedience of the pope and
the second neuerthelesse it came not to full perfection vntill the time of Philip the second In which perfection it was mainteined by Charls the last duke of Burgognie so long as he liued The said Philip the second to whom the line 30 honour of stablishing that state most peculiarlie belongeth was one of the most knightlie and valiant princes of his time He wan the victorie in nine foughten fields in most of the which he was put to the triall and hazard of his person by fighting with his owne hands He was a verie sage prince and such a one as had to deale with the greatest princes in christendome of whome some were his aduersaries and yet he behaued himselfe so wiselie that he atchiued all things to his honour whatsoeuer he tooke in hand Also he was verie rich insomuch that line 40 for all his warres which lasted aboue thirtie yeares he left behind him more substance and readie monie than anie other prince of his time as the writers of the histories of that age doo witnes vnto vs. And yet notwithstanding for all these great vertues qualities of his he was not named Philip the sage nor Philip the valiant nor Philip the rich but Philip the good So well doo all folke by generall consent vnderstand which is the vertue that best beséemeth and becommeth a great prince is best liked of his people line 50 namelie that a prince be good and louing to his subiects Surelie sir all men hope that your highnes will follow the example of that good prince the first bringer of the state of this countrie to perfection a right noble and renowmed prince of the house of France And we praise God for that as manie as haue had the honour to come into your highnes presence yeeld record that you haue verie great likelihoods of these vertues which we praie God so to accomplish and make perfect in you as all his people line 60 may to your great honor receiue the perfect and ripe fruits of them And this doo all the rest of the people desire as well as we Howbeit we haue a most humble sute to make peculiarlie to your highnes which we most humblie beséech you to grant The thing that induceth vs to doo it is that you beare the name of Francis For as of◠as we heare that name named the remembrance of that great king Francis your highnesse grandfather commeth to our mind He was a right valiant couragious noble and godlie prince and yet notwithstanding all the nations of the earth did by one common consent surname him the father of learning For of a truth since that emperour and great king of France called Charles the great there was neuer anie king of France that so highlie fauoured learning as this great king Francis And as the said king Charles was the founder of the famous vniuersitie of Paris so was king Francis the restorer therof againe and both of them to their great costs charges called men of excellent knowledge thither out of strange countries to teach the languages all kinds of arts sciences The house of this great king Francis was as an vniuersitie and his table was a place of conference concerning all maner of learning And like as other great princes of his time following his example inriched their dominions and kingdomes with learned men and learning so we most humblie beséech your highnes to follow the example of this great king your grandfather in dooing the like and to make singular account of learning and to take the professours thereof vnder your protection True it is sir that through the malice of men warre is commonlie the ouerthrower of learning But if a great prince set himselfe against the mischiefe he may easilie stop it Our desire is not that your highnesse should neglect the exercise of chiualrie for to giue your selfe to studie but to follow so the one as the other be not left off and forgotten For as we haue seene manie commonweales florish so long as they professed chiualrie and learning togither and yet haue fallen into the hands of their enimies euen in the chiefe flowre of their skill in sciences by reason of their discontinuing of their former trade of armes after which maner it fell to the Atheniens to come into subiection to the kings of Macedonie so the people which haue professed armes alone without learning haue alwaies become barbarous cruell and vtterlie destitute of all humanitie as we see at this daie by the Tartars and Moscouits And therefore to our séeming a man may well saie that chiualrie is the fundation and sinewes of a commonweale and that learning garnisheth and beautifieth the bodie thereof with liuelie and fresh colours seruing it for inrichments and ornaments In respect wherof as we meant not to desire your highnesse to forget those which make profession of chiualrie whome you ought to embrace as your strength so we most humblie beséech you to vouchsafe to succour learning and to mainteine learned men with your gratious fauour Sir verie néedfull causes mooue vs to make this humble petition to your highnesse for that we being professors of learning ought to haue learning in singular estimation and to procure if it be possible for vs that the frute of the things which we haue inioied for a time may be conueied to our posteritie and secondlie for the oths sake which we haue taken at the time of our procéeding in our degrées which is to mainteine and further the schooles and learning of the vniuersitie in what degrée soeuer we come vnto And therefore we hope that your highnesse will doo vs the honour to take this most humble request of ours in good part As touching our owne persons we promise your highnesse all obedience faithfulnesse and subiection and that according to our small abilitie we will doo our indeuor towards such as we may haue accesse vnto that they also may yeeld obedience to your highnesse and to the magistrates whome it shall please you to set ouer the people And here to make an end we hartilie praie God to preserue your highnes a long time in happie estate among this people and to giue you the grace to rule and gouerne them iustlie and vprightlie to rid them out of the hands of their enimies to mainteine them long in most happie peace and to restore this state againe to the ancient dignitie greatnesse renowme and felicitie that after your deceasse you maie leaue a most blessed and famous remembrance among all nations And for the bringing hereof to passe we yet againe beséech the king of kings and great prince of princes to make you as valiant as Dauid as wise as Salomon and as zelous of his glorie as Ezechias Herevnto the duke answered that he was verie glad to sée such a consent of all the people in the receiuing of him and that he hoped so to rule and gouerne line
Spanish ambassador with these papers as he hath confessed when he made him partaker of the rest of his traitorous practises deuises as you haue heard and thought his casket of treasons to be most safelie committed to his hands It may be thought that there is no man of so simple vnderstanding that will iudge to the contrarie vnlesse he be parciallie affected to excuse the treasons And now to shew vnto you what mind this man hath carried towards hir maiestie you are to be informed that Francis Throckemorton after he had discouered to hir maiestie his course of practising repenting himselfe of his plaine dealing in the bewraieng thereof said to some of the commissioners vpon occasion of speach I would I had béene hanged when I first opened my mouth to declare anie of the matters by me confessed And being at other times sent vnto by hir maiestie with offer of pardon if he would disclose the whole packe and complices of the treasons he vsed this argument to persuade hir maiestie that he had confessed all saieng that Sith he had alreadie brought himselfe by his confessions within the danger of the lawes to the vtter ruine of his house and familie he wondered why there should be anie conceit in hir maiestie that he had not declared all But to persuade such as were sent vnto him for these purposes the rather to beleeue that he could discouer no more at one time he vsed these speeches following with great vehemencie Now I haue disclosed the secrets of hir who was the déerest thing vnto me in the world meaning the Scotish quéene and whom I thought no torment should haue drawen line 10 me so much to haue preiudiced as I haue doone by my confessions I sée no cause why I should spare anie one if I could saie ought against him and sith I haue failed of my faith towards hir I care not if I were hanged And when he began first to confesse his treasons which he did most vnwillinglie after he was entered into the declaration of them before all the commissioners vpon aduisement he desired he might deliuer his knowledge but to one of them onelie wherevnto they yéelded And therevpon remoouing aside line 20 from the place where he sat by the racke he vsed this prouerbe in Italian Chi a perso la fede a perso l'honore that is He that hath falsed his faith hath lost his reputation meaning thereby as it may be conceiued that he had giuen his faith to be a traitor and not to reueale the treasons then he began to confesse as you haue heard By this discourse conteining the principall heads of his treasons and the proofes and circumstances of the same you that are not transported with vndutifull minds and affections will line 30 cléerelie perceiue how impudéntlie and vntrulie he denied at his arreignement the truth of his confessions charging hir maiestie with crueltie and hir ministers with vntruths in their proceeding against him But the cause that mooued him thereto was the vaine conceit he had taken that his case was cleere in law by the intermission of the time betweene his confession made and his arreignement grounding himselfe vpon a statute of the thirtéenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne in the which there are certeine treasons line 40 specified and made of that nature that no person shal be arreigned for anie of those offenses committed within anie of the quéenes maiesties dominions vnlesse the offendor be thereof indicted within six moneths next after the same offense committed and shall not be arreigned for the same vnlesse the offense be prooued by the testimonie and oth of two sufficient witnesses or his voluntarie confession without violence wherein he was greatlie deceiued For it was made manifest vnto him by the line 50 lord chiefe iustice and other of the iudges in commission at his triall that his treasons were punishable by a statute of 25. Edw. 3. which admitted no such limitation of time or proofe Herein his skill failed him and forgot the aduise giuen vnto him by some of the commissioners who pitieng his misfortune for sundrie good gifts of the mind appearing in him assured him that there was no waie so readie for him to redéeme his life as by submission and acknowleding of his offense which for a time after he had confessed line 60 his treasons he was contented to follow and now eftsoones after his condemnation by a new submission to the quéens maiestie the fourth of Iune had resumed that course The submission Verbatim written with his owne hand followeth To hir most excellent maiestie euen to hir owne roiall hands MOst excellent prince and my most gratious souereigne sith to me the most miserable of all your maiesties poore distressed subiects being iustlie condemned by the ordinarie and orderlie course of your maiesties laws there resteth no further meane of defense but submission vouchsafe most excellent prince gratiouslie to accept the same which prostrate in all humilitie I here present vnto the hands of your most excellent maiestie beseeching the same that as iustice hath beene deriued from your highnesse as from the founteine to the triall of mine actions so I may receiue from the same spring some drop of grace and mercie for the great grieuous offense wherof I rest by your maiesties lawes iustlie condemned some part I saie of that your accustomed gratious clemencie wherof most your distressed subiects haue tasted and few beene depriued And albeit the inconsiderate rashnesse of vnbridled youth hath withdrawen me from that loiall respect which nature dutie bound me to owe vnto your maiestie as to my lawfull naturall dread souereigne and that the naturall care in me of the defense of my life mooued me latelie to the vntrue vndutifull gainesaieng of some such points as had beene before by me in most humble sort confessed neuerthelesse I most humblie beseech your most excellent maiestie that in imitation of God whose image both in respect of the happie place you hold as also in regard of your singular wisdome and other the rare and singular vertues perfections wherwith God nature hath plentifullie indued you you represent vnto vs here in earth it may please your maiestie to commiserate the lamentable estate of me now the most miserable of all your maiesties subiects and gratiouslie to grant vnto me remission and forgiuenes that not onelie doo most humblie confesse my selfe worthie of death but also in shew of my repentance and sorowfull afflicted mind doo not craue at your maiesties hands the prolonging of my life if the same shall not stand with your gratious good plesure but rather desire the trebling of the torment iustlie by your maiesties lawes imposed vpon me if the same may be anie satisfaction to your maiestie for the heinous crime whereof I remaine by your maiesties lawes iustlie condemned or anie mitigation of your maiesties indignation worthilie conceiued against me that desire
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
protest hath beene my gréedie desire and hungrie will that of your consultation line 30 might haue fallen out some other meanes to worke my safetie ioined with your assurance than that for which you are become such earnest sutors as I protest I must néeds vse complaint though not of you but vnto you and of the cause for that I doo perceiue by your aduises praiers and desires there falleth out this accident that onelie my iniurers bane must be my lifes suertie But if anie there liue so wicked of nature to suppose that I prolonged this time onelie Pro forma line 40 to the intent to make a shew of clemencie thereby to set my praises to the wierdrawers to lengthen them the more they doo me so great a wrong as they can hardlie recompense Or if anie person there be that thinke or imagine that the least vaine-glorious thought hath drawne me further herein they doo me as open iniurie as euer was doone to anie liuing creature as he that is the maker of all thoughts knoweth best to be true Or if there be anie that thinke that the lords appointed in commission line 50 durst doo no other as fearing thereby to displease or else to be suspected to be of a contrarie opinion to my safetie they doo but heape vpon me iniurious conceipts For either those put in trust by me to supplie my place haue not performed their duties towards me or else they haue signified vnto you all that my desire was that euerie one should doo according to his conscience and in the course of his procéedings should inioie both fréedome of voice and libertie of opinion and what they would not openlie line 60 declare they might priuatlie to my selfe haue reuealed It was of a willing mind and great desire I had that some other meanes might be found out wherein I should haue taken more comfort than in anie other thing vnder the sun And sith now it is resolued that my suretie can not be established without a princesse end I haue iust cause to complaine that I who haue in my time pardoned so manie rebels winked at so manie treasons and either not produced them or altogither slipt them ouer with silence should now be forced to this procéeding against such a person I haue besides during my reigne séene and heard manie opprobrious books and pamphlets against me my realme and state accusing me to be a tyrant I thanke them for their almes I beleeue therein their meaning was to tell me news and news it is to me in déed I would it were as strange to heare of their impietie What will they not now saie when it shall be spread that for the safetie of hir life a maiden queene could be content to spill the bloud euen of hir owne kinswoman I maie therefore full well complaine that anie man should thinke me giuen to crueltie whereof I am so giltlesse and innocent as I should slander God if I should saie he gaue me so vile a mind yea I protest I am so far from it that for mine owne life I would not touch hir neither hath my care beene so much bent how to prolong mine as how to preserue both which I am right sorie is made so hard yea so impossible I am not so void of iudgement as not to sée mine owne perill nor yet so ignorant as not to know it were in nature a foolish course to cherish a swoord to cut mine owne throte nor so carelesse as not to weigh that my life dailie is in hazard but this I doo consider that manie a man would put his life in danger for the safegard of a king I doo not saie that so will I but I praie you thinke that I haue thought vpon it But sith so manie haue both written spoken against me I praie you giue me leaue to saie somewhat for my selfe before you returne to your countries let you know for what a one you haue passed so carefull thoughts Wherein as I thinke my selfe infinitlie beholding vnto you all that seeke to preserue my life by all the meanes you maie so I protest vnto you that there liueth no prince that euer shall be more mindfull to requite so good deserts And as I perceiue you haue kept your old woonts in a generall séeking of the lengthning of my daies so am I sure that I shall neuer requite it vnlesse I had as manie liues as you all but for euer I will acknowledge it while there is anie breath left me Although I maie not iustifie but maie iustlie condemne my sundrie faults and sinnes to God yet for my care in this gouernment let me acquaint you with my intents When first I tooke the scepter my title made me not forget the giuer and therefore began as it became me with such religion as both I was borne in bred in and I trust shall die in Although I was not so simple as not to know what danger and perill so great an alteration might procure me how manie great princes of the contrarie opinion would attempt all they might against me and generallie what enimitie I should breed vnto my selfe which all I regarded not knowing that he for whose sake I did it might and would defend me For which it is that euer since I haue béene so dangerouslie prosecuted as I rather maruell that I am than muse that I should not be if it were not Gods holie hand that continueth me beyond all other expectation Then entered I further into the schoole of experience bethinking what it fitted a king to doo and there I saw he scant was well furnished if either he lacked iustice temperance magnanimitie or iudgement As for the two latter I will not boast my sex dooth not permit it but for the two first this dare I saie amongst my subiects I neuer knew a difference of person where right was one nor neuer to my knowledge preferred for fauour whome I thought not fit for woorth nor bent my eares to credit a tale that first was told me nor was so rash to corrupt my iudgement with my censure before I heard the cause I will not saie but manie reports might fortune be brought me by such as might heare the case whose parcialitie might mar sometime the matter for we princes maie not heare all our selues But this dare I boldlie affirme my verdict went euer with the truth of my knowledge As full well wished Alcibiades his fréend that he should not giue anie answer till he had recited the letters of the alphabet so haue I not vsed ouer sudden resolutions in matters that haue touched me full neere you will saie that with me I thinke And therefore as touching your counsels and consultations I conceiue them to be wise honest line 10 and conscionable so prouident and carefull for the safetie of my life which I wish no longer than maie be for your good that though I neuer can yéeld you of recompense your due yet shall I indeuour
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.
euerie true subiect to be read with reuerence of the person No iot of their good will wanted if God did not as he dailie dooth preuent their purposes Campion nor his fellowes will grant to anie thing but raile and vse bold speeches whereby their guiltie consciences were discouered * M. A. Campion couereth their traitorous intenâ—s vnder the sauing of soules A holie kind of life were it not for the B Note here the perfect image of hypocrisie When manifest proofes of their treasons were laid before them they would in no wise granâ— their guiltinesse Consider euerie matter and then iudge how they concord and agreé togither A booke which they vse as their instruction how to answer to euerie question sophisticallie To doo their dutie is a weightie burden to their consciences and therefore they abide in their obstinacie and blindnesse Campion his owne answer as concerning his allegiance to hir maiestie The cause why this pope hath tolerated the former bull of Pius Quinius Our English doctors conferring with the cardinals found out the meane for this toleration An other booke how to handle all maner of persons to win them to their intent Campion sent for from Praga to go with other priests appointed for England The priests are there onelie mainteined for this purpose and none come from thense but about this cause which proueth them altogither giltie Campion granteth he came as the other priests did to reconcile shrine but he wil not allow that he came for anie treason Iames Bosgraue his hastie comming from Uilna wheÌ„ he heard that priests were appointed for England Campion frequenteth his accustomed order of subtil answering Traitors will neuer beleeue anie truth especiallie if it touch themselues Robert Iohnson his comming from Auinion in France Edward Rishtons letter to Richardson one of the condemned Campions letter to maister Pownd in the Tower Campion was resolute in the chiefe matter Sentence of death denounced against Campion and his confederats A verie holie thing but verie méet for his deuotion Execution of Campion Sherwin and Brian Campion in his confession implieth a defense of his innocencie Camâ—ion noted to be verie vainglorious Campion described A further description of Edmund Campion Campions curious care to keepe the credit he had woone in England The true occaâ—ion of Campions other of his stâ—mpe comming into England The euill practises of the Iesuits in Ireland The procéeding of iustice against Campion c defaâ—ned Campion and his comâ—lices offense was ranke treaâ—on The suâ— and driâ—t of pope Pius his sâ—ditious bull Much mischiefe preuented by the timelie attaching of Campion and his like How the traitors stood opinioned to the said factioâ—s bull c. Rafe Sherwins behauiour at his death Alexander Brians demenour at his death Ex libello quodam famoso * Alludit ad Angliam Abr. Fl. Ex concione apud crucem Paulinam per D. Sellar 6. Feb. 1586. Monsieur the duke of Aniou departeth out of England * Nempe Annae Henrici 8 vxâ—â— sereniss reginae Elisabethae genetrix The quéenes maiestie lodgeth at Rochester The quéenes maiestie accoÌ„panied the monsieur to Canturburie where they their traine parted The prince of Orange taketh order for the interteinment of the monsieur Nephue the monsieurs secretarie The lord of S. Aldegond the prince of Orange and the prince of Espinoie c Embracing of the knée The mounsier landeth Lustie discharging of guns on all sides The monsieur verie ioifullie receiued Antwerpe reioiseth at the monsieurs comming English lords and their retinues Thrée waies to Middleborough The monsieur is met going to Middleborough The deputies of the states of the earledome of Zeland The monsieur would doo as the companie did The earle of Leicester and other English lords Burning cressets on each side The monsieur Taiard recorder of Gant A solemne feast held in the townehall The monsieur goeth to see the towne of Ermwiden The monsieurs ships painted with his owne colours The fort of Lislo The monsieur prepareth to make his entrie into Antwerpe The finest shew that can be made what it is The triumphs of the Romans excelled all their other shewes Other shewes of the RomaÌ„s verie gallant A comparison betwéene the pleasures of the bodie and delights of the mind A questioÌ„ vndecided touching gallant and glorious â—hewes The respit that Antwerp had to prouide for this triumphanâ— shew Paris for multitude of people passeth Monsieur of Brabant his attire and habit The cause why this report was published in print The moÌ„sieur saileth toward Antwerpe The monsieur landeth at a village in Brabant A theater erected for the monsieur to shew himselfe vpon to the people Prince Dolphin the earle of Leicester c Kissing the monsieurs hand A chaire of estate Banners with the armes of Aniou The summe of monsieur de Hesseiles oration to the monsieur The states thankefulnes signified They acknowledged themselues indebted to thâ— monsieur The secretarie vnto the states falleth to the point of the matter The king of Spaines officers full of tyrannicall lordlines and villanie The cause why the states of Brabant made the monsieur their prince lord The states loialtie and fealtie signified by their secretarie The monsieurs answer to the foresaid oration The monsieurs promise euen to the shedding of his bloud The monsieur is content to sweare to the articles agréed vpon Two oths that the dukes of Brabant were accustomed to take The mantle and bonnet of the dutchie of Brabant The monsieur created duke of Brabant The states promise their fealtie and obedience An offer of the marquesship of the sacred empire made to the monsieur The magistrates of Antwerps thankfulnesse to the monsieur signified The souereigntie of what places the monsieur had vndertaken Antwerpe and the marquesship promiseth humble subiection The oth that the monsieur should take openlie read to the people A largesse cast among the standers by The monsieurs posie A shew of meÌ„ in armour The Frenchmen maruell at the monsieurs strange habiliments c. The order of the monsieurs entering into Antwerpe Lords of England and France well horssed The earle of Leicester on the right hand of prince Dolphin The companies of the guilds An inscriptioÌ„ congratulaâ—orie to the moÌ„sieur The chariot of the maiden of Antwerpe described 〈◊〉 Wâ—sedome Emblems of peace 〈◊〉 Discréet gouernement Attonement Faithfulnes Watchfulnes Union Defense Offense A canopie carried ouer the monsieurs â—ead The signification of the shâ—wâ—s concerning the K. of Spaine and the monsieur A statelie pageant important to the present purpose An oliphant bearing a castell of stone with soldioâ—s and artillerie A damsell representing Antwerpe holding a coffer of priuileges c. A triumphall arch diuerslie garnished Six ensignes with the ensigne of the youth vnder a greene standard A cunning deuise of a giant turning his head A whale carrieng Neptune what 〈◊〉 betokened An arch wholie applied to the monsieurs owne posie Cherisheth
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