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A02638	The chronicle of Ihon Hardyng in metre, fro[m] the first begynnyng of Engla[n]de, vnto ye reigne of Edwarde ye fourth where he made an end of his chronicle. And from yt time is added with a co[n]tinuacion of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first emprinted, gathered out of diuerse and sondrie autours of moste certain knowelage [et] substanciall credit, yt either in latin orels in our mother toungue haue writen of ye affaires of Englande.	Hardyng, John, 1378-1465?; Grafton, Richard, d. 1572?	1543 (1543)	STC 12766.7; ESTC S103772	402,679	836

in mat●ers of Scotland could better skill Nor which their falshoode and vntrueth to note Had more affection or better wyll Or better knew water woodde toune vale hyll Or was more feruente the Scottes to persue Who to England he knew woulde neuer be true ¶ Neyther anye Chronicler that euer was Eyther dooth or can more largly declare Euen from Brutus howe it came to passe That kynges of Englande the soueraines are And ouer Scotlande oughte rule to beare Hymselfe is wytnes of their subiection And homage vnder Englandes protection ¶ In other thinges the tymes were suche That though this werke haue some spice of blindnesse Yet is the authour not to be blamed much For Popyshe errour that season doubtlesse Did all the worlde ouer go and oppresse Therfore such thinges we must in good part take And pardon that faulte for the tymes sake ¶ Yet haue we thought best the autour to set out Euen in suche fourme as hymselfe dyd endite It wer an vnquod thyng yf we should go about To alter and chaunge that olde men haue wryte Secondly to vs it maye bee greate delyte The blindnesse of those tymes to consider From whiche hathe pleased God vs to delyuer ¶ Fynally the darkenesse of those dayes to see To the honoure of our kyng dooeth redound To whom by goddes helpe geuen it hath bee All Popyshe trumperye for to confounde Which thyng al trew English hertes hath boūd Incessauntly to praye for kyng Henrye the eyghte Whose godly wisedome hath made all streyghte And for asmuch as Hardyng his boke doth ende With Edward the fourth whose seruaūt he was And to whome also this booke he dyd commende Consideryng also the tyme and space Beyng .lx. yeres and more I coulde not let passe So many goodly statutes and decrees Battayles and stories not good to lese Wherfore I annexed theim by continuacion Begynning wyth Edwarde the fourth of that name Then Edward the fyfth kyng by generation Whom Richard the third to his immortal shame Cruelly murdered the story sayeth the same But plaged he was to hys greate greuaunce With a shamefull death as Goddes vengeaunce Then Henry the .vii. nexte doothe ensue Father vnto our moost dred soueraigne lorde And of Henry the. viii some thyng that is true I haue here set forth as wryters dooe accorde Not in metre but obseruyng worde for worde Myne authours that wrote it all in prose Reportyng the truth without fraude or glose ¶ Now right gentle reader thy parte shal be My good wyll and zele my payne and labour To entreprete and take in good parte and gre Geuing to the same suche good wordes of fauour As may enforce me with all myne endeuour The settyng forth of mo werkes to take in hande To thy solace and honour of Englande ¶ The Proheme of Iohn Hardynge into this his chronycle THe moste substance of power and of myght Through age distilled into debilitee Of me that am this time an aged wight And greate faute haue of habilitee This labour now shuld haue wthold fro me But that my witte would haue some diligence My ghoost to kepe from synne and insolence ¶ This werke is great and lōge to bryng to fyne So doeth it euer fro tyme to tyme encrease And long hath dooen afore Christ dyd enclyne In Marie mother and mayden without lease To chronicle so men haue theim put in prease Some in meetre and some also in prose Some in Latyn full wysely dyd it close ¶ And some in Frenche they made for intellecte Of men that could no Latyn vnderstande More sufficiently endited and protecte By ferre then I can it nowe take in hande And some in lynes two theyr ryme ay bande But though my witte be not so curious As theirs by ferre to make it glorious ¶ Yet wyll I vse the symple witte I haue To your pleasaunce and consolacion Moste noble lorde and prince so God me saue That in chronycles hath delectacion Though it be farre aboue myne estimacion Into balade I wyll it nowe translate Ryght in this forme with all myne estymate My lorde of Yorke vnto your sapience I wyll remember a notabilyte Of your elders rule and regymence That had this lande of olde prioryte Which ruled were after their dignitee In vertue digne by roiall gouernaunce And in vyce rulyd and misgouernaunce By whiche knowledge your discrete sapience All vyce euermore destroye maye and reproue By vertuous and blessedfull dilygence And vertue loue that maye not ought greue Howe ye shall rule your subiectes while ye lyue In lawe and peace and all tranquyllite Whiche been the floures of all regalyte ¶ Edward the thyrde that was king of this land By ryght title and very iuste discent And kyng of Fraunce as I can vnderstande By his mother quene Isabell the gent Sister and heyre of Charles by hole entent For Charles dyed without any chylde The ryght discent vnto his mother mylde Why shulde that French forbarre you of your right Sith God of heauen in libro numeri Gaue to Moises this lawe that nowe is lyght In the chapiter seuen and twenty By these wordes the doughter ryghtfully Of Salphaat aske the fathers heritage Geue them in possessyon amonge the cosynage ¶ This kyng Edward reignyng in his dayes In mercyall actes tryumphe and victorie Aboue all princes famed was alwayes Fyue sonnes had the worlde out to crye Ther wer no mo suche of one patry monye Edwarde the prince and eldest sonne of age Who gat Richarde that had the heritage ¶ Leonell next borne after in Antwerpe In Brabant lande that wedded vnto his wyfe The erles doughter of Vlster as men do karpe And begatte on her Philip his doughter ryue And also his heire whome he loued as his lyue Whome erle Emonde of Marche the Mortimer Wedded to his wyfe and begatte the erle Roger. Edwarde the thyrd had fyue sonnes Edwarde prince Leonell Iohn duke of Lancastre Edmounde duke of Yorke Thomas of Woodstocke duke of Gloucester ¶ That erle was after of Marche of Vlster With wylde Irishe that slayne wer in Irelande Who had a sonne erle Emonde Mortymer That dyed without yssue I vnderstande To whom dame Anne his syster vnto his land Was veraye heyre whō the erle of Cābridge wed And gatte of her your selfe as I haue red ¶ Why should ye not then be her veraye heyre Of all her lande and eke of all her right Sith Iesu Christe of Iude lande so feire By veray meane of his mother Mary bryght To be kyng claymed tytle and right And so dyd name hym selfe kyng of Iewes So by your mother the right to you acrewes ¶ After Lyonell that was duke of Clarence And of Vlster the erle was by his wyfe And of Italie for his greate excellence Kyng should haue been without any stryfe Of all Europe without comparatyfe The royall lande and to his espousaile The dukes doughter of Melayn without faile ¶ Iohn borne in Gaunt of Flaūders chief cytee The thyrde

any manne saye and I doubte not also but there bee some abrode so deedly enemies vnto my bloodde that yf they wiste where any of it laye in theyr owne body they woulde lette it oute we haue also experience that the desyre of a kingdome knoweth no kynred the brother hath bene the brothers bane and may the nephewes bee sure of the vncle eache of these children are others defence whyle they bee a sunder and eache of their liues lyeth in others body kepe one salfe and bothe bee sure and nothing to bothe more perylous then bothe to bee in one place for a wise marchaunt neuer auentureth all his good des in one shyp all this notwithstanding here I deliuer hym his brother in hym to kepe to your handes of whome I shall aske theim bothe before God and the worlde Feithfull you bee and that I wot well and I knowe you be wyse and of power and strength if you list to kepe hym for you lacke no helpe of your selues nor nede to lacke no helpe in this case yf you cannot elles where then may you leaue hym here But onely one thing I besech you for the trust that his father putte you in euer and for the truste that I put you in nowe that as farre as you thincke that I feare to muche ye bee well ware that you feare not to lytle And therwith all she saied to that childe fare well myne owne swete soonne God sende you good kepyng let me once kysse you or you gooe for God knoweth whē we shall kisse together againe therwith she kyssed hym and blessed hym and tourned her backe wepte gooing her waye leauyng the poore innocent chylde wepyng as faste as the mother When the Cardinall and the other lordes had receaued the younge duke they brought hym into the starre chaumbre where that protectoure tooke hym in his armes and kyssed hym with these wordes nowe welcome my lorde with all my very hert and he saied in that of likelihode euen as he inwardly thought and therupon forthwith brought him to the king his brother into the bishoppes palaice at Powles and from thence thorowe the citee honourably into the towre oute of whiche after that daye they neuer came abrode Whenne the Protectoure had bothe the chyldren in his possessyon yee and that they were in a sure place he then beganne to thryste to see the ende of his enterprise and to auoyde all suspicion he caused all the Lordes whiche he knewe to bee feythfull to the kyng to assemble at Baynardes castell to cōmen of the ordre of the coronacyon whyle he and other of his complyces and of his affinitee at Erosbyes place contriued the contrary to make the Protectours kyng to whiche counsel there were adhibite very fewe and they very secrete Then beganne here there some maner of muttering amongest the people as though all thing should not longe bee well though they wyste not what they feared nor wherfore were it that before suche great thinges mennes hertes of a secrete instyncte of nature misgeueth theim as that southwinde somtime swelleth of hym selfe before a tempeste or were it that some one manne happely perceauing fylled many men with suspicyon thoughe he shewed fewe menne what he knewe howbeit the dealing it selfe made to muche on the matter thoughe the counsayle were close for lytle and lytle all folke drewe from the towre where the kyng was and drewe to Cros byes place so that the Protectoure had all the resorte and the kyng in maner desolate while some made suyte vnto theim that had the doyng some of theim were by theyr frendes secetely warned that it myghte happely tourne theim to no good to bee to muche attendaunte on the Kyng withoute the Protectoures apoyntmente whiche remoued dyuerse of the kynges olde seruauntes frō hym and set newe in theyr romes aboute hym Thus many thinges comming together partly by chaunce and partely by purpose caused at length not cōmon people onely whiche wauer with the winde but wise menne also and some Lordes to marke the matter muse therupon in so much as the lorde Stanley whiche afterward was erle of Derby wisely mistrusted it and saied to that lorde Hastinges that he muche misiyked these two seueral coūselles for while we ꝙ he talke of one matter at that one place lytle wot we wherof they talke in the other place Well ꝙ the Lorde Hastynges on my lyfe neuer doubte you for whyle one man is there whiche is neuer thence neither can there bee any thing once mynded that shoulde sounde amisse towarde me but it shoulde bee in mine eares or it were well oute of their mouthes This ment he by Catesby whiche was nere of his secret councell and whome he familyerly vsed in his moost weightye matters putting no manne in so speciall trust as hym sith he wiste well there was no manne to hym so muche beholdyng as was this Catesbye whiche was a manne well learned in the lawes of this lande and by the speciall fauoure of the lorde Hastynges in good authorytee and muche rule bare in the countrees of Leicestre and Northampton where that lorde Hastinges power laye But surely greate pitie was it that he had not had either more trueth or lesse wit for his dissimulacyon onely kepte all that myschiefe vp in whome yf the lorde Hastinges had not put so special trust that lord Stanley and he with diuers other lordes had departed into their coūtrees broken al the daunce for many euel signes that he sawe which he now construed al for the best so surely thought he that there coulde be no harme towarde hym in that counsayle entended where Catesbye was And of truth the protectour and the duke of Buckyngham made very good sembleaunce vnto the lorde Hastynges and kepte hym muche in they re compaignie And vndoubtedlie the protectour loued hym well and lothe was to haue loste hym sauynge for feare least hys lyfe shoulde haue quayled theyr purpose for the whyche cause he moued Catesby to proue wyth some wordes caste oute a farre of whether he coulde thyncke it possible to wynne the lorde Hastynges to theyr part But Catesby whether he assayed hym or assayed hym not reported vnto hym that he founde him so fast and heard him speake so terrible wordes that he durst no farther breake and of a truth the lorde Hastinges of very truste shewed vnto Catesby the mystrust that other began to haue in the matter And therfor he fearyng least theyr mocyons myght with the lorde Hastynges haue mynished his credence wherunto only al the matter leaned procured the protectour hastly to ryd hym muche the rather for he trusted by hys death to obtayne much of that rule whyche the lorde Hastynges bare in hys coūtree the onelye desyre whereof was the thynge that enduced hym to be procurer one of the speciallest contriuers of al thys treason Wherupon the lorde protectoure caused a counsayle to be set at the towre on the frydaye

widowe hath already children By goddes blessed ladye I am a bacheler haue some too so eche of vs hath a proofe that nether of vs is like to be barren And therfore madame I praie you bee cōtēt I trust to God she shall bryng foorth a yoūge prince that shall please you And as for the bigamy let the bisshop hardely laie it to my charge whē I come to take ordres for I vnderstād it is forbiddē a preest but I neuer wist that it was forbidden a prince The duches with these woordes nothing apeased seyng that kyng so set on that she could not plucke hym backe so highly she disdeined it that vnder pretext of her dutye to Godwarde she deuised to dysturbe this maryage and rather to helpe that he should mary one dame Elizabeth Lucye whom the kyng not long before had gotten with chylde wherfore the kyng his mother obiected openlye against this maryage as it were in dyscharge of her conscyence that the kyng was sure to dame Elizabeth Lucye and her housbande before God by reason of whiche woordes suche obstacle was made in that matter that either the bysshoppe durste not or the kyng woulde not proceade to the solempnisacion of the mariage till this fame were clerly purged and the truth well and openly testified wherupon dame Elizabeth Lucye was sent for and albeit she was by the kynges mother and many other put in good comforte to affirme that she was assured to the kyng yet when she was solemply sworne to saie the truthe she confessed that thei were neuer ensured Howbeit she said his grace spake suche louyng woordes to her that she verely hoped that he would haue maryed her and that if suche kynde woordes had not been she would neuer haue shewed suche kyndenesse to hym to let hym so kyndely to gette her with childe This examynacion solemply taken it was clerely proued that there was no impedyment to lette the kyng to marye wherfore he shortlye after at Grafton beside Stonye stratforde maryed the ladye Elizabeth Grey verey priuelye whiche was his enemyes wife and had prayed hartely for his losse in the whiche God loued her better then to graunte her bone for then had she not been his wife And alter that she was crouned quene and her father was created Erle Riuers and her soonne created Marques Dorset But when the Erle of 〈…〉 arwike vnderstoode of this maryage he tooke it so highly that therof ensued muche trouble and 〈…〉 ate blooddshed as is declared before in the storye of Edward the fourth I haue rehersed this mariage somewhat the 〈…〉 at length because it might therby the better 〈…〉 vpon howe fleight aground the protectoure 〈…〉 coloure by whiche he pretended kyng 〈…〉 ldren to bee bastardes but the in 〈…〉 le as it was lyked theim to whom it suffyseth to haue somwhat to saye whyle they were sure to bee compelled to no larger proffe then theim selues lyst to make Nowe to retourne where I lefte as I beganne to shewe you it was by the protectoure his councell concluded that this doctour Shaa shoulde in a sermond at Paules crosse signifie to the people that neyther kyng Edward hym selfe ner the duke of Clarence were lawfullye begotten nor were the very children of the duke of Yorke but begotten vnlawfullye by other personnes by aduoutrye of the duches theyr mother And dame Elizabeth Lucye was the very wyfe of kyng Edwarde so prynce Edward all the chyldren begotten on the quene were bastardes And accordyng to this deuyce doctor Shaa the sōday after at Paules crosse in a greate audience as alwaye a greate nombre assembled to his preachyng came into the pulpet takyng for his Theme Spuria Vitulamina non dabunt radices altos Sapiencie quarto that is to saye Bastarde slyppes shall neuer take depe rootes whereupon when he had shewed the great grace that God geueth and secretlye infoundeth in right generacion after the lawes of matrymony Then declared he that those chyldren commenlye lacked that grace and for the punyshement of their parentes were for the moste parte vnhappye whiche were gotten in baste and speciallye in aduoutrye of whiche thoughe some by the ignorauncye of the worlde and the truthe hid from knowledge haue enheryted for a season other mennes landes yet God alwaye so prouydeth that it contynueth not in their bloodde longe but the truthe commyng to lyght the rightfull enheritoures be restored and the bastard slyppes plucked vp or it can bee rooted depe And when he had layd for the proofe and confirmacion of this sentence examples taken out of the olde testamente and other auncient historyes then beganne he to discende to the prayse of lorde Richarde duke of Yorke callyng hym father of the protectoure and declared his tytle to the croune by inherytaunce and also by an entayle autorysed by parliament after the death of kyng Henry the syxte Then shewed he that the lorde protectoure was onlye the right heire of his body lawfullye begotten then declared he that kynge Edward was neuer lawfully maryed to the quene but his wife before God was dame Elizabeth Lucye and so his chyldren were bastardes And besydes that that neyther kyng Edwarde hym selfe nor the duke of Clarence amongest theim that wer secrete in the duke of Yorkes houshold were neuer reconed surelye to bee the chyldren of the noble duke as those that by their fauoures more resembled other knowen menne then hym from whose verteous condicions he sayde also that kyng Edwarde was farre of But the lorde pretectoure ꝙ he that veray noble prince the specyall patrone of knightly prowes aswell in all princely behaueour as in the lyniamentes and fauoure of his vysage representeth the veraye face of the noble duke his father This is ꝙ he the fathers owne fygure this is his owne countenaunce that very print of his vysage the sure vndoubted ymage that playn expresse likenesse of that nobble duke Now was it before deuysed that in the speakyng of these wordes the protectour shuld haue come in amongest the people to the sermond ward to th ende that these woordes so metyng with his presence might haue bene taken amongest the herers as though the holye ghoste had put theim in the preachers mouthe shoulde haue moued the people euen there to haue cryed kyng Richard that it might haue bene after sayde that he was specially chosen by God and in maner by myracle but this deuyce quayled eyther by the protectoures neglygence or the preachers ouer hasty dilygence For whyle the protectoure founde by the waye tariynge leaste he shoulde haue preuented these woordes the doctoure fearynge that he shoulde come or his sermon coulde come to those wordes hastyng his matter thereto he was come to theim paste theim and entred into other matters or the protectoure came whome when he behelde cōmyng he sodenly left the matter whiche he had in hande and without any deduccion therunto out of al ordre and out of all frame beganne to