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A03448	The firste [laste] volume of the chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande conteyning the description and chronicles of England, from the first inhabiting vnto the conquest : the description and chronicles of Scotland, from the first original of the Scottes nation till the yeare of our Lorde 1571 : the description and chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the first originall of that nation untill the yeare 1571 / faithfully gathered and set forth by Raphaell Holinshed.	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?	1577 (1577)	STC 13568B; ESTC S3985	4,747,313	2,664

y e one at the white Friers and the other at the blacke Friers The Kyng beeyng in hys lustie youthe and muche desirous to see the nobles and Gentlemen of hys Courte exercised in warlyke feates caused thys yeare dyuers iustes and Torneys to be enterprised and he himselfe for the most part made euer one amongst them acquiting himselfe so worthely that the beholders tooke passing pleasure to see hys valiaunte demeanoure in those martiall feates Vpon New yeares day thys yeare 1511 The birth of the first begotten sonne of K. Henry the eyght at Richmonde the Queene was deliuered of a Prince to the great gladnesse of the Realme for the honoure of whome fyers were made and dyuers vessels with wyne sette abroache for suche as woulde take thereof in dyuers streetes in London and generall Processions made therevpon to lande God Godfathers at the Christenyng were the Archebyshoppe of Caunterburye and the Earle of Surrey Godmother the Lady Katherine Countesse of Deuonshire daughter to Kyng Edwarde the fourth his name was Henry In the moneth of Februarye thys yeare Ambassadors from the king of Spayne for aid against the Moores came Ambassadors from the Kyng of Arragon and Castile to require an ayde of fifteene hundred archers to be sent to the same king hauing at that time warre agaynste the Moores enimies of the Christian faith The Kyng hearing theyr message gently graunted theyr request and bicause the Lord Thomas Darcy a Knighte of the garter made humble suite to the King to be generall of that true that shoulde bee thus sent into Spayne the Kyng vppon trust of his approued valiancie graunted his desire There were appoynted to goe with him the Lorde Anthony Grey brother to the Marques Dorset Henry Guilford Weston Browne and William Sidney Esquiers of the Kings house Sir Roberte Constable Sir Roger Hastings and sir Raufe Elderton w t diuers other gentlemen to be Captaynes The King aboute thys season was muche giuen to play at tenice and at the dice which appetite certayne craftie persons aboute hym perceyuing brought in Frenchmen and Lombards to make wagers with him and so hee lost muche money but when hee perceyued theyr crafte hee eschued their company and let them go●… An. reg 3. 〈◊〉 at Grene●… the king ●…g ●…e ●…ge●… On May daye the Kyng lying at Greenewiche rode to the wodde to fetch May and after on the same day and the two dayes nexte ensuing the King Sir Edwarde Howard Charles Brandon and Edwarde Neuill as chalengers held iustes against all commons On the other parte the Marques Dorset the Earles of Essex and Deuonshire with other as defendauntes ranne agaynste them so that many a sore stripe was giuen and manye a staffe broken On the third day the Queene made a greate banquet to the Kyng and to all them that had iusted and after the banquet done shee gaue the chiefe price to the Kyng the second to the Earle of Essex the thirde to the Earle of Deuonshire and the fourth to the Lord Marques Dorset On the fifteenth daye of the same moneth was another iustes begonne by the Kyng on the one partie and the Earle of Esser on the other Many that feared least some euill chance might happen to the King wished that hee shoulde rather haue beene a looker on than a doer and thereof spake as much as they durst but his courage was so noble that hee woulde euer be at the one ende The Lorde ●…y In this meane time the Lord Darcy and other appoynted to the viage agaynst the Mores made suche diligence that they and al theyr people were ready at Plymmouth by the middes of May and there mustered theyr souldyers before the Lord Brooke and other the Kings commissioners The Lord Darcy as Captayne general ordeyned for his prouost Marshall Henry Guylford Esquier a lusty yong man and welbeloued of the King On the Monday in the Rogation weeke they departed out of Plimmouth Hauen with foure shippes royall and the winde was so fauourable to them that the first day of Iune being the euen of the feast of Pent●…cost he deriued at the port of Cales in South Spayne and immediately by the aduice of his counsaile hee dispatched messengers to the Kyng whome they founde besyde the Citie of Ciuil where hee then lay and declared to him how the Lord Da●…ye by the King theyr maisters oppoyntmente was come thither with sixteene hundred archers and lay still at C●…es to know his pleasure The Kyng of Castile aunswered them gentlie that the Lorde Darcie and all other that were come from hys louyng sonne were welcome and hartily thanked them of theyr pa●… requiring the messengers to returne to their captaine and tell him that in all hast he would send certaine of hys counsell to him And so vpon Saterday the eyght of Iune a Byshop and other of the Kings counsell came 〈◊〉 Cales and there abode till Wednesday beeing the euen of Corpus Christt at which day the Lord Capitayne tooke lande and was honorably receiued of the King of Aragons counsell and on the morrow was highly feasted at dinner and supper And at after sapper the Byshop declared the Kyng hys maisters pleasure giuing to the Lord Captayne as hartie thankes for hys paynes and trauell as if hee hadde gone forward with his enterprise against the Moores but whereas by the aduice of his counsell circumspeltly considering the suretie of his owne realme vpon perfect knowledge hadde that the Frenchmen meant to inuade hys dominions in his absence he had altered his former determinatiō taken an abstinence of war with the Mores till an other time He therefore required the Lorde Darcy to be contented to returne home againe promising him wages for all hys souldyers and if it should please hym to come to the Court he should receyue high th●… of the Kyng and suche cheere at there could●… made him The Lord Darcy was nothing pleased wyth thys declaration but sith hee sawe there was no remedie he sayd that whatsoeuer the Kyng had concluded he could not bee againste it considering hee was sente to him but surely it was against his mind to depart home without doing any thyng agaynst Gods enimies with whome he had euer a desire to fight And as for his comming to the Court hee saide he coulde not leaue his men whome hee hadde broughte out of theyr Countrey without an head and as for y e kings banquette it was not the thing that hee desired On the nexte daye 〈◊〉 the morning money was sent to pay the Souldiers their wages for their conduction againe into England with dyuers gifts giuen to the Lorde Darcy and other Gentlemen yet notwithstanding he was hyghly displeased howbeit like a wise man hee dissimuled the matter A shrewde fray begun vpon a small sioccaon The same day being the fourtenth daye of Iune and Friday there chanced a fray to be begunne in the towne of Cales betwixt the Englishmen and them of the towne

the tenor wherof ensueth RIght excellent right high mightie prince The tenor of the king of Scottes letter our dearest brother and cousin we cōmaund vs vnto you in our maist hartie maner receiued fra Raf●… heraulde your letters quharvntil ye approue and allow the doings of your cōmissioners lately being with ours at the borders of bathe the realmes for making of redresse quhilk is thought to you and your counsel should be continuet delact to the .xv. day of October Al 's ye write staars by see aught not compere personally but by their attourneys in your letters with our herauld Ilay ye ascertaine vs ye will naught enter in the treux taken betwixt the maist christian king and your father of Aragon bycause ye others of the hale liege nether should nor may take peace treux nor abstinence of warre with your cōmon enimy without consent of all the confederates And that the Emperor King of Aragon yea and euery of you be bounden to make actuall warre this instāt sommer against your cōmon enimy And that so to do is cōcluded openly sworne in Paules kyrk at London vpō S. Markes day last by past And farther haue denied safeconduit vpō our requests y t a seruitor of ours might haue resorted to your presence as our herauld Ilay reports Right excellēt right high mightie prince our deerest brother cousin the sayd meeting of our your commissioners at the borders was peremptorily appointed betwixt you vs after diuerse dietes for reformation before continued to the cōmissioners meeting to effect that due redresse should haue bin made at the saide meeting like as for our part our cōmissioners offred to haue made that time And for your part no malefactor was then arrested to the said diet to glose the same ye now write y e staars by see need not compere personally but by their attourneis quhilk is again law of god mā And get in criminal action al staars shuld naught compere personally na punition suld follow for slaughter then vane it were to seke farther meetings or redresse And hereby apperes as the deed shewes y t ye wil nouther keep gud ways of iustice equitie nor kindnes with vs the great wrongs vnkindnes done before to vs our leiges we pōderat quhilk we haue suffred this long time in vpbering mainswering noundressing of attemptates so as the bil of the taken of inhalding of bastard Herō with his cōplices in your contry quha fiue our wardan vnder trust of dayes of meeting for iustice therof was filat ordeynt to be deliuered inslaing of our liege noble mē vnder color by your folks in taking of vthers out of our realm prisonet chanet by the erags in your cuntry w thalding of our wines legacie promist in your diuers letters for despite of vs slaughter of Androw Barton by your awn commaund quha than had naught offēded to you nor your lieges vnredrest and breaking of the amitie in that behalf by your deed and with halding of our ships and artillarie to your vse quharvpon eft our diuers requisitions at your Wardens Cōmissioners Ambassadors and your selfe ye wrate and al 's shewe by vthers vnto vs that full redresse suld be made at the said meeting of Commissioners and sa were in hope of reformation or at the lest ye for our sake wald haue desisted fra inuasion of our friendes and cousings within theyr awne Countreys that haue naught offended at you as we first requyred you in fauour of our tender cousing the Duke of Gelder quham to destroy and disinherite ye sent your folkes and dud that was in them And right sawe lately desired for our brother and cousin the maist christen king of France quham ye haue caused to tine his Countre of Millaigne and now inuades his self quha is with vs in second degree of blude and hase bene vnto you kind without offence and more kindar than to vs notwithstanding in defense of his person we mon take part and thereto ye bycause of vthers haue geuen occasion to vs to our lieges in tyme bypast nouther doing iustly nor kyndely towardes vs proceeding alwayes to the vtter destruction of our neerest frends quha mon do for vs quhā it shall be necessarie In euill example that ye will hereafter be better vnto vs quhā ye lightly fauor manifestly wranged your sister for our sake incōtrary our writtes And saying vnto our herauld y t we giue you faire wordes and think the contrary in deed such it is we gaue you wordes as ye dudde vs trusting that ye suld haue emended to vs or worthin kynder to our frends for our sakes suld naughtight haue stopped our seruitors passage to labour peax that they might as y e Papes halines exhorted vs by his breuites to do And thervpon we were contented to haue ouersene our harmes to haue remitted the same though vther information was made to our haly father Pape Iuly by the Cardinal of York your Ambassador sen you haue now put vs fra our gude beleue through the premisses specially in denying of safe conduit to oure seruants to resort to your presēce as your ambassador Doctor West instantly desired we suld sende one of our counsel vnto you vpō great matters appointing of differences debatable betwixt you vs furthering of peax if we might betwixt y e most christen king you we neuer hard to this purpose safe conduit denied betwixt infidels Herefore we write to you this time at lēgth plaines of our minde y t we require and desire you to desist fra farther inuasiō vtter destruction of our brother cousin y e maist christen king to quhā by al confederation blude alie and also by new band quhilk you haue compelled vs lately to take through your iniuries and harmes without remedie done dayly vnto vs our lieges subiects we are boūden oblist for mutual defence ylk of vthers like as ye your confederates be oblist for mutual inuasiōs actual war Certifying you we wil take part in defence of our brother cousin the moist christen king and will do what thing we truyst may cause you to desist fra pursute of him for deuit postponit iustice to our lieges we mon giue litters of marque according to the amitie betwixte you and vs quharto ye haue had little regard in time by past as we haue ordaint our Herauld the bearer hereof to say gif it like you to here him and gif him credence right excellent right highe and mightie prince our deerest brother cousin The Trinitie haue you in keeping Geuen vnder our signet at Edenbourgh the .xxvj. day of Iuly King Henry hauing read the letter The Heralde is sent for considered therof with aduice of his counsel sent for y e herald again and told him that he had read and wel perceiued the contents of the letters which he had

lord Admirall in chase of the Bark●… of Scotlande called Ienny Pi●…wyn which was woute to sayle with the Lyon in companie so much did he with other that he layd him a h●…de and though the Scots manfully defended themselues you at length y e english men entred the Barke slew many and tooke all the residue Thus were these two shippes taken and brought to Blackewall the seconde of August The Scottes that were taken prisoners wer pardoned of their liues and sent home into their Countrey The King of Scottes hearing of the death of Andrew Barton and the taking of his two shippes was wonderfully wroth and sente letters to the King requiring resti●…tion according to the league amitie The K. wrote to the K. of Scots againe with brotherly salutation of the robberies done by y e sayd Andrew and that it became not a Prince to lay breache of peace to his confederate for doing iustice vpon a Pirate and theefe and that all the Scots that were taken had deserued to die by iustice if hee had not extended his mercy And with this aunswere King Henry the eyght taketh the popes part against the french K. the Scottish Herrault departed About this season the Frenche K. made sharp warre against Pope Iuly wherefore the K. of England wrote to the french K. that he should leaue off to vexe the Pope in suche wise being his friend and confederate but when the French K. seemed litle to regarde that request the king sent him worde to deliuer him his lawfull inheritance both of the duchie of Normandy and Guyenne the countries of Aniou Mayne and also of his crown of France or else he woulde come with suche a power that by fine force he wold obteyne his purpose but notwithstanding those writings the French King still pursued his warres in Italye Whervpon the K. of Englād ioyning in league with Maximilian the Emperor Ferdinando king of Spain and with diuers other princes resolued by the aduise of counsel to make warre on the French king his countreyes and made preparation both by sea and land setting forth ships to the sea for safegard of his merchants 1512 This yeare the king kepte his Christmasse at Grenewich with great and plentiful cheere also with triumphant pastimes as maskings dauncings A Parliament and suche lyke The .xv. day of Ianuarie began the Parliament wher the bishop of Canterbury began his oration with this verse Iustitia pax osculatae sunt vppon whiche hee declared how iustice should be ministred peace should be nourished by what meanes Iustice was put by and peace turned into warre And therevpon he shewed how the French K. wold do no iustice in restoring to the king his righte inheritaunce wherefore for lacke of Iustice Peace of necessitie must be turned into warre In this Parliament was graunted two fifteenes of the temporaltie of the Cleargie two dismes After that it was concluded by the whole body of the realme in the high court of Parliament assembled that warre shuld be made on the French K. his dominiōs whervpon was wonderful spede made in preparing all thinges necessarie bothe for Sea and lande The K. of Aragon also hauyng of that tyme warre with the Frenche king wrote to his son in law king Henry that if he wold send ouer an armie into Bis●…ay and so to inuade Frāce on that side for y e recouerie first of his durhie of Guy●…e he would ayde them with ordinaunce horsemen beastes cariages with other necessaries appertaining to the same The king and his counsell putting their affiance in this promise of ●… Ferdinando prepared a noble armie all of footemen and small artillerie appoyntyng the noble Lord Thomas Greye Marqu●… Dorset to bee chiefe conductour of the same The kyng dayly studying to set forth his war which he had begon against the French K. caused Sir Edmund Haward his Admirall An. reg 4. wyth diligence to make readie diuers goodly tall ships as the Souerain other to the number of xvlij beside other smaller vessels and therwith hauing in his companie sir Weston Browne Griffyth Doune Edwarde Cobham Thomas Windham Thomas Lucy William Perton Henry Shirchourne Stephen Bull George W●…itwange Iohn Hopton William Gunstō Thomas Draper Edmonde Cooke Iohn Burder and diuers other he tooke the Sea and scowring the same about the middes of May he came before Portesmouth About the very selfe time the Lord Marques Dorset and other noble men apointed for the iorney of Biskey as the Lorde Hawarde son and heire to the Earle of Surrey the Lorde Brooke the Lord Willoughby the lord Ferrers the lord Iohn the lord Anthony and the lorde Leonarde Grey all three brethren to the Marques Syr Griffeth ap Rise Syr Morris Barkely sir William Sandes the Baron of Burforde sir Richarde Cornewall brother to the said Baron William Husey Iohn Meltō William Kingston esquiers sir Henry Willoughby and diuers other with Souldiors to the number of .x. M. amongst the which were fiue C. Almaynes clad all in white vnder the leading of one Guiot a Gentleman of Flaunders came to Southampton and there ●…red their bandes whyche were appoynted and trimmed in the best maner The sixtenth daye of May they were al bestowed aboued in Spanish shippes furnished with victual other necessaries for that iourney The winde serued 〈◊〉 well for their purpose y e they came all in safety on the coaste of Bisky at the Port of Passag●… Southwest of Fonteraby and so the third day of Iune they landed tooke the fielde embattailing themselues for their safegarde righte strongly Within three days after that the army was thus a land there came to the Marques an erle and an other noble man to welcome him and his companie Then the Lord captain remoued his field and took an other place nerer to Fonterabye where he lay a long tyme looking euery day to haue ayde of horsemen and artillerie of the King of Arragon but none came Syr Iohn Style caused to bee boughte two hundred Mulettes and Asses of suche price as the Spanyardes gained greately and when they were put to cary and drawe The englishe ●…pe greatly ●…dered for 〈◊〉 of beasts 〈◊〉 their ●…ce they woulde not serue the turn for they were not exercised therto before that tyme and so for want of beasts to drawe such ordinance as the Englishemen had there with thē they lost the doing of some greate exployte against the Frenchmen on the frontiers of Gascoygne for they mighte haue runne a great waye into that countrey being as then destitute and vnpurueyed of men and munitions One day the Frenchmen made a skrye toward the Englishe campe but the Englishmen perceyuing them passed the riuer that was betwixt them and with Arrowes chased the Frenchmen so that for haste many of theyr horsses foundered and fell ere they came to Bayonne If there had bene any horsemenne amongst the Englishmen they hadde sore endomaged their