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A68202	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178	4,305,113	1,536

out in gold with his word or posie and all his men in russet sattin white with hosen to the same and their bonets of like colours demanding also licence of the queene to run which to him granted he tooke place at the tilts end Then came next the marquesse Dorset and sir Thomas Bullen like two pilgrims from saint Iames in taberds of blacke veluet with palmers hats on line 20 their helmets with long Iacobs staues in their hands their horsse trappers of blacke veluet their taberds hats and trappers set with scalop shels of fine gold and strips of blacke veluet euerie strip set with a scalop shell their seruants all in blacke sattin with scalop shels of gold in their breasts Soone after came in the lord Henrie of Buckingham earle of Wilshire himselfe and his horsse apparelled in cloth of siluer embrodered with his posie or word and arrowes of gold in a posie called La maison du refuge line 30 made of crimsin damaske brodered with roses arrowes of gold on the top a greihound of siluer bearing a tree of pomegranats of gold the branches whereof were so large that it ouerspred the pageant in all parts Then entered sir Giles Capell sir Rouland with manie other knights richlie armed and apparelled And thus began the iusts which was valiantlie atchiued by the king and his aids among whom his grace atteined the prise These iusts finished euerie man line 40 withdrew the king was disarmed and at time conuenient he and the queene heard euensong and that night all the ambassadors supped with the king and had a great banket After supper his grace with the quéene lords ladies came into the White hall within the said palace which was hanged richlie the hall was scaffolded and railed on all parts There was an enterlude of the gentlemen of his chapell before his grace and diuerse fresh songs that doone his grace called to him a great man or a lord of Ireland line 50 called O neall whome in the presence of the said ambassadors he made knight then the minstrels began to plaie the lords ladies began to danse Now in the midst of this pastime when all persons were most attentiue to behold the dansing the king was suddenlie gone vnknowen to the most part of the people there vnlesse it were of the quéene and certeine other Within a little while after his departing the trumpets at the end of the hall began to sound Then was there a deuise or a pageant vpon whéels line 60 brought in out of the which pageant issued out a gentleman richlie apparelled that shewed how in a garden of pleasure there was an arbor of gold wherin were lords and ladies much desirous to shew pastime to the quéene ladies if they might be licenced so to doo who was answered by the quéene how she all other there were verie desirous to sée them and their pastime Then a great cloth of arras that did hang before the same pageant was taken away and the pageant brought more néere It was curiouslie made and plesant to behold it was solemne and rich for euerie post or piller thereof was couered with frised gold therin were trees of hathorne eglantine rosiers vines and other pleasant floures of diuerse colours with gillofers and other hearbs all made of sattin damaske siluer and gold accordinglie as the naturall trees hearbs or floures ought to be In this arbor were six ladies all apparelled in white satin and greene set and embrodered full of H. and K. of gold knit togither with laces of gold of damaske and all their garments were replenished with glittering spangels gilt ouer on their heads were bonets all opened at the foure quarters ouerfrised with flat gold of damaske the orrellets were of rolles wrethed on lampas doucke holow so that the gold shewed through the lampas doucke the fassis of their head set full of new deuised fashions In his garden also was the king and fiue with him apparelled in garments of purple sattin all of cuts with H. and K. euerie edge garnished with frised gold and euerie garment full of posies made of letters of fine gold in bullion as thicke as they might be and euerie person had his name in like letters of massie gold The first Cure loial the second Bon voloire the third Bon espoir the fourth Valiant desire the fift Bon foy the sixt Amour loial their hosen caps and coats were full of posies with H. K. of fine gold in bullion so that the ground could scarse appeere yet was in euerie void place spangles of gold When time was come the said pageant was brought foorth into presence and then descended a lord and a ladie by couples and then the minstrels which were disguised also dansed and the lords and ladies dansed that it was a pleasure to behold In the meane season the pageant was conueied to the end of the palace there to tarie till the danses were finished so to haue receiued the lords ladies againe but suddenlie the rude people ran to the pageant and rent tare and spoiled the pageant so that the lord steward nor the head officers could not cause them to absteine except they should haue foughten and drawen bloud and so was this pageant broken Then the king with the queene and the ladies returned to his chamber where they had a great banket and so this triumph ended with mirth gladnes At this solemnitie a shipman of London caught certeine letters which he sold to a goldsmith for three pounds fourtéene shillings eight pence by reason wherof it appéered that the garments were of a great value After this great ioy came a sorowfull chance for the yoong prince which was borne vpon New-yeares day last past vpon the two and twentith daie of Februarie being then the euen of saint Matthie departed this world at Richmond and from thence was caried to Westminster and buried The king like a wise prince tooke this dolorous chance wonderous wiselie and the more to comfort the quéene he dissembled the matter and made no great mourning outwardlie but the queene like a naturall woman made much lamentation how beit by the kings good persuasion and behauiour hir sorow was mitigated but not shortlie In the moneth of Februarie this yeare came ambassadors from the king of Arragon and Castile to require an aid of fiftéene hundred archers to be sent to the same king hauing at that time war against the Moores enimies of the christian faith The king hearing their message gentlie granted their request And bicause the lord Thomas Darcie a knight of the garter made humble sute to the king to be generall of the crue that should be thus sent into Spaine the king vpon trust of his approued valiancie granted his desire There were appointed to go with him the lord Anthonie Greie brother to the marquesse Dorset Henrie Guilford Weston Browne and William Sidneie esquiers

for felonies should incontinentlie be buried which ordinance hath béene euer since obserued The earle of Kent and the archbishop of Dubline going ouer into France could not light vpon anie good conclusion for the matter about the which they were sent bicause the same time or rather somewhat before the lord Rase Basset of Draiton being the kings seneshall in Guien had ouerthrowne a certeine towne newlie fortified by the Frenchmen on the frontiers for that the inhabitants trusting on the French kings fauour and maintenance refused to obeie the lawes and ordinances of the countrie of Aquitaine and séemed to despise and set at naught the authoritie of the said lord Basset in that countrie contrarie to all right good order or reason Neuerthelesse the French king tooke the matter so greeuouslie that except the lord Basset might be constreined to come vnto Paris and there make answer to his offense he would not hearken to anie other satisfaction And therevpon when the ambassadours were returned he sent his vncle the lord Charles de Ualois earle of Anio● with a mightie armie against the English subiects into Guien where entring into Agenois he tooke and seized all that countrie into the French kings hands The earle of Kent being now gotten into those parts with a great number of other capteins and men of warre sent thither by the king of England resisted the enimies verie manfullie in so much that vpon their approch to the Rioll a strong towne in those parts the earle of Kent as then being within it did issue foorth and giuing them battell slue as some write fouretéene hundred of their men so that they were glad to lodge at the first somewhat further off the towne Whilest this siege remained before the towne of the Rioll the king of England wrote his letters to the duke of Britaine as one of the péeres of France declaring the iniurious dealing of the French king who had sent his vncle the earle of Aniou with an armie against his people in Agenois where he had taken manie townes destroied his people and now had besieged his nephue Edmund earle of Kent within the towne of the Rioll inforsing his whole puissance wrongfullie to bereaue him of all the duchie of Guien and against all reason and the prerogatiue of the peeres of France to an euill president or example in time to come of the perpetuall seruitude of the said péeres And although saith the king of England that the French alledge that we haue béen lawfullie summoned to come and doo homage and haue refused so to doo that is not so for we were neuer in due order required as was conuenient neither could we doo homage by reason of the great iniuries and hard dealings practised against vs from the feast of Easter last till the date of those his present letters which was the sixt of October in this eighteenth yeare of his reigne and yet saith he there was neuer anie lawfull processe had against vs before our péeres in the great chamber at Paris as had béene requisite Herevpon he requested the duke of Britaine that for the preseruation and maintenance of the honorable estate of the péeres of France for iustice sake he would helpe to aid him either by waie of request or other conuenient meanes so as the said streict dealings and iniurious wrongs may ceasse and the estate of the péereship may be mainteined as was requisite He wrote likewise to the lord Iohn the infant the lord of Biskie and to the ladie Marie of Biskie gouernesse of the king of Castile and Leon and to Iames king of Aragon requesting them to aid him with men of warre as well horssemen as footmen against his aduersarie the French king that most vniustlie went about to depriue him of his inheritance But howsoeuer the matter went no aid came to the earle of Kent from any part till at length the Frenchmen so reinforced the siege that the towne was deliuered to the earle of Aniou and a truce taken vpon certeine conditions that further talke might be had for the conclusion of some peace Then were sent ouer other ambassadors as the lord Iohn de Sullie a Frenchman borne and one maister Iohn de Shordich but the lord Sullie had so strange interteinment for some displeasure which the French king conceiued against him that if the French quéene had not the beter intreated for him he had lost his head and as for the other he had also returned home without bringing any thing to passe of that for the which he was sent After this the pope line 10 sent the archbishop of Uienna and the bishop of Orange to the princes of either realme to exhort them to some agréement but they could doo no good and so taking monie of the cleargie for their expenses they returned After this about the twentith daie after Christmasse year 1325 there was a parlement called at London in the which the king required to haue the aduise of the lords how he might worke for sauing of the duchie of Guien sore molested by the French Hervpon line 20 it was concluded that the bishops of Winchester and Norwich and Iohn de Britaine earle of Richmond should go ouer as ambassadors to the French king who comming into France after manie argumentations allegations and excuses made on both parts at length receiued a certeine forme of pacification at the French kings hands with the which the bishop of Winchester was sent backe to England the bishop of Norwich and the earle of Richmond remaining there till it might be knowen how the king line 30 of England would like thereof Finallie it was thought good that the queene shuld go ouer to hir brother the French king to confirme that treatie of peace vpon some reasonable conditions She willinglie tooke vpon hir the charge and so with the lord Iohn Crumwell other foure knights without any other great traine taking sea she landed in France where of the king hir brother she was ioifullie receiued and finallie she being the mediatrix it was finallie accorded that the K. of England should giue to his eldest sonne the duchie of Aquitaine and line 40 the countie of Pontieu and that the French king receiuing homage of him for the same he should restore into his hands the said countie and the lands in Guien for the which they were at variance and for those countries which had beene forraied and spoiled the earle of Aniou should fullie see him satisfied as right did require Upon the couenants the French king wrote his letters patents into England and other letters also of safe conduct as well for the sonne as for the king line 50 himselfe if it should please him to come ouer himselfe in person Upon which choise great deliberation was had as well at Langdon as at Douer diuerse thinking it best that the king should go ouer himselfe but the earle of Winchester and his

his former determination and taken an abstinence of war with the Moores till an other time He therefore required the lord Darcie to be contented to returne home againe promising him wages for all his soldiers and if it should please him to come to the court he should receiue high thanks of the king and such chéere as there could be made him The lord Darcie was nothing pleased with this declaration but sith he saw there was no remedie he said that whatsoeuer the king had concluded he could not be against it considering he was sent to him but suerlie it was against his mind to depart home without dooing anie thing against Gods enimies with whome he had euer a desire to fight And as for his comming to court he said he could not leaue his men whome he had brought out of their countrie without an head and as for the kings banket it was not the thing that he desired On the next daie in the morning monie was sent to paie the souldiers their wages for their conduction againe into England with diuerse gi●ts giuen to the lord Darcie and other gentlemen yet notwithstanding he was highlie displeased howbeit like a wiseman he dissembled the matter The same daie being the fourtéenth daie of Iune and fridaie there chanced a fraie to be begun in the towne of Calis betwixt the Englishmen and them of the towne by reason that an Englishman would haue had for his line 10 monie a loafe of bread from a maid that had beene at the bakers to buie bread not to sell but to spend in hir mistresse house Howbeit the Englishman followed hir as making proffer not to be denied in so much that the maid perceiuing what he went about cried out A force a force Then was the common bell roong and all the towne went to harnesse and those few Englishmen that were a land went to their bowes The Spaniards cast darts and the Englishmen shot But the capteins of England and line 20 the lords of the councell for their part tooke such paine that the fraie was ceassed and but one Englishman slaine though diuerse were hurt and of the Spaniards diuerse were slaine Thus of a sparkle was kindled a flame to the spoiling of manie which is no rare thing to see according to the scriptum est Concitat ingentes flammas scintilla minuta After this vpon request made by the lords of Spaine the lord Darcie and all his men the same night went aboord their ships but Henrie Guilford line 30 Weston Browne and William Sidneie yoong and lustie esquiers desired licence to see the court of Spaine which being granted they went thither where they were of the king highlie interteined Henrie Guilford and Weston Browne were made knights by the king who also gaue to sir Henrie Guilford a canton of Granado and to sir Wolston Browne an egle of Sicill on a chefe to the augmentation of their armes William Sidneie so excused himselfe that he was not made knight When line 40 they had soiourned there a while they tooke their leaue of the king and quéene and returned through France into England During which season the lord Darcie made saile toward England and arriuing at Plimmouth came to the king at Windsore and so this iourneie ended During the time that the lord Darcie was in Spaine the ladie Margaret duches of Sauoie and daughter vnto Maximilian the emperour and gouernour of Flanders Brabant Holland Zeland line 50 other the low countries apperteining to Charles the yoong prince of Castile sent in the end of Maie to the king of England to haue fiftéene hundred archers to aid hir against the duke of Gelders which sore troubled the countries aforesaid The king tenderlie regarding the request of so noble a ladie most gentlie granted hir request and appointed sir Edward Poinings knight of the garter and comptroller of his house a valiant capteine and a noble warriour to be lieutenant and leader of the said fiftéene line 60 hundred archers This gentleman accompanied with his sonne in law the lord Clinton sir Matthew Browne sir Iohn Digbie Iohn Werton Richard Whethrill Shrelleie esquiers with other gentlemen and yeomen to the foresaid number of fiftéene hundred tooke their ships a mile beside Sandwich the eightéenth daie of Iulie and landed at Armew the nineteenth daie not without some trouble by reason of a little storme From thence they were conducted to Barowe whither the ladie Regent came to welcome them On the sundaie being the seuen twentith of Iulie they departed to Rossindale and on thursdaie the last of Iulie they came to Bulduke And the next daie the whole armie of the Almans Flemings and other apperteining to the said ladie met with the Englishmen without Bulduke where they set foorth in order the ladie Regent being there present which tooke hir leaue of all the captein● and departed to Balduke The armie to the number of ten thousand beside the fifteene hundred English a●chers passed forward and the tenth daie of August being saint Laurence daie came before a little castle standing on the higher side of the Maze called Brimnoist belonging to the bastard of Gelderland The same night Thomas Hert cheefe gouernour of the ordinance of the English part made his approach and in the morning made batterie so that the assault therevpon being giuen the fortresse was woone and the capteine with eightie and od men were slaine and ninetéene taken of the which eleuen were hanged Iohn Morton capteine of one hundred Englishmen and one Guiot an esquier of Burgognie crieng saint George were the first that entered at which assault there was but one Englishman slaine On thursdaie the fourteenth of August the armie feried ouer the riuer of Maze into Gelderland The next daie they came to a little towne called Aiske The people were fled but there was a little castell rased and cast downe which was newlie built vp on the side of the said riuer Upon the twentith daie of August they burnt the foresaid towne of Aiske and all the countrie about it and came at the last to a towne called Straulle being verie strong double diked and walled Within it were thrée hundred sixtie good men of war beside the inhabitants At the first they shewed good countenance of defense but when they saw their enimies approach néere vnto them with rampiers and trenches they yeelded by composition so that the souldiers might depart with a little sticke in their hands But the townesmen rested prisoners at the will of the prince of Castile And so on S. Bartholomews day the admerall of Flanders and sir Edward Poinings entred the towne with great triumph On the six and twentith daie the armie came before Uenlow and sent an herald called Arthois to summon the towne but they within would not heare but shot guns at him On the eight and twentith daie the armie remooued vnto the north side of Uenlow and

in London for merchants of that nation and had plaied bankerupt and was conueied out of the realme for debt was now in such fauour with pope Iulie that he made him his collector and proctor in England so he kept a great port and resorted to the king and his councell for the popes affaires which then was sore troubled by the French king so that he knew both the popes councell and the kings and falselie and vntrulie resorted by night to the French ambassadours lieng in London and to them discouered what the king and the pope intended which was not so closelie doone but the king knew it and so he was laid for was taken communing with one of the said ambassadours vpon London wall at midnight and brought to the Tower where he remained vntill by the sute of his freends he was deliuered and shortlie for shame voided the realme The king of Aragon also hauing at that time warre with the French king wrote to his sonne in law king Henrie that if he would send ouer an armie into Biskaie and so to inuade France on that side for the recouerie first of his duchie of Guien he would aid them with ordinance horssemen beasts and cariages with other necessaries apperteining to the fame The king and his councell putting their affiance in this promise of king Ferdinando prepared a noble armie all of footmen and small artillerie appointing the noble lord Thomas Greie marquesse Dorset to be chéefe conductor of the same The king dailie studieng to set foorth his warre which he had begun against the French king caused sir Edward Howard his admerall with diligence to make readie diuerse goodlie tall ships as the Souereigne and others to the number of eighteene beside other smaller vessels Therewith hauing in his companie sir Weston Browne Griffith Downe Edward Cobham Thomas Windham Thomas Lucie William Pirton Henrie Shirbourne Stephan Bull George Wi●wange Iohn Hopton William Gunston Thomas Draper Edmund Cooke Iohn Burdet and diuerse others he tooke the sea and scowring the same about the middest of Maie he came before Portesmouth About the verie selfe time the lord marquesse Dorset and other noblemen appointed for the iournie of Biskaie as the lord Howard sonne and heire to the earle of Surrie the lord Brooke the lord Will●ugh●le the lord Ferrers the lord Iohn the lord Anthonie and the lord Leonard Greies all thrée brethren to the marquesse sir Griffith ap Ri●e sir Morris Berkeleie sir William Sands the baron of Burford sir Richard Cornewall brother to the said baron William Husseie Iohn Melton William Kingston esquiers sir Henrie Willoughbie and diuerse others with souldiers to the number of ten thousand Amongst these were fiue hundred Almans clad all in white vnder the leading of one Guiot a gentleman of Flanders all which with the residue abouenamed came to Southampton and there mustered their bands which were appointed and trimmed in the line 10 best maner On the sixtéenth daie of Maie they were all bestowed aboord in Spanish ships furnished with vittels and other necessaries for that iournie The wind serued so well for their purpose that they ca●ie all in safetie on the coast of Biskaie at the port of Passagh southwest of Fonterabie and so the third daie of Iune they landed and tooke the field imbattelling themselues for their safegard right stronglie Within thrée daies after that the armie was line 20 thus aland there came to the marquesse an earle and an other noble man to welcome him and his companie Then the lord capteine remooued his field tooke an other place néerer to Fonterabie where he laie a long time looking euerie daie to haue aid of horssemen and artillerie of the king of Aragon but none came Sir Iohn Stile caused to be bought two hundred mulets and asses of such price as the Spaniards gained greatlie and when they were put to carie and line 30 draw they would not serue the turne for they were not exercised thereto before that time and so for want of beasts to draw such ordinance as the Englishmen had there with them they lost the dooing of some great exploit against the Frenchmen on the frontiers of Gascoigne for they might haue run a great waie into that countrie being as then destitute and vnpurueied of men and munitions On a daie the Frenchmen made a skrie toward the English campe but the Englishmen perceiuing them passed the riuer that was betwixt them and line 40 with arrowes chased the Frenchmen so that for hast manie of their horsses foundered and fell yer they came to Baion if there had béene anie horssemen amongst the Englishmen they had sore indamaged their enimies The king of Nauarre doubting least the Englishmen were come into those parties for no good meaning towards him sent to the lord marquesse a bishop and diuerse other offering to minister vittels vnto the Englishmen for their monie if line 50 it should stand so with his pleasure The lord marquesse thanked him for the offer and promised that if they of Nauarre would vittell his people they should paie them well and trulie for the same He said also that he would warrant their passing and repassing in safetie and that by the Englishmen no preiudice should be doone to his realme Herevpon were the Englishmen vittelled out of Nauarre to their great comfort After that the armie had laine thirtie daies in the second campe there came from the king of Aragon a bishop and other nobles of his line 60 councell This bishop was the same that made the answer to the lord Darcie at Calis the last yeare The effect of his message was to desire the lord capteine and his people to take patience for a while and they should see that such preparation should be made for the furnishing of their enterprise as should stand with the honour of his maister and their aduancements The Englishmen sore discontented with their idle lieng still in the field misliked with his excuses supposing the same as they prooued in déed to be nothing but delaies In the meane time that the Englishmen thus lingered without attempting any exploit their vittels were much part garlike they eating thereof with all their meats and drinking hot wines féeding also on hot fruits procured their bloud to boile within their bellies that there fell sicke thrée thousand of the flix thereof died an eightéene hundred persons The lord marquesse perceiuing this mischeefe sent to the king of Spaine certeine of his capteins to know his pleasure The king told them that shortlie the duke of Alua should ioine with them bringing with him a mightie power so that they might the more assuredlie procéed in their enterprise With this answer they returned to the lord marquesse who liked it neuer a deale bicause he iudged that the king meant but to driue time with him as after it prooued In the meane time there began a mutinie in the

to the king of England that if it would please him to minister anie aid by sea hée would besiege Sluis by land Wherevpon the king of England vpon due consideration of the dukes motion as he was wise enough in all his enterprises and no lesse fortunate in the issue of the same would conclude nothing vpon the sudden but as he did alwaies ruled his affaires by good counsell like to the wise man commended in the holie scripture Consilio sapiens semper sua facta gubernat line 60 At last he well remembring that Sluis was a ●ousenest and a verie den of théeues to them that trauersed the seas towards the east parts incontinentlie dispatched sir Edward Poinings a right valiant knight and hardie capteine with twelue ships well furnished with bold souldiers and sufficient artiller●e Which sir Edward sailed into the hauen and kept the lord of Rauenstein from starting by sea The Duke of Saxonie besieged one of the castels lieng in a church ouer against it and the Englishmen assaulted the l●sse castell and issued out of their ships at the ebbe neuer suffering their enimies to rest in quiet one day togither for the space of twentie dais and euerie day slue some of their aduersaries and on the English part were slaine one Uere brother to the earle of Oxford and fiftie more The lord of Rauenstein had made a bridge of botes betwéene both the castels to passe from the one to the other which bridge one night the Englishmen did set on fire Then he perceiuing that he must lose his castels by force and that the Flemings could not ai● him yéelded the castels to sir Edward Poinings and the towne to the duke of Saxonie vpon certeine conditions Sir Edward Poinings kept the castels a while of whom the Almains demanded their wages bicause the duke had nothing to paie Then these two capteins so handled them of Bruges that they not onelie submitted themselues to their lord Maximilian but also were contented to paie and dispatch the Almains And so sir Edward Poinings taried there a long space and at length returned to the king before Bullogne The sixt day of Aprill this present yeare the nobles of the realme assembled in the cathedrall church of S. Paule in London where the maior of the same citie his brethren the aldermen and the craftesmen in their liueries also assembled to whome doctor Morton chancellor made an oration declaring how the king of Spaine had woone the great and rich citie countrie of Granado from the Turks for ioy whereof Te Deum was soong with great solemnitie ¶ But bicause it is requisite and necessarie in this ample volume to set downe the report of accidents as they are to be found at large in our owne English writers you shall heare for the furtherance of your knowledge in this matter concerning Granado what Ed. Hall hath left noted in his chronicle Which although it conteine diuerse actions of superstition and popish trumperie yet should it not offend the reader considering that a people estranged from the true knowledge of God and sincere religion put the same in practise as supposing principall holinesse to consist in that blind deuotion On the sixt of Aprill saith he this yéere the king commanded all the nobilitie of his realme to assemble at the cathedrall church of S. Paule in London where after Te Deum solemnlie soong the cardinall of Canturburie standing on the steps before the quier doore declared to the people how the famous citie of Granado which manie yeares had beene possessed of the Moores or Mauritane nation being infidels vnchristened people was now of late besieged a great time by Don Ferdinando and Elizabeth his wife king and quéene of Spaine Arragon and Castile And the said infidels by reason of siege brought to great penurie and miserie for lacke of vittels necessarie viands perceiuing that all succours were clerelie stowed and excluded from them and so brought into vtter despaire of aid or comfort after long consultation had amongst them determined to render themselues and their citie to the said king vpon diuerse couenants and conditions and therevpon sent to him diuerse senators of the citie fullie instructed of their mind and purpose The king of Spaine and his councell considering and sagelie pondering that winter approched was at hand and that the christian host had long lieu in the fieldes in sore tempests and greeuous stormes which they gladlie suffered for Christes sake in whose cause and quarell they made that present warre reremembring also that the citie was of such riches fame and estimation that it conteined an hundred and fiftie thousand houses of name beside other small houses and cotages that it was replenished with people innumerable and furnished with three score and ten thousand good fighting men and finallie perceiuing that he might inioy now the possession of the same without assault or effusion of christian bloud by the aduise of his councell he accepted accorded and agreed to their offers the twentie and fift of Nouember in the yeare of Christs incarnation 1491 then being the daie of saint Katharine By the which composition the roiall citie of Granado with all the holds and fortresses of the realme and the towers and castels of Alpussarare was rendered into the hands of the said king of Spaine and that the king of Granado should become subiect and vassall to the king of Spaine and to relinquish and line 10 forsake the vsurped name of a king for euer and that all the men of warre should frankelie depart out of the citie and none there to remaine but artificers and merchants and all these things to be doone before the fiue twentith day of Ianuarie But the time was preuented for the Moores on the first day of Ianuarie sent six hundred notable personages out of the citie with their children for hostages into the campe of the king of Spaine to the intent that he should put no diffidence nor mistrust in the citizens line 20 but that he might peaceablie and quietlie with his people enter into the citie and take possession of the same The which hostages were distributed and lodged in the tents and pauillions of the Spanish armie The third of Ianuarie the lord of Guitterins Cardenes great master gouernor of Lion of the order of S. Iames departed from the armie noblie and triumphantlie accompanied with fiue hundred horsmen and thrée thousand footmen toward the citie line 30 And as he approched néere to the suburbs there issued out diuers noble and valiant capteins of the Moores making to him humble obeisance and conducted him to a palace adioining to the citie called the palace of Anaxaras and from thense conueied him to the palace roiall of the same citie called Alhambra whereof hée tooke quiet and peaceable possession to the behoofe of the king of Spaine whome the Moores promised and confessed to take and obeie as their

they discerned seuerall mines wrought into manie parts of the towne and they found by lamentable experience that the lesse good they did the more painfullie they laboured for that their fortune had reduced them to these termes of extremitie that in abandoning one place to relieue another they put both in danger not hauing numbers sufficient to furnish the seruice and lesse expectation of rescue amid perils so raging and desperate so that what for that their necessities were greater than their hopes their defense lesse able by the continuall diminution of their numbers lastlie holding it no breach of honour to preserue by wisdome and composition that they could no longer defend by their valour and prowes they gaue place to their destinie and capitulated with the Turke as followeth That the great maister of their order should leaue the towne to him that as well he as all line 10 his knights should depart in safetie with libertie to earie with them as much of their goods as they could And for assurance of this capitulation the Turke should withdraw out of those seas his fléet or nauie and retire his armie by land fiue miles from Rhodes By vertue of which capitulation Rhodes remained to the Turkes and the christians passed into Sicilie and so into Italie kéeping their faith and profession vnuiolated They found in Sicilie an armie by sea compounded of a certeine number of vessels with line 20 great releafe of vittels and munitions and readie to hoise saile at the next wind to reuittle Rhodes The slownesse of this reseue was laid to the popes fault After they were departed Soliman for a more contempt of christian religion made his entrie into the citie vpon the daie of the birth of the sonne of God which daie being celebrated in the churches of christians with noise of musike holie inuocations he connected all the churches of Rhodes dedicated to the seruice of Iesus Christ into Mosqueis so they line 30 call their temples which after all the christian rites and ceremonies were abolished they made dedicatorie to Mahomet Good cause had the christians herevpon with heauie hearts to make their complaint to God by the president of the psalmist lamenting the libertie of the enimies exercising the vehemencie of his rage against Gods people full well with swolne eies testifieng the sorrow of their soules might sadlie sounding the dumps of their threnomina saie perde funditùs line 40 Hostes proteruos qui tuum sacrarium Manu nefanda polluunt Clangunt sonora buccina non quae tuas Laudes canat ludibrio Sed festa acerbo quae profanet in tuis Vexilla figunt turribus c. To vnderstand more of this historie touching the taking of Rhodes what mooued the Turke to couet the same his letter comminatorie to Philip de Uilliers who tooke part against him with other accidents line 50 and circumstances belonging to this martiall action read the report of Edward Hall which is verie copious and plentifull in this behalfe And now will we returne to our owne affaires here in England About this time the bishop of Durham departed this life the king gaue that bishoprike to the cardinall who resigned the bishoprike of Bath to doctor Iohn Clerke maister of the rolles and sir Henrie Marneie that was vicechamberleine was made lord priuie seale and shortlie after was created lord Marneie line 60 In the end of this yeare doctor Blith bishop of Chester was attached for treason but he acquited himselfe About this time the cardinall exercised his authoritie which he pretended by his power legantine verie largelie not onelie in proouing of testaments in his court calling the executors and administrators before him of what diocesse soeuer they were but also by prouisions he gaue all benefices belonging to spirituall persons and ran thereby within danger of the premuni●e as afterward was laid to his charge But after that he perceiued his owne follie and rash dooing herein contrarie to the lawes which would not permit that anie such things as were mooued within the prouince of Canturburie might bee concluded without the authoritie of the archbishop he sent them againe to Poules and sate himselfe at Westminster with his cleargie of the prouince of Yorke And euen as there was much adoo amongst them of the common house about their agréement to the subsidie so was there as hard hold for a while amongst them of the clergie in the conuocation house Namelie Richard bishop of Winchester Iohn bishop of Rochester held sore against it but most of all sir Rowland Philips vicar of Croidon and one of the canons of Poules béeing reputed a notable preacher in those daies spake most against that paiment But the cardinall taking him aside so handled the matter with him that he came no more into the house willinglie absenting himselfe to his great infamie and losse of that estimation which men had of his innocencie Thus the belwedder giuing ouer his hold the other yéelded and so was granted the halfe of all their spirituall reuenues for one yeare to bée paid in fiue yeres following that the burthen might the more easilie be borne The parlement being begun as ye haue heard the cardinall on the nine and twentith day of Aprill came into the common house and there shewing the great charges that the king necessarilie was at and dailie must be at in maintenance of his warres against the French and Scots demanded the summes of eight hundred thousand pounds to bée raised of the fift part of euerie mans goods and lands that is to wit foure shillings of euerie pound This demand was inforced on the morrow after by sir Thomas Moore then speaker of the parlement but he spake not so much in persuading the house to grant it but other spake as earnestlie against it so that the matter was argued to and fro and handled to the vttermost There were that proued how it was not possible to haue it leuied in monie for men of lands and great substance had not the fift part of the same in coine And sith the king by the loane had receiued two shillings of the pound which by this rate amounted to 400000 pounds and new to haue foure shillings of the pound it would amount in the whole vnto twelue hundred thousand pounds which is first and last six shillings of the pound being almost a third part of euerie mans goods which in coine might not be had within this realme For the proofe whereof was alleaged that if there were in England but tw●ntie thousand parishes and euerie parish should gi●● an hundred markes that were but fiftéene hundr●● thousand markes which is but an hundred thousand pounds and there be not verie manie parishes in England one with another able to spare an hundred markes out of cities and townes And where it is written that in England there be fortie thousand parish churches it was prooued that there

Faber a famous clearke after bishop of Uien as ambassadors from don Ferdinando brother to the emperour newlie elect king of Hungarie and Beame after the death of his brother in law king Lewes which was slaine by the Turke the last summer as you haue heard before This companie was welcomed of the high officers and after brought into the kings presence all the nobilitie being present and there after great reuerence made master Faber made a notable oration taking his ground of the gospell Exijt seminator seminare semen suum and of that he declared how Christ and his disciples went foorth to sow and how their seed was good that fell into the good ground and brought foorth good fruit which was the christian faith and then he declared how contrarie to that sowing Mahomet had sowne séed which brought foorth euill fruit He also shewed from the beginning how the Turkes haue increased in power what realmes they had conquered what people they had subdued euen to that daie He declared further what acts the great Turke then liuing had doone and in especiall he noted the getting of Belgrad and of the Rhodes and the slaieng of the king of Hungarie to the great rebuke as he said of all the kings christened He set foorth also what power the Turke had what diuersities of companies what armor what capteins he had so that he thought that without a maruellous great number of people he could not be ouerthrowne Wherefore he most humblie besought the king as S. Georges knight and defendor of the faith to assist the king his master in that godlie warre and vertuous purpose To this oration the K. by the mouth of sir Thomas Moore answered that much he lamented the losse that happened in Hungarie and if it were not for the wars which were betweene the two great princes he thought that the Turke would not haue enterprised that act Wherefore he with all his studie would take paine first to set an vnitie and peace throughout all christendome and after that both with monie and men he wold be redie to helpe toward that glorious line 10 warre as much as any other prince in christendome After this doone the ambassadours were well cherished and diuerse times resorted to the court and had great cheare and good rewards and so the third daie of Maie next insuing they tooke their leaue and departed homeward In the winter season of this yeare fell great abundance of raine and namelie in September Nouember and December And on the sixtéenth of Ianuarie it rained so abundantlie that great flouds line 20 thereby insuing destroied corne fields pastures and drowned manie sheepe and beasts Then was it drie till the twelfe of Aprill and from thence it rained euerie day or night till the third of Iune in Maie it rained thirtie hours continuallie without ceasing which caused great flouds did much harme namelie in corne so that the next yeare it failed within this realme and great dearth insued ¶ This time a bill was set vp in London much contrarie to the honour of the cardinall in the which the line 30 cardinall was warned that he should not counsell the king to marrie his daughter into France for if hée did he should shew himselfe enimie to the king and the realme with manie threatning words This bill was deliuered to the cardinall by sir Thomas Seimor maior of the citie which thanked him for the same made much search for the author of that bill but he could not be found which sore displeased the cardinall And vpon this occasion the last daie of Aprill line 40 at night he caused a great watch to be kept at Westminster and had there cart guns readie charged caused diuerse watches to be kept about London in Newington S. Iohns stréet Westminster saint Giles Islington and other places néere London which watches were kept by gentlemen their seruants with housholders and all for feare of the Londoners bicause of this bill When the citizens knew of this they said that they maruelled why the cardinall hated them so for they said that if he mistrusted them he loued them not and where loue is line 50 not there is hatred and they affirmed that they neuer intended anie harme toward him and mused of this chance For if fiue or six persons had made alarm in the citie then had entred all these watchmen with their traine which might haue spoiled the citie without cause Wherefore they much murmured against the cardinall and his vndiscréet dooings The French ambassadors at Greenwich on sunday the fift of Maie sware in the name of their maister line 60 the French king to obserue the peace and league concluded betwéene them for tearme of two princes liues These ambassadours had great cheare and iustes were enterprised for the honour and pleasure of them at the kings commandement by sir Nicholas Carew sir Robert Ierningham sir Anthonie Browne and Nicholas Haruie esquier chalengers Against whome ran the marques of Excester and thirtéen with him as defendants When these ambassadours should returne they had great rewards giu●n them of the king and so tooke their leaue and departed Shortlie after the king sent sir Thomas Bullen vicount Rochford and sir Anthonie Browne knight as ambassadours from him into France which came to Paris to the bishop of Bath that laie there for the king as legier Then these thrée went to the court and saw the French king in person sweare to kéepe the league amitie concluded betwéene him the king of England Also the king sent sir Francis Poins knight ambassadour from him to Charles the emperour and with him went Clarenceaur king of armes to demand the one halfe of the treasure and ordinance which was taken at Pauia forsomuch as that warre was made as well at the kings charge as at the emperours Also they were commanded to demand one of the French kings sonnes which lay in hostage with the emperour that is to wit the duke of Orleance to be deliuered to the king of England and further that he shuld call backe his armie out of Italie And if it were so that he refused these reasonable requests then should they in the kings name denounce open warre against him The English merchants liked the matter nothing at all that there should bée anie warres betwixt the emperour and the king of England And where they were desired by the cardinall to kéepe their marts at Calis they would not assent thereto ¶ In this meane time great warres were managed betwéen the pope and other princes amongest whom the duke of Burbon of whom you haue heard often mention before in sundrie actions leuieng a great power led the same towards Rome and incamped within the medow néere to the citie from whence with the insolencie of a souldier hee sent a trumpet to demand passage of the pope through the citie of Rome to go with his armie to

vpon the table nothing but gilt plate and vpon a cupbord and in a window was set no plate but gold verie rich and in the councell chamber was all white and parcell gilt plate and vnder the table in baskets was all old broken siluer plate and bookes set by them purporting euerie kind of plate and euerie parcell with the contents of the ounces thereof Thus were all things prepared giuing charge of all the said stuffe with all other remaining in euerie office to be deliuered to the king to make answer to their charge for the order was such that euerie officer was charged with the receipt of the stuffe belonging to his office by indenture To sir William Gascoigne being his treasuror he gaue the charge of the deliuerie of the said goods and therwithall with his traine of gentlemen and yeomen he tooke his barge at the priuie staires and so went by water vnto Putneie where when he was arriued he tooke his mule euerie man tooke their horsses and rode streight to Asher where he and his familie continued the space of three or foure weekes without either beds shéets table cloths or dishes to eat their meat in or wherwith to buie anie the cardinall was forced to ●orow of the bishop of Carleill plate and dishes c. After this in the kings bench his matter for the premunire being called vpon two atturneis which he had authorised by his warrant signed with his owne hand confessed the action and so had iudgement to forfeit all his lands tenements goods and cattels and to be out of the kings protection but the king of his clemencie sent to him a sufficient protection and left to him the bishoprikes of Yorke and Winchester with plate and stuffe conuenient for his degrée The bishoprike of Duresme was giuen to doctor Tunstall bishop of London and the abbeie of saint Albons to the prior of Norwich Also the bishoprike of London being now void was bestowed on doctor Stokesleie then ambassadour to the vniuersities beyond the sea for the kings mariage The ladie Margaret duches of Sauoy aunt to the emperour and the ladie L●is duchesse of Angolesme mother to the French king met at Cambreie in the beginning of the moneth of Iune to treat of a peace where were present doctor Tunstall bishop of London and sir Thomas Moore then chancellor of the duchie of Lancaster commissioners for the king of England At length through diligence of the said ladies a peace was concluded betwixt the emperour the pope and the kings of England and France All these met there in the beginning of Iulie accompanied with diuerse great princes and councellors on euerie part And after long debating on both sides there was a good conclusion taken the fift daie of August In the which was concluded that the treatie of Madrill should stand in his full strength and vertue sauing the third and fourth and the eleuenth and fourtéenth articles which touch the duchie of Burgognie and other lordships 1 Item it was agréed that the French king should haue his children againe paieng to the emperour two millians of crownes of gold whereof hée should paie at the deliuering of the children twelue hundred thousand crownes 2 Item that the French king should acquit the emperour against the king of England of fourescore and ten thousand crowns which the emperour owght line 10 to the king of England and the king of England to deliuer all such bonds and gages as he had of the emperours 3 Item as touching the remnant which was fiue hundred and ten thousand crownes the emperour should haue fiue and twentie thousand crownes rent yearelie for which he should haue the lands of the duchesse of Uandosme lieng in Flanders and Brabant bound 4 Item that Flanders and diuerse other countries line 20 should not behold in chiefe nor haue resort to the crowne of France 5 Item that the realme of Naples the duchie of Millan and the countie of Ast should for euer remaine to the emperour 6 Item that the French king should withdraw all such souldiors as he had out of Italie 7 Item that the ladie Eleanor should be brought into France with the French kings children and in time conuenient should be maried to the French line 30 king 8 Item that the French king should aid the emperour with twelue gallies to go into Italie 9 Item that all prisoners on both parties should be acquited 10 Item that the French king should not aid Robert de la March against the bishop of Luke 11 Item that all the goods mooueable and vnmoouable of Charles duke of Burbon should be restored to his heires they paieng to lord Henrie marquesse of Dapenete and earle of Nassaw lord chamberleine line 40 to the emperour ten thousand ducats which he lent to the said duke of Burbon 12 Item that Iohn earle of Panthieure should be remitted to all such goods as were earle Rene his fathers 13 Item the lord Laurence de Gorowood great master to the emperor should be restored to the lordships of Chalmont Monteualle which he bought of the duke of Burbon or to haue his monie againe 14 Item Philip de Chalon prince of Orenge and line 50 viceroy of Naples to be restored to all his lands in Burgognie 15 Item that the duches of Uandosme and Lois earle of Nauers should haue all such right and actions as they should haue had before the warre began In the emperours countries when all things were written sealed and finished there was a solemne masse soong in the cathedrall church of Cambreie the two ladies ambassadors of the king of England sitting in great estate and after masse the peace was line 60 proclamed betwéene the thrée princes and Te Deum soong and monie cast to the people and great fires made through the citie The same night the French king came into Cambreie well and noblie accompanied and saluted the ladies and to them made diuerse bankets and then all persons departed into their countrie glad of this concord This peace was called the womens peace for bicause that notwithstanding this conclusion yet neither the emperour trusted the French king nor he neither trusted nor loued him and their subiects were in the same case This proclamation was proclamed solemnelie by heralds with trumpets in the citie of London which proclamation much reioised the English merchants repairing into Flanders Brabant Zeland and other the emperors dominions For during the wars merchants were euill handled on both parties which caused them to be desirous of peace On the foure twentith of Nouember was sir Thomas Moore made lord chancellor the next day led to the Chancerie by the dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke and there sworne At the daie appointed the parlement began on which daie the king came by water to his place of Bridewell and there he and his nobles put on their robes of parlement and so came to