this present parlement After the which words thus said as before is declared it was decréed also by the said lords arbitrators that the said lord of Winchester should haue these words that follow vnto my said lord of Glocester My lord of Glocester I haue conceiued to my great heauinesse that yée should haue receiued by diuerse reports that I should haue purposed and imagined against your person honor and estate in diuers maners for the which yée haue taken against me great displeasure Sir I take God to my witnesse that what reports so euer haue béene to you of me peraduenture of such as haue had no great affection to me God forgiue it them I neuer imagined ne purposed anie thing that might be hindering or preiudice to your person honor or estate and therefore I praie you that yee be vnto me good lord from this time foorth for by my will I gaue neuer other occasion nor purpose not to doo hereafter by the grace of God The which words so by him said it was decréed by the same arbitrators that my lord of Glocester should answer and saie Faire vncle sith yée declare you such a man as yée saie I am right glad that it is so and for such a man I take you And when this was doone it was decréed by the same arbitrators that euerie each of my lord of Glocester and Winchester should take either other by the hand in the presence of the king and all the parlement in signe and token of good loue accord the which was doone and the parlement adiorned till after Easter At this reconciliation such as loued peace reioised sith it is a fowle pernicious thing for priuat men much more for noblemen to be at variance sith vpon them depend manie in affections diuerse whereby factions might grow to the shedding of bloud though others to whom contention hartgrudge is delight wished to see the vttermost mischéefe that might therof insue which is the vtter ouerthrow and desolation of populous tribes euen as with a litle sparkle whole houses are manie times consumed to ashes as the old prouerbe saith and that verie 〈◊〉 and aptlie Sola scintilla perit haec domus aut 〈◊〉 illa But when the great fier of this 〈◊〉 betwéene these two noble personages was thus by the arbitrators to their knowledge and iudgement vtterlie quenched out and said vnder boord all other controuersies betwéene other lords taking part with the one partie or the other were appeased and brought to concord so that for ioy the king caused a solemne fest to be kept on Whitsundaie on which daie he created Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire to the erle of Cambridge whome his father at Southhampton had put to death as before yee haue heard duke of Yorke not foreséeing that this preferment should be his destruction nor that his séed should of his generation be the extreame end and finall conclusion He the same daie also promoted Iohn lord Mowbraie and earle marshall sonne and heire to Thomas duke of Norffolke by king Richard the second exiled this realme to the title name and stile of duke of Norffolke During this feast the duke of Bedford adorned the king with the high order of knighthood who on the same daie dubbed with the sword these knights whose names insue Richard duke of Yorke Iohn duke of Norffolke the earle of Westmerland Henrie lord Persie Iohn lord Butler sonne to the earle of Ormond the lord Rosse the lord Matrauers the lord Welles the lord Barkelie sir Iames Butler sir Henrie Greie of Tankaruile sir Iohn Talbot sir Rafe Greie of Warke sir Robert Uéere sir Richard Greie sir Edmund Hungerford sir Water Wingfield sir Iohn Butler sir Reginald Cobham sir Iohn Passheleu sir Thomas Tunstall sir Iohn Chedocke sir Rafe Langstre sir William Drurie sir William ap Thomas sir Richard Carnonell sir Richard Wooduile sir Iohn Shirdlow sir Nicholas Blunket sir William Cheinie iustice sir William Babington sir Rafe Butler sir Robert Beauchampe sir Edmund Trafford sir Iohn Iune cheefe baron and diuerse others After this solemne feast ended a great aid and subsidie was granted for the continuance of the conquest in France and so therevpon monie was gathered and men were prepared in euerie citie towne and countrie During which businesse Thomas duke of Excester great vncle to the king a right sage and discréet councellor departed out of this mortall life at his manor of Gréenewich and with all funerall pompe was conueied through London to Berrie and there buried ¶ In the same yeare also died the ladie Elizabeth halfe sister to the same duke and of the whole bloud with king Henrie the fourth maried first to the lord Iohn Holland duke of Excester and after to the lord Fanhope buried at the blacke friers of London Philip Morgan after the death of Iohn Fortham line 10 sometime treasuror of England year 1425 bishop of Elie and Durham both which bishopriks for anie thing that I can yet sée he inioied both at one time was made bishop of Elie in the yeare of our redemption 1425 in this sort Henrie the sixt and manie of the nobilitie had written to the conuent of the church of Elie to choose William Alnewicke doctor of both lawes confessor to the king and kéeper of the priuie seale to be their bishop Notwithstanding which they hauing more regard to their owne priuileges and benefit line 20 chose Peter the prior of Elie to succéed in the place of Iohn Fortham But none of both these inioied that roome for Martin bishop of Rome stepping into the matter to make the third part neither fauouring the kings motion nor approouing the monks election remooued this William Morgan from the see of Worcester vnto Elie sometime called Helix as I haue séene it set downe in Saxon characters in an ancient booke of the liues of saints written in the Saxon toong about the yeare of Christ 1010 before the time of Edward the confessor and much about the time of line 30 Albo Floriacensis This Morgan sat at Elie nine yeares twentie and six wéeks and foure daies departing this life in his manour of Hatfield in the yeare 1434 and was buried at the Charterhouse of London being the twentie and fourth bishop that was installed in that place While these things were thus a dooing in England year 1426 the earle of Warwike lieutenant for the regent in France entered into the countrie of Maine line 40 besieged the towne of Chateau de Loire the which shortlie to him was rendered whereof he made capteine Matthew Gough esquier After this he tooke by assault the castell of Maiet and gaue it for his valiantnesse to Iohn Winter esquier and after that he conquered the castell of Lude and made there capteine William Gladesdale gentleman Here he was informed that the Frenchmen were assembled in the countrie of Beausse wherevpon he hasted thitherwards to haue giuen them battell but they hauing line 50
counterfeit duke of Yorke otherwise rightlie named Perkin Warbecke Truelie the realme of England was in maner diuided with the rumor and vaine fable spred abroad of this twise borne duke into partakings and contrarie factions And some of the noble men conspired togither purposing to aid the foresaid Perkin as the man whome they reputed to be the verie sonne of king Edward and that the matter was not feigned but altogither true iust and not imagined of anie malicious pretense or euill purpose And bicause the thing was weightie and required great aid and assistance therefore they determined line 10 to send messengers vnto the ladie Margaret to know when Richard duke of Yorke might conuenientlie come into England to the intent that they being thereof certified might be in a readinesse to helpe and succour him at his arriuall So by the common consent of the conspirators sir Robert Clifford knight and William Barleie were sent into Flanders which discouered to the duches all the secret intents and priuie meanings of the fréends and fautors of the new found duke The duches gladlie receiued line 20 this message and after shee had heard their errand shée brought the messenger to the sight of Perkin who so well counterfeited the gesture countenance and maner of Richard duke of Yorke that sir Robert Clifford beléeued verelie that he was the second sonne of king Edward and therefore wrote a letter of credit into England to his complices and to put them out of doubt he affirmed that he knew him to be king Edwards sonne by his face and other lineaments of his bodie line 30 Upon this letter the chéefe dooers in this businesse spred the signification thereof abroad through the realme to the intent to stirre the people to some new tumult and commotion but it was doone by such a secret craft that no man could tell who was the author of that rumor The king perceiued that this vaine fable was not vanished out of the mad brains of the common people To prouide therefore against all perils that might thereby insue he sent certeine knights that were skilfull men of warre with competent line 40 bands of soldiers to kéepe the sea coasts and hauens to vnderstand who came in and went out of the realme doubting least some great conspiracie were in brewing against him He also sent into the low countries certeine persons to learne the truth of this forged dukes progenie where some of them that were so sent comming to Tournie got knowlege that he was borne in that citie of base linage and named Perkin Warbecke line 50 The king then aduertised not onelie by his espials vpon their returne but also from other his trustie freends determined with all spéed to haue the fraud published both in Englan◠and forren parts and for the same cause sent sir Edward Poinings knight sir William Warram doctor of the laws vnto Philip archduke of Burgognie and to his councellors bicause he was not of age able to gouerne of himselfe to signifie to him and them that the yoong man being with the ladie Margaret had falselie and line 60 vntruelie vsurped the name of Richard duke of Yorke which long before was murthered with his brother Edward in the Tower of London by the commandement of their vncle king Richard as manie men then liuing could testifie The ambassadors comming to the court of Philip the archduke were honorablie interteined of him and of his councell and willed to declare the effect of their message William Warram made to them an eloquent oration and in the later end somewhat inueihed against the ladie Margaret not sparing to declare how she now in hir later age had brought foorth within the space of a few yeares togither two detestable monsters that is to saie Lambert of whom yée heard before and this same Perkin Warbecke and being conceiued of these two great babes was not deliuered of them in eight or nine moneths as nature requireth but in one hundred and eightie moneths for both these at the lest were fiftéene yéers of age yer she would be brought in bed of them and shew them openlie and when they were newlie crept out of hir wombe they were no infants but lustie yoonglings and of age sufficient to bid battell to kings Although these rawnts angred the ladie Margaret to the hart yet Perkin was more vexed with the things declared in this oration and especiallie bicause his cloaked iuggling was brought to light The duches intending to cast hot sulphur into the new kindled fire determined with might and maine to arme and set forward prettie Perkin against the king of England When the ambassadors had doone their message and that the archdukes councell had long debated the matter they made answer that to haue the king of Englands loue the archduke and they would neither aid nor assist Perkin nor his complices in anie cause or quarrell Yet notwithstanding if the ladie Margaret persisting in hir rooted malice towards the king of England would be to him aiding and helping it was not in their power to withstand it for bicause in the lands assigned to hir for hir dower she might franklie and fréelie order all things at hir will and pleasure without contradiction of anie other gouernour After that the ambassadors were returned with this answer the king streight sent foorth certeine espials into Flanders which should feigne themselues to haue fled to the duke of Yorke and thereby search out the whole intent of the conspiracie and after what sort they meant to proceed in the same Others were sent also to intise sir Robert Clifford and William Barleie to returne into England promising to them pardon of all their offenses and high rewards for obeieng the kings request They that were sent did so earnestlie and prudentlie applie their businesse that they brought all things to passe at their owne desires For first they learned who were the chéefe conspirators and after persuaded sir Robert Clifford to giue ouer that enterprise which had no grounded staie to rest vpon Albeit William Barleie at the first would not leaue off but continued his begun attempt till after two yeares he repenting him of his follie hauing pardon granted him of the king returned home into his natiue countrie When the king had knowledge of the chiefe capteins of this conspiracie by the ouerture of his espials which were returned he caused them to be apprehended and brought to London before his presence Of the which the chiefe were Iohn Ratcliffe lord fitz-Fitz-Water sir Simon Montford sir Tho. Thwaits knights William Daubeneie Robert Ratcliffe Thomas Cressenor and Thomas Astwood Also certeine preests religious men as sir William Richford doctor of diuinitie and sir Thomas Poines both friers of saint Dominikes order doctor William Sutton sir William Worseleie deane of Paules Robert Laiborne and sir Richard Lesseie Other which were guiltie hearing that their fellowes were apprehended fled and tooke
subscription vnder the picture of hir husband Francone or Francis was in this sort FRanciscus Dei gratia comes de Osteruant erfginocht in comitatibus Hollandiae Hannoniae Zelandiae Friselandiae dominus de Boursalia de Viorne Zuylen Hochstraten Kortkene de la Veer Flishing Zandenburge terrae Brilensis Sentmartinsdike quo loco fundauit coenobium canonicorum c regi Edwardo quarto fideliter assistebat necnon equestris ordinis diui Antonij Beside which also was this written in the Dutch toong Here vranck van Boselen graue van Osteruant starfe Anno Domini 1470. Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester appointed to that office by Henrie the fift on his death-bed was with Henrie Beaufort bishop of Winchester great vncle to king Henrie the sixt in the yéere of our redemption 1422 being the first yeere of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt then but nine months old made protector and gardian of the person of the yoong king to see him tenderlie and carefullie brought vp and instructed in all such parts as were to be required in the person of a monarch Which office he left about the fourth yeere of king Henrie the sixt and died on Newyéeres daie at his manor of Gréenwich in the said fift yéere of Henrie the sixt being the yeere of our redemption 1446 he married Margaret the daughter of Thomas Neuill of Hornesbie Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike son of the former Thomas Beauchampe being beyond the seas and there deputie for Iohn duke of Bedford being regent of France did whilest the said regent was come ouer into England obteine manie castels in his deputieship who being thus imploied in the forren warres was in his absence out of his countrie for his singular wisdome and valor ordeined by the thrée estates of the realme of England in open parlement to be gouernor of the person of the yoong king Henrie the sixt in the place of Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester latelie deceased which Richard did not yet foorthwith hasten his returne into England but remained in France for a season inlarging the fame of his martiall exploits This his election to the protectorship of the kings person was in the fift yéere of Henrie the sixt being the yéere of our redemption 1426. He died in the yeere of our Lord 1439 being the seuentéenth yéere of the deposed king Henrie the sixt at Rone in Normandie the last daie of Maie as hath Iohn Stow and the fourth of October next following his corps was honorablie conueied as well by land as by water from Rone to Warwike and there honorablie buried in line 10 the college of our ladie church founded by his noble ancestors He maried two wiues the first Elisabeth daughter and heire of Thomas lord Barkleie by whome he had thrée daughters Margaret maried to Iohn lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie Eleanor maried to Thomas lord Rosse and Elisabeth married to Gorge Neuill lord Latimer His second wife was Isabell the daughter and heire of Richard lord Spenser by whome he had issue Henrie duke of Warwike and Anne married to Richard Neuill line 20 earle of Salisburie Richard Plantagenet duke of Yorke sonne to Richard earle of Cambrige and father to Edward the fourth king of England notwithstanding that he made challenge to the crowne against Henrie the sixt then in possession thereof as heire to the house of Yorke and was to be preferred before the house of Lancaster and notwithstanding that he was by parlement appointed to weare the crowne after the death of Henrie the sixt yet after all this in the thrée line 30 and thirtith yeere of the same king being the yéere of our redemption 1455 such was the imperfection of the king to gouerne he was appointed protector of the realme ruling the same at his owne disposition Which office he did not long inioie and that most worthilie for the next yéere after being the foure and thirtith of king Henrie the sixt and the yeere of our redemption 1456 he was depriued from the same and queene Margaret wife to Henrie the sixt tooke againe the absolute regiment into hir line 40 hands which duke after in the nine and thirtith of king Henrie the sixt being the yéere of our redemption 1460 the thirtith daie of December being lord of Wakefield was there with his sonne the earle of Rutland slaine at the battell commonlie called the battell of Wakefield of which I haue read these verses in Whethamsted once abbat of saint Albons Anno milleno centum quater quoque seno Terdenóque die duodeno mense Decembre Infra Eboracensem nixta Wakefield comitatum line 50 Dux dominus villae fertur pugnans habuisse Conflictum grandem contra gentem borealem Ac proceres plures praeerant quae gentibus ipsis Quod docuit quia sors quod res fortuna secundas Vitat habere moras cecidit dux natus eius Ac comes insignis sors belli sors fuit ipsis Obuia sÃcque fatis regni fuerat breuis haeres Omen idlaetum tulerat mutamine meestum Deslendum multis ius regni ius fuit eius He maried Cicilie daughter to Rafe Neuill first line 60 earle of Westmerland by whome he had issue Edward duke of Yorke earle of March and after king of England by the name of Edward the fourth George Plantagenet duke of Clarence Richard Plantagenet duke of Glocester after king of England by the name of Richard the third thrée daughters Anne maried to Henrie Holland duke of Excester Elisabeth married to Iohn de la Poole duke of Suffolke and Margaret maried to Charles duke of Burgognie George Plantagenet duke of Clarence and conestable of England sonne of the foresaid duke of Yorke and brother to king Edward the fourth with Richard Neuill earle of Warwike who set vp and pulled downe kings at his pleasure were after the flight of Edward the fourth out of England into Burgognie to his brother in law in the tenth yeare of the reigne of the said king Edward being the yeare of our redemption 1470 when Henrie the sixt had by their means readepted the kingdome made gouernors of the land which office they inioied not long For the said Edward the fourth returning into England in the eleuenth yeare of his reigne being the yeare of our redemption 1471 reconciled to him the duke of Clarence did againe put downe king Henrie the sixt and slue the said earle of Warwike flieng awaie at Barnet field on Easter day by one of the men of his campe After this on the fiftéenth daie of Ianuarie began a parlement in the eightéenth yere of the reigne of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1478 where this duke of Clarence was atteinted of treason and the eleuenth of March following he ended his life in a but of malmeseie and was buried at Teukesburie beside his wife who being with child died by poison a little before him Of this man sée more in my discourse of
Carie. Edmund Lacie George Neuill Iohn Booth Peter Courtneie Richard Fox Oliuer King Richard Redman Iohn Arundell Hugh Oldham Iohn Uoiseie Miles Couerdale Iohn Voiseie Iames Troblefield William Alleie William Bradbridge I. Stow. A traiâ—orous fact oâ— Thomas Appletreé Iohn Fox an Englishman deliuered two hundred and threé score christians froÌ„ captiuitie of the Turke Winds and high waters Anno reg 22. Sir Thomas Gresham deceassed Glouer a murtherer hanged in Cheape Dod executed for murther A great earthquake A waterquake A ferrie drowned William Lambe esquier deceased his almesdeéds The erection of a grammar schoole necessarie allowance to the maister and vsher Almes houses built for the poore Allowance for poore mens children to be kept at schole The common-wealth remembred A reliefe to poore clothiers in diuerse places London the better by master Lambe A remembrance of Holborne conduit founded and finished in An. 1577. The wast water at the iudge running at the standard Prouident considerations Poore women benefited by the conduit The right worshipfull Clothworkers remembred Allowance for foure yearelie sermons Euerie poore man and poore women a shirt a smock a gowne and a paire of shooes c. Saint Giles without Criplegate benefited Reliefe for the poore people M. Lambes loue to the worshipfull Stationers Perpetuall prouision for the poore Reliefe for Christes hospitall A purchase for the said hospitall Reliefe for S. Thomas spittle Why he staid his beneficence from the hospitall of the Sauoie Prisons for offendors Reléefe for poore prisoners A charitable worke indéed Marriage monie for poore maids His loue towards his seruants His faith was fruitfull I. Stow. An earthquake in Kent T. C. Castels and ships séene in the aier T. C. T. C. Woonders in Wiltshire and Summersetshire T. C. Haile stones of strange shapes A monstrous birth 〈◊〉 oratio apud Hâ—â—erum Soldiors transported into Ireland Monstrous birth Blasing star Sergeants least â—roclamation against the familie of loue The quéenes maiesties purpose to root out this pestilent sect Victorie against the Irish and other in Ireland Anno reg 23. Randoll hanged for coniuring Strange spéeches of a child Pride in great ruffes reprooued and reformed in a seruingman Ab. Hart. in R. L. Against Iesuiâ—s and massing priests One executed for counterfeiting the quéenes hand Parlement at Westminster Iusting at Westminster Mice deuoure the grasse in Daneseie hundred Banketting house at Westminster How this banketting house was garnished and decked with artificiall deuises The costs and charges of this banketting house Noblemen of France arriued at Douer The excellent inuention of the triumph The first defie of challenge Desire and hâ—r foure fostered children Uertuous desire not to be excluded from perfect Beautie The challenge made and how to be tried The fortresse of Beautie Urgent causes why the challenge was deferd The order of the rowling trench with most excellent inuentions The earle of Arundels entrie the first daie and his attendants The lord Windsors entrie the first daie and his attendants M. Sidneis entrie now sir Philip Sâ—dneie and his attendants M. Fulke Greuils entrie with his traine of attendants The second defie or chalenge Meaning the musike within the mount Wherewith the mount mooued rosâ— vp in height The rowling trench mooued néere to the quéene The fortresse summoned in soong The alarme soong The shooting off of the two canons the one with swéet water and the other with swéet powder The maner of the defendants comming in The defendants names that run at 〈◊〉 The spéech of sir Thomas Perot and maister Cooke to the quéene 〈◊〉 the sun is meant hir maiestie called before The fortresse of beautie Sir Thomas Perot maister Cooke were both in like armour beset with apples and fruit the one signifieng Adam the other Eâ—e who had haire hoong all downe his helmet The angell speaketh to the quéene He speaketh to the chalengers in the behalfe of the two knights Adam and Eue. Magnis excidimus ausis the crie of Phaeton at his fall The defendants gantlet throwne downe c. The defendants â—uâ—e and desire M. Ratclifs sâ—éech to the quéenâ— A mossâ—e cliffe Mosse and nothing but mosse A claime or conquest of beautie conteined in a scroll A similitude Here the 〈◊〉 deliuered M. Ratclifs shield to the quéene Here enter the foure â—oes of sir Francis Knolles The spéech of the foure sons of sir Francis Knollâ—s 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 page being apparâ—â—â—â— like vnto Mercurie 〈◊〉 and Beautie Why desire â—â—serues least to win beautie The foure sonnes of sir Francis Knolles The running 〈◊〉 the tilt The boie that vttered the defianâ—â— in this speech tooke his good night of the queene Here entereth a most excellent and braue charriot with raâ—e curious and costlie worke with the foure challengers in it which charriot was verie curiouslie shadowed with fine lawne The first spéech the second daie Hope the supplier to desirs armie Tourneies barriers couragiouslie tried The last spéech to the quéene signifieng the humble hearted submission of the foure foster children of desire An oliue branch presented to the quéene Crosse in Cheape defaced Thomas Butcher whipped and rescued Foure men whipt and set on the pillorie Bishop of Elie deceassed Two men of strange statures to be 〈◊〉 Euerard Hance executed Men arreigâ—â—â— for not â—â—â—ning to â—â—â—rch Monsieur 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 into England Ex libro cui titulus A discouerie of Edmund Campion dedicated to certeine 〈◊〉 of the councell Edmund Campion with diuerse o hers arreigned of high treason The foreâ—â—â—◠〈…〉 〈…〉 why 〈…〉 The rebellion in the north onlie through the popes meanes The sum of the popes bull which our Englishmen beyond the seas hold as their authoritie to rebell against hir maiestie Doctor Sanders his rebellion in Ireland through whome the people were seduced to fight against their lawfull princesse This bull remaineth in his former force by this pope onelie a tollerâ—tion for the straitnesse to the subiects therâ— in amended Campion desireth not to heare how these treasons â—ookâ— their originall and how from time to time they haue béene enterprised and confounded wherefore to blind the peoples cies he maketh this counterfeit answer Ex libello quedaâ— faâ—ose Doctor Sanders and doctor Bristows bookes were there read vnto them wherin most traitorously they defended the rebellion against hir maiestie They denied what one of their owne felows had confessed subscribed to and what euerie one of the witnesses knew to be most certeine * M. A. * M. A. Campion answered this point subtilie because in the last edition of the booke the chiefe matters against themselues were abridged The generall determination how to bring to passe their intent in this realme Their owne confession how they behaue themselues when they come into England Campion coâ—â—reth their coÌ„ming ouer affirming it was for the safegard of soules When he had no other shift he fell into these words The depositioÌ„ of G. Eliot Meaning the quéene of Scots A most traitoâ—ous and vâ—llanâ—us answer of
Basset Iohn Beauchampe Geffrey de Lucie Iohn Neuill Geffrey Beauchampe Peter de Breuse and William Furniuall The erle of Montford also went ouer the same time but where the earle of Cornewall tooke the sea at Marsiles the earle of Leicester passed through Italie and tooke the water at Brandize and with him went these persons of name Thomas de Furniuall with his brother Gerard de Furniuall Hugh Wake Almerike de S. Aumond Wischard Ledet Punchard de Dewin and William de Dewin that were brethren Gerard Pesmes Fouke de Baugie and Peter de Chauntenaie Shortlie after also Iohn earle of Albemarle William Fortis and Peter de Mallow a Poictouin men for their valiancie greatlie renowmed went thither leading with them a great number of christian souldiors In this yeare and vpon the day of S. Romigius was the church of S. Paule in the citie of London dedicated by Roger bishop of that citie the king and a great number of bishops and other Noble men being present which were feasted the same day by the said bishop Roger and the canons Moreouer there died the same yeare the countesse Isabell wife to Richard earle of Cornewall and two earles William earle Warren and Iohn earle of Lincolne also the lord Iohn Fitz Robert one of the chéefe barons in all the north parts of the realme ¶ Also in Februaarie there appeared a comet or blasing starre verie dreadfull to behold for the space of thirtie daies togither Moreouer on the coast of England there was a great battell amongst the fishes of the sea so that there were eleauen whales or thirlepooles cast on land beside other huge and monstruous fishes which appeared to be dead of some hurts and one of those mightie fishes comming into the Thames aliue was pursued by the fishers and could scarse passe through the arches of London bridge At length with darts and other such weapons they slue him before the kings manour at Mortlake whither they followed him There was also a great sound heard this yeare in sundrie parts of England at one selfe time as if it had beene the noise of some mightie mountaine that had fallen into the sea And vpon the seuenth of Maie there chanced a great boisterous wind that sore troubled the skie This yeare the king caused the citizens of London and the gardians of the cinque ports and manie other to receiue an oth to be true and faithfull to his line 10 sonne prince Edward The friers preachers and minors and other men of the church that were diuines absolued such as had taken on them the crosse receiuing of them so much monie as would suffice to haue borne their charges in that iournie and this not without slander redounding to the church The same meanes to get monie was practised also by the legat Otho hauing authoritie therto of the pope The same yeare the seneshall of Aquitaine came ouer to the king and let him know that if timelie prouision line 20 were not had all those countries on the further side of the sea wold be lost No other incident chanced the same yeare neither in warre abroad nor in the state of gouernement of the common-wealth at home whereof any great accompt is to be made but that the legat Otho got great summes of monie diuerse waies of religious men to the popes behoofe wherevpon certeine abbats made complaints to the king but in place of comfort they receiued discomfort after knowledge thereof giuen to the legat he line 30 was more extreame with them than he was before Shortlie after one of the popes familiars and kinsman named master Peter Rosso came from Rome taking England in his waie to go into Scotland and vsed in both such diligence in the popes cause that he got a fiftéenth granted here which he spéedilie gathered About the same time one Peter de Supino was sent into Ireland and there likewise he got a vintiesme bringing from these the summe of 115 marks and aboue But the collection which Peter Rosso got out of the Scotish confines doubled that line 40 summe as was thought In his returne also from thence visiting the houses of religion and searching the consciences of religious persons by new shifts he craftilie got yet more monie to the popes vse causing them to sweare to keepe this mysterie secret as it were some priuitie of confession for the space of one halfe yeare whereby he turned the harts of manie men from the loue of the church of Rome wounding them with great greefe and remorse of conscience to sée this pillage line 50 In the 25 yeare of his reigne king Henrie kept his Christmasse at Westminster at which time the legat was sent for to returne vnto Rome and after he had beene honorablie feasted of the king on the 4 daie of Christmasse he departed from London towards the sea side after he had remained here aboue three yeares Peter of Sauoie that was vncle to the quéene came into England and was honorablie receiued and interteined of king Henrie who had giuen to him the earledome of Richmont His sonne line 60 Boniface was this yeare also elected archbishop of Canturburie a tall gentleman and of a goodlie personage but neither so learned nor otherwise meet for that roome But such was the kings pleasure who in fauour of the quéene to whom he was coosen germane sought to aduance him and getting the popes fauour in that behalfe procured the monks bishops to grant their consents although much against their minds if they might haue had their owne wils The earle of Cornewall returning out of the holie land in safetie after he had settled things there by concluding an abstinence of warre betwixt the Saracens and christians about the octaues of S. Iohn Baptist he arriued in Sicill and hearing there in what place the emperour as then soiourned he repaired vnto him of whom and of his sister the empresse he was most ioifullie receiued Within a few daies after he went to the court of Rome to trie if he might driue some agreement betwixt the emperour and the pope but finding the pope too hard and nothing conformable except he might haue had all his owne will which was that the emperour should haue submitted himselfe to the popes pleasure and stand vnto what soeuer order the church should appoint he returned backe to the emperour without concluding any thing with the pope declaring vnto him as he had found After this he remained two moneths with the emperour then taking his leaue was honoured with great gifts at his departure and so returning towards England at length arriued at the towne of Douer on the morrow after the feast of the Epiphanie in the yeare following About the same time that the earle of Cornewall was in his returne foorth of the holie land new wars suddenlie arose in Wales which happened well for king Henrie There were diuerse of
Maine and at Pont le Gene he passed the riuer of Yonne and rode through all the countrie to Lucie where he passed the riuer of Loire and entered into Aniou and came before the citie of Angiers where he made manie knights that is â—o saie sir William Ros sir Henrie Goddard sir Rowland Rider sir Thomas Beaufort called the bastard of Clarence and diuerse other and after that he had â—orâ—aied burnt and spoiled the countrie he returned with preie and pillage to the towne of Beaufort in the vallie where he was aduertised that a great number of his enimies Frenchmen Scots Spaniards and other were assembled togither at a place called Uiell Bauge that is Old Baugie with the duke of Alanson calling himselfe lieutenant generall for the Dolphin The duke of Clarence had a Lombard resorting vnto him reteined with the part aduerse his name was Andrew Forgusa of whom the duke inquired the number of his enimies to whome he reported that their number was but small not of puissance to match with halfe the power of his strong armie intising him with assurance of victorie to set on the Frenchmen The duke like a couragious prince assembled togither all the horssemen of the armie and line 10 left the archers vnder the guiding of the bastard of Clarence and two Portingales capteins of Fresnie le vicount saieng that he onelie and the nobles would haue the honor of that iournie When the duke was passed a certeine streict and narrow passage he espied his enimies ranged in good order of battell by the monition of the Lombard which had sold him to his enimies his aduersaries had laid such ambushments at the streicts that the duke by no waie without battell could either retire or flée line 20 The Englishmen séeing this valiantlie set on their enimies who were foure to one by reason whereof at length the Englishmen were oppressed with multitude and brought to confusion There were slaine the duke of Clarence the earle of Tankeruile the lord Ros sir Gilbert Umfreuile earle of Angus and sir Iohn Lomlie sir Robert Uerend and almost two thousand Englishmen the earles of Summerset Suffolke and Perch the lord Fitz Water sir Iohn Berkelie sir Rafe Neuile sir Henrie Inglis sir line 30 Wiliam Bowes sir Wiliam Longton sir Thomas Borough and diuerse other taken prisoners And of the Frenchmen were slaine aboue twelue hundred of the best men of warre they had so that they gained not much The bastard of Clarence which tarried at Beaufort being informed of the great number of the Frenchmen made forward with all the archers to come to the succor of the duke but they came too late For the Frenchmen hearing of the approching of the line 40 archers fled with their prisoners and left the bodie of the duke and other the dead carcases behind them The archers buried them all sauing the dukes corpse which with great solemnitie was sent to England and buried at Canturburie beside his father After this the Englishmen burnt and spoiled the countrie of Maine and so returned to Alanson and after departed euerie man to his garrison This battell was fought on Easter euen in the yeare 1421. But now to returne to the king line 50 After he had kept his Easter at Leicester he with the quéene remooued and went northward till they came to Yorke where they were receiued with great ioy of the citizens and other the nobles and gentlemen of the countrie The king went vnto Beuerlie to visit the shrine of saint Iohn and immediatlie vpon his departure from thence the sorowfull newes of his brother the duke of Clarences death came to him for which he was right pensife But sith mourning would not auaile he called to remembrance line 60 what he had to doo and therevpon without delaie sent Edmund earle of Mortaigne brother to the earle of Summerset into Normandie giuing to him like authoritie and preheminence as his brother the late deceassed duke of Clarence had before enioied After this he called his high court of parlement in the which he declared with such great wisedome grauitie the acts which had béene doone in France the state of the time present and what was necessarie to be prouided for the time to come if they would looke to haue that iewell and high kingdome for the which they had so long laboured and sought that the communaltie gladlie granted a fiftéenth the clergie beneuolentlie offred a double disme And bicause no delaie should be in the kings affaires for lacke of paiment the bishop of Winchester the kings vncle lent vnto him twentie thousand pounds to be paid him againe of the same dismes When all things necessarie for this iournie were readie and prepared he sent his brother the duke of Bedford before him to Calis with all his armie being as some write foure thousand men of armes and twentie thousand archers and others though some haue written that the whole armie passed not twelue thousand of one and other The king himselfe shortlie after about the middle of Maie passed the seas to Calis and so from thence he marched through the countrie vnto Boies de Uincennes where the French king and the queene aâ— then soiourned The duke of Burgognie also that had receiued him at Monstruell attended him to Dowast in Ponthieu and there hauing taken leaue of him for six daies returned now againe to him according to his promise Then did they consult togither about their affaires and appointed in all hast to fight with the Dolphin and to raise the siege of Chartres which he had there planted Herevpon the king of England with all his puissance came to the towne of Mante and thither repaired the duke of Burgognie but yer they departed from thence they had knowledge that the Dolphin hearing of the puissant armie of the king of England approching towards him was recoiled with his people towards Towers in Touraine Herevpon the king of England incontinentlie did not onlie send backe the duke of Burgognie into Picardie to resist the attempts of sir Iaques de Harecourt which made war in that countrie for the Dolphin but also appointed the king of Scots with the duke of Glocester to besiege the towne of Dreux They comming thither about the eighteenth of Iulie planted siege on euerie side both of the towne and castell and what with power of batrie and other forcible meanes so constreined them within that on the eight daie of August they compounded that if no sufficient rescue came to raise the siege before the end of twelue daies next insuing both the towne and castell should be deliuered to the king of Englands vse so as the soldiers might depart with their goods whither they would except one Englishman which was knowen to be amongst them being fled for treason out of the kings dominions On the twentith daie of August which was the day of the appointment the king of
the diuine science of musike iustlie reported in a distichon that Gaudia si superûm res sit mortalibus vlla Integra quae referat musica sola refert line 30 the vse of it commendablie seruing by sweet harmonie to praise God in church and for delectable recreation to a gentlemanlie mind any where else and part of these yoong ones to be taught the grammar in a faire schoole well appointed therefore out of which as out of a nursserie of it owne for supplement certeine to keepe full the number these budlings at néed from time to time to be dulie deriued and drawen Now somewhat in casting vpon this deuout mans deuise and compasse to consider the companie of line 40 students there that in seuerall sciences and sundrie professions are not a few then their assigned studies and exercises in them their steps in rising reward for diligence from the lowest logician to the highest degrées of doctrine in schooles their officers in house their orders for gouernance in maners in safegard of health and helpe in sicknesse and that chiefest is the reuenues certeine for prouision maintenance of all it may be a question not easie to answer whether at first in this founders meditation vpon such a line 50 worke were a mind more magnifike or a more amplitude of abilitie after in so absolute a forme to performe it or else a profounder wisedome for perpetuitie into so perfect an order in all points to haue fixt it It was a fashion at those daies long also afore since from a learned spirituall man to take awaie the fathers surname were it neuer so worshipfull or ancient and giue him for it the name of the towne he was borne in and so was Richard Notingham a learned frier minorite in king Edward the seconds line 60 daies called of Notingham where he was borne Iohn Olneie a learned monke in those daies also named of an Iland wherein he was borne nie Glocester of Barton in Lincolnshire one William Barton in Richard the seconds reigne for that time a famous doctor and chancellor of Oxford Water Disse of Disse in Suffolke a learned Carmelite frier confessour to the duke and duchesse of Lancaster in king Henrie the fourths reigne Richard Hampoole of a towne in Yorkeshire a zelous doctor and after a vertuous heremit in king Henrie the sixts daies And after this sort manie hundreds more that had their names so altered as euen in like maner vnto this reuerend prelat in the prime of his towardnesse was changed his fathers surname Paten to Wainfléet of the towne where hee was borne in Lincolneshire a matter right proueable aswell by the records of the house there extant as by a faire déed remaining among other his proper euidences in the hands of the worshipfull maister Thomas Fanshaw esquier the quéenes maiesties remembrancer in the escheker at Westminster And as the names of Germin German Germi are but for one name though diuerslie wrested and all to remember Germanie the countrie their ancestors came from and also as Iute Iud and Chute are all but for the race of Iutes one of the thrée first Germane nations that came in with Horsus and Hengist and Caltrap Caltrop and Calthorp was all but for Caldthorp that signifieth a cold towne how euer it be otherwise wried euen so Paten Patin Patten or Patent is but a mention of the old Saxon name that trulie at first was Patan of Pate the sole of the foot and thereof Patan to signifie flat footed as among the Latines they were called Plautus or Plancus so Cicero of a chiche or tare Nasones Labiones and Labieni well nosed and lipt manie more after that sort in manie toongs else so deriued That right manie students skilfull in the profoundest sciences and learned toongs manie venerable clerks who in most weightie causes with singular wisedome successe and faith haue serued their prince and countrie this college hath brought foorth hereto that manie toward wits it still to haue hath had the good hap which happilie yet too it dooth reteine may here with modestie a litle be touched neither to comparison that were contentious folie nor yet to seeke glorie that cannot be but vaine but onlie in storie to mind how vnto purposes vertuouslie deuised and wiselie pursued Gods goodnesse alwaies giueth chéeuing and thrift according ¶ In this seuen and twentith yeare of king Henries reigne as witnesse the English chronâ—cles a knight of France called sir Lewes de Bueill challenged an esquier of England named Rafe Challons to triall of certeine feats of warre Herevpon as was thought conuenient a daie was appointed them to make proofe thereof the place also was assigned of their meeting to wit at a towne in France called Maunt or Maunce where the French king at the same time was personallie present But fortune saith mine author was to Challons so fauourable and leaned so much to his side that he ran the French knight through with the point of his fatall speare Huncilli finem lingua superba dedit The English esquier seeing the infortunate euent of this triall to fall to the shame of the challenger was so far from reiossing at his ouerthrow that he was touched with christian compassion moorned for his enimie for whome also he kept an obsequie as if he had béene his owne naturall brother and descended of the same parents For which mercifull motions of mind inwardlie working and outwardlie appearing he was of the king greatlie commended But doubtfull it is whether the other if he had suruiued and got the vpper hand would haue had the like reuerend care of the Englishmans dead bodie as to haue vouchsafed it a solemne interrement As the affaires in France now were neither well looked to nor the gouernours there well aduised an English capteine called sir Francis Suriennes surnamed the Aragonois of the countrie where he was borne a man for his wit and actiuitie admitted into the order of the garter tooke by scaling suddenlie in the night of the euen of our ladie daie in Lent a towne on the frontiers of Normandie belonging to the duke of Britaine called Fougiers spoiling the same and killing the inhabitants The duke of Britaine being hereof aduertised sent word by the bishop of Reimes to the French king beseeching him of his aid and counsell in the matter The French king foorthwith sent his caruer Iohn Hauart and Iohn Cosinet one of the maisters of his requests to the king of England and to the duke of Summerset he dispatched Peter de Fonteins the maister of his horsse To which messengers answer was made aswell by the king as the duke that the fact was doone without their knowledge And for the line 10 truce to be kept and not onelie restitution but also amends to be made to the duke of Britaine a daie of diet was appointed to be kept at Louuiers where the commissioners on both parts being
die for according to the law and by the law I am iudged to die and therfore I will speake nothing against it I am come hither to accuse no man nor to speake anie thing of that whereof I am accused condemned to die but I praie God saue the king and send him long to reigne ouer you for a gentler nor a more mercifull prince was there neuer and to me he was euer a good a gentle and a souereigne lord And if anie person will meddle of my cause I require them to iudge the best And thus I take my leaue of the world and of you all and I hartilie desire you all to praie for me Oh Lord haue mercie on me to God I commend my soule Iesu receiue my soule diuerse times repeting those words till that hir head was striken off with the sword Now bicause I might rather saie much than sufficientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind as also for hir fauouring of learned men zeale of religion and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore I will refer the reader vnto master Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admonition prooueth hir marriage lawfull defendeth hir succession ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements opinions and obiections of backebiters against that vertuous quéene sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death and finallie how the protestants of Germanie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse ¶ Anglorum praelia saith that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe in the likenesse of hir grandfather appéered vnto hir and after a long narration of the vanities of this world how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes maligning the fortunate estate of the vertuous how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England and that the gouernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie peace he saith vnto hir in conclusion by waie of prophesie as our poet hath recorded Forti sis animo tristis si nuncius adsum Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis Nomen ad astraferet patris matrÃsque suúmque Immediatlie after hir death in the wéeke before Whitsuntide the king married the ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe and sir Water Hungerford lord Hungerford The eight of Iune began the parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard without the kings assent affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots and neece to the king for which act he was atteinted of treason and an act made for like offendors and so he died in the tower and she remained long there as prisoner In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London where after much disputation and debating of matters they published a booke of religion intituled Articles deuised by the kings highnesse c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were giuen foorth wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated speciallie those that fell in haruest time ¶ The nine twentith of Iune the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster where were ordeined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water one of the which brake in the midst wherby one Gates a gentleman seruant to M. Knâ—net was drowned in his harnesse In the other a gun brake hir chamber maimed two of the mariners Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king and maister of the rols was made lord kéeper of the priuie seale and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight and vicar generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bishops as head ouer them The two and twentith of Iulie Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset earle of Northampton base sonne to the king begot line 10 of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt departed this life at saint Iames and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land In September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale and vicegerent sent abroad vnder the kings spirituall priuie seale certeine iniunctions commanding that the persons and curats should teach their parishioners the Pater noster the Aue Creed with the ten commandements and articles of the line 20 faith in English These articles and iniunctions being established by authoritie of parlement and now to the people deliuered bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine And herewith diuerse of the cleargie as moonks priests and others tooke occasion herby to speake euill of the late procéedings of the king touching matters of religion affirming that if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided the faith would shortlie be vtterlie line 30 destroied and all praier and diuine seruice quite abolished and taken awaie Manie sinister reports slanderous tales and feigned fables were blowne abroad and put into the peoples eares and diuerse of the nobilitie did also what they could to stir the commons to rebellion faithfullie promising both aid and succour against the king The people thus prouoked to mischiefe and deceiued through ouer light credence incontinentlie as it were to mainteine that religion which had so manie line 40 yeares continued and béene estéemed they stiffelie and stoutlie conspired togither and in a part of Lincolneshire they first assembled and shortlie after ioined into an armie being as it was supposed of men apt for the warres in number about twentie thousand Against these rebels with all the hast that might be the king in his proper person vpon intelligence therof had marched towards them being furnished with a warlike armie perfectlie appointed of all things that to such a companie should apperteine line 50 The rebels hearing that his person was present with his power to come thus against them began to feare what would follow of their dooings and such nobles and gentlemen as at the first fauoured their cause fell from them and withdrew so that they being destitute of capteines at length put certeine petitions in writing which they exhibited to the king professing that they neuer intended hurt
came to Douer there laie till fridaie at thrée of the line 10 clocke at after noone and then taking ship againe sailed foorth but finding the wind nothing prosperous for his course after he had lien all that night the daie following tossing tumbling on the seas he was constreined to come backe againe and arriued in the hauen of Douer about ten of the clocke on saturdaie at night and so remained there till tuesdaie next insuing at thrée of the clocke in the after noone and then went to shipboord againe in the said ship called the New barke and directing his course forwards line 20 on thursdaie morning about eight of the clocke his lordship landed at Newhauen where he was most ioyfullie receiued with a great peale of artillerie The next daie being fridaie the thirtith of October there came to Newhauen from Diepe fiftie light horssemen Scots brought by one of maister Killigrues seruants On saturdaie the last of October the earle of Warwiks commission was proclamed in Latine English and French by Blewmantell line 30 purseuant at armes which being ended his lordship went into the church and there sir Adrian Poinings knight marshall gaue him his oth and then my lord gaue the said sir Adrian his oth And after him were sworne Cutbert Uaughan controllor Iohn Fisher knight porter William Bromfield maister of the ordinance William Robinson water bailife and capteine Thomas Wood clearke of the councell On mondaie the second of Nouember the earle of Warwike with the knight marshall line 40 and the controllor rode out of Newhauen to Hauteuille and so towards Mondeuille accompanied with all the horssemen English and Scotish and a thousand footmen The Scotishmen Montgomeries band passed foorth and skirmished with them of Mondeuille and the Scots brought awaie with them a bootie of thrée hundred shéepe but in the morning they were returned backe againe by commandement of the earle of Warwike Maister controllors souldiors went as far as line 50 Harflue and there skirmished with them of that garrison but without anie hurt to either part My lord lieutenant riding all about the hils viewed the countrie and at night returned On wednesdaie the fourth of Nouember a barke of Newhauen belonging to Francis Clearke brought into the hauen of the same towne foure Britons laden with wines to the quantitie of two hundred tuns of good Gascoigne wines which they ment to haue brought to the enimies but being thus taken as a line 60 good prise it was discharged in Newhauen and stood the Englishmen and others of that towne in good stead On fridaie the sixt of Nouember about nine of the clocke in the morning a great alarum rose in the said towne of Newhauen for vpon the hils on the north side of the towne the Reingraue and the sonne of the viceadmerall of France shewed themselues accompanied with two thousand footmen and fiue hundred horssemen And herewith the Reingraue sent a trumpettor to the towne to aduertise the lord lieutenant that he was on the hils there at hand and that vnderstanding his lordship was come into the countrie and entred into Newhauen if it would please him to promise vpon his honor and by the faith of a gentleman that he might come and returne in safetie he would be glad to come sée him Wherevpon the lord lieutenant taking with him certeine capteins and gentlemen rode foorth of the towne and sent before him sir Adrian Poinings the marshall with Stephan Medcalfe hir maiesties trumpettor vnto the Reingraue who talking with him returned and met with the lord lieutenant who therewith passed forward and méeting with the Reingraue they imbraced each other and conferred togither as they had occasion And the Reingraue told the lord lieutenant among other talke that he was come to be his neighbor and so with such merie speech they communed togither and after taking their leaue either of other they returned vnto their homes The counte Montgomerie and monsieur Beauuois had some talke also with the Reingraue casting out bitter and sharpe words in reproofe of the duke of Guise and others that were of his faction The Reingraue comming backe to his armie the same afternoone forraied all the countrie and droue awaie the most part of all the cattell that they might meet with and comming to the church of Hauteuille where an hundred and fiftie of Montgomeries band laie they skirmished with them and in the end Montgomeries souldiors were forced to retire and abandon the place leauing it to the enimies and comming awaie withdrew the same night into Newhauen The Almans the same euening diuiding their armie into two parts the one halfe of them went and lodged at Mondeuille and the other halfe at Harflue The morrow after the Frenchmen that had abandoned the church of Hauteuille the night before went thither againe tooke and kept it against the enimies in like manner as they held it before The eleuenth of Nouember a proclamation was made in the name of the lord lieutenant by the officer at armes Blewmantell as well for good orders to be kept by the souldiors against the French inhabitants of the towne reforming of certeine gréeuances whereof the French had made complaint as also for their comming to church to heare common praier and preaching at due times for the auoiding of vnlawfull games whordome wicked othes and other blasphemies and likewise concerning diuerse other good orders to be obserued and disorders to be eschewed as was thought necessarie to giue warning of with condigne paines appointed for punishment of such as should transgresse in the same On thursdaie the twelfe of Nouember there went out of the towne of Newhauen towards Harflue thrée bands of Frenchmen conteining about six hundred footmen and suddenlie they were béeset by the Almans and Frenchmen of the garrison of Harflue so that the French protestants were driuen to take a village called Grauille where they mainteined the skirmish for the space of two houres till the lord lieutenant hearing of the perill in which they stood sent foorth with the controllor the number of a thousand footmen and all the English and Scotish horssemen and monsieur Beauuois with diuerse French horssemen who comming before Harflue fell in skirmish with the enimies to whose succor there issued foorth of Harflue a great number of the Almans both horssemen and footmen But the Englishmen behaued themselues so valiantlie that they beat them out of the field and droue them in the end to the verie gates of their towne with such lionlike courage as was woonderfull choosing rather to die in battell if hap had so cut their cards in an honest cause than in their sicke beds as moued by the poets reason not amisse for a souldior to remember and resolutelie to rest vpon to wit Absumpti longis animam cruciatibus edunt Languentes morbis in bello pulchra paratur Mors homo momento pugnans extinguitur
his answer vnto Bagots bill Iohn Hall a yeoman Bagot and Hall brought to the barre The lord Fitzwater appealeth the duke of Aumarle of treason Fabian Iohn Hall executed Iohn Stow. The request of the commons Hall A bold bishop and a faithfull The duke of Britaine K. Richard appointed to be kept in perpetuall prison Hall The earle of Warwike Sir Water Clopton The lord Morlie appeleth the earle of Salisburie Dukes and others deprâ—ued of their titles Tho. Walsi The hatred which the coÌ„mons had coÌ„mitted against the appellaÌ„ts The earle of Salisburie his request Sir Mathew Gournie The earle of Salisburie mainprised The lord Morlie mainprised The lord Fitzwalter The archb of Canturburie restored to his sée Thom. Wals. Hall The crowne intailed Tho. Walsi Ambassadors sent to forren princes The castell of Warke taken by the Scots Sir Thom. Greie The death of the duke of Norffolke The duchâ—s of Glocester deceassâ—â— Hall What mooueâ— the abbat of Westminster to conspire against the king The lords that conspired against the duke A iusts deuised to be holden at Oxford In indeâ—ioâ—â— sextipartite He is 〈◊〉 to come and sée the iusts The duke of Yorke taketh the indenture from his son The earle of Rutland vttreth yâ— who le conspiracie to the king Magdalen counterfeited to be king Richard The K. commeth to the tower of London The lords come to Windesore The king goeth foorth against them They retire They come to Circester The bailiffe of Circester setteth vpon them on their lodgings The lords set fire on their lodgings Hall Froissard Thom. Wals. A maske Harding The words of the earle of Kent The lords yeeld themselues A priest set fire on the houses of Circester Abr. Fl. out of Tho. Walâ—in pag. 404. * He died vnconfessed The lords beheaded Chr. S. Alb. The earle at Huntington taken He is beheaded * Thomas Spenser saith Wal. others Hall Execution Tho. Walsinâ— Hall The abbat of Westminster dieth suddeÌ„lie Thom. Walâ— The bishop of Carleill dieth through feare or rather thorough grâ—â—fe of mind to 〈◊〉 the wicked prosper as he tooke it Hall The sundrie reports of K. Richar. death Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walâ— pag. 4â—â— 4â—5 Câ—â—n Gall. Thom Walsin Sir Piers de Exton a murtherer of king Richard The desperat manhood of king Richard K. Richard murthered The dead bodie of K. Richard brought to the Tower He is buried at Langlie Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 378. Forren princes not without cause abhorre to heare of the shamefull murther of king Richard How the Gascoignes tooke the death of K. Richard The duke of Burbon Froissard Polydor. Froissard The earle of Worcester sent into Gascoigne Ambassadors from the French king Abr. Fl. out of Fabian pag. 304. George earle of March fleeth into England The answer of king Henrie to the Scotish ambassadors Open warre proclamed by the king of Scots against England Thom. Walâ— Robert Lâ—gon taken prisoner The Iles of Orkenie spoiled by Englishmen Mortalitie of people King Henrie inuadeth Scotland The duke of Rothsaie The duke of Albanie Anno Reg. â— King Henrie returneth home The Scots burne in Northumberland Iusts at Yorke Sir Iohn Cornewall marrieth the kings sister The Welshmen rebell by the setting 〈◊〉 of Owen Glendouer Iohn Stow. Owen Glendouer what he was Tho. Walâ— The occasion that mooued him to rebell The king entreth into wales meaning to chastise the rebels The emperor of Constantinople coÌ„meth into EnglaÌ„d A parlement One burnt in Smithfield Additions of the chronicles of Flanders There was also the erle of Deuonshire as Froissard saith The hath Froissard CoÌ„missioners met to treat of peace The French king troubled with a frensie Truce for 26 yeares Hall The Frenchmen demand a dower for queéne Isabell Additions of the chron of Flanders She is deliuered home She is conueied to Paris Hir second marriage Anno Reg. 3. Owen Glendouer The danger of the king to haue béene destroied Hor. lib. ca. 3. Ode 1. The earle of Warwike departeth this life A blasing starre The lord Greie of Ruthen taken in fight by OweÌ„ Glendouer A brute was spred abroad that king Richard was liuing A priest takeÌ„ He is executed The prior of Laund apprehended Greie friers apprehended A greie frier hanged in his habit Sir Roger Claringdon The diuell appeareth in likenesse of a greie frier Eâ—ght friers executed The earle of March taken prâ—soner in batâ—ll by Owen Glendouer The suspicion of K. Henrie grounded vpoÌ„ a guiltie conscience The kings daughter maried into Germanie Intemperat weather The deceasse of the duke of Yorke Scots ouerthrowen Scots vanquished at Homildon The number slaine Prisoners taken The castell of Cocklawes besieged by the lord Persie The professors of Wicâ—lifs doctrine Sir Lewes Clifford bewraieth his fellowes The earle of March marieth the daughter of Owen Glendouer Anno Reg. 4. A parlement George earle of March recommended to the king by parlement Ambassadors The earle of saint Paule to the I le of Wight The earle of Cleremont in Gascoigne The request of the Persies The saieng of the L. Persie The conspiracies of the Persies with Owen Glendouer An indenture tripartite A diuision of that which they had not A vaine prophesie The Persies raise their powers They craue aid of Scots The archbish oâ— Yorke of counsell with the Persies in conspiracie Thom. Wals. The earle of Worcester gouernour to the prince slippeth from him Hâ—ll The pretense of the Persies as they published it abroad The kings answer to the Persies libell Poore K. Richard is still aliue with theÌ„ that with K. Henries ouerthrow The kings spéedie diligence The Persies troubled with the kings sudden comming The lord Persie exhorteth his complices to stick to their tackâ—e The number of the Persies aâ—mie The Persies sent their articles to the king King Henrie charged with periurie Procurors protectors of the common-wealth The kings answer to the messengers that brought the articles The king offereth to pardon his aduersaries The earle of Worcesters double dealing in wrong reporting the kings words Hall The Scots The Welshmen come to aid the Persies The earle of March. Tho. Walsi Hall The valiance of the yoong prince A sore battell well mainteined The valiant dooings of the earle Dowglas The high manhood of the king The lord Persie slaine The earle Dowglas taken prisoner The earle of Worcester taken Knights slaine on the kings part The slaughter of Cheshire men at this battell The earle of Worcester and others beheaded The earle of Westmerland raiseth a power against the earle of Northumberland The king goeth to Yorke The earle of Northumberland commeth to the king The Welshmen molest the English subiects It was spoken like a prelat A tenth leuied of the cleargie William Wilford Ships taken Anno Reg. 5. A parlement at Couentrie Adiorned to London A pardon Frenchmen inuade the I le of Wight They are repelled The parlement beginneth againe The earle of Northumberland restored The Ile of Man A subsidie Abr. Fl. out of Tho.
C. The receiuing of the quéene into Suffolke and Norffolke The number of gentlemen that receiued the quéene into Suffolke Persons of worship in Suffolke that feasted hir highnesse during hir abode amongst them Norffolke incited by the example of Suffolke to giue the quéene roiall interteinment What order was taken in Norwich for the receiuing and recreating of the quéene The maior of Norwich with his attendants set forth to receiâ—â— the quéene The builder 〈◊〉 Norwich â—astell repreâ—â—nted The founder 〈◊〉 Blanch Flowre staiâ—â— person 〈◊〉 meét the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro 〈◊〉 fratriâ—â—â— obâ—estatio Henricus quartus ciuitati Nordouicensi princeps munificentssimus Praetoris pâ—ose suâ—sque tratribus quà m significanter facta oâ—atio The maior speaketh in his owne and his brethren the alderaiens behalfe Henrie the fourth a most bountiâ—uâ—l prince to the citie of Norwich A most dutifull submission Wherein the dutie of subiects chieflie consisteth The quéens maiesties acceptable answer vttered by hir owne mouth in person Gurguntius his spéech cut off by a showre of raine Gurguntius the elâ—est son of Belinus The ancientnesse of Norwich citie by the founders age may be gathered King Henrie the seuenth and king Henrie the eight Gurguntius yeeldeth his estate to the quéene S. Stephans gates in Norwich richlie beautified The vnion of the white rose and the red The boies speach at master Pecks doore The quéene liked this deuise The first pageant was in S. Stephans parish in this manâ—r How the pageant was beautified with representation of the mysteries of the citie 1. Pointing to the spinners 2. Pointing to the loomes 3. Pointing to the workes The second pageant with the situation of the same and what representations bare * Which is hir owne badge These musicians were inclosed in the chambers of the said pageant ratling skies The citie of Norwich speaketh to the quéenes maiâ—stie How Norwich is affected to the quéenes highnesse Then spake Debora the second person The application of the former examples Then spake Iudith the third person The applicatioÌ„ of the former examples Then Hester spake the fourth person The application of the former exaÌ„ples Then 〈◊〉 Martia the fift person A dittie soong to soft musicke at the queénes entrance vnder the gate The place of the queénes abode during the time of hir tariance in Norwich The manner of Mercuries coch message to the queene requesting hir highnesse to come abroad and see what pastime the gods had prouided for so noble a prince He reuealeth what he is by office Rare sights if anie such were as Mercurie nameth Mercurie is attentiue to his charge The charge giuen by Iupiter to Mercurie for the recreation of the quéene The quéenes rare estate described The description of Mercuries coch The description of Mercurie his attire abiliments c. The deuisor ventureth the hazard of a shew The whole manner of the deuise or shew Dame Chastitie hir maids incounter with Cupid What associats Cupid found out to kéepe him companie Chastitie and hir maids matched togither c. Quinam oratoreâ— antiqua aetate praeclarissima laudatissimi extiterunt Beneficiorum à regia maiestate collatorum agnitio cum obsequio c. Monumentum antiquum regiae maiestati exhibitum Iosephus insigniter lauâ—â—atus neque 〈◊〉 Regia maiesâ—aâ— in omnibus Iosepho aequiparatâ— What orators were best commended in former times of best renowme 〈…〉 for the same A monument of antiquitie presented to hir maiestie Ioseph singularlie commended not without cause The quéenes maiestie compared to Ioseph c. The quéenes maiestie is banketted at the earle of Surreis O singular affabilitie of a prince to put awaie a subiects bashfulnesse Egregiae necnon impares Anglig dotes Henricus Edouardus reges necnon Elisabetha regina praecipui benefactores agnoscuntur Pares gratias pro imparibus beneficijs agi non posse Angliam meritò alterum orbem nuncupari Nordouicensium veraeuet ex inti puris medullas prouenicus laetitia quam regiam maiestatem nideanâ— The excellent and â—â—comparable blessings of England King Henrie king Edward and quéene Elisabeth acknowledged speciall benefactors Condigne thanks vnpâ—â—sible to be giuen England deseruedlie called another world Their vnfrigned reioising to see hir maiestie The quéenes high commendation of master Limberts oration The description of an exâ—â—llent and princelie maske Mercuries message to the quéene Then marched they about againe and that done Iupiter spake to the quéene in this sort and then gaue hir â—nding wand of whales â—in 〈◊〉 wrought Then Iuno spake whose gâ—â—t was a purse curiouslie wrought Then after they had marched againe about Mars gaue his gift which was a faire paire of kniues and said Then spake Uenus whose gift was a white doue The song of Apollo to the quéene Pallas then speaketh and presenteth hir gift which was a booke of wisdome Then Neptune spake his gift was a great artificiall fish and in the bellie of it a pike which he threw out before hir maiestie Diana presented a bow and arrowes nocked and headed with siluer hir speach was this Cupido his speach his gift an arrow of gold The quéenes behauiour after all this welcomming The deuisor is commanded to be readie with his shewes to delight the queene A proper deuise and verie deâ—ectable of a caue twelue water nymphes c. What was deuised to be done by the nymphs at the quéens comming néere the water side The shew of Manhood and Desert with the furniture declared A bloodie fight and yet harmlesse doone by art All the preparation disappointed by thunder and raine The cities losâ—e by occasion of this tempest The queens 〈…〉 Norwic◠〈◊〉 takeâ— A dittie soong in a verie swéet voice Fridaies 〈◊〉 vpon the remoouing of 〈◊〉 court A pleasant deuise to make the quéene laugh The deuisers â—â—oings well taken of the queene c. Maister maior 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 another orâ—â—ion is wilâ—ed 〈◊〉 forbeare 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 The maior of Norwich knighted The quéenes words at hâ—r departing Gentlemen of Suffolke Norffolke knighted The quéenes maiestie departeth from Norwich and is now interteined bâ— the waie The vniuersiâ—ie of Cambridge present a faire and statelie cup to the quéene T.C. The lord of Leicesters bountifull interteinement Ad solem nubibus obductum die lunae 18. Augusti 1578. Eiusdem in eandem To the sâ—nne couerâ—d with cloudes vpon monâ—aâ—â— being the 1â— of August 15â—â— By the same concerning the queene Mathew Hamont burnt at Norwich The heresies that he held An Englishman made a locke and a keie weieng but one wheaâ— corne The bishop 〈◊〉 Winchester deceased Iohn Wolton bishâ—p of Excester Werstanus Putta Eadulphus Ethelgarus Algarus Alfwoldus Alfwolfus Sidemannus Alphredus Alwolfus Arnoldus Leuigus or Leuingus Leofricus Osbertus or Osbernus William Warlewast Robert Chichester Robert Warlewast Bartholomeus Iscanus Iohn the chanter Henrie Marshall Simon de Apulia William Brewer Richard Blondie Walter Bronescomâ— Peter Quiuill Thomas Bitton Walter Stapledon Iames Barkeleie Iohn Grandesson Thomas Brentingham Edmund Stafford Iames
Durant Drury Dabitot Dunsteruile Dunchampe Dambelton E EStrange Estuteuile Engaine Estriels Esturney F FErrerers Foluille Fitz Water Fitz Marmaduke Fleuez Filberd Fitz Roger Fauecourt Ferrers Fitz Philip Filiot Furniuens Furniuaus Fitz Otes Fitz William Fitz Roand Fitz Pain Fitz Auger Fitz Aleyn Fitz Rauff Fitz Browne Fouke Freuil Front de Boef Facunberge Fort Frisell Fitz Simon Fitz Fouk Filioll Fitz Thomas Fitz Morice Fitz Hugh Fitz Henrie Fitz Waren Fitz Rainold Flamuile Formay Fitz Eustach Fitz Laurence Formibaud Frisound Finere and Fitz Robert Furniuale Fitz Geffrey Fitz Herbert Fitz Peres Fichet Fitz Rewes Fitz Fitz Fitz Iohn Fleschampe G GVrnay Gressy Graunson Gracy Georges Gower Gaugy Goband Gray Gaunson Golofre Gobion Grensy Graunt Greile Greuet Gurry Gurley Grammori Gernoun Grendon Gurdon Gines Griuil Greneuile Glateuile Gurney Giffard Gouerges Gamages H HAunteney Haunsard Hastings Hanlay Haurell Husee Hercy Herioun Herne Harecourt Henoure Houell Hamelin Harewell Hardell Haket Hamound Harcord I IArden Iay Ieniels Ierconuise Ianuile Iasperuile K KAunt Karre Karrowe Koine Kimaronne Kiriell Kancey Kenelre L LOueny Lacy Linneby Latomer Loueday Louell Lemare Leuetot Lucy Luny Logeuile Longespes Louerace Longechampe Lascales Lacy Louan Leded Luse Loterell Loruge Longeuale Loy Lorancourt Loions Limers Longepay Laumale Lane Louetot M MOhant Mowne Maundeuile Marmilon Moribray Moruile Miriell Manlay Malebraunch Malemaine Mortimere Mortimaine Muse Marteine Mountbother Mountsoler Maleuile Malet Mountenâ—y Monfichet Maleherbâ— Mare Musegros Musard Moine Montrauers Merke Murres Mortiuale Monchenesy Mallory Marny Mountagu Mountford Maule Monhermon Musett Meneuile Manteuenant and Manfe Menpincoy Maine Mainard Morell Mainell Maleluse Memorous Morreis Morleian Maine Maleuere Manduâ— Mountmarten Mantelet Miners Mauclerke Maunchenell Mouet Meintenore Meletak Manuile Mangisere Maumasin Mountlouel Mawreward Monhaut Meller Mountgomerie Manlay Maulard Mainard Menere Martinast Mare Mainwaring Matelay Malemis Maleheire Moren Melun Marceans Maiell Morton N NOers Neuile Newmarch Norbet Norice Newborough Neiremet Neile Normauile Neofmarch Nermitz Nembrutz O OTeuell Olibef Olifant Osenel Oisell Olifard Orinall Orioll P PIgot Pery Perepount Pershale Power Painell Perche and Pauey Peurell Perot Picard Pinkenie Pomeray Pounce Pauely Paifrere Plukenet Phuars Punchardoun Pinchard Placy Pugoy Patefinc Place Pampilioun Percelay Perere Pekeny Poterell Peukeny Peccell Pinell Putrill Petiuoll Preaus Pantolf Peito Penecord Preâ—dirlegast Perciuale Q QVinci Quintiny R ROs Ridell Riuers Riuell Rous Rushell Raband Ronde Rie Rokell Risers Randuile Roselin Rastoke Rinuill Rougere Rait Ripere Rigny Richemound Rochford Raimond S SOuch Sheuile Seucheus Senclere Sent Quintin Sent Omere Sent Amond Sent Legere Someruile Siward Saunsouere Sanford Sanctes Sauay Saulay Sules Sorell Somerey Sent Iohn Sent George Sent Les Sesse Saluin Say Solers Saulay Sent Albin Sent Martin Sourdemale Seguin Sent Barbe Sent Vile Souremount Soreglise Sanduile Sauncey Sirewast Sent Cheueroll Sent More Sent Scudemore T TOget Tercy Tuchet Tracy Trousbut Trainell Taket Trussel and Trison Talbot Touny Traies Tollemach Tolous Tanny Touke Tibtote Turbeuile Turuile Tomy and Tauerner Trencheuile Trenchelion Tankeruile Tirell Triuet Tolet Trauers Tardeuile Turburuile Tineuile Torell Tortechappell Trusbote Treuerell Tenwis Totelles V VEre Vernoun Vesâ—y Verdoune Valence Verdeire Vauasour Vendore Verlay Valenger Venables Venoure Vilan Verland Valers Veirny Vaâ—uruile Veniels Verrere Vschere Veffay Vanay Vian Vernoys Vrnall Vnket Vrnafull Vasderoll Vaberon Valingford Venicorde Valiue Viuille Vancorde and Valenges W WArdebois Ward Wafre Wake Wareine Wate Watelin Wateuil Wely Werdonell Wespaile Wiuell When king William had set all things in order through the most part of the realme he deliuered the guiding thereof vnto his brother Odo the bishop of Bayeux and his coosine William Fits Osborne whom he had made erle of Hereford In Lent following he sailed into Normandie leading with him the pledges and other of the chéefest lords of the English nation among whom the two earles Edwine and Marchar Stigand the archbishop Edgar Etheling Walteof sonne to Siward sometime duke of line 10 Northumberland and Agelnothus the abbat of Glastenburie were the most famous Soone after his departing Edricke surnamed Syluaticus sonne to Alfricke that was brother to Edricke de Streona refusing to submit himselfe vnto the king rebelled and rose against such as he had left in his absence to gouerne the land Wherevpon those that laie in the castell of Hereford as Richard Fitz Scroope and others did oftentimes inuade his lands and wasted the goods of his farmors and tenants but yet so often as they attempted to inuade him they lost manie line 20 of their owne souldiers and men of war Moreouer the said Edricke calling to his aid the kings of the Welshmen Bleothgent and Rithwall about the feast of the assumption of our Ladie wasted the countrie of Hereford euen to the bridge of the riuer of Wye and obteined out of those quarters a maruellous great spoile In the winter also following and after king William had disposed his busines in Normandie he returned into England and euen then began to handle the Englishmen somewhat line 30 sharpelie supposing thereby to kéepe them the more easilâ—e vnder his obedience He also tooke awaie from diuerse of the Nobilitie and others of the better sort all their liuings and gaue the same to his Normans Moreouer he raised great taxes and subsidies through the realme nor any thing regarded th' English Nobilitie so that they who before thought themselues to be made for euer by bringing a stranger into the realme doo now sée themselues troden vnder foot to be despised and to be mocked on all sides insomuch that many of them were constreined as it were for a further testimonie of seruitude and bondage to shaue their beards to round their heare and to frame themselues as well in apparell as in seruice and diet at their tables after the Norman manner verie strange and farre differing from the ancient customes and old vsages of their countrie Others vtterlie refusing to susteine such an intollerable yoke of thralâ—â—me as was dailie laid vpon them by the Normans chose rather to leaue all both goods and lands after the maner of outlawes got them to the woods with their wiues children and seruants meaning from thencefoorth wholie to liue vpon the spoile of the countries adioining and to take whatsoeuer came next to hand Wherevpon it came to passe within a while that no man might trauell in safetie from his owne house or towne to his next neighbors and euery quiet and honest mans house became as it were an hold or fortresse furnished for defense with bowes and arrowes bils polaxes swords clubs and staues and other weapons the doores kept locked and stronglie boulted in the night season for feare to be surprised as it had beene in time of open warre and amongst publike enimies Praiers were said also by the maister of the house as though they had beene in the middest of the seas in some stormie tempest and when the windowes or doores should be shut in and closed
to haue the gouernement fréelie in his owne hands that he might not be counted prince by permission Herevpon the youthfull courage of the yong king being tickled began to wax of a contrarie mind to his father who suspecting indéed that which chanced to wit least his sonnes yoong yeares not able yet to discerne line 60 good and wholesome counsell from euill might easilie be infected with some sinister practise thought it not good to suffer him to be long absent from him and therefore sent for him who taking leaue of his father in law king Lewes in courteous maner returned and came to his father king Henrie into Normandie who when the feast of Christmas drew néere repaired towards Aniou where in the towne of Chinon he solemnized that feast hauing left his sonne the yong king and his wife all that while in Normandie but sending for him after the feast was ended they went both into Auvergne where being at mount Ferrat Hubert earle of Morienne came vnto them bringing with him his eldest daughter Alice whom king Henrie the father bought of him for the summe of fiue thousand markes that he might bestow hir in mariage vpon his yongest sonne Iohn with the heritage of the countie of Morienne if hir father died without other issue or at the leastwise the said Hubert chanced to haue any sonne lawfullie begotten that then he should leaue vnto them and to their heires the countie of Russellon the countie of Belle as he then had and held the same Pierre castell with the appurtenances the vallie of Noualleise also Chambrie with the appurtenances Aiz Aspermont Rochet mont Magor and Chambres with Burg all which lieng on this side the mountaines with their appurtenances the said Hubert granted to them immediatlie for euer And beyond the mountaines he couenanted to giue vnto them Turine with the appurtenances the colledge of Gauoreth with the appurtenances and all the fées which the earles of Canaues held of him togither with the fealties and seruices And also the fées fealties and seruices which belonged to him in the countie of Amund and in the vallie called Uale Dosta and in like maner the towne of Castellone All the forenamed places the said earle gaue and granted to the said Iohn sonne to the king of England for euermore with his daughter so fréelie wholie and quietlie in men and cities castels fortresses or other places of defense in medowes leassewes milnes woods plaines waters vallies and mountaines in customes and all other things as euer he or his father had held or enioied the same And furthermore the said earle would that immediatlie when it pleased the king of England his people should doo homage and fealtie to the king of Englands sonne reseruing the fealtie due to him so long as he liued Moreouer the said earle Hubert granted to the said Iohn and his wife all the right that he had in the countie of Granople and whatsoeuer might be got and euicted in the same countie It was also couenanted if the elder daughter died that then the said Iohn should marrie the yoonger daughter and enioy all the like portions and parts of inheritance as he should haue enioied with the first Finallie that these couenants grants and agréements should be performed on the part and behalfe of the said earle Hubert both he the said earle and the erle of Geneua and in maner all the great lords and barons of those countries receiued an oth and vndertooke to come and offer themselues as hostages to remaine with the king of England in case the said earle Hubert failed in performance of any of the aforesaid articles till he framed himselfe to satisfie the kings pleasure in such behalfe Furthermore Peter the reuerend archbishop of Tarenfasia and Ardune the bishop of Geneua and also William the bishop of Morienne with the abbat of S. Michell promised vpon their oth to be readie at the appointment of the king of England to put vnder the censures of the church the said earle and his lands refusing to performe the foresaid couenants and so to kéepe him and the same lands bound till he had satisfied the king of England therein William earle of Mandeuill and William earle of Arundell sware on the part of king Henrie that he should performe the articles couenants and agréements on his part as first to make paiment immediatlie vnto the said Hubert of one thousand marks and assoone as he should receiue his daughter he should pay him an other thousand markes at the least and the residue then remaining of the said sum of fiue thousand markes should be paid when the mariage was consummate It was prouided also that the said earle Hubert might marrie his yoonger daughter where he would without any great diminishing of the earledome after the first marriage consummate with the lord Iohn the king of Englands sonne And that if either the said lord Iohn or his affianced wife chanced to die before the consummation of the marriage then should the monie which the earle had receiued be repaied to the king or bestowed as the king should appoint Shortlie after that the parties were agreed vpon the couenants afore cited the marques of Montferrat line 10 one Geffrey de Plozac with his sonne Miles and other Noble men came to the king as ambassadors from the earle of Morienne and receiued an oth that they should see and procure the said earle to performe the couenants and agreements concluded betwixt the king and him When these things were thus ordered as séemed good to both parties for the establishment of the foresaid marriage the king the father and the king the sonne remoued to Limoges whither the earle of S. Giles came and was there line 20 accorded with king Henrie and his sonne Richard duke of Guien concerning the controuersie that had béene moued for the countie of Tholouze dooing his homage as well vnto the father as to the sonne for the same countie and further couenanted to serue them with an hundred knights or men of armes as we may call them for the terme of fourtie daies at all times vpon lawfull summons And if the king or his sonne duke Richard would haue his seruice longer time after the fourtie daies were expired line 30 they should paie wages both to him and his men in reasonable maner Moreouer the said earle condescended agreed to giue yearelie for Tholouze an hundred marks or else 10. horsses with 10. marks a péece Now also whilest the king soiourned at Limoges the earle of Morienne came thither to him and required to vnderstand what parcels of land he would assigne vnto his sonne Iohn Wherevpon the king resolued to allot vnto him the chappell of Chinon Lodun and Mirabell whereby he offended his line 40 eldest sonne the yoong king as after may appeare who was glad to haue occasion whome the poets faine to be bald behind and hairie before as this
they had not time to arme themselues and so were distressed and ouercome Yet the lord Iohn d'Euille brake out and incountring line 50 with sir Gilbert Hansard ouerthrew him and escaped out of danger Great slaughter was made on ech hand and in the meane while the Nobles and gentlemen sought to get out of perill by flight The earle of Darbie got into a church but he was descried by a woman and so was taken There were manie other also taken amongst them the lord Baldwine Wake and sir Iohn de la Haie with much paine escaped This battell was foughten about the midst of Maie or vpon Whitsun éeue as the Chronicle line 60 of Dunstable saith Those that escaped as the lord Iohn d'Euille and others gaue not ouer yet but assembling themselues togither in companies kéeping within woods and other desert places brake out oftentimes and did much mischéefe On the ninth of August they tooke the I le of Elie and so strengthned it that they held it a long time after spoiling and robbing the countries round about them as Norffolke Suffolke and Cambridgeshire The bishop of Elie had vndertaken to keepe the I le to the kings vse but being now dispossessed therof he got him awaie and fell to cursing them that were thus entred against his will but they séemed to passe litle vpon his thundering excommunications On the 16 of December they came to the citie of Norwich and spoiling it tooke manie of the wealthie citizens and ransomed them at great summes of monie The lord Henrie Hastings and Simon de Pateshull with diuerse others got them into the castell of Killingworth and dailie went foorth at their pleasures spoiling and wasting the townes about them or causing them to fine with them to be spared And this they forced not to doo although the lord Edmund the kings sonne laie in Warwike to cut them short of such their licentious doings The king therfore mening to haue the said castels of Killingworth by force began his siege about the same vpon the éeuen of S. Iohn Baptist. But the lord Henrie Hastings the capteine of that castell and other his complices defended it so stronglie that though the king inforced his power to the vttermost to win it of them yet could he not anie thing preuaile till at length vittels began to faile them within and then vpon the eeuen of saint Thomas the apostle before Christmasse the lord Henrie Hastings deliuered the said castell into the kings hands vpon condition that he and all other should haue life and limme horsse and armour with all things within the place to them belonging And thus this siege had continued from the 26 of Iune vnto the 20 day of December ¶ Here is to be remembred that at the beginning of the siege there were within the castell a thousand and seuen hundred armed men and eight score women beside lackies and coisterels Here is also to be remembred that whilest the siege laie before Killingworth by the aduise of the kings councell and of the legat Othobone there were twelue péeres appointed and chosen foorth which should deuise and make ordinances touching the state of the realme and the disherited persons who according to their commission ordeined certeine prouisions the which are conteined within the statute intituled Dictum de Killingworth The king after that the castell of Killingworth was deliuered to his hand left therein his sonne Edmund and went himselfe to Couentrie or as other haue to Oxford and there held his Christmasse year 1267 Shortlie after comming to Westminster he held a parlement there studieng to set a quietnesse in all matters and controuersies depending betwixt him and the barons In this parlement sentence was giuen against earle Ferrers for the forfeiture of his earledome then was Edmund the kings yoonger sonne put in possession both of the earledome of Darbie and Leicester On the sixt of Februarie being sundaie the king came to S. Edmundsburie and staieng there till the two and twentith of the same moneth set foreward that day towards Cambridge where he laie with his armie the better to bridle them that kept the I le of Elie against him He laie there all the Lent season And in the meane time the earle of Glocester taking great displeasure for that he might not haue his will as well for the banishing of strangers as for restitution to be made vnto the disherited men of their lands he began a new sturre and assembling a great power in the marshes of Wales came néere vnto London pretending at the first as though he had come to aid the king at length he got licence of the maior and citizens to passe through the citie into Southwarke where he lodged with his people and thither came to him shortlie sir Iohn d'Euille by Southerie side bringing with him a great companie The maior caused the bridge and water side to be kept and watched both day and night with armed men and euerie night was the drawbridge drawne vp but within a while the earle vsed the matter so that he was permitted to lodge within the citie with certeine of his men by reason whereof he drew more and more of his people into the citie so that in the end he was maister of the citie and in Easter wéeke tooke the keies of the bridge into his hands The legat comming foorth of the towre repaired to the church of S. Paule vnder a colour to preach the croisey but in the end of that his exhortation he turned his words to the earle of Glocester admonishing him to obeie the king as he was bound by his line 10 allegiance And further whereas the earle had giuen commandement that no victuals should be suffered to be brought into the tower where the popes legat was lodged he thought himselfe euill vsed in that behalfe sith he was a mediator for peace and no partaker But when the earle seemed to giue small regard to his words he got him secretlie againe into the tower with certeine noble men the kings freends meaning to defend it vnto the vttermost of their powers line 20 There entred also into the tower a great number of Iewes with their wiues and children vnto whome one ward of the tower was committed to defend which they did in that necessitie verie stoutlie Manie of the citizens fearing a new insurrection auoided out of the citie whose goods the earle seized into his owne vse or suffered his men to spoile the same at their pleasures The most part of all the commons of the citie tooke part wich the earle and in a tumult got them to the Guildhall and there chose for their line 30 maior or custos of the citie Richard de Colworth knight and for bailiffes Robert de Linton and Roger Marshall discharging the old maior and shiriffes of their roomes Diuerse aldermen were committed to prison and their goods sequestred and much part thereof
suertie had vpon the promise of Amedie earle of Sauoy they were set at libertie with these conditions that they should deliuer into the French kings hands their daughter which was so affianced vnto K. Edwards sonne and further couenanted not to conclude any league with the king of England but in line 20 all points t' obserue a certeine peace which was concluded with Ferdinando earle of Flanders in the yeare 1225. And if earle Guie brake the same peace then should he be excommunicated and all his countrie of Flanders interdicted by the archbishop of Reims and the bishop of Senlis iudges appointed herein by authoritie of the pope The earles daughter being sent for and brought vnto Paris the earle and his wife were released and suffered to returne into Flanders and shortlie after line 30 the earle made earnest suit to haue his daughter restored vnto him againe insomuch that he procured pope Boniface to be a meane for him to the French king but all would not serue no though as some say the pope accurssed the French king for reteining hir answer being made that matters perteining to worldlie gouernement belonged not to the pope to discusse Finallie earle Guie perceiuing he could not preuaile in that suit to haue his daughter againe vpon high displeasure concluded to ioine in line 40 league with king Edward his confederats Herevpon at an assemblie or councell kept at Gerardmount there was a solemne league made and agréed betwixt Adolph the emperour of Almaine Edward king of England Guie earle of Flanders Iohn Duke of Brabant Henrie earle of Bar both sonnes in law to king Edward and Albert duke of Austrich against Philip king of France and Iohn earle of Henault his partaker The merchants of Flanders procured the earle to line 50 conclude this league with king Edward as some write the rather in respect of the great commodities which rose to their countrie by reason of the intercourse of merchandize vsed betwixt England and Flanders and for that through aid of the Englishmen they might the better withstand the malice both of the French and of all other their enimies This league being proclaimed in England there were sent ouer into Flanders the treasurer of the excheker and diuerse other noble men to fetch hostages line 60 from thence and to giue to the earle fifteene thousand pounds of siluer toward the fortifieng of his castels and holds King Philip being hereof aduertised by counsell of the peeres of his realme sent two honorable personages as the capteine of Mounstrell and the capteine of Belquerke which should attach the earle of Flanders by his bodie and summon him to yéeld himselfe prisoner at Paris within the space of fifteene daies next insuing This attachment made and summons giuen the earle of Flanders sent his full defiance vnto the French king by the abbats of Gemblois and Senefles vnto whome he gaue sufficient letters procuratorie to authorise them thereto dated at Male in the yeare of Grace 1296 after the accounts of the chronicles of Flanders which begin their yere at Easter and so this chanced in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Edwards reigne the wednesdaie next after the feast of the Epiphanie Herevpon was the earle accurssed Flanders interdicted by the archbishop of Reims and the bishop of Senlis comming vnto Terwane for that purpose about the fifteenth day of Iune in the yeare 1297. But the lord Robert the earles sonne appealed from that interdiction to the pope and so the Flemmings tooke themselues frée out of danger of the same Earle Guie also obteined of king Edward that it might be lawfull for them of Bruges to buy wools through England Scotland and Ireland as freelie as the Italians might by their priuilege and grant But to returne now to the dooings of king Edward who in this meane time hauing perfect knowledge of the league concluded betwixt the king of France and the king of Scotland prepared an armie and first sent ambassadors into Scotland to giue summons to king Iohn to appeare at Newcastell within certeine daies that he might there shew the cause whie he had broken the league and further to declare vnto him that he was deceiued if he thought he might serue two maisters contrarie to the words of the gospell and according to the old saieng which seldome neuer faileth in consequence Defuit ambobus qui vult seruire duobus For how much fauour as he purchased at the hands of the Frenth king so much displeasure might he assure himselfe to procure at the hands of the king of England whome to obeie it should be most for his aduantage The ambassadors that were sent did their message throughlie but king Iohn was so farre off from answering any thing that might sound to the maintenance of peace that shortlie after he sent letters of complaint vnto king Edward for wrongs which he alledged he had susteined by his means and at his hands Herevpon king Edward by aduise of his councell determined to set forward with his armie into Scotland In the meane time Robert Ros capteine of Warke castell reuolted to the Scotish king mooued therevnto through the loue of a Scotish gentlewoman whome he meant to marrie notwithstanding he had sworne fealtie vnto king Edward Where vpon his brother William de Ros giuing knowledge to king Edward required to haue some aid whereby he might defend the castell against the Scotishmen King Edward sent vnto him a thousand souldiers Polydor saith an hundred the which as they lodged one night in a towne called Prestfen were slaine by the Scotishmen of the garison of Rockesborough that were led and guided by the said Robert Ros some of them although but few escaped awaie by flight King Edward aduertised hereof hasted foorth and came to the said castell glad of this as is reported that the Scotishmen had first begun the warre meaning as it should seeme by their procéedings to follow the same for vpon Good friday diuerse Scotishmen entring the borders burnt sundrie villages and spoiled the abbeie of Carham Furthermore whilest king Edward kept his castell at Warke seauen earles of Scotland as Bouchan Menteth Stratherne Lennox Ros Atholl and Mar with Iohn Comin the maister of Badenaw hauing assembled an armie togither of fiue hundred men of armes on horssebacke and ten thousand footmen in Annandale vpon monday in Easter wéeke entred England and putting all to fire and sword approched to Carleill and laid siege therevnto on each side passing the water of Eden by a foord vnder Richardston and did so much preuaile that they burned the suburbes and assaulted the gates at which enterprise a gentleman of Galloway as he ventured somewhat neere to the gate was drawne vp by an iron hooke of those that stood aloft vpon the gates to defend the same and there slaine and thrust through with speares In the meane time a spie
men to his peace that would come and submit themselues those excepted which had beene at the siege of Tikehill castell or at the taking of the citie of Glocester or at the inuasion made vpon his men at Bridgenorth At his comming to a little village called Caldwell he sent afore him certeine bands to Burton vpon on Trent where he ment to haue lodged but the earles of Lancaster and Hereford the lords Roger Damorie Hugh Audelie the yonger Iohn de Mowbraie Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford Iohn Gifford de Bremâ—sfield Henrie Tieis and many other being gotten thither before kept the bridge and affailing the kings people which he had thus sent before some of them they slue and some they wounded so defending the bridge that none could passe and by reason that the waters and speciallie line 10 the riuer of Trent through abundance of raine that was latelie fallen were raised there was no meane to passe by the foords wherevpon the king was constreined to staie the space of thrée daies in which meane time the earles and their complices fortified the bridge at Burton with barriers and such like defenses after the maner of warre but the king at length vpon deliberate aduise taken how to passe the riuer ordeined that the earle of Surrie with certeine armed men should go ouer by a bridge that line 20 was thrée miles distant from Burton that he might come vpon the backes of the enimies as they were fighting with those that should assaile them afront The earles of Richmond and Penbroke were appointed to passe by a foord which they had got knowledge of with thrée hundred horssemen in complet armour and the king with his brother the earle of Kent should follow them with the residue of the armie sauing that Robert Aquarie or Waters with certeine bands of footmen was commanded to assaile line 30 the bridge which he did verie manfullie causing the archers crossebowes to annoie them that kept it so as he might draw the whole power of the enimies that waie till the king and the earles were passed by the foord But after that the earles of Lancaster and Hereford with their complices heard that the king was passed with his armie they came foorth with their people into the fields and put them in order of battell but perceiuing the great puissance which the king had there readie to encounter them line 40 without more adoo they fled setting fire on the towne and leauing all their vittels and other things behind them The kings people comming spéedilie forward and entring the towne quenched the fire and fell to the spoile of such things as the enimies for hast had left behind them The king kept nothing to himselfe but onelie a faire cup that belonged to the earle of Lancaster a péece esteemed to be of some great value On the same night being wednesdaie the king line 50 came to Tutburie and lodged in the castell sending foorth the next day with all spéed letters to the shiriffe of Derbishire and Notinghamshire aduertising him both of the successe he had against his enimies and withall pronouncing them and all their adherents rebels and traitors to him and his realme and that for such they should be reputed taken and vsed Wherefore he commanded in the same letters or writs vpon forfeiture of all that the said shiriffe might forfeit he should pursue the said rebels that is the earles of line 60 Lancaster and Hereford the lords Roger Damorie Hugh Andelie the yoonger Iohn de Mowbraie Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford Iohn Gifford de Brimesfield Henrie Tieis and all and euerie other person or persons that were of their confederacie or in their companies causing hue and crie to be raised vpon them in what part soeuer they might be heard of and in all places where the said shiriffe should thinke it expedient and to inioine and streightlie command all and singular persons the said rebels and enimies to pursue take and arrest and them to deliuer vnto the said shiriffe and that such as were not able to pursue them yet with hand or horne they should leuie hue and crie against them in paine that being found negligent herein to be accompted for fauourers and adherents to the said rebels and traitors and that the said shiriffe should thervpon apprehend them and put them in prison The writ was dated at Tutburie the eleuenth of March and the like writs were directed and sent foorth to all other shiriffes through the realme and likewise to the bishop of Durham and to the iustice of Chester Beside this he directed also other writs to the said shiriffes and others that although he had béene constreined to passe in forceable wise through diuerse parts of his realme and the marches of Wales to suppresse the malicious rebellion of diuerse his subiects and that as yet he was constreined to continue his iournie in such forceable wise neuertheles his pleasure was that the peace should be mainteined and kept throughout his realme with the statutes lawes and customes inuiolated and therfore he commanded the said shiriffes that they should cause the same to be proclaimed in places where was thought most expedient as well within liberties as without inhibiting that any maner of person of what state or condition soeuer he was vpon paine that might fall thereon to attempt any thing to the breach of peace but that euerie man should séeke to mainteine and preserue the peace and tranquillitie of the people with the statutes lawes and good customes of the land to the vttermost of his power this alwaies obserued that the rebels wheresoeuer they might be found should be arrested and committed to safe custodie The daie of this writ was at Tutburie aforesaid on the twelfth of March. The lord Roger Damorie laie sicke in his bed at the same time in the priorie of Tutburie who after he had heard what iudgement the king had pronounced against him departed this life within two daies after But the earles of Lancaster and Hereford with other in their companie that fled from the discomfiture at Burton lost manie men and horsses in their flieng away by reason of such pursuit as was made after them Diuerse of them that had taken part with the lords against the king came now and submitted themselues vnto him amongst the which were sir Gilbert de Ellesfield and sir Robert Helland knights The king yet had the said Holland in some suspicion bicause he had promised to haue come to him before The earle of Lancaster had sent him at this time to raise his tenants in Lancashire and to bring them vnto him but he deceiued him and came not to him at all wherevpon the earles of Lancaster and Hereford with the other barons being come vnto Pomâ—ret fell to councell in the Friers there and finallie after much debating of the matter and considering how by the vntrue dealing
Spensers and to the earle of Arundell so that there was line 30 cause whie they bare euill will to the Henuiers which had aided as yee haue heard to bring the said earle and Spensers to their confusion In this meane time the Scots being entred into England had doone much hurt and were come as farre as Stanop parke in Wiredale and though they had sent their ambassadours to treat with the king and his councell for peace yet no conclusion followed of their talke At the same time bicause the English souldiours of this armie were cloathed all line 40 in cotes and hoods embrodered with floures and branches verie séemelie and vsed to nourish their beards the Scots in derision thereof made a rime which they fastened vpon the church doores of saint Peter toward Stangate conteining this that followeth Long beards hartlesse Painted hoods witlesse Gaie cotes gracelesse Make England thriftlesse The king when he saw it was but a vaine thing to staie anie longer in communication with the ambassadors line 50 about peace departed from Yorke with his puissant armie and getting knowledge how the Scots were closelie lodged in the woods of Stanop parke he came and stopped all the passages so it was thought that he should haue had them at his pleasure but through treason as was after reported of the lord Roger Mortimer after that the Scots had béene kept within their lodgings for the space of fiftéene daies till they were almost famished they did not onelie find a waie out but about two hundred of line 60 them vnder the leading of the lord William Douglas assailing that part of the English campe where the kings tent stood in the night season missed not much of either taking the king or sleieng him and hauing doone hurt inough otherwise as in the Scotish chronicle is also touched they followed their companie and with them returned into Scotland without impeachment It is said that Henrie earle of Lancaster and Iohn the lord Beaumont of Heinault would gladlie haue passed ouer the water of Wire to haue assalted the Scots but the earle of March through counsell of the lord Mortimer pretending to haue right to the leading of the fore ward and to the giuing of the first onset would not suffer them Howsoeuer it was the king missed his purpose and right pensiue therefore brake vp his field and returned vnto London ¶ Walter bishop of Canturburie departed this life in Nouember and then Simon Mepham was aduanced to the gouernement of that sée The lord Beaumont of Heinalt was honorablie rewarded for his paines and trauell and then licenced to returne into his countrie where he had not beene long but that through his means then as some write the marriage was concluded betweene king Edward and the ladie Philip daughter to William earle of Heinault and neece to the said lord Beaumont who had the charge to sée hir brought ouer thither into England about Christmasse where in the citie of Yorke vpon the eeuen of the Conuersion of saint Paule being sundaie year 1328 in the latter end of the first yeare of his reigne king Edward solemnlie maried hir In the second yeare of his reigne about the feast of Pentecost king Edward held a parlement at Northampton at the which parlement by euill and naughtie counsell whereof the lord Roger Mortimer and the queene mother bare the blame the king concluded with the Scotish king both an vnprofitable and a dishonorable peace For first he released to the Scots their fealtie and homage Also he deliuered vnto them certeine old ancient writings sealed with the seales of the king of Scots and of diuerse lords of the land both spirituall and temporall amongst the which was that indenture which they called Ragman with manie other charters and patents by the which the kings of Scotland were bound as feodaries vnto the crowne of England at which season also there were deliuered certeine iewels which before time had béene woone from the Scots by the kings of England and among other the blacke crosier or rood is speciallie named And not onelie the king by his sinister councell lost such right and title as he had to the realme of Scotland so farre as by the same councell might be deuised but also the lords and barons and other men of England that had anie lands or rents within Scotland lost their right in like manner except they would dwell vpon the same lands and become liege men to the king of Scotland Herevpon was there also a marriage concluded betwixt Dauid Bruce the sonne of Robert Bruce king of Scotland and the ladie Iane sister to king Edward which of diuerse writers is surnamed Ione of the tower and the Scots surnamed hir halfe in derision Ione Make-peace This marriage was solemnised at Berwike vpon the daie of Marie Magdalen The quéene with the bishops of Elie and Norwich the earle Warren the lord Mortimer and diuerse other barons of the land and a great multitude of other people were present at that marriage which was celebrate with all the honour that might be After the quindene of saint Michaell king Edward held a parlement at Salisburie in which the lord Roger Mortimer was created earle of March the lord Iohn of Eltham the kings brother was made earle of Cornwall and the lord Iames Butler of Ireland earle of Ormond who about the same time had married the earle of Herefords daughter But the earle of March tooke the most part of the rule of all things perteining either to the king or realme into his owne hands so that the whole gouernment rested in a manner betwixt the queene mother and him The other of the councell that were first appointed were in manner displaced for they bare no rule to speake of at all which caused no small grudge to arise against the quéene and the said earle of March who mainteined such ports and kept among them such retinue of seruants that their prouision was woonderfull which they caused to be taken vp namelie for the queene at the kings price to the sore oppression of the people which tooke it displesantlie inough There was like to haue growen great variance betwixt the queene and Henrie earle of Lancaster by reason that one sir Thomas Wither a knight perteining to the said earle of Lancaster had slaine Robert Holland who had betraied sometime Thomas earle of Lancaster and was after committed to prison line 10 by earle Henries means but the queene had caused him to be set at libertie and admitted him as one of hir councell The quéene would haue had sir Thomas Wither punished for the murther but earle Henrie caused him to be kept out of the waie so that for these causes and other Henrie the earle of Lancaster went about to make a rebellion and the quéene hauing knowledge thereof sought to apprehend him but by the mediation of the
great seale was directed to the end that they might conueie the duke of Ireland in all safetie vnto the kings presence The shiriffe hauing receiued this commission togither with the foresaid Thomas Molineux raised a power and such as refused to serue in respect of such good will as they bare to the lords he committed to prison commanding the gailors to kéepe them streict in irons with bread and water till his returne Moreuer line 10 the king sent to sir Rafe Uernon sir Richard Ratcliffe willing them to assist the other And so thus they set forward with the number of fiue thousand men When the lords vnderstood that the duke of Ireland was marching towards London with such a power of men meaning to ioine with the Londoners and so to make as it had beene an inuincible armie they bestirred themselues and fell in hand to arme their men and to exhort one another that now they should not be negligent in their owne defense line 20 but make hast for the dispatching of those that craftilie had gone about to conspire their deaths And so these lords to wit the duke of Glocester the earles of Derbie Arundell Warwike and Notingham assembled their powers out of all quarters to incounter with the duke of Ireland and when they had got their companies togither they forelaied all the waies by which he was thought to come But the duke of Ireland hauing with him Molineux Uernon and Ratcliffe rode forward in statelie line 30 and glorious araie with an armie as ye haue heard of fiue thousand men supposing that none durst come foorth to withstand him Neuerthelesse when he came to Ratcote bridge not past foure miles from Cheping Norton which bridge if he could haue passed he had béene out of the danger of all enimies he suddenlie espied where the armie of the lords laie not far distant from him readie in the midst of a vallie to abide his comming Some of the earle of Derbies companie had broken the bridge so stopped his passage line 40 He therefore perceiuing his enimies intention staied and caused the kings banner to be spred and began to set a good countenance of the matter and to exhort his people to shew themselues valiant and herewith caused the trumpets to sound But when it appeared that as some were readie to fight in his quarell so there were other that quite forsooke him and said flatlie they would not fight against so manie noble men in so vniust a cause he being thereof aduertised began to wax faint-harted and to prepare line 50 himselfe to escape by flight and declaring no lesse openlie vnto them said Before we come to ioine I will séeke to withdraw my selfe out of the waie and saue my selfe if I can for me they onlie seeke against you they haue no quarell so that I being shifted awaie you shall easilie be preserued Herewith one of the knights said to him You haue brought vs out of our countrie you haue procured vs to giue you our promise you haue caused vs to take this iournie in hand here therefore are we readie to fight win the line 60 victorie with you if our hap be such or if fortune will not so fauour vs we are readie to spend our liues with you No said he ye shall not so doo and forthwith striking his horsse with spurs he fled from them for feare which had set wings on his héeles as one saith pedibus timor addidit alas Herevpon manie that were with him cursing this his demeanour prepared to yeeld themselues to the lords But Thomas Molineux determined to fight it out sith the lords were not yet all come togither to that place but onelie the earle of Derbie and certeine others Neuerthelesse after he had fought a while and perceiued it would not auaile him to tarie longer as one despairing of the victorie betooke him likewise to flight as the duke of Ireland had led him the waie and plunging into the riuer which was at hand it chanced that sir Thomas Mortimer being present amongst other at the same place willed him to come out of the water vnto him for if he would not he threatened to shoot him through with arrowes in the riuer where he stood If I come said Molineux will ye saue my life I will make thée no such promise said sir Thomas Mortimer but notwithstanding either come vp or thou shalt presentlie die for it Well then said Molineux if there be no other remedie suffer me to come vp and let me trie with hand-blowes either with you or some other and so die like a man But as he came vp the knight caught him by the helmet plucked it off his head streightwaies drawing foorth his dagger stroke him into the braines and so dispatched him This was the end of sir Thomas Molineux which through his bold and rash aduenture in a most dangerous and desperat case he pulled vpon himselfe and might as well haue auoided as incurred if the same prouident care of safetie had taken him in the head that mooued the duke of Ireland to take flight for his indemnitie wherein he séemed to remember that there is no safe attempting of any perilous enterprise without dread of danger for he that can tell when a thing is to be feared can tell in like sort when it is to be vndertaken as the wiseman verie sententiouslie saith Animus vereri qui scit scit tutò aggredi In the meane time the duke of Ireland as ye haue heard séeking to escape by flight came to the riuers side but finding the bridge broken he galoped till he found an other bridge where he found a number of archers readie to stop his passage When he saw that he was thus inclosed with his enimies on the one side and the riuer of Thames on the other he thought to put all in aduenture and casting awaie his gantlets and sword to be the more nimble gaue his horsse the spurres and lept into the riuer but missing the foord and not able to land with his horsse on the further side he forsooke him and swimming ouer so well as he might got to the banke and so escaped It was now night and therefore his enimies hauing no knowledge of the countrie followed him not but his horsse helmet curasses gantlets and sword being found it was thought verelie that he had béene drowned The next newes heard of him was that he had passed the seas and was got into Holland where he had no great freendlie welcome by reason that Albert duke of Bauiere who was lord of that countrie bare such good will to his coosins of England the dukes of Lancaster Yorke and Glocester that he commanded this duke of Ireland to depart foorth of his countrie as immediatlie therevpon he did from thence resorting to the bishoprike of Utreict and after into other countries till finallie he ended the course of his life as after in place conuenient shall
horssebacke addresse themselues to the battell and combat The duke of Hereford was quicklie horssed and closed his bauier and cast his speare into the rest and when the trumpet sounded set forward couragiouslie towards his enimie six or seuen pases The duke of Norfolke was not fullie set forward when the king cast downe his warder and the heralds cried Ho ho. Then the king caused their speares to be taken from them and commanded them to repaire againe to line 60 their chaires where they remained two long houres while the king and his councell deliberatlie consulted what order was best to be had in so weightie a cause Finallie after they had deuised and fullie determined what should be doone therein the heralds cried silence and sir Iohn Bushie the kings secretarie read the sentence and determination of the king and his councell in a long roll the effect wherof was that Henrie duke of Hereford should within fifteene daies depart out of the realme and not to returne before the terme of ten yeares were expired except by the king he should be repealed againe and this vpon paine of death and that Thomas Mowbraie duke of Norfolke bicause he had sowen sedition in the relme by his words should likewise auoid the realme and neuer to returne againe into England nor approch the borders or confines thereof vpon paine of death â—nd that the king would staie the profits of his lands till he had leuied thereof such summes of monie as the duke had taken vp of the kings treasuror for the wages of the garrison of Calis which were still vnpaid When these iudgements were once read the king called before him both the parties and made them to sweare that the one should neuer come in place where the other was willingliâ— nor kéepe any companie to â—ither in any forren region which oth they both receiued humblie and so went their waies The duke of Norfolke departed sorowfullie out of the relme into Almanie and at the last came to Uenice where he for thought and melancholie deceassed for he was in hope as writers record that he should haue béene borne out in the matter by the king which when it fell out otherwise it greeued him not a little The duke of Hereford tooke his leaue of the king at Eltham who there released foure yeares of his banishment so he tooke his iornie ouer into Calis and from thence went into France where he remained ¶ A woonder it was to sée what number of people ran after him in euerie towne and stréet where he came before he tooke the sea lamenting and bewailing his departure as who would saie that when he departed the onelie shield defense and comfort of the common-wealth was vaded and gone At his comming into France king Charles hearing the cause of his banishment which he esteemed to be verie light receiued him gentlie and him honorablie interteined in so much that he had by fauour obteined in mariage the onelie daughter of the duke of Berrie vncle to the French king if king Richard had not béene a let in that matter who being thereof certified sent the earle of Salisburie with all speed into France both to surmize by vntrue suggestion heinous offenses against him and also to require the French king that in no wise he would suffer his cousine to be matched in mariage with him that was so manifest an offendor This was a pestilent kind of proceeding against that nobleman then being in a forren countrie hauing béne so honorablie receiued as he was at his entrance into France and vpon view and good liking of his behauiour there so forward in mariage with a ladie of noble linage So sharpe so seuere so heinous an accusation brought to a strange king from a naturall prince against his subiect after punishment inflicted for he was banished was inough to haue made the French king his fatall â—o vpon suspicion of assaieng the like trecherie against him to haue throwne him out of the limits of his land But what will enuie leaue vnattempted where it is once setled And how are the malicious tormented with egernes of reuenge against them whom they maligne wringing themselues in the meane tiâ—e with inward pangs gnawing them at the hart wherevnto serueth the poets allusion Inuidia Siculi non inuenêre tyranni Maius tormentum On Newyeares day this yeare the riuer that passeth betwixt Suelleston or Snelston and Harewood year 1399 two villages not far from Bedford sudenlie ceassed his course so as the chanell remained drie by the space of thrée miles that any man might enter into and passe the same drie foot at his pleasure This diuision which the water made in that place the one part séeming as it were not to come néere to the other was iudged to signifie the reuolting of the subiects of this land from their naturall prince It may be that the water of that riuer sanke into the ground and by some secret passage or chanell tooke course till it came to the place where it might rise againe as in other places is likewise 〈◊〉 Ye haue heard before how the archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Arundell was banish the 〈◊〉 and Roger Walden was made archbishop oâ— that â—ee who was a great fauourer of the citie of London the which was eftsoones about this season falle 〈◊〉 the kings displeasure but by the diligent labour of this archbishop and of Robert Braibrooke then bishop of London vpon the humble supplication of the line 10 citizens the kings wrath was pacifâ—ed But yet to content the kings mind manie blanke charters were deuised and brought into the citie which manie of the substantiall and wealthie citizens were sâ—me to seale to their great charge as in the end appeared And the like charters were sent abroad into all shires within the realme whereby great grudge and murmuring arose among the people for when they were so sealed the kings officers wrote in the same what liked them as well for charging the parties with paiment line 20 of monie as otherwise In this meane time the duke of Lancaster departed out of this life at the bishop of Elies place in Holborne and lieth buried in the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London on the northside of the high altar by the ladie Blanch his first wife The death of this duke gaue occasion of increasing more hatred in the people of this realme toward the king for he seized into his hands all the goods that belonged to him and also receiued all the rents and reuenues of line 30 his lands which ought to haue descended vnto the duke of Hereford by lawfull inheritance in reuoking his letters patents which he had granted to him before by vertue wherof he might make his attorneis generall to sue liuerie for him of any maner of inheritances or possessions that might from thencefoorth fall vnto him and that his homage might be respited with making
so long as he bare the scepter The lord Reginald Graie of Ruthen by reason of his manour of Ashleie in Norfolke couered the tables and had for his fees all the tableclothes as well those in the hall as else-where when they were taken vp notwithstanding a petition exhibited by sir Iohn Draiton to haue had that office The same lord Graie of Ruthen bare the kings great spurs before him in the time of his coronation by right of inheritance as heire to Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke Iohn erle of Summerset by the kings assignement bare the second sword before him at his coronation albeit that the said lord Graie of Ruthen by petition exhibited before the lord steward demanded the same office by reason of his castell tower of Penbroke and of his towne of Denbigh Thomas earle of Arundell cheefe butler of England obteined to exercise that office the daie of the coronation and had the fées thereto belonging granted to him to wit the goblet with which the king was serued and other things to that his office apperteining the vessels of wine excepted that laie vnder the bar which were adiudged vnto the said lord steward the said earle of Arundels claime notwithstanding The citizens of London chosen foorth by the citie serued in the hall as assistants to the lord cheefe butler whilest the king sate at dinner the daie of his coronation and when the king entered into his chamber after dinner and called for wine the lord maior of London brought to him a cup of gold with wine and had the same cup giuen to him togither with the cup that conteined water to allay the wine After the king had drunke the said lord maior and the aldermen of London had their table to dine at on the left hand of the king in the hall Thomas Dimocke in right of his moother Margaret Dimocke by reason of the tenure of his manor of Scriuelbie claimed to be the kings champion at his coronation and had his sute granted notwithstanding a claime exhibited by Baldwin Freuill demanding that office by reason of his castell of Tamwoorth in Warwikeshire The said Dimocke had for his fees one of the best coursers in the kings stable with the kings saddle and all the trappers harnesse apperteining to the same horsse or courser he had likewise one of the best armors that was in the kings armorie for his owne bodie with all that belonged wholie therevnto Iohn lord Latimer although he was vnder age for himselfe and the duke of Norfolke notwithstanding that his possessions were in the kings hands by his atturnie sir Thomas Graie knight claimed and had the office of almoner for that daie by reason of certeine lands which sometime belonged to the lord William Beuchampe of Bedford They had a towell of fine linnen cloth prepared to put in the siluer that was appointed to be giuen in almes and likewise they had the distribution of the cloth that couered the pauement and floors from the kings chamber doore vnto the place in the church of Westminster where the pulpit stood The residue that was spread in the church the sexten had William le Uenour by reason he was tenant of the manor of Liston claimed and obteined to exercise the office of making wafers for the king the daie of his coronation The barons of the fiue ports claimed and it was granted them to beare a canopie of cloth of gold ouer the K. with foure staues foure bels at the foure corners euerie staffe hauing foure of those barons to beare it also to dine and sit at the table next to the king on his right hand in the hall the daie of his coronation and for their fees to haue the forsaid canopie of gold with the bels and staues notwithstanding the abbat of Westminster claimed the same Edmund chambers claimed and obteined the office of principall larderer for him and his deputies by reason of his manour of Skulton otherwise called Burdellebin Skulton in the countie of Norfolke Thus was euerie man appointed to exercise such office as to him of right apperteined or at the least was thought requisit for the time present On mondaie then next insuing when the states were assembled in parlement order was taken that by reason of such preparation as was to be made for the coronation they should sit no more till the morow after saint Edwards daie On the sundaie following being the euen of saint Edward the new king lodged in the Tower and there made fortie six knights of the Bath to wit thrée of his sonnes the earle of Arundell the earle of Warwike his sonne the earle of Stafford two of the earle of Deuonshires sonnes the lord Beaumont the lord line 10 Willoughbies brother the earle of Staffords brother the lord Camois his sonne the lord of Maule Thomas Beauchampe Thomas Pelham Iohn Luttrell Iohn Lisleie William Haukeford iustice William Brinchleie iustice Bartholomew Rachford Giles Daubenie William Butler Iohn Ashton Richard Sanape Iohn Tiptost Richard Francis Henrie Persie Iohn Arundell William Strall Iohn Turpington Ailmer Saint Edward Hastings Iohn Greislcie Gerald Satill Iohn Arden line 20 Robert Chalons Thomas Dimocke Hungerford Gibethorpe Newport and diuerse other to the number of fortie and six On the morow being saint Edwards daie and the thirtéenth of October the lord maior of London road towards the Tower to attend the king with diuerse worshipfull citizens clothed all in red and from the Tower the king rode through the citie to Westminster where he was consecrated annointed and crowned king by the archbishop of Canturburie line 30 with all ceremonies and roiall solemnitie as was due and requisit Though all other reioised at his aduancement yet suerlie Edmund Mortimer earle of March which was coosine and heire to Lionell duke of Clarence the third begotten sonne of king Edward the third Richard earle of Cambridge sonne to Edmund duke of Yorke which had married Anne sister to the same Edmund were with these dooings neither pleased nor contented insomuch that now the diuision once begun the one linage ceassed not to line 40 persecute the other till the heires males of both the lines were cléerlie destroied and extinguished At the daie of the coronation to the end he should not séeme to take vpon him the crowne and scepter roiall by plaine extorted power and iniurious intrusion he was aduised to make his title as heire to Edmund surnamed or vntrulie feined Crookebacke sonne to king Henrie the third and to saie that the said Edmund was elder brother to king Edward the first and for his deformitie put by from the crowne line 50 to whom by his mother Blanch daughter and sole heire to Henrie duke of Lancaster he was next of blood and vndoubted heire But because not onelie his fréends but also his priuie enimies knew that this was but a forged title considering they were suerlie informed
Warkewoorâ— Wherevpon the earle of Northumberland 〈◊〉 thinking himselfe in suertie at Berwike 〈◊〉 with the lord Berdoise into Scotland where tâ—ey were receiued of Dauid lord Fleming 〈◊〉 king comming to Berwike commanded 〈◊〉 that kept the castell against him to render it â—â—to his hands and when they flatlie denied so to doo he caused a péece of artillerie to be planted against one of the towers and at the first shot ouerthrowing part thereof they within were put in such feare that they simplie yéelded themselues without any maner of condition wholie to remaine at the kings pleasure Herevpon the chiefest of them to wit sir William Greistoke sonne to Rafe baron of Greistoke sir Henrie Beinton and Iohn Blenkinsop with foure or fiue other were put to death and diuerse other were kept in prison Some write that the earle of Northumberland at his entring into Scotland deliuered the towne of Berwike vnto the Scots who hearing of king Henries approch and despairing to defend the towne against him set fire on it and departed There was not one house that was left vnburnt except the friers and the church After that the king had disposed things in such conuenient order as stood with his pleasure at Berwike he came backe and had the castell of Alnewike deliuered vnto him with all other the castels that belonged to the erle of Northumberland in the north parts as Prodhow Langlie Cockermouth Aluham and Newstéed Thus hauing quieted the north parts he tooke his iournie directlie into Wales where he found fortune nothing fauourable vnto him for all his attempts had euill successe in somuch that loâ—â—ng fiftie of his cariages through abundance of raine and waters he returned and comming to Worcester he sent for the archbishop of Canturburie and other bishops declaring to them the misfortune that had chanced to him in consideration whereof he requested them to helpe him with some portion of monie towards the maintenance of his warres for the taming of the presumptuous and vnquiet Welshmen In the meane time the French king had appointed one of the marshals of France called Montmerancie and the master of his crosbowes with twelue line 10 thousand men to saile into Wales to aid Owen Glendouer They tooke shipping at Brest and hauing the wind prosperous landed at Milford hauen with an hundred and fourtie ships as Thomas Walsingham saith though Enguerant de Monstrellet maketh mention but of an hundred and twentie The most part of their horsses were lost by the waie for lacke of fresh water The lord Berkleie and Henrie Paie espieng their aduantage burnt fiftéene of those French ships as they laie at road there in the hauen line 20 of Milford and shortlie after the same lord Berkleie and sir Thomas Swinborne with the said Henrie Paie tooke other fourtéene ships as they came that waie with prouision of vittels and munition foorth of France to the aid of the other In the meane while the marshall Montmerancie with his armie besieged the towne of Carmarden and wan it by composition granting to the men of warre that kept it against him licence to depart whither they would to take with them all their mooueable line 30 goods the castell of Penbroke they assaulted not estéeming it to be so well manned that they shuld but lose their labour in attempting it Notwithstanding they besieged the towne of Hereford west which neuerthelesse was so well defended by the earle of Arundell and his power that they lost more than they wan and so they departed towards the towne of Denbigh where they found Owen Glendouer abiding for their comming with ten thousand of his Welshmen Here were the Frenchmen ioifullie receiued line 40 of the Welsh rebels and so when all things were prepared they passed by Glamorganshire towards Worcester and there burnt the suburbes but hearing of the kings approch they suddenlie returned towards Wales The king with a great puissance followed and found them imbattelled on a high mounteine where there was a great vallie betwixt both the armies so that either armie might plainelie perceiue the other and either host looked to be assailed of his aduersarie line 50 therefore sought to take the aduantage of ground Thus they continued for the space of eight daies from morning till night readie to abide but not to giue battell There were manie skirmishes and diuerse proper feats of armes wrought in that meane while in the which the French lost manie of their nobles and gentlemen as the lord Paâ—rouâ—tars de Tries brother to the marshall of France the lord Matelonne or Martelonne the lord de la Ualle and the bastard of Bourbon with other to the number line 60 as some haue written of fiue hundred But Enguerant de Monstrellet affirmeth that vpon their returne into France there wanted not aboue thréescore persons of all their companies After they had laine thus one against an other the space of eight daies as before is said vittels began to faile so that they were inforced to dislodge The French and Welshmen withdrew into Wales and though the Englishmen followed yet impeached with the desart grounds and barren countrie thorough which they must passe as our felles and craggie mounteins from hill to dale from marish to wood from naught to woorsse as Hall saith without vittels or succour the king was of force constrâ—â—ned to retire with his armie and returne againe to Worcester in which returne the enimies tooke certeine cariages of his laden with vittels The Frenchmen after the armies were thus withdrawne returned into Britaine making small brags of their painefull iournie This yeare at London the earle of Arundell maried the bastard daughter of the king of Portingale the king of England and the quéene with their presenâ—â— honoring the solemnitie of that feast which was kept with all sumptuous roialtie the morrow after saint Katharins daie ¶ And on the daie of the Conception of our ladie the ladie Philip king Henries daughter was proclamed quéene of Denmarke Norwaie and Sweden in presence of such ambassadors as the last summer came hither from the king of those countries to demand hir in marriage for him and had so trauelled in the matter that finallie they obteined it ¶ On the daie of the translation of saint Martine the towne of Roiston was on fire This yeare the first of March a parlement began which continued almost all this yeare year 1406 for after that in the lower house they had denied a long time to grant to any subsidie yet at length a little before Christmasse in the eight yeare of his reigne they granted a fifteenth to the losse and great damage of the communaltie for through lingering of time the expenses of knights and burgesses grew almost in value to the summe that was demanded Moreouer by the clergie a new kind of subsidie was granted to the king to be leuied of stipendarie priests and
capteine thereof sir Rafe Greie defended it so manfullie for the space of twentie daies that king Iames being then aduertised that the earle of Northumberland was comming to fight with him fled with no lesse losse than dishonor and inough of both line 20 Shortlie after that the duke of Burgognie had béene before Calis at the desire of princes a truce for a time was moued to be had betwéene the king of England the said duke For which cause were sent to Grauelin for the king of England Henrie Beauford cardinall of Winchester Iohn lord Mowbraie duke of Northfolke Humfrie earle of Stafford and diuerse other well learned honorable personages And for the duke of Burgognie there appeared the duchesse his wife the bishop of Arras the lord of line 30 Croie and diuerse other At this treatie a truce was taken for a small time and for a lesse obserued which was concluded betweene the king of England and the duchesse of Burgognie interlacing the duke and his name Some thinke that the king of England would neuer enter in league with him bicause he had broken his promise oth and writing sealed to him and to his father Other imagined this to be doone of a cautell to cast a mist before the French kings eies to the line 40 intent he should beléeue that this feat was wrought by the duchesse without assent or knowledge of the duke or his councell and so he was not bound to accomplish anie act or thing doone in his wiues treatie Thus may you sée that princes sometime with such vaine glosses and scornefull expositions will hide their dooings and cloke their purposes to the intent they would not either be espied or else that they may plucke their heads out of the collar at their pleasure But as the common opinion goeth he which is line 50 a promise-breaker escapeth not alwaies with impunitie For it is well seene by dailie and vsuall euents both in princes and priuat persons that for violating their faith and breaking of promise manie discommodities arise and inconueniences not a few doo follow To the due keeping whereof the heathen bare such a religious conscience that a prophane man in respect of others preferreth it before sacrifice the sentence is of great excellencie out of a pagans mouth Non boue mactato coelestia numina gaudent line 60 Sed quae praestanda est sine teste fide About this season queene Katharine mother to the king of England departed out of this life and was buried by hir husband in the abbeie of Westminster This woman after the death of king Henrie the fift hir husband being yoong and lustie following more hir owne wanton appetite than fréendlie counsell and regarding more priuate affection than prince-like honour tooke to husband priuilie a galant gentleman and a right beautifull person indued with manie goodlie gifts both of bodie mind called Owen Teuther a man descended of the noble linage and ancient line of Cadwallader last king of the Britains By this Owen she brought foorth thrée goodlie sonnes Edmund Iasper and another that was a monke in Westminster and liued a small time also a daughter which in hir youth departed out of this transitorie life King Henrie after the death of his mother bicause they were his brethren of one wombe created Edmund earle of Richmund and Iasper earle of Penbroke which Edmund of Margaret daughter and sole heire to Iohn duke of Summerset begat Henrie who after was king of this realme called Henrie the seuenth of whome ye shall heare more in place conuenient This Owen after the death of the quéene his wife was apprehended and committed toward bicause that contrarie to the statute made in the sixt yeare of this king he presumptuouslie had maried the quéene without the kings especiall assent out of which prison he escaped and let out other with him but was againe apprehended and after escaped againe ¶ Polychronicon saith that he was a squier of low birth and like degrée the same author also reporteth that he was commanded to Newgate by the duke of Glocester then lord protector of the realme out of which prison he brake by the helpe of a preest that was his chapline Neuerthelesse he was apprehended afterwards by the lord Beaumont brought againe to Newgate whence when he had remained there a while he was deliuered and set at libertie The duchesse of Bedford also sister to Lewes erle of S. Paule more for affection than increase of honour without counsell of hir freends maried a lustie yoong knight called sir Richard Wooduile to the great displeasure of hir vncle the bishop of Terwine and the earle hir brother This sir Richard was made baron of Riuers and after earle and had by this ladie manie noble sonnes and faire daughters of the which one was the ladie Elizabeth after queene of England by reason she was married vnto Edward the fourth ¶ Whilest this marriage was a celebrating Iane late quéene of England and before duchesse of Britaine daughter to the king of Nauarre and wife to king Henrie the fourth died at the manor of Hauering and was buried by hir husband at Canturburie ¶ About the same time deceassed also the countesse of Warwike and Henrie archbishop of Yorke In this yeare also the duke of Summerset accompanied with the lords of Fauconbridge Talbot sir Francis Surien the Arrogonnois Matthew Gough Thomas Paulet Thomas Harington Walter Limbrike Iohn Gedding William Watton esquiers and Thomas Hilton bailiffe of Rone with a great companie of the English partie besieged the towne of Harflue latelie before gotten by the Frenchmen both by water and land the capteine within the towne was one sir Iohn d'Estouteuille hauing his brother Robert with him and a six hundred good fighting men The assailants cast trenches and so fortified themselues in their campe and lodgings that when the earles of Ew and Dunois the valiant bastard of Bourbon the lord Gawcourt and other famous capteins with a foure thousand men sent to the rescue of them within came bâ—fore the towne they could not succour their fréends nor annoie their enimies by anie meanes they could deuise so for feare to lose honour they returned backe againe with much trauell and little profit The capteins within the towne perceiuing they could not be aided did shortlie after render the towne to the duke of Summerset who after committed it to the kéeping of Thomas Paulet William Limbrike Christopher Barber and George saint George which manie yeares till the diuision began in England manfullie and valiantlie defended both the towne and the hauen But afterward when this duke of Summerset was regent and gouernour of Normandie he not onlie lost this towne of Harflue but also the citie of Rone and the whole duchie of Normandie whereas now being but a deputie he got it to his high praise and glorie In this yeare was Iames king of Scots murthered
by certeine traitors of his owne subiects euen in his bedchamber by night which king saith Polychr had beene prisoner in England fifteene yeares the murtherers of whom being afterwards taken were terriblie executed The lord Talbot besieged Tankeruile and after line 10 foure moneths had it simplie to him rendered This towne was no great gaine to the Englishmen for in the meane season the French king in his owne person besieged the strong towne of Monstreau fault Yonne whereof Thomas Gerard being capteine more for desire of reward than for feare of enimies sold the towne to the French king and had of him great gifts and interteinement as afterwards was openlie knowen This towne had béene rescued of the French king fought withall if one chance line 20 had not happened For the duke of Yorke about that time was discharged of his office and the earle of Warwike preferred to the same so that the duke of Yorke lieng as then at Rone would haue gladlie rescued the towne if his authoritie had not surceassed and the earle of Warwike could not come in time for the wind was contrarie to him This present yeare was a parlement holden at Westminster in the which manie good and profitable acts for the preseruation of concord at home and defense line 30 against the enimies abroad were ordeined and deuised ¶ Arthur of Britaine constable of France and Iohn duke of Alanson were sent by the French king into Normandie with a great armie to besiege the towne of Auranches standing vpon the knop of an hill where after they had laien a certeine space without gaine the lord Talbot with a valiant companie of men came thither and offered the enimies battell Which when they at all hands refused the lord Talbot perceiuing their faint harts raised his field line 40 and in the open sight of them all entered into the towne and the next daie issued out and finding the Frenchmen riding abroad to destroie the plaine countrie he compassed them about and slue manie of them and tooke diuerse prisoners Although the Frenchmen got neither honor nor profit by this iournie yet they enterprised a greater matter as the winning of Rone in so much that Pouton de Santreils and the Hire with manie other notable capteins hauing promise of certeine burgesses of that line 50 citie to haue entrie made them secretlie in the night came forward to a towne called Rise or Riz not past foure leagues from Rone and there lodged The lord Talbot the lord Scales and sir Thomas Kiriell hearing of their approch set out of Rone at midnight with great paine came to Rise so couertlie in the morning that the French suddenlie surprised and set vpon like men all amazed ran awaie and fled In the chase were taken the lord of Fontains sir Aleine Geron sir Lewes de Balle and thréescore line 60 knights and esquiers beside others and there were slaine two hundred and more The Hire escaped verie narrowlie by swiftnesse of his horsse though not vnwounded The Englishmen returned to the towne of Rise and found there great number of horsses other baggages which they ioiouslie brought with them to Rone On the sixt daie of Nouember this present yeare the earle of Warwike as regent of France passed the sea after he had beene seuen times shipped and vnshipped and landed at Homflue with a thousand fresh souldiers and came to Rone and then the duke of Yorke returned into England Betwéene the change of these two capteins the duke of Burgognie which sore enuied the glorie of the Englishmen besieged the towne of Crotoy with ten thousand men and more hauing with him great plentie of guns and goodlie ordinance The earle of Warwike aduertised hereof sent the lord Fauconbridge sir Thomas Kiriell sir Iohn Montgomerie Thomas Limbrike Thomas Chandois Dauid Hall and diuerse other knights and esquiers and an host of fiue thousand men which passed the riuer of Some beside the towne of saint Ualerie wading in the water vp to the chin so glad were they to rescue their felowes When the duke of Burgognie was informed of the approching of the lord Talbot he with all his power sauing foure hundred which were left in a bastile by him there newlie builded fled to Abuile the bastile was soone gained by the Englishmen and those within either slaine or taken After this the lord Talbot sent to the duke of Burgognie signifieng that except he would come foorth and bide by a battell he would vtterlie wast his countrie of Picardie According wherevnto the duke of Burgognie shrinking he burnt townes spoiled and slue manie people in Picardie But for all those his doings the duke of Burgognie appeared not but got him from Abuile to Amiens so that the lord Talbot abode twentie daies full in Picardie and Arthois destroieng all afore him and after returned vntouched In the meane season sir Thomas Kiriell had gotten all the dukes cariages and ordinance and left as much vittell in the towne of Croitoy as would serue six hundred men a whole yeare and conueied the residue to the earle of Warwike who highlie praised them for their hardie dooings After this Henrie earle of Mortaigne sonne to Edmund duke of Summerset ariued at Chierburgh with foure hundred archers thrée hundred speares and passed through Normandie till he came into the countie of Maine where he besieged a castell called saint Anian in the which were thrée hundred Scots besides Frenchmen This castell he tooke by assault slue the Scots and hanged the Frenchmen bicause they were once sworne English After this he got also another castell two miles from saint Iulians called Alegerche which was shortlie after recouered and the lord of Camewis which came to the rescue of the same in the meane waie was intrapped and taken Thus flowed the victorie sometime on the one partie and sometime on the other For about the same time the townes of Meaux in Brie and saint Susan were sold and deliuered to the French part by the vntruth of the burgesses and inhabitants of the same towns about the latter end of this sixteenth yeare This yeare by reason of great tempests raging winds and raine there rose such scarsitie that wheat was sold at three shillings foure pense the bushell wine at twelue pense the gallon year 1439 baisalt at fourtéene pense the bushell and malt at thirteene shillings foure pense the quarter and all other graines at excessiue prices aboue the old rate ¶ Wherevpon Steuen Browne saith Polychronicon at the same season maior of London tendering the state of the citie in this want of breadcorne sent into Pruse certeine ships which returned loden with plentie of rie wherwith he did much good to the people in that hard time speciallie to them of the citie where the want of corne was not so extreame as in some other places of the land where the poore distressed people that were hungerbitten made them bred of ferne roots
great triumphs princelie feastings Touching the pompe had and vsed at the setting forward of this ladie on hir voiage it is a note worth the reading and therefore necessarilie here interlaced for honours sake ¶ On the eightéenth of Iune Margaret sister to K. Edward the fourth began hir iornie from the Wardrobe in London toward hir marriage with Charles duke of Burgognie first the offered in the church of saint Paule and then rode thorough the citie the earle of Warwike riding before hir with earles and barons a great number the duchesse of Norffolke with other ladies and gentlewomen in great number And at hir entrie into Cheape the maior of London and his brethren the aldermen presented hir with a paire of rich basons in them an hundred pounds of gold and that night she lodged at the abbeie of Stratford where the king then laie from thense she tooke hir iournie to Canturburie The king riding after to sée hir shipping on the first of Iulie she tooke the sea at Margate and there tooke leaue of the king hir brother and departed There returned backe againe with the king the duke of Clarence the duke of Glocester the earles of Warwike Shrewesburie and Northumberland And there abode with hir in the ship the lord Scales the lord Dacres hir chamberlaine sir Iohn Wooduile sir Iohn Howard and manie other famous knights and esquiers She was shipped in the new Ellen of London and in hir nauie the Iohn of Newcastell the Marie of Salisburie and manie other roiall ships and on the morrow landed at Sluis in Flanders Now as soone as hir ship companie of ships were entered into the hauen there receiued hir sir Simon de Lelein and the water bailiffe in diuerse boats and barks apparelled readie for hir landing The first estate that receiued hir was the bishop of Utright well accompanied and the countesse of Shorne bastard daughter to duke Philip of Burgognie and with hir manie ladies and gentlewomen and so procéeding in at the gate of the towne the same towne was presented to hir she to be souereigne ladie thereof also they gaue to hir twelue marks of gold Troie weight the which was two hundred pounds of English monie and so procéeded thorough the towne to hir lodging euerie housholder standing in the street with a torch in his hand burning On the morow the old duchesse of Burgognie came to hir accompanied with manie great estates On the third of Iulie came the duke of Burgognie to Sluis with twentie persons secretlie and was there openlie affianced to the ladie Margaret by the bishop of Salisburie and the lord Scales in presence of the lord Dacres the duchesse of Norffolke the ladie Scales and all the knights esquiers gentlewomen inuironing the chamber line 10 On the 8 of Iulie being saturdaie by the duke of Burgognies appointment the lady Margaret remoued by water to the Dame And on the sunday in the morning betwixt fiue and six of the clocke the mariage was solemnized betwixt them by the bishops of Salisburie and of Turneie there being present the old duches of Burgognie the lord Scales the lord Dacres with the knights esquiers ladies gentlewomen that came out of England The great triumphs feastings shewes of pageants with other line 20 strange deuises and iustings were such as I haue not read the like and would be ouer long in this place to set downe ¶ Of this aliance with other more mention is honorablie made in the declaration of the causes that moued the Quéene of England to giue aid to the defense of the people afflicted oppressed in the low countries by the Spaniards namelie for the maintenance of perpetuall amitie Which declaration is so set foorth in this booke as the same in the seuen and twentith line 30 yeare of hir maiesties reigne was published vnto which yeare I remit the reader for the further search thereof for that it conteineth much memorable matter touching the manifest causes of concord to be continued betwéene them of the low countries and vs English Sir Thomas Cooke late maior of London was by one named Hawkins appeached of treason for the which he was sent to the Tower and his place within London seized by the lord Riuers and his wife and line 40 seruants cleerelie put out therof The cause was this The forenamed Hawkins came vpon a season vnto the said sir Thomas requesting him to lend a thousand markes vpon good suertie wherevnto he answered that first he would know for whome it should be and for what intent At length vnderstanding it should be for the vse of queene Margaret he answered he had no currant wares whereof anie shifts might be made without too much losse and therefore required Hawkins to line 50 mooue him no further in that matter for he intended not to deale withall yet the said Hawkins exhorted him to remember what benefits he had receiued by hir when she was in prosperitie as by making him hir wardrober and customer of Hampton c. But by no meanes the said Cooke would grant goods nor monie although at last the said Hawkins required but an hundred pounds he was faine to depart without the value of a penie and neuer came againe to mooue him which so rested two or three years line 60 after till the said Hawkins was cast in the Tower and at length brought to the brake called the duke of Excesters daughter by meanes of which paine he shewed manie things amongst the which the motion was one that he had made to sir Thomas Cooke and accused himselfe so farre that he was put to death By meane of which confession the said sir Thomas was troubled as before is shewed when the said sir Thomas had laine in the Tower from Whitsuntide till about Michaelmas in the which season manie inquiries were made to find him guiltie and euer quit till one iurie by meanes of sir Iohn Fog indicted him of treason after which an oier and terminer was kept at the Guildhall in which sat with the maior the duke of Clarence the earle of Warwike the lord Riuers sir Iohn Fog with other of the kings councell To the which place the said Thomas was brought and there arreigned vpon life and death where he was acquited of the said indictement and had to the counter in Breadstreet and from thence to the kings bench After a certeine time that he was thus acquited his wife got againe the possession of hir house the which she found in an euill plight for such seruants of the lord Riuers and sir Iohn Fog as were assigned to kéepe it made hauocke of what they listed Also at his place in Essex named Giddihall were set an other sort to kéepe that place the which destroied his déere in his parke his conies and his fish without reason and spared not brasse pewter bedding all that they might carie for the which might neuer one penie be gotten in recompense
and well-willer for whose onelie sake he caused both their bodies to be buried with their ancestors in the priorie of Bissam On the tuesdaie in Easter wéeke came knowledge to king Edward that quéene Margaret the wife of king Henrie with hir sonne prince Edward was landed vpon Easter day at Weimouth in Dorsetshire accompanied with Iohn Longstrother prior of saint Iohns commonlie called lord treasuror of England who went ouer into France to fetch them also the lord Wenlocke a man made onelie by king Edward beside diuerse other knights and esquiers of whome part had béene long foorth of the realme and part newlie gone ouer thither to them in companie of the lord treasuror They tooke their ships at Hunflue the foure and twentith of March as before you haue heard but through contrarie winds and tempests they were driuen backe and constreined to abide for conuenient wind Now although it came sometimes about sit for their purpose yet it continued not long in that end so as if therevpon they tooke the sea at anie time they were forced to returne backe againe to land yer they could passe halfe the way ouer And thus being diuerse times vnder saile in hope to passe the seas hither into England they were still driuen backe againe till the thirtéenth of Aprill being Easter éeuen on which day the wind comming fauorablie about they tooke the seas and sailed forward towards this land The countesse of Warwike hauing a ship of aduantage arriued before the other at Portesmouth and from thence she went to Southhampton meaning to haue gone to Weimouth where she vnderstood that the quéene was landed but here had shee knowledge of the losse of Barnet field and that hir husband was there slaine Wherevpon she went no further towards the queene but secretlie got hir ouer the water into the new forrest and tooke sanctuarie within the abbeie of Beaulieu Quéene Margaret and hir sonne prince Edward with the other that landed at Weimouth went from thence to an abbeie néere by called Céerne Thither came vnto them Edmund duke of Summerset and Thomas Courtneie earle of Deuonshire with others and welcommed them into England comforting the quéene in the best maner they could and willed hir not to despaire of good successe for albeit they had lost one field whereof the queene had knowledge the same day being mondaie in easter wéeke the fiftéenth of Aprill and was therefore right sorrowfull yet they doubted not but to assemble such a puissance and that verie shortlie foorth of diuerse parts of the realme as being faithfull and wholie bent to spend their liues and shed the best bloud in their bodies for hir sake hir sonnes it should be hard for king Edward to resist them with all the power he had or could make The presence of these noble men greatlie comforted hir and relieued hir of the sorrowes that in maner ouerwhelmed hir pensiue heart for she doubted sore the end of all these procéedings the which they concluded to follow vpon the aduancement of hir and hirs Speciallie it misgaue hir that some euill should chance to hir sonne prince Edward for shee greatlie weied not of hir owne perill as she hir selfe confessed and therefore she would gladlie haue had them either to haue deferred the battell till a more line 10 conuenient time or else that hir sonne might haue béene conueied ouer into France againe there to haue remained in safetie till the chance of the next battell were tried but they being of a contrarie mind and namelie the duke of Summerset she at length consented vnto that which they were resolued vpon Thus euerie man being bent to battell gathered his power by himselfe first in Summersetshire Dorsetshire and part of Wiltshire and after in Deuonshire line 20 and Cornewall For the better incouraging of which countries to ioine with them in their quarrell they repaired to Excester Here they sent for sir Iohn Arundell and sir Hugh Courtenie and manie other in whom they had anie confidence To be short they wrought so that they raised the whole powers of Cornewall and Deuonshire and with a great armie departing foorth of Excester they tooke the right waie to Glastenburie and from thence to Bath raising the people in all parts where they line 30 came for those countries had bene so laboured first by the earle of Warwike and after by the duke of Summerset and the earle of Deuonshire which two noble men were reckoned as old inheritors of the same countries that the people séemed there greatlie inclined to the fauor of king Henrie King Edward being at London was dailie aduertised by faithfull espials of all the dooings of his aduersaries and was in no small agonie bicause he could not learne what waie his enimies ment to line 40 take for he purposed to incounter them in one place or other before they should approch neere to London And vpon such resolution with such an armie as he had got about London furnished with all artillerie and other prouisions necessarie he set forward the nintéenth of Aprill and came to Windsore where he staied a season as well to celebrate the feast of saint George as to abide the comming of such hands as he had appointed to repaire thither vnto him making line 50 there his generall assemblie The enimies to masker him the more sent foorth their foreriders vnto sundrie townes both aswell to raise people in the countries about as to make the king beléeue that their purpose was to passe those waies where they ment not once to come And herevpon when they departed from Excester they sent first their foreriders streight to Shaftesburie and after to Salisburie and then they tooke the streight waie to Taunton Glastenburie and after to Wels line 60 where houering about in the countrie they sent another time their foreriders to a towne called Yuell and to Bruton as if their meaning had béene to draw towards Reading and so through Barkeshire and Oxfordshire to haue marched streight to London or else to haue set vpon the king at some aduantage if it were offered But king Edward considering aduisedlie of the matter perceiued well that they being in an angle of the realme if they ment to go to London they must either hold the streight waie foorth by Salisburie or else drawing vp to the sea side passe alongst through Hampshire Sussex and Kent or happilie if they mistrusted their owne strengths as not able to match with his puissance they would then slip on the left hand and draw towards Chesshire and Lancashire there to increase their forces and peraduenture by the waie to ioine with a power of Welshmen vnder the leading of Iasper earle of Penbroke who had béene sent into Wales long afore to frame and put in a readines the people there to assist king Henries friends at their comming thitherwards And such was there purpose in deed for they had great confidence in such aid as they trusted to
he had shewed vnto the king before times ¶ This yéere the Scots began to stir against whom the king sent the duke of Glocester manie others which returned againe without any notable battell In this verie season Iames the third of that name king of Scots sent into England a solemne ambassage for to haue the ladie Cicilie king Edwards second daughter to be married to his eldest sonne Iames prince of Scotland duke of Rothsaie and line 40 earle of Caricke King Edward and his councell perceiuing that this affinitie should be both honourable and profitable to the realme did not onelie grant to his desire but also before hand disbursed certeine summes of monie to the onelie intent that the marriage hereafter should neither be hindered nor broken With this condition that if the said mariage by anie accidentall meane should in time to come take none effect or that king Edward would notifie to the king of Scots or his councell that his pleasure line 50 was determined to haue the said marriage dissolued then the prouost and merchants of the towne of Edenburgh should be bound for repaiment of the said summes againe All which things were with great deliberation concluded passed and sealed in hope of continuall peace and indissoluble amitie But king Iames was knowne to be a man so wedded to his owne opinion that he could not abide them that would speake contrarie to his fansie by meanes whereof he was altogither led by the counsell line 60 and aduise of men of base linage whome for their flatterie he had promoted vnto great dignities and honourable offices By which persons diuerse of the nobilitie of his realme were greatlie misused and put to trouble both with imprisonment exactions death insomuch that some of them went into voluntarie exile Amongst whome Alexander duke of Albanie brother to king Iames being exiled into France passing through England taried with K. Edward and vpon occasion mooued him to make warre against his brother the said king Iames for that he forgetting his oth promise and affinitie concluded with king Edward caused his subiects to make roads and forraies into the English borders spoiling burning and killing king Edwards liege people King Edward not a little displeased with this vnprincelie dooing prouoked and set on also by the duke of Albanie determined to inuade Scotland with an armie as well to reuenge his owne iniuries receiued at the hands of king Iames as to helpe to restore the duke of Albanie vnto his countrie and possessions againe Herevpon all the Winter season he mustered his men prepared his ordinance rigged his ships and left nothing vnprouided for such a iournie so that in the beginning of the yeare all things apperteining to the warre and necessarie for his voiage were in a readinesse To be the cheefteine of his hoast and lieutenant generall Richard duke of Glocester was appointed by his brother king Edward and with him were adioined as associats Henrie the fourth earle of Northumberland Thomas lord Stanleie lord steward of the kings house the lord Louell the lord Greiestocke and diuerse other noble men and worthie knights These valiant capteins came to Alnewike in Northumberland about the beginning of Iulie where they first incamped themselues marshalled their hoast The fore-ward was led by the earle of Northumberland vnder whose standard were the lord Seroope of Bolton sir Iohn Middleton sir Iohn Dichfield and diuerse other knights esquiers souldiers to the number of six thousand and seauen hundred In the midle-ward was the duke of Glocester and with him the duke of Albanie the lord Louell the lord Greiestocke sir Edward Wooduile and other to the number of fiue thousand eight hundred men The lord Neuill was appointed to follow accompanied with three thousand The lord Stanleie led the wing on the right hand of the dukes battell with foure thousand men of Lancashire Cheshire The lord Fitz Hugh sir William a Parre sir Iames Harrington with the number of two thousand souldiers guided the left wing And beside all these there were one thousand appointed to giue their attendance on the ordinance ¶ In this yeare Edmund Shaw goldsmith and maior of London newlie builded Creplegate from the foundation which gate in old time had bene a prison wherevnto such citizens and other as were arrested for debt or like trespasses were committed as they be now to the counters as maie appeare by a writ of king Edward the second in these words Rex vic' London salutem Ex graui querela capti detenti in prisona nostra de Creplegate pro x li. quas coram Radulpho Sandwico tunc custode ciuitatis nostrae London I. de Blackewell custode recognit debitorum c. King Edward held his Christmas at Eltham and kept his estate all the whole feast in his great chamber and the quéene in hir chamber where were dailie more than two thousand persons The same yeare on Candlemas day he with his quéene went on procession from saint Stephans chappell into Westminster hall accompanied with the earle of Angus the lord Greie sir Iames Liddall ambassadors from Scotland And at his procéeding out of his chamber he made sir Iohn Wood vnder-treasuror of England sir William Catesbie one of the iustices of the ōcmon plées knights But to returne to the kings affaires concerning Scotland The roiall armie aforesaid not intending to lose time came suddenlie by the water side to the towne of Berwike and there what with force and what with feare of so great an armie tooke and entered the towne but the earle of Bothwell being capteine of the castell would in no wise deliuer it wherfore the capteins vpon good and deliberate aduise planted a strong siege round about it When this siege was laid the two dukes and all the other souldiers except the lord Stanleie sir Iohn Eldrington treasuror of the kings house sir William a Parre and foure thousand men that were left behind to keepe the siege before the castell departed from Berwike toward Edenburgh and in marching thitherward they burnt and destroied manie townes and hastiles King Iames hauing small confidence in his communaltie and lesse trust in his nobilitie kept himselfe within the castell of Edenburgh The duke of Glocester entered into the towne and line 10 at the especiall desire of the duke of Albanie saued the towne and the inhabitants from fire bloud and spoile taking onelie of the merchants such presents as they gentlie offered to him and his capteins causing Gartier principall king at armes to make a publike proclamation at the high crosse in the market place of Edenburgh by the which he warned and admonished king Iames to kéepe obserue and performe all such promises compacts couenants and agreements as he had concluded and sealed line 20 with the king of England and also to make sufficient recompense vnto his subiects for the tyrannie spoile and crueltie which he and his
that he purposeth to be one though he paie for nothing else And yet must he be twise asked whether he will be bishop or no and he must twise saie naie and the third time take it as compelled therevnto by his owne will And in a stage plaie all the people know right well that one plaieng the Soldan is percase a sowter yet if one should can so little good to shew out of season what aquaintance he hath with him and call him by his owne name while he standeth in his maiestie one of his tormentors might hap to breake his head and worthie for marring of the plaie And so they said that these matters be kings games as it were stage plaies and for the more part plaied vpon scaffolds in which poore men be but the lookers on And they that wise be will meddle no further For they that sometime step vp and plaie with them when they can not plaie their parts they disorder the plaie and doo themselues no good Thus farre Edward the fift who was neuer king crowned but shamefullie by his vncle slaine as in the processe following appeereth Richard the third third sonne to Richard duke ofYorke and vncle to Edward the fift T He next daie the protector with a great traine went to Westminster hall there line 20 when he had placed himselfe in the court of the Kings bench declared to the audience that he would take vpon him the crowne in that place there where the king himselfe sitteth and ministreth the law bicause he considered that it was the chiefest dutie of a king to minister the lawes Then with as pleasant an oration as he could he went about to win vnto him the nobles the merchants the artificers line 30 and in conclusion all kind of men but especiallie the lawiers of this realme And finallie to the intent that no man should hate him for feare and that his deceitfull clemencie might get him the good will of the people when he had declared the discommodities of discord the coÌ„modities of concord vnitie he made an open proclamation that he did put out of his mind all enimities and that he there did openlie pardon all offenses committed against him And to the intent that he might shew a proofe therof line 40 he commanded that one Fog whom he had long deadlie hated should be brought then before him who being brought out of the sanctuarie for thither had he fled for feare of him in the sight of the people he tooke him by the hand Which thing the common people reioised at and praised but wise men tooke it for a vanitie In his returne homeward whom so euer he met he saluted For a mind that knoweth it selfe guiltie is in a manner deiected to a seruile flatterie which refuseth no dutifulnesse tend the same to neuer so hie a degrée of indignitie which one noteth saieng rides maiore cachinno Concutiâ—ur flet si lachrymas aspexit amici Frigescis friget si dixeris aestuo sudat When he had begun his reigne in the moneth of Iune after this mockish election then was he crowned king in the verie same moneth And that solemnitie was furnished for the most part with the selfe same prouision that was appointed for the coronation of his nephue * But here to shew the manner of his coronation as the same is inserted in this pamphlet of sir Thomas More by maister Edward Hall and Richard Grafton although not found in the same pamphlet thus we find it by them reported * First to be sure of all enimies as he thought he sent for fiue thousand men of the north against his coronation which came vp euill apparelled and worse harnessed in rustie harnesse neither defensible nor scowred to the sale which mustered in Finsburie field to the great disdaine of the lookers on By which beginning it appéered to the world that he had his state in suspicion otherwise he would not haue procured such a power to be attendant at his commandment and that at such time as all weapons laid aside peace and tranquillitie should haue béene sought after for the comforts of the peoples minds the safetie of his owne person but being verie mistrustfull fraught with carefull thoughts he was in a maze betwéene hope and feare according to this verie true saieng Sollicitae mentes spéque metúque pauent The fourth daie of Iulie he came to the Tower by water with his wife and the fift daie he created Thomas lord Howard duke of Norffolke and sir Thomas Howard his sonne he created earle of Surrie and William lord Berkeleie was then created erle of Nottingham and Francis lord Louell was then made vicount Louell and the king his chamberleine and the lord Stanleie was deliuered out of ward for feare of his sonne the lord Strange which line 10 was then in Lancashire gathering men as men said and the said lord was made steward of the king his houshold likewise the archbishop of Yorke was deliuered but Morton bishop of Elie was committed to the duke of Buckingham to kéepe in ward which sent him to his manour of Brecknocke in Wales from whence he escaped to king Richard his confusion The same night the king made seuenteene knights of the Bath whose names insue Sir Edmund the duke of Suffolks sonne sir George Greie the earle line 20 of Kents sonne sir William the lord Zouches sonne sir Henrie Aburgauennie sir Christopher Willoughbie sir William Berkeleie sir Henrie Babington sir Thomas Arundell sir Thomas Bologne sir Gerueis of Clifton sir William Saie sir Edmund Bedingfield sir William Enderbie sir Thomas Lekenor sir Thomas of Urmâ—n sir Iohn Browne sir William Berkeleie The next daie being the fift daie of Iulie the king line 30 rode through the citie of London toward Westminster with great pompe being accompanied with these dukes earles lords and knights whose names follow Edward prince of Wales the kings onelie sonne Dukes the duke of Norffolke the duke of Buckingham the duke of Suffolke Earles the earle of Northumberland the earle of Arundell the earle of Kent the earle of Surrie the earle of Wilshire the earle of Huntington the earle of Nottingham the earle of Warwike the earle of line 40 Lincolne Lords the lord Lisle vicount the lord Louell vicount the lord Stanleie the lord Audleie the lord Dacres the lord Ferrers of Chertleie the lord Powes the lord Scroope of Upsall the lord Scroope of Bolton the lord Greie Codner the lord Greie of Wilton the lord Sturton the lord Cobham the lord Morleie the lord Aburgauennie the lord Zouch the lord Ferrers of Grobie the lord Welâ—es the lord Lomleie the lord Matrouers the lord Herbert the lord Becham Knights sir Iames line 50 Tirell sir William Kneuet sir Thomas Aborow sir William Stanleie sir William Aparre sir George Browne sir Robert Middleton sir Iohn Henningham sir Nicholas Latimer sir Thomas Montgomerie sir Thomas Delamer sir Gilbert Debnam sir Terrie
out of his realme seigniories and dominions About the same time king Henrie receiued the ambassadors that were sent to him from the French king and had béene staied at Douer till the Cornish rebels were vanquished and subdued Also the lord of Camphire and other oratours of Philip archduke of Austrich and duke of Burgognie came to him for the conclusion of amitie and to haue the English merchants to resort againe to their countrie Which request being verie agréeable to the quietnesse and wealth of his realme and especiallie at that time he did fauourablie grant and agrée vnto And so did the Englishmen resort againe into the archdukes dominions and were receiued into Antwerpe with generall procession so glad was that towne of their returne Shortlie after the concluding of the truce betweene England and Scotland Perkin Warbecke being willed of the king of Scots to depart out of the Scotish dominions sailed with his wife and familie into Ireland there determining with himselfe either to repaire into Flanders to his first setter vp the duches of Burgognie or else ioine and take part with the Cornishmen But howsoeuer it came to passe whilest he laie in Ireland he had knowledge from the Cornishmen that they were readie to renew the warre againe Wherevpon he minding not to let passe so faiâ—e an occasion hauing with him foure small ships and not aboue six score men sailed into Cornewall and there landed in the moneth of September and came to a towne called Bodman and there did so prouoke the wauering people what with faire words and large promises that he gathered to him aboue thrée thousand persons which immediatlie called him their capteine promising to take his part and follow him to the death Then Perkin well incouraged made proclamations in the name of king Richard the fourth as sonne to king Edward the fourth And by the aduise of his three councellors Iohn Heron mercer a bankrupt Richard Skelton a tailor and Iohn Astelie a scriuener determined first of all to assaie the winning of Excester Then hasting thither he laid siege to it and wanting ordinance to make batterie studied all waies possible how to breake the gates and what with casting of stones heauing with iron barres and kindling of fire vnder the gates he omitted nothing that could be deuised for the furtherance of his purpose The citizens perceiuing in what danger they stood first let certeine messengers downe by cords ouer the wall that might certifie the king of their necessitie trouble And herewith taking vnto them boldnesse of courage determined to repell fire with fire and caused fagots to be brought and laid to the inward parts of the gates and set them all on fire to the intent that the fire being inflamed on both sides the gates line 10 might as well keepe out their enimies from entring as shut in the citizens from fléeing out and that they in the meane season might make trenches and rampires to defend their enimies in stéed of gates and bulworks Thus by fire was the citie preserued from fire Then Perkin of verie necessitie compelled to forsake the gates assaulted the towne in diuerse weake and vnfortified places and set vp ladders to take the citie But the citizens with helpe of such as were line 20 come foorth of the countrie adioining to their aid so valiantlie defended the walles that they slue aboue two hundred of Perkins souldiers at that assault The king hauing aduertisement of this siege of Excester hasted foorth with his host in as much speed as was possible and sent the lord Daubeneie with certeine bands of light horssemen before to aduertise all men of his comming at hand But in the mâ—ane season the lord Edward Courtneie earle of Deuonshire and the valiant lord William his sonne accompanied line 30 with sir Edmund Carew sir Thomas Trenchard sir William Courtneie sir Thomas Fulford sir Iohn Halewell sir Iohn Croker Water Courtnie Peter Edgecombe William saint Maure with all spéed came into the citie of Excester and holpe the citizens and at the last assault was the earle hurt in the arme with an arrow and so were manie of his companie but verie few slaine When Perkin saw that he could not win the citie of Excester sith he sawe it was so well fortified both line 40 with men and munitions he departed from thence and went vnto Taunton and there the twentith day of September he mustered his men as though he were readie to giue battell but perceiuing his number to be minished by the secret withdrawing of sundrie companies from him he began to put mistrust in all the remnant In déed when the people that followed him in hope that no small number of the nobilitie would ioine with him saw no such matter come to passe they stale awaie from him by secret companies When the king heard that he was gone to line 50 Taunton he followed after him with all spéed And by the way there came to him Edward duke of Buckingham a yoong prince of great towardnesse and him followed a great companie of noble men knights and esquiers as sir Alexander Bainam sir Maurice Barkleie sir Robert Tame sir Iohn Guise sir Robert Pointz sir Henrie Uernon sir Iohn Mortimer sir Thomas Tremaile sir Edward Sutton sir Amise Paulet sir Iohn Birkneâ—ll sir line 60 Iohn Sapeotes sir Hugh Lutterell sir Francis Cheineie and diuerse other At the kings approching to the towne of Taunton he sent before him Robert lord Brooke lord steward of his house Giles lord Daubeneie his chiefe chamâ—erleine and sir Rice ap Thomas But as soone as Perkin was informed that his enimies were readie to giue him battell he that nothing lesse minded than to fight in open field with the kings puissance dissembled all the daie time with his companie as though nothing could make him afraid and about midnight accompanied with thrée score horssemen he departed from Taunton in post to a sanctuarie towne beside Southampton called Beaudlie there he and Iohn Heron with other registred themselues as persons priuileged When as king Henrie knew that Perkin was thus fled he sent after him the lord Daubeneie with fiue hundred horssemen toward the sea side to apprehend him before he should get away Although Perkin escaped as I haue said vnto sanctuarie yet manie of his chiefe capteins were taken and presented to the king Also the horssemen that were sent without anie stop or staie came to saint Michaels mount and there as chance was found the ladie Katharine Gordon wife to Perkin and brought hir streight to the king At whose beautie and amiable countenance the king much maruelled and thought hir a preie more meet for a prince than for the meane souldiers and sent hir incontinentlie vnto London to the queene accompanied with a sort of sage matrones and gentlewomen bicause she was but yoong The common people that had followed Perkin after that their chéefeteine was
which was called Peter Uacz de Cogna with whome I dwelled an whole yeare which said knight had but one eie And bicause I desired to see other countries I tooke licence of him and then I put my selfe in seruice with a Britan called Pregent Meno which brought me with him into Ireland Now when we were there arriued in the towne of Corke they of the towne bicause I was arraied with some cloths of silke of my said maisters came vnto me threatned vpon me that I should be the duke of Clarences sonne that was before time at Dublin But forsomuch as I denied it there was brought vnto me the holie euangelists and the crosse by the maior of the towne which was called Iohn Leweline and there in the presence of him and others I tooke mine oth as the truth was that I was not the foresaid dukes sonne nor none of his bloud And after this came vnto me an Englishman whose name was Stephan Poitron and one Iohn Water and laid to me in swearing great oths that they knew well that I was king Richards bastard sonne to whome I answered with like oths that I was not Then they aduised me not to be afeard but that I should take it vpon me boldlie and if I would so doo they would aid and assist me with all their power against the king of England not onelie they but they were well assured that the earle of Desmond Kildare should doo the same For they forced not what part they tooke so that they might be reuenged on the king of England and so against my will made me to learne English and taught me what I should doo and saie And after this they called me duke of Yorke second sonne to king Edward the fourth bicause king Richards bastard sonne was in the hanâ—s of the king of England And vpon this the said Water Stephan Poitron Iohn Tiler Hughbert Burgh with manie others as the foresaid earles entered into this false quarell and within short time others The French K. sent an ambassador into Ireland whose name was Loit Lucas and maister Stephan Friham to aduertise me to come into France And thense I went into France and from thense into Flanders from Flanders into Ireland and from Ireland into Scotland so into England When the night of the same daie being the fifteenth of Iune was come after he had stood all that daie in the face of the citie he was committed to the Tower there to remaine vnder safe kéeping least happilie he might eftsoones run awaie and escape out of the land to put the king and realme to some new trouble For he had a woonderfull dextèritie and readinesse to circumuent a heart full of ouerreaching imaginations an aspiring mind a head more wilie I wisse than wittie bold he was and presumptuous line 10 in his behauiour as forward to be the instrument of a mischeefe as anie deuiser of wickednesse would wish a féend of the diuels owne forging nursed and trained vp in the studie of commotions making offer to reach as high as he could looke such was his inordinate ambition wherewith he did swelâ— as coueting to be a princes peere much like the tode that would match the bull in drinking but in the end she burst in péeces and neuer dranke more as the poet telleth the tale by the imitation of the fabler saieng line 20 cupiens aequare bibendo Rana bouem rupta nunquam bibit ampliùs aluo In this yeare was an Augustine frier called Patrike in the parties of Suffolke the which hauing a scholer named Rafe Wilford a shoomakers sonne of London as Stow noteth had so framed him to his purpose that in hope to worke some great enterprise as to disappoint the king of his crowne and seat roiall tooke vpon him to be the earle of Warwike insomuch that both the maister and scholer hauing counselled betwéene themselues of their enterprise line 30 they went into Kent there began the yoong mawmet to tell priuilie to manie that he was the verie earle of Warwike and latelie gotten out of the Tower by the helpe of this frier Patrike To which saiengs when the frier perceiued some light credence to be giuen he declared it openlie in the pulpit and desired all men of helpe But the danger of this seditious attempt was shortlie remooued and taken awaie the maister and scholer being both apprehended line 40 and cast into prison and atteinted The scholer was hanged on Shrouetuesdaie at saint Thomas Waterings and the frier condemned to perpetuall prison For at that time so much reuerence was attributed to the holie orders that to a préest although he had committed high treason against his souereigne lord his life was spared in like case as to anie other offendor in murther rape or theft that had receiued anie of the three higher holie orders The chéefe cause saith Edward Hall of this line 50 fauour was this bicause bishops of a long time and season did not take knowledge nor intermix themselues with the search punishment of such heinous and detestable offenses by reason whereof they did not disgrade and depriue from the holie orders such malefactors and wicked persons which without that ceremonie by the canon lawes could not be put to death Furthermore what should a man saie it was also vsed that he that could but onelie read yea although line 60 he vnderstood not what he read how heinous or detestable a crime so euer he had committed treason onelie excepted should likewise as affines alies to the holie orders be saued and committed to the bishops prison And to the intent that if they should escape and be againe taken committing like offense that their liues be no more to them pardoned it was ordeined that murtherers should be burnt on the brawne of the left hand with an hot iron signed with this letter M. and théeues in the same place with this letter T. So that if they which were once signed with anie of these marks or tokens did reiterate like crime offense againe should suffer the paines and punishments which they had both merited and deserued Which decrée was enacted and established in a session of parlement kept in the time of this kings reigne and taken as I coniecture of the French nation which are woont if they take anie such offendor to cut off one of his eares as a sure token and marke hereafter of his euill dooing Perkin Warbecke as before ye haue heard being now in hold by false persuasions and great promises corrupted his kéepers Stranguish Blewet Astwood and long Roger seruants to sir Iohn Digbie lieutenant of the Tower Insomuch that they as it was at their arreignment openlie prooued intended to haue slaine their maister and to haue set Perkin and the earle of Warwike at large Which earle of Warwike had beene kept in prison within the Tower almost from his tender yeares that is
their attendance And there in the palace were such martiall feats valiant iusts vigorous turneis and such fierce fight at the barriers as before that time was of no man had in remembrance Of this roiall triumph lord Edward duke of Buckingham was chiefe chalenger and lord Thomas Greie marquesse Dorset chiefe defender which with their aids and companions bare themselues so valiantlie that they got great praise and honour both of the Spaniards and of their owne countriemen During the time of these iusts and triumphs were receiued into London an earle a bishop and diuerse noble personages sent from the king of Scots into England for conclusion of the mariage betwéene the ladie Margaret and him which earle by proxie in the name of king Iames his maister affied and contracted the said ladie Which affiance was published at Paules crosse the daie of the conuersion of saint Paule in reioising whereof Te Deum was soong and great fiers made through the citie of London These things being accomplished the ambassadors as well of Spaine as Scotland tooke their leaue of the king year 1502 not without great rewards returned into their countries When the ambassadors were deparâ—ed he sent his sonne prince Arthur againe into Wales to keepe that countrie in good order appointing to him wise and expert councellors as sir Richard Poole his kinsman which was his chiefe chamberleine also sir Henrie Uernon sir Richard Crofts sir Dauid Philip sir William Udall sir Thomas Englefield sir Peter Newton knights Iohn Walleston Henrie Marion doctor William Smith president of his councell and doctor Charles of the which two doctors the one was after bishop of Lincolne and the other bishop of Hereford ¶ This yeare Iohn Shaw who was maior of London caused his brethren the aldermen to ride from the Guildhall vnto the water side when he went to Westminster to be presented in the excheker He also caused the kitchens and other houses of office to be builded at the Guildhall where since that time the maiors feasts haue béene kept which before had béene in the grosers or tailors hall About Easter all the Greie friers in England changed their habit for whereas of long time before they had vsed to weare browne russet of foure shillings six shillings and eight shillings the yard now they were compelled to weare russet of two shillings the yard and not aboue which was brought to passe by the friers of Gréenewich This yeare the dike called Turnemill brooke with all the course of Fléet dike were so scowred downe to the Thames that boates with fish and fewell were rowed vp to Holborne bridge as they of old time had beene accustomed which was a great commoditie to all the inhabitants in that part of London Also the tower néere to the Blacke friers was taken downe by the commandement of the maior Also this yeare were brought vnto the king thrée men taken in the new found Ilands by Sebastian Gabato before named in Anno 1468. These men were clothed in beasts skins and eat raw flesh but spake such a language as no man could vnderstand them of the which thrée men two of them were séene in the kings court at Westminster two yeares after clothed like Englishmen and could not be discerned from Englishmen A few moneths before the mariage of prince Arthur Edmund de la Poole earle of Suffolke sonne to Iohn duke of Suffolke and ladie Elizabeth sister to king Edward the fourth being bold and rash withall was indicted of murther for sâ—eaing of a meane person in his rage furie And although the king pardoned him whome he might iustlie haue put to death for that offense yet bicause he was brought to the barre before the kings Bench and arraigned which fact he tooke as a great blemish to his honour shortlie after vpon that displeasure he fled into Flanders vnto his aunt the ladie Margaret the king not being priuie to his going ouer Neuerthelesse whether he was persuaded by his fréends therevnto whom the king had willed to deale with him therein or whether vpon trust of his innocencie true it is that he returned againe and excused himselfe to the king so that he thought him to be giltlesse of anie crime that might be obiected against him But when the mariage betwixt the prince the ladie Katharine of Spaine was kept at London this erle either for that he had passed his compasse in excessiue charges and sumptuousnesse at that great triumph and solemnitie and by reason thereof was farre run line 10 into debt either else through the procurement of his aunt the foresaid ladie Margaret or pricked with some priuie enuie which could not patientlie with open eies behold king Henrie being of the aduerse faction to his linage so long to reigne in wealth and felicitie in conclusion with his brother Richard fled againe into Flanders This departure of the earle sore vexed the king doubting of some new trouble to insue thereof But yet to vnderstand the full meaning of the line 20 said earle the king vsed his old fetch for immediatlie after the earle was fled he appointed sir Robert Curson whome he had aduanced to the order of knighthood and made capteine of Hammes castell a valiant man and a circumspect to dissemble himselfe one of that conspiracie who went into Flanders to espie what was doone there by the ladie Margaret and hir nephue the earle of Suffolke After that the said sir Robert Curson was thus gone into Flanders the king to put him out of all suspicion line 30 with the said ladie Margaret and the earle caused the said earle and sir Robert Curson and fiue persons more to be accurssed at Paules crosse the first sundaie of Nouember as enimies to him and his realme To be breefe the king by his meanes and other such diligent inquisition as he made tried out such as he suspected partlie to be deuisers of mischéefe against him and partlie to beare no sincere affection towards his person so that he could readilie name line 40 them whereof a great part were within few daies apprehended and taken And amongst them William lord Courtneie sonne to the earle of Deuonshire which maried the ladie Katharine daughter to king Edward the fourth lord William de la Poole brother to the foresaid earle of Suffolke sir Iames Tirrell sir Iohn Windam Both the Williams were rather taken of suspicion bicause they were so neere of kin to the conspirator than for anie prooued line 50 matter But sir Iames Tirrell and Iohâ— Windam bicause they were traitors and so attainted the sixt daie of Maie after their apprehension they were on the Tower hill beheaded When the earle of Suffolke heard what fortune thus happened to his fréends as one in vâ—ter despaire to haue anie good successe in his pretensed enterprise wandred about all Germanie and France to purchase somâ— aid and succour if by anie means he might But when he
as the armie marched forward by negligence of the carters that mistooke line 40 the waie a great curtall called the Iohn Euangelist was ouerthrowne in a déepe pond of water and could not quicklie be recouered The king being aduertised that the Frenchmen approched to fight with him left the gun bicause the maister carpenter vndertooke to weie it shortlie out of the water set forward passing on by Tornohan which he left on his right hand and a little beyond pitched downe his field abiding for his enimies the which as he was informed were not far off On the line 50 morrow after being wednesdaie the Reliefe of the speares brought word that they had ascried the French armie comming forward in order of battell to the number of eleuen thousand footmen and foure thousand horssemen Capteins of this armie were the lord de la Palice the lord de Priennes the duke of Longuile the earle of S. Paule the lord of Floringes the lord of Cleremont Richard de la Poole a banished man son to Iohn duke of Suffolke They came within two miles of the kings armie and there line 60 the footmen staled and came no further But certeine of the horssemen to the number of thrée thousand came forward and at the end of a wood shewed themselues in ope◠〈◊〉 of the English armie And thus they stood countenancing the Englishmen Some of the northerne prickers made to them and in skirmishing with them tooke some of them prisoners About noone the same daie that valiant Welsh knight sir Rice ap Thomas with his retinue of horssemen being departed from the siege of Terrouan came to the king and streightwaies was sent to the earle of Essex which with two hundred speares was laid in a stale if the Frenchmen had come neerer When they were ioined togither they drew about the hill hauing with them sir Thomas Guilford with two hundred archers on horssebacke meaning to set on the Frenchmen which perceiuing that and doubting least more companie had followed they suddenlie drew backe and ioined them with their great battell Then the earle of Essex and the English horssemen followed them till they came néere to the armie of France and then scaled and sent foorth light horssemen to view the demeanor of the Frenchmen When the Frenchmen of armes were returned to their battell then both the horssemen and footmen withdrew in order of battell and still the English currors followed them for the space of three leagues and then returned to the earle making report to him of that they had séene who then brake vp his stale and came to the king declaring to him how the Frenchmen were gone backe This was called the drie wednesdaie for the daie was woonderfull hot and the king with his armie stood in order of battell from six of the clocke in the morning till three of the clocke in the after noone And some died for lacke of moisture and generallie euerie man was burned about the mouth with heat of the stomach for drinke lacked and water was not neere After this the king remooued toward Terrouan and as he was setting forward the lord Walon of Flanders came to him with his horssemen which were alreadie in the kings wages As the armie passed by negligence the same daie in a lane was ouerthrowne one of the kings bombards of iron called the red gun and there left The king lodged that night two miles from saint Omers on the north side of the towne On the thursdaie being the eight and twentith of Iulie the maister carpenter with an hundred carpenters and labourers without knowledge of the marshall went to weie vp the great gun that was in the pond as ye haue heard and by force of engins drew it vp and carted it readie to bring awaie but suddenlie there came an eight hundred Frenchmen with speares crossebowes and handguns which set on the labourers so fiercelie that notwithstanding their manfull defense the most part of them were slaine and the residue taken and both they and the péece of ordinance conueied to Bullongne The Frenchmen glad of this chance assembled a great number to fetch the other gun which laie yet in the lane But the lord Berners being capteine of the pioners and hearing all these things prepared to recouer that gun and so in the morrow ment to fetch it There were appointed to go backe to see him safe conducted the earle of Essex with his companie of speares sir Rice ap Thomas with his retinue and sir Iohn Neuill with the Northumberland men The Almans also were commanded to retire backe to the succours of them that were gone for the gun The Almans went foorth till they came within two miles of the place where the gun laie and further they would not go The Frenchmen to the number of nine or ten thousand men as some estéemed were abroad and came toward the place where the Englishmen were carting the peece of ordinance The Northumberland horssemen hauing espied them gaue knowledge to the residue of the Englishmen who prepared themselues to defend their ground against the enimies and the earle of Essex sent to the lord Walon willing him with his companie to come to his aid but the lord Walon sent word againe that he was come to serue the king of England more than for one daie and therefore he wished that all the Englishmen would returne sith that with the great power of France they were not able to match This answer was much displeasant to the earle of Essex and the other capteins In this mâ—ane time the foreriders of the French part were come to the hands of the Englishmen and so they fell in skirmish very hotlie but at length all things considered and speciallie the small number of the Englishmen being not aboue seuen hundred horssemen it was thought best that they should returne and follow the gun which they had sent forward Herevpon they retreited in order and not in anie flieng manner still following the gun The Frenchmen perceiuing that pricked forward to the number line 10 of two thousand horssemen came iust to the backs of the Englishmen who therewith cast about and made returne to the Frenchmen Sir William Tiler and sir Iohn Sharpe were the first that charged and after all the other Englishmen The Frenchmen fled immediatlie so fast backe that happie was he that might be formost The whole host séeing their horssemen thus had in chase suddenlie returned The earle of Essex withdrew to an hill and there caused his trumpet to blow to the standard for feare of subtile line 20 dealing and when his men were come in and gathered togither he returned On the same daie being fridaie the nine and twentith of Iulie the king came to Arkes there incamped whither the earle of Essex came to him and declared what had beene doone that daie the king thanking him and other the capteins for their paines and diligence
three little miles from the king of Scots And betwéene the king him was a goodlie large corne field called Milfield which was a conuenient faire ground for two hosts to fight on there either host might perceiue other The earles desire was to procure the Scots to descend the hill into some euen ground where he might fight with them without disaduantage of place But the king though he had a great desire to fight yet vpon diuerse considerations by aduise of his councell he still kept his ground and meant not to remooue at all out of his strength Wherevpon the earle of Surrie not able long to continue in such grounds of disaduantage by reason of mires and marishes amongst the which he lodged with his armie that was almost famished for lacke of sufficient vittels which could not be recouered in such a barren countrie determined to séeke all waies possible if he might constreine the Scotish king to come downe beside the hill He therefore raised his campe and leauing his enimies on the left hand and passing ouer the water of Till he drew into a more commodious ground at the end of Barmore wood to the end he might refresh his souldiers some what hereby after they had beene toiled for the space of thrée daies togither in cloggie mires and foule filthie waies to their disease and wearinesse The earle of Surrie being thus lodged the water of Till ran betwixt the two campes of Scots and Englishmen diuiding them in sunder and still by reason the one was within the shot of a culuering of the other they ceassed not to bestow shot and ponder either at other though without dooing anie great hurt at all For the English campe on that part which laie toward the Scots was couered with an hill rising from the hither banke of Till water with an easie steepenesse to the height of a miles space or thereabouts Thomas lord Howard sonne and heire to the earle of Surrie from the top of this hill beholding all the countrie on euerie side about him declared to his father that if he did eftsoons remooue his campe and passe the water of Till againe in some place a little aboue and by fetching a small compasse come shew himselfe on the backe halfe of his enimies the Scotish king should either be inforced to come downe foorth of his strength and giue battell or else be stopped from receiuing vittels or anie other thing out of Scotland The earle of Surrie desirous of nothing so much as to ioine with the Scots in battell after he vnderstood that his sonne had informed him nothing but truth he raised his field and marching a thrée miles vpward by the riuer side passed ouer his armie in two parts at two seuerall bridges all at one time King Iames when he saw this manner of his enimies and perceiuing what their meaning was by coniecture of their dooings thought it stood not with his honor to sit still and suffer himselfe to be forestalled foorth of his owne realme and againe that it might sore diminish the opinion of his princelie power if he seemed to remaine as it were besieged within a fortresse hauing more confidence in strength of the place than in the manhood of his people wherevpon immediatlie he raised his campe and got an hill which he doubted least the enimie should haue taken before him But by such diligence as he vsed and by reason of the great smoke which was raised and spred ouer all the countrie by burning of the litter and cabbins wherein the Scots had lodged purposelie set on fire to the same intent he was got to the place whither he intended before the Englishmen knew for anie certeintie that he was dislodged though they were as then within a mile of him Thus king Iames kéeping the tops of the hils the earle of Surrie with the English armie came to the foot of the same hils and staieng there a while for so much as he saw how the hill to the which the Scots were gotten was neither steepe nor hard to ascend he determined to mount the same and to fight with the Scotish hoast yer they should haue leasure to fortifie their campe Héerewith calling his people togither he made vnto them a bréefe oration declaring vnto them both what necessitie there was for them to shew their manhood and what iust causes they had also to fight against those enimies that against both the lawes of God and man had most cruellie inuaded the relme of England in the quarrell of a schismatike and one line 10 that was accurssed and excommunicated by the censures of the church The Englishmen kindled with desire to fight the more thorough those words of the earle required incontinentlie to be led foorth against the Scots that they might shew what earnest wils they had to be reuenged not onelie of new receiued wrongs but also of ancient iniuries for there should neither heigth of hill nor anie other obstacle hinder them but they would either returne with victorie or line 20 else lose their liues in the paine The earle of Surrie conceiued no small hope of victorie in this chearefull readinesse of his souldiors and therevpon with all spéed as the occasion then mooued him at that instant diuided his armie into thrée battels or rather foure vnto the vant-gard whereof the lord Howard was capteine his brother sir Edmund Howard was ioined as a wing the earle himselfe led the midle-ward and the rere-ward was guided by sir Edward Stanleie afterwards line 30 created lord Mounteagle The lord Dacres with a number of horssemen was set apart by himselfe to succor where need should séeme to appeare The ordinance was placed in the front of these battels in places betwéene as was thought expedient In this order forward they made with manlie courages towards the Scots a good marching pase In the meane time king Iames beholding all the demeanor of the Englishmen from the heigth of the hill thought with himselfe that there was offered him that daie a goodlie occasion of victorie if he line 40 might come to fight with the enimies at such aduantage of place and number And therfore being hastned forward through the strenable force of destinie or rather Gods ordinance he commanded his standards to be raised and spred and euerie man to resort to his appointed place that they might foorthwith incounter the enimies that presumed thus to séeke battell And héerewith turning him to the lords and capteins that stood about him he spake vnto them manie line 50 comfortable words touching the occasion offered them at that present to gaine both a famous victorie and to reuenge so manifold iniuries and displeasures as they had susteined diuerse waies foorth at the Englishmens hands He had scarse made an end of his tale but the soldiers with great noise and clamor cried Forward Upon them shaking their weapons in signe of an earnest desire they had as then
to suffer the said aliens so highlie in their wealth the naturall borne men of this region to come to confusion ¶ Of this letter was more but the doctor read no further When he had read this letter or the chiefest part thereof comprehending as ye haue heard much seditious line 50 matter he began with this sentence Coelum coeli Domino terram autem dedit filijs hominum and vpon this text he intreated how this land was giuen to Englishmen And as birds defend their nests so ought Englishmen to cherish and mainteine themselues and to hurt and grieue aliens for respect of their common-wealth And vpon this text Pugna pro patria he brought in how by Gods law it was lawfull to fight for their countrie And thus he subtilie mooued or rather vndiscréetlie prouoked the people to rebell against line 60 strangers By this foolish sermon manie a light person tooke courage and openlie spake against strangers And as vnhap would there had béene diuerse euill parts plaied of late by strangers in and about the citie of London which kindled the peoples rancour the more furiouslie against them Now as the diuell would the sundaie after at Gréenwich in the kings gallerie was Francis de Bard who as yee haue heard kept an Englishmans wife and his goods and yet he could haue no remedie and with him were Domingo Anthonie Caueler and manie more strangers and there they talking with sir Thomas Palmer knight iested and laughed how that Francis kept the Englishmans wife saieng that if they had the maiors wife of London they would kéepe hir Sir Thomas said Sirs you haue too much fauour in England There were diuerse English merchants by who heard them laugh and were not content in so much as one William Bolt a mercer said Well you whoreson Lombards you reioisâ— and laugh by the masse we will one daie haue a fling at you come when it will And that saieng the other merchants affirmed This tale was reported about London and the yoong and euill disposed people said they would be reuenged on the merchants strangers as well as on the artificers strangers ¶ On monday the morow after the king remooued to his manor of Richmond On the eight and twentith daie of Aprill diuerse yoong men of the citie piked quarels to certeine strangers as they passed by the stréets some they did strike some they buffeted and some they threw into the kennell wherfore the maior sent some of the Englishmen to prison as Stephan Studleie skinner Bets Stephanson and diuerse other Then suddenlie rose a secret rumour and no man could tell how it began that on Maie daie next the citie would rebell and slea all the aliens insomuch that diuerse strangers fled out of the citie This brute ran so into euerie mans eares that it came to the knowledge of the kings councell wherevpon the lord cardinall sent for the maior and other of the councell of the citie giuing them to vnderstand what he had heard The maior as one ignorant of the matter told the cardinall that he doubted not but so to gouerne the citie as peace should be obserued The cardinal willed him so to doo and to take good heed that if anie such riotous attempt was intended he should with good policie preuent it The maior came from the cardinals house at foure of the clocke in the after noone on Maie éeuen and in all hast sent for his brethren to the Guildhall yet was it almost seuen of the clocke yer the assemblie was set Upon conference had of the matter touching the rumour that was spred abroad of the rebellion against the strangers some thought it necessarie that a substantiall watch should be set of the honest citizens housholders which might withstand the euill dooers if they went about anie misrule But other were of this opinion that it was dangerous to raise men in armour bicause it was hard to tell whome they might trust but rather they thought it best that commandement should be giuen to euerie man through euerie ward to shut in his doores to kéepe his seruants within Before eight of the clocke the recorder was sent to the cardinall with these opinions who hearing the same allowed the latter for best and most surest And then the recorder and sir Thomas More late vndershiriffe of London and now of the kings priuie councell came to the Guildhall halfe an houre before nine of the clocke and there shewed the pleasure of the kings councell wherevpon euerie alderman sent to his ward that no man should stirre after seauen of the clocke out of his house but to keepe his doores shut and his seruants within till nine of the clocke in thâ— morning After this commandement giuen in the euening as sir Iohn Mundie an alderman came from his ward and found two yoong men in Cheape plaieng at the bucklers and a great manie of yoong men looking on them for the commandement was then scarse knowne he commanded them to leaue of And for that one of them asked why he would haue had him to the Counter Then all the yoong prentises stept to and resisted the alderman taking the yoong fellow from him cried Prentises and clubs Then out at euerie doore came clubs and weapons The alderman fled and was in great danger Then more people arose out of euerie quarter and foorth came seruingmen watermen courtiers and others so that by eleuen of the clocke there were in Cheape six or seuen hundred and out of Paules churchyard came thrée hundred which knew not of the other So out of all places they gathered brake vp the counters tooke out the prisoners that the maior had thither committed for hurting the strangers and came to Newgate and tooke out Studleie and Petit committed line 10 thither for that cause The maior and shiriffes were present there and made proclamation in the kings name but nothing was obeied Herewith being gathered in plumpes they ran thorough saint Nicholas shambles and at saint Martins gate there met with them sir Thomas More and others desiring them to go to their lodgings And as they were thus intreating and had almost persuaded the people to depart they within saint Martins threw out stones bats and hot water line 20 so that they hurt diuerse honest persons that were there with sir Thomas More persuading the rebellious persons to ceasse insomuch as at length one Nicholas Downes a sergeant of armes being there with the said sir Thomas More sore hurt amongst others in a furie cried Downe with them And then all the misruled persons ran to the â—â—ores and windowes of the houses with saint Martins and spoiled all that they found After that they ran headlong into Cornehill line 30 there likewise spoiled diuerse houses of the French men that dwelled within the gate of maister Mewtas house called Gréene gate This maister Mewtas was a Picard borne and reputed to be a
might make account of and further to haue the armor and weapons séene and viewed Nothing left he vndoone that tended to the foreséeing and preuenting of a mischiefe to insue line 10 which in a prince is counted a vertue because such prouidence and circumspection is reputed no lesse in a priuat ordinarie man as the poet Plautus saith Virtus est vbi occasio admonet dispicere Sir William Forman knight at that present maior of London was commanded to certifie the names of all the able men within the citie and liberties thereof betwéene the ages of thrée score and of sixtéene with the number of armors and weapons of all kinds of sorts Wherevpon the said maior and his brethren ech one in his ward by the oth of the line 20 common councell and constable tooke the number of men armor and weapons And after well considering of the matter by view of their bookes they thought it not expedient to admit the whole number certified for apt and able men and therefore assembling themselues againe they chose forth the most able persons and put by the residue speciallie such as had no armor nor for whom anie could be prouided But when they were crediblie aduertised by line 30 Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale to whome the citie was greatlie beholden that the king himselfe would see the people of the citie muster in a conuenient number and not to set forth all their power but to leaue some at home to kéepe the citie then eftsoons euerie alderman repaired to his ward and there put aside all such as had iacks cotes of plate of maile and brigandines and appointed none but such as had white armor except such as should beare morish pikes which ware no armor but sculles and line 40 there was no stranger although he were a denisine permitted to be in this muster Euerie man being of anie abilitie prouided him selfe a cote of white silke and garnished their basenets with turues like caps of silke set with owches furnished with chaines of gold and feathers or caused their armor to be guilt and likewise their halberds and pollaxes Some and especiallie certeine goldsmiths had their whole armor of siluer bullion The lord maior the recorder the aldermen and euerie line 50 other officer beside were gorgeouslie trimmed as for their degrees was thought séemelie The maior had sixteene tall fellowes on foot attending on him with guilt halberds apparelled in white silke doublets and their hose and shooes were likewise white cut after the Almaine guise pounsed and pulled out with red sarsenet their ierkins were of white leather cut and chains about their necks with feathers and brooches in their caps The recorder and euerie alderman had about him foure halberders trimmed line 60 also in warlike sort The chamberleine of the citie the councellors aldermens deputies were appointed to be wiflers on horssebacke which aloft on their armor ware white damaske cotes mounted on good horsses well trapped with great chaines about their necks and proper iauelins or battell axes in their hands and caps of veluet richlie trimmed The wiflers on foot being in number foure hundred proper light persons were clad in white ierkins of leather cut with white hose and shooes euerie man with a iauelin or slaughsword in his hands to kéepe the people in arraie They had chaines about their necks and fethers in their caps The minstrels were in white with the armes of the citie and so was euerie other person at this muster without anie diuersitie the lord maior recorder and aldermen onelie excepted who had crosses of veluet or satin pirled with gold The standard bearers were the tallest men of euerie ward for whome were made thirtie new standards of the deuise of the citie beside baners Euerie alderman mustred his own ward in the fields to sée that euerie man were in furniture prouided as was requisite The eight of Maie being the daie appointed for to shew themselues before the king euerie alderman in order of battell with those of his ward came into the fields at Mile end and then all the gunners seuered themselues into one place the pikes into another and the archers into an other and likewise the bilmen and there cast themselues in rings and other formes of battell which was a beautifull sight to behold for all the fields from white Chapell to Mile end and from Bednall greene to Ratcliffe Stepnie were all couered with armour men and weapons and especiallie the battell of pikes séemed to be as it had béene a great forrest Then was euerie part diuided into thrée battels a for-ward a midle-ward and a rere-ward About seauen of the clocke marched forward the light péeces of ordinance with stone and powder After them followed the drums and fifes and immediatlie after them a guidon of the armes of the citie Then followed master Sadler capteine of the gunners on horssebacke armed and in a cote of veluet with a chaine of gold and foure halberders about him apparelled as before is recited Then followed the gunners foure in a ranke euerie one going fiue foot in sunder which shot altogither in diuerse places verie liuelie and in speciallie before the kings maiestie which at that time sat in his new gatehouse at his palace of Westminster where he viewed all the whole companie In like maner passed the other companies of all the three battels in good and séemelie order The foremost capteine at nine of the clocke in the morning by the little conduit came and entered into Paules churchyard and from thense directlie to Westminster and so through the sanctuarie and round about the parke of S. Iames and vp into the field comming home through Holborne and as the first capteine entered againe to the little conduit the last of the muster entered Paules churchyard which was then about foure of the clocke in the afternoone The number beside the wiflers and of other waiters was fiftéene thousand ¶ The eight of Iulie Griffith Clearke vicar of Wandsworth with his chapleine and his seruant frier Waire were all foure hanged and quartered at S. Thomas Waterings The tenth of Iulie sir Adrian Fortescue and Thomas Dingleie were beheaded The ninth of September the nunnerie of Clerkenwell and diuerse others were suppressed This yeare the sixtéenth of September came to London duke Frederike of Baniere the Palsgraue of the Rhine and the eightéenth of the same moneth came to London the marshall of Hans Frederike prince elector of Saxonie and the chancellor of William duke of Cleue Gulicke Gelderland and Berghen The Palsgraue was receiued and conducted to Windsore by the duke of Suffolke and the other were accompanied with other noble men and the thrée and twentith of the same moneth they all came to Windsore where eight daies togither they were continuallie feasted and had pastime shewed them in hunting and other pleasures so much as might be The Palsegraue shortlie after departed homewards
thrée first as is found in their atteindor were executed for diuerse heresies but none alledged whereat saith Hall I haue much maruelled that their heresies were so manie and not one alledged as a speciall cause of their death And verelie at their deaths they asked the shiriffs what was their offense for which they were condemned Who answered they could not tell but most men said it was for preaching against the doctrine of Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester who chieflie as the same Hall saith procured their deaths The last thrée to wit Powell Fetherston and Abell suffered for treason as in their atteindor was speciall mention made to wit for denieng the kings supremacie and affirming his mariage with the ladie Katharin Dowager to be good The fourth of August Thomas Empson sometime a moonke of Westminster which had béene in prison for treason in Newgate now for the space of thrée yeares and more came before the iustices of gaole deliuerie at Newgate and for that he would not aske the kings pardon nor be sworne to be true to him his moonks garment was plucked from his backe and he repriued till the king were informed of his malicious obstinacie and this was the last moonke that was séene in his clothing in England till queene Maries daies The fourth of August were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne Giles Heron gentleman Clement Philpot gentleman late of Calis and seruant to the lord Lisle Darbie Genning Edmund Brindholme priest chapleine to the said lord Lisle William Horne late a laie brother of the Charterhouse of London and an other offendor which six persons were there hanged and quartered and had béene atteinted of treason by parlement The same daie also was one Charles Carew gentleman hanged for robbing of the ladie Carew The eight of August was the ladie Katharine Howard néece to the duke of Norffolke and daughter to the lord Edmund Howard shewed openlie as quéene at Hampton court The eleuenth of September a stranger was hanged in Moorefield named Iames Rinatian who had slaine his maister one Capon a Florentine in a garden for his harlot In the latter end of this summer was vniuersallie through the most parts of this realme great death by a strange kind of hot agues and fluxes and some pestilence in which season was such a drought that wels and small riuers were cleane dried vp so that line 10 much cattell died for lacke of water and the Thames was so shalow the fresh water of so small strength that the salt water flowed aboue London bridge till the raine had increased the fresh waters On the two and twentith of September Rafe Egerton seruant to the lord Audleie lord chancellor and one Thomas Harman seruant to one master Flightwood were drawne hanged and quartered the one for counterfeiting and antidating of the kings seale in a signâ—t wherewith he sealed licences for deuizens vnder the name of the clearkes of line 20 the chancerie and the other that is to saie Harman for writing them One Tuckefield being of their faction robbed the lord Audleies chappell and fled who being afterward apprehended at Calis which towne he would haue betraied he slue himselfe with a dagger In the end of this yeare the French king made a strong castell at Ard and also a bridge ouer into the English pale which bridge the crew of Calis did beat downe and the Frenchmen built it vp againe but the Englshmen beat it downe againe line 30 After this the K. sent about fiftéene hundred workemen to fortifie the towne of Guisnes and sent with them fiue hundred men of warre to gard them It was reported in France that a mightie armie was come ouer foorth of England with great ordinance which brute caused the French king to send to the frontiers of Picardie the duke of Uandosme and other capteins with all spéed to defend the same The king of England hearing thereof sent line 40 the earles of Surrie and Southampton and the lord Russell high admerall into the marches of Calis to set order there and after them he likewise sent two hundred light horssemen of the borders of Scotland whom the Frenchmen called Stradiots The lords hauing set order in things shortlie returned A boie oneRichard Mekins not past fiftéene yeares of age was burnt in Smithfield for speaking against the sacrament and contrarie to the statute of the six articles The bishop of London was thought in great line 50 fault for procuring that terrible execution seeing the yoong fellow was but an ignorant foole without learning and gladlie recanted that wherewith he was charged About the latter end of this yeare doctor Samson bishop of Chichester year 1541 and doctor Wilson which had béene committed to the tower as before ye haue heard were now pardoned of the king and set againe at libertie In the beginning of this yeare fiue priests in Yorkeshire began a new rebellion line 60 with the assent of one Leigh a gentleman and nine temporall men all which persons were apprehended and in diuers places put to execution The said Leigh and two other the one named Taterfall a clothier the other Thornton a yeoman on the seuentéenth of Maie were drawne through London to Tiburne and there executed And sir Iohn Neuill knight and ten other persons died for the same cause at Yorke The same daie Margaret countesse of Salisburie that had remained a long time prisoner in the tower was beheaded there within the tower She was the last of the right line and name of Plantagenet The ninth of Iune for example sake two of the kings gard the one named Damport and the other Chapman were hanged at Greenwich by the friers wall for robberies which they had committed ¶ On the tenth of Iune sir Edmund Kneuet knight of Norffolke was arreigned before the kings iustices sitting in the great hall at Gréenewich maister Gage comptrollor of the kings household maister Southwell sir Anthonie Browne sir Anthonie Winkeâ—ield maister Wrisleie and Edmund Peckham cofferer of the kings houshold for striking of one maister Clers of Norffolke seruant with the earle of Surrie within the kings house in the tenis court There was first chosen to go vpon the said Edmund a quest of gentlemen and a quest of yeomen to inquire of the said stripe by the which inquests he was found giltie and had iudgement to lose his right hand Wherevpon was called to doo the execution first the sergeant surgion with his instruments apperteining to his office the sergeant of the woodyard with the mallet and a blocke wherevpon the hand should lie the maister cooke for the king with the knife the sergeant of the larder to set the knife right on the ioint the sergeant ferrer with the searing irons to seare the veines the sergeant of the poultrie with a cocke which cocke should haue his head smitten off vpon the same blocke and with the same knife the yeoman
of the chandrie with seare cloths the yeoman of the skullerie with a pan of fire to heate the irons a chafer of water to coole the ends of the irons and two formes for all officers to set their stuffe on the sergeant of the cellar with wine ale and béere the yeoman of the yewrie in the sergeants stead who was absent with bason ewre and towels Thus euerie man in his office readie to doo the execution there was called foorth sir William Pickering knight marshall to bring in the said Edmund Kneuet and when he was brought to the bar the chiefe iustice declared to him his trespasse and the said Kneuet confessing himselfe to be giltie humblie submitted him to the kings mercie for this offense he was not onelie iudged to lose his hand but also his bodie to remaine in prison and his lands and goods at the kings pleasure Then the said sir Edmund Kneuet desired that the king of his benigne grace would pardon him of his right hand and take the left for quoth he if my right hand be spared I maie hereafter doo such good seruice to his grace as shall please him to appoint Of this submission and request the iustices foorthwith informed the king who of his goodnesse considering the gentle heart of the said Edmund and the good report of the lords granted him his pardon that he should lose neither hand lands nor goods but should go frée at libertie The lord Leonard Greie being indicted of certeine points of treason by him committed as was alledged against him during the season that he was the kings lieutenant in Ireland to wit for deliuering his nephew Girald Fitzgerard brother vnto Thomas Fitzgerard before executed and also for that he caused certeine Irishmen to inuade the lands of the kings friends whome he fauoured not on the fiue and twentith of Iune he was arreigned at Westminster in the kings bench and appointed to be tried by knights because he was a lord by name and no lord of the parlement but he discharged the iurie and confessed the indictement wherevpon he had iudgement and on the eight and twentith of Iune being saint Peters euen he was beheaded at tower hill where he ended his life verie quietlie and godlie This noble man as he was come of high linage so was he a right valiant and hardie personage hauing in his time doone his prince and countrie good seruice both in Ireland France and other places greatlie to his commendation although now his hap was thus to loose his head as conuicted by law and his renowme ouercast with a cloud of disgrace vanished as future chances befell to the abolishing of the present honor which sometime he inioied Howbeit his estimation he might haue preserued vnblemished had prouident circumspection vndertaken the direction of his dooings and that he had borne his eies in his forehead to foresee all afterclaps which a wise man will in no case neglect line 10 Nam sapiens in fronte oculos habet omnia spectans Omnia prudenti cum ratione videns The same daie that he suffered there was executed at saint Thomas Waterings thrée gentlemen Iohn Mantell Iohn Frowds and george Roidon they died for a murther committed in Sussex as their indictement imported in companie of Thomas Fines lord Dacres of the south The truth whereof was thus The said lord Dacres through the lewd persuasion of some of them as hath béene reported line 20 meaning to hunt in the parke of Nicholas Pelham esquire at Laughton in the same countie of Sussex being accompanied with the said Mantell Frowds and Roidon Iohn Cheinie and Thomas Isleie gentlemen Richard Middleton and Iohn Goldwell yeomen passed from his house of Hurstmonseux the last of Aprill in the night season toward the same parke where they intended so to hunt and comming vnto a place called Pikehaie in the parish of Hillingleie they found one Iohn Busbrig Iames Busbrig and Richard Sumner standing togither and line 30 as it fell out through quarelling there insued a fraie betwixt the said lord Dacres and his companie on the one partie and the said Iohn and Iames Busbrig and Richard Sumner on the other insomuch that the said Iohn Busbrig receiued such hurt that he died thereof the second of Maie next insuing Wherevpon as well the said lord Dacres as those that were there with him and diuerse other likewise that were appointed to go an other waie to méet line 40 them at the said parke were indicted of murther and the seauen and twentith of Iune the lord Dacres himselfe was arreigned before the lord Audleie of Walden then lord chancellor sitting that daie as high steward of England with other péeces of the realme about him who then and there condemned the said lord Dacres to die for that transgression And afterward the nine and twentith of Iune being saint Peters daie at eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone the shiriffs of London accordinglie as they line 50 were appointed were readie at the tower to haue receiued the said prisoner and him to haue lead to execution on the tower hill But as the prisoner should come forth of the tower one Heire a gentleman of the lord chancellors house came and in the kings name commanded to staie the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone which caused manie to thinke that the king would haue granted his pardon But neuerthelesse at three of the clocke in the same afternoone he was brought forth of the tower line 60 and deliuered to the shiriffs who lead him on foot betwixt them vnto Tiburne where he died His bodie was buried in the church of saint Sepulchers He was not past foure and twentie yéeres of age when he came through this great mishap to his end for whome manie sore lamented and likewise for the other thrée gentlemen Mantell Frowds and Roidon But for the sad yoong lord being a right towardlie gentleman and such a one as manie had conceiued great hope of better proofe no small mone and lamentation was made the more indéed for that it was thought he was induced to attempt such follie which occasioned his death by some light heads that were then about him The first of Iulie a Welshman a minstrell was hanged and quartered for singing of songs which were interpreted to be prophesies against the king This summer the king tooke his progresse to Yorke and passed through Lincolneshire where was made to him an humble submission by the temporaltie and confessing their faults they humblie thanked him for his pardon which he had granted them The towne of Stanford gaue to him twentie pounds the citie of Lincoln fortie pounds Boston fiftie pounds that part of the shire which is called Linscie gaue thrée hundred pounds and Kesterne and the church of Lincolne presented him with fiftie pounds At his entring into Yorkeshire he was met with two hundred gentlemen of the same shire in cotes of veluet and foure
lord Maxwell or rather of Oliuer Sincler as the Scots affirme boasting to tarrie as long in England as the duke of Norffolke had tarried in Scotland And so on fridaie being saint Katharins euen they passed ouer the water of Eske and burnt certeine houses of the Greues on the verie border Thomas bastard Dacres with Iacke of Musgraue sent word to sir Thomas Wharton lord line 60 Warden for the king vpon the west marches to come forward to succour them But in the meane while the Scots entring verie fierclie the aforesaid two valiant capteins bastard Dacres and Musgraue manfullie set vpon the Scots with one hundred light horsses and left a stale on the side of a hill wherewith the Scots were woonderfullie dismaied thinking that either the duke of Norffolke with his whole armie had béene come to those west marches or that some other great power had beene comming against them when they saw onelie sir Thomas Wharton with three hundred men marching forward toward them But so it fortuned at that time vndoubtedlie as God would haue it that the Scots fled at the first brunâ— whome the Englishmen followed and tooke prisoners at their pleasure for there was small resistance or none at all shewed by the Scots Amongst others that were taken we find these men of name the earle of Castill and Glencarne the lord Maxwell admerall of Scotland and warden of the west marches the lord Flenung the lord Sumerwell the lord Oliphant the lord Greie sir Oliuer Sincler the kings minson Iohn Roâ—â—o lord of Gragie Robert Erskin son to the lord Erskin Carre lard of Bredon the lord Maxwelles two brethren Iohn Leslâ—ie bastard son to the earle of Rothus George Hume lard of Hâ—mitton Iohn Maieland lard of Wike castell Iames Pringell Iames Sincler brother to Oliuer Sincler Iohn Carmell capteine of Craiforth Patrike Hebborne esquire Iohn Seton esquire son in law to the lord Erskin William Seton esquire Iohn Steward cousin to the king Iohn Morrowe esquire Henrie Droumont esquire Iames Mitton esquire Iohn Cormurth esquire capteine of Gainsforth Iames Mitton esquire and other esquiers and gentlemen beside the earles and lords before mentioned to the number of two hundred and aboue and more than eight hundred other persons of meaner calling so that some one Englishman yea some women had thrée or foure prisoners They tooke also foure and twentie peeces of ordinance foure carts laden with speares and ten pauilions with other things of price so that this might well be said to be the handie worke of God and the verse of the psalme verified Contemplans dixi Haec est mutatio dextrae Numinis excelsi mortalia cuncta gubernans The king of Scots tooke such griefe and inward thought for his ouerthrow and also for the murther of an English herald that was slaine at Dunbar by one Léech an Englishman the which for the rebellion in Lincolnshire was fled into Scotland that he fell into a hot ague and thereof died although manie reported that he was at the bickering and receiued there his deaths wound and fled there with into Scotland But of his death and of the birth of his daughter ye may see more in the historie of Scotland Of these prisoners before named one and twentie of them were brought to London and on the ninetéenth of December entred into the citie by Bishops gate and so were conueied to the tower where they remained for the space of two daies and vpon saint Thomas daie the apostle being the one and twentith of December they were conueied to Westminster sir Iohn Gage constable of the tower riding before them and the lieutenant of the same tower riding behind them They rode two and two togither and eight of them being earls and lords had new gowns of blacke damaske furred with blacke conie cotes of blacke veluet and doublets of sattin with shirts and other apparell bought new for them at the kings charges Thus being solemnelie conueied through the stréets of London vnto Westminster they came before the councell sitting in the Starchamber and there the lord chancellor declared to them their vntruth vnkindnesse and false dissimulation declaring further how the king had cause of war against them both for denieng of their homages and also for their traitorous inuasions made into his realme without defiance and for keeping his subiects prisoners without redemption contrarie to the ancient laws of the marches for which dooings God as they might perceiue had scourged them Howbeit the K. more regarding his honor than his princelie power was content to shew them kindnesse for vnkindnesse and right for wrong And although he might kéepe them in streict prison by iust law of armes yet he was content that they should haue libertie to be with the nobles of his realme in their houses and so according to their estates they were appointed to dukes earles bishops knights and gentlemen which so interteined them that they confessed themselues neuer to be better vsed nor to haue had greater cheere in all their life times line 10 The earle of Cassils was appointed to be with the archbishop of Canturburie the earle of Glencarne with the duke of Norffolke the lord Fleming with the lord priuie seale the lord Maxwell with sir Anthonie Browne the lord Sumerwell with the lord chancellor the lord Oliphant with sir Thomas Lée Oliuer Sincler with the duke of Suffolke Robert Erskin with the bishop of Westminster the lord Montâ—th with sir Antonie Wingfield the lord Montâ—th with sir Rafe Sadler George Hume with the line 20 earle of Hertford the lord of Gragie with sir Thomas Cheincie the lard of Gredon with maister Gosâ—wike Henrie Maxwell with sir Richard Long Thomas Craâ—ford with sir Arthur Darcie Patrike Hebborne with sir Thomas Wriothesleie Iames Pringell with sir Richard Rich Iohn Matland with sir Edward North the lord Greie Iames Sincler and Iohn Lisleie were appointed to men of such credit as were thought méet to answer for their safe keeping The two and twentith of December tidings line 30 came of the king of Scots death and vpon S. Iohns daie in Christmas weeke the foresaid lords of Scotland were brought to the court which was then at Greenwich where they had great cheare and went before the king to the chappell and were lodged within the court Herevpon ye must consider that whereas the king of Scots had left no issue behind him in life but onelie one daughter the king and his councell perceiuing a meane now offered whereby without line 40 warre the two realmes might be vnited these Scotish lords hauing first made the motion themselues for a mariage to be had betwixt prince Edward and their yoong queene the king required their helpe vnto the furtherance of that matter which might be a great benefit to themselues their countrie This they promised faithfullie to doo and aswell by themselues as by their friends to bring the same so effect so much as the
earles of Darbie and Essex who brought him to Gréenewich where he landed and lodged there that night The next daie he came vp with all his gallies line 50 and landed at the Tower wharfe Upon all the banks by the water side were laid péeces of artillerie which shot off freelie and so likewise did all the artillerie in the ships but speciallie from the Tower was shot a maruellous great peale of ordinance From whence being landed they rode thorough London in great triumph the maior and the crafts standing in the streets in verie good order vnto the bishops palace by Paules where the French admerall lodged till Bartholomew euen on which daie he was conueied line 60 toward Hampton court where in the waie the prince hauing with him the archbishop of Yorke the earles of Hertford and Huntington and aboue two thousand horsse met him and imbrased him in such courteous and honorable wise that all the beholders greatlie reioised and much maruelled at the said princes high wit and great audacitie and so the French admerall came to the court giuing the prince the vpper hand as they rode And at the vtter gate of the court the lord chancellor and all the kings councell receiued him and brought him to his lodging On Bartholomew daie the king admitting him to his presence welcomed him and in great triumph went to the chappell where the king receiued his oth to performe the articles of the league as it was couenanted To speake of the bankettings huntings and such like honorable sorts of interteinements it were much to vtter and hard to beléeue But on fridaie following being the seuen and twentith of August he being rewarded with a cupboord of plate to the value of twelue hundred pounds returned to London and on the sundaie next insuing tooke his gallies and departed Beside the kings gifts he had giuen to him by the citie of London two flaggons guilt and two other that were parcell guilt valued at one hundred thirtie six pounds beside wine wax and torches There were diuerse of his companie also that went not awaie vnrewarded hauing both plate and also manie horsses and greihounds giuen them Although this peace pleased both the English and French nations yet suerlie both mistrusted the continuance therof And verelie the old prouerbe séemed to be throughlie verefied which saith that what the eie séeth the hart rueth for the Frenchmen still longed for Bullogne and the Englishmen meant not willinglie to giue it ouer For during the French admerals being in England monsieur de Chatillon capteine of Montplaisier began to make a new bastilion euen at the verie mouth of the hauen naming it Chatillons garden Wherevpon that noble gentleman the lord Greie of Wilton shortlie after appointed to be deputie of the towne and countie of Bullogne perceiuing the great inconuenience that this new building would bring to the towne if it went forwards did aduertise the king thereof earnestlie beséeching his grace that the matter might be throughlie considered of Sir Thomas Palmer was the messenger The king vpon the intelligence asked his councels aduise which onelie went wholie that the conditions of the peace were not in anie wise to be infringed This resolued secretarie Paget then knight and afterwards lord was commanded accordinglie to draw a letter to the lord Greie the which â—he king himselfe did signe willing that the messenger should further know of his pleasure before he departed Wherevpon sir Thomas Palmer hauing his dispatch at the secretaries hands did get word to be giuen to the king who presentlie sent for him into his priuie chamber and betwixt them two vsed these words Palmer you haue there a letter from vs to the lord Greie that he doo in no wise deale in the matter that he hath by you aduertised vs of Notwithstanding I will that you deliuer him this message from vs. Bid him call to mind how that his brethren and himselfe not a short time but euen from tender yeares nor farre off but still neere to our person we haue brought him vp which tell him not vniustlie if that be in him that we conceiue dooth bréed in vs an od trust of feruencie to serue vs of him more than a common seruant or subiect By that token will him whatsoeuer I haue written to the contrarie that he presentlie impeach the fortification of Chatillons garden and rase it if it be possible and this my message shall be his cléering therein the seruice gratefullie accepted Sir Thomas Palmer somewhat astonied hereat considering the weightinesse of the cause and the contrarietie of the letter and message began to put the king in mind of the small credit that his bare errand of right was like to haue so flat against that which his maiesties letters imported But the king cutting off his tale Deliuer thou the message quoth he at his choise then be the executing thereof Sir Thomas thus dispatched with great spéed arriued at Bullogne immediatlie vpon the opening of the gates at after noone His letters and message deliuered the lord Greie streight assembled the councell shewed them the kings letters which read he caused sir Thomas to pronounce before them the message also Euerie man was to saie his aduise it went roundlie through the boord without anie question that the letter was to be followed the message not to be staied on The lord Greie hauing heard and not replieng anie thing willed sir Thomas to be called line 10 in againe bad him repeat his message and therwhilest made a clearke of the councell to write the same Verbatim This doone he praied the whole table to set their hands vnto it which they did and the lord Greie taking the same into his hands without further opening declaring his resolution brake vp councell commanded streight the gates to be shut gaue priuie warning that certeine bands with armour and weapon and likewise pioners should that night by an houre be in a readines line 20 The houre came himselfe with the warned companie issued out passed ouer the water and without anie alarum of the enimie did ouerthrow in thrée or foure houres what in two or three moneths had bin raised and so in great quietnesse returned into the towne Presentlie he dispatched sir Thomas Palmer backe againe to the king with the newes whose returne was so sudden as the king himselfe being in the chamber of presence séeing him said alowd What Will he doo it or no Sir Thomas giuing no line 30 other answer but presenting his letters and saieng that thereby his maiestie should know The king againe in earnest mood Naie tell vs I saie whether he will doo it or not Then sir Thomas told him that it was doone and the whole fortification cleane rased Whereat the king taking great ioy presentlie called to certeine of the lords of the councell that were by and said How saie you my lords Chatillons garden the new fort is laid as flat
they were in a great chafe and much bewailed their euill lucke that they had not come sooner to haue béene partakers of that seruice My lord being now of a verie good comfort courage aswell for the good successe which he had ouer the enimie that his long looked supplie was come sendeth his other letters to the maior comforting him as also as before promising him to be with him verie shortlie willing him that he should now take but a little patience for a little time And accordinglie about six daies after on saturdaie the third of August in good order he set foorth out of Honiton and marched towards Excester his companie being aboue a thousand of good fightingmen and leauing the direct high waie draweth ouer the downs towards Woodburie and there lodged and pitched his campe that night at a windmill apperteining to one Gregorie Carie gentleman Which when the rebels of saint Marie Clift heard of forthwith with all their force and power came forth and marched onwards vntill they came to the foresaid mill where they offer the fight and notwithstanding they were of verie stout stomachs also verie valiantlie did stand to their tâ—ckels yet in the end they were ouerthrowne and the most part of them slaine Where after the victorie thus gotten one Miles Couerdale then the preacher and attending vpon my lord in this iournie made a sermon and caused a generall thanksgiuing to be made vnto God but before all was ended there began a new alarum and forthwith euerie man to horsse to harnesse againe The rebels which remained in the towne of saint Marie Clist hearing of the euill successe befallen to their neighbours and they doubting that their turne would be next to receiue the like doo spread abroad the newes and request to be aided and assisted Wherevpon forthwith in great troopes resorted vnto them a number of their companions out of euerie quarter to the number as it was said of six thousand men and in all hast they make themselues line 10 and all things in a readinesse to abide the brunt Upon the next morning being sundaie my lord minding to follow on his course commandeth the trumpet to sound euerie man to make readie to march forwards And about nine of the clocke in the same morning they come to Clist where the armie is diuided into three parts and in thrée seuerall places doo appoint to make entrie into the towne For in so manie places they had fortified the towne and made great rampires for their defense line 20 These rampires were after some bickering recouered and sir William Francis of Summersetshire was named to be the first that gaue the aduenture made the entrie The commons being driuen from the said rampires ran all into the towne and there ioine themselues togither to abide the pulse And as the kings armie was in good order marching into the towne one of the chiefe capteins of these rebels named sir Thomas Pomeroie knight kept himselfe in a furze close and perceiuing line 30 the armie to be past him and hauing then with him a trumpeter and a drumâ—lade commanded the trumpet to be sounded and the drumme to be stricken vp At which sound the lord priuie seale and his companie were amazed supposing verelie that there had beene an ambush behind them to haue intrapped and inclosed them Wherevpon they forthwith retire backe in all the hast they may which when they in the towne perceiued they follow after and neuer staied vntill they came to the wagons line 40 then being in the high waie which now by flieng and retiring of the armie are the formost and next to the towne And these being laden with munition armour and treasure they take and bring into the towne where they rifle as much as they could sauing the péeces of the ordinance which with the shot and pouder they bestowed in places conuenient and emploied the same against my lord and his companie line 50 The armie hauing recouered the hill did there pause a while and finding themselues to be deceiued march backe againe towards the towne but before they came thither it was aduertised vnto my lord that the towne and euerie house therein was fortified and full of men and that it was not possible for anie to passe that waie without great perill and danger except the towne were set on fire Wherevpon order was giuen that as they passed and entered into the towne notwithstanding it was my line 60 lords owne they should set the houses on fire Sir William Francis being in the fore-ward was formost and leauing the â—aie which he tooke before tooke now an other waie 〈◊〉 â—hich waie was both deepe and narrow The 〈◊〉 being vpon the banks vpon euerie side of the waie with their stones so beat him that they stroke his headpéece fast to his head and whereof he died The armie being come into the towne they set fire on euerie house as they passed by But the rebelles conioining themselues in the middle of the towne doo stand at their defense where the fight was very fierce and cruell and bloudie was that daie for some were slaine with the sword some burned in the houses some shifting for themselues were taken prisoners and manie thinking to escape ouer the water were drowned so that there were dead that daie one with an other about a thousand men The towne thus being recouered and the ouerthrow giuen the lord Greie desireth to passe ouer the riuer and to be in the open field which is a great heath named Clist heath this he could not doo but that he must passe ouer either the water or the bridge both which were somewhat dangerous for the water was somewhat mirie and muddie as also at that time verie deepe by reason of the flowing of the seas which causeth the same at euerie tide to swell Howbeit one Iohn Yard a gentleman and who had dwelled thereabouts knowing the said water gaue the first aduenture ouer and found waie neere vnto a mill aboue the bridge and after him others doo followe But this was not for all the rest of the armie who must needs passe ouer the bridge which as then they could not doo by reason that the same was so ouerlaid with great trées and timber as also there stood the gunner with his péece readie charged Wherevpon proclamation was made that whosoeuer would aduenture and make waie ouer the bridge should haue foure hundred crownes for his labor Then one foorthwith more respecting the gaine than forecasting the perill gaue the aduenture but the gunner rewarded him for he discharged his péece vpon him and slue him And then before he could againe charge his péece one of the companie who before was passed ouer the water came and entred the bridge at the further end and comming behind him slue him who foorthwith calleth companie vnto him and casteth aside all the
beare sauour and loue of religion was in him from his childhood his skill and knowledge in sciences besides his other excellent vertues were such that to them he séemed rather borne than brought vp line 50 It maie séeme verie strange that in his yoong years as maister Fox reporteth of him he could tell and recite all the ports hauens and créekes not within his owne realme onelie but also in Scotland and likewise in France what comming in there was how the tide serued in euerie of them moreouer what burthen and what wind serued for the comming into each hauen also of all his iustices magistrates gentlemen that bare any authoritie within his realme he knew their names their houskeeping line 60 their religion and conuersation what it was He had a singular respect to iustice a vertue most commendable in a prince and chieflie to the dispatch of poore mens sutes Hée perfectlie vnderstood the Latine toong the French the Gréeke Italian and Spanish neither was he ignorant saith Cardanus in Logike in the principles of naturall philosophie or in musicke To conclude his towardlinesse was such in all heroicall vertues noble gifts and markable qualities conuenient for his princelie estate that so much was hoped for in his roiall person if he had liued till triall might haue béene had of the proofe as was to belooked for in anie one prince that euer had rule ouer this noble realme ¶ The eight of Iulie the lord maior of London was sent for to the court then at Gréenwich and to bring with him six aldermen as manie merchants of the Staple and as manie merchant aduenturers vnto whom by the councell was secretlie declared the death of king Edward also whom he had ordeined to the succession of the crowne by his leters patents to the which they were sworne and charged to kéepe it secret But now to procéed with the dooings that followed Immediatlie after the death of this so worthie a prince king Edward the aforesaid ladie Iane was proclamed quéene of this realme by the sound of trumpet that is to saie the ninth daie of Iulie at which proclamation were present the lords of the councell the maior of London with others ¶ The eleauenth of Iulie Gilbert Pot drawer to Ninion Sanders vintenex dwelling at S. Iohns head within Ludgate who was accused by the said Sanders his maister was set vpon the pillorie in Cheape with both his eares nailed and cleane cut off for words speaking at time of the proclamation of ladie Iane. At the which execution was a trumpet blowne and a herald read his offense in presence of one of the shiriffes c. About fiue of the clocke the same daie in the afternoone Ninion Sanders master to the said Gilbert Pot and Iohn Owen a gunner comming from the tower of London by water in a wherrie and shooting London bridge towards the blacke friers were drowned at saint Marie Locke and the whirriemen saued by their ores The ladie Marie a little before lieng at Honesdon in Hartfordshire hauing intelligence of the state of the king hir brother and of the secret practise against hir by the aduise of hir fréends with all spéed tooke hir iorneie toward hir house of Keningall in Norffolke intending there to remaine vntill she could make hir selfe more strong of hir freends and alies and withall wrote vnto the lords of the councell in forme as followeth A letter of the ladie Marie sent to the lords of the councell wherein she claimeth the crowne now after the decease of hir brother king Edward MY lords we gréet you well and haue receiued sure aduertisement that our dearest brother the king our late souereigne lord is departed to Gods mercie which newes how they be wofull to our heart he onelie knoweth to whose will and pleasure we must and doo humblie submit vs and all our wils But in this so lamentable a case that is to wit now after his maiesties departure and death concerning the crowne gouernance of this realme of England with the title of France and all things thereto belonging that hath béene prouided by act of parlement and the testament and last will of our dearest father besides other circumstances aduancing our right you know the realme and the whole world knoweth the rolles and records appeare by the authoritie of the king our said father and the king our said brother and the subiects of this relme so that we verelie trust that there is no true subiect that is can or would pretend to be ignorant thereof and of our part we haue our selues caused and as God shall aid and strength vs shall cause our right and title in this behalfe to be published and proclamed accordinglie And albeit this so weightie a matter séemeth strange that the dieng of our said brother vpon thursdaie at night last past we hitherto had no knowledge from you thereof yet we consider your wisedomes and prudence to be such that hauing eftsoones amongst you debated pondered and well weighed this present case with our estate with your owne estate the commonwealth and all our honors we shall and may conceiue great hope and trust with much assurance in your loialtie and seruice and therfore for the time interpret and take things not to the worst and that ye yet will like noblemen worke the best Neuerthelesse we are not ignorant of your consultations to vndoo the prouisions made for our preferment nor of the great bands and prouisions forcible wherevnto ye be assembled and prepared by whome and to what end God and you know and nature line 10 can feare some euill But be it that some consideration politike or whatsoeuer thing else hath mooued you thereto yet doubt you not my lords but we can take all these your dooings in gratious part being also right readie to remit and fullie pardon the same with that fréelie to eschew bloudshed vengeance against all those that can or will intend the same trusting also assuredlie you will take ani◠accept this grace and vertue in good part as apperteineth and that we shall not be inforced to vse this seruice line 20 of other our true subiects and freends which in this our iust and rightfull case God in whome our whole alliance is shall send vs. Wherefore my lords we require you and charge you and euerie of you that euerie of you of your allegiance which you owe to God and vs and to none other for our honour and the suertie of our realme onelie imploie your selues and foorthwith vpon receit hereof cause our right and title to the crowne and gouernment of this realme to be proclamed in our citie of London and such other line 30 places as to your wisedoms shall seeme good and as to this case apperteineth not failing hereof as our verie trust is in you and thus our letter signed with our owne hand shall be your sufficient warrant in this behalfe Yeuen vnder our signet
great commodities that might insue thereof that they not onlie thought it very honorable but expedient both for the wealth of our realme and also of all our louing subiects And as touching my selfe I assure you I am not so desirous of wedding neither so precise or wedded to my will that either for mine owne pleasure I will choose where I lust or else so amorous as néeds I must haue one For God I thanke him to whome be the praise thereof I haue hitherto liued a virgine and doubting nothing but with Gods grace shall as well be able so to liue still But if as my progenitors haue done before it might please God that I might leaue some fruit of my bodie behind me to be your gouernour I trust you would not onelie reioise thereat but also I know it would be to your great comfort And certeinlie if I either did know or thinke that this marriage should either turn◠to the danger or losse of anie of you my louing subiects or to the detriment or impairing of anie part or parcell of the roiall estate of this realme of England I would neuer consent therevnto neither would I euer marrie while I liued And in the word of a quéene I promise and assure you that if it shall not probablie appéere before line 10 the nobilitie and commons in the high court of parlement that this marriage shall be for the singular benefit and commoditie of all the whole realme that then I will absteine not onelie from this marriage but also from anie other whereof perill maie insue to this most noble realme Wherefore now as good faithfull subiects plucke vp your harts and like tru◠men stand fast with your lawfull prince against these rebelles both our enimies and yours and feare them not for assure you that I feare them nothing line 20 at all I will leaue with you my lord Howard and my lord treasuror to be your assistants with my lord maior for the defense and safegard of this citie from spoile and saccage which is onelie the scope of this rebellious companie After this oration ended the citizens séeming well satisfied therewith the queene with the lords of the councell returned to White hall from whence she came and foorthwith the lord William Howard line 30 was associate with the lord maior of London whose name was sir Thomas White for the protection and defense of the citie And for more suertie as well of hir owne person as also of hir councellors and other subiects she prepared a great armie to méet with the said rebelles in the field of which armie William Herbert earle of Penbroke was made generall which earle with all spéed requisite in such a case prepared all things necessarie to such a seruice belonging The same daie sir Thomas Wiat hauing with line 40 him foureteene ensignes conteining about foure thousand men although they were accounted to be a farre greater number marched to Detford strand eight miles from Detford and within foure miles of London where vpon such aduertisement as he receiued by spiall of the quéens being in the Guild-hall the order of the people to hir wards he remained that night the next whole daie diuerse of his owne companie doubting by his longer tarrieng there than in other places and vpon other presumptions which they gathered that he would haue passed line 50 the water into Essex His prisoners Christopher Roper George Dorrell and Iohn Tucke esquiers who were kept somewhat strict for that they seemed sicklie and finding within the towne no conuenient harborough or attendance were licenced by sir Thomas Wiat vpon promise of their worships to be true prisoners to prouide for themselues out from the towne where they best might But they breaking promise with him line 60 sought waies to escape and come no more at him On saturdaie following verie earlie Wiat marched to Southworke where approching the gate at London bridge foot he called to them within to haue it opened which he found not so readie as he looked for After he had beene a little while in Southworke and began to trench at the bridge foot and set two peeces of ordinance against the gate diuerse of his soldiors went to Winchester place where one of them being a gentleman began to fall to rifling of things found in the house Wherewith sir Thomas Wiat seemed so much offended that he threatned sore to hang him euen presentlie there vpon the wharfe and so as he made others to beleeue he meant to haue doone if capteine Bret and others had not intreated for him The lord William Howard lord admerall of England being appointed by the queens commission capteine generall with the lord maior sir Thomas White watched at the bridge that night with three hundred men caused the draw bridge to be hewen downe into the Thames made rampiers and fortifications there fensing the same with great ordinance Wiat yet aduentured the breaking downe of a wall out of an house ioining to the gate at the bridge foot whereby he might enter into the leads ouer the gate came downe into the lodge about eleuen of the clocke in the night where he found the porter in a slumber and his wife with other waking and watching ouer a cole but beholding Wiat they began suddenlie to start as greatlie amazed Whist quoth Wiat as you loue your liues sit still you shall haue no hurt Glad were they of that warrant and so were quiet and made no noise Wiat and a few with him went foorth as farre as the draw bridge on the other side whereof he saw the lord admerall the lord maior sir Andrew Iud and one or two others in consultation for ordering of the bridge wherevnto he gaue diligent heed and eare a good while and was not séene This doone he returned and said to some of his companie This place sirs is too hot for vs. And herevpon falling in counsell what was best to doo some gaue aduise that it should be good to returne to Gréenewich and so to passe the water into Essex whereby their companie as they thought should increase and then assaie to enter into London by Aldgate and some were of opinion that it were better to go to Kingston vpon Thames and so further west Other there were among which sir Thomas Wiat himselfe was chiefe would haue returned into Kent to méet with the lord of Aburgauenie the lord Warden the shiriffe sir Thomas Moile sir Thomas Kempe sir Thomas Finch and others that were at Rochester comming on Wiats backe with a great companie well appointed persuading himselfe whether truelie or not I know not that he should find among them more friends than enimies But whether his desire to returne into Kent grew vpon hope he had to find aid there or rather to shift himselfe awaie it was doubted of his owne companie and some of them that knew him well except they were much deceiued reported not
also of other bands of the quéenes assured friends Wherevpon Wiat who comming towards the citie made himselfe sure of his enterprise now desperat of the same was faine to turne his face retiring backe againe to Temple-barre where he with the rest of his retinue determined as it seemed to trie their last fortune The earle of Penbroke who all this while kept his force togither in the field hearing of Wiats approch to London sent to him an herald called Clarenceaux with great communication to desist from his rebellious enterprise Which herald did his message accordinglie albeit that some said he promised the said Wiat his pardon which should not séeme to be true as well for that the herald had no such commission as also that it was not like that the said Wiat being then disarmed of all his forces would haue refused mercie in such a case For true it is that he with a verie few of his forlorne fellowship not manie aboue the number of one hundred persons stood still as men amazed at the gate of the Temple-barre till such time as sir Maurice Barkleie knight by chance riding towards London vpon his horsse with footcloth without anie armour finding the said Wiat there persuaded him to repaire to the court and to yéeld himselfe to the quéene Whose aduise he followed and incontinent mounted vp on the said sir Maurice horsse behind him and so road to the court voluntarilie to yéeld himselfe prisoner This comming of Wiat to the court being so little looked for was great cause of reioising to such as of late before stood in great feare of him But more than maruell it was to sée that daie the inuincible heart and constancie of the quéene hir selfe who being by nature a woman and therefore commonlie more fearefull than men be shewed hir selfe in that case more stout than is credible For she notwithstanding all the fearefull newes that were brought to hir that daie neuer abashed Insomuch that when one or two noblemen being hir capteins came in all hast to tell hir though vntrulie that hir battels were yéelded to Wiat. She nothing mooued thereat said it was their fond opinion that durst not come néere to sée the triall saieng further that she hir selfe would enter the field to trie the truth of hir quarrell and to die with them that would serue hir rather than to yéeld one iot vnto such a traitor as Wiat was and prepared hir selfe accordinglie But by the apprehension of Wiat that voiage tooke none effect for after his comming to the court line 10 he was immediatlie committed to the Tower As soone as the taking of Wiat was knowne the armie whereof mention is made before that laie in saint Iames field was discharged and euerie man licenced to depart to his home And foorthwith proclamation was made as well in the citie of London as in the suburbs of the same that none vpon paine of death should kéepe in his or their houses anie of Wiats faction but should bring them foorth immediatlie before the lord maior and other the quéenes line 20 iustices By reason of which proclamation a great multitude of their said poore caltifs were brought foorth being so manie in number that all the prisons in London sufficed not to receiue them so that for lacke of place they were faine to bestow them in diuerse churches of the said citie And shortlie after were set vp in London for a terrour to the common sort bicause the white cotes being sent out of the citie as before ye haue heard reuolted from the quéenes part to the aid of Wiat twentie paire of gallowes line 30 on the which were hanged in seuerall places to the number of fiftie persons which gallowes remained standing there a great part of the summer following to the great griefe of good citizens and for example to the commotioners ¶ As for the principals of this faction namelie Thomas Wiat William Kneuet Thomas Cobham two brethren named Mantels and Alexander Bret were brought by sir Henrie Ierningam by water to the tower prisoners where sir Philip Denie receiued line 40 them at the bulworke as Wiat passed by he said Go traitor there was neuer such a traitor in England To whom sir Thomas Wiat turned and said I am no traitor I would thou shouldst well know thou art more traitor than I it is not the point of an honest man to call me so and so went forth When he came to the tower gate sir Thomas Bridges lieutenant tooke in through the wicket first Mantell and said Ah thou traitor what hast thou and thy companie wrought But he holding downe his head said line 50 nothing Then came Thomas Kneuet whom master chamberleine gentleman porter of the tower tooke in Then came Alexander Bret whome sir Thomas Pope tooke by the bosome saieng Oh traitor how couldest thou find in thy heart to worke such a villanie as to take wages and being trusted ouer a band of men to fall to hir enimies returning against hir in battell Bret answered Yea I haue offended in that case Then came Thomas Cobham whome sir Thomas Poines tooke in and said Alas maister line 60 Cobham what wind headed you to worke such treason And he answered Oh sir I was seduced Then came in sir Thomas Wiat whom sir Iohn Bridges tooke by the collar and said Oh thou villen vnhappie traitor how couldest thou find in thy hart to worke such detestable treason to the quéenes maiestie who gaue thée thy life and liuing once alreadie although thou diddest before this time beare armes in the field against hir and now to yéeld hir battell c. If it were not saith he but that the law must passe vpon thee I would sticke thée through with my dagger To the which Wiat holding his arms vnder his side and looking grieuouslie with a grim looke vpon the lieutenant said It is no maisterie now and so passed on Thomas Wiat had on a shirt of maile with sleeues verie faire theron a veluet cassocke and a yellow lace with the windlace of his dag hanging thereon and a paire of boots on his legs and on his head a faire hat of veluet with a broad bone-worke lace about it William Kneuet Thomas Cobham and Bret were the like apparelled On the morrow and the next daie following were brought into the tower prisoners George Cobham sir William Cobham Anthonie Kneuet Hugh Booth Thomas Uane Robert Rudstone sir George Harper Edward Wiat Edward Fog George Moore and Cutbert Uaughan The tenth of Februarie the earle of Huntington and other gentlemen and to the number of thrée hundred horssemen brought to the tower as prisoners the duke of Suffolke and the lord Iohn Greie his brother from Couentrie where the duke had remained thrée daies after his taking in the house and custodie of Christopher Warren alderman there The eleuenth daie sir Henrie Isleie who had fled was brought into the tower in an
the which she laid certeine plate of hir owne of mistresse Sanders to gage On the next morning being thursdaie hauing intelligence that Browne was sought for they sent him six pounds more by the same Roger warning him to shift for himselfe by flight which thing he foreslowed not to doo Neuerthelesse the lords of the quéens maiesties councell caused so spéedie and narrow search to be made for him that vpon the eight line 60 and twentith of the same moneth he was apprehended in a mans house of his owne name at Rochester and being brought backe againe to the court was examined by the councell vnto whome he confessed the deed as you haue heard and that he had oftentimes before pretended and sought to doo the same by the instigation of the said mistresse Drurie who had promised to make a marriage betwéene him and mistresse Sanders whome he seemed to loue excessiuelie neuerthelesse he protested though vntrulie that mistresse Sanders was not priuie nor consenting therevnto Upon his confession he was arreigned at the Kings bench in Westminster hall the eighteenth of Aprill where he acknowledged himselfe guiltie and was condemned as principall of the murther according to which sentence he was executed in Smithfield on mondaie the twentith of Aprill at which time also vntrulie as she hir selfe confessed afterward he laboured by all meanes to cléere mistresse Sanders of committing euill of hir bodie with him and then floong himselfe besides the ladder He was after hanged vp in chains néere vnto the place where he had doone the fact In the meane time mistresse Drurie and hir man being examined as well by their owne confessions as by falling out of the matter and also by Brownes appeachment thought culpable were committed to ward And after mistresse Sanders being deliuered of child and churched for at the time of hir husbands death she looked presentlie to lie downe was vpon mistresse Druries mans confession and other great likelihoods likewise committed to the tower and on wednesdaie the sixt of Maie she was arreigned with mistresse Drurie at the Guildhall The effect of their indictment was that they by a letter written had béene procurers of the said murther knowing the murther doone had by monie otherwise reléeued the murtherer wherevnto they pleaded not giltie Howbeit they were both condemned as accessaries to master Sanders death and executed in Smithfield the thirtéenth of Maie being wednesdaie in Whitsunwéeke at which time they both confessed themselues guiltie of the fact Trustie Roger mistresse Druries man was arreigned on fridaie the eight of Maie being there condemned as accessarie was executed with his mistresse at the time and place aforesaid Not long after Anthonie Browne brother to the fornamed George Browne was for notable felonies conueied from Newgate to Yorke and there hanged The tenth of Aprill seauen pirats which among others had béene taken on the north seas were lead from Southworke to Wapping and fiue of them were there hanged the other two had their pardon at the gallowes The seauentéenth of Aprill a chandelers wife without Aldersgate of London who had practised hir husbands death by poisoning and otherwise was set on the pillorie in Cheape with thrée other women who had béene of hir counsell two of them were with hir there whipped The seauenth of Iune betwéene the houres of one and two of the clocke in the after noone a great tempest of haile and raine happened at Tocester in Northamptonshire wherethrough six houses in that towne were borne downe and foureteene more sore perished with the waters which rose of that tempest The hailstones were square six inches about One child was there drowned and manie shéepe with other cattell which when the water was fallen manie of them were lieng on the high hedges where the waters had left them The sixteenth of Iune Thomas Woodhouse a priest of Lincolnshire who had laine long prisoner in the Fleet was arreigned in the Guildhall of London and there condemned of high treason who had iudgement to be hanged and quartered and was executed at Tiburne the ninetéenth of Iune The sixtéenth of August Walter earle of Essex accompanied with the lord Rich and diuerse other gentlemen imbarked themselues in seuerall ships at Leirpoole and the wind sitting verie well tooke their voiage towards Ireland The earle after manie and great dangers on the sea at length woone Copemans Iland from whence in a pinnesse of capteine Perses he was brought safe to Knockfergus The lord Rich with the like danger landed at castell Killife where being met by capteine Malbie maister Smith master Moore pensioners he was conducted to Inch abbaie maister Malbies house where he had in a readinesse on the morrow morning a hundred and fiftie horssemen for their safegard to Knockfergus beside fiftie Kerns which went a foot through the woods there was among these a thirtie bowes with a bagpipe the rest had darts Sir Brian Makephelin had preied the countrie and taken awaie what was to be carried or driuen but on the sixt of September line 10 he came to Knockfergus to the earle of Essex and there made his submission the number of kine were estéemed thirtie thousand besides shéepe and swine After him Ferdorough Macgillasticke the blind Scots sonne Roze Oge Macwilline did the like and diuerse other sent their messengers to the earle to signifie that they were at his lordships disposition as the baron of Dongarrow Condenell Odonell and the capteine of Kilulto The earle of Essex hauing line 20 the countrie of Claniboie and other the quéens maiestie of England directed hir letters to the lord deputie of Ireland willing him to make by commission the earle of Essex capteine generall of the Irish nation in the prouince of Ulster and to diuide the countrie woone Claniboie and else where c. The eleuenth of October Peter Burchet gentleman of the middle temple with his dagger suddenlie assailed cruellie wounded and meant to haue murthered a seruiceable gentleman named Iohn Hawkins line 30 esquier as he with sir William Winter and an other gentleman rode towards Westminster in the high stréet neare to the Strand beyond the Temple-barre of London for which fact the said Burchet being apprehended and commited to the tower was afterward examined concerning the fact Who answered that he tooke the said maister Hawkins for an other gentleman and being further examined he was found to hold certeine erronious opinions for the which he was sent to the Lollards tower line 40 From thence being called into the consistorie of Paules church before the right reuerend father Edwine bishop of London and others by them examined he stood in his opinions till the sentence of death as an heretike was readie to haue béene pronounced against him on the fourth of Nouember but through the earnest persuasions of diuerse learned men who tooke great paines in that matter he
through both armes and mooued him out of his place For the which fact the said Thomas being apprehended and condemned to death was on the one and twentith of Iulie brought to the water side where was a gibbet set vp directlie placed betwixt Dartford and Gréenewich But when the hangman had put the halter about his necke the right honorable sir Christopher Hatton capteine of the gard and one of hir maiesties priuie councell shewed the queenes maiesties most gratious pardon and deliuered him from execution This yeare Iohn Fox of Woodbridge William Wickneie of Portsmouth and Robert More of Harwich Englishmen hauing béene prisoners in Turkie about the space of thirteene or foureteene yeares with more than two hundred and sixtie other christians of diuerse nations by killing their kéeper maruellouslie escaped and returned into their natiue countries This yeare in the moneths of September and October fell great winds and raging flouds in sundrie places of this realme as in the towne of Newport the cotages were borne downe the corne lost pasture ground ouerwhelmed and cattell drowned In the towne of Bedford the water came vp to the market place where cup boords chests stooles and fourms swam about the houses their fewell corne and haie was wrackt borne awaie Also the towne of saint Edes in Huntingtonshire was ouerflowed suddenlie in the night when all men were at rest the waters brake in with such force that the towne was almost all defaced the swans swam downe the market place and all the towne about the botes did flote The towne of Gormanchester was suddenlie supprest their houses flowed full of water when men were at rest and their cattell with other things were destroied The one and twentith of Nouember sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the quéenes highnesse who had in his life built the roiall Exchange in London betwéene six and seuen of the clocke in the euening comming from the same Exchange to his house which he had sumptuouslie builded in Bishopsgate stréet of London suddenlie fell downe in his kitchin and being taken vp was found spéechlesse and presentlie dead who afterwards was solemnlie buried in his owne parish church of saint Helen there where he had prepared for himselfe a sumptuous toome or monument without anie epitaph or inscription therevpon This sir Thomas Gresham in his testament which long before his death he had ordeined bequeathed diuerse large legacies not yet performed The eight and twentith daie of March year 1580 one Francis aliàs Marmaduke Glouer was hanged on a gibet set vp for that purpose by the standard in Cheape for wilfullie murthering sergeant Grace after he was by him arrested Also on the next morrow being the nine and twentith daie of March the same gibet was set vp at Hog lane end vpon east Smithfield néere vnto the tower of London thereon to haue hanged one Richard Dod for murthering of mistresse Skinner a widow in hir house there by But sir Owen Hopton lieutenant of the tower cōmanding the officers perteining to the shiriffes of London backe againe to the west side of the crosse tooke the shiriffe of the out shire with the prisoner into an house and after long talke brought the prisoner forth againe deliuered him to the officers to be by them brought backe to London Then he caused the gibet to be taken downe and carried awaie line 10 at his pleasure and without further contention to my knowledge the said Richard Dod was in the after noone of the same daie hanged at Tiborne On the sixt of Aprill being wednesdaie in Easter weeke about six of the clocke toward euening a sudden earthquake happening in London and almost generallie throughout all England caused such an amazednesse among the people as was woonderfull for the time and caused them to make their earnest praiers to almightie God The great clocke bell in line 20 the palace at Westminster strake of it selfe against the hammer with the shaking of the earth as diuerse other clocks bels in the stéeples of the citie of London and elsewhere did the like The gentlemen of the Temple being then at supper ran from the tables and out of their hall with their kniues in their hands The people assembled at the plaie houses in the fields as at the Whoreater the Theater I would saie were so amazed that doubting the ruine of the galleries they made hast to be gone A péece of the line 30 temple church fell downe some stones fell from saint Paules church in London and at Christs church neere to Newgate market in the sermon while a stone fell from the top of the same church which stone killed out of hand one Thomas Greie an apprentise and an other stone fell on his fellow seruant named Mabell Eueret and so brused hir that she liued but foure daies after Diuerse other at that time in that place were sore hurt with running out of the church one ouer another for feare The tops of diuerse chimneies line 40 in the citie fell downe the houses were so shaken a part of the castell at Bishops Stratford in Essex fell downe This earthquake indured in or about London not passing one minute of an houre and was no more felt But afterward in Kent and on the sea coast it was felt thrée times as at Sandwich at six of the clocke the land not onelie quaked but the sea also fomed so that the ships tottered At Douer also the same houre was the like so that a péece of the cliffe fell into the sea with also a péece of line 50 the castell wall there a péece of Saltwood castell in Kent fell downe and in the church of Hide the bels were heard to sound A peece of Sutton church in Kent fell downe the earthquake being there not onlie felt but also heard And in all these places and others in east Kent the same earthquake was felt three times to moue to wit at six at nine and at eleuen of the clocke The nineteenth daie of Aprill the ferrie at Lambeth was drowned with fiue men and foure horsses other two men and fiue horsses swam to land and were saued line 60 On the one and twentith of Aprill in the yeare 1580 departed this life master William Lambe esquier sometime gentleman of the chappell in the reigne of king Henrie the eight citizen of London and frée of the clothworkers Of this mans almes-deeds and manifold charities some before some since his death put in effectuall practise thus reporteth a memoriall recorded in print agréeing in truth with his last will and testament an extract whereof for others imitation is necessarilie here to be inserted This gentleman remembring that learning bringeth preferment yea euen to them which are put baselie borne as it pleased God to mooue him by his good and gratious spirit he prooued himselfe by testimonials of his dooings a louer of learning and a fauourer of euerie honest profession For in the
driuen to depart thense vnto the Camber at Rie which then was a notable good rode though now vtterlie decaied or into the Isle of Wight For in a sudden flaw or storme of wind at southeast there haue beene seuen or eight ships broken all to péeces in one daie vpon the said cliffes To reléeue and amend the same harborough and somewhat to mitigat the foresaid inconuenience line 10 there was a round tower builded by one Iohn Clarke préest maister of the maison de Dieu about the yeare one thousand fiue hundred at the southwest part of the said baie which serued somewhat to defend the ships from the rage of the southwest wind but especiallie to moore the ships which were tied therevnto For manie great ringles were fastened to the same tower for that purpose as it maie yet be séene sith it standeth there at this houre And hereby that part of the baie was made so pleasant as euer after line 20 that corner hath béene named and is at this daie called Little paradise Neuerthelesse this was thought verie insufficient in respect of the place for the safegard of such a multitude of ships as vsuallie laie for harbour in that rode For besides all strange botes which commonlie repaired thither it appeareth in the booke of Doomesdaie that Douer armed yearelie at his proper charges twentie vessels to the sea by the space of fiftéene daies with one and twentie able men in ech ship line 30 Now about the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two one sir Iohn Thomson clarke parson of the parish of saint Iames in Douer being a man ingenious and séeing the conueniencie and possibilitie of a good hauen to be made in that place consulted with the cheefe and best mariners of the towne Among whome it was agréed that humble sute should be made to the kings maiestie by the state of the towne for his gratious fauour and aid toward the making of a good hauen there And it was also line 40 by them all thought meet that the said sir Iohn Thomson should exhibit their petition to his highnesse whervnto he agréed and drew a plot and prepared a supplication in the name and behalfe of the towne conteining the necessarie causes and reasons deuises and instructions for the erection and building thereof But he told them he was poore and therefore vnable of his owne proper charges to follow the sute In which respect they collected among themselues and deliuered vnto him foure pounds ten shillings which line 50 he accepted and foorthwith repaired to the court where he so demeaned himselfe as he had present accesse to the king who heard his sute with great fauor and debated with him about the contents of his plot and liked so well of his informations that he willed him to repaire home and without delaie to returne to his presence accompanied with some of the best mariners or seamen of the towne and so with commendations dismissed him for that time When the maisters of the towne vnderstood his graces pleasure they immediatlie assembled themselues line 60 and made choise of Edward Maie Robert Iustice Richard Cowchie and Iohn Steward as the fittest and skilfullest persons to vse conference and to be imploied in that cause being all mariners of good experience These foure and the said sir Iohn Thomson without further staie resorted to the court with whom when the king had communed he conceiued of the necessitie of a hauen to be there had and of the probabilitie and likelihood of good successe in the enterprise to be performed according to their suggestion And because his maiestie vnderstood the poore estate of the towne he granted his gratious aid for the supplie of their want of monie deliuering at that time out of his owne cofers vnto them the summe of fiue hundred pounds wherewith he willed them to make a beginning of the worke At which time he bestowed on the said sir Iohn Thomson the maistership of the maison de Dieu of Douer which was a hospitall valued at one hundred and twentie pounds by the yeare the custome and dutie of the which house was as the ancient townesmen informe me to interteine and reléeue souldiors and others which came from beyond the seas hurt or distressed who were allowed some reléefe there by the space of certeine daies gratis which though I find not directlie set downe in record yet doo I know assuredlie the same to haue beene put in execution wherewith the verie name of the house is agréeable and as it were a credible witnesse The king at that time also appointed the said sir Iohn to be principall surueior of the works and vnder him the other foure to be ouerseers of the same Now am I to giue you to vnderstand that the drift and deuise of the said sir Iohn Thomson was to erect a huge wall which he termed by the name of a pierre from Arcliffe chapell being the southwest part of the baie directlie towards the east into the maine sea about 131 rods in length so as by that meanes the harborough was to be garded from the rage of all weather comming from the north northeast northwest and southwest and so the entrance onelie at east southeast whereinto when the ships were once brought they might there lie safe in all weather at the one side or the other But the pierre was not finished by 350 foot so far as the foundation thereof which he called the Molehead was laid which foundation consisted of great rocks brought from a place néere hand called Hakcliffe or the castell Raie and Folkestone This pierre was begun on S. Annes daie 1533 and it was compiled of two rowes of maine posts great piles of fiue or six twentie foot long set at each side close togither which were let downe and put in certeine holes hewed in the great rocks laid for that purpose but some of those piles were shod with iron and driuen into the maine rocke of chalke with a great engine called a ram These posts and piles were combined and held togither with iron bolts and were filled with mightie stones of chalks as also with beach and other earth but the bottome consisted altogither of great rocks of stone which if they had not béene brought thither by a speciall deuise must néeds haue béene extreame chargeable for manie of them were of twentie tun a péece and few vnder The practise of this charge is now common but it was before that time rare vnknowne in England and inuented there by a poore simple man named Iohn Yoong who first with a nutshell after with an egshell lastlie with a small vessell made proofe what weight those things could raise beare in the water and hauing by that experiment made triall or at least a probable coniecture that stones of great weight might be raised and carried in the water by greater vessels he
countries and had dealt much about Woolwich and Erith breaches offered his seruice for the accomplishing of these works affirming that it was an easie matter to bring the same to passe in such sort as there should soone be a good harborough refusing not to haue taken the worke to doo by great either by a plot of his owne deuising or else by the plot agréed on by the commissioners and allowed by the lords of the councell But this Ferdinando Poins although he séemed a verie good executioner either of his owne or another mans deuise concerning such affaires yet was he verie loth to discouer his order and maner of working or anie other deuise of his owne least as he said he might be preuented by some other that would vndertake to doo it by his deuises better cheape than him selfe could affoord it and so he to loose and other to gaine the benefit of his inuention Howbeit in the end he was content to be imploied anie waie so as therewithall he might haue monie before hand for Woolwich works did so sticke in his fingers as moneie was verie palpable and plausible vnto him In fine he vndertooke to make certeine groins or knocks which at the hauens mouth should cause such a depth as thereby the whole harborough should lie drie at a low water whereby the works about the wals might the better and more conuenientlie bée performed and the present entrie amended For it was concluded that there should bée made a perfect pent within the baie conteining in quantitie about sixtéene acres which should be inuironed with a long wall reaching from aboue the water gate néere to the Castell Raie extending in length about a hundred and twentie rods alongst within the shelfe of beach directlie towards the end of the pierre where the blacke bulworke was placed and at the end of the said long wall a crosse wall of length about fortie rods reaching from that wall directlie crosse to the shore at the northerne cliffe not far from the townes end And this should make a perfect pent to conteine and reteine the water of the riuer which when the sâ—use standing in the crosse wall should bee opened might be of force to make and mainteine a depth for an entrance or hauens mouth for shipping to come into the rode which lieth betwixt the maine sea and the pent In this worke there appeared great difficultie and so much the more in that for the most part the place where the wall should stand was continuallie surrounded and also the sea did euerie tide ouerflow the same and besides that annoiance the crosse wall also must crosse the riuer the course whereof could not be diuerted anie other waie but with extreme charge The speciall cause whie this harborough was continuallie surrounded euen at the low water was for want of a depth at the hauens mouth which might at an ebbe conueie thense into the sea more speedilie and abundantlie all those waters which remained vpon the face of the hauen To the execution line 10 hereof I saie the said Ferdinando Poins was appointed and towards his charge therabouts there was first deliuered vnto him one thousand pounds by force of a warrant sent by the commissioners for Douer hauen to Thomas Smith of Ostinhanger esquire farmer of hir maiesties customes inwards in the ports of London Sandwich Chichester Southhampton and Ipswich with their créeks and members and the créeke of Woodbridge being a member of the port of Yarmouth line 20 who is neuerthelesse called by the name of Customer Smith because in times past his office was by letters patents to collect the said custome and to yeeld account thereof as other customers vsuallie doo hauing for his fée one hundred and thrée score pounds yearelie Now for that he was so trustie and sufficient a person euerie waie there was committed vnto his charge the receipt of all such summes of monie as were due either for the aforesaid tunnage or for the licence of frée transportation of line 30 corne and béere the which summes as néed required were by him to be deliuered to the treasuror for Douer harborough vpon the councels direction and a warrant of six of the said commissioners hands There might be much written in the renowme and commendation of this man for his great affaires and aduentures as also for other singular vertues but for that he yet liueth and is generallie knowne it maie with modestie be deferred yet thus much I haue said of him for that he was a speciall sauorer and furtherer of these works neuer making line 40 delaie of anie paiment appointed or required but rather disbursing great summes of monie out of his owne cofers to set forwards the same After the receipt of this thousand pounds the said F. Poins had 200 more as it appeareth in those accounts Trulie this Ferdinando Poins applied the works industriouslie and performed some thing profitablie for the draining of the harborough by making two groins whereby there was a depth made at the hauens mouth But as it is thought his worke either line 50 was or might haue béene performed with lesse than halfe that monie which if he had doone I would more willinglie haue published his praises By the premisses it maie appeare that the life of the hauen consisteth in the pent and consequentlie in the long wall and crosse wall without the which no pent could be made so as wals must be erected But now the question grew to be how and whereof they should be framed which were to be wrought in the sea vpon line 60 the sand or beach through a riuer c and the same wall to withstand the violence and rage of the sea at the one side and to hold and reteine a mightie weight of fresh at the other so as no water might soke through or vnder the same Maister True as you haue heard would haue made stone wals verie costlie and without limitation of time Maister Ferdinando Poins would haue raised them with ouze and beach shoueled and cast togither without anie more adoo An other would haue made a coffin dam wherof the cost would haue béene infinite Pet and Baker being skilfull shipwrights with certeine other coparteners thought a woodden wall most conuenient and presented to the commissioners a module thereof deuised and framed for the most part by one Andrew a carpentar then seruant to the said Pet which deuise maister William Burroughs a verie expert seaman excéedinglie liked and commended Maister True his deuise was reiected as impossible and intollerable Maister Poins his workemanship was easie for a plaine man of the countrie to conceiue and performe but verie few could be persuaded that his wall would be tight inough to make a pent consisting onlie of slub and beach shoueled together and lieng so hoouer for that was his dâ—uise Neuerthelesse sir William Winter a man verie skilfull and of great experience in sea matters being sent to Douer
the whole course of courts being about two hundred were vnloden the laborers with their shouels and béetels plied to make euen the wall against another course came Sometimes they wrought a whole daie or two and laid downe manie thousand lodes of earth and chalke and no increase séene at night of the worke either in higth or length in so much as manie supposed that the earth was rather washed awaie than line 40 sunke And in truth some part thereof was carried awaie with the floud in a rough tide for all the water in the hauen was manie times discoloured therewith especiallie vntill sir Thomas Scot tooke order that before euerie floud not onelie each side of the wall but the end also should be armed with fagot in the morning or after noone when returne was made to the works the end where they were to procéed should be vnarmed againe which néeded not be doone to the sides for they carried the whole line 50 breadth of the wall with them But in truth the weight of the wall with the continuall passage thervpon made the whole worke to sinke to the verie rocke being from the top of the chanell sixtéene foot and from the face of the water at the floud almost as much more But in the end it was a woonder to see how the multitude of carriages being well plied preuailed euen ouer the floud which though it rose exceeding fast and was come to the verie brinke or vppermost lane of the wall a new course of courts came from time to time and supplied line 60 the want which if it should haue staied a minut longer would haue turned to great losse for they could haue wrought no longer that tide In this maner they procéeded vntill there was made of the crosse wall about fiue and twentie rods which they wrought alwaies as they went aboue the high water marke otherwise it could neuer haue béene performâ—â— and so they passed through the chanell or riuer and caried the wall beyond the same thrée or foure rods so as the backe water or chanell had no issue to passe downe into the sea but as it rose aboue â—he flats and ran awaie before the end of the wall whense they continuallie droue it further and further by lengthening the same Howbe it by this meanes they wrought alwaies in the water which was verie discommodious This riuer therefore manie men would haue had turned some other waie otherwise it was thought that this wall could not haue béene made the turning whereof would haue béene diuerse waies inconuenient First for the extreame charge secondlie the hauens mouth would for want héereof haue soone béene swarued vp thirdlie Poins his worke which cost one thousand two hundred pounds should haue bin hereby frustrated fourthlie the hauen all that time and all passage vnto Douer had beene vtterlie taken awaie to the great hinderance and vndooing of the townsmen there But sir Thomas Scot who imploied his head and mind to séeke all aduantages for the setting forward of this worke and had conceiued a perfect plot for the finishing of the same caused a cut to be made in the wall and a small fluse to be laid in the verie place where the chaâ—ell did first run which serued for the time not onelie to giue naturall passage to the riuer and to mainteine the hauens mouth but as a bridge also for the courts to passe ouer the water to the further end of the wall which now by this meanes remained drie and free from water vntill the floud to the great aduantage and commodiâ—ie of the worke This sluse was composed with two arches in length sixtie foot besides the splaies at each end in breadth eight foot and in depth also eight food and the charge thereof amounted not to aboue one hundred marks In truth the laieng of this sluse was a verie dangerous and difficult peece of worke and the executioners thereof worthie of commendation for with great courage to doo their â—â—â—â—trie seruice they aduentured their liues in more perill than I can well expresse Manie were aâ—â—onied to behold the dangerous case of the workemen and diuerse departed from the place as being loth to sée the poore mens destruction Wherein the said Reginald Smith and the Romneie marshmen dealt with great dexteriâ—ie and courage when all other almost had giuen it ouer persisting in continuall and extreame trauell thereabouts by the space of two daies and one night without intermission After the cut was digged thorough the wall the sluse was laid by peecemeale at the direction of him and the foresaid Richard Coast William Norris and Iohn Bowle whose hands were as busie also as anie others in the dooing thereof And as they were trauelling hereabouts the weight of the wall it selfe with the earth cast out of the trench therevnto and the multitude of the beholders standing thereon made a clift or crase therein consisting of manie hundred lodes of earth which declined towards the cut where they wrought to laie the sluse and was redie to fall vpon them all so as they were faine to sustaine the side therof with shores which they supported chéefelie with their owne force Which if they had not doone with great art labour by the space of diuersâ— hours together the wall had fallen into the place where the sluse should haue béene laid to the destruction of sundrie people and to the discomfort of manie belonging to the works But these marshmen neuer gaue ouer till euerie sticke thereof was laid at what time ech man reioised that meant well to the works and diuerse bestowed rewards vpon the workemen and praise was giuen to God for his fauour shewed in that behalfe This worke being thus performed the courts which during that time were altogither set to worke at maister lieutenants wall did now diuide themselues againe and returne to worke as before at sir Thomas Scots wall and at euerie side wrought with singular diligence great facilitie And God so fauored those works as there were not lost in all that summer by meanes of foule wether aboue thrée daies and a halfe wherein either courts or laborers were put from their worke and in all those busines not one person slaine and yet almost in euerie action belonging therevnto there was imminent danger as first you heard in the laieng of the sluâ—e And manie times in digging of chalke they stood in the cliffe and vndermined it so as sometimes an line 10 hundred lode fell downe at once from vnder their feet and sometimes from aboue their heads and yet through Gods goodnes their diligent care all escaped without hurt sauing two persons vpon whom great chalke rocks much abundance of earth did fall and yet were recouered without losse of life or of lim In the passage also of the courts if by chance either man or boie had fallen downe amongest them as sometimes some did the hill was so stéepe at some
places and the court was so swift line 20 that there could be no staie made but the courts must run ouer them and yet no great harme hath happened that waie And I my selfe haue séene a court loden with earth passe ouer the bellie or stomach of the driuer and yet he not hurt at all therby Manie courts also being vnloden for expedition were driuen at low waters through the chanell within the pent from maister lieutenants wall whereby they gained more than halfe the waie and so long as by anie possibilitie they might passe that line 30 waie they were loth to go about And when the flood came the chanell did so suddenlie swell as manie horsses with their courts and driuers which rode in them were ouertaken or rather ouerwhelmed with water and were forced to swim with great hazard of life though therat some tooke pleasure For sometimes the boies would strip themselues naked and ride in that case in their courts through the chanell being so high as they were ducked ouer head and eares but they knew their horsses would swim and carrie them through the streame which ministred line 40 to some occasion of laughter and mirth Finallie this summer being in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred eightie and thrée was verie hot and contagious the infection of the plague that yeare more vniuersallie dispersed through England than in manie yeares before and that towne verie much subiect therevnto by means of through-fare and common passage and had béene extremelie visited therewith not long before so as the towne line 50 was abandoned of most men yea of some of the inhabitants themselues for that cause and yet God blessed so the works as in this extraordinarie and populous assemblie there was in no part of the towne anie death or infection either of townsmen or workmen which resorted thither from all the parts of England And one thing more in mine opinion is to be noted and commended herein that is to saie that in all this time and among all these people there was neuer anie tumult fraie nor falling out to the disquieting line 60 or disturbance of the works which by that means were the better applied and with lesse interruption For they neuer ceased working the whole daie sauing that at eleuen of the clocke before noone as also at six of the clocke in the euening there was a flag vsuallie held vp by the sargent of the towne in the top of a tower except the tide or extraordinarie busines forced the officers to preuen◠the houre or to make some small delaie staie therof And presentlie vpon the signe giuen there was a generall shout made by all the workers and wheresoeuer anie court was at that instant either emptie or loden there was it left till one of the clocke after noone or six of the clocke in the morning when they returned to their businesse But by the space of halfe an houre before the flag of libertie was hanged out all the court driuers entered into a song whereof although the dittie was barbarous and the note rusticall the matter of no moment all but a iest yet is it not vnworthie of some briefe note of remembrance because the tune or rather the noise thereof was extraordinarie and being deliuered with the continuall voice of such a multitude was verie strange In this and some other respect I will set downe their dittie the words whereof were these O Harrie hold vp thy hat t' is eleuen a clocke and a little little little past My bow is broke I would vnyoke my foot is sore I can worke no more This song was made and set in Romneie marsh where their best making is making of wals and dikes and their best setting is to set a néedle or a stake in a hedge howbeit this is a more ciuill call than the brutish call at the theatre for the comming awaie of the plaiers to the stage I thinke there was neuer worke attempted with more desire nor proceeded in with more contentment nor executed with greater trauell of workemen or diligence of officers nor prouided for with more carefulnesse of commissioners nor with truer accounts or duer paie nor contriued with more circumspection of the deuisers and vndertakers of the worke nor ended with more commendation or comfort sauing that vpon the seuen twentith of Iulie being S. Iames his daie the verie daie when the crosse wall and the long wall met and were ioined together and in effect finished for both wals were brought aboue the high water marke and nothing remained to be done of the same but highthening which might be doone at anie time after sir Thomas Scot the principall piller of that worke fell sicke vpon the wals and was conueied thense in a wagon to his house where he remained six wéeks more likelie to die than to liue whose ladie and wife being a most vertuous and noble matrone a liuelie paterne of womanhood and sobrietie the daughter of sir Iohn Baker knight and the mother of seuentéene children vsed such diligent attendance and continuall care for hir husbands recouerie of helth as thereby she brought hir selfe into so weake state of bodie as being great with two children she fell sicke and after hir vntimelie trauell being deliuered of a sonne and a daughter she ended hir mortall life This sicknesse of sir Thomas Scot and that which fell out therevpon was no small discomfiture to him and all his And the workmen at Douer made such mone for his sicknesse and also for his absence that euerie stréet was replenished with sorrow and gréefe and the people would be comforted with nothing more nor anie waie be better incouraged to worke lustilie than to be told that sir Thomas Scot was well recouered and would shortlie be amongst them againe And in truth they translated their barbarous musicke into a sorrowfull song and in stéed of calling to Harrie for their dinner they called to God for the good health and returne of their best freend sir Thomas Scot and that with a generall and continuall outcrie euen in their old accustomed tune time But the courts procéeded in highthening the wals vntill they were raised about two foot higher than they were on S. Iames his daie when the wals met togither so as the crosse wall is ninetie foot broad in the bottome and about fiftie foot in the top The long wall is seuentie foot in the bottome and almost fortie foot in the top in so much as vpon either wall two courts may méet and passe or turne without troubling ech other The length of the crosse wall is fortie rods the length of the long wall a hundred and twentie rods The charge of these two wals with the appurtenances amounted to two thousand and seauen hundred pounds as appeareth in the expenditors books If there were anie issue or draining of water vnder the wals it was soone stopped by the peise
King Henrie sheweth himselfe to the Londoners The Londoners resolue to receiue king Edward The archbishop of Yorke The Tower recouered to king Edwards vse K. Edward entereth into London King Henrie is deliuered to him The earle of Warwike followeth the king Edw. Hall Gladmore heath The ordering of the kings armie K. Edward lodged before his enimies Artillerie A good policie Edw. Hall The order of the battell of both sides The valiancie of the earle of Oxford Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 727. The 〈◊〉 courage of the earle of Warwike The earle of Warwike 〈◊〉 The marquesse Montacute slaine 〈◊〉 Flem. 〈◊〉 Fl. ex I. S. 〈…〉 The number at Barnet field The duke of Summerset and the earle of Oxfoâ—d 〈◊〉 The duke of Excester 〈◊〉 Flem. Edw. Hall Quéene Margaret landeth with a power out of France The countesse of Warwike taketh sanctuarie The duke of Summerset and the earle of Deuonshire coÌ„fort quéene Margaret Edw. Hall The feare which quéene Margaret had for hir sonne K. Edward setteth forward against his enimies Sudburie hill Glocester 〈◊〉 it was not assaulted A long march The place where the lords â—â—camped The painfull march of king Edward with his armie Chiltenham The ordering of king Edwards battell The ordering of the lords hoast The duke of Glocester Teukesburie field The duke of Summerset Edw. Hall The politike foresight of the king The vaÌ„tgard of the lords distressed A terrible stroke Abr. Flem. Edw. Hall Prince Edward taken Nobles 〈◊〉 Sir Richard Crofts deliuereth the prince in hope that his life should haue béene saued Prince Edward murthered The duke of Summerset others beheaded Queéne Mâ—â—â—garet taken Rebellion in the north pacified The earle of Northumberland Thomas Neuill bastard 〈…〉 The bastard 〈◊〉 before Lâ—ndon with 〈◊〉 Succours sent to the citie of London The bastards purpose to spoile the suburbs of London Prop. lib. 4. The bastard altereth his purpose The bastard meaneth to enter the citie by force Algate and Bishops gate assaulted Houses burnt on the bridge The valiancie of Robert Basset alderman Rafe Iosselin The bastard incampeth on Blackeheath Edw. Hall king Henrie the sixt murthered in the Tower The nine and twentith of Maie Canonizing of kings 〈◊〉 Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 730 731 c. The kings colledge in Cambridge The chappell The bodie of the church The quiere The roodloft The height of the chappell The east window The side chappels The vestrie The cloister The stéeple The base court The east pane The great gate The south pane The west pane The librarie The disputation house The wardrobe The hall The pantrie and butterie The colledge kitchin The prouosts lodging The bakhouse and brewhouse The wood-yard The water conduit The precinct of the colledgâ— The water gate Sandwich kept by the rebels The rebels 〈◊〉 for pardon The bastard of Fauconbridge beheaded Roger Uaughan taken and beheaded Dauid Thomas The earle of Penbroke with his nephue the earle of Richmond 〈◊〉 ouer into Britaine Execution Fabian The archbishop of Yorke The earle of Oxford Anno Reg. 12. Messengers sent to the duke of Britaine 1473 Anno Reg. 13. A parlement A subsidie A pardon Ambassadors from the duke of Burgognie Opportunitie not to be neglected The earle of S. Paule A shift to recouer monie Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxvj. Iohn 〈◊〉 14â—â— Anno Reg. â—â— The K. 〈◊〉 an armie passeth ouer 〈◊〉 France The siege of Nusse The lord Scales A defiance sent to the French king Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxvij The office of 〈◊〉 herald The duke of Burgognie commeth to king Edward The constable of France a déepe dissembler The duke oâ— Burgognie â—eparteth A messenger sent to the king of England Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxix câ—xxx Commissioners appointed to treat of peace Articles of agréement betwéene king Edward and the French king Want of monie procureth peace The duke of Glocester an 〈◊〉 to â—eace Aâ—r. Fl. ex Edw. Hall â—ol Ccxxxj. The duke of Burgognie commeth in hast to the king of England Aâ—r. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxxj. He departeth 〈…〉 king in a rage The constable of France his offer to K. Edward Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxxij Ccxxxiij Shamefull â—â—anderous words against the K. of England Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxxiij The enterview betwixt king Edward the fourth the French king * Of timber like to the grate where the lions be kept in the Tower Abr. Fl. ex Edw Hall fol. Ccxxxiiij The manerlie English and vnmanerlie French French loue â— Edward returneth into England Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxxvj. Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxxvj. Sir Thomas MoÌ„tgomerie 1475 Anno Reg. 15. Henrie earle of Richmond Ambassadors into Britaine The earle of Richmond taketh sanctuarie Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxxxvij Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 752. 〈◊〉 Iohn â—rosbie his 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 Litilton 1476 Anno Reg. 16. The death of the duke of Burgognie Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 745. Agnes Daintie on the pillorie Part of LoÌ„don wall 〈◊〉 builded Iohn Rouse Bishops 〈◊〉 new builded Burdet for a word spoken beheaded Enguerant Register of the Greie friers Anno Reg. 17. George duke of Clarence drowned in a butt of malmesie Prophesies diuelish fantasies Edward erle of Warwike sonne heire to George duke of Clarence Margaret duchesse of Salisburie A great pestilence Auson 1478. Anno Reg. 18. Large offers made to the king of England by the French king 1479 Anno Reg. 19. Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 747 748. Pestilence Unaduised vnséemelie demeanor punished with a fine Coâ—dou a Cheape bâ—â—lded 1480 Anno Reg. â—â— The French king féedeth the king of England with faire words and promises Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 748 749. Fiue théeues for sacrilege seuerelie exâ—cuted Plaâ—â— in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 temporam The king â—eaâ—teâ—h the maior and aldermen Fabian pag. â—12 Ambassadors â—oorth of Scotland Preparation for warre against Scotland 1482 Anno Reg. 22. An armie senâ— into Scotland Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 749. Creplegate builded Records Anno reg 23. 1483 Berwike woone by the Englishmen The bishop elect of Murreie sent to the duke of Glocester The duke of Albanie restored home He is created great lieutenant of Scotland The castell of Berwike deliuered Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccâ—â—â—j Gartier king of armes is sent into Scotland Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall fol. Ccxlvij Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall 〈◊〉 Ccxlviij Ccxlix * She liued at such time as this storie was penned The loue of the people Description of Edward the fourth Sée before pag. 705. Richard duke of Yorke Edward George duke of Clarence * had not set The description of Richard the third The death of king Henrie the sixt Hastings lord chamberleine maligned of the queene hir kin The nature of ambition I counterfet and pretended reconcilement Lord Riuers The duke of Glocesters solicitations A consent to worke wiâ—kednesse The practises of the duke of Buckingham Glocester The lord Riuers put in
ioine or to deale with the rebels Preparation is made on both sides to withstand the one the other The citie of Exon besieged The vaine persuasions of the rebels to haue the spoile of the citie The citie is viewed for â—rmor and all things are prepared for defense of the citie The rebels stop vp all the waies comming to the citie The rebels plant their ordinance against the citie breakâ— vp the conduâ—â— pipes and burne one of the gates The gates of the citie werâ— kept open continuallie and rampired within side as also fiers kept burning all night in the same The citie being full of water springs they want no water The citie wals at the west gate were vndermined but 〈◊〉 countermining the 〈◊〉 was preuented The vnderminings of the wals how it was â—ound and destroiâ—d Aprettie stratagem of the rebels The citie gates kept alwaies open The suburbs burned and the houses beaten downe The citie diuided within it selfe into two factions of religion The affection and disposition of the Romish faction The discretion and great ciâ—cumspection of the magistrates The secret conferences of the papists A fond enterprise of an expert citizen This Tailor died after in prison for 〈◊〉 What man purposeth God disposeth A wicked practise to receiue the rebels into the castell The chiefest rulers capteins among the commons were the worst men Great practise vsed to procure the citizens to ioine with the rebels The faithfull and flat determination of the citizens to refuse the coÌ„ioining with the rebels The last and perilous practise of the rebels A pestilent practise The papists were disappointed of their purposes The determination of the honest good citizens The best citizens conâ—â—derated The carefulnesse of the good citizens A variance between Iohn Courtneie Barnard Duffeld A sallie made vpon the rebels â— broile towards Francis the daughter of Barnard Duffeld strake the maior in the face Uittels wax scant within the citie Bread made of bran and of puffins The godlie and politike dealings of the magistrates with the poore The poore are wéekelie liberallie relieued All vittels â—etched into the citie were distributed amoÌ„g the poore The prisoners in the gaole did and were driuen to eate horsses The gentle intreating of the poorer sort The lord Russâ—lâ— after that the citie had béene besieged fiue wéekes turneth to this citie upâ—◠〈◊〉 sixt of 〈◊〉 and deliuerâ—◠〈◊〉 the same Sir Peter Carew aduertiseth the king councell of the rebelled The duke of Summerset charged sir Peter Carew of the rebellioÌ„ The king his letters vnder his priuie signet counted to be no sufficieÌ„t warrant The stout answer of sir Peter Carew Sir Peter Carew being promised of helpe returneth home The lord Russell is almost lâ—ft forsaken The lord Râ—ssell distruting himselfe iâ— vpon his departure from out of Deuon but by sir Peter Carew is 〈◊〉 backe againe The merchants of Eron procure and borow monie to helpe the lord Russel The lord Russell marcheth towards Fenington bridge Sir Gawen Carew is hurt at Fenington bridge The rebels are ouerthrowne at Fenington The Cornish rebels giue an onset and are ouerthrowne at Fenington their capteine flieth awaie The lord Greie and Spinolâ— come with a supplie to the lord Russell The lord Russell marcheth towards Excester for their deliuerance The rebels are ouerthrowne at the windmill Miles Couerdale preâ—cher The kings armie marcheth towards bishops Clist Sir William Francis first entreth the rampire The kings armie retireth The rebels take the kings wagons munition and treasure Sir William Francis slaineâ— Bishops Clist towne set on fire and burnt The rebels ouerthrowne to the towne The lord Greie passeth ouer the riuer into Clist heath Iohn Yard first giueth the aduenture and findeth waie ouer the water A proclamation that whosoeuer recouereth first the bridge to haue foure hundred crownes The bridge recouered All the prisoners before taken are committed to the sword The rebelles 〈◊〉 ouerthrowen upon Clist heath Sir William Francis buried at Excesâ—â—â— The rebels forsake the â—ne The lord Russell commeth to Excester The maior and his brethren salute the lord Russell and he embraceth them The king thankefullie accepteth the seruice of the 〈◊〉 and liberallie rewardeth the same The Welshmen came too late to the fight but soone inough to the spoile The lord priuie seale tarieth at Exon rewardeth the good and punisheth the euill Sir Peter Carew sir Gawen Carew William Gibbes rewarded with traitors lands Thrée things laid to the charge of the vicar of saint Thomas The rebels hang Kingwell The rebels appoint to set fire on the citie and to burne it The vicar of saint Thomas letteâ—h and will not consent to the burning of the citie The vicar is hanged in chaines vpon the top of the tower with his popish trash and ornaments about him The rebels assembled at Sampford Courtneie The rebels ouerthrowne at Sampford Courtneie Sir Peter Carew pursueth the rebels which fled to King Weston The lord priuie seale taketh his iorneie into Cornewall The lord priuie seale taketh his iorneie towards London and is honourablie receiued The chéefe capteins of the rebels are caried to London and there put to death The religious houses within the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 of S. Peters King Athelâ—ran builded the wals of the citie of stone Ex pamphleto 〈◊〉 S. Iohannis Baptistae Exon. Ex chronica 〈◊〉 cathred 〈◊〉 The Danes spoile the church of S. Peters The moonks forsake their monasterie Floreshistoriarum King Edgar restoreth the abbat and moonks to their house Sidemannus abbat of this church and after bishop of this diocesse K. Canutus restoreth both lands priuileges to the church The bishops sée remooued from Crediton to Exon. Leofricus the first bishop of Excester The king at the request of William Warewest bishop giueth Plimpton Brampton S. Stephans to the church of Excester The foundation of the quier of S. Peters church Bishop William Brewer instituteth the deane foure and twentie prebendaries The bodie of saint Peters church first founded The chanter and subdeane first constituted in this church Bishop Grandisson a great benefactor to the church The church of S. Peters was in building 437 yeares The cloister builded The building of the chapiter house Iohn Fox Common rebellion Norffolke The beginning of the rebellion in Norffolke A conference to further this rebellion in a méeting at a publike plaie Iohn Flowerdew Robert Ket Ket chosen 〈◊〉 be capteine of the rebels The citizens 〈◊〉 Norwich Thomas Cod. The rebels request licence to passe thorough Norwich Sir Roger Woodhouse Mount Surrie Mousehold Rising chase Watton Counterfeit religion Gentlemen imprisoned The number of the rebels Rebels and théeues can not kéepe togither without ministration of iustice The trée of reformation Doctor Parker He preacheth to the rebels The rebels threaten doctor Parker Doctor Parkeâ— conueieth â—â—â—selfe from 〈◊〉 the reâ—â—â—s The policie of â—â—ctor Parker to beguile the rebels The falsifieng 〈◊〉 the kings â—â—â—missions The outragious dealing against genâ—lemen Sir
fourth of Nouember 5500 one with another slain drowned and burned A conclusion of peace betwéene the parties before diuided Walter Deuereux earle of Essex departeth this life Abr. Fl. ex concione funebri vt patet in contextu The place of the erls birth what losse all EnglaÌ„d hath of him What noblemen are the wals of the realme The praise of the earle for sundrie considerations Comparison of true nobilitie vnto a riuer or floud c. â—anor lib. â—â— it rebâ—â— gesâ—â— Alphoâ—si The disposition of the earle to inlarge and augment his nobilitie Prudence a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indueâ— How he bestowed his youthfull yeares The bishops report of him vpon his own knowledge The erle perfect in the scriptures and matters of religion He was a fauourer of preachers His expertnesse in chronicles histories c. Fortitude a noble vertue wherewith 〈◊〉 earle was 〈◊〉 Exod. 28 21 The earles chiualrie marâ—iall knowledge and prowesse aduanced Fortitude néedfull both in time of peace and warre Iustice a noble vertue wherwith this erle was indued The bishop reporteth of the earles iustice vpon his owne knowledge Iob. 29 15. The paterne of a good earle indéed Suetonius The humanitie courtesie affablenesse and other verâ—ues of this earle Temperance a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indued The bishops report of the earle vpon his owne knowledge Eccles. 7.9 Luke 6.45 The earle could not awaie with swearing chasing nor anie disordered dealing c. The disposition and deuotion of this earle in the time of his sickenesse Numb 21. â— The heauenlie contemplation of this earle drawing to his end A woonderfull gift of the holie Ghost and most worthie to be chronicled How his seruants were affected at his last spéeches Who they be that die in the Lord. A spéech conclusorie of the bishop directed to the earlâ— departed The earle eternâ—llie blessed The death of the earle much lamented The heroicall description of true nobilitie A persuasorie reason to mooue the yoong earle now liuing to an excellent imitation of his ancestors Notable counsell to the earle to deserue well of his souereigne and countrie The quéenes testimonie of the earle Uertues naturallie incident to the erle by coursâ— of descent To what end â—he epitaph genealogicall was added to the funerall sermon The old earls counsell at his death to the yoong earle now aliue touching the shortnesse of life A proclamation for the fâ—â—e traffike of merchants as before c. â— Stow. An vnnaturall brother murthereth his naturall brother but the vnnaturall brother was hanged as he well dâ—serued Anno Reg. 19. A tempest in Richmondshire Tower on LondoÌ„ bridge â—â—ken downe Robinson hanged for clipping of gold Second voiage to Cataia StraÌ„ge sickenesse at Oxford Ab. Fl. ex relatu W. B. impress 1577. Tempest in Suffolke The tower on London bridge new builded Anno Reg. 20. Cutbert Maine executed An example of sorcerers and such as seeme to worke woÌ„ders to deceiue men of their monie Nelson and Sherewood executed Counterfetters of coine executed Pirats hanged Frobishers third voiage Anno Reg. 21. The receiuing of Cassimere Déepâ— snow Great land waters A murtherer hanged on Mile end gréene Lord kéeper deceased Ab. Fl. collect ex epitaph 〈◊〉 praenobilis On the south side these verses On the north side these Great snow in the moneth of Aprill Sir Thomas Bromleie lord chancellor The collection of Francis Thin Turketill Saint Swithin Wlfinus Adulphus Hist. Eliens lib. 2. written in the time of K. Stephan Leofricus Wlfinus Resenbaldus Mauricius Osmundus Arfastus Hirmanus William Uelson William Gifford Robert Bluet Ranulphus Waldricus Herbertus Roger. Galfridus Ranulphus Reginald Roger. Godfreie Alexander bishop of Lincolne This was about the beginning of the fourth yeere of K. Stephan being An. Do. 1138 but Mat. 〈◊〉 giueth it to An. Dom. 1139 who saith Collo 〈◊〉 qui 〈◊〉 fuit 〈◊〉 anne 〈◊〉 c. And Henrie Huntington agreeth wholie with W. Parâ—â—s Robert Philip. Reinold Iohn Thomas Becket * Christes church in Canturburie Rafe Warneuile Walterus de Constantijs Geffreie William Longchamp Eustachius Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert Simon Hugh de Welles Walter Braie Richard de Marischo Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester Geffreie the Templer Hugh Pateshall chanon of Paules Simon the Norman Richard Grasse abbat of Euesham Iohn de Lexinton Ranulfe Briton Syluester de Euersden Iohn Mansell Iohn de Lexinton Iohn Mansell Radulphus de Diceto William of Kilkennie Henrie de Wingham Walter Merton Nicholas of Elie. Walter Merton the second time Iohn de Chesill Viâ—a Thomae Cantelupi Walter Gifford bishop of Bath Geffreie Gifford Iohn de Chesill Richard de Middleton Iohn de Kirbie Walter Merton Robert Burnell Iohn de Langhton Matthew Paâ—ker Iohn Drokensford William de Greinfield William de Hamelton Ralfe Baldocke Iohn Langhton William Melton Walter Reinolds Iohn de Sandall Iohn Hotham Iohn Salmon bishop of Norwich * Or Pabeham * Yorke * Twelue miles from Yorke Robert Baldocke Histor. episc Norwich William Airemee kéeper of the seale Iohn Hotham bishop of Elie. Henrie Cliffe master of the rolles Henrie Burghwash bishop of Lincolne Iohn Stratford Richard de Burie or Richard de Angeruile Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert de Stratford Richard de Bintwoorth bishop of London Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert bishop of Chichester Robert de Bourchier Robert Perning iustice at the law Robert de Saddington Iohn Offord or Ufford Iohn Thorsbie William de Edington Simon Langham William de Wikeham Robert Thorpe Sir Iohn Kniuet Adam de Houghton * Ralfe Neuill 〈◊〉 Sir Richard Scroope Simon Sudburie Sir Richard Scroope lord Scroope of Bolton Robert Braibrooke bishop of London Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke * Michael de puteaco or of the Poole Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie. William Wickham Thomas Arundell Iohn Serle master of the rols Edmund Stafford Henrie Beauford Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Thomas Fitzalen Thomas Beauford Iohn Wakering clearke Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie Henrie Beauford bishop at Winchester Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester Iohn Kempe bishop of London Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath Iohn Kempe bishop of Yorke Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Thomas Bourchier bishop of Elie. In vita Thomae Boâ—â—cheri â—pisco 〈◊〉 William Patan or Paten 〈◊〉 William Wanfled George Neuill archbishop of Yorke Robert Kirkham maister of the rolles Robert Stillington doctor of the lawes Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex Laurence Booth bishop of Durham Thomas Scot aliâs Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Rochester Thomas Rotheram Iohn Russell bishop of Lincolne Thomas Barow maister of the rolles Thomas Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Worcester Iohn Moorton bishop of Elie. William Warham archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Woolseie Thomas Moore Thomas Audleie Hâ—sto Câ—ntab per Caium 78. Thomas Wriotheslie William Paulet Sir Richard Rich Sir Nicholas Hare Stephan Gardener Nicholas Heath Nicholas Bacon Thomas Bromleie Ab. Fl. ex publicis aeditionibus B.G. T.
〈◊〉 and affâ—ction of the lord lieutenant to performe the premisses sigâ—nified and by good proofe 〈◊〉 stified The states agnise the pâ—â—â—emptorie authoritie put into the lord lieutenants hands in respect of his gouernment Like authâ—â—â—tie giuen to the lord lieutenant as other gouernours his 〈◊〉 â—â—â—decessors 〈◊〉 had in the 〈◊〉 countries â—n acknowledgement and performance of dutie and elegiance inioined to all persons of the low countries vnder paine of punishâ—ent to the lord lieutenant All pretense of ignorance cut off least the course of obeâ—â—ence might be hindered Councellors 〈◊〉 matters of late elected by the lord â—â—eutenant â—â—wes for capteinâ— and souldiours The lord lâ—eutenant commeth from the Hage to Harlem how he was receiued Utricht people commended for their great kindnes shewed to the Englishmen S. Georges feast solemntlie obserued at Utricht S. Georges feast solemnlie obserued at Utricht L. lieutenant inuested in the robes of order Martin Skinke knighted who promised Portcullis to shew him seuentie ensignes that he had now in the field Seminarie préests execâ—â—tâ—d at Tiburne A wench burnt in Smithfield Archbishop Canturburiâ— lord Cobhaâ— lord Buckâ—hurst of the priuie councell Pag. 1435 〈◊〉 The numâ—â—â— of archbishâ—â— of Canturâ—â—â—rie from thâ— first to the 〈◊〉 Considerations whie the building of Douer hauen is here recorded Douer the néerest place of England to France Douer the most conuenient place of England for a hauen Reasons whie a harbor at Douer would be so beneficiall A true commendation of quéene Elisabeth The 〈…〉 Douer wâ—ll mainteine a hauen there for euer In peramb. Cant. 〈◊〉 Douer Douer castell reedified by queene Elisabeth Edward the fourth bestowed ten thousand pounds vpon reparations of Douer castell The situation of Douer harbour A naturall rode for ships at Douer The hauen of Rie decaied whereby more néed of a harbour at Douer Ships lost for lacke of sufficient harbour at Douer The first benefit bestowed on Douer harbour Little paradise In the reigne of Edward the Confessor Sir Iohn Thomson préest his supplication Fiue hundred pounds giuen by Henrie the eight towards a beginning of Douer works The maison de Dieu of Douer Surueiors ouerséers Sir Iohn Thomsons deuise discouered The Molehead Douer pierre when it was taken in hand and whereof it consisted A notable dâ—uise to carrie great rocks by water Foure pence a daie A Gaboth The charge of the pierre The kings care for Douer pierre The kings repaire to Doâ—er The cause of the decaie of the pierre Officers about the pierre The ruine of Douer pierre Stone called beach or bowlder choked vp Douer hauen Two causes of the decaie of Douer pie rre Someâ—iâ—e no harborough at all at Douer How Douer was made desolat That beach which destroied the pierre helpeth now the hauen A bountifull gift of quéene Elisabeth towards the reparing of Douer hauen The patent of the quéenes gift sold vnto two merchants The act of parlement for Douer hauen 23. Elisab Thrée pence the tun of euerie vessell allowed towards Douer hauen The tunnage amounted to 1000 pounds yearelie The tenure of the quéens commission for Douer hauen Iohn True suruâ—ior generall of Douer hauen The deuise of Iohn True Stone heâ—ed at Folkestone amounting to 1288 pounds Infinit charge to accomplish the stone wall Iohn True had ten shillings a day for his fée Iohn True is dismissed Ferdinando Poins Poins his groine The pent 16 acres The length of the long wall The crosse wall The rode for ships One thousand pounds to Ferdinando Poins Customer Smith Uarietie of deuises Sir W. Winter sent to Douer to surueie the harbor c. Sir Thomas Scot. The wals of Romneie marsh subiect to the raging seas All the commissioners ioine with sir Thomas Scot and allow his deuise Seuen inuincible reasons against the woodden wall The lord treasurors resolution Of Woolwich and Erith breaches Secretarie Walsingham the chiefe director and furtherer of Douer hauen No dealing by great in matters of excessiue charge and danger Sir Thomas Scots notes Douer pent finished in thrée moneths Reinold Scot and Rafe Smith examined by maister secretarie about the wals of the pent Questions propounded to Poins and the Plumsted men Sir Thomas Scots deuise allowed by the lords of the councell The resolution at a conference at Douer Officers elected at Douer The commoditie of the pent Woolwich breach recouerable Euerie degrée willing to set forward this worke Six hundred courts imploied at once in these works Iohn Smith the â—â—penditor Iohn Keies gentleman chiefe purueior A horsâ—e a court and a driuer for twelue pence the daie The quantitie of one court or tumbrell A benefit to 〈◊〉 â—east The 〈◊〉 substance of the walâ—s The disposing of the works Henrie Guilford esquier capteine of Arcliffe castell The beginning of the great works at Doâ—â—r Reasons for the difficultie of the crosse wall This worke vndertaken and other reiected by sir Thomas Scots means Bowle a notable good workman Commissioners Treasuror Two iuraâ—â— called directors Eight guâ—ders Eight vntingers Eight sheâ—uers Eight â—â—â—gers Laborers Scauelmen Béetlemen Armors The order of arming Inferior purueiors Clerke Expenditor The groine kéeper The maneâ— of the wall worke How the wall was saued from being wasted The inconuenience which would haue folâ—owed the diuerting of the riuer another waie A sluse made for diuerse good purposes A difficult and dangerous worke Gods blessing and fauour shewed to the works of Doâ—er Dangers happilie escaped Boies plaie The flag of libertie * Or six A commendation of them which wrought or had anie charge about Douer works Sir Thomas Scot fell sicke in Douer works The death of the ladie Scot. The bredth depth length and charge of the long and crosse wall with the â—â—â—ming c. A necessarie remedie if water draine vnder the wall Expedition necessarie and profitable The state of the wals A sure triall latelie made of the good effect of the pent A gaâ—e of the â—â—use broken Edward Wootton esquire ambassador into France The effect of the pent Of the sluse The lord Cobham remaineth at Douer one whole moneth Sir Francis Walsingham principall fréend to these works Of the latâ— works The note of Iohn Hooker aliâs Vowell concerning the sudden and strange sickenesse of late happening in Excester The originalâ— cause of this infection whereto imputed Barnard Drake esquier The mischiefe of nastie apparell The assise at Excester appointed to be quarterlie kept This sicknes was contagious mortall Principall men that died of that infection Sir Iohn Chichester and sir Arthur Basset bemoned and commended Eleuen of the iurie with other officers die of this â—â—ckenesse Affliction draweth men to God c. An introductâ—â—â— to the historicall remembrance of the Sidneis the father and the sonne c. The note of Edmund Molineux touching sir Henrie Sidneis life and death His education in his youth His â—â—â—â—â—â—ment in ambassage Foure times lord iustice thrise lord deputie of Ireland He suppressed by force and policie
point of ioining The order of the Scotish battels The Irish archers on a wing Edward Shelleie The lord Iohn Greie The English horssemen repelled Gentlemen slaine The lord Greie hurt Sir Andrew Flammocke The lord Fitzwaters * Quéene Elizabeth Caluerleie Clement Paston Don Philip â— Spaniard The placing of the English vantgard The battell The rere-ward The presence 〈◊〉 the earle of â—arwike 〈◊〉 inâ—â—â—â—aged the 〈◊〉 Sir Rafe Uane Sir Peter Mewtas Sir Peter Gamboa The Archers The mâ—â—ster 〈…〉 The Scots flie and are sharplie pursued The enimies cast awaie their munition and furniture the lightlier to flie and be gone The earle of Angus Parson Keble one of the lord protectors chapleins The maner of the slaughter The number of Scots slaine The causes why so few Scots were taken The Scotishmens vow Paniar hough The apparell of the Scots The earle 〈◊〉 Huntleie â—â—â—ken Other prisâ—â—ners taken The numbeâ— of the prisoners The lord proâ—tector not desâ—â—rous of slaughter Sir Rafe Sadler The spoile 〈◊〉 the Scotish campe A showt 〈◊〉 signe of victorie The featurâ— of the Scotishmens pâ—â—â—sonages Priests oâ— kirkmen A baner 〈◊〉 papists â—â—uise 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 signifiâ—â—â—â—â— and meaâ—â—â—g of the 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 A little castle 〈◊〉 pile verie 〈◊〉 with the English â—â—at men of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 and taken prisoâ—ers Armor and weapons caried into England Ieronimo an Italian Cutbert Musgraue The English armie incampeth by Lieth S. Cooms in s The castell of Daketh Blacke Nesse an hauen towne on the south shore of Scotland Thrée ships of name woone from the Scots Sir Iohn Luttrell S. Cooms in s kept with a garrison of Englishmen The earle of Bothwell Lieth burned The armie dislodged Crainston Broughticrag Broughticrag yéelded to the Englishmen Lawder Hume casteâ—â— Hume castell besieged and yéelded vp to the lord protector Summerset the dukes herald The conditions of the surrendring of Hume castell The lord Greie receiueth the possession of Hume castell The situation of Rockesburgh The determinatioÌ„ in what 〈◊〉 Rockesburgh should be fortified Scots that came to the kings obeisâ—â—ce Lards Gentlemen The diligence of the duke of Summerset to further the fortification to Rockesburgh A Scotish herald Creation of banerets knights c. Banerets Knights Edward Seimer the duke of Summersets son Sir Francis Fleming Order taken for defense of the fort gained and built in this voiage The armie returneth homewards The danger of the soldiers in passing the riuer of Twéed Knights made An inuasion made into Scotland Annan church woone The castell of Milke woone The homilies paraphrase of Erasmus The lord protectors returne A parlemeâ—â— 1548 Anno Reg. 2. Lowder fortified Sir Hugh Willoughbie Hadington fortified by the lord Greie Yester castell woone Vlpian Fulwell in the flower of fame Newton and Hamilton 〈◊〉 Scotish gentlemen accuse each other 〈…〉 them Hamilton vanquished and slaine Newton rewarded by my lord Greie Newton 〈◊〉 by his aduersaries Muskelburgh burnt The French king prepareth an armie in aid of the Scots Broughticrag besieged Monsieur de Desse general of the French armie He landeth at Lieth The French men resolue to besiege Hadington The French armie commeth before Hadington The Reinsgraue They plant their artillerie The earle of Argile Monsieur de la Chapelle Piero Strozzi hurt Hadington battered The valiancie of the Englishmen Succours entring the towne Sir Robert Bowes sent to succour Hadington The lord Hume Dandelot Monsieur Etauges The English horssemen discomfited * Quéene Elizabeth The Frenchmen remooue their campe The earle of Shrewesburie generall of the armie The number of soldiours is the same armie Conrad Phenning 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 â—x patience 〈◊〉 the Englishâ—â—◠〈…〉 all 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 The Frenchmen chased The armie of the Scots come to ioine with the Frenchmen The earle of Shrewesburie profereth the enimies battell The Frenchmen durst not come foorth of their campe Ships burned A fortresse built at Dunglas The lord Greie entereth againe into Scotland A camisado giuen to Hadington The Frenchmen repelled A parlement Dundeé spoiled The Reinsgraue constreined to retire Sir Thomas Seimer sent to the tower Anno Reg. 3. The masse abolished Monsieur de Etauges taken prisoner Sir Iames Wilford taken prisoner Sir Iames Crofts generall of Hadington Sir Nichoâ—â—s Arnalt â—â—â—teine of Bullognberg Carter an Englishman 〈◊〉 amoÌ„g 〈◊〉 frenchmen but to their disadâ—â—â—tage Sir Nicholas Arnalts 〈◊〉 The Frenchmen assaile Bullognberg The number of pikes and bils broken vpon the Frenchmen Carter an hardie soldier and a good seruitor The Frenchmen repelled Fifteéne wagons laden with French carcasses The lord Cobham with a new supplie of soldiers The great valiaÌ„cie of the Englishmen vnder the conduct of their noble capteins The preparation for warre as well in England as France Rich. Grafton in fol. 1294. The lord prâ—tectors right honorablâ— stile The epistle exhortatorie sent to the Scots Herein appeareth the lord protectors care for their good estate Sâ—otland 〈◊〉 fiue 〈◊〉 by one king of Engâ—â—nd The case of 〈◊〉 coniunctioÌ„ 〈◊〉 mariage of 〈◊〉 two yoong princes touâ—â—ed The course of 〈◊〉 iust â—â—dgement in tâ—is example â—â—â—able The lord proteâ—tor inforâ—eth by â—itchie persuasions a perpetuall â—â—itie betwéene the 〈◊〉 realms 〈◊〉 the foresaid 〈◊〉 The lord protector still vrgeth peace and amitie The Scots by the consent of a parlement granted their great seale for the confirmation of a mariage to be had betwéen Marie the heire of Scotland prince Edward heire of England What offers are made to the Scots Britaine was the first name of England and Scotland A verie good lawfull and bountifull offer The case of the foresaid mariage still vrged The lord protector telleth the Scots who they be that put doubts into their heads c. Further inducements to make the Scots forward in this mariage A true saieng The lord protector pointeth as it were at the inconueniences which he would haue the Scots to preuent Examples confirming the former assertion Insolencie oâ— soldiors and lâ—wlesse licentiousnesse The issue of the lord protectors eâ—tâ—â—â—tation Two meanes or waies of making one regiment or 〈◊〉 The lord proâ—â—â—tor protesteth what the kings determination is â—nitem to the Scotish goâ—ernor and â—irkemen c. What England Scotland might do being made 〈◊〉 by amitie Nothing reâ—â—â—red of the Scots that was not proâ—â—sed by them Fire sword Gods angrie angels An argument of vpright mening that resuieth no witnesse The kings grant as a proofe of the beginning of loue betwéene England and Scotland The Scots reiect the benefit of this exhortation A proclamation for the laieng open of inclosures The meaning of the foresaid proclamation Commotions in Summersetshire and other places Rebellion in Deuonshire Iohn Fox in Acts Monuments The names of the capteins of the rebels The number of the rebels in Deuâ—nshire Their hope in others failed them Excester besieged The great loialtie of the citizens of Excester 〈◊〉 Iohn Fox 〈◊〉 Acts Sacraments Sacrament 〈◊〉 â—â—ptisme Confirmaâ—â—â—â— Consecrating of
the Lords 〈◊〉 Reseruation of the lords bodie conseâ—â—ated Holie bread and holie water The single 〈◊〉 of priests The six articles to be renewed The capteins appointed to go against the Deuonshire rebels Strangers Ric. Grafton A proclamation Hâ—â— epist. lib. â— Disorder in subiects Abusing of the kings name False causes Baptisme Sacrament of the bodie c. Disobedience to a kingâ—s disobedience to almightie God Seruice in 〈◊〉 English 〈◊〉 knowledge is 〈◊〉 than 〈◊〉 The masse Confirmation 〈◊〉 children Six articles The authoritie of a parlement A godlie and princelie admonition False rumors Har. in 〈◊〉 lib. 1. The rebels put from their ground Iohn Fox The capteins of the rebels taken Sir Anthonie Kingston prouost marshall The maior of 〈◊〉 hanged A millers man hanged for his maister This was a hard procéeding though the partie had beene noâ—â—nt Abr. Fl. introduction into the next narration being a new addition 〈◊〉 this rebellion The addition following being a large discourse was neuer heretofore published Dumnonia the countrie of vallies Deuonia Deuonshire Corinia Baleus lib. 1. Centuriarum Lelandus in Genethliaco Penhulgoile Pennehaltecaire Pen necaire the chéefe citie Caireruth the red citie Caireiske the citie of Exe. Houeden Ptolomeus in â—abulis Baleus centur lib. New lords new names Monketon 〈…〉 â—ibro Polydorus hist. lib. 5. Exeter Baleusceâ—â—◠〈◊〉 lib. in 〈◊〉 descriptiâ—â— Excesâ—er Exâ—ancestre Caire a fort Cestre a fort The site of Excester and circuit The citie is full of water springs The rebels breake and spoile the pipes oâ— lead for waters The conduits for water Saint Peters conduit The great conduit Castell Rugemont The site of the castell The castâ—ll builded by the Romans The riuer of Eâ—e Eâ—e riseth in Exmoore The hauen of Excester The decaie of the hauen of Excester Hugh Courtnâ—ie the first â—estroier of the 〈◊〉 Edward Courtneie Sundrie inquisitions and iuries taken against the earles of Deuon for destroieng of the hauen A keie first builded at Topesham The merchants compelled to lade and vnlade at Topesham keie The hauen is recouered and renewed againe A keie and a crane builded at Excester The parish churches first limited in Excester A monasterie of saint Benets order builded in Excester King Etheldred the first founder of the monasterie King Edgar founder of a religious house in Excester The cathedrall church was first a monasterie and founded by king Atheistane Chronica ecclesiea King Canutus confirmeth the priuileges of the monasteries K. Edward the confessor remooued the moonks vnto Westminster and made this a cathedrall church Leofricus the first bishop of Excester Polyd. hist. li. 19 Chronica chronicorum lib. 7. The charter of the church The conâ—â—eror confirmeth the charters of the church and inlargeth the possessions of it The cathâ—drall church was foure hundred yeres in building S. Peters conduit The inhabitants of this citie The gouernment of this citie Portegreues Prouostres Maiâ—r or Meregreue The maiors 〈◊〉 The prouost 〈◊〉 The good inclination and â—â—â—â—fulness of the citizens Claudius â—eâ—o the emperor sendeth Uespasian into Britaine Uespasian â—andeth in Torrebâ—â—e and lateth â—â—ge to this 〈◊〉 King Aruiragus rescueth this citie and â—ncountereth the enemie 〈◊〉 ecclesi◠〈◊〉 Flores historiarâ—m Noua historia Flores historiarum Penda king of Mertia Edwin king of Northumberland King Cadwallo is driuen to flée into Ireland Pellitus a witch droth foretell to king Edwin of things to come King Cadwallo â—aâ—leth into Armorica Brienus the kings nephue is sent to kill Pellitus Brienus killeth Pellitus King Penda besiegeth Excester Polyd. lib. 5 The Danes are ouerthrowne and their capteins are slaine Neus 〈◊〉 Flores histâ—riarum The battell at Pinnehâ— Houeden King Sweno inuadeth and spoileth the land Hugh earle of Deuon as a false maÌ„ to his countrie dooth betraie the citie King Sweno by the trecherie of the earle of Deuon besiegeth the citie kâ—ng Eldred 〈…〉 his 〈◊〉 The stoutnes â—nd courage of the citizens king Sweno entereth and â—aketh the 〈◊〉 vtterlie destroieth it 〈◊〉 Malm. 〈◊〉 Coâ—t Hen. Hunt Houeden William the Conqueror besiegeth the 〈◊〉 A league betwéene the gentlemen the citizens to resist the Conquerour The records of the citie Houeden Polychron li. 7 Githa king Harolds mother laie in the citie during the siege and secretlie fleeth awaie into Flanders Baldwin Rideuers earle of Deuon entred into this citie and resisteth against king Stephan Baldwin the earle is taken and banished Q. Mawd is friendlie to the citie Polydor. li. 20. The marques of Dublin and the earle of Suffolke come to Exon and are pursued by the dukes of York and Glocester The duches of ClareÌ„ce with others commeth to Exon being great with child lieth in the bishops palace Sir Hugh Courtneie laieth siege to the citie The maior is required to deliuer the keies of the citie and refuseth so to doo The maior and citizens doo fortifie the citie The siege raised and the citie deliuered The duke of Clarence and the Earle of Warwike came from Edgecourt field to this citie and from hence to Dartmouth Perkin Waâ—becke commeth to Excester and bâ—siegeth it The earle of Deuon sent to rescue the citie and iâ— hurt The rebellion or commotioâ— in Deuon The rebellion first began at Sampford Courtneie The cause of this rebellion was for religion The want of preaching was the cause of the rebellion Underhill and Segar 〈◊〉 first captains of the rebellion The priest was compâ—lled bâ—cause he would be compelled saie â—asse The iustices 〈◊〉 to Sampford and doo no good These gentlemen were afraid of their â—wne shadowes Sir Peter Carew and sir Gawen Carew sent into Deuon The iusticiaries doo assemble all at Excester Sir Peter Carew by the aduise of the iustices rideth to Kirton The people at Kirton doo arme themselues rampire vp the waies The barns at the townes end at Kirton are set on fire An assemblie of the people at Clift Marie or bishops Clift A cause whie they rose at bishops Clift The towne 〈◊〉 Clift is fortified and the bridge rampired Walter Raleigh esquier in danger of the rebelles Sir Peter Carew and others ride to Clift Sir Peter Carew like to be slaine The conference of the gentleman with the commons at 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 towards among the serving-men This man â—as named Richard Carwithian â—â—ruant to sir Peter 〈◊〉 The agréement offered by the commoâ—ers The gentlemen depart asunder and euerie man shifteth for himselfe The high waies are stopped and intrenched Sundrie gentlemen taken and imprisoned A few gentlemen taried in the citie Sir Peter Carew rideth to the lord Russell being at George Henton Sir Peter Carew rideth to the court aduertised the king councell The king grieued to heare of the commotion The determined conquest of Scotland was hindered by the rebellion The king vseth all gentle persuasions to reduce the commoners to conformitie The first and chiefe capteins of the rebellion The rebels send to the maior of the citie to ioine with them The maior citizens refuse to