the way that he might reigne king alone In the meane time while al this ruffling was in hand what bread sorow the tender harts of these fatherles and friendles children were in what little ioy of them selues what smal ioy of life they had it is not so hard as dolorous for tender harts to vnderstand As the yonger brother lingered in thought and heauines so the prince which was a 11. yeare old was so out of hart and so fraught with feare that he neuer tyed his poyntes nor ioyed good day till the trayterous impictie of their cruell vncle had deliuered thē of their wretchednes whiche was not long in dispatching For after king Richard their vncle first attempting to cōpasse his diuelishe deuise by Robert Brakenbury Constable of the tower and could not winne him to suche a cruell fact to die therefore then he got one Iames Tyrell ioyning with him Iohn Dighton and Miles Forrest to perpetrate this heinous murder Which Dyghton and Forest about midnight entring into their chamber so be wrapped and entangled them amongst the clothes keeping downe the fetherbed and pilowes hard vnto their mournes that within a while they smoothered and stifeled them pitiously in their bed And thus ended these two yong princes their liues thorough the wretched cruelty of these forenamed tormentors who for their detestable and bloudy murder committed escaped not long vnpunished by the iust hand of God For first Miles Forest at S. Martines le grand by peecemeale miserably rotted away Iohn Dighton liued at Callis lōg after so disdained and hated that he was pointed at of all men and there died in great misery Sir Iames Tyrell was beheaded at Tower hill for treason Also King Richard himselfe within a yeare and a halfe after was stayne in the field hacked and hewed of his enemies handes torne and tugged like a curre dogge Furthermore the said iustice of gods hand left not the Duke of Buckingham escape free Whiche was a greate maintainer and setter vp of this butcherly vsurper for les then within a yeare after so God wrought that hee was himselfe beheaded for treason by the sayd king whom he so vniustly before had aduaunced and set vp In the same catologue and order of these wicked doers afore recited we haue also to comprehende two other as well worthy of memoriall as the best or rather as that worst The name of the one was doctour Shawe aboue rehearsed The other doctor Pinkie prouincial of the Austen Friers both famous preachers and both Doctors in diuinitie both of more learning then vertue sayth the story of more same thē learning yet of more learning thē truth Shaw made a Sermon in the prayse of the Protector before hys coronation Pinkie preached after thys coronation Both were so full of tedious flatterye that no good cares coulde abide them Pinkie in his sermon so lost his voyce that he was sayne to leaue of came downe in in the midst Doctour Shaw by his sermon lost his honenesty and soone after his life for very shame of the world so that he neuer durst after that shew his face againe But as for the Fryer he was so farre past shame that the losse therof did little touch him Mention was made a little before of Doctor Morton Bishop at Ely by whose meanes the deuise was first broched for the conioyning the two houses of Yorke Lancaster together This deuise was first broken to the Duke of Buckingham which soone after cost hym his life But that bishop more crafty to saue hymselfe incontinent fled into Brittain Notwithstanding the deuise once being broched was so plausible and tooke such effect that message was sent ouer the sea to Henry Earle of Richmond by his mother and by the Queene mother to the Ladye Elizabeth that if he would make hys returne and promise to marry with the sayd Lady Elizabeth King Edwards daughter he should be receaued To make a longer discourse of thys matter which is sufficiently set forth by S. Tho. More so ornately it needeth not Briefely to contract that in a small compasse of wordes which was not so small a thing in doing after that the Earle Henry with such other banished mē as fled out of Englād at the taking of the Duke of Buckingham had perfect intelligence by his mother and by the Queene and other frends moe out of England how the case of that realm stoode and how it was here purposed by his frendes that is that he should with all conuenient speede hast hys returne ouer into England promising to mary with Ladye Elizabeth he with all diligence as tyme and preparation would serue aduaūced forward his iourny being wel helped and furnished by Fraunces Duke of Britayne and so shipped his mē Albeit his first voyage sped not for that the winds turning contrary by force of weather his ships were disparcled and he repulsed backe into Fraūce agayn His second viage was more prosperous Who taking the seas at Harslet in the moneth of August an 1485. accompanied onely with two thousand men and a smal number of shippes aryued at Milford Hauen in Wales and fyrste came to Dale then to Harford West where he was ioyfully receiued and also by the cōming in of Arnolde Butler and the Pēbroke men was in power encreased Frō thēce he remoued by Cardigan to Shrewsbery then to Newport and so to Stafford from thence to Liechfield his army still more and more augmented Lyke as a great floud by comming in of many small riuers gathereth more aboundaunce of water so to this Earle diuers noble Captaynes and men of power adioyned themselues as Richard Griffith Iohn Morgan Rice ap Thomas thē sir Georg Talbot with the yong Erle of Shrewesbery his warde Sir William Stanley Sir Tho. Burchier and Sir Walter Hungerford knightes At last the said Erle hearing of the kinges comming conducted his whole army to Tam worth King Richard first hearing of the arriuall of the Erle Henry in the partes of Wales after such a slender sort did giue little or no regard vnto it But after vnderstanding that he was come to Lichfield without resistaunce or incombraunce he was sore moued and exceedingly tooke on cursing and crying out against them which had so deceaued him in all post speed sent for Iohn Duke of Northfolke Hen. Erle of Northumberlād Tho. Erle of Surrey with other his frendes of special trust Robert Brakenbury also liesetenaunt of the tower was sent for with Sir Tho. Burchier and Sir Walter Hungerforde with certaine other knightes and Esquiers of whome he partlye misdoubted or had some suspicious gelousy Thus K. Richard after most forceable maner well fortified and accompanied leauing nothing vndone that dilligence could require set forward toward his enemies The Earle by this time was come to Tamworth to whō secretly in the Euening resorted sir Iohn Sauage sir Bryan Sanford sir Simon Digby and many other forsaking
of death and not able to require baptisme Christ sayth he that beleueth and is baptised shal be saued He sayth not he that is not baptised but he that beleueth not shall be damned Wherefore in the 12. chap. of Iohn Christ sayth I am the resurrection and lyfe he that beleeueth in me yea although he were dead shall lyne The faith therfore is necessary which the infāt hath in his faithfull parents although he be not washed with corporall water How then is the infant damned and tormēted with eternall fire Were not they that were before the comming of Christ and dead before his death by a thousande yeres saued also by his death and passion All that beleued in him were baptised in his bloud and so were saued and redemed from sinne and the bondage of the deuill and made partakers of the kingdome of heauen How then in the time of grace shall the infāt be damned that is borne of faythfull parents that do not despise but rather desire to haue theyr children baptised I dare not consent to so hard a sentēce of the decrees but rather beleue that he is saued by vertue of the passion of Christ in fayth of his faythfull parentes and the hope which they haue in Christ. Which fayth and hope are the keies of the heauenly kingdome God were not iust and mercifull if he would condemne a man that beleueth not in him except he shewed vnto him the fayth which hee ought to beleeue And therefore Christ sayth If I had not come and spokē vnto them sinne could not haue bene layd vnto theyr charge but nowe they haue no excuse of sinne Therfore seing the fayth of Christ is not manifest vnto the infāt departing before baptisme neither hath he denyed it how thē shal he be damned for the same But if God speaketh inwardly by way of illumination of the intelligēce of the infant as he speaketh vnto Aungels who then knoweth saue God alone whether the infant receiueth or not receiueth the fayth of Christ What is he therfore that so rashly dare take vpō him to iudge the infants begottē of faythfull parents dying with out baptisme to be tormēted with eternal fire Now let vs cōsider the 3. thinges which the canons of decrees affirme to be requisite for the remission of the sinnes of those that sinne after baptisme that is to say contrition of hart auricular confession and satisfaction of the deed through penance enioyned by the priest for the sinnes cōmitted I cannot finde in any place in the Gospel where Christ commaūded that this kind of confession should be done vnto that priest nor I cannot find that Christ assigned any penance vnto sinners for theyr sinnes but that he willed thē to sinne no more If a sinner confesse that he hath offended God through sinne soroweth hartely for his offēces minding no more hereafter to sinne then is he truely repentaunt for his sinne then is he conuerted vnto the Lord. If he shall then hūbly and with good hope crane mercy at God remission of his sinnes what is he that can let God to absolue that sinner from his sinne And as God absolueth a sinner from hys sinne so hath Christ absolued many although they confessed not theyr sinnes vnto the priests and although they receiued not due penance for their sinnes And if Christ could after that maner once absolue sinners how is he become now not able to absolue Except some man wil say that he is aboue Christ and that his power is minished by the ordinances of his own lawes How were sinners absolued of god in the time of the Apostles and alwayes heretofore vnto y◠time that these Canons were made I speake not these thinges as though confession to priestes were wicked but that it is not of necessity requisite vnto saluation I beleeue verily that the confession of sinnes vnto good priestes and likewise to other faythful Christiās is good as witnesseth S. Iames the Apostle Cōfesse ye your selues one to another pray ye one for another that ye may be saued for the continuall prayer of the iust auayleth much Helias was a man that suffered many things like vnto you and he praid that it should not rayne vpon the earth it rayned not in 3. yeares 6. monethes And agayne he prayed and it rayned from heauen and the earth yelded forth her fruit This kinde of confession is good profitable and expedient for if God peraduenture heareth not a mans own prayer he is helped with the intercession of others Yet neuerthelesse the prayers of the priests seemeth to much to be extolled in the decrees where it treateth of penitēce and that saying is ascribed vnto Pope Leo. Cap. multiplex misericordia Dei c. And it followeth So is it ordeyned by the prouidence of Gods diuine wil that the mercy of God cannot be obteined but by the praier of the priests c. The praier of a good priest doth much auayle a sinner confessing his faults vnto him The counsel of a discreet priest is very profitable for a sinner to geue the sinner counsell to beware herafter to sinne and to instruct him how he shal punish his body by fasting by watching and such like actes of repentance that herafter he may be better preserued from sinne After this maner I esteme confessiō to priests very expedient and profitable to a sinner But to cōfesse sinnes vnto the priest as vnto a iudge to receiue of him corporall penāce for a satisfaction vnto God for his sinnes committed I see not how this can be founded vpō the truth of the scripture For before the comming of Christ no man was sufficient or able to make satisfactiō vnto God for his sins although he suffred neuer so much penance for his sinnes And therefore it was needefull that he that was without sinne should be punished for sinnes as witnesseth Isayas chap. 53. where he sayth he took our griefes vpon him and our sorrowes he bare And again He was woūded for our iniquities and vexed for our wickednes And agayn The Lord put vpon him our iniquity And agayne for the wickednes of my people haue I strikē him It therfore Christ through his passion hath made satisfaction for our sinnes whereas we our selues were vnable to do it then through him haue we grace remission of sinnes How can we say now that we are sufficient to make satisfaction vnto God by any penance enioyned vnto vs by mans authority seing that our sinnes are more greuous after Baptisme thē they were before the comming of Christ. Therefore as in Baptisme the payne of Christ in his passion was a full satisfaction for our sinnes euen so after Baptisme if we confesse that we haue offended be harty sorry for our sinnes and minde not to sinne agayne ofterwardes Hereupon Iohn writeth in his first epistle ca. 1. If we say we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues the truth is not
to them these lordships or landes seing God from the beginning hath hated all extortion in his burnt sacrifices Not euerye one that sayth vnto me Lord Lord shal enter into the kingdome of heauen but he which doth the will of my father which is in heauē And agayne not the hearers of the law but the doers of the law shall be iustified If therefore the words of him that prayth do not deliuer himselfe from sinne nor frō the payne of sinne how do they deliuer other men from sinne or frō the payne of sinne when no man prayth more earnestly for an other man thē for himselfe Therfore many are deceiued in buying or selling of prayers as in the buying of pardons that they might be deliuered from payne whē as commonly they pay dearer for the prayers of the proud vicious prelates thēfor the prayers of deuout women and deuout men of the laye people But out of doubt God doth not regard the person of him that prayth neither the place in which he praith nor his apparell nor the curiousnes of his prayer but the humility and godlye affection of him that prayeth Did not the Pharisy and the Publican goe vp into the temple to pray The Publicans prayer for his humility and godly affection is heard But the Pharisies prayer for his pride arrogancy is contempned Cōsider that neither the person nor the place nor the state nor the curiousnes of his prayer doth helpe the Pharisye Because the Publicane not thinking himselfe worthy to lift vp his eies vnto heauen for the multitude of his sinnes saying O God be mercifull vnto me a sinner is iustified dy his humility and his praier is heart But the Pharisy boasting in his righteousnes is despised because God thrusteth downe the proud and exalteth the humble and those that be meek The rich glotton also that was clothed with purple and silke fared euery day daintely prayd vnto Abraham and is not heard but is buryed in paynes and torments of hell fire But Lazarus whiche lay begging at his gate being full of sores is placed in the bosome of Abraham Behold that neither the riches of his apparell nor the deliciousnesse of his banquets or the gorgiousnes of his estate neither the aboundance of his riches doth helpe any thing to prefer the prayers or petitiōs of the rich glotten nor yet diminishe his tormentes because that mighty men in their mightines shal suffer torments mightely How dare any man by cōposition demaund or receiue any thing of an other man for his prayers If he beleue that he can by his praier deliuer his brother frō greuous paine he is boūd by charity to relieue his brother with his prayers although he be not hired thereunto but and if he will not pray vnles he be hyred thē hath he no loue at al. What therfore helpeth his prayer which abideth not in charitie Therfore let him first take compassion of himselfe by praier that he may come into charitie and then he shal bee the better able to helpe others If he beleeue not or that he standeth in doubt to be able to deliuer his brother by his praier wherfore doth he make with him an assured bargayn taketh his mony and yet knoweth not whether he shall relieue him euer a whit the more or not from his paine I feare least the words of the Prophet are fulfilled saying From the least to the most al mē applye themselues to couetousnes and from the Prophet to the Priest all woorke deceitfully For the poore priests excuse themselues of such bargaining and selling of their praiers saying The yong cock learneth to crow of the olde cocke For sayeth he thou maist see that the Pope himselfe in stalling of Bishops Abbots taketh the first frutes In the placing or bestowing of benefices he alwaies taketh somwhat specially if the benefices be great Also he selleth pardōs or bulles and to speake more plaine he taketh mony for them Bishops in geuing orders in hallowing churches churchyards do take mony In ecclesiastical correction they take mony for the mitigation of penance In the greuous offences of cōuict persons mony is required caused to be payed Abbots Monkes other religious men that haue possessiō wil receiue no mā into their fraternitie or make thē partakers of their spiritual suffrages vnles he bestow somewhat vpon them or promise them somewhat Curates vicars hauing sufficient liuings by the tithes of their paryshioners yet in dirges and yeares myndes in hearing confessions in weddinges buryings do require haue money The Fryers also of the fower orders of beggers which think thēselues to be the most perfitest men of the Church do take mony for their praiers confessions buryings of the dead and when they preach they beleue that they shal haue eyther money or some other thyng worthy money Wherfore then be the poore priests blamed ought not they to bee held excused although they take money for their praiers by cōpositiō Truly me thinketh that this excuse by other mens sins doth not excuse thē forasmuch as to heap one mischief vpon anothers head is no sufficiēt discharge I would to God that al the buyers sellers of spiritual suffrages would with the eyes of their harte beholde the ruine of the great Citie and the fall of Babylon and that which they shall saye after that fall Doth not the Prophet say And the merchaunts of the earth shall weepe and mourne for her because no man shall buy anye more their marchandise that is their marchandise of gold and siluer and of precious stone and of pearle and of silke and purple And again he sayth And the marchaunts which were made riche by her shall stand alouse for feare of her tormentes weeping mourning and saying Alas Alas that Citie Babylon that great Citie whych was woont to weare purple whitesilke crim sin gold pearle and precious stone because that in one hour al those ryches are come to nought And agayne And they cast dust vppon their heads and cryed out weping and mourning and saying Alas Alas that great and mightie Citie Babilon by whom al such as had shippes vpon the sea were made riche by her rewards Because that in one houre she is become desolate This Babilon this great Citie is the Citie of Rome as it appeareth by the processe of the Apostle Because the aungel which shewed vnto Saint Iohn the destructiō of the mightie harlot sitting vpon many waters with whō the kinges of the earth haue committed fornication and al they which dwell vpon the earth are made dronke with the wyne of her whoredome sayd vnto him And the woman which thou sawest is the great citie which hath dominion aboue kings c. And in dede in the daies of Saint Iohn the whole world was subiect to the temporall Empire of the Citie of Rome and afterwardes it was subiect to the spiritual Empire or dominion of the same
in a maner astonished sayd I do not remember them now at the first but hereafter they shal be obiected agaynst you And by and by the thirde man rising vp sayde when that you were also at Heidelberg you propounded many erroneous matters as touching the Trinitie and there painted out a certayne shield or scutchine comparing the Trinitie of persons in diuinitie vnto water snow and yse and such like Unto whoÌ„ M. Hierome answered Those thinges that I wrote or paynted there the same will I also speake write and paynt here and teach me that they be erroneous and I will most humbly reuoke and recant the same Then certayne cryed out let hym be burned let him be burned Unto whom he answered if my death doe delight or please you in the name of God let it be so Then sayd the archbishop of Salisburg not so mayster Hierome forsomuch as it is written I will not the death of a sinner but rather that he conuert and liue When these and many other tumultes and cryes were passed whereby they did then most disorderly and outragiously witnes agaynst them they deliuered the sayd mayster Hierome being bound vnto the officers of the Citty of Constance to be caryed to prison for that night and so euery one of them returned to their lodginges In the meane tyme one of the friendes of M. I. Hus looking out at a window of the Cloyster sayd vnto hym M. Hierome Then sayd hee you are welcome my deare brother Then sâ—yd Peter vnto hym Be constant feare not to suffer death for the truth sake of the whiche wheÌ„ you were in tymes past at libertie you dyd preache so muche goodnes Vnto whome Hierome aunswered truely brother I do not feare death and forsomuch as we know that we haue spoken much therof in times past let vs now see what may be knowne or done in effect By and by hys keepers comming to the window threatning hym wyth strokes dyd put away the sayd Peter from the window of the Cloyster Then came there one Uitus vnto M. Hierome sayd mayster how doe you Unto whom he aunswered truely brother I do very well Then hys keepers comming about him layd hold of the sayd Uitus saying this is also one of the number and kept hym When it drew towards euening the archb of Rigen sent certayne oâ— hys seruants which lead away M. Hiâ—rome being stroÌ„gly bound with chaynes both by the handes and by the neck and kept him so for certayne houres When night drew on they caryed hym vnto a certayn tower of the Cittie in Sainct Paules Churchyarde where as they tying him fast vnto a great blocke and his fâ—ete in the stockes hys handes also being made fast vppon them they left hym where as the blocke was so high that he could by no meanes sit therupon but that his head must hang downward They caryed also the sayd Uitus vnto the archbishop of Rygen who demaunded of him why he durst be so bold to talk with such a man being a reprobate of all men and an hereticke and when as he could finde no cause of imprisonment in hym and that he sayd he was maister Iohn de Clums friend taking an othe and promise of him that he should not go about to endamage the Councell by reason of that imprisonment and captiuitie so dismissed hym and sent him away Maister Hierom vnknown vnto vs whether he was caryed lay in the sayd tower two dayes two nightes relieued onely with bread and water Then one of hys keepers comming vnto M. Peter declared vnto him howe that M. Hierome lay hard by in bondes and chaines and how he was fed Then M. Peter desired that hee might haue leaue geuen hym to geue him meat because he would procure the same vnto hym The keeper of the prison graunting hys request caryed meate vnto hym Within â—leuen dayes after so hanging by the heeles he vsed so small repast that he fell sore sicke euen vnto the death When as he lying then in that captiuitie and prison desired to haue a Confessor they of the Councell denyed that he shold haue any vntill such time as by great importunitie he obtayned to haue one hys friends being then there present in the same prison and tower wherein he then lay by the space of one yeare lacking but seuen dayes After they had put Iohn Hus to death then about the feast of the natiuitie of Mary the Uirgine they brought forth M. Hierome whom they had kept so long in chains vnto the Churche of S. Paule and threatning hym with death being instant vpon him they forced him to abiure recant and coÌ„sent vnto the death of M. Iohn Hus that he was iustly and truely condemned and put to death by theÌ„ He what for feare of death and hopyng thereby to escape out of their handes according to their will and pleasure according to the tenour whiche was exhibited vnto hym did make abiuration and that in the Cathedrall Churche and open Session the draught whereof penned to hym by the Papistes here ensueth ¶ The abiuration of M Hierome of Prage I Hierome of Prage Mayster of Arte acknowledging the Catholicke Church and the Apostolicke fayth do accurse and renounce all heresies specially that whereof I haue hetherto bene infamed and that which in tymes past Iohn Hus and Iohn Wickleffe haue bolden and taught in theyr workes treatises and sermons made vnto the people and Clergy for the whiche cause the sayde Wickliffe and Hus together with the sayde doctrines errours are condeÌ„ned by this Sinode of Constance as heretickes and all the said doctrine sentencially condemed and especially in certayne articles expressed in the sentences and iudgementes geuen agaynst them by this sacred Councell Also I do accorde and agree vnto the holy Churche of Rome the Apostolick seate in this sacred Councel with my mouth and hart do professe in al thinges and touching all thinges and specially as touching the keyes Sacramentes orders and offices and ecclesiasticall censures of pardons reliques of Saintes Ecclesiasticall libertie also ceremonies and all other thinges pertayning vnto Christian Religion as the Church of Rome the Apostolick sea and this sacred Councel do professe and specially that many of the sayd Articles are notoriously hereticall and lately reproued by the holy fathers some of them blasphemous other some erroneous some offensiue vnto godly cares many of them temerarious and sedicious And suche also were counted the Articles lately condemned by the sacred councell and it was inhibited and forbidden to all and singular Catholicke men hereafter to preach teach or presume to hold or mayntayne any of the sayd Articles vnder payn of being accursed And I the sayd Hierome forsomuch as I haue laboured by Scholasticall Artes to perswade the opinion De Vniuersalibus realibus and that one substance of the common kinde should signifie many thinges subiect vnder the same and euery
so done and that I wil make good on thy body traytour and therewith geuing a great rap on the boord for a token or watchword one cryed treason without and forthwith the chamber was full of harneysed men The protector then approchyng to the L. Hastinges arrested him as a traytour An other let flye at the Lord Standley who to auoyd the blowe shronke vnder the table or els his head had bene cleft a sonder notwithstanding he receaued such a wounde that the bloud ranne about hys eares There were in that counsaile the same time the Archbishop of Yorke and Doctour Morton Byshop of Ely by whose procurement afterward king Henry the vii was sent for into England and he made archbishop after that of Canterbury these with the Lord Standley diuersly were bestowed in diuers chambers The Lorde Hastinges was commaunded to speede and shriue hym a pace for before dinner the protector sware by S. Paule that he should dye and so incontinently without farther iudgement his head was striken of by whose counsayle the Queenes kindred were at the same time and daye beheaded at Pomfret After this tyrannous murder accomplished the mischienous protectour aspiring still to the crowne to set his deuises forward first through giftes and fayre promises dyd subordinate Doctor Shaw a famous preacher then in Lōdon at Paules Crosse to insinuate to the people that neyther king Edward with his sonnes nor the Duke of Clarence were lawfully begotten nor the very children of the Duke of York but begotten vnlawfully by other persons in adultery on y◠Duches their mother and that he alone was the true and onely lawfull heyre of the Duke of York Moreouer to declare and to signifie to the audience that K. Edward was neuer lawfully maried to the Queene but hys wife before was dame Elizabeth Lucy and so the 2. childrē of king Edward to be base and bastardes and therfore the title of the crown most rightly to pertaine to the Lord protector That this false flatterer and loud lying preacher to serue the protectors humour shamed not most impudently to abuse that holy place that reuerent auditorye the sacred word of God taking for hys theame Adulterae plantationes nō dabūt radices altas c which he most impiously did apply against the innocent children right heyres of this realm Whereupon such grudge and disdayne of the people wyth worldly wonder followed him that for shame of the people crying out of him in few dayes after he pyned way When this sermon would take no effect with the people the protector vnmercifully drowned in ambitiō rested not thus but wtin few dayes after excited the Duke of Buckingham first to breake the matter in couert talke to the Mayor and certayne of the heades of the Cittie picked out for the purpose that done to come to the Guildhall to moue the people by all flattering and lying perswasions to the same which shameles Shaw before had preached before at Paules Crosse. Whiche the Duke with all dilligence and helpes of eloquence being a man both learned and well spoken endeuored to accomplish making to the people a long and artificiall Oration supposing no lesse but that the people allured by his crafty iusinuations would cry king Rich. K. Ric. But there was no king Rich in their mouthes lesse in their hartes Wherupon the Duke looking to the Lord Mayor and asking what the silence ment contrary to the promise of the one the expectation of that other It was then answered of the Mayor that the people peraduenture wel vnderstood him not wherfore the Duke reiterating his narration in other wordes declared agayne that he had done before Likewise the thyrd time he repeted hys Oration againe and agayn Then the commons which be fore stood mute being now in a mase seeing this importunitie began to mutter softly among themselues but yet no king Richard could sound in their lips saue onely that in the nether end of the Hall certayn of the Dukes seruantes with one Nashfield and other belonging to the protector thrusting into the Hall among the prease began sodaynly at mens backes to cry king Richard k. Rich throwing vp theyr cappes whereat the cittizens turning back theyr heades marueiled not a little but sayd nothing The Duke and the Lord Mayor with that side taking this for sufficient testimony incontinent came blowing for hast to the protector then lying at Baynardes Castle Where the matter being made before was now so contriued that forsooth humble petition was made in the name of the whole commons and that with 3 sundry sutes to the humble and simpel protector that he although it was vtterly against his will to take it yet would of his humilitye stoupe so low as to receane the heauy kingdome of England vpon his shoulders At this their tender request and sute of the Lords and commōs made ye must know how the milde Duke seing no other remedy was contented at length to yeld although fore against his will ye must so imagine and to submit himselfe so low as of a protector to be made king not much herein vnlike to our prelates in that Popish churche who when they haue before well compounded for the popes Buls yet must they for maner sake make curtesy and thrise deny that for whiche they so long before haue gaped and so sweetly haue payed for King Richard the third vsurper ANd thus Richard Duke of Gloucester tooke vpon to be made proclaymed king of England the yeare aforesayd an 1483. in the mōth of Iune Who then comming to the Tower by water first made his sonne a childe of x. yeare old prince of Wales Iohn Haward a man of great industry seruice he aduaūced to be Duke of Northfolke Sir Tho. Haward his sonne he ordained Erle of Surry Also William Lord Barckeley was appoynted Earle of Notingham Frances L. Louell was made Uicunt Louell L. Stanley for feare of his sonne was deliuered out of the Tower and made Steward of the kings houshold Likewise the Archbishop of Yorke was set free but Morton Bishop of Ely was committed to the Duke of Buckingham by whome was wrought the first deuise to bring in Henry Erle of Richmond into England and to cōioin mariage betweene Elizabeth king Edwardes daughter and him whereby the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster were vnited together After the kingdome of England was thus allotted to king Rich. the vsurper as in maner aboue remembred he taried not long for hys coronation which was solemnised the month next ensuing the 6. day of Iuly The triumph and solemnitie of this vsurped coronation being finished al thinges to the same appertayning this vnquiet tyraunt yet coulde not thinke himselfe safe so long as yong Edward the right king hys brother were aliue Wherefore the next enterprise which he did set vpon was this how to rid these innocent babes out of
popes diuinitie how the bloud of christ s. rueth to purchase their patrimonie This Schisme coÌ„tinued 40. yeares He stirreth vp the Emperour Sigismund LoripideÌ„ rectus deridcat aethiopus album Note the vile flattery of these papistes when they would haue any thing of the Emperor for their purpose The proctor of the councell calleth for the sentence The Cardinall of CaÌ„bray coÌ„maÌ„ded Iohn Hus. to keepe silence Iohn Hus could not be heard in the councell Iohn Hus committeth his cause to the Lord Christ. Marke the vnshame fast nes of theÌ„ to faine what they list Iohn Hus againe slaundered The councel doth call it hereticall to appeale to Christ. Contempt of the popes excoÌ„munication laide to Iohn Pus The seÌ„tence read against Iohn Hus. They shall bring you before their councells they shall persecute you and cast you in prisoÌ„ and bring you before kings presidents for my naÌ„e c. Luke 21. * The sayde concelium malignantium Many shall come in my name and shal deceiue many Marke 13. To appeale to Christ is deragatory to the popes holynes Veritie condemned for heresie I. Hus cleareth himself of obstinacy They condemne the bokes written in the Bohemian tongue which they neuer read Hus prayeth for his enemies I. Hus commanded to put on the priestes garmentes I. Hus his oration vnto the people The disgrading of Iohn Hus. The wordes of I. Hus vnto the Emperour The crowne of Iohn Hus pared away with sheares The marueilous constancie and courage of the blessed martyr The paper with the inscription set vpon Husses head The protestation of Iohn Hus as he was ledde to the place of execution The prayers of I. Hus well liked of the people Ex epist. Ioan. Hus. 31. The paper with deuils fell from his head At the praier of Hus the paper with deuils fell downe The martyrdome of bâ—essed Iohn Hus. Precious in the sight of God is the death of hys saintes The hart of Iohn Hus beaten with sâ—aues and consumed with fire The ashes of Iohn Hus cast into the riuer of Rhâ—ine The author and witnes â—â— this story â— Iohn Pizibram is thought to be his name Ex Cochleo lib 2. de Hist. Hâ—ssit Ex Cocbleo dehist Huss lib. 4. The Empeâ—â—ur excuseth him self of the death of I. Hus. Ex epist. Iohn Hus. 33. The Emperour vncurteous to Iohn Hus. Pilate more moderate to Christ then this Emperour to Iohn Hus. A letter of Iohn Hus to the people of Prage An other letter of I. Hus. An other letter of I. Hus. The tormeÌ„ts of the martirs vnder the olde and new Testament He meaneth be like that he should moue the king in these matters contayned in this Epistle Vide supra pag. 553. Another letter of Iohn Hus. The Councell condâ—ne bookes which they vnderstand not Prayse of Bohemia The abhomination of the CouÌ„cell of CoÌ„stancâ— described I. Hus seemeth here to prophesiâ— of the Councell as it came to passe The Councell afraide to be tâ—ied by the scriptures This cardinall was Cardinall Cambrensis S. Katherine disputed with 50. doctors coÌ„uerted them but I. Hus could not conuert his 59. Doctors Good bookes of good men haue bene burnâ—d of olde time Good men with their bookes to be burned no newes I. Hus seemeth to prophesie of the Councell of Câ—nsâ—â—nce The blasphemous opinion of Lawiers and papistes touching the soueraintie of the Pope One Symonist condemneth an other The bishops of the Councell noted of Symonie Pope Ioh. made a pope being knowen to be a murderer Antichrist now first beginneth to be reuealed in the Pope A prophesie of Iohn Hus. A note for all noble meÌ„ to marke to folow A worthie lesson for all ministers prelates S. Augustin meaneth not here of all but of the common sort of light persons This Palletz was the chiefest enemy of I. Hus procurer of his death Michael de Causis another bitter enemy of Iohn Hus. Iohn Hus prayeth for his enemies A prophecy of Iohn Hus The example of Christ. The prayer of I. Hus to Christ. A zealous letter to I. Hus from London â—â—amples of the olde martirs Wicked Palletz The visions of I. Hus by dreames A Prophesie of Maister Hierome of Prage This taylers name was Andrew a Polonian Prophetia Prophetia Prophetia Note that then priestes were not maried and therfore he willeth him to auoide all company of women Hâ— repenteth his gay garmentes He repenteth his playing at the chesse Iohn Hus from his gay garments coÌ„mth to his white coate Iohn Hus condemned for no erroneous doctrine wherein he was culpable Cochleus ralleth against Iohn Hus without cause Ex Chocleo Lib. 2. Hist. Hussitarum pag. 88. The story of Hierome of Prage Hierome commeth to Constance The safe coÌ„duct was required but in vaine of the Emperour The intimations of Hierome of Prage set vp in diuers places of the towne of Constance Safe conduct â—â—nied to Hierome Hierome returneth toward Boheme with the testimonies of the Lordes of Boheme Hierom appreheÌ„ded in the way by Duke Iohn Michaell de Causis and Palletz enemies to Hierome Hierome of Prage cited by the councell wheÌ„ he was taken This Duke Iohn in histories is comoÌ„ly called the sonne of Clement Hierome is brought bound vnto Constance by Duke Iohn The couÌ„cell neither would geue him libertie safely to come nor freely to go M. Hierome was accused by M. GersoÌ„ with coÌ„mendation of his eloquence Gerson renueth olde matters The maister of the vniuersitie of Coleine This man would accuse but he lacked matter The maister of the vniuersitie of Heidelberg Crucifige Crucifige cum Hierome is coÌ„forted by the Notarie Et tu de illis es Luc. 22. Vitus the companion of Iohn de Clum Hierom straightly bound hande and foote Vitus had to the Archbishop of Rigen Vitus bound by othe Hierome hanging in the stockâ— was fedde with bread water Peter bringeth meate to Hierome Hierome in greatsicknes calleth for a confessor M. Hieâ—ome was kept in irons in prisoÌ„ the space of one yeare The forced abiuration of Hierome Hierom is made here to say not his own minde but what pleased them Hierome after his abiuration returned into prison Hierom accused a new by Causis Palletz and the Carmelites The Cardinal of Cambray with certaine other Cardinalles labour for the deliuery of Hierome Si dimittio hunc non es amicus Caesaris The Patriarke of CoÌ„stantinople gaue senteÌ„ce of death both against M. Hus and M. Hierome of Prage Ann. 1416. Hierome brought againe before the councell False witnesse against Hierome The dexteritie of Hierom in confuting his aduersaries False witnesses Audience hardly geueÌ„ to Hierome to speake for himselfe The oration of Hierome had before the councel Socrates Plato Anaxagoras Zeno Rupilius Boâ—tius Moses Ioseph Esayas Daniell The Prophetes Susanna Iohn Baptist Christ. The Apostles The false witnesse of Hierome â—â—felled Hierome commendeth the life and bewayleth the death of Iohn Hus. Hierome repenteth his speaking against Iohn Hus. Hus neuer