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
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
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
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
with the king of France without either others consent first thereto had and that if after anie agréement taken betwixt them and the king of France he should chance to make warre against either of them then should the other aid and assist him against whom such warre should be made to the vttermost line 60 of his power This league was accorded to remaine for euer betwixt them and their heires with suerties sworne on either part and for the king of England these whose names insue William Marshall earle of Penbroke Ranulfe earle of Chester Robert earle of Leicester Baldwine earle of 〈◊〉 William earle of Arundell Ralfe earle of Augi Robert de Mellet Hugh de Gourney William de Kaeu Geffrey de Cella Roger câ—â—estable of Chester Ralfe Fitz Water William de Albanie Robert de Ras Richard de Montfichet Roger de 〈◊〉 Saer de Quincie William de Mâ—ntchenise Peter de Pratellis William de Pooâ—e alias de 〈◊〉 Adam de Port Robert de Turneham William Mallet Eustace de Uescie Peter de Brus William de Presennie Hubert de Burgh William de Maâ—sey and Peter Sauenie For the earle these were suerties Anselme de Kaeu Guy Lieschans Ralfe the said earles brother c. But now to returne After that the earle of Bullongne was expelled out of France as before ye haue heard he came ouer to king Iohn and was of him ioifullie receiued hauing thrée hundred pounds of reuenues in land to him assigned within England for the which he did homage and fealtie vnto him Shortlie after this also died William de Breuse the elder which fled from the face of king Iohn out of Ireland into France and departing this life at Corbell was buried at Paris in the abbeie of S. Uictor In the meane time pope Innocent after the returne of his legats out of England perceiuing that king Iohn would not be ordered by him determined with the consent of his cardinals and other councellours and also at the instant suit of the English bishops and other prelats being there with him to depriue king Iohn of his kinglie state and so first absolued all his subiects and vassals of their oths of allegiance made vnto the same king and after depriued him by solemne protestation of his kinglie administration and dignitie and lastlie signified that his depriuation vnto the French king and other christian princes admonishing them to pursue king Iohn being thus depriued forsaken and condemned as a common enimie to God and his churcâ— He ordeined furthermore that whosoeuer imploied goods or other aid to vanquish and ouercome that disobedient prince should remaine in assured peace of the church as well as those which went to visit the sepulchre of our Lord not onlie in their goods and persons but also in suffrages for sauing of their soules But yet that it might appeare to all men that nothing could be more ioifull vnto his holinesse than to haue king Iohn to repent his trespasses committed and to aske forgiuenesse for the same he appointed Pandulph which latelie before was returned to Rome with a great number of English exiles to go into France togither with Stephan the archbishop of Canturburie and the other English bishops giuing him in commandement that repairing vnto the French king he should communicate with him all that which he had appointed to be doone against king Iohn and to exhort the French king to make warre vpon him as a person for his wickednesse excommunicated Moreouer this Pandulph was commanded by the pope if he saw cause to go ouer 〈◊〉 England and to deliuer vnto king Iohn such letters as the pope had written for his better instruction and to séeke by all means possible to draw him from his naughtie opinion In the meane time when it was bruted through the realme of England that the pope had released the people absolued them of their oth of fidelitie to the king and that he was depriued of his gouernement by the popes sentence by little and little a great number both of souldiers citizens burgesses capteins and conestables of castels leauing their charges bishops with a great multitude of preests reuolting from him and auoiding his companie and presence secretlie stale awaie and got oueâ— into France Notwithstanding that diuerse in respect of the popes cursse and other considerations them 〈◊〉 otherlie refused in this manner to obeie king Iohn yet there werâ— manie others that did take his Part and mainteine his quarell verie earnestlie as his brother William earle of Salesburie Alberâ—ke de â—â—eere erle of Oxford Geffrey Fitz Peter lord chéefe iustice of England also thrée bishops Durham Winchester and Norwich Richard de Marish lord chancellour Hugh Neuill chiefe forrester William de Wroshing lord warden of the ports Robert Ueipount and his brother Yuan Brian de Lisle Geffrey de Lucie Hugh Ballioll and his brother Barnard William de Cantlow and his son William Fulke de Cantlow Reginald de Cornehull shiriffe of Kent Robert Braibrooke and his son Harrie Philip de Louecotes Iohn de Bassingborne Philip March line 10 Chatelaine of Notingham Peter de Maulley Robert de Gaugy Gerard de Athie and his nephue Ingelrand William Brewer Peter Fitz Hubert Thomas Basset and Foulks de Brianta Norman with many other too long here to rehearse who as fautors and councellors vnto him sought to defend him in all causes notwithstanding the censures of the church so cruellie pronounced against him knowing that they were bound in conscience to sticke to him now speciallie in this generall apostasie of his péeres and line 20 people For they were opinioned that it was Turpe referre pedem nec passu stare tenaci Turpe laborantem deseruisse ratem The same yeare king Iohn held his Christmasse at Windsor year 1212 and in the Lent following on midlent sundaie being at London he honoured the lord Alexander sonne and heire to the king of Scots with the high order of knighthood And as I find it mentioned by some writers wheras he vnderstood how there were diuerse in Scotland that contemning their naturall line 30 lord and king by reason of his great age king Iohn went thither with an armie to represse the rebels and being come thither he sent his men of war into the inner parts of the country who scowring the coasts tooke Guthred Macwilliam capteine of them that moued sedition whom king Iohn caused to be hanged on a paire of gallowes This Guthred was descended of the line of the ancient Scotish kings and being assisted with the Irishmen and Scots that fauoured not the race of the kings that presentlie line 40 reigned wrought them much trouble as his father named Donald had doone before him sometime secretlie vnder hand and sometime againe by way of open rebellion Shortlie after the Welshmen began to sturre also who rushing out of their owne confines fell vpon their next neighbours within the English marshes wasted the countrie and ouerthrew diuerse castels
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
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
he set forward with his armie being diuided into thrée battels or wards of the which the first was led by sir Robert Ratcliffe lord Fitz Water the middle ward or battell the earle himselfe guided and with him his brother the lord Edmund Howard The rereward was gouerned by sir William Sands and sir Richard Wingfield both being knights of the garter Capteine of the horssemen was sir Edward line 20 Guilford They entered into the French ground the second of September being tuesdaie and tooke their iournie toward Heding By the way there came to them a great power of Burgognians from the ladie Margaret as then regent of Flanders according to the articles of the league All the townes villages and castels in the countrie thorough the which they marched were burned wasted and destroied on euerie side of their waie as the towne and castell of Sellois line 30 the townes of Brume bridge Senekerke Botingham Manstier the towne and castell of Nerbins the towne of Dauerne the castels of Columberge and Rew the towne and church fortified of Boards saint Marie de Bois the towne of Ulaus the towne and castell of Fringes On the sixtéenth daie of September the earle of Surrie with his armie of Englishmen and Burgognians came before the castell of Heding and planted his siege before it The towne was entered and part thereof burned line 40 by the Burgognians Within the castell was capteine monsieur de Bâ—ez hauing prouided for defense of the place all things necessarie so that the earle of Surrie and other the capteins of the hoast perceiuing they could not within anie short time win it after they had bin before it eleuen daies they raised their siege chéeflie bicause they had no great battering peeces to ouerthrow the walles For the weather was such and the waies waxed so deepe towards the latter end of that line 50 summer that they could not conueie with them anie great ordinance From Heding they passed forward and comming to Dorlens burned the towne and rased the castell From thense they came vnto the towne of Darrier which they burnt also and spoiled Thus they burned and spoiled all the waie as they passed But the weather still waxed woorse and woorse so that manie fell sicke through intemperance thereof and the Burgognians and Spaniards which were in the armie returned into Flanders line 60 Then the earle of Surrie perceiuing that he could no longer keepe the field in that season of the yeare turned backe towards Calis in good order of battell and came thither the sixtéenth of October He would gladlie in déed before the departure of the Burgognians and Spaniards haue passed the water of Somme but other capteins considering the time of the yeare to be past and that the whole armie conteined not aboue eightéene thousand men iudged it more wisedome to returne and so in the end their opinions were followed After that the English armie was returned to Calis the earle of Surrie sent foorth sir William Sands sir Maurice Berkeleie sir William Fitz Williams and with them three thousand men which burned Marguison the towne of saint Iehans rode and also Temple towne with manie villages They also brought a maruellous great bootie of goods out of the countrie which they got at this rode as fouretéene thousand shéepe a thousand foure hundred oxen and kine and other great cattell a thousand thrée hundred hogs and eight hundred mares and horsses besides prisoners When the earle of Surrie had set things in order and appointed foorth such as he would haue remaine in the garrisons on that side the sea he returned and all the residue of the armie sauing those that were commanded to tarie came ouer also with the nauie and arriued in the Thames and so euerie man into his countrie at his pleasure There remained also behind a companie of men of warre called aduenturers which serued without wages liuing onelie on that which they could catch win of the enimies There were foure hundred of them that went with the armie now this last time into France and did much hurt vnto the Frenchmen for they were by practise become expert and skilfull in the points of warre and dailie exploited one enterprise or other to their owne aduantage and hinderance of the enimie The duke of Albanie being in this meane while established gouernour of Scotland raised an armie of fourescore thousand men and aboue with the which he approched to the English borders but made no inuasion The mistrust that he had in the Scots caused him to staie and therefore he sent to the French king for six thousand Almans the which he dailie looking for that in vaine droue off time till the end of summer was now at hand and then requiring a truce for certeine moneths obteined it at the kings hand The earle of Shrewesburie had in a readinesse eight and twentie thousand men to haue resisted him if he had entered vpon the English confines After that an abstinence of warre was taken betwixt England and Scotland then in October following there came into England three personages of small behauiour as it séemed ambassadors out of Scotland they were smallie regarded and shortlie departed Their commission was onelie to vnderstand whether the king had assented to the truce or not Wherevpon it was thought that they were sent rather for a countenance onelie of fulfilling the promise made by the duke of Albanie at that present when the truce was granted than for anie true meaning to accomplish that which was promised that is to saie to agrée vnto some vnfeined and perfect conclusion of peace The king héere vpon doubting their old pranks ordeined the earle of Northumberland Henrie Persie the fift of that name warden of the whole marches who thankefullie receiued the honor thereof and so he departed But whatsoeuer matter it was that mooued him year 1522 shortlie after he began to make sute to the king and ceassed not till he was of that office discharged and then the earle of Surrie lord admerall of England was made generall warden and the lord Marquesse Dorset was made warden of the east and middle marches and the lord Dacres of the west marches The earle of Northumberland was for this refusall of exercising the office of lord warden greatlie blamed of his owne tenants and accounted of all men to be void of the loue and desire that noblemen ought to haue to honor and chiualrie The lord Marquesse Dorset accompanied with sir William Bulmer and sir Arthur Darcie with manie other of the nobilitie the second of Aprill then being thursdaie before Easter entered into Tiuidale and so passing forward ten miles into Gallowaie burnt on euerie side the townes and villages All the night he tarried within the Scotish ground and on the morrow being goodfridaie he withdrew backe into England with foure thousand neat hauing burned Grimsleie Mowhouse Doufford Miles Ackfoorth Crowling Nowes
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.
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
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
of Waterford as bishop This was dâ—one at Canturburie the 28. day of October Rafe bishop of Chichester and Gundulfe bishop of Rochester helping Anselme in the consecration as ministers vnto him in that behalfe The said Malchus was a monke and sometime vnder Walkhelme bishop of Winchester But to the purpose king William after his returne into England remembring what damage he had susteined two yéeres before at the hands of the Welshmen determined eftsoones to inuade their countrie and therefore doubling his power commeth into the marshes pitcheth his field and consulteth with his capteines what order he were best to vse in that his enterprise for the taming of his enimies line 10 The Welshmen hearing of the kings approch and that his armie was farre greater than the last which he brought into their countrie fell to their woonted policie and got them into the woods there to lie in wait trusting more to the aduantage of starting holes than to their owne force puissance When the king vnderstood their practise he set armed men in diuers places and builded towers and fortifications to defend him and his bicause he durst not assaie to enter into wild and wast grounds where line 20 he had béene hindred and damnified before that time hoping by this meanes in stopping vp the waies and passages of the countrie to bring the rebels to more subiection But when this policie was found by proofe to wearie the kings souldiors rather than to hurt the enimies which straieng vp and downe in the woods intrapped oftentimes the Normans and English in taking them at aduantage the king without bringing his purpose to any good effect departed home into England After this he sent Edgar Etheling line 30 with an armie into Scotland that he might place his coosine Edgar the sonne of king Malcolme in the gouernement of that kingdome and expell his vncle Duffnald who had vsurped the same King William being still inflamed with ire for that he could not haue his will determined with continuall warres to wearie the rebellious stomachs of the Welshmen and therefore was fixed first to set vpon them of Anglesey which being an I le enuironed with the sea was euer a refuge for them when line 40 they were sharpelie pursued This enterprise was chéeflie committed vnto Hugh earle of Shrewsburie and Arundell and to Hugh earle of Chester who at their first comming wan the I le and tempered the victorie with great crueltie and bloudshed putting out the eies of some cutting off the noses the armes or hands of others and some also they gelded Moreouer as authors write the said earle of Shrewesburie made a kenell of the church of Saint Fridancus laieng his hounds within it for the night line 50 time but in the morning he found them all raging wood How true so euer this report is I wote not but shortlie after they had executed in maner as before is said such strange kinds of crueltie in that I le it chanced that a nauie of rouers came thither from the Iles of Orkney whose chéefe admirall was named Magnus who incountring with the said earle of Shrewesburie shot him into the eie with an arrow which part of his body remained bare and vnarmed so that by by he fell downe dead out of his ship into line 60 the sea When Magnus beheld this he said scornefullie in the Danish toong Leit loupe that is Let him leape now the English neuerthelesse had the victorie at that time as some write and ouercame their enimies with great slaughter and bloudshed Not long after the earle of Chester going ouer to Wales with long and continuall warres tired and tamed the wild Welshmen who for a good while after durst not shew their faces The king being thus at quiet and without warre in all places began now to set his mind on building and first causes new walles â—o be made about the tower of London and also laid the foundation of Westminster hall which though it be a verie large and roomthie place yet after it was finished at his returne out of Normandie he came to view it and held his court therein with great pompe and honor He repented that he had made it no larger saieng it was too little by the halfe and therefore determined to haue made a new and that this other should haue serued but for a dining chamber A diligent searcher saith Matthew Paris might yet find out the foundation of the hall which he had purposed to build stretching from the Thames side vnto the common street But though those his buildings were great ornaments to the realme yet bicause he tooke vp monie by extortion of his subiects towards the charges of the same he was euill spoken of the report being spred that he should take them in hand but onelie vnder a colour to spoile his subiects in gathering a far greater summe than the expenses of them did amount vnto About the same time that king William beganne these buildings he went ouer into Normandie to vnderstand in what state that countrie stood About the same time also or rather two yéere before to wit 1097. néere to Abington at a towne called Finchamsteed in Barkshire a well or fountaine flowed with bloud in maner as before it vsed to flow with water and this continued for the space of three daies or as William Malm. saith fifteene daies togither After the king had dispatched his businesse in Normandie was returned into England as he was making prouision to ride foorth on hunting a messenger came suddenlie vnto him bringing word that the citie of Mans was besieged and like to be surprised The king was then at dinner meaning first to make an end thereof and after to take aduice in that matter but being reprooued by the messenger for that to the great danger of his subiects which were besieged he passed not to make delaies rather than to go and succour them with all spéed he taketh the mans blunt spéech in so good part that he called straightwaie for masons to breake downe the wall to the end he might passe through the next way and not be driuen to step so farre out of his path as to go foorth by the doores and so without any long aduisement taken in the cause he rode straightwaie to the sea sending his lords a commandement to follow who when they came in his presence counselled him to staie till his people were assembled Howbeit he would not giue eare to their aduice in that point but said Such as loue me I know well will follow me and so went a shipboord setting apart all doubts of perils and yet was the weather verie darke rough and cloudie insomuch that the maister of the ship was afraid and willed him to tarrie till the wind did settle in some quiet quarter but hee commanded to hoise vp sailes and to make all spéed that could be for
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
Moreouer through the procurement of the lord chancellour Gerard de Camuille was arreigned for receiuing théeues and robbers which had robbed certeine merchants of their goods that were going to the faire of Stamfort also they appealed him of treason for refusing to stand to his triall by order of the kings lawes at commandement of the kings iustices bearing himselfe to be earle Iohns man and aiding line 20 the same earle against the king But all these accusations he flatlie denied and so his aduersaries put in pledges to follow their suit and he put in the like to defend himselfe by one of his fréeholders The same daie king Richard receiued the king of Scots at Clipstone comming now to visit him and to reioise with him for his safe returne home after so long a iournie and so manie passed perils After they had spent the time a certeine space in ioy and mirth the fourth of Aprill at their being togither at Malton line 30 the king of Scots required of king Richard to haue restored to him the counties of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmerland with the countie of Lancaster also the which in right of his predecessors belonged to him as he alledged King Richard assembling a parlement of the Nobles of his realme at Northampton about sixtéene daies after that the Scotish king had made this request gaue him answer that by no means he might as then satisfie his petition for if he should so line 40 doo his aduersaries in France would report that he did it for feare and not for any loue or hartie fréendship But yet king Richard in the presence of his mother queene Elianor and the lords spirituall and temporall of his realme togither at that present assembled granted and by his déed confirmed vnto the said king of Scots and to his heires for euer that whensoeuer he or any of them should come by summons of the king of England vnto his court the bishop of Durham and the shiriffe of Northumberland line 50 should receiue him at the water of Twéed and safe conduct him vnto the water of These and there should the archbishop of Yorke and the shiriffe of Yorke be readie to receiue him of them and from thence giue their attendance vpon him vnto the borders of the next shire It was also granted to the said king that he should be attended from shire to shire by prelats and shiriffes till he came to the kings court also from the time that the king of Scotland should enter this line 60 realme of England he should haue dailie out of the kings pursse for his liuerie an hundred shillings and after he came to the court he should haue in allowance dailie for his liuerie so long as he there remained thirtie shillings and twelue manchet wastels twelue manchet simnels foure gallons of the best wine and eight gallons of houshold wine two pound of pepper foure pound of cumin two stone of wax or else foure links and fortie great and long colpons of such candels as are serued before the king and foure and twentie colpons of other candels that serue for the houshold And when he should returne into his countrie againe then should he be conueied with the bishops and shiriffes from countie to countie till he come to the water of Twéed hauing an hundred shillings a day of liuerie c as is before appointed The charter of this grant was deliuered vnto William king of Scots in the towne of Northampton in Easter weeke by the hands of William bishop of Elie lord chancellour in the yeare of our lord 1194 and in the fift yeare of king Richard his reigne After this on the fiftéenth day of Aprill king Richard hauing the said king of Scots in his companie came to Winchester where he called a councell and there in open assemblie he highlie commended all those of the Nobilitie that in his absence had shewed themselues faithfull and resisted his brother and such other his complices which had as disloiall persons rebelled against him Here he also proclaimed his said brother and all those that tooke his part traitours to the crowne and tooke order for the punishment of them that being of their faction could by any means be apprehended Furthermore to put awaie as it were the reproofe of his captiuitie and imprisonment by the reuiuing of his noblenesse which he had in high estimation pretio nam dignior omni est Nobilitas haec non emitur nec venditur auro he caused himselfe to be estsoones crowned by the archbishop Hubert on the 18 of Aprill at Winchester and so shewed himselfe as a new crowned king in hope of good successe and better lucke to follow in the presence of the said king of Scots who bare one of the three swords before him going in the middle betwixt two earles that is to saie Hamelin earle of Warren going on his right hand and Ranulfe earle of Chester on his left The canapie vnder the which he went was borne vp also by foure earles Norffolke Lislewight Salisburie and Ferrers The bishop of Elie lord chancellour went on the right hand of the king and the bishop of London on the left At dinner also the citizens of London serued him in the butterie by reason of two hundred marks which they had giuen the king that they might so doo notwithstanding the claime and challenge made by the citizens of Winchester the which serued him in the kitchin The archbishop of Yorke was commanded that he should not be present at the coronation least some tumult might arise about the hauing of his crosse borne afore him to the displeasure of the archbishop of Canturburie who stood in it that no prelat within his prouince ought to haue any crosse borne before him himselfe excepted After this he called a parlement by vertue whereof he reuoked backe and resumed into his hands all patents annuities fées and other grants before his voiage into the holie land by him made or otherwise granted or alienated And bicause it shuld not seeme that he vsed a méere violent extortion herein he treated with euerie one of them in most courteous wise bearing them in hand that he knew well they ment not to let foorth their monie to him vpon vsurie but would be contented with such reasonable gaine and profit as had béene raised to their vse in time of his absence of those things which they held of him by assignation in way of lone so that now the same might be restored to him againe sith he ment not to sell them but to let them foorth as it were to farme for the time as all men might well vnderstand considering that he could not mainteine the port of a king without receipt of those profits which he had so let foorth With these gentle words therefore mixed with some dreadfull allegations he brought them all into such perplexitie that not one of them durst withstand his request
wheras it had stood with his roialtie to haue giuen them the counterchecke and in angrie mood to haue tamed their malapertnesse but that he prouidentlie considered that parit ira furorem Turpia verba furor verbis ex turpibus exit Rixa ex hac oritur â—ulnus de vulnere lethum patientia virtus Qua quicúnq caret careat probitate necesse est Qui nil ferre pâ—test hominum commercia vitet About the same time by reason that the sterling monie was generallie so clipped that the inscription was cut off for the most part euen to the inner circle a proclamation was set foorth that no péeces thereof should passe from one to an other nor be receiued as currant and lawfull monie except the same were of iust weight and fashion Herewith also inquirie was line 10 made for those that had so defaced it and sundrie Iewes bankers and cloth-merchants of Flanders were found giltie Also the French king caused serch to be made within his realme for the same offendors and such as were found giltie were hanged so that he was more seuere in punishing those falsifiers of the king of Englands coine than the king of England was himselfe The parlement began againe at the day appointed line 20 but nothing to accompt of was then concluded but rather a displeasure kindled betwixt the king and his barons for that they looked for a reformation in his dooings and he for monie out of their coffers which would not be granted and so that parlement brake vp The king herevpon for want of monie was driuen to so hard a shift that he was constreined to sell his plate and iewels which the Londoners bought so much to his hinderance that diuers péeces the workemanship whereof was more woorth than the value of the stuffe were sold notwithstanding after line 30 the rate as they weied This yeare the king caused a faire to be kept at Westminster at saint Edwards tide to indure for fiftéene daies and to the end that the same should be the more haunted with all manner of people he commanded by proclamation that all other faires as Elie and such like holden in that season should not be kept nor that any wares should be shewed within the citie of London either in shop or without but that such as would sell should come for that time vnto line 40 Westminster which was doone not without great trouble and paines to the citizens which had not roome there but in booths and tents to their great disquieting and disease for want of necessarie prouision being turmoiled too pitifullie in mire and dirt through occasion of raine that fell in that vnseasonable time of the yeare The bishop of Elie complained sore of the wrong doone to him by suspending his faire at Elie aforesaid line 50 Sir Richard Sward died this yeare after he had laien a long time vexed with the palsie which sir Richard had in his daies beene a right worthie and famous knight There died also the bishops of Bash and saint Dauids In the first day of Iune the moone immediatlie vpon the setting of the sunne was almost wholie eclipsed so that little of hir might appeare The towne of Newcastell vpon Tine was almost wholie consumed with fire togither with the bridge there The archbishop of Canturburie remaining line 60 still with the pope by his procurator the deane of Beauueis denounced all them accurssed which went about to impeach him of receiuing the first fruits of benefices that voided which he had by the popes grant the king and quéene with their children and the kings brother the earle of Cornewall onelie excepted out of that cursse There chanced another earthquake foure daies before Christmasse namelie in the west countrie about Bath and Welles which shooke and ouerthrew some buildings speciallie the tops and summets of stéeples turrets and chimnies were shaken therwith and not the bases or lower parts ¶ In Christmasse following year 1249 the earle of Leicester returned out of Gascoigne where he had béene as generall against Gaston de Bierne whome he had so afflicted and put to the worse that the same Gaston was glad to sue for an abstinence of warre where before he had doone much hurt to the kings subiects The said earle had also with the aid of the kings subiects apprehended an other rebell one William Berthram de Egremont who had doone much hurt in the parts of Gascoigne and in the confines there whome he had left in prison within the castell of the Rioll This yeare a little before Candlemas the bishop of Durham being a man of great yeares by licence obteined of the pope resigned his miter reseruing to himselfe onelie thrée manors Houeden with the appurtenances Stocton and Euerington The king hauing the last yeare receiued of his subiects a deniall of a generall subsidie to be granted him practised this yeare to get some reléefe at their hands in calling each of them apart but first he got two thousand marks of the citie of London and after fell in hand with the abbats and priors of whome he got somewhat though sore against their willes By occasion of two merchant strangers of Brabant which chanced to be robbed about the parts of Winchester whilest the king was there vpon their importunate suit and complaint there was a great nest of theeues broken amongst the which were manie wealthie persons and freeholders such as vsed to passe on life and death of their owne companions to whom they were fauourable inough you may be sure also there were some of the kings seruants amongst them About thirtie of those offendors were apprehended and put to execution besides those that escaped some into sanctuarie and some into voluntarie exile running out of and vtterlie forsaking the countrie About Easter the archbishop of Rone came ouer into England and dooing homage for such reuenues as belonged to his church here within this realme had the same restored vnto him In Iune there fell such abundance of raine speciallie about Abington that the willow trées milles and other houses standing néere to the water side were borne downe and ouerturned with one chapell also and the corne in the field was so beaten to the ground that bread made thereof after it was ripe seemed as it had beene made of bran About the same time William de Longespée earle of Salisburie and Robert de Uéer with other Englishmen to the number of two hundred knights hauing taken on them the crosse went into the holie land the said earle being their chéefe capteine and had so prosperous speed in their iornie that they arriued safe and sound in the christian armie where the French king being chéefe thereof they were receiued ioifullie But yet as Matthew Paris writeth the pride and disdaine of the Frenchmen was so great that vpon spite and enuie conceiued at the Englishmens glorie which bare themselues right
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
to rebell and to incourage them the sooner to attempt the warre he began the first exploit himselfe taking the said lord Roger Clifford a right worthie and famous knight in his castell of Hawardine vpon Palme sundaie the said lord being in no doubt of any such matter Diuerse knights and other that were in the same castell at that time and made resistance were slaine After this the foresaid Dauid returned to his brother the prince and therewith assembling an armie they went both togither and besieged the castell of Rutland King Edward at the same time being in the parts about Salisburie where he kept his Easter at the Uies sent out commissioners to leauie an armie and commanded such men of warre as he had then in a readinesse to hast foorth to the rescue of the castell of Rutland And in the meane time the castell of Lamperdeuaux was taken by Rice ap Malgone and Griffith ap Meridoc Also diuerse other castels were taken by other of the Welsh nobilitie Moreouer about this time by the labour and suit of Iohn line 10 the archbishop of Canturburie Emericke de Montfort which had béene reteined in prison sith that he was first taken togither with his sister at the Isle of Sillie by the Bristowmen was now set at libertie and permitted to returne into France The said archbishop of Canturburie was sent into Wales to persuade Leolin and his brother with the other rebels vnto peace and quietnesse but returning into England without bringing anie thing to passe he denounced them accurssed line 20 year 1282 The king hasted foorth to come to the rescue of his people wherevpon Leolin and his brother Dauid retired with their people to Snowdon hilles and fortified the castell there with a strong garrison of men The king entring into Wales when he heard that his enimies were withdrawne into the mounteins passed foorth till he came neere vnto them where he pitched downe his field and the next day causing his horssemen to issue foorth of the campe filled all the plaines which compasse the foot of those hilles aswell line 30 on the east side as toward the south with the same horssemen and herewith placed his footmen more aloft on the side of the hilles in couert this doone he prouoked his enimie to come foorth to fight but when he saw this would not be then that he might stop them from all places of refuge he caused his ships to take the Isle of Anglesey bicause the Welshmen vsed to flie thither oftentimes for their safegard in the which enterprise the mariners of the cinque ports bare themselues right manfullie line 40 After this ioining certeine vessels togither he caused a bridge to be made in the riuer of Meneth into the which an other small riuer falleth that riseth at the roots of those hilles of Snowdone to keepe the enimies from lodging on the further side of that riuer This bridge conteining roome for thréescore armed men to passe afront was made ouer the riuer of Sient by the which men saile into the Isle which by the course of the sea ebbeth and floweth euerie twelue houres But so it came to passe that before the bridge line 50 was well boorded ouer whilest the king yet remained at Aberconwaie diuerse of the English nobilitie to the number of seauen banerets with three hundreth armed men rashlie passed ouer and as they surueied the foot of the mounteine the tide began to come in so swiftlie that where the Englishmen were aduanced a good prettie waie from the water side they could not now get backe againe to the bridge which as yet was not fullie made vp The Welshmen perceiuing this came downe beside line 60 the mounteine and assailed the Englishmen verie fiercelie and with their great multitude so oppressed them that for feare the Englishmen were driuen to take the water and so by reason they were loaden with armour manie of them were drowned and amongst other that famous knight sir Lucas de Thanie Robert Clifford sir William Lindsey and two gentlemen of good accompt that were brethren to Robert Burnell as then bishop of Bath There perished in all as some saie thirtéene knights seuentéene yoong gentlemen and to the number of two hundred footmen Yet sir William Latimer as good hap would escaped and diuerse other This mischance happened on S. Leonards day In this meane time in an other part of the countrie the earle of Glocester with an armie made sore warre to the Welshmen and néere vnto the towne called Lantilaware fought a sore battell with them in the which manie of the Welshmen being slaine the earle lost also fiue knights vpon his partie as William Ualence the yoonger being one of that number who was the kings cousine The earle of Glocester then departing from thence Leolin the prince of Wales entered into the countrie of Cardigan and Stradwie destroieng the lands of Rice ap Meridoc which now held with the king against the said prince At length prince Leolin going towards the land of Buelth with a small companie left his maine armie behind him aloft vpon the top of the mounteine néere to the water called Waie and he had set a number of his people to kéepe the bridge of Orewin and so the Welshmen kept on the one side and the Englishmen on the other of whome were capteins the lord Iohn Gifford and the lord Edmund Mortimer the which perceiuing the Welshmen that were readie to defend the bridge and a great host of them vpon the top of the mounteine they consulted togither what they were best to doo At length by the couragious exhortation of one Helias Walewaine they drew on the one hand alongst the riuer where was a foord passable in déed though not without danger but yet the Englishmen by the conduct of the same Helias got ouer by the same foord so that it bare the name long after of Helias way And so the Welshmen that kept the bridge perceiuing the Englishmen to be got ouer vnto that side fled wherevpon the residue of the English armie passed ouer at the bridge whereof rose a great noise which Leolin lurking not farre off might well heare but yet at the first he could not be brought to thinke that by any possible means the Englishmen were got ouer to that side of the water But yet perceiuing it to be true he drue backe toward the heigth of the mounteine againe neuerthelesse being discouered by one Stephan de Franketon named by some writers Sward he was so narrowlie pursued of the same Stephan that he was ouertaken and slaine Stephan not knowing whome he had slaine returned to the host the which was now mounting vp the hill to ioine with the Welsh armie that stood still looking for the returne of their prince Leolin though in vaine yet they manfullie abode by their tackle discharging plentie of arowes and darts at the
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
line 20 with their goods but also with their persons in great dangers and ieopardies whilest the spiritualtie sat at home and holp the king nothing at all Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie stoutlie answered herevnto that the cleargie had alwaie giuen to the king as much as the laitie had doone considering they had oftener giuen their tenths to him than the laitie their fiftéens also that more of their tenants went forth into the kings warres than the tenants of them of the laie fée beside this they praied line 30 day and night for the kings good successe against his enimies When the speaker named sir Iohn Cheinie in replieng by plaine speach séemed little to esteeme such praiers of the church the archbishop was set in a great chafe and with sharpe words declaring what he thought must needs follow both of the king and kingdome when praiers and suffrages of churchmen came to be so little set by he grew to such impatiencie that he flatlie told the speaker that although he line 40 séemed little to estéeme of the religion of the cleargie he would not haue him to thinke that he should take awaie the possessions of the church without finding such as would seeke to withstand him for if said he the archbishop of Canturburie maie liue thou shalt haue hot taking awaie any manner of thing that is his After this when the archbishop perceiued that the king winked at these matters he rose from his place and comming before the king knéeled downe and besought him to consider how through the fauour line 50 and grace of the almightie God he had atteined to the kingdome and therefore he ought to remember his first purpose and intent which was to saue vnto euerie man his right so far as in him saie He willed him likewise to haue in consideration the oth which he willinglie had receiued that is that he should aduance the honor of the church and the ministers thereof cherish and mainteine Also to haue in mind the danger and dishonour that redounded to such as brake their othes so that he besought him to line 60 permit and suffer the church to inioy the priuileges and liberties which in time of his predecessors it had inioied requesting him to stand in awe of that king by whom all kings did reigne and to feare the censures and condemnation that those incurred which tooke and bereft from the church any good or right belonging to it who most certeinelie said he are accursed When the archbishop had vsed this or the like speach the king commanded him to go to his seat againe assuring him that his intent and purpose was to leaue the church in as good state or better than he found it The archbishop herewith turning to the knights and burgesses of the parlement said vnto them You and such other as you be haue giuen counsell vnto the king and his predecessors to confiscate and take into their hands the goods and possessions of the celles which the Frenchmen and Normans possessed here in England and affirmed that by the same he and they should heape vp great riches and indéed those goods and possessions as is to be prooued were worth manie thousands of gold and yet it is most true that the king at this day is not halfe one marke of siluer the richer thereby for you haue begged and gotten them out of his hands and haue appropriated the same vnto your selues so that we may coniecture verie well that you request to haue our temporalties not to aduance the kings profit but to satisfie your owne greedie couetousnesse for vndoubtedlie if the king as God forbid he should did accomplish your wicked purposes and minds he should not be one farthing the richer the yeare next after and trulie sooner will I suffer this head of mine to be cut off from my shoulders than that the church should lose the least right that apperteineth to it The knights said little but yet they procéeded in their sute to haue their purpose forward which the archbishop perceiuing as an other Argus hauing his eie on each side to marke what was doone laboured so to disappoint their dooings that he wan the fauour of certeine of the temporall lords to assist him who constantlie auouched by their consents that the church should neuer be spoiled of the temporalties and herein they acquited the archbishop and prelats one pleasure for an other which they had doone for them before when the commons in this parlement required that all such lands and reuenues as sometime belonged to the crowne and had béene giuen awaie either by the king or by his predecessors king Edward and king Richard should be againe restored to the kings vse vnto which request the archbishop and other the prelats would in no wise consent thus by the stout diligence of the archbishop Arundeâ—â— that petition of the commons touching the spirituall temporalties came to none effect Yea the knights themselues who verie instantlie had stood in this error acknowledging their maliciousnes guiltinesse herein besought the archbishop of Canturburie to pardon them and gaue thanks that by his couragiousnesse the church in this so troublesome a time reuiued calling to mind the saieng of an ethnike by way of application to the said archbishops hie praise sub principe duro Temporibúsque malis aâ—sus es esse bonus Two fiftéenes were granted by the commons with condition that the same should be paid vnto the hands of the lord Furniuall who should sée that monie imploied for maintenance of the kings warres Moreouer at the importunate sute of the commons the letters patents that had béene made to diuerse persons of annuities to them granted by king Edward and king Richard were called in and made void not without some note of dishonor to the king The cleargie granted to the king a tenth and a halfe notwithstanding that the halfe of one tenth latelie granted was yet behind and appointed to be paid vpon saint Martins daie now next comming About this season great losse happened in Kent by breaking in of waters that ouerflowed the sea banks as well in the archbishop of Canturburies grounds as other mens whereby much castell was drowned Neither did England alone bewaile hir losses by such breakings in of the sea but also Zeland Flanders Holland tasted of the like damage William Wickham bishop of Winchester being a man of great age deceassed this yeare leauing behind him a perpetuall memorie of his name for the notable monuments which he erected in building two colleges one at Winchester for grammarians and the other at Oxenford called the new colledge purchasing lands and reuenues for the maintenance of students there to the great commoditie of the commonwealth for from thence as out of a good nursserie haue come foorth diuerse men in all ages excellentlie learned in all sciences ¶ And héere I haue not thought it impertinent to speake somewhat
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
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
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
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
shoot at the Englishmen Also they trapped togither foure and twentie great hulkes that came to the baie for salt and set them on a row to the intent line 60 that if the Englishmen had come to assault them they would haue set those hulks on fire and haue let them driue with the streame amongst the English ships Prior Iehan also laie still in Blanke sable baie and plucked his gallies to the shore setting his basiliskes and other ordinance in the mouth of the baie which baie was bulworked on euerie side that by water it was not possible to be woone The lord admerall perceiuing the French nauie thus to lie in feare wrote to the king to come thither in person and to haue the honour of so high an enterprise which writing the kings councell nothing allowed for putting the king in ieopardie vpon the chance of the sea Wherefore the king wrote to him sharplie againe commanding him to accomplish that which apperteined to his duetie which caused him to aduenture things further than wisedome would he should as after yée shall heare to his vtter vndooing and casting awaie God hauing ordeined the means by his prouidence which the pagans implied though wanting the light of grace in the name of destinie of them counted ineuitable A destinie lamentable considering the qualitie of the person with the maner of his dieng Wherein although manie vainlie dispute that fortune led him to so miserable an accident yet if we will lift vp our considerations to God we shall find that he hath reserued such a prerogatiue ouer all things which he hath created that to him onelie belongeth the authoritie to dispose all things by the same power wherewith he hath created them of nothing And yet the foolish world doting in blind ignorance but pretending a singular insight in matters of secrecie blusheth not to talke or rather to asseuere casualtie chancemedlie misfortune and such like foolish imaginations whereas indéed the prouidence of God compasseth all things whatsoeuer for nothing can be priuileged from the amplenesse of the same Prior Iehan kéeping him still within his hold as a prisoner in a dungeon did yet sometime send out his small foists to make a shew before the English nauie which chased them to the baie But bicause the English ships were mightie vessels they could not enter the baie and therefore the lord admerall caused certeine boats to be manned foorth which tooke one of the best foists that Prior Iehan had and that with great danger for the gallies and bulworks shot so freshlie all at one instant that it was maruell how the Englishmen escaped The lord admerall perceiuing that the Frenchmen would not come abroad called a councell wherein it was determined that first they would assaile Prior Iehan and his gallies lieng in Blanke sable baie and after to set on the residue of the French fléet in the hauen of Brest Then first it was appointed that the lord Ferrers sir Stephan Bull and other should go alaâ—d with a conueuient number to assault the bulworkes while the admerall entered with row barges and little gallies into the baie and so should the Frenchmen be assailed both by water and land The lord admerall by the counsell of a Spanish knight called sir Alfonse Charant affirming that he might enter the baie with little ieopardie called to him William Fitz Williams William Cooke Iohn Colleie and sir Wolstan Browne as his chéefe and most trustie fréends making them priuie to his intent which was to take on him the whole enterprise with their assistance And so on S. Markes daie which is the fiue and twentith of Aprill the said admerall put himselfe in a small row barge appointing thrée other small rowing ships and his owne ship bote to attend him and therewith vpon a sudden rowed into the baie where Prior Iehan had moored vp his gallies iust to the ground which gallies with the bulworkes on the land shot so terriblie that they that followed were afraid But the admerall passed forward as soone as he came to the gallies he entered droue out the Frenchmen William Fitz Williams within his ship was sore hurt with a quarell The baie was shallow and the other ships could not enter for the tide was spent Which thing the Frenchmen perceiuing they entered the gallies againe with moris pikes and fought with the English in the gallies The admerall perceiuing their approch thought to haue entred againe into his row barge which by violence of the tide was driuen downe the streame and with a pike he was throwne ouer the boord and so drowned and also the forenamed Alfonse was there slaine all the other boates and vessels escaped verie hardlie awaie for if they had taried the tide had failed them and then all had béene lost The lord Ferrers and the other capteins were right sorowfull of this chance but when there was no remedie they determined not to attempt anie further till they might vnderstand the kings pleasure and so they returned into England line 10 The Frenchmen perceiuing that the English fléet departed from the coasts of Britaine and drew towards England did come foorth of their hauens and Prior Iehan set foorth his gallies and foists and drawing alongst the coasts of Normandie and Britaine coasted ouer to the borders of Sussex with all his companie and there landed and set fire on certeine poore cotages The gentlemen that dwelt néere raised the countrie and came to the coast and droue Prior Iehan to his gallies The king was right sorie line 20 for the death of his admerall but sorrow preuaileth not when the chance is past Therefore the king hearing that the French nauie was abroad called to him the lord Thomas Howard eldest brother to the late admerall and sonne and heire apparant to the earle of Surrie whome he made admerall willing him to reuenge his brothers death The lord Howard humblie thanked his grace of the trust that he put in him and so immediatlie went to the sea and scowred the same that no Frenchman durst shew line 30 himselfe on the coast of England for he fought with them at their owne ports The king hauing all his prouisions readie for the warre and meaning to passe the sea in his owne person for the better taming of the loftie Frenchmen appointed that worthie councellor and right redoubted chéefteine the noble George Talbot earle of Shrewesburie high steward of his houshold to be capteine generall of his fore-ward and in his companie were appointed to go the lord Thomas Stanleie line 40 earle of Derbie lord Decowreie prior of saint Iohns sir Robert Ratcliffe lord Fitzwater the lord Hastings the lord Cobham sir Rice ap Thomas sir Thomas Blunt sir Richard Sacheuerell sir Iohn Digbie sir Iohn Askew sir Lewes Bagot sir Thomas Cornewall and manie other knights esquiers and souldiers to the number of eight thousand men These passed the sea and came all to
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
he caused his ships to be brought into Brest hauen and bruted it abroad that he would not go into Scotland that yeare The king of England being certified that the duke meant not to depart out of France of all that yeare about the middest of September commanded that his ships should be laid vp in hauens till the next spring The duke of Albanie being thereof aduertised boldie then tooke his ships and sailed into Scotland with all conuenient spéed as in the Scotish historie ye maie read more at large Shortlie after his arriuall there he wrought so with the Scots that an armie was leauied with the which he approched to the borders of England lodged at Cawdestreame readie to enter into England The king of England hauing aduertisement giuen to him from time to time of the proceedings of his aduersaries with all diligence caused to be assembled the people of the North parts beyond Trent in such numbers that there were three thousand gentlemen bearing coats of armes with their powers and strength which were all commanded to repaire to the erle of Surrie with spéed The noble marquesse Dorset was appointed with six thousand men to kéepe Berwike least the Scots should laie siege thereto The duke of Albanie hearing of the preparation which the earle of Surrie made against him sent to him an herald promising him of his honour to giue him battell and if he tooke him prisoner he would put him to courteous ransome his bodie to be safe To whome the earle answered that much he thanked the duke of his offer promising him to abide battell if he durst giue it that if the said duke chanced to be taken by him or his he would strike off his head and send it for a present to his maister the king of England and bade him that he should trust to none other At this answer the duke and the Scots tooke great despite The earle of Surrie being at Alnewicke there came to him the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the lords Clifford Dacres Lumleie Ogle Darcie with manie knights esquiers gentlemen and other souldiers and men of warre to the number of fortie thousand And from the court there came the maister of the horsse sir Ncholas Carew sir Francis Brian sir Edward Bainton and others The last of October being saturdaie in the night before the same daie the duke of Albanie sent two or thrée thousand men ouer the water to besiege the castell of Warke which comming thither with their great ordinance beat the castell verie sore and wan the vttermost ward called the Barnekins On sundaie and mondaie being the first and second of Nouember they continued their batterie and then thinking that the place was assaultable couragiouslie set on the castell and by strength entered the second ward Sir William Lisle that was capteine of this castell perceiuing the enimies to haue woone the false breies and that nothing remained but onelie the inner ward or dungeon incouraged his men to the best of his power with words of great comfort and manhood and therewith issued foorth with those few that he had left about him for he had lost manie at other assaults and what with couragious shooting and manfull fighting the enimies were driuen out of the place and of them were slaine and namelie of those Frenchmen which the duke had brought foorth of France to the number of thrée hundred line 10 which laie there dead in fight when the earle of Surrie came thither besides such as died of wounds and were drowned Then the Scots and Frenchmen remooued their ordinance ouer the water in all hast and by that time that they were got ouer the earle of Surrie was come with fiue thousand horssemen and all his great armie followed He was sorie that his enimies were gone and much praised sir William Lisle for his valiancie The earle would gladlie haue followed his line 20 enimies into their owne borders but his commission was onelie to defend the realme and not to inuade Scotland and therefore he staid not onelie vnto the great displeasure of himselfe but also of manie a lustie gentleman that would gladlie haue séene further proofe of the Scotish mens manhood Shortlie after the quéene of Scots moother to the king sent to hir brother the king of England for an abstinence of warre vntill further communication might be had about the conclusion of some good agréement betwixt line 30 the two realmes of England and Scotland which request to hir was granted and so the English armie brake vp and the earle of Surrie returned to the court ¶ In this season the emperour Charles sent to the king of England two mules trapped in crimsin veluet curiouslie embrodered all the buckles stirrops and all such other garnishings were siluer and gilt of maruellous cunning worke He sent also eleuen genets full goodlie to behold trapped with russet veluet line 40 richlie wrought and foure speares and two iauelins of strange timber worke richlie garnished and fiue brâ—ce of greihounds and to the queene he sent two mules with rich trappers and high chaires after the Spanish fashion All these presents were thankefullie receiued both of the king and quéene Whilest the earle of Surrie was in the marches of Scotland and the duke of Suffolke in France as before ye haue heard the cardinall sent out commissions in the moneth of October that euerie man being line 50 worth fortie pounds should paie the whole subsidie before granted out of hand not tarrieng till the daies of paiment limited This was called an anticipation that is to meane a thing taken before the time appointed and was a new tearme not knowne before those daies but they paied swéetelie for their learning ¶ In December were taken certeine traitors in Couentrie one called Francis Philip schoolemaister to the kings henchmen and one Christopher Pickering clearke of the larder and one Anthonie line 60 Mainuile gentleman which by the persuasion of the said Francis Philip intended to haue taken the kings treasure of his subsidie as the collectors of the same came towards London and then to haue raised men and taken the castell of Kilingworth and to haue arreared warre against the king The said Francis Christopher and Anthonie were hanged drawne and quartered at Tiborne the eleuenth of Februarie and the other were sent to Couentrie and there executed In this yeare the king sent the lord Morleie sir William Huseie knight doctor Lée his almoner to don Ferdinando the archduke of Austrich with the order of the garter which in the towne of Nuremberge receiued the same where all the princes of Germanie were then assembled at a diet or councell In this meane while diuerse enterprises and feats of warre were practised and archiued by them of the garrisons in the marches of Calis and the Frenchmen of Bullogne and the borders thereabouts but the Frenchmen commonlie were put to the worse Amongest other exploits
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
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
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
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
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
therof by Thomas Knell minister appéereth the effect whereof insueth About midnight the water ouerflowed so much that men were faine to forsake their beds one woman drowned where also were lost a great number of sheepe oxen kine horsse and other cattell Among other there one maister Cartwright gentleman hauing his house inclosed round about the water came in so much that a cart being laden with thornes did swim about the ground Hée lost by the same floud sheepe and other cattell to the value of an hundred pounds The same gentleman had a close gate by the high waies side where the water ran ouer so extremelie that at the fall thereof it made such an hole that it was fortie foot déepe so that no man could passe that waie without great danger To the filling vp of the said hole or pit was cast in by the men of the said towne fiue and twentie lodes of faggots twentie lodes of horsse doong which said faggots and horsse doong filled not the hole Also one maister Lée at the friers in Bedford hauing a faire yard wherein was great store of elmetrees whereof thréescore were blowen downe with the roots pulled cleane out of the ground Also he had a close of conies that were cleane destroied The sea brake in betwixt Wisbich and Walsocken and at the crosse keies drowning Tilneie and old Lin saint Marie Teding saint Marie Tid saint Iohns Wauple Walton Walsocken Emneie Iarmans and Stow bridge all being the space of ten miles At the crosse keies the goodman of the inne had built an house with a strong foundation ioining vnto an other house being old and not so strong wherein were certeine ghests And when the water came in so violentlie the goodman of the house being in the stronger house called the men out of the old house and they would haue gone downe the stairs but the water was so high that they could not come downe wherefore they went backe againe and brake an hole into the other house where they went thorough and the last man was no sooner in but the old house fell downe The walles of the houses were broken downe and the horsses that were tied at the manger which was made fast in the ground did swim in the water when the stable was cleane carried awaie vntill the waters were asswaged and were saued aliue and the people were constreined to get vp to the highest parts of the house and so to be carried awaie in botes At Yarmouth a great part of the bridge was carried awaie The house vpon the hauen called the hauen house wherein was one Nicholas Iossellin the hauen man his son with all their tooles were caried into the marishes six miles from the hauen where it stood vpright and where they abode long without meat or drinke Also at Iermans Bridgestréet was verie much hurt doone by the extreame floods that were there Also one Thomas Smith of Yarmouth lost a ship with seauen men and a boie in it Also at Newarke by Yarmouth were lost twelue saile Also a great hulke laden with oile and pitch was lost at Worreie sand and about twentie men lost therein and thirtie saued by the hulke bote These townes and villages were ouerflowne that is to saie Wisbich Gutborne Parson Droue and Hobshouse This Hobshouse being an almes house and the water breaking downe the wals of it the wind blew the cloths off from the bed of a poore man his wife who being cold awaked and suddenlie stept out of his bed to reach vp his cloths and slipt vp to the bellie in water and then he thinking himselfe to be in danger as he was in déed and knowing the best waie to escape the danger of the water he tooke his wife on his necke and carried hir awaie and so were both saued At the same time in Wisbich was a garden a tennise plaie a bowling allie walled about with bricke which was worth twentie pounds by yeare to the line 10 owner was quite destroied by the water Mumbie chappell the whole towne was lost except thrée houses A ship was driuen vpon an house the sailers thinking they had béene vpon a rocke committed themselues to God and thrée of the marriners lept out of the ship and chanced to take hold on the house top and so saued themselues and the wife of the same lieng in childbed by climing vp into the top of the house was also saued by the marriners hir husband and child being both drowned Likewise the line 20 church was wholie ouerthrowne except the stéeple Betwéene Boston and Newcastell were threescore sea vessels as small ships craires and such like lost vpon the coasts of Boston Humerston Marsh chappell Tetnie Stepneie Nercots Kelbie Grimsbie where no ship can come in without a pilot which were all lost with goods corne cattell with all the salt cotes where the chiefe and finest salt was made were vtterlie destroied to the vtter vndooing of manie a man and great lamentation both of old and line 30 yoong Wentford bridge being verie strong of eight arches in length had three of the arches broken and cleane carried awaie Master Smith at the swan there had his house being thrée stories high ouerflowed vnto the third storie and the wals of the stable were broken downe and the horsses tied to the manger were all drowned Manie men had great losse as well of sheepe kine oxen great mares colts of the breed of the great horsses and other cattell line 40 innumerable of which the names manie of them shall here follow Master Pelham lost eleuen hundred shéepe at Mumbie chappell In Summercote were lost fiue hundred sheepe that were of the inhabitants there Also betwéene Humerston Grimsbie were lost eleuen hundred shéepe of one master Spensers whose sheepheard about middaie comming to his wife asked his dinner and she being more bold than manerlie said he should haue none of hir Then he chanced to looke toward the marishes line 50 where the sheepe were and saw the water breake in so fiercelie that the shéepe would be lost if they were not brought from thense said that he was not a good shéepheard that would not venture his life for his shéepe so went streight to driue them from thense but he his shéepe were both drowned and after the water being gone he was found dead standing vpright in a ditch Master Thimblebie lost two hundred and twentie sheepe master Dimocke lost foure hundred sheepe line 60 master Marsh fiue hundred master Madison lost a ship master William Askugh of Kelseie sir Hugh Askugh master Merin master Fitz Williams of Maplthorpe lost by estimation twentie thousand cattell one and other Boorne was ouerflowne vnto the midwaie of the height of the church Steeping was wholie carried awaie where was a waine lode of willow tops the bodie of the waine with the willowes carried one waie and the axiltrée and whéeles an other
waie In the towne of saint Edes the water flowed into the towne in such abundance that it ran thorough the towne and church being in the middest therof hauing about the churchyard a bricke wall of two yards high was so ouerflowne that botes were rowed ouer it without touching of the same Also a little from Huntington were three men riding vpon the causeie being then ouerflowne the water on the causeie being not deepe and thinking no danger therein chanced to come into a place where the water had galled awaie the earth and the grauell were carried awaie with the water and willowes growing on both sides the waie two of them caught hold on the willowes and left their horsses and saued themselues and the third chanced to catch a verie little twig of willow betwéene his fingers hauing verie little hold and forsaking his horsse which was carried a great waie from him had much paine to kéepe his hold on the twig and hold his head aboue the water and his horsse returning with force against the streame came againe vnto him and vnder him by which meanes he set his feet vpon him and gat better hold of the willow and so saued him selfe and the horsse was immediatlie carried awaie that he neuer saw him after Also Holland Leuerington Newton chappell in the sea long Stutton Holbich were ouerflowne And in this countrie also was great losse of cattell In the low parts in Mooreland in a little towne called Cliffield there was a man his wife and a sucking child in hir armes ouerwhelmed and slaine by the violence of the waters and of the boisterous winds The water called Auen that passeth by the towne called Stratford vpon Auen did run with such violence that méeting with the water called the Seuerne droue it backe ten miles against the course ouerflowing much ground and drowning much cattell In Newport panell were two houses ouerthrowne and in one of them an old man and an old woman were ouerwhelmed and slaine And in the same towne on the backe side of the Saracens head the water sprang out of the hard grauellie ground and flowed so fast that certeine merchants sitting there at dinner were faine to rise and depart from thense to saue themselues Sir Henrie Leie knight dwelling at Quarrington lost by the flouds the number of three thousand shéepe besides horsses and other cattell a great number In the Wish at Rie a place so called the water came in so suddenlie and flowed so high about midnight that it was eight or nine foot high in mens houses insomuch that if one William White had not called them vp some of them had like to haue béene drowned And the same William White hauing a bote fetcht a great companie of them out of their windowes and carried them to drie land as fast as he could fetch them which were in great danger and feare and glad to escape with their liues Moreouer the water came in so vehementlie there that it brake into the marishes and made such waie that where of late yeares and now before this great floud came a cockebote could not passe in at a low water now a fisherman drawing six foot water and more maie come in at a low water and at a full sea the greatest ship that the quéenes maiestie hath may come in and haue good harborough there The continuance of the same will not onelie be profitable to the most part of the inhabitants there but also commodious vnto all the queenes subiects trauelling by sea And whereas one of the owners of a great part of the same marishes had certeine poles set vp there in and being verie meet and in conuenient place of the same marish for the drieng of their fishing nets and receiued monie yeerelie of those that dried their nets there sufficientlie inough yet he caused his seruant to pull vp the poles and laie them in an house standing in the same marish and also commanded his seruant to giue them warning that they should no more hang their nets there except they would come and compound with him for it And the same night by Gods prouidence it came so to passe that according to his saieng though contrarie to his good will and mind they are not like to hang their nets there anie more bicause of the depth of the water is so great and like to continue In hope of continuance of the same new opened hauen certeine men of the same towne haue begun to build faire barks to trauell the seas the which in continuance of time will be a great furtherance to the maintenance of the line 10 quéenes nauie At the blacke shore end before the said floud no bote could passe further than the shore end and now a bote that draweth six foot water maie come in at a low water Without the barre the water is deeper than it was by two foot and more in the chanell At Prum hill marish foure miles from Rie the water came in so outragiouslie that it brake downe the marish wals one master Burie being owner thereof who lost by the same a thousand one hundred line 20 threescore and two of his shéepe and it is thought that the marish is neuer like to be gotten againe Also at Erith breach a mariner riding by the marishes séeing two maidens in the marishes and perceiuing the waters breaking in so fast that the maides were not like to escape rode vnto them and one of them gat vp behind him the other tooke hold on the horsse taile and by that means were both saued from drowning In the same marish were drowned a great number of sheepe Also there in a marish land that line 30 was sowne were two boies kéeping crowes in the after noone séeing the water breaking in so vehementlie gat them into a cart that was not farre from them where they were faine to tarrie vntill the next tide which came in so boisterouslie that it had like to haue ouerthrowne both the cart boies And the one of them being more stronger than the other kept the other in his armes where he with cold wet and feare died so that he was faine to let him fall from him into the water when he perceiued that he line 40 was past recouerie A little from that place were also drowned a thousand shéepe and also manie other cattell From a town◠called Rainam vnto the towne named Mauldon all alongst by the water side were the marishes all ouerflowen wherein were a great number of cattell drowned In Claie were two ships laden with Danske ware which came to shore with no man in them nor anie man could tell of whence they were In Claie the dwellers there lost a line 50 verie great parcell of salt and herrings barrelled being housed in an house walled with bricke thrée foot thicke and yet the wall was broken downe Also there was lost much saffron ground with manie
mercie when thou hadst lost it by iustice desert Yet thou hir seruant sworne to defend hir mentest with thy bloudie hand to haue taken awaie hir life that mercifullie gaue thée thine when it was yéelded into hir hands This is the matter wherein thou hast offended The maner was most subtill and dangerous beyond all that before thée haue committed anie wickednesse against hir maiestie for thou making shew as if thou wouldest simplie haue vttered for hir safetie the euill that others had contriued diddest but seeke thereby credit accesse that thou mightest take the apter opportunitie for hir destruction And for the occasions and meanes that drew thée on they were most vngodlie and villanous as the persuasions of the pope of papists and popish bookes The pope pretendeth that he is a pastor when as in truth he is far from féeding of the flocke of Christ but rather as a woolfe séeketh but to féed on to sucke out the bloud of true christians and as it were thirsteth after the bloud of our most gratious and christian quéene And these papists and popish bookes while they pretend to set foorth diuinitie they doo indéed most vngodlie teach and persuade that which is quite contrarie both to God and his word For the word teacheth obedience of subiects toward princes forbiddeth anie priuat man to kill but they teach subiects to disobeie princes that a priuat wicked person may kill Yea whome a most godlie quéene their owne naturall and most gratious souereigne Let all men therfore take héed how they receiue any thing from him heare or read anie of their bookes and how they confer with anie papists God grant hir maiestie that she maie know by thée how euer she trust such like to come so néere hir person But see the end and why thou diddest it and it will appeare to be a most miserable fearefull and foolish thing for thou diddest imagine that it was to releeue those that thou callest catholikes who were most likelie amongst all others to haue felt the woorst of it if thy diuelish practise had taken effect But sith thou hast béene indicted of the treasons comprised in the indictment and therevpon arreigned and hast confessed thy selfe guiltie of them the court dooth award that thou shalt be had from hense to the place whense thou diddest come and so drawne through the open citie of London vpon an hurdle to the place of execution and there to be hanged and let downe aliue and thy priuie parts cut off and thy entrals taken out and burnt in thy sight then thy head to be cut off and thy bodie to be diuided in foure parts and to be disposed at hir maiesties pleasure and God haue mercie on thy soule Parrie neuerthelesse persisted still in his rage and fond speach and raginglie there said he there summoned quéene Elisabeth to answer for his bloud before God wherewith the lieutenant of the Tower was commanded to take him from the barre and line 10 so he did And vpon his departure the people striken as it were at heart with the horror of his intended enterprise ceased not but pursued him with outcries as Awaie with the traitor awaie with him such like wherevpon he was conueied to the barge to passe to the Tower againe by water the court was adiorned After which vpon the second daie of this instant March William Parrie was by vertue of processe in that behalfe awarded from the same commissioners of oier and terminer deliuered by the lieutenant of the Tower erlie in the morning line 20 vnto the shiriffes of London and Middlesex who receiued him at the Tower hill and therevpon according to the iudgement caused him there to be foorthwith set on the hurdle from whense he was drawne therevpon through the middest of the citie of London vnto the place for his execution in the pallace at Westminster where hauing long time of staie admitted vnto him before his execution he most maliciouslie and impudentlie after some other line 30 vaine discourses eftsoons often deliuered in speach that he was neuer guiltie of anie intention to kill quéene Elisabeth and so without anie request made by him to the people to pray to God for him or praier publikelie vsed by himselfe for ought that appeared but such as he vsed if he vsed anie was priuat to himselfe he was executed according to the iudgement And now for his intent how soeuer he pretended the contrarie in words yet by these his owne writings confessions letters manie other proofes line 40 afore here expressed it is most manifest to all persons how horrible his intentions and treasons were and how iustlie he suffered for the same and thereby greatlie to be doubted that as he had liued a long time vainelie and vngodlie and like an atheist and godlesse man so he continued the same course till his death to the outward sight of men ¶ Here endeth the true and plaine course and processe of the treasons arrest arreignement and execution of William Parrie the traitor line 50 An addition not vnnecessarie for this purpose FOrsomuch as Parrie in the aboundance of his proud and arrogant humour hath often both in his confession and letters pretended some great and grieuous causes of discontentment against hir maiestie and the present state it shall not be impertinent for better satisfaction of all persons to set foorth simplie and trulie the condition and qualitie of the man what he line 60 was by birth and education and in what course of life he had liued This vile and traitorous wretch was one of the yoonger sonnes of a poore man called Harrie ap Dauid he dwelled in Northwales in a little village called Northop in the countie of Flint there he kept a common alehouse which was the best and greatest staie of his liuing In that house was this traitor borne his mother was the reputed daughter of one Conwaie a priest parson of a poore parish called Halkin in the same countie of Flint his eldest brother dwelleth at this present in the same house and there kéepeth an alehouse as his father did before him This traitor in his childhood so soone as he had learned a litle to write and read was put to serue a poore man dwelling in Chester named Iohn Fisher who professed to haue some small skill and vnderstanding in the law With him he continued diuerse yeares and serued as a clerke to write such things as in that trade which his master vsed he was appointed During this time he learned the English toong and at such times of leasure as the poore man his master had no occasion otherwise to vse him he was suffered to go to the grammar schoole where he got some litle vnderstanding in the Latine toong In this his childhood he was noted by such as best knew him to be of a most villainous and dangerous nature disposition He did often run
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
of the insurrection on ill Maie daie the griefes particulaâ—ised in his bill for the cities behoofe a great enimie to strangers prosecuteth his information of greeuances by specialties 840 b 10 20 40 50 60. Indicted whaâ—laâ—d to his charge he is executed in Cheapside 843 b 40 60 Lincolneshiremen throw awaie their cotes the lighter to run awaie 674 a 20. In armes against Henrie the eight 941 a 50 c. They giue ouer their rebellious enterprise 941 b 10. Submit themselues and receiue a new oth of fealtie 941 b 20 30 Lisle yéelded vnto the French king 304 b 40 Liâ—leton a iudge of the common plées 702 b 10 Liuâ—fus slaine and what mischiefe thereof insued 12 b 30 Loialtie of the citizens of Rouen vnto king Iohn note 167 b 40. ¶ See Oth. Loiterer described 1050 b 20 London the onelie place for the Iewes to burie their dead 101 b 20. When their burgesses were chosen commonlie called their councell 164 a 40. The bailiffes thereof committed to prison and whie 171 b 40. Bridge repared 172 b 10. Consumed with fier 176 b 10. Bridge on fier 791. The kings especiall chamber 729 b 20. Wall part thereof newlie built 702 b 60. Sore vexed assalted in sundrie places spoiled burnt 689 b 10 c 690 a 10 c. When it first began to receiue the forme and state of a commonwelth 120 a 20. Of how manie wards it consisteth 120 a 30. Men of armes archers lie round about it twentie miles compasse was it were in campe 451 b 50. The armes thereof augmented by addition of a dagger 436 b 20. Liberties seized into king Edward the firsts hands 282 b 60. Confirmed the rent of the farme of the shiriffes increased 274 b 40. The liberties thereof seized into Henrie the thirds hands the shiriffes imprisoned 251 b 40 c. Wals decaied and newlie repared 256 a 40. The custodie thereof committed to the constable of the Towre note 256 b 20. Under the rule of prince Edward c he appointeth the maior and shiriffes 274 b 20 In charge of the bishop of Excester 338 a 40. Bridge and the towre there taken downe 1270 a 30. Serued with Thames water by pipes brought into seuerall houses 1384 b 50. Where much hurt was doone with wind 19 b 10. A great part of it burned to the ground 14 b 10. And of the charter granted vnto the citizens by duke William 15 a 60 Londoners prouident and pitifull in the time of scarsitie 476 b 60 477 a 10. Pursued by prince Edward 268 a 10. Refuse to lead the king a thousand pounds 477 b 50. Reuolt from the duke of Northfolke going against Wiat 1094 b 60. Take Wiats part 1095 b 40. Receiuing of the duke of Summerset at his returne out of Scotland 992 a 60. Keepe S. Barnabees dâ—ie holie daie 1062 b 10. Redinesse to assâ—st Edward the sixt in a motion worke of charitie 1082 a 10 40. They gentlemen of courts by the eares 623 a 30 Skirmish with Iacke Cade and his rebels vpon London bridge 635 a 10. Prouidence for sâ—fegard oâ— peace 647 a 50 Loiall and disclosers of treasons 428 a 60. Are spited and enuied at 42â— â— 20 30. Abused of strangers whereof followed the riot of ill Maie daie 840 a 20 c b 10 c 841 842 843 844. Interteine and banket the king of Denmarke 878 b 10. Hated of â—ardinall Woolseie 895 a 30 40. Set foorth a power into France 969 b 10. Lend Henrie the eight 20000 pounds 874 a 20 Glorious receiuing of Henrie the eight and the emperor Charles 873 b 10 20. Statelie and gorgious muster before Henrie the eight note 947 a 40 c b 10 c. Conspire to take the empresse Maud 53 b 60. Sue to king Iohn for a maior and two shiriffes 172 b 30. Sore affraid of the Cornish rebels 782 a 50. Resolue to receiue Edward the fourth and reuolt from Henrie the sixt 683 a 60. Grant fiue thousand marks to Edward the fourth which were seized of the fiue and twentie wards 704 b 60. Loiall to Edward the fourth note 689 b 20. Riot against the Iewes at king Richard the firsts coronation 118 b 10. c 119 a 10 c. Ualiantnesse among them of two aldermen 690 a 50 b 20. Present monie to king Richard the first 119 b 60. Large priuileges and liberties 11â— b â—â— And the priuileges of their communaltie by whom granted 131 b 30. Triumphant receiuing of king Richard the first into the citie 14â— b 60. Hardlie reported of by an Aâ—maine lord 141 b 60. Serue Richard the first in his butterie at his coronâ—tion note 143 b 40. Fowle disorder noted and complained of to Richard the first 149 a 40. Refused to fight against the lords 459 a 10 60. Speciallie affraid of the French forces 451 b 30. In perplexitie whether to take part with Richard the second or with the nobles 462 a 60. They incline to the lords 462 a 60. Receiuing of the duke of Lancaster 505 b 40 50. Fauourers of Wicliffes doctrine 440 b 20. Meet the K. and queene on Blackheath 487 a 60 b 10 c. Seale to blanke charters c to win Richard the seconds fauour 469 a 10. Euill reported of for their vnstablenesse 457 b 20. Commended themselues to the fauour of Richard the second before the deth of Edward 415 b 40. They submit their quarell with the earle of Lancaster to the kings order 416 a 10. Freends to the earle of Northumberland 439 b 10. Aiders of the rebels of Kent and Essex 430 b 60. The lords of the land stand in doubt of them 426 b 30. Pretilie cousened of a thousand markes by king Henrie the third 247 b 50. Gift to the duke of Bedford at his returne from beyond sea 491 a 40. Sued vnto to make choise of two to be their king 1. a 40. Appointed to kéepe the subsidie granteth by the parlement 418 b 60. Banished the citie 283 a 60. Their magistrats deposed a new ordeined in their roonie 204 b 10. Haue frée warren granted them of king Henrie the third and other liberties 208 a 10. They the constable of the towre at variance 263 k 60. Outrage whetted with ill counsell 204 a 40. Haue frée libertie to passe toll frée through all England 208 b 30. Paie Henrie the third 5000 marks for a fine 208 b 40. Haue a grant to vse a common seale 210 a 40. Good deuotion towards the earle of Kent 215 a 60. Terrified with thunder 216 b 10. Seruice at the mariage of Henrie the third 219 b 40 60. Cast in prison and depriued of their liberties 270 b 50 60. Sworne to be true to Henrie the third and his heirs 264 a 30. Riot vpon the bishop of Salisburies men 478 a 20. Grieuouslie complained of to the king their liberties seized vpon a gardian appointed to gouerne them their liberties in part confirmed in part condemned gifts presented by
〈◊〉 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
sanctuarie The other that were taken were condemned of the which sir Simon Montford Robert Ratcliffe and William Daubenie were beheaded Some had their pardons and the préests also for their order sake but yet few of them liued long after The lord Fitz-Water pardoned of life was conueied to Calis and there laid in hold after lost his head bicause he went about to corrupt his kéepers with rewards that he might escape intending as was thought to haue gone to Perkin Thus by the policie and subtile deuise of the king practised to the point by his espials the sinewes of this conspiracie was rent in sunder So that the malicious ladie Margaret was not a little swolne with indignation when she saw the course of hir deuise now that it had passed so far as that it was knowne to people on this side and beyond the seas stopped and the confederacie whereto she speciallie trusted dissolued Yet notwithstanding as women will not to die for it giue ouer an enterprise which of an enuious purpose line 10 they attempt so she put hir irons afresh into the fier to set hir hatred forward whome a while we will leaue at worke and shew some dooings betwéene England and Flanders King Henrie taking displeasure with the king of Romans for that he kept not touch in aiding him against the French king and partlie displeased with the Flemings but speciallie with the ladie Margaret for kéeping and setting forward Perkin Warbecke not onelie banished all Flemish wares and line 20 merchandizes out of his dominions but also restreined all English merchants from their repaire and traffike into anie of the lands and territories of the king of Romans or of the archduke Philip sonne to the same king of the Romans causing the mart to be kept at Calis of all English merchandizes and commodities Wherefore the said king and his sonne banished out of their lands and seigniories all English clothes yarne tin lead and other commodities of this realme The restreint made by the king sore hindered the merchants aduenturers for they had no occupieng line 30 to beare their charges and to support their credit withall And that most greeued them the Easterlings being at libertie brought to the realme such wares as they were woont so serued their customers throughout the realme Wherevpon there insued a riot by the seruants of the mercers haberdashers clothworkers in the citie of London the tuesdaie before saint Edwards day For they perceiuing what hinderance grew to their maisters in that they were not able so line 40 well to kéepe them as before they had doone assembled togither in purpose to reuenge their malice on the Esterlings so came to the Stilliard began to rifle spoile such chambers warehouses as they cold get into So that the Easterlings had much adoo to withstand them kéepe them back out of their gates which with helpe of carpenters smiths and other that came to them by water out of Southwarke they shored so fortified that the multitude of the seruants line 50 and prentises being assembled could not preuaile At length came the maior with a number of men defensiblie weaponed to remooue the force at whose approch those riotous persons fled awaie like a flocke of shéepe But diuerse of them were apprehended and vpon inquirie made before the kings commissioners aboue foure score seruants apprentises were found to be conspired togither and sworne not to reueale it of whome some of the chiefe beginners were committed to the Tower and there long continued But line 60 in conclusion bicause none of their maisters nor anie one housholder was found culpable the king of his clemencie pardoned their offense and restored them to libertie For he thought it no credit to his crowne to take vengeance of such sillie soules by seueritie of death whom in clemencie pardoning he might restore to a reformed life ¶ On the two twentith of Februarie in this yéere were arreigned in the Guildhall of London foure persons Thomas Bagnall Iohn Scot Iohn Heath and Iohn Kenington the which were sanctuarie men of saint Martins le grand in London and latelie before were taken out of the said sanctuarie for forging of seditious bils to the flander of the king some of his councell for the which thrée of them were iudged to die and the fourth named Bagnall pleaded to be restored to sanctuarie by reason whereof he was repriued to the Tower till the next tearme and on the six and twentith of Februarie the other three with a Fleming and a yeoman of the crowne were all fiue executed at Tiborne ¶ On the eight and twentith of Aprill Ione Boughton widow was burnt in Smithfield for holding certeine opinions of Iohn Wickliffe Wheat was sold at London at six pence the bushell baie salt for thrée pence halfe penie the bushell Nantwich salt was sold for six pence the bushell white herings nine shillings the barrell red herings at thrée shillings the cade red sprots six pence the cade Gascoigne wine for six pounds the tim Shortlie after sir Robert Clifford partlie trusting on the kings promise and partlie mistrusting the desperat begun enterprise returned suddenlie againe into England The king certified before of his comming went streight to the Tower of London the morow after the day of Epiphanie there taried till such time as sir Robert Clifford was there presented to his person This was doone for a policie that if sir Robert accused anie of the nobilitie they might be called thither without suspicion of anie euill and their attached and laid fast Some thought also that for a policie king Henrie sent sir Robert Clifford ouer as an espie or else he would not so soone haue receiued him into fauour againe Neuerthelesse there were great presumptions that it was nothing so for both was he in great danger after his begun attempt and neuer was so much estéemed with the king afterward as he was before But this is true vpon his comming to the kings presence he besought him of pardon and obteined it and therewith opened all the maner of the conspiracie so far as he knew and who were aiders fautors and chiefe beginners of it amongst whome he accused sir William Stanleie whome the king had made his chiefe chamberleine and one of his priuie councell The king was sorie to heare this and could not be induced to beleeue that there was so much vntruth in him till by euident proofes it was tried against him Then the king caused him to be restreined from his libertie in his owne chamber within the quadrat tower and there appointed him by his priuie councell to be examined in which examination he nothing denied but wiselie and sagelie agréed to all things laid to his charge if he were faultie therein The report is that this was his offense When communication was had betwixt him and the aboue mentioned sir Robert
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