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A62145	A compleat history of the lives and reigns of, Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son and successor, James the Sixth, King of Scotland, and (after Queen Elizabeth) King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, the First ... reconciling several opinions in testimony of her, and confuting others, in vindication of him, against two scandalous authors, 1. The court and character of King James, 2. The history of Great Britain ... / by William Sanderson, Esq.	Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing S647; ESTC R5456	573,319	644

whose former fewds had made but suspitious and so he wearied with doing evil returns into France to settle their Solemn League He gone Henry the eight sends home the Queen and Angus and having this while composed his French Quarrels with a Defensitive Amity against all Tourney rendred to the French and Overtures of a Match between the Dolphin and Henries Sister and not a word for the poor Scots that had lost their King in the French Dispute only interceding for a Cessation of Arms with the English and so accepted for Henries conveniency of Princely Interview with Louis The while supporting Angus and his Faction their own Civil Dissentions sufficient to busie themselves and to keep matters in much disorder the policy of England and France both to weaken the Scots power for eithers prey which being suspected by Albany now in France and the violent Fewds beginning fresh at home after five years absence he gets loose of the English Ships that lay wait in his way and Lands in Scotland The Governour come he sets things strait again which by his absence were made awry forces Angus into France many suffer besides others more factious fly into England and pretend the Dukes sudden return was to ingage that Nation against Henry who in rage sends to the Governour to be gone to his French Friends or to expect blowes and was answered as peremptorily That in case of War he knew better to defend than the other to fight King Henry in fury sets fines on some Scots here and after banishes all and presently pursues with invasions upon their Nation by Sea and Land And over to England comes the Emperour instigating the King to fall out with France the like Empirick Balm the French apply to cure the wounds of the Scots Commonwealth which prevailed so far that both Armies meet but the Scots would not fight the English fire all before them and the Governour not affected with the Scots falshood returns back to France for ever Angus gets home again countenanced by Henry assumes the person of the King now thirteen years old concludes a lasting Peace with England and proposes a Marriage between the young King and the Princess Mary which Henry in heart desired untill he heard of the French King Prisoner at Pavia by the Emperour so the match was put off upon pretence for the Emperours consent her neerest Kinsman The Queen displeased with her Husbands Supremacy over her Self and Son and both agreed to dislike each others Bed for it was fatal to her as to her Brother Henry to love change in And forthwith followed Divisions of Religion in Scotland also with Disputes and Arguments for Toleration excellently urged in ●avour of the Reformed but the Catholique Clergy prevailed and the Inquisition erected to force the other with Fire and Fagot The first that suffered in suspition of those attempts were the Hameltons of Kin to the Crown which wrought factions to such height as that King Henry takes heart begins by Incursions where the English were soundly beaten And then in Revenge Howard stiled the Old Earl of Norfolk is sent with formidable Forces 40000. to 30000. if the sums are not mistaken either party so numerous as to eat up all and starve themselves But upon some distrust of success the Earl retreats The Scots pursue this advantage And the next Spring mutiny among themselves and at Salloway Moss the English gave them a mighty defeat which so astonished King Iames that with wondrous regret he forced death over hastily to seize him at the instant when his Queen was delivered of a Daughter the only issue remaining to succeed him in his Throne And with he begins our History The Life and Death of his Daughter Mary Queen of Scotland taking up the Remain of Henry the eighth who lived not long after leaving his three children succeeding Sovereigns yet thought him not worthy memory by any Monument Edward the sixth whose short raign and youth supported by a wise Council held up what was left him by Succession Untill the Soveraignty fell to his Sister with alteration of all and hazard of all she being imbarqued in body and business to a Strangers Supremacy but not lasting long time Was left to a Virgin to recover desperate dangers Ecclesiashick and Civil with various Designs Impressions and Operations upon her Neighbour States imbroyled with her jealousies to infamy of destruction in the blood of Q. Mary of Scotland her neerest kinswoman and pretended Competitor in the Crown untill at last in Gods due time the Sovereignty fell to a Foreiner King Iames with re-union of the antient Title of Britain Elizabeth indeed succeeded in the Inheritance begotten by H. 8. upon Ann Bullen after his divorce from Katharine his Brothers widow by whom he had Q. Mary and that mariage dispensed with by the Pope Hence did arise a question Whether the Divorce was legal or Elizabeth legitimate when Adam was created Eve was taken out of him and made Woman a fit Instrument for prolification and Society And both married in Paradice God the Father being the Priest and the Angels Witnesses for which cause A man shall leave Father and Mother and cleave to his Wife They begat Sons and Daughters which were Brothers and Sisters and married one the other without contradiction untill the Flood nay after the Flood untill Moses writ And these Marriages were not against the Moral Law written in their hearts which being much obliterated in the faculties of the Soul by reason of Adams transgression when Moses writ the Law of Nature or Law of Reason it was therefore twice written in Tables of Stone that by reading those Precepts which were much defaced within man might repair in some measure those Laws almost blotted out by sin And so by reading get them into his Understanding Will and Memory Mans Knowledge comming most naturally by Sense Moses did not onely write this Morall Law in Stone but gave many positive Laws for the Pedagogie of the Iews untill Christ as the Ceremonial and Iudicial The Iudicial Lawes amongst other things did forbid Marriages in cases of blood and affinity and these continued until Christs time and no longer unless there were a Moral Equity in them which Morality is onely inter Ascendentes descendentes where there is a kind of Paternity and Fi●●ation for Filius non portabit iniquitatem Patris and for that sin Iacob cursed Reuben for ascending his Fathers bed This ground being truly laid it was conceived there is no Law of God in force but that which is between Ascendents and Descendents It is true every Church hath made Laws to bind people in their Churches but it was insisted upon only in this That the Moral Law doth not forbid and the Ceremonial and Iudicial Laws are now abrogated In Sir Giles Allingtons case not long since who married his Sisters Daughter there was a sin against the Moral Law and so they were divorced But it was said in that case that

Grange and his Brother Kirkaldy executed by the Hangman Metallan had poisoned himself some daies before to avoid the Regents severity which he deserved He was a man adorned with all natural parts wise and prudent indefatigably busie but Fortune the Mistress of humane Counsels delighted to make him like her self inconstant Hume Petarrow and Melvin kept in prison and so was the renowned Countess of Arguile who was the Daughter of an Harlot Liddington was found there also and sent away Prisoner to Lieth who because he had been a notable Actor all his life and being a pen-man not by Law of Arms to dy by the Sword we may guess how he came to his end by poison the fate of cunning politiques who if they scape the Ax or Halter are too wife to be le●t long-lived for worser effects This Success set Morton aflote which he husbands so ill as made him though he governed all submit to base lusts Pride and Covetousness to supply which he abused his Trust to the prejudice of the People in each particular His exactions were ingeniously observed by 〈◊〉 Fool Bovy that often rubb'd his Masters Shins with his Giers some importunate Beggars craved alms of the Regent the Fool bid him hang them and why so cruel said he Because of your custom and cunning to make an hundred rich men beggars when you please He coined for the King some pieces of Gold with the Kings picture and circumscribed In utramque paratus And contraversed the Royal Arms of Scotland with this inscription Parcere subjectis debellare superbos The silver pieces bore two swords with Trajans Motto Pro me si merior si non in me He was the first Coiner of the Copper in that Kingdom called Hard-heads and after abased them from 3 half pence to a penny as also the black piece and abased them also which never till then were corrupted And by their neighbour the Netherlands coined also and exchanged for good Sterling which in after times made the Dutch cunning in that trade of cosening all Kingdoms and thus having reduced the Kings Coffers to a small purse he sets upon the Clergy In the former Story of the Kirk in Queen Maries time all the Revenues being then in the Papists she settled a part of the third with which she was to relieve the Ministers as a Donative and indeed the disorderly Collection before mentioned was then complained of by those parties and therefore now by remonstrance Morton siding with them orders a Supplement to inculpable or well-affected Ministers annually and so takes into the Kings Treasury all the Thirds to which the Kirk subscribe irrevocable and thereby he commits the cure of 3. or 4. Parishes to one and so out of the Relique of the third there must needs arise much gain The Church therefore in time open their own eyes to see this fraud and complain to the Council but receiving delayes their implacable hatred to Morton increaseth with their suffering and in this nick of time Knox being dead returns Andrew Melvin a Man of the Kirks own making for being drencht in the Genevian discipline he reforms this Church according to a hairs breadth and subjects them all to his vehement spleen against the very Office of Episcopacy and thus broached it drowned withall both Laicks and Church-men out of the easie apprehension of both their advantages and the Dispute was preached by their State-meddling Sermons which begat undominable Presbyterian licentious Tumults ever after The Arch-Bishops of Saint Andrews and Glasgow oppose Melvins Discipline in most acurate Sermons and Declarations The difference grew high and dangerous unless to the Regent whose aim was to fish in troubled Waters not caring for the future gave fuel to the Zelots flame which neither command nor Counsel could ever after extinguish I may not omit to Memory the horrid Massacre throughout all France upon the persons of the reformed Religion called by the Adversaries Hugonites from one Hugo as they would have them the History is so horrid and the more uncertain in particulars because the Papists strain their pens to piece it with some Excuses But the truth was written then by One Ernest Varamund of Freezland in the time of Charls the ninth King of France 1573. In Anno 1561. an Assembly of the Estates in the Kings house at Saint Germans in Lay neer Paris in France in the time of Charls the ninth concluded terms of Pacification in Religion among other Articles It should not be prejudicial to any Man to profess the Reformed Religion in the Subur●s of Towns only Francis Duke of Guise a Stranger of the House of Lorain was not present and within few daies after in Champanie slew men women and children in Vassey 200. persons Among those of the Religion was Lewis of Bourbon of the blood Prince of Conde Gaspar de Caligni Admiral of France and Francis Andelot his Brother Captain of the Fantarie and others Noblemen and Gentlemen Katherine de Medices Pope Clements Brothers Daughter and Mother of King Charls born in Florence a City of Italy had the Government of the Realm in the Kings Minority for though by the Law of France neither Inheritance nor Government are admitted to Women yet by negligence of Anthony King of Navar She had the power The Prince of Conde in fear of the Guises garrisoned some Towns stood upon his Guard and so began their Civil Wars there and published his Reasons For Defence of the Kings Edict for Religion Several Battails and losses on both sides and the Duke slain peace was made and liberty of Religion in certain places which continued for five years The Queen to strengthen her Party cunningly brought in six thousand Switzers and pretended them for defence quiet and peace to all yet suddenly garrisoned such Towns as the Religion had willingly surrendred saving onely Rochel who stood upon their former Conditions two hundred years past Not to be forced to any Garrisons Upon some rumours and fears the Prince of Conde and the now Admiral ●ly thither the cause of the third Civil War The young King by perswasion of Charls Cardinal of Lorain the late Duke of Guises Brother published Edicts That no man profess other than the Romish Religion But both parties wearied out with this last Miserable Distraction the King politiquely pretends to drown all Discontents by a Reconciliation and to join both forces against their Common Enemy the Spaniard who in truth had barbarously murthered the French Plantation in Florida in the West Indies and Marquisdome of Finall And to this Contract ingaged the Prince of Orange in the low Countreys by means of his Brother Lodowick now in the Admirals Camp at the very time when the Emperour had offered to reconcile Orange to the Spaniard And by these pretences this third War was ended with Toleration of Religion as before with unanimous Congratulation by Embassyes from the three Electors of Germany Princes reformed and sworn to

England blasted 87 K. KIng's design to meet his Bride in Norway disposes his Government 150 marries the Queen and goes into Denmark 152 his Queen arrives in Scot●and and is crowned 153 Kirk have what they desire manner of their Excommunication 45 ingratefull prescribe behaviour to the Church of England 46 stiled Precisians 84 Kirk stirs the State being troubled 166 Kirkmen in Scotland mutiny 137 138 John Knox Minister the prime Incondiary of Reformation 12 his Travels and Faction accused of Treason 15 arrives in Scotland and begins Troubles 20 insolency towards Morton and con●ers with the Queen 31 his Breves to his Brethren he is questioned 33 his insolency 34 preaches against Government 38 L. ANtient League between the Scots and French 12 Holy League 106 Holy Leaguers 155 League offensive and defensive between England and Scotland 112 Lenox and Darly return from banishment 34 Lenox elected Regent 69 is slain 77 his old Countess dies her Descent and Issve 87 Lewis Isle reduced in the North and the effect 256 Lords take Arms and are defeated fly into England and get aid and submit 39 banished and return 42 Lords conspire declare seize the King at Sterlin and treat 107 Love-trick of a Woman 168 M. MArriage proposed between England and Scotland 10 Marriage of King James with a Sister of Denmark propounded 107 Ambassadours about that Marriage 137 Earl of Mar Regent 77 dies 78 Northern Martyrs 9 Queen Mary sent into France 14 returns out of France 25 Queen Mary affects the Lord Darly 34 and proposes to marry him 36 she answers the six Articles of the Kirk and marries Darly 37 takes Arms against the Lord 38 is brought to bed of King James 42 Summary of the Lord Darley's murther and of the Queens hasty Marriage 48 Queen Mary resigns the Government to her Son King James 52 is defeated flies into England and writes to Queen Elizabeth 62 Queen Mary imprisoned her Commissioners treat in England 63 Queen Mary designed to dy 86 writes to Queen Elizabeth 95 Queen Maries story returned to 113 Queen Mary comes to her Trial 115 the manner thereof ib. her Sentence of Death 116 the sequel 117 King James perplexed sends to Queen Elizabeth Letters Ambassadours who reason with her 118 120 false Tales Scotland in disorder the Kirk refuseth to pray for Queen Mary ib. Mandate for her Execution the manner thereof 121 her Epitaph 126 Queen Elizabeths Letter to King James 126 Davison sentenced about Qu Maries Death his Apology to Walsingham 127 Walsingham's Letters to the King and the Lord Thirlstan 128 the Kings Deportment on his Mothers Death 134 is caressed by Queen Elizabeth 134 Designs of several Nations to revenge her Death 135 Massacre of Protestants 〈◊〉 France 83 Mass opposed 26 Melvil a Disciplinarian his railings 82 a fiery spirit 85 his evil manners 100 Insolency against the Mass 32 Maxwel arms against Johnstone 106 rebells and is taken Prisoner 138 Messam the Minister hath a Bastard 29 his penance 42 Ministers assemble at pleasure 26 allowed maintenance by Modificators 27 vote themselves exempt 〈◊〉 justice 28 Ministers denounced Rebells fly into England 102 Ordinance of Parliament against them and for what reasons 102 their impudent Reply sharply answered 103 Ministers and their insolence 109 cause of good Acts ib. Ministers in tumult 174 Blake a Minister his mutiny and story 196 Welch a Minister his preaching 202 Ministers refuse to give God thanks for the Kings Deliverance and are silenced ib. Earl Morton Regent 78 basely betrays the Earl of Northumberland 80 besieges Edenburgh 80 his Coin 82 Misgoverns the Lords conspire against him 88 offers to resign 89 Morton deposed plots revenge 90 imprisons the Chancellour 92 is charged with murthering the Lord Darly is executed his Character 95 Mowbray's intent to kill the King 257 Mu●●ay made Protector 59 takes Arms 60 posts to Queen Elizabeth 67 is slain 68 Murray slain 166 the cause lamented ib. Murther of the Guises and Henry 3. of France 153 N. NArration of the Spanish Navy 141 number of the Ships Men and Ammunition 142 defeated by Fire-ships 145 Queen Elizabeths message thereof 141 Rumours of the Spanish Navy in 88. 140 the Kings Speech thereupon the Chancellours opinion Bothwel on the contrary Colonel Semple's false Designs ib. is rescued by Huntley who is banished the Court 141 Netherlands called to account 209 〈◊〉 of Norfolk committed his story 68 arreigned and executed 78 Norris sent over to Ireland 209 Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland fly into Scotland 68 betrayed by Morton and executed 80 Earl of Northumberland pistols himself 114 Northumberland writes to King James and his Answer 259 O. ORmston executed about the murther of the Lord Darly 84 P. THe Kirks justice against Papists 30 Papists Plots 169 Papists banished ●●8 Papists Plots devising 〈◊〉 Titles of Pretende●● to the Crown of England 188 Parliament surprised 77 Parliament Royal 91 Parliament wherein the Kings Supremacy is con●irmed and divers Laws against 〈◊〉 enacted 104 Duke of Parma dies 170 Paulet Lord Treasurer dies his childrens children 〈◊〉 76 Antonio de Perez 86 Perez his character 189 Popish Lords return from banishment 194 Presbyters fly into England and why 104 their equivocation ib. Proceedings against Popish Lords by the Ministers 173 Propositions for Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth 67 R. RAndolph Ambassadour 91 abuses his privilege 94 dies 161 Rebells defeated 29 Rebells submit and are committed 149 Reformed rebell 20 covenant and call in Aid French and English 21 covenant to expell the French 24 Articles of their Faith France their Presbytery 24 Reformation in the University 213 Religion The Scots how Christians 8 Remonstrance of the Assembly against Papists and the remedy 178 179 Ri●t com●itt●d by the Lords 27 Rizzio th● French Secretary 39 Bishop of Rosse Ambassadour for the Scots Queen examined 73 is rel●●ed imprisonment 83 his Death and character 208 S. SIiege of Ost●nd 252 Earl of Shrewsbury dies 161 Spanish Forces land in Ireland and are defeated 254 Squire impoysons the Queens Saddle 221 T. TItles forrein their precedency at home dispu●ed 211 Treaty at Cambray 19 at ●denburgh 24 U. UNiversity reformed 213 W. WAde sent into Spain returns unheard 103 Walsingham dies his character 160 War in Scotland and France by the English 10 assist several Factions 21 Welch a Minister his preaching 202 Witches See Bothwel Witches discovered 2●3 Wotton sent Ambassad●● to Scotland 206 Wotton plots with the c●●spiring Lords and posts home 107 Z. LOrd Zouch Ambassadour from England●●ment● ●●ment● the send against the King 176 Narrative Passages of the first Part and stories to be read single by themselves 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 of Geneva 15 Queen Maries Marriage with the Lord Darly 36 〈…〉 〈…〉 and story 42 Darly the Queens Husband murthered 48 Narrative of Darly's murther c. 52 Digression of Combates and 〈◊〉 53 Queen Maries escape out of Prison in Scotland her Encounter with her Rebells she is discomfited and flies into England 60 Digression

●tab him but to add more strength his right foot was somewhat raised from the ground when instantly the King cryed Hold hold casting his Truncheon to part them Wherea● le Force nimbly leapt up without hurt The King being willing to preserve le Forces life ●ot with any good affection for he supposed him guilty but for the future examination of Con●●deracy Yet he adjudged him ●anquished which the Defendant ●tterly denied and craved Iudgement of the Con●table and Marshal who had a pre●●y way to save the Kings honour and yet to do Justice Their sentence therefore was that le Force should be prostrate to the fatal stroke as before and the Apellant with all his former advantage and form of postures and so they did When le Fo●●e with nimble strength li●ted up Blanch his right foot which 〈◊〉 him down skipt up 〈◊〉 and stab'd the other to the Heart And forthwith k●eeled to the King told him That 〈◊〉 the Assistance of his Patron Saint the merit of 〈…〉 event of th● legal Tr●al which he in Hono●r would not ref●se Yet for more satisfaction to his Majesty he produced six sufficient witnesses attending in the Field whom he preserved upon all events and who cleered him However the King quarrelled with the Constab●e and Mar●●all for declining his Sentence being Supream which they humbly denyed The King being a Party in case of Treason or Felony cannot be judge in Lands and Honour he may This di●tinction in those times of Treason was taken for Reason But though these Combatings are rarely now in Example yet have we taken up Private Duells the more frequent sometimes for Right but in●o●●erably too often for Honour as we term it Certainly to use the Sword in a private 〈…〉 party must be a tempting of God and an 〈◊〉 Tryal though we read two of them in Scripture The challenge of Goliah which David undertook The inveterate quarrel of Ioab and Abner in the Interests of their several Masters David and ●●hbosheth perfor●ed by twelve on either p●●t singly the Challengers had the worst It was commonly imitated by some Gallant in the Head of an Army in France and Holland or by Parties but the wise William of Nassa● at the siege and loss of Breda after Briote was so slain forbid it any more to be done during his life In how ill condition is that righteous cause which must be concluded by the Sharp Force and Fencing for Saint Bernard saies That he that conquers Mortaliter pec●at he that is slain aeternaliter perit The difference of the evil is the Challenger hath in it more provocation It hath been held lawful for a man slandered by an unjust Accuser to vindicate himself by his own Sword But It destroyes Iustice and Robs God of his Revenge Ordinary and Common Challenges upon what ground soever being willingly refused and yet by the Adversary therefore proclaimed base and cowardise may diminish the offence of acceptation but concludes him deeply guilty by Gods Laws The Plea of Conscience ought to suppress the Fancy of any Fighter The result is thus To answer the Challenge let a Man provide to be daily armed and if he be set upon God and his Cause willdefend his Life and Honour To make a bargain of bloodshed is damnable and the intention though both escape is murther The Council of Trent excommunicated all persons whatsoever none exempt with loss of Lands and Christian burial But Bothwell who causeth this Digression being rid of the Combat flies and was pursued to ship-board but got to sea turned Pyrate about Orknay Morton at his own charge set out several Ships to take him Grange was Admiral and almost surprized him yet he escaped in a light Pinace over a crag of the Sea which grazed on the Sands but the pursuers stuck fast and were saved by their Cock-boat and Bothwell got into Denmark was there suspected examined and imprisoned Earl Murray having with much seeming unwillingness in August accepted the Protector-ship which he long thirsted after Summons a Parliament in December In which the Resignation Coronation Regency and the Queens Imprisonment were confirmed And forthwith accompanied with the Conspirators repairs to the Imprisoned Queen at Loch-leven Mortons Castle She besought him with tears to protect the young King to govern with a good conscience and to spare her Life and Reputation Then to colour his Villany he executes divers for being present at the Late Kings murther But they protested at the Gallowes that Murray himself and Morton were the Authors cleered the Queen and so did Bothwel Prisoner then in Denmark and so to his dying day That she was not privy nor consenting And fourteen years after when Morton was executed therefore he confest That he moved that the Queen might be made a Party therein but Bothwel refused And thus the Government not so secure but factions increased envy to the Regent hatred to Religion and duty to the Queen now Bothwell was gone Metallan and Tylliburn the Hamiltons Arguile and Huntley join together And Beaton Arch-bishop of Glosgow now Lieger for the Queen in France with much secrecy gave them hopes of Men and Money Her cruel Imprisonment forces her escape by means of George Dowglass brother to the Governour of the Castle being oft times trusted with the Keys to let in and out the Queens women And in the disguise of one of them she got out and he and Tylliburn rowed her over the Lake and with a dozen horse men convayed her that night to Hiddery the next day increasing to five hundred horse with the Lord Seaton and Hamiltons they came to Hamilton Castle and because this Design was her last which she acted in Scotland we have searched out the truth from several Relators as followeth The Regent Protector now at Glasgow and pleasing the people with seeming Justice to settle them was now himself to seek for Protection Some advised him to Sterlin where the King was but Dowglas opposed protesting to do as Boyd had done who was gone to the Queen with intention as he perswaded them to act Husha's part for he returned a message to Murray To do them better service with Her Morton and Simple advised the same to stay at Glasgow for safety consisted in sceleri●y the Queens liberty would soon gain the People and the more remote the more affectionate to her Their own strength was the Towns-men and as Enemies to Hamilton the Surer their faith to them Cunningham and Simples potent Neighbours Lennox and the Kings party many and the Earl of Mars forces not far off to whom Messengers are posted round about The Lord Hume came with six hundred Horse and so conceived themselves four thousand strong sufficient to dare the Enemy The Queen was gotten head of six thousand and con●iding in this advantage of number she purposed to withdraw her person for safety into Dunbarton Castle and so to mannage the war with expedition or lingring at pleasure M●rray guessing at

is going to call up the Earl of Northumberland at Essex house where they both finde one Lepton got on hors-back at Essex gate which was conceived to seek out Piercy but Winter going to White-hall findes the Gates shut and the way to Westminster guarded and being told that a Treason was discovered to blow up the Parliament he hasts to his Horse and gallops down to Catesby to Dunschurch the place of Rendezvouz On Thursday they meet there seize Arms at the Lord Windsors and that night to Master Littleton's house one of their number when news came that Catesby was burnt by accident of drying their Pouder Littleton advises Winter to fly he would not till he might see his Friends Catesby's body and bury it but finding him reasonable well with Piercy Wright Rockwood and Grant they all resolved to keep together to fight and die when the Countrey came in both the Wrights killed Catesby and Piercy with one Bullet and Winter wounded and taken This was his Confession and true but the whole story was thus interwoven The News spread abroad of this Accident being on Tuesday morning the fifth of November and the first day of Parliament Winter and the two brothers Wrights hasten out of Town for Catesby and Piercy were gone the morning before and all of them towards their Rendezvouz in Warwickshire towards Coventre where the very next day about the hour that Fauks was taken at Westminster Iohn Grant with others his companions all Papists broke open Benock's Stable a Rider of great Horses in that County and carried away all being eight of them and so both this company as also those which fled out of London met at Dunchurch Sir Digby's house on Tuesday night having appointed a Match of Hunting the next morning according to their former plotting But finding their treachery prevented and not prevailing by a private villany they now resolve to practise publick Rebellion to make up their wickedness any way And first grounded their cause Religion with some provisions of Ammunition Army Pouder and Horses they roved up and down to gather company by whose example it was possible some other such like in other Counties might joyn Forces considerable to raise a Rebellion of themselves never in number above eighty Serving-men and Hors-boys who were watcht hourly for fear of quitting their Masters quarrel and so wandring through these Counties of Warwick and Worcester were by the Sheriff of Worcester taken killed or disperst about Littleton's house Strange were the Accidents which brought the Countrey upon them for as yet the Kings Proclamations had not reacht thither nor was their Treason discovered to them But the Riot of Grant forcing the House for the Horses was an insolency pursued with Hue and Cry among the Commons that the Countrey rise to know the reason Sir Fulk Grevil the elder was then Lieutenant of Warwickshire whose wisdom soon apprehended the danger to be the Indices of Rebellion instantly seizes Ammunition and Arms of all about him either absent from home or doubtfull and with such further directions that a poor Smith got hold on Winter who was rescued by his company and sixteen taken by the Towns-men and by the Sheriff Sir Richard Verney sent Prisoners to London Sir Richard Walsh of Worcestershire pursues them to Littleton's house as aforesaid and there makes a stand sends a Trumpet to command obedience to him as his Majesties Minister and Sheriff and not knowing more of their Treason than was visible by the Tumult promises to intercede with the King to spare their punishment of Death They as best witnesses to their own consciences and high demerit return him in scorn That he must get more help ere he be able to defend himself And whilest thus at parley without the principal of them within drying two pound of Pouder far enough from the Chimney yet a Spark flew out and fell amongst it blew up another Bag-full but not fired and so maimed and disabled Catesby himself Rockwo●d Grant and others of greatest account thereby made unable of forceable defence and wonderfully amazed with horror of conscience thus to be met with by mischief of their own Mineral In quo peccamus in eodem plectimur as forthwith falling down on their knees prayed to God for pardon of their sins opened the Gates and desperately seeking their own destruction Catesby and Piercy back to back were killed with one shot and both the Brothers Wrights and others slain Winter Tresham and the rest taken alive were sent to the next Gaol and so up to London and were met with by such a concourse of people out of the City as the like were never seen wise and weak women and children wondring at these Monsters Tresham in the Tower died of a Strangury the two Winters Grant Rockwood Digby Fauks Keys and Bates were each of them at several times and places arreigned condemned and executed as in case of Treason To disjoyn them in their Designs These labored in the Mine These were afterwards engaged to them Esquires Robert Catesby Robert Winter Gentlemen Thomas Piercy Thomas Winter Iohn Wright Christop Wright Guido Fauks Thomas Bates Catesby 's Man Knight Sir Everard Digby Esquires Ambrose Rockwood Francis Tresham Gentleman Iohn Grant Robert Keys The second Session of this Parliament prorogued till the 5. of November and being on the fourth day met again they enlarged other excellent Laws against Papists wisely discerning how that creeping Monarchy of Rome by her Arch-Instruments the Jesuits had already planted five Schools as fit bates in divers reformed states intending so to tempt those well-believing people with that old forbidden Tree of knowledg as they might sinne desperately against their Sovereign before they knew it But the Parliament enacted the Anniversary Commemoration of this day to be observed for ever with thanksgiving to God for this delivery of which a Man may hardly assure any long continuance Are we bound more to obey it than the statutes of God Almighty for solemnity of several Festivals which all Christians observe and we onely neglect And asscribing the discovery of this Powder-plot to the divine spirit of the King by his Interpreting the dark phrases of the Letter to Mounteagle They gave to the King three intire subsidies and six fifteens together with four subsidies of four shillings in the pound granted by the Clergie amounting in all to four hundred fifty and three thousand pounds And Caecil for his good service was Created Earl of Salisbury The Acts in this Session were these Certain Persons attainted of the Gun-Powder Treason and their Estates Confiscate An Act to prevent and avoid dangers of Papists Recusants To avoid the City and Court unless Inhabitants here disabled from Offices nor to practise Law nor Physick Penalty one hundred pounds wonderfull strickt Act for free Trade of all Merchants to Spain Portingal and France as well as others that have Incorporate Charters Against Misdemeanors of Attornies and Solicitors of the

The largest was Duke of Buckingham sent unto him by Patent into Spain and last of all Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports And so have we sommoned him at once with all these Titles which came to him in time heretofore and after These accumilations might no doubt astonish the Kitchen stuff conceipt of Sir A. W. Benefits imbroydered without the least vacancy or emptiness to any others workmanship The hearts of Princes once dilated with affection cannot be satiable in the exercise of any narrow bounty or little affection choice and love begets the Gift which act becomes fomented even to be in Love with their own giving and so to excesse And thus have we put together this great Man who was pieced up by degrees and time He had many kindred for his Family was ancient Heraldry might blaze as large fields of his Pedigree as need concern any subject to prove were a Man preferred to pensil his life which I take boldness but to touch with shadows These were dispersed by time into several Matches with the Gentry and what strange or new device was it in him to raise them that were neer in blood by Noble and worthy waies as he did He made his two Brothers Peers his Mother Sister Countesses the one by Patent the other by Mariage the rest of the kindred by his countenance got means to live like their Births being a race handsom and beautiful Ime●n the females descending of Villiers or Beaumont either matched with Peers or with the Sons and heirs of Earls or with Knights of plentiful condition for he did not much strengthen his subsistence in Court but stood there on his own feet the most of his Allies rather leaned on him than he sholdered up by any of them And thus much as a Preface to the History of him hereafter during this Kings raign wherein his actions are successively remembred But concerning his Mother made a Countess There are in England three sorts of honourable women by Creation Descent or Mariage 1. H. 8. created Ann Bullen Marchiones of Pembroke before he maried her So was Susan Widow the Sole Daughter of the Baron of Abergaveny created Baroness de le Spencer Cambden 63. 6. So also was the Lady Compton wife of Sir Thomas Compton brother to the Lord Compton made Countess of Buckingham with the see of twenty pound per annum 18. Iac. And also the Lady Finch a Widow created Viscountess of Maidstone 21. Iacobi 2. Noble women by descent or to whom dignities descend as heirs are said to be honourable by Tenure or those Heirs whose Ancestors were seized of an estate descendable to them in their titles of Dukedome Earldome or Baronies or Heirs to Ancestours summoned to the Parliament 3. And lastly Noble Women are these married to a Lord or Peer of the Realm though themselves but in the State of Gentry Knights Wives are not of the Nobility They are stiled Ladies by the courtesie of England but not in Courts of Judicature So much for Noble Women In the Kings return out of Scotland the people took occasion to complain in common and to petition in particular That the freedom of Servants and Laborers was extremely enslaved by their Masters pretended zeal and sanction against Idolizing as was pretended of such days as ancient custome from General Councils and the Church of England reformed even to that time had appointed to be kept Holy Whereby after the ●olemnizing of Divine service the Servants and Workmen were not usual to discompany from their accustomed moderate Pastimes such as the most rigid heretofore could not justly but admit The King not so over-affected to his own sports that the sense of the peoples sufferings might take advantage by his Example and so of Liberty in the like for much of his most serious affairs were shadowed from the vulgar nay from the observing Politicque by his own publick Pastimes But in truth it came to be a business of consequence to consider how the intemperate zeal of our then rigid Reformers to countenance their own design of deforming strook at higher powers through the peoples sides in many matters so in this also For at first these pure conceited Men quarrelled at the name of the Holy seventh day called then as of old Sunday which they would have named Sabbath and thereafter would have it observed levitically so strickt as not to gather sticks This being discussed in some Counties the people forbore their Recreations Then the Reformers took the like exceptions against the peoples lawful pleasures on Saints and Holy-daies and at last against all sports and publick Pastimes exercises innocent and harmless such were Leaping Dancing Running or any Mastery for the Gaol or Prize May-pole or Church-ale as debauched Idols In some of these Pastimes several Counties excelled and to entertain community with their Mirth the Court Progresses took delight to judge of their wagers in their journey to Scotland which the people observing took occasion to themselves to petition the King in his return for freedome and leave to be merry And thus by this means this Mans Monstrum Horrendum the Church-mans Maskarado was begotten and brought to allowance by command in print to justifie the people in their lawful pleasures though upon the Sunday after service This year died Edw. Talbot the 8. Earl of Shrewsbury without issue and therfore it descended upon George Talbot son of Iohn Talbot of Grafton Esq by Katherine his wife Daughter of Sir William Peters heir male of Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton second Son of Iohn Lord Talbot second Earls of Shrewsbury after the death of Gilbert and Edward Earls of Shrewsbury without issue male who was this next year 1618. admitted by King Iames the ninth Earl But this man dying also without issue the inheritance descended upon the children of Iohn Talbot brother to this George which Iohn dyed and left issue Iohn now the eleventh Earl 1652. He bears Gules a Lion rampant and a border engraled Or. Sir Walter Raleigh wearied with long imprisonment and having there spent his time well in the History of the World made his petition more passable to the King whose love to learning granted him now at last his Liberty and not long after gave him leave to wander after a design to the Western world where he had been in several Climates before The common World wondering at this mans wit who had a way to break Jests though to hazard his head again for in a jear he said That his whole History had not the like President Of a Kings chief Prisoner to purchase freedom and his bosome Favourite to have the Halter but in Scripture Mordecai and Haman meaning Himself and Somerset To which he was told that the King replyed He might dy in this deceipt which he did and Somerset saved But in truth he had a reaching and roving mind from his first rise and thereafter but a mean fortune which he meant now