some naughtie traitorous persons had conueied into his bed a certeine iron made with smiths craft like a caltrop with three long prickes sharpe and small standing vpright in such sort that when he had laid him downe that the weight of his bodie should come vpon the bed he should haue beene thrust in with those pricks and peraduenture slaine but as God would the king not thinking of any such thing chanced yet to féele and perceiue the instrument before he laid him downe and so escaped the danger ¶ Howbeit he was not so soone deliuered from feare for he might well haue his life in suspicion prouide for the preseruation of the same sith perils of death crept into his secret chamber and laie lurking in the bed of downe where his bodie was to be reposed and to take rest Oh what a suspected state therefore is that of a king holding his regiment with the hatred of his people the hartgrudgings of his courtiers and the peremptorie practises of both togither Could he confidentlie compose or setle himselfe to sleepe for feare of strangling Durst he boldly eat and drinke without dread of poisoning Might he aduenture to shew himselfe in great méetings or solemne assemblies without mistrust of mischeefe against his person intended What pleasure or what felicitie could he take in his princelie pompe which he knew by manifest and fearefull experience to be enuied and maligned to the verie death The state of such a king is noted by the poet in Dionysius as in a mirror concerning whome it is said Districtus ensis cui super impia Ceruice pendet non Siculae dapes Dulcem elaborabunt saporem Non auium cytharaeque cantus This yeare the eight day of Aprill deceassed the lord Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike year 1402 In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre first betwéene the east part of the firmament and the north flashing foorth fire and flames round about it and lastlie shooting foorth fierie beams towards the north foreshewing as was thought the great effusion of bloud that followed about the parts of Wales and Northumberland For much about the same time Owen Glendouer with his Welshmen fought with the lord Greie of Ruthen comming foorth to defend his possessions which the same Owen wasted and destroied and as the fortune of that daies worke fell out the lord Greie was taken prisoner and manie of his men were slaine This hap lifted the Welshmen into high pride and increased meruelouslie their wicked and presumptuous attempts About Whitsuntide a conspiracie was deuised by certeine persons that wished the kings death mainteining and bruting abroad that king Richard was aliue and therefore exhorted men to stand with him for shortlie he would come to light and reward such as tooke his part with iust recompense Herewith there was a priest taken at Ware or as some books haue at Warwike who had a kalendar or roll in which a great number of names were written more than were in any wise guiltie of the fact as afterwards appeared by the same priests confession For line 10 being examined whether he knew such persons as he had so inrolled were there present before him he said he neuer knew them at all and being demanded wherefore he had then so recorded their names he answered bicause he thought they would gladlie doo what mischiefe they could against king Henrie vpon any occasion offered in reuenge of the iniuries doone to king Richard by whom they had beene aduanced and princelie preferred When therfore there line 20 appeared no more credit in the man he was condemned drawen hanged and quartered and diuerse that had beene apprehended about that matter were released and set at libertie Shortlie after the prior of Laund who for his euill gouernment had béene depriued of his state and dignitie was likewise executed not for attempting any thing of himselfe but onlie for that he confessed that he knew euill counsell and concealed it His name was Walter Baldocke a canon sometime in Dunstable and by king Richard line 30 promoted to the priorship of Laund Also the same time certeine greie friers were apprehended for treason which they had deuised to bring to passe and one of them whose name was Richard Frisebie being asked what he would doo if king Richard had béene aliue and present with them answered stoutlie that he would fight against any man in his quarrell euen to death Herevpon he was condemned drawen and hanged in his friers wéed to the great confusion of his brethren but they made line 40 earnest instance to haue his bodie taken downe and buried with diriges and exequies and had their sute granted Sir Roger of Claringdon knight was also put to death about this conspiracie with two of his seruants the one an esquier the other a yeoman He was base sonne as was reported vnto Edward eldest sonne to king Edward the third surnamed the blacke prince On Corpus Christi daie at euensong time the diuell as was thought appeared in a towne of Essex called Danburie entring into the church in line 50 likenesse of a greie frier behauing himselfe verie outragiouslie plaieng his parts like a diuell indéed so that the parishioners were put in a maruellous great fright At the same instant there chanced such a tempest of wind thunder and lightning that the highest part of the roofe of that church was blowen downe and the chancell was all to shaken rent and torne in péeces Within a small while after eight of those greie friers that had practised treason against the king line 60 were brought to open iudgement and conuicted were drawen and headed at London and two other suffered at Leicester all which persons had published king Richard to be aliue Owen Glendouer according to his accustomed manner robbing and spoiling within the English borders caused all the forces of the shire of Hereford to assemble togither against them vnder the conduct of Edmund Mortimer earle of March But cōming to trie the matter by battell whether by treason or otherwise so it fortuned that the English power was discomfited the earle taken prisoner and aboue a thousand of his people slaine in the place The shamefull villanie vsed by the Welshwomen towards the dead carcasses was such as honest eares would be ashamed to heare and continent toongs to speake thereof The dead bodies might not be buried without great summes of monie giuen for libertie to conueie them awaie The king was not hastie to purchase the deliuerance of the earle March bicause his title to the crowne was well inough knowen and therefore suffered him to remaine in miserable prison wishing both the said earle and all other of his linage out of this life with God and his saincts in heauen so they had béene out of the waie for then all had béene well inough as he thought But to let these things passe the king this yeare sent
to studie and knowledge So that vnto these hopes was much helping the manner of the election being made in his person sincerelie and line 10 without simonie or suspicion of other corruption The first act of this new pope was his coronation which was represented according to the vsage of his predecessors in the church of saint Iohn de Lateran The pompe was so great both of his familie and his court and also of the prelates and multitudes that were there togither with the popular and vniuersall assemblies of people that by the opinion and iudgement of men the pride and maiestie of that action did farre surpasse all the celebrations doone in Rome line 20 since the tyrannies of the Goths and sauage nations In this same solemnitie the Gonfalon of the church was caried by Alfonso de Este who hauing obteined a suspension of his censures paines was come to Rome with great hope that by the clemencie and facilitie of the pope he should be able to compound for his affaires The Gonfalon of the religion of Rhodes was borne by Iulio de Medicis mounted vpon a statelie courser armed at all points by his nature he bare an inclination to the profession of line 30 armes but by destinie he was drawen to the life ecclesiastike in which estate he maie serue as a wonderfull example of the variation of fortune One matter that made the memorie of that daie wonderfull was this consideration that the person who then in so high rare pompe was honored with the most supreme and souereigne dignitie of the world was the yéere before and on the verie same daie miserablie made prisoner The great magnificence that appéered vpon his person and his expenses confirmed in the generalitie and multitude of men line 40 the expectation that was had of him euerie one promising that Rome should be happie vnder a pope so plentifullie indued with the vertue of liberalitie whereof that daie he had giuen an honorable experience his expenses being aboue an hundred thousand duckats But wise men desired in him a greater grauitie and moderation they iudged that neither such a maiestie of pompe was conuenient for popes neither did the condition of the present time require line 50 that he should so vnprofitablie disperse the treasures that had beene gathered by his predecessour to other vses The vessell of amitie betwéene the king of Enggland the French being first broched by this popes letters the French king by an herald at armes sent to the king of England requiring of him a safe conduct for his ambassadors which should come to intreat for a peace and attonement to be concluded betwixt them and their realmes Upon grant obteined thereof the French king sent a commission with the line 60 president of Rome and others to intreat of peace and aliance betwixt both the princes And moreouer bicause they vnderstood that the mariage was broken betwéene the prince of Castile and the ladie Marie they desired that the said ladie might be ioined in mariage with the French king offering a great dowrie and suerties for the same So much was offered that the king mooued by his councell and namelie by Woolsie the bishop of Lincolne consented vpon condition that if the French king died then â—he should if it stood with hir pleasure returne into England againe with all hir dowrie and riches After that they were accorded vpon a full peace and that the French king should marrie this yoong ladie the indentures were drawen ingrossed sealed and peace therevpon proclamed the seuenth daie of August the king in presence of the French ambassadors was sworne to kéepe the same and likewise there was an ambassage sent out of England to see the French king sweare the same The dowrie that was assigned vnto the bride to be receiued after hir husbands deceasse if she suruiued him was named to be 32000 crownes of yearelie reuenues to be receiued out of certeine lands assigned foorth therefore during all hir naturall life And moreouer it was further agreed couenanted that the French king should content and paie yearelie vnto king Henrie during the space of fiue yeares the summe of one hundred thousand crownes By conclusion of this peace was the duke of Longuile with the other prisoners deliuered paieng their ransoms and the said duke affied the ladie Marie in the name of his maister king Lewes In September following the said ladie was conueied to Douer by the king hir brother the queene and on the second daie of October she was shipped and such as were appointed to giue their attendance on hir as the duke of Norffolke the marquesse Dorset the bishop of Durham the earle of Surreie the lord de la Ware the lord Berners the lord Monteagle the foure brethren of the said marques sir Maurice Berklie sir Iohn Pechie sir William Sands sir Thomas Bulleine sir Iohn Car and manie other knights esquiers gentlemen and ladies They had not sailed past a quarter of the sea but that the wind arose and seuered the ships driuing some of them to Calis some into Flanders and hir ship with great difficultie was brought to Bullen not without great ieopardie at the entering of the hauen for the maister ran the ship hard on shore But the boats were readie and receiued the ladie out of the ship and sir Christopher Garnish stood in the water and tooke hir in his armes and so caried hir to land where the duke of Uandosme and a cardinall with manie other great estates receiued hir with great honor From Bullen with easie iournies she was conueied vnto Abuile there entered the eighth of October where she was receiued by the Dolphin with great honour she was apparelled in cloth of siluer hir horsse was trapped in goldsmiths worke verie richlie After hir followed 36 ladies all their palfries trapped with crimsin veluet embrodered After them followed one chariot of cloth of tissue the second cloth of gold the third crimsin veluet embrodered with the kings armes hirs full of roses After them followed a great number of archers and then wagons laden with their stuffe Great was the riches in plate iewels monie apparell and hangings that this ladie brought into France On the morrow following being mondaie and S. Denise day the mariage was solemnized betwixt the French king and the said ladie with all honour ioy roialtie both apparelled in goldsmiths worke Then a great banket and sumptuous feast was made where the English ladies were honorablie interteined according to the dignitie of the persons and to the contentment of them that had no dregs of malice or misliking settled in their harts For vnpossible it is that in a great multitude meeting togither though all about one matter be it of pleasure and delight there should not be one of a repugnant disposition and though not apparantlie perceiued trauelling with grudge malignant mind as we sée some apples
whose line 20 attempts when the lord Hunsdon lord warden of the east marches and gouernor of Berwike heard he prepared to go against him and hauing with him sir Iohn Forster lord warden of the middle marches they set forward towards the place where they thought they should find him They had with them 300 chosen soldiors of the garrison of Berwike and twelue hundred borderers and other of the garrisons there about the borders so that they were in all fiftéene hundred footmen and horssemen They marching line 30 therewith foorth approched néere to a towne and castell called Naworth which was in the kéeping of the said Leonard Dacres And vpon a moore through the middle whereof a litle riuer called Chelt hath his course the said Leonard Dacres the two and twentith of Februarie was readie with his power in order of battell ranged set in arraie after the forme of a triangle compassed and inuironed about with horssemen And now vpon the lord Hunsdons approch the said Dacres with great and stout courage line 40 gaue an hardie onset vpon the said lord Hunsdon and his companie neere vnto the foresaid riuer The fight was sharpe and cruell and the euent verie doubtfull for a while the rebels were so stiffelie bent to doo their vttermost indeuor in defense of their wicked quarrell There were amongst them manie desperat women that gaue the aduenture of their liues and fought right stoutlie Manie therfore were slaine on both sides to the number at the least of three hundred persons But such was the forward valiancie line 50 of the lord Hunsdon that his people incoraged by his example whome they might see so noblie acquit himselfe in aduenturing so farre as anie other of the whole troope behaued themselues in such manfull wise that the victorie in the end fell to him and his companie and the said Leonard Dacres was forced to flée from his séelie slaine and miserable people taking his waie into Scotland so fast as his horsse might beare him Capteine Reade and the other capteins and soldiors of Berwike bare themselues right valiantlie and shewed proofe of their skill and line 60 hardie manhood in this skirmish After the which these holds and castels were taken and deliuered vnto the said lord Hunsdon Naworth which was committed vnto the kéeping of maister Scroope Kestwood Greistocke and Rockleie which were deliuered to the kéeping of diuerse of the duke of Norffolks officers On good fridaie the seauen and twentith of March Simon Digbie of Askue Iohn Fulthorpe of Isilbecke in the countie of Yorke esquiers Robert Peneman of Stokesleie Thomas Bishop the yoonger of Poklinton in the same countie of Yorke gentlemen were drawne from the castell of Yorke to the place of execution called Knaues mire halfe a mile without the citie of Yorke and there hanged headed and quartered their foure heads were set on foure principall gates of the citie with foure of their quarters the other in diuerse places of the countrie Osclope Clesbe was with them drawne to the gallows and returned againe to the castell William earle of Penbroke baron of Cardiffe knight of the garter one of the priuie councell and lord steward of the quéenes maiesties houshold deceased the eightéenth of Aprill and was buried in saint Paules church at London ¶ This noble man liued in great credit and estimation with king Henrie the eight king Edward the sixt quéene Marie and quéene Elisabeth and was by euerie of the said princes imploied in matters of great importance and for his good and faithfull seruice greatlie honored as appéereth in an epitaph fixed vpon his toome in the cathedrall church of saint Paule in London which I thought good here to laie downe Perpetuae pietati sacrum GVlielmo Herberto Penbrochiae comiti equiti aurato praenobilis ordinis Anglici Hen. viij R. A cubiculis Edoard vi R. equitum magistro Walliae praesidi Tumultu occidentali cum Russello Grato baronibus paribus auspicijs summae rerum praeposito Mariae R. contra perduelles ac expeditione ad Augustam Veromanduorum bis totius exercitus duci bis summo in agro Caletum limitum praefecto Elisab R. officiorum seu Magno Regiae magistro Pariter Dominae Annae ex vetusta Parrorum gente oriunda Sorori Catharinae R. Henr. viij R. vi matrimonio coniunctae ac Marchionis Northamptonij Prudentiss foeminae pietatis religionis probitatis omnÃsque auitae virtutis retinentiss fidiss Comitis coniugi Henr. F. ac comes Pp. chariss sibi ac suis moerens P. Olijt aetatis Ann. 63. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Olijt salutis Ann. 1569. Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Liberis relictis ex prima Henrico Pemb. Comite Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Edoardo equite Aurato Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina Domina Anna Baroni Talbot nupta Secunda coniuge superstite Georgio Salopiae comite genita insigni praeter antiquum probitatis decus virtute foemina The earle of Sussex in reuenge of the euill demeanor of the Scots inhabiting néere to the English marches as well in receiuing and succouring diuerse of the English rebels as other naughtie practises assembled such forces as he thought expedient in the night that followed the seauen and twentith of Aprill and hauing with him the lord Hunnesdon gouernour of Berwike and lord warden of the east marches sir William Drurie marshall of the said armie and towne of Berwike came to Warke being twelue miles distant from the said towne of Berwike then the next daie being the eightéenth of the same moneth they entered into Tiuidall in Scotland where marching in warlike order they burned ouerthrew wasted and spoiled all the castels townes and villages as they passed till they came to a tower called the Mosse tower standing in a marish and belonging to the lard of Buclewgh which likewise was rased ouerthrowne and burned and so marching forward wasted the whole countrie before them vntill they came to a great towne called Crauling The same daie sir Iohn Forster warden of the middle marches with all the garrisons and forces of the same entered likewise into Tiuidall at Espesgate distant sixteene miles from Warke where in like order they burned and spoiled the countrie before them till they came to a castell in the possession of the lard of Ferniherst being parcell of hir sons lands which likewise was ouerthrowne rased and burned with all other castels piles townes and villages all alongst the said countrie till they came to Crauling ioining there with the lord lieutenants power This towne was likewise burned and spoiled Thus they passed
vp an high waie that directed towards the market towne of Cerne and yet notwithstanding the hedges wherewith it was inclosed inuiron it still and the trées stand thereon bolt vpright sauing one oke trée that is well nigh twentie goads remooued the place whereas the ground had his being at the first is left like vnto a great hollow pit The same thirteenth daie of Ianuarie being sundaie about line 30 foure of the clocke in the afternoone the old and vnderpropped scaffolds round about the beare garden commonlie called Paris garden on the southside the Thames ouer against the citie of London ouercharged with people fell suddenlie downe whereby to the number of eight persons men and women were slaine and manie other sore hurt and brused A fréendlie warning to all such as more delight themselues in the crueltie of beasts to sée them rent one an other line 40 than in the works of mercie which are the fruits of a true professed faith and ought to be the sabboth daies exercise and not onelie a warning to works of mercie but a watchword to put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie the Lords owne daie which he sanctified himselfe that we by his example might sanctifie the same and not prophane it with such gentilisme as we doo as though God would not call vs to a râ—ckoning for abusing his holie ordinances and falsifieng the glorious title of christians in line 50 our odious actions for the which God will seuerelie expostulat with vs and with indignation demand of vs why we take his lawes in our mouths renounce them in our minds why we let them swim in our lips and slip from our liues as the vaine Iewes did vnto whome God said in displeasure as followeth Quid de lege mea declamas ore profano Non hoc officij debuit esse tui Cùm tamen mores leges oderis aequas Et verbi officium negligis omne mei line 60 On the third of Februarie being sundaie William Bruistar habardasher a man of more than threescore yeares old being lodged ouer the southwest porch of saint Brides church in Fleetstréet with a woman named Marie Breame whome the same Bruistar had bailed out of Bridewell were both found smothered to death in maner following On the same sundaie in the morning a marriage being solemnized in that church a strong fauour was felt which was thought to haue béene the burning of old shooes or such like in some gentlemans chamber there about thereby to suppresse the infection of the plague But in the afternoone before euening praier the parishioners espied a smoke to issue out of Bruistars chamber and therevpon made hast to the dore which they found fast locked and were forced to breake it open but could not enter till they had ripped vp the lead and roofe of the chamber to let out the smothering stench which being doone they found Bruistar dead sitting on a settle by his beds side in his apparell and close trussed his right thigh right arme vp to the elbow burnt or scorched with the fire of a small pan of coales that stood before him but now being cleane quenched with the dampe or lacke of aire The woman also laie dead ouer the pan so that hir armes were likewise burnt with the nether part of hir bodie before to hir brest and behind to the shoulders and nothing else in the chamber burnt but the bottome of the settle wheron Bruistar sat Of this lamentable accident people talked diuerslie and pamphlets were published to make the same more knowne howbeit to leaue the certeine meanes of the euent to his knowledge that vnderstandeth and séeth all things let it be a warning to all ages so to liue as that an honest report may attend their death shame flie from them as a cloud before the wind Sic sapient sic non insipientes erunt On the sixteenth of Aprill about six of the clocke in the morning Thomas Worth Alice Shepheard year 1583 were hanged on a gibbet at Shoolane end in Fléetstreet for killing of a prentice in the same Shoolane Also on the same daie about eight of the clocke in the morning a gunpowder house called the signe of the gun in Fetterlane néere vnto Fléetstréet and diuerse other houses néere adioining were blowne vp with the spoire of fiftie hundred weight of powder two men and one woman were slaine diuerse other persons as well men as women and children were sore hurt some blasted with the flame some brused with the fall of timber vpon them c. Albertus Alasco frée baron of Lasco Uaiuode or palatine of Siradia in Poland arriued at Harwich in Essex and on the last of Aprill came by water to Winchester house in Southworke where he remained for the most part of his abode heere of whome more hereafter at his returne into his owne countrie Elias Thackar tailor was hanged at saint Edmunds burie in Suffolke on the fourth of Iune and Iohn Coping shoomaker on the sixt of the same moneth for spreading and mainteining certeine bookes seditiouslie penned by one Robert Browne against the receiued booke of English common praier established by the lawes of this realme their bookes so manie as could be found were burned before them This yeare on the ninth of Iune deceased Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex lord chamberleine to hir maiestie and knight of the garter at Barmundseie in the borough of Southworke besides London and was on the eight of Iulie next following conueied through the same citie of London toward Newhall in Essex there to be buried in forme folowing First went on foot before him fortie and fiue poore men in blacke gownes then on horssebacke one hundred and twentie seruingmen in blacke coats then ninetie and fiue gentlemen in blacke gownes or clokes besides the heralds at armes and other which bare his helme creast sword coat of armes and banners of armes c. Then the deceased earle couered with a pall of blacke veluet in a chariot likewise couered with blacke veluet drawne with foure goodlie geldings next after was led the earles stéed couered with blacke veluet then sir Henrie Ratclife the succéeding erle chiefe mourner and eight other lords all in blacke then the lord maior and his brethren the aldermen of London riding in murraie gownes then on foot the gentlemen of Greis in and last of all the worshipfull companie of the merchant tailors of London in their liueries for that the said earle was a brother of their companie as manie noble men and famous princes kings of this realme before him had béene as more at large is declared in the summarie of the chronicles of England in the eightéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth The maior and aldermen the gentlemen of Greis in and the merchant tailors accompanied the corps to the barres without Aldgate and returned This was the end of that nobleman who whiles he liued
discouered his experience to such as were officers in the worke who presentlie put in practise execution the same deuise making prouision of great strong barrels and pipes of wood caried them to Folkstone and at low water fastened therto with chaines such huge stones as laie on the shore neere the low water marke where the quarrie or mine of those rocks is so as when the floud or full sea came the said vessels with the stones thereto fastned rose vp swam And if the stone were of such quantitie as two or thrée emptie casks could not lift it vp then did they ad a barrell or two more which would not faile to doo it then did they drag with small botes the casks stones therevnto tied to the place where they were disposed to sinke them so the worke wherein consisted the greatest difficultie in appearance was with most ease and least charge accomplished And for this deuise the said Iohn Yoong had a yéerelie stipend giuen vnto him by the king during his life With these stones as also by this means was the greatest worke doone and with great cost and labor these piles were filled vp The chalke and filling thereof being brought from the north pierre was conueied thither in a great bote called a Gaboth which had nine kéeles There stands yet of the timber worke of the old pierre foure score foot in length and â—oâ—es vpon that part of the pierre where stood a fort line 10 named the Blacke bulworke Now that which was doone on that side with the helpe of nature at the other two sides made an excellent roâ—e or harborough for the time it continued and had maintenance The king for his part spared no charge for he spent hereabouts as I am crediblie informed fiftie thousand pounds nor yet did forbeare anie trauell which might further the worke For in person he purposelie repaired thither diuerse and sundrie times being distant from the court fiftie miles at line 20 the least yea his highnes had such care that it should be well performed that no expert man in water works either on this side or beyond the seas but if it might be he was brought thither or at the least conferred withall And during the time of all the worke the kings cofers séemed to stand wide open But alas thâ— kings care and charge and the continuall trouble and trauell of officers was such about the worke present that the prouision for the future maintenance thereof was vtterlie neglected For the kings absence at his line 30 being at Bullen his sickenesse at his returne and finallie his death méeting with the nonage of his son king Edward the sixt made an end of all this worke which being once in the state of decaie there was no reparations nor further proceeding therein till the time of quéene Marie in the beginning of whose reignâ— by the space of two yeares there was some rumbling thereabout But the workmen and officers were not well paid and after bad paiment no paiment and so all was giuen ouer Sir Anthonie Aucher line 40 was treasuror in these works and manie other inferior officers also there were and manie other inferior officers also there were but especiallie of clerks But now I am to declare vnto you the lamentable ruine and decaie of this worke before the end and finishing whereof there was brought along the coast from by southwest a maruellous quantitie of beach and bowlder stone whereof there had béene neuer anie séene before in those parts of that coast and a great quantitie thereof rested vpon the backe of the pierre especiallie before the Blacke bulworke which so long line 50 as it might lie there without further annoiance was in appearance a singular helpe for the strength and preseruation of the said worke but it fell out otherwise For besides that that an easterlie great wind would remooue and driue it from that coast and consequentlie from the pierre which then would lie naked as before vntill the south and westerne wind turned it backe againe the pierre through negligence decaieng especiallie at the Blacke bulworke where the greatest abundance of beach vsuallie rested it passed through line 60 the decaied places thereof in such measure as in short time thereby grew a shelfe of beach from that point of the pierre to the east part of the baie butting to the Castell Raie so as no entrance thereinto for anie ship remained And the more that the furthest point of the pierre decaied and waxed shorter the néerer was the shelfe brought vnto the shore insomuch as if the residue of the pierre had not béene preserued that shelfe would soone haue béene brought to the verie towne and so haue choked vp the baie and béerest all possibilitie of euer hauing a harbor in that place The decaie of the pierre grew now more and more partlie as is said through want of prouidence and cost to be imploied therevpon and sufficient prouision to mainteine the same but especiallie through the disorder of the poorer sort of the townesmen who dailie purloined timber iron and all that was anie thing woorth which they could pull or catch from the decaieng places of the pierre And now by meanes of this shelfe the hauen waxed woorse than euer it was insomuch as oftentimes a bote that drew but foure foot of wâ—ter could not enter into the mouth thereof and sometime none at all for the baie was altogither shut vp so as the harborough was become a pent out of the which nothing could passe out or in sauing the water that soked through the beach But the riuer which issueth out of the towne at a water gate standing at the northeast end of the said pent in continuance of time would make an issue through some part of the same beach into the sea sometime at one end sometime at another sometime verie shallow and neuer verie déepe which issue was alwaies their hauens mouth vntill a contrarie wind did stop it vp againe and then they had no entrance at all vntill the riuer had made a new fret or that they had digged a chanell through the beach which manie times they were driuen to doo The losse of this hauen and the losse of Calis which happened about one time made such an alteration or rather desolation in and of the towne as was lamentable and woonderfull to behold For of a braue rich and populous towne it presentlie became a poore and desolate village reteining onelie the name and liberties of the famous port of Douer Neuerthelesse the necessitie and expedience of a good hauen in that place did still remaine a conuenient meane also was left for the accomplishment thereof as it séemed to diuerse which were wise and of good experience insomuch as that verie matter which was supposed to be the destruction of the late harborough should now become a principall helpe and furtherance to a
for the cheapnesse supposed though in déed the contrarie fell out in demand partlie for the expedition promised which could neuer haue béene performed partlie for that he was knowne to be a speciall executioner in Woolwich breaches being workes defensatiue against inuasion of waters as yet vnaccomplished though no small charges haue béene therein imploied for the recouerie of two thousand acres of excellent marsh land lieng seuen miles from London in the parishes of Plumsted Erith c lost by a breach made in the wals there with a tempest about the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and thirtie to the vndooing of manie but speciallie of sir Edward Boulton knight partlie also he was hearkened vnto for that he was reputed to be a good enginor partlie for his experience in forren works partlie for his resolutenesse but especiallie for that he made a shew of more cunning than he would vtter so as although his deuise for the erection of the wals was finallie reiected yet was the matter brought to further conference For he was commended to the lords of hir maiesties priuie councell and namelie to sir Francis Walsingham knight principall secretarie to hir highnesse to whome was happilie referred the consideration and chiefe direction of all matters concerning these works wherin he dealt from time to time with as great care trauell and circumspection as though his owne estate had depended vpon the well proceeding thereof Whatsoeuer was thought necessarie to be doone thereabouts was alwaies aduertised by the commissioners vnto him and his opinion and direction required and he without good conference and probabilitie would enter into no action concerning this matter Now therefore he wrote to sir Thomas Scot requiring him to send vp some sufficient person acquainted exercised in Romneie marsh works to satisfie the lords of the councell in all such doubts as should be obiected speciallie by maister Burroughs who had more liking of the shipwrights maner of worke than either of the Romneie marsh works exhibited by sir Thomas Scot or of Plumsted works propounded by Ferdinando Poins Wherein sir Francis Walsingham shewed maister Digs his defense his owne good liking of the earthen wals onelie requiring that sir Thomas Scot would throughlie informe himselfe by conference with the marshmen to answer certeine obiections which he there inclosed sent downe vnto him in writing concerning the passage of the long wall and the distance thereof from the shore the higâ—h and tightnes of the same the conueniencie of the foundation the manner of stuffe the time of finishing the breadth below and at the top the vndertakers thereof and of their assurance c and lastlie that some sufficient person should be sent vp to confer in these matters All which points were so answered by sir Thomas Scot as sir Francis Walsingham was greatlie satisfied thereby Concerning the dooing thereof by great sir Thomas Scots aduise was that séeing it was a princes charge it might rather be performed by daie workers and good ouerséers than by great wherein no man would aduenture in respect of the quantitie of the charge and difficultie of the works without certeintie of great gaines Neuerthelesse if it were so set downe by the lords of the priuie councell that it should be doone no other waie but by great he himselfe would vndertake it better cheape than anie other had profered to doo it by fiue hundred marks and to that effect would put in verie good and sufficient assurance Presentlie after the receipt of those letters sir Thomas Scot sent to the court a kinsman of his named Reinold Scot who had béene deputed a surueior of Romneie marsh by the space of foure yeares togither and Reinold Smith who had béene clearke of Romneie marsh and a continuall dealer about those wals by the space of thirtie years These two repairing first to Douer to consider of the earth which should serue to make the wals of the line 10 pent of Douer hauen and to search where such earth as would serue that turne might most conuenientlie and néerest hand be had with pasture for horsses which should be imploied for carriage thereof procéeded to the court at Richmont where they attended on maister secretarie Walsingham on the mondaie and tuesdaie before Easter daie 1583 and after conference had with him they deliuered vnto him certeine notes in writing from sir Thomas Scot conteining necessarie orders and recounting line 20 the charges businesse and offices c incident to the erection of these walles imitating as neere as time place and matter would giue leaue the maner of Romneie marsh works wherein he remembred or rather required a yeerelie assemblie of commissioners at Douer in Easter wéeke as is by the lords of Romneie marsh at Whitsuntide with the election of officers and set downe the dutie and charge of ech officer the order of the works what prouision of stuffe should be made to wit of timber thorne faggots néedels keies béetels piles pasture earth line 30 with totall sums of all officers fées of all stuffe and prouision of all the labourers and of all the cariages which estimat was little or nothing differing from the charge as it fell out sauing that where he set it downe that both walles might be finished in two summers he accomplished them in one quarter of a yéere beyond promise or expectation Maister secretarie Walsingham hauing perused these notes seene the maner of the works rates set downe therein liked verie well thereof howbe line 40 it he strictlie examined the parties aforesaid how those works could be performed at so low prices and especiallie how so manie courts could be prouided without commission or griefe to the countrie euerie court hauing a horsse and a driuer and all for twelue pence a day in a place where pastures are for the most part barreâ— and hard to be gotten and both that and all other things but especiallie vittels extreame déere But being satisfied herein by the said Reinold Scot Reinold Smith he thought line 50 good neuerthelesse to send them two accompanied with Thomas Digs esquier and William Burroughs gentleman to confer with sir William Winter the said Ferdinando Poins the Plumsted men which were workemen in Woolwich and Erith breaches who propounded to the said workemen certeine questions at the house of sir William Winter at Tower hill Wherein they were demanded amongst other things whether they euer had heretofore made anie wals whereby water line 60 hath beene pent to anie highth and vpon what foundation or soile they were set and of what substance their wals were made and whether they could remedie such wals if they leaked or could worke in water and finallie what they would aske for a rod dooing and what suerties they could put in for the tightnesse of their worke Ferdinando Poins and his Plumsted men answered verie comfortablie to euerie question they séemed ignorant in nothing and promised to performe
the whole course of courts being about two hundred were vnloden the laborers with their shouels and béetels plied to make euen the wall against another course came Sometimes they wrought a whole daie or two and laid downe manie thousand lodes of earth and chalke and no increase séene at night of the worke either in higth or length in so much as manie supposed that the earth was rather washed awaie than line 40 sunke And in truth some part thereof was carried awaie with the floud in a rough tide for all the water in the hauen was manie times discoloured therewith especiallie vntill sir Thomas Scot tooke order that before euerie floud not onelie each side of the wall but the end also should be armed with fagot in the morning or after noone when returne was made to the works the end where they were to procéed should be vnarmed againe which néeded not be doone to the sides for they carried the whole line 50 breadth of the wall with them But in truth the weight of the wall with the continuall passage thervpon made the whole worke to sinke to the verie rocke being from the top of the chanell sixtéene foot and from the face of the water at the floud almost as much more But in the end it was a woonder to see how the multitude of carriages being well plied preuailed euen ouer the floud which though it rose exceeding fast and was come to the verie brinke or vppermost lane of the wall a new course of courts came from time to time and supplied line 60 the want which if it should haue staied a minut longer would haue turned to great losse for they could haue wrought no longer that tide In this maner they procéeded vntill there was made of the crosse wall about fiue and twentie rods which they wrought alwaies as they went aboue the high water marke otherwise it could neuer haue béene performâ—â— and so they passed through the chanell or riuer and caried the wall beyond the same thrée or foure rods so as the backe water or chanell had no issue to passe downe into the sea but as it rose aboue â—he flats and ran awaie before the end of the wall whense they continuallie droue it further and further by lengthening the same Howbe it by this meanes they wrought alwaies in the water which was verie discommodious This riuer therefore manie men would haue had turned some other waie otherwise it was thought that this wall could not haue béene made the turning whereof would haue béene diuerse waies inconuenient First for the extreame charge secondlie the hauens mouth would for want héereof haue soone béene swarued vp thirdlie Poins his worke which cost one thousand two hundred pounds should haue bin hereby frustrated fourthlie the hauen all that time and all passage vnto Douer had beene vtterlie taken awaie to the great hinderance and vndooing of the townsmen there But sir Thomas Scot who imploied his head and mind to séeke all aduantages for the setting forward of this worke and had conceiued a perfect plot for the finishing of the same caused a cut to be made in the wall and a small fluse to be laid in the verie place where the chaâ—ell did first run which serued for the time not onelie to giue naturall passage to the riuer and to mainteine the hauens mouth but as a bridge also for the courts to passe ouer the water to the further end of the wall which now by this meanes remained drie and free from water vntill the floud to the great aduantage and commodiâ—ie of the worke This sluse was composed with two arches in length sixtie foot besides the splaies at each end in breadth eight foot and in depth also eight food and the charge thereof amounted not to aboue one hundred marks In truth the laieng of this sluse was a verie dangerous and difficult peece of worke and the executioners thereof worthie of commendation for with great courage to doo their â—â—â—â—trie seruice they aduentured their liues in more perill than I can well expresse Manie were aâ—â—onied to behold the dangerous case of the workemen and diuerse departed from the place as being loth to sée the poore mens destruction Wherein the said Reginald Smith and the Romneie marshmen dealt with great dexteriâ—ie and courage when all other almost had giuen it ouer persisting in continuall and extreame trauell thereabouts by the space of two daies and one night without intermission After the cut was digged thorough the wall the sluse was laid by peecemeale at the direction of him and the foresaid Richard Coast William Norris and Iohn Bowle whose hands were as busie also as anie others in the dooing thereof And as they were trauelling hereabouts the weight of the wall it selfe with the earth cast out of the trench therevnto and the multitude of the beholders standing thereon made a clift or crase therein consisting of manie hundred lodes of earth which declined towards the cut where they wrought to laie the sluse and was redie to fall vpon them all so as they were faine to sustaine the side therof with shores which they supported chéefelie with their owne force Which if they had not doone with great art labour by the space of diuersâ— hours together the wall had fallen into the place where the sluse should haue béene laid to the destruction of sundrie people and to the discomfort of manie belonging to the works But these marshmen neuer gaue ouer till euerie sticke thereof was laid at what time ech man reioised that meant well to the works and diuerse bestowed rewards vpon the workemen and praise was giuen to God for his fauour shewed in that behalfe This worke being thus performed the courts which during that time were altogither set to worke at maister lieutenants wall did now diuide themselues againe and returne to worke as before at sir Thomas Scots wall and at euerie side wrought with singular diligence great facilitie And God so fauored those works as there were not lost in all that summer by meanes of foule wether aboue thrée daies and a halfe wherein either courts or laborers were put from their worke and in all those busines not one person slaine and yet almost in euerie action belonging therevnto there was imminent danger as first you heard in the laieng of the sluâ—e And manie times in digging of chalke they stood in the cliffe and vndermined it so as sometimes an line 10 hundred lode fell downe at once from vnder their feet and sometimes from aboue their heads and yet through Gods goodnes their diligent care all escaped without hurt sauing two persons vpon whom great chalke rocks much abundance of earth did fall and yet were recouered without losse of life or of lim In the passage also of the courts if by chance either man or boie had fallen downe amongest them as sometimes some did the hill was so stéepe at some
Ladie Elisabeth requested by Winchester to submit hir selfe to the quéenes mercie Ladie Elisabeth standeth to be tried by the law Talke againe betweene Winchester ladie Elisabeth Ladie Elisabeth denied to confesse anie fault doone to the quéene Ladie Elisabeth sent for to the quéene Ladie Elisabeth brought to the quéenes bedchamber Talke betwéene the quéene and ladie Elisabeth Small comfort at the quéenes hand toward hir sister King Philip thought to be a friend to ladie Elisabeth Ladie Elisabeth by Gods prouidence set at libertie Sir Henrie Benefield discharged Mistresse Ashleie sent to the Fléet Thrée gentlewomen of ladie Elisabeths sent to the tower Note the woonderfull working of the Lords prouidence in sauing of ladie Elisabeth Ladie Elisabeth deliuered by the death of Stephan Gardiner How the Lord here began to worke for ladie Elisabeth A note of a storie declaring the malignant harts of the papists towards ladie Elisabeth Rober Farrer of London a sore enimie to ladie Elisabeth Laurence Shiriffe sworne friend and seruant to ladie Elisabeth his mistresse Robert Farrer raileth against ladie Elisabeth The part of a good trustie seruant Robert Farrer complained of to the commissioners but no redresse was had * A knaue How bishop Boner and â—â—â—tor Storie bear with him that railed against ladie Elisabeth Note the vngodlie life of these cathoâ—â—kes Ladie Elisabeth proclamed quéene the same daie that quéene Marie died The Lord make England thankefull to him for his great benefits He meaneth his owne worke not this volume or anie part thereof Nouemb 17. quéene Marie endeth Quéene Elisabeth beginneth hir reigne The maner of quéene Maries death Q. Marie tooke thought for the losse of Calis * Caleto More English bloud spilled in quéene Maries time than euer was in anie kings reigne before hir The reigne of quéene Marie how vnprosperous it was both to hir hir realme in all respects Quéene Marie neuer had good successe in anie thing she went about A good king alwaies maketh a florishing realme Comparison betweene the reigne of Q. Marie and quéene Elisabeth Gamaliels reason Acts. 5. Quéene Marie prospered so long as she went not against the Lord. Q. Maries pâ—omise to the gospellers broken The ship called the great Harrie burned Q. Maries mariage with a stranger Q. Marie disappointed of hir purpose in crowning kâ—ng Philip. Q. Marie stopped of hir will in restoring abbeie lands The victorie of king Edward the sixt in Scotland The ill luckâ— of Q. Marie in losing of Calis The eleuenth king from the conquest got Calis and the eleuenth againe after him lost it The ill lucke of quéene Marie in hir childbirth Q. Marie leâ—t desolate of K. Philip hir husband The ill lucke of Q. Marie with hir husband The finall â—nd and death of Q. Marie Q. Marie â—â—â—gned fiue yeâ—res fiue â—â—neths The shortnes 〈◊〉 Maries â—â—gne noted Eâ— Simone Sâ—â—rdio de capto Calero pag. 1968. An admonition to all chriâ—â—â—an râ—iers The death of â—â—rdinall Poole The description of cardinall Poole 〈◊〉 Fl. ex I. F. â—â—rtyrologio Cardinall Poole earnest in burning the bones of the dead Articles of the cardinall to be inquired in his visitation of Kent Articles of cardinal Poole to be inquired vpon touching the laitie Bishop Boâ—ers letter to cardinall Poole concerâ—ing the two â—nd twentie prisoners aforesaid Bishop Boners crueltie somewhat 〈◊〉 by the cardinall Cardinall Poole 〈◊〉 papist but no bloudie papist Cardinall Poole halfe suspected for a Lutheran at Rome Ab. Fl. ex concione Cut. Tunstalli â—oram Hen. 8. Cardinall Poole an arrant traitor Cardinall Poole a seditious fellow and an impudent Cardinall Pooles treasons detected by his owne brother Cardinall Poole no christian but worse than a pagan Cardinall Pooles vnkindnesse to king Henrie that brought him vp Sée more thereof before pag. 1134. A traitor he liued a traitor he died The distribution of his goods Touching dilapidations He is desirous that quéene Marie should haue knowledge of this his last will * Sée pa. 865. * Sée pa. 1069. Adrian the fourth pope 〈◊〉 Rome Will. Paruus lib. 2. cap. 26. Onuphrius Matt. Parker Ranulph Higden Bosa Matt. Parker Onuphriuâ— Robert Curson Matt. Parker Matt. Paris Matt. West Holinshed Stephan Langhton Matt. Parker Matt. Paris Holinshed Onuphrius Robert Somercot 〈…〉 Anchâ—rus 〈…〉 Robert de Kilwarbie 〈◊〉 Parker 〈…〉 Barnard de Anguiscelle Matt. Parker Hugh Attrat 〈…〉 Bernard Matthew 〈◊〉 Leonard Guercine 〈…〉 Walter Winterborne 〈…〉 Thomas Iorze Walâ—ingham Nic. Triuet Matthew Parker Onuphrius Simon Langham Iohn Thorsbie Holinshed and other authors Adam Onuphrius Matthew Parker Holinshed Philip de Repindone Onuphrius Matthew Parker Thomas Onuphrius Matthew Parker Liber Dunel Robert Onuphrius Matthew Parker Henrie Beaufort Iohn Stafford Onuphrius Matthew Parker Iohn Kempe Holinshed Polydor. Onuphrius Thomas Bourcher Onuphrius Matthew Parker Holinshed Polydor. Iohn Morton Onuphrius Matthew Parker Polydor. Holinshed Christopher Bembridge Matthew Parker Onuphrius Thomas Wolseie Iohn Fisher. Reginald Poole Peter Peto Learned men in quéene Maries reigne The resolutiâ—n of the lords 〈◊〉 declare laâ—â—â— Elisabeth 〈◊〉 The words 〈◊〉 doctor death lord â—â—â—ncellor 〈◊〉 in the parlement 〈◊〉 touching the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Elisabeth quéene The ladie Elisabeth proclamed quéen The beginning of quéene Elisabeths prosperous reigne The quéenes remouing froÌ„ Hatfield The flourishing estate of this land vnder quéene Elisabeth Hir grace remoueth to the tower Hir remouing to Summerset house Abr. Fl. ex manuscripto Hen. Tennant The death of sir Thomas Cheinie lord Warden of the cinque ports His horsse for seruice which proued him to be a louer of chiualrie The like is reported of cardinall Wolseie when he was in the floure of his prosperitie But how manie be there now that will giue away the profits of their office to their seruants His honest honorable care for his men that serued him His mindfulnes of his friends at his death Sir Thomas Cheineie an old seruitor in court See more of him before pag. 973 97â— A commendation of his courtesie bountifulnes and warlike stoutnesse Quéene Marie buried An obsequie kept for the emperour The deceasse of the queene of France The deceasse of the quéene of Hungarie 1559. The letanie The epistle and gospell in English The quéene remooueth 〈◊〉 Westminster to the tower by water The quéene passeth from the tower to â—estminster through the 〈◊〉 The quéene â—â—â—teth them 〈◊〉 salute hir The peoples â—earts wholie 〈◊〉 vpon 〈◊〉 The citie of London a stage for the time of this solemnitie A scaffold let vp at Fanchurch with melodie c. These verses were vttered by a child to the quéene who gaue good eare to them The verses in Latine which the child vttered to the quéene in English A great stage arched and verie sumptuous at Gratious stréet The vnitie of the white rose and the red Uertuous quéene Anne mother to gratious queéne Elizabeth The posie 〈◊〉 planing the shew set â—orâ—h in colorâ— Unitie the 〈◊〉 whereat the deuise of the pageant was directed The quéene is desirous
〈◊〉 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
did happen in England whilest the king was thus occupied in Ireland and within the compasse of that yeare and first of all in the night before Christmas day last passed there chanced such a tempest of lightning and thunder that the like had not bin heard of which tempest was not onelie generallie throughout all England but also in other forreine parts néere adioining namelie in Ireland where it continued all that night and Christmas daie following year 1172 to so great terror of the people that they looked for present death The same night at Andeuer in Hamshire a préest being in his praiers before the altar was striken with the tempest so that he died yeâ— it was nine of the clocke in the morning Also a temporall man that was there the same time was burned with the lightning and whereas his brother being present ran to him to haue succoured him he likewise was caught with the fire and in like maner consumed In Ireland also euill diet in eating of fresh flesh and drinking of water contrarie to the custome of the Englishmen brought the flix and other diseases in the kings armie so that manie died thereof for Graâ—issimum est imperium consuetudinis Wherfore about the beginning of Lent the king remoued from Dublin went vnto the citie of Werford where he remained till toward Easter and then prepared to returne into England but before he tooke the sea he gaue and by his charter confirmed to Hugh Lacie all the lands of Meeth with the appurtenances to hold of him his heires in fee by knights seruice as to find him an hundred knights or men of armes as we may terme them for euermore He gaue also vnto the same Hugh the kéeping of the citie of Dublin and made him chéefe iusticer of Ireland Unto Robert Fitz Bernard he committed the cities of Waterford and Wesseford that he should kéepe the same to his vse and build in them castels for a more sure defense against the enimies Thus when the king had planted garisons of souldiers in those other places also where was thought néedfull and further had giuen order for the politike gouernement of the whole countrie so far as he had conquered he first sent ouer his houshold seruants which tooke the water on Easter daie and landed at Milleford but he himselfe and other of the Nobles staid there all that daie by reason of the high solemnitie of that feast howbeit the daie next after they tooke the sea togither and landed néere to S. Dauids in south Wales from whence without delaie he hasted foorth to Douer and hauing his sonne the yoong king with him he sailed ouer into Normandie in the crosse weeke to meet the popes legats whom he vnderstood to be alreadie come thither At his méeting with them there he gaue them verie good countenance and right honorable enterteinment omitting nothing that might doo them pleasure Here when the matter came to be discussed touching the death of archbishop Thomas bicause it could not be certeinelie tried out in whom the fault rested much reasoning to and fro passed about obiections and excuses laid as in doubtfull cases it often happeneth so that welneere the space of foure moneths was spent in debating of that matter In which meane time the king to auoid all contention and strife betwixt him and king Lewes sent his son Henrie togither with his wife ouer into England there eftsoones to receiue the crowne and with them came Rotrod the archbishop of Rouen Giles bishop of Eureux Roger bishop of Worcester and diuerse others Herevpon the yoong king being arriued in England called an assemblieof the lords spirituall and temporall at Winchester where both he and his said wife Margaret daughter to the French king was crowned with all solemnitie by the hands of the said Rotrod archbishop of Rouen vpon the twentie one of August In the meane time saith one writer his father king Henrie might haue foreséene and found means to haue auoided the discord which euen now began to spring vp betwixt him and his children causing a sore and ciuill warre if he had not beene a man that vtterlie did detest all superstitious admonitions For being told I wot not by whome that if he did not repent and take more regard to minister iustice which is a vertue that conteineth in it selfe all other vertues it would come to passe that within short time he should fall into great and manifold calamities line 10 In his returne also out of Ireland saith an other vpon the sundaie next after the feast of Easter commonlie called Lowsundaie as he should take his horsse at Cardiffe in Wales there appeared vnto him a man of pale and wanne colour barefooted and in a white kirtell who boldlie in the Dutch language spake vnto him and admonished him of amendment of life and to haue regard that the sabboth daie commonlie called the sundaie might be more duelie kept and obserued so that no markets line 20 nor bodilie workes be holden vsed or doone vpon that day within the bounds of his dominions except that which apperteineth to dressing of meats And if thou doo saith he after this commandement I assure thée that all things which thou dooest enterprise of good intent and purpose shall sort to good effect and verie luckie end But the king was not greatlie pleased with these words and in French said to the knight that held his bridle Aske of this churle whether he hath dreamed all line 30 this that he telleth or not When the knight had expounded it in English the man answered Whether I haue dreamed it in my sleepe or not take thou héed to my words marke what day this is for if thou amend not thy life and doo as I haue aduertised thée before a twelue moneth come to an end thou shalt heare such tidings as will make thee sorowfull all the daies of thy life after The man hauing thus spoken vanished awaie suddenlie and the king tooke his words but in sport howbeit he woondered that he line 40 was so suddenlie gone as he did likewise at his sudden appearing Manie other warnings the king had saith mine author but he set little thereby The second warning he receiued of an Irishman that told him of tokens verie priuie The third time a knight of Lindsey called Philip de Chesterby passing the sea came to the king into Normandie and there declared vnto him seauen articles which he should amend which if he did then he should reigne seauen yeares in great honor and subdue Gods enimies line 50 If he did not amend and redresse those points then should he come to death with dishonour in the fourth yeare 1 The first article or point was that he should séeke to mainteine holie church 2 The second that he should cause rightfull lawes to be executed 3 The third that he should condemne no man without lawfull processe 4 The fourth that he
it happeneth Twise the French king was put to the worsse line 60 once in September betwixt Gamages and Uernon where he was driuen to saue himselfe by flight loosing twentie knights and thréescore seruitors or yeomen which were taken besides those that were slaine and againe in the same moneth on Michaelmasse euen betwixt Curseilles and Gisors at what time he came to succour Curseilles bringing with him 400 knights besides seruitors and a great multitude of commons But the castell was woone before he could approch it King Richard being aduertised of his comming hasted foorth to méet him and giuing the onset vpon him forced him to flee vnto Gisors where at the entring of the bridge there was such preasse that the bridge brake so that amongst other the king himselfe with his horsse and all fell into the riuer of Geth and with much adoo was releeued and got out of the water no small number of right hardie and valiant gentlemen being taken at the same time which put themselues forward to staie the Englishmen till the king was recouered out of that present danger To conclude there were taken to the number of an hundred knights and two hundred barded horsses besides seruitors on horssebacke and footmen with crossebowes Amongst other prisoners these are named Matthew de Montmorancie Gales de Ports Iollen de Bray and manie other also innumerable King Richard hauing got this victorie wrote letters thereof vnto the archbishops bishops abbats earles and barons of his realme that they might praise God for his good successe ¶ A notable example to all princes that haue the conquest ouer their enimies to referre the happie getting thereof to God and to giue praise vnto him who giueth victorie vnto whom it pleaseth him Which the Psalmograph saw verie well and therefore ascribed all the issue of his prosperous affaires to God as may well be noted by his words saieng expresselie ab illo Munior hic instar turâ—is arcis erat Dura manus in bella meas qui format armat Ad fera qui digitos instruit arma meos Now will we staie the proceedings of the king of France at this time and make no further relation thereof for a while till we haue touched other things that happened in England at the same season And first ye shall vnderstand that Hugh Bardolfe Roger Arundell and Geffrey Hachet to whom as iustices the counties of Lincolne Notingham Yorke Derbie Northumberland Westmerland Cumberland and Lancaster were appointed for circuits held not onelie plées of assises and of the crowne but also tooke inquisitions of escheats and forfaitures of all maner of transgressions and of donations of benefices of marriages of widowes and maids and other such like things as apperteined to the king whereby any aduantages grew to his vse the which for tediousnesse we passe ouer These things were streightlie looked vnto not without the disquieting of manie Herewith came an other trouble in the necke of this former to diuerse persons within the realme through inquiries taken by the iustices of the forrests for Hugh Neuill Hugh Waley and Heruisius Neuill appointed iustices itinerants in that case were commanded by the king to call before them archbishops bishops earles barons knights and fréeholders with the reeue and foure of the substantiall men of euerie towne or village to heare and take knowledge of the kings commandement touching the ordinances of forrests the which were verie straight in sundrie points so that whereas before those that offended in killing of the kings deere were punished by the purse now they should lose their eies and genitals as the lawe was in the daies of king Henrie his grandfather and those that offended in cutting downe woods or bushes or in digging and deluing vp of turues and clods or by any other maner of waie made waste and destruction in woods or grasse or spoile of venison within the precinct of the forrests contrarie to order they should be put to their â—ines He gaue commandement also that it should be lawfull to the forresters to take and put vnder arrest as well préests and those of the cleargie as temporall men being found offenders in forrest grounds and chases Manie other ordinances were decréed touching the preseruation of forrests and the kings prerogatiue aduantages and profits rising and growing by the same as well for sauing of his woods and wasts as in pannage and agistements greatlie to the restraint of them that might vsurpe or incroch vpon the grounds within the compasse of his forrests Ye haue heard before how the moonks of Canturburie did send to exhibit a complaint to the pope for that their archbishop tooke vpon him to deale in exercise of matters belonging to a temporall man and line 10 not to such a one as had rule ouer the spiritualtie but this was not the cause that did gréeue them so much as that he went forward with the erection of that church at Lameth which his predecessor archbishop Baldwine had first begun at Haketon now called S. Stephans as before ye haue heard and after was driuen through the importunate suit of the moonks to leaue off and race that which he had there begun to obeie the popes pleasure and after laid a new foundation at Lameth line 20 The moonks of Canturburie therefore still fearing least that church should greatlie preiudice such rights and liberties as they pretended namlie in the election of their archbishop would neuer rest but still complained and followed their suit in most obstinate maner in the court of Rome as well in the daies of the said Baldwine as now against Hubert when he tooke in hand to continue the worke according to the purpose of his predecessour the said Baldwine which was to haue instituted a colledge there line 30 and to haue placed secular canons in the same and such was the earnest trauell of the moonks herein that in the end now after the deceasse of pope Celestine they found such fauour at the hands of pope Innocent his successor that the same Innocent directed his letters of coÌ„mandement to the archbishop and other bishops of this land to destroie and race the same foundation as a péece of worke derogatorie to the sée of Canturburie and verie preiudiciall to the estate of holie church line 40 The archbishop at the first trusted to be borne out by the king who was highlie offended with the moonks for their presumptuous dealing and therfore refused to obeie the popes commandement The king in deed stomached the matter so highlie that he sent letters vnto the moonks by no worsse messengers than by Geffrey Fitz Peter and Hugh Fitz Bardolfe his iustices signifieng to them not onelie his high displeasure for their presumptuous proceedings in their suit without his consent but also commanding line 50 them to surceasse and not to procéed further in the matter by vertue of any such the popes letters which they had purchased contrarie
to the honour and dignitie of his crowne and realme Moreouer he wrote to the bishops commanding them to appeale and to the archbishop forbidding him in any wise to breake downe the church which he had so builded at Lameth The shiriffe of Kent also was commanded to seize into his hands all the tenements and possessions that line 60 belonged to the moonks a frie of satan and as one saith verie well of them and the like leuen of lewdnesse sentina malorum Agnorum sub pelle lupi mercede colentes Non pietate Deum c. who neuerthelesse were so stout in that quarell that they would not prolong one daie of the time appointed by the pope for the racing of that church Herevpon the king for his part and the bishops in their owne behalfes wrote to the pope Likewise the abbats of Boreley Fourd Stratford Roberts-bridge Stanleie and Basing Warke wrote the matter to him and againe the pope and the cardinals wrote to the king to the archbishops and bishops and so letters passed to and fro till at length the pope sent a Nuncio of purpose to signifie his full determination as in the next yeare it shall be shewed at full About the same time Geffrey Fitz Peter lord cheefe iustice of England raised a power of men and went into Wales to succour the tenants of William de Brause which were besieged of the king or rather prince of that countrie named Owen the brother of Cadwalaine in Mauds castell but the lord chéefe iustice comming to the reskue of them within gaue battell to the aduersaries and vanquishing them slue three thousand of them and seauen hundred of those that were taken prisoners and wounded And all the while the warres continued in France the losse for the most part still redounded to the Frenchmen Earle Iohn burnt Newburg and tooke eighteene knights of such as were sent to the reskue The earle of Leicester with a small companie came before the castell of Pascie which although the Frenchmen held it did yet of right belong vnto the said earle The souldiors within issued foorth and being too strong for the earle caused him to flee for otherwise he had béene taken But returning on the morrow after with more companie about him and laieng ambushes for the enimie he approched the said castell and trained the Frenchmen foorth till he had them within his danger and then causing his men to breake out vpon them tooke an eightéene knights and a great multitude of other people Also Marchades with his rout of Brabanders did the Frenchmen much hurt in robbing and spoiling the countries About this season the archbishop of Canturburie went ouer into Normandie to speake with king Richard and at the French kings request he passed into France to common with him of peace which the French king offered to conclude in restoring all the townes and castels which he had taken Gisors onelie excepted and touching the possession and title therof he was contented to put the matter in compremise to the order and award of six barons in Normandie to be named by him and of six barons in France which king Richard should name But king Richard would not thus agree except the earle of Flanders and others which had forsaken the French king to take his part might be comprised in the same peace At length yet in Nouember there was truce taken betwixt the two kings till the feast of S. Hilarie next insuing In the meane time pope Innocent the third vnderstanding in what present danger things stood in the holie land and on the other side considering what a weakening it was vnto christendome to haue these two kings thus to warre with mortall hatred one against the other he thought it stood him vpon to trauell betwixt them to bring them vnto some peace and agreement Héerevpon he dispatched one Peter the cardinall of Capua into France as legat from the sée of Rome vnto the two foresaid kings to instruct them in what present danger the state of the christians in Asia presentlie stood so that without the aid of them and of other christian princes it could not be holpen but needs it must come to vtter ruine and the Saracens yer long to be possessed of the whole Therefore both in respect hereof and also for the auoiding of the further wilfull spilling of christian bloud in such ciuill and vngodlie war he besought them to staie their hands and to ioine in some fréendlie band of concord whereby they might with mutuall consent bestow their seruice in that necessarie and most godlie warre wherein by ouercomming the enimies of Christ they might looke for worthie reward at his hands which is the free giuer of all victories The cardinall comming into France and dooing his message in most earnest wise was present at the enteruiew appointed betwixt the two kings in the feast of S. Hilarie year 1199 but yet could not he bring his purpose to full effect onelie he procured them to take truce for the terme of fiue yeares further he could not get them to agrée ¶ The fault by authors is ascribed aswell to king Richard as to king Philip for line 10 king Richard being first euill vsed and put to hinderance determined either to vanquish or neuer to giue place This forbearance from warre was concluded and taken in the yeare 1199 after the incarnation and tenth of king Richards reigne But immediatlie after there arose matter of new displeasure betwixt these two kings to kéepe their minds in vre with secret grudges though by reason of the truce they outwardlie absteined from declaring it by force of line 20 armes It chanced that in the election of a new emperour the electors could not agrée one part of them choosing Otho duke of Saxonie nephue to king Richard by his sister Maud and another part of them naming Philip duke of Tuscaine and brother to the last emperour Henrie King Richard as reason was did procure what fauour he could to the furtherance of his nephue Otho and king Philip on the contrarie part did what he could in fauour of the foresaid Philip. At length Otho line 30 was admitted by the pope to end the strife but yet the grudge remained in the harts of the two kings Philip finding himselfe much greeued in that he had missed his purpose and Richard being as little pleased for that he had woone his so hardlie and with so much adoo And thus matters passed for that yeare In the beginning of the next the popes Nuncio came with letters not onlie to the archbishop and bishops of England but also to the king himselfe signifieng line 40 the popes resolute decree touching the church and colledge of Lameth to be broken downe and suppressed Wherevpon the king and archbishop though sore against their willes when they saw no waie longer to shift off the matter yéelded to the popes pleasure and so the archbishop sent his letters to
dominabitur in populo The which our lord grant that he may prosperouslie reigne vnto the pleasure of God and wealth of his realme Amen After the archbishop had ended wishing that it might so come to passe and the people answered Amen line 60 the king standing on his féet said vnto the lords and commons there present I thanke you my lords both spirituall and temporall and all the states of this land and doo you to wit that it is not my will that any man thinke that I by the waie of conquest would disherit any man of his heritage franches or other rights that him ought to haue of right nor to put him out of that which he now inioieth and hath had before time by custome or good law of this realme except such priuat persons as haue béene against the good purpose and the common profit of the realme When he had thus ended all the shiriffes and other officers were put in their authorities againe to exercise the same as before which they could not doo whilest the kings roiall throne was void Moreouer a proclamation was made that the states should assemble againe in parlement on mondaie then next insuing being the feast daie of saint Faith which is the sixt of October and that the monday then next following being the 13 of the same moneth and the feast day of saint Edward the king and confessor the coronation should be solemnized and that all such as had to claime any seruice to be doone by them at the same by any tenure they should come to the White-hall in the kings palace before the steward and constable of England on saturdaie next before the same day of the parlement and presenting their petitions that were due rightfull they should obteine that to them apperteined Excuse was also made on the kings behalfe for calling of a parlement vpon so short a warning so as the knights and burgesses were not changed but onelie appointed to assemble againe as if the other parlement had rather beene continued than dissolued The cause was alledged to be for easing of the charges that would haue risen if ech man had béene sent home and new knights and burgesses called These things doone the king rose from his place and with a cheerefull and right courteous countenance regarding the people went to White-hall where the same day he held a great feast In the after nâ—one were proclamations made in the accustomed places of the citie in the name of king Henrie the fourth On the morrow following being wednesdaie and first of October the procurators aboue named repaired to the tower of London and there signified vnto king Richard the admission of king Henrie And the aforesaid iustice William Thirning in name of the other and for all the states of the land renounced vnto the said Richard late king all homage and fealtie vnto him before time due in maner and forme as apperteined Which renuntiation to the deposed king was a redoubling of his greefe in so much as thereby it came to his mind how in former times he was acknowledged taken for their liege lord and souereigne who now whether in contempt or in malice God knoweth to his face forsware him to be their king So that in his heuinâ—s he might verie well haue said with a gréeued plaintife Heu quantae sortes miseris mortalibus instant Ah chari quoties obliuia nominis opto O qui me fluctus quis me telluris hiatuâ— Pertaesum tetricae vitae deglutiat ore Chasmatico Thus was king Richard depriued of all kinglie honour and princelie dignitie by reason he was so giuen to follow euill counsell and vsed such inconuenient waies and meanes through insolent misgouernance and youthfull outrage though otherwise a right noble and woorthie prince He reigned two and twentie yeares three moneths and eight daies He deliuered to king Henrie now that he was thus deposed all the goods that he had to the summe of three hundred thousand pounds in coine besides plate and iewels as a pledge and satisfaction of the iniuries by him committed and doone in hope to be in more suertie of life for the deliuerie thereof but whatsoeuer was promised he was deceiued therein For shortlie after his resignation he was conueied to the castell of Leeds in Kent froÌ„ thence to Pomfret where he departed out of this miserable life as after you shall heare He was séemelie of shape and fauor of nature good inough if the wickednesse naughtie demeanor of such as were about him had not altered it His chance verelie was greatlie infortunate which fell into such calamitie that he tooke it for the best waie he could deuise to renounce his kingdome for the which mortall men are accustomed to hazard all they haue to atteine therevnto But such misfortune or the like oftentimes falleth vnto those princes which when they are aloft cast no doubt for perils that maie follow He was prodigall ambitious and much giuen to the pleasure of the bodie He kept the greatest port and mainteined the most plentifull house that euer any king in England did either before his time or since For there resorted dailie to his court aboue ten thousand persons that had meat and drinke there allowed them In his kitchen there line 10 were thrée hundred seruitors and euerie other office was furnished after the like rate Of ladies chamberers and landerers there were aboue thrée hundred at the least And in gorgious and costlie apparell they exceeded all measure not one of them that kept within the bounds of his degrée Yeomen and groomes were clothed in silkes with cloth of graine and skarlet ouer sumptuous ye may be sure for their estates And this vanitie was not onelie vsed in the court in those daies but also other people abroad in the towns line 20 and countries had their garments cut far otherwise than had beene accustomed before his daies with imbroderies rich furres and goldsmiths worke and euerie daie there was deuising of new fashions to the great hinderance and decaie of the common-welth Moreouer such were preferred to bishoprikes and other ecclesiasticall liuings as neither could teach nor preach nor knew any thing of the scripture of God but onelie to call for their tithes and duties so that they were most vnworthie the name of bishops line 30 being lewd and most vaine persons disguised in bishops apparell Furthermore there reigned abundantlie the filthie sinne of leacherie and fornication with abhominable adulterie speciallie in the king but most chéefelie in the preâ—acie whereby the whole realme by such their euill example was so infected that the wrath of God was dailie prouoked to vengeance for the sins of the prince and his people How then could it continue prosperouslie with this king against whom for the â—owle enormâ—ties wherewith line 40 his life was defamed the wrath of God was whetted and tooke so sharpe an edge
other write that he was smouldered betweene two featherbeds and some haue affirmed that he died of verie gréefe for that he might not come openlie to his answer line 40 His dead corpse was conueied to saint Albons and there buried After his death none of his seruants suffered although fiue of them to wit sir Roger Chamberline knight Middleton Herbert Arteise esquiers and Richard Nedham gentleman were arreigned condemned and drawen to Tiborne where they were hanged let downe quicke and stripped to haue béene bowelled and quartered but the marques of Suffolke comming at that instant brought their pardons shewed the same openlie and so their liues line 50 were saued Some thinke that the name and title of Glocester hath béene vnluckie to diuerse which for their honours haue béene erected by creation of princes to that stile and dignitie as Hugh Spenser Thomas of Woodstoke sonne to king Edward the third and this duke Humfreie which three persons by miserable death finished their daies and after them king Richard the third also duke of Glocester in ciuill warre slaine So that this name duke of Glocester is taken line 60 for an vnhappie stile as the prouerbe speaketh of Seians horsse whose rider was euer vnhorssed whose possessor was euer brought to miserie But suerlie by the pitifull death of this noble duke and politike gouernour the publike wealth of the realme came to great decaie as by sequele here may more at large appeare Oft times it hapneth that a man in quenching of smoke burneth his fingers in the fire so the quéene in casting how to kéepe hir husband in honor and hir selfe in authoritie in making awaie of this noble man brought that to passe which she had most cause to haue feared which was the deposing of hir husband the decaie of the house of Lancaster which of likelihood had not chanced if this duke had liued for then durst not the duke of Yorke haue attempted to set foorth his title to the crowne as he afterwards did to the great trouble of the realme and destruction of king Henrie and of manie other noble men beside This is the opinion of men but Gods iudgements are vnsearchable against whose decrée and ordinance preuaileth no humane counsell But to conclude of this noble duke he was an vpright and politike gouernour bending all his indeuours to the aduancement of the common-wealth verie louing to the poore commons and so beloued of them againe learned wise full of courtesie void of pride and ambition a vertue rare in personages of such high estate but where it is most commendable But sith the praise of this noble man deserueth a large discourse and meet for such as haue cunning how to handle the same sith the ornaments of his mind were both rare admirable the feats of chiualrie by him commensed and atchiued valiant and fortunate his grauitie in counsell and soundnesse of policie profound and singular all which with a traine of other excellent properties linked togither require a man of manifold gifts to aduance them according to their dignitie I refer the readers vnto maister Foxes booke of Acts and Monuments Onelie this I ad that in respect of his noble indowments and his demeanor full of decencie which he dailie vsed it séemeth he might well haue giuen this prettie poesie Virtute duce non sanguine nitor In this six and twentith yeare of the reigne of this king but in the first of the rule of the quéene I find nothing doone worthie of rehersall within the realme of England but that the marquesse of Suffolke by great fauour of the king more desire of the quéene was erected to the title and dignitie of duke of Suffolke which he a short time inioied For Richard duke of Yorke being greatlie alied by his wife to the chiefe peeres and potentates of the realme beside his owne progenie perceiuing the king to be no ruler but the whole burthen of the realme to rest in direction of the quéene the duke of Suffolke began secretlie to allure his friends of the nobilitie and priuilie declared vnto them his title and right to the crowne and likewise did he to certeine wise gouernours of diuerse cities and townes Which attempt was so politikelie handled and so secretlie kept that prouision to his purpose was readie before his purpose was openlie published and his friends opened themselues yer the contrarie part could them espie for in conclusion all shortlie in mischiefe burst out as ye may hereafter heare During these dooings Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester and called the rich cardinall year 1448 departed out of this world buried at Westminster He was son to Iohn Duke of Lancaster descended of an honorable linage but borne in hast more noble in blood than notable in learning hautie in stomach and high of countenance rich aboue measure but not verie liberall disdainefull to his kin and dreadfull to his louers preferring monie before friendship manie things beginning and few performing sauing in malice and mischiefe his insatiable couetousnesse and hope of long life made him both to forget God his prince and himselfe Of the getting of his goods both by power legantine and spirituall briberie I will not speake but the keeping of them which he chiefelie gathered for ambitious purpose was both great losse to his naturall prince and natiue countrie for his hidden riches might haue well holpen the king and his secret treasure might haue relieued the communaltie when monie was scant and charges great Of this catholike clerke such were the déeds that with king and ech estate else saith Polydor the lighter was the losse bicause as for his hat he was a prelate proud inough so for a bishop was there a better soone set in his roome One William Patin son and heire to Richard his father and eldest brother to Iohn that deceassed deane of Chichester and to Richard that liued and died at Baslo in Derbishire This William was a person by parentage borne a gentleman for vertue and learning first consecrate bishop of Winchester then anon after for wisedome line 10 and integritie chosen lord chancellor of England wherein his prudence made eminent in warilie weilding the weight of that office at those daies which were so dangerous for all estates to liue in His vertuous disposition was right apparant and it were but by this the godlie erection of that worthie worke Magdalene colledge in Oxford a plot right aptlie chosen out for studie at first with strength and workemanship soone after builded according in proportion beautifull outward and for vse verie commodious line 20 within sorted into a faire mansion for the president seuerall and méet for a man to that office of worship and grauitie and also into other roomes for the fellowes officers and yoonger students Not without a vertuous remembrance of the verie tenderlings who might appeare to be toward and teachable whereof part to be trained vp in
and the bodie of the church conteining in length fortie foot and in breadth fourtéene foot The walles of the same church to be in height ninetie foot imbattelled vawted and charerooffed sufficientlie butteraced and euerie butterace fined with finials And in the east end of the same church shall be a window of nine daies and betwixt euerie butterace a window of fiue daies And betwixt euerie of the same butteraces in the bodie of the church on both sides of the same church line 30 a closet with an altar therein conteining in length twentie foot and in breadth ten foot vawted and finished vnder the soile of the I le windowes And the pauement of the church to be inhanced foure foot aboue the ground without And the height of the pauement of the quiere one foot and an halfe aboue the pauement of the church And the pauement of the altar thrée foot aboue that And on the north side of the quiere a vestrie conteining in length fiftie foot and in breadth twentie and two foot departed into two line 40 houses beneath two houses aboue which shall conteine in height twentie two foot in all with an entrie from the quiere vawted And at the west end of the church a cloister square the east pane conteining in length an hundred seuentie and fiue foot and the west pane as much The north pane two hundred foot and the south pane as much of the which the deambulatorie thirtéene foot wide and in height twentie foot to the corbill table with cleare stories and butteraces with finials vawted imbattelled And the ground line 50 thereof foure foot lower than the church ground And in the middle of the west pane of the cloister a strong tower square conteining foure and twentie foot within the walles And in the height one hundred and twentie foot to the corbill table And foure small turrets ouer that fined with pinacles And a doore into the said cloister inward but outward none And as touching the dimensions of the housing of the said colledge I haue deuised and appointed in the south-side of the said church a quadrant closing to both ends line 60 of the same church the east pane whereof shall conteine two hundred and thirtie foot in length and in breadth within the walles two and twentie foot In the same panes middle a tower for a gatehouse conteining in length thirtie foot and in breadth two and twentie and in height thréescore foot with thrée chambers ouer the gate euerie one ouer the other And on either side of the same gate foure chambers euerie one conteining in length fiue twentie foot and in bredth two and twentie foot And ouer euerie of these chambers two chambers aboue of the same measure or more with two towers outward and two towers inward The south pane shall conteine in length two hundred thirtie and eight foot and in breadth two and twentie foot within in which shal be seuen chambers euerie one conteining in length nine and twentie foot and in breadth twentie and two with a chamber parcell of the prouosts lodging conteining in length thirtie and fiue foot and with a chamber in the east corner of the same pane conteining in length twentie and fiue foot and in breadth thirtie and two foot And ouer euerie of all these chambers two chambers and with fiue towers outward and thrée towers inward The west pane shall conteine in length two hundred and thirtie foot and in breadth within twentie foure foot in which at the end toward the church shall be a librarie conteining in length an hundred and ten foot and in breadth twentie and foure foot And vnder it a large house for reading and disputations conteining in length eleuen foot And two chambers vnder the same librarie each conteining twentie and nine foot in length and in breadth foure and twentie foot And ouer the said librarie a house of the same largenesse for diuerse stuffe of the said colledge In the other end of the same pane a hall conteining in length an hundred foot vpon a vawt of twelue foot high ordeined for the cellar and butterie and the breadth of the hall six and thirtie foot On euerie side thereof a baie window And in the nether end of the same hall toward the middle of the same pane a pantrie butterie euerie of them in length twentie foot and in breadth seuentéene foot And ouer that two chambers for officers And at the nether end of the hall toward the west a goodlie kitchin And the same pane shall haue inward two towers ordeined for the waies into the hall and librarie And in euerie corner of the said quadrant shall be two corner towers one inward and one outward more than the towers aboue rehearsed And at the vpper end of the hall the prouosts lodging that is to wit more than the chambers for him aboue specified a parlour on the ground conteining six and thirtie foot in length and two and twentie foot in breadth two chambers aboue of the same quantitie And westward closing there to a kitchin for him a larderhouse stables and other necessarie housings and grounds And westward beyond these houses and the said kitchin ordeined for the hall a bakehouse a brewhouse and other houses of office betwixt which there is left a ground square of fourscore foot in euerie pane for wood and such stuffe And in the middle of the said large quadrant shall be a conduit goodlie deuised for the ease of the same colledge And I will that the edification proceed in large forme of my said colledge cleane and substantiall setting apart superfluitie of so great curious workes of intaile and busie moulding And I haue deuised and appointed that the precinct of my said colledge as well on both sides of the garden from the colledge to the water as in all other places of the same precinct be inclosed with a substantiall wall of the height of fourtéene foot with a large tower at the principall entrie against the middle of the east pane out of the high stréet And in the same tower a large gate and another tower in the middle of the west end at the new bridge And the same wall to be creafted imbattelled and fortified with towers as manie as shall be thought conuenient therevnto And I will that my said colledge be edified of the most substantiall best abiding stuffe of stone lead glasse and iron that maie best he had and prouided thereto ¶ Thus much I haue inlarged by occasion of reading this good kings will the cunning deuise wherof I leaue to the considerate iudgement of such as be expert in architecture heartilie desiring almightie God to put into the heart of some noble prince of this land one day to make perfect this roiall worke so charitablie begun But now to returne to king Edward Ye shall
Cornewall and earle of Chester his second sonne the duke of Yorke and with them the earle of Lincolnes sonne and heire the duke of Suffolke the lord Thomas Greie the quéenes sonne and Richard his brother the earle of Shrewesburie the earle of Wilshire master Edward Wooduile the lord Neuill the lord Barkleis sonne and heire the lord Audelies sonne and heire the lord saint Amand the lord Stanleis sonne and heire the lord Suttons sonne and heire the lord Hastings sonne and heire the lord Ferrers of Charleis sonne and heire master Herbert brother to the earle of Penbroke master Uaughan Brian chiefe iudge Litilton one of the iudges of the common plées master Bodringham master Brian Stapleton Kneuit Pilkinton Ludlow Charleton c. The same daie the king created the lord Thomas marquesse Dorset before dinner and so in the habit of a marquesse aboue the habit of his knighthood he began tho table of knightâ— in saint Edwards chamber At that time he ordeined that the kings chamberleine should go with the ancient and well nurtered knight to aduertise and teaâ—â— the order of knighthood to the esquiers being in the baine The king himselfe came in person and did honour to all the companie with his noble councell This yeare the duke of Burgognie was slaine by the Switzers before the towne of Nancie in Lorraine after whose death the French king wan all the townes which the said duke held in Picardie and Artois And bicause that the towne of Bullen and countie of Bullenois apperteined by right of inheritance vnto the lord Berthram de la Toure earle of Aâ—uergne the French king bought of him his right and title in the same and recompensed him with other lands in the countie of Forests and in other places And bicause the forenamed towne and countie were holden of the earledome of Artois he changed the tenure and auowed to hold the same towne countie of our ladie of Bolongne and therof did homage to the image in the great church of Bolongne offering there an hart of gold weieng two thousand crownes ordeining further that his heires and successors at their entrie into their estates by themselues or their deputies should offer an hart of like weight and value as a reliefe and homage for the same towne and countie ¶ This yeare was Robert Basset maior of London who did sharpe correction vpon bakers for making of light bread he caused diuerse of them to be set on the pillorie in Cornehill And also one Agnes Daintie a butterwife for selling of butter new and old mingled togither being first trapped with butter dishes was then set on the pillorie ¶ The countesse of Oxford deceassed and was buried at Windsore ¶ Also this yeare Richard Rawson one of the shiriffes of London caused to be builded one house in the church yard of S. Marie hospitall without Bishops gate of London where the maior of that citie and his brethren the aldermen vse to sit and heare the sermons in the Easter holie daies as in times past appeared by an inscription on the front of the same house now by wethering defaced which I haue read in these words Praie for the soules of Richard Rawson late Mercer and alderman of London and Isabell his wife of whose goods this worke was made and founded Anno Dom. 1488. By the diligence of Ralph Iosseline maior of London year 1477 the wall about London was new made betwixt Algate and Creplegate he caused the Moore field to be searched for claie and bricke to be made and burnt there he also caused chalke to be brought out of Kent and in the same Moore field to be burnt into lime for the furtherance of that worke The maior with his companie of the drapers made all that part betwixt Bishops gate and Alhalowes church in the same wall Bishops gate it selfe was new built by the merchants Almans of the Stilliard and from Alhalowes church toward Moore gate a great part of the same was builded of the goods by the executors of sir Iohn Crosbie somtimes an alderman of London as may appeare by his armes in two places fixed The companie of Skinners made that part of the wall betweene Algate and Buries markes towards Bishops gate as may appeare by their armes in thrée places fixed the other companies of the citie made the other deale of the said wall which was a great worke to be doone in one yeare Also this yeare Thomas Burdet an esquier of Arrow in Warwikeshire sonne to sir Nicholas Burdet who was great butler of Normandie in Henrie the sixt daies was beheaded for a word spoken in this sort King Edward in his progresse hunted in Thomas Burdets parke at Arrow and slue manie line 10 of his deere amongst the which was a white bucke whereof Thomas Burdet made great account And therefore when he vnderstood thereof he wished the buckes head in his bellie that moued the king to kill it Which tale being told to the king Burdet was apprehended and accused of treason for wishing the buckes head hornes and all in the kings bellie he was condemned drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there beheaded and then buried in the Greie friers church at London Wherefore it line 20 is good counsell that the wiseman giueth saieng Kéepe thy toong kéepe thy life for manie times we sée that speech offendeth procureth mischéefe where silence is author neither of the one nor the other as it is trulie and in praise of silence spoken by the poet nulli tacuisse nocet nocet esse loquutum About this season through great mishap the sparke of priuie malice was newlie kindled betwixt the king and his brother the duke of Clarence insomuch line 30 that where one of the dukes seruants was suddenlie accused I can not saie whether of truth or vntrulie suspected by the dukes enimies of poisoning sorcerie or inchantment and thereof condemned and put to execution for the same the duke which might not suffer the wrongfull condemnation of his man as he in his conscience iudged nor yet forbeare but to murmur and reproue the dooing thereof mooued the king with his dailie exclamation to take such displeasure with him that finallie the duke was cast into the line 40 Tower and therewith adiudged for a traitor and priuilie drowned in a butt of malmesie the eleuenth of March in the beginning of the seuententh yeare of the kings reigne Some haue reported that the cause of this noble mans death rose of a foolish prophesie which was that after K. Edward one should reigne whose first letter of his name should be a G. Wherewith the king and quéene were sore troubled and began to conceiue a greeuous grudge against this duke and could not line 50 be in quiet till they had brought him to his end And as the diuell is woont to incumber the minds of men which delite in such diuelish fantasies
But the third request whether the let was on the mans line 50 side or on the womans neuer sorted to anie conclusion The ladie Margaret the kings daughter affied as yée haue heard to the king of Scots was appointed to be conueied into Scotland by the earle of Surrie and the earle of Northumberland as warden of the marches was commanded to deliuer hir at the confines of both the realmes And so héere vpon after hir comming to Berwike she was conueied to Lamberton kirke in Scotland where the king line 60 of Scots with the flower of all the nobles and gentlemen of Scotland was readie to receiue hir to whome the earle of Northumberland according to his commission deliuered hir The said earle of Northumberland that daie what for the riches of his coat being goldsmithes worke garnished with pearle and stone and what for the gallant apparell of his Henchmen and braue trappers of his horsse beside foure hundred tall men well horssed and apparelled in his colours was estéemed both of the Scots and Englishmen more like a prince than a subiect From Lamberton the foresaid ladie was conueied to Edenburgh and there the daie after king Iames the fourth in the presence of all his nobilitie espoused hir and feasted the English lords and shewed iusts and other pastimes verie honourablie after the fashion of that countrie And after all things were finished according to their commission the erle of Surrie with all the English lords and ladies returned into their countrie In this yeare the king kept his high court of parlement in the which diuerse acts estéemed necessarie for the preseruation of the common-wealth were established and amongst other it was enacted that théeues and murtherers duelie conuicted by the law to die and yet saued by their books should be committed to the bishops custodie After this a subsidie was granted both of the temporaltie and spiritualtie and so that parlement ended But the king now drawing into age and willing to fill his chests with aboundance of treasure was not satisfied with this onelie subsidie but deuised an other meane how to inrich himselfe as thus year 1504 He considered that the Englishmen little regarded the kéeping of penall lawes and pecuniall statutes deuised for the good preseruation of the common-welth Wherefore he caused inquisition to be made of those that had transgressed anie of the same lawes so that there were but few noble men merchants farmers husbandmen grasiers or occupiers that could cléerlie prooue themselues faultlesse but had offended in some one or other of the same lawes At the first they that were found giltie were easilie fined But after there were appointed two maisters and surueiors of his forfeits the one sir Richard Empson and the other Edmund Dudleie These two were learned in the lawes of the realme who meaning to satisfie their princes pleasure and to sée their commission executed to the vttermost séemed little to respect the perill that might insue Wherevpon they being furnished with a sort of accusers commonlie called promoters or as they themselues will be named informers troubled manie a man whereby they wan them great hatred and the king by such rigorous procéedings lost the loue and fauour which the people before time had borne towards him so that he for setting them a worke and they for executing of it in such extreame wise ran into obloquie with the subiects of this realme ¶ On the thirtéenth of Nouember was holden within the palace of the archbishop of Canturburie at Lambeth the sergeants feast where dined the king and all his nobles And vpon the same day Thomas Granger newlie chosen shiriffe of London was presented before the barons of the kings exchequer there to take his oth and after went with the maior vnto the same feast which saued him monie in his pursse for if that day that feast had not béene kept he must haue feasted the maior aldermen and others woorshipfull of the citie This feast was kept at the charge of ten learned men newlie admitted to bée sergeants to the kings law whose names were Robert Bridnell William Greuill Thomas Marow George Edgore Iohn Moore Iohn Cutler Thomas Eliot Lewes Pollard Guie Palmis William Fairesax On the one and twentith of Nouember at night began a perillous fier at the signe of the panier vpon London bridge néere to saint Magnus church where six tenements were burned yer the same could be quenched On the seuenth of Ianuarie were certeine houses consumed with fire against saint Butolphes church in Thames street On the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie began a parlement at Westminster of the which was chosen speaker for the commons maister Edmund Dudleie A new coine of siluer was ordeined of grotes and halfe grotes which bare but halfe faces and some péeces of the value of twelue pense were then to sir Iohn Carew and to sir Thomas Trenchard that they should interteine him in the most honorable sort they could deuise till he might come himselfe in person to welcome him Beside this he sent the earle of Arundell with manie lords and knights to attend vpon him Which earle according to the kings letters receiued him with thrée hundred horsses all by torchlight to the great admiration of the strangers King Philip séeing no remedie but that he must line 10 needs tarie would no longer gaze after king Henries comming but tooke his iournie toward Windsore castell where the king laie and fiue miles from Windsore the prince of Wales accompanied with fiue earles and diuerse lords and knights and other to the number of fiue hundred persons gorgiouslie apparelled receiued him after the most honorable fashion And within halfe a mile of Windsore the king accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and a great part of the nobilitie of this realme welcomed line 20 him so conueied him to the castell of Windsore where he was made companion of the noble order of the garter After him came to Windsore his wife queene Iane sister to the princesse Dowager late wife to prince Arthur After the two kings had renewed confirmed the league and amitie betwixt them king Henrie desired to haue Edmund de la Poole earle of Suffolke to be deliuered into his hands To whome the king of Castâ—le answered that he verelie was not within line 30 his dominion and therefore it laie not in him to deliuer him In deed he was loth to be the authour of his death that came to him for succour and was receiued vnder his protection yet vpon the earnest request and assured promise of king Henrie that he would pardon him of all executions and paines of death he granted to king Henries desire and so incontinentlie caused the said earle secretlie to be sent for After this to protract time till he were possessed of 〈…〉 king Henrie conueied the king of Castile line 40 vnto the citie of London that he might sée the head
pencels and cushins where was soong a solemne dirige and a masse with a sermon made by the bishop of Rochester During which time the kings houshold and the mourners reposed them in the bishops palace The next daie the corps in like order was remooued towards Westminster sir Edward Howard bearing the kings baner on a courser trapped in the armes of the deceased king In Westminster was a curious hearse made of nine principals all full of lights which were lighted at the comming of the corps which was taken out of the charriot by six lords and set vnder the hearse the image or the representation lieng vpon the cushin on a large pall of gold The hearse was double railed within the first railes sat the mourners and within the second raile stood knights bearing baners of saints and without the same stood officers of armes When the mourners were set Gartier king at armes cried For the soule of the noble prince king Henrie the seauenth lat◠king of this realme then the quire began Placebo and so soong dirige which being finished the mourners departed into the palace where they had a void and so reposed for that night The next daie were thrée masses solemnelie soong by bishops and at the last masse was offered the kings baner and courser his coat of armes his sword his target and his helme and at the end of masse the mourners offered vp rich palles of cloath of gold and baudekin and when the quire sang Libera me the bodie was put into the earth Then the lord treasuror lord steward lord chamberleine the treasuror and comptrollor of the kings houshold brake their staues and cast them into the graue Then Gartier cried with a lowd voice Viue le roy Henrie le huictesme roy d'Angleterre de France sire d'Irland Then all the mourners and all other that had giuen their attendance on this funerall obsequie departed to the palace where they had a great and a sumptuous feast Woonder it were to write of the lamentation that was made for this prince amongst his seruants and other of the wisest sort and the ioie that was made for his death by such as were troubled by rigour of his law yet the toward hope which in all points appeared in the yoong king did both repaire and comfort the heauie hearts of them which had lost so wise and sage a prince and also did put out of the minds of such as were releeued by the said kings death all their old grudge and rancor and confirmed their new ioie by the new grant of his pardon After that the funerals of the said late king were once ended great preparation was made for the coronation of the new king which was appointed on Midsummer daie next insuing During the time of which preparation the king was aduised by some of his councell to take to wife the ladie Katharine late wife to his brother prince Arthur least she hauing so great a dowrie as was appointed to hir might marrie out of the realme which should be to his hinderance The king being hereto persuaded espoused the said ladie Katharine the third daie of Iune the which marriage was dispensed with by pope Iulie at the sute of hir father king Ferdinando On the eleuenth daie of this moneth of Iune the king came from Gréenewich to the Tower ouer London bridge and so by Grace church with whome came manie a gentleman richlie apparelled but speciallie the duke of Buckingham which had a gowne all of goldsmiths line 10 worke verie costlie On fridaie the two and twentith day of Iune the king with the quéene being in the Tower of London made foure and twentie knights of the Bath And the morow following being saturdaie the foure and twentith of Iune his grace with the quéene departed from the Tower through London the streets being hanged with tapestrie and cloth of arras verie richlie and a great part of the south side of Cheape with cloth of gold so was some part of Cornehill The stréets were railed barred on the one side from line 20 ouer against Grace church to Bredstréet in Cheapeside where euerie occupation stood in their liueries in order beginning with base and meane occupations and so ascending to the worshipfull crafts Highest and lastlie stood the maior with the aldermen The goldsmiths stals vnto the end of the Old change being replenished with virgins in white with branches of white wax the priests and clearkes in rich copes with crosses and censers of siluer with censing his line 30 grace and the queene also as they passed The features of his bodie his goodlie personage his amiable visage princelie countenance with the noble qualities of his roiall estate to euerie man knowen néedeth no rehersall considering that for lacke of cunning I cannot expresse the gifts of grace and of nature that God indued him with all Yet partlie to describe his apparell it is to be noted his grace ware in his vppermost apparell a robe of crimsin veluet furred with ermins his iacket or line 40 coat of raised gold the placard imbrodered with diamonds rubies emerands great pearles and other rich stones a great bauderike about his necke of great balasses The trapper of his horsse damaske gold with a deepe purfle of ermins His knights and esquiers for his bodie in crimsin veluet and all the gentlemen with other of his chappell and all his officers and houshold seruants were appareled in scarlet The barons of the fiue portes bare the canopie or cloth of estate For to recite vnto you the great estates by name the order of their going the number line 50 of the lords spirituall temporall knights esquiers and gentlemen and their costlie and rich apparell of seuerall deuises and fashions who tooke vp his horsse best or who was richest beseene it would aske long time and yet I should omit manie things and faile of the number for they were verie manie wherefore I passe ouer But this I dare well saie there was no lacke or scarsitie of cloth of tissue cloth of gold cloth of siluer broderie or of goldsmiths works but in more plentie and aboundance than hath beene séene line 60 or read of at anie time before and thereto manie and great numbers of chaines of gold bauderikes both massie and great Also before the kings highnesse rode two gentlemen richlie apparelled and about their bodies ouerthwart they bare two robes the one of the duchie of Guien and the other for the duchie of Normandie with hats on their heads powdered with ermins for the estate of the same Next followed two persons of good estate the one bearing his cloke the other his hat apparelled both in goldsmiths worke and broderie their horsses trapped in burned siluer drawen ouer with cordes of gréene silke and gold the edges and borders of their apparell being fretted with gold of damaske After them came sir Thomas Brandon master of the kings
vnperished and othersome wormeaten albeit one bough beare them and one trée giue them say ¶ On the tuesdaie being the tenth daie of October all the Englishmen except a few that were officers with the said quéene were discharged which was a great sorrow for them for some had serued hir long in hope of preferment some that had honest roomes left them to serue hir and now they were without seruice which caused them to take thought in so much some died by the waie returning and some fell mad but there was no remedie After the English lords had doone their commission the French king willed them to take no longer paine and so gaue to them good rewards and they tooke their leaue of the queene and returned Then the Dolphin of France called line 10 lord Francis duke of Ualois and by his wife duke of Britaine for the more honour of this mariage before the Englishmen departed from Abuile caused a solemne iusts to be proclamed which should be kept at Paris in the moneth of Nouember next insuing Namelie that he with his nine aids should answer all commers being gentlemen of name and of armes First to run fiue courses at the tilt with péeces of aduantage also fiue courses at randon with line 20 sharpe speares and twelue strokes with sharpe swords and that doone he and his aids to fight at the barriers with all gentlemen of name and of armes First six foines with hand speares and after that eight strokes to the most aduantage if the speare so long held and after that twelue strokes with the sword and if anie man be vnhorssed or felled with fighting on foot then his horsse and armour to be rendered to the officers of armes and euerie man of this chalenge must set vp his armes and name vpon line 30 an arch triumphant which shal be made at the place where the iustes shal be and further shall write to what point he will answer to one or to all When this proclamation was reported in England by the noble men that returned from the mariage the duke of Suffolke the marquesse Dorset and his foure bretheren the lord Clinton sir Edward Neuill sir Giles Capell Thomas Cheneie and other sued to the king to be at the chalenge which request he gratiouslie granted Then the lords and line 40 knights prepared all things necessarie for their enterprise and shipped there horsses and harnesse and did so much by iourneie that they came to Paris at the end of October which were hartilie welcomed of the king and the Dolphin but most of all of the French queene which then laie at saint Denise and was not yet crowned nor entered into Paris The Dolphin desired the duke of Suffolke and the lord marquesse Dorset to be two of his immediat aids which thereto assented line 50 Therefore was erected an arch of widnesse at the tornels beside the stréet of saint Anthonie directlie before the bastell on the which were set foure targets or scutchions the one siluer and he that set his name vnder that shield to run at tilt according to the articles He that put his name vnder the golden target should run with the sharpe speares and fight with sharpe swords They that put their names to the blacke shield should fight on foot with speares and swords for the one hand And he that touched the tawnie line 60 shield should cast a speare on foot with a target on his arme and after to fight with a two hand sword On this arch aboue stood the armes of the king the queene and beneath them stood the armes of the Dolphin and his aids and vnderneath stood the foure scutchions that you haue heard of and vnder them all the armes and names of such as set their names to anie of the said foure scutchions While all these things were preparing the ladie Marie of England the fift daie of Nouember then being sundaie was with great solemnitie crowned queene of France in the monasterie of S. Denise and the Dolphin all the season held the crowne ouer hir head bicause it was of great weight to hir greeuance at which coronation were the lords of England all according to their degrées well interteined On mondaie the sixt daie of Nouember the said queene was receiued into the citie of Paris after the order that followeth First the gard of the citie met with hir without saint Denise all in coats of goldsmiths worke with ships gilt and after them met hir all the priests and religious esteemed to be thrée thousand The quéene was in a chaire couered about but not ouer hir person in white cloth of gold the horsses that drew it in cloth of gold on hir head a coronall all of great pearles hir necke and brest full of iewels Before hir went a gard of Almans after their fashion and after them all noblemen as the Dolphin the duke of Alanson the duke of Burbon the duke of Uandosme the duke of Longeuile and the duke of Suffolke the marquesse Dorset fiue cardinals and a great number of estates about hir person rode the kings gard which were Scots Thus was this queene receiued into Paris and so conueied to the cathedrall church and there offered from thence to the palace where she offered at the holie chappell and from thence she went to hir lodging for that night for whome was prouided a great supper and the heralds cried a largesse and had to them giuen a ship of siluer and gilt and other plate to the value of two hundred marks and after supper began dansing and pastime On the morow began the iusts and the Dolphin with his aids entered the field the apparell and bards were cloth of gold cloth of siluer and crimsin veluet kanteled togither all in one sute they shewed themselues before the king and quéene who were on a goodlie stage and the queene stood so that all men might sée hir and woondered at hir beautie but the king was feeble laie on a couch for weakenesse Then entered the counter part by a raile for combring the place These iusts continued thrée daies in the which were answered thrée hundred and fiue men of armes and euerie man ran fiue courses and with sharpe speares diuerse were slaine not spoken of At the randon and turneie the duke of Suffolke hurt a gentleman so that he was like to die The Marques Dorset stroke monsieur Grue an Albanois with his speare persed his headpéece and put him in ieopardie The duke of Suffolke in the turneie ouerthrew a man of armes horsse man and so did the lord Marquesse another and yet the Frenchmen would in no wise praise them At this turneie the Dolphin was hurt in the hand so that he could not performe his chalenge at the barriers and put one of his aid in his roome The next daie after began the fight at the barriers And bicause the Dolphin was not present the
doone like a Scot. This quéene sometime was at the court and sometime at Bainards castell and so she continued in England all this yéere The king for the honour of his sister the ninetéenth and twentith daie of Maie prepared two solemne daies of iusts and the king himselfe and the duke of Suffolke the earle of Essex and Nicholas Carew esquier tooke on them to answer all commers The apparell of them and their horsses was blacke veluet couered all ouer with branches of honie-suckles of fine flat gold of damaske of loose worke euerie leafe of the branch moouing the embroderie was verie cunning and sumptuous On the king was attending in one sute on horssebacke the lord marquesse Dorset the earle of Surrie the lord Aburgauennie the lord Hastings sir Iohn Pechie the lord Ferrers sir William Fitz Williams and twelue other knights All these were in frockes of blew veluet garded with rich cloth of gold and their horsse trappers of blew veluet fringed with gold and on foot were fortie persons all in blew sattin garded with cloth of gold And so they entred the field with trumpets drumslades and other minstrelsie Then in came the counterpartie richlie apparelled to the number of twelue and on that daie euerie man did well but the king did best and so was adiudged and so at night they ceased and came to supper The king the next daie and his companie were apparelled horsse and all in purple veluet set full of leaues of cloth of gold ingrailed with fine flat gold of damaske embrodered like to rose leaues and euerie leafe fastned to other with points of damaske gold and on all their borders were letters of gold bullion And on the king waited fiue lords fourtéene knights in frockes of yellow veluet garded and bound with rich cloth of gold and thirtie gentlemen were in like apparell on foote and fortie officers in yellow sattin edged with cloth of gold Thus with great triumph they entred the field Then the counterpartie entred all clothed and barded in white sattin trauersed with cloth of gold richlie This daie was manie a great stripe giuen The king and sir William Kingston ranne togither which sir William Kingston was a strong and a tall knight yet the king by strength ouerthrew him to the ground And after that the king and his aids had performed their courses they ranne volant at all commers which was a pleasant sight to sée And when night approched they all disarmed them and went to the quéenes chamber where was a great banket for the welcome of the quéene of Scots In this moneth of Maie were sent out of England twelue hundred masons and carpenters and thrée hundred laborers to the citie of Tornaie for the king and his councell considered that the garrison that was kept there was chargeable and therefore it was determined that there should be builded a castell to chastise the citie if they rebelled and to minish the garrison And therefore these workemen were sent thither which this yéere began a strong castell and wrought still on it In this yéere by the cardinall were all men called to accompt that had â—he occupieng of the kings monie in the warres or elsewhere not to euerie mans contentation for some were found in arrerages and some saued themselues by policie and briberie and waxed rich and some innocents were punished And for a truth he so punished periurie with open punishment and open papers wearing that in his time it was lesse vsed He punished also lords knights and men of all sorts for riots bearing and mainteining in their countries that the poore men liued quietlie who perceiuing that he punished the rich complained without number and brought manie an honest man to trouble and vexation Now when the cardinall at the last perceiued their vntrue surmises and feined complaints for the most part he then waxed wearie of hearing their causes and ordeined by the kings commission diuerse vnder courts to beare complaints by bill of poore people The one was kept in the White hall the other before the kings almoner doctor Stokesleie a man that had more learning than discretion to be a iudge the third was kept in the lord treasurors chamber beside the starre chamber and the fourth at the rols at the after noone These courts were greatlie haunted for a time but at the last the people perceiued that much delaie was vsed in these courts and few matters ended and when they were ended they bound no man by the law then euerie man was werie of them and resorted to the common law It was strange to sée the cardinall a man not skilled in the laws fit in the seat of iudgement and pronounce the law being aided at the first by such as according line 10 to the ancient custome did sit as associats with him but he would not sticke to determine sundrie causes neither rightlie decided nor adiudged by order of law And againe such as were cleare cases he would sometime prohibit the same to passe call them into iudgement frame an order in controuersies and punish such as came with vntrue surmises afore the iudges sharpelie reprooue the negligence of the iudges themselues which had receiued such surmises line 20 and not well considered of the controuersies of the parties And such was the administration of the cardinall vnder a colour of iustice at the first but bicause the same seemed at length to be but a verie shadow or colour in déed it quicklie vanished awaie he taking vpon him the whole rule himselfe for that he saw the king made small account of anie other but onelie of him Whereby it came to passe that manie of the péeres and high estates of the realme withdrew them from line 30 the court as first the archbishop of Canturburie and the bishop of Winchester which got them home into their diocesses But yet before their departure as good fathers of their countrie they instantlie besought the king that he would not suffer anie seruant to exceed and passe his maister borrowing that sentence out of the gospell of saint Iohn where our Sauiour speaking to his disciples saith to them Uerelie verelie I say vnto you the seruant is not greater than his maister Herevnto the king knowing that line 40 they meant this by the cardinall made this answer That he would diligentlie sée that euerie seruant should obeie and not command But the cardinall notwithstanding during the time of his flattering felicitie held out thinking scorne to be countermanded behauing himselfe more like a prince than a prelat so blinded was he with vaineglorie and drunken with the transitorie delights of the world obstinate impediments and most horrible hinderances to the permanent ioies of heauen as the poet saith line 50 Delicias mundi fragiles qui mente sequetur Perdidit aeterni certissima gaudia coeli After this the duke of Norffolke departed home into his countrie and last of all the duke of
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
quéere sang Te Deum and the minstrels plaid on eueriâ— side ¶ Here it is conuenient to adde the battell of Pauia wherein the French king was taken prisoner most notablie discoursed by Guicciardine in the fiftéenth booke of his historie the principall matter wherof to make the report of Pauia and the French king more perspicuous it were good to inferre On the night saith mine author before the fiue and twentith of Februarie a daie dedicated by the christians to the apostle saint Matthew and also the daie of the â—â—tiuitie of the emperour the imperialles determined to march to Mirabell where laie incamped certeine companies of horssemen and footmen In this march they stood vpon this intention that if the French men mooued then they had set at libertie the siege of Pauia and if they mooued not then to aduenture the fortune of the battell Therefore the better to aduance this determination all the beginning of the night they gaue manie alarmes the more to kéepe trauelled and wearie the French men making semblance as though they would charge them on that side towards Paw Thesin and saint Lazarus About midnight euerie souldior by the commandement of the capteins put on a white cassakin ouer his armor to be knowne from the Frenchmen They were cast into two squadrons of horssemen foure of footmen In the first were six thousand footmen equallie compounded of lanceknights Spaniards and Italians this squadron was led by the marquesse of Guast the second stood onelie vpon certeine bands of Spanish footmen vnder the charge of the marquesse of Pisquairo the third and fourth squadron were of lanceknights commanded by the viceroy and the duke of Burbon They arriued at the parke walles certeine houres before daie and by the working of their masons and readie willes of their souldiers they cast downe to the earth thrée score fadome of wall by which breach being entred within the parke the first squadron drew towards Mirabell and the residue of the armie tooke the waie to the campe As soone as the king vnderstood that they were entred into the parke thinking they would draw to Mirabell he issued out of his lodging to fight in plaine and open field desiring to draw the battell rather to that place than to anie other for the aduantages which it gaue to the horssemen he commanded to turne the artilleries toward the enimies which beating them in flanke brought great damage to the reregard But in the meane while the battell of the imperialles gaue a furious charge vpon the kings squadron which ordinarilie was the battell but as the Spaniards went it was the reregard The king fought valiantlie abode with great courage the violence of his enimies who with the furie of their harquebuziers forced his men to giue ground till the rescue of the Switzers came when the Spaniards were repelled as well by them as by the horssemen that charged them in flanke But the viceroy being called in by the marquesse of Pisquairo who broght to the fight his lanceknights they were easilie broken not without great slaughter of the Switzers who that daie did nothing answer the opinion of valor which aforetimes they had woont so honorablie to expresse in battelles The king kept alwaies the middle of the battell being inuironed with a great gard of men at armes And albeit he did what he could to conteine and confirme his people yet after he had fought long with his owne hands his horsse being slaine vnder him him selfe lightlie hurt in the face and in the hand he was stricken downe to the earth and taken prisoner by fiue souldiers that knew not what he was In which misfortune the viceroy pressing into the throng his maiestie disclosed him selfe to him who with great reuerence kissed his hand and receiued him prisoner in the emperours name At the same time the marquesse of Guast with the first squadron had defeated the horssemen that were at Mirabell And Anthonie de Leua who as was said had to that end cast downe to the earth so great a quantitie and space of wall as an hundred and fiftie horssemen might sallie foorth in front issued out of Pauia so charged the French behind that he put them wholie to flight And in that feare they were almost all stripped and trussed except the reregard of the horssemen which being led by monsieur de Alanson from the beginning of the battell retired almost whole It is holden for certeine that in this battell were slaine more than eight thousand men of the French campe part by sword and part of bodies drowned in the riuer of Thesin séeking their safetie by swimming Of this generall number were about twentie of the most noble and apparant lords of France as the admerall the lord Iames Chebanes the lord line 10 Palissa and Trimouille the master of the horsse monsieur de Aubignie monsieur de Boissie and monsieur de la Escud who being taken gréeuouslie wounded by his enimies gaue to them his life in stéed of a ransome The prisoners that were taken were the king of Nauarre the bastard of Sauoie the lord Montmerancie Saint Paule Brion Anall monsieur de Chandion monsieur de Imbercourt Galeas Uisconte Frederike Bossolo Barnabie Uisconte Guidanes with manie gentlemen line 20 and almost all the capteins that escaped the slaughter of the sword There was also taken prisoner Ierome Leandro bishop of Brunduso the popes nuntio but by commandement of the viceroy he was eftsoones set at libertie as also monsieur Saint Paule and Frederike Bossolo committed to the castell of Pauia brake prison a little after by the corruption of the Spaniards that had them in charge Of the imperialles side the vniuersall slaughter excéeded not seauen hundred bodies and not one line 30 capteine of name except Ferrand Castriot marquesse of Angeo the marquesse of Pisquairo was wounded in two places Anthonie de Leua lightlie hurt in the leg The preie and spoile of this battell was so great as there had not beene seene in Italie more rich souldiors Of so great an armie there was preserned but the reregard of foure hundred lances commanded by monsieur de Alanson they neuer came to the fight neuer suffered charge nor neuer were followed but leauing behind them their baggage they retired line 40 whole to Piemont their feare making them more hastie to flie than carefull of their honor And as one calamitie followeth another so the losse of the battell was no sooner reapported at Millaine than Theodor Triuulce who laie there in garrison with foure hundred lances departed and tooke his waie to Musocquo all the souldiors folowing him by troops insomuch as the same daie that the king lost the battell all the dutchie of Millaine was made frée line 50 from the iurisdiction of the French The daie after the victorie the king was led prisoner to the rocke of Pisqueton for that the duke of Millaine in regard of his proper
Lanquet wrote an epitome of chronicles and also of the winning of Bullongne Iohn Shepre Leonard line 30 Cox wrote diuerse treatises one in English rhetorike whereof Bale maketh no mention Thomas Soulmon borne in the I le of Gernseie verie studious in histories as by his writings and notes it appeareth Iohn Longland bishop of Lincolne Maurice Chancie a Charterhouse moonke Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Duresme Richard Samson Alban Hill a Welshman an excellent physician Richard Croke verie expert in the Gréeke toong Robert Whittington borne in Staffordshire néere to Lichfield line 40 wrote diuerse treatises for the instruction of Grammarians Iohn Aldrige bishop of Carleill Iohn Russell gathered a treatise intituled Super iure Caesaris Papae he wrote also commentaries in Cantica William Roie Simon Fish a Kentishman borne wrote a booke called the supplication of beggers Iohn Powell and Edward Powell Welshmen wrote against Luther Edward died in Smithfield for treason in denieng the kings supremacie in the line 50 yeare 1540 Iohn Houghton gouernour of the Charterhouse moonks in London died likewise for treason in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and fiue Iohn Rickes being an aged man forsaking the order of a frier Minor which he had first professed imbraced the gospell George Bullen lord Rochford brother to quéene Anne wrote diuerse songs and sonets Francis Bigod knight borne in Yorkeshire wrote a booke against the cleargie intituled De impropriationibus and translated certeine bookes from Latine into English he died for rebellion in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and seauen Richard Wise Henrie Morleie lord Morleie wrote diuerse treatises as comedies and tragedies the life of sectaries and certeine rithmes William Boteuille alià s Thin restored Chaucers workes by his learned and painfull corrections Iohn Smith sometime schoolemaister of Heiton Richard Turpine borne of a worshipfull familie in England seruing in the garrison of Calis wrote a chronicle of his time he died in the yéere a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one and was buried in saint Nicholas church in Calis Sir Thomas Wiat knight in whose praise much might be said as well for his learning as other excellent qualities meet for a man of his calling he greattlie furthered to inrich the English toong he wrote diuerse matters in English méeter and translated the seauen penitentiall psalmes and as some write the whole psalter he died of the pestilence in the west countrie being on his iourneie into Spaine whither he was sent ambassadour from the king vnto the emperour in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Henrie Howard earle of Surrie sonne to the duke of Norffolke delighted in the like studies with sir Thomas Wiat wrote diuerse treatises also in English méeter he suffered at Tower hill as in the historie of this king before yée haue heard Iohn Field a citizen and lawyer of London wrote sundrie treatises as his owne answers vnto certeine articles ministred to him by sir Thomas More the bishop of Rochester Rastall and others when he was in prison for religion he wrote also a treatise of mans fréewill De seruo hominis arbitrio and collections of the common lawes of the land c Tristram Reuell Henrie Brinklow a merchant of London wrote a little booke which he published vnder thâ— name of Roderike Mors and also a complaint vpon London c Robert Shingletâ—n borne of a good familie in Lancashire wrote a treatise of the seauen churches and other things as of certeine prophesies for the which as some write he suffered at London being conuict of treason in the yeare 1544 William Parreie a Welshman wrote a booke intituled Speculum iuuenum Of strangers that liued here in this kings daies and for their works which they wrote were had in estimation these we find recorded by maister Bale Barnard Andreas a Frenchman borne in Tolouse an Augustin Frier and an excellent poet Adrian de Castello an Italian of Corneto a towne in Thuscaine he was commended vnto king Henrie the seuenth by the archbishop Morton and therevpon was first made bishop of Hereford and after resigning that sée was aduanced to Bath and Welles Andreas Ammonius an Italian of the citie of Luca secretarie to the king wrote diuerse treatises Iames Calco an Italian also of Pauia in Lumbardie by profession a Carmelite frier an earnest defender of the diuorse betwixt the king and the ladie Katharine Dowager disproouing the marriage beâ—wixt them to be in anie wise lawfull Thus farre the right high and renowmed Henrie the eight sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth Edward the sixt sonne and successor to Henrie the eight AFter it had pleased almightie God to call to his mercie that famous prince king Henrie the eight the parlement as yet continuing and now by his death dissolued the executours of the said king and other of the nobilitie assembling themselues line 10 togither did first by sound of trumpet in the palace of Westminster and so through London cause his sonne and heire prince Edward to be proclamed king of this realme by the name of Edward the sixt king of England France and Ireland defender of the faith and of the churches of England and Ireland the supreame head he being yet but nine yeares and od moneths of age he was thus proclamed the eight and twentith of Ianuarie in the yeare of the world 5513 and after the birth of our line 20 Lord 1547 year 1547 according to the accompt of them that begin the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompt of the church of England in the yeare 1546 about the nine and twentith yeare of the emperor Charles the fift the three and thirtith of Francis the first of that name king of France and in the fift yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scotland Shortlie herevpon the earle of Hertford with other of the lords resorted to Hatfield where the yoong king then laie from whence they conducted him with line 30 a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the time of his abode there for the good gouernement of the realme the honour and suertie of his maiesties person his vncle Edward earle of Hertford was by order of the councell and the assent of his maiestie as one most méetest to occupie that roome appointed gouernour of his roiall person and protector of his realmes dominions and subiects and so proclamed the first of Februarie by an herald at armes and sound of trumpet through line 40 the citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thought expedient The sixt daie of Februarie the earle of Hertford lord protector adorned king Edward with the order of knighthood remaining then in the Tower and therewith the king standing vp called for Henrie Hubbleshorne lord maior of the citie of London who comming before his presence the king tooke the sword of the lord protector and dubbed the said Hubblethorne knight he being the first that euer he
with eies intent and hands displaied praieng and beseeching thee with the shield of thy protection to defend Marie thy seruant and our quéene who hath none other line 60 helper but thee and whome through thy grace thou hast willed to be conceiued with child and at the time of hir trauell gratiouslie with the helpe of thy right hand deliuer hir and from all danger with the child in hir conceiued mercifullie preserue It hath seemed good in thy sight mercifull father by thy seruant Marie to worke these woonders that is to saie in hir hands to vanquish and ouerthrow the stout enimie and to deliuer vs thy people out of the hands of heretikes infidels enimies to thée and to the crosse of thy beloued sonne Iesus Christ that of thy seruant thou mightest speake in farre countries Therefore for these woonderfull workes which thou dooest to thy seruants thou art magnified Lord God for euer we thy people blesse thée the God of heauen which hast wrought vpon vs this great mercie and hast excluded from vs the heretike the enimie of truth and the persecutor of thy church We know we know that we haue grieuouslie Lord sinned that we haue beene deceiued by vanitie and that we haue forsaken thée our God Our iniquities be multiplied on our head and our sinnes be increased vp to heauen and we our selues haue offended and our princes and our priests for these our sinnes haue deserued an hypocrit to our prince our sinnes haue deserued a tyrant to our gouernor that should bring our life vnto bitternesse We be not worthie to haue so gentle and mercifull a queene so godlie a ruler and finallie so vertuous a prince At the verie beginning of whose reigne a new light as it were of Gods religion séemed to vs for to spring and arise The Iews did blesse the widow Iudith with one voice saieng Thou art the glorie of Ierusalem thou art the ioie of Israell thou art the honor of our people for that thou hast loued chastitie and thou shalt be blessed for euer And we the English people with one agréeable consent doo crie Thou Marie art the glorie of England our ioie the honour of thy people for that thou hast imbraced chastitie thine hart is strengthened for the hand of our Lord hath comforted thée and therefore thou shalt be blessed for euer But bow downe O most mercifull father thine eare and open thine eies and behold our affliction and our humble confession Thou knowest Lord that against Philip not by humane but by thy ordinance our king and against thy seruant Marie by thy prouidence our quéene the restorers and mainteiners of thy testament and of the faith and most constant defenders of thy church thou knowest I saie that against these our two gouernors the enimies of thy holie testament and of the church thy spouse be most ranke rebels and spitefull murmurers walking after their lusts whose mouth speaketh words of pride to the end they maie set vp the kingdome of heretikes and schismatikes By the power of their hands they would change thy promises and destroie thine inheritance and stop and shut vp the mouths of them that praise thée and extinguish the glorie of thy catholike church and altar It is manifest and plaine how manie contentions how manie conspiracies seditions how great warres what tumults how manie and how great troublesome vexations how manie heresies and schismes for these be the most readie deuises and euident tokens of heretikes for our sinnes doo hang ouer vs if thy seruant be taken from this life for we acknowledge that our Lord is omnipotent who hath pitched his dwelling place in the middest of his people to the intent to deliuer vs out of the hands of our enimies Turne therefore thy countenance vnto vs shew vnto vs O Lord thy face Punish vs for our sinnes according to thy will and pleasure onelie now deliuer vs. We bowing the knées of our heart beseech thée that thou wilt not reserue vnto vs punishment for euer and we shall praise thée all the daies of our life Heare our crie and the praier of thy people and open to them the treasure of thy mercie thy gratious fauour the spring of liuelie water Thou that hast begun make in the hand of thy seruant a perfect worke Suffer not we praie thee the faithlesse rebels to saie of thy seruant and hir councellors that they haue deuised matters which they can not performe And grant vnto thy seruant an happie and an easie trauell For it is not impossible to thy power nor indecent to thy iustice nor vnwoonted vnto thy mercie It is well knowne vnto vs how maruellouslie thou diddest worke in Sara of the age of fourescore and ten yeares and in Elisabeth the barren and also farre striken in age for thy counsell is not in the power of men Thou Lord that art the searcher of hearts and thoughts thou knowest that thy seruant neuer lusted after man neuer gaue hir selfe to wanton companie nor made hir selfe partaker with them that walke in lightnesse but she consented to take an husband with thy feare and not with hir lust Thou knowest that thy seruant tooke an husband not for carnall pleasure but onelie for the desire and loue of line 10 posteritie wherein thy name might be blessed for euer and euer Giue therefore vnto thy seruants Philip our king Marie our quéene a male issue which maie sit in the seat of thy kingdome Giue vnto our quéene thy seruant a little infant in fashion and bodie comelie and beautifull in pregnant wit notable and excellent Grant the same to be in obedience like Abraham in hospitalitie like Lot in chastitie and brotherlie line 20 loue like Ioseph in meekenesse and mildnesse like Moses in strength and valiantnesse like Samson Let him be found faithfull as Dauid after thy heart Let him be wise among kings as the most wise Salomon Let him be like Iob a simple and an vpright man fearing God and eschewing euill Let him finallie be garnished with the comelinesse of all vertuous conditions and in the same let him wax old and liue that he maie sée his childrens children to the third and fourth generation And giue to our souereigne line 30 lord and ladie king Philip and quéene Marie thy blessing and long life vpon earth And grant that of them maie come kings and quéenes which maie stedfastlie continue in faith loue and holinesse And blessed be their séed of our God that all nations maie know thou art onelie God in all the earth which art blessed for euer and euer Amen An other praier for queene Marie and hir conceiued child line 40 O Almightie father which diddest sanctifie the blessed virgine and mother of Marie in hir conception in the birth of Christ our sauiour thy onelie sonne also by thy omnipotent power diddest safeliâ— deliuer the prophet Ionas out of the whales bellie â—efend O Lord we beséech thée thy
of his spouse the church continued no longer till she had vtterlie rooted out of the land this hereticall generation Yea how chanced it rather that almightie God to spare these poore heretikes rooted out quéene Marie so soone from hir throne after she had reigned but onelie fiue yeares line 40 and fiue moneths Now furthermore how God blessed hir waies and indeuors in the meane time while she thus persecuted the true seruants of God remaineth to be discussed Where first this is to be noted that when she first began to stand for the title of the crowne and yet had wrought no resistance against Christ and his gospell but had promised hir faith to the Suffolke men to mainteine the religion left by king Edward hir brother so long God went with hir aduanced hir and line 50 by the means of the gospellers brought hir to the possession of the realme But after that she breaking hir promise with God and man began to take part with Stephan Gardiner and had giuen ouer hir supremasie vnto the pope by and by Gods blessing leâ—t hir neither did anie thing well thriue with hir afterward during the whole time of hir regiment For first incontinentlie the fairest and greatest ship she had called great Harrie was burned such a vessell as in all these parts of all Europe was not to be line 60 matched Then would she needs bring in king Philip and by hir strange marriage with him make the whole realme of England subiect vnto a stranger And all that notwithstanding either that she did or was able to doo she could not bring to passe to set the crowne of England vpon his head With king Philip also came in the pope and his popish masse with whome also hir purpose was to restore againe the monks and nunnes vnto their places neither lacked there all kind of attempts to the vttermost of hir abilitie and yet therein also God stopt hir of hir will that it came not forward After this what a dearth happened in hir time here in hir land the like wherof hath not lightlie in England béene seene in so much that in sundrie places hir poore subiects were fame to féed of acorns for want of corne Furthermore where other kings are woont to be renowmed by some worthie victorie and prowesse by them atchiued let vs now sée what valiant victorie was gotten in quéene Maries daies King Edward the sixt hir blessed brother how manie rebellions did he suppresse in Deuonshire in Norffolke in Oxfordshire and else where What a famous victorie in his time was gotten in Scotland by the singular working no doubt of Gods blessed hand rather than by anie expectation of man King Edward the third which was the eleuenth king from the conquest by princelie puissance purchased Calis vnto England which hath béene kept English euer since till at length came queene Marie the eleuenth likewise from the said king Edward which lost Calis from England againe so that the winnings of this quéene were verie small what the losses were let other men iudge Hitherto the affaires of quéene Marie haue had no great good successe as you haue heard But neuer worsse successe had anie woman than had she in hir childbirth For séeing one of these two must néeds be granted that either she was with child or not with child if she were with child and did trauell why was it not séene if she were not how was all the realme deluded And in the meane while where were all the praiers the solemne processions the deuout masses of the catholike cleargie Why did they not preuaile with God if their religion were so godlie as they pretended If their masses Ex opere operato be able to fetch Christ from heauen to reach downe to purgatorie how chanced then they could not reach to the quéens chamber to helpe hir in hir trauell if she had béene with child in déed If not how then came it to passe that all the catholike church of England did so erre and was so déepelie deceiued Quéene Marie after these manifold plagues and corrections which might sufficientlie admonish hir of Gods disfauor prouoked against hir would not yet ceasse hir persecution but still continued more more to reuenge hir catholike zeale vpon the lords faithfull people setting fire to their poore bodies by dozens halfe dozens togither Wherevpon Gods wrathfull indignation increasing more and more against hir ceassed not to touch hir more neare with priuat misfortunes and calamities For after that he had taken from hir the fruit of children which chieflie and aboue all things she desired then he beerest hir of that which of all earthlie things should haue beene hir chiefe staie of honour and staffe of comfort that is withdrew from hir the affection and companie euen of hir owne husband by whose mariage she had promised before to hirselfe whole heapes of such ioy and felicitie But now the omnipotent gouernour of all things so turned the whéele of hir owne spinning against hir that hir high buildings of such ioies and felicities came all to a castell come downe hir hopes being confounded hir purposes disappointed and she now brought to desolation who seemed neither to haue the fauour of God nor the hearts of hir subiects nor yet the loue of hir husband who neither had fruit by him while shee had him neither could now inioy him whome she had maried neither yet was in libertie to marrie anie other whome she might inioy Marke here christian reader the wofull aduersitie of this queene learne withall what the Lord can doo when mans wilfulnes will néeds resist him and will not be ruled At last when all these faire admonitions would take no place with the queene nor mooue hir to reuoke hir bloudie lawes nor to staie the tyrannie of hir priests nor yet to spare hir owne subiects but that the poore seruants of God were drawne dailie by heapes most pittifullie as sheepe to the slaughter it so pleased the heauenlie maiestie of almightie God when no other remedie would serue by death to cut hir off which in hir life so little regarded the life of others giuing hir throne which she abused to the destruction of Christs church and people to another who more temperatlie and quietlie could guide the same after she had reigned here the space of fiue yeares and fiue moneths The shortnesse of which yeares and reigne vneth we find in anie other storie line 10 of king or quéene since the conquest or before being come to their owne gouernement saue onelie in king Richard the third Which reigne was so rough and rigorous notwithstanding the shortnesse of the same that it became a verie spectacle to all christendome and the maner of dealing vsed vnder hir gouernment was so detestable that as it was rare so it raised vp a rare report euen among strangers whose heads being fuller of matter than their pens full
church And although those peeces laie a quarter of a mile off the peeces of ordinance that laie in the same stâ—eple were dismounted by them and likewise those that laie in the stéeple of saint Nicholas church at the which diuerse peeces were leuied and within six or seuen tire the péeces that laie in that stéeple were also displaced and a gunner slaine that stood at one of them the péece and the gunner comming tumbling downe both togither In this church as was reported their store of vittels and munition was laid so that batterie was made against the same all that daie and a great peece of the church wall beaten downe and the stéeple defaced The bishop of Ualence after he had talked with the quéene Dowager returned to commune with the lords of the congregation Tuesdaie the thrée and twentith of Aprill being saint Georges daie the pioners Scotish and English were busilie applied in worke about the casting of trenches to make a fort and still the artillerie went off against the towne Wednesdaie the foure and twentith of Aprill about three of the clocke in the after noone there issued out of Leith seauentéene horssemen who offered the skirmish and vnder the place called little London where they were busie in fortifieng all that daie thrée or foure hundred of their shot were placed readie to breake out if occasion serued At length certeine of the English lances gaue a charge vpon their horssemen who therewith retiring drew the Englishmen within danger of their shot But although the Frenchmen that daie shewed themselues verie valiant in skirmishing euen in the face of the English artillerie yet being now egerlie pursued by those lances they were forced to retire without anie great hurt doone to the Englishmen although the skirmish continued néere hand two houres In this last charge yoong maister Browne was hurt Thursdaie the fiue and twentith of Aprill the pioners laboured sore for the most part of the daie in finishing the new fort named Montpelham to the gard whereof capteine Uaughan was appointed gouernor with twelue hundred soldiors This fort was raised on the south side of the towne the plot whereof was cast square with foure bulworks at euerie corner and twâ—â—â—e battering peeces planted in places conuenient within the same This thursdaie also about fiue of the clocke in the after noone there issued out of Leith on the east side seauentie or eightie horssemen and two hundred harquebusiers offering the skirmish towards whome certeine of the English light horssemen roundlie made and charging them droue them backe to their footmen who with their shot receiued the light horssemen so sharplie that they were forced to retire In which retire Iames Hamilton a Scotishman was taken prisoner for the rescue of whome the horssemen made forward againe but the enimies shot was so hot that they were not able to recouer him but yet they slue two of the French horssemen in sight During the time of this skirmish there was great shooting off with the great ordinance on both sides much hurt doone as well to the English as French This daie capteine Perith and capteine Haies hauing charge of a troope of light horssemen vnder sir Henrie Persie and the lord of Grange were taken prisoners before Dunbar and to the number of twentie or thirtie others were likewise taken or slaine the same time The same night also two thousand footmen with the pioners were sent to the other side of the towne beyond the canon milles where the pioners cast a trench for the safe lodging of the armie which remooued the next day being fridaie and the six and twentith of Aprill from Lesterike downe into the vallie by the said canon milles called the red Braies néere to the riuer side on the south part of the towne of Leith As the armie was thus remoouing from Lesterike towards the said place called the red Braies the Frenchmen within Leith shot off manie of their great péeces of artillerie but without dooing anie great hurt As the armie was incamping certeine of the enimies horssemen and line 10 footmen skirmished with the English lances and light horssemen a long time there were two Frenchmen slaine and their horsses also In the time of this skirmish two canons were conueied and planted in the new trench which discharged diuerse shots at the enimies Saturdaie the seauen and twentith of Aprill the great artillerie was planted aloft on the hill aboue the campe within lesse than a curriers shot of the towne walles and the pioners were set a worke to line 20 cast new trenches from the place where the same ordinance was lodged vnto Montpelham drawing so néere vnto Leith as the harquebus might reach them that watched and warded within the gréene bulworke There issued out of Leith vnder the west bulworke certeine of the Frenchmen the which were chased into the towne by the lard of Grange and others The French kept the same daie a trench which they had made without the towne continuallie shooting at the Englishmen in the campe but the same night the Englishmen wan that trench from them line 30 slue diuerse of them therein togither with their scout And this doone they gaue a great alarum to the towne both by land and water the shipbotes shooting off against the towne verie hotlie and they within the towne likewise at the Englishmen The same night was the great ordinance planted and maister Markham hurt On sundaie the eight and twentith of Aprill the said great ordinance went off and shot continuallie the more part of that daie The line 40 bishop of Ualence departed the same daie towards Berwike and this night sir George Howard that had béene sent backe to Berwike to signifie to the duke of Norffolke the state of the siege returned with sir Richard Lee being conducted with fiue hundred horssemen Mondaie the nine and twentith of Aprill the péeces of the great artillerie were occupied in shooting off verie hotlie and the French likewise shot off theirs and comming foorth of the towne skirmished line 50 with the Englishmen This night the pioners made new trenches toward the south bulworke Tuesdaie the last of Aprill was spent in shooting off the great artillerie into the towne About fiue of the clocke in the after noone a sudden fire was raised within the towne which hugelie increased and continued the most part of that night At the beginning when it first appeered the English ordinance was shot off to the place where the fire was which shot togither with helpe of the wind and being verie great at that present line 60 did maruellouslie augment the same fire yet neuerthelesse the French at that present time offered a skirmish and continued the same néere hand for the space of two houres manned their walles and made the best prouision they might for doubt of some assault It was indéed appointed that certeine bands
course should haue béene voided downewards till she died A terrible example of Gods iust iudgement vpon such as make no conscience of swearing against their brother The fiftéenth of Februarie line 30 Edmund Grindale somtime bishop of London late archbishop of Yorke was in the chapter-house of S. Paules church at London elected archbishop of Canturburie The fift of March in the night through a great flaw of wind then in the northeast a tilt bote with about the number of one and thirtie persons men and women comming from Grauesend toward London were all drowned one boie excepted The thirtith of Maie Thomas Gréene goldsmith was drawen from Newgate of London to line 40 Tiburne and there hanged headed and quartered for clipping of coine both gold and siluer The fiftéenth of Iune Martine Frobisher being furnished of aduenturors with two small barkes one pinnesse departed from Blackewall vpon his voiage for the discouerie of a passage to Cataia by the northwest seas Upon the first of Iulie he had sight as he iudged of Fréesland but durst not approch the same by reason of the great yee that laie alongst the coast Not far from thense he lost his pinnesse and one of his barkes who mistrusting the danger line 50 of tempests returned home with report that their generall Martine Frobisher was cast awaie which worthie capteine notwithstanding continued his course northwest beyond anie man that hath heretofore discouered and the twentith of Iulie had sight of a high land which he named Quéene Elisabeths foreland and after that another foreland with a great passage diuiding as it were the two maine lands asunder this place he named Frobishers line 60 streits After he had passed sixtie leagues further he went ashoare found the same to be inhabited with sauage people caught one of them into his barke and returning arriued in England in the moneth of August following One of his companie brought from thense a péece of a blacke stone much like to a seacole in colour which being brought to certeine goldfiners in London to make a saie thereof found it to hold gold and that verie richlie for the quantitie The ninteenth of Iulie a woman was burnt at Tunbridge in Kent for poisoning of hir husband and two daies before a man named Oxleie was hanged at Maidstone for being accessarie to the same fact The tenth of August a rare péece of worke and almost incredible was brought to passe by an Englishman borne in the citie of London named Peter Bales who by his industrie and practise of his pen contriued and writ within the compasse of a penie in Latine the Lords praier the créed the ten commandements a praier to God a praier for the quéene his posie his name the daie of the moneth the yeare of our Lord and the reigne of the quéene And on the seuentéenth of August next following at Hampton court he presented the same to the quéens maiestie in the head of a ring of gold couered with a christall and presented therewith an excellent spectacle by him deuised for the easier reading thereof wherewith hir maiestie read all that was written therein with great admiration and commended the same to the lords of the councell and the ambassadors and did weare the same manie times vpon hir finger This yeare by reason of the troubles in the low countries the English merchants susteined great losses diuers waies For the men of warre that kept the seas aduowing themselues to be reteined with the prince of Orenge vnder colour to serch for their aduersaries goods oftentimes boorded the English ships as they met with them on the seas smallie to the profit of them to whome the same ships and goods apperteined Some they staied and tooke awaie with them And at length there was a generall restraint made by the prince of Orenge that no English ships should passe to or fro the towne of Antwerpe by the riuer of Scheld such being arrested and deteined at Flishing as were comming downe that riuer and other likewise that were bound vp the same time towards Antwerpe The English merchants féeling themselues thus molested and damnified at sundrie seasons exhibited their complainis to the quéenes maiesties councell who accordinglie dealt from time to time with the prince of Orenge and his deputies for redresse but speciallie now vpon this generall restreint And although great difficultie appeared in the matter aswell for contenting of the aduenturors of Flishing as for that there had beene foure ships belonging to the prince arrested and staied at Falmouth at length yet such English ships as were kept and holden at Flishing were released and sent home but not till two of the English merchants aduenturors men of good calling and estimation hauing first as hath bin said made a certeine maner of protest were faine to enter into bond for the loane of a summe of monie and were therewith kept at Flishing till the contract in that behalfe might be performed Whervpon the quéenes maiestie misliking that hir subiects should be thus hardlie dealt with armed and set foorth certeine of hir ships which going to the seas to see that hir subiects might trauerse the same in safetie tooke diuerse of the Flishingers vessels and brought them into the English streames The Flishingers herewith on the other part tooke and arrested other of the English ships so that the troubles séemed rather to increase than to be in any wise appeased although afterwards by sending to and fro the matter was taken vp and such order had as was thought to stand verie well for the suertie commoditie and good liking of the English merchants But in the meane time and before this could be brought to passe through a disordered mutinie which chanced among the Spanish souldiers it so fell out that the states of those low countries agréed with the prince of Orenge and set themselues wholie against the Spaniards Wherevpon the yoong count de Egmont the marquesse de Hauerie entered the towne of Antwerpe with a power of souldiers for the States and meant to haue kept that towne against the Spaniards that held the castell But they doubting to be inclosed shut vp by some siege got more of their fellowes to them entred the towne by force spitefullle killing no small number of people sacked the towne and put aswell the townesmen as others that were merchants resident there to their ransoms Amongst other our Englishmen escaped not altogither frée so as diuerse were spoiled of that they had and the whole number put to their ransome although vpon the sending ouer of doctor Wilson hir maiesties ambassador so much of the ransome as line 10 remained vnpaid was promised to be remitted Thus were our merchants euill intreated on each hand by reason of those ciuill tumults in the low countries aswell this yeare as in the former yeares past and small hope would be of better successe there if some
the prince she on the new yeares daie following made a new chancellor Nicholas Heath bishop of Rochester almoner to the king ambassador into Germanie bishop of Worcester president of Wales and archbishop of Yorke was vpon new yeares daie in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue being the third yeare of the reigne of quéene Marie aduanced to the honorable dignitie of the chancellorship But quéene Marie deceasing the seauentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare of grace one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and eight and the sixt yere of hir gouernement this Heath vpon the placing of the worthie quéene Elisabeth vpon the throne of the English gouernment was remooued from his office and maister Bacon aduanced Sir Nicholas Bacon esquier attourneie of the court of wards was made knight and lord kéeper of the great seale the two and twentith of December in the yeare of our redemption 1558 being the first yeare of the now reigning Elisabeth the Saba of England Which name of lord kéeper he still kept during his life and the time of his office In whose time there was an act of parlement established to make the power of the keeper of the great seale equall with the authoritie of the chancellor This man continued in this office and woorthilie executed the same being a man of rare wit and déepe experience during the time of his life which continued vntill the twentith of Februarie in the yeare of our saluation 1578 after the account of England being the one and twentith yeare of the rare and singular gouernement of the worlds woonder the famous quéene Elisabeth which place this man kept eightéene yéeres being as I suppose double as long time as anie other chancellor or kéeper of the great seale possessed that place except Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester and Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath and Wels both which held it equallie eighteene yeares with him a strange thing that in the course of almost 600 yeares no such officer might possesse that place by twentie years togither Thomas Bromleie the generall solicitor of quéene Elisabeth a councellor of the law and one of the inner temple was aduanced to the dignitie of lord chancellor on the fiue and twentith day of Aprill in the yeare of our redemption 1579 being in the one twentith yeare of the reigne of the said quéene Elisabeth which office at this daie he beareth Thus although I maie be a little wetshod in passing ouer the deepe sea of this difficultie of the chancellors in which I am sure I am not ouer head and eares I haue at length brought my chancellors to end a worke of some labour and difficultie of some search and charge which I haue doone onelie of my selfe without the furtherance or help of some others who more inconsideratlie than trulie doo disorderlie report that I haue atteined vnto this in obteining line 10 those names by some sinister means from the priuat bookes of them who haue trauelled in the same matter In which as I said in the begining so I saie againe if anie imperfection for hast by reason of the printers spéedie calling on me haue now fallen out of my pen it shall hereafter God willing be corrected in the large volume of their liues Wherefore as I neither estéeme nor feare the secret reports of some others so for their countries good it shall be well that they would deliuer something to the world line 20 to bring truth to perfection if other men haue vnwillinglie set downe error and not as they doo for a litle commoditie gaine to themselues neither benefit their countrie nor speake well of such as would and doo helpe posteritie Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the chancellors of England ¶ Here though somewhat out of place for it should haue béene entered in 1578 it were better to record the receiuing of the quéenes maiestie into Suffolke line 30 Norffolke than making no commemoration therof at all to let it perish in thréehalfepenie pamphlets and so die in obliuion It maie also serue for a rest of recreation after so long an introduction of serious matters as also and that most woorthilie maie remaine in record to signifie what well affected subiects the quéens maiestie hath within hir dominions to whome goods lands friends kindred or life none of these seuerallie nor all iointlie are so pretious and deere but for hir sake they can find in their hearts to line 40 esteeme them as doong And now to the matter The truth is saith one that wrote the whole interteinment that albeit they had but small warning certeinlie to build vpon of the comming of the queenes maiestie into both those shires the gentlemen had made such readie prouision that all the veluets and silks were taken vp that might be laid hand on and bought for anie monie and soone conuerted to such garments and sutes of robes that the shew thereof might haue beautified the greatest triumph that was line 50 in England these manie yeares For as it was said there were two hundred yoong gentlemen clad all in white veluet and three hundred of the grauer sort apparelled in blacke veluet cotes and faire chaines all readie at one instant and place with fiftéene hundred seruing men more on horssebacke well and brauelie mounted in good order readie to receiue the quéenes highnesse into Suffolke which surelie was a comelie troope and a noble sight to behold and all these waited on the shiriffe sir William Spring during line 60 the quéenes maiesties abode in those parties and to the verie confines of Suffolke But before hir highnesse passed to Norffolke there was in Suffolke such sumptuous feasting and bankets as seldome in anie part of the world haue béene seene before The maister of the rolles sir William Cordall was one of the first that began this great feasting and did light such a candle to the rest of the shire that manie were glad bountifullie and frankelie to follow the same example with such charges and costs as the whole traine were in some sort pleased therewith And neere Burie sir William Drurie for his part at his house made the quéenes highnesse a costlie and delicat dinner and sir Robert Germine of Roeshbrooke feasted the French ambassadors two seuerall times with which charges and courtesie they stood maruellouslie contented The shiriffe sir William Spring sir Thomas Kidson sir Arthur Higham and diuerse others of worship kept great houses and sundrie either at the quéenes comming or returne solemnelie feasted hir highnesse yea and defraied the whole charges for a daie or twaine presented gifts made such triumphs and deuises as indéed was most noble to behold and verie thankfullie accepted The Norffolke gentlemen hearing how dutifullie their neighbors had receiued the prince prepared in like sort to shew themselues dutifull and so in most gallant maner they assembled and set forward with fiue and twentie hundred horssemen
worldlings whose hearts are so hardened that they will not beléeue though one rise from the dead or though God should speake vnto them from heauen as the poet noteth trulie which he hath doone in times past solióque tremendus ab alto Altitonans coelo signa stupenda dedit About the twelfe daie of Ianuarie proclamation was published at London for reuocation of sundrie line 40 the quéenes maiesties subiects remaining beyond the seas vnder colour of studie and yet liuing contrarie to the lawes of God and of the realme and also against the reteining of Iesuits and massing priests sowers of sedition and other treasonable attempts c. The thirtéenth of Ianuarie a man was drawne to saint Thomas of Waterings and there hanged headed and quartered for begging by a licence wherevnto the quéenes hand was counterfeited On the sixteenth daie of Ianuarie the lords line 50 and barons of this realme began to sit in the parlement house at Westminster and on the twentith daie of Ianuarie the quéenes maiestie went from White hall to the parlement house by water Whereas a great chalenge of iusts was signified by waie of deuise before hir maiestie on Twelfe night last past to haue beene performed the fiftéenth daie of Ianuarie hir maiesties pleasure was for diuerse considerations the same should be deferred vntill the two and twentith daie of the same moneth on which line 60 daie the same was most couragiouslie accomplished in the accustomed place at Westminster where manie staues were valiantlie broken but through the great concourse of people thither repairing manie of the beholders as well men as women were sore hurt some maimed and some killed by falling of the scaffolds ouercharged This yeare about Hallowntide last past in the marishes of Daneseie hundred in a place called Southminster in the countie of Essex a strange thing happened There suddenlie appéered an infinite multitude of mice which ouerwhelming the whole earth in the said marishes did sheare and gnaw the grasse by the roots spoiling tainting the same with their venemous teeth in such sort that the cattell which grased thereon were smitten with a murreine and died thereof Which vermine by policie of man could not be destroied till now at the last it came to passe that there flocked togither all about the same marishes such a number of owles as all the shire was not able to yeeld whereby the marsh holders were shortlie deliuered from the vexation of the said mice This yeere against the comming of certeine commissioners out of Francis into England by hir maiesties appointment year 1581 on the six and twentith daie of March in the morning being Easter daie a banketting house was begun at Westminster on the south west side of hir maiesties palace of White hall made in maner and forme of a long square thrée hundred thirtie and two foot in measure about thirtie principals made of great masts being fortie foot in length a peece standing vpright betwéene euerie one of these masts ten foot asunder and more The walles of this house were closed with canuas and painted all the outsides of the same most artificiallie with a worke called rustike much like to stone This house had two hundred ninetie and two lights of glasse The sides within the same house was made with ten heights of degrées for people to stand vpon and in the top of this house was wrought most cunninglie vpon canuas works of iuie and hollie with pendents made of wicker rods and garnished with baie rue and all maner of strange flowers garnished with spangles of gold as also beautified with hanging toseans made of hollie and iuie with all maner of strange fruits as pomegranats orenges pompions cucumbers grapes carrets with such other like spangled with gold and most richlie hanged Betwixt these works of baies and iuie were great spaces of canuas which was most cunninglie painted the clouds with starres the sunne and sunne beames with diuerse other cotes of sundrie sorts belonging to the quéenes maiestie most richlie garnished with gold There were of all manner of persons working on this house to the number of thrée hundred seuentie and fiue two men had mischances the one brake his leg and so did the other This house was made in thrée wéeks and three daies and was ended the eightéenth daie of Aprill and cost one thousand seuen hundred fortie and foure pounds nineteene shillings and od monie as I was crediblie informed by the worshipfull maister Thomas Graue surueior vnto hir maiesties workes who serued and gaue order for the same as appeareth by record On the sixteenth daie of Aprill arriued at Douer these noblemen of France commissioners from the French king to hir maiestie Francis of Burbon prince dolphin of Auergne Arthur Cossaie marshall of France Lodouic Lusignian lord of Laneoc Tauergius Caercongin countie of Tillir Bertrand Salignacus lord Mot Fenelon monsieur Manaissour Barnabie Brissen president of the parlement of Paris Claud Pinart monsieur Marchmont monsieur Ueraie these came from Grauesend by water to London where they were honorably receiued and interteined and shortlie after being accompanied of the nobilitie of England they repaired to the court and banketting house prepared for them at Westminster as is afore said where hir maiestie decus illa Britannûm Gemmáque non alijs inuenienda locis with amiable countenance great courtesse receiued them and afterward in that place most roiallie feasted banketted them Also the nobles gentlemen of the court desirous to shew them all courtesie possible fittest for such estates and to sport them with all courtlie pleasure agréed among them to prepare a tâ—iumph which was verie quicklie concluded and being deuised in most sumptuous order was by them performed in as valiant a manner to their endlesse fame and honor The chiefe or chalengers in these attempts were these the earle of Arundell the lord Windsore maister Philip Sidueie and maister Fulke Greuill who calling themselues the foure foster children of desire made their inuention of the foresaid triumph in order and forme following line 10 The gallerie or place at the end of the tiltyard adioining to hir maiesties house at Whitehall wheras hir person should be placed was called and not without cause The castell or fortresse of perfect beautie for as much as hir highnesse should be there included whereto the said foster children laid tiâ—le and claime as their due by descent to belong vnto the them And vpon deniall or anie repulse from that their desired patrimonie they vowed to vanquish and conquer by force who so should séeme to withstand it line 20 For the accomplishing whereof they sent their challenge or first defiance to the quéenes maiestie which was vttered by a boie on sundaie the sixtéenth of Aprill last as hir maiestie came from the chappell who being apparelled in red and white as a martiall messenger of Desires fostered children without making anie precise reuerence
hath passed all the rest And trulie the citie had no more but six daies respit to prepare for it as I said before in somuch that they could not put to making anie worke of silke nor of gold and siluer beaten or wouen nor anie imbroderie no nor in so short time make anie meane apparell new nor anie rare costlinesse of imageries pillers triumphall arches or other pageants but were constreined to make a shift with such things as they had in a readinesse aforehand of their owne store In other interteinments there haue in deed beene séene great plentie of riches and roialties in attires of kings and quéenes princes and princesses lords and ladies citizens and their wiues but in this interteinment no such were séene howbeit there was not anie grosenesse nor ought that might not well beséeme the neatnesse and finenesse of that people although it came nothing neere the sumptuousnesse of other interteinements As touching triumphall arches chariots portraitures and such other shewes although there were manie wittie inuentions and agreeable to the time yet haue men séene of them in other places which might match these And as touching the number of their people although it was great yet it is well knowen that Paris excéedeth them in that behalfe But the onelie reason of this contentment commeth chéeflie of the great number of people in armour being not fewer than twentie thousand in so good and so faire armour and of their order and obedience and of the small noise which all that huge multitude made in somuch that if it had not béene for the thundering of the canons and the sounding of trumpets clarions halboies and other instruments there was no more noise than is among a councell of graue men That then was in mine opinion the onlie verie cause which was greatlie furthered by their beholding of the monsieur of Brabant who representing the statelinesse of old time was clothed in a large mantell with the bonnet of his dukedome vpon his head so that among that great number of people which were so well armed that thrée of the best cities in christendome could not shew so manie faire armors of their owne his highnesse resembled a pretious stone or iewell set in fine gold And bicause that they which were the beholders thereof for they could not be euerie where nor sée euerie thing will be verie glad to vnderstand of the things that so escaped them and delight their minds now with the remembrance of the things which they saw before as they delighted their eies and minds with the beholding of them that daie and strange nations to whom the fame of that so renowmed daies worke is come will take pleasure to vnderstand the same whereof they could not be beholders Therefore is this booke set foorth for the satisffing of all men and also to make it knowen to a line 10 number of men who partlie for enimitie partlie for enuie and partlie for other surmises and mistrusts will not beléeue it with what mind and affection the prince of Orange and the other lords and noblemen of Brabant the good cities and the small townes and namelie the most renowmed citie of Antwerp haue receiued their new prince and souereigne lord The ninetéenth daie of the foresaid moneth in the forenoone the monsieur the duke of Aniou departed from Lislo and sailed towards Antwerpe hauing line 20 in his companie but twentie ships for the rest had gotten to Antwerpe afore as well to put themselues in a readinesse as for other affaires And he came about eight of the clocke nigh to the new towne and passing along by the townes side left the foreland of Flanders on his right hand and the towne on his left and passed beyond all the towne and the place where the castell was By the waie he heard all the canons shot off from that part of the towne which faceth the riuer from a great number of ships which line 30 rode at anchor there and he saw all the wharfes furnished with men of warre of the citie well armed who welcommed him with their shot and were answered againe by the ships of warre that accompanied him conducted by monsieur de Treslon and the viceadmerals and diuerse capteins of Flushing And so the first foot that he did set on land in Brabant was at a village called Kiell which is at the canon wharfe at Antwerpe The states of Brabant the magistrates of the citie and diuers other states line 40 comming in like order on horssebacke to the same place with their trumpets sergeants and heralds apparelled in cotes of the armes of Lothier Brabant and Limborough alighted there and waited on foot at the wharfe to receiue his highnesse and to shew him the good will and affection of the states and people But the prease of people was so great which resorted thither to sée the prince whome they looked for to be their duke and againe there were so manie impediments in his landing that it was found better line 50 for them by the aduise of the prince of Orange to returne backe and to tarie for his highnesse vpon a theater which was prepared for him This theater was set vp towards a corner of the castell and opened towards the citie so as his highnesse being there might at one time view both the citie and the castell and behold the counterscarffes the déepe ditches full of faire water cléere to the verie bottome of the chanell inclosed on either side with hewne stone the great and faire buildings line 60 the goodlie walles beautifull to looke on and verie thicke and the broad rampires garnished with trees planted by hand that it resembled a little forest The monsieur was brought vp to this theater accompanied with the prince Dolphin the onelie sonne of the duke of Montpanuser the earle of Leceister and other English lords representing the quéene of England the princes of Orange and Espinoie the countié de Lauall the other English lords the countie de Chateauroux and a great sort of the barons lords and gentlemen besides the chiefe magistrats and maisters of the companies of the citie of Antwerpe The lords of the state of Brabant waiting vpon the theater came dutifullie downe to go and méet his highnesse which thing he perceiuing did stand still Then the prince of Orange stepped foorth to take his place among the states as one of the chiefe lords and barons of the duchie of Brabant As soone as they had saluted his highnesse and with great humblenesse kissed his hand they mounted vp the steps againe with him after whome followed the princes and lords of France and of England and when they were come vp aboue they ranged themselues on either side There was set for the monsieur a chaire couered with cloth of gold wherein he sat him downe And vpon the theater there was likewise a trauerse of cloth of gold and all the theater was
Lord 1555 where great destruction was made by the said armie and all the delicat buildings gardens and orchards next to Rome walles ouerthrowne wherewith his holinesse was more terrified line 60 than he was able to remooue with anie his cursses Neither was quéene Marie the quéenes maiesties noble late sister a person not a little deuoted to the Romane religion so afraid of the popes curssings but that both shée and hir whole councell and that with the assent of all the iudges of the realme according to the ancient lawes in fauour of cardinall Poole hir kinsman did most strictlie forbid the entrie of his bulles and of a cardinals hat at Calis that was sent from the pope for one frier Peito an obseruant pleasant frier whom the pope had assigned to be a cardinall in disgrace of cardinall Poole neither did cardinall Poole himselfe at the same time obeie the popes commandements nor shewed himselfe afraid being assisted by the quéene when the pope did threaten him with paine of cursses and excommunications but did still oppose himselfe against the popes commandement for the said pretended cardinall Peito who notwithstanding all the threatenings of the pope was forced to go vp and downe in the stréets of London like a begging frier without his red hat a shout resistance in a quéene for a poore cardinals 〈◊〉 wherin she followed the example of hir grandfather king Henrie the seuenth for a matter of Allum wherein the king vsed verie great seueritie against the pope So as howâ—oeuer the christian kings for some respects in policie can indure the pope to command where no harme nor disaduantage groweth to themselues yet surâ— it is and the popes are not ignorant but where they shall in anie sort attempt to take from christian princes anie part of their dominions or shall giue aid to their enimies or to anie other their rebels in those cases their bulles their curses their excommunications their sentences and most solemne anathematicals no nor their crosse keies or double edged sword will serue their turnes to compasse their intentions And now where the pope hath manifestlie by his bulles and excommunications attempted asmuch as he could to depriue hir maiestie of hir kingdomes to withdraw from hir the obedience of hir subiects to procure rebellions in hir realms yea to make both rebellions and open warres with his owne capteines souldiers banners ensignes and all other things belonging to warre shall this pope Gregorie or anie other pope after him thinke that a souereigne quéene possessed of the two realmes of England and Ireland stablished so manie yeares in hir kingdomes as thrée or foure popes haue sit in their chaire at Rome fortified with so much dutie loue and strength of hir subiects acknowledging no superiour ouer hir realms but the mightie hand of God shall she forbeare or feare to withstand and make frustrate his vnlawfull attempts either by hir sword or by hir lawes or to put his soldiers inuadors of hir realme to the sword martiallie or to execute hir lawes vpon hir owne rebellious subiects ciuillie that are prooued to be his chiefe instruments for rebellion for his open war This is sure that howsoeuer either he sitting in his chaire with a triple crowne at Rome or anie other his proctors in anie part of christendome shall renew these vnlawfull attempts almightie God the king of kings whom hir maiestie onlie honoreth and acknowledgeth to be hir onlie souereigne Lord and protector whose lawes and gospell of his son Iesus Christ she seeketh to defend will no doubt but deliuer sufficient power into his maidens hand his seruant quéene Elisabeth to withstand and confound them all And where the seditious trumpetors of infamies lies haue sounded foorth and intituled certeine that haue suffered for treason to be martyrs for religion so may they also at this time if they list ad to their forged catalog the headlesse bodie of the late miserable earle of Desmond the head of the Irish rebellion who of late secretlie wandering without succour as a miserable begger was taken by one of the Irishrie in his caben and in an Irish sort after his owne accustomed sauage maner his head cut off from his bodie an end due to such an archrebell And herewith to remember the end of his chiefe confederats may be noted for example to others the strange manner of the death of doctor Sanders the popes Irish legat who also wandering in the mountains in Ireland without succor died rauing in a frensie And before him one Iames Fitzmoris the first traitour of Ireland next to Stukeleie the rakehell a man not vnknowen in the popes palace for a wicked craftie traitor was slaine at one blow by an Irish noble yoong gentleman in defense of his fathers countrie which the traitor sought to burne A fourth man of singular note was Iohn of Desmond brother to the earle a verie bloudie faithlesse traitor a notable murderer of his familiar friends who also wandring to séeke some preie like a woolfe in the woods was taken beheaded after his owne vsage being as he thought sufficientlie armed with line 10 the popes buls and certeine Agnus Dei one notable ring with a pretious stone about his necke sent from the popes finger as it was said but these he saw saued not his life And such were the fatall ends of all these being the principall heads of the Irish warre and rebellion so as no one person remaineth at this daie in Ireland a knowen traitor a worke of God and not of man To this number they may if they séeke number also ad a furious yoong man of Warwikeshire by line 20 name Someruile to increase their kalendar of the popes martyrs who of late was discouered and taken in his waie comming with a full intent to haue killed hir maiestie whose life God alwaies haue in his custodie The attempt not denied by the traitor himselfe but confessed and that he was mooued therto in his wicked spirit by intisements of certeine seditious and traitorous persons his kinsmen and alies also by often reading of sundrie seditious vile bookes latelie published against hir maiestie and his line 30 end was in desperation to strangle himselfe to deth an example of Gods seueritie against such as presume to offer violence to his anointed But as God of his goodnesse hath of long time hitherto preserued hir maiestie from these and the like treacheries so hath she no cause to feare being vnder his protection she saieng with king Dauid in the psalme My God is my helper and I will trust in him he is my protection and the strength or the power of my saluation And for the more comfort of all good subiects line 40 against the shadowes of the popes bulles it is manifest to the world that from the beginning of hir maiesties reigne by Gods singular goodnesse hir kingdome hath inioied more vniuersall peace hir people
whatsoeuer was required sauing assurance But they knew not the order of Romneie marsh works neither could they possiblie haue accomplished this for they were onelie good dikers and hodmen which arts were little pertinent herevnto Maister secretarie being aduertised how Ferdinando Poins and his pioners of Plumsted shewed themselues in this conference wherein neither their owne disabilitie nor the difficultie of the worke by themselues was anie thing at all doubted of thought it not amis to aduertise the residue of the lords of the councell thereof so as if those works might in such wise be by anie thought possible to be performed then might the marsh works with much more assurance be trusted vnto and that did maister Burroughs now verie well conceiue and note neuerthelesse it was thought expedient by their lordships that Poins and his workemen should repaire to Douer to a finall conference in those matters who perchance might be somewaie at the least imploied in those businesses And therefore maister secretarie sent down to sir Thomas Scot that their lordships had receiued the resolution he grew vnto vpon conference with the marshmen of Romneie touching the procéeding in the plot of Douer hauen and had both well considered allowed of the same and that their lordships also had appointed that on the tuesdaie after Easter wéeke master Burroughs and maister Poins with certeine marshmen of Plumsted should be sent downe to méet and confer further with him about the going forwards with the same plot at Douer at which time such order might be taken and agréed on among the commissioners for the making of all necessarie prouisions for the same as should be thought most expedient On the ninth daie of Aprill next insuing the parties aboue specified came to Douer accordinglie where all the commissioners for that harborough met them who hauing receiued letters from the lords of the councell to set downe a finall resolution after long debating of maâ—ters agréed that Romneie marshmen should vndertake the worke and for the better and more spéedie procéeding therein the commissioners made election of all necessarie officers and rated their wages in this sort The treasuror which was sir Iames Hales knight to haue for euerie fiftie pounds receiued and disbursed six shillings eight pence and for his clearke fiue pounds yearelie Iohn Smith the expenditor twentie pounds yearelie his clearke fiue pounds yearelie The common clearke twentie marks and each sworne man during his attendance eight pence a daie The generall surueior that is to saie maister Digs esquier twentie marks yearelie which he gaue to Alexander Mindge his deputie It was there also ordered that the deputies surueior the expenditor and clearke should take present order for the inlarging of the waies for carriages to passe for thorne fagot béetels needels keies piles bauin and carriages for them before Whitsuntide following These things were committed to their charge but they were afterwards eased by purueiors appointed for those and other purposes they hauing more to doo otherwise than they could well ouercome Hauing now discouered the first second estate of Douer harborough euerie mans deuise for the amending or rather erecting of a new hauen in that place with declaration of hir maiesties bountie and the care of the whole state iointlie and seuerallie in that behalfe I am to make description of the things performed and of the manner of the execution thereof in which thing consisted the difficultie and as some thought the impossibilitie of this enterprise First therefore you are to vnderstand that before a hauen could be there erected there must be made a pent to conteine abundance of water issuing from the land which being let out at a sluse should open mainteine the hauens mouth the violence whereof should scowre it so as neither beach sand nor slub might there remaine The working of these wals in the sea and thorough the chanell was the great thing to be brought to passe as hath beene before said The discouerie therefore of these workes will not be vnprofitable to posteritie nor vnnecessarie for the time present Herein I will omit all contentions factions concerning these procéedings line 10 as also all iniurious practises against those works whense soeuer they sprang but I would gladlie giue to euerie one his due commendation which cannot be doone because therein I should grow toâ— long I thought méet also to omit a controuersie rising about the placing of the hauens mouth excellentlie disputed betwixt persons of good acount The question was whether were most conuenient a more readie and spéedie entrance in times of danger when contrarie winds permitted no line 20 entrie or abode in anie harbourough though this entrance were somewhat more shallow whereby the greatest ships in those cases should be excluded or a déeper hauens mouth in an other place more conuenient for great ships with a more calme ingresse and a quieter rode the hauens mouth somewhat more easterlie and therefore not so good to enter into at a southwest wind which distresseth men most in those seas wherein I saie I forbeare to repeat the arguments of ech side and the circumstance of that line 30 matter being now decided and ouerruled in such sort as I doo the works of the pent the description whereof maie be profitable to all that shall haue to doo either in hauens or great water breaches For both Plumsted Erith marshes or anie like breaches by this means doubtlesse maie easilie and most assuredlie be recouered In the declaration hereof also the parties which haue deserued commendation or consideration maie perhaps in some sort haue a kind of recompense for other reward was not looked line 40 after or sought for by the best executioners hereof sith the better sort imploied their trauell with great charges the meaner sort their readie furtherance to their power the poorer people their labor at a small rate to the preferring and performance of this worke and all with such forwardnesse and willingnes of mind as the like hath not béene knowne or seene in this age the beholding whereof would haue amazed anie man vnacquainted with Romeneie marsh works from whense the patterne hereof was fetcht and the officers and chiefe workemen line 50 thereof brought by sir Thomas Scot to Douer These works were digested and ordered by them euen as a battell is marshalled by officers of the féeld And trulie it was expedient that good direction should be vsed in this behalfe for there were to be imploied fiue or six hundred courts about a wall of small bredth at one instant none to be idle or hindered by an other for the staie of one court a verie little space might be to the works an incredible hinderance line 60 The nature and names of the offices and officers herevnto perteining you haue alreadie heard For as they were at the first set downe by sir Thomas Scot so in all respects was it ordered and concluded in that behalfe
sauing that because these works were so great and required such expedition as the expenditor was ouercharged with busines though an expert man trained vp in Romneie marsh in those affaires trustie diligent and euerie waie sufficient vnto whose office naturallie belonged the purueiance of all necessaries anie waie apperteining to the mainteinance of the wals There was appointed by the commissioners as chiefe purueior a gentleman of good sufficiencie named Iohn Keies by whose countenance and discreet dealing men were brought to yéeld willinglie anie of their commodities towards the helpe and furtherance of these proceedings for their iust values which was dulie answered vnto them so as no man was séene to complaine of anie iniurie or hard dealing But when the works or rather the workers grew to be greater and more in number than was expected which came to passe by reason of the multitude of courts and workemen who proffered their seruice so fast as from the rate of two hundred which was at the first set downe they increased to six hundred all pastures néere the towne being imploied that waie manie men were content to make their owne prouision conditionallie to be admitted into the works insomuch as some hired pasture for their working horsses seuen or eight miles from Douer and neuerthelesse came to worke with the first and continued the whole daie with them that wrought longest For they came at six of the clocke in the morning and departed at six of the clocke at night except extraordinarie causes in preuenting inconueniences of great and fowle tides caused them to worke longer Diuerse brought thither courts from besides Maidstone and Seuenocke being thirtie or fortie miles from Douer and in the end the officers were driuen to put backe and refuse such as made sute to bring courts into the works and yet had they for their horsse their court and their driuer but onelie twelue pence a daie Which because it séemeth incredible I thought good to discouer and vnfold to the reader in such sort as he might be resolued and satisfied in the certeintie thereof and throughlie conceiue not onelie the possibilitie but also the reason of it First therefore the time of yeare when that worke was to be doone must be considered which was intended and by proclamations in certeine market towns notified to haue had beginning the thirtéenth of Maie when in those parts barleie season is ended and from that time till haruest or haieng time little is to be doone in husbandrie and assoone as haruest should begin their purpose was to leaue this workâ— vntill the yere following So as in this meane time that is to saie from Aprill till haruest the seruants speciallie the cattell of farmers are rather chargeable than anie waie gainefull vnto them and therefore at such a time to raise profit by them is double aduantage Neuerthelesse he that should make his best commoditie herein was to looke circumspectlie into the matter and then might he sée that it was requisit to haue two courts for one boie might driue them both because whilest the one was driuen the other was filled the same being vnloden or discharged he went for the other leauing that to be filled This filler was a labourer allowed to euerie man which had two courts for whome the owner of the two courts had ten pence the daie so as he had for his fâ—ller his driuer his two horsses and his two courts two shillings and ten pence the daie which amounteth to seuentéene shillings the wéeke He paied out of the same for the boord of his filler and driuer six shillings weekelie and so had the owner of cléere wéekelie gaine for his two seruants and two horsses nine shillings which must all this while haue lien at his charge There were among this number certeine double courts which had double wages because they were furnished with two horsses in a court being double in quantitie to the rest and were speciallie imploied about the cariage of sléech a more weightie mould than either the chalke or the earth A single court conteined in length fiue foot in bredth two foot and in depth sixteene inches wherevnto the expenditor looked â—erie narrowlie as also to the suffâ—ciencie anâ— deligence of euerie workemâ—n and â—orse so as vpon euerie default their wâ—ges was totted and defalâ—â—â— or the offendors excluded from the woâ—ks or some times punished with stocks and other 〈◊〉 An entrance into this worke was made in the beginning of Maie one thousand fiue hundred foure 〈◊〉 and thâ—ee in the fiue and twentith yeare of hir maiesties reigne with six courts onelie at the crosse wâ—ll such was the towardlines thereof as yéelded line 10 so great a brute promise of good successe that from that daie fâ—â—ward there were continuallie cariages brought at the rate before set downe beyond all expectation in so much as by the 27 of Iune there were assembled in those works 542 courts and almost 1000 workemen And truelie there consisted so great difficultiâ— in marshalling this multitude for all were to worke at once none might staie for other or be impediment to others worke as without the paterne of fâ—â—mer experience the worke could line 20 hardlie haue béene performed Heerein Richard Coast and William Norris inrâ—ts and the aforenamed Reginald Smith clearke of Romneie marsh were chéefe directors and as it were marshals as hauing dailie experience in the like works For in Romneie marsh there are euerie yeare commonlie imploied at one time about making or mending of some one wall 200 courts at the least in each court for the most part being two oxen for whome the owners hire feeding in the marsh as line 30 they can agrée with the landholders and yet haue had hitherto for their court and deiuer but ten pence the daie And this togither with their manner of working would be woonderfull famous and much spoken of throughout England if the continuance of so manie hundred yeares exercise thereof had not qualified the strangenesse and admiration of it For here though at Douer it could not be so bicause they wrought altogither with horsbeasts the mights féeding preuaileâ—h so much ouer the daies working that line 40 bullocks brought to those works leane and out of flesh are returned from the works most commonlie in verie good plight The stuffe carried by these courts for the erection of the walles at Douer was earâ—h being of a haselie mould chalke and fleeâ—h wherevnto the carriages were seuerallie imploid the most number for earth whereof the greatest part of the wall consisted the second for chalke which mingled and beaten togither with the earth did make the same more firme line 50 and was placed in the midst of the wall the smallest number for sléech which serued for the out sides onlie For the same being beaten with béetles to the sides of the wall would by and by cleaue so fast and close therevnto as thereby the
wals were strengthened and therevpon also the arming might be set much more firmelie than vpon anie other mould This also preserued the wall from annoiance by rage of waters almost as well as if they were otherwise armed with thorne and faggot line 60 There was prouided néere to the castell called Arclifâ—e whereof Henrie Guilford esquier being one that tooke especiall care and paines in setting forward that businesse was then capiteine two acres and a halfe of ground for the prouision of earth for the walles which ground was distant from the crosse wall about twentie score tailors yards and for the same the owner had ten pounds and the soile remaining to himselfe which in short time will recouer to be as good as euer it was At an other place also called Horsepoole sole lieng behind S. Iames his church was more earth prouided which was altogither imploied vpon the long wall as being neerer therevnto Hereof euerie court brought commonlie to the walles in one daâ—e abou◠〈…〉 The chalke was had from diuerse places of the cliâ—â—â—s somâ—hat 〈◊〉 to the wâ—ls than the earth and these bâ—ought about seauenteene or eightéâ—ne loâ—â— a daies The 〈◊〉 was for the most part had at the 〈◊〉 part of the 〈◊〉 in a place called Paradise And to these seuerall sorts of stuffâ— were seuerall cariages appointed and disposed as might most 〈◊〉 serue the tâ—rne and as occasâ—on seruâ—d for somtiâ—â—s more and sometimâ—s lesse of each sort of mould was necessarilie imploied Sâ—â—times also the fléech was â—ad close at the side of the wals and therefore fewer cariages imploied that waiâ— Now to make a perfect triall of the worke before the daie limited that all the courts should come in there was an experiment of great importance performed which was the making of a baiâ— head therby a pâ—nt to keepe the water in or out of a péecâ— of the â—auen called Little paradise which place conteineth about thâ—â—â— acres and a halfe of ground in great depth wherein there riseth manie springs Anâ— in the place where this wall or baie head should be made the ouâ—e fléech was twentie fâ—â—t deepe at the least Herin also was laid first a 〈◊〉 and aâ—terwards a sluse of great charge the streame whereof méeting with the course of the great sluse increaseth the force thereof to the benefit of the hauens mouth On the thirtéenth daie of Maie in the yeare of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred eightie and thrée when the courts which by proclamations made one moneth before in diuerse market towns were to come to begin the works there were 〈◊〉 of them prepared and readie furnished for the purpose than were expected Howbeit the same was brought to passe by the meanes of sir Thomas Scot and other of the commissioners who brought boâ—â— their owne and their neighbors carriagâ—s persuading all whom they thought able and meet to set forward and giue incoragement to the execution of these works But Roâ—neie marshmen and such as knew those works were they indeed which onlie gaue light to others of the true right maner of working and of the commoditie insuing hereby they in effect supplied those works vntill the countrie did see which waie to saue themselues and make profit thereof But such was the multitude alreadie assembled that to auoid the difficultie and confusion of so manie courts working togither at the beginning and to doo the better and greater seruice afterwards the whole course was altered by sir Thomas Scot by whome it was thought most méet to enter into the execution of both walles to wit the long wall and crosse wall togither to diuide the courts into two parts with whome the said Richard Barrie esquier lieutenant of Douer castell willinglie ioined vndertaking the charge or ouersight of the long wall as sir Thomas Scot did of the crossâ— wall and by that meanes all the workmen courts did with much more conueniencie and spéed accomplish their worke The crosse wall was of more importance and the difficultie to make it was greater than of the long wall for manie respects First for that the crosse wall standeth néerer to the maine sea than the long wall and by that meanes this worke more â—iolentlie impugned and sooner interrupted than that of the long wall Secondlie they carried the crosse wall through the chanell a thing verie strange and difficult and so did they not the long wall Thirdlie the ouze and fleech was déeper vnder the crosse wall than vnder the long wall Fourthlie the crosse wall was to be made déeper or higher and broder or wider than the long wall Fiftlie the tide was to hinder this worke by approching sooner by rising higher and by more violent raging than it did at the other Sixtlie the weight of the pent water was to lie altogither vpon this wall and consequentlie the water would search thereinto more dangerouslie Seuenthlie in this wall there was a â—luse to be laid which without great circumspection would haue indangered the whole worke Adde vnto these that the crosse wall was more suddenlie vndertaken of more importance For vnder fiftéene thousand pounds none euer made offer to doo it before this line 10 time for the first purpose was to begin with the long wall onlie or rather a péece thereof as a worke sufficient to be performed in one summer Now if the long wall was thought a worke so difficult dangerous costlie and tedious what may be thought of the crosse wall Trulie had not the other commissioners béene comforted herein by sir Thomas Scot the impossibilitie presupposed would haue discouraged and ouerthrowne the whole enterprise But he with good comfort and confidence entred vpon the crosse wall and maister lieutenant on line 20 the long wall insomuch as the one was called sir Thomas Scots wall the other maister lieutenants wall And certeinlie they might well so be termed in respect of the paines care and costs imploied vpon them by those two gentlemen Sir Thomas Scot dwelt twelue long Kentish miles from Douer yet did he seldome faile to come from his house to the beginning of the worke euerie mondaie morning while the walles were in hand and from that line 30 daie vntill saturdaie in the euening when he returned home He lightlie came first to the walles and departed with the last and it behooued him so to doo in as much as by his meanes onelie this manner of worke was vndertaken and all other deuises reiected He laie in one Iohn Spritwels house who kept an inne in Douer called the Greihound and there did he and his followers and seruants togither with maister lieutenant and his companie receiue their diet at a déere hand For although the castell stand line 40 within a quarter of a mile of the worke and as neere to the towne yet was the lieutenants industrie and charge such as he or his seruants did neuer lightlie returne home from fiue of the clocke in the morning
till after supper but remained alwaies there with sir Thomas Scot in continuall businesse extreme charge not onelie in respect of their owne table but also in regard of strangers who came to sée them and the workes whose charges they commonlie defraied Besides that they did not seldome line 50 times bestow rewards bountifullie vpon the poore workmen who vpon sundrie occasions were driuen to worke longer than the rest and with more difficultie for some at some times wrought in danger of life ofttimes in the waters vp to the wasâ— or shoulders And among the rest to whome I could rather wish a liberall recompense than a due praise there was in these workes a poore man named Iohn Bowle borne and brought vp in Romneie marsh whose dexteritie of hand fine and excellent inuentions in executing difficult works and whose willing line 60 mind and painfulnesse for his owne part with furthering and incoraging of others ought in some calling to haue beene honored and in his poore estate should not be forgotten As touching the residue of the commissioners they for their parts if they were in health did almost dailie visit the works with as great care for the good procéedings thereof as was possible Sir Iames Hales was this yeare chosen by the generall voice and consent of the commissioners and with the good allowance of the lords of the councell treasuror for the works as sir Thomas Scot was the two yeares precedent and did not onelie discharge the office and dutie thereof with commendation and iust account which amounted almost to fiue thousand pounds but beside his often repaire at other times during the works he did continue there by the space of one whole month while sir Thomas Scot by meanes of a sicknesse taken vpon the wals was absent and all that time kept a bountifull table and vsed great diligence in continuall ouersight and furtherance of the works whereof Thomas Digs esquier was generall surueior commended thervnto by the lords of the councell who although he made his chiefe abode then at London yet did he often repaire to the works and seriouslie bent himselfe to set forward the same there being also a carefull sollicitor in that behalfe Certeine of the iurats chiefe magistrats of the towne were by two at once dailie assigned to be directors and setters foorth of the carriages and to sée the courts well filled these also did refuse their allowance being eight pence the daie and did neuerthelesse verie diligentlie attend vpon their charge their names were Iohn Watson Iohn Garret William Willis Thomas Brodgat c. There were eight men called guiders standing at eight seuerall stations or places of most danger to guide and helpe the driuers distressed or troubled with their cattell or courts and to hasten them forward for the default of one did make staie of the whole companie and these had eight pence the daie There attended also at the wals eight men called vntingers to loose and vndoo the tackle of euerie court immediatlie before the vnloding or sheluing thereof and were allowed eight pence the daie Then were there eight sheluers which pulled downe the courts as soone as they came to the place where it was néedfull to vnlode and these were chosen of the strongest and nimblest men hauing ten pence the daie There were also eight tingers whose speciall office was to lift vp the courts immediatlie after they were vnloden and to make fast their tackle for the driuers hasted foorth without making anie staie otherwise all the companie must haue â—arried for them these had eight pence the daie The number of the laborers which were to shouell abrode and laie euen the earth chalke and sléech as soone as it was vnloden was vncerteine they had six pence and eight pence the daie A great manie marshmen were assigned to laie the sléech vpon the sides of the wals and were called scauelmen and had twelue pence the daie The number of béetlemen also were vncerteine who serued to beat or driue the sléech to the sides of the wals and to breake the great stones of chalke laid on the wals as also to leuell the earth and to worke it close together hauing for their wages eight pence the daie Manie marshmen also were appointed to arme the sides of the wals after they were sléeched had twelue pence and some sixtéene pence the daie The order of arming was in this maner First beginning at the foot of the wall they laid downe a row of fagot through euerie one of the which they driue a néedle or stake about foure foot long hauing an eie or hole at the great end Then doo they edder it with thorne and other prouision for that purpose and lastlie driue a keie or woodden wedge being one foot and a halfe long through the eie of the néedle to kéepe downe the edder which staith downe the fagot Also there was an inferiour purueior for fagot thorne néedles keies c who for his horse himselfe was allowed for euerie daie he trauelled two shillings The clerke of the works who kept all the reckonings of the expenditor through whose hands all the monie passed he at fiue a clocke in the morning togither with the expenditor called euerie one that wrought that daie and saw euerâ—e court furnished and recorded all this in his booke and such as were absent had no allowance that daie if they came late their wages was totted at the expenditors good discretion There was one Iuline appointed to attend vpon Poins his groins he was a Dutchman and more expert in those kind of water workes than Poins himselfe his wages was first I meane in Poins his time two shillings a daie afterwards to wit whilest these workes were in hand and better husbandrie was vsed he had but foure grotes a daie line 10 And thus much touching the offices and officers duties Euerie court was most commonlie filled ouer night and in the morning at six of the clocke they all approched orderlie to the place where the wall should be made The first driuer for good consideration was chosen to be a sufficient and a diligent person and that court to haue a good gelding for as he lead â—he danse so must they all follow line 20 When the first court came nigh to the place where he should vnlode one vntinged it and the driuer procéeded with his court either into the ouze or water or as néere therevnto as they could and bringing his horsse about in his returne when the taile of the court was turned to the water side the sheluer plucked downe the lode as far into the chanell as he could The driuer neuer staied but went foorth for a new lode the tinger runneth after and pulleth vp the court and fasteneth the tackle and goeth presentlie line 30 with spéed to doo likewise to another and so dooth the vntinger When
of the wall it selfe which neuer left sinking till it came to the foundation of the rocke except by some ouersight of the workemen some part thereof were set vpon the beach which should by order haue béene first remooued in that case they benched it digging a trench at the foot of that part of line 10 the wall and filling the same with earth they made it verie tight and so might anie such place be perfected and amended if need should require But at this houre there leaketh not a drop of water vnder or through anie part of the wall that anie man maie perceiue or see so as a full pent shrinketh not anie whit at all betwixt tide and tide whereas the allowance of one foot leakage or fall at the least was required of them which exhibited the plot of the woodden line 20 wall which being measured from the top or face of the high pent diminisheth almost one quarter thereof And thus betwixt the first of Maie and midst of August this pent which was thought vnpossible to be doone in three yeares was perfectlie finished in lesse than thrée months and remaineth in so good and sure state as the longer it standeth the better and tighter it will be If neuer anie thing should be added herevnto this pent by reason of the abundance of water reteined therein and issuing out of the sâ—use would mainteine line 30 a good hauen in that place for the violent course therof will alwaies open the hauens mouth and make a fret there euen downe to the rocke although it be distant from the same threescore rods in so much as at this instant there maâ—e come in at quarter floud a barke of fortie or fiftie tun and at full sea a ship of thrée hundred tun and vpwards But when the two iustie heads are once finished which are now in hand so as the hauens mouth be perfected anie ship what soeuer maie enter in thereat line 40 and remaine within that rode in good safetie But as at manie other times heretofore there hath béene sure triall had of the good effects of this pent so now in this last moneth of October one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and six one gate of the sâ—use being by mischance broken so as by the space of foure daies there could be no water reteined within she pent to scowre the mouth of the hauen the same was so choked and swarued vp with sand and beach line 50 in that space as no bote could enter in or passe out of the same insomuch as Edward Wootton esquire being then at Douer to passe thense in an ambassage from hir maiestie to the French king was forced to send to Sandwich for a craier to transport him to Calis because no bote of Douer lieng within the rode could passe out at the hauens mouth But assoone as the said gate of the sluse was repared euen the next tide following a vessell of thrée hundred tun might and did easilie passe in and out thereat line 60 one pent of water had so scowred and depthened the same Whereby it maie appeare that neither the cost bestowed nor the worke performed hath béene vnprofitablie imploiâ—d or vnnecessarilie vndertaken Now you shall vnderstand that the small sluse which was first made and laied in the crosse wall in such sort and for such purpose as hath béene declared was taken vp after the said walles were finished and a sluse of far greater charge was made by the aforesaid Peter Pet who vndertooke to doo it by great and had for the same foure hundred pounds the laieng whereof did cost two hundred pounds more at the least This sluse conteineth in length fourescore foot in bredth sixtéene foot in depth thirtéene and hath in it two draw gates It was one whole moneth in laieng all which time the said lord Cobham made his abode there and kept a most honorable and costlie table furthering those works not onelie with his continuall presence and countenance but also with his good direction and that not at starts but from morning till night and from daie to daie vntill the full accomplishing thereof And in the meane time sir Francis Walsingham hir maiesties principall secretarie was not vncarefull of this action as being the man without whom nothing was doone directing the course and alwaie looking into the state thereof and gaue continuall life thervnto by prouiding monie for it whereof when anie want approched he neuer failed to see or rather to send a sure supplie Since the finishing of these wals and sluses there hath beene much worke and charge imploied about one of the iuttie heads and beautifieng of the harborough wherin one George Carie of Deuonshire esquire and one Iohn Hill an auditor haue béene the principall directors But because that worke remaineth as yet vnperformed the report thereof shall also remaine to be made by others that shall hereafter haue occasion to write of such affairs ¶ At the assises kept at the citie of Excester the fourteenth daie of March in the eight and twentith yeare of hir maiesties reigne before sir Edmund Anderson knight lord chiefe iustice of the common plees and sargeant Floredaie one of the barons of the excheker iustices of the assises in the countie of Deuon and Exon there happened a verie sudden and a strange sickenesse first amongst the prisoners of the gaole of the castell of Exon then dispersed vpon their triall amongst sundrie other persons which was not much vnlike to the sickenesse that of late yeares happened at an assise holden at Oxford before sir Robert â—ell knight lord chiefe baron of the excheker and iustice then of that assise and of which sickenesse he amongst others died This sickenesse was verie sharpe for the time few escaped which at the first were infected therewith It was contagious and infectious but not so violent as commonlie the pestilence is neither dooth there appeare anie outward vlcer or sore The origen and cause thereof diuerse men are of diuerse iudgements Some did impute it and were of the mind that it procéeded from the contagion of the gaole which by reason of the close aire and filthie stinke the prisoners newlie come out of a fresh aire into the same are in short time for the most part infected therewith and this is commonlie called the gaole sickenesse and manie die thereof Some did impute it to certeine poore Portingals then prisoners in the said gaole For not long before one Barnard Drake esquier afterwards dubbed â—â—ight had béene at the seas and meeting 〈◊〉 certeine Portingals come from New found land and laden with fish he tooke them as a good prise and brought them into Dartmouth hauen in England and from thense they were sent being in number about eight and thirtie persons vnto the gaole of the castell of Exon and there were cast into the deepe pit and stinking dungeon These men had béene before a
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
〈◊〉 The lord Greie is quarelled against The death of the lord Riuers other The quéene taketh sanctuarie Tâ—â—ul lib. 2. eleg 3. The desolate state of the quéene Neuerthelesse he was depriued thereof shortlie after The kings comming to London The duke of Glocester made protector The bishop 〈◊〉 Lincolne made lord chancellor 〈◊〉 protecâ—ors oration The lord cardinall thought the fittest man â—â— deale with â—he queéne for 〈◊〉 surrenâ—â—â—ing of hir 〈◊〉 Reasons why it was not thought méet to fetch the quéens son out of sanctuarie The duke of BuckinghaÌ„s words against the quéene Of sanctuaries Westminster and saint Martins The abuse of sanctuaries The vse of sanctuaries Protector The quéenes answer The quéene is loth to part with hir son The quéenes mistrust of the lord protector The lord Howard saith Edw. Hall The quéenes replie vpon the lord cardinall This that is heere betwéen this marke * this marke * was not writâ—eÌ„ by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine The lord cardinall vseth an other waâ—â— to persuade the queéne She falleth 〈◊〉 a resolution touching hâ—r sonnes deliuerie O dissimulation This that is here betwene this marke * this marke * was not written by him in English but is translated out oâ— his historie which he wrote in Latine The dukes full resolution to go thorough with his enterprise Catesbie and his conditions described An assemblie of lords in the Tower The behaâ—â—â—â— of the lord pâ—â—â—tector in the assemblie of the lords The lord Stanleie wounded Lord Hastings lord chamberleine beheaded 〈◊〉 in psal â—â— The lord Stanleies dreame 〈…〉 misfortune to the lord Hastings Mani lib. 4 Astro. The description of the lord Hastingâ— The protectors proclamation The life and déeds of the lord chamberleine laid open Shores 〈◊〉 spoiled of 〈◊〉 that she had Shores 〈◊〉 put to open penance The descriptioÌ„ of Shores wife Eob. Hess 〈◊〉 cles Sal. * 〈◊〉 when this storie was written K. Edwards three concubines Sir Richard Ratcliffe The lord Riuers other beheaded Edmund Shaw maior of London Doct. Shaw Frier Penker The chiefest deuise to depose the prince Sée before pag. 667 668. Dame Elizabeth Greie A wise answer of a chast and continent ladie The kings mother The kings answer to his mother Libertie preferred before â— kingdome 〈◊〉 Elâ—zabeth Lucie The kings mariage The king fled The prince borne king Henrie the sixt set vp Of the earle of warwike The earle of warwike sâ—aine Doc. Shawâ— sermon This preacher was taught his lesson yer he came into the pulpit K. Edward sâ—andered in a sermon A maruelous deuise to mooue the assemblie K. Richard commended by the preacher Note the course of Gods iudgement Ouid. lib. 3. met A notable persuaâ—â—n Burdet Markam Cooke Open warre not so ill as 〈◊〉 Ciuill warre the occasion of manie great inconueniences Shores wife more sued vnto than all the lords in England He directeth his spéech to the communaltie of the citie London the kings especiall chamber Doct. Shaw commended by the duke of BuckinghaÌ„ A slanderous lie confirmed The title of K. Richard to the crowne The dignitie and office of a king full of care studie The election of K. Richard hardlie to be preferred Fitz William recorder K. Richards election preferred by â—â—â—ces of confederacie The maiors comming to Bainards castell vnto the lord protector O singular dissimulation of king Richard K. Richard spake otherwise than he meant The protectoâ— taketh vpon him to be king A made match to cousen the people Iuuenal sat 2. Anno Reg. 1. 1483 (*) This that is here betwéene this marke this marke * was not written by maister More in this historie written by him in English but is translated out of this historie which he wrote in Latine From this marke * to this * is not found in sir Thomas More but in maâ—â—â—eâ— Hall and Grafton Seuentéene knights of the bath created by king Richard What â—eers stâ—tes were attendant on him going to his coronatâ—â—n The solemne ceremonies vsed at king Richards coronation Quéene Anne wife to king Richard and daughter to Richard earle of Warwike and hir traine The king queene crowned Sir Robert Dimmocke the kings champion his challenge in the behalfe of king Richard A gaâ—e pretense of iustice and equitie Sir Thomaâ— More agaiâ—â— Perkin Werbecke Close dealing is euer suspected Iohn Gréeâ—â— Robert Brakenberie constable of the Tower The murther of the two yoong princes set abroch Sir Iames Tirrell described Authoritie â—â—ueth no partners The constable of the Tower deliuereth the keies to sir Iames Tirrell vpon the kings commandement The two princes shut vp in close 〈◊〉 The two murtherers of the two princes appointed The yoong K. and his brother murthered in their beds at midâ—ight in the Tower The murther confessed The iust iudgement of God seuerelie reuenging the murther of the innocent princes vpon the malefactors Pers. sat 3. The outward and inward troubles of tyrants by meanes of a grudging conscience * Persinall saith Ed. Hall Causes of the duke of Buckingham and K. Richards falling out The duke of Buckingham and king Richard mistrust each other Doctor Nâ—â—â—ton bishop of Elie what pageants hâ— plaied The high â—â—â—nour of 〈◊〉 Morton Bishop Nâ—â—â—tons subâ—â—ll vnderminiâ—â— of the duâ—e Princes matters perillous to meddle in Here endeth sir Thomas Moore this that followeth is taken out â—â— master Hall Bishop Morton buildeth vpoÌ„ the dukes ambition The duke of Buckingham highlie commended Dispraise of the lord protector or king messe Suspicion in a prince how mischéefous it is The bishop adiureth the duke to release the realme by some deuise from the present euill state A new confereÌ„ce betweene the bishop and the duke The duke openeth himselfe and his secrets to the bishop The duke complaineth of want of preferment in king Edwards daies * An vnhappie policie tending to slaughter bloushed The principall cause why the duke of Buckingham coÌ„ceiued such inward grudge against king Richard The imaginations of the duke of Buckingham to depriue K. Richard Note the working of ambition in the duke The office of a king verie hard to discharge The dukes resolution not to medle in seéking to obteine the crowne The duke of Buckinghâ—â— resolued to helpe to depose king Richard and to prefer the 〈◊〉 of Richmond to the crowne * The duke of Glocester now king The 〈◊〉 of the dukâ—s purpose The motion for the coniunction of the two houses of Lancaster Yorke deuised by the duke furthered Bishop Mortons deuise for to be at his owne libertie in his bâ—shoprike of Elie. The bishop of Elie saileth into Flanders to the earle of Richmond Lewes the physician sheweth the quéene the whole conceipt and deuise of the matter The coniunction of the two families mooued to the Q. by the physician The quéenes readinesse to sâ—t forward this coÌ„clusion The countesse of Richmond vttereth the matter to Urswike hir chapleine swearing him to be secret