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A68202	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178	4,305,113	1,536

number of six hundred horsses was come on his waie to London-ward after secret méeting and communication had eftsoones departed Wherevpon at Northampton the duke met with the protector himselfe with thrée hundred horsses line 20 and from thense still continued with him partner of all his deuises till that after his coronation they departed as it séemed verie great fréends at Glocester From whense as soone as the duke came home he so lightlie turned from him and so highlie conspired against him that a man would maruell whereof the change grew And suerlie the occasion of their variance is of diuerse men diuerselie reported Some haue I heard say that the duke a little before line 30 his coronation among other things required of the protector the duke of Herefords lands to the which he pretended himselfe iust inheritor And forsomuch as the title which he claimed by inheritance was somwhat interlaced with the title to the crowne by the line of king Henrie before depriued the protector conceiued such indignation that he reiected the dukes request with manie spitefull and minatorie words Which so wounded his heart with hatred and mistrust that he neuer after could indure to looke line 40 aright on king Richard but euer feared his owne life so far foorth that when the protector rode through London toward his coronation he feined himselfe sicke bicause he would not ride with him And the other also taking it in euill part sent him word to rise and come ride or he would make him be caried Wherevpon he rode on with euill will and that notwithstanding on the morow rose from the feast feining himselfe sicke and king Richard said it was doone in hatred and despite of him line 50 And they said that euer after continuallie each of them liued in such hatred and distrust of other that the duke verelie looked to haue beene murthered at Glocester from which nathelesse he in faire maner departed But suerlie some right secret at that daie denie this and manie right wise men thinke it vnlikelie the déepe dissembling nature of both those men considered and what néed in that gréene world the protector had of the duke and in what perill the duke stood if he fell once in suspicion of the tyrant line 60 that either the protector would giue the duke occasion of displeasure or the duke the protector occasion of mistrust And verelie men thinke that if king Richard had anie such opinion conceiued he would neuer haue suffered him to escape his hands Uerie truth it is the duke was an high minded man and euill could beare the glorie of another so that I haue heard of some that say they saw it that the duke at such time as the crowne was first set vpon the protectors head his eie could not abide the sight thereof but wried his head another way But men say that he was of truth not well at ease and that both to king Richard well knowne and not euill taken nor anie demand of the dukes vncourteouslie reiected but he both with great gifts and high behests in most louing and trustie maner departed at Glocester But soone after his comming home to Brecknocke hauing there in his custodie by the commandement of king Richard doctor Morton bishop of Elie who as ye before heard was taken in the councell at the Tower waxed with him familiar whose wisedome abused his pride to his owne deliuerance and the dukes destruction The bishop was a man of great naturall wit verie well learned and honorable in behauior lacking no wise waies to win fauour He had béene fast vpon the part of king Henrie while that part was in wealth and nathelesse left it not nor forsooke it in wo but fled the realme with the queene the prince while king Edward had the king in prison neuer came home but to the field After which lost and that part vtterlie subdued the other for his fast faith and wisedome not onelie was content to receiue him but also wooed him to come and had him from thencefoorth both in secret trust and verie speciall fauour which he nothing deceiued For he being as yée haue heard after king Edwards death first taken by the tyrant for his truth to the king found the meane to set this duke in his top ioined gentlemen togither in the aid of king Henrie deuising first the mariage betwéene him king Edwards daughter by which his faith he declared the good seruice to both his masters at once with infinit benefit to the realme by the coniunction of those two blouds in one whose seuerall titles had long disquieted the land he fled the realme went to Rome neuer minding more to meddle with the world till the noble prince king Henrie the seuenth gat him home againe made him archbishop of Canturburie and chancellor of England wherevnto the pope ioined the honour of cardinall Thus liuing manie daies in as much honor as one man might well wish ended them so godlie that his death with Gods mercie well changed his life This man therefore as I was about to tell you by the long often alternate proofe as well of prosperitie as aduerse fortune had gotten by great experience the verie mother and mistresse of wisedome a déepe insight in politike worldlie drifts Whereby perceiuing now this duke glad to commune with him fed him with faire words and manie pleasant praises And perceiuing by the processe of their communications the dukes pride now and then belking out a little breath of enuie toward the glorie of the king and thereby feeling him easie to fall out if the matter were well handled he craftilie sought the waies to pricke him forward taking alwaies the occasion of his comming and so kéeping himselfe so close within his bounds that he rather séemed to follow him than to lead him For when the duke first began to praise and boast the king and shew how much profit the realme should take by his reigne my lord Morton answered thus Suerlie my lord follie were it for me to lie for if I would sweare the contrarie your lordship would not I weene beléeue but that if the world would haue gone as I would haue wished king Henries sonne had had the crowne and not king Edward But after that God had ordered him to léese it and king Edward to reigne I was neuer so mad that I would with a dead man striue against the quicke So was I to king Edward a faithfull chapleine glad would haue béene that his child had succéeded him Howbeit if the secret iudgment of God haue otherwise prouided I purpose not to spurne against a pricke nor labour to set vp that God pulleth downe And as for the late protector and now king And euen there he left saieng that he had alreadie medled too much with the world and would from that daie meddle with his booke and his beads and no further Then longed the duke sore to heare what he

the father to whose cursed counsels he became a wicked instrument Thus much by waie of digression of Alexander a pope as you heare well qualified and therefore forward enough to creat cardinals both in England and elsewhere of like disposition But to returne to the storie After that the king had got the vpper hand of his enimies he remooued to Lincolne and there taried thrée dais causing euerie of the same daies solemne processions to be made in rendering thanks to God for his fortunate victorie Then caused he execution to be done of such rebels traitors as were taken in the field either at the battell or in the chase And shortlie after he went into Yorkshire there coasted the countrie ouerthwart searching out such as had aided his enimies and were thought to be seditious persons whome he punished some by imprisonment some by fines and some by death according to the qualitie of their offenses and as was thought most expedient not by extremitie of rigor inclining to tyrannie but by due moderation of iustice tempering execution with clemencie according to the good rule of iustice prescribed by the wise man saieng Sobria commissum plectat clementia crimen Parua neg at poenam culpa subire grauem About the middest of August entering into the third yere of his reigne he came to Newcastell vpon Tine and from thence sent in ambassage into Scotland Richard Fox latelie before made bishop of Excester and with him Richard Edgecombe knight controller of his house to conclude some peace or truce with king Iames of Scotland The English ambassadors were honorablie receiued and louinglie interteined of the said king who gladlie would haue concluded a perpetuall peace with the king of England if he might haue bene licenced so to haue doone but his people being stedfast in their old accustomed vsage would not agrée to anie peace but yet were contented to gratifie their king that he should take truce with England for the tearme of seuen yeares which was concluded Then was secret promise made by king Iames that he would not onlie obserue peace continue in perfect amitie with the king of England during his life but also would renew againe this truce new taken for other seuen yeers before the first seuen yeers were fullie expired The king of Scots indéed was as desirous of the king of Englands friendship as the king of England was of his bicause that his subiects bare him much euill will misliking with all things that either he could doo or saie So that his regiment was no longer liked than they were in a good mood which was when they were well minded and that was neuer for that if by gentlenesse he allured them they esteemed him a flatterer if by seueritie a tyrant And therefore it stood him vpon to strengthen himselfe against such a people of whose line 10 pleasure displeasure depended his estate K. Henrie after the returne of his ambassadors out of Scotland came from Newcastell to Yorke and so toward London and in the way being at Leicester there came to him ambassadors from Charles the French king which declared both the recouerie of certeine townes out of the hands of Maximilian king of Romans which he had wrongfullie deteined from the crowne of France before that time and also that their maister king Charles had now wars line 20 in hand against Francis duke of Britaine bicause that he succoured and mainteined diuers noble men as the duke of Orleance and others that were rebels and traitors against him and the realme of France Wherefore his request was that for the old familiaritie that had bene betwixt them he would either assist and helpe him or else stand neuter betwixt them neither helping nor yet hurting the one nor the other Upon good and deliberate aduise taken in this matter bicause it was iudged weightie the king for line 30 answer told the French ambassadors that he would neither spare paine nor cost to set some reasonable staie betwixt their souereigne lord king Charles and the duke of Britaine so that a finall end and some perfect conclusion of friendship might be had betwixt them And so as soone as the French ambassadors were returned home the king sent his chapleine Christopher Urswike ouer into France to king Charles as well to shew that he was glad of the victorie which he had against Maximilian as to declare line 40 what a tempestuous storme of ciuill rebellion himselfe had escaped ouercome heere in England But the chiefest point of Urswikes errand consisted in this that he should intimate to the French king how his maister king Henrie offered himselfe as a mediator betwixt him and the duke of Britaine to make them friends and if he perceiued that the French king gaue eare herevnto then should he go into Britaine to mooue the duke there to be contented that some reasonable order might be taken for a line 50 quietnesse to be had betwixt the French king and him Whilest Urswike was trauelling in this matter according to his commission the king came backe againe to London where he was receiued of the citizens with great ioy and triumph they being heartilie glad and greatlie reioising that he with such good successe had subdued his enimies Shortlie after he deliuered the lord Thomas marques Dorset out of the Tower receiuing him againe to his former fauor and old familiaritie bicause his line 60 truth and loialtie by diuers assaies and sundrie arguments had béene throughlie tried and sufficientlie prooued In which meane time the king for the great loue that he bare to his wife quéene Elizabeth caused hir to be crowned and anointed quéene on saint Katharins day in Nouember with all solemnitie as in such cases apperteineth In the meane season Christopher Urswike according to his commission trauelled betwéene the French king and the duke of Britaine in the king of Englands name to make them friends But although the French king séemed willing enough to haue peace yet meant he nothing lesse For he had as manie subtilties in his heart as ●here be faces in the world according to the poet Pectoribus fraudes tot sunt quot in orbe figurae For whilest he went about with faire words courteous letters and swéet promises to beare the king of England in hand to labour a peace betwixt him and the Britains he inforced his whole puissance to subdue them and besieged the citie of Nants And on the other part the duke of Orleance being with drawne to the duke of Britaine and one that r●led most about him had no liking to heare of peace but did what he could to hinder it The English ambassador Christopher Urswike hauing thus passed from the French king to the duke of Britaine and backe againe to the French king returned shortlie after into England and shewed vnto king Henrie what he had doone betwixt them Immediatlie after came to the

saint Dominike and likewise he became a Carmelite and last of all he fell to and preached the gospell in haire and sackecloth till he vnderstood himselfe to be in the displeasure of Walden and other that could not awaie with such singularitie line 20 in him or other sounding as they tooke it to the danger of bringing the doctrine of the Romish church in misliking with the people for then he withdrew himselfe to his house againe and there remained twentie yeares leading an anchors life but yet after that time he came abroad and was aduanced to be a bishop in Ireland and went to the Roades in ambassage from whence being returned he went barefooted vp and downe in Norffolke teaching in townes and in the countrie abroad the ten commandements line 30 he liued till he came to be at the point of an hundred yeares old departed this life the fiftéenth day of Ianuarie in the yeare of our Lord 1491 and was buried at Lestolfe in Suffolke Iohn Tonneis a diuine and an Augustine frier in Norwich wrote certeine rules of grammar and other things printed by Richard Pinson Gefferie surnamed the Grammarian Iohn Alcocke bishop of Elie changed a nunrie at Cambridge into a college named Iesus college about the yeere of Christ 1496. line 40 The chiefe cause of suppressing the nunrie is noted to be for that the abbesse and other of the conuent liued dissolute liues Stephan Hawes a learned gentleman and of such reputation as he was admitted to be one of the priuie chamber to king Henrie the seuenth William Bintree so called of a towne in Norffolke where he was borne by profession a Carmelite frier in Burnham a great diuine William Gallion an Augustine frier in Lin and at length became prouinciall of his order Robert Fabian a citizen and merchant of London an historiographer he was in his time in good estimation for his wisedome and wealth in the citie so that he bare office and was shiriffe in the yeare 1493 William Celling borne beside Feuersham in Kent a monke of Canturburie Thomas Bourchier descended of the noble linage of the earles of Essex was first bishop of Elie and after remooued from thense to Canturburie succéeding Iohn Kemp in that archbishops see at length created by pope Paule the second a cardinall Philip Bromierd a Dominicke frier a diuine Iohn Miles a doctor of both the lawes ciuill and canon he studied in Oxenford in the college of Brasen nose newlie founded in the daies of this king Henrie the seuenth by William Smith bishop of Lincolne Richard Shirborne bishop of Chichester and imploied in ambassage to diuerse princes as a man most méet thereto for his singular knowledge in learning and eloquence Robert Uiduus vicar of Thakestéed in Essex and a prebendarie canon of Welles an excellent poet Peter Kenighall a Carmelit frier but borne of worshipfull linage in France hauing an Englishman to his father was student in Oxenford and became a notable preacher Iohn Morton first bishop of Elie and after archbishop of Canturburie the sixtie and fourth in number that ruled that sée he was aduanced to the dignitie of a cardinall and by king Henrie the seuenth made lord chancellor a worthie councellor and a modest he was borne of worshipfull parents in Cheshire departed this life in the yeare of our Lord 1500 Henrie Meowall chapleine to the said Morton Edmund Dudleie borne of noble parentage studied the lawes of this land and profited highlie in knowledge of the same he wrote a booke intituled Arbor rei publicae the tree of the common wealth of this man ye haue heard before in the life of this king and more God willing shall be said in the beginning of the next king as the occasion of the historie leadeth Iohn Bokingham an excellent schooleman William Blackeneie a Carmelit frier a doctor of diuinitie and a nekromancer Thus farre Henrie the seuenth sonne to Edmund earle of Richmond ❧ Henrie the eight sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth AFter the death of the noble prince Henrie the seauenth his sonne Henrie the eight began his reigne the two and twentith daie of Aprill in the yeare of the world 5475 after line 10 the birth of our sauiour 1509 and in the eightéenth yeare of his age in the sixtéenth yeare of Maximilian then being emperour in the eleuenth yeare of Lewes the twelfe that then reigned in France and in the twentith yeare of king Iames the fourth as then ruling ouer the Scots Whose stile was proclamed by the sound of a trumpet in the citie of London the thrée and twentith daie of the said moneth with much gladnesse and reioising of the line 20 people And the same daie he departed from his manou● of Richmond to the Tower of London where he remained closelie and secret with his councell till the funerals of his father were finished Although this king now comming to the crowne was but yoong as before is said yet hauing béene in his first yeares trained vp in learning did for respect of his owne suertie and good gouernement of his people prudentlie by the aduise of his grandmoother the countesse of Richmond and Derbie elect choose line 30 foorth of the most wise and graue personages to be of his priuie councell namelie such as he knew to be of his fathers right déere and familiar fréends whose names were as followeth William Warham archbishop of Canturburie and chancellor of England Richard Fox bishop of Winchester Thomas Howard earle of Surrie and treasuror of England George Talbot earle of Shrewesburie and lord steward of the kings houshold Charles Summerset lord chamberleine sir Thomas Louell sir Henrie line 40 W●at doctor Thomas Ruthall and sir Edward Poinings These graue and wise councellors fearing least such abundance of riches and welth as the king was now possessed of might mooue his yoong yeares vnto riotous forgetting of himselfe for vnto no king at anie time before was left greater or the like riches as well in readie coine as in iewels and other mooueables as was left to him by his father they therefore his said councellors trauelled in such prudent line 50 sort with him that they got him to be present with them when they sat in councell so to acquaint him with matters perteining to the politike gouernment of the realme that by little and little he might applie himselfe to take vpon him the rule and administration of publike affaires with the which at the first he could not well indure to be much troubled being rather inclined to follow such pleasant pastimes as his youthfull yoong yeares did more delite in and therefore could be verie well contented that other graue personages should take paines therein The same daie also that the king came to the Tower the lord Henrie Stafford brother to the duke of Buckingham was arrested and committed to the Tower and the same daie also doctor Ruthall was named bishop of Durham

die for according to the law and by the law I am iudged to die and therfore I will speake nothing against it I am come hither to accuse no man nor to speake anie thing of that whereof I am accused condemned to die but I praie God saue the king and send him long to reigne ouer you for a gentler nor a more mercifull prince was there neuer and to me he was euer a good a gentle and a souereigne lord And if anie person will meddle of my cause I require them to iudge the best And thus I take my leaue of the world and of you all and I hartilie desire you all to praie for me Oh Lord haue mercie on me to God I commend my soule Iesu receiue my soule diuerse times repeting those words till that hir head was striken off with the sword Now bicause I might rather saie much than sufficientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind as also for hir fauouring of learned men zeale of religion and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore I will refer the reader vnto master Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admonition prooueth hir marriage lawfull defendeth hir succession ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements opinions and obiections of backebiters against that vertuous quéene sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death and finallie how the protestants of Germanie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse ¶ Anglorum praelia saith that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe in the likenesse of hir grandfather appéered vnto hir and after a long narration of the vanities of this world how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes maligning the fortunate estate of the vertuous how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England and that the gouernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie peace he saith vnto hir in conclusion by waie of prophesie as our poet hath recorded Forti sis animo tristis si nuncius adsum Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis Nomen ad astraferet patris matrísque suúmque Immediatlie after hir death in the wéeke before Whitsuntide the king married the ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe and sir Water Hungerford lord Hungerford The eight of Iune began the parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard without the kings assent affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots and neece to the king for which act he was atteinted of treason and an act made for like offendors and so he died in the tower and she remained long there as prisoner In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London where after much disputation and debating of matters they published a booke of religion intituled Articles deuised by the kings highnesse c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were giuen foorth wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated speciallie those that fell in haruest time ¶ The nine twentith of Iune the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster where were ordeined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water one of the which brake in the midst wherby one Gates a gentleman seruant to M. Kn●net was drowned in his harnesse In the other a gun brake hir chamber maimed two of the mariners Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king and maister of the rols was made lord kéeper of the priuie seale and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight and vicar generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bishops as head ouer them The two and twentith of Iulie Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset earle of Northampton base sonne to the king begot line 10 of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt departed this life at saint Iames and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land In September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale and vicegerent sent abroad vnder the kings spirituall priuie seale certeine iniunctions commanding that the persons and curats should teach their parishioners the Pater noster the Aue Creed with the ten commandements and articles of the line 20 faith in English These articles and iniunctions being established by authoritie of parlement and now to the people deliuered bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine And herewith diuerse of the cleargie as moonks priests and others tooke occasion herby to speake euill of the late procéedings of the king touching matters of religion affirming that if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided the faith would shortlie be vtterlie line 30 destroied and all praier and diuine seruice quite abolished and taken awaie Manie sinister reports slanderous tales and feigned fables were blowne abroad and put into the peoples eares and diuerse of the nobilitie did also what they could to stir the commons to rebellion faithfullie promising both aid and succour against the king The people thus prouoked to mischiefe and deceiued through ouer light credence incontinentlie as it were to mainteine that religion which had so manie line 40 yeares continued and béene estéemed they stiffelie and stoutlie conspired togither and in a part of Lincolneshire they first assembled and shortlie after ioined into an armie being as it was supposed of men apt for the warres in number about twentie thousand Against these rebels with all the hast that might be the king in his proper person vpon intelligence therof had marched towards them being furnished with a warlike armie perfectlie appointed of all things that to such a companie should apperteine line 50 The rebels hearing that his person was present with his power to come thus against them began to feare what would follow of their dooings and such nobles and gentlemen as at the first fauoured their cause fell from them and withdrew so that they being destitute of capteines at length put certeine petitions in writing which they exhibited to the king professing that they neuer intended hurt

gret nation betwixt you and vs How did the nation of France put out the Galles out of all France How got the Turk first all Grecia now of late all Hungarie but being called in for to aid helpe And did not the Goths by like meanes get all Italie and the Lombards one part therof now called Lombardie What looke you for more Néedie soldiors hauing their weapons in their hands and knowing that you cannot liue without them what will not they command you to doo What will they not incroch vpon you What will they not thinke they may doo And what will they thinke that you dare doo This forren helpe is your confusion that succour is your detriment the victorie so had is your seruitude what is then to be thought of losse taken with them The strangers and forren soldiors shall oppresse you within our power and strength without and of your owne nation so manie as loue quietnesse godlines and wealth of your realme shall helpe also to scourge and afflict you Is it not better to compose and acquite all this calamitie and trouble by marriage to end all sorrows and battels by such and so honorable a peace Hath not the emperor Spaine Burgundie by title of marriage How holdeth the French king Britaine now latelie annexed to that crowne but by title of marriage How haue all the great princes of the world happilie and with quiet made of two kingdoms one of diuerse lordships one of nations alwaies at warre with themselues or else in doubtfull peace one well gouerned kingdome rule and dominion but by that godlie most quiet and most amiable composition of marriage Two meanes there be of making one rule wherto title is pretended and perfect agréement betwixt two nations either by force or superioritie which is conquest line 10 or by equalitie and loue which is by parentage mariage you hate the one that is conquest and by refusing the other you inforce vpon you hatred malice You will not haue peace you will not haue aliance you will not haue concord and conquest commeth vpon you whether you will or no. And yet if all things were considered we feare it will appeere that it were better for you to be conquered of vs than succoured of strangers lesse losse to your goods lesse hurt to your lands lesse dishonor to your realme line 20 this nation which is one in toong one in countrie and birth hauing so little diuersitie to occupie the whole than other powers come in to you neither like in language nor yet like in behauior who should rule ouer you and take you to be but their slaues But we eftsoons and finallie declare and protest vnto you that although for the better furtherance of this godlie purpose of vniting the realmes and for the sure defense of them which fauour the marriage we are compelled for the time to keepe holds and to make line 30 fortifications in your realme yet the kings maiesties mind and determinat pleasure is with our aduise and counsell to be as before is declared that where fauour may be shewed not to vse rigor if by conditions you will receiue this amitie offered not to follow conquest for we desire loue vnitie concord peace and equalitie Let neither your gouernor nor your kirkemen nor those who so often haue falsified their faith and promise and by treacherie and falshood be accustomed to proroge the time line 40 féed you foorth with faire words and bring you into the snare from whence they cannot deliuer you They will peraduenture prouide for themselues with pensions in some other realme and set soldiors strangers in your holds to kéepe you in subiection vnder the pretense to defend them against vs. But who prouideth pensions for you How are you defended when they are fled away Who conquereth you when the strange capteins haue your holds when your land is wasted and the realme destroied and the more line 50 part kept from you Who will set by the mariage of the quéene to buie a title with the war of England to marrie the name an other mightie king holding the land If we two being made one by amitie be most able to defend vs against all nations and hauing the sea for wall the mutuall loue for garrison God for defense should make so noble and well agréeing monarchie that neither in peace we may be ashamed nor in war afraid of anie worldlie or forren power whie should not you be as desirous of the same and line 60 haue as much cause to reioise at it as we If this honor of so noble a monarchie doo not moue you to take and accept amitie let the griefe and the danger of the aforenamed losses feare you to attempt that thing which shall displease God increase warre danger your realme destroie your land vndoo your children wast your grounds desolate your countries and bring all Scotland either to famine miserie or to subiection and seruitude of an other nation We require but your promised quéene your offered agréement of vnitie the ioining of both the nations which God of his infinite clemencie and tender loue that he hath declared to beare to both the nations hath offered vnto vs both and in manner called vs both vnto it whose calling and prouocation we haue and will folow to the best of our powers and in his name and with his aid admonition exhortation requests and ambassages not being able to doo it and to find stablenesse in promises we shall not willing but constreined pursue the battell chastise the wicked malicious by the angrie angels of God fire and sword Wherefore we require and exhort you all who haue loue to the countrie pitie of that realme a true hart to your quéene and mis●resse regard of your honors and promises made by the great seale of Scotland and who fauoureth the peace loue vnitie and concord and that most profitable marriage to enter and come to vs and declaring your true and godlie harts thervnto to aid vs in this most godlie purpose and enterprise To be witnesse of our dooings we refuse no man temporall nor spirituall lord ne lard gentleman nor other who will aid this our purpose and minish the occasion of slaughter and destruction to whom we shall kéepe the promises heretofore declared and further sée reward and recompense made according to the desert And for a more sure proofe and plainer token of the good mind and will which we beare vnto you that which neuer yet was granted to Scotland in anie league truce or peace betwixt England and Scotland because yée shall haue proofe of the beginning of loue and amitie of both the realmes the kings highnes considering the multitude of them which are come to his maiesties deuotion and of them that be well-willers and aiders of this godlie enterprise hath by our aduise and counsell granted and by these presents doth grant

persons meaning to reuolt to the Dolphins side aduertised him by letters of their whole minds which letters were conueied vnto him by certeine friers The Dolphin glad of those newes appointed the lords de la Breth and Faiet marshals of France line 40 accompanied with the lords of Mount Iehan of Bu●ll Doruall Torsie Beaumanor the Hire and his brother Guilliam with fiue hundred other valiant capteins and souldiers to the accomplishing of this enterprise who comming thither at the daie assigned in the night season approched towards the walles making a little fire on an hill in sight of the towne to signifie their comming which perceiued by the citizens that néere to the great church were watching for the same a burning cresset was shewed line 50 out of the steeple which suddenlie was put out and quenched What néedeth manie words The capteins on horssebacke came to the gate the traitors within slue the porters and watchmen and let in their fréends whereby the footmen entered first and the men of armes waited at the barriers to the intent that if néed required they might fight it out in open field Hereby manie Englishmen were slaine a great crie and garboile raised through the towne as in such surprises is woont The cause of this line 60 mischéefe was not knowen to any but onelie to the conspirators for the remnant of the citizens being no partakers imagined that the Englishmen had made hauocke in the towne and put all to the sword The Englishmen on the other side iudged that the citizens had begun some new rebellion against them or else had striuen amongst themselues The earle of Suffolke which was gouernour of the towne hauing perfect knowledge by such as scaped from the wals how the matter went withdrew without any tarriance into the castell which standeth at the gate of saint Uincent whereof was constable Thomas Gower esquier whither also fled manie Englishmen so as for vrging of the enimie prease of the number and lacke of vittels they could not haue indured long wherfore they priuilie sent a messenger to the lord Talbot which then laie at Alanson certifieng him in how hard a case they were The lord Talbot hearing these newes like a carefull capteine in all hast assembled togither about seuen hundred men in the euening departed from Alanson so as in the morning he came to a castell called Guierch two miles from Mans and there staied a while till he had sent out Matthew Gough as an espiall to vnderstand how the Frenchmen demeaned themselues Matthew Gough so well sped his businesse that priuilie in the night he came into the castell where he learned that the Frenchmen verie negligentlie vsed themselues without taking heed to their watch as though they had béene out of all danger which well vnderstood he returned againe and within a mile of the citie met the lord Talbot and the lord Scales and opened vnto them all things according to his credence The lords then to make hast in the matter bicause the daie approched with all spéed possible came to the posterne gate and alighting from their horsses about six of the clocke in the morning they issued out of the castell crieng saint George Talbot The Frenchmen being thus suddenlie taken were sore amazed in so much that some of them being not out of their beds got vp in their shirts and lept ouer the walles Other ran naked out of the gates to saue their liues leauing all their apparell horsses armour and riches behind them none was hurt but such as resisted ¶ Hard shift was made on all hands for safetie of life happie was he that could find a place of refuge where to lurke vnspide and vnhurt of the enimie who in the execution of their vengeance were so peremptorie that it was a matter of great difficultie or rather impossibilitie to escape their force To be short there were slaine and taken to the number of foure hundred gentlemen the priuat souldiers were frankelie let go After this inquisition was made of the authors of the treason and there were found condemned thirtie citizens twentie priests and fifteene friers who according to their demerits were all hanged The citie of Mans being thus recouered the lord Talbot returned to Alanson and shortlie after the earle of Warwike departed into England to be gouernour of the yoong king in steed of Thomas duke of Excester latelie departed to God and then was the lord Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie sent into France year 1428 to supplie the roome of the said earle of Warwike who landed at Calis with fiue thousand men and so came to the duke of Bedford as then lieng in Paris where they fell in councell togither concerning the affaires of France and namelie the earle of Salisburie began maruellouslie to phantasie the gaining of the citie countrie of Orleance This earle was the man at that time by whose wit strength and policie the English name was much fearefull and terrible to the French nation which of himselfe might both appoint command and doo all things in manner at his pleasure in whose power as it appeared after his death a great part of the conquest consisted for suerlie he was a man both painefull diligent and readie to withstand all dangerous chances that were at hand prompt in counsell and of courage inuincible so that in no one man men put more trust nor any singular person wan the harts so much of all men Herevpon after this great enterprise had long béene debated in the priuie councell the earle of Salisburies deuise therein was of them all granted and allowed so that he being replenished with good hope of victorie and furnished with artillerie munition apperteining to so great an enterprise accompanied with the earle of Suffolke and the lord Talbot and with a valiant armie to the number of ten thousand men departed from Paris and passed through the countrie of Beausse There he tooke by assault the towne of Genuille and within fiue daies after had the castell deliuered vnto him by them that were fled into it for their safegard 〈◊〉 also tooke the towne of Baugencie suffering 〈◊〉 man which would become subiect to the king of England to inioie their line 10 lands and goods The townes of Meun vpon Loire and Iargeaulx hearing of these dooings presented to them the keies of their townes vpon like agréement About Maie in this 1428 the towne of Naunts and territories there with a fearefull earthquake were shaken houses castels and strong buildings in such terrour as it was thought the end of the world had béene come After this in the moneth of September the earle came before the citie of Orleance and planted his line 20 siege on the one side of the riuer of Loire but before his comming the bastard of Orleance the bishop of the citie and a great number of Scots hearing of the earles intent made diuerse fortifications

to him a pasport but also liberallie disbursed to him a great summe of monie for his conduct and expenses necessarie in his long iournie and passage But the earle trusting in the French kings humanitie aduentured to send his ships home into Britaine and to set forward himselfe by land on his iournie making no great hast till his messengers were returned Which being with that benefit so line 50 comforted and with hope of prosperous successe so incouraged marched towards Britaine with all diligence intending there to consult further with his louers fréends of his affaires and enterprises When he was returned againe into Britaine he was certified by credible information that the duke of Buckingham had lost his head and that the marquesse Dorset and a great number of noble men of England had a little before inquired and searched for him there and were now returned to Uannes line 60 When he had heard these newes thus reported he first sorowed and lamented his first attempt and setting forward of his fréends and in especiall of the nobilitie not to haue more fortunatelie succéeded Secondarilie he reioised on the other part that God had sent him so manie valiant and prudent capteins to be his companions in his martiall enterprises trusting suerlie and nothing doubting in his owne opinion but that all his businesse should be wiselie compassed and brought to a good conclusion Wherefore he determining with all diligence to set forward his new begun businesse departed to Rheims and sent certeine of his priuie seruitours to conduct and bring the marquesse and other noble men to his presence When they knew that he was safelie returned into Britaine Lord how they reioised for before that time they missed him and knew not in what part of the world to make inquirie or search for him For they doubted and no lesse feared least he had taken land in England fallen into the hands of king Richard in whose person they knew well was neither mercie nor compassion Wherefore in all spéedie maner they galoped toward him and him reuerentlie saluted Which meeting after great ioy and solace and no small thanks giuen and rendered on both parts they aduisedlie debated and communed of their great businesse and weightie enterprise In the which season the feast of the Natiuitie of our sauiour Christ happened on which daie all the English lords went with their solemnitie to the cheefe church of the citie and there ech gaue faith and promise to other The earle himselfe first tooke a corporall oth on his honor promising that incontinent after he shuld be possessed of the crowne and dignitie of the realme of England he would be conioined in matrimonie with the ladie Elizabeth daughter to king Edward the fourth Then all the companie sware to him fealtie and did to him homage as though he had béene that time the crowned king and annointed prince promising faithfullie and firmelie affirming that they would not onelie loose their worldlie substance but also be depriued of their liues and worldlie felicitie rather than to suffer king Richard that tyrant longer to rule and reigne ouer them Which solemne oths made and taken the earle of Richmond declared and communicated all these dooings to Francis duke of Britaine desiring most heartilie requiring him to aid him with a greater armie to conduct him into his countrie which so sore longed and looked for his returne and to the which he was by the more part of the nobilitie and communaltie called and desired Which with Gods aid and the dukes comfort he doubted not in short time to obteine requiring him further to prest to him a conuenient summe of monie affirming that all such summes of monie which he had receiued of his especiall fréends were spent and consumed in preparation of his last iourneie made toward England which summes of monie after his enterprise once atchiued he in the word of a prince faithfullie promised to repaie and restore againe The duke promised him aid and helpe Upon confidence whereof he rigged his ships and set foorth a nauie well decked with ordinance and warlikelie furnished with all things necessarie to the intent to saile forward shortlie and to loose no time In the meane season king Richard apprehended in diuerse parts of the realme certeine gentlemen of the earle of Richmonds faction confederation which either intended to saile into Britaine toward him or else at his landing to assist and aid him Amongst whome sir George Browne sir Roger Clifford and foure other were put to execution at London and sir Thomas Sentleger which had married the duchesse of Excester the kings owne sister and Thomas Rame and diuerse other were executed at Excester Beside these persons diuerse of his houshold seruants whome either he suspected or doubted were by great crueltie put to shamefull death By the obseruation of which mens names the place and the action here mentioned with the computation of time I find fit occasion to interlace a note newlie receiued from the hands of one that is able to saie much by record deliuering a summarie in more ample sort of their names whome king Richard did so tyrannicallie persecute and execute as followeth King Richard saith he came this yeare to the citie but in verie secret maner whome the maior his brethren in the best maner they could did receiue and then presented to him in a purse two hundred nobles which he thankefullie accepted And during his abode here he went about the citie viewed the seat of the same at length he came to the castell and when he vnderstood that it was called Rugemont suddenlie he fell into a dumpe and as one astonied said Well I sée my daies not long He spake this of a prophesie told him that when he came once to Richmond line 10 he should not long liue after which fell out in the end to be true not in respect of this castle but in respect of Henrie earle of Richmond who the next yeare following met him at Bosworth field where he was slaine But at his being here he did find the gentlemen of this countrie not to be best affected towards him and after his departure did also heare that the marquesse of Dorset the bishop of Excester and sundrie other gentlemen were in a confederacie against him for the assisting of the erle of Richmond line 20 Wherefore he sent downe Iohn lord Scroope with a commission to keepe a session who sat at Torington then there were indicted of high treason Thomas marquesse Dorset Peter bishop of Excester Thomas Sentleger and Thomas Fulford knights as principals and Robert Willoughbie and Thomas Arundell knights Iohn Arundell deane of Excester Dauid Hopton archdeacon of Excester Oliuer abbat of Buckland Bartholomew Sentleger William Chilson Thomas Gréenefield Richard line 30 Edgecombe Robert Burnbie Walter Courtneie Thomas Browne Edward Courtneie Hugh Lutterell Iohn Crocker Iohn Hallewell and fiue hundred others

proceedings but such successe as heretofore hath béene experimented assaied We offer loue we offer equalitie and amitie we ouercome in warre and offer peace we win holds and offer no conquest we get in your land and offer England What can be more offered and more proffered than intercourse of merchandizes and interchange of mariages the abolishing of all such our lawes as prohibiteth the same or might be impediment to the mutuall amitie We haue offered not onelie to leaue the authoritie name title right or chalenge of conquerour but to receiue that which is the shame of men ouercommed to leaue the name o● the nation and the glorie of anie victorie if anie we haue had or should haue of you and to take the indifferent old name of Britains againe because nothing should be left on our part to be offered nothing on your part vnrefused whereby ye might be inexcusable And all the world might testifie all other meanes line 10 not being able to doo anie thing after manie other waies and remedies attempted battell of vs to be taken as an extreame refuge to atteine right and reason among christian men if anie man may rightfullie make battell for his espouse and wife The daughter of Scotland was by the great seale of Scotland promised to the sonne heire of England If it be lawfull by Gods lawe to fight in a good quarrell and for to make peace this is to make an end of all warres and to conclude an eternall and line 20 perpetuall peace which to confirme we shall fight and you to breake is it not easie to discerne who hath the better part God and the sword hath alreadie and shall hereafter if there be no remedie trie it Who so willeth the mariage to go forward who so mindeth the peace and tranquillitie of both the realmes who willeth no conquest to be had but amitie and loue to go forward we refuse no man let him bring his name and his pledge of good seruice in this quarrell he shall not onelie be receiued to the line 30 amitie but shall haue sufficient defense against the aduersaries and recompense of his liuing if he susteine anie losse We neither doo nor intend to put anie man from his lands taxes or offices vnlesse he will néeds resist and so compell vs therevnto What face hath this of conquest We intend not to disherit your queene but to make hir heires inheritors also to England What greater honour can ye séeke vnto your quéene than the mariage offered What more méeter mariage than this with the line 40 kings highnes of England What more sure defense in the nonage of your quéene for the realme of Scotland than to haue England your patrone and garrison We séeke not to take from you your lawes nor customes but we seeke to redresse your oppressions which of diuerse ye doo susteine In the realme of England diuerse lawes and customes be according to the ancient vsage thereof And likewise France Normandie and Gascoigne haue sundrie kind of orders Haue all the realmes and dominions line 50 that the emperour now hath one custome and one sort of lawes These vaine feares and fantasies of expulsion of your nation of changing the lawes of making a conquest be driuen into your heads of those who in deed had rather you were all conquered spoiled and slaine than they would lose anie point of their will of their desire of rule of their estimation which they know in quietnesse would be séene what it were as it were in a calme water Now in this tumult of disorder when the realme line 60 is tossed vp and downe with waues and surges of battell famine and other mischiefes which the warre bringeth they thinke they cannot be espied but looke on them you that haue wit and prudence and consider the state of your quéene and realme you will not kéepe hir sole and vnmaried the which were to you great dishonor If you maried hir within the relme that cannot extinguish the title which we haue to the crowne of Scotland And what dissention enuie grudge and malice that shall bréed among you is easie to perceiue You will marrie hir out of the realme our title remaineth you be subiects to a forren prince of another countrie and of another language and vs ye haue your enimies euen at your elbow your succours farre off from you and be we not in the bowels now of the realme Haue we not a great part thereof either in subiection or in amitie and loue Who shall come into your realme but he shall be met with and fought with if néede be euen of your owne nation who be faithfull and true to the realme of England in the waie of this most godlie vnion by mariage And if anie forren power prince or potentate or whosoeuer be your aider to nourish still discord send you an armie also how shall they oppresse you fill your houses waste your grounds spend and consume your vittels hold you in subiection regard you as slaues which without them could not liue will take your quéene to bestow as they lust speciallie if their ruler or king as perchance he may be in other warres be otherwise occupied to be a preie to vs a true conquest then it should be too late to saie We will haue a mariage and no conquest We wish peace amitie We are wearie of battell and miserie The stubborne ouercommed must suffer the victors pleasure and pertinacitie will make the victorie more insolent whereof you your selfe haue giuen the cause if they send monie and capteines but no souldiers First if they be capteins who ruleth and who dooth obeie Who shall haue the honor of the enterprise and if it be well atchiued But whether it be well atchiued or no which number is that which shall be slaine Whose bloud shall be shed Their monie peraduenture shal be consumed their commandements obeied But whose bodies shall smart for it Whose lands shall be wasted Whose houses burned What realme made desolate Remember what it is to haue a forren power within you a strong power of your enimies vpon you you as it were the campe plaine betwixt them to fight on to be troden vpon both of the victor and of the ouercommed And imagine you see before your eies your wiues daughters in danger of wantonnesse insolencie of the soldiors the proud looks of the capteins soldiors whom you call to helpe you the contempt you shall bring your nation in then take heed least indeed that follow which you feare that is that you shall be by them conquered that ye shall be by them put from your holds lands taxes offices that your laws by them shall be altered that your nation shall be by them destroied Consider in this realme did not the Britons call in the Saxons for helpe by them were put out Where be the Picts once a

with a great number of horssemen and footmen estéemed to be about twentie thousand as the Frenchmen themselues affirme thought not best to attempt anie assault against the towne of Brest or to make longer abode there But yet in hope to doo some further exploit elsewhere they laie there houering on the coast a while to vnderstand the demeanour of the Britains but by this time there was such numbers of people raised in all those parts for defense of the same coasts that the admerals afterward line 40 attempting in diuers places to land their men and finding ech where more appearance of losse than of gaine returned home without atchiuing anie further enterprise In this meane time while king Philip and the French king with two most puissant armies affronted ech other néere vnto the water of Some either of them was obstinatelie bent to driue the other out of the field for which cause they intrenched their campes During which time there was nothing doone betweene line 50 them woorthie memorie more than dailie skirmishes of no great account Neuerthelesse the countrie of France could not but susteine extreame damage so long susteining such a maine multitude speciallie of men of warre which those two mightie kings had assembled And daie by daie came fresh companies to either partie so as it was thought a thing impossible that such two princes being so néere could depart without some cruell bloudie battell to determine their quarrels But God in whose hands line 60 are the hearts of kings when least hope was conuerted their obstinate minds from warre to peace which came chieflie to passe by the mediation of the duchesse of Lorraine who had béene a long and earnest traueller to that end and neuer ceassed vntill by hir intercession both the said kings appointed speciall commissioners to treat vpon peace So that after diuerse conferences they at last concluded vpon all controuersies except the matter of Calis wherof queene Marie by hir ambassadours required restitution but the French partie would in no wise heare thereof By reason of which difficultie this treatie could not come to anie good conclusion King Philip thinking himselfe bound in honour to stand in that case with the quéene his wife who for his sake had entered into a néedlesse warre against France and thereby lost hir said towne with all the countrie adioining as you haue heard before did therefore staie a long time before he concluded peace with the French king Quéene Marie séeing no likelihood nor hauing anie hope of the restitution of Calis and considering also that most of hir affaires had but hard successe conceiued an inward sorrow of mind by reason whereof about September next she fell sicke of a hot burning feauer which sicknesse was common that yeare through all the realme and consumed a maruellous number as well noblemen as bishops iudges knights gentlemen and rich farmers but most of the cleargie and other ancient and graue persons In which while the quéene laie languishing of a long sicknesse and so continued vntill the seuentéenth of Nouember next betwéene the houres of fiue or six in the morning and then ended hir life in this world at hir house of saint Iames besides Westminster when she had reigned fiue years foure moneths and eleuen daies and in the three and fortith yeare of hir bodilie age The death of this said queene made a maruellous alteration in this realme namelie in the case of religion which like as by the death of king Edward the sixt it suffered a change from the establishment of his time so by the death of this quéene it returned into the former estate againe So that we sée the vncerteintie of the world and what changes doo come in times by their reuolutions and that euerie thing is subiect to vnconstancie and nothing frée from variablenesse as the poet saith nihil vsquam Perpetuum solet in terris fixúmque manere Humanis quàm nulla subest constantia rebus And heere bicause we are come to the knitting vp of quéene Maries reigne I cannot ouers●●p with silence that notable and néedfull discourse of master Fox concerning our blessed souereigne quéen Elizabeth whose maiestie the Lord of his mercie inuiron with fréends as in number manie so in seruice trustie and whose enimies the same Lord in iustice root out from the land of the liuing heaping vpon them plague after plague to their vtter confusion bicause they haue reiected the gratious means of their conuersion Thus therefore writeth master Fox concerning the mischéefous persecution and miraculous preseruation of ladie Elizabeth now quéene of England from extreame calamitie and danger of life in the time of queene Marie hir sister But saith master Fox when all hath béene said and told whatsoeuer can be recited touching the admirable working of Gods present hand in defending and deliuering anie one person out of thraldome neuer was there since the memorie of our fathers anie example to be shewed wherin the Lords mightie power hath more admirablie and blessedlie shewed it selfe to the glorie of his owne name to the comfort of all good hearts and to the publike felicitie of this whole realme than in the miraculous custodie and outscape of this our souereigne ladie now quéene then ladie Elizabeth in the strict time of queene Marie hir sister In which storie first we haue to consider in what extreame miserie sicknesse feare and perill hir highnesse was into what care what trouble of mind and what danger of death she was brought First with great routs and bands of armed men and happie was he that might haue the carrieng of hir being fetched vp as the greatest traitour in the world clapped in the tower and againe tossed from thence from house to house from prison to prison from post to piller at length also prisoner in hir owne house and garded with a sort of cut-throats which euer gaped for the spoile whereby they might be fingering of somewhat Secondlie we haue againe to consider all this notwithstanding how strangelie or rather miraculouslie from danger she was deliuered what fauour and grace she found with the almightie who when all helpe of man and hope of recouerie was past stretched out his mightie protection and preserued hir highnesse and placed hir in this princelie seat of rest and quietnesse wherin now she sitteth and long maie she sit the lord of his glorious mercie grant we beséech line 10 him In which storie if I should set foorth at large and at full all the particulars and circumstanstances therevnto belonging and as iust occasion of the historie requireth besides the importunate length of the storie discoursed peraduenture it might mooue offense to some being yet aliue and truth might get me hatred Yet notwithstanding I intend by the grace of Christ therein to vse such breuitie and moderation as both may be to the glorie of God the discharge of the storie the profit of the reader hurt line 20

as I poore Hester haue Iwis As Iabins force did Israell perplex And Holofernes fierce Bethulia besiege So Hamans slights sought me and mine to vex Yet shewd a face of subiect to his liege But force no fraud nor tyrant strong can trap Those whom the Lord in his defense dooth wrap The proofes I speake by vs haue erst bin seene The proofes I speake to thee are not vnknowne Thy God thou knowst most dread and souereigne queene A world of foes of thine hath euerthrowne And hither now triumphantlie dooth call Thy noble grace the comfort of vs all Doost thou not see the ioie of all this flocke Uouchsafe to view their passing gladsome cheare Be still good queene their refuge and their rocke As they are thine to serue in loue and feare So fraud nor force nor foreine fo may stand Against the strength of thy most puissant hand With long discourse oh puissant prince some tract of time we spend Uouchsafe yet now a little more and then we make an end line 10 〈…〉 blast of fame whereof dame Norwich first did speake Not onelie shooke the aire and skies but all the earth did breake It rent vp graues and bodies raisd ech spirit tooke his place And this alonelie word was heard Here comes the pearle of grace Here coms the iewell of the world hir peoples whole delight The paragon of present time and prince of earthlie might The voice was strange the wonder more for when we viewd the earth Ech prince that earst had reigned here receiud againe his breath And with his breath a libertie to hold againe his place If anie one amongst vs all exceed your noble grace Some comfort euerie one conceiud to catch againe his owne His vtmost skill was trimlie vsde to haue his vertues knowne The plaies surpasse my skill to tell But when ech one had said Apoll● did himselfe appeare and made vs all dismaid Will you contend with hir quoth he within whose sacred brest line 20 Dame Pallas and my selfe haue framd our souereigne seat of rest Whose skill directs the muses nine whose grace dooth Uenus staine Hir eloquence like Mercurie like Iuno in hir traine Whose God is that eternall Ioue which holds vs all in awe Beleeue me you exceed the bounds of equitie and lawe Therewith they shronke themselues aside not one I could espie They coucht them in their caues againe and that full quietlie Yet I that Martia hight which sometime ruld this land As queene for thirtie three yeares space gat licence at his hand And so Gurguntius did my husbands father deere Which built this towne and castell both to make our homage here Which homage mightie queene accept the realme and right is thine The crowne the scepter and the sword to thee we doo resigne And wish to God that thou maist reigne twise Nestors yeares in peace Triumphing ouer all thy foes to all our ioies increase Amen line 30 Herewith she passed vnder the gate with such shanks as plainelie expressed hir noble nature and the musicians within the gate vpon their soft instruments vsed broken musike and one sang this dittie From slumber soft as I fell fast asleepe From sleepe to dreame from dreame to deepe delight Ech gem the gods had giuen the world to keepe In princelie wise came present to my sight Such solace then did sinke into my mind As mortall man on mould could neuer find The gods did striue and yet their strifes were sweet line 40 Ech one would haue a vertue of hir owne Dame Iuno thought the highest place most meet For hir bicause of riches was hir throne Dame Uenus thought by reason of hir loue That she might claime the high●st place aboue The virgins state Diana still did praise And Ceres praisd the fruit of fertile soile And Prudence did dame Pallas chieflie raise Minerua all for eloquence did striue They smild to see their quarelling estate And Ioue himselfe decided their debate My sweets quoth he leaue off your sugred strife In equall place I haue assignd you all A souereigne wight there is that beareth life In whose sweete hart I haue inclosd you all line 50 Of England soile she is the souereigne queene Your vigors there doo florish fresh and greene They skipt for ioy and gaue their franke consent The noise resounded to the hautie skie With one lowd voice they cried all content They clapt their hands and therewith waked I. The world and they concluded with a breath And wisht long reigne to queene Elisabeth Herewith she passed through the market place which was goodlie garnished and thense through the other stréets which were trimlie decked directlie to the cathedrall church where Te Deum was soong and after seruice she went to the bishops palace where line 60 hir maiestie kept the time she continued in Norwich All this was on saturdaie the sixtéenth of August 1578. On the next daie after which was sundaie when princes commonlie come not abroad and time is occupied with sermons and laudable exercises T. C. was to watch a conuenient season where and how might be vttered the things that were prepared for pastime And so vpon mondaie before supper he made a deuise as though Mercurie had beene sent from the gods to request the quéene to come abroad behold what was deuised for hir welcome the whole matter whereof dooth follow The coch that Mercurie came in vnto the quéene was closelie kept in secret a long season and when the time came it must passe towards the court it had a trumpetter with it and the cochman was made to driue so fast as the horsses should seeme to flie which was so well obserued as the people woondered at the swiftnesse therof and followed it in such flocks and multitudes that scarse in a great greene where the preaching place is might be found roome for anie more people And when the coch approched in the hearing of a trumpet the trumpetter sounded and so came in to the greene sounding vntill the coch was full placed before a window at the which the quéene stood and might be plainelie séene and openlie viewed When Mercurie had espied hir highnesse he skipped out of the coch and being on the ground gaue a iumpe or two and aduanced himselfe in such a sort that the quéene smiled at the boldnesse of the boie Thus Mercurie beholding the quéene with great courage and audacitie at the length bowed downe his head and immediatlie stood bolt vpright and shaked his rod and so began his spéech with a most assured countenance and brauelie pronounced it in déed to his great liking and commendation Muse not good queene at me that message brings From Ioue or iust Iehoua Lord of might No earthlie god yet gouerns mortall things And sprites diuine and shunning angels bright This lord of late to shew his mightie power Hath wonders wrought when world lookt least therefore For at his becke this daie and present hower The heauens shakt the