he might lawfullie demand anie summe by commission and that by the consent of the whole councell it was doone and tooke God to witnes that he neuer desired the hinderance of the commons but like a true councellor deuised how to inrich the king The king indéed was much offended that his commons were thus intreated thought it touched his honor that his councell should attempt such a doubtfull matter in his name and to be denied both of the spiritualtie and temporaltie Therefore be line 10 would no more of that trouble but caused letters to be sent into all shires that the matter should no further be talked of he pardoned all them that had denied the demand openlie or secretlie The cardinall to deliuer himselfe of the euill will of the commons purchased by procuring aduancing of this demand affirmed and caused it to be bruted abrode that through his intercession the king had pardoned and released all things Those that were in the Tower and Fleet for the line 20 rebellion in Suffolke and resisting the commissioners aswell there as in Huntington shire and Kent were brought before the lords in the Star chamber and there had their offenses opened and shewed to them and finallie the kings pardon declared and thereon they were deliuered ¶ In this season a great number of men of warre laie at Bullongne and in other places thereabout which diuerse times attempted to indamage the Englishmen and to spoile the English pale but they could neuer spoile the marishes line 30 where the greatest part of the cattell belonging to the inhabitants was kept Tindale men with aid of the Scots did much hurt in England by robberies which they exercised and therefore were sent thither sir Richard Bulmere and sir Christopher Dacres to restreine their dooings Diuerse came to them and submitted themselues but the greatest théeues kept them in the mounteins of Cheuiot and did much hurt yet at length they seuered and manie of them were taken The cardinall by his power legantine sent one of line 40 his chapleins called doctor Iohn Allen to visit the religious houses of this realme about this season which doctor practised amongst them greatlie to his profit but more to the slander both of himselfe and of his maister On the eightéenth daie of Iune at the manor place of Bridewell the kings sonne which he had begot of Elizabeth Blunt daughter to sir Iohn Blunt knight called Henrie Fitzroie was created first earle of Notingham and after on the selfe same daie he was created duke of Richmond and Summerset line 50 Also the same daie the lord Henrie Courtneie earle of Deuonshire and coosine germane to the king was created marquesse of Excester and the lord Henrie Brandon sonne to the duke of Suffolke and the French queene a child of two yeares old was created earle of Lincolne and sir Thomas Manners lord Roos was created earle of Rutland and sir Henrie Clifford earle of Cumberland and the lord Fitzwater sir Robert Ratcliffe was created vicount Fitzwater and sir Thomas Bullen treasuror line 60 of the kings houshold was created vicount Rochefort The French kings mother as then regent of France procured a safe conduct for an ambassador to be sent into England to treat of peace and therewith sent Iohn Iokin called monsieur de Uaux which as yée haue heard in the last yeare was kept secret in maister Larks house By his procurement a truce was granted to indure from the thirtéenth of Iulie for fortie daies betwéene England and France both by sea and land In the later end of Iulie came into England the chéefe president of Rone with sufficient authoritie to conclude anie agréement that should be granted At his sute the king was contented that a truce should be taken to endure from the foureteenth of August till the first of December This yeare the king sent doctor Henrie Standish bishop of saint Asse and sir Iohn Baker knight into Denmarke to intreat with the nobles of that countrie for the reduction of their king Christierne to his realme and former dignitie but the Danes hated him so much for his crueltie that they could not abide to heare of anie such matter and so these ambassadors returned without speeding of their purpose for the which they were sent But the French ambassadors did so much both by offers and intreaties that the king condescended to a peace which being concluded was proclamed in London with a trumpet the eight of September By the couenants of this peace the king of England should receiue at certeine daies twentie hundred thousand crownes which then amounted in sterling monie to the summe of foure hundred thousand pounds sterling of which one paiment of fiftie thousand pounds was paid in hand In October were sent into France sir William Fitzwilliam treasuror of the kings house and doctor Tailor as ambassadors from the king of England to the ladie regent whome they found at the citie of Lion where of hir they were honorablie receiued and in their presence the said ladie regent tooke a corporall oth in solemne wise and according to the custome in such cases vsed to performe all the articles and couenants passed and concluded in the league and treatie of peace by hir commissioners The emperour was nothing pleased in that the king of England had thus concluded peace with the Frenchmen and therefore the English merchants were not so courteouslie dealt with as they had béene afore time In this winter was great death in London so that the terme was adiourned and the king kept his Christmasse at Eltham with a small number and therefore it was called the still Christmasse ¶ In Ianuarie was a peace concluded betwixt the realmes of England and Scotland for thrée yeares and six moneths year 1526 The cardinall about this time comming to the court which then laie as before yée haue heard at Eltham tooke order for altering the state of the kings house Manie officers and other seruants were discharged and put to their pensions and annuities In which number were fourescore and foure yeomen of the gard which before hauing twelue pence the daie with checke were now allowed six pence the daie without checke and commanded to go home into their countries Diuers ordinances were made at that season by the cardinall touching the gouernance of the kings house more profitable than honorable as some said and were called long after The statutes of Eltham On Shrouetuesdaie there was a solemne iusts held at the manor of Gréenewich the king eleuen other on the one part and the marquesse of Excester with eleauen other on the contrarie part ¶ At those iusts by chance of shiuering of a speare sir Francis Brian lost one of his eies The eleuenth of Februarie being sundaie the cardinall with great pompe came to the cathedrall church of Paules where he sat in pontificalibus vnder his cloth of estate of rich cloth of gold
Henrie the eight Anne married to sir Edmund Gorge knight Isabell married to sir Roger Mortimer of Essex Iane married to sir Iohn Timperleie and Margaret married to sir Iohn Windham his second wife was Margaret the daughter of sir Iohn Chedworth knight by whome he had Katharine married to sir Iohn Bourchier lord Barns Thomas Howard earle of Surreie sonne of the said Iohn was created duke of Norffolke in the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight being about the yéere of Christ 1514. Of him is more mention in my discourse of the lord treasurors of England Thomas Howard created earle of Surreie in the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight being high admerall and lord treasuror of England was duke of Norffolke after the death of his father which fell in the sixtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our redemption 1524. Of this man is also more intreated in my discourse of the lord treasurors Thomas Howard the third duke of the name of Thomas and the fourth of the name of Howard was son to Henrie Howard earle of Surreie sonne to the last before recited Thomas Howard duke of Norffolke This man being the last duke that liued in England occasioned me to make this discourse of the dukes was beheaded on tower hill the seauentéenth of September in the thirteenth yeere of the now reigning prince Elisabeth being the yeare of Christ 1571 and buried in the chappell of the tower He maried thrée wiues his first wife was Marie one of the daughters and heires of Henrie Fitzallen earle of Arundell by whom he had issue Philip earle of Arundell his second wife was Margaret daughter onlie heire to Thomas Audleie knight chancellor of England and lord Audleie of saffron Walden the widow of the lord Henrie Dudleie yoongest son to Iohn Sutton of Dudlie duke of Northumberland by which second wife this duke had issue Thomas William Elisabeth Margaret his third wife was Elisabeth the daughter of sir Iames Leiborne knight and widow of the lord Dacres of Gisâ—eland by whome he had no issue Henrie the second son of king Henrie the seuenth was by his father created duke of Yorke at Westminster in the eleuenth yéere of his reigne being the yeere of our redemption 1495 or therabouts This man was after king of England by the name of king Henrie the eight Iasper of Hatfield the sonne of Owen Teuther esquier by Katharine daughter to the French king and widow to king Henrie the fift was by king Henrie the sixt his brother on the mothers side created earle of Penbroke in the yeare of Christ 1452 after which in the fiue and thirtith yeere of the said king he was made earle of Cambridge and lastlie in the first yeere of the reigne of king Henrie the seauenth he was created duke of Bedford on Simon and Iudes 〈◊〉 in the yeare of our redemption 1485 but died without issue the eighteenth daie of December in the twelfe yéere of the reigne of king Henrie the seauenth in the yéere of Christ 1496 and was buried at Kensham Charles Brandon the son of sir William Brandon knight slaine on the part of king Henrie the seuenth at Bosworth field was created vicount Lisle and after on Candlemasse daie in the yéere of Christ 1413 being the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight he was created duke of Suffolke He married thrée wiues the first was Anne daughter of sir Anthonie Browne knight the second Marie second daughter of king Henrie the seauenth widow to the king of France by whom he had issue Henrie earle of Lincolne and Francis married to Henrie Greie duke of Suffolke his third wife was Katharine the daughter onlie heire of William lord Willoughbie of Ersleie by whome he had issue Henrie and Charles both dukes of Suffolke one after another who both died within one houre of the sweat at Cambridge This Charles the father died in the yéere of Christ 1545 and was buried at Windsore line 10 of the two dukes the sons thus writeth Iohn Parkhurst sometime placed in the bishops see of Norwich Fratres Amyclaei Pollux cum Castore Potuere sic cum morte depaciscier Vt cùm alter illorum esset mortuus tamén Alter superesset reuersus sortibus Vicissim vtérque vtriúsque morte viueret Cur Parca nunc crudelior est quà m olim fuit Fratres duos nuper ea quales hactenus Nec vidit vnquam nec videbit Anglia line 20 Lumina duo duóque propugnacula Fortissima virtutis reÃque publicae Crudelis ab vno perêmit funere Virtus nequaquam illam nec egregia indoles Mouit nec Edwardi regis nec optimae Matris neque totius gemitus Britanniae O dura dura mors ô saeua numina Henrie Fitz Roie the base son to king Henrie the eight begotten vpon Elisabeth Blunt the ladie Talboise was by his father first created earle of Summerset and Northampton and after duke of line 30 Richmont This duke was verie forward in the knowledge of toongs and also in knightlie actiuitie as may appéere by due consideration of the historie in place where he is mentioned He loued Iohn Leland the reuerend antiquarie who presented vnto the said duke a booke of copies whereby he might learne to write Romane letters great small as appéereth by this hexastichon which I find among the said Iohn Lelands written epigrams in this maner set downe Quo Romana modo maiuscula littera pingi line 40 Pingi quo possit littera parua modo Hic liber ecce tibi signis monstrabit apertis Princeps Aonij spes alumne gregis Qui tibi si placeat quod certè spero futurum Maxima pro paruo munere dona dabis He died without issue the two and twentith of Iulie in the eight and twentith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight in the yeere of our redemption 1536 and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke hauing maried Marie the daughter of Thomas Howard line 50 duke of Norffolke Edward Seimor knight the son of sir Iohn Seimor knight was created vicount Beauchampe in Maie the eight and twentith yéere of king Henrie the eight being the yéere of our redemption 1536 was after in the nine twentith yeare of the same king on the eightéenth daie of October in the yéere of Christ 1537 created earle of Hertford Then king Henrie being dead he in the first yeare of king Edward line 60 the sixt which was the yéere of our redemption 1546 was made protector of England and immediatlie therevpon created duke of Summerset being vncle by the mothers side vnto the said king Edward the sixt This man had manie honors and offices as maie appéere by his stile which he prefixed before a missiue persuasorie sent to the Scots for the marriage of their yoong quéene Marie to our yoong king Edward the sixt in this sort Edward by the grace of God
duke of Summerset earle of Hertford vicount Beauchampe lord Seimor vncle to the kings highnesse of England gouernor of his most roiall person and protector of all his realmes dominions and subiects lieutenant generall of his maiesties armies both by sea and land treasuror and earle marshall of England gouernor of the iles of Gerneseie and Ierseie and knight of the most honorable order of the garter c. This stile he had which I haue béene the more willing to set downe because I doo not remember that anie subiect did with like shew publish anie such stile before his time Which honors he did not long inioie for were it for malice of some of the nobilitie disdaining such honor or for cause in him offending the laws or for his ouer carelesse good disposition that suspected no such euill from his enimies he was the second time on the sixt of October in the fift yeere of king Edward the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1551 committed prisoner to the tower and the two and twentith daie of Ianuarie folowing he was beheaded at tower hill and buried in the tower chappell He had two wiues wherof the first was Katharine the daughter of sir William Filioll of Woodland knight by whome he had a son called Edward his second wife was Anne the daughter of sir Edward Stanhope by whom he had issue Edward earle of Hertford Henrie now liuing and Edward with Anne married the third of Iune in the fourth yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt in the yéere one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie to Iohn lord Dudleie eldest sonne to Iohn earle of Warwike and duke of Northumberland Ione Marie Katharine and Elisabeth Henrie Greie marquesse Dorset lord Ferrers of Groobie Harrington Boneuile and Asleie was at Hampton court created duke of Suffolke on the eleuenth of October in the fift yéere of the reigne of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one who in the first yeere of quéene Marie being the yéere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée supposing that the quéene would marrie a stranger did flie into Leicester and Warwikeshires with a small companie making proclamation against the quéenes marriage with the prince of Spaine but the people inclined not vnto him Wherevpon a companie being sent out after him vnder the leading of the earle of Huntington the first daie of Februarie proclamation was made at London that the duke was discomfited and fled with his two brethren After which the tenth of Februarie the duke with his brother sir Iohn Greie was brought from Couentrie where he remained three daies after his taking in the house and custodie of Christopher Warren alderman of that towne by the earle of Huntington attended with thrée hundred men to the tower Where remaining a certeine space he was on the thrée and twentith of Februarie beheaded at tower hill and buried in the chappell of the tower as I haue heard He married Francis one of the daughters to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke by whom he had issue Iane married to Gilford the sonne of Iohn duke of Northumberland and died without issue Katharine and Marie Iohn Sutton of Dudleie created by king Henrie the eight vicount Lisle being admerall lord great chamberleine lord great maister and earle of Warwike was after on the eleuenth daie of October the fift yéere of king Edward the sixt being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one created duke of Northumberland He after the death of king Edward tooke armes and proclamed quéene Iane daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke meaning to exclude quéene Marie But shortlie after perceiuing quéene Marie to be proclamed at London this duke did also proclame hir at Cambridge Notwithstanding all which he was arested in the Kings college there by one maister Sleg sergeant at armes and after anew arrested by the earle of Arundell Henrie Fitzallen sent thither for that cause who brought him to London where this duke was the fiue and twentith of Iulie in the said first yeare of quéene Marie commited to the tower Shortlie after which he was the eightéenth of August following arreigned at Westminster there condemned and beheadded on tower hill the two and twentith of the same moneth whose bodie with the head was buried in the tower he being the last duke that was created in England He maried Iane the line 10 daughter of sir Edward Gilford knight the sister and heire to sir Henrie Gilford knight of whose children I will not speake bicause they are yet fresh in memorie And thus farre Francis Thin touching the creation and the succession in lineall descents of all the dukes of England since the conquest About the ninth of Iune Francis duke of Montmorencie chiefe marshall of France gouernour and lieutenant of the I le of France generall to Charles the ninth king of France and Paule de Foix of the line 20 priuie councell of the said king and Bertrand de Saligners lord de la Mothfenelon knights of the order of S. Michaell ambassadors for the same king arriued at Douer The fourtéenth daie they shot London bridge toward Summerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The fifteenth daie being sundaie the said ambassadors repaired to the White hall where they were honourablie receiued of the quéenes maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces chappell about one of the clocke in the line 30 after noone the articles of treatie league or confederacie and sure friendship concluded at Blois the ninteenth of Aprill as is afore shewed betwixt the quéenes maiestie and the French king being read the same was by hir maiestie and his ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that daie with great part of the night following was spent in great triumph with sumptuous bankets The eightéenth of Iune the feast of saint George line 40 was holden at Windsor where the French ambassadors were roiallie feasted Francis duke of Montmorencie was stalled knight of the most honourable order of the garter The eight and twentith daie of Iune the forenamed ambassadors departed from London toward France ¶ The fourtéenth of Iune Thomas lord Wharton deceased in his house of Chanon row at Westminster The thirtéenth daie of Iulie the quéenes maiestie at Whitehall made sir William Cicill lord of Burghleie lord high treasuror line 50 of England lord William Howard late lord chamberleine lord priuie seale the earle of Sussex lord chamberleine sir Thomas Smith principall secretarie and Christopher Hatton esquier capteine of the gard A treatise of the treasurors of England set downe out of ancient histories and records as they succeeded in order of time and in the reigne of the kings line 60 THis adorning of sir William Cicill knight lord Burghleie with the honour of lord treasuror of England hath rowsed my enuied
Spensers and to the earle of Arundell so that there was line 30 cause whie they bare euill will to the Henuiers which had aided as yee haue heard to bring the said earle and Spensers to their confusion In this meane time the Scots being entred into England had doone much hurt and were come as farre as Stanop parke in Wiredale and though they had sent their ambassadours to treat with the king and his councell for peace yet no conclusion followed of their talke At the same time bicause the English souldiours of this armie were cloathed all line 40 in cotes and hoods embrodered with floures and branches verie séemelie and vsed to nourish their beards the Scots in derision thereof made a rime which they fastened vpon the church doores of saint Peter toward Stangate conteining this that followeth Long beards hartlesse Painted hoods witlesse Gaie cotes gracelesse Make England thriftlesse The king when he saw it was but a vaine thing to staie anie longer in communication with the ambassadors line 50 about peace departed from Yorke with his puissant armie and getting knowledge how the Scots were closelie lodged in the woods of Stanop parke he came and stopped all the passages so it was thought that he should haue had them at his pleasure but through treason as was after reported of the lord Roger Mortimer after that the Scots had béene kept within their lodgings for the space of fiftéene daies till they were almost famished they did not onelie find a waie out but about two hundred of line 60 them vnder the leading of the lord William Douglas assailing that part of the English campe where the kings tent stood in the night season missed not much of either taking the king or sleieng him and hauing doone hurt inough otherwise as in the Scotish chronicle is also touched they followed their companie and with them returned into Scotland without impeachment It is said that Henrie earle of Lancaster and Iohn the lord Beaumont of Heinault would gladlie haue passed ouer the water of Wire to haue assalted the Scots but the earle of March through counsell of the lord Mortimer pretending to haue right to the leading of the fore ward and to the giuing of the first onset would not suffer them Howsoeuer it was the king missed his purpose and right pensiue therefore brake vp his field and returned vnto London ¶ Walter bishop of Canturburie departed this life in Nouember and then Simon Mepham was aduanced to the gouernement of that sée The lord Beaumont of Heinalt was honorablie rewarded for his paines and trauell and then licenced to returne into his countrie where he had not beene long but that through his means then as some write the marriage was concluded betweene king Edward and the ladie Philip daughter to William earle of Heinault and neece to the said lord Beaumont who had the charge to sée hir brought ouer thither into England about Christmasse where in the citie of Yorke vpon the eeuen of the Conuersion of saint Paule being sundaie year 1328 in the latter end of the first yeare of his reigne king Edward solemnlie maried hir In the second yeare of his reigne about the feast of Pentecost king Edward held a parlement at Northampton at the which parlement by euill and naughtie counsell whereof the lord Roger Mortimer and the queene mother bare the blame the king concluded with the Scotish king both an vnprofitable and a dishonorable peace For first he released to the Scots their fealtie and homage Also he deliuered vnto them certeine old ancient writings sealed with the seales of the king of Scots and of diuerse lords of the land both spirituall and temporall amongst the which was that indenture which they called Ragman with manie other charters and patents by the which the kings of Scotland were bound as feodaries vnto the crowne of England at which season also there were deliuered certeine iewels which before time had béene woone from the Scots by the kings of England and among other the blacke crosier or rood is speciallie named And not onelie the king by his sinister councell lost such right and title as he had to the realme of Scotland so farre as by the same councell might be deuised but also the lords and barons and other men of England that had anie lands or rents within Scotland lost their right in like manner except they would dwell vpon the same lands and become liege men to the king of Scotland Herevpon was there also a marriage concluded betwixt Dauid Bruce the sonne of Robert Bruce king of Scotland and the ladie Iane sister to king Edward which of diuerse writers is surnamed Ione of the tower and the Scots surnamed hir halfe in derision Ione Make-peace This marriage was solemnised at Berwike vpon the daie of Marie Magdalen The quéene with the bishops of Elie and Norwich the earle Warren the lord Mortimer and diuerse other barons of the land and a great multitude of other people were present at that marriage which was celebrate with all the honour that might be After the quindene of saint Michaell king Edward held a parlement at Salisburie in which the lord Roger Mortimer was created earle of March the lord Iohn of Eltham the kings brother was made earle of Cornwall and the lord Iames Butler of Ireland earle of Ormond who about the same time had married the earle of Herefords daughter But the earle of March tooke the most part of the rule of all things perteining either to the king or realme into his owne hands so that the whole gouernment rested in a manner betwixt the queene mother and him The other of the councell that were first appointed were in manner displaced for they bare no rule to speake of at all which caused no small grudge to arise against the quéene and the said earle of March who mainteined such ports and kept among them such retinue of seruants that their prouision was woonderfull which they caused to be taken vp namelie for the queene at the kings price to the sore oppression of the people which tooke it displesantlie inough There was like to haue growen great variance betwixt the queene and Henrie earle of Lancaster by reason that one sir Thomas Wither a knight perteining to the said earle of Lancaster had slaine Robert Holland who had betraied sometime Thomas earle of Lancaster and was after committed to prison line 10 by earle Henries means but the queene had caused him to be set at libertie and admitted him as one of hir councell The quéene would haue had sir Thomas Wither punished for the murther but earle Henrie caused him to be kept out of the waie so that for these causes and other Henrie the earle of Lancaster went about to make a rebellion and the quéene hauing knowledge thereof sought to apprehend him but by the mediation of the
called sterlings Bicause these new péeces wanted of the weight of the old sterling coine the prices as well of vittels as of other wares did dailie rise and seruants and workemen waxing more craftie than before time they had beene demanded great wages ¶ This yeare vpon the euen of the Assumption of our lodie sir Iohn Bentlie knight as then lord warden of Britaine fought with the lord Guie de Neell marshall of France latelie ransomed out of captiuitie in the parts of Britaine néere to a place called Mouron betwixt Rennes and Pluremell where the said marshall was slaine togither with the lord of Briquebeke the Chateline of Beauuais and diuerse other both Britains and Frenchmen In the seuen and twentith yeare of his reigne K. Edward held a parlement at Westminster after the feast of Easter in which an ordinance was deuised what wages seruants and laborers should be allowed prohibiting them to receiue aboue the rate which they were accustomed to take before the yeare of the great mortalitie Seruants and laborers were in deed growen to be more subtill than before time they had béene but by reason of the prices of things were inhanced it is like they demanded greater wages than they had doone before time and one cause of the dearth was imputed to the new coine of monie being of lesse weight in the value thereof than before it had béene so that â—he bishop of Winchester being lord treasuror who had counselled the king to ordeine those grotes and halfe grotes was euill spoken of amongst the people In this parlement there were statutes also made that clothes should in length and in breadth through the realme beare the same assise as was ordeined in the parlement holden at Northampton Also that all weares milles and other lets should be remooued foorth of riuers that might be any hinderance of ships boats or lighters to passe vp and downe the same But these good ordinances tooke little or none effect by reason of bribes that walked abroad and fréendship of lords and great men that sought rather their owne commoditie than the common-wealths Shortlie after the feast of Pentecost the earle of Derbie and Lancaster was made duke of Lancaster and Rafe lord Stafford was created earle of Stafford Whereas there had beene a treatie betwixt the lords of Britaine and the king of England not onelie for the deliuerance of the lord Charles de Blois but also for the matching of his eldest sonne in mariage with one of king Edwards daughters and so to inioy the dukedome in peace this matter was so far forwards that in the yeare last passed the said lord Charles leauing two of his sonnes and a daughter in pledge for the paiment of fortie thousand floreus agréed vpon for his ransome he was permitted to returne into Britaine to prouide that monie and withall to procure a dispensation that his eldest sonne might marrie with one of K. Edwards daughters notwithstanding that otherwise they were within the degrees of consanguinitie prohibiting them to marrie Herevpon this yeare about Michaelmas he returned into England with the same dispensation but bicause about the same time the Britains had taken by stealth an Iland with a castell therein that the Englishmen had kept put all those which they â—ound therein to the sword the said lord Charles otherwise duke of Britaine lost the kings fauour so that he would heare no more of anie such aliance by waie of marriage as had beene communed of before by reason whereof the British lords that were in great number come ouer with the lord Charles de Blois were constreined to returne home without atchiuing anie part of their purpose leauing the said lord Charles and his children behind them still héere in England On the fourth day of September the duke of line 10 Brunswike and the duke of Lancaster should haue fought a combat in Paris about words the duke of Lancaster should speake in derogation of the duke of Brunswikes honor for the which the said duke had appealed him in the court of France but when they were readie to haue tried it and were on horssebacke with their speares in hand within the lists at point to haue runne togither the French king caused them to staie and taking on him the matter made them line 20 fréends and agréed them This yeare the king by aduise of his councell remooued the mart or staple of wools from the townes in Flanders and caused the same to be kept at Westminster Chichester Lincolne Bristowe Canturburie and Hull This was doone in despite of the Flemings bicause they held not the couenants and agréements which they had made with the king in the life time of Iaques Arteueld by whose prouision the said mart or staple had béene kept in sundrie townes in Flanders to their line 30 great aduantage and commoditie Sir Walter Bentlie vpon his comming ouer foorth of Britaine where he had beene the kings lieutenant was committed to the tower where he remained prisoner for the space of twelue moneths bicause he refused to deliuer vp the castels within his gouernement vnto sir Iohn Auenell knight being appointed to receiue the same to the vse of the lord Charles de Blois at the same time when the treatie of agreement was in hand betwixt the king and the line 40 said lord Charles But after when it was perceiued what damage might haue insued by deliuerie of those castels sir Walter was set at libertie vpon suerties yet they were bound for his foorth comming and that he should not depart the realme at length he was receiued againe into the kings fauour In the summer of this seauen and twentith yeare was so great a drought that from the latter end of March fell little raine till the latter end of Iulie by reason whereof manie inconueniences insued and one thing is line 50 speciallie to be noted that corne the yeare following waxed scant and the price began this yeare to be greatlie inhanced Also beeues and muttons waxed déere for the want of grasse and this chanced both in England and France so that this was called the déere summer The lord William duke of Bauiere or Bauarie and earle of Zeland brought manie ships into London fraught with rie for reléefe of the people who otherwise had through their present pâ—â—ching penurie if not vtterlie perished yet pittifullie line 60 pined In the eight and twentith yeare of king Edwards reigne vpon a treatie that was holden by commissioners appointed by the two kings of England and France after Easter they were in maner fullie agréed vpon a peace so that nothing wanted but putting vnto their seales In the articles whereof it was conteined that the king of England should inioy all the lands of his dutchie of Aquitaine without holding the same of anie by homage or resort and in consideration thereof he should resigne all his claime to the
argued against moonks and other men of religion that inioied great riches and large possessions There were diuerse that gaue good eare to him insomuch that sundrie learned men of that vniuersitie preached and set foorth the doctrine that he taught ¶ Amongst other articles which they held these were the cheefe and principall 1 That the sacrament of the altar after consecration was not the bodie of Christ but a figure thereof 2 That the church of Rome was no more head of the vniuersall church than any one other nor more authoritie was giuen by Christ vnto Peter than to anie other of the apostles and that the pope had no more power in the keies of the church than anie other préest whatsoeuer 3 That temporall lords might both lawfullie and meritoriouslie take the temporall goods and reuenues from the church if it offended and if anie temporall lord knew the church to offend he was bound vnder paine of damnation to take from it the temporalties 4 That the gospell is sufficient in this life to direct by rule euerie christian man 5 That all other rules of saints vnder the obseruing whereof diuers religious doo liue ad no more perfection to the gospell than washing ouer with lime dooth the wall 6 That the pope nor anie other prelat of the church ought to haue anie prisons wherein to punish offendors These and manie other opinions did these men hold and mainteine and diuerse lords and great men of the land fauoured their cause But when these conclusions were brought before the pope he condemned the number of 23 of those articles as vaine and hereticall directing his buls to the archbishop of Canturburie and to the bishop of London that they should cause the said Wiclife to be apprehended and examined vpon the said conclusions which they did in presence of the duke of Lancaster and the lord Percie and hearing his declaration commanded him to silence and in no wise to deale with those matters line 10 from thencefoorth so that for a time both he and his fellowes kept silence but after at the contemplation of diuerse of the temporall lords they preached and set foorth their doctrine againe The same day that Wiclife was conuented thus at London before the bishops and other lords thorough a word spoken in reproch by the duke of Lancaster vnto the bishop of London streightwaies the Londoners getting them to armour meant to haue slaine the duke if the bishop had not staid them they had suerlie set fire on the dukes house at the Sauoie line 20 and with much adoo might the bishop quiet them Among other reprochfull parts which in despite of the duke they committed they caused his armes in the publike stréet to be reuersed as if he had béene a traitor or some notorious offendor The duke and the lord Henrie Percie whom the citizens sought in his owne house to haue slaine him if he had béen found hearing of this riotous stur and rebellious commotion forsooke their dinner and fled to Kenington where the lord Richard sonne to the prince togither line 30 with his mother then remained exhibiting before their presence a grieuous complaint of the opprobrious iniuries doone vnto them by the wilfull outrage of the Londoners For this and other causes the citizens were sore hated of the duke in so much that he caused the maior aldermen that then ruled to be discharged of their roomes and other put in their places The king being more grieuouslie vexed with sicknesse from daie to daie either increasing by the line 40 course therof or renewed by some new surfet finallie this yeare departed out of this transitorie life at his manour of Shéene now called Richmond the 21 daie of Iune in the yeare of our Lord 1377 after he had liued 65 yeares reigned fiftie yeares foure moneths 28 daies His corpse was conueied from Sheene by his foure sonnes namelie Lionell duke of Clarence Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster Edmund of Langlie duke of Yorke and Thomas of Woodstoke earle of Cambridge with other nobles of the realme and solemnelie interred within Westminster line 50 church with this epitaph in his memoriall Hîc decus Anglorum flos regum praeteritorum Forma futurorum rex clemens pax populorum Tertius Edwardus regni complens iubileum Inuictus pardus pollens bellis Machabeum He had issue by his wife quéene Philip 7 sonnes Edward prince of Wales William of Hatfield that died yoong Lionell duke of Clarence Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster Edmund of Langlie earle of line 60 Cambridge after created duke of Yorke Thomas of Woodstoke erle of Buckingham after made duke of Glocester and an other William which died likewise yoong He had also thrée daughters Marie that was maried to Iohn of Mountford duke of Britaine Isabell wedded to the lord Coucie earle of Bedford and Margaret coupled in mariage with the earle of Penbroke This king besides other his gifts of nature was aided greatlie by his seemelie personage He had a prouident wit sharpe to conceiue and vnderstand he was courteous and gentle dooing all things sagelie and with good consideration a man of great temperance and sobrietie Those he chiefelie fauoured and aduanced to honour and roomes of high dignitie which excelled in honest conuersation modestie and innocencie of life of bodie well made of a conuenient stature as neither of the highest nor lowest sort of face faire and manlike eies bright and shining and in age bald but so as it was rather a séemelinesse to those his ancient yeares than any disfiguring fo his visage in knowledge of martiall affaires verie skilfull as the enterprises and worthie acts by him atchiued doo sufficientlie witnesse In what estimation he was had among strangers it may appeare in that he was not onelie made vicar of the empire by the emperour Lewes of Baâ—iere but also after the decease of the same emperour diuerse of the electours as Lewes marques of Brandenbourgh Robert or Rupert count Palatine of the Rhene and the yoong duke of Saxonie with Henrie archbishop of Mentz elected him to succéed in place of the said emperour Lewes Neuerthelesse he giuing them hartie thanks for the honour which they did vnto him herein refused to take the charge vpon him alledging that he could not haue time to supplie the roome by reason of the warres that he had in France to recouer his right which he had to that realme This is noted by writers to be a token of great wisedome in this noble king that would not go about to catch more than he might well gripe Examples of bountious liberalitie and great clemencie he shewed manie and the same verie notable so that in maner he alone amongst all other kings was found to be one subiect to none or at the least to verie light and small faults But yet he was not void of euill haps for whereas during the terme of fortie yeares space
Notingham and Stafford to the baron of Graistocke and to the Musgraues Lastlie they came to Carleill and boldlie assalted the citie but sir Lewes Clifford and sir Thomas Musgraue Dauie Holgraue and diuerse other worthie capteins being within it so defended the waues and gates that their enimies got small aduantage and finallie hearing that the English armie was returning homewards the Scots and Frenchmen drew backe into Scotland doubting to be inclosed by the Englishmen as they had béene in deed if the duke of Lancaster and his brethren vncles to the king might haue béene beleeued who counselled the king to pursue the enimies and stop the passages through which they must needs passe in their comming backe But the earle of Oxenford being most in fauour and credit with the king in those daies as one that ruled all things at his pleasure did aduise him to the contrarie by putting him in beléefe as was said that his vncles went about to bring him in danger to be lost and surprised of his enimies wherevpon he tooke the next way home and so brake vp his iournie When the Scots and Frenchmen were returned into Scotland the Scotish king hauing conceiued a iust displeasure towards the French admerall for that by his meanes the realme of Scotland had susteined such damage in that season caused him and his Frenchmen to be despoiled of the most part of their goods and sent them so awaie out of his countrie that the Scots might receiue some comfort by those warres In this yeare was the battell of Algeberota in Portingale where king Iohn of Portingale discomfited a great host of Spaniards and Frenchmen by the helpe and policie of certeine Englishmen which he had there with him vnder the leading of two esquiers Norberie and Hartell There were slaine diuers earls great lords of Spaniards but for that our writers do not rightlie note the Spanish names but write them corruptlie as strangers vse to doo we here omit them The king of Portingale after this victorie obteined against his enimies sent six gallies vnto the king of England to aid line 10 him against his aduersaries the which were well receiued and highlie made of by the Londoners and other so that the Portingales had no cause to repent of their comming hither The French king this yeare besieged and wan the towne of Dam after he had béene at great charges about it Whilest his nauie returned from Scluis where the same had laien at anchor a long time the ships by tempest were scattered wether-driuen so that in the feast daie of the exaltation of the crosse line 20 two of their gallies a great ship a barge and seauen balengers were cast on shore about Calis the Calisians tooke fiue hundred Frenchmen and Normans that escaped to land An other day 72 French ships as they were comming from Scluis to passe by Calis were met with by them of Calis who behaued themselues so manfullie that they tooke 18 of those French ships and a great barke in which thrée score armed men were slaine before it could be taken Within three daies after this the Calisians met 45 line 30 other French ships and after six houres fight obteined the victorie taking thrée of the most principall vessels whereof one being a hulke of Eastland was hired by the Normans to gard the residue The other two that were taken were of such mold that they could not enter into the hauen at Calis and therefore were sent to Sandwich the one of them being a new ship which the lord Clisson had bought at Scluis paieng for hir 3000 franks ¶ Henrie Knighton saith it was prised or valued at 20000 florens it line 40 was so tall big and large a vessell and therefore of great capacitie On saint Denise daie the soldiors of Calis and other English fortresses thereabouts made a secret iournie into France and got a bootie of foure thousand shéepe and three hundred head of great cattell which they droue towards their holds and as the lord de Rambures gouernour of Bullongne would haue recouered the preie he was vnhorssed with the rencounter of an English speare and being relieued by line 50 his companie and mounted againe withdrew himselfe not attempting to trie any further masteries and so the Englishmen safelie passed foorth with their bootie of cattell and aboue a hundred good prisoners which they had taken at this rode In this 9 yeare about the feast of S. Martine the king called his high court of parlement at Westminster in the which amongst other things there concluded he created two dukes a marques and fiue earles First Edmund Langlie earle of Cambridge the kings vncle was line 60 created duke of Yorke Thomas of Woodstoke his other vncle earle of Buckingham was created duke of Glocester Robert Uéere earle of Oxford was made marques of Deuelin Henrie of Bollingbrooke sonne and heire to Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster was created earle of Derbie Edward Plantagenet sonne and heire to the Duke of Yorke was made earle of Rutland Michaell lord de la Poole chancellor of England was created earle of Suffolke sir Thomas Moubraie earle of Notingham was made earle marshall Also by authoritie of this parlement Roger lord Mortimer earle of March sonne and heire of Edmund Mortimer earle of March and of the ladie Philip eldest daughter and heire vnto Lionell duke of Clarence third sonne to king Edward the third was established heire apparant to the crowne of this realme and shortlie after so proclaimed The which earle of March anon after the end of the same parlement sailed into Ireland to his lordship of Ulster whereof he was owner by right of his said mother but whilest he remained there to pacifie the rebellions of the wild Irish a great number of them togither assembled came vpon him and slue him togither with the most part of his companie This Roger earle of March had issue Edmund Roger Anne Ales Eleanor which Eleanor was made a nunne The two sonnes died without issue and Anne the eldest of the daughters was married to Richard earle of Cambridge sonne vnto Edmund of Langlie before remembred the which Richard had issue by the said Anne a son called Richard that was after duke of Yorke and father to king Edward the fourth also a daughter named Isabell afterwards married to the lord Bourcher This Richard earle of Cambridge was put to death by Henrie the fift as after ye shall heare Moreouer in this yeare Henrie of Bollingbrooke earle of Derbie married the daughter and heire of Humfrie Bohun earle of Hereford in whose right he was after made duke of Hereford and by hir he had issue Henrie that after him was king of this relme the ladie Blanch duches of Bar and the ladie Philip married to the king of Denmarke also Thomas duke of Clarence Iohn duke of Bedford and Humfrie duke of Glocester ¶
The Gauntiners still mainteined warre against the earle of Flanders during his life and after his deceasse against Philip duke of Burgogne by such aid and comfort as they had from time to time of the king of England till finallie this yeare about the eightenth daie of December a peace was concluded betwixt the said duke and the towne of Gaunt and sir Iohn Bourchier that had laine a long season there as capteine vnder the K. of England and Peter de Bois one of the chéefe capteins of the Gauntiners before the concluding of this peace were safelie conducted to Calis by vertue of the duke of Burgogne his safe conduct and so they came ouer into England and the king gaue vnto Peter de Bois a pension of an hundred marks sterling yearelie to be paid to him out of the staples of the woolles in London This yeare king Richard holding his Christmasse at Eltham thither came to him Leo king of Armenia whose countrie and realme being in danger to be conquered of the Turks he was come into those west parts of christendome for aid and succour at the hands of the christian princes here The king honorablie receiued him and after he had taken counsell touching his request he gaue him great summes of monie and other rich gifts with a stipend as some write of a thousand pounds yearely to be paid to him during his life After he had remained here two moneths space he tooke leaue of the king and departed The chiefest point of his errand was to haue procured a peace betwixt the two kings of England and France but destinie would not permit so good a purpose to take effect for the hatred which either nation bare to other would not suffer their loftie minds to yeeld in any one point further than seemed good in their owne opinions In this ninth yeare of king Richard though by other writers it should séeme to be rather in the yeare following the duke of Lancaster with a great power of men of warre went into Spaine year 1386 and lead with him thither his wife the ladie Constance a daughter which he had by hir named Katharine and two other daughters which he had by his former wife He had béene about the preparing of an armie and all furniture necessarie for this iournie two or thrée yéeres before and therefore hauing now seauen gallies and eightéene ships sent to him out of Portingale which arriued at Bristow he caused all such vessels as he had prouided to resort likewise thither where making his generall assemblie when all his men of warre were come togither he bestowed them aboord with all their horsses and purueiances and causing sailes to be hoissed vp set forward on his line 10 long wished iournie This was in the moneth of Maie when the seas were calme the aire swéet and the winds pleasant and agréeable to his purpose He appointed for admerall of his whole fléet sir Thomas Percie and sir Iohn Holland that was after created earle of Huntington and had married one of his daughters was ordeined constable of the hoast and sir Thomas Moreaux hauing married his bastard daughter was one of his marshals There were that attended him in this iournie manie line 20 other lords and knights of honor as the lord Lucie the lord Talbot the lord Basset the lord Willoughbie the lord Fitz Walter the lord Poinings the lord Bradston the lord of PoÌ„miers a Gascoigne the lord Yonne fitz Warren Henrie lord Beaumont William lord Beauchampe sir Richard Burlie that was another of the marshals of the armie sir Hugh Spenser sir William Windsore sir Iohn Daubreticourt sir Hugh Hastings sir William Farrington sir Thomas Tresham sir Mauburin line 30 de Liniers sir Thomas Worcester sir Iohn Sowtrie sir Robert Clinton sir Philip Tirrell sir Lewes Rochester Huguelin Caluerlie Dauid Holgraue Thomas Alerie Hobequin Beaucester and diuerse other they were in all to the number of fifteene hundred men of armes whereof a thousand at the least were knights and esquiers besides foure thousand archers and other men of warre so perfectlie appointed and arraied as could be thought méet and conuenient Of this chosen companie attendant vpon the line 40 duke of Lancaster of this his voiage into Spaine the said C. Okland speaketh no lesse trulie according to the report of our annales than honorablie Ocyus instructa pro bello classe futuro Milite stipatus generoso traijcit aequor Fluctisonum cum vxore pia natÃsque duabus c. ¶ Henrie Knighton reporteth of this voiage as followeth in somewhat a differing sort from this alreadie laid downe On Easter daie saith he Iohn the duke of Lancaster with his wife came to the king line 50 to take their leaue to the which duke the king gaue a crowne of gold and the quéene likewise gaue an other crowne of gold to the duchesse Besides this the king commanded his people that they should call him king of Spaine and doo him honour in all things He had with him a power of 20000 chosen men of which number noted in the marshals bill or scroll 2000 were men of armes and 8000 were archers As they passed by Britaine they landed at Brest the capteine whereof at that time named sir Iohn line 60 Roche finding himselfe greatlie annoied by the Frenchmen that were lodged in two bastides erected before the castell declared to the duke in what state he stood Wherevpon he caused the said bastides to be assailed which was doone by the lord Fitz Walter and others who bare themselues so manfullie that the bastides were woone broken downe and a great preie with prisoners obteined although not without losse of diuerse valiant personages Thus were they within Brest castell deliuered of their vnfreendlie neighbours by the duke of Lancaster and his people Who hauing doone their feat tooke the seas and sailed foorth till they came on the coasts of Gallis where on S. Laurence eeuen they arriued in the hauen of Groigne otherwise called Coron and there they vnshipped all their prouisions determining to inuade the countrie on that side ¶ Héere bicause it is not vnprofitable to know the absolute truth of things doone by the collection of writers I haue translated the beseeging of Brest as the same is set downe by Henrie Knighton in his annales in a larger and more ample sort with a fuller certificat of circumstances than hath hitherto béene declared At the same time saith he the duke of Britaine had laid siege both by sea and land to a certeine towne in Britaine in old time subiect to the king of England which was called Brest with a great multitude of Frenchmen and Britains Now on the twelfth of the kalends of Iulie he began to build a fort before the said towne of Brest of a woonderfull bignesse the walles thereof being ten foot thicke and seauen towres about it A thousand workemen did worke daie by daie vpon it
the yeare from the birth of Christ 1314 renewing the sute to the king after the death of Antonie Beke bishop of Durham which happened in the yeare of our Lord 1â—10 for the lands whereof his father had the said bishop in sute and which were after seized into the line 30 kings hands as before appeareth in the life of his father It was then found vpon search that sir Iohn Ballioll who was partie to the said sute before had the realme of Scotland by award by reason of certeine lands that he gaue to sir Antonie de Beke the bishop of Durham for which cause it séemed king Edward the first seized the same lands into his hands as forfeit to him in that they were after the maner of a bribe giuen to the said bishop to support the sute of the said Iohn Balioll for the obteining of the line 40 crowne of Scotland And for that cause this Iohn Hastings was counselled by such as willed him well that he should surceasse his sute and so he did This Iohn Hastings maried Iulian the daughter of Thomas lord Leiburne the sonne of William lord Leiburne and had by hir Laurence de Hastings after which this Iohn Hastings died in the eightéenth yeare of Edward the second and in the yeare of our Lord 1325. His wife Iulian liued manie yeers after and surrendred hir life in the fortie one yeare of Edward line 50 the third and in the yeare of our Lord 1366. Laurence Hastings lord Hastings and Aburgauennie was also afterward earle of Penbroke he was borne about the thirtéenth yeare of Edward the second being also about the yeare of our redemption 1320 which is proued by this that the said Laurence was fiue yeares old at the death of his father which as before is said happened in the yeare 1325 and in the eightéenth of Edward the second at what time he was seized as the kings ward and committed to line 60 the gouernement of tutors appointed him by the said Edward the second This Laurence Hastings for the nobilitie of his race the actiuitie of him selfe the largenesse of his possessions and his familiaritie with the king was created earle of Penbroke about the one and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third He maried Anne or Agnes the third daughter of sir Roger Mortimer the first earle of March by whom he had issue Iohn Hastings Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke lord Hastings Aburgauennie and Weifford in Ireland the sonne of Laurence Hastings the first earle of Penbroke of that name did in the fortie one yeare of Edward the third being about the yeare of our Lord 1369 infeoffe diuerse persons of the manor of Lidgate in Suffolke of which towne was Iohn Lidgate the monke of Berie and famous poet of England surnamed After which in the fortie six yeare of Edward the third and in the yeare of our Lord 1371 when the Frenchmen besieged Rochell he was sent with an armie of men to the rescue of the same But being set vpon by the Spanish nauie in the hauen of Rochell they slue and tooke manie of the English burnt their nauie and caried the earle with sundrie other prisoners into Spaine where this earle a long time remained prisoner Which misfortune was iustlie supposed to haue fallen vpon him because he was a man of euill life giuen greatlie to lecherie an infringer of the liberties of the church and a persuader of the king that he should for his warres more grieuouslie exact manie subsidies and contributions vpon the clergie than vpon the laitie After that he had béene long prisoner in Spaine by the space almost of thrée yeares he was ransomed for a grreat summe of monie by Bertram Cleikine and died as I coniecture by some sufficient proofe betwéene Paris and Calis as he came into England in the fortie ninth yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of our Lord 1374 so that he neuer fullie paied his ransome He had two wiues Margaret the daughter of Edward the third Anne the daughter of sir Walter Mannie and of Margaret Segraue made dutchesse of Northfolke in the time of Richard the second but when he maried these wiues I can not certeinlie find And in the earle of Kents booke which treateth of the contention of the Hastings and the Greies for bearing of the armes of Hastings there is no mention made as farre as my memorie serueth of the said Margaret the reason whereof I suppose to be for that this Iohn Hastings had no issue by hir and that booke onelie serued to conueie a lineall descent from the Hastings to intitle the Greies This Iohn Hastings had by his second wife Anne a sonne called Iohn Hastings which after succéeded his father in all his inheritances But before I saie anie more of the Hastings I thinke it not amisse to giue some warning of an error in Polydor of Vrbin writing that Anne the countesse of Penbroke wife to this man for none of the earles of Penbrokes had anie wife so named within the compasse of years wherein Polydor appointeth this time descended of a noble house of S. Paule in France a woman of great vertue and a louer of learning and of learned men founded a house in Cambridge to this daie called Penbroke hall which in truth was not builded by hir but by Marie the wife of Odomare or Aimer de Ualence earle of Penbroke who was slaine at tilt in the one twentie yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of our Lord 1374 which was thirtie seauen yeares before the death of this Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke which Marie was in verie déede the daughter of Guie earle of S. Paule the kinswoman of Edward the third and a French woman This woman being in one daie that the daie of hir mariage a maid a wife a widow hir husband being that day slaine at tilt did in hir widowhood in the one twentith yeare of Edward the 3 in the yeare of our Lord 1374 erect that house in Cambridge vpon hir owne ground and appointed the same to be called the hall of Marie Ualence or Penbroke hall by meanes whereof it was long after called Aula Valentiae Mariae Now to returne where I left to the last wife of this Iohn Hastings called Anne she after the death of hir husband did at â—he coronation of Richard the second in the yeare of Christ 1382 being about the fift yeare of the reigne of the said Richard sue by petition to execute by hir deputie the office of the panteler by reason of the manor of Ashley which she had for hir iointure whervnto she was admitted by hir deputie sir Thomas Blunt knight did performe the same as this record dooth testifie in which is set both hir petitions and the iudgement thereof in this forme The record whereby dame Anne Hastings clameth the office of the pantrie line 10 ITem Anna quae fuitvxor Iohannis Hastings nuper comes
friers mendicants and other such religious men as soong for the dead celebrating as they termed it anniuersaries euerie of them gaue halfe a marke in reliefe of other of the cleargie that had still borne the burthen for them before Whervpon now they murmured and grudged sore for that they were thus charged at that present The same time the earle of Northumberland and the lord Bardolfe warned by the lord Dauid Fleming that there was a conspiracie practised to deliuer them into the king of Englands hands fled into Wales to Owen Glendouer This cost the lord Fleming his life for after it was knowne that he had disclosed to the earle of Northumberland what was meant against him and that the earle therevpon was shifted awaie certeine of the Scots slue the said lord Fleming Wherevpon no small grudge rose betwixt those that so slue him and the said lord Flemings friends For this and other matters such dissention sproong vp amongst the Scotish nobilitie that one durst not trust another so that they were glad to sue for a truce betwixt England and them which was granted to indure for one yeare as in some books we find recorded This truce being obteined Robert king of Scotland vpon considerations as in the Scotish historie ye may read more at large sent his eldest son Iames intituled prince of Scotland a child not past nine yeares of age to be conueied into France vnder the conduct of the earle of Orkenie and a bishop in hope that he might there both remaine in safetie and also learne the French toong But it fortuned that as they sailed neare to the English coast about Flambrough head in Holdernesse their ship was taken and staied by certeine mariners of Claie a towne in Norffolke that were abroad the same time and so he and all his companie being apprehended the thirtith of March was conueied to Windsore where though he had letters from his father which he presented to the king conteining a request in his sonnes behalfe for fauour to be shewed towards him if by chance he landed within any of his dominions yet was he deteined and as well he himselfe as the earle of Orkenie was committed to safe keeping in the Tower of London but the bishop got away and escaped as some write by what means I know not By the Scotish writers we find that this chanced in the yeare 1404 that is two yeares before the time noted in diuerse English writers as Thomas Walsingham and other But Harding saith it was in the ninth yeare of king Henries reigne to wit in the yeare 1408. But whensoeuer it chanced it is to be thought that there was no truce at that present betweene the line 10 two realmes but that the warre was rather open sith diuerse English rebels still remained in Scotland and were there succored to the high displeasure of king Henrie ¶ By authoritie of the parlement that all this time continued the Britons that serued the quéene with two of hir daughters were banished the realme Robert Halome chancellor of Oxford as then being in the popes court at Rome was created archbishop of Yorke ¶ Moreouer the same time the pope gaue vnto Thomas Langlie the bishoprike line 20 of Durham which by the death of Walter Skirlow was then void In the summer of this yeare the ladie Philip the kings yoonger daughter was sent ouer to hir affianced husband Erike king of Denmarke Norwaie and Sweden being conueied thither with great pompe and there married to the said king where she tasted according to the common spéech vsed in praieng for the successe of such as match togither in mariage both ioy and some sorrow among There attended hir thither Henrie Bowet bishop of line 30 Bath and the lord Richard brother to the duke of Yorke There was a iusts held at London betwixt the earle of Kent and the erle of Marre a Scotishman also sir Iohn Cornewall and the lord Beaumont against other two Scotish knights whereof the honor remained with the Englishmen In the parlement which yet continued the duke of Yorke was restored to his former libertie estate and dignitie where manie supposed that he had beene dead long before that line 40 time in prison Edmund Holland earle of Kent was in such fauour with king Henrie that he not onelie aduanced him to high offices and great honors but also to his great costs and charges obteined for him the ladie Lucie eldest daughter and one of the heirs of the lord Barnabo of Millane which Barnabo paied to him 100000 ducates in the church of S. Marie Oueries in Southwarke by the hands of Don Alfonso de Cainuola vpon the day of the solemnization of the marriage which was the foure and twentith line 50 of Ianuarie ¶ In this yeare Roger of Walden departed this life who hauing béene tossed vp and downe with sundrie changes of fortune tried in a short time how inconstant vncerteine variable wandering vnstable and flitting she is which when she is thought firmelie to stand she slipperinglie falleth and with a dissembling looke counterfaiteth false ioies For by the meanes of hir changeablenesse the said Roger of a poore fellow grew vp to be high lord treasuror of the line 60 realme and shortlie after archbishop of Canturburie but by what right the world knoweth considering that the lord Thomas Arundell was then liuing Anon after he was deposed from his dignitie and lead the life of an ordinarie priuat man a long time within a while after againe he was promoted and made bishop of London which sée he had not possessed a full yeare but was depriued and Nicholas Hobwith succeeded in his roome So that hereby men are taught not to be proud of their preferment nor to reckâ—â— of them as of perpetuities sithens they may be as soone dispossessed as possessed of them and for that all estates degrées depend vpon Gods power and prouidence whereof the poet diuinelie saieth Ludit in humanis diuina potentia rebus Et certam praesens vix habet hora fidem In this yeare the seuenth of Maie was Thomas Langlie consecrated bishop of Durham after the decease of Walter Skirlow In which place he continued one and thirtie yeares He among other his beneficiall déeds beautified the church of Durham for euer with a chanterie of two chapleines Besides which for the increase of learning wherwith himselfe was greatlie furnished be built two schooles the one for grammar to instruct youth whereby in following time they might be made more able to benefit themselues and serue their countrie and the other of musicke wherein children might be made apt to serue God and the church both which schooles he erected in a parcell of ground coÌ„monlie called The plaie gréene To which buildings for he was one that delighted much therein and like vnto the philosopher Anaxagoras supposed that there was not any more earthlie felicitie than to erect sumptuous palaces
discomfited slaine and chased leauing a glorious victorie to the Englishmen and Burgognions There were slaine of the Frenchmen an eightéene hundred knights and esquiers beside commons of Scots néere hand thrée thousand Amongest the Frenchmen these were chiefest that were slaine the earle of Lestrake the earle of Comigens the earle of Tonnoâ—re the lord Coquart de Comeron the bastard of Arminake the vicount of Touraine the bastard of Forreâ—tes the lord de Port and the lord Memorancie Of Scots the lord of saint Iohns towne sir Iohn of Balgarie sir Iohn Turnbull sir Iohn Holiburton sir Robert Lislie sir William Coningham sir William Dowglas sir Alexander Hume sir William Lislie sir Iohn Rotherford sir William Craiford sir Thomas Seton sir William Hamilton and his sonne Iohn Pillot There were taken the earle of Buchquhane constable of France which lost his eie the earle of Uentadour sir Alexander Meldrine sir Lewes Ferignie and two and twentie hundred gentlemen of the French part Of Englishmen there were slaine sir Iohn Greie sir William Hall sir Gilbert Halsall one of the marshals of the field Richard ap Madocke and one and twentie hundred souldiers and men of warre After this fortunate victorie was the earle of Salisburie made by the lord regent lieutenant and vicegerent for the king and the said lord regent in the countries of France Brie and Champaigne and sir Iohn Fastolf was substituted deputie vnder the lord regent within the duchie of Normandie on this side the riuer of Seine and withall he was also made gouernour of the countries of Aniou and Maine The earle of Salisburie after fiue moneths siege wan by surrender the towne and castell of Montaguillon in Brie the capteins whereof the one named Pregent of Cotinie and Guille Bourgois Britons sware neuer to beare armour against the Englishmen on this side the riuer of Loire In the meane time of that siege the earle of Suffolke tooke by force the castell of Coucie and the strong castell of la Roch in Masconnois he got by appointment In this second yeare of king Henrie the sixt Iames the first of that name the hundred second K. of Scotland year 1424 tooke to wife the ladie Iane daughter to Iohn earle of Summerset deceassed and sister to Iohn then duke of Summerset and also coosine germane remoued to king Henrie and neece to the line 10 duke of Winchester and to the duke of Excester was set at libertie couenanting to paie a small portion of monie more than was allowed to him for his wiues marriage monie and left hostages for the same But before his departure out of the realme he did his homage vnto the yoong king of England Henrie the sixt at the castell of Windsor before thrée dukes two archbishops twelue earles ten bishops twentie barons and two hundred knights and esquiers beside others in order of words according line 20 to the tenour hereafter following The formall recognisance or acknowledgement of the said homage I Iames Steward K. of Scots shall be true and faithfull vnto you lord Henrie by the grace of line 30 God king of England France the noble and superiour lord of the kingdome of Scotland and to you I make my fidelitie for the same kingdome of Scotland which I hold and claime of you and I shall beare you my faith and fidelitie of life and lim and worldlie honour against all men and faithfullie I shall knowledge and shall doo you seruice due for the kingdome line 40 of Scotland aforesaid So God helpe me and these holie euangelists But notwithstanding this his oth and the great bounteous liberalitie of the mother vncles of his wife in bestowing on him abundance of plate treasure with rich clothes of arras he had not béene long at home but that soone out of France into Scotland ouer came there Iames Steward who after manie of the Scotish nobilitie by diuerse occasions in line 50 France consumed grew to be capteine of the horssemen there With him came the archbishop of Remes with power and commission for concluding a league betweene France and Scotland and also of a mariage betwéene Lewes the Dolphins sonne and Margaret Iameses daughter though both verie yoong Which matters acordinglie accomplished to France againe they got them So Iames became as firme French as any of his predecessours But now to leaue the Scotish king amongst his line 60 countriemen in Scotland and returne to the dooings of England I find that the duke of Glocester being protector and gouernour of the realme prepared an armie of ten thousand men and sent them ouer to his brother the regent into France who comming into the territorie of Paris were ioifullie of him receiued About the same time the Frenchmen got by stealth diuerse townes out of the Englishmens hands and amongst other the faire towne of Compiegne was one and the pretie towne of Crotoie an other When the duke of Bedford was aduertised hereof he determined not to let the matter passe in such sort but with all conuenient spéed sent foorth a force to recouer those townes againe And first the earle of Suffolke with the earle of Lignie and diuerse other capteins of the Englishmen went to besiege Compiegne and lodged on the one side of the riuer of Soâ—â—me as the lord Lisle Adham sir Thomas Rampston and the prouost of Paris laie on the other side The Frenchmen within the towne well furnished with good souldiers munition and vittels couragiouslie defended themselues The Englishmen remembring that Guilliam Remond otherwise called Mariolaine had béen the leader of the souldiers within the towne which Mariolaine before at Pacie was taken prisoner by sir Iohn Fastolfe caused him to be brought from Paris vnto the campe and set him in a chariot with an halter about his necke and conueied him to the gibet without the towne sending word to them within that if they would not without delaie render the towne their capteine should incontinentlie be strangled afore their faces Which moued the souldiers so much by reason of the loue they bare to their old capteine and gouernour that for the deliuerance of him and partlie of themselues they yéelded the towne so that both he and they might depart with horsse and harnesse onelie in sure conduct and safetie Yet yer this towne of Compiegne was deliuered sir Philip Hall which was sent to Crotoie by the lord regent with eight hundred men to besiege it got it suddenlie by assault yâ—r the Frenchmen had either disposed their garrison or appointed their lodgings About the same time sir Iohn de la Poole brother to the duke of Suffolke being capteine of Auranches in Normandie assembled all the garrisons of the base marches of the countrie of Aniou and came before the citie of Angiers burnt the suburbes spoiled and destroied the whole countrie and hauing as manie prisoners as his men might go awaie with he was incountered by the earle of Aumarle the vicount of
capteine thereof sir Rafe Greie defended it so manfullie for the space of twentie daies that king Iames being then aduertised that the earle of Northumberland was comming to fight with him fled with no lesse losse than dishonor and inough of both line 20 Shortlie after that the duke of Burgognie had béene before Calis at the desire of princes a truce for a time was moued to be had betwéene the king of England the said duke For which cause were sent to Grauelin for the king of England Henrie Beauford cardinall of Winchester Iohn lord Mowbraie duke of Northfolke Humfrie earle of Stafford and diuerse other well learned honorable personages And for the duke of Burgognie there appeared the duchesse his wife the bishop of Arras the lord of line 30 Croie and diuerse other At this treatie a truce was taken for a small time and for a lesse obserued which was concluded betweene the king of England and the duchesse of Burgognie interlacing the duke and his name Some thinke that the king of England would neuer enter in league with him bicause he had broken his promise oth and writing sealed to him and to his father Other imagined this to be doone of a cautell to cast a mist before the French kings eies to the line 40 intent he should beléeue that this feat was wrought by the duchesse without assent or knowledge of the duke or his councell and so he was not bound to accomplish anie act or thing doone in his wiues treatie Thus may you sée that princes sometime with such vaine glosses and scornefull expositions will hide their dooings and cloke their purposes to the intent they would not either be espied or else that they may plucke their heads out of the collar at their pleasure But as the common opinion goeth he which is line 50 a promise-breaker escapeth not alwaies with impunitie For it is well seene by dailie and vsuall euents both in princes and priuat persons that for violating their faith and breaking of promise manie discommodities arise and inconueniences not a few doo follow To the due keeping whereof the heathen bare such a religious conscience that a prophane man in respect of others preferreth it before sacrifice the sentence is of great excellencie out of a pagans mouth Non boue mactato coelestia numina gaudent line 60 Sed quae praestanda est sine teste fide About this season queene Katharine mother to the king of England departed out of this life and was buried by hir husband in the abbeie of Westminster This woman after the death of king Henrie the fift hir husband being yoong and lustie following more hir owne wanton appetite than fréendlie counsell and regarding more priuate affection than prince-like honour tooke to husband priuilie a galant gentleman and a right beautifull person indued with manie goodlie gifts both of bodie mind called Owen Teuther a man descended of the noble linage and ancient line of Cadwallader last king of the Britains By this Owen she brought foorth thrée goodlie sonnes Edmund Iasper and another that was a monke in Westminster and liued a small time also a daughter which in hir youth departed out of this transitorie life King Henrie after the death of his mother bicause they were his brethren of one wombe created Edmund earle of Richmund and Iasper earle of Penbroke which Edmund of Margaret daughter and sole heire to Iohn duke of Summerset begat Henrie who after was king of this realme called Henrie the seuenth of whome ye shall heare more in place conuenient This Owen after the death of the quéene his wife was apprehended and committed toward bicause that contrarie to the statute made in the sixt yeare of this king he presumptuouslie had maried the quéene without the kings especiall assent out of which prison he escaped and let out other with him but was againe apprehended and after escaped againe ¶ Polychronicon saith that he was a squier of low birth and like degrée the same author also reporteth that he was commanded to Newgate by the duke of Glocester then lord protector of the realme out of which prison he brake by the helpe of a preest that was his chapline Neuerthelesse he was apprehended afterwards by the lord Beaumont brought againe to Newgate whence when he had remained there a while he was deliuered and set at libertie The duchesse of Bedford also sister to Lewes erle of S. Paule more for affection than increase of honour without counsell of hir freends maried a lustie yoong knight called sir Richard Wooduile to the great displeasure of hir vncle the bishop of Terwine and the earle hir brother This sir Richard was made baron of Riuers and after earle and had by this ladie manie noble sonnes and faire daughters of the which one was the ladie Elizabeth after queene of England by reason she was married vnto Edward the fourth ¶ Whilest this marriage was a celebrating Iane late quéene of England and before duchesse of Britaine daughter to the king of Nauarre and wife to king Henrie the fourth died at the manor of Hauering and was buried by hir husband at Canturburie ¶ About the same time deceassed also the countesse of Warwike and Henrie archbishop of Yorke In this yeare also the duke of Summerset accompanied with the lords of Fauconbridge Talbot sir Francis Surien the Arrogonnois Matthew Gough Thomas Paulet Thomas Harington Walter Limbrike Iohn Gedding William Watton esquiers and Thomas Hilton bailiffe of Rone with a great companie of the English partie besieged the towne of Harflue latelie before gotten by the Frenchmen both by water and land the capteine within the towne was one sir Iohn d'Estouteuille hauing his brother Robert with him and a six hundred good fighting men The assailants cast trenches and so fortified themselues in their campe and lodgings that when the earles of Ew and Dunois the valiant bastard of Bourbon the lord Gawcourt and other famous capteins with a foure thousand men sent to the rescue of them within came bâ—fore the towne they could not succour their fréends nor annoie their enimies by anie meanes they could deuise so for feare to lose honour they returned backe againe with much trauell and little profit The capteins within the towne perceiuing they could not be aided did shortlie after render the towne to the duke of Summerset who after committed it to the kéeping of Thomas Paulet William Limbrike Christopher Barber and George saint George which manie yeares till the diuision began in England manfullie and valiantlie defended both the towne and the hauen But afterward when this duke of Summerset was regent and gouernour of Normandie he not onlie lost this towne of Harflue but also the citie of Rone and the whole duchie of Normandie whereas now being but a deputie he got it to his high praise and glorie In this yeare was Iames king of Scots murthered
they said afterward that that prophesie lost not his effect when after king Edward Glocester vsurped his kingdome Other alledged that the cause of his death was for that the duke being destitute of a wife by the meanes of his sister the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie procured to haue the ladie Marie daughter and heire to hir husband duke Charles line 60 Which marriage king Edward enuieng the prosperitie of his brother both gaine said and disturbed and thereby old malice reuiued betwixt them which the quéene and hir bloud euer mistrusting and priuilie barking at the kings Image ceassed not to increase But sure it is that although king Edward were consenting to his death yet he much did both lament his infortunate chance repent his sudden execution insomuch that when anie person sued to him for the pardon of malefactors condemned to death he would accustomablie saie openlie speake Oh infortunate brother for whose life not one would make sute Openlie and apparantlie meaning by such words that by the meanes of some of the nobilitie he was deceiued and brought to confusion This duke left behind him two yoong infants begot of the bodie of his wife the daughter of Richard late earle of Warwike which children by destinie as it were or by their owne merits following the steps of their ancestors succéeded them in like misfortune and semblable euill chance For Edward his heire whom king Edward had created earle of Warwike was thrée and twentie yeares after in the time of Henrie the seauenth atteinted of treason and on the Tower hill lost his head Margaret his sole daughter maried to sir Richard Pole knight and by Henrie the eight restored to the name title possessions of the earledome of Salisburie was at length for treason committed against the said Henrie the eight atteinted in open parlement and sixtie two yeares after hir father had suffered death in the Tower she on the greene within the same place was beheaded In whose person died the verie surname of Plantagenet which from Geffrie Plantagenet so long in the bloud roiall of this realme had florished and continued After the death of this duke by reason of great heat and distemperance of aire happened so fierce quicke a pestilence that fiftéene yeares warre past consumed not the third part of the people that onelie foure moneths miserablie and pitifullie dispatched brought to their graues So that if the number had béene kept by multiplieng of vnities out of them to haue raised a complet number it would haue mooued matter of verie great admiration But it should séeme that they were infinit if consideration be had of the comparison inferred for the more effectuall setting foorth of that cruell and ceaselesse contagion And suerlie it soundeth to reason that the pestilence should fetchawaie so manie thousands as in iudgement by proportion of fiftéene yeares warre one maie gather and manie more too For euerie man knoweth that in warres time place persons and meanes are limited time of warre begun and ended place circumscribed persons imbattelled and weapons also whereby the fight is tried so that all these haue their limitations beyond which they haue no extent But the pestilence being a generall infection of the aire an element ordeined to mainteine life though it haue a limitation in respect of the totall compasse of the world yet whole climats maie be poisoned and it were not absurd to saie that all and euerie part of the aire maie be pestilentlie corrupted and so consequentlie not limited wherefore full well it maie be said of the pestilence procuring so great a depopulation as one saith of surfetting Ense cadunt multi perimit sed crapula plures The councellors of the yoong duchesse of Burgoggnie sent to K. Edward for aid against the French king About the same time had the queene of England sent to the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie for the preferrement of hir brother Anthonie erle Riuers to the yoong damsell But the councell of Flanders considering that he was but an earle of meane estate and she the greatest inheritrice of all christendome at that time gaue but deafe eare to so vnméet a request To which desire if the Flemings had but giuen a liking eare by outward semblance and with gentle words delaied the sute she had beene both succoured and defended Whether king Edward was not contented with this refusall or that he was loth to breake with the French king he would in no wise consent to send an armie into Flanders against the French king but yet he sent ambassadours to him with louing and gentle letters requiring him to grow to some reasonable order agréement with the yoong duchesse of Burgognie or at the least to take a truce with hir at his request The ambassadours of England were highlie receiued bountifullie feasted and liberallie rewarded but answer to their desire had they none sauing that shortlie after the French king would send ambassadours hostages and pledges to the king of England their maister for the perfecting and concluding of all things depending betweene them two so that their souereigne lord they should haue cause to be contented and pleased These faire words were onelie delaies to driue time vntill he might haue space line 10 to spoile the yoong damsell of hir townes and countries And beside this to staie king Edward from taking part with hir he wrote to him that if he would ioine with him in aid he should haue and inioie to him and his heires the whole countie countrie of Flanders discharged of homage superioritie and resort to be claimed by the French king or his successors He also wrote that he should haue the whole duchie of Brabant whereof the French king offered at his line 20 owne cost and charge to conquer foure of the chiefest and strongest townes within the said duchie them in quiet possession to deliuer to the king of England granting further to paie him ten thousand angels toward his charges with munitions of warre and artillerie which he promised to lend him with men and carriage for the conueiance of the same The king of England refused to make anie warres against those countries that were thus offered to him but if the French king would make him partner line 30 of his conquests in Picardie rendering to him part of the townes alreadie gotten as Bologne Monsterell and Abuile then he would suerlie take his part and aid him with men at his owne costs and charges Thus passed faire words and golden promises betwéene these two princes and in the meane time the yoong duchesse of Burgognie was spoiled of hir townes castels territories till at length for maintenance she condescended to marrie with Maximilian line 40 sonne to the emperour Frederike that he might kéepe the woolfe from the fold King Edward in the ninetéenth yeare of his reigne began more than he was before accustomed to serch the forfeiture of penall
erle of Hereford of that surname of Bohune was after the death of William his father earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and constable of England He augmented the castell of Brecnocke first built by Bernard Newmarch He in the eight and twentith yere of Edward the third as Iohn Stow noteth being the yeare of Christ 1354 reedified the frier Augustines church in London in which he was buried He maried Ione the daughter of Richard Fitz Alen erle of Arundell by whome he had issue two daughters and heires Eleanor the eldest maried to Thomas of Woodstocke and Marie the second maried to Henrie of Bollingbrooke after king of England by the name of king Henrie the fourth Thomas of Woodstocke the sixt sonne to king Edward the third was created earle of Buckingham in the first yeare of Richard the second at his coronation being the yeare of our Lord 1377 and after duke of Glocester in the eight yeare of Richard the second 1385. He maried Eleanor eldest daughter of Humfreie Bohune as before in whose right he was earle of Essex Northampton and constable of England besides which he was also lord of Brecnocke He had issue one son foure daughters his sonne was Humfreie erle of Buckingham whom K. Richard after the murthering of his father at Calis sent into Ireland where he remained as prisoner vntill the time of king Henrie the fourth which called him home who returning into England died of the plague without issue at Chester after whome his moother liued not long Of whose death thus writeth that worthie poet sir Iohn Gower knight liuing at that time in his booke of the historie of Richard the second and Henrie the fourth commonlie taken as part of his worke intituled named Vox clamantis Interea transit moriens nec in orbe remansit Humfredus dictus reddit ille Deo benedictus Defuncto nato cito post de fine beato Mater transiuit dum nati funera sciuit Primo decessit Cignus dolor vnde repressit Matrem cum pullo sibi mors nec parcit in vllo The foure daughters heires to Thomas of Woodstocke their brother Humfreie were Anne the eldest married to Edmund Stafford erle Stafford who had issue Humfreie erle of Stafford Hereford Northampton lord of Brecknocke c which Anne after the death of erle Stafforâ—â—aid the second time marie William vicont Bouâ—â—◠〈◊〉 created erle of Ewe in France the second daughter was Philip which died without issue the third Ione was maried to Gilbert lord Talbot the fourth Isabell was a religious person at the Minories in London This duke of Glocester was murthered at Calis about the yeare of Christ 1398 being the 22 yeare of Richard the second touching whose life and death with the maner thereof thus writeth the said sir Iohn Gower in the same booke intituled Vox clamantis O quà m fortuna stabilis non permanet vna Exemplum cuius stat in ordine carminis huius line 10 Rex agit Cygnus patitur de corde benignus Ille prostratus non est de rege leuatus Ad Plessye captus tunc est velut hostia raptus Rex iubet arma geri nec eo voluit misereri Cum sponsa nati lugent quasi morte grauati Plússque lupo saeuit rex dummodo foemina fleuit Nil pietas munit quem tunc manus inuida punit Rex stetit obliquus nec erat tunc vnus amicus O regale genus princeps quasi pauper egenus Turpiter attractus iacet sine iure subactus line 20 Sunt ibi fautores regis de sorte priores Qui Cygnum pendent vbi captum ducere tendent Sic ducendo ducem perdit sine lumine lucem Anglia quae tota tenebrescit luce remota Trans mare natauit regnum qui semper amauit Flent centum mille quia Cygnus praeterit ille Calisij portus petit vnde dolus latet ortus Error quem regis genuit putredine legis Carcere conclusus subitò fuit ille reclusus Nescit quo fine sit vitae siue ruinae line 30 Tunc rex elatum sumpsit quasi falco volatum Vnde suas gentes perdit custode carentes A little after which followeth these verses touching the deniall of buriall to be granted vnto him among the rest of his honourable and roiall ancestors Sic nece deuictum sic corpus ab hoste relictum Clam de conclaui susceperat Anglia naui Per mare regreditur corpus nec ad huc sepelitur Námque sepulturam defendit rex sibi puram Desuper à latere patris loca iusta tenâ—râ— line 40 Dummodo quaesiuit vix bassa sepulchra subiuit Of the maner also of whole death the said sir Iohn Gower hath set downe these thrée following verses Heu quà m toâ—torum quidam de sorte malorum Sic ducis electi plumarum pondere lecti Corpus quassatum iugulántque necara iugulatum His wife Elenor died the third of October in the yeare of our redemption 1399 being the first yeare of king Henrie the fourth and was buried at Westminster on the south side of king Edward the third line 50 with this epitaph Icy gist Elenor de Bohune aysne fille vn des heyres a honorable seigneur monseigneour Humphrey de Bohune countie de Hereford de Essex de Northampton constable d'Angliterre femme a puissant â—â—â—â—ble prince Thomas Woodstocke fiâ—z tresexcâ—lleâ—â— trespuissant seigneiur Edwarde roy d'Angliteâ—re pius le cóquest tierce duc de Glocester que moâ—ust tierce iâ—ure de October lan du grace 1399 de que alme Dieux fait mercye line 60 Edward Plantagenet sonne to Edmund of Langleie was by Richard the second created earle of Rutland and duke of Albemerle who being constable of England arriued in the thrée and twentith yeare of Richard the second and in the yeare of our Lord 1399 in Ireland to bring aid to the king being there in warre Of this man is more liberall discourse in my folowing treatise of the dukes of England Henrie Persie lord Persie the sixt lord and the first earle of Northumberland of that name was aduanced to that â—onourable title of earle at the coronation of king Richard the second in the yeare of our redemption 1377. He was made high constable of England by Henrie the fourth then elected but not crowned king of England bicause the said earle did giue that ring to the king whereby he was wedded to the kingdome of England to whome also the king gaue the I le of man to beare the sword with which he entered the realme He in the fourth yeare of king Henrie the fourth being the yeare of Christ 1403 rebelled against the king but after comming to the king vpon sending for he was pardoned his life but commited to safe custodie After which in the fift yeare of that king he was at a parlement holden at London restored to his estate and dignitie who the yeare following being
the sixt of Henrie the fourth and the yeare of Christ 1405 againe rebelled and after fled into Scotland to Dauid lord Fleming who receiued him and in the seuenth yeare of Henrie the fourth being the yere of our redemption 1506 as saith Iohn Stow. This Dauid persuaded the erle to flie into Wales for which cause the Scots slue the said Dauid After this in the ninth yeare of Henrie the fourth he came into England raised the people and was slaine at Broomâ—ham neere to Hasewood in a conflict had with him by Thomas Rockleie shiriffe of Yorkshire He married two wiues the first was Margaret daughter to Rafe lord Neuill by whome he had issue Henrie Persie surnamed Hotspurre slaine at the battell of Shrewesburie in the fourth yeare of Henrie the fourth in his fathers life Thomas and Rafe His second wife was Mawd daughter to Thomas lord Lucie and sister and heire to Anthonie lord Lucie baron of Cockermouth being before the widow of Gilbert Humfreuill called the earle of Angus This ladie Mawd gaue to hir husband the lordship and castell of Cockermouth whereby the earles of Northumberland are bound still to beare the armes of Lucie Iohn duke of Bedford the sonne and brother of kings for so he calleth himselfe in the precept to summon Reginald lord Greie sir Edward Hastings knight to determine the controuersie for bearing of the armes of Hastings earle of Penbroke in the marshals court was earle of Richmond and Kendall and constable of England being aduanced to that office about the eight yeare of Henrie the fourth his father being the yeare of our redemption 1406 of whome there is more mention in the following discourse of the protectors of England Humfrie earle of Stafford Hereford and Northhampton lord of Breenocke Holdernesse and of Cambridge and constable of England and of Douer castell in the eight yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1430 went into France with Henrie the sixt to attend his coronation at Paris He was created duke of Buckingham in the two and twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1444. He was slaine at the battell of Northampton in the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our Lord 1460 he maried Anne daughter to Rafe Neuil erle of Westmerland he had amongst manie other of his children Humfrie his eldest sonne earle Stafford hurt as hath Iohn Stow with an arrow in the right hand at the battell of saint Albons in the three and thirtith yeare of Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our Lord 1455 of which battell of saint Albons thus writeth Iohn Whethamsted a learned abbat of that hâ—use Dum Maius madidi flos floâ— uit imbribus austri Mollibus Zephyrus refouerat flatilus aruos Flora velut regnans herbis ditauerat hortâ—s Post glacies inopes hos fecerat locupleâ—es Sic râ—pidis stilbon praeâ—onibus vndÃque regnum Repleuerat nimis sic latè staâ—serat ipses Vt villam tandem tantus peruaserat isâ—am Illorum numerus quod vlx euaderet vnus Quin spolium lueret spoliantes vel trepidaret Aâ—cidit ex causa spoliatio tam grauis ista Mars coeli dominus fuerat tunc soror eius In terris domina belli Bellona vocata Vnde malum multis signanter partibus istis Contigit bellum fuit istic grande peractum Sanguis effusus multus dux est iugulatus Illius pugnae quae fertur causa fuisse Bello finito strepitu quóque pacificato line 10 Indultum est praedae praedones quippe fuere Victores omnes nulli quasi compatientes Tunc rex tunc proceres tunc villani quóque plures Ac alij varij fuerant rebus spoliati Attamen ecclesia simul ecclesiae bona cuncta Intra quae fuerant sub clausuráque iacebant Manserunt salua nec ei res defuit vlla Laus igitur domino laus in speciéque patrono Cuius per media stabant sua singula salua Saluis in cunctiâ— simul abbas frater omnis line 20 Spiritus ille bonus sine fallo spiritus almus Ad villam regem qui direxit venientem Illius ad medium nec tunc permiserat ipsum Ecclesiam petere conseruauit sua quaeque Sed patronus erat qui pro monachis mediarat A raptore locúmque suum seruauit omnem Ipsius ornatum fedari nec siuit ipsum Sâ—rex intrasset secúmque ducem sociasset Valuas ecclesiae paruissent cuncta rapinae Nec poterat furias quisquam compescere plebis line 30 Laus igitur domino rursus rursusque patrono Stat locusisâ—e suo saluus munimine soâ—o Saluaque supposita sua salua iocalia cuncta Iohn Tiptoth or Tiptost knight the son of Iohn lord Tiptost and of Ioice his wife second daughter to Edmund Charleton lord Powes was treasuror of the realme in Michaelmasse tearme in the tenth yere of Henrie the fourth after which he was againe admitted to that office in the one and thirtith and two and thirtith yeare of Henrie the sixt from which place line 40 being once more remooued he was the third time aduanced to the honor of lord treasuror of England in the second of Edward the fourth and continued the same in the third of the said king He was created earle of Worcester in the time of king Henrie the sixt This man in the yeare 1470 being the tenth of king Edward the fourth tooke his part against the duke of Clarence and Richard Neuill earle of Warwike at what time the said duke and earle being discomfited sled to the sea side and thence sailed line 50 to Southhampton where they thought to haue had the Trinitie a great ship of the earle of Warwikes but the lord Scales the queenes brother fought with them and inforced them to flie into France Wherevpon king Edward the fourth came to Southhampton and caused Tiptost earle of Worcester to sit in iudgement vpon certeine gentlemen as Clapham and others taken at the same skirmish of Southhampton where the earle caused the bodies of certeine condemned men after that they were hanged line 60 to be thrust thorough the fundament vp to the head with stakes for the which crueltie he and others fell into indignation of the common people Before which in the eight yeare of king Edward he was with Iohn Dudleie made constable of the Tower during their liues and the longer liuer of them two After this in the said yeare 1470 being the tenth of Edward the fourth in which Henrie the sixt readepted the crowne of England which yeare of Henrie the sixt is called in the law bookes the fourtie ninth yere of the reigne of K. Henrie the sixt This earle of Worcester was taken in the top of an high trée in the forest of Weibridge in Huntingtonshire brought to London and at a parlement arrested and condemned to death by sir Iohn Uere earle of
die for according to the law and by the law I am iudged to die and therfore I will speake nothing against it I am come hither to accuse no man nor to speake anie thing of that whereof I am accused condemned to die but I praie God saue the king and send him long to reigne ouer you for a gentler nor a more mercifull prince was there neuer and to me he was euer a good a gentle and a souereigne lord And if anie person will meddle of my cause I require them to iudge the best And thus I take my leaue of the world and of you all and I hartilie desire you all to praie for me Oh Lord haue mercie on me to God I commend my soule Iesu receiue my soule diuerse times repeting those words till that hir head was striken off with the sword Now bicause I might rather saie much than sufficientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind as also for hir fauouring of learned men zeale of religion and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore I will refer the reader vnto master Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admonition prooueth hir marriage lawfull defendeth hir succession ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements opinions and obiections of backebiters against that vertuous quéene sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death and finallie how the protestants of Germanie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse ¶ Anglorum praelia saith that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe in the likenesse of hir grandfather appéered vnto hir and after a long narration of the vanities of this world how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes maligning the fortunate estate of the vertuous how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England and that the gouernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie peace he saith vnto hir in conclusion by waie of prophesie as our poet hath recorded Forti sis animo tristis si nuncius adsum Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis Nomen ad astraferet patris matrÃsque suúmque Immediatlie after hir death in the wéeke before Whitsuntide the king married the ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe and sir Water Hungerford lord Hungerford The eight of Iune began the parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard without the kings assent affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots and neece to the king for which act he was atteinted of treason and an act made for like offendors and so he died in the tower and she remained long there as prisoner In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London where after much disputation and debating of matters they published a booke of religion intituled Articles deuised by the kings highnesse c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were giuen foorth wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated speciallie those that fell in haruest time ¶ The nine twentith of Iune the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster where were ordeined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water one of the which brake in the midst wherby one Gates a gentleman seruant to M. Knâ—net was drowned in his harnesse In the other a gun brake hir chamber maimed two of the mariners Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king and maister of the rols was made lord kéeper of the priuie seale and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight and vicar generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bishops as head ouer them The two and twentith of Iulie Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset earle of Northampton base sonne to the king begot line 10 of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt departed this life at saint Iames and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land In September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale and vicegerent sent abroad vnder the kings spirituall priuie seale certeine iniunctions commanding that the persons and curats should teach their parishioners the Pater noster the Aue Creed with the ten commandements and articles of the line 20 faith in English These articles and iniunctions being established by authoritie of parlement and now to the people deliuered bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine And herewith diuerse of the cleargie as moonks priests and others tooke occasion herby to speake euill of the late procéedings of the king touching matters of religion affirming that if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided the faith would shortlie be vtterlie line 30 destroied and all praier and diuine seruice quite abolished and taken awaie Manie sinister reports slanderous tales and feigned fables were blowne abroad and put into the peoples eares and diuerse of the nobilitie did also what they could to stir the commons to rebellion faithfullie promising both aid and succour against the king The people thus prouoked to mischiefe and deceiued through ouer light credence incontinentlie as it were to mainteine that religion which had so manie line 40 yeares continued and béene estéemed they stiffelie and stoutlie conspired togither and in a part of Lincolneshire they first assembled and shortlie after ioined into an armie being as it was supposed of men apt for the warres in number about twentie thousand Against these rebels with all the hast that might be the king in his proper person vpon intelligence therof had marched towards them being furnished with a warlike armie perfectlie appointed of all things that to such a companie should apperteine line 50 The rebels hearing that his person was present with his power to come thus against them began to feare what would follow of their dooings and such nobles and gentlemen as at the first fauoured their cause fell from them and withdrew so that they being destitute of capteines at length put certeine petitions in writing which they exhibited to the king professing that they neuer intended hurt
of honor as age hath consumed with the persons which inioied such prehemences in England I will from the first creation of anie duke since the conquest recite the creation descent and succession of all the dukes of England shewing first the time of the creation of such dukes secondlie the descent of all such dukes as are lineallie issued out of that creation which follow as they came in one line Edward the eldest sonne of king Edward the third being surnamed the blacke prince was made duke of Cornewall the eleauenth of Edward the third in the yeare of our redemption 1337 when he was yet but yoong This yoong prince was the first duke in England since the conquest and Cornewall was by that creation the first place that was erected to a dukedome Which duke being the flower of chiualrie in his time died about the fiftith yéere of king line 10 Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1376 and was buried at Canturburie Henrie Plantagenet alià s Tort Colle bicause his head leaned somewhat to one shoulder like the great Macedone king Alexander whose valure in feats of armes this Henrie did also imitate being sonne to Henrie of Monmouth earle of Lancaster was in like sort earle of Lancaster by descent After which he was created earle of Darbie as some saie in the eleauenth yeare of Edward the third being line 20 the yeare of our Lord 1337 other saie in the fouretéenth yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of our saluation 1340. He was created duke of Lancaster as some haue in the six twentith yeare of Edward the third as other haue the seauen twentith and as the third sort haue the eight twentith yeare of Edward the third He was lord steward of England lieutenant of Guines This man was wise glorious in fortune and full of honor in feates of armes whilest he was yoong he died the fiue and thirtith yeare line 30 of Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1361 being one of the first knights which were made at the first institution of the honorable order of the garter and the second duke that was made in England He had issue two daughters heires Mawd maried to William duke of Bauare earle of Henalt Zeland Holand which after became mad Blanch maried to Iohn of Gant fourth sonne to Edward the third Iohn Plantagenet surnamed of Gant in Flanders where he was borne the fourth sonne to king line 40 Edward the third was first by his father in the fiue and thirtith yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1361 made duke of Lancaster so that he was duke of Lancaster earle of Lincolne Salisburie Darbie and Leicester king of Castile Lirne and steward of England He married thrée wiues the first was Blanch the daughter and heire of Henrie duke of Lancaster earle of Leicester Lincolne Sarisburie Darbie in whose right he obteined all those titles of honor whome he maried in the thirtith line 50 thrée yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of our Lord 1359 and by hir had issue Henrie Plantagenet duke of Hereford Philip married in the tenth yeare of Richard the second in the yeare of Christ 1386 as some saie or rather 1385 as others haue to the king of Portingale and Elisabeth married to Iohn Holland erle of Huntington His second wife was Constance eldest daughter to Peter king of Castile whom he maried in the six fortith yeare of Edward the third being in the yeare of Christ 1372 line 60 by whome he had issue Margaret maried to the king of Castile which Constance died in the yere of Christ 1394 as saith Ypodigma His third wife was Katharine the widow of Otho Swinford and daughter to sir Paien Ruet alià s Guien king at armes whom he maried in the nintéenth yeare of king Richard the second being the yere of Christ 1395 or as some saie 1396 by this woman he had before mariage Thomas Beaufort Iohn Beaufort Henrie Beaufort cardinall of Winchester Iane maried to Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland all which children were in the twentith of Richard the second being in the yeare 1396 legitimated by parlement at which time the said Iohn of Gant gaue them the surname of Beaufort This Iohn of Gant was also earle of Richmond and constable of France in the time of Richard the second who made him also duke of Aquitaine in the fourtéenth yeare of his reigne being the yeare 1390 This Iohn of Gant died in the two twentith yeare of Richard the second in the yeare 1398 or as saith Ypodigma 1399 was buried in the quâ—ere of saint Paules church of London on the north side Henrie Plantagenet alià s Henrie of Bollinbroke so surnamed of the place of his birth the eldest son of the said Iohn was by inheritance duke of Lancaster earle of Leicester Salisburie Darbie and Lincolne he was created duke of Hereford by Richard the second who made him earle of Darbie in the ninth yeare of his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1386 and after made him duke of Hereford in the 21 yeare of his reigne being the yeare of Christ 1397. Which Henrie of Bollinbroke maried in the 9 yéere of the reigne of Richard the second in the yeare of Christ 1386 Marie the second daughter one of the heires of Humphrie Bohune earle of Hereford Essex and conestable of England which woman died in the yéere of Christ 1394 about the eighteenth yéere of Richard the second This Henrie was after king of England by the name of Henrie the fourth Lionell Plantagenet surnamed Lionell of Antwerpe in Brabant because he was there borne being the third son of king Edward the third was erle of Ulster in Ireland by his wife and created duke of Clarence in the 36 yéere of Edward the third in the yéere of Christ 1462 but other saie he was made duke in the 33 yeer of Edward the third He had two wiues the first Elisabeth some saie Eleanor but rightlie as I doo suppose the daughter of William Burgh earle of Ulster by whom he had issue Philip maried to Edmund earle of March the second wife was Ielant or Uielant daughter to Galeas duke of Millane to whom he was maried as saith the English chronicle in the two and fortith yéere of Edward the third in the yéere of Christ 1368 which yéere the Italians count 1367 by whom he had no issue This Lionell was somtime regent of France died 1368. Edmund of Langleie fift son to Edward the third made earle of Cambridge about the six and thirtith yéere of Edward the third being the yeere of Christ 1361 was made duke of Yorke in the eight or as some haue the ninth yéere of the said king Richard the second He in the six and fortith yéere of king Edward the third in the yéere that the word became flesh 1372 married Isabell one of the daughters of
of Excester and Anne maried to sir Iohn Neuill knight brother of Rafe the third of that name erle of Westmerland he died the six and twentith of king Henrie the sixt on the fift of August being the yeare of Christ 1448 and was buried at S. Katharins nigh the tower of London After which his first wife he maried Anne the daughter of Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie by whome he had no issue Henrie Holland sonne of Iohn Holland was after the death of his father duke of Excester he was disherited in the first of Edward the fourth at a parlement held then in the yeare 1461 he maried Anne daughter to Richard duke of Yorke and sister to king Edward the fourth which Anne at hir owne sute on the twelfe of Nouember in the eleuenth yeere of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of Christ 1471 was diuorced from the said duke of Excester Shortlie after which in the yeare of Christ 1413 being in the thirteenth of Edward the fourth this duke was found dead in the sea betweene Douer Calis but how he came there none could certenlie declare He died without issue leauing his sister Anne his heire maried as before to Iohn Neuill brother to Rafe earle of Westmerland Robert Uere earle of Oxford and marquesse of Dubline was in the yéere of Christ 1386 in the tenth of Richard the second created duke of Ireland he died withoutissue at Louaine in great penurie and vexation of mind as hath Ypodigma in the yeere of Christ 1392 being about the sixtéenth of king Richard the second he maried the daughter of Ingerame de Cousie earle of Bedford and after diuorced from hir he married Lancecrona one of meane parentage Margaret ladie Segraue the daughter and heire of Thomas Brotherton earle of Norffolke and marshall of England was created duchesse of Norffolke in the one and twentith yeare of king Richard the second she had two husbands whereof the first was Iohn lord Segraue by whom she had issue Elisabeth married to Iohn Mowbreie the third of that name Hir second husband was sir Walter Mannie knight of the order by whome she had a daughter married to Iohn lord Hastings erle of Penbroke This duchesse line 10 Margaret died in the yeare of Christ 1399 being about the three and twentith of Richard the second and was buried in the frier Minors of London Thomas lord Mowbreie second sonne of Elisabeth Segraue and Iohn lord Mowbreie hir husband was aduanced to the dukedome of Norffolke in the one and twentith yeare of the reigne of Richard the second Shortlie after which he was appeled by Henrie earle of Bullingbroke of treason and caried to the castell of Windsore where he was stronglie line 20 and safelie garded hauing a time of combat granted to determine the cause betwéene the two dukes the sixtéenth daie of September in the two and twentith of the said king being the yeare of our redemption 1398. But in the end the matter was so ordered that this duke of Norffolke was banished for euer whervpon taking his iourneie to Ierusalem he died at Uenice in his returne froÌ„ the said citie of Ierusalem in the first yeare of king Henrie the fourth about the yeare of our redemption 1399. He maried Elisabeth line 30 one of the daughters and heires of Richard erle of Arundell Warren and Surreie by whome he had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke and three daughters Elisabeth maried to Michaell de la Poole the yoonger earle of Suffolke Margaret maried vnto sir Robert Howard knight and Isabell maried to sir Iames Barkeleie Iohn Mowbreie earle of Notingham marshall of England and duke of Norffolke baron Segraue and Bower was buried in the Charteâ—â—ouse within the I le of Exholme he maried Katharine the daughter line 40 of Rafe the first earle of Westmerland by whom he had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke Iohn lord Mowbreie the sixt baron of the name of Mowbreie sonne to Iohn duke of Norffolke was after his father duke of Norffolke This Iohn was buried in Tetford priorie who marieng Elenor the daughter of William lord Burchier earle of Ewe had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke Iohn the last duke of Norffolke of the surnâ—me of line 50 Mowbreie the sonne of Iohn the last before mentioned was in his fathers life time created earle of Warren and Surreie by king Henrie the sixt and after the death of his father was duke of Norffolke This Iohn the last duke died in his castell of Fremingham in the yeare 1461 being the second yeare of king Edward the fourth He maried Elisabeth daughter to Iohn lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie by whome he had issue one onelie daughter and heire maried to Richard duke of Yorke second son to Edward the fourth line 60 Thomas Plantagenet second sonne to Henrie the fourth was created duke of Clarence in the eleuenth yeare of his father being about the yeare of our redemption 1409 and was afterward in the 13 of the same king created earle of Aumerle and high steward of England he was slaine the two and twentith of March in the ninth yeare of the reigne of the victorious king Henrie the fift in the yeare of our redemption 1420 beginning the yeare of our Lord on the fiue and twentith daie of March He maried Margaret the daughter of Thomas Holland earle of Kent and died without issue legitimat hauing a base sonne called Iohn the bastard of Clarence Iohn Plantagenet third son to Henrie the fourth was by his father created duke of Bedford at the parlement of Leicester in the yeare of Christ 1414 in the second of king Henrie the fift Of this man is more large mention made in my discourse of the protectors of England Humfreie Plantagenet fourth sonne of Henrie the fourth was by his father created duke of Glocester who for the nobilitie of his mind and vertuous life was made protector of England Of whom is more spoken in my former discourse of the protectors of England Iohn Beaufort which name of Beaufort was giuen by Iohn of Gant to his children which he had by Katharine Swineford when they were made legitimate by parlement about the one and twentith yeare of king Richard the second as is before touched was created marquesse Dorset by Henrie the fourth and after aduanced to the honour of duke of Summerset in the first yeare of king Henrie the first being the yeare of our redemption 1413. He maried Margaret the daughter of sir Iohn Beauchampe lord of Powicke he had issue Margaret maried to Edmund Haddam earle of Richmond father to king Henrie the seuenth after the death of which Edmund she was maried to Thomas lord Stonleie afterward by Henrie the seuenth created earle of Darbie and after vnto Henrie sonne to Humfreie duke of Buckingham This duke of Summerset died the two and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt and was buried at Winborne in the yeare of Christ
protectors of England Henrie Beauchampe the sonne of Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike by Isabell ladie Spenser his second wife succeeded his father in all his inheritances the twentith of Maie in the seuenteenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1439. For then the said Richard Beauchampe died at Rone in Normandie This Henrie after that his inheritance had béene kept two years in the kings hands was dismissed of his wardship and restored to his liuings with great glorie For he was crowned king of the I le of Wight as saith Iohn Stow by the kings owne hand and nominated chiefe earle of England in the twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of Christ 1442. Shortlie after in the two and twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt in the yeare of our redemption 1444 he was created duke of Warwike vnto whome the king gaue the castell of Brightstow or Bristow with all the appurtenances with king Iohn kept in his hands to which duke also the king gaue the Iles of Garnseie and Ierseie About two years after which on the foure and twentith of the same king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1446 died this duke of Warwike whose stile was duke of Warwike chiefe earle of England lord Spenser and Aburgauennie king of the I le of Wight Garnseie and Ierseie and lord of the castell of Bristow He died without issue and was buried at Teukesburie whereby his inheritance came to his foure sisters which were by Elisabeth one of the daughters and heires of Thomas lord Barkeleie Lisle and Teies first wife vnto his father Margaret his eldest sister maried to Iohn Talbot first earle of Shrewsburie of that name Elenor the second sister first maried to Thomas lord Rosse and after to Edmund duke of Summerset c Elisabeth the third sister maried to George Neuill lord Latimer whose other fourth sister by Isabell the second wife vnto Richard earle Beauchampe daughter to Thomas lord Spenser and mother also to the aboue named Henrie duke of Warwike who died without issue was Anne maried to Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Humfreie Stafford earle Stafford created duke of Buckingham in the two and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1444 was slaine at the battell of Northampton Of this man sée more in my discourse of the conestables of England pag. 868. Henrie sonne to the said Humfreie duke of Buckingham was beheaded in the first yeare of Richard the third in the yeare of our redemption 1483. Of this man is more set downe in my discourse of the conestables of England pag. 869. Edward Stafford sonne to the said Henrie was duke of Buckingham being beheaded in the thirtéenth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight which was the yere of our redemption 1521 of whom also I haue intreated in the said discourse of the constables of England pag. 870. William de la Poole earle of Suffolke created marques of Suffolke in the two twentith of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1444 was shortlie after also created duke of Suffolke in the eight twentith of the said king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare 1450 was banished the realme for fiue yeares to pacifie the hard opinion which the commons had conceiued against him He tooke ship to performe his banishment the third of line 10 Maie and sailed towards France but was on the sea incountered by a ship of the tower named the Nicholas by which he was taken and beheaded and his bodie cast vp at Douer sands and buried in the charterhouse at Hull He maried Alice the daughter and heire of Thomas Chaucer son to that famous poet Geffreie Chaucer by which wife the maner of Ewelme commonlie called Newelme in Oxfordshire came to the Pooles This duke his wife did there build a new parish church of Ewelme standing line 20 on a hill and founded a pretie hospitall called Gods house at the west end of Ewelme parish church to which house he gaue the manours of Ramrige in Hampshire Conocke in Wiltshire and Mersh in Buckinghamshire He also founded an hospitall at Donnington castell This Alice wife of duke William suruiuing hir husband was after buried in the parish church of Ewelme on the southside of the high altar in a rich toome of alabaster with an image in the habit of a dutchesse crowned lieng on line 30 the same toome and hauing this epitaph Orate pro anima serenissimae principissae Alissiae Sulfolchiae huius ecclesiae patronae quae obijt 20 die mensis Maij anno Domini 1475 litera dominicali A. Iohn de la Poole son to the said William de la Poole duke of Suffolke was also duke of Suffolke after the death of his father This man on the eightéenth of Aprill in the fiftéenth yéere of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1415 was knighted by the king He married Elisabeth line 40 daughter to Richard duke of Yorke and sister to Edward the fourth by whom he had issue Edmund erle of Suffolke Iohn that by Edward the fourth was created earle of Lincolne and Anne who by procurement of king Richard the third was maried to the duke of Rothseie eldest son to the king of Scots Richard Plantagenet second sonne to king Edward the fourth was by his father created duke of Yorke in the 15 yéere of his reigne being the yeare of our Lord 1474 at a parlement in the said fiftéenth line 50 yeare of Edward the fourth This duke on the fiftéenth of Ianuarie in the seauentéenth yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1477 was married to ladie Anne daughter and heire to Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke and was in the first yéere of the reigne of the tyrant king Richard the third his vncle most vnnaturallie murthered in the tower in the yeare of Christ 1483. George Plantagenet third sonne to king Edward the fourth was created duke of Bedford by his line 60 father in the yéere of our redemption 1470 and died without issue being verie yoong Iohn Howard lord Howard the son of sir Robert Howard knight and of Margaret his wife one of the daughters and heires of Thomas lord Mowbreie duke of Norffolke earle of Notingham and marshall of England was created duke of Norffolke and marshall of England in the first yéere of the vsurping king Richard the third being the yéere of our redemption 1483. This man following the part of the said king Richard was at the battell of Bosworth in Lecestershire fought in the third yeare of the said king Richard in the yéere of Christ 1485 slaine with the said king Richard He had two wiues Katharine the daughter of William lord Molins by whome he had issue Thomas earle of Surreie after made duke of Norffolke by king
Chichelie archbishop of Canturburie touching a synod holden in the yeare of our Lord 1430 at what time of the clergie he saith that Iohannes Stafford episcopus Bathoniensis cancellarius D. Scrope thesaurarius regni necnon Wilhelmus Lindwood custos priuati sigilli pro rege subsidium postularunt mediam decimam tandem aegrè impetrarunt Rafe lord Cromwell the son of Rafe Cromwell lord of Tatershall possessed the place of the lord treasurorship of England in Easter terme in the twelfe yeare of the after deposed K. Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1434 and so continued in that office about ten years falling as I suppose in line 10 the yeare of our redemption 1444. This man being knight was created lord Cromwell by the said king Henrie the sixt and was lineallie descended of one of the heires of Robert lord Tatershall that maried one of the daughters and heires of William Dalbinie earle of Arundell This Rafe lord treasuror died without issue and made his testament in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred fiftie and foure being in the thrée and thirtith yere of king Henrie the sixt after whose death the inheritance line 20 came to the three aunts being his heirs whereof the first was married to the lord Bardolfe slaine at Brancehome moore in Northumberland the second was married to sir William Fitzwilliams knight of the sepulchre the third Elisabeth to sir Iohn Clifton knight after his death to sir Edmund Benested knight Of one Rafe lord Cromwell I find this note set downe by Leland Dominus Radulphus Cromewell Matildis vxor eius fundatores collegij sanctae trinitatis de Tatershall quúmque Roberti ordine domini erant de line 30 Tatershall hos sequutus est Radulphus Cromewell Sir Rafe Butler knight of the garter lord Sudleie descended from Iohn lord Sudleie and William Butler baron of Wem which maried Ione daughter and heire to Iohn Sudleie lord Sudleie did possesse the honorable place of the lord treasurorship of England the seuenth of Iulie in the two and twentith yere of king Henrie the sixt being the yere of our redemption one thousand foure hundred fortie and foure which office he kept about thrée yeres line 40 for in the fiue and twentith yeare of the said king was the bishop of Carleill lord treasuror This Rafe lord Sudleie builded the castell of Sudleie in the time of king Henrie the sixt and of Edward the fourth who in the time of the said Edward the fourth was committed to prison by the king first sending for him to come to his presence Wherevpon he going to the king and resting on an hill from whense he did behold Sudleie castell said It is thou it is thou Sudleie castell and not I which am the traitor line 50 After which comming to king Edward the fourth he resigned the said Sudleie castell into the kings hands Which castell came after to Iasper duke of Bedford and is now in the yeare 1585 in the possession of Giles a Bridges lord Shandois This Rafe being made baron in the twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt maried Elisabeth the daughter of sir Iohn Northberie by whome he had issue Thomas his son that died without issue leauing his two sisters to be his heires wherof the eldest daughter called Elisabeth was maried to sir Iohn Northberie whose heire line 60 generall was maried to Iohn Halwell of Deuonshire who had issue Ione his daughter and heire maried to Edward lord Braie of whome the lord Cobham now liuing is descended The other sister maried to sir Hamond Belknap of whome is descended the woorthie gentleman Thomas Wootton of Bacton Maleherbe in Kent esquire now liuing The which Rafe lord Butler of Sudleie was Vexillifer and high Butler of England and steward in house to king Henrie the sixt Marmaduke bishop of Carleill was made lord treasuror of England in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt in which office he continued about two yeares in the seuen and twentith yere of king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of our redemption 1448 or as some haue 1449. Iames Fines created at Burie baron of Saie and of Sele on the third of March in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption according to the English account 1446 was constable of Douer castell and lord treasuror of England in the eight and twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt and was from thense remooued as some haue in the nine twentith yere of the said king was by the rebels of Kent Iacke Cade and his felowes taken out of the tower to the Guildhall where he was areigned before the maior and other the kings Iustices who desiring to be tried by his péeres was by the rebels forceablie taken from the officers and beheaded at the standard in Cheape The maner whereof shall be more fullie set downe hereafter in my large booke of the liues of the lord treasurors Which his beheading some doo attribute to the eight and twentith yere of the said Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1450. He had issue sir William Fines knight and one daughter maried to sir William Cromer knight shiriffe of Kent beheaded at that time also with his father inlaw Of which Cromer is Iames Cromer of Kent now liuing descended Iohn Lord Beauchampe a person of great woorthinesse possessed the place of the treasurorship of England the nine and twentith and thirtith yeares of king Henrie the sixt Iohn Tiptost earle of Worcester possessed the place of the lord treasuror in the one and thirtith and two and thirtith of king Henrie the sixt Of whome is more mention made hereafter Iames Butler the sonne of Iames earle of Ormond being earle of Wilshire and Ormond possessed the office of the lord treasuror of England in Easter tearme the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our redemption 1455. Of whom is more spoken hereafter Henrie vicount Bourchier borne of the noble house of the Bourchiers the sonne of William Bourchier earle of Ewe in Normandie was lord treasuror of England in the thrée and thirtith yeare of the reigne of the deposed king Henrie the sixt in which office he did not long remaine Iohn Talbot earle of Shrewsburie the sonne of Iohn Talbot the first earle of Shrewsburie of that name possessed the place of the treasurorship of England in the fiue and thirtith and six and thirtith yeres of king Henrie the sixt and then gaue place to the earle of Wilshire This earle was slaine at the battell of Northampton in the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our saluation 1460. He maried Elisabeth the daughter of Iames Butler erle of Ormond and had issue Iohn erle of Shrewesburie Iames Gilbert Christopher and George Anne maried to sir Henrie
Seuerine besieged * Goche A legat from Rome sent to treat a peace betwixt the English and French A truce for six yeares Chartres taken by treason notwithstanding the truce The two errours A parlement called by the duke of Glocester the king being in France A peace concluded with the Scots King Henrie returneth out of France into England The duchesse of Bedford sister to the duke of Burgognie deceassed The duke of Bedford marieth with the earle of saint Paules daughter The Frenchmen breake the peace and take the town of Saint Ualerie Laignie besieged Anno Reg. â—â— The castell of Rone like tâ— be taken by treason of the capteine The lord of saint Paule deceassed Anno Reg. â—â— Prisoners killed The lord Talbot sâ—â—leth into France The lord Talbot Earle of Arundell Louiers besieged Saint Selerine won by assault An insurrection in Normandie The earle of Arundell deceassed The duke of Bourbon dieth at London W. P. Anno Reg A tourne sâ—â—prised by eâ—trance of a common priuie The 〈…〉 warre W. P. 14â—4 Onuphrius Panâ—â—nâ—â—â— An. 3. Nichol. 143â— A solemne tretie of peace at Arras Abr. Fl. Sil. Ital. lib. 11. * Or rather Goche * Or Goche S. Denis t aken by the Englishmen A peace betwéen Charls of France and the duke of Burgognie Spoile vpon the Burgognian people in London W. P. Anno Reg. 14. The death of the duke of Bedford regent of FraÌ„ce A worthy saieng of a wise prince The duke of Yorke made regent of France Abr. Fl. Sée before pag. 581. The treson of the Parisiens Paris yéelded to the French king The duke seÌ„t into France too late The duke of Burgonie prepareth an armie against Calis The duke of Burgognie with fortie thousand meÌ„ Calis besieged by the duke of Burgognie The dukes enterprise to bar yâ— hauen The dukes bastile woone The duke of Burgognie breaketh by the siege before Calis and fléeth the 26 of Iulie A gun callâ—â— Digeon The duke of Glocester spoileth Flanders â—â—â—land Enguerant The king of Scots fled â—rom his siege 〈◊〉 Rockesâ—urgh Anno Reg. 15. A truce taken betwéene the king of England and the duchesse of Burgognie Hall 14â—7 Katharine mother to king Henrie maried Owen Teuther Abr. Fl. Quéene Elizabeth * Or rather Goche Harflue besieged and woon by the Englishmen The duke of Summersets infortunatâ—â—s Iames king of Scots murthered Abr. Fl. ex Polychr The earle of Warwike made regent of France Anno Reg. 16. The earle of Warwike regent came into France Croitoy bâ—â—â—eged by the duke of Burgogâ—e Croitoy rescued 14â—8 Anno Reg. 17. Dearth of vittels Abr. Fl. ex Polychr Bread made of ferne roots A seat of a politike capteine wise councellor Two shrewd persuaders Anno Reg. 18. Ponthoise recouered by the English Anno Reg. 19. Eâ—guerant The duke of Yorke againe made regent of France Ponthoise besieged by the French king but valiantlie defended A policie for a bridge Enguerant de Monstrelleâ— Edw. Hall Anno Reg. 20. Ponthoise gotten by the French Enguerant Sir Nicholas Burdet slaine The duke of Orleance deliuered Lewes the twelfe W. P. Earle of saint Paule fréend to the English This should be as Enguerant noteth two yeares after this present yere 19 to 〈◊〉 An. 1440. Thrée thousand hath Nicolas Giles The earle of saint Paule reuolteth to the French Tartas besieged The change in warre The lord Talbot The earle of Dunois An excellent finesse in warre Quid. 1. de art A new breach betwéene the duke of Glocester and the bishop of Winchester Ex Ed. Hall 143 144 145 146. Aliâ—s Iohn 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fl. King Edward the fourth borne Aâ—r. Fl. A great fraie by night Abr. Fl. ex â—aâ—ian 438. Tailors malepertnesse at the election of an alderman 1442 â—nno Reg. 21. Iohn lord Talbot created earle of Shrewesburie Fr. Thin The earle of Arminacks daughter affied vnto king Henrie The erle with his ladie his sonne and two daughters taken Abr. Fl. ex Fabian 441. A law against buâ—eng and selling on the sundaie Abr. Fl. ex Fabian 441. Polychr Paules stéeple burnt Anno Reg. 22. The diet at Tours for a peace to be had betwéene England and France A truce 〈◊〉 â— moneths The 〈◊〉 misliked 〈◊〉 second 〈◊〉 of the kings mariage Creations of estates Anno Reg. 23. 1445 Margaret daughter to Reiner K. of Sicill Ierusalem maried to Henrie the sixt Abr. Fl. ex Polychron An â—minous mariage Ouid. 2. de arâ— Anno Reg. 24. The duke of Summerset made regent of NormaÌ„die and the duke of Yorke discharged The duke of Yorke appointed to the charge againe The appointmeÌ„t disappointed and pointed to the marquesse of Suffolke The marques of Suffolks request Thâ— marques of Suffolke chéefest in fauour and authoritie with the king and quéene A commotion in Norwich The libeâ—tâ—â—s of Norwich seized int◠〈◊〉 kings hands Indirect meanes to reforme wrongs Abr. Fl. ex Fabian 343. Polychron Combats in cases of appeales touching treason Drunkennesse the ouerthrow of right and manhood Anno Reg. 25. The description of the quéene The quéâ—â—â— taketh 〈◊〉 hir the gouernement and dischargeth the 〈◊〉 of Glocesteâ— The faint quarell piked to the duke of Glocester A parlement at saint Edmâ—ndesburie The duke of Glocester suddenlie murthered Edâ— Hall A pardon at a pinch Dukes of Glocester â—â—fortunate W. P. Anno Reg. â—6 Marquesse of Suffolke made duke The duke of Yorke tempering about his title to the crowne The death of the bishop of Winchester his descriptioÌ„ W. P. Lib. 23. Bale WilliaÌ„ Wâ—â—â—fleet bishop 〈◊〉 Winchester lord chancellor of England founder of Magdelâ—â— college in Oxford An. Dom 44â— Malmesbâ—â—â—e Abr. Fl. et Fabian 447. A combat vpon triall of manhood betwéene a French and an Englishman The compassion of the Englishman to his eniâ—â—â— Anno Reg. â—â— Sir Francis Suriennes Fougiers PoÌ„t de Larch taken by the FreÌ„chmen by a subtill sleight The warres renewed befor the end of the truce A rebellion in Ireland The English loose all in France Rone yeélded to the French men Harflue besieged Sir Thomas Curson Harflue yéelded to the French Anno Reg. 28. Sir Thomas Kiriell with a new band into France The English men ouerthrowne at Formignie * Or rather Goche Caen besieged and yéelded to the French The irreconciliable hate betwéene the two dukes * Goche All Normandie lost The state of it The causes of the losse The mortell mischéefe of malice and diuision â—nd realme Anno Reg 2â— W. P. The commoÌ„s 〈◊〉 against the duke of Suffolke The parlemeÌ„t adiourned froÌ„ London to Leicester and from thence to Westminster Edw. Hâ—ll The duke of Suffolke coÌ„mitted to the Tower Blewbeard capteine of the rebels The wretched death of the duke of Suffolke Iacke Cades rebellion in Kent Abr. Fl. eâ— I. S. 653. Abr. Fl. ex 〈◊〉 654 655 6â—6 657 c. King Henrie went against the Kentishmen with a great power The Staffords slaine at Senocke by Iacke Cade The lord Saie beheaded at the staÌ„dard in Cheâ—â— *
〈◊〉 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
1444. And his daughter the ladie Margaret died at Westminster on the nine and twentith of Iune in the first yeare of king Henrie the eight in the yeare of Christ a thousand fiue hundred and nine about three score and fiue yeares after the death of hir father Thomas Beaufort sonne to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster and Katharine Swineford was created duke of Excester in the fift yeare of K. Henrie the fift of whome is mention made in my protectors Edmund Beaufort sonne of Iohn Beaufort duke of Summerset was created earle Morton in the seuenth yeare of K. Henrie the fift He was created marquesse Dorset and duke of Summerset by king Henrie the sixt he was made regent of Normandie and lost the whole countrie to the French for which after his comming out of Normandie in the nine and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt he was on the sixt of December the same yeare being the yeare of our Lord 1450 apprehended and put vnder arrest and his goods by the commons fowlie despoiled and caried awaie from the Blacke friers He was slaine at the battell of S. Albons in Maie the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our Lord 1455 and was with Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland and Thomas lord Clifford buried at S. Albons He maried two wiues the first was Elenor the daughter of Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike widow to Thomas lord Rosse by whom he had issue Henrie duke of Summerset Edmund duke of Summerset Iohn marques Dorset Margaret maried to Humfreie duke of Buckingham Elisabeth maried to sir Henrie Lewes knight Elenor maried to Iames Butler earle of Wilshire and after to sir Robert Spenser Anne maried to sir William Pastone knight and Ione maried to the lord Hooth of Ireland His second wife was Ione who was after maried to Henrie Bromefield knight of the which Edmund duke of Summerset and the other lords buried at saint Albons thus writeth the worthie poet Iohn Gower with these same verses hereafter following Quos mors quos Martis sors saeua suaeque sororis Bella prostrarunt villae medióque necarunt Mors sic occisos tumulauerat hîc simul ipsos Póstque necem requiē causauit habere perennem Et medium sine quo vult hîc requiescere nemo Hic lis hic pugna mors est qui terminat arma Mors sors Mauors qui strauerunt dominos hos Henrie Beaufort eldest sonne to Edmund duke of Summerset was after the death of his father erle line 10 Morton marquesse Dorset and duke of Summerset he was capteine of Calis who with other nobles in the nine and thirtith of Henrie the sixt slue the duke of Yorke at the battell of Wakefield in the yeare of our redemption 1460 according to the accompt of England Shortlie after which K. Henrie the sixt whom this duke supported all that he could was deposed Edward the fourth crowned Touching which deposing of the one crowning of the other although it be impertinent to the treatise of line 20 the dukes of England hauing here so good place therfore I will set downe such verses as I haue found in I. Whethamsted adding further such other verses also as I find in him concerning a battell fiercelie fought at Ferribrig in Yorkeshire in this sort X. numero seni lapsi sunt circiter anni Postquam successit lexiuris iuréue rexit Anglorum regnum vis non ius rexerat ipsum Iam noua progenies quia coelo venit ab alto line 30 Saturni soboles quae nomine dicitur altro Edwardus quartus Richardo sanguine iunctus Creditur à multis redeunt Saturnia nostris Temporibus saecla lis visque nephas simul vna Deperiunt iura lex pax sunt reditura Fraus etiámque dolus cessabunt a◠violentus Raptus auaritiae subeunt verúmque fidésque Haec spes plebis erat cleri chorus haecque putabat Det ceu speratur regnum Deus vt statuatur line 40 Et plebs tranquillè viuat clerus atque quietè Then of the time of that former recited warre in which the northerne men were ouercome there were these verses made vpon the excesse and euill which they outragiouslie committed in the south parts of England without regard of God obedience to their naturall prince reuerence to the church loue to their natiue countrie or benefite to themselues M. semel X. seno centum quater I. simul vno In Martis mense terdena denique luce line 50 In patria Boreae Ferrebrig propè iugera villae Pugna fuit plebis acris nimis satis atrox Vicerat Arcthos in bello Martius heros Iunior Edwardus Hector nouus alter Achilles Prostrauit multos Austro tunc cesserat Arcthos Et doluit casum supra X. bis millia quorum Quamplures domini plures erant generosi Illius patriae flos vt sors tunc cecidere Et meritò quoniā spoliarūt nequiter Austrum line 60 Laus igitur Domino sit honor sit gloria Christo Cessat nunc flatus grandis Boreaeque boatus Inque Austrum redijt Acolus ventum variauit Est Bore as mordens valdè ventus adurens Est Auster iustus vult morsu rodere morsus Et malè mordentes bene vires tollere eidem Est Zephyrus placidus est suauis frater eius Hinc Boreásque Aquilo pro nūc claudūtur in antro Furthermore touching the title of the same king Edward the fourth to the gouernement of the kingdome of England and of his right and truth therevnto were these following verses composed to declare the deposition of king Henrie the sixt as beforesaid in the coronation of Edward the fourth and how the same kingdome of England with all the members thereof did belong to Edward the fourth as vnto the rightfull lineall heire to the same with his pedegrée proouing the same also in this sort In sibi coniunctis Edwardi semine natis Ortus erat primò Leonellus Iohnque secundò Cedat lex regni vult iunior vt seniori Attamen Henricus haeres genitúsque Iohannis Per vim sceptrigerum regimen tulerátque coronam Et tenuit multis sed non sine viribus annis Illi successit rex qui si non caruisset Iustitiae titulo non Hector dignior ipso Non iudex Eacus non ore politus Vlysses Ipso defuncto successit filius in quo Stirps ea cessauit Haeres rectus remeauit Scilicet Edwardus Leonelli proximus haeres Hic petijt regimen rex obstat dátque negamen Resagitur belli vicit sanguis Leonelli Et palmam tulerat Henricus rex fugiebat Bello finito multo quóque sanguine fuso Quum victor secum palmam ferrétque triumphum Vendicat hoc iterum plebs applaudebat eidem Clamabátque sibi Viuat foelicior omni Rege vel Augusto melior regat Octauiano Haec vox cunctorum clamor