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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13983	A continuation of The collection of the history of England beginning where Samuel Daniell Esquire ended, with the raigne of Edvvard the third, and ending where the honourable Vicount Saint Albones began, with the life of Henry the seventh, being a compleat history of the begining and end of the dissention betwixt the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster. With the matches and issue of all the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and vicounts of this nation, deceased, during those times. By I.T.	Trussel, John, fl. 1620-1642.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619. Collection of the historie of England.	1636 (1636)	STC 24297; ESTC S107345	327,329	268

betwixt him and his Father laying before them the unsufferable wrongs done unto him that had devised to discredit him in those misreports And lastly upon the nine and twentieth day of Iune with a trayne of all his friends and servants the number whereof was very great in a garment of blew Sattin wrought all with eyletholes of blacke silke at every hole the needle hanging by which it was sowed and about his arme a thing in fashion of an hounds coller stooded with S. S. of gold and the tyrots of the same hee came to the Kings Court at Westminster where being entred into the Hall according as hee had formerly given direction not one of his company advanced himselfe though often by the Kings servants requested above the fire place hee himselfe attended by the Kings owne servants only was brought into the presence the King though afflicted with sicknesse caused himselfe in a Chaire to bee brought into his privy Chamber where in presence of but three or foure of his Privie Councell hee demanded of the Prince the cause of his so unwonted habite and comming to whom the Prince with a most humble and filiall reverence upon his knees said Dread Soveraigne and deare Father thus prostrate upon my knees as a loyall subject and dutifull sonne with all befitting humiliation and requirable reverence I render my selfe in all things lyable to your command having of late received information by the relation of some neerest about your Majestie that my forgetfull cariage hath given unto your Grace cause of suspition that my heart should not bee right nor my affections towards your highnesse so placed as duty and obedience on my part doe require and expect and being assured that if I knew any one within your kingdome of whom your highnesse should justly have cause to stand in feare that I hold my selfe bound by the law of God and nature to punish that person and quantum in me est to remove the cause of doubt from your heart now much more then is that requirable by the lawes of filiall respect and naturall proximitie of blood and duty That I your sonne and servant in my owne particular am tide to prevent the least suspition of unthankfulnesse in mee and danger thereby to you should for the better securing your quiet tender my life as a forfeit to your Highnesse for giving cause of question of loyaltie to you that that being taken away and the ground of your jealousie being removed you might with more securitie enjoy the quiet of an undisturbed minde To this end having this morning with a Christian preparation of humble Confession and receiving the blessed Sacrament of the blood and passion of my Lord and Saviour Christ Iesus fitted my selfe to bee made a sacrifice to exterminate your jealousie I have presumed to approach your seat of Majestie And therefore I humbly beseech you to ease your heart and hereby to take assurance of your future quiet by giving a period to my griefe and your feare and to give this ponyard a passage thorow my heart and therewithall reached his dagger holding it by the point to his Father for I desire not to live longer then to bee justly thought to bee what I am and shall ever bee your faithfull and obedient vassall which if you shall vouchsafe to doe here in the presence of your Nobilitie I doe cleerely forgive the fact in this world and before God and his holy Angels at the day of Iudgement will acquite you thereof These words had that penetrating propertie and the King therewith was so moved that casting the dagger away he rose out of his Chaire but for weaknesse not able to stand fell upon his sonnes necke and with many teares embracing him confessed that his eares had beene too open to receive reports against him and promising by the love of a Father and the faith of a King from thenceforth that misreport should not cause his disaffection hee assured him that at the next Parliament those whisperers against him should undergoe the censure of their Peeres and stand at his mercy for the scandalls by them against him raised to whom the Prince replyed God forgive them I doe And so with generall content they departed And from that time forth untill his departure out of this life the King enjoyed a calme from all hostilitie either at home or abroad And to expresse his great thankfulnesse to God for this his greater goodnesse to him hee tooke upon him the Crusado and complaining of the inconsiderate courses of the Princes of Christendome that were more intentive to waste and weary one another with intestine and uncivill broyles rather then to joyne hand in hand to oppose themselves against the common enemy of their faith the Turke whereto hee was perswaded that in conscience they were bound To animate them therefore by his Example to doe the like hee made great preparations both of men money and amunition for that service with intention the next Spring to set forward to recover Ierusalem To this purpose he called a Councell in the White Fryers where order was taken for the provision of all things ready for the voyage by Sea to the Holyland and convoked a Parliament to begin on Candlemasse day following And now all things being ready for the expedition against the Turkes The enemy of mankind seized upon him with an Apoplexie the fits whereof divers times would show him dead to those about him but ever upon his recovery againe of sense hee would demaund for his Crowne which hee appointed all the time of his sicknesse to bee placed upon a cushion in his sight At length the extremitie of the disease increasing hee lay as though all his vitall spirits had forsaken him insomuch that those that were about him deemed him dead and covered his face The Prince having notice thereof came and tooke away the Crowne and departed the Father reviving demaunded for the Crown and hearing that the Prince had taken it hee sends for him and angerly demandeth his reason of his so doing to whom the Prince with a confident brow made answer That in his and all mens judgement there present hee was dead and then I being next heire apparant to the same tooke it as my indubitat right not as yours but mine well said the King and sighed faire Son what right I had to it God knoweth But saith the Prince if you dye King I doubt not to hold the garland as you have done with my sword against all opposers Then saith the King I referre all to God but charge thee on my blessing and as thou wilt answer it before the Tribunall of God That thou minister the Lawes indifferently that thou ease the oppressed that thou avoid Flatterers that thou doe not deferre Iustice nor bee sparing of mercy but punish the oppressours of thy people and suffer not officers to make their places the staulking horses to their will so shalt thou obtaine favour of God

visit his Father the Duke of Yorke As they sate at dinner his Father espied a labell of one of the sextipartite Indentures hanging out of his bosome and demanded what it was the Sonne humbly craved pardon and said it was nothing that any way concerned him the young Dukes change of countenance argued some guilt which bred some suspition in Yorke and thereupon swore and said By saint George but I will see it and then whether upon precedent jealousie or some present cause to doubt of some strange stratagem it is uncertaine but hee tooke it away from him by force The contents whereof when hee had perceived with a fierce countenance and speech hee said I see Traitour that idlenesse hath made thee so mutinous that thou playest with thy faith as children with sticks Thou hast already once beene faithlesse to King Richard and turnst thou false againe now to King Henrie Thou knowest in open Parliament I became bound body and goods for thy allegiance and can neither thy owne duty nor my desert restraine thee from seeking both our destructions in faith but I will rather help forward thine And calling to make ready his horse hee prepared to post to the King It was no time now for the Duke to consult with his friends or to consider with himselfe what was best to bee done but takes horse and posts towards Windsor another way and was gotten thither before his Father and pretending some strange and sudden occasion causeth the gates of the Castle to be lockt and alleaging some cause so to doe taketh the keyes thereof with him to the King in whose presence when he came hee prostrates upon the ground beseecheth the King of mercy and forgivenesse The King no sooner demanded the offence when hee with disturbed countenance and speech discovered to the King all the plot and the names of the Conspirators The King neither seemed rashly to beleeve nor negligently to distrust the Dukes relation and with pollicie it stood not to entertaine the discovery with harsh and violent termes Therefore with gratious speeches hee comforted the Duke And if this bee true said hee wee pardon you if feined bee it at your perill By this time the Duke of Yorke is arrived and admitted into the Kings presence to whom hee delivereth the Counterpane of the confederacy which when the King had read hee complained of the unconstant disposition of those men whom neither cruelty could make firme to King Richard nor clemency to him but upon mislike of every present government were desirous of any change Whereupon hee deferred his journey and determined to attend at Windsor what course the Conspirators would take knowing right well that in civill tumults an advised patience and opportunitie well taken are the only weapons of advantage and that it is an especiall point of pollicie to make use of an adversaries oversight in the meane time hee directs his Letters to the Earle of Northumberland his high Constable and the Earle of Cumberland his high Marshall and to other his friends of these sudden and unexpected accidents All this time the Confederates hearing nothing of Aumerle and seeing no preparation for the Kings comming were resolved that their conspiracie was discovered and calling to minde that once before they had beene pardoned the guilt of this their rebellion excluded all hope of further mercy whereupon they desperately resolved to prosecute that by open armes wherein their privie practises had fayled first they apparelled Magdalen in princely attire and gave forth that he was King Richard who by favour or negligence of his Keepers was escaped out of Prison and now implored the faith and aide of his loving subjects Then they dispatched messengers to Charles King of France desiring his assistance in behalfe of his Son-in-law The common people commonly changeable as prone to pitie as afore they were too forward in crueltie earnestly wished the inlargement of King Richard and wishing it were easily drawne to beleeve it in which imaginary conceit the presence of Magdalen did strongly confirme them And so either upon ignorance of truth or delight in trouble they joyned themselves in great troopes to the Lords desiring nothing more then to bee a meanes by which Richard might bee restored Then the Conspirators with great force but with greater fame as the manner is of matters unknowne advanced forward in battaile array towards Windsor against King Henry as against an enemy to the State they being forty thousand strong upon notice of their approach the King secretly with a small traine the next Sunday night after New-yeares-day departed from Windsor Castle to the Tower of London and the same night before day the Conspirators came to the Castle where missing their expected prey they were divided in opinions which way to take some advised speedily to follow to London and not to permit him liberty to unite his forces That Winter could not properly bee called a lette but in idle and peaceable times that in civill dissentions nothing is so safe as speed and advantage increaseth more by dispatching then deferring that whilst some were in feare some in doubt and others suspitiously ignorant the Citie nay the whole Realme might bee possessed and that many armies whose fury at first rush could not be resisted by delayes did dissipate and wast to nothing others that would seeme to bee but were not out of a dastardly disposition perswaded rather first to set King Richard at libertie for if their counterfeiting should bee discovered before they had really his person in possession the people would fall from them which would bee to their utter confusion by their perswasion they gave over the pursuit and retired to Colbrooke and there delayed the time of action in deliberation neither being couragiously quicke nor considerately stayed but subject to vacillation and thereby began every day more then other to bee vilipended decreasing both in opinion power and hope The Maior of London is commanded by the King to levie power in armes for his assistance who presently furnished him with three thousand Archers besides a sufficient guard left for and in the Citie Thus assisted the King with twenty thousand able souldiers from London came to Hounslow Heath there staying braved his enemies and contemning their disorderly multitude but the enemies either for feare of their Kings power or distrust of their owne or lingring untill their expected ayde was come out of France refused to joyne And it is questionable whether they showed greater courage in setting up the danger or cowardise in declyning it when it was presented unto them from thence they went to Sunning neere Reading where Queen Isabel lay to whom upon the plaine song aforesaid fame had descanted that King Richard was at Pomfret with an hundred thousand men well appointed and that for feare of him King Henry with his was fled to the Tower of London All which was as lightly beleeved as it was idly told Whereupon shee defaced