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The famous historie of Albions queene VVherein is discoursed King Edwards ielosie, Queene Katherines chastetie, the Duke of Suffolkes loyaltie, and the Barron of Buckinghams treacherie.
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R. G., fl. 1600.
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THE Famous Historie of Albions Queene VVherein is discoursed King Edwards Ielosie Queene Katherines chastetie the Duke of Suffolkes loyaltie and the Barron of Buckinghams treacherie Imprinted at London by VV. VVhite for T. PAVIER and are to be sold at his shop in Corne-hill neare to the Exchange at the signe of the Catte and Parrettes 1600. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL EDMVND MVILINEVX ESQVIER health happinesse and prosperitie THE generall report right Worshipfull of your gallant minde and noble disposition hath imboldned me to presâ—â—â— this my worthlesse labour to the view of your ingenious iudgement and the long desiers of my willing minde being now set on fier with the fame of your bright renowne presageth my mâ—ses good fortune which although it be but barren yet watered with the deaw of your gratious acceptance will hereafter be more fruitfull What the Storie is let your wisedome conceite my Subiect is The Vertues of a chast Queene and the loyaltie of a faythfull Subiect the triumphes of an honorable minde shrowded vnder the habite of a ielous King Accept it sweete Mâ—â—â—tialist with a fauourable countenance and my hopes are aduanced After the thundering alarums of dreadfull Warre Souldiers will sometime recreate themselues with pleasant discourses be you then I beseech you right Worshipfull a kind Patron to an vnworthy witt that I may say vnto my muse Happy is thy chaunce and fortunate thy proceedinges By your diuoted and humble welwiller till death R. G. THE Famous Historie of ALBIONS QVEENE CHAPTER 1. ⧠How King Edward grew ielous of Queene Katherine through the flatterie of the Barron of Buckingham ABout three hundred yeeres before the royall name of great Plantaginet possessed the imperial Diadem of this Mayden Land in which golden age there raigned as then one Edward surnamed the Senior a Prince of most excellent wisedome but yet in the first entraunce of his gouernment crost with many strange calamities through disloyall actions of false subiectes This Edward was not any of those royall Edwardes which liued since the Normayne Conquerour made England happy by his lawful clayme but one linially descended from the Romane Emperors who in the spring time of his blooming youth tooke to wife a most wise and vertuous Queene beautified with many singular good guiftes of nature and princely qualeties beseeming so worthy a Lady which Queene Katherine for so was she called altogeather imployed a dutifull care to adorne and set foorth her husbands Princely house and Scepter with surpassing glorie and rich renowne of vertue and besides that she so worthely defended her owne honour against a number of loose Loueres which dayly practised the conquest of her chastetie But now her betrothed husband King Edward being troubled diuers wayes with the hurly burlies of his Kingdome nothing at all solaced his minde in the company of his vertuous Queene by which he grew in mistrust of her chastety greatly fearing least others should loue that which himselfe liked or that she fauoured that which he falsely suspected his telous minde neuer rested satisfied partly of himselfe led with fond beliefe but chiefly incensed through the faythles falsehood of one George de Combria surnamed the Barron of Buckingam being aduaunced from low and poore parentage to the kings Court and not onely made one of his priuie counsell but placed in all digneties next vnto his person This proude Barron enuying the honour of Queene Katherine closely stuffed the Kings conseated head with false reportes and as it were coniured the sperit of I closie into his minde against the good and gratious Princesse which vniust occations of griefe being setled vnkindnes so deepely graued in his hart that neuer after it could be raced out by any meanes whatsoeuer King Edward being thus suncke into the bottome of dispayre fetched many greeuous sighes and often in great sorrow of hart would breath foorth this or such like lamentations Oh my vntrusty Wife and Lady wherefore hast thou wounded thus my hidden loue and inforced me to complayne of thy trecherous infidelitie Thou hast ingaged my honour discharged my person from renowne and possessed dishonour to my Scepter Oh! I launce foorth into the gulfe of dolorous distresse My marshall staffe of prowesse is broken in peeces and I am ledde into voluntarie seruitude deceitfully bereft from the freedome of my nuptiall life and sacrefized a slaue into the handes of trayterous varlets In this manner many a day King Edward fed his ielous minde with vaine immaginations casting him selfe from the lofty mountaine of passed ioyes into the bottomelesse pit of present woe So on the other side the Barron of Buckingam being hardoned in shamelesse audacities incountred him with a new onset to dyet his smell with a quicker scent and so espying a time to play with the sword of sedition he in presence of many of King Edwardes Lords vomited out this wrongfull accusation that followeth If protesting of loyall duetie to your worthy Maiestie or floods of incessant teares distilling from the cundets of my sorrowfull eyes may make perfect shew of a Subiectes honest minde as yet neuer blemished with the breach of dishonestie or euer touched or found guyltie of trayterous crime in regard of which true obedience most mightie Prince accompt my speaches for a veritie and nearely looke into the wronges of your Marriage bedde which ignorance hath heretofore coutched vp in secresie For beit knowne that the mighty Duke of Suffolke an auntient enemie vnto your Crowne and dignitie is familiarly crept into secret fauour with Queene Katherne your honourable Spouse who vnder shadow of seruiceable dutie bereaueth your Maiestie from the fruite of true continencie and couereth your nuptiall bed with a strayned mantle of blacke infamie Oh what a griefe is this vnto the soules of vs which intirely loue your Maiestie whose liues be wholely consecrated to your good fortunes It is not spight that inforceth me to defame the reputation of your royal Queene vnto whom I stand bound in all humble seruice nor any hate nor proffered miuryes doth inflame my minde to blemish the good Duke of Suffolkes fame with immortall ignobilletie but loue and dutie to my Prince and countrey wherefore most noble King cleare your vnderstanding and weede from your Court such treacherous deceauers that your life be not sodainely intrapped and we vnfortunatly depriued of a wise and puisant Prince And to conclude if I George de Cambria Barron of Buckingam be disproued or polluted with the breach of dishonesty an vtterer of false speaches or be found a flatterer or one that hunteth after Princely fauour proudly aspiring after dignetyes and promotions then let me perish and like a traytor be throwne out as an open shame vnto the world otherwise knit and binde me to your Maiestie in the fast bond of loyallty and haue the reward of a faythfull subiect When the Barron had thus inchaunted King Edwards eares his head burned more hotter with the heate of ielosie then before a dissease so incurable that
of cunning Artificers but he commaunded the Barron and his mother Casiope dispightfully to be brought foorth as scornes of the world to iest vpon where casting his eyes to the Tower he sayd You thinke time sleepeth or that siouthfulnesse wantonly walloweth in me no no although to my great cost yet haue I setled vp a surer stay to this my Realme Countrey then euer did my predecessours before me For I haue here established a Tower to hange trayterous Knaues Curtizans vpon The worlde shall not adiudge me partiall in my Lawes for subiectes shall drinke alike of one cuppe and licour This being sayd he caused the Barron and Casiope to be againe carryed to prison and there to remayne tyll his further pleasure euery hower expecting the deadly stroke that should seperate their bodyes from their soules All this while Sir Perce was not vnbusied omitting no time that might further his intent but continually fillyng Vallentines eares with strong perswasions that their liues and spirits might be speedely depriued a sunder which bloudy stratagem was not long a finishyng for the young Prince or rather vnnaturall viper in this maner powred downe the tempestious showers of truell murther for early in the mornyng he caused his Mother Casiope to be brought foorth who the night before hauing intelligence by her keepers that her dayes were at an ende cloathed her selfe in vestments of white silke and comming before her bastard sonne she very humbly prostrated her selfe and craued pittie mercie and forgiuenesse at his handes and with a blushing countenance as beautifull as the new bloomed Rose she spake in this maner Oh sonne Valentinus said she remember that I am the Mother thy selfe fashioned of my wombe and body and by nature springing from the tree of my life yet thou like a most vnnatural Homicide seckest to shorten my daies and to stop my breath whereas thou oughtest in duety and obedience to vpholde my honour and prolong my life I do confesse my vile offences haue deserued punishment but shall mine owne child be the reuenger thereof The banishment of good Queene Katherine and the confusion of all her friends through my vniust meanes was accomplished with many other miseries which I haue ouerburthened this lande withall onely to aduance an vngratefull dissembler which like the Viper seeketh to finish the life of his dearest pareuts Many more were the speeches which Casiope spake in hope to attract remorse from hir Iron harted sonne who nothing regarded her words but rather the more imboldened and stirred vp into a greater fury by a present commandement he caused her bodie to be cast vpon a Table and hir hands and legs to be houlden by the strength of men the which being done he with a sharpe knife cut his Mothers throate and with the same butcherly instrument deseuered her lisly necke from hir shoulders which ad wont to be adorned with a glittering chaine of pure gold After this he caused the place which first conceaued him to be ript vp and sild full of corny salt where after hir belly being thus closed vp he gaue commandement to haue her dead carcasse transported to the top of the Tower there hung vpon a Iibbet Her deare friende the Barron was vsed in the same order for he had his mouth stuft ful of burning Pepper and hung likewise vpon the same Iibbet aliue as a iust view of such vngeateful flatterers and adulterous traitours to behold This bloudy action being finished Valentinus spake to the people many reprochfull wordes in the disgrace of the wicked Barron and Casiope his mother calling her the She-deuouring Beare of England hir deare friend the first causer of King Edwards dishonour in which tyrannicall course of life our story bids vs now leaue the bastard Valentinus with his new friend Sir Perce and speake of the accidents that happened in the Normaine court CHAP. 10. ¶ How Prince Edmond returned againe into England and was crowned King and how the bastarde King was put to death after a strange maner QVEENE Katherine as you heard before after her wrongfull banishment from England was graciously entertained of the Normane Duke where she dayly had intelligence of the wofull estate of England by many of hir distressed countrymen which continually fled thither for succour in the redresse of whose miseries shee made suite vnto Duke Robert of Normandie that hir young sonne Prince Edmund might returne into Enland not onely to possesse himselfe into the rightfull inheritance of his owne dominions but to represse the pride of the miscreant bastard whose tyrannize had made England the perfect merror of calamity and the wofullest nation vnder the cope of heauen In this maner euery day Queene Katherine solicited Duke Robert with fauourable petitions for the furnishing of her sonne into his owne Countrey with a band of warlike Souldiers vnto whom the Normane Duke answered in this maner Loth I am faire Queene that your princely sonne should forsake my dukedome and dominion being the only staffe of my old age and after my death the hope of my subiectes although not naturally borne amongst them yet comming of a royall blood the sonne of a maiestical Prince they will rather submit to his obedience then to the gouernment of one of a simpler birth No no sayd Queene Katherine there is no reason why a stranger should be Prince of forraigne subiectes through whom they should be either too much burthened or mooued to disdaine and therefore most noble Duke I humbly craue that permission may be graunted for his departure and in regarde of your princely liberality hauing brought him vp to such abilitie prowesse and warlike perfection he shal be bound to confesse homage and loyaltie to your kingdome whilst he liueth The Normane Duke being possest with a milde nature and ready in all actions to satisfie Queene Katherines expectation presently mustered a great multitude as well of Normane souldiers as exiled Englishmen which zelously protested all duetifull indeuours in the young Princes behalfe and in the accomplishment of that honorable exployte Queene Katherine hauing gathered great masses of golde and siluer attayned through her learned skill and practise in Phisicke furnished her sonne Prince Edmond with such abundance that nothing wanted either to his aduenture or contentment and so beeing furnished with Munition Ships and Souldiers he hoysted vp sayle and with a merrie winde safely arriued vpon the confines of England where presently he aduanced his Culloures and planted his forces to the best aduantage But now the bastard Prince Valentinus being amazed at the sight hereof with a fearefull troubled minde greatly misdoubted that his kingly gouernment was at an ende yet hauing mustered vp a slender armie of English Souldiers nothing auayleable for his defence he committed them vnder the leading of Sir Perce of Winchester who tendering his owne safety went to the enemy where both him selfe and his souldiers sware true obedience to Prince Edmond This vnexpected accident so daunted the