y e leysure hath not serued vs to write out the copy again after we had first writtē it as first we found it briefly cōpiled by Campion who gathering forth brief notes hath handsomely ioyned them togither but omitted many things likewise for hast where otherwise that which he hath done in this behalf deserueth vndoubtedly singular cōmendation But now to the matter In this season diuers castels abbeys bridges were erected builded in Ireland For the English Welch nobilitie now setled there studied both to reduce y e people to ciuilitie likewise to beautify the cūtry w t buildings seruing both for defēce cōmoditie They arryued in Irelande aboute the latter ende of Aprill remayning there all the Sommer following diuerse Castelles were by them builded with the aduise of Hugh Lacie before he departed homewardes as at Fothred Oualan at Tresteldermot at Collacht and sundrye other Where as Meiller enioyed the Countrey of Kildare giuen to him by Earle Srangbow they remoued him from thence into the Countrey of Leys exchaunging with him in the Kings behalfe to haue the one for the other And this was done of purpose that he being a warrelyke personage shoulde possesse a Countrey wylde and full of enimies whereby to bring the rebels into some conformitie by force sith otherwise they were not to be tamed In the Winter following the Conestable of Chester and his associate returned into England and Hugh Lacie was againe appoynted Lorde Lieutenant of Irelande hauing one of the kings Chaplaynes ioyned with him named Robert de Shrewresburie to be as it were an assystaunt to him and a witnesse of all his dealings Who vpon his returne nowe into Irelande fell in hand to buylde more Castelles in places where he sawe it expedient so to restrayne the attemptes of vnruly persons and to defende others from susteyning iniurie This Hugh Lacie was a man right diligent in his businesse The descriptition of Hugh Lacie and carefull and as he was an expert warriour so yet was he not verie fortunate in iourneys nowe and then which he made vpon the enimyes He was of vysage browne blacke eyed and hollowe flat nosed with his cheeke on the right syde disfigured by reason hee had beene burnt by chaunce in his youth short necked his bodie hearie but strong sinewed And to conclude of stature small and of shape deformed After the deceasse of his wife he was noted to be verie dissolute of lyfe vsing the companie not of one but of manye Concubines couetous to heape vppe ryches and ambicious beyonde measure But nowe to the Hystorie In the yeare last past to witte 1182. or as others haue in the yeare .1180 dyed Laurence Archbishop of Dublyn after whō succeeded Iohn Cumyn an English man that was brought vp in the Abbey of Euesham founder of Saint Patrikes in Dublyn which before that time was a parish Church and by him conuerted into a Colledge with sufficient reuenues assigned for the maintenaunce of parsons vicars clearkes and choristers There hath risen great contention betwixt this and christs Church for antiquitie Contention betwixt Churches for preeminence of antiquitie wherin doubtlesse sayth our Author Saint Patrike ought to giue place They are in deed both written cathedrall Churches and both reputed the Bishops Chapiter in whose electiō they ought to come togither in the Church of the Trinitie commonly called Christs Church which in all recordes hath the preeminēce of place The party disturbing this order of election forfeyteth to the Archebishop of Dublyn .200 lb The foundation of S. Patrikes was greatly aduaunced by king Iohn In the yeare .1183 1183 The death of king Henrie the sonne died king Henrie the sonne reconciled to his father but preparing a new war agaynst his brother Richard Duke of Aquitaine And shortly after died another of king Henries sonnes named Geffrey Erle of Brytaine Ireland giuen to Iohn the sonne of king Henrie 1185 And so were left Richard and Iohn that was after Erle of Gloucester surnamed without land to whome the father conueyed all his interest and Lordeship of Irelande and sent him thither honourably accompanied being then but .xij. yeares olde with him in especial trust Geraldus Cambrensis a lerned man and a diligent searcher of antiquities About this yong gentleman were placed seruants Counsellers of three sundry sortes Counsellers about the lord Iohn the kings sonne fyrst Normās great quaffers slouthful persōs prowd gluttons trayned vp in extorcions briberie to whom he most leaned Secondly English men that went ouer with him bad ynough and vnskilfull Thirdly the Englishe men whiche hee founde in the land whom being best worthy and moste forwarde in all good seruice hee least regarded Hereof sprung factions and disdaine so that the knightes whiche were moste valiant and readiest to doe their duetyes were greatly discouraged and the enimies in hope highly recomforted Lacie came sundry tymes thither to further the worke full glad to see them fall in vre with any such exercise wherein might they once begin to haue a delight and tast the sweetenesse of a true mans life he thought it no small token of reformation for whiche cause hee visited them the oftner and merily would commaund his gentlemen to giue the labourers example to take theyr tooles in hande and to worke a season whyle the poore soules looking on might rest them But this pastime grewe to a tragicall end for on a time as each man was busily occupied some lading some heauing some plastring some grauing the generall also himselfe digging with a pickare a desperate villayne among them whose toole the noble man vsed espying both his hands occupyed and his body enclining downewards still as he stroke watched when hee so stouped 1186 Lacy is trayterously slayne and with an axe cleft his head in sunder little esteeming the torments that for this trayterous acte ensued This Lacie was reputed to be the conqueror of Meth for that hee was the firste that broughte it to any due order of obedience to the Englishe power His body the two Archbishops Iohn of Dublin and Mathew of Casseill buried in the Monasterie of Bectie and his head in Sainte Thomas Abbey at Dublin Translation of Prebendaries to Mōks This Curcy translated the Church and Prebendaries of the Trinitie in Doune to an Abbey of blacke Monkes brought thither from Chester caused the same to be consecrated vnto S. Patrick for which alteration taking the name from God to a creature he deemed himselfe worthily punished Not long after as say the Irish certain French knightes came to king Iohns court A chalenge for a combat◅ made by certayne French Knightes and one among them required the combate for triall of the right to the Duchie of Normandy It was not thought expedient to ieoperd the title vpō one mans lucke yet the chalenge they determined to answer Some friende put them in minde of the Erle imprisoned a warriour of notable courage and
that he restored to that sea .xxv. manor places For amongst other Edmerus where Odo the Bishop of Bayeux that was also Erle of Kent bearing great rule in Englande vnder his nephewe King William the Conquerour had vsurped diuerse possessions whiche belonged to the Sea of Canterburie and also had seazed the franchises into his handes apperteyning to the same Lanfranke by sute and earnest trauaile hee recouered the same againe and being impleaded about that matter by the sayd Odo he so defended his cause that in the ende although with much ado he had his wil and so remayned in quiet possession of his right after that so long as he lyued wythout any trouble or vexation concerning the sayde possessions and liberties Also where not only Walkhem the Bishop of Winchester but also diuerse other Bishops in England were in mind to haue displaced Monks out of their Cathedrall Churches Lanfranke praysed for holding with the Monkes and to haue brought Canons into their roomes Lanfranke withstood them and deserued therefore high commendations both of them and also of the Pope After Lanfrankes death the king beganne to forget himselfe verie farre in al his dealings The king giuen to sensuall lust and couetousnesse insomuch that he kept many concubines and wexed very cruel and inconstant in all his wayes so that he became an heauie burthen vnto his people Furthermore he became so much addicted to gather good that hee considered not what apperteyned to the Maiestie of a king so that nothing that seemed to make for his gaine and satisfying of his appetite was esteemed of him vnlawfull measuring his dutie by gaine and not by that which should most of all become him He kept also the Sea of Canterburie foure yeares in his handes to see who would giue most for it and in the meane time tooke the profits making the most thereof that could be deuised by any meanes towne of Winchcombe where by force of thunder lightning a part of the steeple of the Church was throwne downe and the Crucifix with the Image of our Ladie also standing vnder the rood lost was likewise ouerthrowne broken and shattered in peeces and withall there followed a foule noysome and most horrible stinke in the Church Also on the .xvij. day of the same moneth was much harme done in the Citie of London with an outrageous winde A mightie winde whose violence ouerturned or rent in peeces aboue the number of fiue hūdred houses and the roofe of S. Mary Bow Church in Cheape was also ouerthrowne wherewith two men were slaine Moreouer at Salisburie was much hurt done with a like winde and thunder Anno reg ◅ 1092 for the top of the steeple was ouerthrowne and many other buyldings sore shaken and caste downe whereof let this which we haue sayde suffice for this present and nowe to speake somewhat of the doings of Scotlande as occasion moueth Whilest in such wise as yee haue heard the variance was depending betwene king William and his brother Duke Robert the Scottish king Malcolme made sore warres vppon the inhabitants of Northumberlande The Scottes inuade England fetching great booties and prayes out of that Countrey which he inuaded euen to Chester in the streete King William therefore soone after his returne called his power togither and spedde hym Northwards But king Malcolme hearing of his reproche and great strength sent to him for peace which was graunted in the ende But here such writers as we haue seene doe not wholy agree for some beside their confusion of time and account of the yeare affyrme that king William prepared a great army both by sea and lande agaynst Malcolme VVil. Malm. Sim. Dun. and that his nauy bring abrode on the Seas was by tempest lost and the most part of the shippes drowned Also that the armie by lande entring into Scotlande suffred many losses through want of vitailes and so recoyled Finally that Duke Robert lying on the borders with an army in his brothers name whereby it should appeare that the king himselfe was not there by the help and furtherance of Edgar Edelling which then serued king Malcolme in his warres ▪ made a peace betwixt his brother and the sayd Malcolme by the articles whereof certaine places in Northumberlande were restored vnto Malcolme which he had helde in William Conquerours dayes Some write in like maner that King Malcolme did homage vnto king William and also Duke Robert reconciled the sayde Edgar Edelling vnto the fauour of the king But howsoeuer the truth of the storie doth appeare in this behalfe certaine it is that the king returned out of Northumberlande into the west partes of the Realme still reteyning with hym Duke Robert who looked dayly when he shoulde perfourme such couenants as were concluded betwixt them in their late reconciliation But when he saw that the king ment nothing lesse than to stand to those articles how he did only protract delay the time for some other secrete purpose he returned into Normandie in great displeasure tooke with him the sayd Edgar Edelling of whō he always made a very great account Soone after K. Wil. returned into the North parts again and as it chaunced he stayed a few dayes aboute Carleil where being delited with the situation of the town which had bin destroyed by the Danes two hundred yeares before hee set workemen in hande to repayre the same meaning to vse it in steade of a Bulwarke agaynste the Scottes on those West Borders and after hee had fenced it in with walles The repairing and new peopling of Carleil and buylded a castell in the moste conuenient place thereof hee caused also Churches and houses to bee made meete for such a multitude of people as he had determined to bring vnto the same This being done he placed therein a Colonie of Southren men with theyr wyues and children and gaue large priuiledges vnto the towne which they enioy vnto these our times Mat. VVest Here haue I thought good to aduertise you of an error in Mat. West crept in eyther by wrong placing of the matter by some exemplifier either else by the Authours mistaking his accounte of yeares as .1072 for .1092 referring the repayring of Carleil vnto William Conqueror at what time he made a iourney agaynst the Scots in the sayde yeare .1072 And yet not thus contented but to bewray the error more manifestly he affirmeth that the king exchaunged the Earledome of Chester with Raufe or Randulfe de Micenis alias Meschines for y e Erledome of Carleil which the said de Meschines helde before and had begon there to build and fortifie that towne Where as it is certain y t Ranulfe de Meschines came to enioy the Erledom of Chester by way of inheritāce as after shall appeare And for the better proufe thereof ye shall vnderstand that we finde by auncient records how that one Hugh Lou or Lupus enioyed the Erledome of Chester all the dayes of
to sende them into Flanders there to remaine as pledges for money that he there ought or if they refused to go thither then to keepe them prisoners in the towne But when the Bishop of Chichester declared to him the danger of the Canon established agaynst such as imprysoned Byshoppes hee suffered them to departe but the Iudges to witte Iohn de Stonore Richard de Willoughby Wil. de Shoreshull Iudges and other officers command 〈◊〉 the towâ—… and also Nicholas or as other haue Math. de la Beche which was before gardian of his son lieutenant of the tower also Iohn de Pultney William de Poole Merchants and the chiefe Clearkes of y e Chancerie Iohn de Saint Paule Michaell de Wath Henry de Stretforde and Robert de Chikewel and of the Eschecker Iohn de Thorpe and many other were committed to diuers prisons but yet bycause they were committed but only vppon commaundements they were within a while after deliuered The Lorde Wake was also committed but shortly after â—…ewe officers â—…ade in place 〈◊〉 other that â—…re discharâ—…ed he was deliuered to his great honor as Walsingham writeth Robert de Bourchier was made Lorde Chancellor and Richarde de Sadington Lorde Treasorer all the Sherifes of Shires and other officers also were remoued and other putte in their places and Iustices appoynted in euery Shire to enquire vppon the defaultes of collectors and other officers so that few or none escaped unpunished howsoeuer they had demeaned themselues so straitely those iustices proceeded in their commissions The King indeede was sore offended with those whome he had put in trust to leuie money and to see it conueyd ouer to him into the lowe countrey bycause that for want thereof in tyme of neede hee was constreyned to take truce with his aduersarie the French King and leaue off his enterprise which he was in good forwardnesse to haue gone through with if he had not bin disappoynted of treasure whiche he had commaunded to be sente ouer vnto him whiche was not done but kepte backe â—…he K. offenâ—…d vvith the â—…chbishop of â—…nterbury in whomsoeuer the fault rested There were some of his Secretaries namely sir William Killesby which stirred him to take no small displeasure against the Archbishop of Canterbury Iohn Stratford who therevppon withdrewe him into the Priorie of Christes Churche at Caunterbury and there remayning for a season wrote his mind to the King 1341 The Archbis â—…iteth to the â—…ing exhorting hym not to giue too light credite vnto suche as shoulde counsell him to haue those in contempt that were faithfull and true to him for in so doing he might happely lose the loue and good will of his people Neuerthelesse hee wished that he should trie out in whose hands the wolles and money remained which was taken vp to his vse and that vppon a iust accomptes had at their handes it mighte appeare who were in faulte that he had not money broughte to hym whylest hee lay at siege before Tourney as he had appoynted and that when the trueth was knowen they that were in faulte might be worthely punished And as for his own cause he signified that hee was ready to be tryed by his peeres sauing alwayes the estate of holye Churche and of his order c. Further he besought the King not to thynke euill of him and of other good men till the trueth might be tried for otherwise if iudgement should be pronounced without admitting the partie to come to his aunswere as well the giltlesse as the giltie might be condemned The King neuerthelesse still offended towards the Archbishoppe An. reg 15. A letter sent to the Deane of Paules caused Adam Bishop of Winchester to endite a letter againste him directed froÌ„ the King to the Deane and Chapiter of Paules openly to be published by them the effect whereof was to burden the Archbyshoppe with vnthankfulnesse and forgetting of his bounden duetie towards his soueraigne Lorde and louing master namely in that where he promised the Kyng to see him throughly furnished with money towardes the maintenance of his warres when it came to passe none woulde be had which turned not onely to the hinderance of the Kings whole proceedings but also to his great discredite and causing him to runne greatly in debt by interest through borrowing of money for the paymente of the wages of his men of warre when through the Archbyshops negligence who had the chiefe rule of the lande the collectors and other officers slacked their duetie wherby there was no money sent ouer according to that was appoynted and whereas now sith his comming ouer he had sent to the Archbishop to come vnto him that by hys information he might the better learne who they were that had neglected their duety hee disobediently refused to come pretending some feare of bodily harme through the malice of some y t were about the King Wherevpon when Raufe Lord Stafforde Lord Stewarde of the Kings house was sente with a safeconduit for him to come in all safetie to the Court he flatly made aunswere that hee woulde not come The Archebishop refuseth to come to the courte except in full Parliament Many other misdemeanors was the Archbyshop charged with towardes the King in that letter as malitiously slaundering the King for vniust oppression of the people confounding the Cleargie and greeuing the Church with exactions leuies of money tolles and tallages therefore sith he went about so to slaunder the Kyngs royall authoritie to defame hys seruauntes to stirre Rebellion among the people and to withdraw the deuotion and loue of the Erles Lords and greate men of the lande from the Kyng hys highnesse declared that hee meante to prouide for the integritie and preseruation of his good name and to meete with the Archbyshops malice and heerewith diuers things were rehersed to y e Archbishops reproche which he should do procure and suffer to be done by his euill and sinister counsell whilest hee hadde the rule of the Realme in hys handes vnder the Kyng wherein he had shewed hymselfe not only an acceptor of giftes but also of persons in gratifying dyuers that nothing had deserued sundry wayes forthe and presuming to doe rashly many other things to the detrimente of the Kynges royall state and hurte of hys regall dignitie and to no small damage of the people abusing the authoritie and office to hym committed so that if hee persisted in his obstinate wilfulnesse and rebellious conâ—…umacie the King by those his letters signifyed that he meant to declare it more apparantly in due time and place and therefore commaunded the sayd Deane and Chapiter of Paules to publishe all those thyngs openly in places where they thought conuenieÌ„t according to their wisedome giuen to them by God so as hee mighte haue cause to commende therein their carefull diligence This letter was dated at Westminster the tenth of February in the fifteenth yeare of hys raigne ouer Englande and seconde ouer
cōfessed that for a greate summe of money which they had receyued of the Frenche king they entended verily eyther to haue deliuered the Kyng alyue into the handes of hys enimies or else to haue murthered him before he shoulde arriue in the duchie of Normandie Hall When King Henrie had heard al things opened whiche he desired to know he caused all his nobilitie to come before his presence before whō he caused to be brought the offēders and to them sayd King Hearleso vvordes to the ◅ts If you haue conspired the death and destruction of me which am the head of the realme gouernour of the people without doubt I must of necessitie thinke that you lykewyse haue cōpassed the confusion of all that here be with me and also the finall destruction of youre natiue countrey And although some priuate scorpion in your heartes or some wylde worme in your heads hath caused you to conspire my death and confusion yet you should haue spared that diuelishe enterprise which can not continue without a capitayne nor be directed without a guyde nor yet with the destruction of your owne bloud and nation you should haue pleased a foreyn enimie Wherfore seing that you haue enterprised so gret a mischiefe to the intent that your fautours being in the armie maye abhore so detestable an offence by the punishement of you haste you to receyue the payne that for youre demerites you haue deserued and that punishmente that by the lawe for your offences is prouided And so immediately they were hadde to execution whiche done The E◅rle of Cambridge the other tray◅ executed the K. callyng his Lords afore him spake these or the like wordes in effecte See you not the madde imagination of men which persecute me that dayly study and hourely laboure for the aduancement of the publike welth of this realm and for that cause I spare no payne The kinges speache to his lo◅ds touching ◅e ◅o◅ers nor refuse any tyme to the intente to doe good to all men and hurte to none and thus to doe is my duetie and to this as I thinke I am borne I pray to God that there be none among you that be infected with so much vntruth y t had liester see me destroyed brought to confusion than to see his countrey flourish encreased with honor and empire I assure you that I conceyue no such opinion in any of you but put in you bothe trust cōfidence if I may haue your helpe to recouer the old honor of myne auncestours by subduing the Frenche nation I for my selfe will forget al perill and payne and be youre guide lodesman and conductor and if you drawe backe and will not moue forewarde beleeue mee God will so dispose that hereafter you shall be deceyued and so repent had Iwyst When the king had finished his saying al the noble men kneeled downe and promised faythfully to serue him and duly to obey him and rather to die than to suffer him to fall into the handes of his enimies Thys doone the Kyng thoughte that surely all sebition and ciuill conspiracie had bin vtterly extinct but he saw not the fyre which was newely kindled and ceassed not to encrease till at lengthe it burste out into suche a flame that embracing the walles of his house and familie his lyne and stock was clean destroyed and consumed to ashes whiche at that tyme mighte preaduenture haue bin quenched and put oute For diuers write that Richard erle of Cambridge did not conspire with the Lorde Scrope and Thomas Grey for the murthering of King Henry to please the Frenche King withall but onely to the intente to exalte to the crowne his brother in law Edmund Erle of March as heire to Lyonell Duke of Clarence after the death of whyche Earle of Marche for diuers secrete impedimentes not able to haue issue the Earle of Cambridge was sure that the crowne shoulde come to him by his wyfe and to his children of hir begotten And therefore as was thoughte he rather confessed himselfe for neede of moneye to be corrupted by the French king than he wold declare hys inwarde mynde and open his verye intent and secrete purpose whiche if it were espyed he sawe plainely that the Earle of Marche shoulde haue drunken of the same cuppe that hee tasted and what shoulde haue come to his owne children hee muche doubted And therefore beeing destitute of comforte and in despaire of life to saue hys children he fayned that tale desiring rather to saue hys succession than himselfe which he did in deede for his sonne Richarde Duke of York not priuily but openly claimed the crown and Edwarde his sonne bothe claymed it and gayned it as after it shall appeare Which thing if Kyng Henrye had at this tyme eyther doubted or foreseene had neuer bin like to haue come to passe as Hall saith But whatsoeuer hath bin reported of the confession of the Earle of Cambridge certain it is that endited he was by the name of Richard erle of Cambridge of Conesburgh in the countie of York knight The effect of the Earle of Cambridge hys in dicement and with him Tho. Grey of Heton in the countie of Northumberlande knighte for that that they the xx day of Iulye in the thirde yeare of K. Henry the fifth at Southamton and in diuers other places within this Realme had conspired together with a power of men to them associate without the kings licence to haue ledde awaye the Lorde Edmunde Earle of Marche into Wales and then to haue procured hym to take vpon him the supreme gouernment of the realme in case that King Richarde the seconde were dead and heerewith had purposed to sette foorth a proclamation there in Wales in name of the sayde Earle of Marche as heire of the crown against king Henry by the name of Henry of Lancaster the vsurper to the ende that by suche meanes they might drawe the more number of the kings liege people vnto the said Earle further to haue conueyde a baner of the armes of England and a certain crown of Spayne set vpon a pallet laide in gage to the said Earle of Cābridge by the king together with the sayd erle of Marche into the parties of Wales aforsaid further A Ievvell that the said Earle of Cambridge sir Tho. Grey had appointed certain of the Kinges liege people to repaire into Scotland to bring from thence one Thomas Trumpington also an other resembling in shape fauor countenāce K. Richard and Henry Percie togither wyth a great multitude of people to fight with the king and him to destroy in opē field Beside this that they had ment to win certain castels in Wales and to kepe them against the K. and many other treasons they had contriued as by the inditement was specified to the intēt they might destroy the king his brethren y e dukes of Bedford Gloucester and other the great lords
answer by writyng and herewith Guyenne makyng iij. obeisances saide sir I will gladly doe it Then saide the Emperor Tell the King your maister further that I beleeue that he hathe not bene aduertised of that whyche I tolde to hys Ambassador in Granado which toucheth him neare for I holde him in suche a case so noble a Prince that if he had vnderstood the same he woulde haue made me an answere he shall do well to know it of his Ambassador for by that he shall vnderstande that I haue kepte better faith to him in that I haue promised at Madril than he to me and I pray you so tell hym and faile not hereof Guienne answered without doubt sir I will do it and so making his obeysance he departed The Emperor appointed Iohn◅ Alemāt the barō of Bouchans to see that no displeasure nor euill speache were vsed to the said kings of armes but that they shuld bee well vsed whiche was done to their good contentation After this the .xxvij. of Ianuary the saide kings of armes came to the saide lord of Bouclaus who by the emperors apointment deliuered an answer vnto eyther of them in writyng accordingly as the Emperor hadde promised the copies whereof are sette forth at large in the Annales of Aquitaine for breefnesse heere omitted To conclude the French king tooke such displeasure with the Emperors answers made vnto his king of arms Guyēne wherby he was chardged to do otherwise than by his faithe giuē he ought to haue done that the .xxviij. day of Marche being in the citie of Paris accompanyed wyth a greate number of the princes of his bloude Cardinalles and other Prelats and nobles of his realme and also the Ambassadors of diuers princes and Potentates he called before hym Nicholas Perenot lorde of Granuelle vnto whom he said in effect as followeth My Lorde Ambassadors it hathe greeued me and dothe greeue me that I haue bin cōstrained to handle you not so courteously and gratiously as for the good and honorable behauiour which you haue shewed in dooing your duty being here with me you haue deserued at my hands sith I must needes say ye haue acquite yourselfe in euery behalfe aswell to the honor of your mayster as good contentatiō of eche man else so that I am assured y e fault resteth not in you why thynges haue not come to better and purpose than they haue done for the good zeale and affection whiche I haue euer proued in you to the aduaūcement of peace and quietyng of things wherein I doubte not but you haue done your duetie to the full but being enformed what your master the elect Emperor against all ◅ght and law aswell diuine as humain had cōmaunded to be done vnto my Ambassadors and likewise to the other of the league remayning wyth hym for the furtheraunce of things towards a peace and cōtrary to all good customes which hitherto haue bin obserued betwixt princes not only Christians but also Infidels me thought I coulde not otherwise doe for the behoof of my owne Ambassadors arested and against reason kept in warde but to do the same to you althoughe I had no minde to vse you euill for the reasons aboue said for y e which for y e duty you haue shewed in doing that appertained I assure you my lorde Ambassador that beside that I doubt not but your maister will recompence you for the same yee may be assured that wher particularly in any thing I may pleasure you I wil do it with as good a will as you can require me And to make answer to that whiche your Maister by worde of mouth hath said vnto Guyenne and Clarenceaux kings of arms of the king my good brother and perpetuall and best allie and of me vpō the intimation of the warre whiche hath bin made by vs consisting in viij points I will that ech one vnderstande it First as to y t which he saith be meruaileth of that he hauyng mee a prisoner by iuste warre hauing also my faith I shulde defie hym that in reason I neyther may nor ought to do it I answer therto that if I were his prisoner here that hee hadde my faith he had spoken true but I knowe not that the Emperor hath euer at any time had my faithe y t may in any wise auaile him for first in what warde soeuer I haue bene I know not that I haue either seene him or encountred with him whē I was prisoner garded with .iiij. or .v. C. harquebusiers sick in my bedde and in danger of death it was an easy matter to cōstreine me but not very honorable to him that shuld do it and after that I returned into Frāce I knowe not any that hath had power to compell me to it and to do it willingly without cōstraint it is a thing whiche I way more than so lightly to bind my selfe therto And bicause I will not that my honor come in disputation althoughe I know well that euery manne of warre knoweth sufficiently that a prisoner garded is not bound to any faith nor can bind himself therto in any thing I do neuerthelesse sende to your Mayster this writing signed with mine owne hande the which my lord Ambassador I pray you reade and afterwards to promyse mee to deliuer it vnto your maister and not to any other and herewith the king caused it to be deliuered to the said Ambassador by Maister Iohn Roberter one of the Secretaries of the estate of his chamber The Ambassador tooke y e writing in his hande and after excused himselfe to y e king saying y e as to him by the letter whiche his maister and souerain lorde had written vnto him now lastly his commission was already expired that he had no further commaundement nor instructions from his maiestie but to take leaue of the king wyth as muche speed as he might to returne home whych he most hūbly besought him to permit him to do wythout further charge or commission althoughe he knew that hee was at hys commaundement that he might at his pleasure constraine him as seemed to him good Herevnto the king answered my lord Ambassador sith you will not take vpon you to reade this writing I will cause it to be re◅ in this company to the end that euery one may vnderstand and know that I am cleered in that whereof against truthe hee goeth about to accuse me and if you afterwardes will not beare it and deliuer it to him I will send one of my heraults there presēt to go in company with you for whom you shal procure a good auailable safeconduct that he may passe vnto your maister present vnto him the same writing protesting and demaundyng that an acte may be registred before this company that if he will not that it shuld come to his knowledge that I am discharged in that I do my best to cause him to vnderstande it accordinglye as I ought to do
〈…〉 away with the guide to their 〈…〉 where they 〈…〉 been is 〈…〉 â—â—dered and burdened with the hereof where was 〈…〉 in a good common weak his shoulde for honestie 〈◊〉 prospâ—â— they by 〈◊〉 rebels only meanes be cast so behind the hands as they 〈…〉 easily agayne by 〈◊〉 own renth that whiche they haue vsed by those traitors mischief And if vniust 〈…〉 so to be handled at any mans hands had only staÌ„d to y e order of a law how much more 〈◊〉 true and faithfull subiects who deserâ—â—◠〈…〉 feele no vnquietnesse nor bee vexed with â—â—â—tion who be obediencely in subiections but â—â—ther seeke iust amendes of false rebelles hands and by lawe obtaine that they loste by disorder and so constrayne you to the vttermost repaye the recompence of wrongfull losses bycause ye were the authors of these wrongfull 〈◊〉 Then woulde yee soone perceyue the common wealthes hurt not when other 〈◊〉 it who deserued it not but when you smarted who consider and stoode not and looke vpon other mens losses which ye mighte pitte but formeted with your owne which ye would sâ—â—kene Nowe I am past this myschiefe whiche yee will not here after deny when ye shall praise other mennes forsight rather than you wâ—â—cked dooings in bewayling the ende of your furie in whose beginnyng ye nowe reioyce What say ye to the number of vagabuÌ„ds and loytring beggers whiche after the ouerthrowe of yours Campe and scatteryng of this seditious number wyll swarme in euerye cornet of the Realme and not onely lye loytering vnder hedges but also stande sturdily in Cities and beg 〈…〉 leauing labour whiche they lyue mâ—â— â—â— folowyng 〈◊〉 whyche 〈…〉 put For euery man in easily and 〈◊〉 broughte from in boâ—â— to â—…ase from the 〈…〉 froÌ„ diligence 〈…〉 〈◊〉 afterwardes it into commonly 〈◊〉 〈…〉 of those whiche went out honest 〈…〉 agains like 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 to the toures 〈◊〉 â—â—◠〈…〉 still toward day â—…lexâ—â—◠〈…〉 quartell make 〈…〉 into 〈…〉 two Doe 〈…〉 for 〈◊〉 furthered of warres 〈…〉 more begging more 〈◊〉 than before 〈…〉 stand â—â— the high way to aâ—…ke 〈…〉 who 〈◊〉 afraid 〈…〉 vnfortunately leaste they take it awaye from on violent by and I was more cause to suspect theyr 〈◊〉 than 〈◊〉 their neede It is not ther do the hazard how 〈◊〉 be not only 〈…〉 vtterly spoyled and fewe may ryde safe by the kings why except the 〈◊〉 strong not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of theyr goodes whyche 〈…〉 lesse but also for daunger of their life which euery man loueth Worke is vndâ—â—â— at home and learne is linger in sleetes lurck on 〈…〉 raunge in high waies valiant beggers play in townes and yet complayne of neede whose staffe it bee once how in their bande or slugâ—â—l gâ—â—neâ—â— bredde in their bosome they wyll need not hee â—â—â—aceded laboure agayne contineyng them selues better wich idle beggery than wich house and profitable labour And what more 〈◊〉 beastes bee in a common wealthe Droney is Hiues suche but the hoÌ„nie a smak matter but yet to bee booked on by good husbands Caterpillers destroy the fruite on bin â—…efad thing and well shifted for by a diligent vnerseâ—â— Diuers vermine destroy corne till Pulleyne engines and snares bee made for them But what is a loyterer A sucker of Honie a spoiler of corne a destroier of fruite nay a waster of money a spoyler of vittayle a sucker of bloude a breaker of orders a seeker of breakes a queller of life a basiliske of the coÌ„mde to claâ—…e whicheby company and sight doth poyson the whole Countrye and staineth honest mindes wyth the infection of hys venyme and is draweth the common wealth to deathe and destraction Suche is the fruites of your labour and trauayle for your preteÌ„sed common wylth whyche iustice woulde no man shoulde laste of baryout selues that yee might truelye iudge or your owne mischiefe and fraye other by example from presumyng the lyke When wee see a greate number of flyes in a yeare we naturally iudge it like to be a great plague and hauing to greaten forming 〈…〉 tradie the begge and by 〈…〉 euery 〈◊〉 boye whiche declare a great as inâ—â—â—tion 〈…〉 not losse for a grauâ—â—â— and 〈◊〉 daunger than the plague 〈◊〉 Who cant herefore somewyse 〈…〉 one deadly here wherewyth the so fortune wealthe 〈…〉 is wondered 〈…〉 so 〈◊〉 this there an beene 〈…〉 throughe a well gouerned state nor more 〈…〉 These 〈…〉 plainly vnpossible that the countrie shall well stande in gouernement and the people growe to weled where order in euery hands not in-by obserued and that body can not be wythout muche griefe of inflamation where any leaste parte is out of ioynt or not duely sette in his owne naturall place Wherefore order muste be kept in the common wealth like healthe in the body and all the drifte of pollicie looketh to this ende howe this temper may be safelyl maintained without any excesse of vnmeasurablenesse either of the one side or of the other And easte ynough it is to keepe the same when it is once brought into the mean and to holde it in the staye it is founde in but when it is once out once wyth a vthemence and hathe gotten into 〈◊〉 disorder it speeadeth so false and o 〈◊〉 all 〈…〉 resisting to violently that it will be harde in recouer the breathe of long time againe except with greate and will coansayle which no doubt shall be in season vsed these be wonderfull remedies sought therfore And euen as a man falling is easier holden vp by slay than when he is fallen downe he is 〈◊〉 to rise againe so is the common welth slippyng by the foresight of wisedom better kept from ruine than when it is once fallen into any kinde of 〈◊〉 â—…he same may bee casted againe to the olde and former state Doe wee not euidently knowe that a man maye better keepe hys arme or his legge from breakyng or fallyng out of ioynt afore hurt come to it than after she hurt it may safely and quietly be healed and restored to the former strengthe and health againe And nowe thorowe your seditious enemies things that were afore quiet and in good order lawes feared and obeyed Subiectes ruled and kepte in duety bee all nowe in a greate disorder and lyke if it hee not bolpen to growe to wildenesse and a beastlinesse seeing that neyther common dutye can bee kepte whyche Nature prescribeth nor common lawe can be regarded which pollicie requireth How can yee keepe your owne if yee keepe no order your wise and children howe can they bee defended from other mens violence if yee well in other thynges breake all order by what reason woulde ye be obeyed of your as seruauntes if ye will not obey the King as Subiectes howe woulde ye haue others deale orderly with you if ye will vse disorder againste all others Seeing then there is such a confusion now of thinges such a turmoyle of men such a disorder of fashions who can looke to liue quietly a greate while
and trayterously didst leuie warre againste the Q. within hir Realm c. and also thou wast adherente to the Queenes enimies within hir Realm giuing to them ayde comfort c. and also falsly and trayterously didst conspire and intend to depose and depriue the Q. of hir royal estate and so finally destroy hir c. and also thou didst falsly and traiterously deuise and conclude to take violently the Tower of LoÌ„don c. of al which treasons and euery of theÌ„ in maner forme c. art thou giltie or not giltie Throckmor May it please you my Lords and maisters which be authorised by the Queenes commission to be Iudges this day to giue me leaue to speake a fewe words which doth both coÌ„cerne you and me before I aunswere to the enditement and not altogithers impertinente to the matter and then pleade to the euditemente Bromley No the order is not so you must first pleade whethether you be giltie or no. Throckmor If that be your order and law iudge accordingly to it Hare You must firste aunswer to the matter wherwith you are charged and theÌ„ you may talke at your pleasure Throckmor But things spoken out of place wer as good not spoken Bromley These bee but delayes to spende time therfore answere as the law wisleth you Throckmor My Lords I pray you make not too muche hast with me neither thinke not long for your diner for my case requireth leysure you haue wel dined when you haue done iustice truely Christ said Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousnesse Bromley I can forbeare my dinner as well as you care as little as you peraduenture Shrewsbury Come you hither to checke vs Throckmorton wee will not bee so vsed no no I for my parte haue forborne my breakfast dinner and supper to serue the Queene Throckmor Yea my good Lord I know it right wel I meant not to touche your Lordship for youre seruice paines is euidently knowen to al meÌ„ Southwell M. Throckmorton this talke neede not we know what we haue to doe you would teach vs our duties you hurt your mater go to go to Throckmor M. Southwel you mistake me I ment not to teach you nor none of you but to remember you of that I trust you al be well instructed in so I sarilly myselfe since I shuld not speake thinking you all know what you haue to doe or ought to know to I wil aunswer to the inâ—â—ment and do pleade not guiltie to y e whole an diâ—â— euery part thereof Sendall How will thou bett 〈…〉 Throckmor Shal I be tried as I would or as I shuld Bromley You shald tried as the law wil and therefore you must say by God and by y e Countrey Throckmor Is that your law for me it is not as I wold but since you wil haue it so I am pleased with it and do desire to be tried by faithfull iust meÌ„ which more feare God than the world Then the Iury was called The names of the iurours Lucar Yong. Martyn Beswike Bascarfeld Kightley Lowe Whetston Painter Bankes Caltâ—…rop Caser What time the atturney went forthwith to M. Cholmley and shewed him the Sheriffes returne who being aquainted with y e Citizens knowing the corruptions dexterities of them in such cases noted certaine to be chalenged for the Q. a rare case same meÌ„ being knoweÌ„ to be sufficient and indifferent that no exceptions were to be takeÌ„ to them but only for their vpright honesties notwithstanding the atturney prompting sergeant Dier the saide sergeant chalenged one Bacon and another CitizeÌ„ peremptorily for the Q. Then the prisoner demanded the cause of the chalenge the sergeante aunswered we neede not shew you the cause of the chalenge for the Q. Then the inquest was furnished with other honest meÌ„ that is to say WhetstoÌ„ and Lucar so the prisoner vsed these words Throckmor I trust you haue not prouided for me this day as in times past I knew another GeÌ„tleman occupying this wofull place was prouided for It chanced one of the Iustices vpon ielousie of the prisoners acquitall for the goodnesse of his cause said to another of his companions a iustice when the iury did appeare I like not this iury for our purpose they seeme to be too pitiful and too charitable to condemne y e prisoner no no said y e other iudge viz. Cholmley I warraÌ„t you they be picked fellowes for y e nonce he shal drink of y e same cup his felows haue don I was theÌ„ a loker on of y e pageaÌ„t as others be now here But now wo is me I am a player in y t woful tragedie Well for these such other like y e black oxe hath of late trodeÌ„ on some of their feet But my trust is I shall not be so vsed Whylest this talke was Cholmeley consulted with the Atturney aboute the Iury which the prisoner espied and then sayde as heere ensueth Ah ah maister Cholmeley will this foule packing neuer be left Chomeley Why what do I. I pray you M. ThrockmortoÌ„ I did nothing I am sure you do picke quarrels to me Throckmor Well maister Cholmeley if you do well it is better for you God help you The iury then was sworne and proclamation made that whosoeuer woulde giue euidence againste Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Knight shoulde come in and be heard for the prisoner stood vp on his deliuerance where vpon sergeant Stanford presented hymselfe to speake Throckmor And it may please you maister sergeante and the others my maisters of the Queenes lerned Counsell like as I was minded to haue saide a fewe words to the Commissioners if I mighte haue had leaue for their better remembrance of their dueties in this place of iustice and concerning direct indifferency to bee vsed towards me this day so by your parience I do thinke good to say somewhat to you and to the rest of the Queenes learned Counsell appointed to giue euidence againste mee And albeit you and the rest by order be appointed to gyue euidence againste me and enterteyned to sette forth the depositions and matter against mee yet I pray you remember I am not alienate from you but that I am youre Christian brother neither you so charged but you ought to consider equitie nor yet so priuiledged but that you haue a duetie of God appoynted you how you shal do youre office whiche if you exceede wil be greeuously required at youre handes it is lawfull for you to vse your giftes whiche I know God hathe largely giuen you as youre learning arte and eloquence so as thereby you do not seduce the minds of the simple and vnlearned Iury to credite matters otherwise thaÌ„ they be For maister sergeant I knowe howe by perswasions enforcements presumptions applying implying inferring coniecturing deducing of argumentes wresting and exceeding the law the circumstances the depositioÌ„s and confessions that vnlearned men maye bee inchanted to thinke and iudge those that bee
places of habitation in Albion But hereunto was answere made with great indignation that as for the league thus alledged The answere of king Ferguse ceassed by the death of Placidus as for peare there was no cause why he should looke for any till the whole prouinces both of Westmerlande and Cumberland were restored againe vnto the hands of the Scottish men and Picts according as of reason they ought to be The like answere also was made by Durstus king of the Pictes vnto whom Castius had sent a like message Wherwithall the sayde Castius beyng not a little moued Castius rayseth an army assembleth an armie and with all speed marcheth foorth towardes his enimies but before his entring into Westmerland wher they were as then lodged in campe Dionethus ioyneth with the Scottes agaynst the Romaines hee had perfect knowledge how Dionethus with his Welchmē for his landes lay in Wales was alreadie ioyned with the Scottes Whiche newes sore appalied the heartes of the Brytaynes but yet beeing encouraged with comfortable wordes of their Captaines to proceede forwarde they goe togither with the Romaines and withn three dayes after they came within sight of their enimies being raunged in battaile readie to receyue them The armies ioyne in battaile so that streight wayes buckling togither there was a right fierce and cruel battaile fought betwixt them til finally the multitude of the Scottishe archers Kernes so compassed in the battailes of the Romains on eche side and specially on the backes that in the ende and by reason of the losse of their generall Castius who was slaine there amongst them The Romains giue backe those of the middle ward being discomfited brake theyr array and fledde Wherevpon the residue likewise followed the Scots Picts The Scottes follow in the chase to rashly and Welchmen pursuing them so egerly without all order that there was no small nūber of them distressed by the Romains the which in their giuing back kept thē close togither readie to defend thēselues to beat down such of their enimies as followed more rashly than warily in the chase not once regarding to keepe any order of battaile but yet by other companyes that pursued more orderly togyther for theyr most aduantage there was great slaughter made both of the Romains and Brytaynes Dionethus proclaymed king of Brytaine After this victorie thus atchieued Dionethus was proclaymed King of Brytaine and sore warres continued in the lande by the pursute of the Welchmen Scottes and Pictes to the great hazard of the Prouince and likely expulsing of al the Romains quite out of the same Etius Lieutenant of the Romaines in Fraunce or Gall◅a About this time also there remayned in France one Etius Lieutenant to the Emperour Valentinianus who vnderstanding all these things by letters and messengers sent from the captains which yet remayned aliue in Brytaine appoynted one Maximianus being a kinne to the Emperour Maximianus sent ouer into Brytayne to passe with an armie in all haste ouer into Britaine to ayde and succor the Romains and suche Brytaynes there as still continued in theyr allegeance whiche they had promised vnto the Romaine Empyre This Maximianus at his arriuall in the Ilande was most ioyfully receyued by the souldiers and subiectes of the foresayde Empyre All the Lordes and nobles of the Countrey resorted also vnto him shewing themselues most glad of his comming and promising with what ayde so euer they were able to make to goe with him against their enimies Whervpon procuring them to assemble their powers Maximianus causeth the Brytaynes to ioyne with him to go against the Scottes and to ioyne the same with his which he had brought ouer with him he passed through the countrey vnto Yorke and so from thence marched forth towards the Scottes being alreadie assembled in campe to defende the countrey of Westmerland against him There were both the kings of Scots Picts Ferguse and Durstus The Scottes and Pictes assembled agaynst the Romaines with Dionethus naming himselfe king of the Britaines who had brought with him beside the Welchmen a great number of those Brytaynes that inhabited in the Countreys now accounted the marches of Wales the which onely amongst al other the Brytaines acknowledged him for king When both the armies were come neare togither The armies prepare to battaile they camped for that night the one in sight of the other and in the morning following they prepared themselues to battail Ferguse first making an earnest oration vnto his people to encourage them the more boldly to giue the onset Ferguse exhorteth his people to do valiantly declared amongst other things how the right was on theyr side Right ministreth hope of good successe which alwayes ought to minister hope of good successe in them that enterprise any thing in defence thereof where contrarily all such as attempted to disquiet other by iniury wrong doing could not but looke for an euill conclusion of their malicious intentes and purposes Neyther were other of his captaines negligent in their duties but that both in exhorting theyr bandes they vsed most comfortable wordes and in disposing them in good order of battaile they shewed most readie and earnest diligence The two kings Ferguse and Durstus are slaine Ferguse the Scottishe king and Durstus king of the Pictes were slaine in this mortall battaile togither with the most part of all theyr nobilitie Dionethus being sore wounded escaped to the sea side Dionethus escapeth and there getting a shippe passed ouer into Wales This ouerthrow sore dismayed both the Scottish and Pictishe nations who loked for nothing more than present expulsion out of their Countreys Maximianus pursueth the victorie for Maximianus pursuing the victorie burst into Galloway most cruelly wasting and spoyling the same And whē he had made an end there he entred into Annandal and into the Pictish confines destroying all before him with fire and sworde Camelon was besieged taken by force Camelon taken by force and miserably put to sack and spoyle with diuerse other notable townes and places as well belonging to the Pictes as Scottes Neyther was there any ende of these cruel doings till both the Scottes and Pictes for their refuge were generally constrayned to withdraw themselues beyond the wall of Abircorne The Scots and Pictes withdraw beyonde the wall of Abircorne which as before is said a few yeares passed was begon by the Brytayns and stretched from Abircorne aforesaid ouerthwart the lād vnto Alcluth now Dūbreton Maximianus hauing thus driuen his enimies beyond this wall caused them to make assurance by theyr othe of couenant neuer to passe the same againe by way of hostilitie eyther agaynst the Brytaynes or Romaines There were that counselled Maximianus either vtterly to haue destroyed both the Scottes and Pictes either else to haue dryuen them out of the whole I le But he being satisfied with that whiche was alreadie done thought good to
equity doth require whiche wee much lament and be sory for and vse nowe our force and puissance against him not for reuēgement of our priuate displeasure beyng so often deliuered as wee haue bene but for recouery of our right the preseruation of our subiectes from iniuries and the obseruation of suche leagues as haue passed betweene vs firmely trusting that almighty God vnder whome we raygne will assist and ayde our iust proceedings herein to the furtheraunce and aduancement of the right whiche wee doubte not shall euer preuayle against wrong falshood deceyte and dissimulation Hitherto it appeareth howe this present warre hath not proceeded of any demaūd of our right of superiority whiche the Kings of Scots haue alwayes knowledged by homage fealty to our progenitors euē from the beginning but this warre hath bene prouoked occasioned vpō present matter of displeasure present iniury present wrong ministred by the Nephewe to the Vncle most vnnaturally supported contrary to the desertes of our benefits most vnkindly if we had minded the possession of Scotland and by the motion of warre to attayne the same there was neuer King of this realme had more opportunitie in the minority of our Nephew ne in any other realme a Prince that hath more iust title more euident title more certaine title to any realme that he can clayme than we haue to Scotland not deuised by pretēce of mariage nor imagined by couenant nor contriued by inuention of argument but lineally descended from the beginnyng of that estate established by our progenitors and recognised successiuely of the Kings of Scotlād by deedes wordes actes and writings continually almost without interruption or at the least intermission till the raigne of our progenitor King Henry the sixte in whose time the Scots abused the ciuil warre of this realme to their licence and boldnesse in omitting of their duetie whiche for the proximity of bloud betweene vs we haue bene slacke to require of them beyng also of our selfe inclined to peace as we haue euer ben alwayes glad rather without preiudice to omitte to demaund our right if it might conserue peare than by demaunding thereof to be seene to mooue warre specially agaynst our neyghbour agaynst our Nephew against him whom we haue preserued from daunger and in such a time as it were expedient for al Christendome to be in vnitie and peace wherby to be more able to resist the common enimy the Turke But for what considerations we haue omitted to speake hitherto of the matter it is neuerthelesse true that the kings of Scottes haue alwayes knowledged the Kings of England superior Lordes of the realme of Scotlande and haue done homage fealty for the same This appeareth first by History written by suche as for confirmation of the truthe in memory haue truly noted and signified the same Secondly it appeereth by instruments of homage made by the Kings of Scottes and diuers notable personages of Scotlande at diuers sundry tymes sealed with their seales and remayning in our Treasory Thirdly it appeereth by Registers and Recordes iudicially autentiquely made yet preserued for confirmation of the same So as the mater of title being moste playne is furnished also with all manner of euidences for declaration thereof First as concernyng Histories which be called witnesses of times the light of truth and the lyfe of memory and finally the conuenient way and meane whereby the thinges of antiquity may be brought to mens knowledge they shewe as playnly this matter as could bee wyshed or requyred with suche a consent of wryters as coulde not so agree vpon an vntruth contayning a declaration of suche matter as hath moste euident probability and apparance For as it is probable and likely that for the better administration of Iustice amongst rude people twoo or moe of one estate might be rulers in one countrey vnited as this Isle is so it is probable and likely that in the beginnyng it was so ordered for auoyding dissention that there shoulde be one Superiour in right of whome the sayd estates should depend According wherevnto we reade how Brute of whome the Realme then called Brytayne tooke first that name beyng before that tyme inhabited with Gyaunts people without order or ciuility had three Sonnes Locrine Albanact and Camber and determining to haue the whole Isle within the Ocean sea to bee after gouerned by them three appoynted Albanact to rule that now is called Scotlande Camber the parties of Wales and Locrine that now is called England vnto whome as beyng the eldest Sonne the other twoo bretherne should do homage recognysing and knowledging him as their superior Nowe consider if Brutus conquered all this Iland as the History sayth he did and then in his owne tyme made this order of superiority as afore howe can there be a title deuised of a more plaine beginning a more iust beginning a more conuenient beginnyng for the order of this Iland at that time specially when the people were rude whiche cannot without continuall stryfe and variaunce contayne twoo or three rulers in all poyntes equall without any manner of superiority the inwarde conscience and remorse of whiche superiority shoulde in some parte dull and diminishe the peruerse courage of resistence and rebellion The first diuisiō of this I le wee finde written after this sorte without cause of suspition why they shoulde write amisse And according herevnto wee finde also in History set foorth by diuers how for transgression against this superiority our predecessours haue chastised the kings of Scottes and some deposed put other in their places we will here omitte to speake of the rudenesse of the antiquity in particularity whiche they cared not distinctly to committe to writing but some authors as Anthonius Sabellicus amongs other diligently ensearchyng what he might truly wryte of all Europe and the Ilandes adioyning ouer and besides that whiche he wryteth of the natures maners and condicions of the Scottes whiche who so liste to reade shall finde to haue bene the very same in times paste that wee finde them nowe at this present he calleth Scotland parte of England whiche is agreeable to the diuision aforesayde being in deede as in the lande continuall without separation of the Sea so also by homage and fealty vnited vnto the same as by particular declarations shall most manifestly appeere by the testimony of suche as haue lefte wryting for proofe and confirmation thereof In whiche matter passing the death of king Humber the actes of Dunwald King of this realme the diuision of Belyn and Brenne the victories of king Arthur we shall beginne at the yeare of our Lorde D.CCCC. whiche is a D. Cxlij yeares paste a time of sufficient auncienty from which we shal make speciall declaration euident proofe of the execution of our right and title of superiority euermore continued and preserued hitherto Edwarde the firste before the conquest Sonne to Alured King of England had vnder his dominion and obedience the king of Scots And
before that time any manner of venison Those within Inskeith also were in greate necessitie of vittayles but yet neither they within the one place nor those within the other woulde render theyr strengthes looking stil for ayde forth of France In the meane time the Queene Regent perceyuing hir sicknesse so to encrease that shee looked for present death sent for the Duke of Chatellereault The Queene tooke for the â—…aâ—…es and all the Lords of Scotland that were in the Towne of Edenburgh and in the Camp who came vnto hir altogither into the Castell of Edenburgh where shee made vnto them a graue and pithie exhortation The Queenes â—…ion vnto â—…bles perswading them to vnitie and concorde with theyr auncient friendes of Fraunce and nowe more stedfast to them than at any time before by reason of the marriage of their Queene their Soueraigne with the King of France and heerewith brake out with certaine words to dissuade them from the amitie contracted with the Englishmen declaring that the Englishmen aided them not for any other respecte than for theyr owne tourne and commoditie Moreouer for hir owne parte shee sayd that shee fauoured the weale of the Realme of Scotland asmuche as Fraunce considering shee had the honour to be Queene and Regent thereof and hir daughter heritable Queene of the same and if shee hadde attempted any thyng that seemed or appeared to the noble men contrarie therevnto the same came to passe rather for lacke of wisedome and iudgemente than for wante of any good will and if it pleased God to prolong hir dayes shee woulde bee glad to amende that had bene done amisse and if hee called hir to his mercy shee prayed them most hartily to acknowledge their duetie vnto the Queene their soueraigne and to maintaine their auncient amitie with the King and Realme of Fraunce and to make some good accorde with the Frenchmenne that were within the Towne of Leith who would gladly accepte the same to the end that as well they as the EnglishmeÌ„ should departe this Realme A mistrustfull minde for shee feared greatly as shee saide least if the Frenchmen departed the Englishmenne would still remaine and subdue the land to theyr obedience and therfore she besought all good Scottishmen to haue respect to the libertie and weale of their Countrey After she had talked thus a good while with many teares shee desired the Lordes to forgiue hir in any thing wherein she had offended anye of them during the time of hir beeing in Scotlande whiche they gladly seemed to doe and on the other parte shee forgaue them with all hir heart as it appared all offences which they had committed against hir and thus diuers of them weeping shee tooke euery of them by the hande The Queene taketh hir leaue and so they taking leaue of hir departed and returned into Edenburgh and to their Campe. Whilest the siege thus lay before the Towne of Leith diuers great troubles rose in sundrye partes of the Realme and specially betwixt the Erle of Huntley and the Erle of Atholl The Earle of Huntley and Atholl are at variance so that there was taking of Prisoners and ouerthrowing of houses on either part and greate preparation made and armies put in a readinesse to inuade either others Countreys The matter is pacified but this busines was pacified by the trauaile and good mediation of Maister Alexander GordoÌ„ then Postulat of Galloway Maister Iohn Leslie officiall of Aberdene and William Leslie the yoÌ„g Lard of Buchquhane who agreed theÌ„ for all matters in controuersie and caused them to goe to eyther others house The same time The Castell of Rosse taken one Maister Donald Frasher Archdeacon of Rosse tooke the Byshoppes Castell of the Chanourie of Rosse and kept the same againste Maister Henrye Sincleir then Bishop there and the chiefest men of authoritie in that Diocesse as MachenÈee Balnagoun Foulis and the Sheriffe Tramercy who asseÌ„bled aboute the same and besieged the Castell The Castell is besieged where great force was vsed both by them without to winne it and of them within to defende it The Bishop being then resident in Cromercy Castell hearing that the house would not be gotten withoute great slaughter thought it against his conscience his profit and honor to winne it in that manner and therefore sending for Maister Iohn Leslie officiall of Aberdene and Maister Alexander Dunbarre Subchauntour of Murrey by their labour diligent treating in the matter The Castell was restored againe the Bishop by reasonable apoyntmente recouered his Castell of them that held it against him The Frenche K. vnderstanding in what distresse his menne remayned that were besieged within Leith and perceyuing himselfe not able to sâ—…nd an army to succour them within y e time that their necessitie required thought good to trie if the matter might be taken vp and to that effect sent two Ambassadors Ambassadors sente Monsieur Monluc Bishoppe of Valence the Earle of Randon and Monsieur Monluc Bishoppe of Valence who declared to the Queenes Maiestie of Englande the cause of their comming whiche was to desire hir to retire hir armye forthe of Scotland vpon some suche reasonable conditions as might be agreed vpoÌ„ and herewith they declared that they were sent to the Queene and not vnto the subiectes of Scotlande for it was not meete that the king should send to his owne subiectes as they were by the marriage of theyr Queene to require peace or to condition with them for agreement An Ambassage sent by the Queene of Englande The Queenes Maiestie of Englande therefore sente Sir William Cecill Knighte hir principall Secretarie and Doctor Wotton Deane of Canterbury and of Yorke one of the priuie Counsel with the freÌ„ch Ambassadors into Scotland Whilest they were yet vpon their iourney the Queene Regent whome they thoughte to haue found aliue and to haue vsed hir helpe as an instrumente to haue furthered the treatie to some good ende consumed partly through melancolie thought and greeuous displeasure and partly with long and incurable sicknesse The Scottishe Queene mother departed 1560 departed this life in the Castell of Edenburgh the tenth of Iune in the yeare of our Lord .1560 Hir body afterwards was conueid by sea into Fraunce and buried in the Abbey of Fescamp The praise of the Queene Dowager She was a wife and righte prudente Princesse and in hir time had learned good experieÌ„ce of the nature and inclination of the nobilitie and people of Scotland During the time that she was Regent shee kepte good iustice and was well obeyd in all partes of the Realme in Orkney and the Westerne Isles and if shee had to hir owne experience ioyned the Counsell of the Nobles and wise men of the Realme of Scotland without following the aduise of straungers there hadde bin neuer question nor debate betwixt hir and the nobilitie as some deemed but bycause that others and namely Monsieur Doysell and Rubee were
Scotland trauaile into Italy 391.22 Dovvglas VVilliam Earle of Dovvglas put to the Horn and his landes spoyled 391.29 Dovvglas VVilliam Earle of Dovvglas proclaimed the kings Lieutenant 391.41 Dovvglas VVil. Earle of Dovvglas for reuenge of priuate interies incurreth the kinges displeasure 391.64 Dovvglas VVil. Earle of Dovvglas slaine 392.57 Dovvglasses made open vvarre agaynst the king 392.61 Dovvglas Iames Earle of Dovvglas disobeyeth the Kings citation 393.20 Dovvglas Iames marieth his brothers vvise 393 Dovvglas Iames dieth 393.52 Dovvglasdale giuen in spoyle too the kings souldiours 393.83 Dovvglas Iames Earle of Dovvglas flieth into England 394.16 Dovvglas Iames Earle of Dovvglas inuadeth Scotland vvith a povver and is discomfited 394. 26 Dovvglas Archimbalde slaine 394. 31 Dovvglas Hugh Earle of Ormont taken prisoner 394.32 Dovvglas Hugh Earle of Ormont beheaded 394.56 Dovvglasses puissaunce in Scotland suspected 3◅5 7 Donald of the Iles reconciled too the king 396.9 Donald of the Iles eftsoones rebelleth 398.46 Donald of the Iles and his confederates fall frantike 398.55 Donald of the Iles slaine 398 Donald sonne to the aforesayde Lorde of the Iles attainted by Parliament 402.32 Donalde Lorde of the Iles after submission to the King restored 402. 51 Dovvglas Archimbalde Earle of Angus maryeth Margaret Qu mother of Scotland 424.30 Dovvglas Archimbalde Earle of Angus taketh a Concubine in stead of the Queene mother his vvife 429.56 Dovvglas Gavvin Bishop of Dūkelde flieth into Englande and there dieth 431.30 Dovvglas Gavvin Bishop of Dūkeld his learning his vvorks 431. 32 Dovvglas Archimbalde Earle of Angus banished into Fraunce 431. 44 Dovvgl◅sdale 434.20 Dovvglas George attaynted of ◅reason 440.11 Dovvglas Margaret 461.8 Dovvglas George Knight sent home out of England into Scotlande 458.12 Doctor Ireland sent Ambassadour into Scotland from the French King to cause the Scottes too make vvarre agaynst England 403. 9 Doctour VVest sent Ambassador into Scotland 416.73 Dolorous mountaine vvhy so called 50.50 Dominicke first Authour of black friers 285.52 Domitian Emperour of Rome 46. 39 Domitian the Emperour enuieth the prosperous successe of Agricola in Brytaine 56 Dounstafage by vvhom buylded 24. 10 Dounstafage olde tyme called Berigonium 14.16 Dounkeld hovv in olde time called 137.40 Doorus brother to Athirco flieth into Pictland 74 51 Doorus vvriteth to certaine Scottish Lords to moue them to rebellion 75.11 Dorstolorgus K. of Pictes 167.84 Dorstolorgus murthered 168.47 Dothan and Dorgall tvvinnes sonnes to Durstus 24.27 Dothans tvvo sonnes cruelly murthered 24.100 Doungarge or Doungarde in Irelande taken 197.26 Doubtfull battaile betvveene the Brytaines and Scots Picts 23. 71 Doubts that Henrie the eight king of England had concerning the consummation of the maryage betvvixt the yong Queene of Scotlande and prince Edvvard his sonne 459.67 Drommound Iohn knight 248.25 Drommound Annabell maried to king Robert the third 248.25 Drommonde Annabell vvife too king Robert dyeth 368.7 Drommond Iohn traiterously slaieth Patricke Graham Earle of Stratherne 374.5 Drommonde Iohn taken and beheaded 747.12 Drommond Alexander attaynted of treason 440.13 Drovvnelovv sands 242.115 Druides ordeyned 21.7 Druides office vvhat it vvas 21.8 Druides hovve called in the olde Scottish tongue 21.10 Druides place of abode 21.12 Druides authoritie encreased 21. 27 Druides religion caryed ouer into Fraunce 21.44 Druides Temples and religiō destroyed 82.53 Drusken chosen king of Pictes 173. 32 Drusken and Kenneth common of peace in fight of both their armies 175.60 Druskin slaine 176.69 Druskins armour offred at Saint Colme 177.5 Drunkennesse punished vvyth death 187.23 Drumlanrig vanquished and put to flight 472.16 Drumlanrig taken prisoner and escapeth 467.67 Dubline besieged 197.84 Dublin surrendred to the Scots 108. 35 Dudley Andrevve Captaine of Broughtie crag Castel 472.31 Duetie a good ghostly father 148. 52 Dutie of a prince in battel 422.10 Duetie a good Prince 23 36 Duetie of all men to defend their natiue Countrey 432.92 Duffe sonne to Malcolme crovvned king of Scotland 206.22 Duffe bevvitched 206.72 Duffe falleth into displeasure of his Nobilitie 206.52 Duffe restored to his for her helth 207. 62 Duffe murthered in his bed 208.55 Duffes maner of buryall 208.64 Duffes bodie taken vp and honorably buried 210.25 Duffe Angus of Stratherne rebelleth 379.36 Duke of Albanye chosen and by Parliament confirmed tutor to Iames the fifth and to the realm of Scotland 423.114 Duke of Albanye gouernour of Scotland cōming out of France arriueth in Scotland 425.38 Duke of Albanye Gouernour of Scotland departeth into France 428. 29 Duke of Albanye Gouernour of Scotlande returneth into Scotlande 431.5 Duke of Albanie inuadeth Englād vvith a mightie armie 432.19 Duke of Clarence slain in France 374. 113 Dukes first created in Scotlande 366. 5 Duke of Somerset made Protector to king Edvvarde the sixth 467.37 hee entreth Scotlande vvith an armie 467.50 Dauid duke of Rothsaye apprehended and committed to pryson 368.30 Duncane created King of Scotlande 239.5 Duncanes disposition ouer gentle 239. 21 Duncane and hys armye ouerthrovvne by the Danes 242.15 Duncane staine by Mackbeth 244. 56 Duncane Malcolmes bastarde son commeth into Scotlande vvyth an army to claime the crovvne 259. 106 Duncane crovvned king of Scotland 260.1 Duncane decydeth iustice vvyth speare and shield 260.6 Duncane slain at Menteth 260 14 Dunfermeling Abbey spoyled 439. 21 Dunfreis 471.1 rifled and spoyled by the Englishmen 473.474.1 Dunbar vvhy so called 177.115 Dumbe person shall not inherite his fathers patrin◅onie 181.33 Dunbar Partricke vanquisheth a band of theeues in Mers 253.45 Dunbar Patricke created Erle of March 253.54 Dunbar George Earle of March arested and put in vvard 381.67 Dunbar George Earle of March disinherited of all his landes liuings 382.4 Dunbar George made Earle of Buchquhan 382.14 Dunbar Gavvin made Bishop of Abirdene 429.45 Dunbar Gavvin made Archebishop of Glasgo 431 10◅ Dundee vvhy so called 278.99 Dundee spoyled and abandoned by the Englishmē 476.77 fortified by the Frenchmē 476.98 Dunglas fort defaced and razed 480. 94 Dunbryton vvhy so named 185.31 Dunbertane Castell reuolted frō the Earle of Lennox 462 84 Dunbritten Castell 460.60 Dunfreis battaile fought by the Englishmen agaynste the Scottes 473. 46 Dungar sonne to Aydan slaine 149. 90 Dundach in Ireland 320.82 Dungesbie head in Cathnes 32.24 Duncane besieged by the Danes in the Castell of Bortha 242.38 Duncane king of Irelande 198.4 Duncane Lieutenaunt of Athole 215. 56 Durstus slaine 102 17 Duns Iohn a famous learned man flourisheth 355 72 Durstus succeedeth his father Finnanus in the Kingdome 21.63 Durstus giuen to banquetting and drunkennesse 21.72 Durstus forsaketh the company of his lavvfull vvife Agasia 21 8◅ Durstus causeth his vvife too bee forced by vile persons 21.82 Durstus deepe dissimulation 22.14 Durstus periurie 22.27 Durstus committeth a foule murther 22.30 Durstus besieged 22.46 Durstus slaine 22.52 Durstus children flee into Ireland 22. 57 Durstus tvvo sonnes slaine 24.39 Dutchmen arriue in Scotlande 44. 16 Durstus chosen king of the Pictes 93. 81 Durstus taken and brought prisoner to London 93 9◅ Durstus thirde of that name King of Pictes 98.110 Dussac Mounsieur a
Earle of Kyldares Rosse Ibarcan There is the thyrde Rosse on the othersyde of the water called Rosse Ibarcanne so named for that it standeth in the couÌ„trey of Kylkenny which is deuyded into thrée partes into Ibarcanne Ida and Idouth Weisforde Weisford an hauen towne not farre from Rosse I finde no great matters therof recorded but only that it is to be had in great price of all the Englishe posteritie planted in Ireland as a towne that was the first fostresse harboresse of the English conquerors Kylkenme Kilkenny the best vplandish towne or as they terme it y e proprest dry towne in IrelaÌ„d It is parted into the high towne the Irishe towne The Irish towne claymeth a corporation apart from the high town wherby great factioÌ„s growe daily betwene the inhabitants True it is that the Irish towne is the auncienter and was called the olde Kilkenny beyng vnder the bishop his becke as they are or ought to be at this present The high town was builded by the Englishe after the conquest and had a parcell of the Irishe towne therto vnited by the bishop his graunt made vnto the founders vpon their earnest request In the yere 1400. 1400. Robert Talbot a worthy gentleman Robert Talbot enclosed with walles the better part of this towne by which it was greatly fortified This gentleman deceased in y e yeare 1415. In this towne in the chore of the Frier preachers William Marshall William Marshal Erle Marshal and Erle of Penbroke was buried who departed this lyfe in the yere 1231. Richard brother to William to whome the inheritaunce descended within thrée yeres after deceased at Kilkenny beyng wounded to death in a field giuen in the heath of Kyldare in the yere 1234. the xv of Aprill 1234. was entumbed wyth hys brother according to the olde epitaph Hic comes est positus Richardê° vulnere fossus Cuius sub fossa Kilkenia continet ossa This town hath thre churches S. The churches of Kylkenny Kennies church our Ladies churche aliâs S. Maries church and S. Patrikes church with the abbey of S. Iohn S. Kennies churche is theyr chiefe and cathedrall church a worthy foundation as well for gorgeous buildinges as for notable liuyngs The GraÌ„mer schoole In the West ende of the churchyard of late haue bene founded a GraÌ„mer schoole by the right honourable Pierce or Peter Butler Erle of Ormond and Ossory Pierce Butler Margarete Fitz Girald and by his wife the countesse of Ormond the lady Margarete fitz Girald sister to Girald fitz Girald the Erle of Kyldare that last was Out of which schoole haue sprouted such proper ympes through the painefull diligeÌ„ce and the laboursame industry of a famous lettered man M. Peter White sometyme fellow of Oriall colledge in Oxford Peter whyte and schoole-maister in Kilkenny as generally the whole weale publike of Ireland and especially the southerne partes of that Island are greatly therby furthered This gentlemans methode in trayning vp youth was rare and singuler framyng the education according to the scholers vaine If he found him free he would bridle hym like a wyse Ilocrates froÌ„ his booke if he perceiued hym to be dull he would spur hym forwarde if he vnderstoode that he were y e woorse for beating he woulde win him with rewardes finally by interlacing study wyth recreation sorrow with mirth payne with pleasure sowernesse with swéetenesse roughnesse with myldenesse he had so good successe in schooling his pupils as in good sooth I may boldly byde by it that in the realme of IrelaÌ„d was no GraÌ„mer schoole so good in Englande I am well assured none better And because it was my happy happe God my parentes be thanked to haue bene one of his crewe I take it to stand with my duety sith I may not stretch myne habilitie in requiting hys good turnes yet to manifest my goodwill in remeÌ„bryng his paines And certes I acknowledge my selfe so much bound and beholding to him and his as for his sake I reuerence the meanest stone cemented in the walles of that famous schoole This town is named Kilkenny of an holy and learned Abbot called Kanicus Kylkenny why so called The lyfe of Kanicus borne in the countie of Kilkenny or as it is in some bookes recorded in Connaght This prelate beyng in his suckling yeres fostered through the prouidence of God with the 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉 and baptized and bishoppes by 〈◊〉 Lurâ—… thereto by Gods especiall appoyntment deputed grew into 〈◊〉 as tyme to such deuosâ—…e learnylng as he was deputed of all men to be as well a mirraâ—… of the 〈◊〉 as a pâ—…ragâ—… of the other wherof he gaue sufficient 〈◊〉 â—…re in hys mindâ—…tie For beyng 〈◊〉 to the keepyng of â—…éepe and 〈◊〉 follow shâ—…pheards wholy puâ—…ing themselues iâ—…e huskish vngaâ—… to â—…th and â—…nesse yet would he if all 〈◊〉 himselfe â—…ysed in â—…ing with Osiars and tâ—…gâ—… little woodden churches and in fashioning the furnitures thereto appertaining Beyng stepte further in yeares he made his repayre into England where cloystering himselfe in an abbey wherof one named Doctus was abbot he was wholy wedded to his books and to deuotion wherin he continued so painefull and diligent as being on a certaine time perâ—…ing a serious matter and hauing not fully drawne the fourth â—…all the abbey bell tingâ—…e to assemble the couent to some spirituall exercise To which he so hastened as he left the letter in semieâ—…clewyse vnfinished vntill he returned backe to his booke Soone after being promoted to ecclesiasticall orders he trauailed by the consent of his fellowmonkes to 〈◊〉 and in Italy he gaue such manifest profe of his pietie as to this day in some partes therof he is highly renowmed Thomas-towne Thomas fitz Antonie Thomas towne a proper town builded in the countie of Kilkenny by one Thomas fitz Antony in English man The Ieâ—… thereof name it Bally macke Andan that is y e town of fitz Antony This gentleman had issue two daughters the one of them was esâ—…ed to Denne the other maried to Archdeacon or Mackedâ—… whose heyres haue at this day the towne betweene them in cooparcenary But bicause the reader may sée in what part of the countrey the cities chiefe townes stand I take not farre amisse to place them in order as ensueth The names of the chiefe townes in Vlster Drogheda Carregfergus Downe Armach Arglash Cloagher Muneighan Doonnâ—…gaule Karreg mack Rosse Newry Carlingford Ardy Doondalke Louth The names of the chiefe townes in Leinster Dublin Balrudey Lâ—…e Swordes Tashâ—…ggard Lyâ—… Newcastle Râ—…mle Oughter arde Naas Clane Maynooth Kylcocke Rathayangan Kyldare Luianne Castletowne Philliâ—… towne Maryâ—…câ—…gh Kylcullen Castle marten Thystlederâ—… Kyles Athâ—… Catherlangh â—…helen â—…ouranne Tâ—…s â—…ne Encstyocle Cashelle Câ—…llanâ—…e Kylkenny Knocktofer Rosse Clonmelle Weiseforth Fernes Fydderd Enescorty Tathmon Wyckloe Ackloa The names of the chiefe townes in Mounster VVaterford Lismore Doongaman Yoghill Corcke Lymmerick Kylmallock
in refusing the sworde or his frowardnesse ouer cruell in snatching it vpon the first proffer tooke the Lord Thomas by the wrest of the hand and requested him for the loue of God the teares trilling downe his cheekes to giue him for two or three wordes the hearing which graunted the reuerend father spake as ensueth The Chancellor his oration My Lorde although hatred be commonly the handmayden of truth bycause we see hym that plainely expresseth his minde to be for the more part of most men disliked yet notwithstāding I am so well assured of your Lordship his good inclination towardes me and your Lordship so certaine of mine entire affection towardes you as I am emboldned notwithstanding this companie of armed men freely and franckly to vtter that which by me declared and by youre Lordship folowed wil turne God willing to the auayle of you your friends alies this coūtrey I doubt not my Lord but you know that it is wisdome for any man to looke before he leape and to sowne the water before his ship hul theron and namely where the matter is of weight there it behoueth to follow sounde sage and mature aduise Wherefore my Lorde sithe it is no Maygame for a subiect to leuie an armye against his prince it lyeth your Lordship in hand to breath longer on the matter as well by forecasting the hurt whereby you may fall as by reuoluing the hope wherewith you are fed What should moue your Lordship to this sodaine attempt I know not If it be the death of your father it is as yet but secretly muttered not manifestly published And if I should graunt you that your zeale in reuenging your father his execution were in some respect to be commended yet reason would you should suspend the reuēge vntil the certaintie were knowne And were it that the report were true yet it standeth with the dutie and allegeance of a good subiect from whom I hope in God The subiects dutie towards his king you meane not to disseuer your selfe not to spurne and kicke against his prince but contrariewise if his soueraigne be mightie to feare him if he be profitable to his subiects to honour him if he commaunde to obey him if he be kinde to loue him if he bee vicious to pitie him if he be a Tyrant to beare with him considering that in suche case it is better wyth pacience to bowe than with stubburnnesse to breake For sacred is the name of a king and odious is the name of a rebellion The name of a king sacred the one from heauen deriued and by God shielded the other in hell forged and by the Diuell executed Rebellion frō whence it springeth And therefore who so wyll obserue the course of Hystories or weigh the Iustice of God in punishing malefactours shall easily see that albeit the Sunne shyneth for a tyme on them that are in Rebellion yet suche sweete beginnings are at length clasped vp with sharpe and sowre endes Now that it appeareth that you ought not to beare armoure agaynst your King it resteth to discusse whether you bee able although you were willing to annoy your King For if among meane and priuate foes it be reckened for a folly in a secrete grudge to professe open hatred and where hee is not able to hynder there to shewe a willing mynde to hurte muche more ought your Lordshippe in so generall a quarell as thys that concerneth the King that toucheth the Nobilitie that apperteyneth to the whole common wealth to foresee the King his power on the one side and your force on the other and then to iudge if you bee able to cocke with him and to put hym beside the Cushion and not whylest you striue to sit in the Saddle to lose to your owne vndoyng both the Horse and the Saddle King Henrie is knowne to bee in these our dayes so puissant a Prince and so victorious a woorthie that he is able to conquere foreyne dominions and thinke you that he cannot defend his owne He tameth kings and iudge you that he may not rule his owne subiectes Suppose you conquere the lande doe you ymagine that hee will not recouer it Therefore my Lorde flatter not your selfe ouer muche repose not so great affiance either in your troupe of horsmen or in your bande of footmen or in the multitude of your partakers What face soeuer they put now on the matter or what successe soeuer for a season they haue bycause it is easie for an army to vanquish them that doe not resist yet hereafter when the king shall send his power into this Countrey you shall see your adherents like slipper chaungelings plucke in theyr hornes and such as were cōtent to beare you vp by the chin as long as you coulde swim when they espie you sinke they will by little and little shrinke from you and percase will ducke you ouer head and eares As long as the gale puffeth full in your sayles doubt not but diuerse wil anerre vnto you and feede on you as Crowes on carion But if any storme happen to bluster then will they be sure to leaue you post alone sticking in the myre or sands hauing least helpe when you haue most neede And what will then ensue of this The braunches will be pardoned the roote apprehended your honour disteyned your house attainted your armes reuersed your Manours razed your doings examined at whiche time God knoweth what an heartburning it will be when that with no colour may bee denied which without shame cannot be confessed My Lorde I poure not out Oracles as a soothsayer for I am neyther a Prophet nor the sonne of a Prophete Cassandraes prophecie But it may be that I am some frātique Cassandra being partner of hir spirit in foretelling the truth and partaker of hir misfortune in that I am not when I tell the truth beleeued of your Lordship whome God defende from being Priamus Weigh therefore my Lord the nobilitie of your auncesters remember your father his late exhortation forgette not your duetie to your Prince consider the estate of this poore Countrey with what heapes of curses you shall bee loden when your souldiours shall rifle the poore Subiectes and so farre endamage the whole Realme as they are not yet borne that shall hereafter feele the smart of this vprore You haue not gone so farre but you may turne home the king is mercifull your offence as yet not ouerheynous cleaue to his clemencie abandon this headlong folly Which I craue in most humble wise of your Lordship for the loue of God for the duetie you owe your Prince for the affection you beare the Countrey and for the respecte you haue ◅o youre owne safetie whome God defende from all trayterous and wicked attempts Hauing ended his Oration which hee sette forth with suche a lamentable action as his cheekes were all beblubbered with teares the horsemen namely such as vnderstoode not Englishe began to diuine what the
Lorde Chauncellour ment with all this long circumstance some of them reporting that hee was preaching a Sermon others sayd that he stoode making of some Heroicall Poetrie in the prayse of the Lorde Thomas And thus as euery Idiot shot his foolishe bolt at the wise Counsalour his discourse who in effect did nought else but drop precious stones before Hogges one Bard de Nelan Bard de Nelan â–ª an Irishe rithmour and a rotten sheepe able to infect an whole flocke was chatting of Irish verses as though his tongue had runne on pattens in commendation of the Lorde Thomas inuesting him with the tytle of silken Thomas Silken Thomas bycause his horsemens iacks were gorgeously embrodered with silke and in the ende he tolde him that hee lingred there ouerlong Whereat the Lorde Thomas being quickned did cast hys eye towardes the Lorde Chauncellour and sayde My Lorde Chauncellour He replyeth I come not hither to take aduice what I shoulde doe but to giue you to vnderstande what I minde to doe It is easie for the sounde to counsaile the sicke But if the sore had smarted you as much as it festereth me you woulde bee percase as impacient as I am As you woulde wishe me to honour my Prince so duetie willeth mee to reuerence my father Wherefore he that will wyth such tyrannie execute mine innocent parent and withall threaten my destruction I may not nor will not hold him for my king Henrie Lorde of Irelande And yet in truth he was neuer our king but our lord as his progenitours haue beene before him But if it bee my hap to miscarie as you seeme to prognosticate catche that catche maye I will take the Market as it ryseth and will choose rather to die with valiantnesse and libertie than to liue vnder king Henrie in bondage and villanie And yet it may be that as strong as hee is and as weake as I am I shal be able like a flesh worme to itch the bodie of his Kingdome and force him to scratch deepely before he be able to pike me out of my sâ—…ame Wherefore my Lorde I thanke you for your good counsaile and were it not that I am too crabbed a note in descant to bee nowe tuned it might be that I woulde haue warbled sweeter harmonie than at this instaunt I mean to sing With these words he rendred vp the sword Thomas rendreth vp the sworde and flung away like a bedlem beeing garded wyth hys brutishe droue of brainesicke Rebelles The Counsaile sent secretely vpon his departure to maister Maior and his breethren to apprehende if they conueniently might Thomas Fitz Giralde and his confederates But the warning was so skarborrow the enimie so strong the Citie by reason of the plague that raunged in towne and in country so dispeopled as their attempt therein would seeme but vaine and friuolous Ouer this the weaker parte of the Rebelles would not penne vp themselues within the Citie walles but stood houering aloofe off towards Ostmantowne greene on the toppe of the hyll where the gallouse stoode a fitte center for suche a circle till tyme they were aduertised of theyr Captayne Thomas his returne This open RebellioÌ„ in this wise denounced parte of the Counsell Alen. Finglasse namely Alen Archbyshop of Dublin Finglasse chiefe Baron hyed wyth bagge and baggage to the Castell of Dublin whereof Ioan White was Constable Iohan White who after was dubbed Knight by the Kyng in England for hys worthy seruice done in that vprore Thomas and his crew supposing that in ouerrunning the whole land they should finde no blocke to stumble at sauing the Earle of Ossorie agreed to trie if by any allurements he could be trayned to their coÌ„federacy And for as much as the Lorde Iames Butler was linckt with Thomas Fitz Girald in great amitie and frieÌ„dshippe it was thought best to giue him the onsette who if he were wonne to sway with them they woulde not weigh two chippes the force of his father the Earle of Ossory Thomas forthwith sent his messengers and letters to his cousin the Lord Butler couenanting to deuide wyth hym halfe the Kingdome would be associate him in this enterprise whervpon the Lorde Butler returned Thomas hys brokers with this letter The Lorde Butler his letâ—â— to Thomas â—â— Girald TAking penne in hand to write you my resolute aunswere I muse in the very firste line by what name to call you my Lord or my Cousin seeing your notorious treason hath disteyned your honour and your desperate lewdenesse shamed youre kinred you are so liberall in parting stakes with mee that a man woulde weene you had no right to the game so importunat in crauing my company as if you would perswade me to hang with you for good fellowship Do you thinke that Iames was so madde as to gape for Gogions or so vngracious as to sell his trueth for a peece of Ireland Were it so as it cannot bee that the chickens you recken were both hatched and feathered yet bee thou sure I had rather in this quarrell dye thine enimie than liue thy partner for the kindnesse you proffer me and good loue in the ende of your letter the best way I can I purpose to requite that is in aduising you though you haue fetched your feaze yet to looke well ere you leape Ignorance and errour wyth a certayne opinion of duetie haue carried you vnawares to this follie not yet so ranke but it may be cured The King is a vessell of bounty and mercy youre wordes agaynste his Maiestie shall not be accompted malitious but rather belched out for heate and impotency except your selfe by heaping offences discouer a mischeuous and wilfull meaning Farewell Thomas Fitz Girald netled with this round aunswere was determined to inuade the CouÌ„trey of Kilkenny firste forcing an othe vpon the Gentlemen of the pale and suche as woulde not agree thereto he tooke prisoners Fingall whiche was not before acquainted with the recourse of the Irishe enimie Fingall spoyled was lefte open to bee preded and spoyled by the Tooles Iohan Burnell of Balgriffen who were therein assisted by Iohan Burnell of Balgriffen a Gentleman of a faire liuing settled in a good battle soile of Fingall taken for one not deuoyde of witte were it not that hee were ouertaken with this treason Patrike Fitz â—â—â—ons slaine In this conflicte Patricke Fitz Simons wyth dyuers other good housholders miscaried This victory bred so greate an insolencye in Thomas Fitz Giralde Messengers sente from Thomas to Dublin as hee sente his messengers to the Citie declaring that albeit they offered him that iniurie as that he could not haue free passage with hys companye too and fro in the pale and therefore would he vse the benefyte of his late skirmishe or bee aunswerable in iust reuenge to their due deserte he mought by lawe of armes put their Citie to fire and sword yet this notwithstanding if they would but permit his men
the histories and Recordes of the lande the matter myghte bee tryed iudged and ordered And thus for the time did the Pope ridde hys hands of these and the like matters Wherefore at their comming home and after long debating and discussing of the cause as in William Marleburgh it appeareth more at large at a Synode holden at Windsor in the yeare .1072 An. reg 6. 1072 Math. VVest The subiectiō of the Archbishopricke of Yorke to the Archbishopricke of Canterbury sentence was gyuen on Lanfrankes syde so that in all things concerning Religion and the fayth of holy Churche the Archbishop of Yorke should be euer subiect to the Archbishop of Canterbury and come with all the Bishops of his prouince to anye suche place as the Archbyshop of Canterbury shoulde call anye counsell within the Realme of Englande Moreouer when any elected Bishop of Canterbury was to be sacred the Archbishop of Yorke for the time beeing should come to Canterbury and sacre hym there and if the Archbishoppe of Yorke was to be stalled and sacred then shoulde he come vnto Canterbury or else where it should please the Archbishop of Canterbury to assigne ▪ and there to be sacred of hym taking an oth with hys profession of due obedience vnto the higher see And nowe heere is to bee noted that as the sayde Thomas of Yorke dyd yeelde obedience to Lanfranke of Canterbury so lykewise the electe Bishop of Glascowe in Scotlande named Michaell was soone after consecrated of the foresayd Thomas Archbishop of Yorke Polidor The Archbishop of Yorke acknowledged primate of all Scotlande and made an oth of obedience vnto the sayde Archbishop as to the primate of all Scotland and after him Tothade the Bishop of Saint Androwes did the like by commaundemente of Malcolme the third of that name Kyng of Scotlande and Margaret hys wife who thoughte good by this recognisance of obedience and duetie so to prouide againste further inconuenience to come that heereafter one of the Bishops of their Realme shoulde not take vpon them to consecrate an other or do any thing contrary to the ancient decrees of the old fathers that mighte be preiudiciall to the authoritie of the Archbishop of Yorke at whose appoyntmēt those and the like things were accustomed to bee done But to leaue this and to speake of other thyngs which chaunced in the meane time that this controuersie depended betwixt the two Archbishops I finde that Edwin Marchar Earles of Mertia and Northumberland being reconciled with the K. of Englande and hauing of late obteyned pardon for their former misdeameanor began now so muche to mislike the state of the worlde agayne as euer they did before for perceyuing howe the Englishmenne were still oppressed and thralled with miserie on eache hand they conspired and began a new Rebellion but with very ill successe as shall heereafter appeare The Kyng vnderstanding of theyr dealings Mat. Paris and beeing not only armed thoroughly with temporall force but also endued with the spiritual power of his Archbishop Lanfranke who aided him in all that hee might for the suppressing of those Rebels wasted the countreys exceedingly where hee vnderstoode that they had gotten any releefe minding vtterly to vanquish them with sword fire and hunger or by extreame penurie to bring them to some order They on the other part make as stout resistance and now perceyuing that it stoode thē vppon either to vanquish or to fall into vtter ruine they reise a mighty strong host and made Edgar Etheling their Captaine a comely gētle mā a valiāt in whom also y e whole hope of y e English nation reposed as appeareth by thys by worde Edgar Ethling Englandes dearling which was dayly rehearsed of him And amongst other noble men that were chiefe doers in the assemblyng of this army Fredericke Abbot of S. Albons was one of the chiefe a Prelate of greate wealth and no lesse puissance The King perceyuing hys estate to be nowe brought into no small daunger is by reason thereof in a great perplexitie what to do in the end he counselleth with the Archbishop Lanfranke of Canterbury how he might remedy the matter who told him that in such a desperate case the best way for hym shoulde bee to seeke by fayre words and friendly offers how to pacifie y e English nobilitie whiche by all meanes possible would neuer ceasse to molest him in the recouerie of their libertie Herevppon therefore hee made meanes to come to some agreement with them and so well the matter proceeded on his side that the Englishmen deceiued through his faire promises were contente to commune of peace for whiche purpose they came also vnder the conduit of the Abbot Fredericke vnto Berkamsted where after much reasoning and debating of the matter for the conclusion of amity betwixte them Kyng William in the presence of the Archbishop Lanfranke other of his Lords toke a personall othe vpon al y e reliques of the Church of S. Albons the holy Euangelists the Abbot Frederick ministring y e same vnto him that he would frō thensfoorth obserue and keepe the good and aunciente approued lawes of the Realme whiche the noble Kings of England his auncestors had made and ordeined heretofore but namely those of S. Edward which were supposed to be the most equall and indifferent The peace being thus concluded and the Englishmē growen therby to some hope of further quietnesse they began to forsake theyr allies returne eache one eyther to his own possessiōs or attēdance vpon y e K. but he warely cloking his inward purposed intēt notwithstāding y e vnitie lately made determineth particularly to assaile his enimies whose power without doubt so long as it was vnited could not possibly be ouercome as he thought therefore being now by reasō of this peace disseuered dispersed he thoght it high time to practise his secrete purposes and therevpon taking them at vnwares thinking of nothing lesse than warres and suddayne inuasiō he imprisoneth many killeth diuers pursueth y e residue w t fire sword spoiling thē of their goods possessions lāds inheritances banishing them out of y e Realm altogither at his pleasure In the meane time those of the Englishe nobilitie which could escape this his outrageous tirannie got away amōgst other Edgar Etheling fled again into Scotland but Edwin was slain of his own souldiers as he rode also towards Scotlād Ran. Higd. H. Hunt Mat. Paris Erle Marchar one Hereward with the Bishoppe of Durham named Egelwinus got into the Isle of Ely in purpose there to defend themselues frō the iniurie of y e Normans bycause they tooke y e place by reason of y e situatiō of y e same to be of no small strength but K. Williā endeuouring to cut thē short in y e beginning reised a power first stopped all y e passages on y e East side and on the west part he made a causey through y e Fennes
and feeble was cited peremptorily in the parties of beyonde the Sea before Iudges chosen forth by the same vsurers to make answere for suche high iniurie as he had here done to the Popes factors The Bishop willing by the example of Sem rather to couer his fathers shame than to reueale it to the whole world did quietly put vp the matter and to pacifie the trouble suffred their wickednes commending in the meane while the cause vnto his patrone Saint Paule The Bishop of London hys doctrine And when he preached of the force of fayth he vttered this saying And if an Angell preache contrarie doctrine to vs in these things let him be accursed In the .xx. yeare of King Henryes raigne An. reg 20. in the Aduent tyme the noble Baron the Lorde Robert Fitz Water departed this lyfe and so likewise did a noble yong man descended of a noble parentage one Roger de Somerie On the .xiiij. day of Ianuarie ensuing 1236 King Henrie marieth the Ladie Eleanor daughter to the Earle of Prouance the king maryed the Ladie Eleanore daughter to the Earle of Pronance named Raymonde Thys maryage was solemnised at Canterburie and in the Vtas of Sainte Hyllarye nexte ensuyng beeing Sunday shee was crowned as Queene of Englande at Westmynster At the solemnitie of this feast and coronation of the Queene all the high Peeres of the realme Mat. Paris both spirituall and temporall were present to exercise their offices as to them apperteyned The Citizens of London were there in great array bearing afore hir in solemne wise three hundred .lx. Cuppes of golde and siluer in token that they ought to wayte vpon hir Cuppe The Archbyshoppe of Canterburie according to his dutie crowned hir The Earle of Chester the Bishop of London assisting him as his Deacon The Earle of Chester bare the sworde of Saint Edwarde before the king in token that he was Earle of the Palace and had authoritie to correct the King if he should see him to swarue from the limites of Iustice The Conestable of Chester his Conestable of Chester attending vpon hym and remoouing the people where the presse was thicke with hys rodde or warder The Earle of Pembroke high Marshall bare the rod before the king The Earle of Pembroke and made rowmth before hym both in the Church and in the Hall placing euery man â—…wardens â—…qâ—…e 〈◊〉 The â—…le of Leycester â—…e Waren and ordering the seruice at the Table The wardens of the cinque portes bare a Canapie ouer the king supported with foure speares The Erle of Leycester held the Bason when they washed The Earle of Warren in the place of the Erle of Arundell bycause he was vnder age attended on the kings cap. M. Michaell Belet was Butler by office The Earle Hereâ—… The Erle of Hereford exercised the roome of high Marshal in y e kings house The Lord William de Beauchampe was aulmoner Lord Wâ—… Beaâ—… The chiefe Iustice of the Forestes on the righte hand of the king remoued the dishes on the table though at the first he was stayed by some allegation made to the contrarie The Câ—… of Loâ—…don The Citizens of LoÌ„don serued forth wine to euerie one in great plentie The Citizens of Winchester had ouersight of the Kitchen and Larderie The Câ—… of Wincâ—… And so euery person according to his dutie exercised his roumth and bycause no trouble should rise many things were suffered which vpon further aduise taken therein were reformed The Chancellor and al other ordinarie officers kept their place The feast was plentifull so that nothing wanted that coulde be wished Moreouer in Tuthill fielde royall Iustes were holden by the space of right dayes togyther A Parliament at London Poliâ—…re And soone after the king called a Parliament at London where many things were enacted for the good gouernment of the Realme and therewith the king demaunded a subsedie Straunge sightes Mat. Paris Aboute the same time wonderfull straunge sightes were seene In the North partes of England not farre from the Abbay of Roch or Rupy there appeared comming forth of the earth companies of armed men on horsebacke with speare shielde sworde and baners displayed in sundrie fourmes and shapes ryding in order of battaile and encountering togyther and this sight was seene sundrie dayes eche after other Sometyme they seemed to ioyne as it had bin in battaile and fought sore and sometime they appeared to iust and breake slaues as it had bene at some triumphant iustes or iorney The people of the country beheld them a far off with great wonder for the thing shewed so liuely that nowe and then they might see theÌ„ come with their emptie horses sore wounded and hurt and then meÌ„ likewise maÌ„gled and bleeding that pitie it was to see theÌ„ And that which seemed more strange to be most maruelled at the prints of their feet appeared in y e grouÌ„d the grasse troden down in places where they had beene seene The like sight was also seene more apparantly in Ireland in the parties therabout Immediatly folowed or rather preceded passing great tempests of raine Great raiâ—… Math. Paâ—… which filled the earth full of water and caused monstrous flouds for this raine continued by all the space of the monethes of Ianuarie Februarie and a great parte of Marche Mat. VVeâ—… and for eyght dayes it rayned as some write in maner withoute ceassing and vpon the tenth of February immediately after the chaunge of the Moone the Thames rose with such an high tide that boates might haue bin rowed vp and downe in Westminster Hall In the winter before â—…reat thuÌ„der on the twentith of December there chanced a great thunder and on the first friday in December whiche was the fifth of that moneth there was a counterfet sunne seene beside the true sunne Moreouer as in y e spring preceding there happened sore and exceeding great raynes so in y e sommer following ther chaunced a great drouth A dry sommer continuing by y e space of four monethes or more At this Parliamente diuers good and profitable lawes were made and established whych yet remayne in vse bearing the name of the place where they were fyrste ordeyned â—…n reg 21. In the beginning of the one and twentith yere of King Henries raigne on the morrow after the feast of Saint Martine and certaine dayes after the Sea burst out with suche high tides and tempestes of winde â—…gh tides Math. Paris that the marrish countreyes nere to the same were drowned vp and ouerflowen and beside greate heardes and flockes of Cattell that perished there was no small number of men lost drowned The Sea rose coÌ„tinually in flowing the space of two days and one night without ebbing by reason of the mighty violence of contrary windes â—…sbech â—…ple periâ—…g by rage waters At Wisbech also and in Villages thereaboutes the people were drowned in great
returned oute of the holy lande and from thence he was royally by the same king Lewes brought vnto Paris The CouÌ„tessâ—… of Cornewall The Countesse of Cornwall went ouer with a noble trayne of Lordes Gentlemen and others to bee present at thee meeting of hir two sisters the Queens of England France so that the royaltie of the assemble on ech part was great Finally after that king Henry had continued for his pleasure certaine dayes hee returned streight into Englande 1255 landing at Douer in Christmasse week This iourney into Gascoigne was right costly and to small purpose as wryters haue recorded for the kings charges amounted to the summe of .xxvij. hundred thousande poundes and aboue except landes and rentes which he gaue vnaduisedly to those which little deserued but rather sought the hynderance both of him and his Realme besydes the gyfte of .xxx. thousand Markes which he bestowed vpon hys halfe brethren by the mother side not reckening the landes nor rentes neyther yet the wardes nor the horses nor Iewelles which he gaue to them besides being of price inestimable And thus in two iourneys which he made the one into Poictou which Countrey hee lost and the other into Gascoigne which he hardly preserued he spent more treasure than a wise chapman would haue giuen for them both if they had beene set on sale as Mat. Paris writeth Aboute the quindene of Easter A Parliaâ—… there was a Parliament holdeÌ„ at London at the which were assembled all the estates of the realme in greater number than had bin coÌ„monly seene This ParliameÌ„t was called chiefly to let theÌ„ vnderstand y e kings necessitie of money for discharging of hys debts to require them of their ayde towards the same but whereas he requested more than was thought stoode wyth reason The estates â—…fuse to grâ—… a subsâ—… they woulde not agree therevnto but they desired that he woulde confyrme and without all cauillation sweare to obserue the liberties which by the charter bee had promised to hold Moreouer they required y t by the common councell of the Realme they myghte choose to them the chiefe Iustice the Chauncelloure and Treasurer but they were aunswered playnely by some of the priuie Councell that this request would at no hand be graunted Furthermore the Prelates complayned that they were driuen to pay the tenthes whiche they promised condicionally as it were now by constreynt and of duetie to the preiudice of the liberties of the Church The nobles also found themselues greeded for the exactions which they sawe at hand but finally after many thyngs had bene debated touching these matters the Parliamente was adiourned till Michaelmas nexte â—…e Parliaâ—…nt adiourâ—… and euery man departed to his home with no greate trust of the Kyngs good will towards them nor anye harty thankes receyued of hym for theyr paynts as may be thought by that whyche writers haue recorded Two noble men to whome the custody and guyding of the Kyng Queene of Scottes was committed â—…bert de Ros â—… Iohn Balâ—… accursed that is to witte Robert de Ros and Iohn de Baillioll were accursed for misusing themselues in the trust and charge whyche they had taken vpon them King Henry was the same time at Nottingham The information came foorth by a Phisition the which was sente from the Queene of England vnto hir daughter the Queene of Scottes to be about hir for regard of hir health â—…ginald de â—…a Phisiâ—… but bycause the same Phisition whose name was Reginalde of Bathe perceyued the Queene of Scottes to bee empayred in health through anguish of minde by reason of the misdemeanor of such as had the gouernemeÌ„t of hir and hir husbaÌ„d he sticked not to blame and reprooueâ—… then 〈◊〉 their doings for the whiche hee was poysoned as some thinke for ther truth was he shortly after sickened and dyed signifying vppon his death bed vnto the Queene of Englande what he misliked in those that had the doings about hir daughter and hir husband the Scottishe Kyng Finally the King and Queene of Englande came to amenâ—…ew with the King of Scottes and the Queene theyr daughter and setting all things with them in such order as was thought conueniente they returned agayne towarde the South parties A shift to get money of the Bishops deuised by the Bishop of Hereforde In the meane season the Bishop of Hereforde deuised a shift to help y e King to money towards the payment of his debtes by obteyning certayne autentâ—…e seales of the Prelates of this land with whiche he sealed certayne instruments and writings wherein it was expressed that he had receyued dyuers summes of money for dispatche of businesse perteyning to them and to their Churches of this and that merchaunt of Florence or Siena whereby they stoode bound for repayment thereof by the same instruments and writings to made by him theyr agent in theyr names Thys shift was deuised by the sayde Byshop of Herford with licence obteyned therevnto of the king and also of the Pope vnto whome for the same intent the sayd Byshop was sent with Sir Robert Walerane Knight The Pope was the sooner perswaded to graunte licence for the contriuing of suche manner of shift bycause the money should goe to the discharging of the kings debts into the whiche hee was runne by bearing the charges of the warres against the King of Sicill The same yeare the King by the procuremeÌ„t of his brother Richard Earle of Cornewall had seased the liberties of the Citie of London into his owne hands The liberties of London seased into the Kings handes vnder coulour that the Maior hadde not done his duetie in the iust punishing of Bakers for breaking of the assises of their bread Herevpon where the Maior and communaltie of the Citie had by the Kings graunte the Citie to ferme with diuers customes and offices at a certayne rate and stinted summe of money nowe the Kyng set officers therein at his pleasure whiche were accomptable to him for all the reâ—…enewes and profites that grewe within the Citie But where as the malice whiche the Earle of Cornewall bare to the Citie was for that they would not exchaunge with him certayn grounds that belonged to their communaltie they were glad to agree with him and pay vnto him sixe hundred markes After whiche agreemente concluded about the ninteenth daye of Nouember they were shortly after restored to theyr liberties This chaunced before the Kings comming ouer who at his comming to London lodged in the Tower and vpon newe displeasure conceyued towards the Citie for the escape of a prisoner beeing a Clearke conuict out of Newgate which had killed a Prior that was of allâ—…aunce to the Kyng as Cousin to the Queene the King sent for the Maior and theâ—… Pherises to â—…orde before him to aunswere the matter The Maior layde the faulte from hym to the Sherifes for so muche as to them belonged the keeping of all the prisoners within
chaunced through the whole realme spreading from place to place but specially this yeare it raigned moste in the â—…orth where as in the yeares before it begaâ—… the South partes â—…n reg 13. The King desirous to bee reuenged of the Scottes made preparation to â—…iâ—… a mightie armie and for want of sufficient numbers of men in other places towardes the North partes the king caused muche people to come vnto him â—…nto of the South and East partes of the realme amongst the which the citie of London was constrayned to finde at their costes and charges two hundred men sending them to Yorke where the generall assembly of the armie was made From thence after hee had receyued his menne from sundrie Countreys and good Townes of hys Realme â—…e king goâ—… Berwike he went to Berwike and layde siege to the Towne In which meane tyme the Scots being assembled came to the borders passed by the English hoste and entring into Englande came in secrete wise downe into the marches of Yorke 〈◊〉 and their 〈…〉 the people and robbed â—…eâ—… in mâ—… cruell wife The Scottes come into the parties of Yorke Wherefore the Archbishop of Yorke incoming in time of such necessitie to doe his indeuour in defence of hys Countrey assembled 〈◊〉 he power as he could gette wether of Clearkes Monkes Châ—…ons and other spirituall men of the Church wâ—… husbandmen and such â—…her vnapt people for the warâ—… and thus with a great number of menne and 〈◊〉 where lyke ordisâ—… Chuâ—… Auesburie 〈◊〉 togither with the Bishop of Eliâ—… then Lorde Chaâ—…cellour came forth agaynste the Sâ—…tes and recounted with them at a place called Mitton vpon Suale the .vij. day of October Hereas the Englishmen passed ouer the water of Suale The discomfiture of MittoÌ„ vpon Suale Caxton the Scottes set fire vpon attaine â—…ackâ—… of 〈◊〉 the smoke wherof was so hugâ—… that the Englishmen might not see where the Scottes lay And when the English men were oncâ—… got ouer the water the Scots came vpon them with a wing in gâ—… order of battaile in fashion like to a â—…lde genly assayling their enimies who for locke of good gouernment were easily beaâ—…n downe and discomâ—…ed without shewing any great resistsâ—… so that three were slain a the number of thâ—… M. and the residue shamefully put to flight Polidor â—…burie 〈◊〉 Dirreâ—…as ranâ—…d two â—…code â—…eth hath â—…as shortâ—…er made â—…p of â—…ch â—…on The Archbishop the Lord Chancellor and the Abbot of Sâ—…y with helpe of their swift horses escaped with diuerse other The Maior of Yorke named Nicholas Fleming was slaine 〈◊〉 William Diâ—… priest take prisoner Many were drowned by reason that the Scots had gotten betwixt the Englishmen and the bridge so that the EnglishmeÌ„ flâ—… betwixt the wing of the Scots and these main battail which had compassâ—… the English men about on the one side as the wing did vpon the other Bicause that so many spirituall men died in this battail 〈◊〉 was after nameâ—… of many wryters the white battails The king of England enformed of this â—…throw giuen by the Scots to the Northren men he brake vp his siege incâ—… maâ—…y and returned to Yorke Thus aâ—… the kings 〈◊〉 by one meanes or other quaâ—…ed and came but to euill the ceâ—…e Polidor â—…o that the English nation began to grow in contempt by the 〈◊〉 gâ—… 〈◊〉 of y e prince the which as one oâ—… of theÌ„ eight way rashly and with 〈◊〉 good aâ—… meÌ„ order his doings which thing to grieued the noâ—…le men of the realme that they 〈◊〉 day and night by that â—…eaâ—… they might procure him to loâ—… better to his 〈…〉 duetie which they iudged might well be brought to passe The enuie of the Lordes towardes the Spencers his nature being not altogither euill if they might finde shift to remoue froÌ„ him the two Spencers Hugh the father and Hugh the sonne who were gotten into such fauor with him that they onely did all things and without them nothing was done so that they were nowe had in as great hatred and indignation both of the Lordes and coÌ„mons as euer in tymes past was Peers de Gaueston the late Earle of Cornwall But the Lords minded not so much the destruction of these Spencers but that the king ment as much their aduauncement so that Hugh the son was made high Chamberlain of Englande contrarie to the mind of all the noble men by reason whereof hee bare himselfe so hautie and proude that no Lorde wythin the lande myght agayne say that which in hys conceyte seemed good 1320 Additions to Triuet In this .xiij. yere of his raigne in Iune king Edwarde went ouer into Fraunce where at Amiens he founde the Frenche king of whome he receyued the Countie of Pontien which the said French king vpon his comming to the Crowne had seased into his handes bycause the King of Englande had not done to him his homage due for the same A tenth of the Ecclesiastical liuings graÌ„ted to the king Also this yeare the Pope graunted to the king of Englande the tenth of Ecclesiasticall reuenues for one yeare as before that time he hadde likewyse done An. reg 14. Caxton About this season Pope Iohn being enformed of the great destruction and vnmerciful war whiche the Scottes made vppon the Englishe men and namely for that they spared neyther Churche nor Chapell Abbey nor Priorie hee sent a general sentence vnder his Bulles of leade vnto the Archbishop of Canterburie and Yorke appoynting them that if Robert le Bruce the Scottishe king would not recompence king Edwarde for all such harmes as the realme of Englande had by him susteyned and also make restitution of the goodes that had beene taken out of Churches and Monasteries Scots eftsones accursed they shoulde pronounce the same sentence agaynst him and hys complices Whervpon when the Scots tooke no regard to the Popes admonition the Archbishop proceeded to the pronouncing of the foresaid sentence so that Robert Bruce Iames Dowglas Thomas Randulf Erle of Murrey and al other that kept him companie or theÌ„ in any wise mainteyned were accursed throughout England euerie day at Masse three tymes But this nothing holpe the matter but put the king and the realme to great cost and charge and in the meane season the commons of the Realme were sore oppressed by sundrie wayes and meanes dyuerse of them lost theyr goodes and possessions beeyng taken from them vpon surmised and foyned quarelles so that many were vtterly vndone and 〈◊〉 singular and mysordered persones 〈◊〉 â—…naunced After the Epiphattie 〈…〉 when the trâ—… 〈◊〉 betwixt the two realmes of England and â—…land Râ—… 〈◊〉 The 〈…〉 an army of Scots entred England 〈◊〉 into the Bishoprike of Durham The 〈…〉 Murrey stayed at DaringtoÌ„ but Iames Dâ—â—glas and the steward of Scotland went 〈◊〉 waste the country the one towards 〈◊〉 Cleueland and the other towards Richâ—… 〈◊〉 they of the Countie
reformation of the wrongs which he offered to them that had made their resort vnto him as reason was they should This appeale was written and duelie examined the tenor whereof was as followeth CHarles by the grace of God king of Fraunce to our nephue y e prince of Wales Aquitain sende greeting So it is y e diuers Prelates Barons knightes Vniuersities communalties and Colledges of y e marches and limittes of y e countrey of Gascoigne and the dwellers and inhabitants in the bounds of our Realm besides diuers other of the Duchie of Aquitaine are resorted and come to our Court to haue right of certayne grieues and vnlawfull troubles whyche you by vnaduised counsayle and simple information haue purposed to do vnto them wherof we greatly maruell Therefore to withstande and to redresse suche things we are so conioyned to them that we haue thought good by our royall power to commaund you to repaire to our Citie of Paris in proper person and there to shewe and presente youre selfe before vs in the chamber of oure peeres that you may bee constreyned to do righte to youre people concerning the greyfes whyche they all edge that you are about to oppresse them with who claymeth to haue their resort into oure Courte and that you fayle not thus to doe in as speedy manner as yee can immediately vppon the sighte and hearing of these present letters In witnesse whereof we haue to the same sette oure seale Yeuen at Paris the fiue and twentith day of Ianuarie An. reg 43. These letters were giuen to a Knighte and a Clearke to beare and presente to the Prince which according to that they had in charge weÌ„t to Burdeaux and there getting licence to come before the Princes presence they redde the letters wherewith he was not a little chafed and openly tolde them for a playne aunswere The Princes answer to the messenger that he meant to accomplishe the French Kings request for hys commming to Paris but that shoulde bee with hys helmet on his head and threescore thousande armed men to beare witnesse of his appearaunce The messengers perceyuing the Prince to bee sore offended with theyr message got them away without taking their leaue but before they were passed the limittes of the Englishe dominion they were stayed by commaundemente of the Prince and committed to prison within the Citie of Agen. The duke of Berry Aboute the same time the Duke of Berry returned into Fraunce hauing licence of Kyng Edwarde for an whole yeare but hee bare hymselfe so wisely that he returned not againe at all for hee excused himselfe till time that the warre was open In like manner the more parte of all the other hostages by one meane or other were returned into Fraunce and some indeede were deliuered vpon their raunsomes or other considerations so that the Frenche King beeing deliuered of that obstacle was the more ready to breake with the King of Englande and therefore vppon knowledge had of the Princes aunswere to those that hee sente with the appeale by suche of the messengers seruauntes as were returned and declared howe their masters were dealte with hee couertly prepared for the warre The Lorde Chandos The Lorde Iohn Chandos and other of the Princes counsayle foresawe what would ensue of the leauing of the fowage and therefore counsayled the Prince not to proceede any further iâ—… it but he hauing only regard to the reliefe of hys souldiers and men of warre woulde needes gâ—… forward with it Indeede if he might haue brought it to passe as it was denied that euery housholder should haue payde a franke Chyâ—… for chimniage the summe would haue growen to twelue hundred thousand Frankes by the yeare whiche had bin a greate reliefe and that made hym the more earnest bycause he might haue bin able so to haue payd his debtes When it was perceyued certainly that open Rebellion would there of ensue and that King Edwarde was certified of the whole state of the matter and how dyuers of the Lords of Aquitayne were withdrawen vnto the Court of Fraunce in manner as before ye haue hearde he deuised a letter whiche hee caused to be published through all the parties of Aquitayne A lâ—… published by 〈◊〉 Prince to appease the Gâ—…coigâ—… the effect whereof was this that where the people of that countrey found themselues greeued for suche exactions as were demaunded of them he meane therefore vppon examination of their iust complaints to see their wrongs redressed And further he was contented to pardon al such as were withdrawen to the Frenche K. so that within a monethes space they would returne home requiring them that in no wise they should stirre anye seditions tumult but to remember their othes of allegiance and to coÌ„tinue in the same according to their boundeÌ„ dueties and as for him he would be ready to see them eased that woulde shewe by plaine proofe how they had bin otherwise greeued than reason might beare This was his meaning and this was the aduice of all his counsaylours But this courteous Letter little auayled for dayly the Gascoignes reuolted from the Prince and turned to the Frenche part Moreouer another occasion of grudge chanced la. Mâ—… to renue the malice betwixt the king of England and the french King For whereas ye haue heard that the Earle of Flaunders had fianced his daughter and haue to the Lorde Edmonde of Langley Earle of Cambridge there was shift made namely by the Earles mother the Countesse of Arthois who was all French Phiâ—… dâ—… 〈…〉 the Earle of Flanders daughter that notwithstanding the same affiance shee was married vnto Phillip Duke of Burgoigne surnamed the hardie he gote that surname of hardie by this occasion as Iacodus Meir hath It chaunced that whilest hee was prisoner in England with his father he was vpoÌ„ a time appointed to waite at the table The câ—…se of has suâ—… be Hâ—… where his father and the King of England sate togither at meate and bycause a noble man of Englande that was appoynted likewise to attende at the same table serued first the King of England before the King of Fraunce this Phillip vp with his fyst and tooke the English Lorde a blow on the eare saying wilt thou serue the king of Englande first where the Frenche king sitteth at the same table The English man out with his dagger and would haue striken the sayd Philip but the king of Englande straytly charged him to the contrary and praysing the deed of the yong stripling sayde vnto him Vous estes Philippe le hardie Thou art sayd he the hardie Philip. And so from that day he bare that name euer after There bee other that say howe he tooke that surname bycause in the battaile of Poictiers he abode still with his father till the ende of the battail without shewing any token of feare or faintnesse of courage The Erles of Arminacke and Perigord with the other Lordes of Gasgoigne
lay aside all rancor malice displeasure so that in concluding a godly peace they might receyue profit and quietnesse here in this worlde and of God an euerlasting rewarde in heauen After this admonition thus to them giuen after diuerse dayes of communication euery part brought in their demaunds which were most cōtrarie and farre from any likelyhood of comming to a good conclusion The Englishmen required that K. Charles should haue nothing but what it pleased the king of England that not as dutie but as a benefite by him of his mere liberalitie giuen and distributed The Frenchmen on the other part woulde that king Charles shoulde haue the Kingdome frankly and freely and that the king of England shoulde leaue the name armes and tytle of the King of Fraunce and to bee contente with the Dukedomes of Aquitaine and Normandie and to forsake Paris and all the townes whiche they possessed in France betwene the ryuers of Some and Loyr being no percel of the Duchie of Normandie To bee briefe the pride of the one part and the ambition of the other hindered concorde peace and quietnesse The Cardinals seeing them so farre in sunder mynded not to dispute theyr tytles but offred them reasonable conditions of truce and peace for a season which notwithstanding either of frowardnesse or of disdeyne vpon both partes were openly refused Insomuch that the Englishmen in great displeasure departed to Calays and so into England One Writer affyrmeth that they being warned of a secrete conspiracie moued agaynst them sodainly departed frō Arras and so returned into their Countrey Whiles this treatie of peace was in hande the Lorde Talbot the Lorde Willoughbie the Lorde Scales with the Lorde Lisle Adam and fiue thousande men of warre besieged the towne of Saint Denys with a strong hand The Erle of Dunoys hearing thereof accompanied wyth the Lorde Lohac and the Lorde Bueill wyth a great companie of horsemen hasted thitherwards to rayse the siege and by the waye encountred with sir Thomas Kiriell and Mathew Gough ryding also towarde Saint Denys betweene whom was a great conflict and many slaine on both partes but sodainly came to the ayde of the Frenchmē the garnison of Pont Meulan which caused the Englishmen to returne withoute any greate harme or domage sauing that Mathewe Gough by foundering of his horse was taken and caryed to Pont Meulan Saint Denise taken by the Englishemen In the meane time was the towne of Saint Denise rendred to the Englishmen the which razed the walles fortifications sauing the walles of the Abbey and of the tower called Venin Shortly after the towne of Pontoyse where sir Iohn Ruppelley was captaine rebelled and by force the Englishe menne were expulsed the Inhabitantes yeelding themselues to the French King This towne was small but the losse was greate bycause it was the Key that opened the passage betwixt the Cities of Paris and Roan But nowe to returne to the communication at Arras which after the departure of the English Commissioners held betwixt the Frenchmen and Burgonians till at length a peace was concluded accorded and sworne betwixt K Charles and Duke Philippe of Burgoine vpon certaine cōditions as in the French hystories more plainly appeareth The superscription of this letter was thus To the high and mightie prince Henrie by the grace of God King of Englande his welbeloued cousin Neither naming him king of Fraunce nor his soueraigne Lorde according as euer before that time he was accustomed to do This Letter was much marueyled at of the Counsayle after they had throughly considered and pondered all and singular the contentes therof and as reason moued them they could not but be muche disquieted therewith so farre forth that dyuerse of them stomaked so muche the vntruth of the Duke that they coulde not temper theyr passions nor brydle their tongues but openly called him traytor But when the rumor of the Dukes reuolting was published amōgst the people they left words and fell to bestowing of strypes for being pricked with this euill tidings they ranne in great outrage vppon all the Flemings Hollanders and Burgonions which thē inhabited within y e Citie of London and the Suburbes of the same and slue and hurt a great nūber of them before they by the kings proclamation coulde be stayed from such iniurious doing for the king nothing more mynded than to saue innocent bloud and to defend them that had not offended The officer at armes was willed to tell hys maister that it stoode not with his honor to bee enimye to the Englishe Nation and that his dutie was all things considered to keepe hys auncient truth and olde allegiance rather than to bee the occasion of newe warre And further it was not the point of a wise man to leaue the certaine for the vncertaine and trust vpon the vnstedfast holde of a newe reconciled enimie When the Messenger with thys aunswere was dispatched and sent awaye the King of Englande and his Counsayle purposed to worke the Duke of Burgoigne some displeasure and therevpon by rewardes corrupted certaine rulers of Cityes and Townes within his Dominions to moue some rebellion agaynst hym which indeede sore troubled the Dukes wittes and a great while disquieted his minde by their disobedyent conspiracie An. reg 14. The death of the Duke of Bedford Regent of France This yeare the .xiiij. day of September dyed Iohn Duke of Bedforde Regent of Fraunce a man as politike in peace as hardie in warre and yet no more hardie than mercifull when hee had the victorie whose bodie was with all funerall pompe and solemne Exequies buryed in the Cathedral Church of our Lady in Rouen on the North syde of the highe Aulter vnder a sumptuous and costlye monument whiche Tombe when King Lewis the eleuenth by certayne vndiscreete persones was counsayled to deface affyrming that it was a greate dyshonour both to the King and to the Realme to see the enimye of hys father and theyrs to haue so solemne and riche memoriall A worthy saying of a wise Prince He aunswered saying what honour shall it bee to vs or to you to breake this monument and to pull out of the grounde the deade bones of him whome in hys lyfe tyme neyther my father nor your progenitours wyth all theyr power puissaunce and friendes were once able to make flee one foote backewarde but by hys strength wytte and policie kept them all oute of the principall Dominions of the Realme of Fraunce and out of thys Noble and famous Duchie of Normandie Wherefore I say fyrst God haue his soule and let hys bodie nowe lye in rest whiche when hee was alyue woulde haue disquieted the prowdest of vs all and as for the Tombe I assure you is not so decent nor conuenient as his honour and actes deserued although it were much rycher and more beautifull The frost was so extreme thys yeare begynning about y e .xxv. daye of Nouember Great frost and continuing tyll the tenth of
come at that season into Fraunce and therefore it shoulde hee better for hym to haue peace wyth an old enemy than to staye vppon the promisses and familiaritie of a newe dissimulyng friende whyche peace bothe most pleased God was the thyng that he most desyred when hee hadde sayde he gaue to the Herrauld three hundred Crownes promysyng him a thousande Crownes if any good appointment came to passe Thys Herrauld was borne in Normandie The office of as Hâ—… being more couetous of the crowns thaÌ„ secrete according as of duetie by his office hee ought to haue bin promised to do all things that in him lay and further shewed ways by the whiche the French king myght enter into the port of treatie for peace the whiche he doubted not but would sorie to a good conclusion The Frenche kyng glad to heare these thinges gaue to the Hyrauld when he should depart besyde the other cowarde a peece of crimâ—… veluet of .xxx. yards long The Lo Scales coÌ„ming to y e duke of Burgongne before Nusse could not perswade him to â—…tyse his fielde The Duke of Burgongne commeth to king Edvvard as it stoode him vpon to come and ioyne with K. Edward til at length constrained therto by other means he left Nusse vnconquered sending the moste parte of his armie into Lorrain came with a small company to K. Edward lying before Caleys King Edwarde at the firste coÌ„ming of the duke vnto him semed much to reproue his vnwyse dealing in makyng so slowe hast to ioyne with him at thys tyme sith for his sake and at his sute he had passed the seas with his army to the intent to make warres in FraÌ„ce in reuenge of both their iniuries the time seruing their turnes so well as they could wish or desire the oportunitie wherof could neuer happely bee recouered agayn The Duke after he had knew fed himselfe with alledging the dishonour that should haue redounded to him if he had â—…efte the siege of Nusse without meane of some shew of composition encoraged K. Edward to aduance forward with many golden promises aswâ—…ll of his owne parte as of the Conestable the King agreed to y e dukes perswasion so set forwarde but yet when he was entred into the dukes couÌ„treys y e EnglishmeÌ„ wer not so frendly entertained as they loked to haue bin for at their coÌ„ming to Peronne there were but a fewe suffred to enter the gates the remnant were driuen to lodge in the fieldes better puruâ—…yed of their owne than of the dukes prouision And at their coÌ„ming before S. Quintines which town the Coâ—…estable had promised to deliuer into the hands of y e duke of Burgongne the artillerie shot off The Constable of Fraunce a deepe dissaster and they of the town came foorth both on horseback foot to skirmish with them y e approched of y e whiche .ij. or .iij. were slaine This entertaynment seemed strange to K. Edw. pondering the last daye promise this dayes doing But y e duke excused the matter woulde haue perswaded him to make couÌ„tenaÌ„ce to besiege the town y t the Conestable might haue a color to render it into his hands as though he did it by coÌ„strainte But the K. remeÌ„bring what had bin tolde to hys Herralde by the French K. how he shuld be dissimuled w t perceiued the FrenÌ„ch kings words to be too true therfore thought it more surer to heat the fair words of the Conestable the duke than to giue credite to their vntrue disceytfull doings The english men returned to their campe in a great chafe towards the Conestable the next day to increase their displeasure on other coâ—… was ministred that smarted force The Duke of Burgongne departeth for duke Charles of Burgongne toke hiâ—…lton sodenly of 〈◊〉 Edward alledging that he must needes 〈◊〉 his armie 〈◊〉 Barroys promising shortly â—…aith all his puissaunce to returne agayne to the greate commoditie of them both This departing muche troubles the king of England bicause he looked for no suche thing but thought â—…ther y t he shoulde haue had the duke his continual felow in armes therfore this diffiâ—…ling and vnsted â—…ast working caused the king to thinke that he neuer thought to doe that he neuer intended The Frenche K. in thys meanwhile had assembled a mighty power once the whiche he had made captaine Mons Roh de Estoutvile whome he sent into Arthoys to defend the froâ—…iers there againste he kyng of Englandes entrie and hee hymselfe tarried still at Sâ—…ults to But though hee shewed countenaunce thus of warre yet inwardly desirous of peace according to the aduice giuen him by the englishe Herraulde hee caused a varlet or yeoman as I may cal him to be put in a câ—…te armor of FraÌ„ce which for hast was made of a trumpet baner for K. Lewes was a man nothyng precise in outward shewes of hande oftentymes hauing neyther officed of armes nor trumpet in his courte This counterfaite Herraulde being throughly instructed in his barge A messenger sent to the K. of Englande was sente to the K. of England so passing fâ—…rth when be approched the Englishe campe hee put as his â—…e of Armes 〈◊〉 being 〈◊〉 of the â—…ders was brought to kâ—… where the Lord Howarde and the Lorde â—…tâ—…ley werâ—… at diner oâ—… whome he was curteously â—…ued and by them conueyed to y e kings proâ—…nge vnto whom he declared his message so wittily that in the â—…nd he obteined a safe conductâ—…â—…or one hunderd horsses for suche persons as his maister should appoint to meete as many to be assigned by K. Edward in some indifferent place betweene bothe enimies to haue at lyke safe conâ—… from hys said maister as he receiued from him After that the safe conducts were deliuered on both patres the Ambassadors mâ—…tte at a village beside Amiâ—…s withe kyng of Englandes side the Lorde Howarde Sir Thomas Sentloger doctor Morton after bishop of Ely Commissioners appointed to treate of peace and Chancellour of England were chiefe For the French K. the bastard of Bourbon Admirall of France the Lorde of Sainte Pierre the Byshoppe of Evreux called Heberge were apointed as principall The Englishmenne demaunded the whole Realme of Fraunce or at the least Normandye and whole Acquitayne the allegations were proued by the Englyshmen and politikely defended by the Frenchmen so that with argumentes without conclusion the daye passed and the commissioners departed and made relation to then maisters The Frenche K. his counsel wold not consent y t the EnglishmeÌ„ shuld haue one foot of land 〈…〉 Fraunce but rather determined to put himself the whole realme in hazard aduenture At the next meâ—…ng y e coÌ„missioners agreed vpon certain articles which were of doth y e princes accepted allowed It was sâ—… accorded y t the French K. shuld pay to y e king of EnglaÌ„d without delay 75000. crowns of y e sun yerely .l. M. crowns
verye straunge and againste the tene estate and dutye of a christian Prince So that the king my soueraign and the most christian king his brother and perpetual allie cannot no l◅nger indure it wyth theyr honours and duty towards God and the Churche And seing you wil not condescend to reason nor accept the said offers being more thā resonable nor satisfie the king my said souerain of the debts by you due as you are bound he hath concluded with the saide moste christened king his good brother and perpetuall allie and other of hys confederates to doe his endeuor to constraine you by force and might of armes to delyuer our holy father lykewise the children of Fraunce whiche you hold in paying you a resonable raunsome to satisfie him of that you owe hym Therefore the King my soueraigne Lorde as a true and constant prince willing to keepe inuiolable his faithe whiche he hathe promissed vnto the said christian prince and other his allies not willing to leaue the person of our saide holy father the Pope in captiuitie as also wil not the said christian king they two do sommon you this tyme for all to accepte these laste offers for the deliueraunce of the said children of France and for the wealth of an vniuersall peace and to deliuer the person of our saide holy father and also to paye speedely and without any more delay the debts by you due vnto the King my soueraigne and if you doe refuse these finall offers also to delyuer the person of our saide holy father and pay the said debtes as a good Christian Prince and louer of peace is bound to do the King my soueraigne and the said christian king his good brother not without great sorrowe and displeasure do declare to be your enemyes and so hereafter do holde and repute you for suche one denouncyng vnto you warre by sea and lande defying you with all their forces Neuertheles cōsidering that there is diuers of your subiects great quantitie of their goodes in the realmes of Englande and Fraunce and other landes and lordships of the said princes likewise ther be diuers of the subiectes of the kings of Englande and France and of their goods in your kingdomes countreis landes and lordships the whiche may receiue aswell of the one parte as on the other great and vnrecouerable hurts and domages if wythout aduertisements and monition they should be taken and deteyned the kings Maiestie my soueraigne the moste christian K. of Frāce his good brother be willyng that libertye be giuen vnto your subiectes being in their kingdomes countries and lordships for to retire depart with all their goods marchandise within 40. days after this intimation so that the like libertie and permission be in like sorte graunted to their subiectes To this defiaunce of the king at armes of Englād the Emperors Maiestie did aunswere in these words I haue vnderstood that which you haue declared and I cannot thinke that if the kyng of Englād were throughly aduertised of things as they haue passed of the reason to which I haue yeelded he would not saye that which you haue saide and therfore my intentyon is to aduertise hym As to that which you speake of the Pope I was neuer cōsenting to his destruction which was neuer done by my commaūdement I giue you to vnderstād that he is deliuered and I am sorie for the harmes that wer done at the time when he was taken of y e which I take my selfe not to be in fault as I haue told the king of armes of Frāce And as to the deliueraunce of the French kings sons wher meanes hathe bin made for their deliueraunce I haue bin ready to giue eare therto the fault resteth not in me for that the peace hathe not bin concluded but nowe that ye tell me that the king your maister will force me to deliuer thē I will answer therto in other sorte than hitherto I haue done and I trust to kepe thē in such wise that by force I shall not neede to deliuer thē for I am not accustomed to bee forced in things which I do As to y e debt whithe King of Englande hath lent me I haue neuer denied it neither do I deny it but am redy to pay it as right requireth as I haue caused it to be declared vnto hym and I my selfe haue shewed no lesse to his Ambassadors and deliuered my saying by writing I cannot beleeue that for such thing which I refuse not to accomplishe he will make warre againste me and if he will so do it will greeue me but yet I muste defende my selfe and I pray god that the king your master giue me not greater occasion to make him warre than I haue giuē to him You shall deliuer me in writyng that which you haue saide to the which I will also answer by writyng particularly This answer made by the Emperor to the K. of armes Clarenceaux the said Clarenceaux tooke his coate of armes which hee had lying on his lefte arms as before is sayd and put it vpon hym The Emperor herwith commaunded him to deliuer by witing into the hands of the Lord of Bouclans all that he had vttered by word of mouth as is aboue expressed which Clarenceaux promissed to do and so he did afterwards signed with his owne hand word for word Clarenceaux hauing thus done his duty incontinently wythdrewe but before hys departure the L. of Bouclans said to him also to Guyene these words insuing Behold here this writing in my hand This is the copy of the capitulatiō made touching y e deliuerance of the Pope and howe hee is deliuered and departed from Castell saint Angelo the .x. of December laste paste put it in your relatiō The saide king of armes answered we will so do at the same instāt the Emperor called before hym the sayd Guienne king of armes of France and said to him as followeth Sith it is ◅ea◅d that you enioye your Priuiledges you ought also to do your dutie and therefore I pray you declare to your maister yea euen to hys owne person that which I shall tell you which is this that sith the treatie of Madril cōtrarie to the same diuers of my subiects haue bin taken going about their businesses other also going to serue me in Italy which haue bē deteined prisoners euill intreated and by force thrust into the galleis bycause I haue of his subiects the whyche I might likewise take yee shall aduertise hym that if hee deliuer vnto me mine I will deliuer his if not as he shall intreate mine I will intreate his and that hee sende me aunswer hereof within .xl. days if not I will take the refusall for an answer The king of armes Guienne asked if his maiestie ment this concerning the marchantes whervnto the Emperor answered This is beside that which is conteyned in your writyng touchyng the Marchants to which point said he I will
the towne 〈◊〉 of the gray Friers The .xxi. of September Doctor Taylor maister of the Rolles was discharged of that office and Thomas Cromwell 〈◊〉 in hys place the .ix. of October Moreouer the thirde of Nouember The Parliament againe beginneth the Parliament began againe in the which was concluded the Act of Supremacie which authorized the kings highnesse to be supreme head of the church of England and the authoritie of the Pope chalished out of the realme In the same Parliament also was gyuen to the king the first fruites and tenthes of all spirituall dignities and promotions This yeare came the great Admiral of France into EnglaÌ„d Ambassador from the French king The Admirall of France coÌ„meth in Ambassade into England 1535. and was honorably receyued In this â—…medyed the Earle of Kildare prisoner in the Tower and his son Thomas Fitz-Garet begon to rebell and tooke all the kings ordinance and sent to the Emperor requiring him to take his part Also he fiue the bishop of Dublyn and robbed all suche as woulde not obey him In the beginning of this yeare An. reg 27. the Duke of Norffolke and the Bishop of Elie went to Calays and thither came the Admirall of Fraunce The .xxij. of Aprill the Prior of the Chartereux at London the Prior of Beuall Stow. the Prior of Exham Reynalds a brother of Sion Iohn Vicar of Thisleworth were arraigned and condemned of treason and thervpon drawne hanged and quartered at Tiburne the fourth of May. Their heades quarters were set ouer the bridge and gates of the citie one quarter excepted which was set vp at the Chartereux at London The eight of May the king commaunded that all belonging to the Court should poll theyr heades and to giue ensample caused his owne heade to be polled and his heard from thenceforth was cut round but not shauen The .xix. of Iune were three Monkes of the Charterhouse hanged drawne Monkes of the Charterhouse executed and quartered at Tyburne and their heades and quarters set vp about London for denying the king to bee supreme heade of the Church Their names were Exmew Middlemoore and Nudigate Also the .xxj. of the same Moneth The Bishop of Rochester beheaded and for the same cause doctor Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester was beheaded and his heade set vppon London bridge This Bishop was of many sore lamented for hee was reported to bee a man of great learning and of a verie good life The Pope had elected him a Cardinall and sent hys hatte as farre as Calais but his head was off before his flat could come Sir Thomas Moore beheaded The sixt of Iuly was sir Thomas Moore beheaded for the like crime that is to wit for denying the king to be supreme head This man was both learned and wise but giues much to a certaine pleasure in merye tauntes and leâ—…sting in moste of his communication whiche manner hee forgatte not at the verye houre of hys death This yeare in the tyme that the king went his progresse to Gloucester and to other places Westwarde The king of Scots knight of the garter the king of Scottes was installed knight of the Garter at Windsore by his procurator the Lorde Erskyn and in October following The Bishop of Winchester Ambassador into France Stephen Gardiner whiche after the Cardinalles death was made Byshoppe of Wynchester was sente Ambassadoure into Fraunce where hee remayned three yeares after Stow. In August the Lorde Thomas Fitzgerarde sonne to the Erle of Kyldare was taken in Ireland and sent to the tower of London In the Moneth of October Doctor Lee and other were sent to visite the Abbayes Priories and Nunries in Englande who set all those religious persons at liberty that would forsake their habite and all that were vnder the age of .xxiiij. yeres and the residue were closed vp that would remaine Further they tooke order that no men shoulde haue accesse to the houses of women nor women to the houses of men except it should bee to heare theyr seruice The Abbot or Prior of the house where any of the brethren was willing to depart was appoynted to giue to euerie of them a priestes gowne for his habit xl.ss in mony the Nunnes to haue such apparell as secular women ware and to go whither them liked best The .xj. of Nouember was a great Procession at London for ioy of the French kings recouerie of health from a daungerous sicknesse In December a suruey was taken of al ChaÌ„teryes and the names of them that had the gyft of them 1536 The Lady Katherin dowager deceaseth The Princes Dowager lying at Kimbalton fell into hir last sicknesse whereof the King being aduertised appoynted the Emperours Ambassadour that was leger here with him named Eustachius Caputius to go to visite hir and to doe his commendations to hir and will hir to bee of good comfort The Ambassadour with all diligence doth his dutie therein comforting hir the best hee myght but shee within sixe dayes after perceyuing hir selfe to waxe verie weake and feeble and to feele death approching at hande caused one of hir Gentlewomen to write a letter to the King commending to him hir daughter and his beseeching him to stande good father vnto hir and further desired him to haue some consideration of hir Gentlewomen that had serued hir and to see them bestowed in maryage Further that it woulde please him to appoynted that hir serâ—… might 〈◊〉 their â—…e wages and a yeares wages beside This in effect was all that shee requestâ—… and so immediately herevpon shee departed thys life the .viij. of Ianuarie at Kimbaltors aforesaid and was buried at Peterborow The fourth of Februarie the Parliamente beganne Religious houses giâ—… to the king in the whiche amongst other things inacted all Religious houses of the value of three hundred Markes and vnder were gyuen to the King with all the landes and goodes to them belonging The nuÌ„ber of these houses were .376 the value of their laÌ„ds yerely aboue 32000..ss their mouable goodes one hundred thousand Stâ—…w The religious persons put out of the same houses amounted to the number of aboue ten thousand This yeare was William Tindall burned at a towne betwixt Bruyssels and Maclyn called Villefort William Tindall burne This Tyndal otherwise called Hichyus was borne in the Marches of Wales and hauing a desire to translate and publishe to his Countrey dyuerse bookes of the Byble in English doubting to come in trouble for the same if he shoulde remaine here in Englande got him ouer into the parties of beyond the sea where he translated not onely the newe Testament into the Englishe tongue but also the fiue bookes of Moses Iosua Iudicum Ruth the bookes of the kings Paralipâ—…menon Nehemias or the first of Esdras the Prophet Ionas Beside these translations he made certain treatises and published the same which were brought ouer into Englande read with great
in this Parliamente all Colledges Chauntries and Hospitals were committed to the king to order by altering or transposing the same as to hym shoulde seeme expediente which at the prorogation of the same Parliament he promissed should be done to the glorye of God and the common profit of the realme The .xxiiij. of December the saide parliament was proroged on whiche day the King commyng into the house to gyue hys royall assente vnto such acts as were passed the speaker made vnto him an eloquent Oration to the whyche althoughe the custome hathe euer bene that the Lorde Chauncellor shoulde make aunswere it pleased the king at that present to make the answer himself whych he vttred as here ensueth Althoughe my Chauncellor for the time being hath before this time vsed verye eloquently and substancially to make aunswer to suche Orations as hathe ben set forthe in this hyghe Courte of Parliament yet is hee not so able to open and sette forthe my minde and meaning and the secreates of my harte in so plaine and ample manner as I my selfe am and can doe wherefore I taking vpon me to aunswer your eloquent Oration Mayster speaker say that where you in the name of our welbeloued commons haue both praysed and extolled me for the notable qualities that you haue conceyued to bee in mee I moste hartilye thanke you all that you haue put me in remembraunce of my duty which is to endeuour myselfe to obtaine and gette such excellent qualities and necessarie vertues as a Prince or Gouernour shoulde or ought to haue of whiche giftes I recognise my selfe both bare and barren but of such small qualities as God hathe endewed me withall I render to his goodnes my most humble thanks entending with all my witte and diligence to get and acquier to me such notable vertues and princely qualities as you haue alledged to be incorporated in my persone these thankes for your louing admonition and good counsell first remembred I eftsoones thank you again bycause that you considering our greate chardge not for our pleasure but for your defence not for our gaine but to our greate coste whiche wee haue lately susteined aswell in defence of our and your ennemies as for the conqueste of that fortresse whiche was to this realme moste displeasant and noysome and shall be by gods grace hereafter to our nation moste profitable and pleasant haue freely of your owne mindes graunted to vs a certaine Subsidye here in an acte specified whyche verilye wee take in good parte regarding more your kindenes than the profite thereof as hee that setteth more by your louyng hartes than by your substance Beside thys harty kindenesse I can not a little reioyce when I consider the perfecte truste and confidence which you haue put in mee as men hauing vndoubted hope and vnfained beleefe in my good dooings and iust proceedings for you withoute my desire or requeste haue committed to mine order disposition al Chauntries Colledges Hospitalles and other places specified in a certayne acte firmly trusting that I will order them to the glorye of God and the profit of the common wealth Surely if I contrarie to your expectatiō shuld suffer the ministers of the Church to decay or learning which is so greate a Iewell to bee minished or poore and miserable to bee vnreleeued you myght saye that I beeing put in so speciall a truste as I am in this case were no trustye friende to you nor charitable to mine euen Chrystian neyther a louer of the publyke wealthe nor yet one that feared God to whome accompt must be rēdred of all our dooings Doubt not I pray you but your expectation shall be serued more godly and goodly than you will wish or desire as hereafter you shall plainly perceiue Nowe sithens I finde suche kindenesse on your parte towardes mee I cannot chose but loue and fauour you affirmyng that no Prince in the world more fauoreth hys Subiectes than I doe you nor no subiectes or commons more loued and obeied their soueraigne Lorde than I perceyue you doe mee for whose defence my treasure shall not bee hidden nor if necessitie require my persone shall not bee vnaduentured yet although I wishe you and you with mee to be in this perfect loue and concord this friendely amitie cannot continue except bothe you my Lordes Temporall and my Lordes Spirituall and you my louing subiectes study and take payne to amende one thyng whyche surelye is amisse and farre out of order to the whiche I moste hartyly require you whiche is that Charitie and concorde is not among you but discorde and dissention beareth rule in euery place Sainct Paule saith to the Corinthians and the thirteenthe Chapiter Charitye is gentle Charitie is not enuious Charitie is not proude and so forthe in the saide chapiter Beholde then what loue and Charitye is among you when the one calleth an other heretik and Anabaptiste and he calleth hym agayn Papist hipocrite Pharisic be these tokens of charitie amōgst you ar these signs of fraternal loue betwene you no no I assure you that this lack of Charitie amongst your selues wil be y e hinderāce assuaging of the feruēt loue betwene vs as I said before except this wound be salued clerely made hole I must needes iudge y e fault occasion of this discorde to be partly by negligence of you y e fathers preachers of the spiritualtie For if I know a man which liueth in adulterie I muste iudge him a lecherous a carnall person if I see a man boast bragge hymselfe I can not but deeme hym a proude man I see here dayly that you of the Clergie preache one againste an other teache one contrarie to an other inueygh one against an other without charitie or discretion some be too stiffe in their olde Mumpsimus other be too busy and curious in their newe Sumpsimus thus all men almoste bee in varietie and discorde and fewe or none preaches truly and sincerely the worde of God accordyng as they ought to do Shall I iudge you charitable persones dooyng this no no I can not so doe Alas howe can the poore soules liue in concorde when you preachers sow amongest them in your sermons debate and discorde of you they looke for light and you bryng them to darkenesse Amende these crimes I exhorte you and set forth Gods worde bothe by true preachyng and good example giuyng or else I whome God hathe appointed his Vicar and highe Minister here will see these deuisions extinct and these enormities corrected accordyng to my very dutye or else I am an vnprofitable seruant and an vntrue offycer Althoughe I saye the Spirituall men bee in some faulte that Charitie is not kept amongst you yet you of the Temporaltie bee not cleare and vnspotted of malice and enuy for you raile on Bishoppes speake slaunderouslye of Priestes and rebuke and taunte Preachers bothe contrarye to good order and Chrystian fraternitye If you knowe surely that a Bishoppe or Preacher erreth
they wer forced with casting down of stones and timber vppon their heades scalding water and handblewes to giue ouer and retiring out of the trenches they gather togither their dead menne and lading fifteene waggons with thier carcasses they returned without making any further attempte at that time and so by the high valiancie of Sir Nicholas Arnault with the Captaines and souldiers that serued in that forte vnder him and chieflye by the assistaunce of almightie god the giuer of all victories the enemies were repulsed to the high renowme of the defendauntes Within a day or two after MoÌ„sieur de Chatillion sent to knowe of prisoners taken but Sir Nicholas Arnault answered the messenger that he knew of no war and therefore if any had atteÌ„pted to make a surprise of his fortresse by stelth they were serued according to their malitious meanings verily saide he we haue taken none of your men but we haue got some of your braue gilt armour and weapon wel saide the messenger it is not the Cowle y t maketh the Munke neither is it the braue armour or weapon that maketh the souldier but suche is the fortune of warre sometime to gaine and sometime to lose Sir Nicholas made him good cheere and at his departure gaue him fiftie crownes in rewarde But concerning the liberalitie of Sir Nicholas I might here speake 〈…〉 thereof how bountifully hee rewarded the souldiers for their seruice and high manhood in defending so sharâ—… an assault The day after the same assault sorte came to Boullogne Berg from Calies and Gayties by order of the Lord. Cobham theiâ—… Lord deputie of Caleis The Lord Cobham deputie of Caleis two hundred souldiers one hundred from Caleis vnder the leading of his sonne sir William Brooke now Lord Cobham and the other hundred from Guisnes vnder the guiding of Captaine Smith Shortly after by order of the Lord Ellinton then gouernour of Boullongne there were sent forth the saide Sir William Brooke with his hundred from Bullongne Berg and Captaine Litton with his hundred from the base towne and an other Captaine with an other hundred from one of the other peeces there also fiue and twentie horsemen with certaine cariages to go vnto a wood distant froÌ„ Bullongne Berge about two miles to fetche from thence certaine number for the mounting of y e great artilleris and other necessarie vses These Captaines with their bandes being come almost to the Woodside met with certain of their skoutes that hadde bin sent forth in the morning who tolde them howe they had discouered the tract of a greate number of horsemen wherupon the Englishmen retired and herew t y e French horsemen brake out of y e wood following them fel in skirmish with them The Englishmen casting themselues in a ring kepte the enemies off with their pikes with the which they impaled themselues and hauing their small nuÌ„ber lyued w t shot they stil galled y e FrenchmeÌ„ as they approched Neuerthelesse those horsemenne gaue three maine onsets vpon the Englishmen with the number of fiue hundred horse the rest of their companies remaining in troupe but suche was the valiant prowesse of the Englishmen encouraged with the comfortable presence of Sir William Brooke and other their Captaines that conducted them in such order as stoodemost for their safegarde therwith vsing such effectuall words as serued best to purpose that the enemy to conclude was repulsed diuers being slain and amongst other Monsieur Cauret was one They lost also .70 of their great horses that laye dead in the fielde and a cornet whiche the Englishmen got from them There were two thousande footemen French and Almaynes that folowed also but coulde not reache for the Englishmenne still retiring gotte at length within fauour of the shotte of Boullongne Berge whiche after their enemies once perceiued they marched by and lefte them and so marching aboute the forte returned in vayne after they once perceyued that the Englishmen were safely retired within theyr sorte The Counsell thus perceyuing the Frenche kings purpose which he had conceyued to worke some notable domage to this realme as well in support of his frendes in Scotland as in hope to recouer those peeces which the Englishe helde at Bullonge and in those marches doubted also of some inuasion meane by him to be attempted into this realme The preparaâ—â—on for warre â—…ell in â—â—glande as 〈◊〉 bycause of such greate preparation as hee had made for leuying of his forces both by sea and land The Counsell therefore made likewise prouision to bee ready to resist all such attemptes as any way forth might be made to the annoyance of the Realme But as things fell out the same stoode in good steede not againste the forayne enimie but againste a number of rebellions subiects at home the whiche forgetting theyr duetie and allegiaÌ„ce did as much as in them lay what so euer their pretence was to bring this noble Realme and their natural countrey vnto destruction But first for that it may appeare that the Duke of Somerset then Protector and other of the Counsell did not without good grounde and cause mainteyne the warres agaynst the Scots I haue thoughte good to sette downe an Epistle exhortatorie as we fynde the same in the greate Chronicle of Richarde Grafton sente from the sayd Protector and Counsell vnto the Scottes to moue them to haue consideration of themselues and of the state of theyr Countrey by ioyning in that friendly bonde and vnitie with England as had bin of the Kings part and hys fathers continually soughte for the benefyte of both Realmes The Copie of which exhortation here ensueth Edward by the grace of God Duke of Somerset Erle of Hertford Viscount Beauchamp Lord Seymer Vncle to the Kinges highnesse of England gouernour of his most royall person and protector of all his Realmes dominions and subiects Lieutenant generall of all his maiesties armies both by lande and Sea Treasorer and Earle Marshall of England gouernour of the Isles of Gernesey and Iersey and Knight of the most noble order of the garter with others of the counsayle of the sayde most high noble Prince Edward by the grace of God of England Fraunce and Ireland King defender of the faith and in earth vnder Christ the supreme head of the Churches of Englande and Irelande To the nobilitie and counsellors Gentlemen and Commons and all other the inhabitants of the Realme of Scotlande greeting and peace 〈◊〉 Epistle â—…ory the â—…es COnsidering with our selues the present state of thinges and weying more deepely the manner and tearmes wherein you and wee doe stande it maketh vs to maruell what euill and fatall chance doth so disseuer your heartes and maketh them so blinde and vnmindfull of youre proffit and so still coâ—â—â—te and heape to youre selues most extreame mischiefes the whych wee whome yet will needes haue youre enimies goe about to take away from you and perpetually to ease you thereof And also by all reason
rising least they shuld be resisted they deuised that some should be murthered in churches some in their houses some in seruing the king in commission other as they might be caught and to picke quarels to theÌ„ by alteration of seruice on the holy dayes and thus was the platforme cast of theyr deuice according as afterwarde by their coÌ„fession at their examinations was testified and remayneth in true record Thus they being togither agreed Oindler and Dale and others by their secret appointment so laboured the matter in the parish of Semer Wintringham and the towns about that they were infected with the poyson of this confederacie in such sort that it was easie to vnderstande wherevnto they woulde encline if a Commotion were begonne the accomplishment whereof did shortly follow For although by the wordes of one drunken fellow of that conspiracy named Caluers at the Alehouse in Wintringham some suspition of that rebellion began to be smelles before by the Lord President and gentlemen of those parties so preuented in that place where the Rebels thought to beginne yet they gaue not ouer so but drewe to another place at Seâ—â—r by the Seawast and there by â—…ight 〈◊〉 to the Beacons at Staxton and set it on side and so gathering togither a rude route of rascals yet of the townes neare about being on a slur Oindler Thomas Dale Baxton and Robert Dale hasted forthwith with the Rebelles to master Whytes house to take him who notwithstanding being an horsebacke miâ—…ting to haue escaped their handes Dale Ombler and the rest of the Rebels tooke him and â—…lopton his wiues brother one Sauage a Marchaâ—…dâ—…f Yorke and one Berry serualint to sir Walter Mudmay Which foure without cause or quarell sauing to fulfill their seditious prophecie in foure part and to giue a terrour to other Gentlemen they cruelty murthered after they had 〈◊〉 them one mile from Samer towarde the Wolde and there after they had stripped them of their clothes and purses left them naked behind them in the plain fieldes for Crowes to feede on vntill Whites wife and Sauages wife then at Semer caused them to be buryed Long it were 〈…〉 tedious to recite what reuell these Rebels kept in their raging madnesse who rauaging about the Countrey from towne to towne to enlarge their vngracious and rebellious bande taking those with force which were not willing to go and leauing in no town where they came any man aboue the age of .xvj. yeares so encreased this number that in short time they had gathered three thousand to fauour their wicked attempts and had like to haue gathered more had not the Lordes goodnesse through prudent circumspection of some interrupted the course of theyr furious beginning For first came the kings gracious and free pardon discharging and pardoning them and the rest of the Rebelles of all treasons murthers felonies and other offences done to his Maiestie before the .xxj. of August Anno .1549 Whiche pardon althoughe Ombler contemptuously reading persysting stil in his wilfull obstinacie disswaded also the rest from the humble accepting of the kings so louing and liberall pardon yet notwithstanding wyth some it did good To make shorte it was not long after this but Ombler as hee was ryding from Towne to Towne twelue myles from Hummanbie to charge all the Conestables and Inhabitaunts where he came in the Kings name to resort to Hummanbie by the way hee was espyed and by the circumspect diligence of Iohn Worde the yonger Iames Aslabey Raufe Twinge and Thomas Conestable Gentlemen he was had in chase 〈◊〉 capâ—… of the 〈◊〉 taken and at last by them apprehended and brought in the nyght in sure custodie vnto the Citie of Yorke to answere to his demerits After whome within short time Thomas Dale â—…nes of rebels taâ—… execuâ—… Yorke Henrie Baxton the first Chieftaines and ringleaders of the former Commotion whiche Iohn Dale Robert Wright WilliaÌ„ Peacocke Weatherell and Edmonde Buttrie busie styrrers in this sedition as they trauayled from place to place to drawe people to theyr faction were lykewise apprehended committed toward lawfully conuicted and lastly executed at Yorke the xxj of September Anno. 1549. â—… Actis iudicij publici registro exceptis notatis Whilest these wicked commotions and tumults through the rage of the vndiscrete Commons were thus raysed in sundrie partes of the Realme to the great hynderaunce of the common wealth losse and daunger of euerye good and true subiect sundry wholsome and godly exhortations were published to aduertise them of their duetie and to lay before them theyr heynous offences with the sequele of the mischiefes that necessarily folowed therof the which if they shoulde consider togyther with the punishment that hanged ouer their heades they myght easily be brought to repent theyr lewde begonne enterprices and submit themselues to the kings mercie Among other of those admonitions one was penned and set forth by sir Iohn Cheeke whiche I haue thought good here to insert as a necessarie discourse for euerie good English subiect The hurt of sedition how grieuous it is to a common wealth set out by sir Iohn Checke Knight Anno. 1549. The true subiect to the Rebell AMong so many and notable benefits wherewith God hath alreadye liberally and plentifully endued vs there is nothing more beneficiall than that we haue by his grace kept vs quiet froÌ„ rebellion at this time For we see such miseries hang ouer the whole state of the common welth through the great misorder of your sedition that it maketh vs much to reioyce that we haue beene neither partners of your doings nor conspirers of your counsayles For euen as the Lacedemonians for the auoyding of drunkennesse did cause their sonnes to beholde their seruants when they were drunke that by beholding their beastlinesse they might auoyd the like vice euen so hath God like a mercifull father stayed vs from your wickednesse that by beholding the filth of your fault we might iustly for offence abhorre you like Rebels whom else by nature we loue like Englishmen And so for our selues we hau great cause to thanke God by whose religion and holy worde dayly taught vs we learne not only to feare him truly but also to obey our king faithfully and to serue in our owne vocation like subiects honestly And as for you wee haue surely iust cause to lament you as drethren and yet iuster cause to â—…yse against you as enimies and most iust cause to ouerthrow you as rebels For what hurt could bee done either to vs priuately or to the whole common wealth generally that is now with mischief so brought in by you that euen as we see now the flame of your rage so shall we necessarily be consumed hereafter with the miserie of the same Wherefore consider your selues with some â—…ight of vnderstanding and marke this grieuous and horrible fault which ye haue thus vilely committed how heynous it must needes appeare to you if ye will reasonably consider that whiche for my
strength and health wherewith they liue and serue the King Is there any honest thyng more desired than libertie ye haue shamefully spoyled them therof Is there anye thing more dutifull than to serue their Lorde and maister But as that was deserued of the one parte so was it hindered and stopped on your part For neither can the King be serued nor families kepte nor the Common wealth looked vnto where freedome of libertie is stopped and diligence of seruice is hindered and the helpe of strength and health abated Mens bodies ought to be free from all mens bondage and crueltie and only in this realme be subiect in publike punishment to oure publike gouernour and neither be touched of headlesse Captains nor holden of brainlesse rebels For the gouernement of so precious a thing ought to belong vnto the most noble ruler and not iustly to be in euery mans power which is iustly euery liuing mans tresure For what goodes be so deare to euerye man as his owne bodye is whiche is the true vessell of the mynde to bee measurably kept of euery man for all exercises and seruices of the mynde If ye maye not of your own authoritie meddle with meÌ„s goods muche lesse you may of your owne authoritie take order with mens bodies For what be goodes in comparison of helth libertie strength whiche bee all settled and fastned in the body They that strike other doe greatly offend and be iustly punishable And shall they that cruelly and wrongfully tormente mennes bodyes with yrons and imprisonmentes be thoughte not of other but of them selues honeste and playne and true dealyng men What shall we say by them who in a priuate businesse wil let a man to goe hys iourney in the kings high way Doe they not thinke ye playne wrong Then in a common cause not onely to hynder them but also to deale cruelly with them and shutte them from doyng their seruice to the 〈…〉 〈…〉 things enterprise great matters and as though ye coulde not satisfye your selfe if yee shoulde leaue any mischiefe vndone haue sought bloud with crueltie haue slayn of y e kings true subiects in any thinkyng their murder to be your defence when as ye haue encreased the faulte of your vile Rebellion wyth the horroure of bloudshead and so haue burdened mischiefe wyth mischiefe whyle it come to an importable weight of myschiefe What coulde we doe more in the horriblest kynde of faultes to the greatest transgressours and offendoures of God and men than to looke straightly on them by death and so to ridde them out of the common wealth by seuere punishment whome ye thought vnworthie to liue among menne for their dooings And those who haue not offended the King but defended hys Realme and by obedience of seruice soughte to punishe the disobedient and for safegarde of euerie man putte them selues vnder duetie of Law those haue ye myserably and cruelly slayne and bathed you in theyr bloud whose dooynges ye shoulde haue followed and so haue appayâ—…ed the common welth both by destruction of good men and also by increase of rebels And howe can that common welth by any means endure â–ª wherin euery maÌ„ without authoritie may vnpunished slea whome he list and that in suche case as those who be slaine shewe themselues most noble of courage and most ready to serue the king and the common wealth and those as doe slea be most villanous traiterous eche lâ—…es that any common wealth did ouer susteyn for a Citie and a Prouince â—â— and the faire houses and the strong walles nor the defence of anye engin but the liuing bodies of men being able in number strength to mainteyn themselues by good order of iustice and to serue for all necessary behouable vses in the coÌ„mon wealth And when as mans bodie being a parte of the whole coÌ„mon welth is wrongfully touched any way specially by death then suffeyeth the coÌ„mon welth great iniurie and that alway so much the more how honester and nobler he is who is iniuriously murdered Howe was the Lord Sheffilde handled among you a noble gentleman and of good seruice both sit for couÌ„sel in peace for conduct in warre considering either the grauitie of his wisedome or the authoritie of his person or his seruice to the commonwelth or the hope that all men had in him or the need that England had of suche or amoÌ„g many notably good his singular excestencie or the fauour y t all men bare toward him being loued of euery man hated of no man Considered ye who should by duetie be the kings subiects either how ye shoulde not haue offended the king or after offence haue required the kings pardon or not to haue refused his goodnesse offred or at length to haue yelded to hys mercie or not to haue slain those who came for his seruice or to haue spared those who in daÌ„ger offred ransom But al these things forgotten by rage of rebellion bycause one madnesse cannot be without infinite vices ye flowe him cruellye who offered himselfe manfully nor woulde not spare for raunsome who was worthy for noblenesse to haue had honour he weddim bare whome ye could not hurt armed and by slauerie flewe nobilitie in deede miserably in fashioÌ„ cruelly in cause diuellishly Oh with what cruell spite was violently sundred so noble a body fro so godly a mind Whose death must rather be reuenged than lamented whose death was no lacke to himselfe but to his countrey whose death might euery way bin better borne than at a rebelles hande Violence is in all thinges hurtfull but in life horrible What shoulde I speak of others in the same case diuers and notable whose death for manhood and seruice can waÌ„t no worthy praise so long as these vgly stirrers of rebellion can be had in mynd God hath himself ioyned maÌ„s bodie and his soule togither not to be departed asunder afore he eyther disseuer them hymselfe excause them to be disseuered by his minister And shal rebels and heedlesses camps being armed against God and in fielde against theyr King thinke it no faulted shead bloud of true subiects hauing neither office of God nor appointment of ministers nor lust cause of rebellion He that steale the any part of 〈◊〉 substance is worthy to lose his life When shal we thinkeâ—… them wâ—…o spoyle men of their lyues for the mayntenaÌ„ce whereof not only substance and riches be soughte for but also all common welths be deuised Now then your own consciences should be made your iudges and none other set to giue sentence against yet seing ye haue bin suche bloud â—â—aders so he ynouâ—â— manquellers so horrible murderers could ye do any other than playnely confesse your soule wicked rebellion to be greuous against god traiterous to the king and hurtfull to the coÌ„mon wealth So many grieuous faults meetyng togither in one sinke might not onely haue discouraged but also driuen to desperation any other â—…ouest of indifferent
and therby we be made rather a praâ—â— for 〈◊〉 enimies than a safetie for out selues And howe can there be but a great decay of people at the lengthe when some be ouerthrowen in 〈◊〉 some suffer for punishment some pyne for famine some dye with the camps diet some he consumed with sicknesse For although ye thynke youre selues able to matche wyth a fewe vnprepared Gentlemen and putte them from their houses that ye myghte gayne the spoyle daye iudge therfore your selues strong inough not onely to withstande a Kings power but also to ouerthrowe it Is it possible that ye shoulde haue so madde a frensy in your head that ye shoulde thinke the number ye see so strong that all ye see not should not be able to preuayle to the contrarie With what reson coulde ye thinke that if ye adde the hate brunt of battaile but yee muste needs feele the smart specially the Kings power comming againste you whiche if yee feare not belyke yee knowe not the sorce thereof And so muche the greater number is last in the Realme that both the ouercountes and the 〈◊〉 keep â—â—ties althoughe vnlyke of one Realme and what losse is not only of eyther syde but of both that doth playnly 〈◊〉 to the whole There where so great and so hort 〈◊〉 a fault is committed as woâ—â—sse can not be made 〈◊〉 of from the beginning and bringeth in withal suche penutie suche weakenesse suche disorder in the common wealth as no mischiefâ—… beside 〈◊〉 doe the lyke Cunary man thinke wyth iuste reason that 〈◊〉 shall escape vnpunished that shall escape the sworde and was manie forâ—â—mont and examples sake should bee looke vnto who haue bene eyther great boers in suche disâ—â—dred villanie 〈…〉 to suche an outgrowne mischeife seeyng the only 〈…〉 wilfull 〈◊〉 in 〈…〉 of such whole 〈…〉 good than might to abhorre for dueties sake and yll men hay 〈…〉 for lyke punishement 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 〈◊〉 vnpunished is so daunger was that the 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 of the fall of in greate 〈…〉 one and 〈…〉 And in suche a bareynnesse of victuall as must 〈◊〉 come after so comming a spoyle it must â—â—â—des be that some though fewe shal be so dipte with regarnesse of famines y t they shall not recouer again themselues is one of so 〈◊〉 a daunger So in a generall weaknesse where all shall be feebled some must needes die and so diminishe the number and abate suche strength as the realme defended it selfe withall afore Which occasion of 〈◊〉 so few comming of so great cause if ye shuld make iust amends for not of recoÌ„pence which ye could not but of punishment which ye ought how many howe diuers and how cruel deathes ought euery one of ye often suffer Howe manye came to the campe 〈◊〉 long 〈◊〉 to sodayn cease and froÌ„ meane fare to straying of victual and so fell in a maner vnwares to suche a contrary change that Nature hir selfe abyding neuer greate and sodain changes cannot beare it without some groundes entred of diseases to come whiche vncircumspect men shall sooner â—…eele than thinke of and then will scarcely iudge the cause when they shall be vexed wyth the effect It is little meruayle that Idlenesse and meate of an other mannes charge wyll soone feede vp and faâ—…te lykely menne but it is greate maruell it ydlenesse other mens meate doe not abate the same by sicknesse again and specially comming from theatie and going to the other contrarye in those who violently seeke to tourne in a momente the whole Realme to the 〈◊〉 For while their mynde chaungeth stoâ—â— obedience to vnrulynesse and tourneth in selfe from honestie to wyldenesse and theyr bodyes goe from laboure to idlenesse from small fare to spoyle of victuall and from beds in the night to cadins and from sweete houses to stinkyng campes it must needes be by changing of affections which alter the body by vsing of rest that filleth the body 〈◊〉 of mans whiche weakneth the body and with cold in the nights which acceaseth the body and with corrupt aâ—…e which infecteth the body that there folow some greâ—…ous tempest not only of couragious sicknesse but also of present death to the bodys The greatest plucke of al is that vehemonelt of plague whiche naturally foloweth the dint of hunger which when it entreth once among men what dartes of pangs what throwes of paines what shoutes of death doth it call but how many fall not astonyed with the 〈◊〉 but feeted with the pain how beateth it downe not only smal towns but also great countries This when ye see light first on your beasts whiche sacketh fodder and after fall â—â— men whose bodies gapeth for it and seethe scarcenesse of men to be by this your foule enterprise and not only other men touched with plagues but also your owne house strong with deathe and the plague also mysed of your disyng to â—â—e your selues caÌ„ ye thinke you to be any other but man quellers of other and murderers of your selues and the principals of the ouerthrow or so great a number as shall either by sworde or punishment famine or some plague or pestilence be consumed and wasted oute of the Common wealth And seeing he that decayeth the number of Cottages of Plowes in a Towne seemeth to be an enimie to the common wealth shall we not count him not only an enimie but also a murtherer of his country who by barbrayned vnrulynesse causeth the vtter ruine and pestilent destruction of so to anye thousande men Graunte this folye them and ouersighte to be suche as woorthyly yee maye counte it and I shall goe further in declaryng of other greate inconueniences whiche your dangerous and furious an misbehauior hath hurtfully brought in seing diuers honest and true dealyng men whose lyuing is by their owne prouision haue come so afore hande by tyme that they haue bene able well to liue honestlye in their houses and paye beside the rentes of their fermes truly and now haue by your crueltie and abhorred insurrections lost their goodes their cattail their Harueste whiche they had gotten before 〈…〉 to lyue here castel and 〈◊〉 be brought on this extremitie that theyr be 〈◊〉 theâ—… 〈…〉 as they were in 〈…〉 to paye there accustomable 〈◊〉 at 〈…〉 Wherby they he brought in to 〈◊〉 vnquietnisse not only 〈◊〉 what they 〈◊〉 by you but also 〈◊〉 you by whiche they haue 〈◊〉 and also in dauâ—…g 〈◊〉 luiâ—â—ng their holdes at their Loâ—â—◠〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 they shroot more 〈◊〉 than the 〈◊〉 of the lawe will grâ—â—r by Iustice 〈◊〉 whiche griefe is it to an honest 〈…〉 your and to gaue payn 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 wherwith to liue honestly in age and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in long tyme to be sodenilye 〈◊〉 way by the did 〈◊〉 of sedition whiâ—…he 〈◊〉 he hughe to whereby it selfe althoughe â—â— into sente 〈◊〉 followed to him therby But 〈◊〉 greater griefe on got â—â—bitions rebelles to hand themselues whose they depart 〈…〉 〈◊〉 yet hughe to 〈◊〉 in
who can thinke but that yee haue miserablye tossed the common wealth and so vexed all men with disorder that the inconuenience hereof can not onely nip others but also touch you But nowe see howe that not onely these vnlooked for mischiefes haue heauilye growne on ye but also those commodities whyche yee thought to haue holpen your selues and others by bee not onely hindered but also hurte thereby The Kings Maiestie by the aduise c. entended a iuste reformation of all suche thyngs as poore men coulde truly shewe themselues oppressed wyth thinking equalitie of iustice to be the Diademe of hys Kyngdome and the safegarde of his commons Whiche was not onlye entended by wisedome but also set on wyth speede and so entred into a due consideryng of all states that none shoulde haue iuste cause to grudge agaynst the other wheÌ„ as euery thing rightfully had nothing coulde be but vnrightfully grudged at And this woulde haue bene done not only with your glad and willing assent but also bene doone by this daye almoste thorowout the whole Realme so that quietly it had bene obtayned wythout inconuenience and speedily without delay And whatsoeuer had bene done by the Kinges Maiesties authoritie that woulde by right haue remained for euer and so taken in law that the contrary partie neither coulde by iustice neither would by holdenesse haue enterprised the breake thereof But leaste wicked man shoulde 〈…〉 they whole hattes but not truely hurt 〈…〉 ence shoulde obtaine at the King hande that they deserued not in acompâ—â—â— welâ—… ye haue maruelously and worthilye hurte yourselues and gratiously prouided except the king â—â—â—nesse be more vnto you thou you nowne destres can claim that ye he not so much worthiâ—â—n is be benefited in any kind daye he worthy to lose that ye haue on euery side Ye chance thoughte good to be your owne reformers 〈…〉 vnnaturally mistrusting the Kyng 〈…〉 but also cauellye vnâ—â—â—y dealyng with your owne neighbours Wherein I woulde as ye haue hurt the whole Realme so ye hadde not enterprised a thyng moste daungerous to your selues and moste contrarie to â—â—â—lyng â—â—tended If yee had let thinges alone thought good by your selues to bee redressed and dutyfully looked for the perfourmaunce of that the Kinges Maiestie promised reformation they shoulde not haue bene vndone at thys tyme 〈◊〉 in a greate sorte of honest â—â—acis they bee for those countries who for their quietnesse because worthie to do looked on should haue bin vnprouided for at this daye But this commonditie hath happened by the way that it is euidently knowne by youre mischiefe and others dutie who be moste true to the king and most worthie to be done for and who be moste peâ—â—â—ous and traterous Rebelles And it is not not bee doubted but they shall be considered wyth thankes and finde iusteredresse with and diserued misery and you punyshed like Rebelles who might haue had both praise and profit like Subiects For that as ye haue valiantly done of your selues thinke ye it will stande any longer than men feare your rage whyche can not endure long and that ye shall not then bide the rigor of the lawe for your priuate iniuries as ye vsed the furie of your braynes in othermene oppressions Will men suffer wrong at your handes when Lawe can redresse and the eight of the common wealthe will maintaine it and good order in Countreies will beare it Ye amend faults as yll Surgions heale sores whiche when they seeme to bee whole aboue they ranckle at the bottome and so bee faine continuallie to bee sore or else bee mended by newe breaking of the skinne Your redresse seemeth to you perfit and good ye haue pulled down such things as ye would ye thinke now all is well ye consider no farther ye seeke not the bottome yee see not the sore that yee haue done it by no Lawe yee haue redressed it by no order what then If it be none otherwise searched than by you it wil not tary long so either it will be after coÌ„tinually as it was afore your comming or else it muste bee when all is done amended by the King Thus haue ye bothe lacked in the tyme and miste in the dooing and yet besides that ye haue done whiche is by your dooing to no purpose ye haue done the things with such inconueniences as hathe bene both before rehearsed and shall be after declared that better it hadde bin for you neuer to haue enioyed the commoditie if there bee any than to suffer the griefes that will ensue which be very many In euery quarter some men whome ye set by will bee loste whiche euery one of you if ye haue loue â—â— ye woulde rather haue lacked the profit of your enclosures then cause such destruction of them as is like by reason and iudgement necessarilye to followe What common vealth is it then to doe suche abhomynable enterpryses after so vile a sorte that yee hinder the good ye would doe and bryng in that hurt yee woulde not and so finde that ye seeke not and followe that ye lose and destroy your setus by folly rather then yee woulde bee ordered by reason and to haue not so muche amende youre olde sores as brought in newe plagues whyche ye youre selues that deserue them wil lament and wee whyche haue not deserued him may curse you for For although the King Maiestie c. entended for youre profites a eformation in his common withe yet his plesure was not nor no reason gaue it that euer subiecte shuld busily intermedle wyth it of 〈◊〉 owne head but only those whome his counsaile thought moste mete me for such an honest â—…rpose The kyngs Maiestie c. hathe godly râ—…rmed an vncleane part of religion and hath â—…ought it to the true forme of the first Churche at folowed Christ thinking that to bee the trust not what latter mens â—…anâ—…les haue of themselues deuised but what y e Apostles their selues had at Christes hand receyued willeth the same to be and we and set abroade to all his peoâ—…le Shall euerye man now that listeth and fameth the same take in hande vncalled to be a Maiester and to set forthe the same hauyng no authoritie Naye thoughe the thyng were very gidlye that were done yet the person muste nedes doe in that enterpriseth it bycause hee doth a good thyng after an yll sort and looketh but or a little part of duetie considering the thyng and leaueth a great part vnaduised not considering the person when as in a well and iustly done matter not onely these twoo thinges ought well so der weighed but also good occation of tyme reasonable cause of the dooing ought also much to be set afore euery doers ries Now in this your deede the manner is vngodlye the thing vn miserable the cause wycked the persons seditions the time traiterous and can yet possibly by anye honest defence of reason or anye good conscience religiouslye grounded â—…eâ—…ye that thys mallicious and hortible
to bee righfull heire in succession to the Crowne of Englande without respect had to the statute made in y e xxxv yere of king HeÌ„ry the eight the true meaning of which statute they did impugne ouerthrow by diuerse subtill and sinister constructions of the same to disinherite the sayde Kings sisters to whome the succession of the Crowne of Englande of right appertayned as well by the common lawes of thys Realme as also by the sayd statute made in the said xxxv yere of king Henrie as aforesaid To which new order of succession all the said Kings Counsayle with many Bishops Lordes Doctors and Iudges of the Realme subscribed their names without refusall of anye except sir Iames Hales knight one of the Iustices of the Common place who being called to this counsayle woulde in no wise giue his assent eyther by worde or writing as ye shall heare more in the historie of Queene Marie The death of King Edwarde â—…th Nowe when these matters were thus concluded and after confirmed by a number of handes as aforesayde then the noble Prince King Edwarde the sixth by long lingring sicknesse and consumption of his lungs aforesayde approched to his death and departed out of this life the vj. daye of Iuly in the vij yeare of his reigne and xvij of his age after he had reygned and noblye gouerned this Realme vj. yours v. monethes and eyght dayes And a little before his departing lifting vp his eyes to God he prayed â—… followeth 〈…〉 deliuer me out of this miserable and wreâ—… life take me among thy chosen The prayer of King Edwarde the sixth at his death howbeit not my will but thy will be done Lord I committe my spirite to thee oh Lorde thou knowest howe happie it were for me to be with thee yet for thy chosen sake if it be thy will sende me life and health that I maye truly serue thee Oh my Lorde blesse thy people and serue thine inheritance O Lord God saue thy chosen people of Englande O my Lorde God defend this Realme from papistrie and maintaine thy true religion that I and my people maye prayse thy holy name And therewithall he said I am faint Lorde haue mercie vppon vse and take my spirite and so he yeelded vp to God his ghost the vj. daye of Iuly as before is mentioned whom if it had pleased God to haue spared with longer life not vnlyke it was but he should haue so gouerned this Englishe common welth that he might haue bene comparable with any of his noble progenitors The commendation of king Edwarde so that the losse of so towardly a yong king greatly discomforted the whole Englishe nation that looked for suche a reformation in the state of the Common welth at his handes as was to be wished for of all good subiectes which bredde suche a lyking in them towards him that euen among the very trayterous rebelles his name yet was had in reuerence although otherwise they neuer so muche forgat their dutie both towards him and other appointed to gouerne vnder him through a malicious and moste wilfull error as if his tender yeares had not sufficiently warranted his royall authoritie but that the same had bene vsurped by others against his will and pleasure and as hee was entirely beloued of his subiectes so with the lyke affection he loued them againe Of nature and disposition meeke muche enclined to clemencie euer hauing a regarde to the sparing of lyfe See M. Foxe vol. 2. pag. 1484. There wanted in him no promptnesse of wit grauitie of sentence ripenesse of iudgement as his age might beare fauour and loue of religion was in him from his childehoode his skill and knowledge in sciences beside his other excellent vertues were suche that to them he seemed rather borne than brought vppe It maye seeme very straunge that in his yong yeares as Maister Foxe reporteth of him hee coulde tall and recite all the portes hauens and creekes not within his owne Realme onelye but also in Scotlande and likewise in Fraunce what comming in there was howe the tyde serued in euery of them Moreouer what burthen and what wynde serued for the comming into eche heauen Also of all his Iustices Magistrates Gentlemen that bare anye authoritie within his Realme he knewe their names their house keeping their religion and conuersation what it was He had a singular reâ—… iustice a vertue moste commendable in â—… Prince and chiefely to the dispatche of poore mens suites He perfectly vnderstoode the Latine tongue the French the Greeke Italian and Spanishe neyther was he ignorant sayeth Cardanus in Logicke in the principles of naturall Philosophie or in Musicke To conclude his towardlynesse was suche in all Heroicall vertues noble gyftes and markable qualities conuenient for his Princely estate that so much was hoped for in his royall person if he had liued till triall might haue bene had of the proofe as was to be looked for in any one Prince that euer had rule ouer this noble Realme But nowe to proceede with the doings that followed Immediately after the death of this so worthie a Prince King Edwarde Ladie Iane Proclaymed Queene the aforesayde Ladie Iane was proclaymed Queene of this Realme by the sounde of Trumpet that is to saye the ninth daye of Iulye at whiche Proclamation were present the Lordes of the Counsayle the Maior of London with other The Ladie Marie a little before lying at Honesdon in Hartfordshire hauing intelligence of the state of the King hir brother and of the se crete practise against hir by the aduise of hir frendes with all speede tooke hir iourney towarde hir house of Kenningall in Norffolke entending there to remayne vntill shee coulde make hir selfe more strong of hir frendes and allies and withall writeth to the Lordes of the Counsayle in forme as followeth A letter of the Ladie Marie sent to the Lordes of the Counsayle wherein she claymeth the Crowne now after the decease of hir brother King Edwarde MY Lordes we greete you well and haue receiued sure aduertisement that our dearest brother the King our late soueraigue Lorde is departed to Gods mercie whiche newes howe they be wofull to our heart he onely knoweth to whose will and pleasure wee must and doe humblye submitte vs and all our wylles But in this so lamentable a case that is to witte nowe after his Maiesties departure and death concerning the Crowne and gouernaunce of this Realme of Englande with the tytle of Fraunce and all things thereto belonging that hath bene prouided by acte of Parliament and the Testament and lost will of our dearest Father besides other circumstances aduauncing our right you knowe the Realme and the whole worlde knoweth the rolles and recordes appeare by the authoritie of the King our sayde father and the King our sayde brother and the subiectes of this Realme so that wee verily trust that there is no true subiect that is can or woulde pretende to bee ignoraunt thereof and
to West mynster and there arraigned of high treason the Earle of Sussex sir Edwarde Hastings and sir Thomas Cornewallis with other being his Iudges The effect of whose Inditement among other things specially was that hee the fourtenth day of Februarie last before with force of armed multitude and Ensignes displayed hadde at Braynforde raysed open warres agaynst oure soueraigne Ladie the Queene trayterously pretending and practising to depryue hir of hir Crowne and dignitie and the question was demaunded of him whether he was guiltie or no Wheâ—â—â— hee stayed and besought the Iudges that he myght fyrst asked question before hee aunswerde directly to the poynt and hee 〈◊〉 〈…〉 doe The question was â—â— if hee shoulde confesse himselfe guiltye wheâ—â— the saâ—â— shoulde not bee preiuditiall vnto hym so aâ—â— by that confession shoulde bee barred from 〈◊〉 suche thinges as hee hadde more to say Wherevnto it was answered by the Court Maister Wyat say do they yee shall haue both leaue do â—â— to say what you can Then my Lordes quoth â—â—e I muste confesse my selfe guiltie and in the ende the truth of my case must enforce me I must acknowledge this to be a iust plague for my sonnes which most grieuously I therefore haue committed against God who suffered me thus brutely and hastly to fall in to this horrible offence of the law wherfore aly on lords and gentlemen with other hee present note well my wordesâ—â—o here and set in me the same ende which all other commonly had which haue attempted lyke enterprise from the beginning â–ª for pervse the Chronicles through and you shall see that neuer Rebellion attempted by subiectes agaynst theyr Prince and Countrey from the begynning did euer prosper or had better successe except the case of King Henrie the fourth who although he became a Prince yet in hys acte was but a Rebell for so must I call him and though he prepayled for a tyme yet was it not long but that his heyres were depryued and those that had right agayne restored to the kingdome and Crowne and the vsurpation so sharply reuenged afterwarde in his bloud as it well appeared that the long delay of Gods vengeaunce was supplyed with more grieuous plague in the thirde and fourth generation For the loue of God all you Gentlemen that bee here present remember and bee taught as well by examples past as also by this my present infalicitie moste wretched case Oh most miserable mischieuous brutishe and beastlye furious ymaginations of mine I was perswaded that by the maryage of the Prince of Spaine the seconde person of thys Realme and next heyre to the Crowne shoulde haue beene in daunger and that I being a free borne man should with my Countrey haue beene brought into the bondage and seruitude of Aliens and straungers Which brutishe beastlye opinion then seemed to mee reason and wrought in mee suche effectes that it ledde mee headlong into the practise of thys detestable cryme of Treason But nowe beeyng better perswaded and vnderstanding the great commoditye and honour whiche the Realme should receyue by this maryage I stande firme and fast in this opinion that if it shoulde please the Queene to be mercifull vnto me thereis no subiect in this lande that shoulde more â—â—aly and faythfully serue hir highnesse than I shall nor no sooner die at hir graces ferte in defence of hir quarell I serued hir highnesse agaynst the Duke of Northumberlande as my Lorde of Arundell can witnesse my Grandfather serued moste truely hir Graces grandfather and for his sake was vpon the â—…alke in the Tower My father also serued King Henrie the eight to his good comentation and I also serued him and King Edwarde hys sonne in witnesse of my bloud spent in his seruice I carie a name I alledge not all this to set forth my seruice by way of merit which I coÌ„fesse but dutie but to declare to the whole worlde that by abusing my wittes in pursuing my misaduised opinion I haue not onely ouerthrowne my house and defaced all the well doinges of mee and my Auncestours if euer there were anye but also haue bene the cause of mine owne death and destruction Neither do I alledge this to iustifie my selfe in any poynt neither for an excuse of mine offence but most humbly submit my selfe to the Queenes Maiesties mercie and pitie desiring you my Lorde of Sussex and you maister Hastings with all y e rest of this honorable bench to bee meanes to the Queenes highnesse for hir mercie which is the greatest treasure that may be giuen to any Prince from God such a vertue as God hath appropriate to himselfe which if hir highnesse vouchsafe to extende vnto me she shall bestow it on him who shall be most glad to serue truly and not refuse to die in hir quarell for I protest before the iudge of all iudges I neuer ment hurt agaynst hir highnesse person Then sayde the Queenes attourney master Wyat ye haue great cause to be sorie and repeat for your fault whereby you haue not onely vndone your selfe and your house but also a number of other gentlemeÌ„ who being true men might haue serued theyr Prince and Countrey yet if you had gone no further it might haue beene borne withall the better But being not so contented to stay your selfe you haue so procured the Duke of Suffolke a man soone trayned to your purpose and his two brethren also by meanes whereof without the Queenes greater mercie you haue ouerthrowne that noble house and yet not so stayed your attempt hath reached as in you lay to the seconde person of the Realme in whome next to the Queenes highnesse resteth all our hope and comfort whereby hir honour is brought in question and what daunger will follow and to what ende it will come God knoweth of all this you are the authour Wyats aunswere Wyat answered as I will not in any thing iustifie my selfe so I beseech you I being in thys wretched estate not to ouercharge mee nor to make me seeme to be that I am not I 〈◊〉 to touch any person by maine but that I haue writteÌ„ I haue written The Iudge Then sayde the Iudge maister Wiat maister Attorney hath well moued you to repeat your offences and we for our partes withe you the same Then sayde Sir Edwarde Hastings maister of the Queenes horse Sir Edwarde Hasting maister Wiat doe you remember when I and master Cornwallis were sent vnto you from the Queenes highnesse to demaund the cause of your enterprise what you required were not these your demaunded that the Queenes grace shoulde go to the town and there remayne and you to haue the rule of the tower and hir person with the treasure in keeping and such of hir counsaile as you woulde require to be deliuered into your hands saying that you woulde bee trusted and not trust Whiche woordes when Wyat had confessed then sayde the Queenes Solicitor Maister Cordall now maâ—…ster of the
towne 〈◊〉 Citie sendeth thee firme hope and earnest prayer 〈◊〉 all men hope in thee that all vertues shall raigne 〈◊〉 all men hope that thou none errour wilt support 〈◊〉 all men hope that thou wilt truth restore againe 〈◊〉 mend that is amisse to all good mennes comfort â–ª 〈◊〉 for this hope they pray thou mayght continue long 〈◊〉 Queene amongst vs here all vice for to supplant 〈◊〉 for this hope they pray that God may neede thee wrong 〈◊〉 by his grace puissant so in his truth â—â—â—all 〈◊〉 â—…arwell O worthis Queene and as our hope is sure â—…t into errours place thou wilt nowe truth restore 〈◊〉 trust we that thou wilt our soueraigne Queene endure 〈◊〉 louing Ladie stande from henceforth euenmore While these wordes were in saying and certaine wishes therin repeated for maintenance of truth and rooting out of errour she nowe and then helde vp hir handes to heauenwarde and willed the people to say Amen When the childe had ended she sayde deye well assured I will stande your good Queene At which saying hir grace departes forth throgh Temple Barre toward Westminster with no lesse shouting and crying of the people than shee entred the citie with a noyse of ordinance which the Towne shot off at hir graces entrance fyrst into Towre streete The childes saying was also in latin verses written in a Table whiche was hanged vppe there O regina potens quum prima vrbem ingredereris Dona tibi linguas fidaque corda dedit Discedenti etiam tibi nunc duo munera mittit Omnia plena spei votaque plena precum Quippe tuis spes est in te quod prouida virtus Rexerit errori nec locus vllus erit Quippe tuis spes est quod tu veruÌ„ omni reduces solatura bonas dum mala tollis opes Huc spel freti de dâ—â— lorâ—â—◠〈◊〉 reginae gubernes Et negue excindus 〈…〉 Hac spe freti orant diuina vt gratia fortem Et vero si â—…rite velit essâ—◠〈◊〉 Iam Regina vide er sicut 〈◊〉 spes 〈◊〉 veâ—… Quod vero inducto perâ—…itus 〈◊〉 erat Sic quoque speramus quod eris regina benigne Nobis perâ—…aegni tempora 〈…〉 Thus the Queenes highnesse passed thorow the Citie which without any foraigne person of it selfe beautified it selfe and receyues hir grace at all places as hath beene before mentioned with most tender obedience and loue due to so gracious a Queene and soueraigne Lady And hir grace likewise of his side in all hir graces passage shewed hirselfe generally an Image of a worthie Ladie and Gouernour but priuately these especiall poputes were noted in hir grace as signes of a most Princelyke courage whereby his louing Subiectes may grounde a sure hope for the rest of hir gracious doyngs hereafter Certaine notes of the Queenes maiesties great mercie clemencie and wisdom vsed in this passage About the nether ende of Cornehill towarde Cheape one of the knightes about hir grace had espyed on auncient Citizen which wept and turned his head backe and therewith sayde thys Gentleman yonder is an Aldeâ—â— an for so hee tearmed him which weepeth and turneth hys face backwarde Howe may it bee interpreted that he so doth for sorowe or for gladnesse The Queenes Maiestie heard him and sayd I warrant you it is for gladnesse A gracious interpretation of a noble courage which would turn the doubtfull to the best And yet it was well known that as hir grace did confirme the same the parties cheare was mooued for verie 〈◊〉 gladnesse for the sight of hir Maiesties person at the beholding wherof he tooke such comfort that with teares be expressed the same In Cheape side hir grace smyled and being thereof demaunded the cause answered for that she heard one say Remember olde king Henrie the eight A naturall childe which at the verie remembrance of hir fathers name tooke so great a ioy that all men may well thinke that as shee reioyced at his name whom this Realme doth holde of so worthie memorie so in hir doings she will resemble the same When the Cityes charge without partialitie and onely the Citie was mencioned vnto hir grace she sayd it shoulde not be forgotten Which saying might moue all naturall English men heartily to shew due obedience entiernesse to theyr so good a Queene which will in no poynt forget any parcell of duetie louingly shewed vnto hir The aunswere which hir grace made vnto master Recorder of LoÌ„don as the hearers know it to be true and with melting heartes hearde the same so may the reader thereof conceyue what kinde of stomacke and courage pronounced the same What more famous thing doe wee read in auncient histories of olde tyme than that mightie Princes haue gently receyued presents offered them by case and lâ—…we personages If that be to be wondered at as it is passingly let mee see any wryter that in any one Princes life is able to recount so many presidents of this vertue as hir grace shewed in that one passage through the Citie How many Nosegayes did hir grace receyue at poore womens handes how oftentymes stayed she hir Chariot when she sawe any simple body offer to speake to hir grace A braÌ„ch of Rosemary giuen to hir grace with a supplication by a poore woman about Fleetbridge was seene in hir chariot til hir grace came to Westm not without the maruellous wondring of such as knew the presenter and noted the Queenes most gracious receyuing and keeping the same What hope the poore and nedie may looke for at hir graces hand she as in all hir iourney continually so in hir harkening to the poore children of Christes Hospitall with eies cast vp into heauen did fully declare as that neyther the wealthier estate coulde stande without consideration had to the pouertie neyther the pouertie bee duely considered vnlesse they were remembred as commended to vs by Gods owne mouth As at hir first entrance she as it were declared hir selfe prepared to passe through a Citie that most entierly loued hir so she at hir last departing as it were bound hir selfe by promise to continue good Ladie and gouernour vnto that Citie whiche by outwarde declaration did open theyr loue to theyr so louing and noble Prince in such wise as shee hir selfe wondered thereat But bycause Princes be set in their sâ—…ate by Gods appoynting and therefore they most first and chiefly tender the glorie of him from whom their glorie issueth it is to be noted in hir grace that forsomuch as God hath so wonderfullye placed hir in the seate of gouernment ouer this Realme shee in all doings doth shewe hir selfe moste myndfull of his goodnesse and mercye shewed vnto hir and amongest all other two principall signes thereof were noted in this passage First in the Tower where hir Grace before she entred hir Chariot lyfted vp hir eyes to heauen and sayde O Lorde almightie and euerlasting God I giue thee most harty thaÌ„ks that thou hast bin so mercifull vnto me as
opinions therein they all sauing one whiche was the Abbot of Westminster hauing some more consideration of order and his duetie of obedience than the other vtterly and plainly denied to haue theyr booke read some of them as more earnestly than other some so also some other more vndiscretely and vnreuerently than others Wherevpon gyuing such example of disorder stubbornnesse and selfe will as hath not beene seene and suffered in such an honourable assembly beeing of the two estates of this Realme the Nobilitie and the Commons besides the presence of the Queenes Maiesties most honourable priuie Counsaile the same assembly was dismissed and the Godly and most Christian purpose of the Queenes Maiestie made frustrate And afterwarde for the contempt so notoriously made the Bishoppes of Winchester and Lyncolne hauing most obstinately both disobeyed common authoritie and varyed manifestly from theyr owne order and specially Lyncolne who shewed more folly than the other were condignly commytted to the Tower of London and the rest sauing the Abbot of Westmynster stoode bounde to make dayly their personall apparance before the Counsaile and not to departe the Citie of London and Westminster vntil further order were takeÌ„ with them for their disobedience and contempt The three propositions wherevpon conference was determined to haue bene at VVestminster 1 It is agaynst the worde of God and the custome of the auncient Church to vse a tongue vnknowne to the people in common prayer and the administration of the Sacraments 2 Euerie Church hath authoritie to appoynt take awaye and chaunge Ceremonies and Ecclesiasticall rytes so the same bee to edification 3 It cannot bee proued by the worde of God that ther is in the Masse offred vp a sacrifice propiciasorie for the quicke and the dead The names of such as had conference in the propositions aforesayde The B. of Winchest The B. of Lichfield The B. of Chester The B. of Carliel The B. of Lincolne Doctor Cole Doctor Harpesfeld Doctor Langdall Doctor Chedsye D. Scorie B. of Chich. Doctor Coxe Maister Whitehead Maister Grindall Maister Horne Maister doctor Sandes Maister Gest Maister Aylmer Maister Iuell The Byshops and Doctors sate on the one side of the queere at a table of them prepared and the other learned men sate at an other table on the other side the same queere And at y e vpper ende thereof at an other table sate the Queenes Maiesties Counsell desirous to haue seene some good conclusion of the sayde conference although as ye may perceyue by that whiche is aboue recited it came to small effect A treatie for peace In his meane time a treatie of peace which had bin in hande the last yeare first at Lisle and after at the Abbey of Cercamp a three leagues from Dorlens betwixt y e two kings of Spaine and France was nowe renued againe and the Deputies were appoynted to meete at Chasteau Cambresi a sixe leagues distant from Cambray For the K. of Spayne the Duke of Alua the Prince of Orange the Byshop of Arras Rigomes de Silua Earle of Mellito Monsieur Viglius Zwichem Knight presidente of the priuie Counsell in the low Countreys who neuerthelesse came not bycause hee was letted by sicknesse The Deputies recommissioners appointted for the Princes For the French King there came the Cardinall of Lorayne the Connestable the Marshall of Saint Andrew the Byshop of Orleans and Claude de Aubespine y e said kings Secretarie For the Queene of England the Byshop of Elie the Lorde William Howard Baron of Effingham Lorde Chamberlayne to the sayde Queene Doctor Nicholas Wutton Deane of Caunterbury and Yorke For the Duke of Sauoy there were the Erle of Stropiana and the president of Asti And as a meane or mediatrix betwene the parties there was Christierna Duches of Loraine with hir sonne the yong Duke whiche Duches as well heere as before at Cercamp trauelled most earnestly to doe good betwixte the parties and to bring them to a small accord whose endeuoure therein was to the greate good liking and contentation of all the said parties After that this treatie had continued a long time and nowe rested nothing to stay them froÌ„ concluding a generall peace but only the article touching Calais Caâ—â—nico Saâ—… ardini The articles of the peace betwixt the Queenes Maiestie and the French kyng at length that matter was also accorded by a speciall treatie betwixte the Queenes Maiestie of England and the French King Guido Caualcanti a Gentleman of Florence beeing the meane to bring the same to effect The substaunce of whiche article was that Calais should rest in the Frenche mens handes for the tearme of eyght yeares and at the end of that tearme they couenaunted to render y e same or else for defaulte to forfeite to the Queenes highnesse the summe of fiue hundred thousande Crownes and for Puretie heereof to deliuer four hostages such as hir Maiestie should thinke sufficient and in case the towne were not deliuered at the ende of the sayde eyghte yeares although the money were payde according to the couenauntes yet notwithstanding the right and title to the saide Towne and Countrey adioyning shoulde alwayes remayne and be reserued vnto the Crowne and Realme of England It was further concluded also that a peace should be firmed and had betwixt the Realmes of England and Scotland such fortresses to be rased as had bin built and made by the Scottes and French on the bordures towards EnglaÌ„d as Hay mouth and others Sir Iohn Mason Knighte Sir Iohn Mason Secretarie for the Frenche tong was sente ouer in post wyth instructions vnto the Englishe commissioners after whose comming A generall peace betwixt the Kings of Fraunce and Spayne within two or three dayes a generall peace was concluded betwixte all the parties the articles whereof not touching England we haue of purpose omitted But nowe after the conclusion of this peace the sayde Sir Iohn Mason returned in post with the same and so therevpon the seauenth of Aprill the sayde peace was proclaymed to wit The peace proclaymed betwixt the Queenes Maiestie on the one part and the French K. on the other their Realmes dominions and subiects and likewise betwixte hir sayde Maiestie and the King Dolphin and Queene of Scottes his wife their Realmes dominions and subiects This Proclamation was made by Garter and Norrey Kinges at armes accompanyed with three other Herraultes and fyue Trumpettors the Lorde Maior of London and the Aldermed in their scarlet gownes beeing also present and riding in company of the said Herraultes The same time also Playes and enterludes forbidden for a time was another Proclamation made vnder the Queenes hand in writing inhabiting that from thenceforth no playes nor enterludes shuld be exercised til Alhallowen ride next ensuing Vppon Saterday the two and twentith of Aprill the Lorde Wentworth The Lords Wentworth arraigned and acquited late Deputie of Calais was araigned at Westminster vppon an enditemente of treason found agaynst him in
Archbishop of Canterburie 349.2 Byshops through all Britaine forbiddē to consecrate Thomas the elect of Yorke 349.65 Byshops See of Ely erected 349.90 Biham Castle holden agaynst Kyng Henry the third 618.35 Byshops of Englād complaine to the Kyng of the extreame dealyng of the Archbyshop Thomas Becket 415.18 Byshop of Durham made an Earle 478.67 Byshops See erected at Carleil 362.82 Byshops that accursed Kyng Iohn and the Realme fledde out of the Realme 566.24 Byshop of Londons Palace builded 33.105 Bigot Hugh fleeth ouer sea into Fraunce after the discomfiture of Robert Earle of Leycester 432.71 Byshop of Salisburie murdered pag. 1281. col 1. lin 16. Byshop of Erceter being blind sent in Ambassade to Rome 352.5 Bayot Francis knight eftsones rebelleth 1569.27 Bisi Byshop of East Angles 179.90 Byshopriekes openly bought and sold for money 330.27 Byshops haue none aucthoritie to iudge of an Archbyshops cause 331.53 Byshoprickes let out to ferme 333.60 Byshops and Nobilitie forsake Northumberland 202.2 Byshops and nobilitie of England enuyng one another refuse to make an Englishman their Kyng and receiue a stranger 291.50 Bilney Thomas Bacheler of lawe brent 1557.40 Bigot Hugh conspireth against king Henry the second 426.113 Byshops dueties to care for the health of mens soules 353.77 Byshops See translated from holy Iland to Chester in the Streete 219.51 Byshop of Carlest bolde and faythfull pag. 1123. col 1. lin 47. attached pag. ibidē col 2. lin 19. dyeth through greefe of mind pag. 1129. col 1. lin 44. Byshops allowed of for their pompe not for their learnyng 274.66 Byshops refuse simply to obey the Kinges lawes 403.9 Biham Castle yeelded to Kyng Henry the third 618.66 Byshops Sees remoued from lesse renowmed to more famous places 303.62 Byshops See ordeined at Dunwich 162.60 Byll agaynst the Clergie pag. 1155. col 2. lin 36. Byll against the Clergie pag. 1168. col 1. lin 48. Byshops and Abbots of England not y e ministers of God but of the diuell 279.115 Bigod Roger in armes against King William Rufus 318.57 Bickncle Iohn knight 1450.17 Bishops forbidden to be iudges in secular causes 198.97 Byshops See of Westes translated to Salisburie 188.29 Bigod Roger made Erle Marshall 715.95 Byshops See of West Saxons placed at Winchester 180.71 Byshops take an othe simply to obey the Kings lawes 403.69 Byshop of Beaunoys taken prisoner 531.59 Byshops shrinke from the Pope for money sake 740.18 Bintre William 1463.2 Bigot Hugh suborned to periure himselfe 365.72 Byshopricke of London bought 171.78 Bylney Arthur abiured 1541. Byshoprickes vnder the dioces of Cantorburie 195.10 Byrth of Henry the thyrd 565.61 Byshoprickes vnder the dioces of Litchfield 195.15 Biligelhage 276.53 Brunan bright 226.27 Byshops wyll rather dye then part frō money 740.12.22 Bigot Hugh Earle of Norfolke a valiant chiefteine 367.43 Bigod William drowned 357.112 Bigod Rafe Knight 1448.47 Blasing starre seen before King Edwardes death the confessour 280.39 Blasing star appeering before the comming of Duke Williā of Normandie into England 284.5 Blecca gouernour of Lincolne conuerted to the faythe of Christ 162.67 Bloud rayneth in the I le of Wight 449.62 Blederike Duke of Cornwall slayne 154.73 Blasing star appeering in England 309.47 Blackamore supposed to bee Badon hyl 128.65 Bleothgent King of Wales 297.26 Blackwell hall in London supposed to be buylded for the temple of peace 23.30 Blauke Charters 1102.20 a. 1103.17 a. Bluet Robert made Byshop of Lincolne 323.104 Blasing star appeereth in England 182.6 Blasing starre appeering bringing famine among men murreys among cattel 235.75 Charles Earle of Bloys slayne at Cressy 934.32 b. Blanch King Iohns Neece promised in marriage to Lewes the French Kings son 548.28 Blaunche daughter to Henry y e fourth marryed to William Duke of Bauer pag. 1134. col 2. lin 48. Bleugent and Riuall sonnes to Griffin made gouernors of Wales 277.76 Charles de Bloys taken prisoner 940.50 b. raunsomed 947.40 b. Blind man restored to his sight by Augustine 151.31 Bladulfe brother to Colgerne 132.49 Bladulfe slayne by the Brytaines 133.25 Charles De Bloys wynneth townes in Britaine 916. 38. b. ouercome by y e Earle of Northampton 918.50 b. Blockhouses and bulworkes buylte along the sea coast 1572.40 Charles de Bloys slaine 970.36 b. Blasing starre pag. 1133. col 2. lin 32. Bloud of Hayles brought into England 781.100 Blanch sent into Fraūce 548.70 Blewberde a rebel pag. 1278. col 2. lin 56. Blackney William 1463.26 Blunt William Lord Mōtiny almost slaine by the mutining souldiours at Tourney 498.10 Blederike Duke of Tornewall 154.66 Blacke Crosse of Scotlande 891.47 b. Blacknesse yeelded to y e French King 1697.54 Blorehatha pag. 1295. col 2. lin 4. Blanche daughter to King Edward the third borne 915.16 b. Blasing starre 786. lin 10. a. 854.40 a. Boniface Archbyshop of Cantorburie departeth this lyfe 782.35 Bonifacius Archby of Mentz reproueth certain offences in Ethelbaldus 190.9 Bookes translated out of latine into Englishe by King Alured 217.78 Boues Hugh drowned together with a great armie of men vpon the sea as they were cōmyng into England to ayde King Iohn agaynst the Barons 593.65 Bodumni a people in Britaine 49.10 Bourgh Castle taken by the Scots 433.113 Bosa ordeined Bishop of Yorke 182.14 Boniface de Sauoy elect Archbyshop of Cantorburie 659.5 Iames Botiller created Earle of Ormond 892.14 a. Bouchier Thomas Archbyshop of Cantorburie dieth 1431.38 Bouchier Henry Earle of Essex 1447.1 Bowes Rafe Knight 1448.48 Bohun Iohn marrieth Margaret sister to Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester 323.65 Bohun Randulfe 323.66 Humfrey Bohun Earle of Herford dyeth 838.55 a. Bosworth feeld pag. 1416. col 2. lin 56. pag. 1422. col 1. lin 57. Bonner doctor restored to the Byshoprick of London 1721 16. Boallogie slayne 1604.40 Bokingham Iohn 1463.25 Boates might haue ben rowed in Westminster hall 649.4 Booke of Common prayer corrected 1708.24 Henry Bolinbroke created Erle of Derbie 1050.5 b. Boulbeck Isabel Countesse of Oxford dyeth 714.12 Bouencort Peter hanged vpō despite 502 45 Boucher Thomas Cardinal 1463.13 Bohom pag. 1243. col 2. lin 37. pag. 1244. col 2. lin 16. Bologne and Bolognous surrendred vnto the Frenche King 1703.50 Bologne besieged by Henry the seuenth 1439.41 Iohn King of Boheme slaine at Cressy 934.32 b. Boetius Hector cited 3.75 Boun Humfrey high Constable of England 431.64 Bond men and women in Sussex made free 182.86 Bolton Prior of Saint Bartholmew his madnes 1531 47. Boune Henry Earle of Herford 552.92 The Lord Boinren high admirall of France Ambassadour with a trayne of 1200.1505.47 Boune Henry Earle of Herford deceasseth 618.18 Bowes Robert knight fighteth vnfortunately 1637.8 Humfrey Bohun Earle of Herford slayne 866.30 b. Both parties to be heard before sentence be geuen 271.3 Boniface Archbyshop of Cantorburie intronizated 729.50 Wylliā Bohun created Earle of Northampton 900.13 b Henry Bolinbroke Earle of Derby married 1050.44 b. Boucher Thomas Knight 1447.21 Booke of Common prayer set foorth 1640.32 Boiac Almiramumoli kyng of the Sarasins 486.8 Bodinus Cited 1.93 and .4.80 and .4.92
Pictes inuade Britaine 67.6 Pictes descended of the nation of the Scithians 67.6 Pictes whereof so named 67.10 Pictes supposed to be Agathirses 67.17 Pictes arriue in Irelande to seeke seates 67.24 Pictes depart from Irelande and arriue in Britaine 67.39 Pictes vanquished and slayne by the Britaines 67.45 Pictes remainder appointed to inhabite Catnesse in Scotland 67.49 Pictes and Scots enter vppon the Britaines and chase them out of their townes 101.6 Pictes that inhabite the South part of Scotland brought out of Scithia by Fulgentius 81.69 Pictes by what auncient Romane writer first made mention of 87.107 Pictes so called of painting their bodyes 13.90 Pictes and Scots inuade Britaine and wast the countrey 111.27 Pictes and Scots returne into Britaine by sea and inhabite the North partes of the I le 100.72 Pilgrimage in women a colour to whoredome 190.30 Pightland in Scotland so called of the Pictes 13.99 Pictes send ayde to the Brytaines against the Romanes 39.45 Pig brought forth with a face like a man 351.42 Praying to Saintes not lyked of 335.88 Pictes vanquished by king Oswy 176.33 Pictes and Scots driuen out of Britaine with helpe of the Romanes 100.6 Pictes and Scots breake down the wall and enter againe into Britaine 100.20 Pikering towne builded 32.15 Pirrhus sonne to Achilles 10.43 Pirrhus issue by Andromache 10.45 Pictes deuided into two nations 104.5 Pius Antoninus Emperour 76.57 Piracie of the Saxons described 107.82 Pinnor king of Loegria 22.90 Peers of the Realme called to a counsell pag. 1292. col 1. lin 2. Piece of the holy Crosse sent from Rome into Englande 217.49 Pictes and Scots sore disquiet the Romane subiectes in Britaine 95.17 Pilgrimage to the Abbey of Burie 586.45 Pictouius cited 5.17 Plantagenet Arthur created Viscount Lisle 1525.50 Pleshey Castle deliuered to K Stephan 380.42 Edward Plantagenet created Erle of Rutland 1076.3 b. Plantagenet Geffray moueth rebellion against kyng Stephan 367.81 Plantagenet Geffray put to flight and many of his people slaine 367.103 Plantagenet Geffray inuadeth Normandie 376.54 Plautius Pretor of Rome sent General of the Romane arme into Britaine 48.65 Plautius landeth with his armie in Britaine 48.95 Plautius vanquisheth y e Brytaines at his first arriual 49.6 Plautius triumphed for hys noble actes atchieued in Britaine 50.13 Plantagenet William eldest sonne to king Henrye the second departeth this life 396.30 Plantagenet Geffray beginneth a rebellion against hys brother king Henrye the second 396.34 Plantagenet Geffray not to bee buryed tyll his sonnes had sworne to performe his last wyll and testament 396.51 Plantagenet Geffray expulsed out of his Earledome of Aniou by his brother Henry the second 396.67 Plantagenet Geffray dyeth 396.75 Plantagenet Edward Erle of Warwicke is brought openly from y e Towre to Poules by land and goeth in procession 1429.23 The Pausgraue of the Rhine commeth into Englande 1574.18 Plantagenet Arthur Viscount Lisle dieth of immoderate ioye 1584.8 Plantagenet Edward sonne and heyre of George Duke of Clarēce kept in Sheriffehuton Castle as prisoner and from thence conueied vnto the Towre of London 1424 20. arreygned and beheaded 1454.30 Plozac Geffray with his sonne Myles Ambassadours to K. Henry the seconde from Hubert Earle of Morienne 424.25 Edward Plantagenet created Earle of Rutland 1050.8 b. Pleymond made Archbishop of Cantorburie 218.36 Plantagenet Geffray Earle of Aniou departeth this lyfe 384.10 Plantagenet Geffray Earle of Aniou his issue 384.16 Plentie of wealth accompanied with store of sinnes 111.1 Pleymond sent to Rome with ritch presentes from the king 223.48 Placida mother to Valentinyan the Emperour 121.55 Pleymond Archbyshop of Cantorburie 223.42 Pleasance 1103.1 a. Pleas of the crowne holden at the towre of London 705.46 Plenidius a Barde 4.41 Plentie of graine 797.8 a. Popes goe out of the steppes which Peter trode 330.109 Pope to haue nothing to doo in any kingdome touching temporal liberties 331.6 Popes office and duetie what it is 331.7 Popish Byshops cannot keepe their allegiance towardes their Prince and their obedience to the See of Rome without their Princes pleasure 331.36 Portes fiue resist the landing of French men comming to ayde Lewes 615.37 Pont Meulan surprised by the French pag. 1220. col 2. lin 34. rendred agayn to the English lin 49. Popes power banished 1563.15 is restored agayne 1761 30. is eftsoones banished 1797.26 Poste comming from the Pope is stayed at Douer 712.54 Popes Nuncio commaūded to depart the Realme 713.29 Pope requireth the French king to warre agaynst England 714.89 Pope giueth sentence with the Monkes of Cantorburie agaynst the Byshops 563.73 Pope nameth Stephan Langton to be Archbishop of Canterburie against king Iohns appoyntment 564.48 Popes answere to king Iohns Letter 565.15 Pope writeth to the Byshops concerning king Iohn and Stephan Langton chosen Archbyshop of Canterburie and of the Monkes there 565.98 Poules doore blowen open 1835.57 Pope Alexander the second sendeth a banner to Duke William of Normandie at his expedition into England 285.100 Pope and Cardinales compared to a shaken Reede which bendeth what way soeuer the wynde bloweth 286.4 Poole Reynold Cardinal reuoked by Queene Mary 1723 5. consultation held how he should be receyued eadem 20. his attaindour is reuersed by Parliament 1759.50 commeth into the Parliament house Legate from the Pope 1760.4 the effect of his Oration there eadem 37. absolued the Realme from Schisme 1761.30 is receyued into Poules with procession by the Lord Chancellour 1762.43 goeth to Marke to conclude a peace betweene the Emperour and the French king 1764.6 sendeth the Byshop of Gloucester to sit in iudgement on Cranmer 1765.20 is archbyshop of Canterburie eadem 30. depriueth Doctor Weston of al his spiritual lyuings for adulterie 1769.26 dyeth 1782.1 his pedegree ibid◅m Poynings Edward knight sent with a power into Ireland to suppresse the fauorers of Perkin Warbecke 1444.37 Poynings Edwarde Knight 1447.20 Poole Lord Montagne committed to the Towre 1510.28 restored to the kings fauour 1519.47 Pope dispenseth for the detayning of Abbey landes 1763.8 Poules Steeple with a part of the Church burned 1815. the Church repayred ibidem Policie of the Frenche king to weaken Kyng Williams force of England 310.16 Pope and Sea of Rome souereygne Lord of Ireland 420 59. Pope graunteth the souereigntie of Ireland to king Henry the second 420.87 Polidore reprooued of errour 32.45 and. 55.18 Policie of Lewis the French king to winne Vernueyle 428.49 Poynings Edward knight of of the Garter and Controller of the kings house sent with a power agaynst the Duke of Geldres 1440.1 Pope sweareth by Saint Peter 592.20 Popes decree is declared to the Barons 592.50 Pope sendeth to the French king to diswade hym from help in the Barons against king Iohn 598.78 The French kings allegations to the Popes Legate 598.83 Poyctouins are confederate with the french king against the king of Englād 411.12 Portesmouth 551.99 Popes Legate sueth for the restitutiō of Fulkes de Brent but obtayneth not 628.6 Poynings Thomas knight captayne of Guisnes 1594.36 discomfiteth the Frenchmen at Basse Buileyne 1599.
as touching the King who was as yet yong in yeeres hee loued him as his soueraigne Lord and woulde keepe him defend both him his Realm against all other that would attempt to inuade y e same according to his conscience honor dutie And as touching the Erle of Angus he had vsed towards him all clemencie mercie notwithstāding his euil demerites and that principally for the Queenes cause whom he woulde honor as mother to his soueraigne Lorde Thys answer being reported to the king of Englande cōtented him nothing at all and therefore prepared to make warre The tenth of Aprill 1522 there came seuē great ships into y e Forth vnto Inchkeith to haue spoyled y e Ships inuaded y e coast there But they were so stoutly resisted kept off y t they were not suffered to do any great exploit so they returned without pray or prise The death of the Archbishop of saint Androwes Iames Beaton succeeded him In thys season Androw Formā Bishop of S. Androws deceased and Bishop Iames Beaton Archbishop of Glasgo Chancellor of Scotlād was remoued to S. Androws made Abbot also of Dūfermeling the Archbishoprike of Glasgo was giuē to a yong man one Gawin Dunbar that was the kings Scolemaster In the moneth of May A sturre in Edenburgh ther was a great adoe in Edenburgh by y e falling out of y e seruants of y e Erles of Murrey Errol with the seruauntes of the Earle of Huntley by reason whereof the whole towne fell to partakings but the Duke comming suddenly from the Abbey of Holy Roode house stayed the matter committed the said Earles vnto warde within y e Castell The Emperor commeth into Englande The Emperour came into Englād perswaded y e K. there to moue warres against y e French K. and so not only y e Frenchmen but also the Scots were commanded to auoide out of Englād Scottes and Frenchmen banished forth of Englande their goodes confisked they cōueyd forth of y e land w t a white crosse sowed vpō their vppermost garmēt The Earle of Shrewesburie inuadeth Scotland In Iuly the Erle of Shrewesburie was sente by the king of England vnto the bordures with commission to rayse the power of the Northe partes to inuade Scotlande who vpon the suddayne entred and came to Kelso where he burnt one parte of the towne but the bordurers of the Mers and Teuidale not being halfe so many in number as the other set vpon them slewe tooke many prisoners and so constreyned them to returne into Englande with small honor The Duke of Albany hearing of the greate preparation that y e Erle of Shrewesburie made to raise an army of fourescore thousande men to inuade Scotlande hee likewise sente vnto all the Earles The Duke of Albany reyseth an Army to inuade Englande Lords and Nobles of the Realme willing them to raise all suche power as they coulde make in defence of their coūtrey which they did and so being assembled the Duke with a mighty army of Scottishmen and certayne Frenchmen with greate artillerie marched forwarde till bee came to the water of Eske foreaneynst Carkle and perceiuing that the English armie came not then forwarde he did what he could to perswade the Noble men to enter into Englande but as they were in counsell togither about that earnest motion made to them by the Duke a certayne graue personage sayde to them in this manner My Lords The words of a Counseller hither be we come by the commaundement of my Lord gouernor Duke of Albany albeit we be ready to defende our owne natiue Realm cōtraire y e inuasiō of our auld enimies of Englande yet neuerthelesse it seemeth not guid nor for the weale of our realme of Scotlande to passe within England with our army to inuade the same at this time and the earnest perswasiōs whilke the gouernoure makes to vs to doe the same proceedes alane◅ly for y e pleasure of Frāce it appeareth to be sufficiēt ynough for vs so lang as the king our soueraigne Lord is within age to defende our owne Realme and not to inuade otherwise we mar put the hayle countrey and nobilitie thereof in hazard of Tinsall for K. Iames the fourth brought the Realme of Scotlande to the best that it euer was and by the warre it was brought to the worst almost that might bee for by that warre was hee and his nobilitie tinte whilke Scotlande sare laments Wherefore by mine aduice let vs goe to the gouernor knowe of him the cause why he waulde perswade vs to inuade England Then they all came to the gouernours tente and the Earle of Arrane an aunciente wise man spake for them al The Earle of Arrane declareth to the gouernor the mind of the Lordes and sayd My Lord gouernor by your will and commandement here is assembled the maist of the nobilitie of Scotlande with their power vpō a pretēce to enter within England my Lords here wauld know the cause and quarrell why this warre is begun gif it myghte please your goodnesse it should well satisfie theyr mindes The Duke studied a little space The Dukes answere to the Erle of Arrane and sayde this question woulde haif bin demaunded ere now for well you know that I for very lufe I beare to the Realme of Scotland of y e whilke I haue my name honor and liguage haife passed the Seas from the noble Realme of Fraunce into this Realme of Scotlande and great cause there was for me so to do to bring you to a vnitie when ye ware in diuision by reason whereof youre Realme was like to haue bin conquered and destroied And also the king of France by my suites intercession will ioyne with you in aide against y e English nation and when this warre was determinate in the Parliamente you made me Captayne authorising me to inuade England with Banner displayde Then was no demaund made of the cause or quarrell and that I haif done is by your assente and agreemente and that I will iustifie But to answere youre demaund me thinke you haife iust cause to inuade England with fire swoorde and bloud gif ye bee not forgetfull and without you will beare dishonor and reproch for euer For yee knowe that this Realme of Scotland is our inheritance as a portion of the worlde allotted to our nation and auncestors whome we succeede then where may there bee better warre than to maintayne thys our naturall inheritance Is it not dayly seene the greate inuasions that the Englishmen on vs make the greate manslaughter and murders with thefts and spoyles that they do daily Is not this one cause of warre to defend the countrie is the office of a king the honor of noble men and the very seruice of chiualrie and the dutie naturall of the communaltie for I thinke it a iust quarrell gif we mighte conquere the Realme of England and
annex it to our owne Realme for the great iniuries and wrongs done by that Nation to vs and our predecessors for seene the beginning of our habitation in this I le of Bryttayne the Englishmen and we haue euer bin enemies and vs haif they euer hated and yet haue we euer withstand them Suppose we at the last battell of Flodden by chance lost our soueraigne Lorde and diuers noble men whilke was rather by treason of the Lorde Chamberlayne than otherwise who woulde not relieue the kings army when he might And yet I thinke we wanne the field whilke murder all we noble men oughte to reuenge Therefore I woulde that you shoulde couragiously aduance your selues in this quarrell to get honor and to be reuenged The reply of a wise Counseller Then one wise man that was president of the counsell aunswered the gouernour saying My Lord fortune of weir is led by him that al leydes and he strikes the strake we can warke na miracles and heare are the Lords of England ready to encouÌ„ter vs. And gif wee inuade their Realme surely they will fighte for their power sall encrease dayly and oures will deminish And gif is on graunt vs the victory as I trust he shall 〈…〉 of wonne the field for ready comming 〈…〉 Earle of Shrewesbury saâ—…miâ—…â—…read in Fraunce as ye knawe wee with an great puissant army and there is no doubt but the King of England â—…fend or bring another army gif we should chaâ—…e to get the first battayle and gif we get the second field that will not be without great losse of many nobles by reason whereof the Realme shall be weaker and gif we be ouercommen how many sould be stayne God knawes They that 〈◊〉 are worthy to be reputed as Traytors to the K. and so by wilfulnesse and fule hardinesse the Realme may be in ieoperdie to be vndone I say while the king is within age we aught to moâ—…e na weir least by weir we maye bring him to destruction The gouernours words as the presidents reply Then sayd the valiant gouernour here is an puissant army of Scotland gif we returne we sall encourage our enimies Therefore seene you thinke it not gude to inuade my counsel is that we camp still on the bordures while we see what the Englishmen pretends to doe againste our Realme to the which the nobles consented and lay still there in camp certayne dayes after After this conference had betwixte the Nobles and the gouernour the Queene as then beeyng not with them but aduertised of all the proceedings and determinations sent word to the gouernour Meanes made for peace and desired him that there might bee a treatie of peace had and shee promised to get the Warden of the English marches to come to the gouernours camp vpon pledges wherevnto the gouernour condiscended Heerevppon the Lorde Dacres The Lorde Dacres Warden of the West Marches of England came vnto the gouernours camp and thither also at that time was the Queene hir selfe comen so vpon the eleuenth of September an abstinence of war was taken and couenanted y t in the meane time y e Duke and Queene should send Ambassadors into England to treate and conclude a resolute peace Greate slaughter was made at that assaulte on both sydes but especially of them within the house The assaylantes meante to haue gyuen a freshe assaulte the nexte day beyng the fourthe of Nouember but a sore and vehemente storme and tempest of rayne chanced that nighte that they were constreyned to leaue off that enterprise The Scottes and French retire back ouer the water and to get themselues ouer the riuer again vnto the army least by the rising of the water of Twede they myght haue bene cutte off by theyr enimies before they coulde haue bin succoured In the meane time whylest this siege continued a number of Scottishmen made a roade into the Countrey of Glendale within the Englishe marches Glendale burned by the Scottes and brente and spoyled dyuers Townes cast downe sundry piles and returned without anye resistance for the Earle of Surrey woulde suffer none of his people to depart from the army nor breake order for feare of more inconuenience The Duke of Albany lying on the Scottishe syde of Twede An Herault sent sent an Herrault vnto the Earle of Surrey willing him to call to remembrance howe in his absence he had inuaded Scotlande with fire and sworde for the whiche cruell dealing be required him vpoÌ„ his honor to come forward he would meete him in y e coÌ„fines of both y e realmes giue him battel to which the Earle giue him battell to the which message the Earle aunswered that he had no commission to inuade Scotland at that time but only to defend and as some haue reported hee caused a secrete messenger to passe to the Queene as then lying a good way distant from the army to moue forsome abstinence and truce 〈◊〉 and further to perswade the Duke to retire home which hee did so that by hir labour a truce was taken for that instant â—… more of 〈◊〉 matter in Englande 1524 and afterward coÌ„firmed for a longer time and thus the Duke returned with honour as the Scottishmen report This truce was wel kept all the next Winter following and no inuation made till the moneth of May. And then was the Earle of Surrey sente agayne to the Englishe borders and the Lordes of Scotlande on the other parte monethly lay on their borders oâ—… quarters for defence of their Countrey as the vse is 〈…〉 England On Trinitie Sonday beeing the one and twentith of May a fiue hundred Scottes â—…tred Englande to surprise the Englishe â—…erchantes and others going that daye vnto â—…wike where yearely on that daye the fayre 〈◊〉 kept and so by reason thereof they met with dyuers of them that went to this fayre and tooke to the number of two hundred prisoners whome they ledde with them into Scotlande but Haâ—… sayeth that by the comming of the yong Lorde of Fulbery to the succours of the Englishmen the Scottes were chased and lost two hundred of their numbers The fifth of Iuly Sir William Fenwicke Leonarde Musgraue and Basterde Heron with diuers other to the number of nine hundred Englishmenne entred into the 〈◊〉 Englishmen inuade Scotlande and began to spoyle and roâ—… the Countrey but they were shortly â—…ompâ—…ssed about with Scottishmen and so hardly assayled that although they fought baliantly a good 〈◊〉 yet by 〈◊〉 force they were compelleâ—… giue groâ—â—â—e and seeke to saue themselues by flight in whiche Englishmen discomfited Basterd Heroâ—… slayne a two hundred of them were taken prisoners and Basterd Heroâ—… with diues bâ—â—eâ—… slayne Amongst the prisoners were Sir Rauf Fâ—…rwike Leonarde Musgrane and dyuers other Gentlemen of good calling The seuententh of Iuly the Lord Maxwell and Sir Alexander Iordeyne Four thousand saith Hall with 〈…〉 Scottishmen in great number entred England at the