or inheritance and in capitall offences so Arbitrary that the forme of the death inflicted sometimes varied from the ordinary course used in the common Law for such offences Under the first Head these cases of 1. Iohn Matravers 2. Borges of Bayons 3. Iohn Deverill 4. Thomas Gourney 5. William of Ocle 6. Iohn of Gomeniz and 7. William of Weston All condemned to death for Treason and all to bee drawne and hanged saving Gomeniz who was judged to bee beheaded because he was a Banneret and had served the King in his Warres Under the second Head are these cases of 1. Iohn at Lee Steward of the houshold 2. Richard Lions 3. William Lord Latimer 4. William Ellis 5. Chichester and Botesham 6. Alice Pierce 7. Cavendish against Sir Mich. de la Poole Chancellour of England 8. The Earle of Northumberland For Writs of error their power and course in them may bee seene some speciall examples which are expressed whereunto is added that of Thorpe being Speaker of the Lower House under Henry the sixt which specially shewes the power of Iudicature in the Lords although otherwise it tast too much of what is wholy against the priviledges of every member of the Parliament at this day Ex rot Parliamenti 4. E. 3. mem. 3. num 3. WItnesse the Peeres Earles and Barons assembled in this Parliament at Westminster that it is openly assented and agreed that Iohn Matravers is guilty of the death of Edmund Earle of Kent the Vnckle of our Lord the King that now is as he that principally traiterously and falsely compassed the death of the said Earle so that the said Iohn did know of the death of King Edward our Father when the said Iohn by haynous manner and by his false and wicked deeds conspiring with the sonne of the said Earle against the life of the King which hee did actually commit for which the said Peeres of the Land and Iudges of the Parliament adjudge and award that the said Iohn bee drawne hanged and quartered as a Traitor in what part of the Kingdome soever he be found and the said Peeres doe pray our Lord the King that hee will command that a writ be made to make search and enquiry throughout the Realme and that he that can take the said Iohn alive and bring him to the King shall have a hundred markes and if in case he cannot be taken alive he that brings his head shall have fiftie pounds of the Kings guift Moreover to have such judgement it is agreed that it be put in execution of Boges de Boyons and John Deverell for the cause afore-mentioned and that hee that can take the said Boges alive and bring him to the King shall have a hundred pounds and he which brings the head of the said Iohn shall have forty pounds of the Kings guift Item it is assented and agreed that Thomas Gourney and William of Ocle shall have such judgement for the death of King Edward Father of our Lord the King that now is who falsely and traiterously murdered him and who can apprehend the said Thomas and take him alive shall have a hundred pound and he that can bring the head of him a hundred markes likewise he that can take the said William alive shall have a hundred markes and hee that brings the head of him if in case hee cannot be taken alive shall have forty pound of the Kings guift Rot. Parliamen 4. R. 2. M. 5. in Schedula annexa THis Schedule the Commons made and caused to be brought in Parliament praying the Lords to ratefie the same and to put in execution in that schedule amongst divers others this Article occurres Item that all those which have lost or rendred when necessity required not Castle Towne or Fortresse to the dishonour of our Lord the King the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament being every of them attainted of such fault shall be punished according to their desert without partiality for to avoyde the evill example which they have given to all others Then afterwards followes an Accusation and a Iudgement upon an offence of that nature ITEM where the Supplication is by the Commons that all those which have rendred and lost Castle or Townes lost by the very default of Captaines may be put to their answer at this Parliament and according to their desert throughly punished by the award of the Lords and Baronage avoyding the evill example which they have given to others and that Allen Buxall Constable of the Tower of London shall cause to come before the Lords of Parliament at Westminster on friday the 27. day of November in the yeare afore mentioned Iohn Lord of Gomeniz and William of Weston imprisoned and detain'd in the said Tower at the commandement of our Lord the King because they have rendered and lost faithfull Castles and Townes of our Lord the King for to answer upon the Articles which there shall be preferred for the said cause on the behalfe of our Lord the King At which day being friday the said John and William were brought by the said Constable of the Tower before the Lords aforesaid sitting in full Parliament in the great chamber They were severally put to answer at the commandement of the said Lords by sir Richard Scroope Knight Steward of the Houshold of our Lord the King in manner as followeth William of Weston you have taken upon you to the thrice powerfull Prince whom God have in his keeping Lord Edward late King of England Vnckle of our Lord the King that now is surely to keepe to him and his Heires Kings of England the Castle of Barwick without surrendring the same to any but him or his said Heirs have you William who were a leige man of our Lord the King that now is true Heire of the late King Edward delivered and surrendered the said Castle to the Enemies of our Lord the King without his Commandement in dishonour of him and his Crowne and of the Estate of his Realme of England against your leigeance and undertakings whereupon hee put his answer in writing having a Schedule contayning the Tenor of many things and came and read the said Schedule in full Parliament upon which the Law was demanded by the said Steward if the said Schedule should bee taken for his finall answer in that behalfe or not And thereupon the said William prayeth that the said Schedule may be redelivered to him and there hee putteth in his finall answer and after the said William put in to the said Schedule an Addition in full Parliament for finall in that behalfe The Tenor of which Schedule is such as followeth To the most sage Councell of our Lord the King and to the other Nobles and Commons of Parliament WIlliam of Weston beseecheth and shewes that he is accused maliciously to have rendered the Castle of Barwick which he had in keeping upon the Trust and assignement of our Lord the King may it please your just
Ports of England Ibidem N. 21. ITem William Lord Latimer was impeached and accused by the vote of the said Earles of deceits extorsions gâ—ievances and other mischiefs by him and others of his faction and Covin during the time he stayed as well under our Lord the King in Brittaine when he was in Office with the King as otherwise in England the time that he was Chamberlaine and of the privie Councell oâ— the same our Lord the King First of all concerning that when the said L. Lat. had bin long Captain of Becherell and Officer of the late King Edward in Brittaine if before or during the peace or truce it was committed And thereupon it was proclaimed and published under the King through Brittaine that no English man nor other Forreigner shall take Wines Victualls nor other things of any persons Towns Castles nor of others except they pay presently for them nor shall they take or ransome any Person Town Fortresse or other place upon paine of what they may forfeit notwithstanding all which the said Lord Latimer and his Lievtenants and Officers caused to be taken by wrong and violence of diverse Gentlemen of the Countrey much wines and victuals to a great value without paying any thing and likewise ransomed many by oaths and in taking and receiving ransoms unto the summe of 4 millions and 3 thousand pounds whereof our Lord the King enjoyed nothing to the great dammage and villany of the King and oppression of his people and the said parts and against the Proclamation and defence aforesaid as in a letter made and sealed with the seales of many Lords of Brittaine calâ—ed Ragman and sent into England to our Lord the King aforesaid more at large appeared but the said Ragman could not be found in any sort nor any man knew how to say in truth what become of it and yet he at another time was accused thereof that he had taken at Becherell and Plimoyson from thence unduly 153 l. w. of gold whereof the King had never any part nor any restitution made thereof and the parties from whom those summes were taken preferred a Bill in Parliament in forme as followeth It is to is to bee remembered that the proofes of parties that were ransomed at Becherell and Plymoison during the time of Truce have paid so much to Master John port-Constable of Bechâ—rell for the Lord Latimer and to William his sonne and to Hugh Middleton Receiver of the said Town or to the Lord Latimer departed out of Brittaine The yearly summe 40 Franks And likewise the said Constables William and Hugh have received of the ransomes of such as were wont to bee ransomed during the Warre more moneys than would have well payd all the Souldiers of the said Town The summe 50 Franks And likewise the said Countrey of Brittaine have paied to the said Constables William and Hugh for the death of divers Gentlemen liege men of our Lord the King that were killed upon the land of Brittâ—ine The summe 30 Franks And likewise the said Constable and William his son gathered upon the Countrey of Brittaine to send Monsieur Gakes from Plimouth dates to England The summe 12 Franks And likewise the said William for that he lost 20 Marks in the Isle of Garnesey in a Ship put a fane and ransome upon the said Becherell The summe 1000 Franks And likewise Robert Ravenstons boy had stollen stollen a hâ—lf salt-seller of silver and therefore the Land of Brittaine was ransomed The summe 2 Franks And likewise the said Constables William and Hugh Receivers of the said Town had received divers times for victuals sold as salt wine beefe and other commodities to the summe of 1000 Franks to the great losse of your poore liege-men and to the Town of Becherell For by these extortions which they had borne and sustained by the horrible necessity of the poore people and likewise of the Gentlemen was the said Town lost Wherefore they beseech our Lord the King and his Councell to cause the said Constables William and Hugh to come and answer the aforesaid receits so that our Lord the King may be served of that which belongeth to him and that your poore liege-men that were in the defence of the said Town may be paid their wages for the time that they were in the said Town if so it be your pleasure And likewise the said Lord Latimer was impeached by the Commons of divers loanes made to the use of the King without cause necessary to the great losse and and grievous dammage of the King and more especially of a loane that was made of late to the use of the King by the counsell of the Lord Latimer Richard Lions and others of his covin of 20 thousand markes where our Lord the King was obliged to his Creditors in the said Case to pay again 30 thousand marks and that was done by covin of the said Lord Latimer and others that were privy with the said Creditors to have part of the said Gaine and to be parties to the said deed or without answering the said loanes for it was furnished in speciall that the said money was the Kings own taken out of his Chamber or Treasury and also the proper money of the said Lord Latimer and Richard Lions who appeared as if oppressed by the said loane and also for that by like Covin between him and the said Rich. Lions for their singular profit gaine he had procured and counselled our L. the King to grant many Licences by Patents and Writs to cause a great quantity of Wools skins and Leather and other things to be carried to parts beyond the Sea other then to Callis against the Ordinances and defences made before time in that behalfe to the destruction of the staple of Callis and of the moneyage there to the great dammage of the King and of the Realme of England and hurt of the Town of Callis and likewise that by such covin done betweene him and the said Richard Lions for their singular profit he had causâ—d to be put upon the wools skins leather and other marchandises of the Staple divers new Impositions That is to say of every sack of wooll passing other where than to Callis by such Licence 11 s. more against the Statutes and Ordinances thereof made and also for that by his singular profit and ill government betweene our Lord the King and his Realme they have had and suffered many other grievances losses dammages and villanies without number as the losse of the Towne of S. Saviour in Normandy of the said place of Becherell and of other Fortresses which might have been well saved and kept if the King had been well counselled And also concerning certaine Spies and other felons taken and imprisoned by the King and after delivered by the Lord Latimer of his own proper authority without the knowledge or pleasure of the King taking upon him and incroaching notoriously in doing these things upon the Royall power
put in better Governance and disposition And the examination report therupon made to the King as well by mouth as in writing the said late Chancellor said in full Parliament that the said advertisement and Ordinance ought to be put in due execution and that it was not done in default of him that was the principall Officer ITem Whereas the charge was granted by the Commons in the last Parliament to be put into certain forme demanded by the Commons and assented by the King the Lords and no otherwise nor in any other manner then was ordayned many mischiefes are come to the Realme and it seemes true that â—hey came in default of the said late Chancellor ITem It was debated That whereas one Tidman of Lymberch who had to him his heires of the gift of our late King Edward 50 l. per annum of the Custome of Kingston upon Hull which the said Tidman forfeited to the King And also the payment of 50 l. a yeare was discontinued for 20 or 30 yeares the said late Chancelor knowing thereof purchased to him and his heires of the said Tidman the said 50 l. a yeare and the purchase was untill the K. ought to enjoy the profit ITem It was debated whereas the high Master of S. Anthony is a Schismatique and for that cause the King ought to have the profit which appertaineth to him in the Realme of England the said late Chancellor who ought to have advanced and procured the profit of the King tooke to farme the said profit of the K. for 20 marks a yeare and there tooke to his own use goods and 1000 marks and more And that the said Master of S. Anthony in England which now is ought to have possession of the said profit and he could not have it before he had two persons bound with him by recognizance in Chancery and other Instruments to pay 3000 l. yearly to the said late Chancellor and to John his son 100 l. a yeare for terme of their two lives ITem That in time of the said late Chancellor there were granted and made divers Charters and Patents of Murthers Treasons Felonies Rasure of Rols Sale of Woods and in especial after the beginning of this Parliament there was made and ensealed one Charter of certain Franchizes granted to the Castle of Dover in the disherison of the Crowne and the subversion of the duties of the places and Courts of the King and of his people ITem By the Ordinance that was made in the last Parliament for the Towne of Gaunt That ten thousand marks ought to be gathered and for default of such collection there ought to bee forfeited 3000 marks that by default and negligence therein of the said late Chancellor the said Town was lost and forthwith the said 10000 marks payed the said 3000 marks lost by defâ—ult as aforesaid Of all which Articles the said Commons demand Iudgment of Parliament whereunto the said E. made his answer in manner which followeth First the said Earle saith to the Lords of Parliament how that he was Chancellor of England and the same time did represent the person of the King in his absence and demanded if he ought to answer without the presence of the King for that he was impeached of things done in time that hee was Chancellor Secondly the said E. had ordained by the advice of his Councell that Master Richad Scroope his brother in Law should put in the words of his Answer of the said impeachments Whereunto the Lords replyed that it was honest for him to answer by his owne mouth and therupon he made protestation that he might adde or diminish in his Answer what might be honouâ—able and profitable to him by advise of his Councell Which thing was granted to him ANd as to the first Article of his impeachment That is to say after that hee was Chancellor that hee purchased certain land of the King c. the said â— doth answer c. After that he was Chancellor he at no time purchased any lands nor tenements of the King nor the King gave to him any untill the time that the King caused him to take the Estate of an Earle but by way of true Exchange videlicet That how the said Earle hath had foure hundred markes a yeare upon the Custome of Kingston upon Hull by descent of Inheritance for which it pleased the King to assigne to the said Earle the Lands or Tenements in value and that he assigned and gave part thereof to the profit of the King as well yearely as because of a summ of 1000 marks payed to the King by the said Earle for that cause And further saith that the King at his progresse into Scotland pleased to make Duks Bannerets and Knights to the honour of him and his Realme he pleaâ—ed without desire or seeking of the said Earle of his own proper motion to make him Earle and commanded him to take the Estate of the Earle of Suffolke in place of him that late died and after that he named the quantity of that which he had to maintain that estate and further saith that he will assigne the quantity of the lands which were belonging to the said Earle of Suffolk who last died ITem He saith That the said Tidman hath had 50 l. a yeare upon the antient Custom of King upon Hull to him and his heires inheritably for ever whereof King Edward uncle of the King that now is was not payed of a long time as appeares by the Accounts of Customers of Kingston upon Hull in the Exchequer of our Lord the King which Tidman for 1000 maâ—kes which he owed to the said Earle granted to him by his deed a long time since the 50 pounds aforesaid to have and to hold to the said Earle and his heires for ever And because the said Earle made restitution of the patent of the said Tidman to the King discharged of arrerages the K. pardoned the same purchase without that that the said Earle then committed or had yet committed any forfeiture or debt against the King concerning the said Tidman ITem As to the other Article in which there is mention of a Charter granted c. he saith that a warrant came to him for so doing and for that it was A Castle and to the profit of the King without evill intent of the said Earle he passed it not intendiâ—g then that it was against the Laws And if any man would have declared or informed the said E. that it had been prejudiciall to the King or his Laws he had not ensealed the same but would have repealed it and that yet thereof no dammage is come c. And as to the other Charters specified in the same Article he passed them by Warrant without ill intention or covin of his part in any point And further he prayeth that no new way bee put upon him otherwise then had beene used aforetimes upon any Lord or such Officers understanding that of the Chancellor
in North Dalton to serve for 7. yeares for fifty pound a yeare and that hee hath lost by the said Farme in the said time a 100. marks and further saith that the said Mannor with the ten markes of rent in Dalton altogether are extended as appeares in the Chancery but at 41. l. 9. s. 3. d ob And for that that the said Earle understands by the Earle of Kent who hath had the said two parts of the said Mannor together with the said ten marks at the value of 50. marks that the intire Mannor could not bee above the value of 50. pounds And further saith that the said Mannor with the ten markes are not worth more And that under a certainâ— paine saith that whatsoever person will sustaine the charges of the said Mannor sufficiently and pay him for the two parts 50. markes for aid and as to the third part bee it what it will let him give security to pay for the said Mannor with the ten markes of rent 50. l. per annum that hee will so lease it with all his heart ITem as to that impeachment of the Commons of a 100. pound pension out of the provision of Saint Antâ—oâ—y and that the said Earle should sell the Lawes and put in an Example of Master William Thorpe c the said Earle answereth That the cases are nothing alike which the parties pleaded before the said Master William Thorpe as before their Iudge for the Lawes of England In which case no Iudges ought to take reward of any parties pleading before them But the sâ—id provision came to him with the help of Saint Pierce the Pope and not as a Chancellor or Iudge in this case but as Father and friend to John his son At which time a man knew not if the said Iohn had obtained it of the Popes favour or no Also faults were found by the Counsell of the said Earle in the Bulls of the said provision And from the same causâ— the said Provisour by his friends of his owne accord profered an annuall Pension of a 100. and 60. pound for to leave suit in the Court of Rome by his said Sonne and for that hee should not impeach the Bulls that the matters before said were not done as before a Iudge but by way of composition as may bee prooved by instrument and by witnesses in this Towne and so this matter touched not the Lawes of England and alwayes the said Earle intended not but that hee should bee holden to answer to the party in this case And thereupon after the answers of the said Earle given to the Accusations of the said Commons and the replications to them made of one part and of another the said Earle at the request of the said Commons for the greatnesses of the defaults so of him surmised was arrested by Commandement of the KING and Commons in ward of the Constable of England and afterwards let at Liberty upon bayle And for that the said Earle alleadged not in his answer that hee observed the effect of his Oath in that hee swore that hee would not know nor suffer dammage nor disherison cleerely and expressely to the KING together with his owne lawfull advice and Councell and that hee should cause and purchase the profit of the KING by all that he could reasonably doe and hee held the premisses although hee were principall Officer of the KING knowing the Estate and necessity of the KING and of the Realme and did take of the KING such Lands and Tenements as is supposed in the Impeachment to him in the said first article surmised although he alleadged in his answer that the deeds to him so made were confirmed by full Parliament there is no such accord in the rolls of Parliament wherefore it is awarded that all the mannors Lands Tenements rents services fees advonsons reversions profits with their appurtenances by him so received of the K. â—e reseised reprised into the K. hand to have to hold to our L. the K. the lands chattells of the said E. from thenceforth is not the Intention of the K. nor of the Lords nor that this Iudgement extend in the Law to cause the said E. to lose his name and title of Earle nor of the 20. pounds a yeare which the King granted him to take of the Issues of the County of Suffolk by the name and Title aforesaid And moreover for that the said E. lately denyed that he was of the K. privy counsel when he demaÌ„ded of the K. the said exchaÌ„ge had acknowledg'd that before the exchaÌ„ges performed hee was made Chancellor in which Office hee was bound by his Oath made in the forme aforesaid and hee so being sworne to the said Office tooke of the King the said 400. markes of Land by reason of the said Exchange agreeing to the said covenant of Exchange which hee also made before that hee was Chancellor in which Office hee was bound by his Oath And alleadged not in his said answer that the King gave him Mannors Lands and Tenements which are certaine and cannot very easily bee destroyed nor bee countervailed by the aforesaid 400. marks annuity which are leviable and demandable of the Customes and also as casuall and in divers cases there may losse insue It is awarded that all the Lands and Tenements so taken by the said Earle by the exchanges aforesaid bee resumed into the hands of our Lord the King to hold to him and his Heires in manner as hee held the same before the gift or deed in the said Exchange in which the Issues and profits aforesaid after the said exchange deducted if the said Issues and profits so taken after the Exchanges extend to a grâ—ater value then 400. markes a yeare that then the King shall have the overplus of the Lands and chattells of the said Earle from thenceforth hereafter And it is therefore awarded that as well the said Mannor of Flaxflreet and the ten marks of rents aforesaid with the appurtenances bee reprised in the Kings hand to hold to him and his Heires as hee held the same before the gift to the said Earle so as the Charter the pardon and Confirmation of the purchase of the said fifty pounds of rent bee certaine in the hands of the King and his heires in firme as it was before the purchase and it was since to the said Earle and that the issues profits received or owing to the use of the said Earle as well of the said Mannor oâ—Faxfleet and the ten markes of rent as the Issues and profits of the said fifty pound of rent which he thereof had taken by reason of the purchase aforesaid bee levied to the use of our Lord the King of the Lands and Chattells of the said Earle from henceforth And as to the Article containing the Provisions of Saint ANTHONY for that the Master of the House of Saint Anthony in which the profits were taken as proved in England was a Schismaticke and taxed
for moving the King and power of France and by such repute as then and yet is taken to bee wherefore all the said profit ought to appertain to the KING as of a Schismatick and alien which thing of reasoâ— ought to have beene made known by the said Eaâ—le before hee demanded of the KING the said profit and hee kâ—ew expressely that hee demanded it for â—is sonne as an Hospitall and alleadged not in his answer that the King when hee granted the profit was informed of the matters aforesaid and also in that that when hee was such an Officer as beforesaid hee sent to the Court of Rome to have the same profit for his Sonne of the Collation of the Pope as benefice of the holy Church and to have also the profit out of the KINGS hand by the Sea Apostolicall as the Record termeth it and hee denies not that hee received of the said profits foure hundred pounds per annum alleadging that hee rendered to the KING the sâ—me and that after the said Earle had made a bargainâ— to have the provision which hee claymed of the said profit in England of the Pope a hundred pound per annum of the said provision to him and his Sonne John for term of their two lives for to deliver the said profit to the said provision for payment of which 100. l. to him and his sonne he tooke surety of the provision by recognizance and Obligations of divers summes notwithstanding that the King had commanded by his Letters to deliver all the profit aforesaid out of his hands to the said provision there where it seems for any thing that yet was shewn that all the said profit ought to have rested in the Kings hand for the causes aforesaid at least untill it had beâ—ne discussed whether the said profit were the benefit of holy Church grantable by the Pope or appurtenant to the K. by reason of Schismasie and endemnity of the said Master and he alleadged not in his answer that the King was cleerely informed of the matters aforesaid wherefore it is awarded that the said foure hundred markes per annum in time that the said profit was so granted to him by the King untill the time that hee delivered the same profit to the said provision as also the said 100. l. a yeare received also of the sâ—id provision untill the same bee levied to the use of our Lord the King of his Lands and chaâ—tells and that all the profit which should of late appertaine to the said Earle by reason of the said recognizance or of other Obligations and Covenants also made in surety of payment And as also to the 1000. markeâ— which hee had alleadged that he payed to the King for the said Exchanges It is awarded that the said 1000. markes remaining in the hands of the King as part of payment of the fine and ransome thâ—t the said Earle shall likewise make to the King before hee be delivered from prison Ex rotulo Parliamenti Anno 5. H. 4. N. 11. ITem Friday the last day of February the Earle of Northumberland came before the King and the Lords and Commons of Parliament and there the Chancellor of England shewed how on Tuesday last past hee had beene before the King the Lords and Commons in the same Parliament and there beseeched the King as hee had done at other times at his comming before him in Yorke that it would please our said Lord the King to grant him pardon of those things wherein he hath offended against him not keeping his Lawes and Statutes as Ligeance demandeth as by a Petition by him preferred in Parliament written in English whereof the Tenor ensueth may appeare more at large To my most Dreadfull and Soveraigne liege LORD I Your humble liege beseech your Highnesse to have in remembrance my comming to your Highnesse to have in remembrance my comming to your Worshipfull presence unto Yorke of my free will by your goodly Letters where I put mee in your Grace as I that nought have kept your Lawes and Statutes as liegeance asketh and especially of gathering of power and giving of Liveries as that time I put mee in your Grace and yet doe And I sent it like to your Highnesse that all gracelesse should not goe Wherefore I beseech you that your High Grace be seene on mee at this time and of other things which you have examined mee of I have told you plainely and of all I put mee wholy in your Grace WHich Petition by Commandement of the King examined by the Iustices for to have their Counsell and advice in this behalfe by Protestation made by the said Lords that the Iudgement appertained to them onely and after reaâ—ing and understanding of the same Petion before the Lords as Peers of the Parliament to whom such Iudgements appertaine of right to heare and understand by the Statutes made in the 25th yeare of the King that now is by deliberation of King Edward cozen of our Lord the King that now is they adjudge that those things which the said Earle hath don contained in the said Petition are not treason nor Felony but onely Trespasse for which Trespasse hee ought to make fine and ransome according to the Kings pleasure wherefore the said Earle most humbly reverenceth our Lord the King and the said Lords the Peeres of Parliament concerning the right Iudgement and further the said Earle prayed our Lord the KING that in affirmance of those matters hee might bee purged from all suspitions and prayed to bee judged de Novo in the presence of the KING and of the LORDS and Commons in Parliament the said Earle tooke his Oath upon the Crosse of the Arch-bishop to bee faithfull and loyall liege man to our Lord the King and to his eldest sonne and to the Heires issuing of his body and to his brothers and their Issue successesively and inheritably at which time if the King would command him hee should bee ready to shew and declare that which hee knowes in that he halfe and set forth the truth thereof And that our Lord the King might not bee deceived the said Earle was present and charged in his liberty the said Earle upon his Oath which hee had made upon the said crosse setteth forth and declareth openly in Parliament that which hee knoweth in this matter upon which charge to him given the said E. saith That at the day of Tryall of his life hee knew not of the Dukes and Bishops and other Lords any thing that â—ounded in derogation of the honourable estate of the K. and of his royall Majesty but that they were and are to him good and lawfull Lieges and that for such our Lord the King may hold and repute them and may faithfully put his trust in them in perill of his life and by the Oath which heâ— had made as before said And moreover the said Earle of Northamberland humbly beseeched the Lords and Earles and Commoners that they will beseech our Lord the