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england_n	duke_n	henry_n	william_n	3,222	5	7.5330	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02498	A letter sent by F.A. touchyng the proceedings in a priuate quarell and vnkindnesse betweene Arthur Hall, and Melchisedech Mallerie gentleman, to his very friende L.B. being in Italie. VVith an admonition to the father of F.A. to him being a burgesse of the Parliament, for his better behauiour therein.	Hall, Arthur, 1539?-1605.	1576 (1576)	STC 12629; ESTC S118961	87,420	125

among whom were Oda and VVolstane Archbishoppes and many other Bishoppes to prouide for their soules health and theirs whom they had the cure of And in an other place I Edwarde King to all both yong ond olde in my iurisdiction giue knowledge that I in the solempne assemblie of the best seene of my kingdome aswel ecclesiastical as temporal haue carefully enquired and so foorth King Edgar his seconde sonne the yeare 959 was likewise a lawe maker and thus entitles them The lawes whiche 1 Edgar King in the freequented senate to the glory of God ▪ the dignity of my Maiestie and the profite of the common wealth haue past Etheldred or Eldred or Egelred the second son of Edgar the yeare 979 whiche alter a little who by the murder of Edward his elder brother named the Martire came to the crown in whose time the Danes so entred this lād as ere they had done the king fledde into Normandy and lefte his kingdome to Swanus the Tyrant Dane after whose decease retourning he not long after died hee also being doing with lawes termes them thus The councel of graue fathers which king Ethelred had at Woodstock in Marcia for the preseruation of the peace whiche is gouerned by the english lawes at the ende of suche perticulers as are agreed on he concluds on this maner This our commaundement decree if any shal neglect c. He shal pay to the king one hūdred twenty shillings There was a league made also by the sayd King with the army of Aulavus Iustinus and Gustimundus the sonnes of Stegetie the Dane and goes thus The agreement or part which once or of late king Ethelred by the aduise of his wise confederates with them aforesayde did enter in His sonne Edmund surnamed Ironside parted the Realme with Canutus or Knought King of Denmark who being slayn by the treason of Edricke Canutus enioyed the whole principality and tho Swanus were the firste Danish King here yet held hee not the kingdome so absolutely as thys man did Hee made more lawes than anye one before him which are thus intituled The decrees which Canutus king of English Danes and Norwayes at Winchester at Christmas hath appointed by the aduise of men of knowledge to the honor of the God of heauen the renoume of the kings Maiestie and the benefite of the common wealth Againe in an other place he vseth these wordes These are the humaine and lawes politique wherin vsing the counsel of the wise I command to be kept thorough Englande Hee began to raigne alone the yeare of grace 1019. Edwarde the Confessour after Hardikenitus the last king of the Danish bloud 1043. began to raigne he foūded many holesome lawes and was the firste erector as it is written of the common law whych VVilliam Conqueror did after confirme wherof this I finde After the conquest of England the foresayde King William the fourth yere of his raigne by the persuasion aduise and councel of his nobility did sommon throughout his land the nobles the gouernours the graue heads and the Learned in the lawe to heare of them their rights customes and ordinances whereof chosing twelue of euery county who taking their othes before the king directly truely and so forth to shew declare the same they brought the lawes of Saint Edward as we haue them now and the king established them in that manner The Conqueror hym selfe began to rule this Ilande 1066 some recken a yeare more who also adding certaine ordinaunces in the entraunce hath these wordes Here beginneth what William king of the Englishe nation after the conquest with his nobility hath appointed to be perfourmed I reade that Henry the first his sonne who gouerned after VVilliam Rufus his brother did at the beginning of his raign lighten the great exactions imposed by his father and brother reduced and amended Saint Edwards lawes whiche as it should seeme were eyther forgotten or would not be remembred for al the fathers confirmation or rather shew therof reformed measures apoynted directions to be obserued Aboute the thyrtith yeare of hys raigne hee helde a counsel at Londō wherin it was thought good he shold haue the Cleargy within his censure Maude the Emprice his daughter first marryed to Henrie the fourth Emperor of Almayne and afterwards to Geffrey Plantagenet Erle of A●iou the 31. of his raigne had by hir husbande shortly after a son named Henrie vpō the knowledge wherof he called hys nobles together decreed that his daughter the heires of hir body shoulde succeede him in the Kyngdome Grafton in the thirteenth yere of this King in hys Cronicle saith thus And in this time began the Parliament in Englande firste to be instituted and ordeyned for reformation and gouernement of this Realme The manner whereof as I haue foūd it set out in an olde pamflet I intende at large to set foorth in the raigne of King Edwarde the thirde when and where Parliaments were yearely and orderly kepte the whiche I sought to finde but promise was not kepte Turning his booke I founde in his preface to the Reader these wordes And where I haue in the ●3 yere of King Henry the firste promised to place the maner and order that first was taken for the holding of the parliamente in the time of king Edwarde the thirde I haue sith that tyme for sundry good causes thought meete to omit the same and therefore admonish the Reader not to looke for it Hereof iudge you and if you wyll haue hys reason he is not far to seke Stephen in a manner no sole sybbe to the Crowne the righte heyres being aliue was by the nobilitye admitted Kyng In hys time the Emprice by the aide of hyr Basterd brother Robert Earle of Gloucester the ciuill warres grew great wherin the King being taken and who now but the Emprice as it were confirmed according to hir iust title she was moued for the restitution of Saint Edwards Lawes but shee was deafe on that side The last yeare of thys Kings time he and Henrie the Emprice sonne grew to communication and agreement The King commaunded his Lordes to assemble at Winchester where Duke Henrie was honorably receyued and there it was agreed he shoulde adopte the Duke hys sonne and confirme too him the Crowne of Englande after his deceasse Henry the second hys follower in the gouernement of another clayme helde a councel at the beginning of his raign at Wallingforde where the Barons were sworne to the king The eyght yere of his raigne he caused all the subiectes to sweare fealty to his sonne Henrye touching the inherytaunce In the ninth yeare Fabian sayeth the kyng called a Parliament at Northampton and so termed it as also in some other places he doeth Councels and calling togethers of the Lordes by the prynce wherin him selfe vouches nothing was done but a pretence to reforme and somewhat gelde the preueleges of the Cleargy The same time a

hetherto he hath done to hym Also spending more tyme in sportes and following the same than is any way commendable and the lesse bycause I warrant you Non friget ludus for it is ●ine lucro the summes be great are dealte for Thus muche for the firste persone of this Tragedie Now as touching the other whiche was Master Melchisedech Mallerie I neede spende no great time aboute him and that for two causes one for that you knew him in Flaūders of late time as I could put you in remembraunce by good tokens if I woulde The other for asmuch as God hath taken him and therefore as De absentibus nil nisi bonum so De mortuis nil nisi optimum he was as you know of a good spryte ready tongue in audacitie forwarde what else he was disposed to this needelesse for the causes before recited as I haue partly sayd before Some wise mē wil meruayle if this come to their handes that I spende my time to wryte to you so long a treatise of so small a matter as of the vnkindnesse or quarel of two so meane Gentlemen therefore thinke I haue litle to do or lesse witte ▪ I haue meruayled oft what the wryters meant to put to our readings the Rounde table knights Beuis of Hampton the Knight of the Swanne the foure sonnes of Amon Amadis Orlando furioso Espandion il Caualleire del sole Valentine and Orson the Greekes Olgarden the Dane a thousand more such tryfling Fables yet do I see many men of iudgement read them some for the tongue and some for the matter reape benefite of both likewise I may not so wholly condemne this my trauell wherein onely truth is reported Durus est sermo some will thinke assuredly no falsifying of any matter of substance neither is my conscience in minimis but as casually men may fault but that a man may profite himselfe in one of the two partes that is for the matter whiche if he well consider he shall finde more than perhap is looked for in so simple a Title there is not so euill a floure but the Bee may gather hony of it Who so desires to be delighted with Eloquence let him spend his time in other store houses for here he shal but loose his labour If you will keepe to your selfe this Letter or rather missi●e Pamphlet I shal be assured to auoyde the diuerse verdites of manyfolde iudgements and I am well pleased that you deeme therof as best shal like you See the fruyte of play In the yere 1573. there was one Robert Phillipson who in Lothbery in London kepte a table of xij pence a meale for Gentlemen where the xvj of December the 〈◊〉 ere M. Hall M. Mallorie M Edward Cordall M. 〈◊〉 house my self and diuerse honest Marchants of the towne supped supper ended the dice was throwen on the borde who must pleasure the good man of the house by paying the ●oxe and displease the whole companie by occasions dayly guinitye to so good an exercise the sporte lasted not the throwing oute of euerye bodyes hande aboute the bourde and yet al the companye dyd not playe but M. Mallerie gaue the lye wyth harde wordes in heate to one of the players who either for quietnesse sake or for other cause made smal replye wherevppon M. Mallerie followed as he began I canne yéelde you no reason neither yet if I could wold I for I am reporter now of the truth in al partes and not a declarer of my opinion as a iudge M. Hal séemed to take the matter in hand a thankelesse office for speaking before hee was féed and sayde I maruaile M. Mallerie that where there is suche company which séeme honest you will to the preiudice of their smal reputations vse such vnséemly wordes Mallery made chalenge that he would say so who so euer durst be his contrary Whervpon Hal tickled sware as he wil not sticke to lende you an othe or twoo that for hys gallant challenge it were a good déede being no greater a man for he was but little as you know to throw him oute at the window Here Etna smoked daggers were a drawing one rose from his place the other walked vp and downe they woulde haue gone together but as god would they went not the goodman lamented the case for the slaunder that a quarel should be in his house the rest of the company wished quietnesse and for my parte I found the parties themselues reasonably wel disposed to friendshippe The matter was ended for this fitte with commemoration how well one loued an other as many times of euil beginnings comes worsse ends so now againe on the other side honest and friendly dealings wel ment settes the Towe on fire for in Februarye following Master Rich. Drake a gentleman well bearing himselfe alwayes thou attending vpon my L. of Leicester but now the Quéenes maiestyes seruaunte in ordinarye aduised M. Hall as his friende to take héede to himselfe in playe forasmuch as he had some waies vnderstoode of indirect dealings touching the same and specially for the giuing signes of hys game at Mawe a play at cardes growne out of the country from the meanest into credite at the courte with the greatest Hal toke his friendship in good parte as he had good cause craued withal to shewe whom he mistrusted who as one not making tales on his fingers endes named Melchisedech Mallery as a mā to be doubted off In troth quoth Hal yesternight he trode on my foote I being at Maw at Mistresse Arūdels the old honorable ordinary table as I may terme it of Englād but what he ment therby I know not I thinke no euil The eight of March after there was at supper at one Iohn Crokes who kept an ordinary table in White crosse streate of twelue pence a meale Maister William Daunsey Maister Drake before named Maister Nicholas Gorge Maister Frauncis Woodhouse M. Hal M. Mallerye a●d one or two Marchauntes some of them had bin at o●● sporte some at an other as I hearde thēselues repo●t and some shewed openly what cūning might be vsed at pl●● in the talking wherof I met them cōming out of the ●ore about ten of the clocke at night Hal being passed not aboue twenty yardes before the rest in the streate homewardes to his lodging discoursing one with an other of the premisses Master Drake detesting such vngentlemanly shifts began to condemne such practises and withal recited what reports went of some no● naming any who kept company with the vsual best gentlemen in the town condemning their degenerate kind professing thēselues of the breede in yéelding to so base so abiect shamelesse an occupation as to take the worst parte of al parts of the play in hād which was to giue by secrete signes notice of his cardes and playe whose good meaning would haue truste a horsekeper with a greater matter At these wordes or such like M. Mallery replyed and sayd that it were good he were