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A02389	The last part of the Mirour for magistrates wherein may be seene by examples passed in this realme, vvith howe greenous [sic] plagues, vyces are punished in great princes & magistrats, and hovv frayle and vnstable vvorldly prosperity is founde, where fortune seemeth most highly to fauour.; Mirrour for magistrates. Part 3.	Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563?; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.	1578 (1578)	STC 1252; ESTC S100555	162,047	374

Mortimers Fol. 4 3. Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester murdred in prisō Fol. 8. 4. Thomas Mo●bray Duke of Northfolk banished and died in exile Fol. 12. 5. King Richard the secōd deposed miserably murdred Fol. 16 6. Owen Glendour Prince of Wales was chased to y moūtaynes where he miserably died for lacke of foode Fol. 19 7. Henry Percy Earle of Northumberland taken in battaile and put to death Fol. 25. 8. Richarde Plantagenet Earle of Cambridge put to death at Southampton Fol. 28 9. Thomas Montague Earle of Salisburye chaunceablye slaine at Orliaunce with a peece of ordinaunce Fol. 30 10. Iames the first King of Scotts ●ruelly murdred by hys owne subiects Fol. 36. 11. Humphrey Plantagenet Duke of Glocester Protector of England by practyse of Enemies was broughte to confusion Fol. 40. 12. Lord William Delapole Duke of Suffolke worthelye banished and beheaded Fol. 56 13. Iack● Ca●e worthely punished for rebellion Fol. 60. 14. Edmonde Duke of Somerset slaine in the firste battayle at S. Albanes Fol. 65. 15. Richard Plantagenet D. Of Yorke slaine through his ouer rashe boldnesse and hys youngest sonne the Earle of Rutland being a child cruelly murdred Fol. 77. 16. The Lord Clifford for his abhominable cruelly came to a sodaine death Fol. 80 17. The infamous end of the Lorde Tiptofte Earle of Worcester Fol. 82. 18. Richard Neuil Earle of Warwicke his brother Iohn Marquise Montacute slaine at Barnet field Fol. 86. 19. The vertuous kinge Henry the sixt cruelly murdred in the Tower of London Fol. 89. 20. George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence Brother to K. Edware the fourth cruelly drowned in a Vessell of Mal●sye Fol. 93. 21. A lamentacion vpon the death of King Edvvarde the 4. Fol. 100. 22. Sir Anthony Woduile Lord Riuers with his Nephewe Lord Richarde Graye and others causles imprisoned and cruelly beheaded at Pomfret Fol. 102 23. The Lord Hastings betrayed by his counsailour Ca●es●y and murdred in the tower of London Fol. 114. 24. Mayster Sackuils Induction Fol. 129. The Tragedy of H. duke Buckingham Fol. 138. 25. Collingbourne cruelly executed for making a fosish rime Fol. 153. 26. King Bichard the third slaine at Bosworth Fol. 159. 27 The fall of the blacke Smith and fatall end of the Lorde Awdeley Fol. 166. 28. The complaint of Shores wife one of the Concubins of King Edward the fourth Fol. 176. ❧ A BRIEFE MEMOriall of sundry vnfortunate Englishmen VVILLIAM BALDVVIN to the Reader WHEN the Printer had purposed with himself to Print Lidgates translation of Bochas of the fal of Princes hauinge made priuy thereto many both honourable and Worshippefull hee was coūsayled by dyuers of them to procure a continuance of the Storye from whereas Bochas left vnto this presēt time chiefly of such as Fortune had abused here in this Island which might bee as a Myrrour for men of all estates and degrees aswell Nobles as other to behold the slippery deceiptes of the wauering Lady the due reward of all kinde of vices Which aduice liked him so well that he required mee to take paynes therein but because it was a matter passing my wit skill and more thancklesse than gaynefull to enterprise I refused vtterly alone to vndertake it without the helpe of sutch as in wit were apt in learninge allowed and in iudgemente and estimation able to wield and discharge the weight of sutch a burden thinkinge so to shift my handes But hee earnest and diligent in hys affayres procure me an Athlas to laye the burden vppon my shoulders which I would not haue undertaken but that shortly after diuers learned men whose many giftes nede few prayses consented to take vpon them part of the trauaile And when certayne of them to the numof seuen were through a generall assent at an appoyncted time and place gathered together to deuise thereuppon I resorted vnto them bringinge with mee the booke of Bochas translated by Dan Lidgate for the better obseruation of his order which although wee did not mislyke yet would it not conueniently serue seing that both Bochas Lidgate were dead neither were there any alyue that had medled with like argumēt to whom the vnfortunate might make their moane To make therfore a state meete for the matter they al agreed that I shoulde vsurpe Bochas rome and the wretched Princes complaine vnto me and toke vpon themselues euery man for his part to be sundry personages and in their behalfes to bewaile vnto me their sundry chaunces heauy destenies and wofull misfortunes This done wee opened sutch Bookes of Chronicles as wee had there present and Maister Ferrers after hee had founde where Bochas left which was about the ende of Kinge Edward the thirdes raigne to begin the matter sayd thus I maruayle ꝙ hee what Bochas meaneth to forget among his myserable Princes such as were of our Nation whose number is as great as theyr Aduentures wonderfull For to let passe all both Britaynes Danes and Saxons and to come to the last Conquest what a sort are they and some also in the time of Bochas himselfe or not much before As for example William Rufus the second kinge of Englande after the Cōquest eyther by malice or misaduenture slayne hunting in the new forest by Walter Tirrell with the shot of an arrow Robert Duke of Normandy eldest sonne to William Conquerour depriued of his inheritaunce of England by Henry his youngest brother hauing both his eyes put out and after myserably imprisoned in Cardiffe Castel whereas hee died The most Lamentable case of William Rychard and Mary children of the sayde Henry the first called Beauclerke drowned vpon y Sea by the negligence of drunken Mariners and Kynge Rychard the fyrst slaine with a quarel in his chiefe prosperity The most vnnaturall murther of Artur Duke of Britayne right Heyre of Englande by king Ihon his vncle with the death of Isabell his Sister by Famyne The myserable ende of the sayd king Ihon their vncle by Surfet or as some write poysoned by a Monke of the Abbey of Swinsted in Lyncolneshrye Are not their Histories ruful and of rare Example But as it should appeare Bochas being an Italian minded most the Romayne and Italike Story or els perhaps hee wanted the knowledge of ours It were therefore a goodly and notable matter to search and discourse our whole story from the first beginninge of the inhabiting of the Isle But seeinge the Printers mynde is to haue vs supply where Lidgate left we wil● leaue that great labour to other that may intende it and as one being bold fyrst to breake the Ise I will begin at y reigne of Rychard the secōd a time as troublesome to the people as vnlucky to y Prince And for asmutch frende Baldwin as it shall be your charge to penne orderly the whole processe I will so far as my memory and iudgement serueth somewhat further you in the truth of the story And therefore omittinge the ruffle made by Iacke Straw his Lewd meiney with the

high Constable Thus hoysted high on Fortunes whyrling wheele As one on a stage attending a playe Seeth not on which syde the scaffold doth reele Til timber and poales and al flye awaye So fared it by me for day by daye As honour encreased I looked stil higher Not seing the daunger of my fond desier For Fortunes floud thus running with ful streame And I a Duke descended of great kinges Constable of England chiefe officer in the realme Abused with assuraunce in these vayne thinges I went without feete and flew without winges Presuming so faire vpon my high estate That dread set apart my Prince I would mate For whereas all kinges haue counsel of their choyse To whom they referre the rule of their Land With certein familiers in whom to reioyce For pleasure or profite as the case shall stand I not hearing this would needes take in hand Maugre his will those persons to disgrace And such as I thought ●●tie to settle in their place But as an old Booke sayth who so wil assay About the Cats necke to hang on any Bell Had first neede to cut the Cats clawes awaye Least if the Cat be curst and not camed well She happly with her nayles may clawe him to the fell So putting on the Bel about the Cats necke By being too busie I caught a cruel checke Reade wel the sentence of the Rat of renowne Which Pierce the Plowman describes in his Dreame And who so hath wy● the sence to expoune Shal fynde that to brydle the Prince of a Realme Is euen as who sayth to stryue with the streame Note this all subiectes and construe it well And busie not your Braynes about the Cats bel But in that ye be Lieges learne to obay Submitting your willes to your Princes Lawes It sitteth not a subiect to haue his owne waye Remember this prouer be of the Cats clawes For Princes like Lyons haue long and large pawes That reach at Randon and whom they once twitch They claw to the boane before the skinne itch But to my purpose I being once bent Towardes the atchieving of my attemptate Foure bold Barons were of myne assent By oath and aliaunce fastlye confederate First Henry of Derby an Earle of estate Richard of Arundel and Thomas of Warwicke With Mowbray the Marshal a man most warlike At Ratecote bridge assembled our band The commons in clusters came to vs that day To daunt Robert Veer then Duke of Ireland By whom King Richard was ruled alway We put him to flight and brake his array Then Maugre the king his leaue or assent By Constables power we cald a Parliament Where not in Roabes but with Baslardes bright We came for to parle of the Publique weale Confirming our quarel with maine and with might With swordes and no wordes we tryed our appeale In steede of reason declaring our zeale And whom so we knew with the king in good grace We playnly depriued of power and of place Some with short processe were bannisht the Land Some executed with capitall payne VVherof who so lis● the whole to vnderstand In the Parliament rolle it appeareth playne And further how stoutly we did the king straine The rule of his realme wholy to resigne To the order of those whom we did assigne But note the sequele of such presumption Af●er we had these Myracles thus wrought The kinge inflamed with indignation By Subiectes thus in bondage to bee brought Suppress●●ge the Ire of his inward thought Studied nought els but how that he might Be highly reuenged of this high dispight Agreeued was also this later offence With former cause of 〈◊〉 to renewe For once at Wyndsor I brought to his presence The Maior of London with all his retinewe To aske accoumpt of the Realmes reuenew And the Souldiers of Brest by me were made bold To clayme their wages when the towne was solde These griefes remembred with all the remnaunt Fulfyld his hart with hate out of measure Yet openly in shew made he no semblaunt By word or by deede to beare displeasure But Frendship fayned in proofe is found vnsure And who so trusteth a foe reconcilde Is for the most part alwayes beguilde For as fier ill quencht will vp ●at a start And sores not wel salued do breake out of new So hatred hidden in an ireful hart Where it hath not had long season to brew Vpon euery occasion doth easely renew Not fayling at last if it be not let To pay large vsurie besides the due de● Euen so it fared by this frendship fayned Outwardly sound and inwardly rotten For when the kings fauour in seeming was gayned All olde displeasures forgeeuen and forgotten Euen than at a soden the shaft was shotten Which pearced my hart voyd of mistrust Alas that a Prince should be so vniust For lyinge at Plashey my selfe to repose With long sickness● diseased very sore The King espying me apart from those With whom I was confedered before Thought it not meete to tract the time more But glad 'to take me at such aduauntage Came to salute mee with frendly visage Who hauing a Band bound to his bent By colour of kindnesse to visite his Eame Tooke tyme to accomplish his cruel entent And in a small vessel downe by the streame Conueid me to Calais out of the realme Where without processe or doome of my peares Not nature but murder abridged my yeares This act was odious to God and to man Yet rigour to cloake to ha●it of reason By craftye compasse deuise they can Articles nine of right haynous treason But doome after death is sure out of season For who euer saw so straunge a president As execution to goe before iudgement Thus hate harboured in depth of mynde By sought occasion burst out of new And c●u●l●ye abused the lawe of kinde When that the Nephue the vncle slew Alas King Richard sore maist thou rue Which by this fact preparedst a playne waye Of thy hard destenye to hasten the daye For bloud axeth bloud as guerdon due And vengeaunce for vengeaunce is iust rewarde O righteous God thy iudgementes are true For looke what measure to others we awarde The same for vs againe is preparde Take heede ye princes by examples past Bloud wil haue bloud eyther first or last FINIS G. F. WHen maister Ferrers had ended this fruictfull Tragedye because no mā was readye with an other hauing perused the storie which came next sayde because you shall not saye my maysters but that I will somewhat doe my parte I wyll vnder your correction declare the tragedye of Thomas Mowbrey Duke of Northfolke the chiefe worker of the Duke of Glocesters destruction who to admonish all counsaylours to b●ware of Flattring Princes or falsely enuying or accusing their Peregalles may lamēt his vyces in maner folowinge HOVV THE LORDE Mowbray promoted by Kynge Rychard the seconde to the State of a Duke was by him Banished the Realme in the yeare of Christe 1398. and after died myserably in exile THough sorrowe