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he in the empire or in my kingdome touching temporall liberties whose dutie it is to be carefull for the soule of man and to sée that heresies spring not vp which if the prelates of the prouince be not able to reforme then might the pope doo it either by himselfe or his legats Againe by reason of the schisme for the displeasure that he bare pope Urban he asked Anselme of which pope he would require his pall sith he was so hastie to go to Rome for it Wherto Anselme answered that he would require it of pope Urban Which words when the king had heard he said I haue not as yet admitted him pope adding further that it was against the custome vsed either in his or his fathers time that anie man within the realme of England should name or obeie anie man for pope without the kings licence and consent saieng moreouer that if the said Anselme would séeke to take that pr●rogatiue and dignitie from him it should be all one as if he should go about to take awaie from him his crowne and all other roiall dignitie Wherevnto Anselme answered that at Rochester before he was consecrated bishop he had declared his mind therein and that beeing abbat of Bechellouin in Normandie he had receiued Urban for pope so that whatsoeuer chanced he might reuolt from his obedience and subiection The king beeing the more kindled herewith protested in plaine words that Anselme could not kéepe his faith and allegiance towards him and his obedience also to the see of Rome against his will and pleasure But to conclude this matter went so far in controuersie betwixt the king and the bishop that a councell was called at Rockingham in Rutlandshire and there in the church within the castell the matter was earnestlie decided and much adoo on euerie side to haue constreined Anselme to renounce his opinion but he would not Wherfore it was then deuised that if he would not agrée to the kings pleasure they would by and by sée if they might by any meanes depriue him but Anselme still held hard and could not be feared by all these threats and in like maner to iudge of an archbishops cause the other line 10 bishops concluded that they had no authoritie Moreouer while the matter was in consultation among the bishops another of the kings councell that was a knight came before Anselme in place where he sat almost alone to looke for an answer by them from the king which knight knéeling downe before the archbishop spake these words vnto him Reuerend father your humble children beséech your Grace not to haue your heart troubled with these line 20 things which you heare but call to remembrance that blessed man Iob vanquishing the diuell on the dunghill and reuenging Adam whome he had ouercome in paradise Which words the archbishop considering with a freendlie countenance perceiued that the minds of the people remained on his side whereof both he and such as were about him were right ioifull and greatlie comforted hauing hope according to the scripture that the voice of the people was the voice of God When the king vnderstood all these things he was maruelouslie disquieted line 30 in mind and therefore perceiuing that the bishops and other of his councell had promised more than they could performe he blamed them for it vnto whom the bishop of Durham that was the chéefe dooer in this matter framed this answer He spake so faintlie quoth he and so coldlie at the first that he séemed not to haue any store of wit or wisdome Finallie the matter was deferred vntill the next morning and then the said bishop of Durham alledging that they could not well ouercome him by arguments line 40 so long as he grounded his opinion in such sort vpon the scripture and the authoritie of Saint Peter The best way therefore said he shall be to compell him by force either to agrée to the kings mind or else to depriue him of his ring and staffe and after banish him the realme But the lords of the councell allowed not the bishops words herein Well saith the king and what other way will you thinke good if this like you not so long as I may line 50 liue I will not surelie suffer any to be my péere within my realme and if you knew his cause to be so good why did you suffer me to commense this action against him go your waies therefore and take aduice togither for by Gods face for that was his oth if you condemne him not at my will I will reuenge my selfe vpon you Neuerthelesse when he was informed that bicause he was an archbishop they had no power to iudge or condemne him though his cause prooued neuer so euill which they could not line 60 perceiue so to be he told them yet they might at the leastwise renounce their obedience to him and forsake his companie which they said they might doo Then doo it saith the king with spéed that he may when he shall sée himselfe abandoned and despised of all men repent that he hath followed Urban and neglected me his souereigne lord and maister And that ye may doo it the more safelie first of all I depriue him of the suertie and allegiance which he may pretend to haue of me within all my dominions and from hencefoorth I will haue no affiance in him nor take him for an archbishop The bishops would faine haue persuaded Anselme to haue shewed himselfe conformable to the kings pleasure and therefore tooke paines with him earnestlie in that behalfe but all would not serue He answered indéed verie curteouslie but his benefice he would not renounce as touching the name and office though in exterior things he were neuer so much disquieted The king perceiuing him to stand stiffe in his opinion said vnto his lords His words are euer contrarie to my mind and I will not take him for my freend whosoeuer dooth fauour him I shall therefore require you that be péeres of my realme to renounce all the faith and freendship which you beare him that he may see what he hath gained by that allegiance which to the offending of my person he obserueth to the apostolike sée Whereto the lords answered As for vs we were neuer his men and therefore we cannot abiure any fealtie which we neuer acknowledged He is our archbishop and hath rule in matters perteining to christian religion within this land for which cause we that are christians may not refuse his authoritie whilest we remaine here on earth bicause he is attainted with no blemish of any heinous crime which may constreine vs otherwise to doo The king refrained and dissembled his wrath least he should prouoke them to further displeasure by speaking against their reason The bishops were sore abashed hereat and driuen to a shrewd pinch Now when not long after the king required to know of euerie of them apart whether they vtterlie renounced all maner of

to the honour and dignitie of his crowne and realme Moreouer he wrote to the bishops commanding them to appeale and to the archbishop forbidding him in any wise to breake downe the church which he had so builded at Lameth The shiriffe of Kent also was commanded to seize into his hands all the tenements and possessions that line 60 belonged to the moonks a frie of satan and as one saith verie well of them and the like leuen of lewdnesse sentina malorum Agnorum sub pelle lupi mercede colentes Non pietate Deum c. who neuerthelesse were so stout in that quarell that they would not prolong one daie of the time appointed by the pope for the racing of that church Herevpon the king for his part and the bishops in their owne behalfes wrote to the pope Likewise the abbats of Boreley Fourd Stratford Roberts-bridge Stanleie and Basing Warke wrote the matter to him and againe the pope and the cardinals wrote to the king to the archbishops and bishops and so letters passed to and fro till at length the pope sent a Nuncio of purpose to signifie his full determination as in the next yeare it shall be shewed at full About the same time Geffrey Fitz Peter lord cheefe iustice of England raised a power of men and went into Wales to succour the tenants of William de Brause which were besieged of the king or rather prince of that countrie named Owen the brother of Cadwalaine in Mauds castell but the lord chéefe iustice comming to the reskue of them within gaue battell to the aduersaries and vanquishing them slue three thousand of them and seauen hundred of those that were taken prisoners and wounded And all the while the warres continued in France the losse for the most part still redounded to the Frenchmen Earle Iohn burnt Newburg and tooke eighteene knights of such as were sent to the reskue The earle of Leicester with a small companie came before the castell of Pascie which although the Frenchmen held it did yet of right belong vnto the said earle The souldiors within issued foorth and being too strong for the earle caused him to flee for otherwise he had béene taken But returning on the morrow after with more companie about him and laieng ambushes for the enimie he approched the said castell and trained the Frenchmen foorth till he had them within his danger and then causing his men to breake out vpon them tooke an eightéene knights and a great multitude of other people Also Marchades with his rout of Brabanders did the Frenchmen much hurt in robbing and spoiling the countries About this season the archbishop of Canturburie went ouer into Normandie to speake with king Richard and at the French kings request he passed into France to common with him of peace which the French king offered to conclude in restoring all the townes and castels which he had taken Gisors onelie excepted and touching the possession and title therof he was contented to put the matter in compremise to the order and award of six barons in Normandie to be named by him and of six barons in France which king Richard should name But king Richard would not thus agree except the earle of Flanders and others which had forsaken the French king to take his part might be comprised in the same peace At length yet in Nouember there was truce taken betwixt the two kings till the feast of S. Hilarie next insuing In the meane time pope Innocent the third vnderstanding in what present danger things stood in the holie land and on the other side considering what a weakening it was vnto christendome to haue these two kings thus to warre with mortall hatred one against the other he thought it stood him vpon to trauell betwixt them to bring them vnto some peace and agreement Héerevpon he dispatched one Peter the cardinall of Capua into France as legat from the sée of Rome vnto the two foresaid kings to instruct them in what present danger the state of the christians in Asia presentlie stood so that without the aid of them and of other christian princes it could not be holpen but needs it must come to vtter ruine and the Saracens yer long to be possessed of the whole Therefore both in respect hereof and also for the auoiding of the further wilfull spilling of christian bloud in such ciuill and vngodlie war he besought them to staie their hands and to ioine in some fréendlie band of concord whereby they might with mutuall consent bestow their seruice in that necessarie and most godlie warre wherein by ouercomming the enimies of Christ they might looke for worthie reward at his hands which is the free giuer of all victories The cardinall comming into France and dooing his message in most earnest wise was present at the enteruiew appointed betwixt the two kings in the feast of S. Hilarie year 1199 but yet could not he bring his purpose to full effect onelie he procured them to take truce for the terme of fiue yeares further he could not get them to agrée ¶ The fault by authors is ascribed aswell to king Richard as to king Philip for line 10 king Richard being first euill vsed and put to hinderance determined either to vanquish or neuer to giue place This forbearance from warre was concluded and taken in the yeare 1199 after the incarnation and tenth of king Richards reigne But immediatlie after there arose matter of new displeasure betwixt these two kings to kéepe their minds in vre with secret grudges though by reason of the truce they outwardlie absteined from declaring it by force of line 20 armes It chanced that in the election of a new emperour the electors could not agrée one part of them choosing Otho duke of Saxonie nephue to king Richard by his sister Maud and another part of them naming Philip duke of Tuscaine and brother to the last emperour Henrie King Richard as reason was did procure what fauour he could to the furtherance of his nephue Otho and king Philip on the contrarie part did what he could in fauour of the foresaid Philip. At length Otho line 30 was admitted by the pope to end the strife but yet the grudge remained in the harts of the two kings Philip finding himselfe much greeued in that he had missed his purpose and Richard being as little pleased for that he had woone his so hardlie and with so much adoo And thus matters passed for that yeare In the beginning of the next the popes Nuncio came with letters not onlie to the archbishop and bishops of England but also to the king himselfe signifieng line 40 the popes resolute decree touching the church and colledge of Lameth to be broken downe and suppressed Wherevpon the king and archbishop though sore against their willes when they saw no waie longer to shift off the matter yéelded to the popes pleasure and so the archbishop sent his letters to

aid them in all iust quarels for recouering of damages doone to their fréends vassals and subiects 4 Fourthlie to helpe and assist them for the concluding and establishing of a firme peace betwixt both the realmes so far as was possible ¶ And further they besought the king of England to send vnto them eight thousand men to aid them against the duke of Burgognie and his complices which dailie procured the French king to make war vpon them séeking by all waies meanes how to destroie them The king of England louinglie interteined the messengers and vpon consideration had of their offers as well for that he detested the shamefull murther of the duke of Orleance which remained vnpunished by support of such as mainteined the duke of Burgognie who as it appeared would keepe promise no longer than serued his owne turne as also for that the same offers seemed to make greatlie both for his honor and profit thought that by the office of a king he was bound in dutie to succour them that cried for iustice and could not haue it and namelie sith in right they were his subiects and vassals he ought to defend them in maintenance of his superioritie and seigniorie Herevpon as duke of Guien he tooke vpon him to succor and defend them against all men as their verie lord and souereigne and so sending awaie the messengers promised to send them aid verie shortlie This feat was not so secretlie wrought but that it was knowne streightwaies in France Wherefore the French kings councell sent the earle of saint Paule downe into Picardie with fiftéene hundred horssemen and a great number of footmen who approching to Guisnes attempted to assault the castell but was repelled and beaten backe so that he retired to the towne of saint Quintines as one that neuer wan gaine at the Englishmens hands but euer departed from them with losse and dishonor In this meane season the French king being led by the duke of Burgognie pursued them that tooke part with the duke of Orleance commonlie called Arminacks and after the winning of diuerse townes he besieged the citie of Burges in Berrie comming before it vpon saturdaie the eleuenth of Iune with a right huge armie Within this citie were the dukes of Berrie and Bourbon the earle of Auxerre the lord Dalbret the archbishops of Sens and Burges the bishops of Paris and Chartres hauing with them fifteene hundred armed men and foure hundred archers and arcubalisters There were with the king at this siege his sonne the duke of Aquitane otherwise called the Dolphin the dukes of Burgognie and Bar and a great number of other earles lords knights and gentlemen so that the citie was besieged euen till within the Faux burges of that side towards Dun le Roie The siege continued till at length through mediation of Philibert de Lignac lord great maister of the Rhodes and the marshall of Sauoie that were both in the kings campe trauelling betwixt the parties there were appointed commissioners on both sides to treat for peace to wit the master of the crosbowes and the seneshall of Heinalt and certeine other for the king and the archbishop of Burges with the lord of Gaucourt others for the Orlientiall side These cōming togither on a fridaie the fifteenth of Iulie in the Dolphins tent vsed the matter with such discretion that they concluded a peace so on the wednesdaie next following the campe brake vp the king returned Whilest these things were a dooing in France the lord Henrie prince of Wales eldest sonne to king Henrie got knowledge that certeine of his fathers seruants were busie to giue informations against him whereby discord might arise betwixt him and his father for they put into the kings head not onelie what euill rule according to the course of youth the prince kept to the offense of manie but also what great resort of people came to his house so that the court was nothing furnished with such a traine as dailie followed the prince These tales brought no line 10 small suspicion into the kings head least his sonne would presume to vsurpe the crowne he being yet aliue through which suspicious gelousie it was perceiued that he fauoured not his sonne as in times past he had doone The Prince sore offended with such persons as by slanderous reports sought not onelie to spot his good name abrode in the realme but to sowe discord also betwixt him and his father wrote his letters into euerie part of the realme to reprooue all such slanderous line 20 deuises of those that sought his discredit And to cleare himselfe the better that the world might vnderstand what wrong he had to be slandered in such wise about the feast of Peter and Paule to wit the nine and twentith daie of Iune he came to the court with such a number of noble men and other his freends that wished him well as the like traine had béene sildome seene repairing to the court at any one time in those daies He was apparelled in a gowne of blew satten full of small oilet holes at euerie line 30 hole the néedle hanging by a silke thred with which it was sewed About his arme he ware an hounds collar set full of SS of gold and the tirets likewise being of the same metall The court was then at Westminster where he being entred into the hall not one of his companie durst once aduance himselfe further than the fire in the same hall notwithstanding they were earnestlie requested by the lords to come higher but they regarding what they had in commandement of the line 40 prince would not presume to doo in any thing contrarie therevnto He himselfe onelie accompanied with those of the kings house was streight admitted to the presence of the king his father who being at that time gréeuouslie diseased yet caused himselfe in his chaire to be borne into his priuie chamber where in the presence of thrée or foure persons in whome he had most confidence he commanded the prince to shew what he had to saie concerning the cause of his comming line 50 The prince knéeling downe before his father said Most redoubted and souereigne lord and father I am at this time come to your presence as your liege man and as your naturall sonne in all things to be at your commandement And where I vnderstand you haue in suspicion my demeanour against your grace you know verie well that if I knew any man within this realme of whome you should stand in feare my duetie were to punish that person thereby to remooue that greefe from your heart Then how much more ought I to suffer death to ease your grace line 60 of that gréefe which you haue of me being your naturall sonne and liege man and to that end I haue this daie made my selfe readie by confession and receiuing of the sacrament And therefore I beseech you most redoubted lord and deare

father for the honour of God to ease your heart of all such suspicion as you haue of me and to dispatch me héere before your knees with this same dagger and withall he deliuered vnto the king his dagger in all humble reuerence adding further that his life was not so deare to him that he wished to liue one daie with his displeasure and therefore in thus ridding me out of life and your selfe from all suspicion here in presence of these lords and before God at the daie of the generall iudgement I faithfullie protest clearlie to forgiue you The king mooued herewith cast from him the dagger and imbracing the prince kissed him and with shedding teares confessed that in déed he had him partlie in suspicion though now as he perceiued not with iust cause and therefore from thencefoorth no misreport should cause him to haue him in mistrust and this he promised of his honour So by his great wisedome was the wrongfull suspicion which his father had conceiued against him remooued and he restored to his fauour And further where he could not but gréeuouslie complaine of them that had slandered him so greatlie to the defacing not onelie of his honor but also putting him in danger of his life he humblie besought the king that they might answer their vniust accusation and in case they were found to haue forged such matters vpon a malicious purpose that then they might suffer some punishment for their faults though not to the full of that they had deserued The king séeming to grant his rosonable desire yet told him that he must tarrie a parlement that such offendors might be punished by iudgement of their péeres and so for that time he was dismissed with great loue and signes of fatherlie affection ¶ Thus were the father and the sonne reconciled betwixt whom the said pickthanks had sowne diuision insomuch that the sonne vpon a vehement conceit of vnkindnesse sproong in the father was in the waie to be worne out of fauour Which was the more likelie to come to passe by their informations that priuilie charged him with riot and other vnciuill demeanor vnséemelie for a prince Indeed he was youthfullie giuen growne to audacitie and had chosen him companions agréeable to his age with whome he spent the time in such recreations exercises and delights as he fansied But yet it should séeme by the report of some writers that his behauiour was not offensiue or at least tending to the damage of anie bodie sith he had a care to auoid dooing of wrong and to tedder his affections within the tract of vertue whereby he opened vnto himselfe a redie passage of good liking among the prudent sort and was beloued of such as could discerne his disposition which was in no degrée so excessiue as that he deserued in such vehement maner to be suspected In whose dispraise I find little but to his praise verie much parcell whereof I will deliuer by the waie as a metyard whereby the residue may be measured The late poet that versified the warres of the valorous Englishmen speaking of the issue of Henrie the fourth saith of this prince among other things as followeth procero qui natu maximus haeres Corpore progressus cùm pubertatis ad annos Esset res gessit multas iuueniliter audax Asciscens comites quos par sibi iunxerat aetas Nil tamen iniustè commisit nil tamen vnquam Extra virtutis normam sapientibus aequè Ac alijs charus About the same time Iohn Prendergest knight being restored to the kings fauour with thirtie ships scowred the seas tooke good prises of wine and vitels which reléeued the commons greatlie Amongst other enterprises he landed vpon the sudden at Craal on the faire day tooke the towne and robbed the faire so as they that were come thither to sell their wares had quicke vtterance and slow paiment King Henrie vnderstanding that the French king by setting on of the duke of Burgognie in pursuing the contrarie faction had besieged the citie of Burges as before yée haue heard determined with all spéed to aid the duke of Orleance so about the feast of the Assumption of our ladie he sent ouer an armie of eight hundred men of armes and nine thousand archers vnder the leading of his second sonne the duke of Clarence accompanied with Edward duke of Yorke Thomas earle of Dorset and diuerse other noble men and worthie capteins They landed in the Baie de la Hogue saint Wast in the countrie of Constantine The Englishmen swarmed like bées round about the countrie robbing and spoiling the same Shortlie after their departure from the place where line 10 they landed there came to them six hundred armed men of Gascoignes that were inrolled at Burdeaux When newes thereof came to the French court being then at Auxerre incontinentlie the earles of Alanson and Richmond were dispatched to go vnto the English campe bicause they had euer béene partakers with the duke of Orleance to giue them thanks for their paines and to aduertise them of the peace that had beene latelie concluded betwixt the parties and therefore to take order with them that line 20 they might be satisfied so as they should not spoile waste the countrie as they had begun But whereas the Englishmen were gréedie to haue and the duke of Orleance was not rich to paie they marched on towards Guien in good order and what by sacking of townes and ransoming of rich prisoners they got great treasure and manie good preies and booties Being passed the riuer of Loire they spoiled the towne of Beaulieu and with fire and sword wasted line 30 the countries of Touraine and Maine The lord de Rambures appointed to resist such violence was easilie vanquished Moreouer to the aid of the duke of Orleance the king of England sent ouer to Calis the earls of Kent and Warwike with two thousand fighting men which spoiled and wasted the countrie of Bullennois burnt the towne of Samer de Bois and tooke with assault the fortresse of Russalt and diuerse other This yeare the king abased the coines of his gold and siluer causing the same to be currant in line 40 this realme at such value as the other was valued before where indéed the noble was woorsse by foure pence than the former and so likewise of the siluer the coines whereof he appointed to be currant after the same rate ¶ In this yeare and vpon the twelfth day of October were three flouds in the Thames the one following vpon the other no ebbing betweene which thing no man then liuing could remember the like to be seene ¶ In this kings time and in the eighth yeare of his line 50 reigne as Richard Grafton hath recorded a worthie citizen of London named Richard Whitington mercer and alderman was elected maior of the said citie and bare that office three times This man

When sir Thomas Curson saw no likelihood of gaine but great appéerance of present losse he fell at composition with the enimies and so departed with all his goods After which towne rendered the fortresse of Hunflue was vpon like composition yeelded And beside these townes surrendred line 10 in Normandie the duke of Britaine recouered againe Fougiers saint Iames de Beuuron and diuerse other year 1450 In the meane season the king of England sent into Normandie with a new supplie of a thousand fiue hundred men a right valiant capteine called sir Thomas Kiriell who ioining himselfe with other English capteins recouered the townes of Lisieux and Ualongnes and hauing with him power sufficient as he tooke it to kéepe the fields he departed the line 20 twelfe of Aprill from Ualongnes meaning to passe towards Baieux and after to Caen. But the eightéenth daie of the same moneth he was incountred at a place called Formignie betwixt Carenten and Baieux by the earle of Cleremont other Frenchmen with Scots At the first onset the Englishmen receiued their enimies with such manhood that the Frenchmen were driuen backe and the Englishmen tooke from them two culuerings line 30 But yet in the end by the comming of the constable of France Arthur de Britaine earle of Richmond who brought with him two hundred or twelue score men of armes and an eight hundred archers or demilances the Englishmen were discomfited put to flight and slaine to the number of three thousand seauen hundred three score and thirtéene as Enguerant noteth beside prisoners of whome there were diuerse personages of accompt as the said sir Thomas Kiriell himselfe sir Henrie Norberie sir Thomas line 40 Drew sir Thomas Kirklie Christopher Auberton Arpell Helice Alengour Iennequin Uacquier Gobart Caleuille and sundrie other Sir Robert Ueer and sir Matthew Gough that valiant Welshman and manie other escaped so well as they might some to Baieux some to Caen and other to other places as best they could After this ouerthrow obteined the French king assembled an armie roiall and comming before Caen besieged it on all sides and after making his approches line 50 fiercelie assalted the walles But the duke of Summerset and the other capteins within the towne manfullie withstood their enimies shewing both force and great policie in defending and beating backe the assailants The French king perceiuing he could not preuaile that waie sent for all his great ordinance to Paris which being brought he dailie shot at the wals and did some hurt but to the castell which stood on a rocke and in it a dungeon vnable to be beaten downe he did no harme at all line 60 Though the duke of Summerset was the kings lieutenant yet sir Dauid Hall as capteine of this towne for his maister the duke of Yorke owner therof tooke vpon him the chéefe charge Sir Robert Uéer was capteine of the castell and sir Henrie Radford capteine of the dungeon Dailie the shot was great but more terrible than hurtfull sauing on a daie a stone shot into the towne fell betweene the duchesse of Summerset and hir children which being amazed with this chance besought hir husband kneeling on hir knées to haue mercie and compassion of his small infants and that they might be deliuered out of the towne in safegard Which intretie made with teares and submission what eare could but listen to what heart but yerne at vnlesse both eare and heart were made of flint or marble or hewen out of a hard rocke and so void of all passions of all remorse of all affections belonging to humanitie The duke pitifull mooued with the sorrow of his wife and loue of his children rendered the towne against the mind of sir Dauid Hall whose counsell and faithfull diligence in acquiting himselfe to answer the trust committed to him by his maister if others had followed the French had susteined more trauell and losse yer they should haue so easilie atteined their purpose The conditions of the surrender were that the duke of Summerset and his might depart in safegard with all their goods and substance Sir Dauid Hall with diuerse of his trustie freends departed to Chierburgh and from thence sailed into Ireland to the duke of Yorke making relation to him of all these dooings which thing kindled so great a rancor in the dukes heart and stomach that he neuer left persecuting the duke of Summerset vntill he had brought him to his fatall end confusion Such is the nature of rancor and malice of wrath and anger which furthereth the hands euen of weaklings on them to wreake their teene with whome they are offended pricked to reuengment as the poet saith Quaslibet infirmas adiuuat ira manus After the obteining of Caen the earle of Cleremont besieged the citie of Lisieux whereof was capteine Matthew Gough with thrée hundred Englishmen who in the end deliuered that towne vpon condition that he and his people might depart to Chierburgh Then was Falais besieged whereof were capteins for the earle of Shrewsburie that was the owner Andrew Trollop and Thomas Cotton esquiers who being in despaire of all succors agreed to deliuer it vpon two conditions The one was that the earle their maister which remained in pledge for the performance of certeine appointments concluded at the deliuerie of Rone as ye haue hard should be set at libertie The other that if they were not rescued within twelue daies that then they and theirs should depart with armor and all their goods mooueable whither it pleased them At the daie appointed the towne was rendered and so likewise was the towne of Dampfront vpon the semblable agréement Now rested onelie English the towne of Chierburgh whereof was capteine one Thomas Gonuille which suerlie as long as vittels and munition serued defended the towne right manfullie but without hope of repaire consumed and he els destitute of all comfort and aid vpon a reasonable composition yéelded the towne and went to Calis where the duke of Summerset and manie other Englishmen then soiorned Thus was Normandie lost cleerelie out of the Englishmens hands after it had continued in their possession the space of thirtie yeares by the conquest of Henrie the fift In this duchie were an hundred strong townes and fortresses able to be kept and holden beside them which were destroied by the warres and in the same is one archbishoprike and six bishopriks Some saie that the Englishmen were not of puissance either to man the townes as they should haue béene or to inhabit the countrie which was the cause they could not keepe it Other saie that the duke of Summerset for his owne peculiar lucre kept not halfe the number of souldiours for which he was appointed and allowed but put the wages in his purse But the cheefe and onelie cause vndoubtedlie was the diuision within the realme euerie great man desiring rather to be reuenged on his foe at home than on

this his forceable entering of the realme as himselfe pretended maie appeare by certeine letters by him written to the king and also the kings answers vnto the same both which I thinke good here to set downe as I find them recorded Richard duke of Yorke his letter to king Henrie PLease it your highnesse to conceiue that since my departing out of this your realme by your commandement and being in your seruice in your land of Ireland I haue beene informed that diuerse language hath béene said of me to your most excellent estate which should sound to my dishonour and reproch and charge of my person howbeit that I haue béene and euer will be your true liegeman and seruant And if there be anie man that will or dare saie the contrarie or charge me otherwise I beséech your rightwisenesse to call him before your high presence and I will declare me for my discharge as a true knight ought to doo And if I doo not as I doubt not but I shall I beseech you to punish me as the poorest man of your land And if he be found vntrue in his suggestion and information I beséech you of your highnesse that he be punished after his desert in example of all other Please it your excellencie to know that as well before my departing out of this your realme for to go into your land of Ireland in your full noble seruice as since certeine persons haue lien in wait for to hearken vpon me as sir Iohn Talbot knight at the castell of Holt sir Thomas Standleie knight in Cheshire Pulford at Chester Elton at Worcester Brooke at Glocester and Richard groome of your line 10 chamber at Beaumaris which had in charge as I am informed to take me and put me into your castell of Conwaie and to strike off the head of sir William Oldhall knight and to haue put in prison sir William Deuereur knight sir Edmund Malso knight withouten inlarging vntill the time that your highnesse had appointed their deliuerance Item at such time as I was purposed for to haue arriued at your hauen of Beaumaris for to haue come to your noble presence to declare me your true line 20 man and subiect as my dutie is my landing was stopped and forebarred by Henrie Norice Thomas Norice William Buckleie William Grust and Bartholomew Bould your officers in Northwales that I should not land there nor haue vittels nor refreshing for me my fellowship as I haue written to your excellencie here before So farre foorth that Henrie Norice deputie to the chamberlaine of Northwales said vnto me that he had in commandement that I should in no wise haue landing refreshing line 30 nor lodging for men nor horsse nor other thing that might turne to my worship or ease putting the blame vpon William Saie vsher of your chamber saieng and affirming that I am against your intent and as a traitor as I am informed And moreouer certeine letters were made and deliuered vnto Chester Shrewesburie and to other places for to let mine entrie into the same Item aboue all wrongs and iniuries aboue said doone vnto me of malice without anie cause I being line 40 in your land of Ireland in your honourable seruice certeine commissions were made and directed vnto diuerse persons which for the execution of the same sat in certeine places and the iuries impanelled and charged Unto the which iuries certeine persons laboured instantlie to haue me indicted of treason to the intent for to haue vndoone me and mine issue and corrupted my bloud as it is openlie published Beséeching your maiestie roiall of your righteousnesse to doo examine these matters and therevpon to doo such line 50 iustice in his behalfe as the cause requireth for mine intent is fullie to pursue to your highnesse for the conclusion of these matters The ansvver of king Henrie to the duke of Yorke COosine we haue séene the bill that ye tooke vs late and also vnderstand the good humble obedience that ye in your selfe line 60 shew vnto vs as well in word as in deed wherefore our intent is the more hastilie to ease you of such things as were in your said bill Howbeit that at our more leasure we might answer you to your said bill yet we let you wit that for the causes aforesaid we will declare you now our intent in these matters sith it is that a long time among the people hath béene vpon you many strange language and in especiall anon after your disordinate and vnlawfull slaieng of the bishop of Chester diuerse and manie of the vntrue shipmen and other said in their maner words against our estate making manace to our owne person by your saiengs that ye should be fetched with manie thousands and ye should take vpon you that which ye neither ought nor as we doubt not ye will not attempt so farre foorth that it was said to our person by diuerse especiallie we remember of one Wasnes which had like words to vs. And also there were diuerse of such false people that went on and had like language in diuerse of our townes of our land which by our subiects were taken and dulie executed Wherefore we sent to diuerse of our courts and places to hearken and to take héed if anie such maner comming were and if there had béene for to resist it but comming into our land our true subiect as ye did our intent was not that ye nor lesse of estate of our subiects nor none of your seruants should not haue beene letted nor warned but in goodlie wise receiued howbeit that peraduenture your sudden comming without certeine warning caused our seruants to doo as they did considering the causes aboue said And as to the indictement that ye spoke of we thinke verelie and hold for certeine warning caused our seruants to doo as they did considering the causes aboue said And as to the indictement that ye spoke of we thinke verelie and hold for certeine that there was none such And if ye may trulie prooue that anie person was thereabouts the matter shall be demeaned as the case shall require so that he shall know it is to our great displeasure Upon this for the easing of your heart in all such matters we declare repute and admit you as our true and faithfull subiect and as our faithfull coosine Richard duke of Yorke to king Henrie againe PLease it your highnesse tenderlie to consider that great murmur and grudging is vniuersallie in this your realme in that iustice is not dulie ministred to such as trespasse and offend against you lawes and in especiall of them that be indicted of treason and other being openlie noised of the same whereby great inconueniences haue fallen and great is like to fall hereafter in your said realme which God defend but if by your highnesse prouision conuenable be made for due reformation and punishment in this behalfe Wherefore I your humble subiect and true liegeman Richard duke of Yorke willing as

further consideration the shot was spared and the dukes grace with the capteine of the gard considering with wofull hearts their chiefe strength thus turned against them and being thus inuironed both behind and before with enimies shifted themselues awaie as did also their companie Sir Thomas Wiat accompanied with two or thrée and not manie mo came forth line 10 halfe a mile from Rochester to méet Bret and the other capteins amongst whom was sir George Harper notwithstanding his former submission to the duke Their méeting verelie séemed right ioifull both in gesture and countenance therewith hauing saluted each other they entered all togither into Rochester The lord of Aburgauennie the shiriffe were greatlie abashed when they vnderstood of this mishap for they doubted that such as were euill disposed before would not be greatlie amended thereby The line 20 shiriffe being then at Maidstone hasted to come to Malling where the lord of Aburgauennie laie and vpon his comming thither he tooke aduise to ride in post to the councell to know their minds how they would direct them Sir Thomas Wiat and his associats were greatlie recomforted with this new supplie added to their strength by the reuolting thus of the Londoners and verelie it bred no small hope in all their hearts that wished well to his enterprise line 30 that he should the better atteine vnto the hoped end of his purpose But it pleased God otherwise who neuer prospereth anie that attempt such exploits without publike and lawfull authoritie In this meane while the duke of Suffolke being persuaded to ioine with other in this quarell as he that doubted as no small number of true Englishmen then did least the pretended mariage with the Spanish king should bring the whole nobilitie and people of this realme into bondage and thraldome line 40 of strangers after he was once aduertised that sir Thomas Wiat had preuented the time of their purposed enterprise he secretlie one euening departed from Sheene and rode with all spéed into Leicestershire where in the towne of Leicester and other places hée caused proclamation to be made in semblable wise as sir Thomas Wiat had doone against the quéenes match which she meant to make with the said king of Spaine but few there were that would willinglie hearken thereto But now ye line 50 must vnderstand that before his comming downe he was persuaded that the citie of Couentrie would be opened vnto him the more part of the citizens being throughlie bent in his fauour in so necessarie a quarell for defense of the realme against strangers as they were then persuaded But howsoeuer it chanced this prooued not altogither true for whether through the misliking which the citizens had of the matter or through negligence of some that were sent to sollicit them in the cause line 60 or chieflie as should séeme to be most true for that God would haue it so when the duke came with six or seuen score horssemen well appointed for the purpose presenting himselfe before the citie in hope to bée receiued hee was kept out For the citizens through comfort of the erle of Huntington that was then come downe sent by the quéene to staie the countries from falling to the duke and to raise a power to apprehend him had put themselues in armor and made all the prouision they could to defend the citie against the said duke Wherevpon perceiuing himselfe destitute of all such aid as he looked for among his friends in the two shires of Leicester and Warwike he got him to his manour of Astleie distant from Couentrie fiue miles where appointing his companie to disperse themselues and to make the best shift each one for his owne safegard that he might and distributing to euerie of them a portion of monie according to their qualities and his store at that present he and the lord Iohn Greie his brother bestowed themselues in secret places there within Astleie parke but through the vntrustinesse of them to whose trust they did commit themselues as hath béene crediblie reported they were bewraied to the earle of Huntington that then was come to Couentrie and so apprehended they were by the said earle and afterwards brought vp to London The duke had meant at first to haue rid awaie as I haue credible heard if promise had béene kept by one of his seruants appointed to come to him to be his guide but when he either feining himselfe sicke or being sloke in déed came not the duke was constreined to remaine in the parke there at Astleie hoping yet to get awaie after that the search had béene passed ouer and the countrie once in quiet Howsoeuer it was there he was taken as is said togither with his brother the lord Iohn Greie but his brother the lord Thomas got awaie in deed at that time meaning to haue fled into Wales there to haue got to the sea side so to transport himselfe ouer into France or into some other forren part But in the borders of Wales he was likewise apprehended through his great mishap and follie of his man that had forgot his capcase with monie behind him in his chamber one morning at his inne and comming for it againe vpon examination what he should be it was mistrusted that his maister should be some such man as he was in déed and so was staied taken and brought vp to London where he suffered as after shall appeare But now to returne vnto sir Thomas Wiat. After that the Londoners were reuolted to him as before ye haue heard the next daie being tuesdaie the thirtith of Ianuarie he marched foorth with his bands and six péeces of ordinance which they had gotten of the quéenes besides their owne And first they came to Cowling castell an hold of the lord Cobhams foure miles distant from Rochester and not much out of the waie towards London whither they were now fullie determined to go in hope of friends which they trusted to find within and about the citie At their comming to Cowling knowing that the lord Cobham was within the castell they bent their ordinance against the gate breaking it with sundrie shots and burning it vp with ●●er made a waie through it The said lord Cobham defended the place as stoutlie as he might hauing but a few against so great a number and so little store of munition for his defense he himselfe yet discharged his gun at such as approched the gate right hardilie and in that assault two of his men were slaine After this assault and talke had with the lord Cobham sir Thomas Wiat marched to Grauesend where he rested that night The next daie he came to Dartford with his bands and laie there that night whither came to him sir Edward Hastings maister of the quéenes horsse and sir Thomas Cornwallis knights both being of the quéenes priuie councell and now sent from hir vnto sir Thomas Wiat to vnderstand the cause

or register of christening burieng and mariages with the names of the godfathers and godmothers Touching the laie people FIrst whether anie maner of person of what ●tate degrée or condition soeuer he be doo hold mainteine or affirme anie heresies errors or erronious opinions contrarie to the lawes line 30 ecclesiasticall and the vnitie of the catholike church 2 Item whether anie person doo hold affirme or saie that in the blessed sacrament of the altar there is not conteined the reall and substantiall presence of Christ or that by anie maner of meanes doo contemne and despise the said blessed sacrament or doo refuse to doo reuerence or worship therevnto 3 Item whether they doo contemne or despise by anie maner of means anie other of the sacraments rites or ceremonies of the church or doo refuse or denie line 40 auricular confession 4 Item whether anie doo absent or refraine without vrgent and lawfull impediment to come to the church and reuerentlie to heare diuine seruice vpon sundaies and holie daies 5 Item whether being in the church they doo not applie themselues to heare the diuine seruice and to be contemplatiue in holie praier and not to walke iangle or talke in the time of the diuine seruice 6 Item whether anie be fornicators adulterers line 50 or doo commit incest or be bawds and receiuers of euill persons or be vehementlie suspected of anie of them 7 Item whether anie doo blaspheme and take the name of God in vaine or be common swearers 8 Item whether anie be periured or haue committed simonie or vsurie or doo still remaine in the same 9 Item whether the churches and churchyards be well and honestlie repared and inclosed 10 Item whether the churches be sufficientlie garnished and adorned with all ornaments and books necessarie whether they haue a rood in their church of a decent stature with Marie and John and an image of the patrone of the same church 11 Item whether anie doo withhold or dooth draw from the church anie maner of monie or goods or that doo withhold their due and accustomed tithes from their parsons and vicars 12 Item whether anie be common drunkards ribalds or men of euill liuing or doo exercise anie lewd pastimes especiallie in the time of diuine seruice 13 Item if there be anie that doo practise or exercise anie arts of magike or necromancie or doo vse or practise anie incantations sorceries or witchcraft or be vehementlie suspected thereof 14 Item whether anie be maried in the degrees of affinitie or consanguinitie prohibited by the laws of holie church or that doo marie the banes not asked or doo make anie priuie contracts 15 Item whether in the time of Easter last anie were not confessed or did not receiue the blessed sacrament of the altar or did vnreuerentlie behaue themselues in the receiuing thereof 16 Item whether anie doo kéepe anie secret conuenticles preachings lectures or readings in matters of religion contrarie to the lawes 17 Item whether anie doo now not duelie kéepe the fasting and embring daies 18 Item whether the altars in the churches be consecrated or no. 19 Item whether the sacrament be caried deuoutlie to them that fall sicke with light and with a little sacring bell 20 Item whether the common schooles be well kept and that the schoole maisters be diligent in teaching and be also catholike and men of good and vpright iudgement and that they be examined and approued by the ordinarie 21 Item whether anie doo take vpon them to minister the goods of those that be dead without authoritie from the ordinarie 22 Item whether the poore people in euerie parish be charitablie prouided for 23 Item whether there doo burne a lampe or a candle before the sacrament and if there doo not that then it be prouided for with expedition 24 Item whether infants and children be brought to be confirmed in conuenient time 25 Item whether anie doo keepe or haue in their custodie anie erronious or vnlawfull books 26 Item whether anie doo withhold anie monie or goods bequeathed to the amending of the high waies or anie other charitable déed 27 Item whether anie haue put away their wiues or anie wiues doo withdraw themselues from their husbands being not lawfullie diuorsed 28 Item whether anie doo violat or breake the sundaies and holie daies dooing their dailie labors and exercises vpon the same 29 Item whether the tauerns or alehouses vpon the sundaies and holie daies in the time of masse matins and euensong doo kéepe open their doores and doo receiue people into their houses to drinke and eate and thereby neglect their duties in comming to church 30 Item whether anie haue or doo depraue or contemne the authoritie or iurisdiction of the popes holinesse or the see of Rome 31 Item whether anie minstrels or anie other persons doo vse to sing anie songs against the holie sacraments or anie other the rites and ceremonies of the church 32 Item whether there be anie hospitals within your parishes and whether the foundations of them be dulie and trulie obserued and kept and whether the charitable contributions of the same be doone accordinglie 33 Item whether anie goods plate iewels or possessions be taken awaie or withholden from the said hospitals and by whome Thus you see of what a malignant nature the cardinall was neuerthelesse of more lenitie than manie other popelings sauoring of the like lewd leuen of antichristianisme For at what time two and twentie prisoners for their conscience were apprehended and sent vp all togither to London from Colchester as maister Fox reporteth in his martyrologe and conuented before Boner then bishop of that sée the said Boner himselfe wrote to cardinall Poole concerning them as you shall heare ¶ A letter of bishop Boner to cardinall Poole line 10 MAy it please your good grace with my most humble obedience reuerence and dutie to vnderstand that going to London vpon thursdaie last and thinking to be troubled with maister Germains matter onelie and such other common matters as are accustomed inough to werie a right strong bodie I had the daie following to comfort my stomach withall letters from Colchester that either that day or the day following I should haue sent thense two and twentie heretikes indicted before the commissioners and line 20 in déed so I had and compelled to beare their charges as I did of the other which both stood me in aboue twentie nobles a summe of monie that I thought full euill bestowed And these heretikes notwithstanding they had honest catholike kéepers to conduct and bring them vp to me and in all the waie from Colchester to Stratford of the bow did go quietlie and obedientlie yet comming to Stratford they began to take heart of grace to doo as pleased themselues for there they began to haue their line 30 gard which generallie increased till they came to Algate where they were lodged fridaie night And albeit I tooke order that the said heretikes should be with me verie

the child representing the common wealth spake to hir highnesse these words following Most gratious prince vndoubted souereigne queene Our onelie ioy next God and chiefe defense In this small shew our whole estate is seene The wealth we haue we find proceed from thense The idle hand hath here no place to feed The painfull wight hath still to serue his need Againe our seat denies our traffike heere The sea too neare decides vs from the rest So weake we were within this doozen yeare line 50 As care did quench the courage of the best But good aduise hath taught these little hands To rend in twaine the force of pining bands From combed wooll we draw this slender threed From thense the loomes haue dealing with the same And thense againe in order doo proceed These seuerall works which skilfull art dooth frame And all to driue dame need into hir caue Our heads and hands togither labourd haue We bought before the things that now we sell These slender impes their works doo passe the waues Gods peace and thine we hold and prosper well Of euerie mouth the hands the charges saues Thus through thy helpe and aid of power diuine Dooth Norwich liue whose hearts and goods are thine line 60 This shew pleased hir maiestie so greatlie as she particularlie viewed the knitting spinning of the children perused the loomes and noted the seuerall works and commodities which were made by these means and then after great thanks by hir giuen to the people marched towards the market place where was the second pageant thwarting the stréet at the enterance of the market betwéene master Skinner master Quash being in bredth two and fiftie foot of assise and was diuided into three gates in the midst a maine gate on either side a posterne the maine gate in breadth fourtéene foot each posterne eight foot their heights equall to their proportion ouer each posterne was as it were a chamber which chambers were replenished with musike Ouer all the gates passed a stage of eight foot brode in manerof a pageant curious rich delitefull The whole worke from the pageant downewards séemed to be iasper marble In the forefront towards hir maiestie was the armes of England on the one side the gate on the other side the falcon with crowne and scepter The other side was beautified with the arms of England on the one side of the gate the crest of England on the other The pageant was furnisht with fiue personages apparelled like women The first was the citie of Norwich the second Debora the third Iudith the fourth Hester the fift Martia sometime quéene of England At the first sight of the prince till hir maiesties comming to the pageant the musicians vsed their lowd musike and then ceassed wherewith hir highnesse staied to whome the personage representing the citie of Norwich did speake in these words Whom fame resounds with thundring trump that rends the And perseth to the hautie heauens and thense descending flies Through flickering aire and so conioines the sea shore togither In admiration of thy grace good queene th art welcome hither More welcome than Terpsicore was to the towne of Troie Sea-faring men by Gemini conceiue not halfe my ioie Strong Hercules to Theseus was neuer such delight Nor Nisus to Eurialus as I haue in this sight Penelope did neuer thirst Ulysses more to see Than I poore Norwich hungred haue to gaine the sight of thee And now that these my happie eies behold thy heauenlie face The Lord of lords I humblie praie to blisse thy noble grace With Nestors life with Sibils helth with Cresus stocke store With all good gifts of Salomon and twise as manie more What shuld I saie Thou art my ioy next God I haue none other My princesse my peerlesse queene my louing nursse and mother My goods lands my hands and hart my lims and life are thine What is mine owne in right or thought to thee I doo resigne Grant then oh gratious souereigne queene this onlie my request That that wh●ch shall be doone in me be construed to the best And take in part my slender shewes wherein my whole pretense Is for to please your maiestie and end without offense So shall I clap my hands for ioy and hold my selfe as rich As if I had the gold of Iude and double twise as mich Where princes sitting in their thrones set God before their sight And liue according to his law and guide their people right There doth his blessed gifts abound there kingdoms firmlie stand There force of foes cannot preuaile nor furie f●et the land My selfe oh peerlesse prince doo speake by proofe of matter past Which proofe by practise I performd and foild his foes at last For Iabin king of Canaan poore Israell did spite And meant by force of furious rage to ouerrun vs quite Nine hundred iron chariots he brought into the field With cruell capteine Sisera by force to make vs yeeld His force was great his fraud was more he fought we did defend And twentie winters long did last this warre without an end But he that neither sleepes nor slackes such furies to correct Appointed me Debora for the iudge of his elect And did deliuer Sisera into a womans hand I slue them all and so in rest his people held the land So mightie prince that puisant Lord hath plast thee here to be The rule of this triumphant realme alone belongs to thee Continue as thou hast begun weed out the wicked rout Uphold the simple meeke and good pull downe the proud stout Thus shalt thou liue and reigne in rest mightie God shalt please Thy state be sure thy subiects safe thy commonwealth at ease Thy God shall grant thee length of life to glorifie his name Thy deeds shall be recorded in the booke of lasting fame Oh floure of grace oh prime of Gods elect Oh mightie queene and finger of the Lord Did God sometime by me poore wight correct The champion stout that him and his abhord Then be thou sure thou art his mightie hand To conquer those which him and thee withstand The rage of foes Bethulia did oppresse The people faint were readie for to yeeld God aided me poore widow nerthelesse To enter into Holofernes field And with this sword by his directing hand To slaie his fo and quiet so the land If this his grace were giuen to me poore wight If widowes hand could vanquish such a fo Then to a prince of thy surpassing might What tyrant liues but thou maist ouerthro Perseuere then his seruant as thou art And hold for aie a noble victors part The fretting heads of furious foes haue skill As well by fraud as force to find their preie In smiling lookes dooth lurke a lot as ill As where both sterne and sturdie streams doo swaie Thy selfe oh queene a proofe hast seene of this So well

as he might and yet by helpe of freends and hap verie well to venture the hazard of a shew and to be full in the waie where hir highnesse shuld passe towards hir dinner In which determination manie doubts were to be cast and manie persuaded him to tarrie a better time But considering how time rolled on and daies and houres did wast without dooing anie thing promised and not performed he hastilie prepared his boies and men with all their furnitures and so set forward with two coches handsomlie trimmed The common people beholding the maner thereof and gréedie to gaze on that should be doone followed as their fansies did lead them so that when the deuisor and his retinue came into the open field there was as great a traine and prease about the shew as came with the court at that instant which graced much the matter and gaue it some expected hope of good successe First there was a fained deuise that Uenus and Cupid were thrust out of heauen and walking on the earth met a philosopher who demanded from whense they came They told the philosopher what they were and he replied and began with truth tants to tickle them so néere that Uenus fell in a great anger and Cupid ran awaie and left his mother and the philosopher disputing togither But Cupid bicause he would be nourished somewhere ran to the court and there sought for succor incountring the quéene began to complaine his state and his mothers and told how the philosopher had handled them both But finding neither answer nor aid he returned againe but not to his mother for she was fallen mad vpon a conceipt that she was not made of And Cupid wandering in the world met with dame Chastitie hir maids called Modestie Temperance Good exercise and Shame fastnes and she with hir foure maids incountring Cupid in a goodlie coch and without anie honest gard waiting on him set vpon him threw him out of his golden seat trod on his pompe spoiled him of his counterfeit godhead and cloke tooke awaie his bow and quiuer of arrows the one headed with lead and the other with gold and so sent him like a fugitiue awaie and mounted vp into the coch hir selfe and hir maids and so came to the queene and rehersed what had hapned Although this was done in hir view bicause said Chastitie that the quéene had chosen the best life she gaue the quéene Cupids bow to learne to shoot at whom she pleased sith none could wound hir highnesse heart it was méet said Chastitie that she should doo with Cupids bow arrows what she pleased and so did Chastitie depart as she said to the powers diuine Cupid in the meane while wandering in the world had found out Wantonnesse and Riot who soone fell into beggerie and ruine a spectacle to be looked into and felt such dailie miserie with Wantonnesse and Riot that Cupid was forced to fling awaie once againe and hazard himselfe to fall into the hands of naughtie people or where fortune assigned and comming abrode happened vpon the philosopher who talked with him againe told him his errors and other points of pride and presumption declaring it was a great blasphemie abuse to report beleeue that in heauen were anie other gods but one who had the onelie rule of all that made all of naught In which reasoning discourse Cupid waxed warme yet in his greatest heat knew not how nor where to coole himselfe at which time came Wantonnesse Riot persuaded Cupid to plaie no longer the foole in striuing with philosophers and go awaie with them So Cupid departed went awaie with Wantonnesse and Riot the philosopher remained declared that all abuses follies shuld come to no better end than presentlie was expressed by the miserie of Wantonnesse Riot and Cupid Then Modestie and hir fellows leauing their mistresse dame Chastitie with the powers diuine came soft and faire in their mistresse coch singing a song of chaste life as heere vnder followeth CHast life liues long and lookes on world and wicked waies Chast life for losse of pleasures short dooth win immortall praise Chast life hath merrie moods and soundlie taketh test Chast life is pure as babe new borne that hugs in mo●hers brest Lewd life cuts off his daies and soone runs out his date Confounds good wits breeds naughtie bloud and weakens mans estate Lewd life the Lord doth loth the law and land mislikes The wise will shun fond fooles doo seeke and God sore plages and strikes Chast life may dwell alone and find few fellowes now And sit in regall throne and search lewd manners throw Chast life feares no mishap line 10 the whole account is made When soule from worldlie cares is crept and sits in sacred shade Lewd life is laught to scorne and put to great disgrace In hollow caues it hides the head and walks with muffled face Found out and pointed at a monster of the mind A ●ankred worme that conscience eates and strikes cleere senses blind Chast life a pretious pearle dooth shine as bright as sun The faire houre glasse of daies and yeeres line 20 that neuer out will run The beautie of the soule the bodies blisse and ease A thing that least is lookt vnto yet most the mind shall please And when the song was ended modestie sent as she said she was from hir maistresse spake to the quéene a good season and so the matter ended For this shew the deuiser had gratious words of the quéene openlie and often pronounced by hir highnesse On the same daie the minister of the Dutch church pronouncing to hir maiestie at hir being abrode line 30 the oration following presented the cup therein mentioned which was esteemed to be worth fiftie pounds verie curiouslie and artificiallie wrought Oratio ad serenissimam Angliae reginam habita 19. Augusti 1578 à ministro ecclesiae Belgogermanicae Nordouici in loco publico MAgna oratoribus qui percelebratorum aetate vixerunt line 40 fuit laus serenissima regina quòd iudicum animos partim suauiloquentia partim posita rei personaeque ante ipsorum oculos calamitate in quemcunque vellent animi habitum transformarent Prius membrum non vulgarem nobis ob oculos ponit hominum facilitatem quòd adeò sequaces dictóque audientes fuerint vt se linguis duci paterentur Posterius magnam vbique apud gentes quarum respublica optabili ordine fuit constituta obtinuit gratiam longè autem maiorem apud eos qui Christo nomen dederunt omnium verò maximam apud te ô serenissima regina line 50 ecclesiae Christi nutrix cuius animum verbo Dei obsequentem instruxit non fucatus hic sermo sed Christi spiritus pietatísque Zelus Ipsissima piorum calamitas afflictorúmque lachrymae lachrymae inquam Christi fidelium te commouerunt misera dispersáque Christi membra quibusuis iniurijs

that he did sweare to me at diuerse times that all the aduancement she could giue should serue but for hir scourge if euer time and occasion should serue and that although he would not laie hand vpon hir in a corner his hart serued him to strike off hir head in the field Now leauing him to himselfe thus much to make an end I must confesse of my sefe I did meane to trie what might be doone in parlement to doo my best to hinder all hard courses to haue praied hearing of the queenes maiestie to mooue hir if I could to take compassion vpon hir catholike subiects and when all had failed to doo as I intended If hir maiestie by this course would haue eased them though she had neuer preferred me I had with all comfort and patience borne it 13 but if she had preferred me without ease or care of them the enterprise had held ¶ God preserue the quéene incline hir mercifull hart to forgiue me this desperat purpose and to take my head with all my hart for hir better satisfaction line 10 W. Parrie After which for the better manifesting of his treasons on the fouretéenth of Februarie last past there was a letter written by him to hir maiestie verie voluntarilie all of his owne hand without anie motion made to him The tenor whereof for that which concerneth these his traitorous dealings is as followeth line 20 A letter written by Parrie to hir maiestie YOur maiestie maie see by my voluntarie confession the dangerous fruits of a discontented mind how constantlie I pursued my first conceiued purpose in Venice for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes continued it in Lions and resolued in Paris to put it in aduenture for the restitution line 30 of England to the ancient obedience of the see apostolike You maie see withall how it is commended allowed and warranted in conscience diuinitie and policie by the pope and some great diuines though it be true or likelie that most of our English diuines lesse practised in matters of this weight doo vtterlie mislike and condemne it The enterprise is preuented and conspiracie discouered by an honourable gentleman my kinsman and late familiar friend maister Edmund Neuill priuie line 40 and by solemne oth taken vpon the bible partie to the matter wherof I am hardlie glad but now sorie in my verie soule that euer I conceiued or intended it how commendable or meritorious so euer I thought it God thanke him and forgiue me who would not now before God attempt it if I had libertie and oportunitie to doo it to gaine your kingdome I beseech Christ that my death and example maie as well satisfie your maiestie and the world as it shall glad and content me line 50 The queene of Scotland is your prisoner let hir be honourablie intreated but yet surelie garded The French king is French you know it well enough you will find him occupied when he should doo you good he will not loose a pilgrimage to saue you a crowne I haue no more to saie at this time but that with my hart soule I doo now honour loue you am inwardlie sorie for mine offense and readie to make you amends by my death and patience Discharge me A culpa but not A poena good ladie And line 60 so farewell most gratious and the best natured and qualified queene that euer liued in England From the Tower the fourteenth of Februarie one thousand fiue hundred eightie and foure W. Parrie After which to wit the eightéenth of Februarie last past Parrie in further acknowledging his wicked and intended treasons wrote a letter all of his owne hand in like voluntarie maner to the lord treasuror of England and the earle of Leicester lord steward of hir maiesties house the tenor wherof is as followeth William Parries letter to the lord treasuror and the earle of Leicester MY lords now that the conspiracie is discouered the fault confessed my conscience cleared and mind prepared patientlie to suffer the paines due for so hainous a crime I hope it shall not offend you if crieng Miserere with the poore publicane I leaue to despaire with curssed Caine. My case is rare and strange and for anie thing I can remember singular a naturall subiect solemnlie to vow the death of his naturall queene so borne so knowne and so taken by all men for the releefe of the afflicted catholikes and restitution of religion The matter first conceiued in Venice the seruice in generall words presented to the pope continued and vndertaken in Paris and lastlie commended and warranted by his holinesse digested and resolued in England if it had not beene preuented by accusation or by hir maiesties greater lenitie and more gratious vsage of hir catholike subiects This is my first and last offense conceiued against my prince or countrie and dooth I cannot denie conteine all other faults whatsoeuer It is now to be punished by death or most gratiouslie beyond all common expectation to be pardoned Death I doo confesse to haue deserued life I doo with all humilitie craue if it may stand with the queenes honor and policie of the time To leaue so great a treason vnpunished were strange to drawe it by death in example were dangerous a sworne seruant to take vpon him such an enterprise vpon such a ground and by such a warrant hath not beene seene in England to indict him arreigne him bring him to the scaffold and to publish his offense can doo no good to hope that he hath more to discouer than is confessed or that at his execution he will vnsaie anie thing he hath written is in vaine to conclude that it is impossible for him in time to make some part of amends were verie hard and against former experience The question then is whether it be better to kill him or least the matter be mistaken vpon hope of his amendment to pardon him For mine owne opinion though parciall I will deliuer you my conscience The case is good queene Elisabeths the offense is committed against hir sacred person and she may of hir mercie pardon it without preiudice to anie Then this I say in few words as a man more desirous to discharge his troubled conscience than to liue Pardon poore Parrie and releeue him for life without liuing is not fit for him If this may not be or be thought dangerous or dishonorable to the queenes maiestie as by your fauors I thinke it full of honor and mercie then I beseech your lordships and no other once to heare me before I be indicted and afterwards if I must die humblie to intreat the queenes maiestie to hasten my triall and execution which I praie God with all my heart may prooue as honorable to hir as I hope it shall be happie to me who will while I liue as I haue doone alwaies praie to Iesus Christ for hir maiesties long and prosperous reigne From the