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A51324	The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother with the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the Third, and his miserable end / written by the Right Honorable Sir Thomas Moore ...	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.	1641 (1641)	Wing M2688; ESTC R5586	127,018	478

worme of vengeance wavering in his head could not bee content with the death of divers gentlemen suspected of treason but also he must extend his bloudy fury against a poore gentleman called Collingborne for making a small Rime of three of his unfortunat Councellers which were the Lord Lovell sir Richard Radcliffe his mischievous minion and sir William Catesbey his secret seducer which meeter was The Rat the Cat and Lovell our dog Rule all England under the hog Meaning by the hog the dreadfull wild Bore which was the Kings cognisaunce but because the first line ended in dog the metrician could not observing the regiments of meeter end the second verse in Bore but called the Bore an hogge This poeticall Schoole-master corrector of breves and longs caused Collingborne to be abbreviated shorter by the head and to be divided into foure quarters King Richard being thus tormented and tossed in his owne conceipt and imagination calling to his remembrance that considerations amities and other honest bonds and pacts made concluded and appointed betweene Princes and politique governours are in the cause efficient especiall introduction that their Realmes and Countries are fortified and munited with a double power that is to say with their owne strength and the ayde of their friends devised with himselfe to practise a league and amitie with the King of Scotts which not long before had made diverse incursions and rodes into the Realme of England where although hee got little yet surely he lost not much and thereupon sued to have a truce or peace concluded which came even as King Richard had wished it Wherefore commissioners were assigned for both parts to meete at Notingham the seventh day next ensuing at which time came thither for the King of England Iohn Bishop of Lincolne Chancellor of England Richard Bishop of Saint Asse Iohn Duke of Norfolke Henry Earle of Northumb●rland Thomas Lord Stanley George Stanley Lord Strange Iohn Gray Lord Powes Richard Lord Fitzhngh Iohn Gunthorpe keeper of the Kings Privie Seale Thomas Barow Master of the Roules sir Thomas Bryan chiefe Justice of the Common Place sir Richard Ratcliffe Knight William Catesbey and Richard Salkeld Esquiers And for the King of Scots were deputed Colin Earle of Ergile Lord Camp●ell Lord Chancellour of Scotland William Bishop of Aberden Robert Lord Lyle Laurence Lord Oliphant Iohn Drummond of Stobhall Archibald Qwitelator Archdeacon of Lawdene and Secretarie to King Iames Lyon K. of Armes Duncane Dundas These Councellers diverse times met and after long debating demanding and denying in the end of September they fully concluded and made a determination the effect whereof followeth in Articles I. First It was appointed and concluded that a perfect Amitie and an Inviolable peace should be had and kept betweene the Realmes of England and Scotland for the space of three yeares to beginne at the Sunne rising the twentie ninth day of September in the yeere of our Lord One thousand foure hundred eighty foure and to continne to the setting of the sunne the twenty ninth day of September in the yeare of Christs incarnation one thousand foure hnndred eightie seven II. Item that during the said yeares none of both the Princes nor their ministers shall make war or invade the Realme or dominion of the other by sea or land or vexe perturbe or molest the subjects or vassalles of either of them nor shall give counsell excite or move any other person to make warre or invasion on the territories of any of the said Princes III. Item that the towne and Castle of Barwicke with all such bounds as were thereto belonging ●hich were in the English mens hands at the deliverance of the same towne by King Henry the sixt to the King of Scotts shall so peaceably remaine in the possession of the King of England dnring the said truce IIII. Item that all other Castles holdes and fortresses shall peaceably remaine in the hands of the possessor and owner without chalenge or demand during the said truce the Castle of Dumbar only excepted which was delivered into the English mens hands by the appointment of the Duke of Albany when he fled into France V. Item If the King of Scotts doe intimate and declare to the King of England within the space of fortie daies next ensuing the date hereof that hee will not suffer the said Castle of Dumbar to be possessed of the English nation above the terme of sixe moneths that then during the said sixe moneths neither the English men in the Garison of Dumbar nor the Scotts dwelling and inhabiting about the limits of the same shall doe any hurt prejudice or dammage to any of the sald parties the said terme conti●ning VI. Item If after the said sixe moneths any variance or warre shall arise betweene the said two Princes either for the recovering or defending the said Castle of Dumbarre yet the said truce leagne and amitie for all other rights and possessions shall stand in force and be effectuall and that it shall bee lawfull to each of the said Princes to doe what they shall thinke necessary both for the obtaining and defending the said Castle of Dumbarre any thing contained in the treaty of peace notwithstanding VII Item It is conclvded and appointed between the parties aforesaid that during the said truce none of both the Princes aforesaid shall receiue into his Realme territories or dominions any traitour or rebell of the other Prince nor shall maintaine favour aide or comfort any rebell or traytor which is already fled or shall hereafter fly into either the said Princes dominions nor there suffer him or them to tarry or make their abode VIII Item If any such rebell or traytour shall fortune hereafter to arrive in the Realme or territorie of any of the said Princes that th●n the said Prince in whose dominion the said traytour or rebell is so arrived at the instance and request of the other Prince to whom the offence and crime was committed shall bee bound incontinently to deliver the said rebell or traytour to the said demander withont fraud or male engine IX Item That all Scotchmen now inhabiting in England and sworne to the King of England shall and may there inhabite and tarry so that their names within sortie daies after the date of this league bee certified to the King of Scotts or to his Chancellour by the King of England or the warden of the Marches X. Item If during the said amity and peace it shall fortune any of the Wardeines of the said Princes without commandment assent or knowledge of his soveraigne Lord and Master to invade or raise an army in the dominion of the other Prince and there to slay burne or spoyle that then the said Prince to whom the said Wardeine is or shall be subject and vassaile shall within sixe daies next after the fact done and perpetrate declare the said Wardeine a traytour and rebell and thereof shall make certificate to the other Prince to whom the injury was

times more couragious to flye and escape then once to assault the brest of our strong and populous Armie Wherefore con●idering all these advantages expell out of your thoughts all doubts and avoid out of your mindes all feare and like valiant Champions advance forth your Standards and assay whether your enemies can decide and try the title of Battaile by dint of Sword Advance I say againe forward my Captaines in whom lacketh neither policie wisdome nor puissance Every one give but one sure stripe and surely the journey is ours What prevaileth a handfull to a whole Realme desiring you for the love that you beare to mee and the affection that you have to your native and naturall countrey and to the safeguard of your Prince and your selfe that you will this day take to you your accustomed courage and couragious spirits for the defence and safeguard of us all And as for me I assure you this day I will triumph by glorious victory or suffer death for immortall fame For they bee contemned and out of the palace of fame degraded dying without renowne which doe not as much preferre and exalt the perpetuall honour of their native Countrey as their owne mortall and transitory life Now Saint George to borrow let us set forward and remember well that I am he which shall with high advancements reward and preferre the valiant and hardy Champions and punish and torment the shamefull cowards and dreadfull dastards This exhortation encouraged all such as favoured him but such as were present more for dread then love kissed them openly whom they inwardly hated others sware outwardly to take part with such whose death they secretly compassed and inwardly imagined others promised to invade the Kings enemies which fled and fought with fierce courage against the King others stood still and looked on intending to take part with the victors and overcommers So was his people to him unsure and unfaithfull at his end as he was to his Nephewes untrue and unnaturall in his beginning When the Earle of Richmond knew by his fore-riders that the King was so neere embattailed hee rode about his Armie from ranke to ranke from wing to wing giving comfortable words to all men and that finished being armed at all peeces saving his Helmet mounted on a little hill so that all his people might see and behold him perfectly to their great rejoycing For he was a man of no great stature but so formed and decorated with all gifts and lineaments of Nature that hee seemed more an angelicall creature then terrestriall personage his countenance and aspect was cheerefull and couragious his haire yellow like burnished Gold his eyes grey shining and quick prompt and ready in answering but of such sobriety that it could never be judged whether he were more dull then quicke in speaking such was his temperance And when hee had over-looked his Armie over every side hee paused a while and after with a loud voyce and bold spirit spake to his Companions these or like the words following If ever God gave victory to men fighting in a just quarrell Or if he ever aided such as made warre for the wealth and tuition of their owne naturall and nutritive Countrey Or if hee ever succoured them which adventured their lives for the reliefe of innocents suppressing of malefactors and apparent offenders No doubt my fellowes and friends but he of his bountifull goodnesse will this day send us triumphant victory and a lucky journey over our proud enemies and arrogant adversaries For if you remember and consider the very cause of our just quarre you shall apparently perceive the same to be true Godly and vertuous In the which I doubt not but God will rather aide us yea and fight for us then see us vanquished and profligate by such as neither feare him nor his lawes nor yet regard justice or honesty Our cause is so just that no enterprise can bee of more vertue both by the lawes divine and civill for what can be a more honest goodly or godly quarrell then to fight against a captaine being a homicide and murtherer of his owne blood and progeny An extreme destroyer of his nobilitie to his and our countrey and the poore subjects of the same a deadly malle a firebrand and burden untolerable besides him consider who bee of his band and company such as by murther and untruth committed against their owne kindred and linnage yea against their Prince and Soveraigne Lord have disherited mee and you and hath wrongfully detained and usurpe over lawfull patrimony and lineall inheritance For he that calleth himself king keepeth from mee the Crowne and regiment of this noble Realme and Countrey contrary to all justice and equity Likewise his mates and friends occupie your lands cut downe your woods and destroy your mannors letting your wives and children range abroad for their living which persons for their penance and punishment I doubt not but God of his goodnesse will either deliver into our hands as a great gaine and booty or cause them being grieved and compuncted with the pricke of their corrupt consciences cowardly to fly and not abide the battell besides this I assure you that there be yonder in that great battell men brought thither for feare and not for love souldiers by force compelled and not with good will assembled persons which desire rather the destruction then the salvation of their master and captaine and finally a multitude whereof the most part will bee our friends and the least part our enemies For truly I doubt which is greater the malice of the souldiers towards their captaine or the feare of him conceived of his people for surely this rule is infallible that as ill men daily covet to destroy the good so God appointeth the good to confound the ill of al worldly goods the greatest is to suppresse tyrants and relieve innocents whereof the one is ever as much hated as the other is beloved If this bee true as Clerkes preach who will spare yonder tyrant Richard Duke of Gloucester untruely calling himselfe King considering that hee hath violated and broken both the law of God and man what vertue is in him which was the confusion of his brother and murtrerer of his nephewes what mercy is in him that flieth his trusty friends aswell as his extreme enemies Who can have confidence in him which putteth diffidence in all men If you have not read I have heard Clerkes say that Tarquin the proud for the vice of the body lost the Kingdome of Rome and the name of Tarquin banished from the Citie for ever yet was not his fault so detestable as the fact of cruell Nero which slew his owne mother and opened her entralls to behold the place of his conception Behold yonder Richard which is both Tarquin and Nero yea a tyrant more then Nero for he hath not only murthered his Nephewe being his King and soveraigne Lord bastarded his noble brethren and defamed the wombe of his