could neuer be gotten out againe But as Fabian saith they wer cōtinually abiding in one place or other till the time of Hardikinitus the last king of the Danes blood as the English Chronicle calleth him Fabian the 6 part cap. 198 who is called also Canutus of other And they did so ouerspread and ouerflow the land The Danes called Lord Danes in Englishmens howses that as Fabian telleth the Danes were as Lords in priuate mens houses and they called them Lord Danes They imployed the husbandmen to care sow the ground to works of al druggery as Fabiā saith the Dane held his wife at his pleasure his daughter seruant And when the husbandman came home he should scarsly haue of his owne as seruants had as Fabian reporteth it Yet for feare and dread in euery suche house where they had rule they called them Lord Dane But after the Danes were voyded the land in despite derision of them it was turned into a word of reproch whē one wold rebuke an other he would as Fabian saith for the most part call him Lurdane Lurdaine a word of reproch Is not this a notable glasse of experience in our own Countrie also to warne all true Englishmen to be warned and armed against all inuasions and forraine forces if they wil be maisters owners of their owne houses of their wiues childrē goods as by experience in their own Coūtrie heretofore they may see in such cases As we haue looked into the leaders Captains of the Saxons so let vs hear of the Captaines leaders of the Danes into this land The leaders of the Danes Fabian the 6 parte Hubba Hunguoar or Hungar Guttran or Garmund Fabian the 6 part cap. 172 Vnder king Etheldredus the 3. son of king Adaulphus Hubba Hunguoar or Hungar were Captaines and leaders of the Danes into the land Vnder king Aluredus one Guttran or Gothian or Garmund as the English Chro. calleth him was the great leader ruler of the Danes with whō king Alured made cōpositiō that he should be christned 20. of the cheefe and principall persons of them were Christned with him And he allotted to him East Anglia contayning Norfolke and Suffolke and parte of Cambridgeshire to abyde in But greedie Guttrū could not be satisfied with these coūtries for while he liued he continued a tyrant by the space of eleuen yeres An other Captain called Ciyto landed in East Englande vnder Edward surnamed the Elder Clyto And at last vnder Egelredus king of this land driuen to flie first into the Wight Swanus Fabian the 6 part cap. 198 Canutus Fabian the 6 part cap. 24. Edmund Ironside after into Normādy they aduanced their kingdom vnder Swanus king of Denmark after him vnder Canutus his son with whō king Edmund surnamed Ironside first diuided the land and after his death by treason of Edricus Canutus alone reigned ouer the whole land Thus of the leaders of the Danes and their diuiding of the lande and how at the last the whole land fell to their share Nowe though Hubba and Hungar their Captaines were slaine as Fabian reporteth out of Polichronicon Fabian the 6 part cap. 170 yet Captaine Hungar still remaineth Captain Hūgar the Dane who hungreth after the fat of this land and fain wold be bringing in of forraine forces to haue dealings in the land and in diuision to make thēselues a partie as the Saxons and Danes did and that they may fall a sharing the lande as Saxons and Danes did before and at length get the land and all as they did And by whatsoeuer name they bee called if wee looke into the right qualitie and disposition of suche though they are not captaine Hūgar in name yet in true meaning and intent they are of his right rase for they hūger after the land wold fain haue diuision amongst vs that they may make themselues a partie and so haue their confederates in the land to winde themselues in and at last to winne the land Though captaine Guttrum or Gurmond be dead Captaine Guitrum or Gurmond who coulde not bee satisfied with a share of great Countries in England but played the Tyrant and cutthroate still yet such greedie guttrans or gurmands remaine who gape ouer the Realme ready for occasions and woulde faine satisfie their greedy guts with the rauen and ransacking of it And is there any that hath true Englishe blood in him that can betray his owne Countrie and cast it as a pray into the rauening iawes greedy guts of such Guttrons or Hungars God keep our Prince and Realme from such Hungars Guttrons that continually gape ouer her and vs to deuoure vs and giue true wisedome to all naturall subiects of England by such experience and examples of our Countrie heretofore to be warned against all such as practise by confederating themselues with forraine forces to bring suche Captaine Hungars or Guttrons vpon vs whose hunger cannot bee quenched but out of the body and bowels of this land Thus of the inuasion of the Danes and their leaders The inuasion of the Normans Fabian the 6 part ca. 217. After the Normans inuaded this land vnder William the Conquerour and king Harold being slaine in the field they subdued it The Normans had the preheminences of honours and offices in both estates The Englishmen were vnder them Fabian the 6 part ca. 222. and great tributes were laid on them and after sundrie attempts by sundrie persons made in vain the Englishmen learned to serue straungers into whose hands God had put thē The Romans The Romans ruled in this land had so good liking thereof that Seuerus the Emperour after his great victories of the Parthians and Arabians Seuerus the Emperor imploied himselfe here Fabian the 4 part cap. 61. and for the defence of the Coūtrie against the inuasion of the Pictes he caused a wall of Turues to be made of the length of 122. myles as Polichronicon witnesseth and at length in a battaile himselfe against Fulgenius Leader of the Pictes who inuaded the lande hee was slaine and buried at Yorke Fulgenius leader of the Picts The Troians The Troians vnder Brute first entered the lande and well liking the fruitfulnesse thereof determined heere to pitch their dwelling and by the Riuer of Thames they built a Citie which in remembrance of their owne Countrie they called Troy-nouant London and which after was enlarged by King Lud and was called Luds Towne and which nowe is called London as Fabian reporteth Thus of the experience examples and case of our Countrie touching forraine forces and inuasion of strangers If any warning will serue seeing God hath set vp so many warninges spectacles in the experience of our owne cases in our owne Countrie we should now receiue warning and be wise in such cases vnlesse wee will be still strangers in our owne stories and affaires
Monsters that the fame of them should not be hard to wound the tender sent of nature that neere them there might be no speach of theÌ„ Would God such monsters in nature that are ready to betray their own Countries were so far from vs that we might not heare the fame of them much lesse that we should need to feare them But the greatest daunger is when they are in the bossome and bowels of our Countrie which secretlie gnawe in them and are readie to eate through them They may be compared to Sobna of whom the Prophet Esai maketh mentioÌ„ who was greatly aduauÌ„ced of the godlie king Hesechiah Sobna Esai 22. outwardlie bare his countenance that he would liue and die with him made for himself a sepulcher in Herusalem as if he would lay his bones there But he had a false hart a lingering in his hart after the Assyrians the enemies to his Prince and Countrie which made inuasion on them And his false hart deceiued him for he was carried away captiue into a far CouÌ„trie according to Gods threatning by the Prophet there he ended his life in confusion God deliuer vs from such Sobnaes that haue lingering harts after the enemies of our Prince Countrie whatsoeuer countenaÌ„ce outwardly they make and lay open their trayterous harts and practises against the sacred person of our prince her royal estate our Countrie Thus of those that haue lingering in their harts after inuasions of forraine forces The 11. cheefe matter The 11. is what hath been the case of this Realme in inuasions of forraine forces and strangers heretofore and of other Countries in like case and what should be our refuge and stay against such inuasions Our own Country doth minister to vs sufficient experience in the case Of inuasion of strangers and forraine force The fouÌ„taines are small that feede great riuers Of small occasions at first as out of fountaines issue grow and flow out great floods gulfes that ouerflow whole Countries We may see the experience in king Vortigerne his time King Vortigerne Aurelius Vter Who being distressed by troubles at home and fearing ciuil wars inuasioÌ„ by Aurelius Vter the sons of king Constantine whose death by treason he had procured and practised before sent for forraine forces Panims Saxons for his aid The inuasion of the Saxâ—â— Horsus Hengist Fabian in his Cron. the 5. part cap. â—3 Then came in Horsus Hengist the Saxons first into this land for Vortigerne distrusting his own subiectes affied himselfe in strangers forrain forces in the end he was himselfe vnhorsed discoÌ„fited by Aurelius Vter whoÌ„ he feared and the whole land was made a bootie pray for the Saxons They caÌ„e in first stealing in by troupes after troupes companies after coÌ„panies The Caspian Sea Plinius nat ra Histo 〈◊〉 6. cap. 3. Like the Caspian Sea stealeth in and breaketh in at streightes at first as Plinie writeth but after mouÌ„teth into a great Sea ouerfloweth in the maine land First Horsus and Hengist came in with their coÌ„panies after the fame spraÌ„g of the fat of the land FabiaÌ„ the 5. part cap. 83. Ella Porch Fabian the 5 part cap. 94. Vffa Fabian the 5. part cap. 96. as Fabian saith one Ella a Saxon came in with his 3. sons landed in the south part of BritoÌ„ And after came in a Soxon named Porch with his two sons of whoÌ„ the hauen Porchmouth is called as FabiaÌ„ noteth And one Vffa a Saxon with his troupes intruded himselfe into Norfolke and Suffolke and other Saxons in other places Finally as Catterpillers they deuoured the fat and fruite of the land they raigned the Britons serued This may be a president and mirror for Englishmen to looke into to see what hath beene the case of their Country when strangers and forraine forces haue come vpon them Let vs perticulerlie looke into the storie of Hengist Hengists storie it is notable and worthy to be renued in remembrance of Englishmen When Hengist so liked the land Ronouen Hengists daughter Fabian the 5 part cap. 82. that he thought to plant himselfe here he sent for Ronouen his daughter who came in with 16. saile After he had got footing in the land first he conteined himselfe in certaine boundes but after at a Sea he brake ouer the bankes and ouerflowed the maine land He obtayned of king Votigerne first so much land as he could lay out with a Buls hide which he cut out into thonges and hee compassed a great circuit of ground with it Thongcastle Fabian the 5 part cap. 83. and built him a Castle thereon and he called it thonge Castle And after he left cutting out of thonges out of the Buls hide and be fell to cutting out Prouinces and Countries out of the maine land in the East part of Briton Then in steed of Thongcastle Fabian the 5 part cap. 89. Hengist king of Kent Fabian the 5 part cap. 95. Ella his kingdome Fabian the 5 part cap. 94. Vffa his kingdome Fabian the 5 part cap. 96. hee made himselfe kinge of Kent and raigned there 24. yeeres and after him Ochra his sonne ruled other 24. yeeres This kingdome endured aboue 300. yeeres as Fabian rehearseth out of Polichronicon Ella another Saxon set vp his kingdome ouer the South Saxons Aurelius being then king of Briton And Vffa an other Saxon reigned ouer the Eastangles now called Norfolke Suffolke Thus they fel a deuiding the land amoÌ„gst theÌ„ first they came in for aide of king Vortigerne when diuision was in the land and after they fell to deuiding the land and making shares to themselues till they got land and al. Will not such examples of our owne experience in our owne Countrie heretofore make Englishmen wise against al practises of inuasions and forraine forces What hartes or bowels of nature haue they which can haue any lingering hope after forraine forces Doe they looke to aduaunce themselues in the ruins of their Countrie Either they knowe not or haue forgotten the saying of Caesar Caesar I loue treason but I hate the traytor The verie heathens abhorred them notwithstanding they reaped benifite by them Let all true harted subiectes of England beware of them which by the dore of diuision at home would let in forraine forces to make their shares out of the bodie and bowels of our Countrie The inuasion of the Danes Let vs looke into the inuasions of the Danes also which is an other glasse of like experience for all true Englishmen to looke into In the first inuasion of the Danes when they descried diuision in the land they ioyned themselues with one part made theÌ„selues a partie with the West Britons against Egbert king of west SaxoÌ„s Fabian the 6 part cap. 158 And after they had made themselues a partie in the land so had their confederates in the land they
foorth lay open the great Patron practiser of treasons The first principall matter rebellions such like disloialties against Christian Princes and Countries which is the Bishop of Rome his adherents followers and practisers for him and by colour of authoritie from him And intreating hereof I will folow this order 1 First I will shewe what engine the Bishop of Rome hath vsed continuallie vseth in the practise of such things by excommunicating cursing and banning of Princes and cursing and interditing of Countries What time chieflie hee began to vse this engine of cursing and banning Princes countries and practising of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against them By what meanes the Bishop of Rome and his fellowes doe manage and carrie on their practises of treasons rebellions and such like disloyalties against Princes and Realmes Of the iudgments of God vpon the cursing banning Popes Thus the order of my proceeding in this part The first is what engine commonly hee vsed and still vseth in such practises The vsuall engin of Bishops of Rome in managing plats of treasons THE vsuall engine which the Bishop of Rome commonly vsed and vseth still in the managing and carrying on of plats and practises of treasons and rebellions against Christian Princes is the excommunicating cursing and banning of them wherein they take on them as if their sentences came from Peter and Paul out of heauen but they open as it were Hell mouth on earth by cursing banning Christian Princes and Realmes and by procuring and practising treasons against the royall persons of Princes and conspiracies and rebellions against their estates and gouernmentes and periuries of people against the othes of their allegiance and shedding of innocent bloode and such other outrages as we haue seene in their plattes but that God hath preuented their practises Though we haue a glasse of present memorie and especially in our owne Countrie set before our eyes of such practises yet by looking into stories of auncient record we shal see how with this vsual engine of excommunicating cursing banning he hath afflicted Christian Princes and Countries heretofore Henry the fourth Emperour of that name Henry the 4. Emperour Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. of Iohn Cuspinian is praysed for a godlie Prince and of such renowne in warres that he fought more battailes in his owne person then either Iulius Caesar or Marcus Marcellus did who carried the prize of that prayse in the world Yet he was excōmunicated cursed of three Popes Gregory the 7. Gregorius 7. Vrbanus 2. Paschalis 2. Vrbanus the 2. and Paschalis the 2. And notwithstanding hee raigned about fiftye yeeres lacking one and sawe the Corses of two of the foresaid Popes notwithstanding their curses Henry the fifth of that name Henry the 5. Emper. rebelled against his owne father and deposed him And Pope Paschal the second as it were blewe vp the trumpet to that vnnatural and parricidial warre as their owne wryters Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1105. and the Abbat of Vrsperg himselfe termeth it Yet after because he would not yeeld to the Popes demaunds and commaundements against his prerogatiue and right he was excominged cursed of 3. Popes as his father before him was Paschal 2. Gelatius 2. Calixtus 2. of Paschal the second Gelatius the second Calixtus the second Notwithstanding he raigned as king 20. yeeres as Emperour 14. yeeres and saw 2. of the foresaid Popes raked on earth before him while he reigned Fridericus 1. Imp. Frederick the 1. Emperour of that name was so valiant and victorious a Prince that his death in the Countrie of Armenia in his exploit against the Soulden and the infidels as the the Abbat of Vrsperg Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1187. Io. Cusp in vita Frid. 2. sayth was an in estimable losse to Christians and besides his valiantnesse in warres Iohn Cuspinian greatly praised him for a peacemaker at home and that hee beganne his reigne with making peace reconciling al rancors and reuenges aunswering to his name therein which signifieth as Vrspergensis Cuspinian noteth asmuch as riche of peace Abbas Vrsperg in an 1152. And yet notwithstanding he was such a peacemaker at home and so valiant a Prince abroad and ventured and ended his life in the countrie of infidels and is so highly commended of the Popes owne wryters he was excominged and cursed of three Popes also Hadrian 4. Alexand. 3. Vrbanus 3. Hadrian the fourth Alexander the third and Vrbanus the 3. and the 4. Pope named Lucius the 3. Lucius 3. predecessour to Vrbanus the third last named of the foresaid three cursing Popes beganne brawles also against Frederick the aforesaid Abbas Vrsperg in an 1176. for pacifying whereof a diet was apointed at Verona and there in the consultation the Pope died So this noble Emperour thus commended of the Popes owne wryters as the Abbot of Vrspergensis Otto Bishop of Frising Iohn Cuspinian notwithstanding of 3. Popes was cursed downe right The fourth was entred into circumstance of cursing but he died and notwithstanding the cursing conspiracies and bloody broyles of the Popes against him foure of them turned vp their heeles before him Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. Abbas Vrsperg in Chro. And he maugre of their curses reigned 37. yeeres The Abbot of Vrsperge wryting of the end of this noble Emperour cannot conteine himselfe though he were a piller of the Popes side from giuing condigne commendations to him He calleth him a most Christian Prince triumphant in warres couragious curteous and he commendeth his clemencie in vicorie to all sortes Thus the Abbot himselfe powreth out prayses on him though the Popes powred out the poyson of their curses on him Otto Bishoppe of Frising so admired and honored this noble Emp. that he wrat 2. Otto Fris Epis de rebus gestis Fride 1 bookes of the actes of his chiualrie Radeuini praepositi vel canonici supplementum Merula the mouthi and being preuented by death that he could not ende his storie Radeuinus a Canon of his Church put too a supplie of two other bookes to them As for mouthie Merula who in his storye of the vicountes calleth this noble Emperour a barberous Prince regard is not to be had for he saith the like of other kings of Germanie Io. Cusp in vit Fride 1. which exelled in pietie and clemencie as Cuspinian noteth and he followeth his common vaine which hee sheweth in carping and biting the learned men of his time as Philelf Petrarch Dante 's Valla Politiam Beroald and others His iudgment is partiall in reporting the stories betweene the Emperours and the Popes Merula partial to Pops And as Cuspinian noteth being ignorant of the actes of Frederick he followeth Plattina and Blondus the Italian wryters of stories and fowly faleth eftsones Such not onely are partiall to Popes in writing their stories but sometimes parties with them Platina As Platina
Gregorie the seuēth famous sorcerers and inchaunters were Bishops of Rome and that there was striefe betweene Syluester the seconde disciples in the diuelish art who shoulde succeed in the place This Gregorie the 7. was reputed also in the Brixian Councell Brixian coūcell to bee a Negromancer to worke by a Familiar And before him as Otto the aforesaide Bishop saide hee neuer could reade that any Romane Bishop did excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor and King Otto Frisin Episc So that this practise of Popes against christian Emperours and Princes according to his vouching beganne much about that time when Sathan was loosed from his chaine out of the bottomlesse pit to goe about to deceiue the people in the foure quarters of the earth he took possession about that time in Bishops of Rome in the Sea of Rome which were Negromancers and Sorcerers as Syluester the seconde and other his successors amongest them and about those times was Gregorie the seuenth Grego 7. who was the first as Otto pronounceth of his experience in the Romane stories that excōminged and cursed a Roman Emperor and king and priued him of his kingdome Yet notwithstanding Henrie the 4. thus excominged and cursed af Gregorie the 7. raigned about 50. yeeres sawe Greg. the aforesaid cut off with his curses Vrban the second likewise that followed him Thus about that time the Diuell let loose raged in the Romane Sea and Bishops against Christian Emperors Princes with cursing and banning of them and priuing thē of their Empires forgetting that they call themselues his Vicars whose kingdome as Gagwin the deuout father and writer of their owne side said was not of worldly things but heauenly things Then followed such diuision and discord in Christendom and such outrage of rebellion warres and bloodshed as Bishop Otto greeuing at the very rehearsall thereof saith Otto Frisin Episc ana li. 6. cap. 36. that a certain Ecclesiasticall writer compareth those times to the most vglie darknes of Egipt And the Abbat of Vrsperg saith that vnder Hildebrand the Monke called Gregorie the 7. Ab. Vrsperg in Chron. in an 1072. who excomminged and cursed first Henrie the 4. Romana respulbica omnis ecclesia nouis inauditis scismatum erroribus periclitari caepit The cōmon wealth of Rome and the whole Church began to be plūged in perils and errors of new scismes such as were neuer heard of before And the bishoppes that were present in the Councell of Wormes The councell of Wormes charge him with abuse of noueltie What maruaile when he was the first in Bishop Otto his iudgement which took on him to excomminge curse a Roman Emperor to priue him of his kingdome And whereas it belonged to the right of the Emperours to confirme the Roman Bishop after he was elected before the Emperors confirmation ratifiyng the election he was not coūted right Bishop of Rome as Cusp saith speaking of Grego Io. Cuspin in vita Henr. 4. the 7. his time Mos enim tū erat Pōtifices ab Imperatoribus confirmari vt superius saepe annotauimus For the custome then was that Bishops of Rome shuld c yet this Gregorie the 7. The Imperiall right to confirme the Bishop of Rome elected contrary to custome right of the Emperors rushed into the Roman sea wtout confirmatiō of the Emperor but assoone as he was warm in the sea hee began to curse ban the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had to haue been the right bishop of the sea Therof began to spring spread great scismes diuisions in Christendome when not only the right of the Emperors was violently encroched of the Bishop of Rome but also he fell a cursing and banning the Emperor whose confirmation he should haue had What did the Diuell about the time loosed out of the bottomlesse pit more desire The Diuell raged by disobedience in the Bishops of Rome then to tread vnder feet the ordinance of God by wilfull disobedience outrage against Christiā Princes by cursing thē for whom they shoulde pray by stirring rebellions ciuill warres against them setting their owne subiects to be contrary to them to take a contrarie course to the ordinance of God Thus after 1000. yeeres the Diuell did rage in the Roman Bishops against the supreame soueraignties states in christēdom shewed himself directly contrary in them to the great ordinance of God If it were the ordinarie right of the Empire to confirm the bishops of Rome as the continual course continuance therof in such a number of his predicessors bishops of Rome the witnes of their own writers is plain euidēce therof wherfore should Hildebrand called Gregorie the 7. Gregorie the 7. an intruder without confirmation of the Emperor of a Monk Archdeacō before intrude himselfe into the sea of Rome wtout confirmatiō of Hen. the 4. Emperor not only rent away the vsuall right of the Empire but also rent the Empire and Christendome with rebellions ciuill warres bloodshed treasons and such like outrages and rent the Emperor himselfe from his Empire life also by cursing and banning him and stirring vp his own subiects to rebel against him and of his life and Empire to bereaue him Thus the Romane Bishop or rather the Diuell raging in the Romane Bishop turneth the regiment and state of Christendome vpside downe and began a contrary course to the right of the Emperiall regiment and custome of confirmations heretofore For to Henry the 4. by his imperial right the confirmation of Gregorie the 7. to be Bishop of Rome did appertaine Gregorie the 7. so far is from recognising that right to which so many his predecessors stouped Gregorie the 7. summoneth Henrie the 4. to apparance and answere that as Lucifer mounting about all estates not onely he shaketh his necke out of the collor but imperiouslie citeth and by presumptuous processe calleth for the Emperor to make his apparance before him to put in answere to causes to be obiected to him els vnlesse he stoupe to his commaunds to whose confirmation hèe should haue stouped himself he shuld be cursed and priued of the Empire This was so vnquoth and strange attempt that Otto freelie confesseth hee neuer read the like by any Romane Byshop doone to the Romane Emperor and king before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1072. The Abbat of Vrsperg saith that because without consent of the king hee pressed to bee Pope by fauour of the Romanes some held that hee was not lawfullie placed but that like a tyrant he vsurped Thus the Abbat himselfe mentioneth the great gall of Gregorie the 7. his proude Popedome which began with presumption proceeded to cursing ended with great bloodshed in christendome Cuspinian also reporteth the same Plerique saith hee illum sine regis consensu non agnouerunt legittime electum Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. after he had
noted how the Pope by sundrie letters and processe had called for the Emperor hee saith but many didde not acknowledge him lawfully chosen without the Emperours consent And yet this is he in the iudgement of Otto Bishop of Frising who first of any Roman Bishop did excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor or King Bishops of Rome in the primitiue Church In the time of generall councels And before Gregorie the 7. The Romane Bishops in the primitiue Church most of them were Martyrs after in the time of the ancient and generall counsels the Catholike faith in the blessed Trinitie was constantly confessed and maintained of them against the Arrians and other heretikes and of those that succeeded them and were predecessors to Gregorie the 7. none tooke on them accordinge to Bishop Otto his protestation to excōminge and curse the Romane Emperor before And were there not Emperors of notorious notes and deserts before some spotted with heresies and some with other greeuous enormities As for the examples of the Emperors Philip Theodotius mentioned of Otto both touching the causes proceedings actiōs in the iudgement of Otto himselfe cannot be obiected for instances against his former protestatiō The Abbat of Vrsperg discoursing the stories of the time Ab. Vrsperg iudgement of Otto his protestation stalleth at the protestation of Otto and first layeth down his words after where Bishop Otto touched the sore he layeth to playsters as a Leach laying to his hande to cure the papall sores being an Abbat and wel willer to the Papall power Ab. Vrsperg in chro tit aenacephaleosis Impe. Conradi c. First hee saith that Emperors and Princes of certaine nations haue been deposed before that time for causes thogh not by authority of the bishop of Rome as Emperors in Constantinople haue been This toucheth not the case of Otto his protestation The second is An instance of Grego 3. an instance concerning the case of Gregorie the 3. which caused all Italie to reuolt from the Emperor of Constātinople excomminged him and priued him of his kingdome Touching this instaunce of Gregorie the 3. who was about the yeere of Christ 731 Platina the writer of popes liues saith Platina in vita Greg. 3. that he excominged and priued the Emperor Cuspinian sayth that hee priued him of the communion and fellowship of the faithfull Io. Cusp in vita Greg. 3. and that hee reuolted from him and caused the tributes payable to the Emperour to be yeelded to the French and yeelded himselfe to the obedience of the French Carrolus Martellus Carolus Martellus carrying then the Regiment of France and called Maior Domus as Platina witnesseth Platina in vita Zacha. 1 Wherefore did he reuolt from the Emperour of Constantinople and caused the tributes of the Empyre in Italie to be turned to the French because the Emperour of Constantinople Leo the thirde of that name had made Proclamations Leo the third Emperor his proclamatiōs against images that images shoulde bee voided out of Churches and burned therof they called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Therfore Gregorie the third preferring dead images before the Emperor who was touching his Imperiall soueraigntie the liuelie image of God reuolted from his obeisaunce turned the tributes of the Empire to the French put himselfe at their deuotion excomminged the Emperor priued him saith Platina the officer to Popes Abbreuiator Apostolicus as Abbat Tritenhemius termeth him Ab. Triten de eccle scrip But it was a poore priuing of the Emperour when hee raigned 24. yeeres till of Gods visitation hee ended his life Till God depriued him of his life hee was not priued of his Empire yet Platina the writer of the storie of Popes saieth hee excomminged him and priued him of his Empire thus they vtter great wordes and perfourme small actions Io. Cusp in vit Leonis 3. Cuspinian telleth out of Iohn the Monke of whom he borrowed the storie that the bishop priued the Emperor of the fellowship of the faithfull But Bishop Otto farre auncienter then Platina or Cuspinian late writers in comparison of him and who was before the Abbat of Vrsper Otto Frisin Episc lib. 6. cap. 35. also cōfesseth that notwithstanding he hath read and read ouer again the stories of the Roman Emperors and kings yet he neuer could finde any Romane Emperor and king excōminged of a Roman Bishop before Henrie the 4. of Gregorie the seuenth Bar. Platina Io. Cuspini Platina was more then foure hundred yeeres after Bishop Otto Cuspinian farre later vnder Maximilian the Emperour Iohn the Monke out of whō Cuspini Io. the Monk taketh his report Otto Frising Episc belike is a late writer also But Otto had read the stories of auncient memories and out of his reading affirmeth neuer Emperor to haue been excominged of a Roman Bishop before What maner of excōminging did Gregorie the 3. vse against Leo the third Emperor of Constantinople As he excōminged him so he priued him Hee priued him yet he kept his Empire during life hee excōminged him yet stil the faithfull not only kept communion with him but their allegeance to him So his excōminging was a putting him out of his communion and company and of those that were of his obedience therin because they would not keepe companie with dead images the quicke with the dead Therfore hee made suche stirre for the dead among the liuing in Italie reuolted from the Empire which had aduaunced and fostered the Bishop of Rome in that state to the French and bereaued the Empire of the tributes and manage of Italie and in processe so weakened the Empire of Constātinople The Bishop of Rome weakened betraied the Empire that it became a pray to Turkes and Infidels The Bishop of Rome first pulled it down on his knees after came the Turks and ouerranne it when one is downe he is soone ouercome The Bishop of Rome in defence of dead images displaying the banner of his reuolt in Italie from the Empire of Constontinople and by that meanes impouerishing it by taking away of tributes due to it and weakening the force of it by the reuolt of the men did open as it were the dore to the Turke to ouerrunne the Empyre If wee looke who betrayed the Citie of Constantinople Ioh Io. Iustinian betraied the citie of Constantinople to Mahomet the 2. Iustinian of Gen beareth that infamie If we looke who betrayed the Empire of Constantinople it was the bishop of Rome in effect by carrying Italy to reuolt after him by dispoyling the Empire of tributes disfurnishing it of mē by plucking it as it were on ground by feathering his nest out of the Empire and by the fal therof moūting himself in Italie Thus for answere to the Abbat of Vrsperg to his instance of Gre. the 3. his excomminging and priuing Leo the 3 of his Empire Ab. Vrsper anacephaleosis Imperat. c After that the Abbat
hand was wounded for his periurie A warning to all treason and rebellion against his Prince This may be example to all estates and persons to keepe their hartes and hands true to their Prince according to Godes ordinance least Gods vengeance fall on their harts heads as it did vpō Absolon the traytours hart and vppon their hand which they lifte vp against their Prince as it did vppon the right hand of Duke Rodolph rufully repenting for it Thus the example of Duke Rodolph by whom and how hee was set on of his rebellion and euill successe last of his rufull repentance Now will I discourse the storie of Henry the 5. Henry the 5. his rebellion against Henry the 4. his father The Order the treason and rebellion against Henry the 4. his owne father And for the more orderly treating of it I will referre my selfe to these cheefe pointes First of his cause and pretence and setting on to this treason and rebellion against his father Secondly of the vnnaturall and parricidial warre of the sonne against the father Thirdly of the taking and deposing of Henry the fourth Fourthly of his death and crueltie shewed on his corpes Fiftely of the mone and iudgment of their owne wryters of his case Laste of all of the iudgement of God on Henry the 5. in the ende Thus the order of my discourse◠this storie The first The cause pretence of rebellion of Henry the 5. against his father The first is his cause and pretence and setting on to that horrible treason and rebellion against his owne father The cause and pretence of his treason and rebellion against his owne father was Pope Gregorie the seuenth Pope Vrbane the second and Pope Paschal the second their curses on Henry the fourth his father and withall their priuing him of his Empire What the cause and his desert was that the Popes thus cursed and priued him let vs heare out of their owne writers The Abbat of Vrsperg very parciall on the Popes side against the Emperour noteth this to bee the cause Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1075. Because two Popes of Rome solemnly cited the Emperor to make his apparance at Rome before them and he came not and for contempt against them and because he would not submitt himselfe to them he was of Gregorie the seuenth excomminged and cursed then of Vrbanus the second after of Paschal the second Another cause by Albertus reporte is aleaged out of the aunsweres of the Bishop of Mens and Wormes to the Emperour when they came to depose him for Simonie in collating Bishoprickes Abbacies which they cal the inuesting of Bishoppes and Abbates Alber. Krāz. Saxoniae lib. 5. cap. 20. by the hande of Princes into their royalties they hould of them Thus as in the right of their imperial prerogatiues The imperial right in inuesting of Bishoppes Abbates c Emperours haue held and continued from the time of Charles the Emperour surnamed the great and vnder 63. Bishoppes of Rome aboue 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And after the thousand yeere that the Deuill was let lose out of the bottomlesse pitte Reue. 20. as out of the Reuelation I haue noted he raged in the Bishoppes of Rome against the principates of the earth making a quarrell for inuesting Bishoppes and Abbates by ley hand to the royalties of their dignities which they termed simenicall heresie I wil lay downe the wordes of Iohn Cuspinian concerning the cause Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 5. who was a man of great authoritie and a counceller to Maximilian the Emperour and though he were of their Religion yet without partialitie layeth down the cause Discordiae somes erat saith he talis The cause that bread the discord was such Now 380. yeeres and moe from Charles the great vnder 63. The case of inuestiture for which Popes cursed Emperors Bishoppes of Rome it was lawfull for the king to collate Episcopal dignities Abbatices by a ring a rod which now by authoritie custome most auncient preuileges by the space of so many yeeres was established But after Popes ordeyned that eccelsiasticall dignities or inuestiture might not of any ley parson bee collated and they were excomminged that were inuested in that sort Hitherto Iohn Cuspinian his wordes in the storie of Henry the fift Albertus Cranz Deane of Hanburg Alb. Cranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 37. and a writer of their owne side doth thus speaking of Henry the 5. lay downe his iudgment of the case If saith he the Emperour meaning Henry the 5. who after was cursed of the Pope likewise for the same cause that he rebelled against his owne father did aske nothing but only the inuestiture of the lands called the graunt of the royalties the free elections to Churches and Abbaies reserued in the vacation he seemeth to demaund right Thus Albert his wordes touching the cause of inuestiture only he doth not like that the prouision for the person shall goe with it for the which he sayeth the controuersie was betweene the kingdome and the priesthood The Abbat of Vrsperg also speaking of the reconciling of Henry the fifth to Pope Calixtus sayth Ab. Vrsp in an 1122. hee did relinquishe the inuestiling of Churches which the German kinges so long hadde exercised and which hee purposed neuer during life to haue left least thereby he should preiudice the honour of his kingdome Thus Vrspergensis And yet otherwhere hee raueth against Henry the fourth Abbas Vrsperg in an 1106. for resisting the Popes censures and calleth him Nabuchodonezer and Iulian and sheweth his euill affected minde to him and his partialitie in wryting his storie which of Cuspinian also is noted Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. though in religion he be concurring with him Thus the bishoppes of Rome about that time that Sathan was loosed out of his chaine made schismes and hurleburlees in Christendome by encroching the auncient right of the mperiall prerogatiue touching the case of inuesting aforesaid which continued in the body of the Empire from Charles the great the first Emperour of the West after the diuision of the Empire and vnder 63 Bishoppes of Rome and more then 300. yeeres as Cuspinian noteth And because Henry the fourth would not yeeld vppe this imperiall prerogatiue and the auncient right of the Empire he was cursed of Gregorie the seuenth and other Popes and priued of his Empire though he continued Emperour about 50 yeeres lacking one as the Abbat confesseth And after that auncient right imperiall prerogatiue thus confirmed by authority Abbas Vrsperg in an 1102. custome and most ancient priuileges as Cuspinian witnesseth was called Simonicall heresie In the Lateran councell vnder Paschal the 2. Paschal 2. in Lateran councel who cursed Henry the fourth the father and Henry the fifth the sonne for the case of inuesting and for their mainteyning the Emperial prerogatiue therein and who himselfe had released the inuesting of
Saxo. li. 5. cap. 20. he told him the processe of their proceedings who pitying his case conducted him to Colon with 800. souldiers After this beeing toyled and persecuted of his sonne and brought as it were to the pits brinke as in his letters written to the estates of the Empire frō Ledes he pitifully cōplained he dieth at Ledes The crueltie shewed on the corps of Henrie the 4. Now let vs heare the crueltie that was shewed vpon his corps whom they thus persecuted aliue they persecuted also in his graue The Abbat of Vrsperg telleth how that the Bishop of Ledes others that tooke the Emperours part were reconciled to the Pope Ab. Vrsperg in an 1106. and receiued into the communion of the Church vppon this condition among others that they shoulde dig vp the corps of the Emperor buried of them before The corps digged vp and without all honor of funeral lay it in an vnhalowed place which decree he saith was made with the cōsent of the Archbishops Bishops that were there Alb. Saxo. li. 5. cap. 24. Albert reporteth that the corps stoode in a desert chappell at Ledes vnburied by the space of fiue yeeres and after was buried at Spires Ab. Vrsp in an 1106. The Abbat of Vrsperg telleth howe that the Corps was transported to Spires with consent of the king his sonne and there remained without the church vnburied by the space of fiue yeeres Thus whom they woulde not suffer to rest while hee liued they woulde not suffer to rest in his graue also The Popes curse ransacketh the graues of the dead The graues cannot hide their corses for his crueltie Wigberts the Archbishop of Rauenna his corps digged vp Wigbertes the Archbishop of Rauenna his corps bicause he was set vp of Henrie the 4. to be Bishop of Rome for Grego the 7. was also turned out of his graue and the corses of other Bishops also which were made of Wigbert Bishops corps cast out of Churches were cast out of the Churches as the Abbat reporteth This was the persecutiō of corses Death quencheth not the malice of Rome but she runneth to graues to turne vp corses as if shee were mad Hiaena As the mad Hiaena turneth vp graues Plinie witnessing it and rageth in corses Mantichorae Plini natu hist li. 8. cap. 30. Pli. nat hist lib. 8. cap. 21. And as the monstrous Mantichora mētioned of Plinie also is greedie of mans flesh euen to plucke it out of the graues But it is zeale saieth Vrspergensis not malice or crueltie for speaking of the rāsacking of corses of false Bishops as hee termeth them out of their graues he brayeth out In tantum diuinae legis subito zelus efferbuit So greatlie saith he the zeale of Gods law sodainly boyled vp Ab. Vrsperg in an 1106. Is it maruaile though he call Henrie the fourth Iulian Aman Nabuchodonezer who calleth the turning of corses of Princes and Bishops out of theyr graues the zeale of Gods Lawe It is zeale but not acording to knowledge as the Apostle Paule calleth it Rom. 10. Blind zeale 1. Cor. 2. Blinde zeale crucified Christ If they had knowne the Lorde of glorie they woulde not haue crucified hym Blinde zeale continually persecuteth the members of Christe ransacketh their very graues and triumpheth ouer corses The Abbat of Vrsperg bringeth in the Churche of Rome triumphing with hornes on her head to runne vpon her enemies and to make the liuing agast when they see corses of the dead turned out of their graues Ab. Vrsperg in Chro. Iam enim saith he exaltatus diuinitus ecclesia Romana cornibus ad incutiendum timorem cunstis vsque quaque scismatum membris c. Nowe saieth hee the Church of Rome hauing her hornes by diuine power exalted The hornes of the church of Rome set on by the Abbat of Vrsperg to make all the members of schismes to quake caused the bones of Wigbert their head by Henrie the 4. placed pope Archbishop of Rauen. before to be cast out of his graue Thus the Abbat bringeth foorth the Church of Rome in her triumphe castyng out bodies of the dead out of their graues to make the liuing to be afraid of her As Zedekia the false Prophet made hornes of yron Zedekiah and saide to Ahab the wicked and idolatrous king 2. Re. 22. with these hornes shalt thou pushe the Syrians vntyll thou haue made an ende of them And the false Prophets prophesied euen so goe vppe to Ramoth in Gilead and prosper for the Lorde shall deliuer it into the kings handes But kyng Ahab was brought home dead in his Chariot So the Abbat hath made yron hornes for the Church of Rome to push downe all her enemies and to cast them out of their graues and they come vnto her as they did to Ahab goe and poosper The Lorde shall deliuer all into thy hands If any Church may weare iron hornes and tryumph with them the Chuche of Rome may as for turning corses out of graues none euer might compare with her Thus of the death of the Emperor Henrie the fourth and the crueltie shewed on his corse The fift chiefe poynt of the discourse of this storie is The 5. The iudgement of their owne writers the iudgement of their owne writers of the case Otto Bishop of Frising of the Imperiall line touching his parentage and in superstition not behinde for hee tooke Monkerie on him Otto B. of Frising and among the Monkes of Morimond hee died and touching his storie for his indifferencie in laying it downe he is commended of Aeneas Syluius Aeneas Syluius in hist Aust Historiae sayth hee legem seruauit vt neque cognatio veritati neque cognationi officeret veritas Hee kept saieth hee the lawe of storie that neerenesse of blood shoulde not hinder truth because hee was neere of the Imperiall blood nor trueth neerenesse of blood This rebellion and outrage of Henrie the fift against Henrie the fourth hys father Otto Frising Episc anna lib. 7. cap. ◠vppon pretence of the Popes curse hee calleth Tam inauditum inhumanum hoc mundi factum So vnquoth and neuer the like hard of and vnnaturall a fact of this worlde which may prouoke vs to the contempt of the worlde as hee saith to see suche outrage in it Alb. Kranz Sax. lib. 5. cap. 16. Albert Deane of Haumburg maketh a wonder of it in the worlde and sayth Brethren haue made warre one against another and most neere frendes haue fought togeither Sed filium saith he insurgere patrires est sine exemplo But the sonne saith he to rise against the father is a thing without example Thus Albert as if nature it selfe were wounded wondereth at so monstrous a facte procured and practised vnder pretence of the Popes curse the execution whereof they coūt pietie though it be treason and rebellion of the sonne against his owne
father The Abbat of Vrsperg with too much partialitie and bitternesse against Henry the 4. Io. Cusp in vita Henr. 4. corrupteth the storie and therefore of Cuspinian one of their owne religion is reproued as also Hermānus Contract Hermānus Blondus Platina Merula Mouthie Merula and such others The Italian wryters of stories as Blond Plat. such others are 2. great pleasers of Popes and deliuer not the storie with such indifferencie between Emperours and Popes as they should doe because of the partialitie of religion and of their Countrie and their intertainment following after Popes The freshe fountaine Arethusa of Sicilie by the salte Sea is counted a strange thing in nature Italian wryters of stories Arethusa the foūtaine And in writing of stories it strange for an Italian writer of stories to be free from partialitie of Popes being so neere them and eftsoones appertayning to them as Platina and Blondus and such others Therfore with good iudgment they must be red to sifte the corne from the chaffe the storie from the partialitie of Popes But the Abbat of Vrsperg though he be not of the Countrie of Popes yet because he hath a Pope in his conscience as rolled on the groundes of Poperie runneth thicke with dregges of partialitie to Popes Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1106. and so corrupteth the clerenesse of the storie No maruaile though hee call Henry the 4. thus cursed of the Popes an Arch-pirate and Arch-heritike Nabucodonezer and Iulian. Iohn Cuspinian who was of Maximilians councell and of their owne religion Io. Cusp in vita Hen. 4. prayseth Henry the fourth for an eloquent liberall and godly Prince sharpe of wit and warlike and luckie in the warres that fought moe battailes in his owne person then either M. Marcellus or Iulius Caesar the famous warriers in the stories Thus Cuspinians prayses of him Otto Frisin Episc ann lib. 7. cap. 11. Bishoppe Otto reporteth the opinions of others touching his almes deedes and many workes of mercie donne by him in respecte whereof they think he merited of God as out of the humors of the darkenesse of that time they speake to haue the wanton conuersation of his youth wholie he was aliue to bee punished with such afflictions in this present world Thus Bishoppe Otto deliuereth the iudgmentes of others of him Albert Deane of Hanburg and deuout of their side Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 5. cap. 24. yet can not bury in silence his condigne prayses he sayeth hee was a noble a learned a valiant Prince of goodly personage fit for a king and that by the space of 50. yeeres kept the soueraigntie of the publike state yet hee inspergeth him with great vices and pride that would not stoupe Thus Alberts report of him Touching Pope Gregorie the 7. that first cursed him Abbas Vrsperg in chr in an 1800. Brixiense Con. he is charged in the councell of Brixia with haynous crimes and that he is a Necromansier and that dealeth with a familiar And the Bishoppes in the councell of Brixia referre themselues to the authoritie of a councell at Mens holden against him before Ab. Vrsperg in an 1076. Worma concil And in the councell of Wormes hee is likewise charged with great infamies Otto Fris Epis lib. 6. cap. 35. Bishoppe Otto sayeth that hee was the first of his knowledge in the Roman stories that tooke vpon him to excommunicate and curse a Roman Emperour or king The Abbat of Vrsperg saith Ab. Vrsperg in an 74. that vnder him the whole Church began to be turmoild with new errors of schismes that neuer were hard before In the coūcel of Wormes likewise he is charged that the Church of God through the abuse of his nouelties is indaungered with so sore a tempest Abbas Vrspergensis in an 1076. Thus the Bishoppe of his owne religion and wryters of his own side reporte of him and of the strange euils of schismes and diuisions neuer heard of before and of the abuse of his nouelties No marueile then though he were the firste that vndertook the excōmunicating cursing of a Roman Emperour as Otto voucheth and rent the whole Church with schismes and the ciuill and publike state with diuisions and rebellions Bishoppe Otto when hee commeth to the point of the cause touching the deposing of Henry the fourth from his Emperiall state vppon the Popes curse Bishop Otto suspendeth his iudgment passeth it ouer without interlasing his owne iudgement and opinion of the proceedings thereof and sayeth all which thinges whether they were lawfullye or vnlawfullye done wee doe not determine Thus Bishoppe Otto kepte his iudgment in suspence Otto Frising Episc lib. 7. cap. 11. touching the proceedinges against Henry the fourth by laying downe the storie with profession that hee will not lay downe any iudgement of it May wee not as it were at a loupe and hole see the day So we may sound his iudgment by his profession that hee will giue noe iudgement in the cause If hee had liked the Popes curse and the proceedinges against the Emperour he needed not to be daintie of his iudgment whereof no daunger ensued to him which was so plausible on the Popes side and at which the Popes Clergie as it were clapped their handes But because it was a bone in his conscience to haue such outrage done to Princes vppon the Popes curse hee keepeth his conscience cleere for giuing iudgment in the case though otherwise for his religion right on the Popes side the Monkes of Morimond Abbey among whome he dyed and the order of the Cistertian Monkes which he professed might witnesse Aeneas Syl. in Hist Austral If hee should lay downe his iudgment against the Pope in fauour of Henry the fourth he shuld plucke the Pope and his Clergie vpon him Then Otto one of their owne Bishoppes and a professed Monke of the Cistertians order Heretikes against the Pope Henry the 4. Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna Wekil Archbishop of Mens Abbas Vrspergensis in chro in an 1085. should be an heretike against the Pope also as Henry the fourth was made an heretke for opposing himselfe against the Pope and Wigbert Archbishop of Rauenna was made an heretike because of Henry the fourth he was promoted to be bishoppe of Rome in the place of Gregorie the seuenth and as Wekil the Archbishop of Mens was called an Arch-heretike in the councell of Quintiligoburg as Vrspergensis calleth it because in holding disputatiō against Geberherdus Archbishop of Salzburg for Henrie the 4. his soueraigne Lord he laid downe his reasons of the preiudicing his Soueraigne by the Pope other Princes and that he being dispoyled of his dominion in Saxoni before Duke Rodolphs rebellion was not lawfully to bee called We kill his disputations for Henry the 4. iudged and condemned They were so netled with the disputation of VVekill the Archbishop of Mens for his Soueraigne that they called an other councel at Quintilingoburg where
of Edgar king of England after he had lost his retinue in hunting withdrew him selfe to the Castle of Corf where Queene Elfride or Estrild his stepmother with Egelredus her yong sonne kepte house Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 117 where being courteously inuited to lodge that night 〈◊〉 courteouse manner excusing himselfe as he sat on his horse drinking and the cuppe at his mouth of a traytor and murtherer suddenly set on by his stepmother he was stabbed and when he felt himselfe stricken suddenly he set spurres to his horse King Edward surnamed the martyr Fabian in Tab. 6. part and by ryding and much bleeding fainting fell and his foot hanging fast in the stirrop was trailed of his horse to a place named Corinsgate where hee was found dead This Edward was surnamed the martyr and being induced of a curteouse nature to visit his friends as he supposed and not suspecting any treason fell into the mouth of his enemies Charles of Fraunce Charles king of Fraunce surnamed the simple returning out of ciuill warre with victorie on Duke Robert that rebelled against him Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 6. was by Hebert Earle of Vermendois in the waye of gratulation for his victory humbly inuited to lodge at his Castle of Peron The king of simplicitie not forecasting treason and ouercom with curtesie humbly offered yeelded to his request and after he was lodged there and his strength gon from him then Hebert set on by his wife tooke the kinge prisoner Earle Hebert his treason Fabian in Chro. 5. part cap. 89. and made him away that hee neuer came abroad to raigne any more Hengist the Saxon inuited Vortigern king of Britain with his Lords to his Castle called Thongcastle whither the king with his Lordes came Hengist Fabian in Chro. 5. part cap. 89. 〈◊〉 the middest of the feast and mirth a fayned fray began the Saxons fell on the Lordes and slew them all and tooke the king prisoner A daungerous thing it is for Princes to aduenture their royall persons with them of whome they haue not vndoubted assurance and in places where they are not garded with their strengthes The same Hengist fearing the great hoast of Britons appointed in readinesse made meanes for a parley and treaty of peace a day was prefixed on a May day on the plaine of Salisburie and so many Britons for so many Saxons should meete Thither king Vortigerne came with a certaine of Britons in peaceable manner In midest of the parley Hengist gaue the watch Nempnith your sexes as Fabian telleth it that euery one should draw his long knife out of his hose and the Britons were slaine like sheepe among Woolues as Fabian saith The Deuill neuer more raueneth then vnder the visard of friendly parles meetings entertainments curtesies and such like deuices which he vseth as occasions of aduantages opportunities to put placs of high treason in practise Trayterous and hypocriticall hartes are like a deepe hel on earth Queene Ethelburg alwayes gaping after opportunities to deuoure theÌ„ whose destruction they seeke Fab. in chro 6. par ca. 157 Ro. Gag in an Reg. Fraâ— lib. 2. Brightricus the first 〈◊〉 of the west Saxons was by Ethelburge 〈◊〉 wifâ—e after sundry attempts of treason for making him away poysoned with many other of his meany Fredegund Queene of Soisous in Fraunce before mentioned hired and sent two murtherers into the campe of Sigisbert king of the Countrie of Mees or Austracie as Fabian termeth it her brother in lawe who awayted for opportunitie aduauntage and they slew the king Queene Fredigond The same Fredigond that by treason procured the death of king Chilperick her owne husband and of king Sigisbert her husbands brother inflamed with enuy against Queene Brunchild because she was set vp in more fauour and honour then she as Gagwin reporteth it was conceiued with new treasons against her Ra. Gag in an reg Fran. lib. 2. and fell in trauel for the execution of them in this sorte There was an old executioner of murthers called Holderick Holderick the traytor a fit instrument to vndertake her treason him shee sent into Queene Brunchilds Court he according to the method of maisteries in the Deuils art of practising treasons first began with flattering and fawning about in the court as the Scorpion doth fawne with his taile ere hee strike but there he met with as cunning in that art as himselfe By his great flatterie he grewe in suspition and being coÌ„mitted 〈◊〉 â—â—ture confessed the whole plat One might 〈◊〉 that Queene Fred. in plats of treasons 〈◊〉 peere Queene Brunchild but Queene BruÌ„child king Sigisberts wife the aforsaid far surpasseth her hath won the prize of such plats practises froÌ„ her She was charged at her death to haue bene the death of ten Princes Continually she was traueyling with some plat or other as soone as she was deliuered she conceiued and fell in taruaile againe about the execution and practise of her plats Notwithstanding outwardly who was couÌ„ted so deuout as Brunchild Ro. Gag in an Reg. Fran lib. 2. the foundresse of many Colledges of Priestes Monkes in BurguÌ„dy as father Gag writeth of her Thus the Diuell vnder mists of hypocrisie worketh maisteries of murthers and treasons against Princes and vnder pretence of religion committeth such outrages in the world And in the taruaile and execution of their plattes the cheife point of practise of masteries in the Diuels art concerning the execution of suche things is fawning flaterie for life and double diuellish diligence seruile at all assaies to creepe into credit and fauour and to win opportunitie of the place for execution Gagwin the generall of his order in Fraunce saieth that Holderick mentioned before Holderick the traytors boldnes was Audax assuetus caedibus bolde and draween through many murthers He kept his course aforesaid for the execution of his plat vpon Queene Brunchild but that his cunning was soone incountered there Cum multis iam diebus saith Gagwin consuetudinem familiaritatis apud Reginam Brunchildem assentatiunculis blanditijsque comparasset WheÌ„ saith hee by the space of many dayes by flattery and fawning he grew to be familiar and conuersant with Queene Brunchild His fawning flateries familiarities at last hee began to bee blasted with suspition when in flattering and currying he went beyond himselfe and beganne to be too broade in it as Gagwin saith Blandior indies visus in suspicionem venit This is the monstrous method of the Deuils art and cheifly in these latter dayes The serpent The Aspe The SerpeÌ„t wil craule into the very bosome the Aspe wil be familier and play Plutarch wryteth and Volateran reporteth it out of him that in Egypt they haue familiar Aspes at their Tables Rapha Vela lib. 25. Plin. naâ— Hist lib. 10. cap. 74. they bring them vp with their childreÌ„ to eate with them to
Fabian termeth it and fawning flatterie and glauering glosing of the which hollow hypocrits make an art in Pallaces of Princes and houses of estate that he aduaunced him to one of the foure regimentes of England called Mercia Notwithstanding he could not keepe himselfe true to his Prince that hadde beene drawne through so many treasons for that is rooted in the marrow and bones will not out Hee was taken tardie in treason againe and being accused and conuicted iudgment was giuen immediatly executed his head cut off and his body cast into a foule and filthy place Ranulph saith Edricus the traytors death that he was slain by the kings agreement within his Pallace at London his bodie with the head throwne after into the towne ditch Whether for his treasons against king Edmond before he dyed as some write or for his treason against king Knoght after as others tell all agree that he dyed for his treasons whether his head were exalted on the highest gate of London for king Edmonds death or whether his head and bodie were cast into the towne ditch for treason against king Knoght Pol. Verg. Hist Au. li. â— So his treasons turned on his owne head Polidor telleth how king Knoght after the death of kinge Edmonâ— greatly endeuoured himselfe to banishe thâ—â— sonnes of kinge Edmond who as he sayth departed into Pannonia and there were well intreated and ended their liues in exile Chronica Fructus temp the 6. parte And Chronica Fructus temporum telleth how that after the death of king Edmond Edrick aforesaid surprised the sonnes of king Edmond and presented theÌ„ to king Knought to put himselfe in great fauour with him and that of the king they were sent after to Denmarke from whence by a Dane called Walgar that pittied them they were conuaied to the king of Hungarie Saxo Gram. Hist Danicae lib. 10. Saxo GraÌ„maticus the auncient famous wryter of the storie of the Danes telleth that king Kanutus was very careful not to be touched with suspition of the death of king Edmond whoÌ„ he called Edward And that some reporte the king Edmond whoÌ„ he calleth Edward by Kanutus commaundment and practise came to his death and that by his coÌ„maundment likewise more greeuous execution was don on the traytors to cleere him selfe of the suspitioÌ„ thereof yet notwithstanding saith he the same thing did greatlie rack the kings fauour in his houshould those that were neere him Thus out of Saxo. Fabian reporteth of him Fab. in Chro. the 6. part cap. 205. that he did so abhorre the vnnaturall treason of the English men that hadde sworne to bee true to the blood of kinge Edmond that though by their treasons the Crowne wholy was deuolued to him and his posteritie yet hee hadde the workers against kinge Edmond his sonnes in continuall mistrust whereas they thought they should haue beene in high fauour with him And as Fabian telleth he dispatched the more part of them some by banishment some were slaine some by Gods punishment soddenly died Canutus loâ—thed traytors though he gained by them Thus traytors are loathed of them that gayne by them and their treasons turne on the heades of the workers of them Touching the end of kinge Edmond his sonnes Fabian thus reporteth it out of the opinion of some that kinge Canut sent Edmond and Edward king Edmond his sonnes to Swanus his brother kinge of Denmarke to bee made away And that hee abhorring the deede sent them to Salomon king of Hungarie where Edmond died and Edward suruiuing was surnamed the outlaw because he neuer returned into England againe Caesar Caesar was wont of treasons traytors to say that he loued treasons but he loued not traytors he loued treasons to serue his turne Plutarchus in vita Rom. but he shunned traytors as moÌ„sters in the ciuil body the wold be ready to practise on him that they haue proued in others Plutarch telleth Plutarcus in Apoth Rom. that the king of Thraci vpbraied him at the table that from Anthonie he had reuolted to him He rouned 〈◊〉 other king that satte by him in the eare anâ— sayeth that he loued treason but not traytors In like sort king Philip said Philip. that hee loue not traytors but those that would betray meaning though he had his turne serued by them he would not trust them Io. Stub There was in the time of this Edrick of Sratton Elfricus vnder king Egelred and when the Danes pressed the land in diuers places an other traytor of great countenance and estate called Elfricus maister or Admirall of the kings Nauie Fab. in Chro. the 6. part cap. 197. as Fabian calleth him who was bought and sold of Danes against his Prince and Countrie When with the kings nauie furnished he lay for the Danes to encounter them he was blinded with bribes and the Danes had their chase and rechase by sea and land notwithstanding him Fabian the 6. part cap. 199. He was by sea like to the scharcrow by land which standeth with bow bent and the arrow set in the bow and yet is blind and cannot discharge Such a watch was Elfrick by sea the Portes and passages were open to the Danes Polidore saith he was a hot and fierce man Polidor Hist Angl. lib. 7. but the Danes so cooled his courage with corruption that there was no valew in him for his Prince and Countrie When he shoulde fight a battaile with the Danes by sea and trye for the maine chance then Elfrik fled to the Danes Pol. Angl. Hist li. 7. the Nauie was dispersed some taken some drowned Thus Elfrick by sea and Edrick by land played their partes in flying when they should fight and when they were most trusted betraying their Prince and Countrey This Elfrick after his first fight was recoÌ„ciled to the king againe After he fled the 2. time Then the king as Fabian saith in wreak of the father commaunded the eyes of the sonne Algarus to be plucked out of his head Fab. the 6. part cap. 197 Polidor reporteth that wheÌ„ the Danes came not of with their rewardes to Elfrick his contentment hee put himselfe to the mercie of kinge Eldred or Egelred to whom saith he the king Effossis oculis vitam condonauit After his eyes were plucked out of his head pardoned his life Thus traytors come short of their reckning and Gods iudgmentes suddenly ouertake them as they did Elfrick and Edrick Polidor Hist Angl. lib. 7. Because Elfrick was blind when he should see the kings enemies therefore the king plucked out his eyes that he should not see his own freindes It was the iust iudgment of God reuenge suddenly ouerreacheth the wicked in the parts they offend eftsoones they are punished What marueile when ther were 2. such as Elfrick and Edricâ— were though king Eldred or Egildred was fayne to flee the lande the Councell of the land was bewrayed the seruices
and prouisions betrayed to the Danes the king driuen to forsake the land the Danes in peaceable possession reigned ouer it Canutus the elder first Pol. Angl. Hist li. 7. and Canutus the sonne after in the English Chronicle as Polidor saith falsly called Hardy-Canutus Polidor nameth before them Stueno called Swanus in the Englishe Chronicle Saxo Gram. Hist Danic lib. 10. Saxo Grammaticus who wrot the storie of the Danes 300. yeeres since telleth how Harald Earle Godwines sonne ridde the Danes of the lande by feastinge them with sumptuous entertainment firste and after by setting on them vnwares by night So that way they came in that way they went out by treasons they preuailed and by treasons they were dispatched as Saxo the wryter of their stories noteth Nothing could satisfie the Danes but the whole land No honours could satisfie Elfrick and Edrick that by sea and lande kinge Eldred first layed on them The Countrie wolud not conteine them the estates of honour would not houlde them They are like to those that haue the hungrie sicknesse called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Appetentia canina as Galen calleth it which is a deuouring and vnsatiable hunger Galenus de Symp. causis lib. 1. And as greedy stomackes surcharged with surfets are ouercome and quaile and bring the whole bodie to decay so their greedy appetits surcharged aboue strength bringeth their whole state to decay The greedinesse of traytors is like to the sicknesse Appetentia canina compared to rauening of Dogges for they would deuoure Princes and rauen Coūtries if they were powerable as their greedy stomackes serue them But looke on the ends of them whom the regiment by sea would not content as Elfrick nor Dukedome of Mertia by lande as Edrick Fabian reporting it the first was made blind by land that would not see by sea the other was cast into a stincking ditche as some note or his head was exalted on the highest gate of London as others tel of him who was not satisfied to haue his head exalted in the highest estate of honour vnder his Prince aboue all subiectes in the lande Fabian the 7 part ca. 260. Eight foote of lande houldeth him as in the funerall verse of Henry the second is mentioned whom beside England great climates and Countries would not contayne When the gates of England were committed to Elfrick and Edrick two such cappitall traytors so corrupted with treasons no maruaile though the Danes not onely rushed in but at length ouercame 〈◊〉 land If they had not fought with gold by traytors in the land they could not with their yron so haue made their way to haue wonne the land It is an old pollicie and practise of Danes Saxo Grammaticus writeth Saxo Gram. Hist Danicae lib. 2. whē that Frotho the first kinge of Danes of that name inuaded Scotland and the Englishmen came down to the reskew he seeing himselfe like to be ouerset that there was no trying of it with the yron blade deuised with glittering gold to fight against them Hee causeth all the gold that was in his hoast and stuffe of price to be strowed ouer the fildes as they should come And when they fell on their pray and were laden hee fell on them as Saxo saith and the Britons with their blood bought their pray So it hath been the aunciēt practise of Danes with gold to make their way for their yron And hauing 2. such gulfes of gold as Edrick and Elfrick were what maruaile though the gates of England were sette open to them As they got themselues in by gold and the infection of treason in the lande so they were as Saxo their owne Countreeman reporteth at last put out by the potte Saxo Gram. Hist Dani. lib. 5. when after great feasting they were ouerladen And Saxo confesseth it to be the infection of his Countrie Dani vt patria pace loquar siccandis certatim calicibus assuescunt The Danes saith he by my owne Countries leaue bee it spoken are wont to trie maisteries in making drie cuppes Fabian the 6. part cap. 200. King Edgar brought the Danes to obeisans and he bridled that vice in them by making a law against quaffing and appointing cuppes with nailes and markes to restraine that excesse which by example and prouoking of Danes began commonly to grow Thus of Elfrick maister or Admirall of king Eldred his Nauie and Edrick the two Capitall traytors of the land who betrayed their Prince and Countrie And beside them one Almaricus a Deacon of Canterbury the Cittie of Swanus being besieged 20. Fab. the 6. part ca. 200. Almaricus dayes betrayed it to the Danes This Almaricus had his life saued before by Elphegus Archbishoppe there and for recompence he betrayed him and the Cittie also There is no more vngratfull monster in the worlde then treason It will bee ready to teare out their throtes that haue saued their liues As for benefites they passe through them and washe ouer them as the seas our the sandes and shoares and they nothing the better One Hugh a Norman of Queene Emma aduaunced to bee Earle of Deuonshire for requitall of so great an honour betrayed Exeter to Swanus kinge of Danes as Fabian in his Chronicle telleth who beat downe the walles and brake into the land Fab. the 6. part ca. 198. Sir Andrew of Harkeles Fab. the 7. part in anno 1321 Sir Andrew of Harkeley for seruice done to kinge Edward the second in the Barrons warres in taking Thomas Earle of Lancaster and other Barrons was aduaunsed to be Earle of Carlile After that he was sent to leuie a great power to bringe to the kinge into the North against the Scotes But hee had deuoured so much gold of Sir Iames Douglas of Scotland Chronica Fructus temp the 7. parte Fabian the 7. part in an 1223. as Chronica Fructus temporum noteth that hee could not come in time to the kings aide at the battaile of Beigland Abbay So the king was like to haue beene taken at dinner his hoast was discomfited his treasure and great ordinance taken Then fame began to blow her trumpet that this was long of Sir Andrew of Harkley his treason In proces the Earle by the kinges commission was arreasted of Sir Anthonie Lucie Fabian in an 1224. and Fabian reporting it out of Gefferie of Mommuth was arrayned at Cordoile in Wales Fabian noted before that hee was of Edward the second made Earle of Carlile or Cardoile Polidor Hist Angl. lib. 18. Polidor calleth him Comitem Carleolensem and there conuicted for taking mony of the Scotes to betray the king for which treason he was there or after other at Westchester or Shrewlburie drawen and hanged and his head sente to London and sette on the Bridge Chro. Fruct temp 7. part Chronica Fructus Temporum telleth howe hee was for his treason first disgraded his spurres hewed from his heeles his sword broken ouer him and
then disgarnished of the robes of his estate Polid. Hist Angl. lib. 18. and after put in execution Polidor telleth of a pacte or platte of treason made with Robert kinge of Scotes by him with his owne opinion in the ende Thus Sir Andrew Herkelies treason turned on his owne head in the ende Sir Roger Mortimer surnamed of Wigmor may for his aduauncemeÌ„t first Sir Roger Mortimer Fabian the 7 part in an 1324. corruption and treasons after well bee ioyned to him Vnder Edward the second being committed to the Tower hee made escape by giuing a sleeping drinke to his keepers as Fabian witnesseth Then he gotte him into Fraunce to Queene Isabell daughter to Philippe Lebew and wedded to kinge Edward Polidor Hist lib. 18. whom kinge Edward with her sonne hadde sent into Fraunce to intreat a concord and peace betweene Charles the French king and him After the returne of Queene Isabell Prince Edward her son with force of armes after the deposing of Edward the 2. in the Parliament holden at London Fabian in an 1328. Fabian the 7 part in an 1326. Sir Roger Mortimer who returned likewise in their retinue was by the singular fauour of Queene Isabell in wthose Court he bare the sway aduaunced in the Parliament of Salisburie vnder Edward the third to bee Earle of March as Sir Andrew the aforesaid was vnder Edward the second his father preferred to bee Earle of Carlile or Cardoile as is mentioned before And in the end this Sir Roger of Wigmor was executed for treason against his Prince and Countrie as the same Sir Andrew was But this Sir Roger was mounted farre higher in fauour in the Court and in the regiment dealings of estate and cause of profite that did accrew to the Crowne And hee had great troupes and routes hanging on him Chronica Fructus temp the 7. parte as Chronica Fructus temporum telleth what a number of knightes were retayned to him when hee was taken The regiment of the lande and affayres of profitte passed through the Queenes hands and his And the Lordes before assigned to haue the guiding of the yong king were sequestred so that alone the rule of the lande as Fabian sayeth rested in the Queene and the said Sir Roger Fabian the 7. part in an 1328. And great things of the realme saith he were out of order But Sir Roger bare himself so high that at length hee plucked both the king and his Councell vppon him So that in time by the king his assent and the meanes of Sir William Montague and sir Rafe Stafford and sir Iohn Neuel and others hee was by a compassed meane as Fabian termeth it arrested and takeÌ„ in the castle of Nottingham Fabian the 7 part in anno 1329. where the king and Queene then lay The keyes of the castle were daily and nightly vnder the ward and keeping of the said sir Roger as Fabian saith Chronica Fructus Temporum telleth Chro. Fruct temp 7. part that the Constable of the Tower led sir William Montague and his companie a priuie way vnder earth euen into the Tower where sir Roger was lodged From thence with sir Simon of Bedford and others he was sent to the Tower of London And in the end for his priuitie to the death of king Edward the second the king his father Fabian the 7 part in anno 1330. for other treasons charged and proued against him in the Parliament at London he was by authoritie of the same Parliament Fabian witnessing it iudged to death And vppon S. Andrewes euen next ensuing at London he was drawen and hanged He was charged not onely with treason against Edward the seconde the kings father to haue been the meanes of his most traiterous death fearing least nature woulde worke in the young king to set him at libertie againe Polidor hist Ang. lib. 18. as Polidore noteth and because Queene Isabel had written likewise letters of kindnesse vnto him but also hee was charged with treason against king Edward the 3. his sonne against his countrie to haue been the meane that the Scots escaped from the king at Stanhop park where they had fallen into the kings danger ne had byn the fauour of the said sir Roger then shewed to them further that an vnprofitable dishonorable peace as Fabian termeth it was by his meane concluded betweene the king and the Scots For first as Fabian writing of the Parliament of Northampton saith the king released to the Scots their fealtie and homage Fabian the 6 part in anno 1327. And he deliuered to them olde auncient writinges sealed with the seales of the kings of Scots Lords of the land both spiritual and temporal with many other Charters and Patentes by the which the kings of Scots obliged theÌ„ to bee â—eodaries to the crowne of England At which season also were deliuered certaine iewels which beforetimes had been wonne from the Scots The blacke crosse of Scotland Chro. Fruct temp in Edward â—qe 3. among the which the blacke Crosse of Scotland is specially named Chronica Fructus TemporuÌ„ according to the blacke darknesse of the superstitious time saith that this black Crosse was a ful precious relike which good king Edward conquered in Scotland brought it out of the Abbey of Stone And maketh mentioÌ„ also of the famous Indenture called Ragman Ragman the Indenture of the homages and fealties of Scotlande which the Scots made to king Edward king Henry his son in which were conteined all the homages and fealties first of of the king of Scotland all the Prelates Earles and Barons of the Realme of Scotland with their seales set there vnder other charters remembrances that king Edward and his Barons had of their right in the aforesaid realm of Scotland Fabian the 7 part in anno 1327. Of this Indenture Ragman mention is made also in the article obiected to this sir Roger at his arraignment before the iudges of the Parliament in London Thus the said sir Roger for sundrie treasons against his Prince Countrie was openly arraigned condemned executed as is aforesaid And thus of the treasons of Edric of Stratton of Eltrick the Admiral sir Andrew Hardikel sir Roger Mortimer of Wigmor and the executioÌ„ done on theÌ„ To these I will adde the notable exaÌ„ple of Hebert Earle of Vermandois in France of his treason against Charles king of France surnamed the Simple Hebert his execution vnder Lewes the 5. of the name And the example of Q. Brunchild in France Brunchild for her treasons the straÌ„ge execution done on her Metius Suffetius And likewise on the murderers of Charles Earle of Flaunders on Metius Suffetius and on two Traitors of the chamber of Frotho king of Danes Polido And these abundantly may suffice for the ending of this treatise First touching Hebert his treasons against Charles the Simple Ro. Gag
hee had conceiued before Thus what trauailing is The 2. of this part Who setteth them on trauaile The 2. point of this part is who setteth thē on to trauaile After the Diuel is entred them as he did into Iudas and that they are resolute in their treasons wicked intents he mightilie effectually worketh in children of disobedience as the woorde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 importeth which S. Paul vseth Ephe. 2. Then they fall in trauaile with them if they stay he wil set spurres to thē by secret suggestiōs affections passiōs For of mad moodes raging passions the wicked in the scriptures are called Reshaim because they are vnstable cannot stay in one state as Pagnin voucheth out of R. Abrahā The prophet Esai cōpareth thē to troublesome Seas that cānot rest Esay 57. The diuel rideth in their humors as horses he neuer leueth spurring of thē with inward suggestions outward occasions occurrents till he set thē in trauaile They must needs go as cōmonly they say whō the Diuel driueth he driueth them on in their own humors passions like horses mules without vnderstanding Psal 31. as Dauid saieth till hee bring them to their trauaile to work his will When the good spirit was departed from king Saul 1. Sam. 16. the euill spirit did towse trouble him as the scripture saith Turbauit cum spiritus malus à domino the euil spirit sent of God did trouble him so the euill spirit will be continually troubling tesing of them on to their trauail Thus of the second note who setteth them on to trauaile The 3. note is The third of this part How they watch for oportunities 1. Sam. 18. how after they begin to trauail they watch for oportunities occasions After they fall in trauaile they bend thēselues to take all occasions oportunities as king Saul did against Dauid hee deuised to haue him slaine in the wars of the Philistines and at home he sought to dispatch him Whē Dauid plaid before him as hee sate in his house the euill spirit being on him 1. Sam. 19. sodainly in a rage he would haue nailed him to the wal with his speare if Dauid had not shunned the blow fled frō him He sent murderers to his house to kill him in his bed but by Michol his wiues helpe he escaped out at a window Hee chased him frō wildernes to wildernes he hūted him frō couert to couert as a birde as some translate the beginning of Dauids Psalme Psal 11. In the Lorde put I my trust how say yee then to my soule that she shuld flie as a bird vnto the hil For lo the vngodly bend their bow make readie their arrowes wtin their quiuers that they may priuily shoot at them which are true of heart Thus how his enemies bended their forces to do him mischiefe 2. Sam. 31. and watch all occasions And in another Psalm he saith Psal 56. They hold altogether and keep themselues close and mark my steppes while they lay wayt for my soule And likewise in another Psalme Psal 10. Hee sitteth lurking in theeuish corners of the streetes and priuilie in his lurking dens doth hee murther the innocent his eyes are set against the pore for he lyeth wayting secretly euen as a Lion lurketh in his denne that hee may rauish the poore He rauisheth the poore when hee getteth him into his net Thus farre his words After Saul fell in trauaile with mischiefe against him hee sought for occasions to take him at a sodaine lift and to rid him and hee neuer gaue him vp 1. Sam. 31. till in the warres against the Philistines to whose swordes he thought to haue betraide him hee was himselfe woūded and after being distressed with diuelishe dispayre furiously hee fell on his owne sword and killed himselfe So his wicked trauaile turned on himselfe It is a notable example to shewe howe after the wicked fall in trauaile with their diuelish intents they are readie to take all occasions and occurrentes within without in bedde abroade to accomplishe their prepensed plats Cicero When Catilin and the Conspiratours against the state of Rome while it was as yet heathen trauayled with their treasons and conspiracies Cicero being then one of their consuls and great gouernours of the state complayned that nether his house nor his bedde could be free and safe from their trayterous attemptes and that they would haue giuen him a bloody breakefast in his bed but that they were preuented by a watch and gard prouided against them Isboseth 2. Sam. 4. Isboseth the son af Saul as he rested on his bed in the heat of the day Duke Hum. Fabian the 2 part in anno 1447. Cron. Fruct temp part 7. Edward 2. was slaine of Rechab and Baanah Humfrey Duke of Gloster and vncle to Henry the 6. and in his minoritie protector of the land was found sodenly strangly dead on his bed Edward the 2. surnamed of Carnaruen because he was there borne as he was fast a sleepe in his bedde in the Castle of Corf as the Chronicle called Fructus Tenpots noteth but in the Castle of Barkley as Fabian sayth where he was prisoner sodenly hadde a greate Table caste on him therewith to presse him to death Fabian in an 1326. Valentinian the Emp. and by trayterous and cruell meanes was made away Valentinian the Emperor was slaine by the practise of Eugenius and treason of those that were of his Chamber Frederick the second Emperor of that name as he lay on his sick bed was stifled with a pillow as Albert by reporte of some noteth it of Manfrid his base sonne Peter of Besinguen K. of Cyprus a victorious Prince vpon Turkes Souldans as Iohn Froysarth writeth who tooke Alexandria in Egypt Sir Iohn Froysart the 3. 4. booke the 40. chap. Triple in Surry Laias in Armeni Scitalie in Turkie with diuers others was trayterously killed in his bedde of his owne brother called Iaquet by practise of the infidels who so greatly feared his forces Albert the Emp. Alber. Krāz. Wan lib. 7. cap. 32. Albert the Emperour as he passed by the banke of the riuer of Rein slenderly accompanied was sodenly set on and slayne of his neere kinsman Iohn his owne brothers sonne Aurelius the Emperour as hee was on his way Alber. Kranz Saxo. Lib. 3. cap. 3. Ro. Gag in an Re. Fran. lib. 2. was of his own traine sodenly slaine as Albertus writeth Chilperich king of Soisons in Fraunce as he came from hunting slenderly garnished with retinue was of one Laūdri a noble man of his court and by counsell of Queene Fredegund his wife at a soddaine slayne as he drew homeward neere his Palace Fabian the 5 part cap. 117 as Fabian telleth but within the court of his Palace according to the French Chronicle as he light frō his horse Edward the sonne