course was through the celestiall or heauenly sygnes Cancer Leo Virgo and Libra where it was sene nomore nether appeared any more after that Not long after in October rose a warre in Switzer lande For to they of Tzurich stopped the passages that to their neghburs of zugia Vria Suicia Siluia and Lucerne noman coulde bryng corne salte and other victuals Wherfore they armed theÌ„ against those of Tzurich They met eche other w t displaied banners they of Tzurich beyng vanquished with thre fieldes had the worst In the fyrst battayll was slayne the preacher of Tzurich Huldrich zwinglius In the meane tyme endeuoured they of Stralborow and Constance their neighbours to make an accorde among the coÌ„federated And thus after .viij. monethes and .vi. wekes was the vproure alayed Of theÌ„ of Tzurich died about fyue thousande of the other syde a fewe The yeare M D. xxxii came Charles the Emperoure againe out of Brabant into Germany and came in Marche with his brother kyng Ferdinand to Regenspurg to kepe a parliament Thithercame the deputies sent froÌ„ the Imperial cities There came also many princes or at the leaste their Ambassadours Not very long before that Constantinople was taken by the Turkes I reade there was a solitary man not farre from the citie Constantinople and he shuld haue prophecied that the Turkes in dede should winne Constantinople and should roote out the kyngdom of the Grekes but anone after foure score yeres should they lose Constantinople agayn and that the Turkes should be rooted out of Europa But that tyme sence CoÌ„stantinople was wonne is expired the last yeare A most connyng Astronomer also at Naples called LaureÌ„tius Miniatensis scholemaister to Pontanus wrote these verses in his boke .lx. yeres ago concernyng the coniunction of Iupiter and Saturnus in the sygne Cancer the whiche he sayeth shall be and was in the yeare thousande fyue hundreth and foure last past That age succedyng oures vpon the heles Shalbe better and more prayse worthy Lytle of oure lawe shall it disanull scarcely But the greueous and harde to suffer thynges In holy matters shall it auoyde doubtlesse All kynd of wickednesse and also holy pryde A kyng also shall it geue vs harmelesse Who shall the worlde ende and peoples represse Rebellyng nacioÌ„s shall he subdue to the empyre And the whole worldes dominioÌ„ shall he possesse These verses are moste worthy to be marked and I woulde not passe them ouer because of the renowme of the moste famous Emperour For what hygher prayse can be in the Emperour then that he calleth hym a Harmelesse kyng euen as Iohn Lichteberg sayde of hym The shamefast of visage shall raygne euery where At Magdeburg is founde C. yere ago a Latine cronicle wherin are these wordes Of the bloude of Charles the Emperour and the kynges of FrauÌ„ce shalbe borne an Emperoure called Charles thesame shal haue dominion in all Europa by whom also the decayed estate of the church shalbe repared and the auncient glory of the empyre shalbe restored For there shall come a people that shalbe called people without heade and than we to the priestes Peters lytle shyppe shall suffre greate force but the waues shall crasse at the last and it shall haue victory Greate and dredefull mutacions of al kyngdomes are at hande and the settyng store by monkes shall peryshe The Beaste of the West and the Lion of the Easte shall haue dominion of the whole worlde and the Christians shallwander through Asia in sauegarde fyftene yeares but after that shal dredeful thynges be herde of Antichriste Abbas Ioachim saieth in the ende of Ieremye A great Egle shall come whiche shall ouercome euery man saue one who at the last beynge despysed shalbe for saken of the people I fynde also another prophecie whiche is renowmed The Emperoure shalbe awaked as a man fallen into a swete slepe The same shalbe counted of men as deade and shall go vp vpon the greate sea and inuade the Turkes and shall ouercome them he shall leade their wyues and Chyldren captiues Greate feare and drede shall ouerwhelme the Turkes their wyues and chyldren shall wepe and lamente all the Turkes landes shalbe geuen ouer in to the Emperours handes of Rome I haue herde a Portingale saye that an Astronomer should haue sayde to Ferdinandus oure Emperoures greate graundefather that the Turkysh empyre shoulde be subdued and ouerthrowen by a kyng of Spayne and that the same should haue interpretated the kyng to be Ferdinande But Ferdinande should haue answered That he shoulde not do it but hys heyres that should succede hym Other emdences more that are yet restyng wyl I at this tyme passe ouer God the father of mercy geue and graunte Christendom victory and grace for the glories sake of his godly name Amen Moreouer the thinges that shal yet happen shal doutlesse marke greate and wyse men whiche are now in this settyng forth of warre As for me I haue onely rehersed suche thynges of this preparacion of the settynge forth to warre as I was sure of and therefore do I now make an ende of wrytynge In the moneth of September this yeare was a Comete sene agayne certayn wekes two houres before Sunne rysyng and toward the Easte WheÌ„ I sawe it it was in Virgo to my iudgemen stretched his brandyshynge tayll betwene the South West But by reason of the gloumynge and cloudy ayer in these contreis coulde it not be sene here Howbeit who wil not iudge it to be a fearfullthing that two Cometes haue bene sene in the space nerehande of twelue monethes and seyng the Comete of the last yere namely of the yere M D. xxxi dyd not appeare without the hurte of Easte and North for it semed to threaten those partes For the tyrannyshe Turke fell into Hungary and Eastenryche kyng Christiernus goyng into Dennemarck with a greate nauy to demaunde againe his kyngdome yelded hymselfe into Frederick hys fathers brothers the kyng of Denmarck handes Christiernus also his sonne that was brought vp in the Emperours court dyed Veryly it is to be feared also that the Comete of this yeare of M D. xxxij do signifye greate euell to the partes of Italy and the Rene. The ende of the Cronicle The coÌ„clusion of this Cronicle of Iohn Carion A boke of Chronicles ought to coÌ„prehende moste greatest thynges in a feate order so that the rekenyng of the yeares and the chefe alteracions that befall into the religion and other greate thynges may be ryght obserued and knowen For it can not be that all thynges that are done in one realme can be written in one boke though it were great by reason of the sundry circumstaunces and occasions of y â— businesses the whiche must chefely be consydered Of this wyse truely wrote Herodotus Theucydi des Xenophon Titê° Liuius histories The other are onely to be called Cronicle writers whiche also ought not to take vpon them the name of History wryters For they do brefely shewe thynges done
their lande the flyeng sorte couered that lyght of the Sune in so muche that thinhabiters of the lande were cōmaunded to go furth and to take gather thē that crept on the grounde which they did continually during the space of thre wekes gatheringe euery daye about 2400. quarters in a quarter of a myle for in euery quarter of a myle were appointed thre hundreth persons men and womē and euery hundreth persons gathered euery day 800 quarters during the space of 3. wekes And they came into Isebredge ouer the brydge with such a power as though they had ben an hoste of warriours that woulde haue entred into the towne In so much that the Magestrates commanded the inhabitauntes of the same towne to make resistaunce agaynst them before the gate with besomes and bromes and to swype them into the water as they came whiche they ded in suche sorte as they couered all the water with grasherppers that no water coulde be sene Thus did they resiste them kept them also from the brydge by the space of .iii. wekes after this the said locustes or grashoppers turned into the fieldes and there destroyed and wasted the corne and the grasse vndoynge in a maner all the people of the lande so that after thys the peopel resysted them no moore butt onelye trusted to the mercy of god with instaunt feruēt prayer The sayde Locustes or grashoppers were littell at the begynnyng and krepyng but afterwarde they grewe and began to flye doyng great hurte throughout the sayde lande In the meane season the Emperoures maiestie and the kyng of the Romaynes set furth a commaūdement that noman shuld be founde in dronkenes horedome aduoutery vsury and blasphemy but he should be punyshed by death and forfayte all hys goodes In a littell towne called Albers lyeng besydes Lyndawe in the Dukedome of Zweyburgh was this yere founde two clusters of grapes growynge vpon one braunce hauyng a long read bearde whiche was a wonderfull syght The same yere in flaunders and the countrees there about was a great scacitie of corne so that there was a great dearth in the lande And there dwelled besydes Beke aboue Gand a certayne farmer well prouided and stored with corne vnto whome his neyghbours came lamentyng and intreatyng hym to sel them some of his corne who refused so to do neuertheles he sent none away comfortles that had nede for he lent and delyuered vnto euery man accordyng to their necessite on this condicion that they should rendre and repaye hym agayne at the next haruest on this condicion did he lende corne to dyuers nedy persons After whiche tyme it chaunced that his corned fyelde beyng sowed was by Gods grace so multiplied and increassed that on euery stalke grewe an exceding nombre of eares laden with corne so that thorough the blessyng of God he was well rewarded By this may we see that the sayeng of Salomon is an vndoubted verite namely he that taketh pitie on the pore lendeth vnto the Lorde vpon vsury and loke whatsoeuer he layeth out it shalbe payd hym agayne There was also this yere a wonderfull vision sene and heard of many within the towne of Wittenbourgh in the Lande of Saron the .xviii. daye of September early in the mornyng betwene foure fyue of y ◠clocke For there appeareth in the ayre a figure and lykenes of a dead corse or beere couered ouer with blacke cloth and a read ribband auer the same and there went before the coarse six men with trompettes and a greate multitude of people folowed with croked instrumentes and trompettes blowyng whyche made a greate noyse in the ayre insomuche that many in the towne whiche laye yet in their beddes were thereby awaked out of theyr slepe thynkyng that the sayde trimblyng had bene in the towne After this the black cloth vanyshed awaye from the boere whiche then was couered ouer with awhyte cloth then appeared besydes the beare a man armed in harnas shewyng hym selfe very angry and pullyng the whyte clothe from the beere he rent it in twaine wynding the one half about hys arme and so pressyng it harde to hys body Wyth this the coarse vanyshed away The man armed dyd also apeare a lyttell whyle after so in lyke maner banished away After this were althynges quiet as before God graunte euery Christen man to remembre thys wonderfull sygne with feare for it is to be feared that it is a fearefull warnyng sent vs of God In Englande the nyntene day of Ianuary was the Erle of Surrey beheaded as was mencioned the yere before The seuen and twenty daye of the same moneth Henry the eyght kyng of Englande c. ended hys lyfe and was buried at Windsore Edwarde the syxt kyng of Englande c. succeded his father in the gouernaunce of his royalmes and dominions and was crowned the nintene day of February in the nyneth yere of hys age Vnder the sayde kyng in the tyme of his minorite his vncle Edwarde Duke of Somerset was made lorde Protectour of all hys Royaulmes dominions and subiectes and Gouernour of his maiesties persone who with the residue of his maiesties Counsayll gouerned the realme with great mercy and gentilnesse by whome to the surtheraunce of goddes worde and true religion cōmissioners were sent into al partes of the Realme with commaūdement to cause all Images to be taken out of churches for auoydyng of Idolatry and to wyll men women to leaue the vse of beades hauyng with thē also godly and learned preachers assigned whiche do exorted them to geue them self to true and vnfained worshippyng of God in the hart and minde with due obedience to their prince Richard Smith a doctour of diuinite recāted opēly at Paules crosse within y e citie of Lōdon diuers articles cōtained in two bokes which he had made one for the defence of the sacrifice of the Masse an other to proue vnwritten verities to be beleued vnder payne of damnacion This yere also in Enland commaundement was geuen that processions should be no more vsed This yere also in England the duke of Somerset then Lorde Protectour and the Erle of Warwyke went into Scotlande with a strong army requiring the Scottes to fulfyll their promyse made before to kyng Henry concernyng the mariage of their younge Quene with the younge kynge of Englande but the Scottes stubbournely came agaynst them with great puissaunce And not longe after the two armyes encountred in the fieldes of Muscleborough at a place called Pinker slough The Englyshe part not thynkyng as than to haue battayle at whiche tyme because the front of the Scottyshe armie was so terrybly set wyth pykes the Englyshe horsemen which gaue the fyrst onset were fayne to recule backe with losse of certayn gētylmen whiche reculing much abasshed the English footemen but yet by the great wysedome and dilygence of the Lord Protectours grace and the valiaunt hart and courage of the Earle of Warwike they
ease allthough by the reason of theyr foolyshe Phantasyes and hardened hartes they coulde not nor yet woulde not perceyue it vntyll they were vtterlye destroyed For notwythstandyng that the sayed syege pressed them and an horrible and importunate famine as was mencioned before in the last yeare reygned among them Yet were they by the comfortable persuasyons of theyr false Prophetes so hardened that they mynded nothynge lesse then to yelde by the Towne and saue theyr lyues notwythstandynge that thereunto they were often tymes requyred wyth lyberall and gracyous promyses But contrary wyse they defended themselues the longer the fearcer and shot out of the Towne with ordinaunce as though the deuell had bene among them to the great auoyaunce of their aduersaries in so muche that not a fewe valiaunt warriours in the Campe were slayne with their ordinaunce And to declare the madnes of the said Anabaptistes I haue thought it mete not to omitte a folysh acte done by a certayne woman among them Forasmuche therfore as they within the towne had this opinion of the saied towne of Mynster that it was that new Ierusalem mencioned in the Apocalipse thorough the whiche all the heathen should be destroied so that the christians should reigne in peace a thousand yeres whiche sayeng although they must be vnderstande spiritually were they expounded by them carnally the said folysh woman would counterfette the acte of Iudith which slewe holofernes and deliuered her Citie Wherefore she made her boaste that if she myght be costely arayed and decked she woulde go furth if she were permitted into the hooste of her aduersaries and easely ouercome the byshop Whyle nowe the kyng the other in the town were so foolysh and made not only to beleue her but also to further her in the said affayres trustyng that their deliueraunce was at hand she went out and behaued her selfe in all pointes as though she had bene escaped and fled out of the citie But her dissimulacion beyng espied perceyued she was taken and brought before the Byshop and after her confession rewarded wit death accordyng to her deseruyng For asmuche nowe as the saied craft and practise bad no good successe the Anabaptistes within the citie ought to haue consydered that there was no fortune in their doyng seyng they were yet oppressed to the vttermost But they dyd herein resemble the Iewes in their last destructiōat Ierusalem for the more God plaged them with famine and dissention among them selues the more hard harted and stifnecked they were vntill at the last one escaped priuely out of the saied citie and brought in certaine of the byshops souldiours at the gate called the holy crosse gate which souldiours after they had slain the watchemen opened the gate and so made away into the citie for the other Thus was the citie of Mynster taken in again and deliuered from the powere of the Anabaptistes at the feast of S. Iohn the baptiste in the night And the next day folowing whatsoeuer would make any resistaūce being slayn with the sworde the kyng with his chief counsayllours craftyng and knipperdulling were taken prisoners These three were aftewarders for the space of certayne monethes caryed about in the countrey from place to place for a spectacle and example to all men And at the last on S. Vincentes day in the yere of our lorde MDxxxvi they were put to death with fyry tonges and their dead bodies hanged vp in yron baskettes or grates out of the steple of S. Lamberts Churche within the saied citie of Mynster the kyng in the middes somewhat hyer then his said two coūsailers for a perpetual memoriall and warning to all commocioner raysers of tumulte rebelles against y e lauful magistrates ordeined of God Thus toke this kyngdom of the Anaba pristes a shameful ende according to their desertes In Denmarke raged the duke of Oldenborough with the capitaines of Lubeke as he had begonne the yere before but the moste part of the germayne counsayll chose Christiane Duke of Holston to be kyng in Denmarke desyring hym to assiste them against the saied duke of Oldenborough and them of Lubeke While nowe the said request was easy to be graunted and the said duke of Holston had taken Iudland in possession all ready whiche is no small porcion of the kyngdome of Denmarke abutting vpon the lande of Holstone he passed with his army into the Ile of Funa ▪ otherwyse called Fion and ouercame the citie of Asnites But when the duke of Oldēborough with them of Lubeke assaulted him with an hoost of men well appointed both on horsebacke and on foote the said Christian obtayned the victory so that the duke of Oldēborough lost much people where among other was slayne Iohn count of Hoya and an Erle of Teckelburgh in Westphale and euen the same daye whiche was the .xi. daye of Iune they of Holstone toke from them of Lubeke an Armada of shippes and put the men of Lubeke whiche they founde in the same in captiuitie In somuche that the said Christiane had the ouerhande on euery syde whiche was vnto him a witnes from God that he should be kyng in Denmarke In Hungary and Austrich were diuers louedayes kept betwene Ferdinando and Iohn Weyda kinges of Hungary and the Turkes imbassadour to wete if Hūgary might be brought to apeaceable estate neuer theles there was nothing concluded that was notable and profitable Also in this yere 1535. there was a mariage cōcluded betwen y e king of Poles the king of Boheme For Sigismonde kyng of Poles maried Sigismūde his sonne to Elisabeth the daughter of Ferdinando kyng of Bohemy whiche in the yere of oure Lorde MDxliij folowyng was celebrated with great solempnitie as shalbe mentioned hereafter in place conuenient In the moneth of Nouember the second day the duke of Mylan departed out of this world And immediatly after Frauncis the Frenche kyng prepared hym selfe with all his power to recouer the dukedome of Mylan and entred into the land of Sauoy whereof ensued great warres the yere next folowyng in those quarters Frederike Duke of Baier Palatine by the Rene now electour imperiall toke to wyfe the right excellent princesses Dorothee daughter to Christierne late kyng of Denmarke whiche he had begotten of Izabel syster to Charles themperour the solempnitie whereof was kept at Bruxelles in Brabant In England in the moneth of Iune the byshop of Rochester and Sir Thomas More which had bene lorde chauncellour of Englande and in great aucthoritie vnder the kyng was beheaded for denieng the kyng to be supreme heade of the churche of Englande And in this yeare were there thre monkes of the Charter house executed in Englande for the same offence In the partes of Shlesy about and within the the towne of Olse arose the same yeare on Sainct Gyles day an horrible tempest in suche sorte that the bookes whiche were newely prynted were taken out of the Iewes houses
perpetrated and wrought against hym namely howe that alwayes when the Emperours maiestie was about to mete and resiste the infideles the sayd Frenche kyng had stirred vp one mischiefe or other whereby hys godly enterprises and purposes were either letted and hyndered altogether or els begonne with smal profite and ended or brought to passe to small effecte Itē howe that he had made cōfederatiō now with the turke and then with Barbarossa and had also hym selfe stirred vp all the vngracious warres which had so many yeres continued in the borders of his maiesties dominions In consideracion wher of themperours maiestie besought the Popes holynes that he would take his parte and helpe hym to resyst the vngodly enterpryse of the Frenche kyng that a generall peace myght be establyshed whereby the Turke myght be repelled and ouercome When the Popes holynes had hearde the Eemperours oration accordyng to his kynde which they haue alwayes vsed sence the tyme of Adriane the thirde towardes themperour he made aunswere openly to themperours request that he would neyther take parte with themperours nor yet with them of Fraunce but that he woulde sytte styll as neuther and se to whome fortune would leane most and hym that should ouercome his aduersary and get the ouerhande woulde he mete with all his power and succour hym that shoulde haue the worst Here myght Emperours learne what goodnes is to be loked for at the handes of suche beastes if they were not altogether blynde Vpon this aunswer of the Pope themperour toke his iourney the .xviij. day of Aprill for Easter daye was the .xvi. daye of Aprill from Rome towardes Mylan In the meane season did the Emperours Capitaines assemble a great multitude of warriours both on horsebacke and on foote of the Germayne Welche and Spanysh nations whome they brought with great feare thorough Piemont and many small battayles whiche consumed no small nomber of men before Marsilia whiche is an olde citie lyeng in Fraunce by the sea syde and is enuironned with the sea in thre partes or endes whiche Citie themperoures company besyeged with al their power both by water and by lande but there happened suche a contagious disease and mortallitie in the Emperoures hoost that within fewe dayes there dyed aboue twelue thousande persones So that the Emperoure by the meanes of this necessite was constrained to dysperse hys armye But the Frenche kyng was at that season mightyer a great deall bothe of Money and of People and laye with a greate power of hys owne men with a great company of Swytzers and with syxe thousande duche launceknyghtes whose Capitain was William Counte of Furstenborough besydes auinion about a fyftene duche myles from Marsilia from thence to occurre and mete themperoure and to rescue Marsilia if the Emperoure had not bene caused to retire by the meanes of the sayde greate death and mortalitie Neither remayned he in this case harmeles for there dyed in hys hoost aboue two thousande Swytzers And hys eldest Sonne Fraunces the Dolphyne was poysoned whiche thynge also shoulde haue lyghted vpon the king himself if god had not specially preserued him The traytour whiche was an Erle of Montecuculo as Anselmus Rid doth call hym was at Lions by the kynges commaundement miserably put to death being drawen and plucked in sunder with foure horses tyed seuerally to his handes and legges His head was set vpon the Brydge whiche goeth ouer the water of Rodani and hys foure quarters were hanged before the foure principall gathes of the Cictie Whyle these thynges were in doing The Counte of Nassowe marched through Pycardy into Fraunce and toke certayne small townes lyeng on this syde and also on the farther syde of the water of Some by force of armes And besieged the citie of Perone whiche he pressed very sore by spoilyng and burnyng rounde about it by the meanes whereof he made many poore folkes in that countrey neuertheles he coulde not wynne the citie but was fayne to leaue it as he founde it so retyred from thence the .xi. daye of September after that he had besyeged it by the space of a moneth Thus muche of themperour and the Frenche kyng concernyng their actes and the thynges done betwene them for this present yere In Germany assembled the princes and nobles of the Empyre whiche as then had receyued the Gospell at Smalkalde whiche lyeth besydes the woode of Duringe and thither came also thambassadours of the kynges of Denmarke Fraunche and Englande Where the nobles and princes of the Gospell made a bonde and confederacion together wherein also Christiane kynge of Denmarke was bounde that they shoulde truely and faythfully holde together and take one an others part yf they should at any time be assaulted by an enemy of Goddes worde And thys bonde or confederation is called the bonde of Smalkalde whiche yerely increaseth more and more And many Potentates are dayly added to the congregacion of Christe in so muche that greate Monarchies may stande in awe of them and feare them And yf they do truely cleaue to Goddes worde and be thankefull vnto hym that gaue them that greate benefyte no doubte there shalbe no power so myghty that shalbe able to preuayle agaynste thys bonde and to suppresse it For yf GOD be on theyr syde and they put theyr truste and confidence in hym vnfaynedly they shalbe stronger and myghtyer then all worldely power whyche they haue nowe in a maner throughout all Germany God graunt them to consydre it and to be thankeful vnto God for it and for all other benefites which they haue receaued at his hande hitherto There was also a Synode and cōuocation kept at Wittenbourgh in Germanye in the moneth of May betwene them that cleaued vnto the doctrine of Huldrike zwynglius concernyng the Sacrament of Christes body and bloud on the one partie and them that folowed the mynde of Martine Luter on the other partie where after long disputacion had betwene thesayed parties there was a certeyne determinacion and agrement taken betwene them as touchyng the controuersy of the Sacrament albeit that the moste parte of the Preachers on zwinglius syde would not consent thereunto But what controuersy there was betwene the said parties as touchyng the Sacrament may be gathered ease out of the bokes of both parties for the rehearsall thereof here in order would be to long Betwene the sea Townes Homborough Lubeke Suno and Christiane chosen kyng of Denmarke was this yere a newe peace cōcluded whervnto they of Rostocke and of Wismare woulde not agree For their Duke Albert of Mekelborough at Coppenhaghe whiche is the chief citie of al Denmarke and of the Iland called Seeland Then the townes whiche were accorded and agreed vpō the sayed peace sent their imbassadours to Coppenhaghe aduertysyng the sayd Duke Albert and count Christopher of their agreement requiring them to yelde vp the cytye to the chosen kyng Christiane But when the said two lordes and
thinhabitances of thesayd contry of Coppenhagen denyed them their requsst kyng Christiane beseged the sayd citye wyth such power and troubled them so sore on euery syde that no victualles might come at them by no maner of meanes In so muche that wythin short space victualles waxed so scant and famme so increaâ—led wythin the cyty that they were glad to vse dogges fleshe for theyr meate and also cattes And when thys prouisyon dyd also fayle them and no deliueraunce eppeared of no part for they hoped that Frederike the Palatine who had taken to wyfe the doughter of kyng Christierne as before is mentioned should haue moued battayll agaynst the Duke of Holstone whyche came not to passe they yelded vp the cyty to the chosen kynge Christian aboue mencyoned Durynge thesayed siege the kynges souldiours ouercame Warborough and toke that false Capytayne of the Lubekes called Markes Mayer prysoner who wyth hys brother Gerard Mayer and a Danysh pryeste was quartered shortly after After that thesayd Christian had ouercome and subdued the hole kyngdome of Denmarke accordyng to the duety of all godlye kynges and prynces he directed all hys doynges and procedynges to thys ende that the worde of God myghte be purely and syncerely preached and taughte to hys pore subiectes in all partes of hys dominions But when he perceyued the preuy practises which the Bishoppes of that lande for they were in a maner the mightyest of both the kyngdomes of Denmarke and Norway imagined and purposed to worke against hym to hyndre his godly enterprise and to mayntayne their Idolary he toke them all seuen for so many were they in nombre and deposed them from their power and dignitie so that they were not able any more to make diuision sedicion or commotion within his kyngdome as they were wonte to do When this was done he sent messengers to Wit tenbourgh and called for the right honorable and well learned doctor Iohn Bugenhaghe borne in the dominion of Pomerlande who is yet at thys daye preacher of Goddes worde and minister or curate at the parysh Churche at Wittenbourgh as he was then This godly man came at the kynges request and by the helpe of God establyshed in bothe the kyngdomes the preaching of the Gospell and the true ministracion of the Sacramentes very frutefully so that within the space of thre yeres for so long was he by about the kyng all the paryshes of the lande which were aboue .xxiiii. thonsande in nombre were prouided and furnyshed with preachers and ministers hauing Super attendenres ordeyned and appointed ouer them to haue the ouersyght of them and to haue an earnest respecte and a watchefull eye to their doctrine and conuersation of lyuing He crowned also kyng Christian at Coppenhaghe in the presence of all his nobles with the kyngly crowne of the land of both the kyngdomes And after this at the kinges request he prouided and furnyshed the high Scole or vniuersitie of Coppenhaghe with Lecures and Reders of holy scripture and of all other laudable sciences For the better increase and furnyshyng whereof he called for certayne learned men froÌ„ Wittenbourgh although the lande was not all voyde of suche men before To the mayntenaunce of whiche Godly order and institucion of doctrine as wel in the Churche as in the vniuersytie the kyng gaue large gyftes and appoynted great liuynges And he set such an order in both the kyngdomes that his subiectes may be glad and geue God hygh thankes that of his goodnes he woulde sende them suche a kyng God sende hym longe to reigne among them and styrre vp the like in many other regions to the praise and sanctifycacion of hys moste holy name Amen Henry the eyght kyng of Englande had his imbassadours certayne monethes at Wittenbourgh whiche accordynge to the kynges request caryed wyth them in Englande certayne wel learned doctours to preache the Gospell of Christ within hys Realme and dominions whereof the hole congregacion of Christ thoroughout all Germany conceiued a speciall reioysynge and comforte But alas their ioye was not longe permanent for the saied kyng within two yeares after repelled them and caused some of them to be put to death as here tikes And Englyshe men haue had a certayne prophecy of great antiquitie that when saynt Georges daye should fall on good frydaye whiche is in the yeare of oure lorde MD. xlvi the worde of God shoulde myghtely increasse and taken place among them which I praye God graunt vnto theÌ„ to his prayse and glory This yere in England also the lorde Darcy syr Fraunces Bygot Syr Robert Constable other began a newe conspyracy whiche were attaynted and put to death in Iune This yere in October in England also on saynt Edowardes euen was Prince Edowarde borne at Hampton Court whiche was proclaimed anoynted kyng of Englande the .ix. yere of his age as shal be declared hereafter in due place This yere the .xiiij. daye of October also dyed Quene Iane mother to the saied Prince Edward and was buried at Winsor This yere did Iames the kyng of Scotlande puyssaunt kyng Iohn of Portingale Sonne to the excellent kyng Emanuell had a great conflicte and victory agaynst the infideles in the Realme of Cambaia or Guzuratum lyeng in the Indes For after that he had by his capitaines specially by Nonne a Cugria who was ruler and gouernour of the kinges army in the Indes destroyed the coastes lieng towardes the Indysh sea subiecte to the kyng of Cambaia and when the same kyng was not able to resyste hym although he was of power to brynge foure hundred thousand men in Campe he made a gentle agrement with the Portyngalles and delyuered them two mighty cities with all their abilyties priuiledges liberties and dominions whereof the one is called Bazaim and the other Dium this the stronger and the other the rycher Whiche haue both vnder them about a syx hundreth Villages with certayn smal townes and srutesul landes contayning in length about a .lxxx. myles or leaques wherof the king hath yerely an C. thousand crewnes at the least in bare tribute besydes the woode whence for the mooste part all the prouision is takeÌ„ that is occupied for the shyppes in the Indes with other aduauntages In those partes caused the kyng of Portingall the Christian fayth to be planted and at the last kyng Badur of Cambaia for so was he called when he was inuaded by kyng Dey who was kynge of the Scythians and of the Tartares fled with all his treasure mother wyfe and chyldren into the Cytie of Dyum whiche he had geuen vp before desyrynge succour and defence against his enemy So that by this meanes the king of Portyngall had obtayned the moste parte of all the lande of the Indes vnder his tuition and defence without any notable shedyng of bloude These actes are described at large by the sayed kyng in a
seuen Cardinalles with .xlij. Prelates Then folowed an hundred valiaunt launceknyghtes for his defence With this army entred the shepehearde of Christes shepe if I do hym no wrong at that tyme into Nice after thexample of Christe on Palmesondaye and according to hys coÌ„maundement in the twenty Chapiter of Mathew After this â—ode the Pope in the same ordre to the chiefe Minister of the citie to make his prayer whiche beyng ended he caused hymselfe to be borne in to his Palice where themperoures maiestie came vnto hym and kissed hys fete whome the Pope lifted vp embraced hym and kyssyng hym on the toppe of his heade by lyke for a witnes that he is lorde ouer the Emperours head And after they had ben a good whyle together themperoure retourned agayne to his lodgyng Not long after this arryued the Frenche kyng at Villa Noua whiche is a place of his owne dominion lyeng not farre from Nice and shortely after repayred towarde the Pope where in fine a sted fast peace was concluded betwene both the parties that is to saye betwene themperours maiestie and the Frenche kyng to continue for the space of tenne yeres accordyng to the promyse made betwene them although it lasted scant two yeres as shalbe sayde hereafter whiche peace was restored the .xviij. day of the moneth of Iune and afterwarde at the commaundement of bothe thesaide heades all the pointes and articles of the same were described and published as yet apeareth by the copies thereof remainyng in printe In the meane season Leonora the Frenche quene â–ª Syster to themperours maiestie prepared her selfe very sumpteously to come towardes Nice â–ª where she commoned many wordes with her brother themperours maiestie abidyng there certayne dayes But when the peace was made and concluded she came the ther agayn and was receyued bery honourable of the Emperours maiestie And afterwarde on Corpus Christ day she retourned agayne with great solace The same daye at nyght the Pope and the Emperoures maiestie toke shippynge towardes Genua Where the Emperoures Counsayls remained with the kynge and the kynges with the Emperour intreating of matters concernyng the sayde peace But when the Emperoure coulde not tary long in Italy by the meanes of his haâ—t whiche he made to retourne into Spayne it came to passe that both the high Potentates the Emperoure and the Frenche kyng dyd lonyngly agree and come together For when the Emperoure arryued at the Porte and Citie called the dead waters lyeng not farre from Marsilia which was the fourtenne daye of Iuly the Frenche kyng came thyther also with hys wyfe and with his sonnes And when the Emperonr abode in his Gallee the king went vnto him in his owne person after they had embraced and kissed eche other according to the maner and custome of noble men they talked louyngly together The next daye folowynge the Emperoure went a lande and rode into the sayde Citie where he was receyued of the kyng the Quene and the kyngs Sonnes very ioyfully And wheÌ„ muche honoure and greate triumphe was declared and shewed towardes hym he abode there vntyll the tewesdaye at nyght and then takynghys leaue of the kynge and his affinitie he commended them to God and returned to hys shyppe wherewith he sayled luckely towarde Spayne trusting assuredly that thesaied peace should be firme and stable and also durable to the profite and furtheraunce of the Christen common welth After this also the lady Mary regent of the lower partes of themperoures maiesties dominions accompanied with the kynge came into Camerike the viij day of October And the next day folowing they went to the Citie of S. Quintine where the sayed Quene Mary was receiued with great pompe and intreated very honorably But when she had remayned there .vi. dayes she retourned again to her owne dominioÌ„ So that this yere there was thre honorable assembles of the mightiest in Europa But what folowed thereof shalbe meÌ„cioned her after in place conuement While these thynges were in doinge the aboue named Estates of confederation prepared their naures against the Turke and first inuaded Castell Nouo whiche is a Castell lyeng in the Duchye of Sabe â–ª sometyme pertaynyng to the crowne of HuÌ„gary and ouercame it by violent assaulte destroyeng aboue .iiij. hundred and about .viij. hundred on horsebacke whiche were come to rescue them But when Barbarossa hearde of this he sayled out of the sea Ambraâ—ike where he had kept hymself a longe tyme intendyng to preserue the Cities and Townes of the Turke lyeng in the Coastes of Sla uony and Macedony from the assaultes and inuasions of the Christianes For he feared least they should be serued as Castell Noua was serued In the meane season was also the Citie of Bisana ouercome of our men in lyke maner But when they lacked aud prouander they were constreined of necessitey to separate them selues In suche sort as y e Prince of Aurea wyth the shippes pertayning to themperoures Maiestye was constrayned to runne into Brundysh which is a port and City in Apulia Lyeng ouer agaynste Grece and the Popes Legate into Ancona which is a port and Citie lyeng ouer agaynste the coastes of Slauony So that onelye the Venetianes remained and kept y e Seas And as touchynge Castello Nouo they dyd fortifye it with foure thusande spanyardes sixe hundreth light horsemen whiche dailye put the Turke to muche losse in the Lande of Bosen When Barbarossa had knoweledge of his seperatyon and diuision of our shippes he toke his waye towardes Duracho somtime called Durachium and lyeng in Albany which was somtime called Epyrus to encourage thinhabitauÌ„tes of the same Citie and to make them harty that he might the better ouercome the Venetianes in the sea of Risana But when he sayled towardes Duracho with a Southeast wynde which bloweth from the rysynge of the Sunne in winter the same winde accordinge to his nature and property chaunged sodaynely into a ful easterly winde blewe so outragiously y e Barbarossa lost aboue fyftye shippes and about a two .c. thousand men with his best mariners After the which naufrage and shipwracke when he sayled back agayne eastwarde with the remnaunt of his shippes wich for the moost parte were lecke and wetherâ—ea ten there came suche a mortalitye and pestilence amonge them that were remayning and left in the shippes that euen in the greateste shippes were scant left tenne men able to rule the helme and as many apt for the voarres So y e God dyd specially declare his helpe to our men Whyle these thinges passed betwene themperour the Pope Fraunce Venice and Barbarossa as is before mencyoned they of Nurremborough began theyr strong holde or Castell wyche lyeth in the vpper parte of the Toune vpoÌ„ a mighty rocke and is a lodging for themperour and the king of the Romaynes defenced with a strong Bul warke and amyghty wyde dyche which buylding as concerning the walles was finished in the yeare of our Lord M. D.
and skyrmyssynge wyth the Spanyardes whyche dyd soone beate them of and putt them to flyght agayne In the meane season departed the kynge oute of the cytye of tremetz wyth hys fyghtynge men and the beste treasures that was wyth in the cyty and camped on a hyll next vnto the cyty And when he perceyued the Mores to be smytten and putt to flyghte he hasted incontinently to succour theÌ„ but he waÌ„â—e euen as much as they whome he came to succour had wanne before Nowe when the kynge was departed out of the citye the Spanyardes went and toke it wyth all theyr armye whervpon the chyef Ruler that was yet left in the cytye caused themperoure to be acceptet and proclamed for theyr souereygne Which cytye was wonne on tewesdaye the .vi. daye of February The Frenche kynge proceded in the lande of Luxeeburghe as he hadde begonne the yeare before to waste to destroye to ouerthrowe and to take in possessyon al that euer he might ouercome neither was their any to resist hym sauing that y e townes which were able to abide a blowe were furnyshed with souldiours In like maner did also william duke of Cleue in the land lieng by the Maze againste whom the Lady Mary sister vnto themperoures maiesty and regent of the Lower partes of Ducheland prepared and assembled an host of Launce knightes being in nombre about ten thousand and aboue a thousand horses by the which she caused y e towne of Sytterd pertaining to the duke of Cleue and lieng about thre miles from Masetright to be beseged But when the said army had martched in haste vntyll the thyrde daye and came to the sayd towne on easter euen whyche was the .xxiiii. daye of Marche pytchynge there theyr Campe and intendynge to refreshe them selues with foode and reste after theyr hungre and paynfull iourneye sustayned The Duke of Cleue approched wyth hys armye whyche by estymacyon exceded nott the nombre of them that were sente by the sayde ladye Marye as I am infourmed of waryours that hadde ben in and amonge the sayde company whyche nombre beynge espyed a farre of caused the Brabanders to make an alarme thynkynge none other but that the Prynce of Orenge Renatus counte of Nassowe who hadde the yere before for the mooste parte hyndered the enterpryse of Martyne van Rossem agaynste Brabante was come to ayde them Wherefore manye of them ran oute before the Campe nott halfe beynge armed Neuertheles they brought them selues in battayl aray at all aduentures to prouyde in case the said companye were theyr frendes that they myghte honorablye and tryumphauntly receyue them yf nott that they myghte take the lesse hurte But when the hoost of Cleue approched near in hys battell raye the Brabanders espyed the whyte Crosses in theyr banners whereby they knewe assuredlye that they were enemyes Wherefore they dyd also marche forwarde in theyr ordre and araye agaynste theyr enemyes And when they hadde wel vewed and beholden one another on bothe syedes the horsemen of bothe partyes caused theyr trompettes to blowe and theyr companye to stande by valyauntly Vpon thys dyd also the pyetons inuade one another wyth these woordes Whatt countre man do we fynde one another here and furth wyth rushed to gether lyke valyaunte souldyours Iâ— so muche thatt the horsemen of the Cleueners after harde byckerynge were soone put to flyghte by the Brabanders Butt theyr pyetons defended them selues so muche the more manfullye and pressed vpon the Brabanders after suche sorte as they were constrayened to flee backwarde And whan they that were formoost beganne to drawe backwardes the hole hoste fled to gether in suche wyse as they coulde nott be stopped Whereupon the Cleueners hasted after them and smote downe all that euer they myghte ouertake And yf the horsemen of the Brabanders hadde nott smytten the horsemen of the Cleueners and turned them from the sayde pursuete of all the pyetons of the Brabanders shoulde nott one haue escaped on lyue Butt by the meanes of the sayde horsemen there were not myssed manye more then two thousande and thre hundreth at the nexte musterynge after In thys conflycte gate the Duke of Cleue besydes the boutye of them that were slayene aboute syxe tenne or seuen tenne peaces of ordynaunce wyth theyr munycyons and appurtenaunces Wherefore he became so hyghemynded that he assured hym selfe to be able to resyste all the power of themperoure but howe thys matter succeded wyth hym shalbe sayde hereafter in the next yeare Durynge these affayres there was no cettayntye knowen concernyng the Emperours Mayestye thoroughout all Dutchlande where or in what condytyon he was Manye sayed he was dead â–ª wherevpon there was muche money great waghers laid betwen marchaunt and marchaunt Some sayde he warred before Argyeres and in summe all mens sayenges were vncertayne in so muche that the practyses of certayn Astronomers were partelye veryfyed vpon hym For they hadde prophecyed that themperoure shoulde slepe thys yere in suche sorte as thoroughout al Ducheland but fewe men shoulde knowe howe or where he was or whatt he toke in hande But the nexte yeare folowing it was perceiued that he had prepared himself in spayn against Fraunce and the duke of Cleue with a great power And leaste Spayne should be left without a head and Gouernour he had made and establyshed his sonne Philip kynge therof After that the conuocacion or Councell of Noâ—â—nburgh was dispersed king Ferdinandus prepared hymselfe wyth hys affynytye towardes the solemnysatyon of the maryage of hys doughter whyche was betroughted to Sygysmunde the younge kynge of Poles Whyche feaste was kept and celebrated wyth great pompe and solemnytye in the cytye of Cracowe whyche is the chyefe cytye of the Lande of Poles called Polonya â–ª begynnyng the .iiii. daye of maye and contynuyng manye dayes after But when the tyme was come wherein they hadde appoynted to shewe pastymes and to vse iustynges there chaunced suche a coulde and raynye whether contynuynge manye dayes that manye became vnlustye and had no delyte in pastymys and myrth While there was suche myrth and pastime vsed in the Lande of Poles the Turke prepared hym selfe in Hungary to bryng a present vnto kyng Ferdinando at that feaste in so muche that the .xxiiij. day of Iuly next folowyng he beseged the stronge Castell of Grane with a great power and brought with hym about a fyfty great peces of ordinaunce all wall breakers wherewith he shott both nyght day very â—uttragiously and cast downe the walles in many places so that they of oure syde within the Castell could not occupie their great ordinaunce by the space of two dayes And when this shutyng of the Turke had continued vntill the eight daye of August he caused thesayd Castell the next morowe after to bee assaulted with an excedyng greate power And when the same assault had coÌ„tinued about fyue houres the Turkes were fayne to drawe backwardes againe with greate losse But whatsoeuer God by
thee peoples desyre of newfanglinesse in chaunging that commune welth which he him selfe had instituted For God will not suffre the chaunge of the kyngdomes whiche are ordeined by hym Also are we admonished by thys example that we eschue any mutacion at all In this historie are there many other notable commaundementes the whiche for shortnesse I must ouerpasse This one thyng wyll I only reherse that the ciuill gouernaunce the aucthorite of princes and kynges is here coÌ„firmed of God when he speaketh of the ryght and duetie of a kyng Saul reigned fourty yere and was destroied for his vngodlynesse all his kynred was destroted Dauid reigned forty yeare and God punished hym for aduoutry committed and by sedition was he dryuen out of hys kyngdom by his owne sonne Absalon But God restored him into the kyngdom and punyshed the sedition greuously Absalon died a straunge death Salomon was forty yeres kynge but after his decease was the kyngdom deuided in sundery partes for the aduoutry of Dauid Of the Kynges of Iuda of Salomons linage and kynred ROboam kynge raygned seuenten yeres And when hee woulde not obey thee Counsayll of the elders in minyshynge the charges and exactions of the kyngdome he caused wyth hys rygorousnesse that a chaunge of the kyngdome is casued For he â—â—â—owed the counsaill of younge men nother wolde release ought according to right Wherfore deciuered from him the moost part of the kyngdom and dyd begynne a new kyngdome in Samaria the whiche was the occasion of many greate battayls on both partes As for the posteritie of Dauid retained the kyngdome in Iuda and the tribe of Beniamin folowed that kyng Abia reigned thre yeare and in battayll vanquished the kyng of the ten tribes in Israel Asa reigned fourtene yeare The same obtained great praise because he rooted out the wicked worshyp of God which was institute against the worde of God in so muche that he fauoured not his owne mother in this behalfe for she also folowed a sundery worship of God For this cause gaue him God good fortune agaynst the Arabians the whiche he vanquished in battayll At the last was he punished also of God for a certayn conspiration that he had made leauyng the trust in God The mydde or half part of the worldes age ABout the twelft yere of this kyng Asaes raigne are accomplyshed there thousand yeares of the worlde that is the mydde or half part of all the worldes age accordyng to Elias saynge the whiche we haue noted in the beginnyng of the boke Henceforeward may be marked that in coÌ„tinently after happened moost greatest and sodayn chaunges in all kyngdomes that there dyd aryse battayles and man slaughter for the last tyme of the worlde dyd drawe on Thys is also to be noted that the publike well the Iewes are elder than of the Grekes and Romanes wherby it maye easely be gathered that all other nacions haue their spring of the Iewes auncetry and that the eldest doctrine yea euen Gods word hath ben by the Iewes fathers or auncetres Iosaphat raygned fyue and twenty yeares he is alowed for hys endeuour of religion and that he hath exercised all kinglye duetyes wyth great diligence And for that cause dyd god â–ª geue hym excellent victories Elias the prophet was in his tyme which was taken vp quieke into heauen so rayseth God a prophet euen in the myddes of the worldes age no lesse of famous doctrine then miracles that the word and promise of Christ might be sometyme renewed The rest than of the thre M. yeares of the worlde began vnder thys Elias After Elias succeded Eliseus the prophet As for these two prophetes how they haue reproued the wycked seruice of God and what miracles they haue done is sufficiently treated in the Bible Ioram reigned eight yeares he commaunded to kyll his brethren euen the eldest was a beginner of a new Idolatry wherfore he was also worthely punished of God he dyed vanquished of the Philistenes the which caryed away his wiues and chylderen saue Ochosias which was the yongest Ochosias raigned only one yeare and accordynge as his father dyd he permitted the false seruice of God to be set vp wherfore he was slayne But whan his mother Athalia saw that her sonne was dead she caused to be slayn all them that were a lyue of the kynges bloud of this wyse was the kyngdome translated from Salomons posterite that hereby we maye learne how rygorously God doth punish synne Before all thinges must princes consider and marke this that God doeth rout out the kynred of great princes because of wickednes Athalia the mother of Ochosias kept the kyngdome with violence and vsed seueÌ„ yeares great tyranny At the last she was worthely punished when through the commaundement of the high priest she was slayn Of Nathan and his posteritie IN the rehersall of y â— fathers of the which Christ is borne hath Luke the euangelist est out Salomon For Salomons poste rite was destroied neuertheles Dauids posteritie succeded in the kyngdome accordyng to the promise of God Dauid had also a sonne NathaÌ„ of whom Luke maketh meÌ„cion Of his kynred wer these kynges of Iuda folowyng namely Ioas reigned fourty yeres the same was of notable godlinesse so long as Ioiada y â— high priest liued whom he obeyed afterward fell he to vngodlinesse and Idolatry and caused zachary the prophete the sonne of Ioiada to bee slayne before the temple of whom Christ doth also make mencion in the .xxiij. chapiter of Mathew Wherfore God willed to punysh hym by the Syrians and finally was he slayn by his owne seruauntes Amasias was kyng nyne and twenty yeares this also was conuersant in Godlynesse at the fyrste and herkened to the prophetes whereby he dyd luckely vanquyshe thorough God the Idâ—means But heyng after become haut and presumptuous he made war of pure wilfulnesse and with out constraynt in the whiche he was taken and fynally dyed Ozias raygned twoo and fyfty yeares the same was also called Azarias The same was at the fyrst also Godly and ouercame the Philisthines Afterwarde whan he woulde hymselfe offre in the temple agaynst the ordinaunce of God he was stryken with leprosy In his tyme lyued Oseas Amos and Micheas whiche prophecied agaynste either kynges of Samaria and Iuda Ionas was â—lso at this tyme whiche was sent to preache to the kynge of the Assirians Ioatham reygned lykewyse syxten yeares thesame was Godly fought luckely against Ammon Achas reygned lykewyse syxten yeares hee set vp false worshipping of god of ouer great superstition and peruerse opinion of godlinesse he buylded euery where throughout al the lande chappels and altars wherfore God suffered hym and all his royalme to be greuously punyshed and spoyled Ezechias reigned nyne and twenty yeares Hewas a Godly kynge he restored Gods worshyp auoidyng Idolatry he
of the floudes Of thys wyse dyd God turne the fortune of the dice and punyshed the pryde Great princes haue here an example sett before them whereby they must learne not to truste in their puyssaunce but that in the feare of God and trust to God must great thynges be taken in hande That he had thys shamefull ende for because this expedicion made euery man amased and also for because Xerxes dyd brynge on to Grece such a great multitude and power none otherwise than in oure tyme the Turke was constrayned to forsake the city of Vienne with great shame which came into Germany with an hoost of two hundreth thousande men Howbeit Xerxes departynge out of Grece left Mardonius the capytayne there wyth thre thousande souldyours and that for thys cause because the kynge persuaded by Mardonius counsell wente into Grece agaynste the mynde and wyll of the other Lordes And because it happened not as Mardonius promysed therefore dredinge lest beynge returned home he might lose hys heade because of the mischaunce of the warre he desyred that he might be left in Grece wyth that army to assaye all fortunes of warre yf by chaunce he coulde make feble the affayres of the Grekes Xerxes than suffred that and betoke hym to hys fortune Fyrst beganne Mardonius frendely to entreate the Grekes that hauing layde before them tolerable condicions of peace they woulde willingly yeld themselues But the Grekes beynge become more couragious by reason of the victory refused vtterly all dominion of the Perses and denyenge the leage asked that he shoulde defende hym selfe with force and fyghtynge hande Than toke Mardonius and burnt the citye of Athenes and wente thorough vntyll Thebe for they of Thebe were fallen to the Perses The Athenians and Lacedemonians makyng than agayn a fresh army by land of an hundreth thousand men met at sundry times with Mardonius in battayll at the laste Mardonius constrayned for faut of vytayls made an ende Alexander kyng of Macedony was wyth the Perses of whom we made mencion before the same shewed the Grekes before the euenynge that they should make them ready in armes on the next day for Mardonius was determined to pyche hys last felde and that was so done but the Perses beyng ouercome lost the felde Mardonius beyng slayne also whiche thynge the other counsellers of kyng Xerxes tolde him before the warre began But this was the ende of so great a settyng forth to warre and whan this warre was ended the cities of Grece began too encreace in power and enlargynge of their dominion subduyng many yles of the Perses whiche they adioyned to their dominion Moreouer the Grekes beyng become puyssauÌ„t waxed also haut and presumtuous and for desyre of dominion they procured also inwarde sedicion warre with in themselues and beyng ouercome with mutuall damages that eche had done to the other they were constrayned fynally to yeld themselues to straunge princes quenchynge and destroyeng all the estate of their common wealth and the vertues whereby they floryshed before But of this shall we treate a lytle hereafter It is necessarye to knowe Themistocles example before any thyng the whiche for so muche as he was the man by whose prouisse and counsail whole Grece was saued for the whiche thynge also hys prayses are auaunced more then of any valeaunt captaine whiche Grece had yet was he euel rewarded of his citesens for they droue him out of y â— citie This thanke geueth the commoÌ„ people for the most worthye vertues yea the deuell hymselfe blyndeth men that they do not acknowledge so hygh gyftes of God Wherfore it behoueth the best and excelleâ—t men to haue pacience before all thynges for it can not bee but they must haue grefes and all vnthankfulnesse in that state of lyfe After that fled Themistocles to Artaxerxes by whome he was had in greate honor in all thynges equall to the princes and peeres of his royalme It is wrytten also that Artaxerxes should haue sayde he coulde wyshe his enemies no more euyll but that they blinded with such madnesse dyd put awaye wyse men from them Of Artaxerxes with the longe hande AS Xerxes was deade raigned his sonne Artaxerxes whose right hande was longer than the left whereof he gat the surrname wyth the long hand Thys kynge is chefely praysed for his syngular wysedome and gentlenesse of maners and endeuour of peace Therefore do I rehearse his historye here nomore at length that wee maye finallye returne to the Iewysh hystories lest we be ignoraunce what state was in the church and spyrytuall kyngdome Of Zorobabel the Iewysh capitayne WE haue shewed before that in the Bible is one of the Persian kynges called Assuerus but the same was Darius Histaspis and as I suppose thys Darius is Assuerus which had quene Hester Herodotus doth also make mencion of Artistona the whiche Darius had besyde quene Atossa and sayeth that the same Artistona was very well beloued of Darius and it appeareth that thys same was Hester Philo writeth also that the history of Iudith happened in the tyme of this Darius and that Arphaxad whereof the history of Iudith maketh mention was captayn of y â— Assyrians after that they were now fallen from Cyrus whâ— was ouercome of the Scythyes I do not disalow thys meanynge of Philo but verely as I do suppose the history of Iudith was now already fulfilled before that Iuda was led into bondage and also before the Persians monarchy For Arbaces kynge of the Medes was before the monarchy of the Perses and Ninius was destroyed in the tyme of the Persians kyngdome and whan the Perses had the monarchy nether Ninius nor the Medes had theyr kynge Howbeit I graunt here euery man to defende hys meanynge After Darius Histaspis setteth Philo Artaxerxes wyth the longe hande passynge ouer king Xerxes but doutlesse for none other cause saue as is shewed before namely than whaÌ„ Xerxes was gone into Grece Darius wyth the long hand gouerned the royalme in the East in the meane season And this is that Darius with the longe hande whiche gaue the Iewes leaue the seconde tyme to buylde agayne the temple For though Cyrus had permitted the Iewes to returne to Ierusalem for to tyll theyr lande and to restore the kingdome the worship of God neuerthelesse in the meane season after Cyrus death â–ª were they letted by the borderers y â— the building could not goo forewarde vntill the seconde yere of Artaxerxes with the long hand whoÌ„ Philo calleth Darius with the longe hande Thesame commaunded in the second yeare of his king 〈…〉 by a commune proclamation commaundement that Ieruâ—alâ— the temple shuld be repared This was the occasion by the whiche the Iewysh natioÌ„s was restored to his libertie instituted again the gouernaunce of the royalme with the Gods seruice and builded agayne the temple and cities And though Iuda had not hetherto his kynges yet had they princes
the meale that he truely wold be a frende to the Venecians continually but they shulde haue muche trouble and dāmage of hys successours Of Constantinople Wonne by the Turkes THe yeare of Christe M. CCCC liiii y e xxix daye of Maye after longe syeggat Mahometes the Turkysh Emperoure the citye Constātinople at y e laste with a very strong assaulte and vsed thereyn so muche cruelnesse that it can not be expressed wyth no wordes Constantinus the Emperoure was slayne by the gate of the cytye in the flyghte whose heade caused the Turke to be smytten of stycked vpon a pole to be caryed thorow out the citye He commaunded also to set vp an image of the crucyfyed Christe in the citye and towrytte vpon it The same is the God of the Christians But he commaunded to moke it and caste fylthe vpon it and all to defyle it The Emperours wyfe and doughters wyth other honest matrones were drawen to a banket and there were they fyrst misused after that hewed to peces These examples and other mooste cruel dedes of y e Turkes ought duely to rayse and styrre our mindes that we shulde earnestly fight agaynst those enemyes whyche one nede not to call tyrauntes but rather cruel beastes The yeare M. CCCC lxi dyd the bysh of Ro. depose Dietericke of Isenburge from hys byshoprycke and in hys steade was made Adolphe of Nassau This chaunce gaue an occasion of greate warres in the Empyre Friderick the counte Palatyne toke vpon hym to defende retayn byshop Dieterych Agaynste the same dyd the Emperour sturre the erles of Wyrtenberg and Baden and the bysh of Mentz Whan these spoyled y e contry of y e count Palatine they were taken by Frideryck count Palatine about the yeare M. CCCC lxii The same yeare dyd contrarye wyse Adolfe the byshop take in the citye Mentz The yeare M. CCCC lxiij was Friderick the Emperoure strongly besieged in the castel at Vienna by hys cityesins and the doer of thys was Albert the Emperours brother but George kyng of the Bohemes delyuered the Emperoure driuing awaye the cityesins The yere M. CCCC lxxiiii dyd Charles prince of the Burgundyons besyege the towne Nuce a whole yeare and that because the chapiter chanōs of Colen had dryeuen out Rupert byshoppe of Colen whome Charles wold haue restored agayne But whan he went about to turne the byshopryck of Colen from the empyre haue gotten it to him the Emperour appoynteth an army agaynst hym The captayne of the hoost was Albert marques of Brandenburg and the empyres standardebearer Albert duke of Saxony At the last whan diuersly was treated of alayenge the debate Charles gaue place and it is sayde that at y ◠tyme was fyrst treated of geuyng Maximilian the doughter of Charles of Burgundy The yeare M. CCCC lxxvii was the duke of Burgundy vanquished by Nansen by them of Lotayn and the Switzers and slayne For Charles had taken from them of Lorain Nansen in Switzerland had he taken in Gransen and other small townes besides that also caused he in the towne of Gransen to be hanged .v. C. and .xii. Germanes Whan Charles was deade the Frenchemen enterprised to ioyne Flaunders and Brabant to theyr kingdom this desyre of the Frenchmen brought the cause of great warres But whan the Burgundions wold not that theyr duchies shuld be straunged or alienated from Charles doughter they delivered to wedde Charles doughter to Maximilian son to Friderick the Emperour Wherfore Maximiliane went wel appointed into Brabāt the yeare M. cccc lxxvii and wedded Mary Charles doughter whereby it came to passe that he augmēted not a litle the glory of the Eastenrychs name and that Maximiliā did many renowmed prowesses to defende those countryes agaynste the assaulte of the Frenchemen The yeare M. cccclxxxvi was Maximilian made Emperoure at Aken he was crowned the tenth daie of Apryll When he was chosen Emperoure at Franckforde Albert marques of Brandenburg dyed there whome the Italian history writers also do geue the prayse of a sage and wyse prince and also a doughty man of armes The yeare M. cccclxxxvii was Maximiliane taken of his subiectes at Brudgis in Flaūders by a preuy trayne of the Frenchemen But when Frede rick came downe into lowe Germany furnyshed wyth the ayde of the whole empyre Maximilian was letten fre of them of Brudgis The yeare M. ccccxc he asked agayne and toke possession of his hereditary landes of the duchy of Eastenriche the whiche Mathy kyng of Hungary had taken in The yere M. ccccxciii dyed Frederick the third Emperonre in the towne Lyntz and was buried at Vienne The same yeare dyd the Turkes fall in to Croacia but they were dryuen backe agayne by Maximiliane that then was in Eastenriche surnyshed wyth an army of fyftenth ou saude men When Eugenius the .iiij. was deade Nicolaus the .v. was made by shop of Rome Friderick the Emperoure was crowned of hym and he entertayned with moste hygh liberalitie not onely learned men of Italy but also suche as were fled from Con stantinople to Rome namely Gaza Trapezontius Argyropylos by whose procurement al good sciences are renewed and amended Calistus the .iij. was bysh of Ro. after Nicolaus Pius the .ij. before called Eneas Syluius succeded Calistus He was Frederick the Emperoures Chaunceller He had gathered a greate army of all nacions against the Turkes but while the army is demissed without doynge any thyng Paulus the .ij. was after Pius Xystus the .iiii. was by shop of Rome after Paulus In his tyme the yeare M. cccclxxx dyd Mahometes the Turkysh Emperour besyege Hydruntum in Italy and wanne it vsyng therein incredible tyranny Italy was so asrayed that Xystus the Romysh byshop made hrm reade to flye into Fraunce But Mahometes died the same time when Hydruntum was a takynge and that by some destiny lest he should straie farther into Italy Moreouer whyle this was dayng Alfonsus kyng of Naples warred with them of Sena but when he harde the tydyngs of Hydruntum he haisted to returne into his kyngdome and getteth the besyeged citye Hydruntū out of the Turkes handes For whyle Mahometes was deade and that the Turkes haysted now to returne home lest any variaunce myght ryse in their kyngdome Alfonsus obteined the citie easely driuyng the Turkes out of Italy After Xystus was Innocētius the .viii. by of Ro. Alexander the the .vi. was made byshop of Ro. after Innocentius The same had a sonne duke of Valencia whom he made prince of Vrbinas Hys sayeng it was O Cesar o nullo that is Ether Emperoure or nothyng At the last was he nothyng For he was slayne for his sundry craftes that were mengled with gite and deceate The beginning of the science of printyng is sayd to haue bene vnder Frederick the thyrd and thys science of boke printing they saye to haue ben found fyrst at Mentz the yeare M. cccc xl The craft of the gonnes
oriental corner stretchyng her blasyng tayle towardes the southwest The second day of Nouember was there a great inundacion of water brokē in into Freeseland Holland Seeland and Flaunders which was very damageable to the said countreis and to thinhabiters therof Also Christerne kyng of Norway being retourned into his said kyngdome the yeare before from the parties of lowe Ducheland where he had kept hym selfe by the space of ten yeres was required by the counsayll of Denmarke to come to Copmanhauen otherwyse called Coppenhagen against kyng Fredericke whiche was put in there by the helpe of the towne of Lubeke when the said Christerne fled out of the Realme that he myght there receyue and take in possession the kyngdome of Denmarke but when he suspected no guyle relented and put away hys souldiours and came into Denmarke the Counsayll of the Lande toke hym prisoner not regardinge the promises and saulf conduit by them made vnto hym And so they kept hym in the castel of Sunderborough oute of the whiche he came neuer as yet So that after this kinge Frederick did peaceably enioye his kingdome vntyll he dyed At Lindowe by the sea coaste was in thys yeare borne a dubble calfe wyth two heades foure eares and eighte feete hanginge alltogether In the yere of our Lord M. ccccc xxxiij when y e Emperour namely Charles the fift had stablyshed vnity and concord among the Princes and Cities of Italy and Lumbardy he departed wyth a competent and wel appointed Armada or Nauye from Genua and hauynge a prosperous passage arryued within fewe dayes after in Spayne where he was receyued of hys subiectes wyth great ioye After this by the counsayll and instigation of themperours Maiestye the Shypmaiesters and maryners of Spayne founde oute certayne Indes or Ilandes in the sea beynge vnknowen before whyche do so excedynglye abounde in ryches of golde and syluer that it is vnspeakeable These toke they in by force of armes and subdued them vnder the subiection of the emperours Maiestye In thys yeare the Pope and Frauncys the Frenche kynge helde a solempne communycatyon together at Massylya whyche lyeth in the Prouynce of Fraunce where after manye and dyuers consultacyons it was concluded that Henry Duke of Orleans sonne to the sayde Frenche kynge shuolde marye Pope Clementes cosyne the doughter of Laurence Medyce Duke of Vrbyne wyth whome the Pope hadde promysed a ryche dowrye Thus hath thys Pope Clemente alwayes endeuoured hym selfe to allure and drawe vnto hym the hyghe Potentates and Rulers of the worlde by the helpe of whome he myghte extyrpate and roote oute the pore Chrystyans whome they call Lutheryans and Heretykes But God woulde not suffer it longe as it is wrytten There is no deuice nor counsayll agaynste the Lorde but it shall come to naughte In the same yeare the myghtye bond and confederatyon of the Germayne Natyon which was called the Euangelycall confederacyon or the bonde of the Gospell beynge kepte secrete of manye was at the prouocatyon of the Frenche kynge opened and disclosed There apeared also another Comete or blasynge starre from the ende of the moneth of Iune vnto the begynnynge of Auguste in the Northe and in the sygnes of Gemyny Taurus and Aryes thoroughe the whyche sygnes she made her course in her goynge backewarde hauyng her tayle extended towardes the South And thys was the thyrde Comete or blasynge starre that hadde appered wethyn those two yeres What they portended or sygnyfyed or what alteracyon of Estates and other thynges they broughte wyth them maye a dyscreete reader gather and perceyue by the Storyes herafter folowing For suche wonderfull workes of God althoughe they come by the course of nature yet are they not wythoute theyr specyall workynge It is sayde also that in this yeare of M. CCCCC xxxiii the Deuyl burned a lyttell Toune in Germanye called Shyltagh downe to the grounde by the meanes of a certayne wythche on maundy thursdaie The fyfte daye of October in the nyghte burned at Andwarpe the Churche called our ladye Churche beynge sodaynly sette on fyre At Nurrenboroughe and in manye other places of thempyre lyenge there aboute reygned thys yeare a greate Pestylence in so muche that at Nurrenboroughe onelye from S. Margretes daye vntyll S. Martins day folowinge dyed ten thousande persons The sixtene day of Nouember was a great earthquake and an horryble tempeste of wynde whyche plaged and troubled the Townes in hygh Germany verye sore namely Cu◠Feldechurche S. Gall wyth other townes and vyllages lyenge nyghe vnto them by the Ryuer called the Rhene Thys yeare Henrye the eighte kynge of Englande c. for certayne consyderacyons hym therevnto mouynge was dyuorced from hys wyfe whiche had bene fyrste maryed to hys brother prynce Arthur and maryed another on wytsonday In the yeare of our Lorde M. CCCCC xxxiii in the moneth of Ianuary The Anabaptistes whyche had gathered them selues together out of Hollande and Freselande by preuy subteltyes and conspyracyes whych they had made with certayne burgeouses of the Cytye of Mynster in Westphale inuaded the same Cytye toke possessyon of it and expelled from thence al the Burgeoules and inhabytauntes therof that woulde not take parte wyth them and folowe theyr facultye They chose them also a kynge that was a Taylloure named Ihon of Leyden whyche ordeyned for hym selfe two specyall Counsayllours the one called Knypperdullynge and the other kreghtynge and in conclusyon they made suche a dysorder and confusyon whytin the sayde Cytye that not wythoute a cause all the people of Westephale dyd ryse agaynste them But when the ryghte noble Prynce Philyppe Landgraue of Hessen toke in hande to accorde the matter betwene the sayde Anabaptystes and the Byshoppe whome they had expelled he coulde nothynge preuayle so sore hadde the Deuyll blynded that Anabaptystycall generatyon Wherefore the sayde Byshoppe compassed the sayde Cytye wyth a greate power on euerye syede to thyntent he myghte ouercome and subdue them ether wyth the sworde or elles by famyne And althoughe there was greate scarcyte and lacke of vyctualles wythyn the saide Cyrye in so muche that at the laste they were sayne to eate lether and couerynges of bookes yet dyd they sustayne bearcoute prolonge and holde oute the sayde syege vntyll the next yeare folowynge wherof we shall speake more in place conuement In the meane season dyd Philip Landgraue of Hessen prepare hymselfe after the best maner to restore hys Vncle Duke Hulderyke of Wyrtenbergh agayne to hys Dukedome from whence he was expelled fyftene yeares before durynge the whyche tyme kynge Ferdynando had the gouernaunce and vse therof But fyrste because the sayde prince of Hessen woulde do nothynge presumptuously nor temeraryouslye he sente worde to themperoures Mayestye in Spayne and to the kynge in Austryche desyrynge them to restore hys said Vncle Duke Hulderyke to hys Landes agayn for so muche as he had nowe suffered sufficient punyshemente for hys
offence and presumptyon by hym commytted agaynste the Empyre for he hadde taken a certayne towne pertaynynge to thempyre called Rutlynge whyche was the cause of hys expulsyon in that he hadde lacked and forborne the vse and profytes of his Landes all that space and season Whyche thynge yf they were not willynge to do he was in a readynes hym selfe to set hym in agayne parforce Althoughe he woulde be loth to vse anye carneste and rigourous fashions But whyle he was not answered accordynge to hys expectatyon and requeste he wente furthe wyth hys power into the lande of Wyrtenbergh that where bothe Prynces met together sloutelye but Philippe the Palatyne wyth hys men was put to flyghte and he him selfe wounded in hys hele wyth a shot wherfore the said Landgraue was verye sorye After thys battel the townes yelded them selues one after another so that wythin fewe dayes the sayd Duke Hulderyk brought all his Landes agayn vnder hys power and subiection But whyle the sayde Landgraue by reason of thys acte hadde nede to feare themperoures and the kynges Maiestye leaste they myghte worke oughte agaynste hym he went wyth hys armye towardes Vlmes besydes the Ryuer of Danube where he taryed eyther for an agremente and a peaceable retourne or elles for another answere In so muche that a sure peace on the Emperoures and kynges Mayestyes behalfe wyth sure appendycles and circumstances was there promysed hym by Albert Archebyshoppe of Mence Ihon Frederyke Duke of Saxon bothe Electours imperiall and George Duke of Saxon After the obtaynyng wherof he dispersed hys armye wythoute delaye and retourned home agayne into hys owne lande Here myghte I take occasyon to extoll and hyghly to prayse not onelye the bolde and reasonable deade or acte of the Landgraue in that he dyd so truelye and faythefullye helpe hys Vncle into hys owne domynyon agayne wythoute any respect hadde to the power of them that hadde the same landes of hys Vncle in possessyon more by sufferaunce then by any ryghte tytell But also the pacience and mekenes both of the Emperoures and the kynges Maiestye in that they dyd so gentlye and wyllyngly renounce the sayd Dukedome Whych they myght very easely accordynge to theyr power amonge men haue subdued and brought agayne vnder their subiection and dominatiion But forasmuch as I am not minded here to describe hole stories with al their circūstances but onely to touch brefely the principal actes and doinges I wil commet the same to another or peraduēture intreate of it my selfe herafter to my power The same yere of 1534. died Frederick kinge of Denmarke about whose corse happened a wonderful and straung thing which doubteles did signifie the sheding of bloud that folowed afterwarde in the same kingdome For when the dead corps of y e said kyng accordyng to the custome and maner was enbawmed or anoynted wyth bawme other spyces and wrapped in clene seryng clothes was inclosed in a shrine piched prepared accordinglye the same dead corps contrarye to nature beganne to blede in suche sorte that the bloude was receyued and taken vppe in vessels and immedyatelye after the people of the land were vysyted wyth warres and battayles For Chrystophore Counte of Oldenboroughe accompanyed wyth them of Lubeke whose Capytaynes were George weuer and Markes Mayer whyche afterwarde accordynge to their deseruynges were condemned and put to death inuaded the lande of Christyans Duke of holstone and toke certayne townes and Castels whyche not longeafter the sayde Duke recouered agayne puttynge them of Lubeke to great losse bothe by water and by lande vntyll suche tyme as the other Sea Townes wyth Henrye Duke of Mekelboroughe toke the matter in hande and concluded a peace and vnyty betwene the Towne of Lubeke and the Dukedome of holstone whyche peace was registred and proclamed the eyghtene daye of Nouember After thys were the Capytaynes of Lubeke moued towardes Denmarcke and consulted wyth the sayde Counte of Oldenborough howe they myghte conuenyently inuade and entre the sayde kyngdome of Denmarke and Norwaye wherof dyd ensue a newe warre as shalbe declared in the next yeare Thys yeare was also sene a wonderfull apparition in Denmarke besides the towne of Sleswyghe lyenge not farre from Lubeke whych as a certayne Secretarye of the saide place by an othe affyrmeth in hys wrytynges to the Quene dyaected apeared in the ayer the thyrd daye of Iune at after noone and was sene of a thousande persons or more as hereafter foloweth Fyrste there apeared a greate multytude of Lyons fyghtynge one wyth another Secondlye there apeared a man armed on horsebacke wyth a iustynge speare vnder his arme as thoughe he woulde haue iusted with an other hauynge a longe bearde and many busshes of fethers Thyrdelye there appeared a man with a crowne imperyall as lyke vnto themperours Mayestie that the sayd Secretary and manye of hys seruauntes thoughte none other but that it hadde ben themperoures owne lyuyng personne wherefore some of them toke of their cappes and were readye to do reuerence vnto hym Fourthelye there apeared the symylytude or Lykenes of a greate Regyon or Countree replenyshed wyth Cytyes Castels and Vyllages well distinct and set in order which were all consumed thoroughe a swyft fyre which went vp in the same Fyftly there apeared an other Regyon not vnlyke to the fyrste garnyshed wyth Cytyes Castels and vyllages and specially wyth one greate and myghtye Cytye wych Cytye was myghtelye assaulted by a greate multytude of warryours wyth gonnes and all manner of artyllerye bothe by lande and by water wyth migh tye shyppes vnder sayle There appeared also amonge the sayde warryours certayne Capytaynes whyche in swyftnes or agylyty and in length of body exceded the other Syxtelye there apeared halfe a blacke Egle whyche lepte out of the sayde horse out of whose clawes or talentes fell small Snakes among the which was one great Dragon Seuentlye there apeared afterward in the place where the greate Cyty hadde ben a Camell whyche dranke oute of a tempestuous water as thoughe it hadde ben the ragynge sea by the waues wherof the sayd beast was couered Eyghtlye there appeared after thys a certayne horse wheron noman dyd ryde but a lion whyche laye vpon hys backe hauing a crowne hangynge on hys heade and vpon the sayde lyon sate a Cocke whych by continuall pickynge and bytynge consumed the hole head of the Lyon but the skull remayned a greate while hanging vpon the horse Nyntly there appeared also a great Crosse of a bloudy colour which immediately diuyded it selse into many small and black Crosses Tentlye and last of all there apeared a fyery man wyth a crowne imperiall all armed whych helde on eyther syde of him a horse and vnder this was the for sayd Crosse But vnder al these were manye sortes of Dragons vnknowen beastes As Lyons beares and of other kyndes whych were neuer sene before for some of them hadde heades of wylde swyne wyth greate
certayne letter by hym to Pope Paule directed Also this yeare in the Moneth of Iuly dyed at Basill that excellent Clarke Erasmus of Roterdame beyng about the age of .lxx. yeares who was a special instrument of God to restore the Greke and Latine tonges agayne to their puritie Whiche also hath done no small seruice with his writinges towardes the settyng furth of the Gospell the true lyght of our soules as euery wyse man may right well perceyue and gather by his wrytynges wherof he hath left behynde hym a greate sorte and in a maner innumerable bookes IN the yeare of our lorde MDxxxvij euen in the begynning of the yere began certayne preuy practyses and conspiracies to be wrought agaynst the Euangelicall Princes and their confederates For the Pope sought all the meanes possible to stirre vp some commotion and dissention in Germany and had procured all ready by the meanes of the Duke of Brounswike called Henry the younger and brought to passe by certayne byshops namely the byshippe of Mence with other that the Duke George of Saxon shoulde assiste the Duke of Brunswyke with money to inuade Iohn Frederike Duke of Saxon and electour imperiall and Philippe Land graue of Hessene whiche Practise and conspiracy was begonne so preuely and kept so close that if God had not specially preserued the fauoures of hys worde it myght haue turned them to muche wo and trouble For the Duke of Brunswyke had all ready assembled a competent nombre of men within his lande and that so preuely that many dyd afterwarde wonder at it But when he thought with hys adherentes that the matter had bene sure almyghty God red their treasurer Duke George out of the way by death sodaynely or euer any man suspected hys infirmitie And so succeded Duke Henry into his brothers heritage whiche had kept hys Court poorely many yeares at Fryburgh in the lande of Myssene beyng a good laudable and Euangelicall Prince And albeit that Duke George brother to the sayed Duke Henry was also in his actes and gouernaunce a very wyse and circumspecte Prince and experte in cyuyle policies as his buyldynges and townes which he hath left behynde hym beare wytnes yet had he this faulte that he as it happeneth commonly to suche as are worldly wyse had his prudence and hipocriticall conuayaunce so blynded â–ª that he would not cleaue vnto the Gospel where of neuertheles he was not ignoraunt for none other cause then that some Pope or some Cardinall had not set it furth and brought it to lyght but apore frere as was doctor Luther yea he was suche an enemy to the Gospell that he dyd not onely persecute and banyshe hys subiectes that embraced and fauoured the same but also woulde depriue his saied brother Henry of his heritage whyle he cleaued sted fastly to Goddes worde But God tourneth all thynges to the prophite of his bâ—leuers For when Duke George was in this minde had sought al meanes possible to disherite and dispossesse his brother all was sodaynely turned vpsyde downe For after that Iohn his sonne was departed out of this worlde leauyng no bodely heyre behynde hym in as muche as it was not well possyble for hym to procreate chyldren beyng continually geuen to superfluitie and dronkennes he had yet an other sonne not being endued with to muche witte called Henry vnto whome not withstanding that by the reason of his â—oolysh behaueour he was vnmete to haue the rule gouernauÌ„ce of the lande he gaue hym a wyfe of a basse stocke and lowe degree to thende that by this meanes he myght if it were possible obtayne an heire for the lande and defraude his brother of his heritage commaundyng his Phisicians to geue his sayd Sonne good prouisions whereby hys lust myght be the better stirred and prouoked towardes his wyfe But what was the ende Thys hope and expectation continued but a small tyme for within the space of two monethes thesaed yong maried man died Many wyll say and affirme that the Phisicians kylled hym with their confortatiues But it was the worke of God who would haue the Gospell to reigne in the sayed Duchye by the administracion of the sayed Duke Henry For the saied Duke George dyed also shortely after the deceasse of his saied sonne as before is mencioned When nowe the Papistes were thus destitute of their comforte hauyng lost all their hope and expectacioÌ„ in that the land and the treasures wherwith they intended and trusted to haue resysted the Gospell was nowe fallen into the handes of hym that would therewith auaunce and promote the same their capitayne Duke Henry of Brunswycke was faine to geue ouer and disperse his army for the money wherwith the souldiours should haue bene paied was now withdrawen Wherfore as it was reported the saied Duke should say that he had rather lost God in heauen then this man Wherby euery Christen man may easely perceyue wheron the hope of the Papistes is grounded But let vs learne here that a Christian may not truste in any man nor feare any mans threatenyng nor yet dyspayre in pouertie and tribulation but must onely put al his trust and confidence in God who is able to breake and ouerthrowe the imaginacions of the proude and to exalte the pore according to the song of Mary he trusteth downe the proude from their seates and lifteth vp the lowely When God had on this wyse deliuered his littel flocke in the lande of Saxon and of Hessen from the craftes and enterpryses of their enemy the said duke Henry succeding in the rowme of his brother deceassed abolyshed the abhominacion of Popysh Idolatry thoroughout all his iurisdiction and dominion and coÌ„maunded Goddes worde to be preached in all places sincerely and purely for the maintenaunce whereof he sought all about for learned men to geue dilygent attendaunce to the settynge furth of the same After this he dyd also erecte and restore the Scoole of Lipsigh whiche was sore decayed before to the mayntenaunce whereof he dyd institute and appointe speciall priuileges and newe stipendes and ordeined the excellently learned man Ioachim Camerary of Bambery reder in liberall sciences and prouided for other faculties also sage men well learned so that both gods worde also learnyng dyd myghtely increase and florysh agayn in thys lande God graunt it may long continue to the prayse of his mooste holy name In Fraunce was not the warres yet ceased whiche was begonne the yere before For the king was yet mightely armed and came furth in the moneth of Marche towardes the west into the Duchye of Artois whiche is called Picardy where he dyd great harmâ— and about the .xviij. daye of the same moneth he beseged y â— towne of Hedin which was yelded vp vnto hym the .xiij. day of Aprill next folowing When he had ouercome the sayde towne he furnyshed it and other places lyeng there about with meÌ„ and so retourned home again In the meane
season Mary quene of Hungary syster vnto the Emperours maiestie and lady RegeÌ„t of the lower partes of his dominioÌ„s prepared her selfe and wheÌ„ she had assembled a mighty company of pietons or footemen as well of the partes of hygh Germany as of the lower partes of Duchelande with an army of horsemen well appointed she marched with power into Picardy and hauyng destroyed that whiche was left in the lande she went and beseged the towne called S. Paule whiche lyeth in the borders and was also furnyshed by the kyng at his departyng from thence with foure thousand souldiours and certayne hundredes of horsemen And when they that were within y e towne made resistauÌ„ce against her she ouercame it with a strong assault and caused to be destroied whatsoeuer was a lyue within the towne except two of the chefe Capitaines which were caried away captiues But as touchyng the towne after it was spoyled by the souldiours it was set on fyre and burned downe to the grounde The seuen and twenty daye of Iune they went to the citie of Turwyne beseged the same But when the Frenche men dyd pryuely brynge into the Towne certayne Souldiours for the sanegarde of the same Towne and the Capitayne of the same retourned agayn by lyke to fetche more helpe they were takeÌ„ by y â— lady Maries warrious Anone violently destroyenge all that made resistaunce againste them murtheryng the men and viciatyng the women and the virgines whom also they caried away captiues with them After that they came also to the Ilande called Naxus wherein dwelled a Prince called Iohn Crispus who also wrote the sayde affaires to oure Potentates in Europa wyth a certayne exhortacion and warning there unto annexed whenche I also haue taken thys story But when the Turke offered peace vnto the sayde Prince promisyng not to hurte nor trouble hys subiectes in case he woulde gentely and wyllyngly yelde hym selfe vnder the obedience of the Turke the sayde Prince consideryng that he was to weake and notable to resyste suche great power not knowyng any helpe or assistaunce to bee loked for yelded hymselfe and hys subiectes to the Turke the eleuenth daye of Nouember on thys condition that he shoulde yearely paye vnto the Turke a tribute of fyue thousand guldens of gold When this was done the Turkyshe Armada retourned homewarde with a greate spoyle and abreption of Golde Syluer and many poore imprysoned Christians There was also the sayde yere of our lord God a thousand fyue hundreth thyrty and seuen an horrible and fearefull tempest at Heydelbery on the Necker lyeng in the Lower partes of the Palatines iurisdiction where the Electour by the Rhene kept his Courte For on Sainct Markes daye when euensonge was done rose a sodayne darkenyng of cloudes with an horrible noyse of wynde and immediately folowed a wether of Thonder and Lyghtenyng whiche lyghted within a Tower lyeng by the olde Castell of Heydelbergh wherein was muche gon poulder kept insomuche that the sayde poulder beyng set on fyre by the power of the sayde Thonder and Lyghtening the sayd Tower and Castell brast in sunder in y e twinkling of an eye and made suche an earthquake that within the Towne the dores and wyndowes were moued and flewe from the hinges so that the people thought none other but that the daye of dome had bene come And the stones of the walles were throwen here and there in the Towne by the reason whereof dyuerse persones runnynge out into the stretes and forsakynge theyr houses for feare least they shoulde fall downe on theyr heades were sore hurte and harmed There dwelled also in the olde Castell a couple of folkes wyth seven chyldren whereof fyue were hurte and two slayne out of hande And not farre from the newe Castell came a stone of the wall flyeng and slewe a man and cut awaye a foote of another man that was by hym In Englande was thys yeare begonne a collection for the poore and a greate nombre cured of many greuous diseases thorough the charitie thereof There was also in Englande a certayne frere called frere forest hanged and burned for treason and heresy IN the yeare of ourelorde MDxxxviij The eight day of February assembled at Rome Pope Paule with certayne Cardinalles Syr Iohn Mantry Marquys of Angilaria Oratour of themperous maiestie and atturnay for the same the kynges maiestie of the Romaines Syr Markes Anthomus Contarenus knight the imbassadours and attournays of the Duke and rulers of Venice in the name and power of their superiours whiche there coÌ„sulted together howe and by what meanes the Turke who did mightely enlarge hys empyre by his power myght be resisted Whereit was agreed and concluded that they would altogether prepare a great power both by lande and by water out of Italy whereof the Pope should main tayne and laye the syxt part the Emperours maiestie the ene half the Venetians the other third part and that there should by water be armed foure hundreth shyppes and gallees And to thintent that the Turke myght be so muche the easier ouercome kyng Ferdinando should with a strong army inuade hym in Hungary Besydes this should the Pope moue and exhorte Sigismonde kyng of the Poles to do his parte likewyse But as thesayde contracte and agreement was made with great preteÌ„ce â—o proceded it to small effect for it went forwarde very slenderly slowely as ye shall heare herafter The same yere when the Counsails betwene the Emperours maiestie the French kyng departed and could not agree of any durable stedfast peace the Pope himself toke y e matter in hand apointed both parties to mete in y e coastes of Italy orloÌ„bardy at the Citie of Nice Into the which themperours maiestie made his entraunce with great triumphe the .xv. day oâ— May. The next day entred the Pope into the saied citie also whose entraunce I do here gladly descrybe that al men may see and knowe howe that holy father folowed the steppes of hys predecessour Peter and of his maister Christ Fyrst there rode before hym two hundred men vpon the goodliest mules that migt be founde very gorgiously apparelled Then folowed .lx. Trompetters in yackettes of veluette costly sylkes and scarlette After them folowed hys garde and footemen with pertisanes apparailled in yelowe hauyng on their heades black veluer cappes with goodly Eastryche fethers After this folowed the Lorde great Maister of the Popes moste holy housholde very costely apparelled Then came the ryght swarme and rable in a long procession that is to say a great nombre of Monkes Freres and priestes with many relyques of dead sainctes And the last of them bare a lx burnyng candels of white waxe to lyghte before the blynde Idoll of Rome the Pope whiche was borne of many men in a Chayre garnyshed with fine golde and the Sacrament as they cal it in their abuse was borne before hym On both sydes of the borne Pope were
xlv nexte folowynge When George Marquys of Brandenburghe perceyned theyr sayde enterpryse and intent he thought that they dyd hym great iniury for he asscribed vnto hymselfe certayne ground â–ª and laude wythout the towne of Nurremborough which is neuer theles pertayning to the Empyre and claymed it as hys owne heritage wherfore he marched somtime by â–ª day as farre as the Landmark and by night vnto the towne euen hard by the forsayd buylding But when they of the towne feared some great malice and mischief they fenced theyr building with much ordenaunce and artillery kept great watch vpon the walles and in theyr turrettes When thys hyndered the people of the Marquys of theyr purpose some of them went toke certayne inhabytauntes of Nurremborough as they went a fowlynge or byrdyng in the woode and stopped certayne of theyr wagens or cartes commyng from Lipswyke and other places laden with goodes and marchaundyses and broughte them to the Castell of Bayerthorp Wherfore they of Nurremburgh being occasyoned and moued to displeasure â–ª and indignatyon by the reason of the sayde cruelues assembled a certaine nombre of â—oul dyours and layde them in the countree rounde about the town and furnished the smal townes and vyllages about them after the best mauer purposyng in case the sayd Marquys or hys men would persiste in theyrfrowardenes as they had begon to be in a readynes to defend themselues from such iniuris But yet thorough intreataunce of certaine Potentates and Princes of the Empyre the matter was qualified put in arbitrement so y e in conclusion the sayde Marquys suffered them of Nurrenburgh wythout contradiction and molestation accordynge to the tenoureof theyr lybertyes and priuyledges to buylde on the grounde of the Empyree This yeare dyed Charles Duke of Geldres in his place succeded William Duke of Cleue although he did not long enioye it as shalbe declared in place conuenient Thys yeare dyd Godde so punyshe the auaryce of marchauntes whyche occupye by the scasyede whyle they do so enhaunce the goode creatures of God in pryces that the poore are not able to bye them that thoroughe oute all the coastes of Denmarcke in harueste whyche is the best time of the yeare no hering could be taken In the kingdom of Naples y e .xxviii. day of Septemb. The Sea decreassed and fell away about the space of eight Italyan myles so that al the grounde was drye which afterwarde dyd cast certayn holes out of the which for the space of many dayes continually ascended fyre wyth ashes which dyd great hurt in many places there about at the falling do wne therof For the sayde ashes fell downe lyke snowe rounde about Naples for the space of thenne Itali an myles vntyll they lay on the grounde the thickenes of thre fingers Which is a fearful argument of Goddes wrath towardes vs wherby we ought al to be warned and specyally Italy to forsake our sinfull liuynge yf any warning would helpe But it is not regarded vntill Gods wrath lighteth vpon vs by heapes and then men would fayne repente but it is to late Wherfore let vs repente in time and lyue according to our professyon In Inglande thys yeare in December was the Lorde Marques of exceter the Lorde Montacute and Syr Edwarde Neuell beheaded for high treason duely proued IN y e yeare of our lord 1539. ThecoÌ„fede rat of y e Romane league prepared theÌ„sel ues wyth all theyr power to warre agaynst the Turcke by water but they profyted not muche For ther was greate lacke of vyctual a great dearth in Italy and at Venice â–ª For Barbarossa came wyth a great army and robbed vpon the sca and toke all that he might laye hand on so that ther myght no coarne be shypped vnto Venyce nether out of Cypers nor out of Can dye And there was also nomore prouisyon in Italy That done he shipped with a great power vnto the strong newe Castell which oure Christen men had wonne in the yeare before fortified it after the best facyon there vnto he layed seage in thre places and shot daye and night ther at wythoute ceassynge and yet wanne nothyng tyl certen of the dal macyans fell to fliyng awaye and ranne oute vnto the Turkes and tolde them where they myghte best and â—onest hurt our Christen men Then the enemye dyd accordyng to theyr councell and shotte both for tresses and walles doune so that the could assaulte them on euen grounde And although the spanyardes and the Italyans that were in the Castell defended themselues manfullye and couragy ously and slewe at the least syxtene thousand of the enemyes yet at the last because they werewery the enemyes gat euer fresch men they forsoke the Castell and loste bothe the Castell and the assault and althoughe they were ouer manned yet they fought and defended them selues so longe tyll they were all mooste all slayene Thys was done in August In the meane whyle Isabel the Emperoures Mayestyes wyfe the kynge of Portugalles doughter dyed of chylde the fyrste daye of maye the chylde was a sonne whyche lyued not longe She leaft behynde her lyuynge a sonne called Philyppe and two doughters whyche she hadde by the Emperour A none after ther was an insurreccyon ray sed at Gent amonge the commens of the Cytye so that it apeared that the cytye shulde haue bene destroyed By occasion wherof the Emperoures Mayestye was compelled to come oute of Spayn into Flaunders to appease that dissencion And as he was mynded to take his iorney toward Italy the Frenche kyng Fraunches sent an embassage to hym desyrynge hym amyably to come thoroughe Fraunce promysing that all that was in his kyngdome shulde be at his pleasure But the cause was for that they had concluded a peace to gethers as is aboue remembred the one shulde haue suspected the other if they hadde not kept frendshippe to gether And for as moche as the Frenche kyng had often broken the leaghe hys myssedoyng myghte thesoner be for gotten if the Emperoures mayesty woulde seke frendshyp at hys hande Thys thinge could by nomeanes be better or easelier done than that his maiesty for this once shuld iorney through hys lande By thys mocyon was the Emperours maiestye wyllyng to iorney thoroue Fraunce and sent hys chefe Counseller Granduel in Nouembre oute of Spayne into Fraunce to signyfye hys commyng and folowed shortlye after And when he came to S. Sebastians ther the Duke of Orliens the kynges youngest Sonne reaceaued hym And not farre from the city of S. Iohn was also the dolphyn wyth the chefe of y â— nobles of Fraunce whyche receaued the Emperoures maiesty wyth al due reuerence and dyd leadde him thorowe the lande till he came to Lochias the tenneth day of December There was the kynge in hys awne personne and Helenour hys wyfe tarynge for the Emperoure and receaued hym as it appeared for it was not all golde that
glyttered cleare as here after wyll appeare wyth all ioye and reuerence and were to gether tyll the ende of the xxxix yeare The inhabytoures of the nether parte of Austeryche of the erldome of Goertz hadde sente forth theyr ambassadours the laste daye of December from Vyenne wyth a pityfull and humble requeste and petycyon to the states and degrees of the kingdome of Behame which were at that time assembled at Preslowe that they woulde vouchesafe to helpe them agaynste the turcke whych had two yere before taken in the marqueship of Woendon and that present yeare manned it and caried from thence foureskore thousande chrysten men in to his lande and laie at that tyme hard vpon their neckes the chefe ambassadours of thys ambassage were M. Vlryche of boskawyts and. M Tscher nafor whyche were of the kynge of the Romaynes councell But what they obtayned wyth theyr peticion I can not tell at thys tyme but I suppose that they obtayned an honeste promesse and helpe For so pytyfullye as they made theyr petycyon it woulde haue made a stonye herte to meltte specially if men consider that yf they be suffred to be destroyed wythoute helpe that then theyr aduersity will be at the next time our awne In the somer in Iuly ther was a blasing ster in the eauening in y ◠Northwest in the signe of the virgin It was elles a metely good yere as touching wether other thinges y ◠happened therin but in the winter euery full mone ther was muche raine speciallye about the elue and other waters that ronne therinto Here I must sett to new tidynges that are counted true of many whych I take to be a speeyall myracle if it be so It is sayde and it is openly putt oute in prynte That the Emperour of Turckye in Iune caused all hys chefe and best learned priestes to come before hym and commaunded them vpon a great payne to tell hym whyche is the ryght true and best belefe vpon earth And when they had for feare excused themselues they had a tyme appoynted to remembre them and after were called before hymagayne Now when they were agayne monished to saye the trueth of theyr conscyence and heard the commaundement of the Tyrant they answered one after another wyth one assent that the Christen beliefe is the best and that it is a ryght and a true belefe albeit it is very much misused of the Christen For it teacheth the beste poyntes that can be as to wytte loue toward God and man whych is not so well taught in any other belefe And forther that they haue wytnesse in their lawe and alkorane that Mahomet must go to Christ for grace c. And that Christe is therefore better than Mahomet Whē they now had thus answered wythout feare the Tyrant waxed angrye and caused them all which were aboue fyfiye to beheaded And in the same place was there a syght sene as though all the headed priestes had bene together and lighted clearer than manye candellyghtes in the nyght through which miracle manye of the other priestes of Mahomet folowed theyr confessyon belefe also many of y ◠Lay people which acknowledged openly and wythout feare that those priestes were vniustly kylled for the truethes sake All thynges are possible to God so that it may well be For God cā raise vp a Daniel or an Ezechiel amōg the Babilonians Howbeit no man shall be compelled to beleue this but at his pleasure IN the yeare of our lord M. D. XL. in the beginning of the yeare dyd the Emperoures Maiestye ryde to Paris and as he rode in was excedyng royally conducted and receaued and afterwarde great and pryncely Banckettes made wyth great momeryes and daunces And the second daye after there were great Iustynges and fyghtynges made `to do hym pleasure and honour wyth all There his Maiesty abode tyll the second day after the twelueth daye Then he departeth into Flaunders wyth al his company and was conducted vnto Camerick of bothe the kynges sonnes and there with great royalty receaued of the Bishop of Camerick From thens they iorneyed to Valencyne there taryed the ladye Marye Quene of hungarye for them There also toke the kynges sonnes theyr leaue of the Emperoures mayestye and tourned home agayn But as the Emperoures Mayestye was in all places royallye receaued so was ther wayte layde falslye pryuelye and craftelye to kyll hym For as the Emperoure shulde sayell from corbe to Paryse and hadde wyth hym a Cardynall the Duke of Albuge and the kynges Marschalle to beare hym companye the water men rowed the shyppe vpon a pyele so that the shyp turned round aboute and he that hylde the rother fell oute of the boot what that meant it is easy to gesse wherof the Emperour complayneth in a letter written to Paule the thyrde byshoppe of Rome whereyn he sheweth the cause why he could not come to the councell appointed to be holden at Trente that he had perfect knowledge that the kynge of Fraunce was mynded at that tyme to take hym presoner and kepe hym in holde as it also afterwarde sufficyently appeared by the affaires of the sayde king But after the Emperours mayestye was comen in to hys awne lande he wente streyghtwayes vnto Gent and after he was suffred to come in to the cytye he fyrste earnestlye punyshed the insurrecty on raysers and caused a great parte of the citye to be broken downe and a stronge Castell to be buylded in the same place A none after cam Ferdinādus in to Flaūders to y ◠Emperours maiesty to consult with him after whatt maner they myghte wythstande the turcke and howe hys greate tyrannye agaynste vs poor Chrystyans myghte be resysted and auoyded Euen whyle these thynges were done in Flaunders ther was a communycacyon holden at Wormes at the Emperours commaundement concernynge Relygyon and the speakers of both sydes were master Philip Melanthon myne enterelye beloued master of the Gospellers syde and Doctor Iohn Ecke of Ingolstadt whyche wolde haue defended the Byshoppe of Romes parte Thys communycacion beganne the fourtenne day of Ianuarye there the Artycle of orygynall synne was specyallye intreated of whether the same syn abyde and remayne in Chrysten and holy men after baptyme And was concluded that ther yet abyede remnauntes of synne in the saynctes althoughe they raygne nott or haue the ouerhande As. S. Paule sayth let not synne raygne in your mortall bodyes But suche synnes are not imputed to the saynctes for Christes merytes sake as the Apostle forther saythe ther is nowe no condemnacyon to them that are in Chryste Iesu c. After thys treatye was that communycacyon so ended and dyffered tyl the Emperoures and the kynges mayestyes of the Romaynes were personallye presente But what sutteltye and craft Eccyus vsed in dysputacyon to adourne and garnysh hys cause maye euerye wyttye manse by the treaty it selfe whych is
shamefully misused them they were ether kylled or caried awaye into a strauÌ„ge countrey into extreame mysery and wretchednesse After this the Turke caused the Quene and her Sonne and the Moncke and many other of the Courtyers to bee sent vnto Lyppa whyche is a stronge Castell And then sent oute three Companies into thre coastes of Hungerlande to robbe and steale in euery companye twelue thousande men of whiche the fyrste coulde do no great harme for they coulde not come into Mehrer lande by the meanes of the Water where their purpose was to haue made hauock The second Company came all moste as farre as Vienne The third made hauock in the landes of the lordes of Balassa and kylled many poore men and caried many awaye for prysoners In the meane whyle sent kyng FerdinaÌ„dus his Ambassadours the Lorde Nicolas the Earle of Salme and the lorde Sigismundt of Harmonstone to Offen to the Turke to Take a Truce And when they had obtayned the same for an half yeare â–ª and made it sure on both the sydes the Ambassadours toke their way home againe to the kyng And the Turke when he had furnyshed Offen wyth twenty thousand men tooke his Iourney to Constantinople But the Turkes that were left in the Cytye of Offen kept not the Truce longe but fell often oute and toke the Christen prysoners at Vnwares whyche thynge caused oure men also to do the same with them whereupon there folowed a coÌ„tinuall Robbing and Roauing on both the sydes the whole wynter ouer so that some tyme the Turkes somtyme our men had the victory The Turke as he departed toke valeÌ„tyne Tereck thorou whose helpe he gatt Offen and caused an yeron chayne to be put about his necke and cast him in to the Tonaw by Grekes weissenburg and so rewarded hym for his true seruice He also sodenly fell vpon these Castels and toke them in zeckzaart zeckehen Baranianara and other that laye by them He also toke his pleasure vpon the citie of Fyuechurches and assaulted it but founde lytel pleasure there For the Indwellers de fended themselues well But they that were left within Offen fell twyse out at vnwares vpon Grane and the towne Kakat that lieth ouer against Grane on this syde the Tonaw they pitifully cleane robbed and pulled doune so that there was an excidyng myserable worke in Hungary this yere Besyde this Armie in Hungary had the Turck an other myghtie armie at this time both by water and by lande in the Ile Peloponesus nowe called Morea wherewith he droue the Venecians from all the Cities that they had there and tooke them in The whyle the Turck was thus woode dyd the Emperoure Charles prepare hym selfe in Italy Spayne Sycyll and other of hys landes and Iles with a notable great Nauye wherein he had a good armye well foure and twenty thousand men of whiche syxe thousande were dutchemen whose chefe Capitaine was Master George of Regensburg and sayled into Affrica vnto the Citie of Algier whiche Barbarossa had in And although the Poape disswaded the Emperoure that he shoulde not take suche an vntymely shyppyng as to wytt in Wynter at Luke where they were both together â–ª yet must the Emperoures purpose forward For he hoped to haue dryuen Barbarossa oute of that hauen and so to haue had none Enemy whom he should haue neaded to feare the somer folowing by the meanes whereof he coulde the better haue withstandeth the Turke by Sea Nowe when he hauyng a prosperouse wynde was come with the aforesayde Armie to Algier and brought his Sowdiars oute of the Shyppes and gotten them on lande than beganne sodenly suche an horryble tempest to aryse vppon Sea with wynde and rainne and lasted three dayes longe wythout ceassyng that not onely the Sowdiars wacksed doussye in the heed and syck but also through the violence of the Storme there were more than an hundreth and thyrtye Spyppes beaten shaken to geather and peryshed wherein many men and specially all their packes and baggage and all their vyttalles and the ordinaunce to beseaghe the Cytie wythall was lost of whiche thynges our men had no great Ioye Nowe when they of Algier sawe that oure men were in suche greate necessitie they fell oute of the Cytie and kylled them that kept the watche and fell vppon them that were in the Tentes with shaâ—tes and hagbushes but were yet dryuen back agayne into the Cytie of the Spanyardes Afterwarde they laye in the waye to hynder certayne knightes of the Rodes in a strayte waye of whome and hundreth folowed the Emperoure agaynsie the vnfaythfull tyll the Emperoure came and helped them with the doutch Sowdiars But when the Enemies had shott seuen thousand of the Itatalians thorou wyth hagbushes and the reast were dryuen to flye than the Emperoure exhorted the dutchemen to withstande and saide ye beloued dutchemen helpe your Emperoure thys daye or elles neuer And euen as he spake those woordes were they that stoode next by hym in order kylled with a gonne whiche thynge yet nether feared nor Amased hym any thynge at all When the dutche sowdiars perceaued that they gat a Courage and althoughe they coulde not shote for the greatnes of the raynue yet they droue the Enemies backe agayne into the Cytie wyth Speare and sworde But for as muche as all their victualles were spente and as is before sayde destroyed wyth the violence of the Storme the Emperoures Maiestie made prouision to departe and to the entent that the sowdiars myght haue some what to eate the whyle they shoulde sayle they toke the horsses oute of the Shyppes kylled them and ate them and afterward brought the sowdiars into the shyppes that were left and sayled from thence And in the saylyng homewarde they were also in greate Ieopardy and perel vpon the sea and many of the shippes and men were drowned Let this muche bee ynough of this viage He that wyll knowe further thereof may reade the whole history whiche Nicolas Villagagnome a knyght of the Rhodes hath diligently written which also was present thereby hymselfe In the meane whyle dyed the Godly Christen prince Duke Henry of Saxon Duke Georges brother and his sonne Maurice whiche after maryed the Landgraue of Hesses daughter succeded in the gouernaunce The pestilence reigned greuously in many places this .xli. yeare and specially at Vien in Ostenrick there dyed well .xviij. thousande the whole somer all moste was weete and rayne by the meanes whereof also the wyne could not come at his due sea son and was very sower And yet was this yeare more wyne wacksen then in the three yeares folowyng Wherein the grapes were all dryed vp and wythered vndoubtedly for oure vnthanckfulnesse sake and for the mysuse thereof THe yeare MDxlij in the beginning of the yeare there came certayn souldiours Italians borne into a towne in Histria called Maran not farre from Tryest belonging to Ferdinandus There were about thre hundreth of them
and the second mornyng after they came into the towne they cried Frantza Frantza and kept them together with their wordes and other weapons Nowe in the towne was very fewe people and vnape to warr by the meanes wherof they yelded them selues This towne as men suppose dyd the Frenche kynge therfore cause to be taken in to let the turck in ther in to styrmarcke kernton and the other landes nyghe ther vnto for it was a goode hauen and meate for that purpose whyche thyng yet God hath thus longe graciously preserued vs from In the meane whyle ther was preparacion made the whole Empyre thorow and a myghtye greate armye gathered to send in to vngary as was concluded at Regensburge agaynste the turcke and ther were men sent out of all the coastes of Dutche lande whyche came to geather harde by Vyenne Nowe euen when they shulde goforwarde wyth the wholl multytude togeather whyche were aboue an hundreth thousande yet was therby the meanes of hyndraunce no greate thynge brought to passe for it was in the later ende of harueste so that it wolde be shortely tyme to prepare for theyr wynter Campe. Yet the chefe and hyghe captayn for that he woulde nott be counted to haue gone forth in vayne went forwarde and beseged Peste whyche the turcke hadde wonne the yeare before in wynter and assaulted it wyth the greatlosse of our men And as they in the citye fell often oute to feyght wyth oure men duke Mauryce of Saxon played the man and folowed after the enemyes so farre from hys awne company that he was compassed rounde aboute of the turckes and taken But because they coulde get nothyng of hym in his complete harnesse they woulde leuer haue taken hym therout alyue the whyle the Turckes were aboute hym to haue shyfted hym oute of his harnesse one of hys Ientellmen soughte so manfully to delyuer hys master tyll the reaste of the horse men myssed theyr master and came to help hym and vtterlie delyuered hym from the Enemyes But the Ientylman that fought so manfullye for him was kylled of the turckes In the meane ceason ther came a great horrible sycknesse amonge the soudyars whyche wacksed greater and greater by the meanes wherof they were compelled to brekeup the Campe and gyue the soudyars leaue to departe So that haply thorou the handyworck of God whyche wyll moare punyshe vs wyth the Turcke as we then daly wel deserue with vnthanckfulnesse and with the persequntynge of his woorde ther was no moare done but that we loste bothe our men and monye and all oure labour and made our selues mockyng stockes to the Turcke At the departynge from thence they so dyed of the afforsayde sycknesse that skant the tenth man came home agayne Thys sycknesse was so contagyouse that yf one butt blewe vpon a nother he muste dye and the whyle they laye they were full of fantesyes as though they had bene madde and as â—onâ— as that madnesse was gonne from them they dyed by and by Very fewe recouered that had this syckenesse but they that dyed not of it lay wounderouse long syck Whyle the Marquesse of Brandenburge as is â—for sayde laye wych thys multitude in Vngary in the meane whyle the famouse prynce Ihon Fryderycke Duke of Saxon. Electour c. and Philyppe Landgraue of Hesse and they that were in leaghe wyth them toke in to waghes a reasonable goode sorte of horsse men and fote men agaynste Duke Henrye of Brunswycke The occasyon of thys warre was that the Duke of Brunswycke after he hadde of shamefully and hyghly slaundred bothe the Electoure and the Landgraue wyth openlye prynted bokes dyd them of Goslar and Brunswycke whyche bothe weare in leaghe wyth the afforsayd prynces manye and greate iniuryes as that he belayed the wayes to these twoo cytyes toke theyr cytezens presoners toke raunsome for them yet killed them And although he were often commaunded to leaue those proude poyntes by the Emperoure and the kynge of the Romaynes yet woulde he not leaue hys euell purpose sayd that it shoulde coste hym hys wholle Dukedome yet he woulde leue it Nouwe in as muche as ther coulde no meane be founde to helpe the matter the aboue mencyoned Noble Prynces and they that were in leaghe wyth them were dryuen to defende ther felowes membres of the same leaghe Therefore wente they forwarde in Iuly with their soudyars whiche were aboute two and twenty thousand in to the land of Brunswick There the cities and castelles were yelde vppe one after a nother and were wyth frenshyppe gracyouslye receaued and defended and euery man suffred to kepe hys awne goodes wyth out any losse or hynderaunce But suche as wolde wyth stande were compelled to be obedyente When he of Brunswyke sawe that he manned hys beste and strongeste house called Woluenbutell whych lyeth in a flatte euenfelde wyth strong walles and water ditches wyth hys awne subiectes and wente hys waye as thoughe he woulde fetchemo men and shortely come agayne and helpe them commaund ynge them to playe the men and kepe the house tyll he came agayne They hadde also all thynges ynoughe in the Castel that was neadefull ther to yf they shoulde haue bene long beseaged Nowe when the princes came before the Castel they sent word thyther that they shuld haue peace and a safe conduyte to come oute wyth all that they hadde yf they woulde yelde vppe the Castell Ther vnto answered the captaines that were with in the Castell that they shulde come agayne thre yeare after and then woulde they geue them an Answer to that question For they trusted to kepe that Castell so longe they thoughte that it was nott possyble to wynne it if it were nott hungred oute and they hadde made prouision for thre yeares wherefore they woulde not yelde it vp Vpon thys prowde Answere the prynces and the cytye of Brunswyke treuched in thre places and pytched theyr tentes And the Land graue came so nyghe wyth hys ordynaunce that a man myghte caste a stoane in to the Castell dytche oute of hys trenche And when they hadde begonne to shote the ordynaunce the trompettoure of the Castell syttynge aboue in the tower beganne to playe thys ballatte to anger the Prynces wyth all If thy pastime repent y e than get y e home again c. Therwyth all was the Land graue so angrye that he leuelled al his ordinaunce against the tower and so shott ther at that the tower and the trompetter wyth all hys pypynge fell downe Thys fallynge downe of the tower made them that were in the Castell so affearde that they that dwellte in the countreye harde by the Castell beganne streyght wayes to come oute one after a nother swymmynge ouer the dytche by a duffhouse And when y e other mercked that many of theyr men were gonne and were to weeke to wythstande the greate power that was there agaynst them they yelded vppe
both them selues and the Castell vnto the Prynces Afterward was the Castel and the wholle lande sett in an order and the Gospell whyche before was kepte from it throughe that tyranne the Duke of Brunswycke ordeyned to be preached therinne And when they hadde ordeyned all thynges after the beste facyon and the Duke of Brunswycke appeared no where wyth any sowdyars and the Empyre requyred But the Emperoure coulde smell what the Pope meante Wherefore he vtterlye refused that councell and exhorted hym by wrytyng that he woulde rather see thatt the Frentch kyng kepte peace to thynthent that the Turcke myghte be wythstanded than to call a councel at suche an Vnmeete time which might be an hynderaunce to the other purpoose to make peace Afterwarde the Emperoures Mayestye prepared hymselfe after the beste facyon to wyth stand the Frentche kynge and hys partetakers Aboute thys tyme dyd the a boue mencyoned Prynces Duke Otho Henrycke and Phylyppe hys brother bothe countye palatynes on the rhyne and the cytyes Regensburgh and Swyneforthe receaue the Gospell for whyche thynge they were compelled to take muche harme and specyallye they of Regensburge to whome Duke Wyllyam of Bayer did al the hurte that the could and forbadde all hys subyâ—ctes that none of them shulde carye anye thynge to Regensburge or by or sell wyth them or yf anye man dyd he muste nott come agayne in to hys lande and must leese all hys goodes Thys was a greate hyndraunce to the cytye of Regensburge For it lyeth in the myddes of the lande of Bayer Yeth hath God gracyously preserued it In the begynnynge of the herueste ther came oute of Lyâ—towe thorou the land of pole and through schlesye and vnto the land of myssen great multytudes of Grassehoppers flyinge and layed them downe in the aboue mencyoned landes by greate multytudes an hundreth dutch myle long and aâ—e vppe all that was grene in the felde and lo we medowes They were as greate as a mannes fynger and some of them greater they hadde scales as it hadde bene harnesse vpon them and as it were an hatte vpon theyr heades lyke an olde rowstye year on sallet and were harde lyke an horne so that a man coulde skante treade them in sonder They had four winges as it wer which wereread speckelde some of them were yellowe and gray and of other speckelde coloures And where so euer they layed them downe in the felde there they laye well a foate thycke from the grounde And specyallye in the lande of Pole they saye that they laye an halfe elne thick from the grounde When the sunne beganne to schyne then they flewe vppe by greate heapes in battell order so thycke to gether that they shadowed the sonne lyke a clowde They flewe also as swystlye as other birdes a wholl dutche myl befor they reasted In the lande of myssen they came as farre as to the water Mylda for ther they came nott Euerye man thoughte that then shoulde a greate deathe haue folowed in the same landes where as yet hyther to ther hath none bene hearde of Haplye it was a warnynge as certen learned men wryte that we should take hiede that we myght be able to withstande if the Turck came in wyth suche a multitude of people from whyche thynge God gracyously defende vs. In Italye vpon the .xiii. daye of Iune ther was a fearfull and an horryble Earthquake by Florence whyche threwe downe manye Chymneyes in Florence and almooste a wholle lytell towne lyinge not farre from it called Scharbarya and destroyed many men They wryte also that in Turckye a lytell towne lyinge not farre from Solonychyo from whence the Saffren cometh was destroyed wyth men and women and all that was ther in wyth an Earthquake They saye also that ther stode ouer Constantynople an horryble blasynge sterre .xl. dayes longe and that in the same dayes in Iune and Iulye there was there an horryble weether and an Earthquake They saye also that a Dragon burnt the Turckes Castell and treasure and that ther came a greate multitude of wolues rennynge into the cyty whyche dyd men muche harme And many suche wounders done at that tyme were wrytten oute of Constantynople wherof as me semeth some be but lyes Howe beit I lett euerye man thynck ther in as shal please hym and beleue what he wyll Let thys be ynoughe of thys yeare The Brabanters beyng prouoked of Marten van Rosheyme rusch et in to the lande of Gulyck â–ª and burne certen Castels lytel townes or robbe and make hauocke of them They manne Duren Gulycke â—yttard Sustern and Hynsberg which were yelded vp vnto them On the other syde the Duke of Cleue after he hath gathered an armye round aboute oure all places wythstandeth the power of the Brabanders Whyche after they had made Hensburg stronge entended also to Fence Duren entred into fyght wyth hys Enemyes Wherein when there were many kylled on both partyes the fyght was ended Syttard and Gulyck because the walles were ouerthrowen of the Brabanders the Duke of Cleue causeth to be strongly walled agayne and beseaged Duren and compelleth them to yelde vp the towne in the ende of December Thys yeare Iames the fyft kynge of Scottland beyng .xxxiij. yeare of age dyed in December leauyng but one onely doughter alyue of two yeare of age borne of hys second wyfe ouer whom he ordeyned tutors and gouerners of the Realme the Cardynall of S. Andrewes and the lorde Hamelton IN the yeare of our Lord 1543. euen in the begynnynge of the yeare was a conuocation or Counsell kept at Nuremburgh at the whyche conuocation was present kyng Ferdinandus wyth hys two eldest sonnes and besydes them the moost parte of the Ambassadours and deputies of the other princes of the Empyre And when all theyr actes and doynges were prolonged vntyll after Easter ther was another day appoynted to be kept at Spyer where the Emperours Mayestye shoulde personally appeare hym selfe In the moneth of Ianuary the Emperours maiesty sent out of spain a mighty army bothe on horsback on foot wherof the erle of Aultete was capitaine into y e land of the Mores called Mauritania â—â—enge in the coastes and borders of Afryca ouer agaynste Spayne to inuade the kynge of the cytye of tremetz wherof also the kyngdome hath hys name because that by the helpe of the Moores he hadde proflygated and expelled hys brother vnto whome the gouernaunce of the kingdome by right dyd appertayne whyche soughte redresse and succour at the handes of themperours maiesty This armye arryued the .xxvii. daye of Ianuary at the cytye of Tybyda lyenge by the sea syde where they founde a greate multytude of Mores which soone auoyded and lefte y e cyty vnto the Spanyardes After thys they marched from Tybyda towardes tremetz and endamaged the Mores by the waye whyche were departed from Tybyda vntyll at the laste they tourned them selues again and made a conflycte
earth In the moneth of Aprill came the Emperoures maiestie to Raynesburgh on Saturday after mydlent Sonday where he founde but fewe princes of the Empyre besydes a small nombre of certaine byshoppes Consequentely after Easter when certayn princes and Ambassadours or Legates of other were come thither the conuocation was begonne and the propositions were of the agreement of the Articles in controuersy in religion of the ordre and establyshment of the chamber court and of the Coyne Item howe the Turke myght be resisted But in the meane season when there was great prouision and preparation made to take vp men warriours in the name of themperours Maiestie thoroughout all Duchelande the Electours princes and estates of the confession of Ausbourgh desyred moste humbly at Whitsontyde to knowe of the Emperours Maiestie against whome suche preparation of warre was intended whereupon they receiued this darke aunswere that the Emperoures Maiestie woulde punishe certayne rebelles of the Empire After this darke aunswere when many thyngs were feared and the sayde warriours were in a redynes the conuocacion toke an ende and another was instituted and appointed against the next yere to begynne the fyrst day of February Forasmuche therfore as Duke Iohn Frederike Electour in Saxon and Lorde Phylyppe Landgraue of Hessen with the other Princes Lordes estates and townes of the confession and confederation of Ausburgh perceiued that the saide great preparacion of warres was enterprised and intended against no man but against them they prepared also an hoste of men for their necessary defence for the mayntenaunce and preseruacion of the pure and sincere doctrine of the Gospell for the defence also of their Landes dominions and subiectes and for the continuacion of the liberties and priuiledges of the Germaine nacion and went furth in the moneth of Iune ouerthrowen and destroyed Fyftely the Postmaysters house where themperour was wont to haue hys posthorses when he had nede of them wyth the stables and the horses in the same at that tyme was quyte stryken awaye by the thonder and burned vp Syxtely Saynt Barnardes place wherin the Abbot of S. Barnarde had hys lodgyng when he came to Meghlyne was vtterly destroyed by the thonder and the cloyster of the Augustyne freers was a great parte ouerthrowen and destroyed Seuently The Voogstrete which was a fayre large strete was also in lyke maner ouerthrowen that there remayned neuer a house standyng nor yet as they sayd block nor stone Eightely The Palace of Hyghstrete whyche was an excedyng fayre and strong buyldynge belongyng to a certayn great lorde was quyte and clene ouerthrowen and destroyed And as the inhabitauntes of the sayd towne of Meghlyne do affyrme yf the sayd Palayce of Hyghstrete wyth other places and greate buyldynges had not bene there standynd The hole towne of Meghlyn must nedes haue ben vtterly ouerthrowen and destroyed so that nether house stycke nor stone shuld haue remayned in the same For the sayd hygh and strong buyldynges were a greate defence to the towne Besydes thys there were also other places and great buyldinges whose names to auoyd prolyxite are not here rehearsed whych were in lyke maner ouerthrowen destroyed of the thonder as the other together with seuen hundred houses Insumme almoost all the houses of the towne were endamaged fewe or none excepte that hadde not some hurte done by the thonder Nyntly the nexte daye after when the sayde piteous calamite was done whiche was the. 8. day of August when they beganne to make rowme there were founde about thre hundred persons men women and children which were slaine by the meanes of the thondre whome they loded in wagens cartes and buryed them in great holes that were digged for the same purpose There were also founde aboue 150. persons sore wounded and harmed And there happened one thing in the sayd toune specyally to be meruayled at which is that certayn gestes sate in theyr hostes hous drynkynge to gether and plaieng at the cardes and while they called for drynke and theyr hostesse went doune into the seller to drawe them a pot of byre in the meane season was the house stryken awaye by the thonder and the players found dead wyth the cardes in theyr handes as though they had ben styll playeng but the hostesse saued her lyfe by the meanes y ◠she was in the seller whan the sayd hurt was done Tenthly There was also a man founde in a corner the thyrd daye after that the sayde hurte was done hauyng no harme whych asked whether the world were yet standyng or not There was also a woman founde dead beynge great wyth chylde whych was afterwarde cut opē and the chylde taken out of her belly was baptised Muche harme was there done besydes not onely within the towne of Meghline but also without the towne as in the townes villages castels and boroughes lyeng there about where thesaide wether hath done much harme and there were many innumerable fearfull and wonderful sygnes and to kens sene so that bothe the Emperoure and the lady Mary had nede to remembre them selues for it is to be feared that God will beginne to reuenge the innocent bloude whiche is very piteously shed in the lower partes of Duchelande for the Gospels sake for it crieth into heauen and so fylleth the boso me of Gods high matestie that he can suffre it no lōger yea he wyll laye on yet greater loades oneles they repente and amende in tyme for he hath suffered them long ynough When this warre betwene themperour the electour of Saxon the Landgraue of Hessen had continued into the first moneth themperour had declared hymself an open enemy both to the forsaid princes onely of his owne mynde without either right reason or warnyng and without the knowledge consent of the estates membres of thempire In the meane seasō did Maurice duke of Sax on with great feruentnes prepare a great nōbre of horsemen pietons wherefore al men stode in great feare not knowing against whom he made the same preparation And forasmuche as the electour of Saxon was out of his lande duke Maurice was next of hys bloude and his nere kisman bothe on the fathers the mothers syde was also by bym brought vp had receiued many benefites at his hand many were of this hope iudgemēt that thesaid preparatiō was made for the defence succour of the landes subiectes of the electour so that fewe or none suspected any gyle in duke Maurice In the meane season did kyng Ferdinando also endenour hymselfe to stirre vp the Lusenitianes Bohemianes against the lande of the Electour of Saxon but with honest vertuous men coulde he litle preuayle notwithstāding by the meanes of his importunate labour and instaunt intreataūce he assembled a sorte of Pietons in Boheme being in nōbre about eyght thousand men in Hungary aboue a thousand husbandmen a wicked rauenish generation to destory waste the landes
dominiōs of thesaid Electour which mē did first inuade Voyt land there toke the townes vilages and liberties pertaining tothe Electour piteously spoyling roauingburning destroieng many men young olde And specially therwas an execrable madnes murther cōmitted vpō an honest Curate minister that feared God at Newechurche whom when thesaid husbād mē had mostcruelly martyred murthered and sawe that he was fatte they cut him in peces after the maner of a fatte Swyne casting the peces from one to another and sayeng Lo brother there hast thou a good roastyng pece of an hogge Of whiche innocent bloud are gilty all they that do helpe or consent to the sayde murtheryshe and intestine warres whereof doutles God wyll take vengeaunce in tyme conuenient Nowe when the matter as it was fyrst begonne and purposed against the Electour his dominiōs for Duke Maurice had bene first with the kynge in Bohemy toke effect and apeared euidently as though the kyng woulde ouercome and take in all the Landes and dominions of the Electour Duke Maurice exalted hymselfe with his army and first toke the townes lyeng to warde the mountaynes and then he went with thesayde Bohemians and husband men to besege the towne of Zwickowe But least I be demed to stande to muche in myne owne conceite and to take vpon me to Iudge other wise than it becometh me in this matter I will set hereafter the true Copye of his lettres whereby he required and admonyshed the towne of the Electour to yelde them selues vnto hym by the cōsentes whereof men of honestie and vnderstanding may easely perceyue what good grounde and sure foundacion he pretended in these affaires By the grace of God we Maurice duke of Saxō Land graue of During and Marquis of Myssene aduertyse you our welbeloued and trusty counsayl and commons of Saron c. That forasmuche as the myghty Prince our Cosyn Duke Iohn Frederike the Elder hath ben founde negligent in doing of hys dutie and it is manifest that men are about to bryng you from the house of Saxon into the power of straungers and we beyng a borne prince of Saxon hauing also parte in the lande wyth our for sayd Cosyn and be charged by earnest commaundement of the Emperoures Maiestie our moste gracious lorde for the auoydyng of greuous penalties and corrections and also by the losse of our Regaltie and preeminēce our seiues to take the same land in possession or elles to permitte and suffre other to do the same whereby oure owne Landes and dominions must nedes come in daunger and destruction Wherfore we require you to sutmitte your selues vnto vs as Prince of Saxon and to receyue vs accordingly with due solempuisation And we are prone graciously inclined to desen de you in the Christen religion wherein ye bee and lyke mayer your bodyes goodes and possessions and to leaue you by youre olde liberties and priuiledges And when the matter or controuersy betwene the Emperoures Maiestie the Romyshe kynges Maiestie and our forsayde Cosyn shall come to an agreement we shalbe ready as touchynge the landes whiche we shall haue taken in possession of hys by the knowledge and wyll of their Maiesties and as muche as maye be done without their preiudice thorough our owne dominions to be intreated ordered accordyng to ryght and reason But yf ye should refuse so to do it should apeare vnto vs as though ye would wylfully be put from the house of Saxon whiche may not be suffered of vs. Wherefore we require herein your directe aunswere by the bearer of the letter in hast whyle oure enemy is at hande that we may auoyde the daunger Geuen in our Towne of zwickowe the syxt daye of Nouēber Anno a thousand fyue hundreth fourty and syxe Duke Maurice of Saxon. Manu propria When zwickowe had yelded vnto him the syxt day of Nouember he toke also the townes lyeng there about and consequētly Aldenbourgh Ilenbourgh Grymme Torgawe c. the .xvi. day of Nouember duke Maurice sent a Trompetter with two lettres the one to the Deputie and the other to the Communaltie of Witten bourgh directed betwene thre foure of the clocke at after none before the Elue gate but before the lettres were receyued the suburbes were set on fyre whereby was sygnifyed that they intended to stande to their defence The same daye dyd he also aduertise thinhabitauntes of Torgawe whiche lay in gareson for the defence of Wittenburgh that oneles they woulde come home by the next daye before Sunne set he would sende their wyues and chyldren after them and besydes that depriue them of all their goodes The ende of the Appendix or addition compyled by Maister Iohn Funke Brefe Annotations added vnto the premisses gathered out of dyuers historiographers IN the sayd yere of our lorde MD. xlvi apeace was concluded betwene Englād and Fraunce whiche on Whitsondaye was proclaimed For conclusion whereof the Viscount Lisse high Admiral of England with the Byshop of Duresine and a goodly company of Gentylmen went out of Englande into Fraunce after whose retourne Monsure Denball high Admirall of Fraunce the Byshop of Eureux and two Erles came into Englande with the Sacre of Depe and .xij. galleyes and were honorably receiued The saide yere also in lent before was the Stewes at London put downe and abolysshed by the kynges commaundement the .ix. daye of Iuly was burned at London in smithfielde Anne Askew a gentill woman Iohn lassels of the kynges preuy chambre Iohn Adlam tayler of Suffolke and Nicolas Belenyam priest for opinions consonaunt to the trueth and contrary to the acte of the syx Articles At whiche tyme al so Doctour Nicolas Schaxton somtime Byshop of Salisbury recanted and denied the trueth whiche before he had professed Whiche thing also one Doctour Crome whiche had bene a great and famous preacher had done at Paules Crosse the xxvij daye of Iune before affirming openly that he had bene seduced by noughty bookes c. In England also in Nouember was the duke of Northfolke and his sonne the Erle of Surrey attaincted of treason for the which his sonne was put to execution in Ianuary after and hym selfe cōmitted to the Towre where he doeth yet remayne IN the yere of our lord God MD. xlvij there were in Germany dyuers and wonderfull innouacions of thinges chaūces of warres chaūges of fortune yeldynges of Princes ouerthrowinges and subuersions of townes and castelles fallinges of great men conuocatiōs of Synodes and counsayles which I do here omitte partely to auoyde prolixite and partely for that the certaintie of suche thinges taken by heare say onely is oftentimes deceiuable Trusting to haue occcasion and oportunitie hereafter to declare and set furth the same matter at large The inhabitauntes of the countie of Tiroll and Isebredge were this yere sore plaghed with wonderfull locustes and grashoppers both creping and flyeng whiche were there in suche aboundaunce that the creping sorte couered all
Capitayne â–ª and the .xxvij. daye of August it was ended foure thousand beyng slayne the victory geuen through goddes grace by the handes of Iohn the noble Erle of Warwyke At the same tyme the Cornysh and Deuonshyre men were ouercome and very many of them slayn besydes many of their gentilmen taken This yere also Bonner byshop of London was put from his byshoprike for his stubborne Popyshnes the first day of October and for certainte obstinate articles coÌ„mitted to the Marshalsee the people muche reioysyng at it In this moneth the Duke of Somerset was coÌ„mitted to the toure to the great lamentacion of very many In this moneth also died the Pope of Rome called Paule the thyrde This yere the weke before Whitsontide thre honest marchauntes and a younge lad beinge honest mens sonnes of Brunswyke yourneyed from Andwarpe to Brunswyke there to heare at that feast goddes word preached And as they rode on Whitson euen after midnight halfway betwene Celle Brunswyke on a heath ouer gainst a certayn farme they nor yet Christ hymselfe dyd knowe namely howe a man can serue twoo maisters at ones God and the wicked worlde Item howe we can be good Christianes yet knowledge not Christ nor helpe hym to beare his crosse yea rather persecute hys poore membres God geue vs grace to knowledge his son ne a ryght suffre paciently all miuries and endure to the ende that he may also at the great and fearefull day of the lorde knowledge vs before hys heauenly father and hys vniuersal churche and before all hys aungels Amen IN the yere of oure Lorde 1550. the xix daye of Ianuary Capitayne Gambolde who was Capitayne of the Spanyardes that serued the kyng of Englande in his warres and an other Capitaine was slayne without Newe gate in an euenyng by a Spanyarde whiche was taken and hanged the. xxiiiâ— daye of Ianuary and thre more with hym the .xxviij. day of the same moneth was Humfrey arundell and Bury with two other mo drawne hanged and quartered for because they were the these capitaynes and mayntayners of the rebellion among the Cornyshe and Deuonshyre men The sixt day of February came the Duke of Somerset out of the Tower with greate reioyiyng of muche people In the same moneth went out of Englande certayne lordes of the counsaill to Buileine where certayne of the Frenche counsayll met with them and after long consultacion had and dyuers metynges betwene them there was a generall peace conciuded whiche peace was proclaimed the .xxix. daye of Marche folowyng Also about the .xxv. day of Apryll folowyng the towne of Bullayne with the fortresses thereto belongyng was delyuered by the Englyshemen into the Frenchemens handes The second daye of May was brent at London in smythfielde a certayne woman called Ione Boocher otherwyse called Ione of Barkyng for the horrible heresy of the Apellites Cerdonians proclianites Valentinians Manichees Timotheans Apolinarianes Nestorianes sedicious Anabaptistes of our tyme whiche she helth commen with all them of a set wilfulnesse for all those hereticall patriarkes was she sure to haue as maisters and doctours of her pernicious errour that Christ toke no fleshe of the virgine as largely apeareth in the cronicles About this tyme there were certayne lyght persones pretendyng a newe commotion in Kent but they were appreheÌ„ded and dyuers of them for that trespas hanged It is sayde that this yere the .xxi. daye of Marche in the countie of Carinte besydes the Lande of Bauariam Austryche by and aboute a lyttel towne called Claghenforth it rayned corne out of the element by the space of two houres which rayne stretched in lenght .vi. Germayn myles and in breedth halfe a Germayne myle in some places so that the sayd corne beyng some white and some browne lay in some places the thickenes of an hand broade vpoÌ„ the grouÌ„de WhereupoÌ„ the people of the lande came and gathered of the sayde corne and brought it to the mylles and baked thereof good sauery bread the significacion of whiche mistery is reserued to God alone to whome be honoure glory and prayse in all thynges for euer and euer Amen This yere the kyng of Spayne went home agayne out of Flaunders This yere also there was a cruel proclamatioÌ„ set furth by the vniuersitie of Louayne in the name of the Emperoures Maiestie for the persecution of the faithfull Christianes condempning al maner of scripture bookes as well Bibles as other in what tonge so euer they were written or translated that had bene printed within the space of .xxx. yeres before with moste extreme death prosecutinge all the fauourours of the doctrine set furth by Martine Luther Iohn Ecolampadius Hulderike zwinglius Iohn Caluine or their ad herentes and condempning them for heretikes and their doctrine for moste pernicious and pestilent heresy without any probable argumentes or good reasons After this themperoure went vp agayne into Germany The ende of this cronicle The conclusion THus haue I Christen reader brefeâ—â— comprehended the principall Storie â— whiche I haue founde and thought necessary as they haue bene done here there thoroughout Christendom these xviij yeres last past Howe be it if ought seme to be omitted and left out whiche is a thyng that may lyghtely chaunce to any man I beseche you that it be not interpretated in the worst parte coÌ„sideryng that I haue done my diligence to set furth y â— truthe Wherfore yf I haue bene truely infourmed it is wel Also if it fortuned y â— in the sayd Story were made meÌ„cion of any man vnto whoÌ„ it might apeare that iniury were done vnto hym in that he is not so muche coÌ„mended as some other woulde therefore be angry let hym remembre iâ— at the faulte is not in me but in hymselfe For it becometh an historiographer or Story writer to declare the truthe in all thynges Wherfore if men vse honestie their prayse shalbe the more but if they walke inordinately they deserue no prayse at all For the actes and histories that are written ought to edifye and profyte them that come after that they maye thereby learne what ought to bee eschued and what to be folowed whiche thynge without sure and certayne declaracion of the truth can not be done Therefore let suche men be angry wyth them selues yf they bee greued at the matter consideryng that they haue done nothyng and â—thy of commendacion And let them from henthe â—rth endeuoure them selues by honest conuersathe siâ— and Christen behaueour to couer their shame Godâ— then shall all thynges be counted vnto them coÌ„uâ—â—endable for somuche as euery thynge that is past is rather imputed to the tyme and to fortune then to the will of the person when the same is perceiued and knowen to haue forsaken the euyll whiche he vsed in tymes past and to folowe honestie and goodnes And although I haue abstayned from all that myght be tedious and bitter as muche as the truth myght suffre
noble fo clxxiij Nicolaus the fyft a fauourer of learnyng fo clxxxiiij Nichomachus fo lviij Ninine fo vi Ninus kyng of Spria fo vij Norynbergh is taken by Henry the fyft cliij ccxxxv the Castel buylded fo ccxxiiij Normandys fell into Frannce cxxxv they are ouercome fo cxxxv Norwych insurrectyon cclxxv Nouacyaus heresy is condemned fo xcix Castel nona cunaded fo ccxxiij Numitor fo xxv Nuce clxxxiii O Occan a reprouer of the bysh of Rom. fo clxxij Ochosias fo xv Octanius Augustus fo lxxxvi Oecolampadius lâ—xxxviij Olympians began fo xx Oldenborough Erle and the Lubycks innaded the Dukedome of Holsats fo cciij Onedeluburgh Orchomenus fo xxij Origen a reacher of Alexandri fo xcvi Oseas fo xvi Otanes fo xl Othacarus cxij. kynge of the Bohems fo clxix Othomannus Cxxiij Clxx. Otho the tyrâ—t xci Cxl. the vpcoures raysed agaynst hym cxl the aunswere of hym to the FreÌ„chmens threatenyngs cxli. duke of Saxon. cxxxvij he made the firste an othe to to the byshop of Rome cxliij the second cxliij he was taken by Maryners cxliiij The Frenche men are subdued of hym ibidem the thyrd called the wounders of the worlde ibid. he was poysoned cxlvi the fourth clxij clxiij of Wytelspach clxiij Ochyas whyche is called â—â—aries fo xvi P Padua an vninersyte cxxxi Paiasetus a Turkyshe Emperour was subdued and brought low clxxvij Palatyne the Countyes cxlvi clâ—â— y e annceters of Palatyne came of Charles the greate fo cxxix ccliiij Papinianus a lawyar xcvi Peafable studyes lxx xciiij Parmenian fo lcij The Persyans inuade Mesopotamia fo ccxix Paul the thyrde chosen to be pope fo ccv Paul is behedded fo xci Paulus Eemilius lxxix S. Paul besyeged fo ccxix Peace grauÌ„ted ccij cciij ccxiiij fo ccxxij Peace procured betwene Englande and Fraunce ccliiij cclxix Pelagius an heretique cix was byshop of Rome cxiiij Peron beseged ccxiij Perdicus was healed of Hypocrates lvij lxiiij hys art lxiiij Persys are example of dislopalte lv when the monarchye of the Persyans begaun xxvij the delyberation of them xl of Persia of the kyngdom fo xl Persequntion for the true seruyce of God fo ij Persecutyon most tyrannycall fo lxxvij Perseus the last kyng of Mace donia sonne to Philip. lxxviij Pestes fo ccxl Philip. lxxviij Philip destroyeth the Thebans lvij his dreames lx he was slayne because he left a wycked dede vnpunished fo lxi Philip Bardesanes cxxv sonne to Maximiliane clxxxvi Peter was crucifyed xci Pharisees fo lxxiiij Philip was the fyrste Christen Emperour baptysed xcviij Philip Emperour clxi he was slayne of Otho at Wytelspach by entrape clxiij Philip sonne to Maximilian dyeth fo clxxxvi Philip Landtgraue cci Phylyp y e Palatyn put to flyght and wounded CCij Philip Melanthon ccxxviij Philosophy wyth the Grekes fo xxxvi Philosophers of Ionia and Italy ibidem Pipinus Cxxvi. kyng of Germany and Gallia fo Cxxix Platea fo xliij Plato Endoxus Aristo lvij the philosophy of Plato xcvi Plyâ—y benefycyall to the Christians fo xciiij Poets fyrst of great renoumes fo xxiiij Polmices fo xxii The pope meteth the Emperoure at Bonony fo cxcix Popery abolyshed in the lande of Saxon. fo CCxviij Pope fo CCxxxiij Clxiiij Poperye put donne CCliiij Popilius an Ambassadoure of Rome sent to Antiochus lxviij The conquest of the kynge of Portugals Iudes CCxvi Posthumus xcix Pragaâ—an vninersytye in Bohemy fo Clxxii Preraspis fo xxxviij Prince an exaÌ„ple that princes do oft warre not constrayned by necessyte xxxiiij prynces were called iudges xiâ—i what must be marked in the examples of prynces * vi to what prynces the electyon is committed Cxlv. what profet is by the prynces electors Cxlvi The prynces of Brunswycke came of Catnly Clvl. Pryntyng fo Clxxxv. Preachyng fyrst of the Gospel fo i. Preachars of the Gospell i. ordeyned in Sauoy CCix ccxv Probus fo Ci Proca fo xxv Prosperytye commeth of God clxxx Prolemeus lxiiij Euergetes lxvi lxxi Philometor lxviij lxxi the sonne of Lagus lxx Philadelphus lxx both louyng peace and seyence ibid. hys lybrary ibid. Anletes lxxi Astronomer xcv Phisopater lxvij lxxi Epiphanes fo lxxi Phisco lxxi Alexander ibi Latyrus ibi Diomsius ibidem Puissance of men ought not to be trust in fo xl Pyrcamer fo clxxxv Pythagoras begynnar of Philosophars in Italy xxxvij Q Quedeluburgh Cxliij Quintilius Varus lxxxviij R Radagasus fo Cx Rainsborough CCxxxij cclxxij Rauens or Ranenose beasts xij in nombre that Romulus saw fo Cxi Rea Siluia xxv Recantation of Doctor Smyth fo CClxxij Regenspurg Cxli. parliament fo Cxc. Rekenynge of the Grekes and Philo xxviij Regulus is taken by the Carthagmians lxxvij Hys torments ibidem hys lone and faythfullnes towarde the common wealth ibidem Rhecia lxxxviij Remus xxvi Rigour in gouernaÌ„ce is allowed of God * Risaua taken fo CCxxiij Roboam fo xiiij Romulus xxvi the stryfe of Romulus and Remus xxvi whaÌ„ Rome was buylded ibidem It was burned of the French men lix The discomfytynge of the Romaynes in the seconde warre of Carthago lxxviij The Romayn Monarchy is the laste on the yearth fo lxxxv Rome taken by duke Burbon clxxxviij an ouerflowenge at Rome Clxxxix An example of Romayn seneryte lxviij The begynnyng of the Monarchy lxxxiiij Rome is wasted by Totylas Cxiiij The prayses and profy tablenes of the Romayn lawes fo Cliii Roxan wyse to Alexander lxiiij Rudolphus is made emperoure of the bishops at Phorcen châ— The complaynt of the Emperour vpon the bishops ibid. Rudolfe of Habisburge clxviij Rupertus fo clxxvi S Saducees lxxiiij they were epicures ibidem Salfelde a dead place for councell fo Cxli. Salomon fo xiiij Samaria is a fygure of the east church xvii the occasioÌ„ of the kyngdome of it xiiij The waistyng of Samaria xvi Saraceus kyngdome there power Cxxij Cxxiâ—j Sapores kyng of the Persyans xcix Sardanapalus fo viij Sardes fo xliij Saul fo xiiij Saxon CCxl Saronye the duke of Saxon wherfore he was made woun of y e electors Cxlvi Schapler a seditions man clxxxviij Scotland inuaded fo CClij Scipio y e yonger lxxviij Nausica lxxix sonne to Paulus Aemilius lxxx Sicilia was y e cause of the warre of Carthago lxxvij Why the kynges of it doo clayme the tytel of Hierusalem Clcv. The battail of the Scythians agaynst Cyra xxxvi Scopa a captayne of Ptolomens by the schole of Alexandry xcv Seâ—ts rysen in Iury. lxxiiij Sedechias deceaued by y e high priestes xviij hys death ibid. Sedicious punished lâ—iiij xci cxxxix câ—l xiiij xliij clv. Selâ—nâ—ns lxvi of wâ—oÌ„ he was stayn lxvi Philopater lxvij Sem. fo iiij Sâ—miramis did were mens garmentes fo vij Seâ—eca fo xc Sergius Galba xci vulâ—arned and a tyraunt fo cxxxvi Serâ—â—â—s Tâ—llius xxvij Sâ—thâ— ij Shaueâ—burgh cclviij Shyltage â—â—â—ned doune to the ground cci Shartou recauted cclxx Sâ—â—â—râ—s fo xâ—vi Sigebertus an history wryter fo clij. Sigisâ—â—uÌ„â—us emperour cixxvij hys â—rpâ—dâ—â— you agaynste the Tuâ—kâ— clxxix the historâ—e of hym wyth hys serâ—auntes fo clxxix Simon fo lxxiij Sisannes a wycked iâ—dge xl Socrates
Maximilian d 〈…〉 th Maximilian warreth against the Venecians Lewis kyng of Fraunce Iulius the by shop of Rom. was discomfited in a battaill by the citie Rauennas vpon Easter daye What Electors chose Charles that now is Emperoure Martine Luther â–ª Charles y â— Frances the French king taken The commotion of vplanâ—yâ—h mâ—n Schapler Twelue articles of the sedicious rustikes Thomas Mynter Iohn Ocalâ—padius Huldrich Zwinglius renew the doctrine of Berengarius â—ndreas â—arolestadius Rome taken by Burbon With what an â—â—ost Sol 〈…〉 yd be 〈…〉 ge â—ieÌ„nâ— Charles is crowned Emperour at Bonony by the bysh of Ro. The parliament of â—usborow An ouerflowyng at Ro. Clemens the vij is taken Ferdinande kyng of Hungary A Comete sene The Switzer warre within themselues The parliament holden at RegeÌ„spurg Prophecies of recouering Constantinople and of roting the Turkes out of Europa Laurentius Miniatensis an Astronomer A Comete sene Writers of Histories Cronicles What the mutacions of kyngdomes de signifye Agathias Ctesias The conuocation or counsaill holden at Ramsburgh The duke of Saxon agreeth not to the election of y e kyng of the Romaines The seconde breakyng in of Soliman into Germany Guns assaulted of the Turke by the space of .xij. daies The wall of 〈◊〉 falleth 〈…〉 e by it â—elfe Anthony de Leua Andrewe de Aurea The citie of Corona takeÌ„ The Emperourre turned into Italy to the Pope The Pope meteth themperour at Bononia Battell moued in England against the Scottes The death of Iohn duke of Saxon. Iohn Frederick duke of Saxon. A Comete or blasing starre â—â—â—â— A great inâ—â—â—cion of watâ—â— in HollaÌ„d Seeland c. Christerne kâ—nâ— of Dâ—◠〈…〉 ke after hâ—â— returâ—â—ta 〈…〉 oure 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 l. A moÌ„struous Calfe borne by y e sea coste aboute Lindowe The Emperour Charles retourneth from Genua into Spaine Newe Indes or Ilandes plentyfull of golde and siluer founde out by the SpaÌ„yardes A soleÌ„pne coÌ„munycacyon holdeÌ„ at Massilia betwene y e Pope the French kinge The duke of Orleans marieth the Popes cosyn The Euangelycal boÌ„d is opened by y e french kyng Another Comete or blasing starre apeared Shiltagh burned downe to y e ground A great Pestilence in Germany A great earthquake tempest of wind Kynge henry the .viii was dâ—uorsed froÌ„ hys fyrste wyfe maried to an other 1534. The Anabaptystes tâ—ke the Cytye of Mynster in Westphale The Anabaptystes make them a kyng Knypperdullynge c. kregh tynge Philip Landgraue of Hessen The Citie of Minster besieged by y â— biâ—hop Scarcitye of victualles in Mynster The Anabaptistes eate lether couerynges of bookes Philip landgraue of Hessen goeth about to set his vncle into his owne land agayn Philip y â— palatine put to flyght and wounded Hulderike duke of wiâ—teÌ„berg restored to his oâ—â—â— d 〈…〉 oÌ„ A peace grauÌ„ted vnto y â— â—anâ—gâ—a â—e on them perours behalf The laÌ„dgraue retourneth into his owne lande A coÌ„meÌ„datioÌ„ of liberalyty boldenes in y e landgraue a coÌ„meÌ„datioÌ„ of pacience mekenes in theÌ„perour y e kyng of Hungary The death of Frederike kyng of DeÌ„marke A straunge thing or tokeÌ„ happened about y â— dead corps of the kynge The erle of OldeÌ„boroughe â— y â— Lubekes inuade y â— dukedom of hâ—lsaâ—es The death of George weuer markes mayer A peace concluded betwene the towne of Lubeke and the dukedom of ho sure The captaynes of Lubeke desyrous to inuade deÌ„marcke A newe war â—â— A woÌ„derfull apparitioÌ„ in DeÌ„marke Henry king of Ingland excoÌ„municated by the pope The Pope hath â—â— authority ouer Ingland king HeÌ„nry forsaketh y t Pope A bokt sett furth vp kinge henry againste the primacpe of y e Pope King Henry ioined in coÌ„federatinÌ„ with y t Princes mayntainers of â— gospel Ireland rebeâ—â—eth against their prince Pope Clement dyeth Paule y â— â–ª iii. chosen to be Pope Sophi pâ—inâ—â— of y â— Persians â—â—â—â—â—beth y â— Turk Imbrai bassa Imbray bassa with hys host slayne The Turke cometh againste y â— sayde Sophy The turke coÌ„passed aboute of the Periyans The Turke escapeth â—a roâ—eâ—â— with a lewe Barbarossa inuabeth the kyngdome of Tunyse Barbarossa suodueth Affryca the lesse Kynge Altzachenus expelled from Tunyse The 〈◊〉 of Breda burned Great tempestes of wind Waters ryuers excedingly increassed â—â— y â— â—ande of Pole The duke of MillaÌ„ marieth y â— doughâ—â—r 〈…〉 y â— kyng Denmarke Themperour prepareth an armada towardes Affrica The kingdoÌ„ of Tunise recâ—â—â—red bâ— the peâ—our Barbarossa exâ—â—lled froÌ„ Tunise Kyng Altzachenus restored to hys kyngdome of Tunise The castell of Golleta reserued for themperour Themperour returneth froÌ„ Affrica Barbarossa inuadeth the Ile of Minorca The Affricanes attempte rebellion Andrewe â—e Aurea apointed to kepe y e Affricanes in awe The sect of the Anabaptistes in creasâ—eth The Anabaptistes â—â—kemâ—â—â—w 〈…〉 â— go naked The Anabaptistes within 〈…〉 e â—ppâ—â—lled The madnes of the Anabaptistes The Anabaptistes beleued that Minster was new Ierusalem A woman would conterfet Iudith The kynge 〈…〉 ing and knipperdulling taken The kyng of the â—â—baptistes with his coÌ„sellers put to death Christian duke of Holston chosen to be kyng in Denmarke The count of Hoya and the Erle of Teckelborough slayne Louedayes kept in Hungary The kyng of Poles maried the daughter of â—erdâ—â—anto kyng of Bohemy The death of the Duke of Mylan The duke of â—aâ—er marieth the daughter of Denmarke â—ir Thomas more Chauncelour of England and y â— byshop of Rochester beheaded The monkes of the charter house A wonderful tempest Neuer suche a teÌ„pest sene Quene Katherine dowâ—ger dieth Quene Anne Bullyn be headed Que. Iane Semour maried to the kyng of Enland The citie of Geneue besieged Preachers of the Gospel ordeyned â—â— Saâ—â—â— Iulius Lesar builded Clausa Rodani The French kyng claymeth the succession of Milaâ—e It is the condicion of an apâ— to countrâ—faite all y â— is done in his â—â—ght Apraiâ—â— of the author The Emporoures complaynt to the Pope agaiÌ„st the Frenche kyng The Empeperoures request The Popes aunswere The Emperoures retourne from Rome A trapâ—one put to death at â—poâ—s The Count of Nassowe Perone besyeged The Euangelical bond The Synode or conuocatioÌ„ of Wittenborough Swinglius coÌ„senteth not with Luter in the opinion of the SacrameÌ„t A new peace concluded betwene the sea townes of Eastlande Denmarke The citie of Copenhage beseged by y â— kyng Dâ—gâ—es and 〈…〉 Coppenhagh yelded vp toâ— kyng Warborough taken Markes mayer taken and quartered Agâ—â—ly eâ—â—ple for all kynges and conquerours The practise of papistes All the byshoys of DeÌ„marck deposed Iohn Bugen hagh Thepreachig of the gospell instituted in Denmarke xxiiij thousaÌ„d parishes in Denmarch Norway furnyshed with preachers The coronation of Lhristiane siyng of Denmarck The vntuersitie of Luppenhaghe furnyshed with meÌ„learned in y â— scripturs Liuinges appointed for preachers â—â—dâ—â—s in DeÌ„ 〈…〉 Thimbassadours of England at Wittenbourgh Doctour â—â—nâ—â— An olde prophecy of Enland The Lorde Darcy with other Edwarde the syâ—t borne The death
of Quene Iane The kyng of Scottes marieth the daughter of Fraunce The coÌ„quest of the kyng of Portingals Indes The ChristeÌ„ faith planted in the kyngdome of CaÌ„baia The heath of Erasmus A preuy conspiracy in Germany against the Gospell Henry the younger duke of Brunswyke The death of George duke of Saxon Popâ—râ— abolyssed in the â—â—nde of 〈◊〉 The â—â—oole 〈…〉 gh restâ—â—â—d Heding beseged taken The lady regeÌ„t inuadeth Picardy S. Paule beseged and destroyed Turwyne beseged 〈…〉 Iohn Crisp◠〈…〉 Aâ— hoâ—â—â—ble 〈…〉 Misfortunes happened harmes done by the meanes of the teÌ„pest A collection for the pore Frere Forest A cousiâ—ltaâ—â—on holden at Rome against the Turke The Emperours â—â—â—raunâ—â—â—â—to â—icâ— The entraunce of the Pope into Nice described the religious rablâ— The Emperoure kisseth the Popes 〈…〉 e. A peace concluded betwene the Emperour FrauÌ„ce â–ª Leonora 〈…〉 N◠〈…〉 ded Barbarossa Bisana taâ—en The shipwrach of Barbarossa The Castell N 〈…〉 urg â—â—ylord Thâ— Marquea of BraÌ„denburg The death of y e duke of Gelders Auarice punyshed The lorde marquish of exâ—ter â— the â—â—rd moÌ„tacute beheaded Barbarossa robbeth y e â—e â—eâ—â—aÌ„s Italians goodes vpoÌ„ y e see Barbarossa b 〈…〉 th Câ— â–ª stelâ—ouâ— The dalmacians flye to y e Turckes betrai their felowe soudiars y e Castel Barbarossa wynneth Castel nouo The spaniat des Italyans feight maÌ„fully TheeÌ„peroures wiâ—dieth An insurreccioÌ„at Gent â–ª Embassadoures out of Fraunce into Spayne The â—perour coÌ„meth into FlauÌ„derstho â—ou Fraunce An aÌ„bassage out of osteÌ„ricke into beam Latine Wrâ—tislauya The Turcke carieth away lxxx thousaÌ„d christeÌ„ meÌ„ into turckye A blasynge sterre The laerned in Turcky acknowledg our Christen relligioÌ„ to be y â— best The â—urch headeth â–ª priestes A miracle The Emperour at paris The freÌ„ch kyng craftily seketh y e eâ—perour dâ—â—t * or be rowed * or boote * stpâ—â—an * or shippe The â—p râ—rs coÌ„plaint to y â— â—iâ—h of Ro. The Emperoure coÌ„meth to Gent. â— castel builded in Gent. FerdinaÌ„dus cometh to y â— Emperoure in to flauÌ„ders 〈…〉 A coÌ„municacion at Wor Phil. MelaÌ„ Ioh. Ecke Wheter ther remain sines in y t saintes ChristiaÌ„s after baptisme Rom. viii A day at haganouwe The Emperour◠〈…〉 ly forbedeth good bokes to be readde But what is woÌ„ne â—â— persecutyon The marque s 〈…〉 â—â—aÌ„daÌ„ 〈…〉 recea 〈…〉 y â— word â—â— God God befenheth his flock The 〈…〉 of y â— burning mortherers 〈…〉 clipse 〈…〉 Wyne both 〈…〉 good cheape Vnderstand The true king of Hungary kynge Iohn The kyng of Hungary dyed * Latine Bâ—da Ferdinandê° would take in the kyngdome of HuÌ„gary The Emperour comith to Norenberg The parliament holden at Regensburg 〈…〉 Dâ—â—â—s iâ—â—ter 〈…〉 The Pope 〈…〉 hall One of his croked piâ—pes hyndereth all that thegodly had goâ—e about â— greate while before and those meâ— of greate nobilitie besydes the excelent learned The princeâ— that receaue the worde of God after y e parliament holden at Regensburg Doctor Eckius vse â–ª hâ—he â—cuel his masters conning that is lying â–ª The beuâ—ls 〈…〉 â—â—â—al 〈…〉 â—owes 〈…〉 es 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—â— is proâ—â—dâ—â—â—r â–ª Money is geuen to seÌ„d an armye against the Turke Iohn Weyda kynge of Hungary dyâ—â—â— The Turkeâ— Bassa â—esegeth Pest * â—â—â— Albâ— â–ª greca â–ª A notable 〈…〉 ordi 〈…〉 lost 〈…〉 Hungary Willyam of Rogendorpe 〈…〉 â–ª The Turke â–ª â—eweth lxxx Christians in peeces for a pastyme The Turke breaketh hys promesse and excercyseth tyranny 〈…〉 an 〈…〉 l yeare The turcke â—â—â—eth â–ª â—xx thousand meÌ„ 〈…〉 The Turke geueth â—aleÌ„ tyne Teâ—eck his reward The Turke taketh certayn Castels in â–ª The Turke assaulteth the citie of fyuechurches The Turck hathaâ—armâ— in Pelopoâ—e so The Emperour and the Pope to gether at Luke The Emperoures passage to Algier Duke Henry of Saxon dieth 〈…〉 s 〈…〉 r 〈…〉 〈◊〉 in Histrâ—â— is taken in An armye against the Turck Pest is beseaged of our men Duke Maurice in Ieoperdy of takynge â—â—e of Duke Maurice Ie 〈…〉 en 〈…〉 eth maÌ„fully to delyuer his master A sicknesse in the Camp The grenousâ—ieâ— of y e sicknes in Duga â—â— Warre betwene y e Duke of Saxon Brunswick The duke of Brunswyke flyeth Woluenbutel is beseged Woluenbutel is vntapled for .iii. peares The mening was y â— they shuld at the length repeÌ„t them of their ioznep and go hom and winue no thing They fly out of the Castel ouer the walles ditches The Gospel is preached in the land of Brunswick 〈…〉 prâ—nces and 〈…〉 〈…〉 the Gospell Duke William â—â— Baier 〈…〉 th to v 〈…〉 Grassehoppers A earthâ—â—aâ—e in 〈◊〉 An earthquaâ—e in 〈…〉 ye â—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—◠〈◊〉 〈…〉 ple The Bra 〈…〉 〈…〉 ll â—â—to the land of Gulick The kyng of Scotland dyeth A Councell kept at Nureâ—burg Another counsel appoynted at Spyer An army sent by them p 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 land 〈◊〉 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 The city of Tremetz taken The French king and the Duke of 〈…〉 leâ—e pro 〈…〉 their marshial affaires The Ladye Mary sendeth an army againste the Duke of Cleue The Cleueuers approche towardes â–ª the Brabanders 〈…〉 nflict 〈…〉 e the Câ—eueâ—ers 〈…〉 ders The victory of the Cleueners The slepe of themperour The s 〈…〉 〈…〉 f the 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 he 〈…〉 e 〈…〉 nd 〈…〉 th 〈…〉 〈…〉 d◠〈…〉 de Hungary inuaded by the Turke The death of doctor 〈…〉 A woÌ„derfull birth besides Basell â–ª Wonderfull visions senâ— The interpretacion oâ— the vision The councel of â—pâ—re 〈…〉 〈…〉 With their ordinaunce The kyndnes of Switchers A counseâ—lour oâ— Nurrenburgh taken 〈…〉 Scotland â—â—uaded by â—â—gâ—â—thmen Bullyn beseged 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 The Palatine a fauorer of Goddes worde Popery paâ—â— downe the Gospel preached in the palatines iurisdiction 〈…〉 g 〈…〉 Poles 〈◊〉 〈…〉 p 〈…〉 o 〈◊〉 〈…〉 pro 〈…〉 〈…〉 d and 〈…〉 e. Henry duke of Brunswike goeth about to recouer his land The â—ountâ— of Deckelenbourgh inuâ—ded for the Golpell 〈◊〉 â—â—ll beseged Philip Landgraue of Hessen Capitaine of the Euangelicall confederation Duke Maurice of SaxoÌ„ Duke Maurice seketh â— â–ª meanes to make a peace 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 by 〈…〉 i 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 The Landgraue 〈…〉 quiâ—eth an othe of duke Hen 〈…〉 coÌ„pany The lande of Brunswike taken in againe and sworne of newe to y e confederatioÌ„ The Erle of ShaueÌ„burgh deposed Rithbergh geuen vp 〈…〉 th of 〈…〉 che 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 The Ruler of 〈…〉 har◠〈…〉 ed by y e Marquis of Brandenburgh The fury o the Turke The death of the Duke of Orleans Wonderfull apparitions and visions A conuocatioÌ„ at Franke forth The death of Maâ—ten Luter The buriall of doctor Martine Luter Alphonse dia si a trayterousmurther The good doctor Iohn Diasy murthered The Emp 〈…〉 com 〈…〉 Rai 〈…〉 sburgh The 〈…〉 ion beg 〈…〉 at Rainsburgh The begynnyng of the emperours warres agaynst the Germanes Duke Maurice prepareth 〈…〉 to 〈…〉 A cruel murther Duke Maurice â—â—gmâ—â—â—â— to 〈…〉 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 A peace betwene Englande and Fraunce The stewes put downe in London ☠☠Anne Askewe Iohn Lassels burned Shaxton recanted Thomas duke of Northfolke Henry his sodne attainted A plague of locustes and grashoppers A godly commaundement A prodigious grape A wonderful miracle A wonderful â—ision The Erle of Surrey beheaded The death of kyng Henry the eight of England â–ª c. Edward the syxt byng of England Images and beades put downe abolysshed in England A recantacioÌ„ of Doctor Smith Processions lâ—â—t in Englande An hoost of men sent out of Englande into ScotlaÌ„d Chaunteries geuen to the â—â—ng of England The CoÌ„mumoÌ„ ordeined to be receiued in both kindes Latimer set at libertie The death of the â—renche King 〈…〉 â–ª The Emperour retourneth out of Germany into FlauÌ„ders The Duke of Saxon captiue Leonora retourned to themperoure The sonne of Ferdinando marieth them perours daughter The eldest sonne of the Turke 〈…〉 keth insurrâ—â—tion agâ—ynst his father Argiers takeÌ„ 〈…〉 A â—â—mâ—â—ocioÌ„â—â— corâ—â—â—all The masse Images put downe in Englande The byshop of Winchester committed to thei our of â—o 〈…〉 The mariage of priestes graunted lawfull An insurrection at Norwiche The rebelles in Cornwal 〈◊〉 Deuonshere subdued The byshop of London deposed and coÌ„mitted to prison The duke of Somerset coÌ„mitted to the tour of LoÌ„doÌ„ The death of the Pope A wonderful vision sene besydes Brunswyke Capitayne Gambold slayne 〈…〉 in 〈…〉 The duke of Somerset delyuered out of 〈…〉 A generall p 〈…〉 â—etmene Englande â— Frannce Bullayne delyuered 30 one Boocher A wonderful miracle oftor ue fallyng downe from the element A moste â—â—â—nnicall persecution A moste Tâ—annicall persecution