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A mis-led King, and a memorable Parliament.
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1643
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and to repulse either by Sea or Land the enemies of the Crowne wheresoever he should â—inde them And it was further agreed on that for the appeasing of all private discontents if any were the King and the rest of the Appellants with the rest of the Commissioners should dine together in the great Hall which they did and there was great joy at this reconciliation throw all the Kingdome When these things were concluded they then began this arraignment of the Traytors whereupon John Blake and Thomas Vske were indicted on the fourth day of March who although they were men of inferiout quality yet were they found to be parties in the said Treason Vske was a Sergeant at Armes and was indicted amongst the Conspirators so that being late made Sheriffe of Middlesex he had indicted the five Appellants and the Commissioners as Traytors and Blake was an Intelligencer of Tresilians one that used to goe and come between the Conspirators and relate the state and successe of the treason from one to another And when they could say nothing to prove themselves cleare sentence was pronounced upon them as their Masters were before them they were carried to the Tower and from thence were dragged at the horse tayle to Tyborne and there hanged But Vske obtained this favour that his head was cut off after he was hanged and set aloft upon Newgate for Fowles of the aire to take repast On the sixth day of March there were called to answer Robert Belknap John Holt Roger Falthorpe William Burleigh John Locton and John Carey Baron of the Exchequer for their conspiracie against the Commissioners at Nottingham but because it is not needfull to rehearse every part of their indictment they were all condemned like as the rest Whilst the Peeres were trying them the Clergie were retired into the Kings Chambers but when word was brought to them of the condemnation of the Judges the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of Winchester the Chancellor the Treasurer Lord Keeper of the Privie Seale arose hastily and went into the Parliament House powring forth their complaints before the King and the Peeres humbly upon their knees beseeching them for the love of God the Virgin Mary and of all the Saints even as they hoped to have mercy at the day of Judgement they should shew favour and not put to death the said Judges then present and bitterly bewayling their iniquities in whose hearts the very life soule and spirit of our English Lawes lived flourished and appeared and there appeared great sorrow both on the one part of the Complainants and also of the Defendants The Duke of Gloucester likewise with the Earles of Arundel Warwicke Nottingham and Derby whose hearts began to be mollified and joyned with them in their latnentable Petition At length upon the intercession of the Clergie the execution upon the persons was ceased and their lives were granted them but were sent to the Tower to be kept close prisoners On the twelfth of March being Thursday it happened that the aforesaid Knights Simon de Burleigh John de Beauchamy James Baroverse and John Salesbury were brought into the Parliament House where their accusations was read proved they found guilty and not any way able to cleare themselves From this day almost till the Ascension of our Lord the Parliament House was only taken up with the tryall of Sir Symon Burleygh for three Appellants viz. The Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundel and Warwick with the whole House of Commons urged that execution might be performed according to the Law and on the other side the King and Queen the Earles of Darby and Nottingham and the Prior of Saint John his Uncle with the major part of the upper House did labour to have him saved There was also some muttering amongst the common people and it was reported to the Parliament that the Commons did rise in divers parts of the Realm but especially about Kent in favour of the said Sir Simon Burleigh which when they heard those that before spake and stood for him now flew clean from him and by joynt consent on the fifth day of May sentence was pronounced only against the said Sir Simon that he should be drawne from the Tower to Tyborne and then to be hanged till he were dead and then to have his head strooke from his body But because he was a Knight of the Gaiter a gallant Courtier powerfull and once a Favourite of the Kings and much respected of all the Court the King of his speciall Grace was pleased to mittigate his doome that he should only be led to Tower-hill and there be beheaded On the twelfth of May the Thursday before Whitsontide in like manner were condemned John Beuchamp Steward of the houshold to the King James Bereverous and John Salsbury Knights Gentlemen of the privie Chamber whereof the two first viz. John Beuchamp and James Bereverous were beheaded on Tower-hill but John Salsbury was drawne from Tower-hill to Tyborne and there was hanged On the same day also was condemned the Bishop of Chichester the Kings Confessor but because of his great dignity he was pardoned And also concerning the translation of some Bishops because Pope Vrban the sixth after it came to his ears that the Archbishop of York was condemned to avoid all hope of Irregularity he created him Archbishop of S. Andrews in Scotland which Archbishop was under the power of Scots enemies to the Crown and in the gift of the Arch-Pope and because the Pope did chalenge halfe the title of all England to maintaine his wars but although he craved it yet he was denied therefore he dealt warily and craftily hoping to make up his mouth by the translation of Bishops the Bishop of Fly then Lord Chancellor was made Archbishop of York the Bishop of Dublin succeeded in his place the Bishop of Bath and Wells in his place the Bishop of Sarum in his place and the Lord John of Waltham Lord-keeper of the privie Seale in his place and this by his translation of Bishops he gained himself much money according to the laws of the Canon and when this came to the ears of the Parliament that such a sum of money should be transported out of the Land they strove what they could to hinder it but could not because the Clergie gave their consent On the last day of May the King appointed both Houses to meet at Keemington whereas they made a conclusion of all the trialls of the said treason granting license to Thomas Trenet William Ellingham and Nicholas Nagworth Knights Richard Metford Iohn Slake Iohn Lincolne Clerkes to put in bail provided they were sufficient and to go into a place of England where they listed without any let or hindrance of any of the Kings Officers Moreover the six Justices with the Bishop of Chichester who stood condemned with them were sent into Ireland there to remain for a tearm of life thus they were divided viz. Rob. Belknap Iohn Holr in the Village of Dromore in Ireland not to remain as Justices or any officers but live as banished offenders not to be out of Towne above the space of two miles upon paine of death but the King out of his gracious bounty was pleased to give a yearly annuity of 40. pound to Robert Belknap of twenty markes to Iohn Holt during their lives and to Roger Fulthrope the King allowed forty pound and to William Burleigh forty pound during life confining them to the City of Dublin granting Burleigh the liberty of two miles and to Fulthrope three miles for their recreation John Carey and John Locton with the yearly allowance of twenty pound during life are confined to the Towne of Waterford with the like liberty and the like penalty And the Bishop of Chichester is likewise sent to Corke there to remaine with some allowance and the like penalty On the third day of June which was the last day of the Parliament the King the Queen the Peeres of both Estates with the Commons came to the Abbey at Westminster whereas the Bishop of London because it was his Diocesse sung Masse and the Masse being ended the Archbishop of Canterbury made an Oration concerning the forme and danger of the Oath which being although the Peers and Commons had taken the Oath of Allegiance and homage to the King yet because the King was young when they tooke Oath anew as at the first at his Coronation These Ceremonies being performed the Metropolitan of England with all his Suffragans there present having lighted a Candle and putting it under a stoole put it out thereby excommunicating all such as should seeme to distaste dislike or contradict any of the fore passed Acts in the last Parliament And the Lord Chancellor by the Kings appointment caused all that were present to sweare to keep the said Statutes inviolably whole and undissolved as good and faithfull Liege-people of the Kings and the forme of the Parliament was observed throughout all the Realme On the morrow which was the fourth day of June many courteous falutations and congratulations having passed betweene the King the Nobility and Communalty the Parliament was dissolved and every man returned home And now let England rejoyce in Christ for the net which was laid so cunningly for our destruction is broken asunder and we are delivered To God be the praise for all This Parliament begunne at Westminster 1386. in the tenth yeare of the reigne of King Richard the second FINIS
Lord Treasurer Keeper of the Privie Seale or any other of the Privie Councell came to relate any of their owne actions or the state of the Realme they could not bee granted free accesse unlesse they related the businesse in the presence and hearing of the conspirators who were alwayes ready to upbraid them if they uttered any thing that displeased them and to command them for any thing though most nefarious that did content them for thus could they the sooner learne and dive into the acts of the Commissioners and the better find evasions for their accusations Furthermore when as the King in company of the Conspirators went in progresse towards the parts of Cheshire Wales and Lancashire they made proclamation in the Kings name throughout the Shires as they journied That all Barous Knights Esquires with the greatest part of the Communalty able to beare armes should speedily repaire to the King for his defence against the power of the Comissioners chiefly of the Duke of Glocester and the Earle of Arundel because they above the rest did with their chiefest endevours study to suppresse quell the devices of the conspirators Fifthly contrary to the aforesaid Acts they caused the D. of Ireland to bee treated chiefe Justice of Chester thereby selling justice as they listed condemning the guiltlesse and remitting the guilty never respecting or looking unto the equall ballance of justice but poizing downe the scales with heaps of Bribery Sixthly by the procurement of the confederates they caused certain honest persons who would not consent to their extortions to be called and summoned to their Court and thereto answer to certaine false accusations wherewith they were unjustly charged by perjuring hirelings of which men so accused some were put to death some cast into prison all were vexed and troubled with delayes length of their journey to and fro and excessive charges neither were they eased of any these burthens unlesse they would part with round summes of money to the D. and his Complices Seventhly they gave pardons under the Brod Seal to Felons Murderers and such like only with this condition that they should murther any whomsoever they thought did mislike their exaction Eighthly they taught the countrey of Ireland to look to its pristine estate I mean of having a King for they plotted how to have the Duke created King of Ireland And for the confirmation of which their designe they allured the King to send his letters to the Pope Ninthly the aforesaid Nicholas Brambre in the time of his Majoralty caused two and twenty to be falsly accused of Felonies and laid into Newgate under pretext and colour of divers crimes and in the silent and dead time of the night to be fast bound and by a strong hand to be carried into Kent to a place commonly called Fawlocks and then to have their heads struck off except one who being favoured by the murtherers safely escaped the blood of the test died the streames of a small Rivelet adjoyning Tenthly soon after to adde one mischief to another they sent letters under the Kings Sigret to the Major of London by Iohn Rippon Clerke with a certain libell or schedule inclosed in the said letters the tenor of which is as followeth That the afore-named three Commissioners viz. the Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundel and Warwick and other of the Councell were to bee arrested indicted condemned and put to a lamentable death as being such as had conspired against the King against his prevogative against his Crown and Imperiall dignity and to this they did in a manner constrain the King to assent unto Upon receit of these letters the Major and Aldermen of the Citie of London called a Common Councell wherein they consulted what course were best to be taken in this matter and after long debate pro con it was on all sides agreed to deny and not to suffer that cruell and unheard of Tragicall Complot to be executed It ever happeneth one wicked act drawes on a second and that second a third and so forwards till the weight crackes the supporter Therefore the sail Conspirators being blinded with rashnesse principally sent letters by Iohn Godfrey Knight to the King of France the Kings adversary to conclude a five yeares truce should come over to Callis and from thence should send for the Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundell and Warwick and for some other of the Commissioners as though the King were unwilling to determine of any thing without their advice and being thus circumvented should be condemned as traytors and so put to an ignominious and cruell death And for doing and performing of these things the King of France was to recover all the Castles Townes and Lands lying in these countries and belonging to the King of England To prove these things to be true there were certaine writings produced by the Commissioners wherein were contained letters from the King of France to the King of England and from the conspirators in the King of Englands name to the King of France Moreover there were other letters intercepted directed to the said King of France the substance whereof was to incite the King of France to leavre a puissant power into England against the Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundel and Warwicke and the rest of the Commissioners and all those that did either countenance or favour the said statute and Commissioners Now here concluding their divelish conspiracie the five aforesaid conspitators departed from Westminster to the Castle of Nottingham and sent a Writ for Robert Beale Lord chiefe Justice of the Common-Pleas Iohn Holt Reger Fulthorp Will Burleigh Judges of the said Court and for John Locton the Kings Serjeant at Law who being come into the Councell-chamber not knowing what they were sent for the aforesaid conspirators caused the gates and doores of the Castle to be shut and then propounded these questions following unto them First whether those Statutes Ordinances and Commission made in the late Parliament at Westminster were derogatory to the Kings dignity and Kingly Prerogative and because they were to be punished who did procure those Constitutions and did incite and move the King to consent unto them and did as much as in them lay to hinder the King from exercising his Royall Prerogative To these and other the like questions with a joynt consent they answered 〈…〉 death as traytors or else to endure some capitall 〈…〉 witnesse of which assertion being terrified with the feare of present death the aforesaid Judges together with Iohn Carey Lord chiefe Baron of the Exchequer they signed and sealed a certaine writing in manner of a Protestation in presence of these witnesses Alex. Nevil Archbishop of Yorke Archbishop Bangor Robert Duke of Ireland Michael Earle of Suffolke Iohn Rippon Clerke and Iohn Blake Fruiterer dated the 19 of September Anno Dom. 1387. in the 11. yeare of the reigne of K. Richard 2. Then were they compelled to sweare that they should