there were fouÌ„d aboute hym fiue diuelishe Bookes of Coniuration and most abhominable practises with a picture of Tinne of a manne hauyng thrée Dice in hys hande with this writing Chaunce Dice fortunately and dyuers papers of suche like matters as he had dealt in for men such as are mentioned in Leuiticus the twentith Chapter and sixth verse If any soule turne himselfe after suche as worke with spirites and after soothsayers to goe a whoring after them sayth the Lorde I wil put my face againste that soule and will cutte him off from among my people The third of February early in the morning Iohn Nelson Nelson executed for denying the Quéenes Supremacie and such other trayterous wordes againste hir Maiestie was drawen from Newgate to Tyborne and there hanged bowelled and quartred The seauenth of February one named Sherewood was Sherevvood executed drawen from the Tower of London to Tyborne and there haged bowelled and quartered for the like treason The ninth of Marche seauen Pyrates were hanged at Pirats hanged Wapping The fiftéenth of February Iohn de Ley a Frenchman fiue Englishe Gentlemen were conueyed from the Tower of London towarde Norwiche there to be araigned and executed for coyning of money counterfaite The tenth of March deceassed the Lady Margaret Countesse 1578 of Leunex and was buryed at Westminster the thyrde of Aprill The one and thyrtith of Maye Martin Frobisher wyth Frobishers third voyage fiftéene saile of good Shippes manned victualled and other wayes wel appoynted departed from Harwich in Essex on hys thyrde voyage towardes Cataya The one and thyrtith of July after many attempts and sundrye times being putte backe by Ilandes of Ice in hys straights he recouered his long wished Porte and came to Ancker in the Ilandes newly by hir Maiestie named Meta Incognita where as in the yeare before they fraughte theyr shippes with Golde Ore oute of the Mines and then on the laste of Auguste returning thence arriued safely in England about the firste of October George Bond Thomas Starkie the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 21 Cassimere receyued Sir Richarde Pipe Draper the 28. of October The two and twentith of Januarie about seauen of the clocke at night Iohn Cassimere Counte Palatine of Rhene Duke of Bauare landing at the Tower of London was there by diuers Noblemen and others honorably receiued and conueyed by Cresset light and Torche lighte to sir Thomas Greshams house in Bishops gate stréete where he was feasted and lodged till Sunday nexte that he was by the Nobilitie fetched to the Courte at Westminster and after lodged in Somerset house On the eight of Februarie he was made Knight of the Garter and on the fouretéenth of Februarie departed from London homewardes with greate rewardes giuen by the Quéenes Maiestie the Nobilitie men of honor the Maior of London and the Citizens The fourth of Februarie and in the night following fel Deepe Snovve such abundance of Snowe that on the fifth in the morning the same was founde at London to lye two foote déepe in the shallowest and otherwise being driuen by the winde very boysterous in the Northeast on Bankes an ell or yard and halfe déepe in the whiche drifts of Snow in the Countries manye cattell and some men and women were ouerwhelmed and loste it snowed till the eight daye and fréezed till the tenth Then followed a thawe wyth continuall raine a long time after whyche caused suche high flouds that the Greate lande vvater floudes Marshes and lowe groundes being drowned for the tyme y â— water rose so high in Westminster hall that after the fall therof some fishes were founde there to remaine The seauentéenth of Februarie a yong man was hanged One hanged at Miles end in chaines on the miles end by London for murdering of a man in a Garden of Spepâ—n heath parishe The twentith of February deceassed sir Nicholas Bacon Lorde Keeper deceassed Lorde kéeper of the greate Seale of Englande who was honorably buried vnder a sumptuous Monument or Tombe by him in his life time erected in Paules Churche of London the ix of March He also in his life time gaue for sixe Scholers to be founde in Benet Colledge at Cambridge to eache of them thrée pounde sixe shillings and eight pence the yeare for euer The foure and twentith of Aprill fell such a snowe betwixt 1579 the houres of foure of the clocke in the morning and nine of the clocke before noone that at London some was fouÌ„d to lye almost one foote déepe The fiue and twentith of Aprill sir Thomas Bromley Knight was made Lorde Chauncelor of Englande Mathew Hamont of Hetherset by his trade a Plough Wright thrée myles from Norwiche was conuented before An Heretike brent at Norvviche the Byshop of Norwiche for that he denyed Christe â—â—t the time of hys appearaunce it was obiected that he had published these Heresies followyng That the newe Testament and Gospell of Christe are but mere foolishnesse a storie of menne or rathera mere fable Item that man is restored to grace by the méere mercy of God wythout the meane of Christs bloud death and passion Item that Christe is not God nor the Sauiour of the world but a méere man a sinfull man and an abhominable Idoll Item that al they that worshippe him are abhominable Idolaters And that Christe didde not rise agayne from death to life by the power of his Godhead neither that hée did ascende into Heauen Item that the holy Ghoste is not God neither that there is any suche holy Ghoste Item that Baptisme is not necessarie in the Churche of God neither the vse of the sacrament of the body bloude of Christ For the whyche heresies he was condemned in the Consistorie and sentence was read againste him by the Bishop of Norwich the fouretéenth of Aprill and therevppon deliuered to the Sheriffes of Norwich and bycause he spake wordes of blasphemie against the Quéenes Maiestie and others of hir Counsell he was by the Recorder Maister Sergeant Windham and the Maior sir Robert Wood of Norwich condemned to lose bothe hys eares whyche were cutte off the thyrtéenth of Maye in the market place of Norwiche And afterwardes the twentith of Maye he was brent in the Castell ditche of Norwiche This yere in the moneth of May Marke Scaliot Blacke A locke kaÌ„y vveyghed but one vvheate corne smith Citizen of London borne in the parish of Saint Clements wythoute Temple Barre for â—yall of Workemanshippe made one hanging Locke of Yron Stéele and Brasse of eleauen seuerall péeces a pipe Kay fyled thrée square wyth a Potte vpon the shotte and the bowe wyth two Esses all cleane wrought whyche weighed but one Graine of Gold or Wheat corne he also at the same time made a Chaine of Golde of 43. Linckes to the whyche Chaine the Locke and Kay being fastened and put aboute a Flyes necke she drew the same with ease all whyche
so He shall heare him aske it and he will Howbeit this is a gaâ— matter suppose he coulde not aske it suppose he woulde not aske it suppose he woulde aske to goe out if I say he shall not if I aske the priuiledge but for my selfe I say he that against my will taketh him out breaketh y e Sanctuarie Serueth this libertie for my person only or for my goods to Ye may not hence take my horse from me may you take my child fro me He is also my ward for as my learned counsell sheweth mée sithe he hath nothing by discent holden by knightes seruice the law maketh his mother his gardaine Then may no man I suppose take my warde from me out of Sanctuarie without the breache of Sanctuarie And if my priuiledge coulde not serue him nor he aske it for himselfe yet sith the law committeth to me the custodie of him I may require it for him except the law giue a childe a gardaine onely for his goods and landes discharging him of the â—â—e safekéeping of hys bodie for which onely both landes and goods serue ¶ And if examples be sufficient to obtaine priuiledge for This that is here betvveene this marke ¶ and this marke * vvas not vvritten by him in englith but is translated out of this Historie vvhich he vvrot in Latten my child I néede not far to séeke For in this place in which now be which is now in questioÌ„ whether my childe may take benefit of it mine other sonne now king was borne kept in his cradle preserued to a more prosperous fortune which I pray God long to continue And as all you know this is not the first time that I haue taken Sanctuarie For when my Lorde my husbande was banished and thrust out of hys Kingdome I fled hither being great with childe and here I bare the Prince And when my Lorde my husband returned safe agayne and had the victorie then went I hence to welcome him home and from hence I brought my babe the Prince vnto his father when he first tooke him in his armes And I pray God that my sonnes palace may be as great sauegarde vnto him nowe raigning as this place was somtime to y e kings enimie In which place I inteÌ„d to kéepe his brother sith c. * Wherfore here intend I to kéepe him since mans law serueth y e gardaine to kéepe the infant The law of nature will y e mother kéepe hir child Gods law priuiledgeth y â— Sanctuarie the Sanctuarie my son sith I I feare to put him in y e Protectors hands y t hath his brother alreadie were if both fayled inheritor to y e Crowne The cause of my feare hath no man to doe to examine And yet feare I no farther than y e lawe feareth which as learned meÌ„ tell me forbyddeth euery maÌ„ the custodie of them by whose death he may inherite lesse land than a kingdome I can no more but whosoeuer he be y e breaketh this holy Sactuarie I pray God shortly send him néede of Sanctuarie when he may not come to it For taken out of Sanctuarie woulde I not my mortall enimie were The Lord Cardinall perceyuing that the Quéene wared euer the longer the further off and also that she began to kindle and chafe and speake more byting words against the Protector and such as he neither beléeued was also loath to heare he said to hir for a finall conclusion that he woulde no longer dispute the matter but if she were content to deliuer the Duke to him and to the other Lordes present he durst lay his owne body and soule both in pledge not onely for his suertie but also for his estate And if she woulde giue them a resolute answere to the contrarie he woulde forthwith depart there with all and shift who so would with this businesse afterwardes for he neuer intended more to moue hir in that matter in which she thought that he and al other also saue hirself lacked either wit or truth Wit if they were so dull that they could nothing perceiue what the Protector intended truth if they should procure hir sonne to be delyuered into his handes in whom they shoulde perceyue toward the childe any euill intended The Quéene with these wordes stoode a good while in a greate studie And forasmuch as hir séemed the Cardinall ready to departe than some of the remnant and the Protector himselfe readie at hand so that she verily thought shée coulde not kéepe him there but that he shoulde incontinent be taken thence and to conuey him else-where neither had she time to serue hir nor place determined nor persons appointed all things vnreadie this message came on hir sâ— sodainely nothing lesse looking for than to haue him fetcht out of Sanctuarie which she thoughte to be nowe beset iâ— such places about y â— he could not be conueyed out vntaken and partly as she thoughte it might fortune hir feare to be false so wel she wiste it was eyther néedelesse or bootlesseâ— wherfore if she should néedes goe froÌ„ him she déemed it best to deliuer him And ouer that of the Cardinals faith she nothing doubted nor of some other Lordes neither whom she there sawe Which as she feared least they might be deceiued so was she wel assured they would not be corrupted theÌ„ thought she it should yet make them y e more warely to looke to him the more circumspectly to sée to his suertie if she w e hir owne hands betooke him to theÌ„ of trust And at y e last she tooke y e yong Duke by the hand said vnto the Lords My Lords quoth she al my Lords I neither am so vnwise to mistrust your wittes nor so suspicious to mistrust your truthes Of which thing I purpose to make you such a proofe as if either of both lacked in you mighte turne both me to great sorow the Realme to much harme you to great reproch For loe here is quoth she this GentlemaÌ„ whom I dout not but I could here kéepe safe if I would whatsoeuer any maÌ„ say I doubt not also but there be some abrode so deadly enimies vnto my bloud y â— if they wist where any of it lay in their own body they would let it out We haue also experience y e the desire of a kingdom knoweth no kinred The brother hath bene y e brothers bane may y â— nephewes be sure of their vncle Eche of these childreÌ„ is the others defence while they be a sunder eche of their liues lieth in the others body Kéepe one safe both be sure nothing for theÌ„ both more perillous thaÌ„ to be both in one place For what wise Marchant adueÌ„tureth all his goods in one ship Al this notwithstaÌ„ding here I deliuer him his brother in him to kéepe into your hands of whoÌ„ I shal ask theÌ„ both afore god the world Faithful ye be y e wote I
Captayneshyp but the Earle for as muche as he was made by Parliament he woulde not obey the Priuie Seale but continued forth in the sayd office The Noble Science of Printing was about this tyme 1459 Printing first inuented founde in Germanie at Magunce by one Iohn Cuthembergus a Knight One Conradus an Almaine brought it into Rome William Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England aboute the yeare a. 1471. And fyrst practised the same in the Abbay of Saint Peter at Westminster after which tyme it was likewyse practised in the Abbayes of Saint Augustine at Caunterburie Saint Albons and other Monasteries of England In a lyttle Towne in Bedfordshire there fell a bloudie It raigned bloud rayne whereof the red drops appeared in shéetes the which a woman had hanged out for to dry In this tyme the Realme of Englande was out of good order as it had bene of long tyme for the King béeyng symple and pitifull was ledde by couetous Counsell The King grewe in debte dayly but payment was not made All the possessions and Lordshippes that pertayned to the Crowne the King had giuen some to Lordes and some to others such as would begge them so that himselfe had almost nothing lefte to lyue on but such impositions as were put to the common people as Taxes Tallages Quinzimes all which was spent in vayne for he helde no houshold nor maintayned no warres for which misgouernaunce the heartes of the people were turned from them that had the Land in gouernaunce The Quéene with such as were of hir affinitie ruled the Realme as hir lyked gathering riches innumerable The Officers of the Realme especially the Earle of Wilshire Treasurer of England for to enriche himselfe pilled the poore people disherited rightfull heyres and did many wrongs The Quéene was defamed and sclaundered that the young Prince was not hir sonne but a Bastard gotten in adulterie wherefore she dreading that he shoulde not succéede his father in the Crowne of Englande allyed vnto hir all the Knightes and Esquiers of Chestershire for to haue theyr fauour she helde open housholde among them and made hir sonne the Prince to giue a liuerie of Swannes to all the Gentilmen of the Countrey and to many other through the land trusting through their strength to make hir sonne King making priuie meanes to some of the Lordes of England for to stirre the King that he should resigne the Crowne to her sonne but she could not bring their purpose about The. xxj day of September Richard Earle of Salisburie hauing An. reg 38. gathered a well appoynted armie for dread of his enemies especially of the Quéene tooke his way towarde Ludlowe where at that time the Duke of Yorke lay to the intent that they both together would haue rydden to the King to Colshull in Staffordshire to haue excused them of certaine articles layd against them by malice of their enemies as they sayd Wherevpon those that were about the King and also the Quéene who laye at Eglishall moued him to assemble a great powre whereof Iames Twichet Lorde Awdley was made chiefe and had the leading of them into the fielde called Bloreheath néere vnto Mucklestone by the which the sayde Bloreheath fielde Duke and the Earle must néedes passe there both hostes mette and fought a mortall battaile wherin the Lord Audley was slaine with Hugh Venables of Kinderton Thomas Dutton of Dutton Richard Mollynes William Trowtbek Iohn Legh del Bothes Iohn Donne of Vtkinton and Iohn Edgerton of Edgerton Knightes Richard Donne of Croton Iohn Duttes Esquiers and many other of Chestershire that had receyued the Princes liuerie of Swannes and there were takeÌ„ prisoners the Earle of Salisburies ij sonnes Thomas and Iohn and sir Thomas Harington which were sent to Chester but soone after deliuered After this discomfiture the Earle of Salisburie passed forth to Duke Richard to Ludlowe and thether came to them for Calleis the Earle of Warwike which all thrée writ a letter vnto King Henry whereof the tenure is this MOst Christian King right high and mighty Prince our most dread Soueraigne Lord after as humble recommeÌ„dations to your high excellencie as will suffice Our true intent to the prosperitie augmentation of your high estate and to the commoÌ„ Weale of this Realme hath beâ—â—â— shewed vnto your highnesse in such writing as wée make thereof And ouer that an Indenture signed by our hands in the Churche Cathedrall of Worcester comprehending y â— proofe of the truth duetie that God knoweth we beare to your saide estate and to the preheminence and prerogatiue thereof we sent vnto your good Grace by the Prior of the sayde Churche and diuers other Doctors and among other by M. William Lynwood Doctor of Diuinitie which ministred vnto vs seuerally the blessed Sacrament of the body of Jesus wherevppon we and euery of vs deposed for our sayde trueth and duetie accordyng to the tenor of the sayde Indenture And sith that time we haue certified at large in writing and by mouth by Garter King of Armes not onely to your said highnesse but also to the good worthie Lordes beyng about your most Noble presence the largenesse of our sayde trueth and duetie and our intent and disposition to serche all the motions that might serue conueniently to the affirmation thereof and to our perfect suerties from suche inconuenient and vnreuerent ieopardies as wée haue béene put in diuers tymes here before Whereof we haue cause to make and ought to make suche exclamation and complaint not without reason as is not vnknowen to all the sayde worthie Lordes and to all his land and wil offer vs to your high presence to the same intent if we myght so doe without sayd suertie which onely causeth vs to kéepe suche fellowshippe as we doe in our léefull manner And hereto we haue forborne and auoyded all thinges that might serue to the effusion of Christian bloud of the dreade that we haue of God and of your Royall Maiestie and haue also eschued to approche your sayde most Noble presence for the humble obeysaunce and reuerence wherein we haue and during our lyfe will haue the same And yet neuerthelesse we heare that we be proclaimed and defamed in our name vnrightfully vnlawfully and sauing your high reuerence vntruely and otherwise as God knoweth than we haue giuen cause knowing certainely that the blessed and noble intent of your said good grace and the righteousnesse thereof is to take repute and accept your true and lawfull subiectes and that it accordeth neyther with your sayd intent nor with your wyll or pleasure that we shoulde be otherwise taken or reputed And ouer that our Lordshippes and tenantes bene of high violence robbed and spoyled agaynst your peace and lawes and all ryghteousnesse Wée therefore as we suffice beséeche your sayde good Grace to take repute and receyne therevnto our sayde trueth and intent which to God is knowne as wée shewe it by the sayde tenor
to deceasse as in déede he did while his children were yong And they déeme that for this intent he was glad of his brothers death y e Duke of Clarence whose life must néedes haue hindered him so intending whether the same duke of Clarence had kept him true to his Nephew the yong King or enterprised to be King himselfe But of al this poynt is there no certaintie and who so deuineth vpon coniectures may aswell shoote to farre as to short Howbeit this haue I by credible information learned that the selfe night in which King Edward dyed one Mistlebrooke long ere morning came in great hast to the house of one Pottier dwelling in Redcrosse streete without Creplegate in Loxdon and when he was with hastie rapping quicklye letten in he shewed vnto Pottier that King Edwarde was departed By my truth man quoth Pottier then will my Maister the Duke of Glocester be King What cause he had so to thinke harde it is to say whether he being toward him any thing knewe that he had such thing purposed or otherwise had any inkeling thereof for he was not likely to speake it of nought But now to returne to the course of this historie Were it that the Duke of Gloucester hadde of olde foreminded this conclusion and was nowe at erste therevnto moued and putte in hope by the occasion of the tender age of the yong Princes his Nephewes as oportunitie and likelihoode of spéede putteth a man in courage of that he neuer intended certaine is it that he contriued their destruction with the vsurpation of the regall dignitie vpon himselfe And forasmuche as he well wiste and holpe to maintaine a long continued grudge and heart-burning betwene the Quéenes kinred and the Kings bloude either partie enuying others aucthoritie he nowe thought their diuision shoulde be as it was indéede a furtherly beginning to the pursuit of hys intent and a sure ground for the foundation of al his building if he might firste vnder the pretexte of reuenging old displeasure abuse the anger and ignorance of the one partie to the destruction of the other and then winne to hys purpose as many as he coulde and those that could not bée wonne myght be lost ere they looked therefore For of one thing was he certayne that if hys intent were perceyued he should soone haue made peace betwéene the both parties with his owne bloud King Edwarde in his life albeit that this dissention betwéene his friendes somewhat irked him yet in his good health he somewhat the lesse regarded it bicause he thought whatsoeuer businesse shoulde fall betwéene them himselfe should alway be able to rule both the parties But in his last sicknesse wheÌ„ he perceiued his naturall strength so sore enféebled that he dispaired al recouerie then he considering the youth of his children albeit he nothing lesse mistrusted than that that happened yet well foreséeing that many harmes might growe by their debate while the youthe of his children should lacke discretion of themselues good counsell of their friendes of which either partie should counsell for their owne commoditie rather by pleasaunt aduise to wyn themselues fauour than by profitable aduertisement to doo their children good he called some of them before him that were at variaunce and in especiall the Lord Marques Dorset the Quéenes sonne by hir first husbande William the Lord Hastings a noble man then Lord Chamberlaine againe whoÌ„ the Quéene specially grudged for the great fauour the King bare him also for that the thought him secretly familiar with the King in wantoÌ„ company Hir kinred also bare him sore aswell for that y â— King had made him Captaine of Calleis which office the Lord Riuers brother to y â— Quéene claimed of y â— kings former promise as for diuers other great gifts which he receiued y â— they looked for When these Lords with diuers of both the parties were come in presence the King lifting vp himselfe vnderset with pyllows as it is reported on this wise saide vnto them My Lordes my deare kinâ—men alies in what plight I lie you The Oration of the King in his death bed sée I féeâ—e By which the lesse while I looke to lo liue with you the more déepely am I moued to care in what case I leaue you for such as I leaue you such be my childreÌ„ like to finde you Which if they should that God forbid finde you at variaunce might hap to fall theÌ„selues at warre ere their discretion would serue to set you at peace ye sée their youth of which I recken y â— onely suertie to rest in your concorde For it suffiseth not y â— all you loue them if eche of you hate other If they were meÌ„ your faithfulnes happily would suffise but childhood must be maintained by mens aucthority slipper youth vnderpropped w t elder couÌ„sel which neither they caÌ„ haue but ye giue it nor ye giue it if ye grée not For where eche laboureth to breake that the other maketh and for hatred of eche of others person impugneth eche others couÌ„sell there must it néedes be long ere any good conclusion go forward And also while either party laboreth to be chief flatterie shal haue more place thaÌ„ plaine faithfull aduise of which must néedes insue y e euil bringing vp of y â— Prince whose minde in teÌ„der youth infect shal redily fal to mischief riot draw downe with his noble Realme to ruine but if grace turne him to wisdome which if God send then they y â— by euil meanes before pleased him best shal after fal furthest out of fauour so y â— euer at length euil drifts draw to nought and good plaine wayes prosper Great variaunce hath there long bene betwéene you not alway for great causes Sometime a thing right wel intended our misconstructioÌ„ turneth vnto worse or a small displeasure done vs either our owne affectioÌ„ or euil tongues agréeueth But this wot I well ye neuer had so great cause of hatred as ye haue of loue That we be al men that we be Christen meÌ„ this shal I leaue for preachers to tell you yet I wot neare whether any preachers words ought more to moue you thaÌ„ his that is by and by going to the place that they al preache of But this shal I desire you to remeÌ„ber y â— the one part of you is of my bloud the other of mine alies ech of you with other either of kinred or affinitie which spiritual kinred of affinitie if the Sacramentes of Christes Church beare that weight with vs y â— would God they did should no lesse moue vs to charitie than y e respect of fleshly consanguinitie Our Lord forbid y â— you loue togither y e worse for the selfe cause y e you ought to loue y e better And yet y â— happeneth no where finde we so deadly debate as among theÌ„ which by nature lawe most ought to agrée togither Such
the Duke desirous to be magnified and also he perceyued the inwarde hatred whiche he bare towarde King Richard hée opened hys stomake to the botome and saide my singular good Lorde sith the tyme of my captiâ—itie whyche béeyng in your Graces custody I maye rather call it a libertie then a straight imprisonment in auâ—yding of ydlenesse mother of all vyces in reading Bookes and auncient Pamphlets I haue founde this sentence written that no manne is borne frée and at libertie of himselfe onely for one part of duty he oweth to his parents an other parte to his friends and kinsfolkes but the natiue countrey in the which he firste tasted this pleasaunte and flattering worlde demaundeth a debte not to be forgotten whyche saying causeth me to consider in what case this realme my natiue countrey nowe standeth and in what estate and assuraunce before this time it hathe coÌ„tinued what gouernor we now haue and what ruler we might haue for I plainely perceiue the Realme being in this case must néeds decay be brought to confusioÌ„ but one hope I haue that is wheÌ„ I consider youre noble personage your iustice and indifferencie your feruent zeale and ardent loue toward your naturall country in like maner the loue of your countrey toward you the great learning pregnant witte eloquence which so much doth abounde in your person I muste néedes thinke this realme fortunate whyche hathe such a Prince in store méete and apt to be gouernor But on the other side when I call to memorie the good qualities of the late Protector and nowe called King so violated by tyranny so altred by vsurped authoritie so clouded by blinde ambition I muste néedes say that he is neither méete to be King of so noble a realme nor so famous a realme méete to be gouerned by such a tyrant Was not his first enterprice to obtaine the Crowne begunne by the murther of dyuers noble personages Did he not secondarily procéed againste his owne naturall mother declaring hir openlye to be a woman giuen to carnall affection and dissoulute lyuing declaring furthermore hys two brethren and two nephewes to be Bastardes and to be borne in aduoâ—trey yet not contented after he had obtayned the Garlande hée caused the two pore innocents his nephewes committed to him to be shamefully murthered the bloude of whiche little babes dayly cry to God from the earth for vengeaunce what sure tie shall be in this realme to any person eyther for life or goodes vnder suche a cruell Prince whych regardeth not the destruction of his owne bloud then the lesse the losse of other but nowe to conclude what I meane toward your noble person I say affirme if you loue God your linage or your natiue couÌ„try you must your self take vpon you y â— Crown of this Realme both for y e maintenaÌ„ce of the honour of the same as also for the deliueraunce of your natural CountreymeÌ„ from the bondage of such a Tyrante And if your self wil refuse to take vpon you y e Crown of this Realme TheÌ„ I adiure you by the faith y â— you owe to God to deuise some way how this realme may be brought to some conuenient regiment vnder some good gouernour wheÌ„ the B had ended his saying the D. sighed spake not of a gret while so y â— night they coÌ„moned 〈…〉 ore The next daye the Duke sent for the B. vnto whom he sayd my L. of Ely I must néedes in hart thinke and with mouth confesse that you be a sure friende a trustie counsaylour and a verye louer of your Countrey And sith at our last communicatioÌ„ you haue disclosed the secrets of your hart touching y e new vsurper of the Crowne and also haue a little touched the â—â—auncement of the two noble families of Yorke and Lancaster I shal likewise declare vnto you my priuie entents and secrete cogitations and to beginne when King Edwarde was deceased I then beganne to studye and with deliberation to ponder in what maner this realme shoulde be gouerned I perswaded wyth my selfe to take part wyth the Duke of Glocester whom I thought to be as cleane without dissimulation as tractable without iniurie and so by my means he was made Protector both of the king and realm whiche auathoritie being once gotten he neuer ceased printly to require me other Lords as wel spirituall as temporall that he might take vppon hym the Crowne till the Prince came to the age of xxiiij yeares and were able to gouerne the realme as a sufficient king which thing when he saw me somewhat sticke at he then brought in instrumeÌ„ts autentike Doctors Proctors and notaries of the law with depositions of diuers witnesses testifying King Edwardes children to be bastards whiche depositions then I thought to be as true as nowe I knowe them to be fayned When the sayde depositions were before vs read and diligentlye hearde hée stoode vppe bare headed saying Well my Lordes euen as I and you would that my nephewes should haue no wrong so I praye you do me nothing but right for these witnesses and sayings of famous Doctours be true for I am onelye the vndubitate heyre to RICHARDE PLANTAGENET Duke of Yorke adiudged to be the verye heire to the Crowne of this realme by aucthoritie of Parliament Whyche thynges so by learned men for veritie to vs declared caused me and other to take him for our lawful vndoubted Prince and Soueraigne Lorde so agayne by my aide he of a Protector was made a King but when he was once crowned King and in full possession of the realme he caste awaye his olde conditions For when I my selfe sued to him for my parte of the Earle of Herefords landes which his brother Kyng Edward wrongfully detained from me and also requyred to haue the office of the highe Conestableship of Englande as diuers of my noble auncestours before this time haue hadde and in long descent continued in this my firste sute hée did not only first delay me and afterward deny me but gaue me suche vnkind wordes as though I had neuer furthered him al which I suffred pacieÌ„tly but wheÌ„ I was informed of the death of the two yong innocentes O Lord my heart inwardly grudged in so much that I abhorred y e sight of him I toke my leaue of the Court and returned to Brecknocke to you but in the iourney as I returned I had diuerse imaginatioÌ„s how to depriue this vnnatural vncle Frst I santiâ—ed y â— if I list to take vpon me the Crowne now was the way made playne and occasion giuen For I sawe he was dysdayned of the Lords temporall and accursed of the Lordes spiritual After diuerse cogitations of this matter As I rode betwéene Worcester and Bridgenorth I encountred with the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmonde now wife to y e Lord Stanley which is the very daughter and sole heire to Iohn Duke of Somerset my grandfathers elder brother so that she and hir sonne the Garle
case by good pollieie shoulde condignely deserue And to speake of this facte suche it was and so fearefull The people maruellous atteÌ„â— tiue to heare as my heart quaketh and my eyes can not refraine teares to repeate it againe amongest you God for hys mercies sake shielde and defende hir moste excellent Maiestie that moste mightily hathe digested the notable daunger And so I will tel you of this tragedie in course as it fell out It liked hir Highnesse in respecte of the greate heate to take the ayre of the water where in graue and waightie negotiation she passed the time in discourse with the French Embassador by y â— space of an houre or two In hir returne it The cause is declared vvhy hir Maiestie tooke vvater pleased hir to take dyuers pauses and the rather bicause she earnestly read a Booke wherein it séemed for recreations sake she tooke some delight By meanes whereof euen as it pleased God wth his holy hande as it were to directe hir safetie she commaunded the Bargemen to slacke their labour Only Gods prouideÌ„ce in sauing hir Maiestie froÌ„ the shotte and slowly to passe on where if they hadde hasted but two strokes more they had brought hir Royal person to the shotte it selfe These wordes were scarcely spoken out by hir Maiestie but this Caitiue moste vnhappily I muste saye moste diuelishly discharged his Arquebuze stroÌ„gly charged with Bullet into the Barge where hir Maiestie was God that hath defended hir thou most mightie God euer vouchsafe to kéep hir With this blowe the seconde man to the bayles of the A strange and horrible terrour neuer heard nor seene the like in England before Barge wythin sixe foote of hir Royall person was stricken down from his seate and wouÌ„ded through both his armes whiche hir Maiestie beheld and kingly handled this cause as euen straight I will tell you My Lordes of hir Maiesties Counsel dispersed abroade The sodaine greate feare of the Lords of the Counsel at the hearing of these â—errible nevves in their affaires hearing of this moste perilous aceidente returned to Courte wyth suche spéede as the waight of such a cause might moue them to do and there with feareful and louyng applausure towarde hir Maiestie did moste holily thanke our God for his singular help in the preseruation of oure moste deare and righteous Soueraigne That done according with their loues and dueties of seruice to God hir Maiestie and this whole estate after deliberate and moste graue consultation of the cause they al moste humbly on their knées besoughte the Quéene that The Counsell most desious to punishe this fact this slaue mighte suffer not this death but tenne thousande deaths if so it were possible in nature to doe for his so rash and fearefull offence Suche in déede mighte the offence haue bin whiche God for his mercies sake hathe moste fauourably forbidden that it mighte hane rought vp to Heauen and shoulde moste miserably not onely haue plagued this hir owne lande but all the true seruants of God dyspersed It vvas straunge to see the people staring in M. Vischamberlaines face some vveeping some trembling at the speaking of these vvordes through Christendome our Religion and true faith in Jesus Christe whyche wée enioye wyth vnspeakable comforte of frée conscience mighte hereby haue suffred confusion and persecution of bloude and vengeance amongst vs. Our peace and secure estates encreased with excéeding wealthes and nourished with most swéete quietnesse of life by thys hir moste happy gouernement and raygne of twentie yeares might hereby haue bin turned to blouty warres the fruites whereof is burning and spoyling of houses and goods rauishing and destroying of wiues and chyldren And what vengeance soeuer the worlde can bring forth the same shoulde haue fallen on vs I saye on vs then the most miserable men in the worlde And therefore heare me I praye you Let vs acknowledge before God wyth all humble Here they lyfte vp both handes and eyes to heauen saying God blesse hir Maiestie God blesse hir Maiesty c. thankefulnesse these vnspeakable benefites whych we haue enioyed and still shall doe while God vpholdeth hir blessed life and state amongest vs The losse and lacke of whome can not but bring on vs all these calamities and ten thousande moe whyche I cannot foresée If then by these and al other benefites whyche you possesse féele and taste of you Here the people vvith tears shevved themsesues most sorrovvful of these tragicall speaches finde how inestimable and pretious a Jewell thys our déere Soueraigne is for vs and amongest vs what plague forment or punishment could suffise you for reuenge on him that by anye meanes shoulde depriue you of suche heauenly and worldly felicities as dayly by hir holy hande are ministred amongest you But I will meddle no further wyth these matters I knowe you thanke God for them and wyth true and faithfull obedient heartes wyll euer serue hir moste excellent Maiestie whome he hathe made hys Minister to distribute al these blessyngs into your bosomes And now if it please you you may wyth maruell heare This sodaine straunge pardon amazed the people the Message I come of I bryng mercie to thys manne the gratious pardon of oure most deare Soneraigne who with hir mercifull eye beholdyng the clearenesse of this mannes heart frée from euill thought and consequentlye from prepension of any malicious fact against hir perstoÌ„ vouchsaseth The greatnesse of hir Maiesties mercie seemed such as the people betvveene ioyes and sorrovves vvere aâ—â—â—sed to put him from the Gallâ—wes A notable action of compassion procéeding from a heauenlye minde and so farre different from the common nature of man forced into a fearefull iealousie of lisse of life as hath neuer bene read nor hearde of If casually a man suffer hurte in the fields by an arrowe shot by chance at rouing markes how reuengefully y â— party A true description of mans fraile nature in seeking reuenge confirmed vvith examples offended will follow his processe of felonie I haue oft séene and the law doth well allow it If in the Court the meanest sâ—ruing man strike his felow with his fist so that he bléede he is to loose the same hande Many other examples may be giuen you both touching the casualitie in this mans fact touching the place and presence wherein it chaunced to bée done But our Quéene looketh neyther on hir prerogatiue on thâ— power of hir lawes nor on the perill of hir person but Here he noteth the heauenly disposition of hir Maiestie far different from the nature of man in pardoning so great an offence against lavve and nature with the nobilitie of hir hearte the daunger onely done to hir self doth as you heare fréely pardon it And in the sacred word of hir kingly estate I protest it vnto you she hath firmly auowed that she had rather haue suffered the wouÌ„ds the Bargeman now hath ten folde than the
meanest of vs all or of any subiectes should suffer the slaunder of so tyranous or trayterous a fact yea or of the prepension or forethought of so horrible a treason toward hit thoughe it were in facte See the exceeding loue of a prince tovvarde hir subiectes in excusing all accidents vvithout any suspition of ill meaning Here al the people shouted out Amen Amen neuer executed Wherein to all our singular comfortes it pleased hir w t moste princely affection and earnestnesse graciouslye to affirme that neuer Prince had better nor more kinde true subieas God for his mercie direct vs euer to be so with our due gratefulnesse to sacrifice at hir kinglye féete oure bloude and liues for hir seruice sake when occasion shal cal vs thereto M. Carie vvas maister to this â—ude Appletree and Knight Marshal for that day appointed One other thing I finde hir Maiestie troubled with y â— is the sorrow this noble yong Gentleman M. Henrie Carie hath suffered in continuall grieft of his hart for the offence of his man who through the vaine iealousie of some euill disposed persons hath likewise borne some slaunder of the cause But it suffiseth to cleare him that no intente of malice nor forethought of this fact is found in the partie himselfe M. Caries commendation His conuersation besides with excéeding faith and diligence in hir highnesse seruice will euer deliuer him as a most acceptable Gentleman frée from this and al other euil in the sight of hir Maiestie and all the worlde I shall not néede therefore to speake of him for hys cause néedeth none excuse Here may you behold the rare goodnesse of our great and He reciteth the Queenes vertues and most vvorthsly commendeth hir rare courage in such a perilous chance gracious Mistresse full of religion and pietie Justice and mercie Temperance and magnanimitie and that I cannot but tell you of the most constant and noble courage that euer liued the proofe wherof the cause heard whereat I was present I leaue to your iudgements Hir Maiestie taking prospecte out of the vales of hyr Behold hir princely stoutnesse nothing dismayed at thir sodaine terror but vvith such care to this pore vvounded man and vvith suche countenaunce to the Embassador that she seemed a mother to the one a Queen to the other Barge at the very instant did sée the man stricken and behelde his fall and hearde as it were his deadly scrâ—tch whoÌ„ she immediately commaunded to be taken vp and then beholding him all embrued with bloude commaunded hys woundes to be lapped vp with a scarffe of hir owne and so with hir most constante and amiable countenaunce continued hir entertaynement of the Ambassadoure as thoughe there had bene no such matter Afterwardes the man began to fainte hir highnesse then commaunded a cloke to be put on his bodye with other suche necessarie reliefes asÌ„ were there presentlye to be hadde without alteration of countenaunce Beholde this kinglye hearte and courage of rarâ— magnanimitie Hir highnesse magnanimitie mingled vvith mercie the one most comfortable to hir subiectes and the other most terrible to hir foes séeing as it were the presente death of the next to hir neyther feared hir owne life nor was dismayed with this treasonable chaunce An action more than maruellous in hir sexe Hereof howe muche wée maye reioyce I want witte to tell you But in one worde hir highnesse that with hir singular wisedome and policie hath preserued hir Empire these twentie yeares in moste ioyfull peace wyth thys courage magnanimitie will no doubt as mightily defende vs in the moste cruell wars God therefore euer blesse hir and let vs with oure handes stretched vp to Heauen and oure eyes fixed on the seate of God praye for hir long life and moste prosperous raigne ouer vs. Thomas An earnest exhortation to pray Appletree receiue thy life from hir most excellent Maiestie and pray to God on thy knées for hir all thy dayes to come Here Maister VizchaÌ„berlaine kneeled on hys knees vvith al the people pray sing God for hir Maiesties safe deliuerie And so the people being moued to prayer for hir Maiesties moste happy escape and for the blessing of God to lengthen hir dayes for many any many yeares he fell on hys knées with great deuotion amongest them and so departed with excéeding ioy to the people and a thousand blessings on him selfe A Shippe called the thrée halfe Moones manned with xxxviij men and well fenced with munitions sette from Iohn Fox delyuered 269. Christians ouâ—e of captiuitie of the Turkes Portesmouth towarde Ciuill a Citie in Spaine but falling into the streightes were taken by the Turkes putte in their Galleys their clothes torne from their backes and then set to the Ores where their fare was scant of bread vnholesome water and plentie of stripes Nigh to the Citie of Alexandrâ—a being a Hauen Towne vnder the dominion of the Turkes there is a Roâ—â—e very fencible where into the Turkes doe customably bring their Galleis on shoare euery yere in the Winter and there do trimme them against the Spring time In whyche roade there is a prison wherein the Captiues and suche prisoners as serue in the Galleis are putte for all that time vntill the Seas be calme and passable for the Galleis euery prisoner laden with yrons on their legs Into whiche prison these Christians were putte and faste warded all the Winter season but ere it was long the Maister and the owner by meanes offriendes were redéemed the reste abyding whyle they were all throughe their yll vsage and worse fare myserablye starued sauing one Iohn Fox who being somewhat skilfull in the Crafte of a Barber by reason thereof made great shift in helping his fare now and then with a good meale till at the last God sente him fauour in the sight of the kéeper of the prison so that he had leaue to go in and out to the Roade at his pleasure paying a tertayne stipend vnto the kéeper and wearing a locke about his legge which libertie likewise sixe more had vpon like sufferance who not being suspected to start aside had libertie to go in and out at the sayd Roade and to returne agayne at night In the yere of our Lord 1577. in the Winter season the Galleis comming to their accustomed harborough and being discharged of all their Mastes Sayles and other such furnitures and all the maysters and marriners of them being lodged in their owne homes there remayned in the prison of the sayd Roade 268. Christian prisoners who had bin taken by the Turkes force and were of sixtéene sundry Nations among the which there were thrée Englishmen whereof one was named Iohn Fox of Wodbridge another William Wickney of Portesmouth and the third Robert Moore of Harwich which Iohn Foxe hauing bin thirtéene or fourtéene yeares vnder their gentle intreatance minding his escape tooke good heart vnto him Not farre from the Roade at one side of
HEnrie born at Winchester the eldest sonne of Iohn of the age of ix yeares began Anno reg 1. his raign the xix of October in the yeare 1216. he was crowned at Gloucester on the xxviij day of October by Peter Bishoppe of Winchester and Iocelyne Byshoppe of Bathe in the presence of Walo the Legate Siluester Byshop of Worcester Ranulph Earle of Chester William Marshall Erle of Penbroke William Erle Ferrers Iohn Marshal Mathew Paris and many other being crowned remained in the custodie of William Marshal Earle of Penbroke by whose meanes al the nobles serued King Henrie much more faithfully than they had his father Bennet Seinturer William Bluntiuers the. 28. Sept. Sherifes Maior Iames Alderman the. 28. of October for part of the yeare and Salomon Basing for the residue Lewes toke the Castels of Berkhamsteede and Heneforde 1217 after returned into Fraunce to fetch more succour and at hys returne besieged Douer in vaine for the Barons of England that had taken part with him going to Lincolne with a great Liber Barnwel army were there taken on the xx day of June which misfortune Liber Col. S. Peter Scala Crom. when Lewes vnderstoode he raised his siege from Douer and came to London and shutte vp all the gates saue one but the Londoners at the comming of king Henries hoste yéelded the Citie to him wherefore he confirmed all the liberties that the Londoners had or were méete to haue at lengthe the barons of Fraunce with one Eustace le Moyne a gret man of Fraunce hauing prepared a nauie of lx ships set forward to come into EnglaÌ„d to y â— aide of Lewes but Hubert de Brugh Conestable of Douer Castel with a multitude of armed men and the ships of y â— fiue Portes met them on the Sea where they slew Eustace their leader there escaped but fiftéen ships al the other wer taken and drowned When Lewes heard this he wist not what to doe wherevppon compelled by necessitie he sued for peace at length the Legate Bishops and nobles of Englande méeting in an I le néere vnto Kingstone they had a treatie of peace togither where the sayde Lewes in presence of them all was released of the excommunication and he renounced she Realme of England and so peace was restored the thirtéenth day of September Lewes returned Levves returned into France FroÌ„ the benefit of the absolution and peace wer exempted Bishops Abbots Pryors and of al y e cleargy whyche had borne any fauour or good will to Lewes and the Barons were al depriued from the benefices by the Legate Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne gaue a thousande marke to the Pope and an hundred marke to the Legate whose example Anno reg 2. many other did follow Thomas Bokerel Ralphe Elland the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Searle Mercer the. 28. of October Simon de Montfort died at y â— siege of Tholouse being hurt Lib. Barnewel Gualters Coro 1218 with the stroke of a stone Randulph Earle of Chester Saâ—r de Quincie Erle of Winchester William de Albeneto Erle of Arundel William Erle Ferrers with the Barons Robert Fitz Walter Iohn Conestable of Chester and William Harcourt with a greate traine toke their iourney toward Ierusalem Walo the Legate departed toward Rome and Pandolph elected Bishop of Norwich succéeded Legate Anno reg 3 Sherifes Maior 1216 Crom. â—â—iter Nicholas Triuet Earle Marshall dyed Anno reg 4. Iohn Viell Iohn le Spicer the 28. of September Searle Merceâ— the 28 of October William Marshal the elder Earle of Penbroke gouernor of the kings person and of the realme died and was buryeâ— at London in the New Temple the xv of Apryll after whose death the kyng was gouerned by Peter Byshop of Winchester Richard Wimbledon Iohn Viell the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior King Henry câ—ovvned Searle Mercer the 28. of October King Henry was crowned at Westminster by Stephen Langton Archbyshop of Canturbury on the. xvij daye of May Hubert de Burgo was made the kings chiefe Justice The new worke of our Ladies Chappell at Westminster Nevve vvorke of VVestminster Straungers banished was begunne by kyng Henry Proclamation was made that all straungers shoulde â—â—oyde the realme except such as came with Marchaundise and to make sale of them vnder the kings safeconduct Ranulphe the thirde Earle of Chester Lincolne and Richmond Castels of Chart ley and Bestrne buylded Abbey of Delacrosse Annoreg 5. Sherifes Maior 1231 Nicho. Treâ— Antiq. Calend. in Bristollia and Lorde of Little Brytaine came out of the holy land into England and builded the Castels of Carteley Bestone and the Abbey of Delacrosse Richard Renger Iohn Viell the 28. of Septemb. Searle Mercer the 28. of October The Frier Preachers thirtéene in number were sente into Englande and hauing to their Prior Gilbert de Fraxineto in company of Beter de Roche Bishop of Winchester came to Canturbury and there presenting themselues before the Archbishoppe Stephen he commaunded the saide Prior tâ— preach before him and lyked him so well that he euer aâ—â—â— loued their order On Saint Laurence day they came to London and so to Oxford on the day of the Assumption in whose hoâ— or they builded an Oratorie and also those Schooles which since were called Saint Oxwards schooles in whose parishe they tooke a place and there for a time remayned and after that remoued to the place without the walles whyche the king assygned them King Henry subdued the Welchmen which rebelled The Noblemen graunted to the king twoo Markes of 〈…〉 of euery hide of lande Isabell the kyngs mother without making hir sonne or Nicho. Triuet his Counsell priuy to hir purpose wente ouer into Fraunce and there married with the Erle of March Hugh Bronne King Henry gaue his sister Iane to Alexander k. of Scots who married hir at Yorke and Hubert de Brugh married the king of Scots sister William de Albeneto Erle of Arundel â—yed comming from the holy Land who was conueyed into England and buried at Wimondham a Priory of his fouÌ„dation Anno reg 6 Sherifes Maior 1222 Prouinciall Counsell Radulphus Cog. Gual Couen Lib. Bermond Richard Renger Thomas Lambert the 28. of Septemb. Searle Mercer the 28. of October A Prouinciall Counsell was holden at Oxforde by Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canturbury and his Suffâ—agan Byshops and others in the conuentuall Church of Osney xv days after Easter wher wer degraded a Priest a Deacon the Priest for homicide the Deacon for sacriledge and theft committed An other Deacon offending more déepely denyed the profession of Christian Religion and for the loue hée â—are fo a Jewish woman caused himselfe to be circumcised folowing the Jewish rytes and customes he was degraded An Apotestate brent A counterfaite Christ and beyng left as a lay person and Apostata was condemned and committed to the fyre by the seruaunts of Falcatius wherein he miserably ended his life
There was also a yong man and two women broughte before them the yong man would not come in any Church nor be partaker of the Sacraments but had suffered himselfe to be crucified in whom y â— scars of al y e wouÌ„ds were to be séene in his haÌ„ds head side Radulphus Cog. fâ—et he reioiced to be called Jesus of these women other One of the women being olde was accused for beâ—â—â— ching Radulphus Cog. Wal. Couentren Nicholas Triues the yong man vnto such madnesse and also altering hir owne name procured hirself to be called Mary the mother of Christ They being coÌ„uict of these crimes and other were adiudged to be closed vp betwéene two wals of stone where they ended their liues in miserie The other woman Counterfaite Marie and Christ being sister to the yong man was let go bycause she reueâ—led the wicked fact On Saint Iames day the Citizens of London kept gameâ— of defence and wrestling néere vnto the Hospital of Matild VVrestling Mathew Paris where they got the maisterie of the menne of the Suburbes The Baylife of Westminster deuising to be reuenged proclaymed a game to be at Westminster vppon Lammas daye wherevnto the Citizens of London repayred and when they had played a while the Baylie with the men of the suburbs harnised themselues and fell to fighting that the Citizens being foully wounded were forced to runne into the Citie where they rang the common Bel and assembled the Citizens in gret number and when the matter was declared euery man wished to reuenge the fact The Maior of the Citie being a wise man and a quiet willed them firste to moue the Abbot of Westminster of the matter and if he wold promise to sée amendes made it were sufficient but a certaine A tuâ—ult in London Citizen named Constantine Fitz Arnulâ—e willed that all houses of the Abbot and Baylie should be pulled downe whiche word being once spoken the common people issued out of the Citie without anye order and fought a ciuil battaile for Constantine the firste pulled downe many houses and ofâ—times with a loude voyce cryed in prayse of the sayd Constantine the ioye of the mountaine the ioy of the mountaine God helpe and the Lord Lodowike A fewe dayes after this tumult the Abbot of Westminster Cro. Dâ—n Abbot of VVestminster pat to his shifts came to London to Phillip Dawbney one of the kings counsel to complaine of the iniuries done to him which the Londoners perceyuing beset the house aboute and tooke by violence twelue of the Abbots horsses away cruelly beating of his men c. But whiles the foresayde Daubney laboured to pacifie the vprore the Abbot gotte out at a backe dore of the house and so by a boate on the Thamis hardlye escaped the Citizens throwing stones after him in great aboundaÌ„ce These things being thus done Hubert de Burgo Justiciar Chief Iustice en tred the Citie of London vvith an army of England with a great armye of men came to the Tower of London and sent for the Maior and AldermeÌ„ of whom he enquired for the principal aucthours of this faction Then Constantine who was constaunt in the sedition was more constante in the aunsweare affirming that he had done it and that he hadde done muche lesse than he ought to haue done The Justiciar tooke him and two other with him and in y â— morning earely sent them to Falcatius by water with a gret number of armed men who brought Constantine to the gallowes CoÌ„staÌ„tine vvith other hanged and when he sawe the rope about his necke he offered for his life 15000. marks but that would not saue him so he was hanged with Constantine his nephew Galfride that proclaymed his proclamation on the sixtéenth of August Then the Justiciar entring the City with a great army Mathew Paris Feete handes of many cut of caused to be apprehended as many as he coulde learne to be culpable whose féet and hands he caused to be cut off which crueltie caused many to flée the Citie The King toke of the Citizens 60. pledges which he seÌ„t to diuers Castelles he desposed the Maior appointing a Gardien or kéeper ouer the Citie and caused a greate gybet to be made and after heauie threatnings the Citizens were reconciled paying to the king manye thousande Anno reg 7 Tempestes and dearth markes On holy Rode daye was great Thunder and lightning throughout all England and such great flouds of water followed with great windes and tempest which continued tyll Candlemasse that the yeare following wheate was sold for xij shillings the quarter Richard Renger Thomas Lambert the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Searle Mercer the 28. of October On Saint Andrewes daye a great Thunder ouerthrewe Great tempests Churches Castels and houses so that scantly any body escaped frée from harme by this Tempeste A Knight and hys wife and eyghte menne of hys housholde with the fall of his house were slaine in Pilardestune a villedge of Warwickeshire In a Counsel holden at London the Archbishop of Canturburie 1223 and other the nobilitie and Barons of the Realme required the king to confirme the liberties for the whiche the warre was moued against his Father and that himselfe at the departing of Lewes out of Englande sware to obserue where vppon forthwith the King sente his letters to all the Sherifes of the realm commanding them to inquire by the othes of twelue lawfull men in euery Countie what liberties were in England in the time of King Henrie his grandfather and to send the inqusition so made to London fiftéene dayes after Easter Iohn de Brennes king of Ierusalem and chiefe maister of K. of Ierusalem the Hospital there came into England and required ayde to winne Ierusalem but he returned with smal comfort Leolyn Prince of Wales founded the Castell of Mountgomerie Tho. Wikes and therewith certaine Englishmen in despighte of the King attempted to constraine William Marshall Earle of Penbroke and other to yéelde to them but the whole Countrey Anno reg 8. Sherifes Maior 1224 Mathew Paris rose in armour and ouercame them Iohn Trauers Andrew Bokerel the. 28. of September Richard Renger the. 28. of October The Earle of Chester and other rose against the king and hys Justiciars for the custodyes of the Castelles and landes whyche the Kyng demaunded of them Wherefore the Archbishop of Canturburie and the Byshops excommunicated al the perturbers of the king and the Realme The Earle of Chester and his complices perceyuing that the King had a greater number of men of armes then they and also fearing the excommunicatioÌ„ came to the king at Northampton yéelding their castels honors which appertayned to the Crowne Then the king layed siege about the Ral. Cogshall Bedford castel besieged Castel of Bedforde that Falcatius had long kepte by strength which siege he continued by the space of eight wéekes and toke the