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A68202	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178	4,305,113	1,536

fide firmiter fideliter obseruabimus Et similiter iurare fecimus venerabiles patres Dauid Wilhelmum Galfridum Clementem sancti Andreae Glasconiensem Dunkeldensem Dublinēsem episcopos praeterea Malcolmum comitem line 30 de Fife fideles nostros Patricium comitem de Dunbar Malisium comitem de Strathern Walterum Cumin comitem de Menteth Wilhelmum comitem de Mar Alexandrum comitem de Buchquhan Dauid de Hastings comitem de Athol Robertum de Bruts Alanum Ostiarium Henricum de Baliol Rogerum de Mowbray Laurentium de Abirnethiae Richardum Cumin Dauid de Lindesey Richardum Siward Wilhelmum de Lindesey line 40 Walterum de Morauia Wilhelmum Gifford Nicholaum de Sully Wilhelmum de veteri Ponte Wilhelmum de Brewer Anselmum de Mesue Dauid de Graham Stephanum de Suningam Quòd si nos vel haeredes nostri contra concessionem promissionem praedictam quod absit venerimus ipsi haeredes eorum nobis haeredibus nostris nullum contra concessionem promissionem praedictam auxilium vel consilium impendent line 50 aut ab alijs proposse suo impendi permittent Imò bona fide laborabunt erga nos haeredes nostros ipsi haeredes eorum quòd omnia praedicta à nobis haeredibus nostris nec non ab ipsis eorum haeredibus firmiter fideliter obseruentur inperpetuum In cuius rei testimonium tam nos quàm praedicti praelati comites barones nostri praesens scriptum sigillorum suorum appositione roborauimus Testibus praelatis comitibus baronibus line 60 superiùs nominatis Anno regni nostri c. The same in English ALexander by the grace of God king of Scotland to all faithfull christian people that shall see or heare this writing sendeth greeting We will that it be knowne to you that we for vs and our heires haue granted and faithfullie promised to our most deare and liege lord Henrie the third by the grace of God the noble king of England lord of Ireland duke of Normandie and Guien and earle of Aniou and to his heires that we will beare and keepe vnto him good faith and loue for euer and that we shall not enter into any league with our selues or by others in our behalfe with the enimies of our said souereigne lord the king of England or of his heires to procure or make warre whereby any damage may happen to come to them or to their kingdoms of England and Ireland or to their other lands except vniustlie they doo molest and oppresse vs. The couenants alwaies standing in force which were concluded betwixt vs at our last being togither at Yorke in the presence of Otho decon cardinall of saint Nicholas In carcere Tulliano then legat of the see apostolike in England and sauing the couenants made vpon the contract of the mariage betwixt our sonne the daughter of the said king of England And that this promise and grant for vs and our heires may haue the force and confirmation of an euerlasting assurednesse we haue caused these to sweare on our behalfe Alan Porter Henrie de Balioll Dauid de Lindesey Wil. Gifford that we shall in good faith obserue all the premisses faithfullie and substantiallie and we haue likewise caused to sweare the reuerend fathers Dauid William Geffrey Clement Bishops of S. Andrewes Glascew Dunkeld and Dublane and furthermore our faithfull subiects Patrike earle of Dunbar Malcolme earle of Fife Malisius earle of Stratherne Walter Cumin earle of Menteth William earle of Mar Alexander earle of Buchquhan Dauid de Hastings earle of Athol Robert de Bruis Alan Porter Henrie de Balioll Roger de Mowbraie Laurence de Abirnethi Richard Cumin Dauid de Lindesey Richard Siward William de Lindesey Walter de Murraie William de Gifford Nicholas de Sully William de Veipont William de Brewer Anselme de Mesue Dauid de Graham and Stephan de Suningham And if that either we or our heires against the foresaid grant and promise shall doo anie thing to the breach therof which God forbid they and their heires shall not imploie either aid or counsell against the said grant and promise nor shall suffer other to imploie any such aid or counsell so far as they may hinder them therein yea rather they and their heires shall in good faith and plaine meaning endeuour against vs and our heires that all the premisses may firmelie and faithfullie be obserued and kept of vs and our heires and likewise of them and their heires for euer In witnesse whereof aswell we our selues as the said prelats our earles and barons haue confirmed this writing by putting their seales vnto the same the prelats earles and barons before rehearsed beeing true witnesses therevnto In the yeare of our reigne c. The seales of king Alexander himselfe of William de Brewer William de Ueipont William de Lindesey Stephan de Suningham and the seales of the rest were set to afterwards and the writing sent ouer to the king of England at Christmasse next insuing by the prior of Tinmouth who had trauelled diligentlie and faithfullie in this negotiation to the honour of both parts This writing also was sent to the pope that he might confirme the same in manner as followeth A request made to the pope that he would vouchsafe to confirme the foresaid charter SAnctissimo in Christo patri I. Dei gratia summo pontisici Alexander eadem gratia rex Scotiae comes Patricius comes de Strathern comes Leuenox comes de Anegui comes de Marra comes de Atholia line 10 comes de Ros comes de Catnes comes de Buth Rogerus de Mowbray Rogerus de Abirnethiae Petrus de Mauuere Richardus Cumin Wilhelmus de veteri Ponte Robertus de Bruis Rogerus Auenel Richardus de Sully Wilhelm de Murray de Dunfel Wilhelmus de Muref de Petin Iohannes Biset iuuenis Wilhelmus de Lindesey Iohannes de Vallibus Dauid de Lindesey Wilhelmus Gifford Duncanus de Ergatilia I. de Matreuers Hemerus filius eius Rogerus comes Wintoniensis line 20 H. comes Oxoniensis W. de Vescy Richardus Siward Wilhelmus de Ros Rogerus de Clere Henricus filius comitis de Brettere Eustacius de Stoutville Malcolmus de Fif comes de Mentethshire Walterus filius Alani Walterus Olifar Barnardus Fraser Henricus de Bailliol Dauid Cumin Dauid Mareschallus Dauid filius Ranulfi Wilhelmus de Fortere Ioannes de Bailliol Robertus de Ros salutem debitam cum omni honore line 30 reuerentiam Sanctitati vestrae significamus nos sacramentum corporaliter praestitisse coram venerabili patre Othone tituli S. Nicolai in carcere Tulliano diacono cardinalium in Anglia Scotia Hibernia nunc Apostolicae sedis legato ac chartam nostram confecisse quae ita incipit Sciant praesentes futuri quòd ita conuenit in praesentia domini Othonis sancti Nicolai c. Quae charta penes dominum line 40 regem Angliae nos

méet for such a dalieng pastime When this communication was merilie ended the French king intending to shew himselfe like a maister amongst his seruants made all his companie to draw backe from him meaning to commune with the king of England secretlie The Englishmen withdrew them without any commandement Then the two kings communed alone secretlie I thinke not to the profit of the constable of France The French king demanded of king Edward whether the duke of Burgognie would accept the truce King Edward answered that he would once againe make an offer and then vpon the refusall he would referre and report the truth to them both Then king Lewes began to speake of the duke of Britaine whome he would faine haue excepted out of the league To whom the king of England answered Brother I require you to mooue no warre to the duke of Britaine for on my fidelitie in the time of my néed and aduersitie I neuer found a more friendlie sure and stedfast louer than he Then king Lewes called his companie againe and with most lowlie and amiable commendations tooke his leaue of the king of England speaking certeine friendlie words to euerie Englishman king Edward dooing likewise to the Frenchmen Then both at one time departed from the barriers mounted on horssebacke and departed the French king to Amiens and king Edward to his armie To whom was sent out of the French kings house all things necessarie for a prince insomuch that neither torches nor torchets lacked vnsent When the French king was departed from Picquenie he called to him the lord of Argenton saieng By the peace of God the king of England is an amorous and a faire prince he at the first becke would gladlie see Paris where he might fortune to find such pleasant and talkatiue dames which with faire words pleasant pastimes might so allure him to their fantasies that it might breed occasion in him to come ouer the sea againe which I would not gladlie see For his progenitors haue beene too long and too often both in Paris and Normandie On this side the sea I loue neither his sight nor his companie but when he is at home I loue him as my brother and take him as my friend The French king after this departing sore desired to make warre on the duke of Britaine which he could not doo except he were left out of the treatie Wherefore he sent the lord of Bouchage and the lord of saint Pierre to the king of England intreating him by all waies and motions possible to leaue the duke of Britaine for his alie and not to haue him comprehended in the league The king of England hearing them so seriouslie and so feruentlie speake against the duke of Britaine with an earnest countenance answered saieng My lords I assure you if I were peaceablie at home in my realme yet for the defense of the duke of Britaine and his countrie I would passe the seas againe against all them that line 10 either would doo him iniurie or make warre vpon him The French lords nothing further saieng much maruelled why the king of England so suerlie claue to the duke of Britains partie but they knew not or else at the least remembred not that Henrie earle of Richmond was within the power and dominion of the duke of Britaine whome king Edwards phantasie euer gaue him would make once a title to the crowne of England as next heire to the house of line 20 Lancaster For he knew well that if the duke of Britaine would transport him into England where hée had both kinsfolks and friends with neuer so small an aid yea though it were but the shadow of an armie then were he inforced newlie to begin againe a conquest as though he had neuer woone the crowne nor obteined the possession of the realme which was the verie cause why he stucke so fore to the duke of Britains part The same night the lords returned to Amiens and line 30 reported to their maister king Edwards answer who therewith was not the best pleased But pleasure or displeasure there was no remedie but to dissemble the matter This same night also there came the lord Howard and two other of the king of Englands councell who had béene coadiutors toward the peace to the French king to supper The lord Howard said to the French king secretlie in his eare that if it stood with his pleasure he could persuade the king of England to come to Amiens yea peraduenture as farre as Paris familiarlie and line 40 friendlie to solace himselfe with him as his trustie friend and faithfull brother The French king to whom this motion was nothing pleasant calling for water washed and rose without anie answer making but he said to one of his councell that he imagined in his owne conceipt that this request would be made The Englishmen began againe to commune of that matter the Frenchmen politikelie brake their communication saieng that the king line 50 with all celeritie must march forward against the duke of Burgognie Although this motion séemed onelie to increase loue and continuall amitie betwéene the princes yet the Frenchmen hauing in their perfect remembrance the innumerable damages and hurts which they of late daies had susteined by the English nation whereby continuall hatred increased against them in France thought by policie and wisedome with faire words and friendlie countenance to put line 60 by this request and to motion them rather to depart homeward than to pricke them forward to Paris where peraduenture they might be so interteined at this time that they would at another come thither both vndesired and vnwelcomed This peace was said to be made onelie by the Holie-ghost bicause that on the daie of méeting a white dooue sat on the top of the king of Englands tent whether she sate there to drie hir or came thither as a ●oken giuen by God I referre it to your iudgment At this treatie and méeting was not the duke of Glocester nor other lords which were not content with this truce but the duke came afterwards to Amiens with diuerse other lords of England to the French king which both highlie feasted them and also presented them with plate and horsses well garnished King Lewes considering what gaine the Englishmen had gotten by making warre in France and what miserie what calamitie and what pouertie the French nation had suffered and manie yeares susteined by reason of the said warres determined clearelie rather to pacifie and interteine the English nation by faire words and great rewards although it were to his great charge than by too much hardinesse to put himselfe his nobilitie realme in hazard by giuing them battell as his predecessors had vnwiselie doone at Poitiers and at Agincourt Wherefore to buie peace he granted king Edward for a yearelie tribute fiftie thousand crownes to be paied at London which accounting a crowne at foure shillings amounteth to ten thousand pounds And to haue the fauour

you loue them if ech of you hate other if they were men your faithfulnesse happilie would suffice But childhood must be mainteined by mens authoritie and slipper youth vnderpropped with elder counsell which neither they can haue but ye giue it nor ye giue it if ye gree not For where ech laboureth to breake that the other maketh and for hatred of ech of others person impugneth ech others counsell there must it needs be long yet anie good conclusion go forward And also while either partie laboureth to be cheefe flatterie shall haue more place than plaine and faithfull aduise of which must needs insue the euill bringing vp of the prince whose mind in tender youth infect shall redilie fall to mischeefe and riot and draw downe with his noble relme to ruine But if grace turne him to wisedome which if God send then they that by euill meanes before pleased him best shall after fall furthest out of fauour so that euer at length euill drifts shall draw to nought and good plaine waies prosper Great variance hath there long beene betweene you not alwaie for great causes Sometimes a thing right well intended our misconstruction turneth vnto woorse or a small displeasure doone vs either our owne affection or euill toongs aggreeueth But this wot I well ye neuer had so great cause of hatred as ye haue of loue That we be all men that we be christian men this shall I leaue for preachers to tell you and yet I wot neere whether anie preachers words ought more to mooue you than his that is by by going to the place that they all preach of But this shall I desire you to remember that the one part of you is of my bloud the other of mine alies and ech of you with other either of kinred or affinitie which spirituall kinred of affinitie if the sacraments of Christs church beare that weight with vs that would God they did should no lesse mooue vs to charitie than the respect of fleshlie consanguinitie Our Lord forbid that you loue together the woorse for the selfe cause that you ought to loue the better And yet that happeneth and no where find we so deadlie debate as among them which by nature and law most ought to agree togither Such a pestilent serpent is ambition and desire of vaine glorie and souereigntie which among states where she once entereth creepeth foorth so farre till with diuision and variance she turneth all to mischeefe first longing to be next vnto the best afterward equall with the best at last cheefe and aboue the best Of which immoderat appetite of worship and thereby of debate and dissention what losse what sorow what trouble hath within these few yeares growne in this realme I praie God as well forget as we well remember Which things if I could as well haue foreseene as I haue with my more paine than pleasure prooued by Gods blessed ladie that was euer his oth I would neuer haue woone the courtesie of mens knees with the losse of so manie heads But sithens things passed can not be gaine called much ought we the more beware by what occasion we haue taken so great hurt afore that we eftsoones fall not in that occasion againe Now be those greefs passed and all is God be thanked quiet and likelie right well to prosper in wealthfull peace vnder your coosins my children if God send them life and you loue Of which two things the lesse losse were they by whom though God did his pleasure yet should the realme alwaie find kings and peraduenture as good kings But if you among your selues in a childs reigne fall at debate manie a good man shall perish and happilie he too and ye too yer this land find peace againe Wherfore line 10 in these last words that euer I looke to speake with you I exhort you and require you all for the loue that you haue euer borne to me for the loue that I haue euer borne vnto you for the loue that our Lord beareth to vs all from this time forward all greefs forgotten ech of you loue other Which I verelie trust you will if ye anie thing earthlie regard either God or your line 20 king affinitie or kinred this realme your owne countrie or your owne suertie And therewithall the king no longer induring to sit vp laid him downe on his right side his face towards them and none was there present that could refraine from weeping But the lords recomforting him with as good line 30 words as they could and answering for the time as they thought to stand with his pleasure there in his presence as by their words appeared ech forgaue other and ioined their hands togither when as it after appeared by their deeds their hearts were farre asunder As soone as the king was departed the noble prince his sonne drew toward London which at the time of his deceasse kept his houshold at Ludlow in Wales which countrie being farre off from the law and recourse to iustice was begun to be farre out of line 40 good rule and waren wild robbers and reauers walking at libertie vncorrected And for this occasion the prince was in the life of his father sent thither to the end that the authoritie of his presence should refraine euill disposed persons from the boldnesse of their former outrages To the gouernance and ordering of this yoong prince at his sending thither was there appointed sir Anthonie Wooduile lord Riuers and brother vnto the queene a right honourable man as valiant of line 50 hand as politike in counsell Adioined were there vnto him other of the same partie and in effect euerie one as he was néerest of kin vnto the queene so was he planted next about the prince That drift by the queene not vnwiselie deuised whereby hir bloud might of youth be rooted into the princes fauour the duke of Glocester turned vnto their destruction and vpon that ground set the foundation of all his vnhappie building For whome soeuer he perceiued either at variance with them or bearing himselfe their line 60 fauour he brake vnto them some by mouth some by writing Nay he sent secret messengers saieng that it neither was reason nor in anie wise to be suffered that the yoong king their maister and kinsman should be in the hands and custodie of his moothers kinred sequestred in maner from their companie and attendance of which euerie one ought him as faithfull seruice as they and manie of them farre more honourable part of kin than his moothers side Whose bloud quoth he sauing the kings pleasure was full vnméetelie to be matched with his which now to be as who say remooued from the king and the lesse noble to be left about him is quoth he neither honourable to his maiestie nor to vs and also to his grace no suertie to haue the mightiest of his fréends from him and vnto vs no little ieopardie to suffer our well prooued

line 40 great wise man well perceiued when hee said Vae regno cuius rex puer est Wo is that realme that hath a child to their king Wherefore so much the more cause haue we to thanke God that this noble personage which is so rightlie intituled thervnto is of so sad age thereto so great wisedome ioined with so great experience which albeit hee will bee loth as I haue line 50 said to take it vpon him yet shall he to our petition in that behalfe more gratiouslie incline if ye the worshipfull citizens of this the cheefe citie of this realme ioine with vs the nobles in our said request Which for your owne weale we doubt not but ye will and nathelesse I heartilie pray you so to doo whereby you shall doo great profit to all this realme beside in choosing them line 60 so good a king and vnto your selues speciall commoditie to whom his maiestie shall euer after beare so much the more tender fauor in how much he shall perceiue you the more prone and beneuolentlie minded toward his election Wherin deere friends what mind you haue wee require you plainlie to shew vs. When the duke had said and looked that the people whome he hoped that the maior had framed before should after this proposition made haue cried King Richard king Richard all was husht and mute and not one word answered therevnto Wherewith the duke was maruellouslie abashed and taking the maior neerer to him with other that were about him priuie to that matter said vnto them softlie What meaneth this that the people be so still Sir quoth the maior percase they perceiue you not well That shall we mend quoth he if that will helpe And by by somewhat lowder he rehersed to them the same matter againe in other order and other words so well and ornatlie and nathelesse so euidentlie and plaine with voice gesture and countenance so comelie and so conuenient that euerie man much maruelled that heard him and thought that they neuer had in their liues heard so euill a tale so well told insomuch that he séemed as cunning an orator as he of whome the poet spake to his high praise cōmendation saieng Quaelibet eloquio causa fit apta suo But were it for woonder or feare or that each looked that other should speake first not one word was there answered of all the people that stood before but all was as still as the midnight not somuch as rowning amongest them by which they might seeme to commune what was best to do When the maior saw this he with other partners of that councell drew about the duke and said that the people had not béene accustomed there to be spoken vnto but by the recorder which is the mouth of the citie and happilie to him they will answer With that the recorder called Fitz William a sad man an honest which was so new come into that office that he neuer had spoken to the people before and loth was with that matter to begin notwithstanding thervnto commanded by the maior made rehearsall to the commons of that the duke had twise rehearsed to them himselfe But the recorder so tempered his tale that he shewed euerie thing as the dukes words and no part his owne But all this noting no change made in the people which alwaie after one stood as they had béene men amazed Wherevpon the duke rowned vnto the maior and said This is a maruellous obstinate silence and therewith he turned vnto the people againe with these words Déere friends we come to mooue you to that thing which peraduenture we not so greatlie néeded but that the lords of this realme and the commons of other parties might haue sufficed sauing that we such loue beare you and so much set by you that we would not gladlie doo without you that thing in which to be partners is your weale and honor which as it séemeth either you sée not or weie not Wherefore we require you giue vs answer one way or other whether you be minded as all the nobles of the realme be to haue this noble prince now protector to be your king or not At these words the people began to whisper among themselues secretly that the voice was neither lowd nor distinct but as it were the sound of a swarme of bées till at the last in the nether end of the hall an ambushment of the dukes seruants and Nashfields and other belonging to the protector with some prentisses and lads that thrust into the hall amongst the prease began suddenlie at mens backes to crie out as lowd as their throtes would giue King Richard king Richard and threw vp their caps in token of ioy And they that stood before cast backe their heads maruelling therof but nothing they said Now when the duke and the maior saw this maner they wiselie turned it to their purpose and said it was a goodlie crie a ioifull to heare euerie man with one voice no man saieng naie Wherefore friends quoth the duke sith we perceiue it is all your whole minds to haue this noble man for your king whereof we shall make his grace so effectuall report that we doubt not but it shall redound vnto your great weale and commoditie we require ye that ye to morrow go with vs and we with you vnto his noble grace to make our humble request vnto him in maner before remembred And therewith the lords came downe and the companie dissolued and departed the more part all sad some with glad semblance that were not verie metrie and some of those that came thither with the duke not able to dissemble their sorrow were faine at his backe to turne their face to the wall while the dolor of their hearts burst out of their eies line 10 Then on the morrow after the maior with all the aldermen and chiefe commoners of the citie in their best maner apparelled assembling themselues togither resorted vnto Bainards castell where the protector laie To which place repaired also according to their appointment the duke of Buckingham and diuerse noble men with him beside manie knights and other gentlemen And therevpon the duke sent word vnto the lord protector of the being there of a great and honourable companie to mooue a great line 20 matter vnto his grace Wherevpon the protector made difficultie to come out vnto them but if he first knew some part of their errand as though he doubted and partlie mistrusted the comming of such a number vnto him so suddenlie without anie warning or knowledge whether they came for good or harme Then the duke when he had shewed this to the maior and other that they might thereby sée how little the protector looked for this matter they sent vnto line 30 him by the messenger such louing message againe and therewith so humblie besought him to vouchsafe that they might resort to his presence to propose their intent of which they would

the ministers of the church to decaie or learning which is so great a iewell to be minished or poore and miserable to be vnreléeued you might saie that I being put in so speciall a trust as I am in this case were no trustie fréend to you nor charitable to mine euen christian neither a louer to the publike wealth nor yet one that feared God to whome accompt must be rendered of all our dooings Doubt not I praie you but your expectation shall be serued more godlie and goodlie than you will wish or desire as hereafter you shall plainlie perceiue Now sith I find such kindnesse on your part towards me I cannot choose but loue and fauour you affirming that no prince in the world more fauoureth his subiects than I doo you nor no subiects or commons more loued and obeied their souereigne lord than I perceiue you doo me for whose defense my treasure shall not be hidden nor if necessitie require my person shall not be vnaduentured Yet although I wish you and you with me to be in this perfect loue and concord this fréendlie amitie cannot continue except both you my lords temporall and my lords spirituall and you my louing subiects studie and take paine to amend one thing which surelie is amisse and farre out of order to the which I most hartilie require you which is that charitie and concord is not among you but discord and dissention beareth rule in euerie place Saint Paule saith to the Corinthians and the thirtéenth chapter Charitie is gentle charitie is not enuious charitie is not proud and so foorth in the said chapter Behold then what loue and charitie is among you when the one calleth an other heretike and anabaptist and he calleth him againe papist hypocrite and pharisie Be these tokens of charitie amongst you Are these signes of fraternall loue betweene you No no I assure you that this lacke of charitie amongst your selues will be the hinderance and asswaging of the feruer 〈◊〉 betwéene vs as I said before except this 〈◊〉 be salued and cleerelie made whole I must néeds iudge the fault and occasion of this discord to be 〈◊〉 by negligence of you the fathers and preachers of the spiritualtie for if I know a man which liueth in adulterie I must iudge him a lecherous and a carnall person if I sée a man boast and brag himselfe I cannot but déeme him a proud man I sée heere dailie that you of the cleargie preach one against another teach one contrarie to another inueigh one against an other without charitie or discretion some be too stiffe in their old Mumpsimus other be too busie and curious in their new Sumpsimus thus all men almost be in varietie and discord and few or none preacheth trulie and sincerelie the word of God according as they ought to doo Shall I iudge you charitable persons dooing this No no I cannot so doo Alas how can the poore soules liue in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord Of you they looke for light and you bring them to darkenesse Amend these crimes I exhort you and set foorth Gods word both by true preaching and good example giuing or else I whome God hath appointed his vicar and high minister here will sée these diuisions extinct and these enormities corrected according to my verie dutie or else I am an vnprofitable seruant and an vntrue officer Although I saie the spirituall men be in some fault that charitie is not kept amongst you yet you of the temporaltie be not cleare and vnspotted of malice and enuie for you raile on bishops speake slanderouslie of preests and rebuke and taunt preachers both contrarie to good order and christian fraternitie If you know suerlie that a bishop or preacher erreth or teacheth peruerse doctrine come and declare it to some of our councell or to vs to whome is committed by God the high authoritie to reforme and order such causes and behauiors and be not iudges your selues of your owne fantasticall opinions and vaine expositions for in such high causes you may lightlie erre And although you be permitted to read holie scriptures and to haue the word of God in your mother toong you must vnderstand that it is licenced you so to doo onelie to informe your owne consciences and to instruct your children and familie and not to dispute and make scripture a railing and a taunting stocke line 10 against priests and preachers as manie light persons doo I am verie sorie to know and heare how vnreuerentlie that most pretious iewell the word of God is disputed rimed soong and iangled in euerie alehouse and tauerne contrarie to the true meaning and doctrine of the same and yet I am euen as much sorie that the readers of the same follow it in dooing so faintlie and coldlie For of this I am sure that charitie was neuer so faint amongst you and vertuous and godlie liuing was neuer lesse vsed nor line 20 God himselfe amongst christians was neuer lesse reuerenced honored or serued Therfore as I said before be in charitie one with an other like brother and brother loue dread and serue God to the which I as your supreame head and souereigne lord exhort and require you and then I doubt not but that loue and league that I spake of in the beginning shall neuer be dissolued or broken betwéene vs. And to the making of laws which we haue now made and concluded I exhort you the makers to be as diligent in line 30 putting them in execution as you were in making furthering of the same or else your labour shall be in vaine your common-wealth nothing releeued Now to your petition concerning our roiall assent to be giuen to such acts as haue passed both houses they shall be read openlie that ye may heare them Then were they openlie read and to manie his grace assented and diuerse he assented not vnto Thus the kings oration was to his subiects there present line 40 such comfort that the like ioie could not be vnto them in this world And thus the acts read as the manner is and his assent giuen his grace rose and departed Manie proper feats of armes were exploited and doone in this meane while betwixt the parties English and French about Bullongne year 1546 On the morrow after the feast of the Epiphanie there came a conuoie of vittels towards the French fort garded with thrée or foure thousand lancequenetz vnder their coronell the Reingraue and certeine line 50 French horssemen The earle of Surreie then lieutenant of Bullongne aduertised thereof made out with such power as he might conuenientlie spare of them within Bullongne and the Old man to cut off those vittels but comming to encounter with the enimies at saint Estiens he was put to flight sir Edward Poinings capteine of a band called the kings gard of Bullongne was slaine in that conflict with fifteene or sixtéene other capteins beside officers and

that blacke Will should come in the night to the parsonage where he should find the doores left open that he might como in and murther maister Arden This Michaell hauing his maister to bed left open the doores according to the appointment His maister then being in bed asked him if he had shut fast the doores and hée said yea but yet afterwards fearing least blacke Will would kill him as well as his maister after he was in bed himselfe he rose againe and shut the doores bolting them fast So that blacke Will comming thither and finding the doores shut departed being disappointed at that time The next daie blacke Will came to Gréene in a great chafe swearing and staring bicause he was so deceiued and with manie terrible oths threatened to kill maister Ardens man first wheresoeuer he met him No said Gréene doo not so I will first know the cause of shutting the doores Then Greene met and talked with Ardens man and asked of him why he did not leaue open the doors according to his promise Marie said Michaell I will shew you the cause My maister yesternight did that he neuer did before for after I was in bed hée rose vp and shut the doores and in the morning rated me for leauing them vnshut And herewith Gréene blacke Will were pacified Arden being redie to go homewards his maid came to Gréene said This night will my maister go downe Whervpon it was agréed that blacke Will should kill him on Reinam downe When maister Arden came to Rochester his man still fearing that blacke Will would kill him line 10 with his maister pricked his horsse of purpose and made him to halt to the end he might protract the time and tarie behind His maister asked him whie his horsse halted he said I know not Well quoth his maister when ye come at the smith here before betwéene Rochester and the hill foot ouer against Chee●am remooue his shoo and search him and then come after me So maister Arden rode on and yer he came at the place where blacke Will laie in wait for him there ouertooke him diuerse gentlemen of his acquaintance who kept him companie so that line 20 blacke Will mist here also of his purpose After that maister Arden was come home hee sent as he vsuallie did his man to Shepeie to sir Thomas Cheinie then lord warden of the cinque ports about certeine businesse and at his comming awaie he had a letter deliuered sent by sir Thomas Cheinie to his maister When he came home his mist resse tooke the letter and kept it willing hir man to tell his maister that he had a letter deliuered him by sir line 30 Thomas Cheinie and that he had lost it adding that he thought it best that his maister should go the next morning to sir Thomas bicause he knew not the matter he said he would and therefore he willed his man to be stirring betimes In this meane while blacke Will and one George Shake bag his companion were kept in a storehouse of sir Anthonie Agers at Preston by Greenes appointment and thither came mistresse Arden to sée him bringing and sending him meat and drinke manie times He therfore line 40 lurking there and watching some opportunitie for his purpose was willed in anie wise to be vp earlie in the morning to lie in wait for maister Arden in a certeine broome close betwixt Feuersham the ferrie which close he must néeds passe there to doo his feat Now blacke Will stirred in the morning betimes but mist the waie taried in a wrong place Maister Arden his man comming on their waie earlie in the morning towards Shornelan where sir Thomas Cheinie laie as they were almost come to line 50 the broome close his man alwaies fearing that blacke Will would kill him with his maister feined that he had lost his pursse Why said his maister thou foolish knaue couldst thou not looke to thy pursse but loose it What was in it Thrée pounds said he Why then go thy waies backe againe like a knaue said his maister and séeke it for being so earlie as it is there is no man stirring and therefore thou maist be sure to find it and then come and ouertake me at the ferrie But neuerthelesse by reason that blacke Will line 60 lost his way maister Arden escaped yet once againe At that time blacke Will yet thought hée should haue beene sure to haue met him homewards but whether that some of the lord wardens men accompanied him backe to Feuersham or that being in doubt for that it was late to go through the broome close and therfore tooke another waie blacke Will was disappointed then also But now saint Ualentines faire being at hand the conspirators thought to dispatch their diuelish intention at that time Mosbie minded to picke some quarrell to maister Arden at the faire to fight with him for he said he could not find in his heart to murther a gentleman in that sort as his wife wished although she had made a solemne promise to him and he againe to hir to be in all points as man and wife togither and therevpon they both receiued the sacrament on a sundaie at London openlie in a church there But this deuise to fight with him would not serue for maister Arden both then and at other times had beene greatlie prouoked by Mosbie to fight with him but he would not Now Mosbie had a sister that dwelt in a tenement of maister Ardens néere to his house in Feuersham and on the faire éeuen blacke Will was sent for to come thither and Gréene bringing him thither met there with mistresse Arden accompanied with Michaell hir man and one of hir maids There were also Mosbie and George Shakebag and there they deuised to haue killed him in maner as afterwards he was But yet Mosbie at the first would not agree to that cowardlie murthering of him but in a furie floong awaie and went vp the abbeie stréet toward the flower de lice the house of the aforenamed Adam Foule where he did often host But before he came thither now at this time a messenger ouertooke him that was sent from mistres Arden desiring him of all loues to come backe againe to helpe to accomplish the mater he knew of Herevpon he returned to hi● againe and at his comming backe she fell downe vpon hir knées to him and besought him to go through with the matter as if he loued hir he would be content to doo sith as shee had diuerse times told him he néeded not to doubt for there was not anie that would care for his death nor make anie great inquirie for them that should dispatch him Thus she being earnest with him at length hee was contented to agree vnto that horrible deuise and therevpon they conueied blacke Will into maister Ardens house putting him into a closet at the end of his parlour Before this

and to set hir besides the cushion they themselues fell into the same snares which they had laied for others For not long after the queene by the helpe of the earle of Henauld and of sir Iohn his brother came into England with a great armie Whereof the king and the Spensers being affraied departed from London to Bristow leauing the bishop at London and made line 20 him custos of the same who requiring the keies of the gates of the citie of the maior the commoners tooke him and beheaded him as also his brother sir Richard Stapledon in Cheapside and carried his bodie to his house without Templebar there buried it in a sandhill namelie the fiftéenth of October in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and nine But the quéene forgetting all discurtesies and reuerencing his calling commanded his corps to some more honourable buriall wherevpon line 30 the same was taken vp and brought to this citie and with great solemnitie was buried in his owne church vpon the eight and twentith of March where his epitaph by the writer thereof is set Thus after that he had béene bishop about twentie yeares he ended his daies 28 Iames Barkeleie vpon the six and twentith of March in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen before the buriall of his predecessor in his owne church was consecrated bishop line 40 of this citie He descended of the noble house of the lord Barkeleie and albeit he were reputed to be a verie godlie and a wise man yet he had no time to yéeld the triall thereof For he died in the fourth moneth after his consecration vpon the foure twentith daie of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred twentie and seauen and was buried in his owne church as some say but some thinke he neuer came hither at all 29 Iohn Grandesson being in Italie with pope line 50 Iohn the two twentith After the death of Iames Barkeleie the king presented him vnto the pope who accepted the presentation consecrated him bishop of this diocesse on the eight of October Anno 1327. He was borne and descended of the ancient house of the Grandessons dukes of Burgognie his father was named Gilbert the brother of Otho the great lord Grandesson Which Gilbert comming into this land was well interteined by the king and nobilitie and had a good liking of the countrie that by meanes of Henrie earle of Lancaster with whome he came line 60 into England he married ladie Sibill daughter and one of the heires to Iohn Tregos lord of the castell of Ewas néere Hereford east and by hir had issue fiue sonnes and foure daughters of which this bishop was one and was borne in the parish of Ashperton in the diocesse of Hereford He was from his childhood verie well afftected to learning and became a good scholar and professor of diuinitie of which method he wrote two books the one intituled Pontificales maiores and the other Pontificales minores He was also verie graue wise and politike and therby grew into such credit with pope Iohn the two and twentith that he was not onelie of his priuie councell but also Nuntius apostolicae sedis and in all matters of weight and importance an ambassadour for him to the emperour to the kings of Spaine of France of England and of all others the mightiest princes of christendome And being on a time sent in an ambassage to king Edward the third he did with such wisedome and grauitie behaue himselfe that the king was rauished in loue with him and did so tenderlie loue and fauour him that he neuer ceassed vntill he had procured him from the pope and then he gaue him the archdeaconrie of Notingham and bestowed great liuings on him He made him one of his priuie councell and in the end preferred him to this bishoprike After this there being some disliking betwéene pope Clement the sixt and the king he for his approoued wisedome was sent in an ambassage to the pope in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred fortie and thrée for an intreatie of a peace and an amitie betweene them to be had and with such wisedome he did his message that he obteined his purpose and made a reconciliation After his returne home to his bishoprike he was altogither giuen in dooing some good things He builded founded the college of saint Marie Otreie and indowed the same with great and goodlie liuelihoods he was a liberall benefactor to the vicars chorall of his owne church as also to the college of Glasneie in Perrin he builded the two last arches in the west end of his church vauted the roofe of all the church and fullie performed and ended the buildings of the same and then inriched his said church with plate ornaments and great riches Also he builded a verie faire house in his sanctuarie at bishops Teington which he gaue and left full furnished unto his successors and did impropriate vnto the same the parsonage of Radwaie to the end as he setteth downe in his testament Vt haberent locum vndè caput suum reclinarent si fortè in manum regis eorum temporalia caperentur and which his halsening in the end came partlie to effect For not onelie the most part of the temporalties of this bishoprike but this new builded house and impropriation are come to be the possessions and inheritances of temporall men This bishop waxed old and féeling in himselfe a decaie of nature made his last will and testament wherein he made such large and bountious legacies to the pope emperour king queene archbishop bishops colleges churches and to sundrie persons of high estates and callings that a man would maruell considering his great and chargeable buildings works otherwise how and by what meanes he could haue atteined to such a masse of welth and riches but his wisedome and policie considered it was easie For first he sequestrateth from himselfe and out of his house the troope of manie men and horsses reteining and kéeping no more than to serue his reasonable estate his diet was frugall his receipts great his expenses no more than necessarie Moreouer he had taken and set an order with all the ecclesiasticall persons of his diocesse that at the time of their deaths they should leaue and bequeth all their goods to him or to some other in trust In pios vsus towards his chargeable buildings and so well he was beloued and his dooings liked that they all accepted this his order by meanes whereof he grew within the course of fortie yeares to infinite wealth and riches He was in all his life time a plaine man and void of all vaine glorie and pompe and preuenting that none should be vsed at his buriall commanded the same to be doone plainelie simplie and that none of his executors chapleins seruants nor none of his houshold should weare anie moorning blacke

countrie in the minoritie of the yoong king there haue risen some inward troubles which for the most part we haue in fauor of the king and his gouernors vsed meanes to pacifie so as at this daie such is the quietnesse in line 60 Scotland as the king our deare brother cousine by name Iames the sixt a prince of great hope for manie good princelie respects reigneth there in honor and loue of his people and in verie good and perfect amitie with vs and our countrie And so our actions at that time came to so good successe by the goodnesse of God as both our owne realme and that of Scotland hath euer since remained in better amitie and peace than can be remembred these manie hundred yeares before and yet nothing hereby doone by vs nor anie cause iustlie giuen but that also the French kings that haue since succéeded which haue béene thrée in number and all brethren haue made and concluded diuerse treaties for good peace with vs which presentlie continue in force on both parties notwithstanding our foresaid actions attempted for remoouing out of Scotland of the said French forces so transported by the onelie direction of the house of Guise And therefore to conclude for the declaration of our present intention at this time we hope it shall of all persons abroad be well interpreted as we know it will be of such as are not led by parcialitie that vpon the often and continuall lamentable requests made to vs by the vniuersall states of the countries of Holland Zeland Guelders and other prouinces with them vnited being desperat of the king of Spaines fauours for our succours to be yéelded to them onelie for their defense against the Spaniards and other strangers and therewith finding manifestlie by our often and importunat requests and aduises giuen to the king of Spaine no hope of reliefe of these their miseries but rather an increase thereof by dailie conquests of their townes and slaughter of their people though in verie truth we cannot impute the increase of anie late cruelties to the person of him that now hath the title of generall gouernor shewing his naturall disposition more inclinable to mercie and clemencie than it seemeth he can direct the hearts of the Spaniards vnder him that haue béene so long trained in shedding of bloud vnder the former Spanish gouernors and ioining therevnto our owne danger at hand by the ouerthrow and destruction of our neighbours and accesse and planting of the great forces of the Spaniards so néere to our countries with precedent arguments of manie troublesome attempts against our realme we did therefore by good aduise and after long deliberation determine to send certeine companies of souldiors to aid the naturall people of those countries onelie to defend them and their townes from sacking and desolation thereby to procure them safetie to the honor of God whome they desire to serue sincerelie as christian people according to his holie word and to inioie their ancient liberties for them and their posteritie and so consequentlie to preserue and continue the lawfull and ancient commerce betwixt our people and those countries and ours And so we hope our intention herein and our subsequent actions will be by Gods fauour both honorablie interpreted of all persons sauing of the oppressors themselues and their partizans in that we meane not hereby either for ambition or malice the two roots of all iniustice to make anie particular profit hereof to our selfe or to our people onelie desiring at this time to obteine by Gods fauour for the countries a deliuerance of them from warre by the Spaniards and forraines a restitution of their ancient liberties and gouernement by some christian peace and thereby a suertie for our selues and our realme to be frée from inuading neighbors and our people to inioie in those countries their lawfull commerce and intercourse of friendship merchandize according to the ancient vsage and treat●ies of intercourse made betwixt our progenitors and the lords and earles of those countries and betwixt our people and the people of those countries And though our further intention also is or maie be to take into our gard some few townes vpon the sea side next opposite to our realme which otherwise might be in danger to be taken by the strangers enimies of the countrie yet therein considering we haue no meaning at this time to take and reteine the same to our owne proper vse we hope that all persons will thinke it agreeable with good reason and princelie policie that we should haue the gard and vse of some such places for sure accesse and recesse of our people and souldiors in safetie and for furniture of them with vittels and other things requisit and necessarie whilest it shall be néedfull for them to continue in those countries for the aiding thereof in these their great calamities miseries and imminent danger and vntill the countries may be deliuered of such strange forces as doo now oppresse them and recouer their ancient lawfull liberties and maner of gouernement to liue in peace as they haue heretofore doone and doo now most earnestlie line 10 in lamentable manner desire to doo which are the verie onelie true ends of all our actions now intended howsoeuer malicious toongs maie vtter their cankred conceits to the contrarie as at this daie the world aboundeth with such blasphemous reports in writings and infamous libels as in no age the diuell hath more abounded with notable spirits replenished with all wickednesse to vtter his rage against professors of christian religion But thereof we leaue the reuenge to God the searcher of hearts line 20 hoping that he beholding the sinceritie of our heart will grant good successe to our intentions whereby a christian peace may insue to his diuine honor and comfort to all them that loue peace trulie and will séeke it sincerelie An addition to the declaration touching the slanders published of hir maiestie AFter we had finished our declaration there came to our hands a pamphlet written in Italian printed at Milan intituled Nuouo aduiso directed to the archbishop of Milan conteining a report of the expugnation of Antwerp by the prince of Parma by the which we found our selfe most maliciouslie charged with two notable crimes no lesse hatefull to the world than most repugnant and contrarie to our owne naturall inclin●●ion line 40 The one with ingratitude towards the king of Spaine who as the author saith saued our life being iustlie by sentence adiudged to death in our sisters time the other that there were some persons procured to be corrupted with great promises and that with our intelligence as the reporter addeth in a parenthesis in these words as it was said that the life of the prince of Parma should be taken awaie And for the better proouing and countenancing of this horrible lie it is further added in line 50 the said pamphlet that it pleased the Lord God to discouer this and

precise in the obseruation of good order For he would seldome breake it in anie respect but vpon euident knowne and most iust cause or when he was ouerruled as sometimes he was by such as had souereigne power to direct and command him Extraordinarie courses he alwaies vtterlie misliked especiallie when order was peruerted or iustice hindered whereby the common societie of mans life is onelie preserued and mainteined which two things speciallie purchased him such vniuersall goodwill euerie where and namelie amongst the officers of hir maiesties most honorable houshold with whome he would manie times be familiarlie conuersant as they haue often wished he might haue beene honored with a white staffe to haue borne office with authoritie amongst them His nature was so tempered with modestie pietie and patience as he seldome shewed heat or choler how greeuous so euer the offense was which was giuen him He was a fast friend where he professed friendship and no reuengefull so when he was offended hardlie would he be remooued in friendship from his friend or follower but vpon most iust certeine and knowne cause which he could not smulther and would not hide from the partie I haue manie times heard him saie and by occasion haue séene the same written in his owne letters that he was dubbed knight by that noble and vertuous prince king Edward the selfe same daie sir William Cecill then principall secretarie now lord treasuror of England was by meanes wherof and that sir William Cecill was yea euen in those daies estéemed a most rare man both for sundrie and singular gifts of nature learning wisedome and integritie and partlie by the friendlie good offices of that true paterne of humanitie and courtesie sir Iohn Chéeke then schoolemaster to the king a choise deare friend to them both that there began such an entrie of acquaintance knowledge loue mutuall goodwill and intire friendship betwixt them as continued alwais 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 after till his dieng daie A matter of pro●●ritie it were and intollerable ●ediousnesse to par●●cula● in amp●e maner the ra●e qualities of his bodie and mind wherefore we w●ll 〈◊〉 run them ouer as loth to abridge his deserued 〈◊〉 too liberallie This noble man was fortunat in war and no lesse happie in peace passing well beloued of his soldiers vpright in iustice yet withall inclined to mercie ●e reuerenced all m●n of science for he would manie times saie Science was to be honored wheresoeuer it was to be found line 10 〈…〉 He omitted not mo●ning euening praier he was liberall and honorable in hospitalitie his skill far e●ce●ded other mens in knowledge and secrets of Ireland yea of that countrie birth The loue and affection the Irishrie bare him 〈◊〉 manie of them to ciuilitie he was little giuen to sléepe and ease in the night for he ●●eldome kept his bed aboue six houres if he were in he●●th neither after ●e arose would he take in the daie time anie line 20 kind of repose He would in his iournies wearie and laie vp most of his companie nothing offended him more than ingratitude in his dealings his word was his worst sociable he was with his assistants he had an intention to haue erected certeine nurseries of learning his seruice was subiect to the eare and not to the eie whereby his vertues manie times were suppressed he was deputie of Ireland and president of Wales both at one time This noble knight graue councellor complet gentleman and most woorthie and rar● subiect departed line 30 this life at the bishops palace at Worcester the fift daie of Maie in the yeare of our Lord 1586 being fiftie and seauen yeares old complet wanting onelie one moneth and fiftéene daies about foure of the clocke in the morning after he had continued seuen daies sicke of a kind of cold palseie as the physicians decréed of the disease which happened vnto him as it was of m●nie said and of mo thought by reason of an e●tre●e cold he tooke vpon the water in his passage line 40 and remooue by barge betwéene Bewdlie and Worcester not long after he had béene purged and his bod●e not fullie setled but his pores remaining still ●●en as it is most like by reas●n of an extraordinarie loosenes which consequentlie followed the taking of his physicke and could not be stopped hau●ng then beene lord president of hir maiesties councell established in the dominion and principalitie of Wales six and twentie years complet without anie change or alteration or absolute transferring the line 50 roome or authoritie to anie other in the meane time for whose death there was great mone and lamentation As for his bodie by easie iourneies and short remooues it was conueied from Worcester to his house at Penshurst in Kent verie honourablie and well attended with great traine ceremonie and all other things apperteining to funerall order honor and solemnitie where he was honorablie interred the one and twentith daie of Iune following He was before imbowelled his intrals buried in the deans line 60 chapell in the cathedrall church at Worcester his heart brought to Ludlow buried in the toome with his deere beloued daughter Ambrosia in the little oratorie he made in the semicollegiat parish church there wherein he erected this monument The ninth daie of August next following died the most noble worthie beneficent and bountious ladie the ladie Marie Sidneie his onelie spouse and most déere wife who was eldest daughter vnto that renowmed duke Iohn late of Northumberland and sister to the right honorable and most worthie the erls of Warwike and Leicester most zealouslie godlie and penitentlie as by the testimonie of some honorable and other graue personages is well auouched and was into●●ed at Penshurst in the s●me toome with hir d●●re and honorable husband During the whole course of hir sicknesse and speciallie a little before it pleased almig●tie God to call hir ●ense to his mercie she vsed such godlie 〈◊〉 earnest and effectuall persuasions to all those about hir and vnto such others as came of freendlie courtesie to visit ●ir to exhort them to repentance and amendment of life and dehort them from all sinne and lewdnesse as wounded the consciences and inwardlie pearsed the hearts of manie that heard hir They left behind them yet liuing most déere pledges noble and wo●thie resemblances descended of them th●ee sonnes all forward martiall and valo●ous gentlemen and one onelie daughter matched in mariage vnto the right honorable Henrie earle of Penbroke whome God hath alreadie blessed with goodlie rare and towardlie issue sir Philip Sidneie his sonne heire Ad 〈◊〉 ●ereditas glori● 〈◊〉 im●tati● pert●●et a gentleman of great hope and excéeding e●pectation indowed with manie rare gifts singular vertues and other ornaments both of mind and bodie one generallie belooued and estéemed of all men who matched in mariage with the daughter and heire of sir Francis Walsingham knight hir maiesties principall

secretarie by whome he hath alreadie a goodlie babe but a daughter This right woorthie and thrise renowmed knight sir Philip Sidneie lord gouernor of Ulissingen hauing spent some time in hir maiesties seruice in the low countries with great honor speciall credit and estimation and withall hauing obteined by his vertue valor and great policie such an entrie of entire good will trust and authoritie with the states as his counsels and persuasions could much more preuaile and worke singular effect with them than anie one mans could doo in anie cause what soeuer that happened to fall in question or debate amongst them therfore earnestlie following the course he then tooke in hand for the aduancement of that seruice and to win fame the onelie marke true nobilitie either dooth or ought to leuell at he imbarked himselfe at Ulissingen accompanied onlie with thrée thousand footmen and bending his course to Arell which lieth in the countie of Flanders vsed both such diligence and secrecie in this e●pedition as he surprised the towne before they could haue intelligence of his comming without losse or hurt of anie one of his companie By means whereof the forts and sconses there néere abouts adioining being striken vpon the sudden into such a feare and amazement as doubting some further perils to them intended than anie at the present well appeared voluntarilie and simplie gaue themselues and their holds into his hands yéelded to his disposition and mercie And so after he had well refreshed himselfe and his companie in this towne he had thus new taken he departed thense remained in the countrie not farre off ten or twelue daies next following till he had vittelled the same put in a garrison left monsieur Pernon there gouernor Now in the meane time of his staie attending these seruices and because he would alwaies be occupied in some honorable action he brake a sluse forced a trench and cut out a banke that made such an open passage entrance into the sea as since it hath drowned and destroied the whole countrie being well neere now worne into a chanell the same hauing béene the best and most fertill soile in those parts and far excéeding anie territorie néere thereabouts to so great a preiudice and annoiance of the enimie as by common well grounded opinion neither by sluse or lightlie anie other draine or deuise that countrie can possiblie be recouered or regained And this enterprise was atchiued without making head or other offer of offense inuasion or resistance by Mondragon who was of purpose imploied with sufficient force to defend the countrie and to haue impeached all these attempts and actions Moreouer his aduise for the seruice intended at Grauelin dissenting in opinion from others who were thought the most expert capteins and best renowmed and sorted souldiours gaue such a sufficient proofe of his excellent wit policie and ripe iudgement as his onelie act and counsell with the losse of line 10 a verie few of his companie wrought all their safeties which otherwise by treacherie had béene most likelie to haue béene intrapped And so consequentlie going forward in other seruices at an incounter with the enimie not far from Zutphen where he that daie most valiantlie serued for he bare the inuincible mind of an ancient woorthie Romane who euer where he came made account of victorie he receiued hurt by a musket shot a little aboue the left knée which so brake and rifted the bone and so entred the line 20 thigh vpward towards the bodie as the bullet could not be found before his bodie was opened Of which hurt notwithstanding he liued though in great paine and extreame torment six and twentie daies following and died the seauentéenth daie of October betweene two and thrée of the clocke in the afternoone at Arnam in Gelderland He greatlie abounded in sundrie good vertues which euer where he came procured him loue but chéefelie in iustice and liberalitie a woorthie most line 30 speciall note in a gouernour which gained him hartie loue coupled with fame and honor For the which especiallie those vnder his late charge and gouernment so greatlie loued esteemed honored in a sort adored him when he was aliue as they made earnest meanes and intreatie to haue his bodie remaine there still with them for memorie when he was dead and promised that if they might obteine it to erect for him as faire a monument as anie prince had in christendome yea though the same should cost halfe line 40 a tun of gol● the building His bodie was most honourablie conueied from Arnam to London where it remained at the Minories certeine daies from thense brought and remooued on the sixtéenth of Februarie alongst the stréets through Cheapside with funerall pompe and solemnitie beseeming so martiall a gentleman the ensignes of warre and pikes trailed vpon the ground the drums and flutes couered with blacke and making a softlie sound with other statelie shewes of mournfull representations the earle of Leicester with other honourable line 50 and woorshipfull personages following the dead bodie which finallie was interred in Paules church of London About this time one Thomas Louelace late of Staple inne gentleman for counterfeiting of false and trecherous letters against his own kinred containing most traitorous matter against hir maiesties owne person was iudged in the Starchamber to be carried on horsse-backe about Westminster line 60 hall with his face to the horsse taile and a paper on his backe declaring his offense then to be set on the pillorie in the palace at Westminster and there to haue one of his eares cut off then to ride in like sort into London and in Cheapside to be set on the pillorie vpon a market daie after that to be conueied into Kent where standing openlie on the pillorie in the place of assise as before he should loose his other eare and lastlie be set vpon the pillorie one market daie in Canturburie and another at Rochester his offense and punishment in euerie of the said places openlie read and published which iudiciall sentence was accordinglie executed On sundaie the eight daie of Maie an ambassador named Henrie Ramelius intituled Cancellarius Germanicus arriued at the tower of London A gentleman he was of goodlie personage somewhat corpulent and of sanguine complexion verie eloquent likewise and learned not onelie in the knowledge of diuerse toongs as Latine French Italian and German but also in sundrie sciences He came in ambassage from Frederike the second of that name king of Denmarke vnto the queens maiestie of England and arriuing as you haue heard at the Tower was honorablie receiued of the lord Cobham and other great estates who conueied him from thense through Tower stréet into Bishopsgate street and so to a faire and large house called Crosbies place where he was well lodged and remained The said Ramelius during the time of his tariance had attendance doone him conuenient

for the manifold testifications of their loue and loialtie which because they are materiall as no word nor title procéeding from so singular a souereigne is to fall to the ground vnrecorded we are in dutie bound trulie to annex them as we had them vnder publication And first a breefe oration of maister Iames Dalton one of the councellors of the citie of London in the absence of the recorder as followeth The oration of maister Iames Dalton c. RIght worshipfull my good countriemen and citizens of this most noble citie of London since the late brute and report of a most wicked traitorous conspiracie not onelie to take awaie the life of our most gratious souereigne whom God grant long to liue and reigne ouer vs but also to stir vp a generall rebellion throughout the whole realme the great and vniuersall ioie of you all of this citie vpon the apprehension of diuerse of that most wicked conspiracie of late declared and testified by manie outward acts and shewes hath wrought in the queenes most excellent maiestie such a gratious contentment that it hath mooued hir highnesse by hir letters signed with hir owne hand to signifie vnto my lord maior of this citie his brethren hir most noble and princelie acceptation thereof and that in such sort as thereby may appeare that hir highnesse hath not more no not so much reioised at the most happie escape of the wicked mischéefe intended against hir owne person as at the ioie which hir louing subiects namelie you of this citie of London tooke at the apprehension of the practisers of that intended treason By occasion whereof hir highnesse brought to a thankefull remembrance and acknowledging of Gods infinit blessings bestowed on hir comparable with anie prince or creature in the world no worldlie thing more or like accompteth of than of the heartie loue of hir louing and faithfull subiects manie waies and manie times before now but especiallie by this our great ioie in this sort at this time and vpon this occasion shewed And that hir excéeding great loue and acceptation of our reioising maie the more appeare vnto you it hath pleased hir highnesse in the same letters to declare that she desireth not longer to liue among vs than she shall mainteine continue nourish and increase the loue and goodwill of hir subiects towards hir And this hir highnesse hath willed to be made knowne vnto you all with this that she will not faile with all care and by all good means that apperteine to a christian prince to seeke the conseruation of you all so louing and dutifull affected subiects This hir maiesties pleasure in part now declared and more to be made knowne vnto you by hir owne letters which you shall heare read my lord maior and his brethren haue required me to declare vnto you all that they doo heartilie reioise thanke God for the happie daie of the good acceptation of this your great ioie my lord himselfe hath willed me to giue you all heartie thanks in his name for that in the time of his seruice your dutifull behauiours haue gotten to the citie so noble and woorthie a testimonie of dutie and loialtie of so noble and worthie a quéene Now for somuch as Gods blessings woonderfullie abound one ioie commeth vpon another let vs not be vnthankefull to God but acknowledge his goodnesse and attribute the line 10 same as in déed we ought to the sincere religion of almightie God most godlie established by the quéens most excellent maiestie which hath taught vs to know God aright our dutie to our souereigne and to loue our countrie and hath made vs dutifull and obedient subiects reioising at all good things happening to hir maiestie hir realme or to anie in hir noble seruice the true effects of a true and good religion whereas the contemners thereof and immoderat affectors of the Romish religion and superstitions line 20 being void of the true knowledge of God haue declined from God their allegiance to their prince their loue to their countrie and haue become inuenters of mischeefes bruters and spreaders abrode of false and seditious rumors such as ioie at no good thing but contrariwise reioise at euerie euill successe the badges and marks of their profession who haue before this in this realme and in other hir highnesse dominions stirred vp rebellion forren inuasion and manie times practised the verie line 30 death destruction of the quéene hir selfe the ruine subuersion of the whole realme the proper effects of their Romish religion We haue beheld all these things and seene in our daies the ruine and mischéefes inuented against others fall vpon the inuenters them selues and haue knowne the wicked and violent hands of diuerse of them diuerslie to kill and murther themselues when most traitorouslie they would and most happilie they could not slea the lords annointed line 40 As we haue knowne all these things so God bee thanked that by a better religion hauing béene better taught we haue béene no partakers of their wicked deuises but haue put to our helping hands as occasion hath serued and euer readie to ouerthrow the authors and deuisers thereof And I haue no doubt but we of this noble citie who hitherto haue béene alwaies readie dutifullie and faithfullie to serue hir maiestie vpon all occasions hir highnesse now so gratiouslie accepting onelie of our reioising line 50 at the apprehension of hir enimies euen the least part of the dutie of a good subiect to so good a quéene will be readie euerie one with all that we can make and with the vttermost aduenture of all our liues spéedilie to be reuenged vpon all such as shall villanouslie and traitorouslie attempt or put in vre anie mischéefe to hir noble person and in the meane time will haue a better eie and eare to all suspicious and miscontented persons to their saiengs and dooings to their false brutes and reports to the places and line 60 corners of their haunt and resort to their harborers companions aiders and mainteiners God vphold and continue his religion among vs and increase our zeale therein which hath made vs so louing and loiall and so beloued and acceptable subiects to so worthie a prince and root out that wicked and Romish religion that hath made so manie disloiall and traitorous subiects to whome is both odious irkesome the long life and prosperous reigne of our most noble queene Elisabeth God confound all such traitors and preserue hir highnesse long to liue and reigne oure vs. ¶ Hauing thus spoken the multitude all the while no lesse silent than attendant the speaker verie reuerentlie opened hir maiesties letters read the same with a verie distinct and audible voice as followeth To our right trustie and welbeloued the lord maior of our citie of London and his brethren the aldermen of the same RIght trustie and welbeloued we gréete you well Being giuen to vnderstand how greatlie our good and most louing