and his magnificence By due execution by Oyere Determinere The fielde of Saint Albons was a battell violent Another the Lord Audley with the Earle of Salisburie The field of Northampton was a cruell cruciament Againe at Saint Albons was great immiserie â–ª And at Mortimer Crosse was much languitude But at Pamleson field was moste lamentation The deitie gaue the battailes of his true equitie Considering the title and true generation In Henries dayes the seuenth of famous memorie The Blackheath fielde to the commons was pernicious Martin Swarth and his adherents for all their pollicie Was slaine and percuted with clamor languishous And Bladis that burned Yorke was too impetuous But the iudgement of a traytor to him was adiect Thus was he rewarded for his acte iniurious With diuers other principals the which were suspect But for conclusion to ende and define Contributers and homagers the which hath rebelled Almost all storyes saithe the truthe to combine They were slain subdued or froÌ„ their realmes expelled â–ª As Ireland Scotland or Fraunce when they medled Within this our region and as for sedition Within realmes politike it hath cleane compelled The inuasion of aliants to their great submission When I had thus finished I had thought to haue named The blandishing Scorpions with discord most violate The Bishops of Rome for my espirites confremed But yet I refrained the stories most maculate Supplying to Anglia the Princesse prenominate Beseeching hir honor by the way of protestation What ample thing more shée would haue determinate And why shée commaunded me this declaration Hir bounteous beneuolence made me thus replie A Holme Holme my seruaunt inseparable This same late commotion that was the cause why Wherfore I beséeche thée their rising so variable To me to declare with their causes detestable I reconed to hir grace I durst not bring it to passe God will defend thée quod shée for he is not variable For inuincible is veritie so sayth Esâ—ras The Insurrection Then briefly I declared how the olde Leuiathan Whispered with the Papistes this region to deuide And they like true aduocates declared to euery man How Antechriste was borne this rumor went ful wide For of Abbeys they said there might not one abide And churches and chappels they shall be oppressed Fasting and prayer and good workes are set a side And the sacraments shal be naught these words they expressed When this could not auaile then properly they inuented Friers Pardoners to the people for to prate How burials and mariages they should be presented With churchings and christenings to pay a noble rate Plough nobles yéerely they were clere determinate And Hen Chicken Goose Capon Pig and Cony They should not be eaten but with men of estate Nor yet no white bread without a summe of money Also a perpetuitie of horsse and beast a grote With a penie a shéepe now these words fascinorous They moued the ignorant and debill wits God wote Thus persuaded by intisement of priests auaritidus A Cobler pretended a title ambitious In Lowth in Lincolnshire and made insurrection Some of worship was of counsel but mo was contrarious But as for the commons to arise had affection This noise and rumor redounded in Yorkeshire Then by appointment one Robert Aske gentleman Toke in hand for captaine to accomplishe their desire Then Houldeine and Beuerlay to insurge they began They would with Holdernesse collected to them than Thus of a smal vnion was aggregate a more Many men of woorship to fortresses they ran Some had their cattel taken their goods spoiled therfore Then Hul made a brag but anone it was yèelded Then Yorkshire in general it was nigh collected Yorke receiued them for there they abode and builded Til the Countreis adiacent with the rumor wer infected â–ª And as I suppose they had letters directed Wherby was raised all Richmondshire and Tindale The borders of Lancashire began to be suspected Bishoprike rose cleare with Sedbare Dent Kendale They spoiled and robbed those which were fugitiue To the Abbeys suppressed the people they restaurate Rudent incessantly with clamor excessiue Faith and common weale and in the way obuiate They were with procession and ringing insaciate And the Sacrament Christes body called Eucharistia Was borne by Prelates with the crucifixe associate With pipes Drums Tabrets and Fidlers alway A little beside Doncaster they came to Scanceby leyes And furnished their battell and set forth their vaward They were .xxv. M. of able mennes bodies Well horssed and harnessed right puissant to regarde The noble men were surrepted the truthe to awarde Of these Countreys predict from their purpose indeuided But toke vpon hand and was not retrograde This handfull folowing excepted and forprised The Earle of Northumberland for he was diseased The Earle of Westmerland for he had the Podagree The Earle of Comberland the commons displeased Lying in Shipton castell with all their artillerie Like to his auncestors his allegeance to fortefie And the Lord Dacres at the rising so variable Like an honorable man his truthe to magnifie Went straite to the South and there abode perdurable Sir Henrie Sauil sir Marmaduke Constable Sir BriaÌ„ Hastings sir Iohn Neuil the king they assisted Master Euers at Scarburgh to them was agreeable With all his companions and would faine haue resisted The Maire of Yorke wold but the coÌ„mons he mistrusted William Maunsel also and Knolles of Hullcleere With the Archdecon of Duresme of the same part coÌ„sisted And flée from the Riotors did Leonard Bequet Esquire Doctor Stephens phisitian to Th erle of NorthuÌ„berland And Ratclif had done wel if Yorke had bene contented The Parson of Castlegate was of the same comnant And the Bishop of Duresme of the same parte consented I know but another which ought to be presented But which after spoyler to the commons did resorte Yet sir Thomas Curwen earnestly inuented With sir Thomas Wharton to stay their counterporte Then with an ardent fury quod Anglia and frouned Holme it is but fiction I say thou doste deuise Shewedst thou not me that gentlemeÌ„ men that wer renoumed Fled to Castles fortresses what made them then to rise And it like your grace quod I bicause they wer not wise Yet diuers were coÌ„pelde for the CoÌ„mons did them take But mo were seduced with the Papistes deuise Drinking the venome of Aspes which neuer can awake They noysed the Emperour with them was participate And the Bishop of Rome with the Scotish king coÌ„nuxed With them to commilitare they were clerely fundate And Ireland and Wales of their parte was fixed The Earle of Darby outlawed and of their part mixed And the Duke of Norfolke euery cause accounted Al commoners coÌ„moned with the Earle Staffort enixed And as for they of Lincolnshire a great sum surmounted But the duke of Suffolke with such a power inuaded Lincolnshire predict that they had small esperaunce The lord Admiral and sir Anthony Brown theÌ„ persuaded With Richard Cromwell esquire there master of thordinaÌ„ce
and Sodomie The third office the mundayne occupation Was commaunded to Adam in Genesis we may sée And by the holy ghost and his inspiration The influence thereof hath muche diuersitie For the profite of man and his vtilitie And in Moyses law commaunded was the same And Chryst of his goodnesse and benignitie This office and power did not correct ne blame He commaunded not to care for meate drinke and cleth As who say our minds on such things should not be But to prouide it and haue it he hath confirmed both For he vsed it him selfe in his cathedralitie Paule sayth worse than an Infidell in cenositie Is he which will not for his housholde prouide Peter and Paule to seruaunts for industrie Commaunded to obey their maisters for their guide Muche Scripture recordeth this office not prophane If they be wrought in fayth they be good works no doubt These shuld be always operous mens nedes to sustaine And not inproÌ„pt but assiduous their works to bring about As to delue to dike to spin to grinde or boulte For their housholde charges and their reparation Be it Tinker or Cobler which setteth but on a clout They may worke when they nede hinder no saluation For necessitie Paule wrought and made diuers tentes And for error of the weake as I suppose and gesse But our Prelates should not so hauing léefull stipends For feare of filthy lucre and hindring their office Artificers and laborers should worke this businesse And Iusticiers do iustice with all their might puissance Here the hande and the foote can not well expresse Nor the foote to the loynes I néede not thy assistance This churche or body muste haue a head generall Which is Chryst God and man our Lorde essentiall And his generall minister for gracious influence Is the holy ghost promised by his magnificence And I am with you sayd he vnto the worlds ende That is with vs say the prelates for his churche can not erre That is not so say I marry God defende For of all creatures there is no men werre Was the holy Ghost in him that deceiued Celestinus With a trumpe in his eare and so got the Papasie Or with him that tooke out of his graue Formosus And dight him in a chayre in his pontificalitie And stroke of his head to reuenge his olde iniurie And one depriued another without any fayle And made him ride to Rome to his incommoditie With his face reuersed spectant to the tayle One bequest him selfe long life by the spirit of prophesie And soone after brake his necke without incolumitie And through discorde in seuen yeres there were puppets nyne And one through strife put out anothers eyne And Semachus and Laurence and many mo did come To the Romane Sée with great abhomination And fortie mo then these in Catholico pontificum Their déedes are not described for their great detestation Thrée at once was a trifle for the roume to compare Or with the Arians opinion Liberius infecte Their vice in ten volumes one can not well declare As Ioane English a woman their puppet elect Which trauelled in procession which is an ill respecte That the holy Ghost with them shuld gouerne domine For let their déedes be wayed vnto a true effecte And by al gracious vertue their works hath lost the signe I maruell by what signes they do thus inherite By thrée crownes or by crosses or pillers principall Or orders deuised should thus haue the espirite Or Myters Crochet or Crownes or hattes Cardinall With â—ippets or rochets or garments Pharisaicall Chryst vsed not this nor his Apostles deare But were prudent as Serpents and simple as doues all With pouertie and payne to make their fayth appeare They spake with new tongs without humane instructioÌ„ Some reuiued the dead and maladies mortiferous To palpe Serpents ne venime to them was destruction Some Disciples prophesied with many signes vertuous And said not master master and vsed things sumptuous For wheÌ„ Christ said I am with you vnto the worlds end That was with you with such elect to faith prosperous My grace by instinction wil I euer send Of the supreme head of the Church in earth Now to punishe not procéeding vpon the holy Ghost Within realmes politike there must be heads capital And to commaund those things to be done to the vttermost With all humane businesse and iustice terrestial Our prelates shuld not their works shuld séeme temporal Christes kingdom was not héere then who shuld haue the power But the owners of the soiles to kéepe truth legal Be he Marques or Duke Prince king or Emperor All power in heauen earth quod Christ is giuen to me Our prelates can chalenge by this no domination For they must follow Chryst in his humilitie And not in the power of his glorification Who would be maister must serue to do ministration And the disciple aboue his master should not bée It is inough to be equall by Chrystes declaration Now our Prelats by this shuld haue no gret souerainty When Chryst sayd all power that is to vnderstande Both kings power and euery power by my father constitute As now corroborate and put into my hande Their offices vnder me to do and execute For he came to lose no lawes by his father institute But to make that perfect which should giue life perpetual And that should those ministers alway execute And preache to all creatures the truthe euangelicall In the same Chapter it foloweth apparant His precepts should be obserued before which he had said And which is Gods giue it God these words are illustraÌ„t And which is Cesars giue Cesar no maÌ„ can this persuade And Peter for Christ and him tribute to Cesar paide some wil say like gentils they shuld haue no king ne lord This maketh not for their purpose by no reason made But against their Romaine Uiper al scripture to record When Christe said there shal be no king ouer you That was your rightuousnesse all other shuld transcend Yee shuld néede no law for vice yee shuld eschue For Christe came to minister all vertue to amend And not to haue a minister for that he would offend But for obedience and vnder gouernance When he payed the tribute that doth the truth pretend And Peter proueth it plaine Gods diuine purueyance Some wil say in the Actes and by Paule we may sée That the Apostles to Princes were not obedient In election ne vsage but among them selues frée To them I put the case by way of argument If the kings grace shuld send by his minde beneuolent Twelue discrete persons to the regions of Asia To the Turks laÌ„ds or Sophies to preach Christ omnipoteÌ„t And to Prester Iohns and the great Canis of Catha These wold elect those which in faith were constant To minister and preach and make predication And cleane abiecte those in faith which were variant And of the Turke and the Sophie make no reputation
Their wepoÌ„s armor was lost by gods puruciaÌ„ce They did I assure you behaue themselues nobly To requite the kings grace they had good perseuerance Pondeâ—ing the preferment by his magnanimitie This notwithstanding the commons besides Doncaster Ascribed a Carter to a King coequall in degrée With coshe Crommoke coshe I would we had thée here Like sauage beastes loosed and put to their libertie Enioying in the splendent after obscuritie Deuising and inuenting Articles presumptuous Euery one discording from other verily Two Gentlemen did open their quarel contentious But one lanterne of Englande and patrone of defence A shield for vs Borials and floure of audacitie The Duke of Norfolke with all his violence To the kings armie Royall to Doncaster came he With the noble prince Pere of the kings consanguinitie The Marques of Exeter nigh to the bloud Royall With the auncient Lord th therle of Shrewesbury Whose truthe in decrepitie approueth the tryall Their veritie to their Prince my hart hath enrachened Like a woman rauished with the rase of loue esprised And many nobles mo them selues so well demeaned That of me their worthynesse it can not be deuised As Th erle of Surrey with these Earles comprised That is to say of Huntington and Rutlande also With many other nobles which was there surmised And as for Lords honorable there was many mo Thus lay they in Doncaster with Curtall Serpentine With Bombard Basilisk with men prone vigorous The Commons knew it not to them it was claudestine That made them more malapart and also more rigorous For they sent home for money their harts was so furious Purposing openly at London to holde a Parliament But the king herauld came to know their minds furious Uiewing them twise or thrise with faire words diligeÌ„t But ere the Battell was ready procincte and proponed Sir Arthure Darcy knight with the coÌ„mons was segregate And fled to the kings grace and by the way commoned With the duke of Norff. where promtly he promulgate All the Commons priuitie and I suppose effugate He was by the consent of his brother confiducion For at the first rising sir George with letters ornate Aduertised all gentlemen to leaue that ill conclusion But wheÌ„ the duke of Norf. of the Barons had intelligeÌ„ce And so many knights squires with the coÌ„mons in defeÌ„ce It incrampished his hart that they should make pretence Weying his fathers honor by their magnificence Their antique zeale amitie he thought to recompence Bringing both the parts to a communication So diuers of the principals met with diligence Concluding a purpose with good deliberation So sir Rafe Ellerker and Robert Bowes Esquire With the articles intitled went to the kings maiestie The battels both prorumped and went euery where For the duke behight to intercéede in their sedulitie In causes reasonable but not in their cecitie And so within a moneth according to promission An answere correspondent to their secularitie Was made by the kings grace to their whole petition The firste Article To the first article Fayth the kings grace replied It was a terme to general that which they did present But if they meaned christes faith he was the prince the certified That the sincere puritie therof was his intent And like a valiaunt prince he spake these words vrgent Who dare set his foote to ours the contrary to proue And said he reckned learned he was what the faith ment Marueling that the ignorant in this thing shold him moue To the Article To know which fayth was prudeÌ„ce perceiuing we Christians He hath herd of such heresies as of the Selcucians Of Sabelline and Neotus with the Patrispassians The Origenistes the Ebionites and the Donacianes The Epicures the Iacobites with the Nestoriens Of Seuerus of Menander and eke of Valentine The Antropomorphites and also the Spalmeniens The Ariens and Manacheis of Pallas and Scotine Also of Marcio Basillid es and Saturnius Of Carpocrates of Photyne and of Macedonius Of Chiliastes of Corinthius and of Heluidius Of Eutiches Galanus and also Seleucius Of Eunonius Elsesates with many a secte mo Of Montanus of Apelles and also Nouatus And Samosatenses and Appolinarius also With Antichrist the Romane the Idoll monstruous This is the groue image which the sinful world Manasses Put in the congregation the house perpetuall This is the Idoll shepheard which Zachary doth expresse And also the deuourer the false God Baall An vnshamefull King with faces Daniell doth him call This is the Iudge in earth in the xviij of Luke expressed For wée haue lost our Husband Chryst with his bloud royal And Sathan our enimie he is not yet oppressed This is the childe of perdition prophesied of by Paule In our conscience sitting Gods Temple verament The Apocalips fysgyg the whoore Babilonicall Of whom Prophets Apostles rehearseth words tâ—rgâ—t Nowe to this particle fayth was it not expedient They to haue recognised what fayth was their intention For besides Christs faith there reigneth faithes negligeÌ„t As Turke Iew Pagane with Mahâ—mites inuention As touching Christes faith sithence Christes incarnation Neither Emperour nor king nor prince of nobilitie Was like to the kings grace for in his conuocation The Anabaptists and Pelagians confuted hath he And permitted shadowes positiue of olde antiquitie For error of the people by a new altercation And also shewed like Gods knight elect in fidelitie Chrystes bloud and his death with the true iustification Of Fayth But to the misbeléeuers I put this proposition By way of interrogatorie if one of them should dye And know no refuge nor no propiciation But in Mormet in fistill they should euer lye And the prince they offended should fortune come theÌ„ by And say loue my friends and forgiue as I will thée And when thou can not repent my sonne shal for thée die And doo but this to day and rewarded shalt thou bée For to morrow thy riches shal abounde like to Croesus Thy force â–ª like Hercules thy sapience like Salomon Thou shalt haue meates delicate far aboue Vitellus In fame like Alexander thy fortune like Gedeon The luste of Augustus the pulchritude of Absolon The science of Aristotle and his Philosophie As facunde in Rethorike as was king Amphion With the health of Galen and age of Methusalie What man liuing considering this gratitude But for loue of this Prince feare of this miserie And for hope of this ioy but with his fortitude He would one day labour and suffer aduersitie And passe for no riches nor yet of iocunditie Nor of no fortune dolorous nor yet of no payne Nor of meate drinke ne cloth ne no felicitie But would fayne haue to morrow this glory to obtayne Then may we consider Adams disobedience By whose transgression equitie hath giuen death eternal And as for Moyses law it gathered more offence To the highe deitie and Plasmator potentiall Tooke pitie and mercy to make his sonne carnall And Sathanas hath loste him for all his temptation