As for example Wiat and the other rebels attainted for their great treasons alreadie declare you to be his and their adherent in as much as diuerse sundrie times you had conference with him and them about the treason so as Wiat is now one of your condition who as all the world knoweth hath committed an open traitorous fact By your leaue my lord this is a verie strange and singular vnderstanding For I suppose the meaning of the law-makers did vnderstand these words By people of their condition of the state and condition of those persons which should be on the inquest to trie the partie arreigned guiltie or not guiltie and nothing to the bewraieng of the offense by another mans act as you saie For what haue I to doo with Wiats acts that was not nigh him by one hundred miles Will you take vpon you to skill better of the law than the iudges I doubt not but you of the iurie will credit as it becommeth you Concerning the true vnderstanding of these words By people of their condition my lord chiefe iustice here hath declared the truth for Wiat was one of your condition that is to saie of your conspiracie You doo not denie Throckmorton but that there hath beene conference and sending betwéene Wiat and you and he and Winter dooth confesse the same with others so as it is plaine Wiat may be called one of your condition Well séeing you my iudges rule the vnderstanding of these words in the statute by people of your line 10 condition thus strangelie against me I will not stand longer vpon them But where dooth appeare in me an open déed wherevnto the treason is speciallie referred If thrée or foure doo talke deuise and conspire togither of a traitorous act to be doone and afterwards one of them dooth commit treason as Wiat did then the law dooth repute them and euerie of them as their acts so as Wiats acts doo implie and argue of your open déed and so the law dooth terme it and line 20 take it These be maruellous expositions and woonderfull implications that another mans act whereof I was not priuie should be accounted mine for Wiat did purge me that I knew nothing of his stirre Yea sir but you were a principall procurer and contriuer of Wiats rebellion though you were not with him when he made the stirre And as my lord here hath said the law alwaies dooth adiudge him a traitor which was priuie and dooth procure treason line 30 or anie other man to commit treason or a traitorous act as you did Wiat and others for so the Ouert act of those which did it by your procurement shall in this case be accounted your open deed We haue a common case in the law if one by procurement should disseize you of your land the law holdeth vs both wrong dooers giueth remedie as well against the one as the other For Gods sake applie not such constructions against me and though my present estate dooth not line 40 mooue you yet it were well you should consider your office and thinke what measure you giue to others you your selues I saie shall assuredlie receiue the same againe The state of mortall life is such that men know full little what hangeth ouer them I put on within these xij moneths such a mind that I most wofull wight was as vnlike to stand here as some of you that sit there As to your case last recited wherby you would conclude I haue remembred and learned of you maister Hare and you maister Stanford line 50 in the parlement house where you did sit to make lawes to expound and explane the ambiguities and doubts of law sincerelie and that without affections There I saie I learned of you and others my maisters of the law this difference betwixt such cases as you remembred one euen now and the statute whereby I am to be tried There is a maxime or principle in the law which ought not to be violated that no penall statute maie ought or should be line 60 construed expounded extended or wrested otherwise than the simple words and nude letter of the same statute dooth warrant and signifie And amongest diuerse good and notable reasons by you there in the parlement house debated maister sergeant Stanford I noted this one whie the said maxime ought to be inuiolable You said considering the priuate affections manie times both of princes and ministers within this realme for that they were men and would and could erre it should be no securitie but verie dangerous to the subiect to refer the construction and extending of penall statutes to anie iudges equitie as you termed it which might either by feare of the higher powers be seduced or by ignorance and follie abused and that is an answer by procurement Notwithstanding the principall as you alledge it and the precisenesse of your sticking to the bare words of the statute it dooth appéere and remaine of record in our learning that diuerse cases haue béene adiudged treason without the expresse words of the statute as the queenes learned councell there can declare It dooth appeere the prisoner did not onelie intise or procure Wiat Caro Rogers and others to commit their traitorous act and there dooth his open facts appéere which Uaughans confession dooth witnesse but also he did mind shortlie after to associat himselfe with those traitors for he minded to haue departed with the earle of Deuonshire westward My innocencie concerning these matters I trust sufficientlie appéereth by my former answers notwithstanding the condemned mans vniust accusation But because the true vnderstanding of the statute is in question I saie procurement and speciallie by words onelie is without the compasse of it and that I doo learne and prooue by the principle which I learned of maister Stanford Maister Throckmorton You and I maie not agrée this daie in the vnderstanding of the law for I am for the quéene and you are for your selfe the iudges must determine the matter He that dooth procure another man to commit a felonie or a murther I am sure you know well enough the law dooth adiudge the procurer there a felon or a murtherer and in case of treason it hath béene alwaies so taken and reputed I doo and must cleaue to my innocencie for I procured no man to commit treson but yet for my learning I desire to heare some case so ruled when the law was as it is now I doo confesse it that at such time there were statutes prouided for the procurer counsellor aider a better and such like as there were in king Henrie the eights time you might lawfullie make this cruell construction and bring the procurer within the compasse of the law But these statutes being repealed you ought not now so to doo and as to the principall procurer in felonie and murther it is not like as in treason for
and lord treasuror of England departed this life and by king Richard his appointment had the honor to haue his bodie interred at Westminster amongst the kings After line 40 this decease Roger Walden that before was secretarie to the king and treasuror of Calis was now made lord treasuror Yée haue heard that in the yeare 1392 Robert Uéer duke of Ireland departed this life in Louaine in Brabant King Richard therefore this yeare in Nouember caused his corps being imbalmed to be conueied into England and so to the priorie of Colnie in Essex appointing him to be laid in a coffine of cypresse and to be adorned with princelie garments line 50 hauing a chaine of gold about his necke and rich rings on his fingers And to shew what loue and affection he bare vnto him in his life time the king caused the coffine to be opened that he might behold his face bared and touch him with his hands he honored his funerall exequies with his presence accompanied with the countesse of Oxenford mother to the said duke the archbishop of Canturburie and manie other bishops abbats and priors but of noble line 60 men there were verie few for they had not yet digested the enuie and hatred which they had conceiued against him In this meane while the duke of Lancaster was in Gascoigne treating with the lords of the countrie and the inhabitants of the good townes which vtterlie refused to receiue him otherwise than as a lieutenant or substitute to the king of England and in the end addressed messengers into England to signifie to the king that they had beene accustomed to be gouerned by kings and meant not now to become subiects to anie other contrarie to all reason sith the king could not sauing his oth alien them from the crowne The duke of Lancaster vsed all waies he might deuise how to win their good wils and had sent also certeine of his trustie councellors ouer hither into England as sir William Perreer sir Peter Clifton and two clearkes learned in the lawe the one called maister Iohn Huech and the other maister Iohn Richards a canon of Leicester to plead and sollicit his cause But to be breefe such reasons were shewed and such matter vnfolded by the Gascoignes whie they ought not be separated from the crowne of England that finallie notwithstanding the duke of Glocester and certeine other were against them it was decréed that the countrie and duchie of Aquitaine should remaine still in demesne of the crowne of England least that by this transporting thereof it might fortune in time that the heritage thereof should fall into the hands of some stranger and enimie to the English nation so that then the homage and souereigntie might perhaps be lost for euer Indeed the duke of Glocester being a prince of an high mind loth to haue the duke of Lancaster at home being so highlie in the kings fauor could haue béene well pleased that he should haue enioied his gift for that he thought thereby to haue borne all the rule about the king for the duke of Yorke was a man rather coueting to liue in pleasure than to deale with much businesse and the weightie affaires of the realme About the same time or somewhat before the king sent an ambassage to the French king the archbishop of Dublin the earle of Rutland the earle Marshall the lord Beaumont the lord Spenser the lord Clifford named Lewes and twentie knights with fortie esquiers The cause of their going ouer was to intreat of a marriage to be had betwixt him and the ladie Isabell daughter to the French king she being as then not past eight yeares of age which before had beene promised vnto the duke of Britaines sonne but in consideration of the great benefit that was likelie to insue by this communication and aliance with England there was a meane found to vndoo that knot though not presentlie These English lords at their comming to Paris were ioifullie receiued and so courteouslie interteined banketted feasted and cherished and that in most honorable sort as nothing could be more all their charges and expenses were borne by the French king and when they should depart they receiued for answer of their message verie comfortable words and so with hope to haue their matter sped they returned But now when the duke of Lancaster had by laieng foorth an inestimable masse of treasure purchased in a manner the good wils of them of Aquitaine and compassed his whole desire he was suddenlie countermanded home by the king and so to satisfie the kings pleasure he returned into England and comming to the king at Langleie where he held his Christmasse was receiued with more honor than loue as was thought wherevpon he rode in all hast that might be to Lincolne where Katharine Swinford as then laie whom shortlie after the Epiphanie year 1396 he tooke to wife This woman was borne in Heinault daughter to a knight of that countrie called sir Paou de Ruet she was brought vp in hir youth in the duke of Lancasters house and attended on his first wife the duchesse Blanch of Lancaster and in the daies of his second wife the duchesse Constance he kept the foresaid Katharine as his concubine who afterwards was married to a knight of England named Swinford that was now deceassed Before she was married the duke had by hir three children two sonnes and a daughter one of the sons was named Thomas de Beaufort the other Henrie who was brought vp at Aken in Almaine prooued a good lawyer and was after bishop of Winchester For the loue that the duke had to these his children he married their mother the said Katharine Swinford being now a widow whereof men maruelled much considering hir meane estate was farre vnmeet to match with his highnesse and nothing comparable in honor to his other two former wiues And indeed the great ladies of England as the duches of Glocester the countesses of Derbie Arundell and others descended of the blood roiall greatlie disdeined line 10 that she should be matched with the duke of of Lancaster and by that means be accompted second person in the realme and preferred in roome before them and therefore they said that they would not come in anie place where she should be present for it should be a shame to them that a woman of so base birth and concubine to the duke in his other wiues daies should go and haue place before them The duke of Glocester also being a man of an high mind and stout stomach misliked his brothers line 20 matching so meanlie but the duke of Yorke bare it well inough and verelie the ladie hir selfe was a woman of such bringing vp and honorable demeanor that enuie could not in the end but giue place to well deseruing About this season the doctrine of of Iohn Wickliffe still mightilie spred abroad héere in England ¶ The schisme also still continued
mercie when thou hadst lost it by iustice desert Yet thou hir seruant sworne to defend hir mentest with thy bloudie hand to haue taken awaie hir life that mercifullie gaue thée thine when it was yéelded into hir hands This is the matter wherein thou hast offended The maner was most subtill and dangerous beyond all that before thée haue committed anie wickednesse against hir maiestie for thou making shew as if thou wouldest simplie haue vttered for hir safetie the euill that others had contriued diddest but seeke thereby credit accesse that thou mightest take the apter opportunitie for hir destruction And for the occasions and meanes that drew thée on they were most vngodlie and villanous as the persuasions of the pope of papists and popish bookes The pope pretendeth that he is a pastor when as in truth he is far from féeding of the flocke of Christ but rather as a woolfe séeketh but to féed on to sucke out the bloud of true christians and as it were thirsteth after the bloud of our most gratious and christian quéene And these papists and popish bookes while they pretend to set foorth diuinitie they doo indéed most vngodlie teach and persuade that which is quite contrarie both to God and his word For the word teacheth obedience of subiects toward princes forbiddeth anie priuat man to kill but they teach subiects to disobeie princes that a priuat wicked person may kill Yea whome a most godlie quéene their owne naturall and most gratious souereigne Let all men therfore take héed how they receiue any thing from him heare or read anie of their bookes and how they confer with anie papists God grant hir maiestie that she maie know by thée how euer she trust such like to come so néere hir person But see the end and why thou diddest it and it will appeare to be a most miserable fearefull and foolish thing for thou diddest imagine that it was to releeue those that thou callest catholikes who were most likelie amongst all others to haue felt the woorst of it if thy diuelish practise had taken effect But sith thou hast béene indicted of the treasons comprised in the indictment and therevpon arreigned and hast confessed thy selfe guiltie of them the court dooth award that thou shalt be had from hense to the place whense thou diddest come and so drawne through the open citie of London vpon an hurdle to the place of execution and there to be hanged and let downe aliue and thy priuie parts cut off and thy entrals taken out and burnt in thy sight then thy head to be cut off and thy bodie to be diuided in foure parts and to be disposed at hir maiesties pleasure and God haue mercie on thy soule Parrie neuerthelesse persisted still in his rage and fond speach and raginglie there said he there summoned quéene Elisabeth to answer for his bloud before God wherewith the lieutenant of the Tower was commanded to take him from the barre and line 10 so he did And vpon his departure the people striken as it were at heart with the horror of his intended enterprise ceased not but pursued him with outcries as Awaie with the traitor awaie with him such like wherevpon he was conueied to the barge to passe to the Tower againe by water the court was adiorned After which vpon the second daie of this instant March William Parrie was by vertue of processe in that behalfe awarded from the same commissioners of oier and terminer deliuered by the lieutenant of the Tower erlie in the morning line 20 vnto the shiriffes of London and Middlesex who receiued him at the Tower hill and therevpon according to the iudgement caused him there to be foorthwith set on the hurdle from whense he was drawne therevpon through the middest of the citie of London vnto the place for his execution in the pallace at Westminster where hauing long time of staie admitted vnto him before his execution he most maliciouslie and impudentlie after some other line 30 vaine discourses eftsoons often deliuered in speach that he was neuer guiltie of anie intention to kill quéene Elisabeth and so without anie request made by him to the people to pray to God for him or praier publikelie vsed by himselfe for ought that appeared but such as he vsed if he vsed anie was priuat to himselfe he was executed according to the iudgement And now for his intent how soeuer he pretended the contrarie in words yet by these his owne writings confessions letters manie other proofes line 40 afore here expressed it is most manifest to all persons how horrible his intentions and treasons were and how iustlie he suffered for the same and thereby greatlie to be doubted that as he had liued a long time vainelie and vngodlie and like an atheist and godlesse man so he continued the same course till his death to the outward sight of men ¶ Here endeth the true and plaine course and processe of the treasons arrest arreignement and execution of William Parrie the traitor line 50 An addition not vnnecessarie for this purpose FOrsomuch as Parrie in the aboundance of his proud and arrogant humour hath often both in his confession and letters pretended some great and grieuous causes of discontentment against hir maiestie and the present state it shall not be impertinent for better satisfaction of all persons to set foorth simplie and trulie the condition and qualitie of the man what he line 60 was by birth and education and in what course of life he had liued This vile and traitorous wretch was one of the yoonger sonnes of a poore man called Harrie ap Dauid he dwelled in Northwales in a little village called Northop in the countie of Flint there he kept a common alehouse which was the best and greatest staie of his liuing In that house was this traitor borne his mother was the reputed daughter of one Conwaie a priest parson of a poore parish called Halkin in the same countie of Flint his eldest brother dwelleth at this present in the same house and there kéepeth an alehouse as his father did before him This traitor in his childhood so soone as he had learned a litle to write and read was put to serue a poore man dwelling in Chester named Iohn Fisher who professed to haue some small skill and vnderstanding in the law With him he continued diuerse yeares and serued as a clerke to write such things as in that trade which his master vsed he was appointed During this time he learned the English toong and at such times of leasure as the poore man his master had no occasion otherwise to vse him he was suffered to go to the grammar schoole where he got some litle vnderstanding in the Latine toong In this his childhood he was noted by such as best knew him to be of a most villainous and dangerous nature disposition He did often run
the submissions by both parties made vnto the king and to his councell to take order in the matter in controuersie betwixt them concerning the late tumult and businesse which had chanced in the said towne by the disorder of the communaltie of the same in breaking downe and burning vp of houses in taking awaie the bookes and other goods of the said masters and scholers in committing other transgressions The councell hauing consideration thereof to auoid the decaie that might haue insued to the said towne made this end betwixt them that the said towne Iohn Bereford being in the kings prison and Robert Lardiner onelie excepted should be bound to paie vnto the said masters and scholers damnified in the said tumult and businesse for amends and reformation of iniuries and losses susteined death and maime excepted two hundred and fiftie pounds beside the goods taken and borne awaie to be restored againe and this monie to be paid to the said chancellor masters and scholers on that side the mondaie next before the feast of saint Iames or else sufficient suerties put in for the paiment thereof at certeine termes as the parties should agrée vpon and in respect thereof the said Iohn Bereford and Iohn Norton shall be releassed out of prison of the Marshalsea at the baile of the said maior and of Robert de Menkes and Iohn Dimmoks till the next sessions of gaole deliuerie with condition that the said summes of monie be paid or suerties put in for the paiment thereof as before is said or else the bodies of the said Iohn Bereford Iohn de Norton shall be returned to the said prison within thrée daies after the feast of Peter ad Vincula there to remaine in manner as before they did It was also ordeined by the councell with the assent of the said Humfrie and Iohn Carleton that all and euerie manner of persons of the said towne of Oxford and the suburbes of the same indited and arreigned of the fellonies and transgressions before mentioned that should yeeld themselues to the kings prison to be tried by law and also all other that were at that present in prison which the said Humfrie and Iohn de Carleton should name Iohn de Bereford and Robert Lardiner excepted might be let to baile vpon sufficient suerties that should vndertake for them bodies for bodies to appeare at the next sessions of gaole deliuerie there to be tried according to the order of law And further it was ordered that all such goods and cattels as were taken and carried awaie from the said masters and scholers in the said tumult and businesse by the men of the said towne and suburbes in whose hands and in what places soeuer within the said towne and suburbes by inquisitions informations or other meanes they should or might be found should be deliuered to the said chancellor and procurators of the said Uniuersitie to be by them restoreâ— vnto those persons to whome they belonged This was the effect of the order taken at that day and place before the â—euâ—râ—nd fathers Iohn archbishop of Yorke primat and chancellor of England William bishop of Winchester lord treasuror Thomas de Brâ—mbre lord keeper of the priuie seale and Dauid de Wollore master of the rolles Henrie de Ingelbie â—learke and other of the kings councell then and there present The prince of Wales as ye haue heard being appointed to passe ouer into Gascoigne set forward from London the last daie of Iune and comming to Plimmouth where his nauie was appointed to be made readie he staied there for want of conuenient wind and weather a long time after Finallie hauing with him the earles of Warwike Suffolke Salisburie Oxford also the lord Iohn Chanâ—â—ls sir Robert Knols sir Franke de Hall the lord Iames Audelie with diuerse other of the nobilitie and of men of armes and archers â— gâ—eat number then in parlement to him assigned â—e â—â—â—st set from Plimmouth on the daie of the Natiuitie of one ladie They were in all thrée hundred saile and finding the wind prosperous they passed ouer into Gascoigne where of thâ— Gascoignes they were ioifullie receiued In August the Englishmen that were in Britaine warring against the Frenchmen that tooke part with the lord Charlâ—s de Blois slue manie of them tooke the lord of Beaumanor the vicount of Roan and diuerse other ¶ This yeare also about Michaelmasse the king hauing 〈◊〉 an armie to be readie at Sandwich passed ouer to Calis with the same There went ouer with him his two sonnes Lionell of Antwerp earle of Ulster and Iohn of Gant earle of Richmond He found at Calis a thousand men of armes that came to serue him for wages foorth of Flanders Brabant and Almaigne so that he had about thrée thousand men of armes and two thousand archers on horsebacke beside archers on foot a great number The citie of London had sent to him fiue hundred men of armes and fiue hundred archers line 10 all in one sute or liuerie at their owne costs and charges On the second of Nouember he set from Calis marching foorth towards saint Omers wasting the countrie by the waie as he passed The French king being at the same time within the towne of saint Omers sent the lord Bousicant vnto the king of England that vnder colour of communication he might view the kings power who made such report thereof vpon his returne backe to the French king that he determined not to fight line 20 with the king of England but rather to passe before him and so to destroie vittels that for want thereof the king of England should be constreined to returne And as he determined so it came to passe for the vittels were so cut off that the Englishmen for thrée full daies togither dranke nothing but water When therefore king Edward had followed his enimies so farre as Heiden where he brake the parke and burnt the houses within and about the parke although he entered not into the towne nor castell at line 30 length for default of vittels he returned backe and came againe to Calis on saint Martins day being the tenth after his setting foorth from thence The morrow after being thursdaie and the twelfe of Nouember the constable of France and other Frenchmen came to the end of the causie of Calis with letters of credence offering battell on tuesdaie next following vnto the king of England in presence of the duke of Lancaster the earles of Northampton and the lord Walter de Mannie who in the line 40 kings behalfe declared to the constable that the king of England to eschew shedding of bloud would fight with the French king bodie to bodie so to trie their right and if he liked not of that match then if he would choose thrée or foure knights to him that were neerest to him in bloud he should choose the like number But when this offer would not be accepted the English lords offered
prouided readie with lists railed and made so substantiallie as if the same should haue indured for euer The concourse of people that came to London to sée this tried was thought to excéed that of the kings coronation so desirous men were to behold a sight so strange and vnaccustomed The king his nobles and all the people being come togither in the morning of the daie appointed to the place where the lists were set vp the knight being armed and mounted on a faire courser seemelie trapped entered first as appellant staieng till his aduersarie the defendant should come And shortlie after was the esquier called to defend his cause in this forme Thomas Katrington defendant come and appeare to saue the action for which sir Iohn Anneslie knight and appellant hath publikelie and by writing appealed thée He being thus called thrise by an herald at armes at the third call did come armed likewise and riding on a courser trapped with traps imbrodered with his armes at his approching to the lists he alighted from his horsse lest according to the law of armes the constable should haue chalenged the horsse if he had entered within the lists But his shifting nothing auailed him for the horsse after his maister was alighted beside him ran vp downe by the railes now thrusting his head ouer and now both head breast so that the earle of Buckingham bicause he was high constable of England claimed the horsse afterwards swearing that he would haue so much of him as had appeared ouer the railes and so the horsse was adiudged vnto him But now to the matter of the combat for this challenge of the horsse was made after as soone as the esquier was come within the lists the indenture was brought foorth by the marshall and constable which had béene made and sealed before them with consent of the parties in which were conteined the articles exhibited by the knight against the esquier and there the same was read before all the assemblie The esquier whose conscience was thought not to be cleare but rather guiltie and therefore seemed full of troublesome and grudging passions as an offendor alreadie conuinced thought as full well he might Multamiser timeo quia feci multa proteruè went about to make exceptions that his cause by line 10 some means might haue séemed the sounder But the duke of Lancaster hearing him so staie at the matter sware that except according to the conditions of the combat and the law of armes he would admit all things in the indentures comprised that were not made without his owne consent he should as guiltie of the treason foorthwith be had foorth to execution The duke with those words woone great commendation and auoided no small suspicion that had béene conceiued of him as parciall in the esquiers cause line 20 The esquier hearing this said that he durst fight with the knight not onelie in those points but in all other in the world whatsoeuer the same might be for he trusted more to his strength of bodie and fauour of his freends than to the cause which he had taken vpon him to defend He was in déed a mightie man of stature where the knight among those that were of a meane stature was one of the least Freends to the esquier in whom he had great affiance to be borne line 30 â—ut through their assistance were the lords Latimer and Basset with others Before they entered battell they tooke an oth as well the knight as the esquier that the cause in which they were to fight was true and that they delt with no witchcraft nor art magike whereby they might obteine the victorie of their aduersarie nor had about them any herbe or stone or other kind of experiment with which magicians vse to triumph ouer their enimies This oth receiued of either of them and therewith line 40 hauing made their praiers deuoutlie they began the battell first with speares after with swords and lastlie with daggers They fought long till finallie the knight had bereft the esquier of all his weapons and at length the esquier was manfullie ouerthrowne by the knight But as the knight would haue fallen vpon the esquier through sweat that ran downe by his helmet his sight was hindered so that thinking to fall vpon the esquier he fell downe sideling himselfe not comming néere to the esquier line 50 who perceiuing what had happened although he was almost ouercome with long fighting made to the knight and threw himselfe vpon him so that manie thought the knight should haue beene ouercome other doubted not but that the knight would recouer his feet againe and get the victorie of his aduersarie The king in the meane time caused it to be proclamed that they should staie and that the knight should be raised vp from the ground and so meant to take vp the matter betwixt them To be short such line 60 were sent as should take vp the esquier but comming to the knight he besought them that it might please the king to permit them to lie still for he thanked God he was well and mistrusted not to obteine the victorie if the esquier might be laid vpon him in manner as he was earst Finallie when it would not be so granted he was contented to be raised vp and was no sooner set on his féet but he cheerfullie went to the king without anie mans helpe where the esquier could neither stand nor go without the helpe of two men to hold him vp and therefore was set in his chaire to take his ease to see if he might recouer his strength The knight at his comming before the king besought him his nobles to grant him so much that he might be eftsoones laid on the ground as before and the esquier to be laid aloft vpon him for the knight perceiued that the esquire through excessiue heat and the weight of his armor did maruellouslie faint so as his spirits were in manner taken from him The king and the nobles perceiuing the knight so couragiouslie to demand to trie the battell foorth to the vttermost offring great summes of monie that so it might be doone decreed that they should be restored againe to the same plight in which they laie when they were raised vp but in the meane time the esquire fainting and falling downe in a swoone fell out of his chaire as one that was like to yéeld vp his last breath presentlie among them Those that stood about him cast wine and water vpon him seeking so to bring him againe but all would not serue till they had plucked off his armor his whole apparell which thing prooued the knight to be vanquisher and the esquier to be vanquished After a little time the esquier began to come to himselfe and lifting vp his eies began to hold vp his head and to cast a ghostlie looke on euerie one about him which when it was reported to the knight he commeth to him armed as
person qualities I will referre you to that which sir Thomas More hath written of him in that historie which he wrote and left vnfinished of his sonne Edward the fift and of his brother king Richard the third which we shall God line 40 willing hereafter make you partaker of as we find the same recorded among his other workes word for word when first we haue according to our begun order rehearsed such writers of our nation as liued in his daies As first Nicholas Kenton borne in Suffolke a Carmelit frier in Gippeswich prouinciall of his order through England Henrie Parker a Carmelit frier of Doncaster preached against the pride of prelats line 50 and for such doctrine as he set foorth was imprisoned with his fellow Thomas Holden and a certeine blacke frier also for the like cause Parker was forced to recant thrée speciall articles as Bale noteth out of Leland Iohn Harding an esquier borne in the north parts wrote a chronicle in English verse and among other speciall points therein touched he gathered all the submissions and homages had and made by the Scotish kings euen from the daies of king Athelstan whereby it euidentlie may line 60 appeare how the Scotish kingdome euen in manner from the first establishing thereof here in Britaine hath beene apperteining vnto the kings of England and holden of them as their chéefe superior lords William Iue a doctor of diuinitie and prebendarie of saint Paules in London Thomas Wilton a diuine and deane of the said church of Paules in London Iulian Bemes a gentlewoman indued with excellent gifts both of bodie and mind wrote certeine treatises of hawking and hunting delighting greatlie hir selfe in those exercises and pastimes she wrote also a booke of the lawes of armes and knowledge apperteining to heralds Iohn Stamberie borne in the west parts of this realme a Carmelit frier and confessor to king Henrie the sixt he was also maister of Eaton colledge and after was made bishop of Bangor and remooued from thence to the sée of Hereford Iohn Slueleie an Augustine frier prouinciall of his order Iohn Fortescue a iudge and chancellor of England wrote diuerse treatises concerning the law and politike gouernement Rochus a Chaterhouse moonke borne in London of honest parents and studied in the vniuersitie of Paris he wrote diuerse epigrams Iohn Phreas borne also in London was fellow of Balioll colledge in Oxenford and after went into Italie where he heard Guarinus that excellent philosopher read in Ferrara he prooued an excellent physician and a skilfull lawier there was not in Italie whilest he remained there that passed him in eloquence knowledge of both the toongs Gréeke and Latine Walter Hunt a Carmelit frier a great diuine and for his excellencie in learning sent from the whole bodie of this realme vnto the generall councell holden first at Ferrara and after at Florence by pope Eugenius the fourth where he disputed among other with the Gréekes in defense of the order and ceremonies of the Latine church Thomas Wighenhall a moonke of the order called Premonstratensis in the abbie of Durham in Norffolke Iohn Gunthorpe went into Italie where he heard that eloquent learned man Guarinus read in Ferrara after his comming home into England he was deane of Welles and kéeper of the priuie seale Iohn Hambois an excellent musician and for his notable cunning therein made doctor of musicke William Caxton wrote a chronicle called Fructus temporum and an appendix vnto Treuisa beside diuerse other bookes and translations Iohn Miluerton a Carmelit frier of Bristow and prouinciall of his order through England Ireland and Scotland at length bicause he defended such of his order as preached against endowments of the church with temporall possessions he was brought into trouble committed to prison in castell S. Angelo in Rome where he continued thrée yeares and at length was deliuered thorough certeine of the cardinals that were appointed his iudges Dauid Morgan a Welsh man treasuror of the church of Landaffe wrote of the antiquities of Wales a description of the countrie Iohn Tiptoff a noble man borne a great traueller excellentlie learned and wrote diuerse treatises and finallie lost his head in the yeare 1471 in time of the ciuill warre betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster Iohn Shirwood bishop of Durham Thomas Kent an excellent philosopher Robert Huggon borne in Norffolke in a towne called Hardingham wrote certeine vaine prophesies Iohn Maxfield a learned physician William Gréene a Carmelit frier Thomas Norton borne in Bristow an alcumist Iohn Meare a moonke of Norwich Richard Porland borne in Norffolke a Franciscane frier and a doctor of diuinitie Thomas Milling a moonke of Westminster a doctor of diuinitie and preferred to the bishoprike of Hereford Scogan a learned gentleman and student for a time in Oxford of a plesant wit and bent to merrie deuises in respect whereof he was called into the court where giuing himselfe to his naturall inclination of mirth pleasant pastime he plaied manie sporting parts although not in such vnciuill maner as hath beene of him reported Thus farre the prosperous reigne of Edward the fourth sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke The historie of king Edward the fift and king Richard the third vnfinished written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London about the yeare of our Lord 1513 according to a copie of his owne hand printed among his other workes KIng Edward the fourth of that name after that he had liued fiftie three yeeres year 1483 seuen moneths and six daies and thereof reigned two and twentie yeares one moneth eight daies died at Westminster the ninth daie of Aprill the yeare of our redemption a thousand foure hundred fourescore and thrée leauing much faire issue that is to wit Edward the prince a thirtéene line 10 yeares of age Richard duke of Yorke two yeares yoonger Elizabeth whose fortune and grace was after to be quéene wife vnto king Henrie the seuenth and mother vnto the eight Cicilie not so fortunate as faire Briget which representing the vertue of hir whose name she bare professed and obserued a religious life in Dertford an house of close nunnes Anne that was after honorablie married vnto Thomas then lord Howard and after earle of Surrie and Katharine which long time tossed in either fortune sometime in wealth oft in aduersitie at the line 20 last if this be the last for yet she liueth is by the benignitie of hir nephue king Henrie the eight in verie prosperous estate and worthie hir birth and vertue This noble prince deceassed at his palace of Westminster and with great funerall honor and heauines of his people from thence conueied was interred at Windsor A king of such gouernance behauior in time of peace for in warre each part must néeds be others enimie that there was neuer anie prince of line 30 this land atteining the crowne by battell so heartilie beloued with the
But the third request whether the let was on the mans line 50 side or on the womans neuer sorted to anie conclusion The ladie Margaret the kings daughter affied as yée haue heard to the king of Scots was appointed to be conueied into Scotland by the earle of Surrie and the earle of Northumberland as warden of the marches was commanded to deliuer hir at the confines of both the realmes And so héere vpon after hir comming to Berwike she was conueied to Lamberton kirke in Scotland where the king line 60 of Scots with the flower of all the nobles and gentlemen of Scotland was readie to receiue hir to whome the earle of Northumberland according to his commission deliuered hir The said earle of Northumberland that daie what for the riches of his coat being goldsmithes worke garnished with pearle and stone and what for the gallant apparell of his Henchmen and braue trappers of his horsse beside foure hundred tall men well horssed and apparelled in his colours was estéemed both of the Scots and Englishmen more like a prince than a subiect From Lamberton the foresaid ladie was conueied to Edenburgh and there the daie after king Iames the fourth in the presence of all his nobilitie espoused hir and feasted the English lords and shewed iusts and other pastimes verie honourablie after the fashion of that countrie And after all things were finished according to their commission the erle of Surrie with all the English lords and ladies returned into their countrie In this yeare the king kept his high court of parlement in the which diuerse acts estéemed necessarie for the preseruation of the common-wealth were established and amongst other it was enacted that théeues and murtherers duelie conuicted by the law to die and yet saued by their books should be committed to the bishops custodie After this a subsidie was granted both of the temporaltie and spiritualtie and so that parlement ended But the king now drawing into age and willing to fill his chests with aboundance of treasure was not satisfied with this onelie subsidie but deuised an other meane how to inrich himselfe as thus year 1504 He considered that the Englishmen little regarded the kéeping of penall lawes and pecuniall statutes deuised for the good preseruation of the common-welth Wherefore he caused inquisition to be made of those that had transgressed anie of the same lawes so that there were but few noble men merchants farmers husbandmen grasiers or occupiers that could cléerlie prooue themselues faultlesse but had offended in some one or other of the same lawes At the first they that were found giltie were easilie fined But after there were appointed two maisters and surueiors of his forfeits the one sir Richard Empson and the other Edmund Dudleie These two were learned in the lawes of the realme who meaning to satisfie their princes pleasure and to sée their commission executed to the vttermost séemed little to respect the perill that might insue Wherevpon they being furnished with a sort of accusers commonlie called promoters or as they themselues will be named informers troubled manie a man whereby they wan them great hatred and the king by such rigorous procéedings lost the loue and fauour which the people before time had borne towards him so that he for setting them a worke and they for executing of it in such extreame wise ran into obloquie with the subiects of this realme ¶ On the thirtéenth of Nouember was holden within the palace of the archbishop of Canturburie at Lambeth the sergeants feast where dined the king and all his nobles And vpon the same day Thomas Granger newlie chosen shiriffe of London was presented before the barons of the kings exchequer there to take his oth and after went with the maior vnto the same feast which saued him monie in his pursse for if that day that feast had not béene kept he must haue feasted the maior aldermen and others woorshipfull of the citie This feast was kept at the charge of ten learned men newlie admitted to bée sergeants to the kings law whose names were Robert Bridnell William Greuill Thomas Marow George Edgore Iohn Moore Iohn Cutler Thomas Eliot Lewes Pollard Guie Palmis William Fairesax On the one and twentith of Nouember at night began a perillous fier at the signe of the panier vpon London bridge néere to saint Magnus church where six tenements were burned yer the same could be quenched On the seuenth of Ianuarie were certeine houses consumed with fire against saint Butolphes church in Thames street On the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie began a parlement at Westminster of the which was chosen speaker for the commons maister Edmund Dudleie A new coine of siluer was ordeined of grotes and halfe grotes which bare but halfe faces and some péeces of the value of twelue pense were then to sir Iohn Carew and to sir Thomas Trenchard that they should interteine him in the most honorable sort they could deuise till he might come himselfe in person to welcome him Beside this he sent the earle of Arundell with manie lords and knights to attend vpon him Which earle according to the kings letters receiued him with thrée hundred horsses all by torchlight to the great admiration of the strangers King Philip séeing no remedie but that he must line 10 needs tarie would no longer gaze after king Henries comming but tooke his iournie toward Windsore castell where the king laie and fiue miles from Windsore the prince of Wales accompanied with fiue earles and diuerse lords and knights and other to the number of fiue hundred persons gorgiouslie apparelled receiued him after the most honorable fashion And within halfe a mile of Windsore the king accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and a great part of the nobilitie of this realme welcomed line 20 him so conueied him to the castell of Windsore where he was made companion of the noble order of the garter After him came to Windsore his wife queene Iane sister to the princesse Dowager late wife to prince Arthur After the two kings had renewed confirmed the league and amitie betwixt them king Henrie desired to haue Edmund de la Poole earle of Suffolke to be deliuered into his hands To whome the king of Castâ—le answered that he verelie was not within line 30 his dominion and therefore it laie not in him to deliuer him In deed he was loth to be the authour of his death that came to him for succour and was receiued vnder his protection yet vpon the earnest request and assured promise of king Henrie that he would pardon him of all executions and paines of death he granted to king Henries desire and so incontinentlie caused the said earle secretlie to be sent for After this to protract time till he were possessed of 〈…〉 king Henrie conueied the king of Castile line 40 vnto the citie of London that he might sée the head
péeces of harnesse euerie one mounted on a great courser The one bare his helmet the second his grangard the third his speare the fourth his axe and so euerie one had something belonging to a man of armes The apparell of the nine henchmen were white cloth of line 20 gold and crimsin cloth of gold richlie embrodered with goldsmithes worke the trappers of the coursers were mantell harnesse coulpened and in euerie vent a long bell of fine gold and on euerie pendent a déepe tassell of fine gold in bullion which trappers were verie rich The king and the emperour met betwéene Aire and the campe in the foulest weather that lightlie hath béene seene The emperour gentlie interteined the king and the king likewise him and after a little communication had betwene them bicause the line 30 weather was foule they parted for that time The emperour all his men were at that daie all in blacke cloth for the empresse his wife was latelie deceased Within a day or two after this interuiew and that the king was returned to his campe thither came a king at armes of Scotland called Lion with his cote of armes on his backe who within short time was by Gartier king of armes brought to the kings presence where he being almost dismaid to see the king so noblie accompanied with few words meetlie line 40 good countenance deliuered a letter to the king which his grace receiued and read it himselfe and therewith hauing conceiued the whole contents thereof made this answer immediatly to the herald Now we perceiue the king of Scots our brother in law and your master to be the same person whom we euer tooke him to be for we neuer estéemed him to be of anie truth and so now we haue found it For notwithstanding his oth his promise in the word of a king and his owne hand and seale yet line 50 now he hath broken his faith promise to his great dishonour and infamie for euer and intendeth to inuade our realme in our absence which he durst not once attempt our owne person being present But he sheweth himselfe not to be degenerat from the conditions of his forfathers whose faiths for the most part haue euer béene violated and their promises neuer obserued further than they list Therefore tell thy master first that he shall neuer be comprised in anie league wherein I am a confederat and also that line 60 I suspecting his truth as now the déed prooueth haue left an earle in my realme at home which shall be able to defend him and all his power For we haue prouided so that he shall not find our land destitute of people as he thinketh to doo but this saie to thy master that I am the very owner of Scotland that he holdeth it of me by homage And insomuch as now contrarie to his bounden dutie he being my vassall dooth rebell against me with Gods helpe I shall at my returne expell him his realme and so tell him Sir said the king of armes I am his naturall subiect and he is my naturall lord and that he commandeth me to say I may boldlie say with fauour but the commandements of other I may not nor dare say to my souereigne but your letters with your honor sent may declare your pleasure for I may not say such words of reproch to him to whom I owe onelie mine allegiance and faith Then said the king Wherfore came you hither will you receiue no answer Yes said Lion but your answer requireth dooing and no writing that is that immediatlie you should returne home Well said the king I will returne to your damage and not at thy maisters summoning Then the king commanded Gartier to take him to his tent and to make him good cheare which so did and cherished him well for he was sore abashed After he was departed the king sent for all the capteins and before them and his councell caused the letter to be read the contents wherof were that king Henrie had not dealt with him vprightlie in sundrie points as in mainteining of those which had slaine his people of Scotland by sea and also in succouring bastard Heron with his complices which had vnder trust of daies of méeting for iustice slaine his warden Also his wiues legacie was by him withholden moreouer where first he had desired him in fauour of his dere cousin the duke of Gelder not to attempt anie thing against him yet had he sent his people to inuade the said dukes countrie which did what in them lay to destroie and dishinherit the said duke that had nothing offended against him And now againe where he had made the like request for his brother cousine the most christian king of France yet notwithstanding had the king of England caused him to lose his duchie of Millaine and at this present inuaded his realme with all his puissance to destroie him and his subiects whereas yet the said king of France had béene euer fréend to him neuer giuen him occasion thus to doo In consideration of which iniuries receiued in his owne person and in his friends he must néeds seeke redresse and take part with his brother and cousine the said king of France Wherefore he required him to desist from further inuasion and destruction of the French dominions which to doo if he refused he plainlie declared by the same letters that he would doo what he could to cause him to desist from further pursute in that his enterprise also giue letters of marque to his subiects for the deniall of iustice made to them by the king of England The letters thus sent to the king of England were dated at Edenburgh the six and twentith daie of Iulie and giuen vnder the signet of the said Scotish king When the king had thus caused these letters to be read and throughlie considered of them as apperteined he sent them straight to the earle of Surrie which then laie at Pomfret and caused other letters to be deuised to the king of Scots the effect whereof was that although he well perceiued by the kings letters which he had receiued from him in what sort vnder colour of contriued occasions and feined quarrelles he meant to breake the peace he did not much maruell thereat considering the ancient accustomed manners of some his progenitors Howbeit if loue and dread of God nighnesse of blood honour of the world law and reason had bound him it might be supposed that he would neuer so farre haue procéeded wherein the pope and all princes christned might well note in him dishonorable demeanor which had dissembled the matter whilest he was at home in his realme and now in his absence thus went about vpon forged causes to vtter his old rancor which in couert manner he had long kept secret Neuerthelesse vpon mistrust of such vnstedfastnesse he had put his realme in a readinesse to resist his enterprises as he doubted not
Faber a famous clearke after bishop of Uien as ambassadors from don Ferdinando brother to the emperour newlie elect king of Hungarie and Beame after the death of his brother in law king Lewes which was slaine by the Turke the last summer as you haue heard before This companie was welcomed of the high officers and after brought into the kings presence all the nobilitie being present and there after great reuerence made master Faber made a notable oration taking his ground of the gospell Exijt seminator seminare semen suum and of that he declared how Christ and his disciples went foorth to sow and how their seed was good that fell into the good ground and brought foorth good fruit which was the christian faith and then he declared how contrarie to that sowing Mahomet had sowne séed which brought foorth euill fruit He also shewed from the beginning how the Turkes haue increased in power what realmes they had conquered what people they had subdued euen to that daie He declared further what acts the great Turke then liuing had doone and in especiall he noted the getting of Belgrad and of the Rhodes and the slaieng of the king of Hungarie to the great rebuke as he said of all the kings christened He set foorth also what power the Turke had what diuersities of companies what armor what capteins he had so that he thought that without a maruellous great number of people he could not be ouerthrowne Wherefore he most humblie besought the king as S. Georges knight and defendor of the faith to assist the king his master in that godlie warre and vertuous purpose To this oration the K. by the mouth of sir Thomas Moore answered that much he lamented the losse that happened in Hungarie and if it were not for the wars which were betweene the two great princes he thought that the Turke would not haue enterprised that act Wherefore he with all his studie would take paine first to set an vnitie and peace throughout all christendome and after that both with monie and men he wold be redie to helpe toward that glorious line 10 warre as much as any other prince in christendome After this doone the ambassadours were well cherished and diuerse times resorted to the court and had great cheare and good rewards and so the third daie of Maie next insuing they tooke their leaue and departed homeward In the winter season of this yeare fell great abundance of raine and namelie in September Nouember and December And on the sixtéenth of Ianuarie it rained so abundantlie that great flouds line 20 thereby insuing destroied corne fields pastures and drowned manie sheepe and beasts Then was it drie till the twelfe of Aprill and from thence it rained euerie day or night till the third of Iune in Maie it rained thirtie hours continuallie without ceasing which caused great flouds did much harme namelie in corne so that the next yeare it failed within this realme and great dearth insued ¶ This time a bill was set vp in London much contrarie to the honour of the cardinall in the which the line 30 cardinall was warned that he should not counsell the king to marrie his daughter into France for if hée did he should shew himselfe enimie to the king and the realme with manie threatning words This bill was deliuered to the cardinall by sir Thomas Seimor maior of the citie which thanked him for the same made much search for the author of that bill but he could not be found which sore displeased the cardinall And vpon this occasion the last daie of Aprill line 40 at night he caused a great watch to be kept at Westminster and had there cart guns readie charged caused diuerse watches to be kept about London in Newington S. Iohns stréet Westminster saint Giles Islington and other places néere London which watches were kept by gentlemen their seruants with housholders and all for feare of the Londoners bicause of this bill When the citizens knew of this they said that they maruelled why the cardinall hated them so for they said that if he mistrusted them he loued them not and where loue is line 50 not there is hatred and they affirmed that they neuer intended anie harme toward him and mused of this chance For if fiue or six persons had made alarm in the citie then had entred all these watchmen with their traine which might haue spoiled the citie without cause Wherefore they much murmured against the cardinall and his vndiscréet dooings The French ambassadors at Greenwich on sunday the fift of Maie sware in the name of their maister line 60 the French king to obserue the peace and league concluded betwéene them for tearme of two princes liues These ambassadours had great cheare and iustes were enterprised for the honour and pleasure of them at the kings commandement by sir Nicholas Carew sir Robert Ierningham sir Anthonie Browne and Nicholas Haruie esquier chalengers Against whome ran the marques of Excester and thirtéen with him as defendants When these ambassadours should returne they had great rewards giuâ—n them of the king and so tooke their leaue and departed Shortlie after the king sent sir Thomas Bullen vicount Rochford and sir Anthonie Browne knight as ambassadours from him into France which came to Paris to the bishop of Bath that laie there for the king as legier Then these thrée went to the court and saw the French king in person sweare to kéepe the league amitie concluded betwéene him the king of England Also the king sent sir Francis Poins knight ambassadour from him to Charles the emperour and with him went Clarenceaur king of armes to demand the one halfe of the treasure and ordinance which was taken at Pauia forsomuch as that warre was made as well at the kings charge as at the emperours Also they were commanded to demand one of the French kings sonnes which lay in hostage with the emperour that is to wit the duke of Orleance to be deliuered to the king of England and further that he shuld call backe his armie out of Italie And if it were so that he refused these reasonable requests then should they in the kings name denounce open warre against him The English merchants liked the matter nothing at all that there should bée anie warres betwixt the emperour and the king of England And where they were desired by the cardinall to kéepe their marts at Calis they would not assent thereto ¶ In this meane time great warres were managed betwéen the pope and other princes amongest whom the duke of Burbon of whom you haue heard often mention before in sundrie actions leuieng a great power led the same towards Rome and incamped within the medow néere to the citie from whence with the insolencie of a souldier hee sent a trumpet to demand passage of the pope through the citie of Rome to go with his armie to
and laie in danger of death Wherevpon the emperour comming to visit him after his recouerie of health an accord was made betwixt the deputies of the emperour and the ambassadours of the ladie his moother then regent of France which accord was so vnreasonable that no prince being in libertie would haue consented thereto nor for his deliuerance haue promised so great a ransome Which line 20 tretie yet they constrained him as he said to sweare to performe being prisoner against the protestation which he diuerse times had made yea as yet being sicke and in danger of recidiuation and so consequentlie of death After this he was conueied foorth on his iournie homewards still garded not set at libertie And it was told him that after he came into France it was conuenient that he should giue his faith for that it was knowne well enough that what he did line 30 or promised in Spaine it nothing auailed And further he remembred not that the emperour had told him at anie time that if he performed not the contents of the treatie he would hold him for a breaker of his faith though he had he was not in his libertie to make anie answer Two things therefore said he in this case are to be considered One that the tretie was violentlie wroong out from them that could not bind his person and the which as to the residue had béene accomplished by his moother deliuering line 40 his sonnes in hostage The other thing was his pretended faith on which they can make â—o ground sith he was not set at libertie And herevnto he shewed manie reasons to prooue that his enimies could not pretend in right that they had his faith Further he said that in matter of combat there was the assailant which ought to giue suertie of the field and the defendant the weapons Herewith also he caused a letter to be read which the emperour had written to maister Iohn de Caluimont president line 50 of Burdeaux the said kings ambassadour in the court of the said emperour the tenor of which letter imported that the emperour put the said ambassadour in remembrance of spéech which he had vttered to the said ambassadour in Granado repeating the same in substance as followeth That the king his maister had doone naughtilie in not keeping his faith which he had of him acording to the treatie of Madrill and if the king would saie the contrarie I will said the emperour mainteine the quarrell with my line 60 bodie against his And these be the same words that I spake to the king your maister in Madrill that I would hold him for a lewd and naughtie man if he brake the faith which I had of him c. Then after the said letter had béene read he caused also his answer made by way of a cartell to be read the tenor whereof ye haue heard before That doone he continued his tale in declaring what order he had obserued to procure the emperour to the combat without all shifting delaies so as if the herald now come from the emperour would vse anie talke other than to deliuer him an authentike writing for suertie of the field and not obserue the contents of his safe conduct he meant not to giue him audience And herevpon was the herald called to come in and declare his message Who apparelled in his cote of armes made his appéerance before the king there sitting accompanied as ye haue heard Unto whome the king said Herald dooest thou bring the suertie of the field such one as thy maister being the assailant ought to deliuer vnto the defendant being such a personage as I am The herald herevnto said Sir maie it please you to giue me licence to doo mine office Then said the king Giue me the pattent of the field and saie what thou wilt The herald beginning his tale The sacred Tush said the king shew me the pattent of the field for I hold thy master for so noble a prince that he hath not sent thée without the suertie of the field sith I haue demanded it and thou knowest that thy safe conduct conteineth no lesse but that thou shouldest bring it The herald answered that he trusted he had brought that which might content his maiestie The king replied said Herald giue me the pattent of the field giue it me and if it be sufficient I will receiue it and after saie what thou wilt The herald said he had in commandement not to deliuer it except he might declare that which he had first to saie The king said Thy maister can not giue lawes to vs in France To conclude he told the herald that he peraduenture might speake things that his maister would not auouch and that he had not to deale with him but with his maister The herald then required that he might haue licence to depart which the king granted And withall the king commanded that it might be registred what had passed in this behalfe for a testimonie that the fault rested not in him in that he receiued not the pattent The herald likewise for his discharge required a copie in writing of that which had passed and the same was granted Thus far haue I ouerpassed the common bounds of my purpose in speaking so largelie of this matter of combat bicause of the rarenesse thereof chancing betwixt two so mightie princes although it came not to the effect of triall year 1528 And now to returne to that which followed further vpon the defiance denounced to the emperor by the two kings of armes Guien and Clarenceaux Ye shall vnderstand that the lords and nobilitie to the number of seuen hundred in whose presence it was giuen tooke it so offensiuelie that drawing foorth their swords they sware that the same should be reuenged for otherwise they protested that the infamie would redound to them and their heires for euer Herewith the warre was proclamed through all Spaine with baners displaied in which were painted a red sword with a burning cresset against the French king and his partakers but not mentioning the king of England by expresse name But it was recited in the proclamation that the king of England had menaced and defied the emperour in the French kings quarell Then were the English merchants in Spaine attached and their goods put in safetie till it might be knowne how the emperours subiects were ordered in England Then likewise were all the ships of the emperours subiects here arrested and in semblable maner all the Englishmen and their goods and ships were arrested by the ladie regent in the low countries The common people in England much lamented that warre should arise betwéene the emperour and the king of England speciallie bicause the emperours dominions had holpen and reléeued them with graine in time of their necessitie want But cheefelie this matter touched merchants which hanted the emperors dominions Yet at length were those of the low countries set at libertie
hurt wherewith the commonwelth of our nation is wounded beside all other is so pestilent that there can be no more hurtfull thing in a well gouerned estate nor more throwne into all kind of vice and vnrulinesse and therefore this your sedition is not onelie most odious but also most horrible that hath spotted the whole countrie with such a staine of idlenesse There can be none end of faults if a man rehearse all faults that doo necessarilie follow this vnrulie sturdinesse For not onelie vagabonds wandering and scattering themselues for mischeefe shall run in a mans eies but also disorder of euerie degrée shall enter into a mans mind and shall behold hereby the commonwealth miserablie defaced by you who should as much as other haue kept your selues in order in it Neither be the magistrats dulie obeied nor the lawes iustlie feared nor degrées of men considered nor maisters well serued nor parents truelie reuerenced nor lords remembred of their tenants nor yet either naturall or ciuill law much regarded And it is plainlie vnpossible that that countrie shall well stand in gouernement and the people growe to wealth where order in euerie state is not fitlie obserued and that bodie cannot be without much gréefe of inflammation where anie lest part is out of ioint or not duelie set in his owne naturall place Wherefore order must be kept in the common-wealth like health in the bodie and all the drift of policie looketh to this end how this temper may be safelie mainteined without anie excesse of vnmeasurablenesse either of the one side or of the other And easie inough it is to keepe the same when it is once brought into the meane and to hold it in the staie it is found in but when it bursteth out once with a vehemencie and hath gotten into an vnrulie disorder it spreadeth so fast and ouerfleweth all honest mens resisting so violentlie that it will be hard to recouer the breach of long time againe except with great and wise counsell which no doubt shall be in season vsed there be woonderfull remedies sought therefore And euen as a man falling is easier holden vp by staie than when he is fallen downe he is able to rise againe so is the commonwealth slipping by the foresight of wisedome better kept from ruine than when it is once fallen into anie kind of miserie the same may be called againe to the old and former state Doo we not euidentlie know that a man may better kéepe his arme or his leg from breaking or line 10 falling out of ioint afore hurt come to it than after the hurt it may safelie and quietlie be healed and restored to the former strength and health againe And now through your seditious means things that were afore quiet and in good order laws feared and obeied subiects ruled and kept in dutie be all now in a great disorder and like if it be not holpen to grow to wildnesse and a beasâ—linesse séeing that neither common dutie can be kept which nature prescribeth nor common law can be regarded which policie requireth line 20 How can yée kéepe your owne if yée kéepe no order Your wiues and children how can they be defended from other mens violence if yee will in other things breake all order By what reason would yée be obeied of yours as seruants if yée will not obeie the king as subiects How would yée haue others deale orderlie with you if yée will vse disorder against all others Seeing then there is such a confusion now of things such a turmoile of men such a disorder of fashions who can looke to liue quietlie a great while line 30 who can thinke but that yée haue miserablie tossed the commonwealth and so vexed all men with disorder that the inconuenience hereof cannot onelie nip others but also touch you But now sée how that not onelie these vnlooked for mischeefes haue heauilie growne on yée but also those commodities which yée thought to haue holpen your selues and others by be not onelie hindered but also hurt thereby The kings maiestie by the aduise c intended a iust reformation of all such things as poore men could trulie shew themselues oppressed line 40 with thinking equalitie of iustice to be the diademe of his kingdome and the safegard of his commons Which was not onelie intended by wisedome but also set on with speed and so entered into a due considering of all states that none should haue iust cause to grudge against the other when as euerie thing rightfullie had nothing could be but vnrightfullie grudged at And this would haue béene doone not onelie with your glad and willing assent but also béene doone by this daie almost throughout the whole line 50 realme so that quietlie it had béene obteined without inconuenience and spéedilie without delaie And whatsoeuer had béene doone by the kings maiesties authoritie that would by right haue remained for euer and so taken in law that the contrarie partie neither could by iustice neither would by boldnesse haue enterprised the breach thereof But least wicked men should be wealthie and they whose hearts be not truelie bent to obedience should obteine at the kings hands that they deserued line 60 not in a commonwealth yée haue maruellouslie and worthilie hurt your selues and gréeuouslie prouided except the kings goodnesse be more vnto you than your owne deserts can claime that yée be not so much worthie as to be benefited in anie kind as yée be worthie to lose that yée haue on euerie side Ye haue thought good to be your owne reformers belike not onelie vnnaturallie mistrusting the kings iustice but also cruellie and vnciuillie dealing with your owne neighbours Wherein I would as yée haue hurt the whole realme so yee had not enterprised a thing most dangerous to your selues most contrarie to the thing yée intended If yée had let things alone thought good by your selues to be redressed and dutifullie looked for the performance of that the kings maiestie promising reformation they should nor haue béene vndoone at this time as in a great sort of honest places they be nor whole countries who for their quietnesse be most worthie to be looked on should haue béene vnprouided for at this daie But this commoditie hath happened by the waie that it is euidentlie knowne by your mischeefe and others dutie who be most true to the king and most worthie to be doone for and who be most pernicious and traitorous rebels And it is not to be doubted but they shall be considered with thanks and find iust redresse without deserued miserie you punished like rebels who might haue had both praise profit like subiects For that as yée haue valiantlie doone of your selues thinke yée it will stand anie longer than men feare your rage which cannot indure long and that yée shall not then bide the rigor of the law for your priuat iniuries as yée vsed the furie of your braines
abroad but euerie man departed And shortlie after the duke was arrested in the kings line 50 college by one maister Sleg sargeant at arms At the last letters were brought from the councell at London that all men should go each his waie Wherevpon the duke said to them that kept him Ye doo me wrong to withdraw my libertie sée you not the councels letters without exception that all men should go whither they would At which words they that kept him and the other noblemen set them at libertie and so continued they for that night insomuch that the earle of Warwike was readie in line 60 the morning to haue rode awaie But then came the erle of Arundell from the quéene to the duke into his chamber who went out to méet him Now as soone as he saw the earle of Arundell he fell on his knees and desired him to be good to him for the loue of God Consider saith he I haue doone nothing but by the consents of you and all the whole councell My lord quoth the earle of Arundell I am sent hither by the quéens maiestie and in hir name I doo arrest you And Iobeie it my lord quoth he I beséech you my lord of Arundell quoth the duke vse mercie towards me knowing the case as it is My lord quoth the earle ye should haue sought for mercie sooner I must doo according to commandement herwith he committed the charge of him and the others to the gard and gentlemen that stood by The lord marques after this went to quéene Marie On the fiue twentith daie of the said moneth the duke of Northumberland with Francis earle of Huntington Iohn earle of Warwike son and heire to the said duke and two other of his yoonger sons the lord Ambrose and the lord Henrie Dudleie sir Andrew Dudleie Sir Iohn Gates capteine of the gard to king Edward the sixt sir Henrie Gates brethren sir Thomas Palmer knights and doctor Sands were brought to the tower by the earle of Arundell But as they entered within the tower gate the earle of Arundell discharged the lord Hastings taking him out of the tower with him On the six twentith of Iulie the lord marques of Northampton the bishop of London the lord Robert Dudleie and sir Robert Corbet were brought from the quéenes campe vnto the tower The eight and twentith of Iulie the duke of Suffolke was committed to the tower but the one and twentith of the same moneth he was set at libertie by the diligent sute of the ladie Francis grace his wife After that quéene Marie was thus with full consent of the nobles and commons of the realme proclamed quéene she being then in Northfolke at hir castell of Framingham repaired with all speed to the citie of London and the third daie of the said moneth of August she came to the said citie and so to the tower where the ladie Iane of Suffolke late afore proclamed quéene with hir husband the lord Gilford a little before hir comming were committed to ward there remained almost after fiue moneths And by the waie as the quéene thus passed she was ioifullie saluted of all the people without anie misliking sauing that it was much feared of manie that she would alter the religion set foorth by king Edward hir brother whereof then were giuen iust occasions because notwithstanding diuerse lawes made to the contrarie she had dailie masse and Latine seruice said before hir in the tower Yea it was doubted in like sort that she would both adnull and innouat certeine lawes and decrées established by the yoong prince hir predecessor which she did in deed as one hath left testified in a memoriall of hir succession but little vnto hir commendation saieng At Maria Eduardi regni succedit habenis Confirmans iterùm regno papalia iura Concilióque nouas leges sancire vocato Molitur latas à fratre perosa priores At hir entrie into the tower there were presented to hir certeine prisoners namelie Thomas duke of Norffolke who in the last yeare of king Henrie the eight as you haue heard was supposed to be attainted of treason but in the parlement of this first yeare of quéene Marie the said supposed attaindour was by the authoritie and act of parlement for good and apparant causes alleged in the said act declared to be vtterlie frustrat and void Also Edward Courtneie son and heire to Henrie marques of Excester coosine germane to king Henrie the eight and Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Durham with other persons of great calling but speciallie Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester whom she not onlie released out of imprisonment but also immediatlie line 10 aduanced and preferred to be lord chancellor of England restoring him also to his former estate and bishoprike and remoued from the same one doctor Poinet who a little before was placed therein by the gift of king Edward the sixt And touching Edward Courtneie she not onelie aduanced him to the earldome of Deuonshire but also to so much of his fathers possessions as there remained in hir hands whereby it was then thought of manie that she bare affection to him by the waie line 20 of marriage but it came not so to passe for what cause I am not able to giue anie reason but surelie the subiects of England were most desirous thereof Upon the receiuing of this new queene all the bishops which had béene depriued in the time of king Edward the sixt hir brother for the cause of religion were now againe restored to their bishopriks and such other as were placed in king Edward his time remoued from their sées and others of contrarie religion placed Amongest whom Edmund line 30 Bonner doctor of the lawes late afore depriued from the sée of London and committed prisoner to the Marshalsea by order of king Edwards councell was with all fauour restored to his libertie and bishoprike Maister Nicholas Ridleie doctor in diuinitie late before aduanced to the same sée by the said king was hastilie displaced and committed prisoner to the tower of London The cause why such extremitie was vsed towards the said bishop Ridleie more than to the rest was for that in the time of ladie line 40 Iane he preached a sermon at Pauls crosse by the commandement of king Edwards councell wherein he dissuaded the people for sundrie causes from receiuing the ladie Marie as queene ¶ On the ninth of August in the afternoone the queene held an obsequie in the tower for king Edward the dirge being soong in Latine and on the morrow a masse of Requiem whereat the quéene with hir ladies offered The same daie the corps of king Edward was buried at Westminster the lord treasuror the earle of line 50 Penbroke and the earle of Shrewesburie being chéefe mourners with diuerse other noble men and others Doctor Daie bishop of Chichester preached at the said buriall and all the seruice with a communion was
is this your owne confession and will you abide by all that is here written Let me sée it and I will tell you ¶ Then his confession was shewed him Bicause you of the iurie the better may credit him I praie you my lords let Uaughan be sworne ¶ Then was Uaughan sworne on a booke to saie nothing but the truth line 40 It may please you my lords and masters I could haue béene well content to haue chose seauen yeares imprisonment though I had béene a frée man in the law rather than I would this daie haue giuen euidence against sir Nicholas Throckmorton against whome I beare no displeasure but sith I must needs confesse my knowledge I must confesse all that is there written is true How saie you master Throckmorton was there anie displeasure betwéene you and me to mooue me to saie aught against you None that I know How saie you Uaughan what line 50 acquaintance was there betwéene you and me and what leters of credit or token did you bring me from Wiat or anie other to mooue me to trust you As for acquaintance I knew you as I did other gentlemen and as for letters I brought you none other but commendations from master Wiat as I did to diuerse other of his acquaintance at London You might as well forge the commendations as the rest but if you haue doone with Uaughan my lords I praie you giue me leaue to answer line 60 Speake and be short I speake generallie to all that be here present but speciallie to you of my iurie touching the credit of Uaughans depositions against me a condemned man and after to the matter and note I praie you the circumstances as somewhat materiall to induce the better First I praie you remember the small familiaritie betwixt Uaughan and me as he hath aduowed before you and moreouer to procure credit at my hand brought neither letter nor token from Wiat nor from anie other to me which he also hath confessed here and I will suppose Uaughan to be in as good condition as anie other man here that is to saie an vncondemned man yet I referre it to your good iudgement whether it were like that I knowing onelie Uaughans person from an other man and hauing none other acquaintance with him would so frankelie discouer my mind to him in so dangerous a matter How like I saie is this when diuerse of these gentlemen now in captiuitie being my verie familiars could not depose anie such matter against me and neuerthelesse vpon their examinations haue said what they could And though I be no wise man I am not so rash as to vtter to an vnknowne man for so I may call him in comparison a matter so dangerous for me to speake and him to heare But bicause my truth and his falshood shall the better appeare vnto you I will declare his inconstancie in vttering this his euidence And for my better credit it may please you master Southwell I take you to witnesse when Uaughan first iustified this his vniust accusation against me before the lord Paget the lord Chamberleine you master Southwell and others he referred the confirmation of this his surmised matter to a letter sent from him to sir Thomas Wiat which letter dooth neither appeare nor anie testimonie of the said master Wiat against me touching the matter for I doubt not sir Thomas Wiat hath béen examined of me and hath said what he could directlie or indirectlie Also Uaughan saith that yoong Edward Wiat could confirme this matter as one that knew this pretended discourse betwixt Uaughan and me and therevpon I made sute that Edward Wiat might either be brought face to face to me or otherwise be examined Master Throckmorton you mistake your matter for Uaughan said that Edward Wiat did know some part of the matter and also was priuie of the letter that Uaughan sent sir Thomas Wiat. Yea sir that was Uaughans last shift when I charged him before the master of the horsse and you with his former allegations touching his witnesse whome when he espied would not doo so lewdlie as he thought then he vsed this alteration But where be Edward Wiats depositions of anie thing against me Now it appeareth neither his first nor his last tale to be true For you know master Bridges and so dooth my lord your brother that I desired twice or thrice Edward Wiat should be examined and I am sure and most assured he hath béene willed to saie what he could and here is nothing deposed by him against me either touching anie letter or other conference Or where is Uaughans letter sent by sir Thomas Wiat concerning my talke But now I will speake of Uaughans present estate in that he is a condemned man whose testimonie is nothing worth by anie law And bicause false witnesse is mentioned in the gospell treating of accusation hearke I praie you what S. Ierome saith expounding that place It is demanded whie Christs accusers be called false witnesses which did report Christs words not as he spake them They be false witnesses saith S. Ierome which doo ad alter wrest double or doo speake for hope to auoid death or for malice to procure another mans death for all men maie easilie gather he cannot speake truelie of me or in the case of another mans life where he hath hope of his owne by accusation Thus much speaketh S. Ierome of false witnesse By the ciuill law there be manie exceptions to be taken against such testimonies but bicause we be not gouerned by that law neither haue I my triall by it it shall be superfluous to trouble you therewith therefore you shall heare what your owne law dooth saie There was a statute made in my late souereigne lord master his time touching accusation and these be the words Be it enacted that no person nor persons c shal be indicted arreigned condemned or conuicted for anie offense of treason petit treason misprision of treson for which the same offendor shall suffer anie pains of death imprisonment losse or forfeiture of his goods lands c vnlesse the same offendor be accused by two sufficient lawfull witnesses or shall willinglie without violence confesse the same And also in the sixt yeare of his reigne it is thus ratified as insueth That no person nor persons shall be indicted arreigned condemned conuicted or attainted of the line 10 treasons or offenses aforesaid or for anie other treasons that now be or hereafter shall be vnlesse the same offendor or offendors be therof accused by two lawfull and sufficient accusers which at the time of the arreignement of the parties so accused if they be then liuing shall be brought in person before the said partie accused and auow and mainteine that they haue to saie against the said partie to prooue him giltie of the treasons or offense conteined in the bill of indictment laid against the partie arreigned
the principall and accessaries in felonie and murther be triable and punishable by the common law and so in those cases the iudges maie vse their equitie extending the determination of the fault as they thinke good but in treson it is otherwise the same being limited by statute which I saie and aduow is restreined from anie iudges construction by the maxime that I recited Your lordships doo know a case in Richard the thirds time where the procurer to counterfeit false monie was iudged a traitor and the law was as it is now Maister sergeant dooth remember you Throckmorton of an experience before our time that the law hath béene so taken and yet the procurer was not expressed in the statute but the law hath béene alwaies so taken I neuer studied the law whereof I doo much repent me yet I remember whilest penall statutes were talked of in the parlement house you the learned men of the house remembred some cases contrarie to this last spoken of And if I missreport them I praie you helpe me In the like case you speake of concerning the procurer to counterfeit false monie at one time the procurer was iudged a felon and at another time neither felon nor traitor so as some of your predecessors adiudged the procurer no traitor in the same case but leaned to their principall though some other extend their constructions too large And here is two cases with me for one against me Because you replie vpon the principall I will remember where one taking the great seale of England from one writing and putting it to another was adiudged a traitor in Henrie the fourths time and yet his act was not within the expresse words of the statute of Edward the third There be diuerse other such like cases that maie be alledged and need were I praie you my lord chiefe iustice call to your good remembrance that in the selfe same case of the seale line 10 iustice Spilman a graue well learned man since that time would not condemne the offendor but did reprooue that former iudgement by you last remembred as erronious If I had thought you had béene so well furnished in booke cases I would haue béene better prouided for you I haue nothing but I learned of you speciallie maister sergeant and of others my maisters of the law in the parlement house therefore I maie saie line 20 with the prophet Salutem ex inimicis nostris You haue a verie good memorie If the prisoner maie auoid his treasons after this maner the quéenes suretie shall be in great ieopardie For Iacke Cade the blacke smith and diuerse other traitors sometime alledging the law for them sometime they meant no harme to the king but against his councell as Wiat the duke of Suffolke and these did against the Spaniards when there was no Spaniards within the realme The duke and his brethren did mistake the law as you doo yet at line 30 length did confesse their ignorance and submitted themselues and so were you best to doo As to Cade and the blacke smith I am not so well acquainted with their treasons as you be but I haue read in the chronicle they were in the field with a force against the prince whereby a manifest act did appéere As to the duke of Suffolkes dooings they apperteine not to me And though you would compare my spéech and talke against the Spaniards to the dukes acts who assembled a force in armes it is line 40 euident they differ much I am sorie to ingréeue anie other mans dooings but it serueth me for a péece of my defense and therefore I wish that no man should gather euill of it God forbid that words and acts be thus confounded Sir William Stanleie vsed this shift that the prisoner vseth now he said he did not leuie warre against king Henrie the seauenth but said to the duke of Buckingham that in a good quarrell he would line 50 aid him with fiue hundred men and neuerthelesse Stanleie was for those words atteinted who as all the world knoweth had before that time serued the king verie faithfullie and trulie I praie you maister attorneie doo not conclude against me by blind contraries Whether you alledge Stanlies case trulie or no I know not But admit it be as you saie what dooth this prooue against me I promised no aid to maister Wiat nor to anie other The duke of Buckingham leuied warre against line 60 the king with whome Stanleie was confederat so to doo as you saie I praie you my lords that be the queens commissioners suffer not the prisoner to vse the quéenes learned councell thus I was neuer interrupted thus in my life nor I neuer knew anie thus suffered to talke as this prisoner is suffered some of vs will come no more at the barre we be thus handled Throckmorton you must suffer the quéenes learned councell to speake or else we must take order with you you haue had leaue to talke at your pleasure It is prooued that you did talke with Wiat against the comming of the Spaniards and deuised to interrupt their arriuall and you promised to doo what you could against them wherevpon Wiat being incoraged by you did leuie a force and attempted warre against the quéenes roiall person It was no treason nor no procurement of treason to talke against the comming hither of the Spaniards neither was it treason for me to saie I would hinder their comming hither as much as I could vnderstanding me rightlie as I meane it yea though you would extend it to the worst it was but words it was not treason at this daie as the law standeth And as for Wiats dooing they touch me nothing for at his death when it was no time to report vntruelie he purged me By sundrie cases remembred here by the queenes learned councell as you haue heard that procurement which did appeare none otherwise but by words and those you would make nothing hath béene of long time and by sundrie well learned men in the lawes adiudged treason And therefore your procurement being so euident as it is we maie lawfullie saie it was treason bicause Wiat performed a traitorous act As to the said alleaged forepresidents against me I haue recited as manie for me and I would you my lord chiefe iustice should incline your iudgments rather after the example of your honourable predecessors iustice Markam and others which did eschue corrupt iudgements iudging directlie and sincerelie after the law the principles in the same than after such men as swaruing from the truth the maxime and the law did iudge corruptlie maliciouslie and affectionatlie Iustice Markam had reason to warrant his dooings for it did appeare a merchant of London was arreigned and slanderouslie accused of treason for compassing and imagining the kings death he did saie he would make his sonne heire
learned councell grieuouslie inueie against the cruell bloudie lawes of king Henrie the eight and against some lawes made in my late souereigne lord and masters time king Edward the sixt Some termed them Dracos lawes which were written in bloud some said they were more intollerable than anie laws that Dionysius or anie other tyrant made In conclusion as manie men so manie bitter tearmes and names those lawes had And moreouer the preface of the same statute dooth recite that for words onelie manie great personages and others of good behauiour haue béene most cruellie cast awaie by these former sanguinolent thirstie lawes with manie other suggestions for the repeale of the same And now let vs put on indifferent eies and throughlie consider with our selues as you the iudges handle the constructions of the statute of Edward the third with your equitie and extentions whether we be not in much woorse case now than we were when those cruell laws yoked vs. These lawes albeit they were grieuous and captious yet they had the verie propertie of a law after saint Paules description For those lawes did admonish vs and discouer our sinnes plainelie vnto vs when a man is warned he is halfe armed These lawes as they be handled be verie baits to catch vs onlie prepared for the same and no laws for at the first sight they ascerteine vs we be deliuered from our old bondage and by the late repeale the last parlement we liue in more securitie But when it pleaseth the higher powers to call anie mans life and saiengs in question then there be constructions interpretations and extentions reserued to the iustices and iudges equitie that the partie triable as I am now shall find himselfe in much woorse case than before when those cruell lawes stood in force Thus our amendment is from Gods blessing into the warme sunne But I require you honest men which are to trie my life consider these opinions of my life iudges be rather agréeable to the time than to the truth for their iudgements be repugnant to their owne principle repugnant to their godlie and best learned predecessors opinions repugnant I saie to the prouiso in the statute of repeale made in the last parlement Master Throckmorton quiet your selfe and it shall be the better for you Master atturnie I am not so vnquiet as you be and yet our cases are not alike but bicause I am so tedious to you and haue long troubled this presence it maie please my lord chiefe iustice to repeat the euidence wherewith I am charged and my answers to all the obiections if there be no other matter to laie against me ¶ Then the chiefe iustice remembred particularlie all the depositions and euidences giuen against the line 10 prisoner and either for want of good memorie or good will the prisoners answers were in part not recited wherevpon the prisoner craued indifferencie and did helpe the iudges old memorie with his owne recitall My masters of the iurie you haue to inquire whether sir Nicholas Throckmorton knight here prisoner at the barre be giltie of these treasons or anie of them whereof he hath beene indicted and this daie arreigned yea or no. And if you find him giltie you line 20 shall inquire what lands tenements goods and cattels he had at the daie of his treasons committed or at anie time since and whether he fled for the treasons or no if you find him not giltie Haue you said what is to be said Yea for this time Then I praie you giue me leaue to speake a few words to the iurie The weight and grauitie of my cause hath greatlie occasioned me to trouble you here long and therfore I mind not to interteine you here long with anie prolix oration you perceiue notwithstanding line 30 this daie great contention betwixt the iudges and the quéenes learned councell on the one partie and me the poore and wofull prisoner on the other partie The triall of our whole controuersie the triall of my innocencie the triall of my life lands and goods and the destruction of my posteritie for euer dooth rest in your good iudgements And albeit manie this daie haue greatlie inueied against me the finall determination thereof is transferred onelie to you How grieuous horrible the shedding of line 40 innocents bloud is in the sight of almightie God I trust you doo remember Therefore take héed I saie for Christs sake doo not defile your consciences with such heinous notable crimes They be grieuouslie and terriblie punished as in this world and vale of miserie vpon the childrens children to the third and fourth generation and in the world to come with euerlasting fire and damnation Lift vp your minds to God and care not too much for the world looke not line 50 backe to the fleshpots of Aegypt which will allure you from heauenlie respects to worldlie securitie and can thereof neither make you anie suertie Beléeue I praie you the queene and hir magistrats be more delighted with fauourable equitie than with rash crueltie And in that you be all citizens I will take my leaue of you with S. Paules farewell to the Ephesians citizens also you be whom he tooke to record that he was pure from sheding anie bloud a speciall token doctrine left for your instruction line 60 that euerie of you maie wash his hands of innocents bâ—oud shed when you shall take your leaue of this wretched world The holie ghost be amongest you Come hither sergeant take the iurie with you and suffer no man to come at them but to be ordered as the law appointeth vntill they be agreed vpon their verdict It may please you my lords and maisters which be commissioners to giue order that no person haue accesse or conference with the iurie neither that any of the quéenes learned councell be suffered to repaire to them or to talke with anie of them vntill they present themselues here in open court to publish their verdict ¶ Upon the prisoners sute on this behalfe the bench gaue order that two seargeants were sworne to suffer no man to repaire to the iurie vntill they were agreed according vnto order Wherevpon then the prisoner was by commandement of the bench withdrawne from the barre and the court adiourned vntill thrée of the clocke at afternoone at which houre the coÌ„missioners returned to the Guild-hall and there did tarie vntill the iurie were agréed vpon the verdict And about fiue of the clocke their agréement being aduertised to the commissioners the said prisoner sir Nicholas Throckmorton was aâ—â—ine brought to the barre where also the iurie did 〈◊〉 and being demanded whether they were agréed vpon their verdict answered vniuersallie with one voice Yea. Then it was asked who should speake for them they answered Whetston the foreman Nicholas Throckmorton knight hold vp thy hand Then the prisoner did so vpon the summons You that be of the iurie looke vpon
weather and heauinesse could not speake to them nor they to him for teares At length recouering themselues they saluted one another so togither entered the house God knoweth full ioifullie master Bertie changing of his apparell with the goodman the duchesse with the good wife and their child with the child of the house Within few daies after by master Perusels means they hired a verie faire house in the towne and did not let to shew themselues what they were in such good sort as their present condition permitted It was by this time through the whole towne what discourtesie the inholders had shewed vnto them at their entrie in so much as on the sundaie following a preacher in the pulpit openlie in sharpe termes rebuked that great inciuilitie towards strangers by allegation of sundrie places out of holie scriptures discoursing how not onelie princes sometime are receiued in the image of priuat persons but angels in the shape of men and that God of his iustice would make the strangers one day in an other land to haue more sense of the afflicted heart of a stranger The time was passing foorth as they thought themselues thus happilie setled suddenlie a watchword came from sir Iohn Mason then quéene Maries ambassadour in Netherland that my lord Paget had fained an errant to the baths that waies and whereas the duke of Brunswicke was shortlie with ten ensignes to passe by Wesell for the seruice of the house of Austricke against the French king the said duchesse and hir husband should be with the same charge and companie intercepted Wherefore to preuent the crueltie of these enimies master Bertie with his wife and child departed to a place called Winheim in high Dutchland vnder the Palsgraues dominion where vnder his protection they continued till their necessaries line 10 began to faile them and they almost fainting vnder so heauie a burthen began to faile of hope At what time in the middest of their despaire there came suddenlie letters to them from the Palatine of Uilua and the king of Pole being instructed of their hard estate by a baron named Ioannes Alasco that was somtime in England offring them large curtesie This puruison vnlooked for greatlie reuiued their heauie spirits Yet considering they should remooue from manie their countriemen and acquaintance to line 20 a place so farre distant a countrie not haunted with the English and perhaps vpon their arriuall not finding as they looked for the end of their iornie should be worse than the beginning they deuised therevpon with one maister Barlow late bishop of Chichester that if he would vouchsafe to take some paines therin they would make him a fellow of that iournie So finding him prone they sent with him letters of great thanks to the king Palatine and also with a few principall iewels which onlie they had left of manie to solicit for them that the king would line 30 vouchsafe vnder his seale to assure them of the thing which he so honourablie by letters offered That sute by the forwardnes of the Palatine was as soone granted as vttered Upon which assurance the said dutchesse and hir husband with their familie entred the iournie in Aprill 1557 from the castell of Winheim where they before laie towards Francford In the which their iournie it were long here to describe what dangers fell by the waie vpon them their whole companie by reason of the Lantgraues line 40 capteines who vnder a quarrell pretensed for a spaniell of maister Berties set vpon them in the high waie with his horssemen thrusting their borespears through the wagon where the children and women were maister Bertie hauing but foure horssemen with him In the which brabble it happened the capteins horsse to be slaine vnder him Wherevpon a rumor was sparsed immediatlie through townes and villages about that the Lantgraues capteine should be slaine by some Wallons line 50 which incensed the ire of the countriemen there more fiercelie against maister Bertie as afterwards it prooued For as he was motioned by his wife to saue himselfe by the swiftnes of his horsse and to recouer some towne thereby for his rescue he so dooing was in worse case than before for the townesmen and the capteines brother supposing no lesse but that the capteine had béene slaine pressed so egerlie vpon him that he had beene there taken and murthered among them had not he as God would spieng a ladder leaning line 60 to a window by the same got vp into the house and so gone vp in to a garret in the top of the house where he with his dag and rapier defended himselfe for a space but at length the Burghmaister comming thither with another magistrate which could speake Latine he was counselled to submit himselfe vnto the order of the law Maister Bertie knowing himselfe cléere and the capteine to be aliue was the more bolder to submit himselfe to the iudgement of the law vpon condition that the magistrate would receiue him vnder safe conduct and defend him from the rage of the multitude Which being promised maister Bertie putteth himselfe and his weapon in the magistrates hand and so was committed to safe custodie while the truth of his cause should be tried Then master Bertie writing his letters to the Lantgraue and to the earle of Erbagh the next daie erlie in the morning the earle of Erbagh dwelling within eight miles came to the towne whither the dutchesse was brought with hir wagon maister Bertie also being in the same towne vnder custodie The earle who had some intelligence of the dutches before after he was come had shewed such courtesie as he thought to hir estate was séemelie the townesmen perceiuing the earle to behaue himselfe so humblie vnto hir began to consider more of the matter and further vnderstanding the capteine to be aliue both they and especallie the authors of the stir shrunke awaie and made all the friends they could to maister Bertie and his wife not to report their dooings after the woorst sort And thus maister Bertie and his wife escaping that danger procéeded in their iournie toward Poleland where in conclusion they were quietlie interteined of the king and placed honorablie in the earledome of the said king of Poles in Sanogelia called Crozan where maister Bertie with the dutchesse hauing the kings absolute power of gouernment ouer the said earldome continued both in great quietnesse and honor till the death of queene Marie Whose troublesome time sauoring altogither of bloudshed mercilesse murthering of Gods saints wherof the poet saith full trulie tellus madefacta cruore Christicolûm regerit decursus sanguinis atros Heu carnem mollem puerorum deuorat ignis Foemina másque perit nulla ratione virilis Foeminei aut sexus habita being expired and the peaceable reigne of gratious quéene Elizabeth established the said dutchesse and hir husband returned into England where they liued in libertie
a freends house in London called William Banks and taried there one night On the morrow at night he shifted to an other fréends house and there he learned that search was made for him Doctor Watson and maister Christopherson comming to the bishop of Winchester told him that he had set at libertie the greatest heretike in England and one that had of all other most corrupted the vniuersitie of Cambridge doctor Sands Wherevpon the bishop of Winchester being chancellor of England sent for all the conestables of London commanding them to watch for doctor Sands who was then within the citie and to apprehend him and who so euer of them should take him and bring him to him he should haue fiue pounds for his labor Doctor Sands suspecting the matter conueied himselfe by night to one maister Barties house a stranger who was in the Marshalsea with him prisoner a while he was a good protestant and dwelt in Marke lane There he was six daies and had one or two of his fréends that repaired to him Then he repaired to an acquaintance of his one Hurlestone a skinner dwelling in Cornehill he caused his man Quintin to prouide two geldings for him minding on the morrow to ride into Essex to maister Sands his father in law where his wife was At his going to bed in Hurlestons house he had a paire of hose newlie made that were too long for him For while he was in the tower a tailor was admitted him to make him a paire of hose One came vnto him whose name was Beniamin a good protestant dwelling in Birchin lane he might not speake to him or come vnto him to take measure of him but onelie looke vpon his leg he made the hose and they were two inches too long These hose he praied the good wife of the house to send to some tailor to cut his hose two inches shorter The wife required the boy of the house to carie them to the next tailor to cut The boy chanced or rather God so prouided to go to the next tailor which was Beniamin that made them which also was a conestable and acquainted with the lord chancellors commandement The boy required him to cut the hose He said I am not thy maisters tailor Saith the boy Because ye are our next neighbor and my maisters tailor dwelleth far off I come to you for it is far nights and he must occupie them timelie in the morning Beniamin tooke the hose and looked vpon them he tooke his handie woorke in hand and said These are not thy maisters hose but doctor Sands them I made in the tower The boy yéelded and said it was so Saith he Go to thy mistresse praie hir to sit vp till twelue of the clocke then I will bring the hose and speake with doctor Sands to his good At midnight the goodwife of the house and Beniamin the tailor commeth into doctor Sands chamber The wife praieth him not to be afraid of their comming He answereth Nothing can be amisse what God will that shall be doone Then Beniamin telleth him that he made his hose and by what good chance they now came to his hands God vsed the meane that he might foretell him of his perill aduise him how to escape it telling him that all the constables of London whereof he was one watched for him some were so gréedilie set that they praied him if he tooke him to let them haue the carriage of him to the bishop of Winchester and he should haue the fiue pounds Saith Beniamin It is knowen that your man hath prouided two geldings and that you mind to ride out at Alogate to morrow and there then yée are sure to be taken Follow mine aduise and by Gods grace yée shall escape their hands Let your man walke all the daie to morrow in the stréet where your horsses stand booted and readie to ride The goodmans seruant of the house shall take the horsses and carrie them to Bednoll gréene The goodman shall be booted and follow after as if he would ride I will be here with you to morrow about eight of the clocke it is both terme and parlement time here we will breake our fast and when the stréet is full we will go foorth Looke wildelie and if you meet your brother in the street shun him not but outface him and know him not Accordinglie doctor Sands did clothed like a gentleman in all respects and looked wildlie as one that had beene long kept in prison out of the light Beniamin carried him through Birching lane and from one lane to another till he came at Moore gate there they went foorth vntill they came to Bednoll gréene where the horsses were readie and maister Hurleston to ride with him as his man Doctor Sands pulled on his boots and taking leaue of his friend Beniamin line 10 with teares they kissed ech other he put his hand in his purse and would haue giuen Beniamin a great part of that little he had but Beniamin would take none Yet since doctor Sands hath remembred him thankfullie He rode that night to his father in law maister Sands where his wife was he had not béen there two houres but it was told maister Sands that there was two of the gard which would that night apprehend doctor Sands and so they were appointed line 20 That night doctor Sands was guided to an honest farmer neere the sea where he taried two daies and two nights in a chamber without all companie After that he shifted to one Iames Mower a ship-master who dwelt at Milton shore where he expected wind for the English fléet readie into Flanders While he was there Iames Mower brought to him fortie or fiftie mariners to whome he gaue an exhortation they liked him so well that they promised to line 30 die for it yer that he should be apprehended The sixt of Maie being sundaie the wind serued he tooke his leaue of his host and hostesse and went towards the ship In taking leaue of his hostesse who was baren and had beene married eight yeares he gaue hir a fine handkercher and also an old roiall of gold in it thanking hir much and said Be of good comfort yer that an whole yéere be past God shall giue you a child a boie And it came to passe for that daie twelue moneths lacking one daie God gaue hir a faire sonne line 40 At the shore doctor Sands met with maister Isaac of Kent who had his eldest sonne there who vpon the liking he had to doctor Sands sent his sonne with him who afterward died in his fathers house in Frankford Doctor Sands and doctor Cox were both in one ship being one Cokrels ship They were within the kenning when two of the gard came thither to apprehend doctor Sands They arriued at Antwerpe being bid to dinner to maister Locke And at dinner time one George Gilpin being secretarie to the English house and kinsman to doctor line
called the chappell of the rolles being a place commonlie appointed wherein men accustom to paie monie vpon contracts Wherin also is buried Iohn Yoong sometime maister of the rols and doctor of both laws on the left side in his doctors wéed and maister Allington vnder a statelie toome of white marble iet and other rich stone on the right side of the said chappell the epitaphs of both which persons are heereafter recited besides which in this chappell are the ancient records of all inrolments confirmations of the prince of other sutes in the chancerie kept in chests and presses built on each side about the middle part of the chappell beneath the chaire or place of seruice At the west end whereof on certeine appointed daies therefore the maister of the rols dooth in the afternoones sit in a place formed and railed in after the manner of the line 10 courts of Westminster to heare and determine matters depending in the chancerie which maister of the rolles now liuing is sir Gilbert Gerrard knight sometime generall atturneie to the noble princesse quéene Elisabeth And here before I leaue this chappell I thinke it not amisse to set downe the epitaphs of the two persons before named there buried with these words The epitaph of maister doctor Yong maister of the rols Io. Yong LL. doctoris sacror scrinior ac huius domus custodi decano olim EBOR. vita defuncto xxv Aprilis sui fideles executores hoc posuerunt M.D.XVI. Dominus firmamentum meum Beside which in an old table hanging by are written in text hand these verses héereafter following line 30 Hîc iacet ille Iohannes Yong cog nomine dignus Tali quod nunquam marcesceret vtpote charus Omnibus apprimè summo testante dolore Quem neque celabant neque dissimulare valebant Dum sternit iuuenem mors immatura labentem Quis non defleret iuuenis miserabile fatum Ex quo multorum pendebat vita salúsque Horum inquam inprimis quos ille benignus alebat Impensis donec vitales carperet auras Nec satu illi erat hoc priuatis consuluisse line 40 Rebus quinetiam prudenter publica gessit Munia siue forensia siue etiam extera summa Cum laude illa quidem dum sacris praefuit olim Scrinijs haec verò legati functus honore The epitaph of maister Alington is in this sort Hospes qui fueram quondam si quaeris amice Nomen Alingtonus stirps generosa fuit line 50 Haec monumenta mihi coniuxfidissima struxit Quaeque mihi struxit destinat illa sibi Charáque coniugij tres natae pignora nostri Sunt vultus quarum marmora sculpta tenent Cum matre has omnes precor vt post funera summe Coelica perducas in tua regna Deus Richardus Alington armiger qui hîc sepultus est obijt 23 die Nouembris 1561. Now as you haue heard before that this house of the rols was first a house of conuerts it shall not be line 60 amisse also for the more proofe thereof to set downe the grants of the princes and kings which conuerted the same to those vses The grant of Henrie the third for erecting of the house of conuerts REx archiepiscopis c. Sciatis nos intuitu Dei pro salute animae nostrae animarum antecessorum haeredum meorum concessisse hac charta nostra confirmasse pro nobis haeredibus nostris domum quam fundari fecimus in vico qui vocatur New-street inter vetus templum nouum London ad sustentationem fratrum conuersorum conuertendorum de Iudaismo ad fidem catholicam in auxilium sustentationis eorundem fratrum in eadem domo conuersantium domos terras quae fuêre Iohannis Herbeton in London sunt in manu nostra tanquam eschaeta nostra excepto gardino quod fuit eiusdem Iohannis in vico praedicto de Newstreet quod priùs per chartam nostram concessimus venerabili patri Radulpho Cicestrensi episcopo cancellario nostro omnes alias eschaetas quae tempore nostro per feloniam vel quacunque ex causa nobis accident in ciuitate nostra vel in suburbio infra libertatem ciuitatis nostrae London Quare volumus firmiter praecipimus pro nobis haeredibus nostris quòd praedicta domus habeat teneat liberè quietè bene in pace ad sustentationem fratrum conuersorum conuertendorum de Iudaismo ad fidem catholicam in auxilium sustentationis eorundem fratrum in eadem domo conuersantium domos terras quae fuerunt Iohannis Herbeton in London sunt in manu nostra tanquam eschaeta nostra excepto gardino quod fuit eiusdem Iohannis in vico praedicto de Newstreet quod priùs per chartam nostram concessimus venerabili patri R. Cicestrensi episcopo cancellario nostro omnes alias eschaetas quae tempore nostro per feloniam vel quacunque ex causa nobis accident in ciuitate nostra velin suburbio infrà libertatem ciuitatis nostrae London sicut praedictum est Hijs testibus venerabilibus patribus W. Kaerl W. Exon. episcopis H. de Burgo comite Kantiae Radulpho filio Nicholai Godfrido de Crancumbe Iohanne filio Philip. Amaurico de sancto Aumundo Will. de Picheford Galfrido de Cauz alijs Dat. per manum Ve. P. R. Cicestren episcop cancellar nostri apud Westmin 19. die Aprilis The grant of Edward the third whereby the said house was in the one and fiftith and last yeare of the said Edward conuerted to the custodie of the rolles and records of the chancerie REx omnib ad quos c salutem Sciatis quòd nos considerantes qualiter domus conuersorum in suburbio ciuitatis nostrae London de patronatu nostro existens capella edificia clausur eiusdem tempore quo dilectus noster Will. Burstall custodiam eiusdem domus ex collatione nostra primò habuit per negligentiam incuriā aliorum qui ante dictum Will. custodiam domus illius habuerunt ibidem morari seu inhabitari non curauerunt multipliciter quasi totaliter in ruina extiterunt quòd praedictus Will. tempore suo de bonis suis proprijs grādes costas expensas super recuperatione emendatione domus capellae edificiorū clausur praedict ac etiam super factur nouar domorum ibidem Nos vt domos conuersorum capella edificia clausur nouae domus supradict cōpetenter sustententur custodientur in futurum ad supplicationem praedicti Willielmi qui custos rotulorum cancellariae nostrae existit in praesenti concessimus de gratia nostra speciali pro nobis haeredibus nostris quòd post mortem eiusdem Will. dicta domus conuersorum cum suis iuribus pertinent quibuscunque remaneat moretur in perpetuum clerico custod rotulorum cancellar nostrae haeredū nostrorū pro tempore existent similiter annex eidē officio
Rotheram because of the towne of Rotheram in Yorkeshire where he was borne and bred vp was bishop of Rochester and then of Linclolne where he sat nine yeares and after that was bishop of Yorke whereinto he installed first at Yorke and then at Ripon being prouost of Beuerleie he was made chancellor of England in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred seuentie and foure being the fourtéenth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the fourth This bishop in the fifteenth yeare of the said king went ouer the sea as I haue séene noted with the said Edward the fourth when he went to haue an interuiew with the French king of which meeting monsieur de Argentine by name Philip Comineus besides our English chronicles dooth make mention as a person that bare a part in that pageant Iohn Alcot bishop of Rochester was made chancellor during the absence of king Edward as I haue found recorded Thomas Rotheram being before lord keeper of the priuie seale was after his returne out of France the second time made lord chancellor about the time in which the said king had gotten Berwike from the Scots being about the twentith yeare of the said Edward the fourth For the frée gaining of the towne was not much before his death in which office this Rotheram continued all the life of king Edward the fourth in the time of the little or no reigne at all of the guiltlesse murthered yoong prince king Edward the fift vntill it was ascribed to him for ouermuch lightnesse that he had deliuered in the beginning of the rebellious gouernement line 10 of the protectorship of the bloudie and vnnaturall Richard duke of Glocester the seale to the quéene to whome it did not apperteine and from whome he receiued it not He founded a college at Rotheram dedicated it to the name of Iesus indowed it with great possessions ornaments and annexed therto the churches of Langthton and Almanburie Iohn Russell bishop of Lincolne a graue and learned man had the seale deliuered to him by the said protector of England during the time of the line 20 short reigne of the yoong king Edward when the same seale was taken from Rotheram and so this Russell was made chancellor in the moneth of Iune in the yeare of our saluation one thousand foure hundred foure score and thrée being the first yeare of the vsurped gouernement of the bloudie tyrant the mishapen king Richard the third This Russell is buried in the church of Lincolne in a chappell cast out of the vpper wall of the south part of the church Thomas Barow maister of the rolles was made line 30 keeper of the great seale as I haue seene recorded which I suppose was in the third and last yeare of the said king Richard the third for in that yeare he was maister of the rolles Thomas Rotheram made againe lord chancellor in the first entrance of king Henrie the seuenth into the gouernement but verie shortlie after he was displaced and the bishop of Worcester placed in that roome he was archbishop of Yorke nintéene yeares ten moneths he was verie beneficiall to all his line 40 kinred and aduanced some with mariages some with possessions and some with spirituall liuings He died the nine and twentith daie of December in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred being the sixtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight at Cawood in Yorkeshire the morrow after the Ascension being of the age of three score and sixtéene yeares or more he was buried in Yorke minster on the north-side in our ladie chappell in a toome of marble which he caused to be made whilest he was liuing line 50 Iohn Alcot bishop of Worcester made in the yeare one thousand foure hundred three score and sixteene was lord chancellor of England in the first yeare of the said K. Henrie the seuenth the Salomon of England being the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred foure score fiue shortlie after the entrance of the said Henrie into the gouernement of England For though Rotheram were chancellor when he got the victorie for that he had béene so before for that the king was neither prouided nor minded suddenlie to haue a man not line 60 méete for that place to execute the same yet this Rotheram kept not that roome manie moneths but that Alcot came in place because the king found Alcot a méeter person to execute the same office answerable to the disposition of the kings humor All which notwithstanding whether for malice of others or for his owne deserts or both or for more especiall trust that king Henrie put in Moorton bishop of Elie who had beene the meanes to bring him to the crowne this Alcot fell shortlie in the kings disgrace was displaced of his office and Moorton came in his roome So that in this first yeare of the said king Henrie the seuenth there seemed to be thrée chancellors in succession one after another if I haue not misconceiued the matter all which before Moorton in this first yeare of king Henrie the seuenth may perhaps more properlie be termed kéepers of the great seale than chancellors Iohn Moorton doctor of the ciuill law an aduocat in the ciuill of the councell to Henrie the sixt and to Edward the fourth to whome also he was maister of the rolles was made bishop of Elie in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred thrée score and eightéene and lord chancellor of England vpon his returne from beyond the seas in the first yeare of the woorthie prince K. Henrie the seuenth being the yeare that the word became flesh one thousand foure hundred foure score and fiue after which he was aduanced to the bishoprike of Canturburie he died in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred foure score and nintéene in the fifteenth yere of the reigne of king Henrie the seuenth as hath Matthew Parker William Warham aduocat in the arches maister of the rolles bishop of London and then bishop of Canturburie was before his aduancement to the see of Canturburie made chancellor of England in the time of Henrie the seuenth in which office he continued vntill about the latter end of the seuenth yeare of king Henrie the eight At what time surrendring the seale by reason of his age and weakenesse the same great seale was deliuered to Thomas Woolseie Thomas Woolseie somtime chapleine to Henrie Deane archbishop of Canturburie after the kings almoner and abbat of saint Austins who possessing manie other abbeies and bishopriks as in other places shall more largelie appeare was aduanced to the gouernment of the great seale about the beginning of the eight yeare of the triumphant reigne of king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ one thousand fiue hundred sixtéene to hold the same during his life as I gather in which office yet he continued
like a fether being hollow with one eare growing on the lower part of the chéeke his bellie big and hard the armes big hauing fiue fingers and a thumbe on either hand and in place of toes on the left foot fiue fingers and a thumbe on the right foot a thumbe and seuen fingers in the place of priuitie the shape both of male female a strange sight to be seene and I feare signifieth our monstrous line 50 life which God for his mercie giue vs grace to amend without procrastination or putting off from daie to daie as the poet significantlie saith Cras vultis sed vult hodie vindex Deus cras Aut non vult aut vos obruet atra dies The eight daie of October immediatlie after the new moone there appeared a blasing star in the south bushing toward the east which was nightlie séene the aier being cléere more than two moneths The eighteenth of October were made eight sergeents line 60 at law to wit William Fléetwood recorder of London Edward Flowerdue Thomas Snag William Periam Robert Halton Iohn Clench Iohn Pickering Thomas Warmsleie maister Snag before named was sicke and therefore was sworne in his chamber at Greies inne the other seuen were sworne at Westminster and held their feast at the new Temple at London The quéenes maiestie being informed that in sundrie places of this realme certeine persons secretlie taught damnable heresies contrarie to diuers principall articles of our beléefe and christian faith who to colour their sect named themselues the familie of loue and then as manie as were allowed by them to be of that familie to be elect and saued and all others of â—hat church soeuer they be to be reiected and damned And for that vpon conuenting of some of them before the bishops ordinaries it was found that the ground of their sect is mainteined by certeine lewd hereticall and seditious books first made in the Dutch toong and lastlie translated into English and printed beyond the seas secretlie brought ouer into the realme the author whereof they name H. N. c. And considering also it is found that those sectaries held opinion that they may before anie magistrat or ecclesiasticall or temporall or anie other person not being professed to be of their sect by oth or otherwise denie anie thing for their aduantage so as though manie of them are well knowne to be teachers and spreaders abroad of these dangerous and damnable sects yet by their owne confession they can not be condemned Therefore hir maiestie being verie sorie to sée so great an euill by malice of the diuell to be brought into this hir realme and by hir bishops and ordinaries she vnderstandeth it verie requisit not onelie to haue those dangerous heretiks and sectaries to be seuerelie punished but that also all other meanes be vsed by hir maiesties roiall authoritie which is giuen hir of God to defend Christs church to root them out from further infecting of hir realme she hath thought méet and conuenient and so by hir proclamation commandeth that all hir officers and ministers temporall shall in all their seuerall vocations assist the bishops of hir realme and all other person to search out all persons dulie suspected to be either teachers or professors of the foresaid damnable sects and by all good meanes to proceed seuerelie against them being found culpable by order of the lawes ecclesiasticall or temporall and that all search be made in all places suspected for the books and writings mainteining the said heresies and sects and them to destroie and burne c as more at large may appéere by the said proclamation giuen at Richmond the third of October and proclamed at London on the ninetéenth daie of the same moneth About this time there arriued vpon the west coast of Ireland a certeine companie of Italians and Spaniards sent by the pope to the aid of the earle of Desmond in his rebellion which fortified themselues stronglie néere vnto Smerwike in a fort which they called castell del Ore there erecting the popes banner against hir maiestie Which when the lord Greie of Wilton deputie of Ireland vnderstood he marched thitherward and on the sixt of Nouember hearing of the arriuall of the Swift the Tigre the Aid the Merlion other of the quéenes maiesties ships and also of thrée barks fraughted from Corke and Limerike with vittels on the morrow after marched towards the fort vnto the which he gaue so hot an assault that on the ninth of Nouember the same was yéelded all the Irishmen and women hanged and more than foure hundred Spaniards Italians and Biscaies put to the sword the coronell capteins secretarie and others to the number of twentie saued for ransome In which fortresse was found good store of monie bisket bakon oile wine and diuerse other prouisions of vittels sufficient for their companie for halfe a yeare besides armour powder shot and other furniture for two thousand men and vpwards The eight and twentith daie of Nouember were arreigned in the kings bench William Randoll for coniuring to know where treasure was hid in the earth and goods felloniouslie taken were become Thomas Elks Thomas Lupton Rafe Spacie and Christopher Waddington for being present aiding and procuring the said Randoll to the coniuration aforesaid Randoll Elks Spacie and Waddington were found guiltie had iudgement to be hanged Randoll was executed the other were repriued About the 24 of December in the town of Walsham in the countie of Sussex a child of eleuen yéers old named William Withers laie in a trance for the space of ten daies without anie sustenance and at the last comming to himselfe he vttered to the standers by manie strange spéeches inueieng against pride couetousnesse coldnesse of charitie and other line 10 outragious sins To behold this child there resorâ—â—d diuerse godlie zelous preachers as also knights esquiers gentlemen all of them hearing and séeing that which was woonderfull And among others that came thither there was a gentleman of great credit and worship with certeine of his men to heare and behold the child who hauing espied a seruingman that had béene there with his maister two times whom he had sharplie tawnted for his great and monstrous ruffes spake vnto him verie vehementlie line 20 and told him that it were better for him to put on sackecloth and mourne for his sinnes than in such abhominable pride to pranke vp himselfe like the diuels darling the verie father of pride and lieng who sought by the exercise of that damnable sinne to make himselfe a preie to euerlasting torments in helfire Wherevpon the seruingman as one prickt in conscience sore sorowed and wept for his offense rent the band from his necke tooke a knife and cut it in péeces and vowed neuer to weare the like againe line 30 This for the strangenesse thereof will be condemned as a lie speciallie of vnbeléeuers and peruers
euen so were these as to saie master Charke master Herne and diuerse others who all the waie applied such godlie and christian persuasions vnto them as had not the child of perdition so maruellouslie blinded them were of force to haue woone them into grace and mercie The spéeches they vsed to them by the waie were néedlesse here to set downe for that they did especiallie concerne causes to root out that wicked opinion in them and to establish a sound and perfect faith in place thereof but euen as it was in the other so it did agrée in them But Luke Kirbie séemed to chalenge the writer hereof as sufficient to prooue nothing against him which he did bicause it was supposed he was not there present but what passed betwéene him the said writer you shall heare hereafter They being come to the place of execution William Filbie was brought vp into the cart where conforming himselfe vnto the death his wicked tresons were mooued vnto him which obstinatelie and impudentlie he denied Then was he demanded if he would acknowledge the quéenes maiestie his souereigne princesse and supreme head vnder Christ of line 10 the church of England No quoth he I will acknowledge no other head of the church than the pope onlie Whervpon his answers were read vnto him and he not denieng them in anie point euen as they were wicked and impious euen so he remained in them still appealing that it was for his religion that he died and not for anie treason But the contrarie was prooued vnto his face as well by sufficient proofes as also by the traitorous answers whereto he had subscribed with his owne hand At last as he was desired line 20 he praied for the queenes maiestie that God might blesse hir and incline hir heart to mercie toward the catholikes of which societie he was one Then they opening his bosome found there two crosses which being taken from him were held vp and shewed to all the people beside his crowne was shauen So after a few silent Latine praiers to himselfe the cart was drawne awaie The next was Luke Kirbie who being brought vp into the cart offered long circumstance of spéech as line 30 concerning that he was come thither to die hoping to be saued in the bloud of Christ and much matter which were néedlesse here to rehearse Afterward he began to saie that there were none could approoue him to be a traitor neither had he at anie time attempted anie thing preiudiciall to hir maiestie and that his aduersaries naming them by speciall name could not vpbraid him with anie thing Whervpon master shiriffe told him that one of them was there and asked him if he would haue him called to line 40 him I sée him quoth he yonder and let him saie what he can against me Then he was the partie bidden come somewhat néere him to whom he began in vehement sort to saie Consider with thy selfe how vntrulie thou hast charged me with that which I neuer said nor thought Besides thou knowest that when thou camest to the Tower to me before master lieutenant an other who was there present then thou wast demanded what thou thoughtest of me and what thou couldest saie against me When as line 50 thou madest answer thou knewest no harme by me neither couldest thou at anie time saie otherwise of me than well wherevpon thou wast asked wherefore thou reportedst otherwise at my arreignement Then the shiriffe said vnto him Who can beare thée witnes of this Quoth he againe He spake it before master lieutenant and an other was by then Then was he demanded what other he was that was present Which after long trifling he said was a kéeper named him Whereto the said writer made answer line 60 as followeth Master Kirbie I with and desire you in the feare of God to remember your selfe for this is not a place to report an vntruth neither to slander anie man otherwise than you are able to prooue Whâ—n as I came vnto the Tower made knowne to master lieutenant for what cause I was sent to speake with you you were brought into a chamber by your kéeper and what I then mooued your selfe verie well knoweth as concerning my allowance being the popes scholer where what answer you made I haue trulie and according as you answered alreadie set downe in print Master lieutenant neither mooued anie such words to me as here you reported and I call God to my witnesse that not a motion of anie such matter was once offered to me by master lieutenant or by your kéeper Your selfe then vttered that at sundrie times in the seminarie there were diuerse lewd words spoken which might better haue beene spared and denied that you were not in my chamber when as I lieng sicke in my bed the traitorous speeches were mooued by them which were then present whereof your selfe was one with diuerse other matters which you spake vnto me which master lieutenant himselfe heard and your kéeper being present But if this be true which you saie that it may be prooued there were either such words mooued vnto me or anie such answer made by me I offer to susteine what punishment the law shall affoord me Then falling to an other matter for that this redounded to his owne confusion as master lieutenant can well witnesse he began to talke of my being at Rome what fréendship he had shewed vnto me and had doone the like vnto a number of Englishmen whome he well knew not to be of that religion both by his owne purse as also by fréending them to some of the popes chamber he made conueiance for thâ—m thense sometime going fortie miles with them when quoth he had my dealings bin knowne I should hardlie haue bin well thought of and I knew well inough that you were neuer bent to that religion albeit they thought the contrarie Yea I knew well inough when you departed thense that your disposition was contrarie to ours and concealed it to my selfe O Kirbie quoth master shiriffe this is verie vnlike that you could affoord such fauour to anie who were contrarie to that religion that you professed No no if you knew anie such there you would rather helpe to persecute them than pitie them as it is the nature of you all M. Kirbie quoth this writer it is verie vnlike that you had anie such secret knowledge of me either of my religion or how I was secretlie bent as you séeme here to professe for had I béene such a one as you would persuade these here you knew me to be would you haue deliuered me those silken pictures hallowed by the pope which you did and moreouer make knowen vnto me sundrie of your friends here in England to whome I should conueie them O sir quoth he I confesse indéed I deliuered to thée such pictures but thou knowest I gaue thee two Iulies to go buy them with I did it bicause I knew thée
these sort are for their contrarie opinions in religion prosecuted or charged with anie crimes or paines of treason nor yet willinglie searched in their consciences for their contrarie opinions that sauour not of treason And of these sorts there haue béene and are a number of persons not of such base and vulgar note as those which of late haue beene executed as in particular some by name are well knowne and not vnfit to be remembred The first and chiefest by office was doctor Heth that was archbishop of Yorke and lord chancellor of England in quéene Maries time who at the first comming of hir maiestie to the crowne shewing himselfe a faithfull and quiet subiect continued in both the said offices though in religion then manifestlie differing and yet was he not restreined of his libertie nor depriued of his proper lands and goods but leauing willinglie both his offices liued in his owne house verie discréetlie and inioied all his purchased lands during all his naturall life vntill by verie age he departed this world and then left his house and liuing to his friends An example of gentlenesse neuer matched in quéene Maries time The like did one doctor Poole that had béene bishop of Peterborough an ancient graue person and a verie quiet subiect There were also others that had béene bishops and in great estimation as doctor Tunstall bishop of Duresme a person of great reputation and also whilest he liued of verie quiet behauiour There were also other as doctor White doctor Oglethorpe the one of Winchester the other of Carlill bishops persons of courteous natures and he of Carlill so inclined to dutifulnes to the quéenes maiestie as he did the office at the consecration and coronation of hir maiestie in the church of Westminster and doctor Thurlebie doctor Watson yet liuing one of Elie the other of Lincolne bishops the one of nature affable the other altogither sowre and yet liuing Whereto may be added the bishop then of Excester Turberuile an honest gentleman but a simple bishop who liued at his owne libertie to the end of his life and none of all these pressed with anie capitall paine though they mainteined the popes authoritie against the lawes of the realme And some abbats as maister Feckenam yet liuing a person also of quiet and courteous behauiour for a great time Some also were deanes as doctor Boxall deane of Windsore a person of great modestie learning and knowledge doctor Cole deane of Paules a person more earnest than discréet doctor Reinolds deane of Excester not vnlearned and manie such others hauing borne office dignities in the church that had made profession against the pope which they onelie began in queene Maries time to change yet were these neuer to this daie burdened with capitall peanes nor yet depriued of line 10 anie their goods or proper liueloods but onelie remoued from their ecclesiasticall offices which they would not exercise according to the lawes And most of them manie other of their sort for a great time were deteined in bishops houses in verie ciuill and courteous maner without charge to themselues or their friends vntill the time that the pope began by his buls messages to offer trouble to the realme by stirring of rebellion About which time onlie some line 20 of these aforenamed being found busier in matters of state tending to stir troubles than was méete for the common quiet of the realme were remoued to other more priuat places where such other wanderers as were men knowne to moue sedition might be restreined from common resorting to them to increase trouble as the popes bull gaue manifest occasion to doubt and yet without charging them in their consciences or otherwise by anie inquisition to bring them into danger of anie capitall law line 30 so as no one was called to anie capitall or bloudie question vpon matters of religion but haue all inioied their life as the course of nature would and such of them as yet remaine may if they will not be authors or instruments of rebellion or sedition inioie the time that God and nature shall yeeld them without danger of life or member And yet it is woorthie to be well marked that the chiefest of all these and the most of them had in time of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt line 40 either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemne yea to abhorre the authoritie of the pope for which purpose they had many times giuen their othes publikelie against the popes authoritie and had also yéelded to both the said kings the title of supreame hed of the church of England next vnder Christ which title the aduersaries doo most falselie write and affirme that the quéenes maiestie now vseth a manifest lie vntruth to be séene by the verie acts of parlement and at the beginning of hir reigne omitted in hir stile And for proofe that line 50 these foresaid bishops and learned men had so long time disauowed the popes authoritie manie of their books and sermons against the popes authoritie remaine printed both in English and Latin to be séene in these times to their great shame and reproofe to change so often but speciallie in persecuting such as themselues had taught and stablished to hold the contrarie A sin neere the sin against the holie ghost There were also and yet be a great number of others line 60 being laie men of good possessions and lands men of good credit in their countries manifestlie of late time seduced to hold contrarie opinions in religion for the popes authoritie and yet none of them haue béene sought hitherto to be impeached in anie point or quarell of treason or of losse of life member or inheritance So as it may plainelie appeare that it is not nor hath béene for contrarious opinions in religion or for the popes authoritie alone as the aduersaries doo boldlie and falslie publish that anie persons haue suffered death since hir maiesties reigne And yet some of these sort are well knowne to hold opinion that the pope ought by authoritie of Gods word to be supreame and onelie head of the catholike church through the whole world and onelie to rule in all causes ecclesiasticall and that the quéenes maiestie ought not to be the gouernour ouer anie hir subiects in hir realme being persons ecclesiasticall which opinions are neuerthelesse in some part by the lawes of the realme punishable in their degrées And yet for none of these points haue anie persons béene prosecuted with the charge of treason or in danger of life And if then it be inquired for what cause these others haue of late suffered death it is trulie to be answered as afore is often remembred that none at all were impeached for treason to the danger of their life but such as did obstinatlie mainteine the contents of the popes bull afore mentioned which doo import that hir maiestie is not
that no bodie should pretend line 30 ignorance we command expreslie to make knowne these ordinances to proclame and publish them whereas men are accustomed to proclame all publications procéeding and commanding to procéed with rigor against all disdainors and neglectors of the same according to the order of punishment before mentioned without anie fauour or dissimulation to the contrarie because we haue thought the same to be expedient for the preseruation of the countrie Giuen in our congregation assemblie line 40 in the Hage the sixt daie of Februarie 1586 by ordinance of the foresaid generall states This placard thus passed the lord lieutenant bending his mind to his charge vndertaken did ordeine certeine speciall men natiues borne of the councell to the intent that such affaires as chanced to occur might by them be conuenientlie managed And as he tooke order for matters of policie so was he studious in preferring martiall affaires prouiding line 50 by good lawes and ordinances not onelie concerning common souldiours but capteins in like sort that a conuenient course and well beseeming the excellencie of his place might be obserued in all militarie businesses for proofe whereof these lawes touching capteins as a note of the rest may serue First no capteine officer or other person shall receiue or interteine anie other mans souldiour or seruant without consent of his former capteine or line 60 master neither shall intise anie other mans souldior from him vpon paine of losse of a moneths wages and to restore the partie to his former capteine or master Secondlie no capteine shall send foorth anie men to doo anie enterprise without knowledge of the generall or chéefe officer appointed therevnto vpon paine of losse of his place Thirdlie all priuat capteins being no head officers shall watch and ward with their ensignes vnlesse it be by speciall leaue vpon paine of the losse of a moneths paie for the second time lose his place Fourthlie no capteine shall sell or ransome his prisoner without licence of the generall and shall not suffer them to depart without making the high marshall priuie to the same vpon paine to lose his prisoner and imprisonment Fiftlie anie capteine finding anie souldiour of what band or companie so euer which hath transgressed anie of these lawes ordinances may take him bring him vnto the marshall to be punished Sixtlie that no capteine shall receiue or inroll anie person into his paie vnder him but that he cause the said souldior to receiue the oth vpon paine to the capteine for not obseruing the same or losse of a moneths paie Seauenthlie no inferiour capteine shall for corruption or anie other cause licence anie of his souldiors to depart the campe or garrison without speciall licence of the generall or head officer vpon paine of losse of his moneths paie and expulsion out of his office Eightlie if anie capteine heereafter receiuing his souldiors paie doo not paie the same vnto them within eight daies after and being demanded then vpon complaint made and the capteine thereof indicted he shall lose his moneths paie and be depriued of his office banished the campe and disabled from thensefoorth to serue in the armie Ninthlie capteins officers shall resort to their souldiors lodgings to sée in what state their armor and munition be in and to giue great charge that their furniture be alwaies in a readinesse their corslets with all péeces belonging to the same and their caléeuers to be made cleane oiled to haue match and powder drie and strings for their bowes their bils and holberds to be kept cleane and sharpe vpon paine and punishment arbitrarie according to the qualitie of their negligence Tenthlie that euerie capteine or officer shall cause these said statutes to be read euerie twentith daie to them of their charge as well horssemen as footmen to follow the same so néere as they may Now when the state of the countrie was prouided for in such sort as before ye haue heard the lord lieutenant procéeded to other actions insomuch that on the first of March he came from Hage to Leidon and the third of March from Leidon to Harlem where being honorablie interteined according to the maner in other places before named with sundrie representations on the tenth daie of March he came from Harlem to Amsterdam a towne counted inexpugnable being there receiued in most sumptuous sort with diuersitie of shewes ceremonies The like also were exhibited vnto him comming to Utricht the people of which towne shewed themselues greatlie to fauour our Englishmen for there came to the towne from the Leger three hundred or foure hundred souldiors so sicke and poore that it was woonder to sée their miserie and the townesmen not onelie receiued them but also releeued them with meat drinke and cloths giuing them for the most part new shirts and other necessarie apparell looking so vnto them for their health that whereas for the most part they were in great danger of death few or none of them at that time perished The thrée and twentith of Aprill the earle of Leicester being lieutenant and gouernour generall of hir maiesties forces in the low countries of the vnited prouinces as is aforesaid and making his residence at that time in Utricht a great and goodlie towne vpon the frontiers of Holland kept most honourablie the feast of S. George therein the procéedings whereof being so princelie performed to the honor of our nation in the view of so manie thousand strangers I could not choose hauing gotten the true and faithfull description by one William Sâ—â—ger alià s Portcullis an officer at armes in that seruice to make some breefe remembrance of the maner thereof in this booke to wit The streets of Utricht being large and faire were rankt and set with eight ensignes of burgers richlie appointed wearing scarffes knit like roses white and red vpon their armes betwéene whome from the court of my lord vnto the cathedrall church called the Dome the procéeding was on horssebacke First rid the trumpettors apparelled in scarlet laid with siluer lace sounding their trumpets most roiallie their bannerols being line 10 displaied and richlie limmed with my lords armes Then followed the gentlemen capteins coronels and hir maiesties sworne men to the number of a fortie horsse richlie adorned in cloth of gold siluer and silks of all colours After came six knights foure barons with the councell of estates the right honourable earle of Essex accompanied the bishop of Cullen prince elector and the prince of Portingall rid by himselfe next procéeded the capteine of line 20 the gard the treasuror and controllor of the houshold bearing their white slaues after whom followed two gentlemen vshers and Portcullis herald in a rich cote of armes of England Then came my lord most princelike inuested in his robes of the order garded by the principall burgers of the towne which offered themselues to that seruice besides his owne gard
at law Fleming bishop of Lincolne founder of Lincolne college in Oxford 604 a 20 Fleming knight maister of the ordinance 991 b 50 Fleming lord required to come to parlée with the generall 1217 b 20. His dishonorable dealing 30. His double dealing 1218 a 10. His letter to sir George Careie 1218 a 60 Flemings thréescore thousand came to the aid of the earle of Henault 359 a 10. Released of debts and interdiction 360 a 50. Besiege Aire and doo much mischéefe the French 377 a 60. Doo what they might to indamage the French behalfe oâ— English 376 b 20. Their hearts alienated from the obedience of their erle 353 b 50. Swere fealtie to Edward the third 357 a 40. Uanquished by the earle of Arthois 303 a 60. Set vpon the Englishmen in their lodgings 306 b 10. Banished the land 313 b 50. Their fléete looseth the victorie to the English nauie 454 b 20. Kill an English herald of armes 443 a 10 Discomfited by the Englishmen 443 a 40. Sent home into Flanders 92 b 10. Their enuie 64 a 30. Comming ouer into England haue places appointed them to inhabit 34 a 60. Motion to haue Edward the third take vpon him the title to the crowne of France 356 b 10. Slaine through their owne couetousnes 1151 a 20 Flies in Februarie the number strange 1260 a 60. Manie séene in a yeare a prognostication naturall or a plague like to follow 1050 b 30 Flint castell built 279 b 50 Flix great death thereby in the English host 550 b 50. By vnwoonted diet and therevpon death 813 b 10. Gotten by exessiue eating of frutes 476 b 10. Causing a great death 537 a 20 Flodden field 826 a 40 c. 427 a 10 c 428 a 10 c. Floren. ¶ Sée Coine Flouds and high waters dooing much hurt 1129 b 50. Foretold by astronomie but falling out false 882 b 20. Drowning the marishes on Essex and Kent side c 914 b 40. That hindered a great and bloudie conflict 943 a 30. That did much hurt 480 b 60. In the riuer of Thames 1207 a 50. High by means of a great thaw 1208 a 60. High that did much hurt 1310 b 30. Thrée without ebbe betwéene 540 a 50. High that drowned Westminster hall 1271 b 50. Great and violent 161 a 10 355 b 10. That did great hurt 220 b 50. In the night 284 a 30. ¶ Sée Bridges and Riuers Floure delices thrée and how they come annexed vnto the armes of England 15 a 10 Flushingers trouble the English passengers 1262 b 40 50 Folkmote at Paules 262 a 20 263 a 30 264 a 30 Follie of a couper 819 b 60 Forfeits 312 b 60. For breaking peace concluded betwixt Richard the first and the French king 148 b 50. ¶ Sée Fines Forgerie of William Rufus to get monie 20 b 10 Forgetfulnes of dutie in yoong men aduanced to dignitie 76 Forgtuenesse of an eminie a notable example 156 a 30 Forrest called New forrest and what waste desolation was made to make it 14 a 30. Of Shirewood pleased king Richard the first verie greatlie 142 b 10. ¶ Sée Frier Forrests to be seuered the new from the old 207 a 50. The perambulations of them appointed to bishops 308 b 30. Seized into duke W. hands 14 a 20. Their gouernement diuided 108 a 30. And ordinances for them 153 b 50. King Iohns commandement against the white moonks concerning them 162 a 40 Forster doctor of physicke first reader of surgerie lecture in London 1349 a 20 30 c his faithfull and fréendlie epitaph vpon doctor Caldwell deceased 1370 a 20 Forswearing ¶ Sée Periurie Fortescue and the reason of the name 749 b 30 Fortresse ¶ Sée Castell Fortune ¶ Sée Walden Fouks de Brent a man of great stomach and rashnesse 202 a 10. An enimie to rest and quietnesse 206 a 40. His fowle end 206 b 40. ¶ Sée Erle Founteine flowing with blood 23 b 20 Foules tame leaue houses and waxing wild get them to the woods 14 a 60 b 10. Wild forbidden to be taken 173 a 10 Foulgier Rafe a valiant man assistant to prince Henries rebellions 886 b 60. Taken by sir Francis surnamed the Arragonois 628 b 60 Fox his practise to deliuer certeine christians from the Turks 1310 b 20 Foxleie slept more than feuretéene daies as many nights note 972 b 20 Fraie at Oxford betwixt legat Othos men and the scholers 222 a 20. Betwixt the English archers and the Hentuiers 347 a 20. In saint Dunstans church in the east 562 a 20. Neere Clerknwell where the maior of London c was resisted 641 b 10. In Fléetstréet betwéene the stréet-dwellers and gentlemen of courts 646 b 60 note Between Spaniards and Englishmen about whoores 1126 b 60. On Clist heath two miles from Excester 644 a 30. In London against the maior 636 a 20. Great by night in Fléetstréet 623 a 30. Whereby insued murther and execution note 954 a 20 c Betwéene the Almans of king Henrie the eights camp and the Englishmen 821 a 60. Betwéene the Englishmen and the townsmen of Sancta Maris 813 b 60. Betwéene the English and townesmen of Calis vpon a small occasion 810 a 10. Betwéene goldsmiths tailors of London 274 a 50. Betwixt the monks citizens of Norwich 275 b 60. Betwixt the Welsh and English 307 a 60 France interdicted by the popes legat 160 a 60. At diuision in it selfe by ciuill warres 1195 a 20. The troubles thereof touch most the Q. of England 1195 b 30. Disquieted with two factions 537 a 50 60 b 10 c Inuaded by duke William and what wast he made there by fire c 14 b 30. The iorme of the English armie through it 426 a 60. Their whole puissance vanquished by the English archers 373 a 60 note and read the order and procéeding of that battell two pages before The frontiers thereof full of men of warre 357 b 50. And how king Edward the third tooke vpon him the name of king thereof 356 b 30. And by what right he claimed it 40 c 357 a 10 20 c And great preparation made in England for wars against it 547 a 60. Ciuill discord amongest the nobles thereof 557 a 60. The oth of the thrée estates 578 a 30. Henrie the fift taketh vpon him to be regent there 578 a 50. And what townes and castelles king Henrie the fift got ¶ Sée the historie of king Henrie the fift 563 564 565. All lost there through ciuill discord at home 636 b 30 c 60. The English lose all there 629 b 30. The duchie of Britaine incorporated vnto it 769 b 10. The constable thereof a déepe dissembler 695 a 50. His offer to king Edward the fourth 698 a 40. All aâ—lant in whose time 748 b 60 749 a 10. It is concluded in parlement that king Henrie the eight should personallie inuade it 815 b 50 An armie leuied to inuade it thrée battels appointed with their seuerall lieutenants
fourth of Nouember 5500 one with another slain drowned and burned A conclusion of peace betwéene the parties before diuided Walter Deuereux earle of Essex departeth this life Abr. Fl. ex concione funebri vt patet in contextu The place of the erls birth what losse all EnglaÌ„d hath of him What noblemen are the wals of the realme The praise of the earle for sundrie considerations Comparison of true nobilitie vnto a riuer or floud c. â—anor lib. â—â— it rebâ—â— gesâ—â— Alphoâ—si The disposition of the earle to inlarge and augment his nobilitie Prudence a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indueâ— How he bestowed his youthfull yeares The bishops report of him vpon his own knowledge The erle perfect in the scriptures and matters of religion He was a fauourer of preachers His expertnesse in chronicles histories c. Fortitude a noble vertue wherewith 〈◊〉 earle was 〈◊〉 Exod. 28 21 The earles chiualrie marâ—iall knowledge and prowesse aduanced Fortitude néedfull both in time of peace and warre Iustice a noble vertue wherwith this erle was indued The bishop reporteth of the earles iustice vpon his owne knowledge Iob. 29 15. The paterne of a good earle indéed Suetonius The humanitie courtesie affablenesse and other verâ—ues of this earle Temperance a noble vertue wherewith this erle was indued The bishops report of the earle vpon his owne knowledge Eccles. 7.9 Luke 6.45 The earle could not awaie with swearing chasing nor anie disordered dealing c. The disposition and deuotion of this earle in the time of his sickenesse Numb 21. â— The heauenlie contemplation of this earle drawing to his end A woonderfull gift of the holie Ghost and most worthie to be chronicled How his seruants were affected at his last spéeches Who they be that die in the Lord. A spéech conclusorie of the bishop directed to the earlâ— departed The earle eternâ—llie blessed The death of the earle much lamented The heroicall description of true nobilitie A persuasorie reason to mooue the yoong earle now liuing to an excellent imitation of his ancestors Notable counsell to the earle to deserue well of his souereigne and countrie The quéenes testimonie of the earle Uertues naturallie incident to the erle by coursâ— of descent To what end â—he epitaph genealogicall was added to the funerall sermon The old earls counsell at his death to the yoong earle now aliue touching the shortnesse of life A proclamation for the fâ—â—e traffike of merchants as before c. â— Stow. An vnnaturall brother murthereth his naturall brother but the vnnaturall brother was hanged as he well dâ—serued Anno Reg. 19. A tempest in Richmondshire Tower on LondoÌ„ bridge â—â—ken downe Robinson hanged for clipping of gold Second voiage to Cataia StraÌ„ge sickenesse at Oxford Ab. Fl. ex relatu W. B. impress 1577. Tempest in Suffolke The tower on London bridge new builded Anno Reg. 20. Cutbert Maine executed An example of sorcerers and such as seeme to worke woÌ„ders to deceiue men of their monie Nelson and Sherewood executed Counterfetters of coine executed Pirats hanged Frobishers third voiage Anno Reg. 21. The receiuing of Cassimere Déepâ— snow Great land waters A murtherer hanged on Mile end gréene Lord kéeper deceased Ab. Fl. collect ex epitaph 〈◊〉 praenobilis On the south side these verses On the north side these Great snow in the moneth of Aprill Sir Thomas Bromleie lord chancellor The collection of Francis Thin Turketill Saint Swithin Wlfinus Adulphus Hist. Eliens lib. 2. written in the time of K. Stephan Leofricus Wlfinus Resenbaldus Mauricius Osmundus Arfastus Hirmanus William Uelson William Gifford Robert Bluet Ranulphus Waldricus Herbertus Roger. Galfridus Ranulphus Reginald Roger. Godfreie Alexander bishop of Lincolne This was about the beginning of the fourth yeere of K. Stephan being An. Do. 1138 but Mat. 〈◊〉 giueth it to An. Dom. 1139 who saith Collo 〈◊〉 qui 〈◊〉 fuit 〈◊〉 anne 〈◊〉 c. And Henrie Huntington agreeth wholie with W. Parâ—â—s Robert Philip. Reinold Iohn Thomas Becket * Christes church in Canturburie Rafe Warneuile Walterus de Constantijs Geffreie William Longchamp Eustachius Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert Simon Hugh de Welles Walter Braie Richard de Marischo Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester Geffreie the Templer Hugh Pateshall chanon of Paules Simon the Norman Richard Grasse abbat of Euesham Iohn de Lexinton Ranulfe Briton Syluester de Euersden Iohn Mansell Iohn de Lexinton Iohn Mansell Radulphus de Diceto William of Kilkennie Henrie de Wingham Walter Merton Nicholas of Elie. Walter Merton the second time Iohn de Chesill Viâ—a Thomae Cantelupi Walter Gifford bishop of Bath Geffreie Gifford Iohn de Chesill Richard de Middleton Iohn de Kirbie Walter Merton Robert Burnell Iohn de Langhton Matthew Paâ—ker Iohn Drokensford William de Greinfield William de Hamelton Ralfe Baldocke Iohn Langhton William Melton Walter Reinolds Iohn de Sandall Iohn Hotham Iohn Salmon bishop of Norwich * Or Pabeham * Yorke * Twelue miles from Yorke Robert Baldocke Histor. episc Norwich William Airemee kéeper of the seale Iohn Hotham bishop of Elie. Henrie Cliffe master of the rolles Henrie Burghwash bishop of Lincolne Iohn Stratford Richard de Burie or Richard de Angeruile Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert de Stratford Richard de Bintwoorth bishop of London Iohn Stratford archbishop of Canturburie Robert bishop of Chichester Robert de Bourchier Robert Perning iustice at the law Robert de Saddington Iohn Offord or Ufford Iohn Thorsbie William de Edington Simon Langham William de Wikeham Robert Thorpe Sir Iohn Kniuet Adam de Houghton * Ralfe Neuill 〈◊〉 Sir Richard Scroope Simon Sudburie Sir Richard Scroope lord Scroope of Bolton Robert Braibrooke bishop of London Michaell de la Poole earle of Suffolke * Michael de puteaco or of the Poole Thomas Arundell bishop of Elie. William Wickham Thomas Arundell Iohn Serle master of the rols Edmund Stafford Henrie Beauford Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Thomas Fitzalen Thomas Beauford Iohn Wakering clearke Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie Henrie Beauford bishop at Winchester Thomas Langleie bishop of Durham Henrie Beauford bishop of Winchester Iohn Kempe bishop of London Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath Iohn Kempe bishop of Yorke Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Thomas Bourchier bishop of Elie. In vita Thomae Boâ—â—cheri â—pisco 〈◊〉 William Patan or Paten 〈◊〉 William Wanfled George Neuill archbishop of Yorke Robert Kirkham maister of the rolles Robert Stillington doctor of the lawes Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex Laurence Booth bishop of Durham Thomas Scot aliâs Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Rochester Thomas Rotheram Iohn Russell bishop of Lincolne Thomas Barow maister of the rolles Thomas Rotheram Iohn Alcot bishop of Worcester Iohn Moorton bishop of Elie. William Warham archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Woolseie Thomas Moore Thomas Audleie Hâ—sto Câ—ntab per Caium 78. Thomas Wriotheslie William Paulet Sir Richard Rich Sir Nicholas Hare Stephan Gardener Nicholas Heath Nicholas Bacon Thomas Bromleie Ab. Fl. ex publicis aeditionibus B.G. T.
iustice of the common plées sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker sir Thomas Gawdie knight one of the iustices of the plees before hir maiestie to be holden William Pâ—riam one of the iustices of the common plées by vertue of hir maiesties commission to them and others in that behalfe directed the same Parrie was indicted of high treason for intending and practising the death and destruction of hir maiestie whome God long prosper and preserue from all such wicked attempts The tenor of which indictment appeareth more particularlie in the course of his arreignment following The maner of the arreignment of William Parrie the 25 of Februarie 1584 at Westminster in the place where the court commonlie called the Kings bench is vsuallie kept by vertue of hir maiesties commission of oier and terminer before Henrie lord Hunsdon gouernour of Barwike sir Francis Knolles knight treasuror of the queenes maiesties houshold sir Iames Croft knight comptrollor of the same houshold sir Christopher Hatton knight vicechamberleine to hir maiestie sir Christopher Wraie knight chiefe iustice of England sir Gilbert Gerrard knight line 10 master of the rols sir Edmund Anderson knight chiefe iustice of the common plees sir Roger Manwood knight chiefe baron of the excheker and sir Thomas Hennage knight treasuror of the chamber FIrst thrée proclamations for silence were made according to the vsuall course in such cases Then the lieutenant was commanded to returne his precept who did so and brought the prisoner to the bar to whome line 20 Miles Sands esquier clerke of the crowne said William Parrie hold vp thy hand and he did so Then said the clerke of the crowne Thou art here indicted by the oths of twelue good and lawfull men of the countie of Midlesex before sir Christopher Wraie knight and others which tooke the indictment by the name of W. Parrie late of London gentleman otherwise called W. Parrie late of London doctor of the law for that thou as a false traitor against the most noble and christian prince quéene Elisabeth line 30 thy most gratious souereigne and liege ladie not hauing the feare of God before thine eies nor regarding thy due allegiance but being seduced by the instigation of the diuell and intending to withdraw and extinguish the hartie loue and due obedience which true faithfull subiects should beare vnto the same our souereigne ladie diddest at Westminster in the countie of Midlesex on the first daie of Februarie in the six and twentith yeare of hir highnesse reigne and at diuerse other times and places in the same line 40 countie maliciouslie and traitorouslie conspire and compasse not onelie to depriue and depose the same our souereigne ladie of hir roiall estate title and dignitie but also to bring hir highnesse to death and finall destruction and sedition in the realme to make and the gouernement thereof to subuert and the sincere religion of God established in hir highnesse dominions to alter and supplant And that whereas thou William Parrie by thy letters sent vnto Gregorie bishop of Rome diddest signifie vnto the same bishop thy purposes and intentions line 50 aforesaid and thereby diddest praie and require the same bishop to giue thée absolution that thou afterwards that is to saie the last day of March in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid diddest traitorouslie receiue letters from one called cardinall de Como directed vnto thée William Parrie whereby the same cardinall did signifie vnto thée that the bishop of Rome had perused thy letters and allowed of thine intent and that to that end he had absolued line 60 thee of all thy sinnes and by the same letter did animate and stir thée to procéed with thine enterprise and that therevpon thou the last daie of August in the six and twentith yeare aforesaid at saint Giles in the fields in the same countie of Midlesex diddest traitorouslie confer with one Edmund Neuill esquier vttering to him all thy wicked and traitorous deuises and then and there diddest mooue him to assist thee therein and to ioine with thee in those wicked treasons aforesaid against the peace of our said souereigne ladie the queene hir crowne and dignitie Whaâ— saiest thou William Parrie art thou guiltie of these treasons whereof thou standest here indicted or not guiltie Then Parrie said Before I plead not guiltie or confesse my selfe guiltie I praie you giue me leaue to speake a few words and with humbling himselfe began in this maner God saue quéene Elisabeth God send me grace to discharge my dutie to hir and to send you home in charitie But touching the matters that I am indicted of some were in one place and some in another and doone so secretlie as none can see into them except that they had eies like vnto God wherefore I will not laie my bloud vpon the iurie but doo mind to confesse the indictment It conteineth but the parts that haue béene openlie read I praie you tell me Whervnto it was answered that the indictment conteined the parts he had heard read no other Whervpon the clerke of the crowne said vnto Parrie Parrie thou must answer directlie to the indictment whether thou be guiltie or not Then said Parrie I doo confesse that I am guiltie of all that is therein conteined and further too I desire not life but desire to die Unto which the clerke of the crowne said If you confesse it you must confesse it in maner and forme as it is comprised in the indictment Wherevnto he said I doo confesse it in maner and forme as the same is set downe and all the circumstances thereof Then the confession being recorded the quéenes learned councell being readie to praie iudgement vpon the same confession master vicechamberleine said These matters conteined in this indictment and confessed by this man are of great importance they touch the person of the quéenes most excellent maiestie in the highest degrée the verie state and weldooing of the whole commonwealth and the truth of Gods word established in these hir maiesties dominions and the open demonstration of that capitall enuie of the man of Rome that hath set himselfe against God and all godlinesse all good princes and good gouernement and against good men Wherefore I praie you for the satisfaction of this great multitude let the whole matter appéere that euerie one may see that the matter of it selfe is as bad as the indictment purporteth and as he hath confessed Whereto in respect that the iustice of the realme hath béene of late verie impudentlie slandered all yeelded as a thing necessarie to satisfie the world in particular of that which was but summarilie comprised in the indictment though in the law his confession serued sufficientlie to haue procéeded therevpon vnto iudgement Wherevpon the lords and others the commissioners hir maiesties lerned councell and Parrie himselfe agréed that Parries confession taken the eleuenth and thirteenth of Februarie 1584 before the
lord of Hunsdon master Uicechamberleine and master Secretarie and cardinall de Como his letters and Parries letters to the lord treasuror and lord steward should be openlie read And Parrie for the better satifieng of the people and standers by offered to read them himselfe but being told how the order was that the clerke of the crowne should read them it was so resolued of all parts And then maister vicechamberleine caused to be shewed to Parrie his said confession the cardinals letter and his owne letter aforesaid which after he had particularlie viewed euerie leafe thereof he confessed and said openlie they were the same Then said maister vicechamberleine Before we proceed to shew what he hath confessed what saie you said he to Parrie is that which you haue confessed here true and did you confesse it fréelie and willinglie of your selfe or was there anie extort means vsed to draw it from you Surelie said Parrie I made that confession fréelie without anie constraint and that is all true and more too for there is no treason that hath beene since the first yeare of the queene anie waie touching religion sauing receipt of Agnus Dei and persuading of others wherein I haue not much dealt but I haue offended in it And I haue also deliuered mine opinion in writing who ought to be successor to the crowne which he said to be treason also Then his confession of the eleuenth and thirtéenth of Februarie all of his owne handwriting and before particularlie set downe was openlie and distinctlie read by the clerke of the crowne And that doone the cardinall di Como his letter in Italian was deliuered vnto Parries hand by the direction of line 10 maister vicechamberleine which Parrie there perused openlie affirmed to be wholie of the cardinals owne handwriting and the seale to be his owne also and to be with a cardinals hat on it and himselfe did openly read it in Italian as before is set downe And the words bearing sense as it were written to a bishop or to a man of such degrée it was demanded of him by maister vicechamberleine whether he had not taken the degrée of a bishop He said No but said at first those tearmes were proper to the degrée line 20 he had taken and after said that the cardinall did vouchsafe as of a fauour to write so to him Then the copie of that letter in English as before is also set downe was in like manner openlie read by the clerke of the crowne which Parrie then acknowledged to be trulie translated And therevpon was shewed vnto Parrie his letter of the eightéenth of Februarie written to the lord treasuror and the lord steward which he confessed to be all of his owne handwriting and was as before is set downe line 30 These matters being read openlie for manifestation of the matter Parrie praied leaue to speake whereto maister vicechamberleine said If you will saie anie thing for the better opening to the world of those your foule and horrible facts speake on but if you meane to make anie excuse of that which you haue confessed which else would haue beene and doo stand prooued against you for my part I will not sit to heare you Then hir maiesties atturnie generall stood vp and said It appeareth before you my lords line 40 that this man hath béene indicted and arreigned of seuerall most heinous and horrible treasons and hath confessed them which is before you of record wherefore there resteth no more to be doone but for the court to giue iudgement accordinglie which here I require in the behalfe of the quéenes maiestie Then said Parrie I praie you heare me for discharging of my conscience I will not go about to excuse my selfe nor to séeke to saue my life I care not for it you haue my confession of record that is line 50 inough for my life and I meane to vtter more for which I were worthie to die and said I praie you heare me in that I am to speake to discharge my conscience Then said maister vicechamberleine Parrie then doo thy dutie according to conscience and vtter all that thou canst saie concerning those thy most wicked facts Then said Parrie My cause is rare singular and vnnaturall conceiued at Uenice presented in generall words to the pope vndertaken at Paris commended line 60 and allowed of by his holinesse and was to haue béene executed in England if it had not béene preuented Yea I haue committed manie treasons for I haue committed treason in being reconciled and treason in taking absolution There hath béene no treason since the first yeare of the quéenes reigne touching religion but that I am guiltie of except for receiuing of Agnus Dei persuading as I haue said and yet neuer intended to kill quéene Elisabeth I appeale to hir owne knowledge and to my lord treasurors and maister secretaries Then said my lord of Hunsdon Hast thou acknowledged it so often and so plainelie in writing vnder thy hand and here of record and now when thou shouldest haue thy iudgement according to that which thou hast confessed thy selfe guiltie of dooest thou go backe againe and denie the effect of all How can we beleeue that thou now saiest Then said master vicechamberleine This is absurd thou hast not onelie confessed generallie that thou wert guiltie according to the indictment which summarilie and yet in expresse words dooth conteine that thou haddest traitorouslie compassed and intended the death destruction of hir maiestie but thou also saidst particularlie that thou wert guiltie of euerie of the treasons conteined therein whereof the same was one in plaine expresse letter set downe and read vnto thée Yea thou saiedst that thou wert guiltie of more treasons too beside these And diddest thou not vpon thy examination voluntarilie confesse how thou wast mooued first thervnto by mislike of thy state after thy departure out of the realme And that thou diddest mislike hir maiestie for that she had doone nothing for thée How by wicked papists and popish bookes thou wert persuaded that it was lawfull to kill hir maiestie How thou wert by reconciliation become one of that wicked sort that held hir maiestie for neither lawfull quéene nor christian And that it was meritorious to kill hir And diddest thou not signifie that thy purpose to the pope by letters and receiuedst letters from the cardinall how he allowed of thine intent and excited thée to performe it and therevpon diddest receiue absolution And diddest thou not conceiue it promise it vow it sweare it and receiue the sacrament that thou wouldest doo it And diddest not thou therevpon affirme that thy vowes were in heauen and thy letters and promises on earth to bind thee to doo it And that what soeuer hir maiestie would haue doone for thée could not haue remooued thee from that intention or purpose vnlesse she would haue desisted from dealing as she hath doone with the catholikes as thou callest them All
Excheker and the officers vnto the same by whome instituted 8 a 60. Remooued from Westminster to Northhampton 173 a 10. It and the kings bench remooued vnto Shrewesburie 278 b 10. Excuse of Edward the first to auoid an inconuenience 308 a 60. Of the clergie to be frée from subsidies c 301 b 40. ¶ Sée Couetousnesse Exham field ¶ Sée Battell Exton knight a murtherer of king Richard the second 517 a 10. His too late repentance and sorrow a 20. Extortion of William Rufus made him â—uill spoken of amongest his subiects 23 b 10. An ordinance against it 260 b 10. ¶ Sée Oppression Usurie F. FActions of Yorke and Lancaster vnpossible to be mingled without danger of discord 647 a 40 Faire kept at Westminster at saint Edwards tide 241 a 30 Fiftéene daies togither 247 a 20. Of Lewis the French kings sonne in derision 200 b 10. At Bristow robbed 263 b 50 Falois beséeged and rendered vp to king Henrie the fift 561 b 10 60. ¶ Sée Arlet Falshood betwixt brethren 32 a 60 Familie of loue fiue of that sect stood at Paules crosse 1261 b 30. Proclamation against them note 1314 a 60 b 10. Famine extreme within Rone 566 b 20. Richard the second died therof 516 b 60. Suffred 68 b 20. The cause why Rone was surrendred 167 b 60. Refused and death by the sword chosen 166 a 20. The punishment of witchcraft 204 a 10. Lamentable 323 b 40. ¶ Sée Pestilence Farrer an haberdasher of London a sore enimie to the ladie Elisabeth 1159 b 20 30 c Fast generall proclamed and deuoutlie obserued 1427 b 50 Fasts processions vsed 260 a 10 Fauour ¶ Sée People Fecknam ¶ Sée Abbat Fées ¶ Sée Annuities Feare causeth want of spéech 659 b 30. Made king Edward the fourth forsake his kingdome 675 a 60 b 10. What it forceth men vnto 293 a 20. Causeth restitution of wrongfull deteined townes 311 b 20. Forceth agréement note 114 b 20. Among the people assembled at the duke of Summersets execution 1068 a 50 b 10 ¶ Sée Suspicion Fergusa a Lombard betraieth the duke of Clarence 580 a 10 Felton ¶ Sée Bull seditious Ferdinando archduke of Austrich made knight of the garter 882 a 60 Ferrers lord of misrule at a Christmas at the court his behauiour and port 1067 a 60 b 10 c Ferrers knight William taken prisoner 33 a 40 Ferrers a traitor ¶ Sée Treason Fescampe William his deuises of a plaine song whereabout was strife 13 b 30 Feast rare and roiall 1332 a 60 At quéene Katharins coronation 579 a 10 c Sumptuand full of rare deuises 1434 a 30 Fatherston alià s Constable ¶ Sée Counterfet of king Edward the sixt Feuersham abbeie by whome founded 58 a 20 Fiftéenth granted vnto king Henrie the third by the temporaltie 213 a 10. Of the sixt penie after the rate of mens goods 312 b 20. Of all the mooueables to be found within the realme 207 a 30. Thrée granted 402 a 60. ¶ Sée Subsidie Fight among sparows 397 b 50 Finch knight drowned 1202 b 10 Fine for misdemeanor 704 a 60 Of fiue thousand markes paid to king Henrie the third by the Londoners 208 b 40. For murther 122 b 30. Of a kéeper for a prisoners escape 152 a 20 Fines set on prisoners for their ransoms 144 a 50. Paid for licence to exercise turnements 145 b 60. Set on the nobles by king Iohn for not aiding him against the French king 167 a 20. For not comming to the church 1322. Of priests that had wiues 26 a 30. Extreme leuied vpon the clergie note 201 b 60 202 a 10. Set on the maior of London and the shiriffes 256 b 30 note Set on shiriffes heads 254 a 60. Of foure hundred pounds set vpon aldermens heads of London by king Henrie the seuenth 795 b 60 796 a 10. Sessed vpon them that fauored the Cornish rebels 785 a 10. ¶ Sée Escuage Forfeits and Nobilitie Fire bursteth out of the earth 44 b 40. It the sword Gods angrie angels 1001 b 10 Fish monstrous taken in Norffolke 1355 b 60. Of twentie yards long c note 1259 b 30. Driuen to the English shore 1206 a 40. Like vnto a man 168 a 10 Fishes of the sea fight 225 b 60 115 a 10. Monstrous at Downam bridge in Suffolke 1211 a 50. In Westminster hall after the fall of an high floud 1271 b 50. Fishmongers bound to find â—oure scholers at the vniuersities c note 792 b 10. Sore trobled by the maior of London 440 b 30. An act against them within the citie of London 441 a 50. The statute against them repeled and they restored to their liberties 442 a 60. Benâ—fited by iustice Randolph 1354 a 40 50. Fitzalan William a conspiraâ—or 49 a 10 Fitzarnulfe a Londoner procureth the citizens to reuenge their cause by rebellion he is apprehended and executed 204 a 40 Fitzbaldrike shiriffe of Yorke 10 a 10 Fitzempresse Henrie his returne into England 58 a 20. and is knighted 40 Fitzsergus Gilbert killed his brother note 98 b 40 Fitzgeffreie chamberleine vnto king Richard the first 128 a 60. His death b 60 Fitzhammon Robert his tale to William Rufus 26 b 20 Fitziohn Eustace a conspirator 49 a 10. Slaine 67 a 10 Fitzleo Peter an vsurping pope 44 a 50 Fitzmiles Roger. ¶ Sée Erle Fitzmoris his miserable end 1365 b 60 Fitzosbert his vnnaturall ingratitude and complaint to K. Richard the first against the citie of London 149 a 40. Whie he ware his long beard his oration to the people he is called before the archbishop of Canturburie lord chéefe iustice president of the realme he flieth into the church of saint Marie Bow he is attached his concubines 149 all Is executed the archbishop of Canturburie euill spoken of for his death an old whoremonger and new saint 150 a 10 20 Fitzosborne William earle of Hereford c gouernor of England in duke Williams absence 5 a 10 Fitzroie Oliuer sonne to king Iohn 202 a 20 Fitzscroope Richard in armes against Edrike the rebell 5 a 10 Fitzwalter lord deceaseth in Spaine 450 b 10. Appealeth the duke of Aumerle of treason 512 a 60. He is mainprised 513 b 60. Earle of Sussex his seruice against the Scots he is in great danger note 986 a 20 Fitzwilliams recorder of London his wisedome in a dangerous case 730 b 30 Flanders spoiled by the duke of Glocester 614 b 60. Wholie at the deuotion of Edward the third 354 b 60. Interdicted 358 a 10. Diuerse rodes made thereinto by the English and great spoile doone 454 b 60. Inuaded by the bishop of Norwich 442 b 60. a great part drowned by an exundation 34 a 60. ¶ Sée Erle of Leicester League Flatterie impudent of sir Iohn Bushie to king Richard the second 490 b 60. Used in a sermon note 725 b 40 Notable 727 b 50 60 728 a 10 c. ¶ Sée Dissumulation Fléetwood recorder of London made sargent at law ¶ Sée Sargents