two daies ithandlie be stremis of blude Now examine Graftons words by Bellenden and Bellendens by Boetius besides that marke what Grafton annexeth to the report of this slaughter who saith that he will not inforce the credit therof vpon any man but counteth it a Scotish lie rather than a matter of truth and then conclude according to equitie that Grafton is altogither excusable and fautlesse and Buchanans curious furious challenge reproueable But admit Grafton had fetcht his report from Boetius as he had it from Bellenden seemeth it a lie or an vnlikelihood that the bloud gushing out of the bodies of 25000 or as Hector Boetius saith 7000 would not increase to a streame sufficient able to driue a mill or two about without any water intermingled therwithall The Latine copie hath Riui sanguinis riuers of bloud noting by the word line 10 the abundance and also the streaming course of the same which was able with the violent current thereof to beare awaie the verie bodies of the slaine To conclude this matter to set our Englishman by the truth and let the Scot go with his lieng toong which I would he had had the modestie to haue tempered to haue proffered a practise of that which himselfe paraphrasticallie preacheth and teacheth others to obserue saieng line 20 Linguae obseraui claustra fraeno pertinax Obmutui silentio Ac temerè ne quid os mali profunderet Verbis bonis clausi exitum And now to the storie K. Edward remaind at Berwike 15 daies caused a ditch to be cast about the towne of 80 foot in breadth of the like in depth In the meane time about the beginning of Aprill the warden and reader of the frier minors of Rockesborough called Adam Blunt came vnto him with line 30 letters of complaint from king Iohn for the wrongs doone and offered vnto him and his realme as well in claiming an vniust superioritie and constreining him to doo homage by vndue and wrongfull meanes as also by inuading his townes slaieng and robbing his subiects for the which causes he testified by the same letters that he renounced all such homage and fealtie for him and his subiects as he or any of them owght for any lands holden within England The king hearing the letters red receiued the resignation line 40 of the homage and commanded his chancellor that the letter might be registred in perpetuall memorie of the thing The earles of Scotland before remembred being assembled togither with their powers at the castell of Iedworth entred into England the eighth of Aprill and with fire and sword did much hurt in the countries as they passed In Riddesdale they besieged the castell of Harbotell by the space of two daies but when they could not preuaile they remoued and line 50 passing foorth by the east part of the riuer of Tine thorough Cokesdale Riddesdale and Northumberland vnto Hexham they did much mischéefe by burning and harrieng the countries At Hexham they spoiled the abbeie church and got a great number of the cleargie as well moonks priests as scholers and others whom they thrust into the schoolehouse there and closing vp the dores set fire on the schoole and burned all them to ashes that were within it It is wonderfull to read what beastlie crueltie the Scots vsed line 60 in that road which they made at that time in two seuerall parts For the earle of Boghan with them of Galloway entred by Cumberland in like manner as the other did in Riddesdale burning and murthering all that came in their waie For whereas all those that were of able age and lustie to get awaie fled escaped their hands the aged impotent creatures women in childbed and yoong children that could not shift for themselues were vnmercifullie slaine and thrust vpon speares and shaken vp in the aire where they yéelded vp their innocent ghosts in most pitifull wise Churches were burned women were forced without respect of order condition or qualitie as well she maids widowes and wiues as nunnes that were reputed in those daies consecrated to God and when they had beene so abused manie of them were after also murthered and cruellie dispatched out of life At length they came to the nunrie of Lamelaie burned all the buildings there sauing the church and then returned backe into Scotland with all their pillage and booties by Lauercost an house of moonks which they likewise spoiled So that the cruell bloudie desolation whereof Lucan speaketh in his second booke of ciuill warres may aptlie be inferred here as fitlie describing the mercilesse murther of all states and sexes without parcialitie vnder the hand of the enimie for saith he Nobilitas cum plebe perit latéque vagatur Ensis à nullo reuocatum est pectore ferrum Stat cruor in templis multáque rubentia caede Lubrica saxa madent nulli sua profuit aetas Non senis extremum piguit vergentibus annis Praecipitasse diem non primo in limine vitae Infantis miseri nascentia rumpere fata Patrike earle of Dunbar came to the king of England and submitted himselfe with all that he had into his hands but the castell of Dunbar vpon saint Markes day being assieged of the Scots was rendred vnto them by treason of some that were within it of whome the countesse wife to the same erle was the chéefest for recouerie whereof king Edward sent Iohn earle of Warren Surrey and Sussex William earle of Warwike with a great power the which laieng siege to that castell a great host of Scotishmen came vpon them to the rescue of them within so that there was foughten a verie sore and terrible battell At length the victorie abode with the Englishmen and the Scotishmen were put to flight the Englishmen following them in chase eight mile of that countrie almost to the forrest of Selkirke the slaughter was great so that as was estéemed there died of the Scotishmen that day to the number of ten thousand The morrow after being saturdaie which was the eight and twentith day of Aprill at the kings comming thither the castell was surrendred vnto him There were taken in the same castell three earles Menteth Cassels and Ros six barons Iohn Comin the yoonger William Sanclere Richard Siward the elder Iohn Fitz Geffrey Alexander de Morteigne Edmund Comin of Kilbird with thirtie knights two clearks Iohn de Someruile and William de Sanclere and thrée and thirtie esquires the which were sent vnto diuerse castels in England to be kept as prisoners After the winning of Dunbar the king went to the castell of Rockesborough which incontinentlie was yeelded by the lord Steward of Scotland the liues and members of all such as were within it at the time of the surrender Then went king Edward vnto Edenburgh where he planted his siege about the castell and raised engines which cast stones against and ouer
separate them from him which are ioined to him by faith The king herwith confounded commanded the Iew to auant get him out of his sight But his father perceiuing that the king could not persuade his sonne to forsake the christian faith required to haue his monie againe To whom the king said he had doone so much as he promised to doo that was to persuade him so far as he might At length when he would haue had the king to haue dealt further in the matter the king to stop his mouth tendered backe to him the one halfe of his monie reteined the other to himselfe Moreouer to increase the suspicion which men had of his infidelitie it is written that he caused a disputation to be kept betwixt the Iewes the christians promising that if the Iewes ouercame the christians in argument he would be a Iew but the Iewes being ouercome and receiuing the foile would not confesse their errors but alledged that by factions and not by reason they were put to the worse Howbeit what opinion soeuer he had of the Iewes faith it appéereth by writers that he doubted in manie points of the religion then in credit For he sticked not to protest openlie that he beléeued no saint could profit anie man in the Lords sight and therefore neither would he nor anie other that was wise as he affirmed make intercession either to Peter or to anie other for helpe He was of stature not so tall as the common sort of men red of haire whereof he tooke his surname Rufus somwhat big of bellie and not readie of toong speciallie in his anger for then his vtterance was so hindered that he could scarselie shew the conceits of his mind he died without issue and vsed concubines all the daies of his life I find that in apparell he loued to be gaie and gorgeous could not abide to haue anie thing for his wearing estéemed at a small valure Wherevpon it came to passe on a morning when he should pull on a new paire of hose he asked the groome of his chamber that brought them to him what they cost Thrée shillings saith he Why thou hooreson said the king dooth a paire of hose of thrée shillings price become a king to weare Go thy waies and fetch me a paire that shall cost a marke of siluer The groome went and brought him another paire for the which he paid scarselie so much as for the first But when the king asked what they stood him in he told him they cost a marke and then was he well satisfied and said Yea marie these are more fit for a king to weare and so drew them vpon his legs In this kings daies Iohn bishop of Welles ioined the monasterie of Bath vnto his see and repairing the same monasterie began to inhabit there in the yeere 1094. The church of Couentrie was in like sort ioined vnto the sée of Chester by Robert bishop of that diocesse Woolstan bishop of Worcester died about the same time and Anselme hauing purchased bulles of pope Paschall wherein was conteined an admonition vnto king William to desist from his gréeuous oppressing of the church and to amend his former dooings was now on his returne towards England and by the waie heard of the kings death Hugh earle of Chester in this kings daies builded the abbeie of Chester and procured Anselme afterwards archbishop of Canturburie to come ouer from Normandie that he might direct the same abbeie and place such religious persons as were necessarie and conuenient for so good a foundation Long it was yer Anselme would come ouer bicause he doubted to be had in suspicion of an ambitious desire in seeking to be made archbishop of Canturburie For it was talked that if he went ouer into England he should surelie be elected before he returned into Normandie But at length so it chanced that the foresaid Hugh earle of Chester fell sicke and despairing of life sent with all spéed to Anselme requiring him most instantlie to come ouer to him lieng in extremitie of sickenesse adding that if he hasted no◠the sooner it would be too late whereof he would after repent him Then Anselme for that he might not faile his fréend in such necessitie came ouer and gaue order to the abbeie according as it séemed best to him for the establishment of religion there Thus farre William Rufus Henrie the first yoongest sonne to William the Conquerour HEnrie the yoongest sonne to William the first brother to Rufus latelie departed the first of that name that ruled heere in England for his knowledge in good literature surnamed Beauclerke was line 10 admitted king by the whole assent of the lords and commons and began his reigne ouer England the first of August in the yeare after the creation of the world 1067. after the birth of our Sauiour 1100. and 44. of the emperour Henrie the fourth Paschall the second then gouerning the sée of Rome which was about the 51. yeare of Philip the first of that name king of France and in the beginning of the reigne of Edgar king of Scotland This king was line 20 consecrated and crowned at Westminster the fift daie of August by Thomas archbishop of Yorke and Maurice bishop of London bicause at that time Anselme archbishop of Canturburie was exiled This prince had aforehand trained the people to his humor and veine in bringing them to thinke well of him and to conceiue a maruellous euill opinion of his brother duke Robert persuading them moreouer that she said duke was likelie to prooue a sharpe and rigorous gouernour if he once obteined the crowne and dominion of the land Moreouer he caused to be line 30 reported for a certeine truth that the same Robert was alreadie created king of Ierusalem And therfore considering that the kingdome of Palestine as the rumor ran was of greater reuenues than that of England there was no cause why they shuld staie for him who would not willinglie leaue the greater for the lesser By which meanes the Nobilitie and Commons were the sooner persuaded to decline from the election of the said Robert and to receiue his brother Henrie for their lawfull king who on the line 40 other side ceased not to promise mountaines till his enterprise tooke effect and then at leisure paied some of them with molhils as by the sequele of the storie shall more at large appéere This Henrie therefore comming thus to the crowne considered furthermore with himselfe that hereafter when his eldest brother Robert should returne and vnderstand how the matter was brought about he would thinke himselfe to haue had much wrong and béene verie euill dealt withall sith that as well by birthright as also by agreement made with his brother William Rufus he ought of right to be preferred and therevpon would not faile but make earnest claime against him Wherefore yer he should come home out of the
historie written of this prince he shall find that he hath beene little beholden to the writers of that time in which he liued for scarselie can they afoord him a good word except when the trueth inforceth them to come out with it as it were against their willes The occasion whereof as some thinke was for that he was no great freend to the clergie And yet vndoubtedlie his déeds shew he had a zeale to religion as it was then accompted for he founded the abbeie of Beauleau in the new forrest as it were in recompense line 30 of certeine parishchurches which to inlarge the same forrest he caused to be throwne downe and ruinated He builded the monasterie of Farendon and the abbeie of Hales in Shropshire he repaired Godstow where his fathers concubine Rosamund laie interred he was no small benefactor to the minster of Lichfield in Staffordshire to the abbeie of Crokesden in the same shire and to the chappell at Knatesburgh in Yorkshire So that to say what I thinke line 40 he was not so void of deuotion towards the church as diuers of his enimies haue reported who of meere malice conceale all his vertues and hide none of his vices but are plentifull inough in setting foorth the same to the vttermost and interpret all his dooings and saiengs to the woorst as may appeare to those that aduisedlie read the works of them that write the order of his life which may séeme rather an inuectiue than a true historie neuerthelesse sith we cannot come by the truth of things through the malice line 50 of writers we must content our selues with this vnfréendlie description of his time Certeinelie it should séeme the man had a princelie heart in him and wanted nothing but faithfull subiects to haue assisted him in reuenging such wrongs as were doone and offered by the French king and others Moreouer the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie he could not well abide when they went about to wrest out of his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernement True it is that to mainteine his warres which he was forced to take in hand as well in France as elsewhere he was constreined to make all the shift he could deuise to recouer monie and bicause he pinched their pursses they conceiued no small hatred against him which when he perceiued and wanted peraduenture discretion to passe it ouer he discouered now and then in his rage his immoderate displeasure as one not able to bridle his affections a thing verie hard in a stout stomach and thereby missed now and then to compasse that which otherwise he might verie well haue brought to passe It is written that he meant to haue become feudarie for maintenance sake against his owne disloiall subiects and other his aduersaries vnto Miramumeline the great king of the Saracens but for the truth of this report I haue little to saie and therefore I leaue the credit thereof to the authors It is reported likewise that in time when the realme stood interdicted as he was abroad to hunt one day it chanced that there was a great stag or hart killed which when he came to be broken vp prooued to be verie fat and thicke of flesh Oh saith he what a plesant life this déere hath led and yet in all his daies he neuer heard masse To conclude it may séeme that in some respects he was not greatlie superstitious and yet not void of a religious zeale towards the maintenance of the cleargie as by his bountifull liberalitie bestowed in building of abbeies and churches as before yée haue hard it may partlie appeare In his daies manie learned men liued as Geffrey Uinesaufe Simon Fraxinus alià s Ash Adamus Dorensis Gualter de Constantijs first bishop of Lincolne and after archbishop of Rouen Iohn de Oxford Colman surnamed Sapiens Richard Canonicus William Peregrine Alane Teâ—kesburie Simon Thurnaie who being an excellent philosopher but standing too much in his owne conceit vpon a sudden did so forget all his knowledge in learning that he became the most ignorant of all other a punishment as was thought appointed him of God for such blasphemies as he had wickedlie vttered both against Moses and Christ. Geruasius Dorobernensis Iohn Hanwill Nigell Woreker Gilbert de Hoiland Benet de Peterburgh William Parnus a moonke of Newburgh Roger Houeden Hubert Walter first bishop of Salisburie and after archbishop of Canturburie Alexander Theologus of whome yee haue heard before Geruasius Tilberiensis Syluester Giraldus Cambrensis who wrote manie treatises Ioseph Deuonius Walter Mapis Radulfus de Diceto Gilbert Legley Mauricius Morganius Walter Morganius Iohn de Fordeham William Leicester Ioceline Brakeland Roger of Crowland Hugh White alià s Candidus that wrote an historie intituled Historia Petroburgensis Iohn de saint Omer Adam Barking Iohn Gray an historiographer and bishop of Norwich Walter of Couentrie Radulphus Niger c. Sée Bale Scriptorum Britanniae centuria tertia Thus farre king Iohn Henrie the third the eldest sonne of king Iohn HEnrie the third of that name the eldest sonne of K. Iohn a child of the age of nine yeres began his reigne ouer the realme of England the ninetéenth day of October in the yeare of our Lord 1216 in the seuenth yeare of the emperour Frederike the second year 1216 and in the 36 yeare of the reigne of Philip line 10 the second king of France Immediatlie after the death of his father king Iohn William Marshall earle of Penbroke generall of his fathers armie brought this yoong prince with his brother and sisters vnto Glocester and there called a councell of all such lords as had taken part with king Iohn Anon after it was once openlie knowne that the sonnes and daughters of the late deceassed prince were brought into a place of safetie a great number of the lords and cheefe barons of the line 20 realme hasted thither I meane not onelie such as had holden with king Iohn but also diuerse other which vpon certeine knowledge had of his death were newlie reuolted from Lewes in purpose to aid yoong king Henrie to whome of right the crowne did apperteine Thither also came Uallo or Guallo the popes legat an earnest defender of the kings cause with Peter bishop of Winchester Iocelin bishop of Bath also Ranulph earle of Chester William Ferrers line 30 earle of Derbie Iohn Marshall and Philip de Albenie with diuerse other lords and peeres of the relme and a great number of abbats and priors who by and by fell to councell togither what waie should be best to take for the good order of things now in so doubtfull and perilous a time as this The péeres of the realme being thus assembled William earle of Penbroke bringing the yoong king into their presence and setting him before them spake these words following line 40 The earle of Penbroks short and sweet oration as it is borrowed out of maister Fox BEhold right honourable and welbeloued
At the day appointed there came to Uillefort the dukes of Brabant and Gelderland the earle of Heinault Gulike Namure Blackenheim Bergen sir Robert Dartois earle of Richmond the earle of Ualkenburgh and Iaques Arteueld with the other rulers of Flanders and manie others Here it was ordeined that the countries of Flanders Brabant and Heinault should be so vnited and knit in one corporation that nothing should be doone amongst them in publike affaires but by common consent line 40 and if anie warres were mooued against anie of them then should the other be readie to aid them against whome anie such warre was mooued and if vpon anie occasion anie discord rose betwixt them for anie matter they should make an end of it amongst themselues and if they could not then should they stand to the iudgement and arbitrement of the king of England vnto whome they bound themselues by oth to kéepe this ordinance and agréement The French king being informed that the king line 50 of England ment to laie siege vnto Tournie as it was indeed deuised at this councell holden at Uillefort tooke order for the furnishing thereof with men munition and vittels in most defensible wise There were sent to that towne the best men of warre in all France as the earle of Ewe constable of France the yoong earle of Guines his sonne the earle of Foiz and his brethren the earle Amerie de Narbon with manie other hauing with them foure thousand line 60 souldiers Sir Godmar du Foie was there before as capteine of the towne so that it was prouided of all things necessarie Howbeit the king of England according as it was appointed at the councell holden at Uillefort about the feast of Marie Magdalen departed from Gaunt and came to Tournie hauing with him seauen earles of his owne countrie as Darbie Penbroke Hereford Huntingdon Northampton Glocester and Arundell eight prelats eight and twentie baronets two hundred knights foure thousand men of armes and nine thousand archers besides other footmen He lodged at the gate called saint Martine in the waie that is toward Lisle and Dowaie Anon after came the dukes of Brabant and Gelderland the earle of Gulike the marquesse of Blanqueburgh the marquesse of Musse the earls of Bergen Sauines and Heinault also Iaques Arteueld who brought with him about fortie thousand Flemings So that there was at this siege to the number of six score thousand men as some writers affirme There was also an other armie of Flemings as of the townes of Ypres Popringue Furnes Cassell of the Chateleinie of Bergis being to the number of fortie thousand appointed to make warre against the Frenchmen that kept saint Omers and other townes there on the frontiers of Arthois which armie was led by the earle of Richmond otherwise called the lord Robert Dartois and by sir Henrie de Flanders the which approching one day to saint Omers were sharplie fought with for within saint Omers at that time laie a strong power of Frenchmen with the duke of Burgoine the earle of Arminacke and others The Flemings were not willing to serue for neither had they any trust in their capteine the said erle of Richmond neither would they willinglie haue passed out of their owne confines but onlie to defend the same from the inuasion of their enimies yet through much persuasion forward they went diuided into sundrie battels contrarie to their manner The enimies perceiuing some aduantage issued forth vpon them and assailed them verie stoutlie insomuch that the earle of Arminacke setting vpon them of Ypres ouerthrew them and chased them vnto a towne called Arques which they had a little before set on fire and burned An other companie of Frenchmen skirmishing with them of Franks Furnes and Bergis put them also to the worse Contrarilie those Frenchmen that encountered with the lord Robert Dartois and them of Bruges whome he led susteined great losse and were beaten backe into the citie the duke of Burgoine himselfe being in no small danger for a time so sharpe the bickering was betwixt them and the euent so variable Wherefore it is notablie and fitlie said in this behalfe that incerti fallax fiducia Martis There be that write that this fight continued from thrée of the clocke till euentide and that the earle of Richmond was twise put to flight for his people did leaue him in the plaine field but at length by the aduise of sir Thomas Uthred whome the king of England had appointed to attend the said earle with manie Englishmen and archers he assembled his people eftsoones togither againe and setting on his enimies Now when it was almost night neere to the gates of saint Omers he finallie ouercame them where were slaine of the French part fiftéene barons and fourescore knights beside a great number of other people Diuerse also were slaine on the earle of Richmonds part at this last encounter and among other an English knight that bare armes escheeked siluer and gules Finallie as the earle of Richmond returned towards his campe which laie in the vale of Cassell he met with certeine Artesines and Frenchmen which had béene chasing the other Flemings and though it was late in the euening that one could not take good view of an other yet here they fought againe and so diuerse of the Frenchmen were taken and killed and amongst other that were caught was a knight of Burgoine named sir William de Nillie But when the earle of Richmond and those that were with him came to the place where the campe laie they found that all the residue of the Flemings were fled and gone And when the said earle came to Cassell the people were readie to haue slaine him their former malice towards him being now much increased with the euill successe of this passed enterprise so that he was glad to get him thence and to repaire vnto king Edward that laie yet at the siege before Tournie during which siege manie proper feats of armes were doone betwixt those within and them without for few daies passed without the atchiuing of some enterprise Also the French king hauing made his assemblie at Arras and got thither a mightie host as well out of the empire as of his owne subiects came and lodged line 10 at the bridge of Bouuins thrée leagues from Tournie There were with him the king of Bohem the duke of Lorreine the bishop of Mentz the earles of Bar mount Belliard Sauoie also the dukes of Burgogne and Burbone with a great number of other earles and lords so that the greatest puissance of all France was iudged to be there with the king Whilest he laie incamped thus at Bouuins and the king of England at Tournie manie exploits were atchiued betwixt their people who laie not idle but line 20 still rode abroad and oftentimes met and then that part which was weakest paied for the others charges so that manie were slaine taken
euerie daie serued at the table with costlie meat like a king to the intent that no creature should suspect anie thing doone contrarie to the order taken in the parlement and when the meat was set before him he was forbidden once to touch it yea he was not permitted so much as to smell to it and so he died of forced famine ¶ But Thomas Walsingham is so farre from imputing his death to compulsorie famine that he referreth it altogither to voluntarie pining of himselfe For when he heard that the complots and attempts of such his fauourers as sought his restitution and their owne aduancement adnihilated and the chéefe agents shamefullie executed â—e tooke such a conceit at these misfortunes for so Thomas Walsingham termeth them and was so beaten out of bart that wilfullie he starued himselfe and so died in Pomfret castell on S. Ualentines daie a happie daie to him for it was the beginning of his ease and the ending of his paine so that death was to him daintie and swéet as the poet saith and that verie well in bréefe Dulce mori miseris Neque est melius morte in malis rebus One writer which seemeth to haue great knowledge of king Richards dooings saith that king Henrie sitting on a daie at his table sore sighing said Haue I no faithfull fréend which will deliuer me line 10 of him whose life will be my death and whose death will be the preseruation of my life This saieng was much noted of them which were present and especiallie of one called sir Piers of Exton This knight incontinentlie departed from the court with eight strong persons in his companie and came to Pomfret commanding the esquier that was accustomed to sew and take the assaie before king Richard to doo so no more saieng Let him eat now for he shall not long eat King Richard sat downe to dinner and line 20 was serued without courtesie or assaie wherevpon much maruelling at the sudden change he demanded of the esquier whie he did not his dutie Sir said he I am otherwise commanded by sir Piers of Exton which is newlie come from K. Henrie When king Richard heard that word he tooke the keruing knife in his hand and strake the esquier on the head saieng The diuell take Henrie of Lancaster and thée togither And with that word sir Piers entred the chamber well armed with eight tall men likewise armed line 30 euerie of them hauing a bill in his hand King Richard perceiuing this put the table from him steping to the formost man wrung the bill out of his hands so valiantlie defended himselfe that he slue foure of those that thus came to assaile him Sir Piers being halfe dismaied herewith lept into the chaire where king Richard was woont to sit while the other foure persons fought with him and chased him about the chamber And in conclusion as king Richard trauersed his ground from one side of the line 40 chamber to an other comming by the chaire where sir Piers stood he was felled with a stroke of a pollar which sir Piers gaue him vpon the head and therewiâ—h rid him out of life without giuing him respit once to call to God for mercie of his passed offenses It is said that sir Piers of Exton after he had thus slaine him wept right bitterlie as one striken with the pricke of a giltie conscience for murthering him whome he had so long time obeied as king After he was thus dead his bodie was imbalmed and line 50 séered and couered with lead all saue the face to the intent that all men might sée him and perceiue that he was departed this life for as the corps was conueied from Pomfret to London in all the townes and places where those that had the conueiance of it did staie with it all night they caused dirige to be soong in the euening and masse of Requiem in the morning and as well after the one seruice as the other his face discouered was shewed to all that coueted to behold it line 60 Thus was the corps first brought to the Tower and after through the citie to the cathedrall church of saint Paule bare faced where it laie thrée daies togither that all men might behold it There was a solemne obsequie doone for him both at Paules and after at Westminster at which time both at dirige ouernight and in the morning at the masse of Requiem the king and the citizens of London were present When the same was ended the corps was commanded to be had vnto Langlie there to be buried in the church of the friers preachers The bishop of Chester the abbats of saint Albons and Waltham celebrated the exequies for the buriall none of the nobles nor anie of the commons to accompt of being present neither was there anie to bid them to dinner after they had laid him in the ground and finished the funerall seruice He was after by king Henrie the fiâ—â— remooued to Westminster and there honorablie intoomed with quéene Anne his wife although the Scots vntruelie write that he escaped out of prison and led a vertuous and a solitarie life in Scotland and there died is buried as they hold in the blacke friers at Sterling ¶ But Fabian and others doo as it were point out the place of his interrement saieng that he lieth intoomed on the south side of saint Edwards shrine with an epitaph expressing partlie his proportion of bodie and partlie his properties of mind as after followeth in a rimed hexastichon Prudens mundus Richardus iure secundus Per fatum victus iacet hîc sub marmore pictus Verax sermone fuit plenus ratione Corpore procerus animo prudens vt Homerus Ecclesiae fauit elatos suppeditauit Quemuis prostrauit regalia qui violauit When the newes of king Richards deposing was reported in France king Charles and all his court woondering detested and abhorred such an iniurie doone to an annointed king to a crowned prince and to the head of a realme but in especiall Walerane earle of saint Paule which had married king Richards halfe sister mooued with great disdaine towards king Henrie ceassed not to stirre king Charles his councell to make warres against the Englishmen and he himselfe sent letters of defiance into England The earles sute was easilie agréed vnto and an armie roiall appointed with all speed to inuade England The armie was come downe into Picardie redie to be transported into England but when it was certeinelie knowen that king Richard was dead and that the enterprise of his deliuerance which was chéeflie meant was frustrate and void the armie was dissolued But when the certeintie of K. Richards death was intimate to the Gascoignes the most part of the wisest men of the countrie were right pensiue for they iudged verelie that hereby the English nation should be brought to dishonour and losse of their ancient fame and
to Iohn duke of Summerset which ladie was afterward moother to king Henrie the seauenth and besides that caused the king to line 50 create Iohn de Fois sonne vnto Gaston de Fois earle of Longuile and the Capdau de Beufe earle of Kendall which Iohn had married his néece and by his procurement the king elected to the order of the garter the said Gaston and Iohn his sonne giuing to the sonne towards the maintenance of his degrée lands and castels amounting to the summs of one thousand pounds which lands name and stile the issue and line of the said earle of Kendall at this daie haue and inioy line 60 These things being thus in dooing the French king seeing that the towne of Mans was not deliuered according to the appointment taken by force of the marriage raised an armie for to recouer the same Whereof the king of England being aduertised least the breach of the truce should come by him caused the towne to be deliuered without anie force This yeare was a great commotion in Norwich against the prior of the place At length the citizens opened the gates to the duke of Norffolke who came thither to appease the matter though at the first they would not suffer him to enter The chéefe offendors were according to their demerits gréeuouslie punished and executed and the maior was discharged of his office and sir Iohn Clifton was made gouernour there vntill the king had restored the citizens to their ancient liberties This commotion was begun for certeine new exactions which the prior claimed and tooke of the citizens contrarie to their ancient fréedome But herein a wrong taken for getting of right was worthilie corrected ¶ In the foure and twentith yeare of this kings reigne the prior of Kilmaine appeached the earle of Ormond of treason For triall whereof the place of combat was assigned in Smithfield the barriers for the same there readie pitcht Howbeit in the meane time a doctor of diuinitie named maister Gilbert Worthington parson of saint Andrews in Holborne and other honest men made such sute with diligent labour and paines-taking to the kings councell that when the daie of combat approched the quarell was taken into the kings hands and there ended ¶ In the same yeare also a certeine armourer was appeached of treason by a seruant of his owne For proofe whereof a daie was giuen them to fight in Smithfield insomuch that in conflict the said armourer was ouercome and slaine but yet by misgouerning of himselfe For on the morow when he should come to the field fresh and fasting his neighbours came to him and gaue him wine and strong drinke in such excessiue sort that he was therewith distempered and réeled as he went and so was slaine without guilt As for the false seruant he liued not long vnpunished for being conuict of felonie in court of assise he was iudged to be hanged and so was at Tiburne Whilest the warres betwéene the two nations of England France ceassed by occasion of the truce the minds of men were not so quiet but that such as were bent to malicious reuenge sought to compasse their prepensed purpose not against forren foes and enimies of their countrie but against their owne countrie men and those that had deserued verie well of the common-wealth and this speciallie for ouermuch mildnesse in the king who by his authoritie might haue ruled both parts and ordered all differences betwixt them but that in déed he was thought too soft for gouernor of a kingdome The quéene contrariwise a ladie of great wit and no lesse courage desirous of honour and furnished with the gifts of reason policie and wisedome but yet sometime according to hir kind when she had béene fullie bent on a matter suddenlie like a weather cocke mutable and turning This ladie disdaining that hir husband should be ruled rather than rule could not abide that the duke of Glocester should doo all things concerning the order of weightie affaires least it might be said that she had neither wit nor stomach which would permit and suffer hir husband being of most perfect age like a yoong pupill to be gouerned by the direction of an other man Although this toy entered first into hir braine thorough hir owne imagination yet was she pricked forward to the matter both by such of hir husbands counsell as of long time had borne malice to the duke for his plainnesse vsed in declaring their vntruth as partlie ye haue heard and also by counsell from king Reiner hir father aduising that she and the king should take vpon them the rule of the realme and not to be kept vnder as wards and mastered orphanes What néedeth manie words The quéene persuaded by these meanes first of all excluded the duke of Glocester from all rule and gouernance not prohibiting such as she knew to be his mortall foes to inuent and imagine causes and gréefs against him and his insomuch that by hir procurement diuerse noble men conspired against him Of the which diuerse writers affirme the marquesse of Suffolke and the duke of Buckingham to be the chéefe not vnprocured by the cardinall of Winchester and the archbishop of Yorke Diuerse articles were laid against him in open councell and in especiallie one That he had caused men adiudged to die to be put to other execution than the law of the land assigned Suerlie the duke verie well learned in the law ciuill detesting malefactors and punishing offenses in seueritie of iustice gat him hatred of such as feared condigne reward line 10 for their wicked dooings And although the duke sufficientlie answered to all things against him obiected yet because his death was determined his wisedome and innocencie nothing auailed But to auoid danger of tumult that might be raised if a prince so well beloued of the people should be openlie executed his enimies determined to worke their feats in his destruction yer he should haue anie warning For effecting whereof a parlement was summoned to be kept at Berrie year 1447 whither resorted all line 20 the péeres of the realme and amongst them the duke of Glocester which on the second daie of the session was by the lord Beaumont then high constable of England accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and others arrested apprehended and put in ward and all his seruants sequestred from him and thirtie two of the chéefe of his retinue were sent to diuerse prisons to the great admiration of the people The duke the night after he was thus committed to prison being the foure and twentith of Februarie line 30 was found dead in his bed and his bodie shewed to the lords and commons as though he had died of a palsie or of an imposteme But all indifferent persons as saith Hall might well vnderstand that he died of some violent death Some iudged him to be strangled some affirme that an hot spit was put in at his fundament
manie a plage which otherwise might haue béene aucided All which battels togither with those that were tried betweene Edward the fourth after his inthronization and Henrie the sixt after his extermination as at Exham Doncaster and Teukesburie are remembred by Anglorum praelia in good order of pithie poetrie as followeth Nobilitata inter plures haec sunt loca caede Albani fanum Blorum borealis Ampton Banbrecum campis Barnettum collibus haerens Experrectorum pagus fanúmque seâ—undò Albani propior Scoticis confinibus Exam Contiguóque istis habitantes rure coloni Moerentes hodie quoties proscindit arator Arua propinqua locis dentale reuellere terra Semisepulta virûm sulcis Cerealibus ossa Moesta execrantur planctu ciuile duellum Quo periere â—ominum plus centum millia caesa Nobile Todcastrum clades accepta coegit Millibus enectis ter denis nomen habere Vltima postremae locus est Teuxburia pugnae Oppidulis his accedens certissima testis Bello intestino sluuios fluxisse cruoris But now before we procéed anie further sith the reigne of king Henrie maie séeme here to take end we will specifie some such learned men as liued in his time Iohn Leland surnamed the elder in respect of the other Iohn Leland that painefull antiquarie of our time wrote diuerse treatises for the instruction of grammarians Iohn Hainton a line 10 Carmelit or white frier as they called them of Lincolne Robert Colman a Franciscane frier of Norwich and chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford William White a priest of Kent professing the doctrine of Wickliffe and forsaking the order of the Romane church married a wife but continued his office of preaching till at length in the yeare 1428 he was apprehended and by William bishop of Norwich and the doctors of the friers mendicants charged with thirtie articles which he mainteined contrarie line 20 to the doctrine of the Romane church and in September the same yeare suffered death by fire Alexander Carpentar a learned man set foorth a booke called Destructorium vitiorum wherein he inueieth against the prelats of the church of that time for their crueltie vsed in persecuting the poore and godlie christians Richard Kendall an excellent grammarian Iohn Bate warden of the white friers in Yorke but borne in the borders of Wales an excellent philosopher and a diuine he was also séene in the line 30 Gréeke toong a thing rare in those daies Peter Basset esquier of the priuie chamber to king Henrie the fift whose life he wrote Iohn Pole a priest that wrote the life of saint Walburgh daughter to one Richard a noble man of this realme of England which Walburgh as he affirmeth builded our ladie church in Antwerpe Thomas Ismaelit a monke of Sion Walter Hilton a Chartreaux monke also of Shiene either of those wrote certeine treatises full of superstition as Iohn Bale noteth line 40 Thomas Walden so called of the towne where he was borne but his fathers surname was Netter a white frier of London and the thrée and twentith prouinciall gouernour of his order a man vndoubtedlie learned and thoroughlie furnished with cunning of the schooles but a sore enimie to them that professed the doctrine of Wickliffe writing sundrie great volumes and treatises against them he died at Rone in Normandie the second of Nouember in line 50 the yeare one thousand foure hundred and thirtie Richard Ullerston borne in Lancashire wrote diuerse treatises of diuinitie Peter Clearke a student in Oxenford and a defendor of Wickliffes doctrine wherevpon when he feared persecution here in England he fled into Boheme but yet at length he was apprehended by the imperialists and died for it as some write but in what order is not expressed Robert Hounslow a religious man of an house in Hounslow beside London whereof he tooke his line 60 surname Thomas Walsingham borne in Norffolke in a towne there of the same name but professed a monke in the abbeie of saint Albons a diligent historiographer Iohn Tilneie a white frier of Yermouth but a student in Cambridge and prooued an excellent diuine Richard Fleming a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford of whome more at large before pag. 604. Iohn Low borne in Worcestershire an Augustine frier a doctor of diuinitie and prouinciall in England of his order and by king Henrie the sixt made first bishop of saint Asaph and after remooued from thense to Rochester Thomas Ringsted the yoonger not the same that was bishop but a doctor of the law and vicar of Mildenhall in Suffolke a notable preacher and wrote diuerse treatises Iohn Felton a doctor of diuinitie of Madgdalen college in Oxenford Nicholas Botlesham a Carmelit frier borne in Cambridgeshire and student first in the vniuersitie of Cambridge and after in Paris where he proceeded doctor of diuinitie Thomas Rudburne a monke of Winchester and an historiographer Iohn Holbrooke borne in Surrie a great philosopher and well séene in the mathematiks Peter Paine an earnest professor of Wickliffes doctrine and fearing persecution here in England fled into Boheme where he remained in great estimation for his great learning no lesse wisedome Nicholas Upton a ciuilian wrote of heraldrie of colours in armorie and of the dutie of chiualrie William Beckeleie a Carmelit frier of Sandwich warden of the house there a diuine and professed degree of schoole in Cambridge Iohn Torpe a Carmelit frier of Norwich Iohn Capgraue borne in Kent and Augustine frier procéeded doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford was admitted prouinciall of his order and prooued without controuersie the best learned of anie of that order of friers here in England as Iohn Bale affirmeth he wrote manie notable volumes and finallie departed this life at Lin in Norffolke the twelfth of August in the yere 1464 which was in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth Humâ—rie duke of Glocester earle of Penbroke and lord chamberlaine of England also protector of the realme during the minoritie of his nephue king Henrie the sixt was both a great fauourer of learned men and also verie well learned himselfe namelie in astrologie whereof beside other things he wrote a speciall treatise intituled Tabula directionum Iohn Whethamsted otherwise called Frumentarius was abbat of saint Albons and highlie in fauor with the good duke of Glocester last remembred he wrote diuerse treatises and among others a booke as it were of the records of things chancing whilest he was abbat which booke I haue séene and partlie in some parcell of this kings time haue also followed Roger Onleie borne in the west countrie as Bale thinketh was accused of treason for practising with the ladie Eleanor Cobham by sorcerie to make the king awaie and was thereof condemned and died for it though he were innocent thereof as some haue thought he wrote a treatise intituled Contra vulgi superstitiones also another De sua innocentia Nicholas Cantlow a Welshman borne descended of an ancient familie in Southwales as by
they said afterward that that prophesie lost not his effect when after king Edward Glocester vsurped his kingdome Other alledged that the cause of his death was for that the duke being destitute of a wife by the meanes of his sister the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie procured to haue the ladie Marie daughter and heire to hir husband duke Charles line 60 Which marriage king Edward enuieng the prosperitie of his brother both gaine said and disturbed and thereby old malice reuiued betwixt them which the quéene and hir bloud euer mistrusting and priuilie barking at the kings Image ceassed not to increase But sure it is that although king Edward were consenting to his death yet he much did both lament his infortunate chance repent his sudden execution insomuch that when anie person sued to him for the pardon of malefactors condemned to death he would accustomablie saie openlie speake Oh infortunate brother for whose life not one would make sute Openlie and apparantlie meaning by such words that by the meanes of some of the nobilitie he was deceiued and brought to confusion This duke left behind him two yoong infants begot of the bodie of his wife the daughter of Richard late earle of Warwike which children by destinie as it were or by their owne merits following the steps of their ancestors succéeded them in like misfortune and semblable euill chance For Edward his heire whom king Edward had created earle of Warwike was thrée and twentie yeares after in the time of Henrie the seauenth atteinted of treason and on the Tower hill lost his head Margaret his sole daughter maried to sir Richard Pole knight and by Henrie the eight restored to the name title possessions of the earledome of Salisburie was at length for treason committed against the said Henrie the eight atteinted in open parlement and sixtie two yeares after hir father had suffered death in the Tower she on the greene within the same place was beheaded In whose person died the verie surname of Plantagenet which from Geffrie Plantagenet so long in the bloud roiall of this realme had florished and continued After the death of this duke by reason of great heat and distemperance of aire happened so fierce quicke a pestilence that fiftéene yeares warre past consumed not the third part of the people that onelie foure moneths miserablie and pitifullie dispatched brought to their graues So that if the number had béene kept by multiplieng of vnities out of them to haue raised a complet number it would haue mooued matter of verie great admiration But it should séeme that they were infinit if consideration be had of the comparison inferred for the more effectuall setting foorth of that cruell and ceaselesse contagion And suerlie it soundeth to reason that the pestilence should fetchawaie so manie thousands as in iudgement by proportion of fiftéene yeares warre one maie gather and manie more too For euerie man knoweth that in warres time place persons and meanes are limited time of warre begun and ended place circumscribed persons imbattelled and weapons also whereby the fight is tried so that all these haue their limitations beyond which they haue no extent But the pestilence being a generall infection of the aire an element ordeined to mainteine life though it haue a limitation in respect of the totall compasse of the world yet whole climats maie be poisoned and it were not absurd to saie that all and euerie part of the aire maie be pestilentlie corrupted and so consequentlie not limited wherefore full well it maie be said of the pestilence procuring so great a depopulation as one saith of surfetting Ense cadunt multi perimit sed crapula plures The councellors of the yoong duchesse of Burgoggnie sent to K. Edward for aid against the French king About the same time had the queene of England sent to the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie for the preferrement of hir brother Anthonie erle Riuers to the yoong damsell But the councell of Flanders considering that he was but an earle of meane estate and she the greatest inheritrice of all christendome at that time gaue but deafe eare to so vnméet a request To which desire if the Flemings had but giuen a liking eare by outward semblance and with gentle words delaied the sute she had beene both succoured and defended Whether king Edward was not contented with this refusall or that he was loth to breake with the French king he would in no wise consent to send an armie into Flanders against the French king but yet he sent ambassadours to him with louing and gentle letters requiring him to grow to some reasonable order agréement with the yoong duchesse of Burgognie or at the least to take a truce with hir at his request The ambassadours of England were highlie receiued bountifullie feasted and liberallie rewarded but answer to their desire had they none sauing that shortlie after the French king would send ambassadours hostages and pledges to the king of England their maister for the perfecting and concluding of all things depending betweene them two so that their souereigne lord they should haue cause to be contented and pleased These faire words were onelie delaies to driue time vntill he might haue space line 10 to spoile the yoong damsell of hir townes and countries And beside this to staie king Edward from taking part with hir he wrote to him that if he would ioine with him in aid he should haue and inioie to him and his heires the whole countie countrie of Flanders discharged of homage superioritie and resort to be claimed by the French king or his successors He also wrote that he should haue the whole duchie of Brabant whereof the French king offered at his line 20 owne cost and charge to conquer foure of the chiefest and strongest townes within the said duchie them in quiet possession to deliuer to the king of England granting further to paie him ten thousand angels toward his charges with munitions of warre and artillerie which he promised to lend him with men and carriage for the conueiance of the same The king of England refused to make anie warres against those countries that were thus offered to him but if the French king would make him partner line 30 of his conquests in Picardie rendering to him part of the townes alreadie gotten as Bologne Monsterell and Abuile then he would suerlie take his part and aid him with men at his owne costs and charges Thus passed faire words and golden promises betwéene these two princes and in the meane time the yoong duchesse of Burgognie was spoiled of hir townes castels territories till at length for maintenance she condescended to marrie with Maximilian line 40 sonne to the emperour Frederike that he might kéepe the woolfe from the fold King Edward in the ninetéenth yeare of his reigne began more than he was before accustomed to serch the forfeiture of penall
you loue them if ech of you hate other if they were men your faithfulnesse happilie would suffice But childhood must be mainteined by mens authoritie and slipper youth vnderpropped with elder counsell which neither they can haue but ye giue it nor ye giue it if ye gree not For where ech laboureth to breake that the other maketh and for hatred of ech of others person impugneth ech others counsell there must it needs be long yet anie good conclusion go forward And also while either partie laboureth to be cheefe flatterie shall haue more place than plaine and faithfull aduise of which must needs insue the euill bringing vp of the prince whose mind in tender youth infect shall redilie fall to mischeefe and riot and draw downe with his noble relme to ruine But if grace turne him to wisedome which if God send then they that by euill meanes before pleased him best shall after fall furthest out of fauour so that euer at length euill drifts shall draw to nought and good plaine waies prosper Great variance hath there long beene betweene you not alwaie for great causes Sometimes a thing right well intended our misconstruction turneth vnto woorse or a small displeasure doone vs either our owne affection or euill toongs aggreeueth But this wot I well ye neuer had so great cause of hatred as ye haue of loue That we be all men that we be christian men this shall I leaue for preachers to tell you and yet I wot neere whether anie preachers words ought more to mooue you than his that is by by going to the place that they all preach of But this shall I desire you to remember that the one part of you is of my bloud the other of mine alies and ech of you with other either of kinred or affinitie which spirituall kinred of affinitie if the sacraments of Christs church beare that weight with vs that would God they did should no lesse mooue vs to charitie than the respect of fleshlie consanguinitie Our Lord forbid that you loue together the woorse for the selfe cause that you ought to loue the better And yet that happeneth and no where find we so deadlie debate as among them which by nature and law most ought to agree togither Such a pestilent serpent is ambition and desire of vaine glorie and souereigntie which among states where she once entereth creepeth foorth so farre till with diuision and variance she turneth all to mischeefe first longing to be next vnto the best afterward equall with the best at last cheefe and aboue the best Of which immoderat appetite of worship and thereby of debate and dissention what losse what sorow what trouble hath within these few yeares growne in this realme I praie God as well forget as we well remember Which things if I could as well haue foreseene as I haue with my more paine than pleasure prooued by Gods blessed ladie that was euer his oth I would neuer haue woone the courtesie of mens knees with the losse of so manie heads But sithens things passed can not be gaine called much ought we the more beware by what occasion we haue taken so great hurt afore that we eftsoones fall not in that occasion againe Now be those greefs passed and all is God be thanked quiet and likelie right well to prosper in wealthfull peace vnder your coosins my children if God send them life and you loue Of which two things the lesse losse were they by whom though God did his pleasure yet should the realme alwaie find kings and peraduenture as good kings But if you among your selues in a childs reigne fall at debate manie a good man shall perish and happilie he too and ye too yer this land find peace againe Wherfore line 10 in these last words that euer I looke to speake with you I exhort you and require you all for the loue that you haue euer borne to me for the loue that I haue euer borne vnto you for the loue that our Lord beareth to vs all from this time forward all greefs forgotten ech of you loue other Which I verelie trust you will if ye anie thing earthlie regard either God or your line 20 king affinitie or kinred this realme your owne countrie or your owne suertie And therewithall the king no longer induring to sit vp laid him downe on his right side his face towards them and none was there present that could refraine from weeping But the lords recomforting him with as good line 30 words as they could and answering for the time as they thought to stand with his pleasure there in his presence as by their words appeared ech forgaue other and ioined their hands togither when as it after appeared by their deeds their hearts were farre asunder As soone as the king was departed the noble prince his sonne drew toward London which at the time of his deceasse kept his houshold at Ludlow in Wales which countrie being farre off from the law and recourse to iustice was begun to be farre out of line 40 good rule and waren wild robbers and reauers walking at libertie vncorrected And for this occasion the prince was in the life of his father sent thither to the end that the authoritie of his presence should refraine euill disposed persons from the boldnesse of their former outrages To the gouernance and ordering of this yoong prince at his sending thither was there appointed sir Anthonie Wooduile lord Riuers and brother vnto the queene a right honourable man as valiant of line 50 hand as politike in counsell Adioined were there vnto him other of the same partie and in effect euerie one as he was néerest of kin vnto the queene so was he planted next about the prince That drift by the queene not vnwiselie deuised whereby hir bloud might of youth be rooted into the princes fauour the duke of Glocester turned vnto their destruction and vpon that ground set the foundation of all his vnhappie building For whome soeuer he perceiued either at variance with them or bearing himselfe their line 60 fauour he brake vnto them some by mouth some by writing Nay he sent secret messengers saieng that it neither was reason nor in anie wise to be suffered that the yoong king their maister and kinsman should be in the hands and custodie of his moothers kinred sequestred in maner from their companie and attendance of which euerie one ought him as faithfull seruice as they and manie of them farre more honourable part of kin than his moothers side Whose bloud quoth he sauing the kings pleasure was full vnméetelie to be matched with his which now to be as who say remooued from the king and the lesse noble to be left about him is quoth he neither honourable to his maiestie nor to vs and also to his grace no suertie to haue the mightiest of his fréends from him and vnto vs no little ieopardie to suffer our well prooued
was a verie well spoken man in goodlie wise to excuse himselfe they tarried not the end of his answer but shortlie tooke him and put him in ward and that doone foorthwith went to horssebacke and tooke the waie to Stonie Stratford where they found the king with his companie readie to leape on horssebacke and depart forward to leaue that lodging for them bicause it was too streight for both companies And assoone as they came in his presence they light adowne with all their companie about them To whome the duke of Buckingham said Go afore gentlemen yeomen kéepe your roomes And thus in a goodlie araie they came to the king and on their knées in verie humble wise saluted his grace which receiued them in verie ioious and amiable manner nothing earthlie knowing nor mistrusting as yet But euen by and by in his presence they piked a quarrell to the lord Richard Greie the kings other brother by his mother saieng that he with the lord marquesse his brother the lord Riuers his vncle had compassed to rule the king and the realme and to set variance among the states and to subdue and destroie the noble bloud of the Realme Toward the accōplishing wherof they said that the lord marquesse had entered into the Tower of London thence taken out the kings treasure and sent men to the sea All which things these dukes wist well were doone for good purposes and necessarie by the whole councell at London sauing that somewhat they must saie Unto which words the king answered What my brother marquesse hath doone I cannot saie but in good faith I dare well answer for mine vncle Riuers and my brother here that they be innocent of anie such matter Yea my liege quoth the duke of Buckingham they haue kept their dealing in these matters farre fro the knowledge of your good grace And foorthwith they arested the lord Richard and sir Thomas Uaughan knight in the kings presence and brought the king and all backe vnto Northampton where they tooke againe further counsell And there they sent awaie from the king whom it pleased them and set new seruants about him such as liked better them than him At which dealing he wept and was nothing content but it booted not And at dinner the duke of Glocester sent a dish from his owne table vnto the lord Riuers praieng him to be of good chéere all should be well inough And he thanked the duke and praied the messenger to beare it to his nephue the lord Richard with the same message for his comfort who he thought had more néed of comfort as one to whome such aduersitie was strange But himselfe had béene all his daies in vre therewith therefore could beare it the better But for all this comfortable courtesie of the duke of Glocester he sent the lord Riuers and the lord Richard with sir Thomas Uaughan into the north countrie into diuerse places to prison and afterward all to Pomfret where they were in conclusion beheaded In this wise the duke of Glocester tooke vpon himselfe the order and gouernance of the yoong king whome with much honor and humble reuerence he conueied vpward towards the citie But anon the tidings of this matter came hastilie to the queene a a little before the midnight following and that in the sorest wise that the king hir son was taken hir brother hir sonne hir other fréends arrested and sent no man wist whither to be doone with God wot what With which tidings the quéene in great flight heauinesse bewailing hir childes reigne hir freends mischance and hir owne infortune damning the time that euer she dissuaded the gathering of power about the king gat hir selfe in all the hast possible with hir yoonger sonne and hir daughters out of the palace of Westminster in which she then laie into the sanctuarie lodging hir selfe and hir companie there in the abbats place Now came there one in likewise not long after midnight from the lord chamberleine to doctor Rotheram the archbishop of Yorke then chancellor of England to his place not farre from Westminster And for that he shewed his seruants that he had tidings of so great importance that his maister gaue him in charge not to forbeare his rest they letted not to wake him nor he to admit this messenger in to his bed side Of whom he heard that these dukes were gone backe with the kings grace from Stonie Stratford vnto Northampton Notwithstanding sir quoth he my lord sendeth your lordship word that there is no feare for he assureth you that all shall be well I assure him quoth the archbishop be it as well as it will it will neuer be so well as we haue seene it And therevpon by and by after the messenger departed line 10 he caused in all the hast all his seruants to be called vp and so with his owne houshold about him and euerie man weaponed he tooke the great seale with him and came yet before daie vnto the queene About whom he found much heauinesse rumble hast and businesse cariage and conueiance of hir stuffe into sanctuarie chests coffers packs fardels trussed all on mens backs no man vnoccupied some lading some going some discharging some comming for more some breaking downe the walles to bring line 20 in the next waie and some yet drew to them that holpe to carrie a wrong waie such made their lucre of others losse praising a bootie aboue beautie to whome the poets verse may be well applied to wit Ferrea non Venerem sed praedam saecula laudant The quéene hir selfe sate alone alow on the rushes all desolate and dismaid whome the archbishop comforted in best manner he could shewing hir that he trusted the matter was nothing so sore as she tooke it for and that he was put in good hope and out of feare line 30 by the message sent him from the lord chamberleine Ah wo woorth him quoth she for he is one of them that laboreth to destroie me and my bloud Madame quoth he be yée of good chéere for I assure you if they crowne anie other king than your sonne whome they now haue with them we shall on the morow crowne his brother whome you haue here with you And here is the great seale which in likewise as that noble prince your husband deliuered it vnto me so here I deliuer it vnto you to the vse and behoofe of your line 40 sonne and therewith he betooke hir the great seale and departed home againe yet in the dawning of the daie By which time he might in his chamber window sée all the Thames full of boates of the duke of Glocesters seruants watching that no man should go to sanctuarie nor none could passe vnsearched Then was there great commotion and murmur as well in other places about as speciallie in the citie the people diuerslie diuining vpon this dealing And line 50 some lords knights and gentlemen either for fauour
citie of his realme Then he led him from Bainards castell by Cheape to Barking and so returned by Watling street againe during which time there was shot out of the Tower a woonderfull peale of ordinance But he would not enter into the Tower bicause as ye haue heard before he had aduowed not to enter the fortresse of anie forren prince in the which a garrison was mainteined From London the king brought line 50 him to Richmond where manie notable feates of armes were prooued both of tilt turnie and barriers In the meane season the erle of Suffolke perceiuing what hope was to be had in forreine princes and trusting that after his life to him once granted king Henrie would 〈◊〉 set him at his full libertie was in maner contented to returne againe vnto his 〈…〉 〈…〉 and in the falling the same eagle brake and battered an other eagle that was set vp for a signe at a tauerne doore in Cheapeside Herevpon men that were giuen to gesse things that should happen by marking of strange tokens déemed that the emperour Maximilian which gaue the eagle should suffer some great misfortune as he did shortlie after by the losse of his sonne the said king Philip. ¶ And suerlie these prodigious accidents are not to be omitted as matter of course for they haue their weight and shew their truth in the issue Examples in this booke be diuerse among which one is verie memorable mentioned in the thirtie ninth yeare of Henrie the sixt At what time the duke of Yorke making an oration to the lords of the parlement for the iustifieng of his title to the crowne it chanced that a crowne which hoong in the middle of the nether house to garnish a branch to set lights vpon without touch of man or blast of wind suddenlie fell downe About which season also fell downe the crowne which stood on the top of Douer castell Which things were construed to be signes that the crowne of the realme should some waie haue a fall and so it came to passe And bicause the euents of these foreshewes had their truth as manie more of the like nature it shall not be amisse here to ad by waie of digression what hath béene obserued in former ages by forren writers in and about such foretokens The consent of the heauens and of men pronounced to Italie their calamities to come for that such as made profession to haue iudgement either by science or diuine inspiration in the things to come assured with one voice that there were in preparing both more great mutations and more strange and horrible accidents than for manie worlds before had béene discerned in anie part or circuit of the earth There were seene in the night in Pouille thrée suns in the middest of the firmament but manie clouds about them with right fearefull thunders and lightnings In the territorie of Aretze were visiblie seene passing in the aire infinit numbers of armed men vpon mightie horsses with a terrible noise of drums and trumpets The images figures of saints did sweat in manie parts of Italie In euerie place of the countrie were brought foorth manie monsters of men and other creatures with manie other things against the order of nature concurring all at one time but in diuerse places by means wherof the people were caried into incredible feares being alreadie amazed with the brute of the French powers furie of that nation with which according to the testimonie of histories they had aforetime run ouer all Italie sacked and made desolate with fire and sword the citie of Rome and subdued in Asia manie prouinces and generallie no part of the world which had not felt the vertue of their armes But albeit these iudgements are oftentimes fallible and rather coniectures vncerteine than effects happening yet the accidents that drew on brought to them in the spirits of fraile men an absolute faith credit religion So that there is in foreshe was matter of moment worthie to be obserued howsoeuer the world 〈◊〉 asléep in the lap of securitâ—e â—s touched with no feare of change But alas the Heathen could see the coâ—trarâ—e and therefore sai◠〈…〉 they were commanded to the Tower But shortlie after when they had béene tried and purged of that suspicion he commanded them both to be set at libertie But sir Thomas Gréene fell sicke before and remained in the Tower in hope to be restored to his health as well as to his libertie but by death he was preuented And here bicause it is good to see the consent of histories in the report of accidents it shall not be amisse to repeat the entier relation of a late writer stranger touching this casualtie which befell line 10 to king Philip in such sort to be cast vpon the English coasts as also the promise of the said king to deliuer the duke of Suffolke into the hands of king Henrie with the cause as it is supposed why the king desired to haue him within his owne reach ¶ King Philip was imbarked to saile out of Flanders into Spaine with a great armie by sea and to reduce his going to a more facilitie and safetie for he feared least his father in law by the aid of the French would hinder his passage he practised the Spanish line 20 subtilties and agréed with him to leaue vnto him the managing and policie of the most part of affaires and that they shuld take in common the title of king of Spaine according to the example in the queenes time and lastlie that the reuenues and tributes should be diuided in an order certeine indifferent By reason of which accord his father in law notwithstanding he was not assured of the obseruation sent him into Flanders manie ships to furnish his voiage with the which hauing imbarked his wife and line 30 Ferdinand his second sonne he tooke his course into Spaine with forward winds which within two dais turning cleane contrarie after his nauie had runne a dangerous fortune and made a wearie resistance against the furie of the sea his ships were cast vpon sundrie coasts of England and Britaine his owne person with two or thrée ships being driuen with manifest perill vpon England into the hauen of South-hampton Whereof Henrie the seuenth then king of that line 40 nation being aduertised sent to him with spéed manie barons to doo him honour and desire him to come to his court then at London a request which Philip could not denie the king of Englands demand beeing no lesse honourable than his owne estate full of necessitie and nakednesse He remained in the court of England vntill all his nauie was reassembled and eftsoones rigged making in the meane while betwéene them new capitulations wherein albeit Philip in all other things held himselfe vsed as a king yet line 50 in this one thing complained that he was constreined as a prisoner to consent to redeliuer to K. Henries hands the duke
The fiue and twentith daie of Aprill was proclamed that the kings grace ratified all the pardons granted by his father and also pardoned all such persons as were then in sute for anie offense whatsoeuer it was treason murther and fellonie onelie excepted And now whereas the performance of the deceassed kings will was thought right expedient with all spéed to be performed a proclamation was also set foorth and published thorough the realme that if anie man could prooue himselfe to be hurt and depriued of his goods wrongfullie by the commissioners of the forfeitures he should come and present his plaâ—nt to the king being readie to satisfie euerie one of all iniuries susteined After this proclamation was notified abroad all such as had béene constreined either by right or by wrong as Polydor saith to paie anie thing for anie forfeitures of lawes and customes by them transgressed came flocking to the court there declared their gréefs in what sort they had wrongfullie béene compelled as they surmised to paie this or that summe The councell heard euerie mans complaint and such as were found to haue paid anie thing without plaine proofe of iust cause they tooke such order for them that they had their monie againe Which being once knowne it was a strange thing to sée how thicke other came in yea euen those that had béene worthilie fined punished for their disorderlie transgressions making earnest sute for restitution feining and forging manie things to make their cause séeme good and to stand with equitie And the better to be heard in their sute they made friends as well with bribes and large gifts as otherwise leauing no waies vnassaied to compasse their desires Which gréedines in such multitude of suters brought the commissioners and others that had delt in the forfeitures into danger and did themselues no good for the councell perceiuing that it was not possible to satisfie them all refused to heare anie further complaints or sutes for restitution but thought it best to commit those to prison by whom the complainants pretended themselues to haue beene wronged And herevpon was sir Richard Empson knight and Edmund Dudleie esquier great councellors to the late king attached and brought to the Tower thereby to quiet mens minds that made such importunate sute to haue their monie againe restored which in the late kings daies they had béene compelled to disburse thorough the rigorous procéedings as they alleged of the said two councellors and others Trulie great exclamation was made against them as often happeneth that where anie thing is doone contrarie to the liking of the people those that be dealers vnder the prince and by his commandement procéed in the execution thereof run in hatred of the multitude But how so euer it was their apprehension and committing to prison was thought by the wise to be procured by the malice of them that line 10 in the late kings daies were offended with their authoritie Shortlie after as Edward Hall saith were apprehended diuerse other persons that were called promoters as Canbie Page Smith Derbie Wright Simson and Stocton of which the more part ware papers and stood on the pillorie And as an other saith who termeth them ringleaders of false quests in London they rode about the citie with their faces to the horsses tailes and papers on their heads and after they had beene set on the pillorie in Cornehill line 20 they were brought againe to Newgate where they died all within seauen daies after for verie shame When all things were prepared readie for the funerall of the late king his corps with all sumptuous pompe and solemne ceremonies was conueied from Richmond to saint Georges field where the clergie of the citie met it and at the bridge the maior and his brethren with manie commoners all clothed in blacke likewise met it and gaue their attendance on line 30 the same thorough the citie to the cathedrall church of saint Paule where was soong a solemne dirige and masse and a sermon made by the bishop of Rochester Iohn Fisher. The next daie the corps was had to Westminster and there the daie following put into the earth with all due solemnities as apperteined Notwithstanding this breefe remembrance of king Henries solemne funerall might seeme sufficient in the iudgement of some without further amplification yet bicause it is good in others opinion and line 40 those not of meanest wit to set downe things of state at large if conuenient helps thereto maie be had therefore you shall haue the whole solemnitie of the said roiall funerall as it is found recorded by Edward Hall After that all things saith he necessarie for the interrement and funerall pompe of the late king were sumptuouslie prepared and doone the corps of the said deceassed king was brought out of his priuie chamber into the great chamber where he rested line 50 thrée daies and euerie daie had there dirige and masse soong by a prelat mitred From thense he was conueied into the hall where he was also three daies and had like seruice there and so thrée daies in the chappell And in euerie of these thrée places was a hearse of wax garnished with baners and nine mourners giuing their attendance all the seruice time and euerie daie they offered and euerie place hanged with blacke cloth Upon Wednesdaie the ninth daie of Maie the corps was put into a charriot couered line 60 with blacke cloth of gold drawne with fiue great coursers all couered with blacke veluet garnished with cushins of fine gold and ouer the corps was an image or representation of the late king laied on cushins of gold and the said image was apparelled in the kings rich robes of estate with a crowne on the head with ball and scepter in the hands the charriot was garnished with baners and pencels of the armes of his dominions titles and genealogies When the charriot was thus ordered the kings chappell and a great number of prelats set forward praieng Then followed all the kings seruants in blacke then followed the charriot and after the charriot nine mourners and on euerie side were caried long torches short to the number of six hundred in this order they came to saint Georges field from Richmond There met with them all the préests and clerks and religious men within the citie without which went formost before the K. chappell The maior and his brethren with manie commoners all clothed in blacke met with the corps at London bridge and so gaue their attendance on the same through the citie And in good order the companies passed thorough the citie whereof the stréets on euerie side were set with long torches and on the stals stood yoong children holding tapers so with great reuerence the charriot was brought to the cathedrall church of S. Paule where the bodie was taken out and caried into the quire and set vnder a goodlie hearse of war garnished with baners
and thrée hundred thousand to bée defalked of the portion and to paie thrée hundred thousand more in the space of twelue yeares The French king also was bound that if the peace and the parentage folowed not to render vp againe into the hands of the English the towne of Tornaie Manie ambassadours were sent from both the realmes to negociat this league and to receiue the ratifications and othes by whome in the courts of both the kings the acts of the accord were dispatched with great solemnitie and ceremonie with a resolution of an interuiew of both the kings betwéene Calis and Bullongne immediatlie after the restitution of Tornaie About the same time the daughter of the French king appointed to be married to the king of Spaine being dead the former peace and capitulation was eftsoones reconfirmed betwéene them wherein was promised the marriage of the second daughter of France Both the kings celebrated this coniunction with most great demonstrations of perfect amitie for the king of Spaine hauing paied in at Lions an hundred thousand duckets ware publikelie the order of saint Michaell vpon the day of the celebration of the same and in recompense of that honour the French king vpon the daie dedicated to saint Andrew was honorablie attired in the robes and colour of the golden fléece About this time Iohn Ia. Triuulce whome neither old age reduced almost to the last time nor his vertue so oftentimes expressed in the seruice of the truce of France could anie waie aid or comfort being both ambicious and impatient and therefore enuied following the French court fell sicke at Charters where he gaue vp to the king his innocencie and complaints and made to God the last reckoning of his aged daies He was a man in the iudgement of manie and confirmed by sundrie experiences of singular valour in the discipline of warre and ran a race alwaies opposed to the inconstancie of fortune who according to hir mutabilitie made him feele the operation of both hir humors sometimes reioising in hir fauour and erst againe finding hir sowre and of a bitter tast By his commandement were written vpon his toome these words not disagreeable to the variable condition and course of his naturall life I find the rest within my graue Which in my life I could not haue In this yeare the twelfe of Februarie died the emperour Maximilian for whome the king caused a solemne obsequie to be kept in Poules church ¶ Hée died at Luiz a towne vpon the marches of Austrich where he remained for his delight and plesure in hunting the wild bore and other chases of the field He liued alwaies vnder one condition of fortune who manie times fauoured him in offering him manie faire occasions as often wrought against him in not suffering him to take the fruit and effect of line 10 them He was by nature inconstant and remooueable and had conceipts and impressions verie ill disposed and different from the iudgement of other men ioined to an excessiue prodigalitie and dissipation of monie Matters which cut off from him the effects and successe of all occasions being otherwise a prince most perfect and instructed in the ordering of warre secret to laie and dispose a plot diligent to follow it of bodie able and suffering of mind affable and easie line 20 and replenished with manie other excellent gifts and ornaments Unto some of these properties the good seruice which he did the king of England at Terwin giueth proofe at what time both he and his people marched vnder the English ensigne and receiued paie as stipendarie souldiors whose wages the king had a care to paie as maie appeare by his coining of siluer monie whereof was scarsitie in his campe in respect of gold wherewith the souldiors were well stored as one dooth verie well make report saieng line 30 Pro mercede nihil nisifuluum soluitur aurum Auri militibus radiantis copia totis Tanta fuit castris vt rex cudisse coactus Nummum exargento fuerit Assoone as the emperour was dead the French king and the king of Spaine began manifestlie to aspire to the empire the purchase whereof albeit was a matter of right great importance and no lesse the emulation running betwéene two so mightie princes yet they ordered their ambition with great modestie line 40 neither vsing words of iniurie nor threats of armes but either one labouring by his authoritie by his meanes to draw on his side the electors The French king sundrie times reasoned touching the election with great comelinesse with the Spanish ambassadours to whom he said it was a matter both agréeable and conuenient that either of them seuerallie should séeke by honest meanes to increase the honour of his house by so great a dignitie which for that in times before had bene transferred into the families of their predecessours there was now the lesse line 50 occasion to bréed betwéene them two matter of iniurie nor diminution of their amitie and good will But rather he wished that in the action of the empire they might follow the example and order of two yoong louers who albeit they follow the quest of one ladie and either one laboureth by his industrie to carie hir yet they forbere to come to contention The king of Spaine alluded with good right that the empire apperteined to him as hauing continued by a long succession of time in the house of Austrich and line 60 that it had not béene the custome of the electors to depriue the issue of the emperour without manifest cause of their disabilitie neither was there anie in Germanie of that puissance and authoritie to make him equall to stand competitor with him in that election And least of all did he hold it iust or likelie that the electors would transport to a forreine or strange prince so great a dignitie continued by so manie ages in the nation of Germanie And albeit some particular amongst them either through the insinuation of monie or other propertie of corruption might be allured to another intention yet he hoped to stop him with force prepared in time conuenient not doubting also but the other electors also would oppose against him and the princes and frée townes of Germanie would not indure so vniuersall an infamie speciallie to suffer it to be laid vpon the person of the French king which would be no other thing than to make great the puissance of a king enimie vnto their nation and from whome there was no suertie that the imperiall dignitie would euer returne into Germanie he thought it would be an action easie to obteine and reduce to perfection that which had bin solicited by his grandfather who had alreadie compounded for recompenses and donations and other diuidents for euerie of the electors On the other side the desire of the French king was as great and no lesse were his hopes which tooke their principall foundation vpon an opinion he had to corrupt
thrée first as is found in their atteindor were executed for diuerse heresies but none alledged whereat saith Hall I haue much maruelled that their heresies were so manie and not one alledged as a speciall cause of their death And verelie at their deaths they asked the shiriffs what was their offense for which they were condemned Who answered they could not tell but most men said it was for preaching against the doctrine of Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester who chieflie as the same Hall saith procured their deaths The last thrée to wit Powell Fetherston and Abell suffered for treason as in their atteindor was speciall mention made to wit for denieng the kings supremacie and affirming his mariage with the ladie Katharin Dowager to be good The fourth of August Thomas Empson sometime a moonke of Westminster which had béene in prison for treason in Newgate now for the space of thrée yeares and more came before the iustices of gaole deliuerie at Newgate and for that he would not aske the kings pardon nor be sworne to be true to him his moonks garment was plucked from his backe and he repriued till the king were informed of his malicious obstinacie and this was the last moonke that was séene in his clothing in England till queene Maries daies The fourth of August were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne Giles Heron gentleman Clement Philpot gentleman late of Calis and seruant to the lord Lisle Darbie Genning Edmund Brindholme priest chapleine to the said lord Lisle William Horne late a laie brother of the Charterhouse of London and an other offendor which six persons were there hanged and quartered and had béene atteinted of treason by parlement The same daie also was one Charles Carew gentleman hanged for robbing of the ladie Carew The eight of August was the ladie Katharine Howard néece to the duke of Norffolke and daughter to the lord Edmund Howard shewed openlie as quéene at Hampton court The eleuenth of September a stranger was hanged in Moorefield named Iames Rinatian who had slaine his maister one Capon a Florentine in a garden for his harlot In the latter end of this summer was vniuersallie through the most parts of this realme great death by a strange kind of hot agues and fluxes and some pestilence in which season was such a drought that wels and small riuers were cleane dried vp so that line 10 much cattell died for lacke of water and the Thames was so shalow the fresh water of so small strength that the salt water flowed aboue London bridge till the raine had increased the fresh waters On the two and twentith of September Rafe Egerton seruant to the lord Audleie lord chancellor and one Thomas Harman seruant to one master Flightwood were drawne hanged and quartered the one for counterfeiting and antidating of the kings seale in a signâ—t wherewith he sealed licences for deuizens vnder the name of the clearkes of line 20 the chancerie and the other that is to saie Harman for writing them One Tuckefield being of their faction robbed the lord Audleies chappell and fled who being afterward apprehended at Calis which towne he would haue betraied he slue himselfe with a dagger In the end of this yeare the French king made a strong castell at Ard and also a bridge ouer into the English pale which bridge the crew of Calis did beat downe and the Frenchmen built it vp againe but the Englshmen beat it downe againe line 30 After this the K. sent about fiftéene hundred workemen to fortifie the towne of Guisnes and sent with them fiue hundred men of warre to gard them It was reported in France that a mightie armie was come ouer foorth of England with great ordinance which brute caused the French king to send to the frontiers of Picardie the duke of Uandosme and other capteins with all spéed to defend the same The king of England hearing thereof sent line 40 the earles of Surrie and Southampton and the lord Russell high admerall into the marches of Calis to set order there and after them he likewise sent two hundred light horssemen of the borders of Scotland whom the Frenchmen called Stradiots The lords hauing set order in things shortlie returned A boie oneRichard Mekins not past fiftéene yeares of age was burnt in Smithfield for speaking against the sacrament and contrarie to the statute of the six articles The bishop of London was thought in great line 50 fault for procuring that terrible execution seeing the yoong fellow was but an ignorant foole without learning and gladlie recanted that wherewith he was charged About the latter end of this yeare doctor Samson bishop of Chichester year 1541 and doctor Wilson which had béene committed to the tower as before ye haue heard were now pardoned of the king and set againe at libertie In the beginning of this yeare fiue priests in Yorkeshire began a new rebellion line 60 with the assent of one Leigh a gentleman and nine temporall men all which persons were apprehended and in diuers places put to execution The said Leigh and two other the one named Taterfall a clothier the other Thornton a yeoman on the seuentéenth of Maie were drawne through London to Tiburne and there executed And sir Iohn Neuill knight and ten other persons died for the same cause at Yorke The same daie Margaret countesse of Salisburie that had remained a long time prisoner in the tower was beheaded there within the tower She was the last of the right line and name of Plantagenet The ninth of Iune for example sake two of the kings gard the one named Damport and the other Chapman were hanged at Greenwich by the friers wall for robberies which they had committed ¶ On the tenth of Iune sir Edmund Kneuet knight of Norffolke was arreigned before the kings iustices sitting in the great hall at Gréenewich maister Gage comptrollor of the kings household maister Southwell sir Anthonie Browne sir Anthonie Winkeâ—ield maister Wrisleie and Edmund Peckham cofferer of the kings houshold for striking of one maister Clers of Norffolke seruant with the earle of Surrie within the kings house in the tenis court There was first chosen to go vpon the said Edmund a quest of gentlemen and a quest of yeomen to inquire of the said stripe by the which inquests he was found giltie and had iudgement to lose his right hand Wherevpon was called to doo the execution first the sergeant surgion with his instruments apperteining to his office the sergeant of the woodyard with the mallet and a blocke wherevpon the hand should lie the maister cooke for the king with the knife the sergeant of the larder to set the knife right on the ioint the sergeant ferrer with the searing irons to seare the veines the sergeant of the poultrie with a cocke which cocke should haue his head smitten off vpon the same blocke and with the same knife the yeoman
50 brought to London the least of them was more than anie horsse Much about this season there were thrée notable ships set foorth and furnished for the great aduenture of the vnknowne voiage into the east by the north seas The great dooer and incourager of which voiage was Sebastian Gabato an Englishman borne at Bristow but was the sonne of a Genowaie These ships at the last arriued in the countrie of Moscouia not without great losse and danger line 60 and namelie of their capteine who was a woorthie and aduenturous gentleman called sir Hugh Willoughbie knight who being tossed and driuen by tempest was at the last found in his ship frozen to death and all his people But now the said voiage and trade is greatlie aduanced and the merchants aduenturing that waie are newlie by act of parlement incorporated and indued with sundrie priuileges and liberties About the beginning of the moneth of Maie next following there were thrée notable mariages concluded shortlie after solemnized at Durham place The first was betwéene the lord Gilford Dudleie the fourth sonne of the duke of Northumberland and the ladie Iane eldest daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke the ladie Francis his wife was the daughter of Marie second sister to king Henrie the eight first maried to Lewes the French king and after to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke The second mariage was betwéene the lord Herbert son and heire to William earle of Penbroke and the ladie Katharine second daughter of the said ladie Francis by the said Henrie duke of Suffolke And the third was betwéene Henrie lord Hastings sonne and heire to Francis earle of Huntington and ladie Katharine yoongest daughter to the forenamed duke of Northumberland These mariages were compassed concluded chieflie vpon purpose to change alter the order of succession to the crowne made in the time of king Henrie the eight from the said kings daughters Marie and Elizabeth and to conueie the same immediatlie after the death of king Edward to the house of Suffolke in the right of the said ladie Francis wherein the said yoong king was an earnest traueller in the time of his sickenesse all for feare that if his sister Marie being next heire to the crowne should succéed that she would subuert all his lawes and statutes made concerning religion whereof he was most carefull for the continuance whereof he sought to establish a meet order of succession by the aliance of great houses by waie of marriage which neuerthelesse were of no force to serue his purpose For tending to the disheriting of the rightfull heirs they proued nothing prosperous to the parties for two of them were soone after made frustrate the one by death the other by diuorse In the meane while the king became euerie daie more sicke than other of a consumption in his lungs so as there was no hope of his recouerie Wherevpon those that then bare chiefe authoritie in councell with other prelats and nobles of the realme called to them diuerse notable persons learned as well in diuinitie as in the lawes of the land namelie bishops iudges other who fell to consultation vpon this so weightie cause and lastly concluded vpon the deuise of king Edwards will to declare the said ladie Iane eldest néece to king Henrie the eight and wife to the said lord Gilford to be rightfull heire in succession to the crowne of England without respect had to the statute made in the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight the true meaning of which statute they did impugne and ouerthrow by diuerse subtill sinister constructions of the same to disherit the said kings daughters to whome the succession of the crowne of England of right apperteined as well by the common lawes of this realme as also by the said statute made in the said fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie as aforesaid To which new order of succession all the said kings councell with manie bishops lords doctors and iudges of the realme subscribed their names without refusall of anie except sir Iames Hales knight one of the iustices of the common plées who being called to this councell would in no wise giue his assent either by word or writing as ye shall heare more in the historie of quéene Marie Now when these matters were thus concluded and after confirmed by a number of hands as aforesaid then the noble prince king Edward the sixt by long lingering sickenesse and consumption of his lungs aforesaid approched to his death and departed out of this life the sixt daie of Iulie in the seuenth yeare of his reigne and seuentéenth of his age after he had reigned and noblie gouerned this realme six yeares fiue moneths and eight daies And a little before his departing lifting vp his eies to God hee praied as followeth The praier of king Edward the sixt at his death LOrd God deliuer me out of this miserable and wretched life take me among thy chosen howbeit not my will but thy will be doone Lord I commit my spirit to thee oh Lord thou knowest how happie it were for mee to be with thee yet for thy chosens sake if line 10 it be thy will send me life and helth that I maie trulie serue thee Oh my Lord blesse thy people and saue thine inheritance Oh Lord God saue thy chosen people of England Oh my Lord God defend this realme from papistrie and mainteine thy true religion that I and my people maie praise thy holie name And therewithall he said I am faint Lord haue mercie vpon me and take my spirit line 20 Thus did this good yoong king yéeld vp to God his ghost the sixt daie of Iulie as before is mentioned whome if it had pleased God to haue spared with longer life not vnlike it was but he should haue so gouerned this English common-wealth that he might haue béene comparable with any of his noble progenitors so that the losse of so towardlie a yoong king greatlie discomforted the whole English nation that looked for such a reformation in the state of line 30 the common-wealth at his hands as was to be wished for of all good subiects which bred such a liking in them toward him that euen among verie traitorous rebels his name yet was had in reuerence although otherwise they neuer so much forgat their dutie both towards him and other appointed to gouerne vnder him through a malicious and most wilfull error as if his tender yeares had not sufficientlie warranted his roiall authoritie but that the same had béene vsurped by others against his will and pleasure line 40 And as he was intierlie beloued of his subiects so with the like affection of kindnes he loued them againe of nature and disposition méeke much inclined to clemencie euer hauing a regard to the sparing of life There wanted in him no promptnes of wit grauitie of sentence ripenesse of iudgement as his age might
this vnitie perfect obedience line 50 to the see apostolike and popes for the time being serue God and your maiesties to the furtherance and aduancement of his honour and glorie Amen This supplication being first openlie read the same was by the chancellor deliuered to the king and quéene with petition to them to exhibit the same to the lord cardinall And the king and quéene rising out of their seats and dooing reuerence to the cardinall line 60 did deliuer the same vnto him The cardinall perceiuing the effect thereof to answer to his expectation did receiue it most gladlie at their maiesties hands And then after that hée had in few words giuen thanks vnto God and declared what great cause hée had to reioise aboue all others that his comming from Rome into England had taken such most happie successe then he caused his commission to bée read wherby it might appeare he had authoritie from the pope to absolue them which commission was verie long and large And that being doone and all the parlement on their knées this cardinall by the popes authoritie gaue them absolution in maner following An absolution pronounced by cardinall Poole to the parlement house OUr lord Iesus Christ which with his most pretious bloud hath redeemed and washed vs from all our sins and iniquities that he might purchase vnto himselfe a glorious spouse without spot or wrinkle and whom the father hath appointed head ouer all his church he by his mercie absolue you And we by the apostolike authoritie giuen vnto vs by the most holie lord pope Iulius the third his vicegerent in earth doo absolue and deliuer you and euerie of you with the whole realme and the dominions thereof from all heresie and schisme and from all and euerie iudgements censures and paines for that cause incurred And also wee doo restore you againe to the vnitie of our mother the holie church as in our letters of commission more plainelie shall appeare After this generall absolution receiued the king and the quéene and all the lords with the rest went into the kings chappell and there sang Te Deum with great ioy and gladnesse for this new reconciliation The report whereof with great spéed â—lew to Rome as well by the French kings letters as also by the cardinals Wherevpon the pope caused solemne processions to be made in Rome namelie one wherein he himselfe with all his cardinals were present passing with as great solemnitie and pompe as might be giuing thanks to God with great ioy for the conuersion of England to his church At what time also he not a little commended the diligence of cardinall Poole and the deuotion of the king and quéene And on Christmas euen next following he set foorth by his buls a generall pardon to all such as did reioise in the same reconciliation The eight and twentith of Nouember next following it was commonlie reported that the quéene was quicke with child therefore commandement was giuen by Edmund Bonner then bishop of London and as it was said not without the commandement of the councell that there should be made in most solemne manner one generall procession in London wherein the maior and all the companies of the citie were in their liuerieâ— at whose returne to the church of Pauls there was soong verie solemnlie Te Deum for ioy therof The same daie at this procession was present ten bishops with all the prebendaries of Paules The copie of the councels letter implieng the aforesaid commandement touching the generall procession here followeth Ad perpetuam rei memoriam A copie of a letter sent from the councell vnto Edmund Bonner bishop of London concerning queene Marie conceiued with child AFter our hartie commendations vnto your good lordship Whereas it hath pleased almightie God amongst other his infinit benefits of late most gratiouslie powred vpon vs and this whole realme to extend his benediction vpon the quéens maiestie in such sort as she is conceiued quicke of child whereby hir maiestie being our naturall liege ladie quéene and vndoubted inheritor of this imperiall crowne good hope of certeine succession in the crowne is giuen vnto vs and consequentlie the great calamities which for want of such succession might otherwise haue fallen vpon vs our posteritie shall by Gods grace be well auoided if we thankefullie acknowledge this benefit of almightie God indeuoring our selues with earnest repentance to thanke honor serue him as we be most bounden These be not onelie to aduertise you of these good news to be by you published in all places within your dioces but also line 10 to praie and require you that both your selfe doo giue God thanks with vs for this his especiall grace and also giue order that thanks maie be openlie giuen by singing of Te Deum in all the churches within your said dioces and that likewise all priests and other ecclesiasticall ministers in their masses and other diuine seruices may continuallie praie to almightie God so to extend his holie hand ouer his maiestie the kings highnesse and this whole realme as this thing being by his omnipotent power gratiouslie line 20 thus begun may by the same be well continued and brought to good effect to the glorie of his name Wherevnto albeit we doubt not ye would of your selfe haue had speciall regard without these our letters yet for the earnest desire we haue to haue this thing doone out of hand diligentlie continued we haue also written these our letters to put you in remembrance so bid your lordship most hartilie well to fare From Westminster the 27 of Nouember 1554. line 30 Your assured and louing friends S. Winton Chancel Arundell F. Shrewesburie Edward Darbie Henrie Sussex Iohn Bathon R. Rich. Thomas Warthom Iohn Huddilstone R. Southwell Upon this letter of the councels sent to bishop Bonner signifieng the good news of quéene Marie to be not onelie conceiued but also quicke with line 40 child which was in the moneth of Nouember the eight and twentith daie it is out of count what great talke began at this time to rise in euerie mans mouth with busie preparation and much adoo especiallie among such as séemed in England to carrie Spanish hearts in English bodies In number of whome here is not to be forgotten nor defrauded of his condigne commendation for his woorthie affection toward his prince and hir issue one sir Richard Southwell who being the same time in the line 50 parlement house when as the lords were occupied in other affaires and matters of importance suddenlie starting vp for fulnesse of ioy burst out in these words following Tush my maisters quoth he what talke ye of these matters I would haue you take some order for our yoong maister that is now comming into the world apace least he find vs vnprouided c. By the which words both of him and also by the foresaid letters of the councell and the common talke abroad it may
appeare what an assured line 60 opinion was then conceiued in mens heads of quéene Marie to be conceiued and quicke with child In somuch that at the same time and in the same parlement there was eftsoones a bill exhibited and an act made vpon the same the words whereof for the more euidence I thought here to exemplificat The words of the act ALbeit we the lords spirituall temporall the commons in this present parlement assembled haue firme hope confidence in the goodnes of almightie God that like as he â—ath hitherto miraculouslie preserued the quéenes maiestie from manie great imminent perils and dangers euen so he will of his infinit goodnesse giue hir highnesse strength the rather by our continuall praiers to passe well the danger of deliuerance of child wherewith it hath pleased him to all our great comforts to blesse hir yet for so much as all things of this world be vncerteine and hauing before our eies the dolorous experience of this inconstant gouernment during the time of the reigne of the late king Edward the sixt doo plainlie sée the manifold inconueniences great dangers and perils that maie insue to this whole realme if foresight be not vsed to preuent all euill chances if they should happen For the eschewing hereof we the lords spirituall and temporall the commons in this present parlement assembled for and in consideration of a most speciall trust and confidence that we haue and repose in the kings maiestie for and concerning the politike gouernment order and administration of this realme in the time of the yoong yéeres of the issue or issues of hir maiesties bodie to be borne if it should please God to call the quéenes highnesse out of this present life during the tender yeares of such issue or issues which God forbid according to such order maner as hereafter in this present act his highnesse most gratious pleasure is should be declared and set foorth haue made our humble sute by the assent of the quéens highnesse that his maiestie would vouchsafe to accept take vpon him the rule order education gouernment of the said issue or issues to be borne as is aforesaid vpon which our sute being of his said maiestie most gratiouslie accepted it hath pleased his highnes not onlie to declare that like as for the most part his maiestie verely trusteth that almightie God who hath hitherto preserued the quéens maiestie to giue this realme so good an hope of certeine succession in the blood roiall of the same realm will assist hir highnes with his graces and benedictions to sée the fruit of hir bodie well brought forth liue and able to gouerne whereof neither all this realme ne all the world besides should or could receiue more comfort than his maiestie should would yet if such chance should happen his maiestie at our humble desires is pleased contented not onlie to accept take vpon him the cure and charge of the education rule order and gouernment of such issues as of this most happie mariage shall be borne betwéene the quéenes highnes and him but also during the time of such gouernment would by all waies meanes studie trauell and imploie himselfe to aduance the weale both publike priuat of this realme dominions thereto belonging according to the said trust in his maiestie reposed with no lesse good will affection than if his highnes had béene naturallie borne among vs. In consideration whereof be it enacted by the king the quéens most excellent maiesties by assent of the lords spirituall and temporall the commons in this present parlement assembled and by the authoritie of the same c as it is to be séene in the act more at large ratified and confirmed at the samâ— parlement to the same intent and purpose Thus much out of the act and statute I thought to rehearse to the intent the reader maie vnderstand not so much how parlements maie sometimes be deceiued as by this child of quéene Marie may appéere as rather what cause we Englishmen haue to render most earnest thanks vnto almightie God who so mercifullie against the opinion expectation and working of our aduersaries hath helped and deliuered vs in this case which otherwise might haue opened such a window to the Spaniards to haue entred and replenished this land that peraduenture by this time Englishmen should haue inioied no great quiet in their owne countrie The Lord therefore make vs perpetuallie mindfull of his benefits Amen Thus we sée then how man dooth purpose but God disposeth as pleaseth him For all this great labor prouision and order taken in the parlement house for their yoong maister long looked for comming so surelie into the world in the end appéered neither yoong maister nor yoong maistresse that anie man yet to this daie can heare of Furthermore as the labor of the laie sort was herein deluded so no lesse ridiculous it was to behold what little effect the praiers of the popes churchmen had with almightie God line 10 who trauelled no lesse with their processions masses and collects for the happie deliuerance of this yoong maister to come as here followeth to be séene A praier made by doctor Weston deane of Westminster dailie to be said for the queenes deliuerance O Most righteous Lord God which for the offense of the first woman hast threatned vnto all women a common sharpe and ineuitable malediction and hast inioined them that they should conceiue in sinne and being conceiued should be subiect to manie and gréeuous torments and finallie be deliuered with the danger and ieopardie of their life we beséech thée for thine exceeding great goodnesse and botomlesse mercie to mitigate the strictnes of that law Asswage thine anger line 30 for a while and cherish in the bosome of thy fauor and mercie our most gratious quéene Marie being now at the point of hir deliuerance So helpe hir that without danger of hir life she maie ouercome the sorow and in due season bring foorth a child in bodie beautifull and comelie in mind noble and valiant So that afterward she forgetting the trouble maie with ioie laud and praise the bountifulnesse of thy mercie and togither with vs praise and blesse both thée and thy holie name world without end line 40 This O Lord we desire thee we beseech thee and most hartilie craue of thée Heare vs O Lord and grant vs our petition Let not the enimies of thy faith and of thy church saie Where is their God A solemne praier made for king Philip and queene Maries child that it maie be a male child welfauored and wittie c. O Most mightie Lord God which regardest the praier of the humble and despisest not their request bow downe from thine high habitation of the heauens the eies of thy mercie vnto vs wretched sinners bowing the knees of our harts and with manie and déepe sighs bewailing our sinnes and offenses humblie
wherof as some affirme were six hundred gentlemen so brauelie attired and mounted as in déed was woorthie the noting which goodly companie waited on their shirife a long season But in good sooth as it was crediblie spoken the bankets and feasts began here afresh all kinds of triumphs that might be deuised were put in practise and proofe The earle of Surreie did shew most sumptuous cheare in whose parke were speaches well set out and a speciall deuise much commended and the rest as a number of iollie gentlemen were no whit behind to the vttermost of their abilities in all that might be doone and deuised But when the quéenes highnesse came to Norwich the substance of the whole triumph and feasting was in a maner there new to begin For order was taken there that euerie daie for six daies togither a shew of some strange deuise should be seene And the maior and aldermen appointed among themselues and their brethren that no one person reteining to the queene should be vnfeasted or vnbidden to dinner supper during the space of those six daies which order was well wiselie obserued and gained their citie more fame and credit than they wot of for that courtesie of theirs shall remaine in perpetuall memorie whiles the walles of their citie standeth Besides the monie they bestowed vpon diuerse of the traine and those that tooke paines for them will be a witnesse of their well dooing and good will whiles the report of these things maie be called to remembrance Now who can considering their great charges and discreet gouernement in these causes but giue them due land and reputation as farre as either pen or report maie doo them good stretch out their credit For most assuredlie they haue taught and learned all the townes and cities in England a lesson how to behaue themselues in such like seruices and actions On saturdaie being the sixteenth of August 1578 and in the twentith yeare of the reigne of our most gratious souereigne ladie Elisabeth by the grace of God quéene of England France Ireland defender of the faith c the same our most dread and souereigne ladie continuing hir progresse in Norffolke immediatlie after dinner set forward from Brakenash where she had dined with the ladie Stile being fiue miles distant from Norwich towards the same hir most dutifull citie Sir Robert Wood then esquier now knight maior of the same citie at one of the clocke in the same happie daie set forward to méet with hir maiestie in this order First there rode before him well and séemelie mounted thréescore of the most comelie yoong men of the citie as batchellers apparelled all in blacke satten dublets blacke hose blacke taffata hats and yellow bands and their vniuersall liuerie was a mandilion of purple taffata laid about with siluer lase so apparelled they marched forwards two and two in a ranke Then one which represented king Gurgunt sometime king of England which builded the castell of Norwich called Blanch Flowre and laid the foundation of the citie He was mounted vpon a braue courser and was thus furnished his bodie armed his bases of greene and white silke on his head a blacke veluet hat with a plume of white feathers There attended vpon him thrée henchmen in white and gréene one of them did beare his helmet the second his target the third his staffe after him a noble companie of gentlemen and wealthie citizens in veluet coats and other costlie line 10 furniture brauelie mounted Then followed the officers of the citie euerie one in his place Then the sword-bearer with the sword hat of maintenance Then the maior and foure and twentie aldermen and the recorder all in scarlet gownes whereof so manie as had béene maiors of the citie and were iustices did weare their scarlet clokes then followed so manie as had béene shiriffs and were no aldermen in violet gownes and sattin tippets Then followed line 20 diuerse others to kéepe the people from disturbing the araie aforesaid Thus euerie thing in due and comelie order they all except Gurgunt which staied hir maiesties comming within a flight shoot or two of the citie where the castell of Blanch Flowre was in most beautifull prospect marched forwards to a bridge called Hartford bridge the vttermost limit that waie distant from the citie two miles or there abouts to méet with hir maiestie who within one houre or little line 30 more after their attendance came in such gratious and princelie wise as rauished the harts of all hir louing subiects and might haue terrified the stoutest heart of anie enimie to behold Whether the maiestie of the prince which is incomparable or ioie of hir subiects which excéeded measure were the greater I thinke would haue appalled the iudgement of Apollo to define The acclamations and cries of the people to the almightie God for the preseruation of hir maiestie ratled so lowd as hardly for a great time could line 40 anie thing be heard But at last as euerie thing hath an end the noise appeased and the maior saluted hir highnesse with the oration following and yéelded to hir maiestie therewith the sword of the citie and a faire standing cup of siluer and guilt with a couer and in the cup one hundred pounds in gold The oration was in these words Praetoris Nordouicensis ad serenissimam Reginam c. line 50 SI nobis ab Opt. Max. concederetur optio quid rerū humanarū nunc potissimùm vellemus nihil duceremus antiquius augustissima princeps quà m vt tuus ille qui ita nos recreat castissimi ocelli radius posset in abditissimos cordium nostrorū angulos se conferre Cerneres profectò quanta sint hilaritate perfusa quà m in ipsis arterijs venulis spiritus line 60 sanguis gestiant dumintuemur te huius regni lumen vt Dauid olim fuit Israelitici in hijs tandem finibus post longam spem ardentissima vota exoriri Equidem vt pro me qui tua ex authoritate clementia quod humillimis gratijs profiteor celeberrimae huic ciuitati praesum pro hijs meis fratribus atque omni hoc populo quem tuis auspicijs regimus ex illorum sensuloquar quod ipse sentio sic nos demum supplicibus votis exposcimus vt maiestatem tuam beneuolam nobis propitiam experiamur vt nunquam cuiquam populo aduenisti gratior quà m nobis In illius rei luculentissimū indicium insignia haec honoris officij nostri quae nobis clementissimus princeps Henricus quartus quinto sui regni anno cū praetore senatoribus vicecomitibus cōcessit cum antea balliuis vt vocant vltra annalium nostrorum memoriam regeremur perpetuis deinde regum priuilegijs corroborata nobis aucta magnificè maiestati tuae omnia exhibemus quae per tuam vnius clementiam quam cum immortalibus gratijs praedicare nunquam cessabimus
they did 1120. a 6â— b 10. A report that she wawith child 1123. b 40. An what curious order is takâ— for the yoong prince yet vnâ—â—rne note 1124. all Taâ—e betweene hir and hir sisteâ— the ladie Elisabeth note 115 a 10. Hir stout courage and ind of manhood 1099. a 10. Hir deathconspired and the pâ—ties executed 1117. a 60 Sheâ— cardinal Poole resisted the pâ—e 1365 a 60. Hir oration 〈◊〉 Guildâ—all to the Londonerâ— 1096 a 60 Is compared if the â—apists to queene Iudith 112 b 20. Hir oration touchin the restitution of abbeie landâ— 1127. b 10. c. Great preâ—ration triumph for hir lienâ—â—n childbed 1130. b 50.60 â—hat became of hir child no 〈◊〉 can tell note 1131. a 10 â—c Proclameth open warsgainst the French king thâ—capteins of hir forces 113 b 10.30 With what inâ—â—â—nation she tooke the losse of â—alis 1149. b 40. Pensife or the losse thereof sickenet and dieth 1151. b 10 20. Hâ— neuer good successe in anie â—ing she went about 1161. 10. How long and when â—e prospered hir promise tâ—the gospellers broken 50.60 Hir ill lucke in the losse of Cas b 10. In hir child-birth â—0 With hir husband 50. Hir finall end and death 60. The time of hir reigne 1162 a 10. Hir death the maner tâ—ereof thought to be for the lâ—sse of Calis more bloud spiltin hir reigne than in anie kinâ—s daies before how vnproâ—perous it was vnto hir anâ— hir realme in all respects 1160. b 10. c. Buried and the maner thereof 1178 b 49 Queene Marie king Henrie the rights sister crowned queene of France note with what pompe 833. a 60. b 10. c. Dowager of France ¶ Sée Duke of Suffolke Quéene Marie Dowager of Scotland deceaseth 1192 a 10 Quéene Margaret the wife of Henrie the sonne of Henrie the second 82 b 60. Brought a bed 101 b 20 Quéene Margaret wife to Edward the first deliuered of Thomas Burtherton hir first sonne 309 a 50 Quéene Margaret Henrie the sixt his wife lieth at Couentrie she is a better capteine than hir husband the king 654 a 50. Described she taketh vpon hir the gouernement dischargeth the duke of Glocester 626 b 40 60 With hir sonne goeth into Wales 665 a 60. She returneth out of France 666 a 10 Fortunat in hir two battels note 660 b 50. Sendeth to the maior of London for vittels some sent by the maior staid by the commons she returneth northward 661 a 10 20 c. Hir flight she is robbed 655 a 10. Commeth to Ambois to sée the earle of Warwike 674 b 50. She with hir son prince Edward land with a power out of France 685 b 20 She is comforted by the nobles of England b 60. The feare which she had for hir sonne 686 a 10. Taken prisoner 688 b 60 Quéene Maud deliuered of a sonne called William 31 a 30 Departeth this life 39 b 10 Quéene Maud wife to king Stephan sueth for the release of hir husband to the emperor 53 b 50 Quéene Philip wife to king Edward the third 348 b 20 Deliuered of Iohn of Gaunt hir fourth sonne 357 a 60 Brought a bed of Edmund Langleie afterwards duke of Yorke 363 a 30. Deceaseth hir thrée petitions of the king hir praise 404 a 20 Quéene of England with hir sonne goeth into Heinault 337 b 10. They both arriue in Suffolke she is assisted by the prelats hir proclamation 338 a 10 30. She followeth the king to Oxford the bishop of Hereford maketh an oration to hir armie she goeth to Glocester and Bristow the lords cleaue to hir 339 all In danger of drowning 265 a 10 Deliuered of a daughter 249 a 40.230 b 10 378 a 50.362 a 30. Deliuered of Edmund 236 a 50. Hir request letters withstood by a subiect note 376 a 60. Hir liberalitie towards king Henrie the third 249 a 50. Out of fauour with Edward the second hir husband 332 a 40. Sent ouer into France to talke with hir brother 336 a 30 Quéene of Denmarke was the daughter of king Henrie the fourth 513 b 10. She is sent ouer to hir husband 532 a 20 Quéene of Scots and the erle of Angus hir husband come into England 838 a 20. She commeth vnto the English court how interteined 50 60 c. Returneth to Scotland 844 a 20. Conueied into France and maried vnto the Dolphin 1056 b 60 Quéene Dowager of Scotland dooth what she can to procure war against England 1142 a 10. ¶ Sée Agatha Francis Throckmorton Margaret Maud. Quéene mother gouernor of the realme 548 a 40 Quéenes of France and Hungarie decease 1171 b 60 Quéenes thrée in the English court at once 838 a 60 Quéenes college in Cambridge founded by the ladie Elisabeth wife to king Edward the fourth 765 b 60 Questions in law demanded of the iustices note 456 b 20 457 a 10 c. R. RAdington knight lord warden of London 478 b 10 Rafe earle of Cambridge or Northfolke marieth erle Rogers sister 11 a 40 His wife besieged in Norwich 11 b 20 Rafe the kings collector or proctor his extortions or pollings of the people 24 a 20 Rafe bishop of Durham committed to the Tower whie 28 b 30. Brake out of prison and his persuasion to duke Robert 29 b 40 Rafe Wilford ¶ Sée Wilford Raier founder of S. Bartholomews by Smithfield 31 a 30 Raine whereof grew a dearth 58 a 60 284 b 20. And death 404 b 60. That did hurt haruest 322 b 50. That hindered séed time 355 a 50. Corne from ripening 348 b 30. Continuall for a long time note 239 b 30. From midsummer to christmasse 378 b 20. That did hurt vnto houses tréeâ— corne and other things 241 b 40. Of great continuance and no lesse abundance 220 a 30 For the space of foure moneths togither 224 a 10 Continuall causing a verie wet season 895 a 20. Glutting and continuall in the spring 163 a 50. Excessiue ¶ Sée Flouds Raine of bloud 101 a 30.278 a 30.649 a 10 Raine artificiall of rose water and haile of suger confects 1355 a 60. ¶ Sée Flouds Raleigh esquire in danger of the Deuonshire rebels 1016 b 40 Raleigh knight his voiage for the discouerie of that land which lieth betwéene Norimbega and Florida 1369 a 20. His preparation for a second voiage 40. He sailed as far as Cape de Uerde and arriueth in safetie at Plimmouth 60. His chargeable voiage to Uirginia 1401 b 40 c. An English colonie established there 1402 a 50. His resolution vpon an other voiage for the supplie of those that were left there 50 Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke honorablie interteined both in court and elsewhere note 1561 b 20 Randoll a pitifull capteine 1205 b 10 Randolph iustice ¶ Sée Charitie Ransome of Richard the first out of the emperors hands 138 b 60. Amounted to the summe of an hundred and fiftie thousand marks 140 a 20 Thrée thousand marks therof giuen to the white moonks and whie 147 b 20. Of Robert
Westminster his gifts to the hospitals 1083 a 20 Shooting in the long bow when first it came into England 15 b 50 Shores wife king Edward the fourth his concubine note 722 b 60. More sued vnto than all the lords in England 729 a 40. Spoiled of all that she had put to open penance described 724 b 10 c. Shordich knight his words to the pope and the popes to him 365 b 40 50 Shrewesburie towne partlie burnt 218 a 30 Sickenesse extreame among people in all places 14 a 60 Strange at Oxford assise whereof iudges c died note 1270 a 40 b 10 c. Strange in Excester at a sessions there held like that of Oxford note 1547 b 30 c. Sidneie sir Henrie knight sent ambassador into France 1195 a 40. The historie of his life and death 1548 b 10 c. Sidneie sir Philip knight dead of a wound right honourablie reported of beyond and on this side the seas note 1554 a 60 c. Sidneie ladie the said knights mother deceaseth hir godlie end 1553 b 30 Sights in the aire fearefull and strange 1270 a 20. 1313 a â—0 484 b 10 c. 3â—5 a 60 210 b 50.249 a â—0 Of fieâ—e impressions in the aâ—â—e 1208 a 40.1260 a 30 1201 b 60. Out of the earth 220 a 10. ¶ See Moone Pagents Shews Woonders Siluer mines found in Deuonâ—shire note 316 b 3â— Simon a fraudulent and seditious preest 7â—5 a 10 Simenell the counterfeit earle of Warwike 763 a 20. He is honourablie receiued into Ireland a 60. Proclamed king of England 766 a 10 He 〈◊〉 all his adherents landeth in England b 10 He is taken pardoned and in place of homelie seruice vnder Henrie the seuenth 767 a 10 â—0 Simonie wherein note Anseimes opinion 24 a 50. A practiâ—e in William Rufus his time 24 a 30. A thousand pounds for a bishoprike 26 a 50. Greatlie abhorred by an archbishop of Canturburie note 213 a 60. ¶ Sée Abbasies and Bishopriks Simplicitie abused 1063 b 30 Siward duke of Northumberland 5 a 10 Six articles fued for to be renewed 1003 b 10. ¶ Sée Staâ—uâ—e Skinks valourous seruice against the Spaniards 1431 a 10 c. Taketh the towne of Warie 1429 b 10. Whie he burned â—â— 30 Knighted 1434 a 10. His good seruice against the enimie 60 b 10 c. Skipwiâ—h Richard ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Slander that went of king Richard for the death of the marquesie of Montferrat 135 b 3â— Against king Edward the fourth confirmed note 729 b 50 60. ¶ Sée Sermon Slanders deuised by malicious heads against quéene Elisabeth ¶ Sée Books seditious Libell and Quéene Elisabeth Slaughter of fiue or six people by the fall of a wall 1413 a 60 Of eight persons by the fall of a scaffold at Paris garden 1353 a 30. ¶ See Murther Sleepe of foureteene daies and as manie nights 972 b 20 Smith Thomas esquire and customer a good common-wealth man note 1539 a 20 Smith doctâ—r his recantation 980 a 10 Smith embroderer ¶ Sée Charitie Smithfield sometimes a common laistall and place of execution 31 a 30. And to that vse since oftentimes applied ¶ Sée Arden and Horssestealers Snow great in Aprill 1272 a 20 In Maie 290 a 50 Sodomitrie punished in clergiemen and laiemen 31 a 10 Soldan king of Soria and Egypt his state by whose election they were chosen two of them slaine and all Soria Egypt subdued 846 a 60 b 10 c. Soldiors forren arriue to aid king Iohn against his barons 187 b 60. Set altogither vpon the spoile 192 b 40 Of certeine ordinances deuised by them to be obserued 125 a 50. English inriched 770 b 60. Trained vp in turmes 145 b 60. Make a fraie against the lord maior of London 636 a 20. Commended with words and rewarded with spoiles 560 a 10 English haue new coâ—es bestowed vpon them by the duchesse of Sauoie 810 b 10 Their vnrulie and drunken behauior noted 809 b 30 810 a 10. Their misbehauior against the L. admerall 814. a 50. Of Tornaie rewarded of K. Henrie the eight 850 b 10. Euill vnder a good capteine 942 b 30. Slaie their capteine 10 a 50. Their wages borne by the lords and péeres of the realme 14 a 60. How well affected William Rufus was to them 27 a 10. Prest and released for ten shillings or twentie shillings a man note 21 a 60 b 10. Their outrage a proclamation to restreine it 1197 a 60. Good orders proclamed to be kept amongst them 1196 b 40. Hanged for reuolting 1201 a 10. Executed for drawing vpon their capteins c 1202 b 30. Transported into Ireland to vanquish Shane Oneale 1209 b 30. Yoong trained vp in the field at the citie of Londons charge 1228 a 50 60. Transported into Ireland 1314 a a 30. Sent ouer sea to aid the low countries 1413 b 10. To what shifts they fall afâ—er discamping 1050 a 60. Reteined on all sides by king Richard the second against the lords 457 b 60. Hardie of préests and religious men 443 a 60 A great abuse in the châ—ise of them 45â— a 60. Called the crossed souldiors 441 a 60 442 a 20. Incouraged by hope of gaine 443 b 40. Out of wages by meanes of peace doo much hurt in France 395 b 10. Defrauded of their wages and the partie executed as a traitor 411 b 10. Of the French in a poore estate 199 b 40. Doo much hurt they spoile Westminster they are sacked and are throwne into the Thames 273 b 20 Their paâ—â— a thing preferred before race of men 229 b 20 ¶ See Aduentures Law marshall Mutinie Soliman Ottoman besiegeth and taketh Rhodes 876 b 20. It is yéelded vp vnto him his contempt of christian religion 877 a 10 20. Successour after Selims deceasse 847 b 20. Sophie of Persia. ¶ Sée Selim Sorcerie and inchantment ¶ Sée Coniuror and Elenor Cobham Sound most strange and woonderfull heard 226 a 10 Southhampton burned 355 b 50 Southwell knight his words in the parlement house touching quéene Maries child yet vnborne 1124 a 50 Southwell the archbishop of Yorke his manor 35 b 30 Southworke in the iurisdiction of an alderman 1062 a 60 b 10. Liberties purchased for it 1062 a 40 Spaine a deadlie bâ—ne vnto the English soldiors 4â—0 a 60 b 10. The king theroâ— his armie vnder the conduct of the duke of Alua the kingdome of Nauarre ioined vnto his 813 b 30 c. His clame to the empire 8â—1 a 50 60. He is chosen emperour 852 a 30. Philip his proclamation against English merchants 1206 a 10. His officers 〈◊〉 of tyrannicall lordlinesse and vilianie 1335 a 50. Chased and driuen out of his realme 397 b 10 60. His egernes to be reuenged his dissimulation 399 a 50 60 Sendeth an herald vnto prince Edward of Wales 3â—8 a 60 Spaniards ioined with the English armie against the French 879 b 60. Asâ—aâ—t Rome take it sacke it kill and slaie without exceptioâ— note 896 a 10
c. 897 a â—0 Enter into Antuerpe spoiling wounding and killing 126â— a 10. They and others in Ireland slaine 1314 b 50 60. Discomfited 1432 b 10 c. They bite their fingers for anger 1433 a 30. They and Englishmen togither by the eares about whoores 1126 b 60. Their manhood against the French 1138 a 60. More fauourabâ—e vnto ladie Elisabeth than some Englishmen 1157 b 20. Hanged for murther 1121. b 30. Their gallies chased from the English coasts and vanquished 427 a 20. Their Fleet ouermatch the English 420 a 3â— Uanquished by king Edward the third vpon the sea 379 b 60. Their order of baâ—tell 398 b 60. Their number 399 a 10. Put to flight the number slaine 3â—â— a 60 b 10. ¶ Sée Frenchmen Gréenefield Granado Spenser the yoonger shaâ—â—fullie executed 33â— b â—â— Spenser ladie committed vnâ—oward note 527 b â—â— 30 Spensers notable instruments to bring king Edward the second to the liking of all kind of misrule 321 b 10. Enâ—â—â—d of tâ—e nobilitie 325 a 30. Uariance betwéene them and the lords b 50. The lords in armes against them their lands inuaded 326 all Banished by the decree of the barons articles wherewith they were charged 327 a 10 c Yéeld themselues vnto the law fauoured of king Edward and restored to peace and quietnesse 328 a 20 b 10. Restored to all their inheritances and aduanâ—emenâ—s 332 a 10. Spirit in a wall without Aldersgate dooth penaâ—ce at Paules crosse for abusing the people 1117 b 60 Spirits in likenesse of birds seene in the aire 166 a 60. Spite of the French king at Richard the first and whâ—e 133 b 50. Of Roger Lace in hanging two men 133 b 40. ¶ Sée Enuie Malice and Reuenge Spoile rich and honourable 201 b 10. Diuided among soldiors noâ—e 560 a 10. ¶ See Soldiors Sâ—ring â—â—â—dered 258. a 20 Seemed to be changed 〈…〉 winter 〈…〉 Stafford wasted 〈…〉 Stafford knight taken 〈◊〉 sanctuarie and executed 〈…〉 Stafford lord slaine by sir Ioâ—â— Holland note 447 a 50. Beheaded 〈…〉 Staffords slaine by Iack Câ—â—e 634 a â—0 Stamford taken by duke Henrie 〈…〉 Stanhope knight commâ—tâ—ed to the Towre 1066 b 60. Hee and others beheaded 1081 a â—0 Stanelie knight a fauourer of Perkine Warbecke 〈◊〉 of his alienated 〈◊〉 from Henrie the seuenth â—â—8 b 40 50 60. He is beheaded 779 a 10. He and his archers breake the Scots arraâ—â— 828 b â—0 Stanelie lord his deuise to auoid suspicion of king Richard the third and to saue his owne life 754 a 10. He and others meet embrace and consult 755 a 20. Setteth the crowne on the earle of Richmond his head his bold answer to king Richard his purseuants 760 a 50 60 His faithfulnesse 673 a â—0 674 a 30 Staple of woolles remooued to Calis 395 b 60. Out of Flanders into England 381 a 20 Starre strange appéered euerie morning for a time note 223 b 40. In the constellation of Cassiopeia 1257 a 20 Stars falling after a strange maner 231 b 40. Séene at the verie â—ime of an eclipse 44 b 40 ¶ See Blasing starre Sâ—arch ¶ See Wheat Sâ—ates of the low countries their deputies arriuall in London their message vnto queene Elisabeth 1411 a 40. c. â—0 b 10 c. 1412 a 10 c. Their sure granted 1412 b 10 1414. a 50 â— 1419. a 10 note Sworne vnto the queene of England and whaâ— authoritie they gaue the earle of Leicester by placard 1428 all ¶ See Quéene Elisabeth Duke of Alanson and Earle of Leicester Statute of the six articles with the extreame proceeding therein 946 b 30 50. Spoken against to the losse of life 953 a 40. Repealed 992 b 10. Described 1005 b 10. Ex Officio reuiued 1126 b 60. Of premunire begun 409 a 60. For seruants wages and labourers 380 b 30 40. For making of clothes and other things 380 b 40. Of Mortmaine 280 a 10 Statutes of Westminster ordeined 278 a 10. Established 285 a 50. Of Glocester 279 b 10. Called Additamenta 283 a 60. Of Quo warranto 280 a 50. Of Eltham 892 b 50. Of Oxford note 262 a 10 Protested against by king Henrie the third 265 b 30. Repealed 270 b 50. ¶ See Apparell Stephan when and by whome â—ee was crowned king 46 a 40 50. His valiantnesse note 53 a 60. Ordering of his armie redie to giue battell 51 b 60. Besiegeth Wallingford 51 b 30. Winneth Lincolne 51 b 50. His power put to flight 53 a 60 Taken prisoner and led vnto Mawd the empresse 53 b 20. He and the earle of Glocester deliuered by exchange 54 b 20. Enâ—reth Lincolne with the crowne vpon his head 56 b 60. With an armie commeth to Yorke 58 a 60. Incampeth néere his enimies the Scots 47 b 20. Agréeth with the erle of Aniou 48 a 50 Inuadeth Scotland 50 a 60. Maketh hast to rescue the north parts 48 b 40. Burnt the south parts of Scotland 48 b 50. Hée and Henrie the fourth méet at Dunstable about a peace they come to Canturburie 64 a 10. His promise to purchase the peoples fauour 8 b 40. Doubteth whome to trust 51 a 10. Raiseth his siege 51 b 10. Beginneth to incline his mind vnto peace 61 a 40. Falleth sicke 47 b 50. Departeth this life 64 b 40. A description of his person qualities and actions 64 b 40 50 Stephan earle of Britaine 7 b 20. ¶ Sée Erle Stephan Gardiner his oration to the councell touching quéene Marie hir mariage he commendeth the Spanish king 1093 a 50 60. ¶ Sée Bishop Gardiner Stigand archbishop of Canturburie hated and whie duke William refused to bée crowned at his hands 1 b 20. His stout message vnto duke William 2 b 10. Flieth into Scotland 8 a 30. His martiall mind and vnpatient of forren seruitude 1 b 50 2 a 10. Capteine of an armie of Kentishmen 2 a 10. Depriued for thrée speciall causes 8 b 60. Kept in perpetuall prison and there ended his life 9 a 20 Stinke noisome after a thunder note 204 b 20. Filthie after a tempest 211 b 40. Most horrible in Winchcombe church 19 a 60. Of Henrie the first his dead bodie odious 45 a 20 Stoke battell ¶ Sée Battell Storie doctor impudent and sawcie his words in the parlement house 1180 b 20 40. An enimie vnto ladie Elisabeth 1159 b 60.1160 a 10. Executed for treason his education and birth a persecutor and exquisite tormentor of Gods seruants apprehended conueied himselfe ouer seas continuing there a persecutor a commissioner to search for English bookes intended the ouerthrow of England searched the Engglish ships apprehended by a wile conueied into England indicted arreigned executed as a traitor note 1225 a 40 c. Stradiotes 82â— b 60 822 a 10. Described and incountred of the English horssemen 819 a 60 Strangers resort to serue king Stephan 47 a 50. Courteouslie prouided for by king Henrie the firsts interteinment 34 a 60. Outface Englishmen against all honestie and conscience 840 b 10. Iniuriouslie abused of diuerse
persuade his capteins that the earle of Richmond is no warrior Frenchmen â— Britans great 〈◊〉 small 〈◊〉 â— Richards 〈◊〉 confidence and but â—esse courage The person of the earle of Richmond described The earles cause iust and right therefore likelie of good successe A great motiue to the nobles gentles assisting the earle K. Richards offenses and ill qualities summarilie touched by the earle K. Richard a notorious tyrant Incouragements to his armie to plaie the men in a iust cause Uictorie consisteth not in multitude but in manlinesse The battell betweene king Richard and king Henrie the 〈◊〉 called Belworth 〈◊〉 The policie of the earle The eaâ—le of Oxfords 〈◊〉 to his â—â—nd of men The earle of Oxfords valiantnesse The earle of Richmond proâ—â—ereth to incounter K. Richard bodie to bodie Sir William Brandon slaine The kings â—â—mie flieth Duke of Norffolke slaine in the field * Richard Ouid. What persons of name were slaine on king Richards side Erle of Surreie coÌ„mitted to the Toweâ— notwithstanding his submission How king Richard might haue escaped The deuout behauiour of the earle of Richmond after the victorie The lord Stanleie setteth yâ— crowne on king Henries head The lord Stanlies bold answer to K. Richards purseuant Proclamaâ—â—â—â— made to 〈◊〉 in the lord Strange The shamefull cariage oâ— K. Richards bodie to Leicester K. Richards badge and cognisance euerie when defaced The description of king Richard Sée pag. 690 â—91 Sée pag. 659. Sée pag. 703. Abr. Flem. ex Guiâ— pag. 49. Lodowike Sforce duke â— Millan by vsurpation Sée page 627. Guic. pag. 12. T. Wat in Am. Quer. 7. Fr. Thin The death of of William Dudleie bishop of Durham descended of the honorable house of the Dudleies Anno Reg. 1. Edward Plantagenet earle of Warewike sonne and heire to George duke of Clarence committed to the Tower King Henrie commeth to London Henrie the sâ—â—uenth crowned king A parlement at Westminster with an atteindor and a pardon gâ—nerall The king adâ—â—nceth his fâ—eends The king redâ—meth his â—ostages Abr. Flem. ex subsequentib See the historie of EnglaÌ„d pag. 124. See also D. Powels historie of Wales pag. 2 and 376 377 c. Sée before in Edward the fourth pag. 678. Gu. Ha. in psal 103. King Henrie the seuenth taketh to wife Elizabeth eldest daughter of Edward the fourth In Hen. 7. Yeomen of the gard first brought in The sweating sickenesse A remedie for the sweating sickenesse The king requested a prest of six thousand markes A parlement summoned new lawes for the commonwealth enacted The king goeth into the North. A rebellion made by the â—â—rd Louell and others Humfrie Stafford Thomas Stafford The duke 〈◊〉 Bedford against the lord Louell in armes The lord Louell escaped Sir 〈◊〉 Stafford â—aken out of Colnham sanctuarie and executâ—â— Anno Reg. â— Abr. Fl. ex epitome Rich. Graftoâ— One of the maiors officers chosen shiriffe of LoÌ„don and lord maior Sir Richard Simond a fraudulent preest Lambert Simenell the counterfeit earle of Warwâ—ke Thomas Gerardine chancellor of Ireland interteineth the counterfeit earle 〈◊〉 honorablâ—â— Margaret duchesse of Burgognie sister to king Edward the fourth hir malicious mind to Lancaster house A generall pardon excepting no offeÌ„se Order taken that the yoong earle of Warwike should be shewed abroad Ladie Elizabeth late wife to king Edward the fourth adiudged to forfeit all hir lands for promise-breaking Quéenes colledge in Cambridge founded by the ladie Elizabeth king Edward the fourth his wife Edward the right earle of Warwike shewed openlie in procession An ill matter followed to the proofe The earle of Lincolnes flight into Flanders doubted of king Henrie The marques Dorset committed to the Tower Martin Sward a valiant capteine of the Almains assistant to the earle of Lincolne The counterfeit earle of Warwike with all his adherents landeth in England K. Henries power soone increased The earle of Lincolne entreth Yorkeshire The battell of Stoke The armies ioine Martine Sward a péerelesse warrior The kings power ouercommeth All the capteinâ— of the aduerse part against the king slaine The number of the slaine that were against the king Lambert and his maister Simond takeÌ„ Morton bishop of Elie made archbishop of Canturburie and chancellor of England Abr. Fl. ex Gâ—ic pag 4 5. Creation of pope Alexander the sixt Otherwise called Roderike Borgia borne at Uenice Corruption of Cardinals in the election of the pope Pope Alexander the sixt corrupted with manie vices Thanks giuen to God after victorie Execution vpon the offendors Gu. Ha. in eccle cap. 10. Anno. Reg. 3. Fox bishop of Excester sent ambassador into Scotland A truce with Scotland for seuen yeares King Henrie returneth out of the north countrie The French kings request for aid against FraÌ„cis duke of Britaine King Henries offâ—r to make an attonement betwixt the French king and the duke Christopher Urswike The marques Dorset deliuered out of the Tower The kings loue to his wife quéene Elizabeth The duke 〈◊〉 Orleance pâ—â—taker with the duke of Britaine Edward lord Wooduile aâ—deth the duke of Britaine without the kings coÌ„sent Lord Wooduile gathereâ— a power in the I le of Wighâ— The leagâ—e renewed betwéene England and France The king callâ—th a parlement A peremptoâ—â—â— ambassage 〈◊〉 of England into France The battell of saint Aulbin in Britaine betweene the duke of Britaine and the French king Lord Wooduâ—le slaine King Henrie sendeth foorth his armie against the French When the French be iâ—uincible Francis duke 〈◊〉 Britaine â—eth The duchie of Britaine incorporated to the realme of France Iohn Stow. The birth of prince Arthur Anno Reg. 4. The collectors of the subsidie complaine to the earle of Northumberland that they cannot get in the tax monie The earle of Northumberland murthered by the northerne rebels at the instigation and setting on of Iohn a Chamber A rebellion in the north for a tax granted by parlement Sir Iohn Egremond capteine rebell Thomas erle of Surrie sent with a power against the north rebels Iohn a ChaÌ„ber hanged like an archtraitor Sir Iohn Egremond fiâ—eth into Flanders The king boroweth a gret summe of monie of the chaÌ„ber of LondoÌ„ Gâ—â— Ha. in Eccle cap. 8. A rebellion in Flanders Maximilian king of Romans imprisoned at Bruges by the townesmen The lord Cordes maketh aduantage of occasion King 〈◊〉 sendeth the lord Dâ—uâ—eneâ—e and the lord Mâ—rlâ—a against the French Sir Humfrâ—â—â— Talbot with his six score archers The good seruice of a wretch that should haue béene hanged A policie The lord Morlie slaine The number of the slaine 〈◊〉 both parts The Engâ—â—â—â— souldiers inriched Newport beâ—â—ged by the Frenchmen English archers The malicious and foolish words of the lord Cordes Iames king of Scots slaine by his â—wne subiects Adrian an Italian made bishop of Hereford and after of Bath and Welles 1490 Anno Reg. 6. Ambassadors from the FreÌ„ch king to the king of England â— Henrie is 〈◊〉 that the French king should marrie the duchesse of Britaine Lionell bishop of