into the countie of Beauâ—oisin burned manie villages in the same and destroied the strong castell of Gerberie except one turret which line 30 his souldiers could not take by reason of the fire and smoke which staied and kept them from it Moreouer Simon earle of Auranches deliuered vnto king Henrie such fortresses as he held in France as Rochfort Montfort and such like which was no small discommoditie and inconuenience to the French king bicause the garisons placed in those fortresses impeached the passage betwixt Paris and Orleance But shortlie after a truce was taken to last from the moneth of December vnto the feast of the holie line 40 Trinitie in the yeare next following In the moneth of Maie also insuing a peace was concluded vpon the former articles and conditions year 1160 for further confirmation whereof the mariage was solemnized betwixt Henrie the kings sonne being seuen yeares of age and the ladie Margaret daughter to the French king being not past three yeares old as writers doo report The marriage was celebrated at Newborough on the second daie of Nouember line 50 by the authoritie of two legats of the apostolike sée Henrie bishop of Pisa and William bishop of Pauia both preests and cardinals About the same time came certeine Dutchmen of the sort called Ualdoies ouer into this realme to the number of thirtie or more who held opinions in religion contrarie to the faith of the Romane church for as one author affirmeth they which first spred the opinions which these men held came from Gascoigne and preuailed so greatlie in setting foorth their doctrine line 60 that they mightilie increased through the large regions of Spaine France Italie and Germanie simple men God wote they were for the most part as is written of them and of no quicke capacitie Howbeit those which at this time came ouer into England were indifferentlie well learned and their principall or ringleader was named Gerard. Now also was a councell assembled at Oxford whereat these dogmatists were examined vpon certeine points of their profession The forsaid Gerard vndertaking to answere for them all protested that they were good christians and had the doctrine of the apostles in all reuerence Moreouer being examined what they thought of the substance of the godhead and the merits of 〈◊〉 they answered rightlie and to the point but being further examined vpon other articles of the religion then receiued then swarâ—ed from the church and 〈◊〉 in the vse of the diuine sacraments derogating such grace 〈◊〉 the same as the church by hir authoritie had then ascribed thereto To conclude they would in no wise renounce their opinions in somuch that they were condemned burned in the foâ—â—head with an hot iron and in the cold season of winter â—â—â—ipped naked from the girdle 〈◊〉 vpward and so whipped out of the towne with proclamation 〈◊〉 that â—o man should be so hardiâ— as to 〈◊〉 them into any house 〈◊〉 haue them with meat drinke 〈◊〉 any other kind of meanes wherevpon it fell out in fine that they were starued to deaâ—â— through cold and hunger howbeit in this their affliction theâ— séemed to reioise in that they suffered for Gods câ—â—se as they made account The same yeare Mattâ—ew sonne to the earle of Flanders married the ladie Marie the abbesse of Ramsie daughter to king Stephan and with hir had the countie of Bullongne About this mariage grew the first falling out betwixt the king and his chancellor Thomas Becket as some haue written but none more than the said Matthew was offended with the said chancellor bicause he was so sore against the said contract King Henrie shortlie after the marriage was consummate betwixt his sonne the French kings daughter got into his hands the castell of Gisors year 1161 with two other castels situate vpon the riuer of Eata in the confâ—nes of Normandie and France For it was accorded betwixt the two kings that when the marriage should be finished king Henrie should haue those thrée castels bicause they apperteined to Normandie in the meane time the same castels were deliuered into the hands of Robert de Poiron Tostes de Saint Omer and Robert Hastings thrée knights templers who vpon the consummation of the marriages before said and according to the trust committed to them surrendred the possession of the said castels into the hands of king Henrie But the French king was not a little moued for that king Henrie had seized vpon them without his licence in so much that he raised a power of armed men and sent them into Normandie where they had one cruell conflict aboue the rest with the Normans till the night parted them in sunder by meane whereof the Frenchmen withdrew to Chaumount and the Romans to Gisors The next daie as the Frenchmen came foorth againe purposing to haue won Gisors they were beaten backe by the Normans who issued out of the towne to skirmish with them Thus was the warre renewed betwixt these two princes and by setting on of Theobald earle of Blois the matter grew to that point that the English and French powers comming foorthwith into the field and marching one against an other they approched so neere togither that battell was presentlie looked for first in Ueulgessine and after in the territorie of Dune but yet in the end such order was taken betwixt them that their armies brake vp The three Templers also ran in displeasure of the French king for the deliuerie of the castels before they knew his mind so that he banished them the realme of France for euermore but king Henrie receiued them and gaue them honorable enterteinement Some write that there were but two castels Gisors and Meall which were thus put into their hands and by them deliuered as before is mentioned About this time Theobald archbishop of Canturburie departed this life after he had gouerned that sée the space of 22. yeares who at his going to Rome and receipt of the pall of pope Innocent the second was also created legat of the see apostolike which office he exercised so diligentlie and so much to the auaile of the church that the dignitie of legatship remained euer after to the archbishop of Canturburie by a speciall decrée so that they were intituled Legati nati that is to say Legats borne as mine author dooth report This Theobald greatlie fauoured Thomas Becket line 10 This Becket was borne in London his father hight Gilbert but his mother was a Syrian borne and by religion a Saracen howbeit no regard had of his parents he grew so highlie in fauour with the king and might doo so much in England that he seemed to reigne as if he had beene associat with him also in the kingdome and being Lord chancellor the king sent him ouer into England Richard Lucie being in his companie with sundrie letters in his fauour thereby to procure his election to that
safetie After that Trois was yéelded the communaltie of Chaalons rebelled against sir Iohn Aubemond their capteine and constreined him to deliuer the towne vpon like composition In semblable manner did they of Reimes desiring him to giue safe conduct to all the Englishmen safelie to depart When Reimes was thus become French the foresaid Charles the Dolphin in the presence of the dukes of Lorraine and Barre and of all the noble men of his faction was sacred there king of France by the name of Charles the seauenth with all rites and ceremonies thereto belonging They of Auxerre when the terme of their appointment was expired submitted themselues to him and so likewise did all the cities and townes adioining The duke of Bedford aduertised of all these dooings line 10 assembled his power about him and hauing togither ten thousand good Englishmen beside Normans departed out of Paris in warlike fashion passing thorough Brie to Monstreau fault Yonne sent by his herald Bedford letters to the French king signifieng to him that where he had contrarie to the finall conclusion accorded betwéene his noble brother K. Henrie the fift king Charles the sixt father to him that was the vsurper by allurement of a diuelish witch taken vpon him the name title dignitie line 20 of the king of France and further had by murther stealing craft and deceitfull meanes violentlie gotten and wrongfullie kept diuerse cities and townes belonging to the king of England his nephue for proofe thereof he was come downe from Paris with his armie into the countrie of Brie by dint of sword and stroke of battell to prooue his writing and cause true willing his enimie to choose the place and in the same he would giue him battell The new French king being come from Reimes to Dampmartine studieng how to compasse them line 30 of Paris was halfe abashed at this message But yet to set a good countenance on the matter he answered the herald that he would sooner séeke his maister than his maister should néed to pursue him The duke of Bedford hearing this answer marched toward the king and pitched his field in a strong place The French king though at the first he meant to haue abidden battell yet when he vnderstood that the duke was equall to him in number of people he changed line 40 his purpose and turned with his armie a little out of the waie The duke of Bedford perceiuing his faint courage followed him by the hils and dales till he came to a town not far from Senlis where he found the French king and his armie lodged wherefore he ordered his battels like an expert cheefteine in martiall science setting the archers before and himselfe with the noblemen in the maine battell and put the Normans on both sides for wings The French king also ordered his battels with the aduise of his line 50 capteins Thus these two armies laie two daies and two nights either in sight of other without anie great dooing except a few skirmishes wherein the dukes light horssemen did verie valiantlie At length in the dead of the night as priuilie as might be the French king brake vp his campe and fled to Braie The duke of Bedford had much adoo to staie his people in the morning from pursuit of the French armie but for that he mistrusted the Parisiens he would not depart line 60 farre from that citie and so returned thither againe ¶ In this season pope Martin the fift of that name meaning to subdue the Bohemers that dissented from the church of Rome in matters of religion appointed Henrie Beaufort Bishop of Winchester cardinall of saint Eusebie to be his legat in an armie that should inuade the kingdome of Boheme and to bring a power of men with him out of England And because the warre touched religion he licenced the cardinall to take the tenth part of euerie spirituall dignitie benefice and promotion This matter was opened in the parlement house and assented to wherevpon the bishop gathered the monie and assembled foure thousand men aboue not without great grudge of the people which dailie were with tallages and aids wearied and sore burdened As this bishop was come to Douer readie to passe the seas ouer into Flanders the duke of Glocester hauing receiued letters from the duke of Bedford conteining an earnest request to reléeue him with some spéedie aid of men of warre was constreined to write vnto the bishop of Winchester willing him in time of such néed when all stood vpon losse or gaine to passe with all his armie toward the duke of Bedford to assist him against his aduersaries which thing doone and to his honour atchiued he might performe his iournie against the vngratious Bohemers The cardinall though not well contented with this countermand yet least he should run into the note of infamie if he refused to aid the regent of France in so great a cause passed ouer with his power and brought the same vnto his coosine to the citie of Paris About the same season the French king in hope to be receiued into the townes of Campaigne and Beauuois by reason of the fauour and good will which the inhabitants bare towards him was come with an armie towards Campaigne Whereof the duke of Bedford being aduertised and hauing now his host augmented with the new supplie which the cardinall had of late brought vnto him marched forward with great speed toward the place where he vnderstood the French king was lodged and comming to Senlis he perceiued how his enimies were incamped vpon the mount Pilioll betweene Senlis and Campaigne Here might either armie behold the other wherevpon for the auoiding of dangers that might insue the campes were trenched and the battel 's pitched and the fields ordered as though they should haue tried the matter by battell but nothing was doone except with skirmishes in the which the Normans sore vexed the Frenchmen and therefore receiued great commendations praises of the lord regent who vndoubtedlie determined to haue giuen battell to his enimies if they would haue abidden it But after the armies had thus lien ether in sight of other for the space of two daies togither the French king not determining to aduenture in an open battell the whole chance of the game least he might thereby receiue a perpetuall checkemate in the night season remooued his campe and fled to Crespie though his number was double to the English armie The duke of Bedford séeing that the French king was thus cowardlie recoiled with all his power and armie returned againe to Paris euer suspecting the deceitfull faith of the Parisiens The bishop of Winchester after that the French king was retreated backe went into Boheme and there did somewhat though shortlie after without anie great praise or gaine he returned into England more glad of his comming backe than of his aduancing forward Anon after the pope vnlegated him and set an other in his
and yet giuen me no defiance And sith that by the grace of God I haue defended my selfe from him as he hath seene and euerie one line 60 else without that he hath giuen me anie warning or considering the reason and iustification whereon I doo rest my selfe for the which I thinke I haue not otherwise deserued towards God I hope that at this time now you aduertise me of it being aduertised I shall defend my selfe the better in such sort that the king your maister shall doo me no hurt for sith he dooth defie me I am halfe assured And touching that which you spake of the pope none hath béene more sorrowfull than I of that which was doone and it was without my knowledge or commandement and that which hath béene doone was doone by vnrulie people without obedience to anie of my capteins And yet I aduertise you that the pope long since is set at libertie and yesterdaie I had certeine newes of it And touching the sonnes of your maister he knoweth that I haue them for pledges and also my lords his ambassadors know well that the fault hath not lien in me that they haue not béene deliuered And as for that of the king of England my good brother and vncle I beléeue if it be so as you doo say that he is not well informed of things passed and if he were yet could I not saie as your writing conteineth I desire to send him my reasons for to aduertise him of all the truth And I beleeue when he shall know it that he will be vnto me as he hath béene I neuer denied the monie which I borowed of him and I am readie to paie it as by reason right I am bound and thanked be God I haue enough to doo it Neuerthelesse if he will make warre against me it will be to my great displeasure I cannot but defend my selfe I praie to God that he giue me no more occasion than I thinke I haue giuen vnto him And to the rest for that your writing is great and the paper sheweth it selfe to be gentle séeing that they haue written what they would you shall giue me the writing whereby more particularlie I maie answer in another paper wherein shall be nothing but truth This answer being made by his maiestie with his owne mouth vnto Guien king of armes the said Guien tooke his cote of armes that he had on his left arme as before is said and put it on and then Clarenceaux king of armes of England said vnto his maiestie not by writing but by mouth as followeth The English heralds message deliuered by word of mouth SIr the king my souereigne lord hath commanded me to say vnto you that séeing the necessitie of peace in the christian religion as well by reason of the inforcements manie yéers past begun by the great Turke enimie vnto our faith which by force of armes hath taken awaie from the christians the citie and I le of Rhodes one of the principall bulworks of christendome and in Hungarie the fortresse of Belgrad and part of the countrie there as also by heresies and new sects of late risen in diuerse places of christendome and likewise knowing the great warres being kindled in all parts by meanes of which all christendome is in trouble confusion and maruellous diuision and not long since by your people and ministers and souldiers in your armie and vnder your capteins the holie citie of Rome hath béene sacked and robbed the person of our holie father the pope taken prisoner and kept by your people the cardinals likewise taken and put to ransome the churches robbed bishops priests and people of religion put to the sword and so manie other euils cruelties and inhumane facts committed by your people that the aire and the land are infected therewith And it is verie like that God is verrie greatlie stirred and prouoked vnto ire And to speake after the maner of men if by amendment it be not pacified innumerable euils and inconueniences shall happen vnto all christendome And for that the root and increasement of the said warre proceedeth of the contentions and debates betwéene you and the most christened king his good brother and perpetuall alie to make an end of which debates the king my souereigne lord hath sent his ambassadors and others vnto the most christened king his good brother with whome he hath doone so much that for the loue that he hath borne him he hath made vnto you so great offers and so reasonable that you cannot nor ought reasonablie to refuse them as conditions and offers for his ransome excéeding the ransome accustomed of all kings And if in this the consideration of peace had not béene an euill example might thereof grow for other kings and christened princes subiect vnto the like fortune Of which offers and conditions he hath likewise aduertised you by his ambassadours praied and besought you for the honour of God and the wealth of all christendome for the benefits and pleasures that he hath doone vnto you diuerse waies and that in line 10 time of your great néed that it would please you to accept the said offers and make an end of the said warres that haue too long endured Likewise as a christened prince bound to the protection of the pope and sée apostolike and consequentlie to the deliuerance of his holinesse whom you cannot nor ought to kéepe prisoner without great offense that you would restore his holinesse vnto a full and entier libertie Also he hath oftentimes shewed by diuerse obligations line 20 and other meanes how you are indebted vnto him in diuerse great summes of monie that he hath giuen and lent you in your necessitie requiring you to make paiment Of all which things you haue made no account from time to time but deferred it and held in suspense the ambassadours of the king my souereigne without hauing regard to Gods honour and the necessitie of all christendome and the reuerence that ye ought to haue vnto the holie seate and person of our line 30 holie father the pope the vicar of God on earth or vnto the pleasures that you haue receiued of him or vnto your faith and promise that you so oftentimes haue made And for this cause the king my said souereigne by honest reason and iustice constreined by great and ripe deliberation of his councell hoping for a finall conclusion hath caused againe to be presented offers more large and to greater aduantage than the others before to put you in deuoir and to auoid and take awaie all occasion to deferre and dissemble line 40 to come to reason Which offers and the augmenting of the same haue béene made and made againe with all demonstrations and honest resons that haue beene possible And in the end there hath béene made vnto you instance for the deliuerie of our holie father whom you haue restreined or caused to be restreined in place of deliuerie which is very
abroad but euerie man departed And shortlie after the duke was arrested in the kings line 50 college by one maister Sleg sargeant at arms At the last letters were brought from the councell at London that all men should go each his waie Wherevpon the duke said to them that kept him Ye doo me wrong to withdraw my libertie sée you not the councels letters without exception that all men should go whither they would At which words they that kept him and the other noblemen set them at libertie and so continued they for that night insomuch that the earle of Warwike was readie in line 60 the morning to haue rode awaie But then came the erle of Arundell from the quéene to the duke into his chamber who went out to méet him Now as soone as he saw the earle of Arundell he fell on his knees and desired him to be good to him for the loue of God Consider saith he I haue doone nothing but by the consents of you and all the whole councell My lord quoth the earle of Arundell I am sent hither by the quéens maiestie and in hir name I doo arrest you And Iobeie it my lord quoth he I beséech you my lord of Arundell quoth the duke vse mercie towards me knowing the case as it is My lord quoth the earle ye should haue sought for mercie sooner I must doo according to commandement herwith he committed the charge of him and the others to the gard and gentlemen that stood by The lord marques after this went to quéene Marie On the fiue twentith daie of the said moneth the duke of Northumberland with Francis earle of Huntington Iohn earle of Warwike son and heire to the said duke and two other of his yoonger sons the lord Ambrose and the lord Henrie Dudleie sir Andrew Dudleie Sir Iohn Gates capteine of the gard to king Edward the sixt sir Henrie Gates brethren sir Thomas Palmer knights and doctor Sands were brought to the tower by the earle of Arundell But as they entered within the tower gate the earle of Arundell discharged the lord Hastings taking him out of the tower with him On the six twentith of Iulie the lord marques of Northampton the bishop of London the lord Robert Dudleie and sir Robert Corbet were brought from the quéenes campe vnto the tower The eight and twentith of Iulie the duke of Suffolke was committed to the tower but the one and twentith of the same moneth he was set at libertie by the diligent sute of the ladie Francis grace his wife After that quéene Marie was thus with full consent of the nobles and commons of the realme proclamed quéene she being then in Northfolke at hir castell of Framingham repaired with all speed to the citie of London and the third daie of the said moneth of August she came to the said citie and so to the tower where the ladie Iane of Suffolke late afore proclamed quéene with hir husband the lord Gilford a little before hir comming were committed to ward there remained almost after fiue moneths And by the waie as the quéene thus passed she was ioifullie saluted of all the people without anie misliking sauing that it was much feared of manie that she would alter the religion set foorth by king Edward hir brother whereof then were giuen iust occasions because notwithstanding diuerse lawes made to the contrarie she had dailie masse and Latine seruice said before hir in the tower Yea it was doubted in like sort that she would both adnull and innouat certeine lawes and decrées established by the yoong prince hir predecessor which she did in deed as one hath left testified in a memoriall of hir succession but little vnto hir commendation saieng At Maria Eduardi regni succedit habenis Confirmans iterùm regno papalia iura Concilióque nouas leges sancire vocato Molitur latas à fratre perosa priores At hir entrie into the tower there were presented to hir certeine prisoners namelie Thomas duke of Norffolke who in the last yeare of king Henrie the eight as you haue heard was supposed to be attainted of treason but in the parlement of this first yeare of quéene Marie the said supposed attaindour was by the authoritie and act of parlement for good and apparant causes alleged in the said act declared to be vtterlie frustrat and void Also Edward Courtneie son and heire to Henrie marques of Excester coosine germane to king Henrie the eight and Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Durham with other persons of great calling but speciallie Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester whom she not onlie released out of imprisonment but also immediatlie line 10 aduanced and preferred to be lord chancellor of England restoring him also to his former estate and bishoprike and remoued from the same one doctor Poinet who a little before was placed therein by the gift of king Edward the sixt And touching Edward Courtneie she not onelie aduanced him to the earldome of Deuonshire but also to so much of his fathers possessions as there remained in hir hands whereby it was then thought of manie that she bare affection to him by the waie line 20 of marriage but it came not so to passe for what cause I am not able to giue anie reason but surelie the subiects of England were most desirous thereof Upon the receiuing of this new queene all the bishops which had béene depriued in the time of king Edward the sixt hir brother for the cause of religion were now againe restored to their bishopriks and such other as were placed in king Edward his time remoued from their sées and others of contrarie religion placed Amongest whom Edmund line 30 Bonner doctor of the lawes late afore depriued from the sée of London and committed prisoner to the Marshalsea by order of king Edwards councell was with all fauour restored to his libertie and bishoprike Maister Nicholas Ridleie doctor in diuinitie late before aduanced to the same sée by the said king was hastilie displaced and committed prisoner to the tower of London The cause why such extremitie was vsed towards the said bishop Ridleie more than to the rest was for that in the time of ladie line 40 Iane he preached a sermon at Pauls crosse by the commandement of king Edwards councell wherein he dissuaded the people for sundrie causes from receiuing the ladie Marie as queene ¶ On the ninth of August in the afternoone the queene held an obsequie in the tower for king Edward the dirge being soong in Latine and on the morrow a masse of Requiem whereat the quéene with hir ladies offered The same daie the corps of king Edward was buried at Westminster the lord treasuror the earle of line 50 Penbroke and the earle of Shrewesburie being chéefe mourners with diuerse other noble men and others Doctor Daie bishop of Chichester preached at the said buriall and all the seruice with a communion was
not aboue thirtéene yeares vntill the one and twentith of the said king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred twentie and nine During which time of his chancellorship in the ninetéenth yere of king Henrie the eight being the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred twentie and seauen he went into France representing the king of Englands person to set order for the deliuerie of pope Clement the seuenth and Francis the French king at what time he carried the great seale ouer the seas to Calis which seale he left with doctor Tailor maister of the rolles to kéepe the same at Calis vntill the cardinals returne out of the French dominions He died in Leicester abbeie not without suspicion of poison as was thought which he had prepared for himselfe and giuen to his apothecarie to deliuer when he called for it the two and twentith of king Henrie the eight in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred and thirtie Thomas Moore knight sometime vndershiriffe of London and chancellor of the dutchie of Lancaster was aduanced to the honor of chancellorship of England in the yere that the word became flesh one thousand fiue hundred twentie and nine being the one and twentith yéere of that king Henrie which expelled pope Clement the seauenth his authoritie out of his dominions in which office this rare witted knight to vse Erasmus his epitheton and learned chancellor continued not full thrée yeares but in the foure and twentith yeare of the reigne of the said king Henrie the eight with much labor and earnest sute he left his office Touching which it shall not gréeue me to set downe the words of Matthew Parker of the liues of the bishops of Canturburie in the life of Thomas Cranmer writing after this maner Intereà rex dum papae meditabatur excidium singulorum de papali auctoritate sensus iudicijs haud obscuris collegit Inter quos Thomas Morus quia regis conatus pontificijs valdè suspectus fuit cancellarij munere venia regis aegrè impetrata sese abdicauit Thomas Audleie attornie of the dutchie of Lancaster sergeant at the law as most affirme and speaker of the parlement was made knight and lord kéeper line 10 of the great seale the fourth of Iune in the foure and twentith yere of the reigne of the famous prince king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred thirtie and two not long after which he was indued with the title and honor of lord chancellor of England This man in the tenth yere of his chancellorship being the yere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fortie and two and the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight changing the name of Buckingham college line 20 in Cambridge did name it the college of saint Marie Magdalen and indued it with some possessions He died on Maie éeuen in the yeare of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred fortie and foure being the fiue and thirtith yeare of Henrie the eight Thomas Wriotheslie knight of the garter being created baron at Hampton court on the first of Ianuarie in the fiue and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fortie and three was after aduanced line 30 to the honor of the great seale and chancellorship of England about the beginning of Maie in the six and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight being the yere of grace one thousand fiue hundred fortie and foure in which office he continued vntill the death of the said king Henrie the eight and in the beginning of the reigne of king Edward the sixt vntill for his obstinacie in the Romane religion he was the sixt of March remooued and the seale was deliuered to William Paulet lord Sent-Iohn of line 40 Basing This Wriotheslie being created earle of Southampton by king Edward the sixt died at his house of Lincolne place in Holborne the 30 of Iulie in the fourth yeare of the said king Edward in the yéere 1550 was buried at saint Andrews in Oldborne commonlie called Holborne William Paulet knight being first steward of the lands of the bishoprike of Winchester then treasuror of the houshold lord Sent-Iohn of Basing lord great maister of the kings house afterwards earle line 50 of Wiltshire marquesse of Winchester and treasuror of England being of the priuie councell to king Henrie the eight king Edward the sixt queene Marie and queene Elisabeth had the kéeping of the great seale committed vnto him the seuenth daie of March in the yeare that the second person in trinitie descended from the bosome of the father into the wombe of the mother one thousand fiue hundred fortie and seuen being the first yere of the reigne of the yoong king Edward the sixt which seale he had in custodie line 60 about seuen moneths vntill the thrée and twentith or foure and twentith of October following at what time sir Richard Rich was made lord chancellor Sir Richard Rich knight lord Rich was aduanced to the dignitie of lord chancellor of England about the 23 of October in the yere of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred fortie and seuen being the first yeare of the reigne of the noble king Edward the siâ—t in which place he remained about fiue yeers Thomas Goderich or Goderike being bishop of Elie had the great seale deliuered to him and was made lord chancellor of England the twentith of December as Iohn Stow hath noted in his chronicle in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one being the fift yeare of the reigne of king Edward the sixt in whiâ—h office he continued all the life of the said king Edward which died in Iulie one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée being the seuenth yeare of his reigne and about one moneth after vntill the thirtéenth or fouretéenth daie of August in which quéene Marie made Stephan Gardener hir chancellor Sir Nicholas Hare maister of the rolles had at the comming of quéene Marie to the crowne the keeping of the great seale after the death of king Edward as lord kéeper by the space of one fortnight and shortlie after was Stephan Gardener made chancellor Stephan Gardener bishop of Winchester was in August in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée being the first yeare of the reigne of the vnfortunat quéene Marie made chancellor of England This man going in ambassage vnto Calis left the great seale in the custodie of William Paulet marquesse of Winchester which bishop after his returne into England continued in that office all the time of his life which he ended the 19 of Nouember in the yeare that the word became flesh one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue being the third yeere of quéene Marie After which the great seale lieng in the custodie of
it greeueth me I could not leaue the same to posteritie as I wished to their well deserued praise But I haue here imparted what I could learne and craue that it may be taken in good part My speech is plaine without any rhetoricall shew of eloquence hauing rather a regard to simple truth than to decking words I wish I had beene furnished with so perfect instructions and so many good gifts that I might haue pleased all kinds of men but that same being so rare a thing in any one of the best I beseech thee gentle reader not to looke for it in me the meanest But now for thy further instruction to vnderstand the course of these my labours First concerning the historie of England as I haue collected the same out of manie and sundrie authors in whome what contrarietie negligence and rashnesse sometime is found in their reports I leaue to the discretion of those that haue perused their works for my part I haue in things doubtfull rather chosen to shew the diuersitie of their writings than by ouer-ruling them and vsing a peremptorie censure to frame them to agree to my liking leauing it neuerthelesse to each mans iudgement to controll them as he seeth cause If some-where I shew my fansie what I thinke and that the same dislike them I craue pardon speciallie if by probable reasons or plainer matter to be produced they can shew mine errour vpon knowledge whereof I shall be readie to reforme it accordinglie Where I doo begin the historie from the first inhabiâ—ation of this I le I looke not to content ech mans opinion concerning the originall of them that first peopled it and no maruell for in matters so vncerteine if I cannot sufficientlie content my selfe as in deed I cannot I know not how I should satisfie others That which seemeth to me most likelie I haue noted beseeching the learned as I trust they will in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill sith for ought I know the matter is not yet decided among the learned but still they are in controuersie about it and as yet Sub iudice lis est Well howsoeuer it came first to be inhabited likelie it is that at the first the whole Ile was vnder one prince and gouernour though afterwards and long peraduenture before the Romans set any foot within it the monarchie thereof was broken euen when the multitude of the inhabitants grew to be great and ambition entred amongst them which hath brought so manie good policies and states to ruine and decaie The Romans hauing once got possession of the continent that faceth this I le could not rest as it appeareth till they had brought the same also vnder their subiection and the sooner doubtlesse by reason of the factions amongst the princes of the land which the Romans through their accustomed skill could turne verie well to their most aduantage They possessed it almost fiue hundreth yeares and longer might haue doone if either their insufferable tyrannie had not taken awaie from them the loue of the people as well here as else-where either that their ciuill discord about the chopping and changing of their emperours had not so weakened the forces of their empire that they were not able to defend the same against the irruption of barbarous nations But as we may coniecture by that which is found in histories about that time in which the Romane empire began to decline this land stood in verie weake state being spoiled of the most part of all hir able men which were led awaie into forren regions to supplie the Romane armies and likewise perhaps of all necessarie armour weapon and treasure which being perceiued of the Saxons after they were receiued into the I le to aid the Britons against the Scots and Picts then inuading the same ministred to them occasion to attempt the second conquest which at length they brought to passe to the ouerthrow not onelie of the British dominion but also to the subuersion of the Christian religion here in this land which chanced as appeareth by Gildas for the wicked sins and vnthankefulnesse of the inhabitants towards God the cheefe occasions and causes of the transmutations of kingdoms Nam propter peccata regna transmutantur à gente in gentem The Saxons obteining possession of the land gouerned the same being diuided into sundrie kingdoms and hauing once subdued the Britons or at the least-wise remooued them out of the most part of the I le into od corners and mountaines fell at diuision among themselues and oftentimes with warre pursued ech other so as no perfect order of gouernement could be framed nor the kings grow to any great puissance either to mooue warres abroad or sufficientlie to defend themselues against forren forces at home as manifestlie was perceiued when the Danes and other the Northeasterne people being then of great puissance by sea began miserablie to afflict this land at the first inuading as it were but onelie the coasts and countries lieng neere to the sea but afterwards with maine armies they entred into the midle parts of the land And although the English people at length came vnder one king and by that meanes were the better able to resist the enimies yet at length those Danes subdued the whole and had possession thereof for a time although not long but that the crowne returned againe to those of the Saxon line till shortlie after by the insolent dealings of the gouernours a diuision was made betwixt the king and his people through iust punishment decreed by the prouidence of the Almightie determining for their sinnes and contempt of his lawes to deliuer them into the hands of a stranger and therevpon when spite and enuie had brought the title in doubt to whom the right in succession apperteined the Conquerour entred and they remained a prey to him and his who plucked all the heads and cheefe in authoritie so cleerelie vp by the roots as few or none of them in the end was left to stand vp against him And herewith altering the whole state he planted such lawes and ordinances as stood most for his auaile and securitie which being after qualified with more milde and gentle lawes tooke such effect that the state hath euer sithens continued whole and vnbroken by wise and politike gouernement although disquieted sometime by ciuill dissention to the ruine commonlie of the first moouers as by the sequele of the historie you may see For the historie of Scotland I haue for the more part followed Hector Boece Iohannes Maior and Iouan Ferreri Piemontese so far as they haue continued it interlaced somtimes with other authours as Houeden Fourdon and such like although not often bicause I meant rather to deliuer what I found in their owne histories extant than to correct them by others leauing that enterprise to their owne countrimen so that whatsoeuer ye read in the same consider that a Scotishman writ it and an Englishman hath but onelie translated it
subiection and obedience vnto Anselme without any condition intermitted or else that onelie which he did pretend by authoritie of the pope the bishops making answer diuerslie herevnto the king appointed those to sit downe by him as faithfull subiects who acknowledged that their renuntiation was absolutelie made without intermitting of any condition as for the other who protested that they renounced their subiection and obedience vnto him onelie in that which he presumed vpon in the behalfe of the pope he commanded them to go aside and to remaine in a corner of the house to heare the sentence of their condemnation pronounced Wherefore being put in a maruellous feare they withdrew themselues aside but yet straightwaies they deuised a shift wherewith they had beene well acquainted before as followeth They presented to the king a great masse of monie to appease his wrath and so thereby were restored to his fauour Anselme notwithstanding was obstinate in his opinion so that in the end the sentence touching this controuersie betwixt him and the king was respited till the octaues of Pentecost next insuing All this was notified well inough to the pope who vsed the matter with such moderation that by secret aduertisements giuen he tooke awaie from his brethren all rigorous waies of procéedings saieng Dum furor in cursu est currenti cede furori But yet the kings enmitie towards Anselme was openlie declared and that chéefelie for the deniall of the monie which he demanded but at length he got it though not with any frée hart or goodwill of the archbishop insomuch that the king reputed him giltie of treason Within a few daies after Walter bishop of Alba bringing to him his pall verie wiselie reconciled the pope and the king Notwithstanding all this Anselme could not purchase the kings goodwill to his contentment though he wiselie dissembled for the time so that when the bishop of Alba should returne to Rome he made sute for licence to go with him Neuerthelesse the king offered him that if he would desist from his purpose and sweare vpon the euangelists neither to go to Rome nor to appeale in any cause to the popes court he might and should liue in quietnesse frée from all danger but if he would not be so contented he might and should depart at his perill without hope to returne hither againe For surelie saith he if he go I will seize the archbishoprike into mine owne hands and receiue him no more for archbishop Anselme herewith departing from the court came to Canturburie declaring openlie what had bin said vnto him and immediatlie sought to flee out of the realme in the night prouiding for himselfe a shi◠at Douer But his purpose being reuealed to the king line 10 one William Warlewast the kings seruant was sent after him and finding him readie to depart tooke from him all that he had gaue him a free pasport out of the land Anselme repairing to Rome made vnto pope Urban a greeuous information against the king declaring into what miserable state he had brought the Realme and that for want of assistance in his suffragans it laie not in him to reforme the matter Indéed we find not that any of the bishops held line 20 with Anselme in the controuersie betwixt him and the king Ranulph bishop of Chichester excepted who both blamed the king and rebuked all such bishops as had refused to stand with Anselme and fauoured the king in cases concerning the foresaid variance Moreouer the same bishop of Chichester withstood the king and his officers in taking fines of préests for the crime of fornication by reason of which presumption the king became sore offended with him found meanes to suspend many churches of his diocesse line 30 Howbeit in the end the bishop demeaned himselfe in such wise that he had his owne will and his church doores were opened againe which had béene stopped vp before with thornes Besides this the king was contented that the said bishop should haue the fines of préests in crimes of fornication within his diocesse and enioy many other priuileges in right of his church But how beneficiall so euer he was vnto the see of Chichester true it is as Polydor writeth that he let out diuers abbeies and the bishoprike of Winchester line 40 and Salisburie with the archbishoprike of Canturburie vnto certeine persons that farmed the same at his hands for great summes of monie in so much that beside the said sees of Canturburie Winchester and Salisburie which at the time of his death he kept in his hands he also receiued the profits of eleuen abbeies which he had let out or otherwise turned to his most aduantage Robert Losaunge of some called Herbert that sometime had bin abbat of Ramsey and then bishop line 50 of Thetford by gift of a thousand pounds to the king as before ye haue heard repented him for that he was inuested by the king who after he had bewailed his offense went to Rome and did penance for the same in all points as the pope enioined him Which being doone he returned into England remoouing yer long his sée from Thetford to Norwich where he founded a faire monasterie of his owne charges and not of the churches goods as some say wherein is a doubt considering he was first an abbat and after line 60 a bishop About this time by the meanes of Stephan Harding a Monke of Shireborne an Englishman the order of Cisteaux or white moonkes had his beginning within the countrie of Burgongne as witnesneth Ranulph the moonke of Chester but other writers as Iacob Philippus say that this Stephan was the second abbat of that place and that it was founded by one Robert abbat of Molmense in the yeare of Grace 1098. This order was after brought into England by one called Walter Espeke who founded the first abbeie of that religion within this relme at Riuall about the yeare of Grace 1131. But to returne againe to the king who still continued in his wilfull couetousnesse pulling from the rich and welthie to waste and spend it out in all excesse vaine riot and gifts bestowed on such as had least deserued the same And yet he was warned by manie strange woonders as the common people did descant to refraine from these euill dooings for the Thames did rise with such high springs and tides that manie townes were drowned and much hurt doone in places about London and elsewhere Diuerse rare things happened also at the same time which I passe ouer But the king hearing hereof did nothing regard those which were so bold as to tell him that they were euident significations of some vengeance to follow therevpon The king also himselfe on a night as he slept dreamed thought that the veines of his armes were broken and that the bloud issued out in great abundance Likewise he was told by Robert Fitz Hammon that a
slat to the ground Whereof the king hauing knowledge assembled a mightie armie out of hand and line 50 comming to Notingham he hanged vp the Welsh hostages which the last yeare he had receiued to the number of eight and twentie yoong striplings And by reason he was now set in a maruellous chase he roughlie proceeded against all those whom he knew not to fauor his case some he discharged of their offices other he depriued of their capteineships and other roomes reuoked certeine priuileges immunities granted to moonks préests men of religion Furthermore hauing his armie readie to passe line 60 on into Wales he receiued letters the same time both from the king of Scots and from his daughter the wife of Leoline prince of Wales conteining in effect the aduertisement of one matter which was to let him know that if he proceeded on his iournie he should either through treason he slaine of his owne lords or else be deliuered to be destroied of his enimies The king iudging no lesse but that the tenor of the letters conteined a truth brake vp his armie and returned to London From whence he sent messengers vnto all such lords as he suspected commanding them to send vnto him hostages for more assurance of their fidelities The lords durst not disobeie his commandement but sent their sons their nephues and other their kinsmen accordinglie as he required and so his rancour was appeased for a time But Eustace de Uescie Robert Fitz Walter and Stephan Ridell being accused an◠suspected of the K. for the said treason were glad to flée the realme Uescie departing into Scotland and the other two into France The same yeare the church of S. Marie Oueries and all the buildings vpon London bridge on both sides the same were consumed with fire which was iudged to be a signification of some mishap to follow The king held his Christmasse this yeare at Westminster year 1213 with no great traine of knights about him About the same time Geffrey archbishop of Yorke departed this life after he had remained in exile about a seauen yeares But now to returne againe to the practises of the popes legats Ye shall vnderstand the French king being requested by Pandulph the popes legat to take the warre in hand against king Iohn was easilie persuaded thereto of an inward hatred that he bare vnto our king and therevpon with all diligence made his prouision of men ships munition and vittell in purpose to passe ouer into England and now was his nauie readie rigged at the mouth of Saine and he in greatest forwardnesse to take his iournie When Pandulph vpon good considerations thought first to go eftsoones or at the least wise to send into England before the French armie should land there and to assaie once againe if he might induce the king to shew himselfe reformable vnto the popes pleasure king Iohn hauing knowledge of the French kings purpose and ordinance assembled his people and lodged with them alongst by the coast towards France that he might resist his enimies and kéepe them off from landing Here writers declare that he had got togither such an armie of men out of all the parts of his realme both of lords knights gentlemen yeomen other of the commons that notwithstanding all the prouision of vittels that might possible be recouered there could not be found sufficient store to susteine the huge multitude of them that were gathered alongst the coast namelie at Douer Feuersham Gipsewich and other places Wherevpon the capteins discharged and sent home a great number of the commons reteining onelie the men of armes yeomen and fréeholders with the crossebowes and archers There came likewise to the kings aid at the same time the bishop of Norwich out of Ireland bringing with him fiue hundred men of armes a great sort of other horssemen To conclude there was estéemed of able men assembled togither in the armie on Barhamdowne what of chosen men of armes and valiant yeomen and other armed men the number of sixtie thousand so that if they had béene all of one mind and well bent towards the seruice of their king and defense of their countrie there had not béene a prince in christendome but that they might haue beene able to haue defended the realme of England against him He had also prouided a nauie of ships farre stronger than the French kings readie to fight with them by sea if the case had so required But as he lay thus readie néere to the coast to withstand and beat backe his enimies there arriued at Douer two Templers who comming before the king declared vnto him that they were sent from Pandulph the popes legat who for his profit coueted to talke with him for he had as they affirmed meanes to propone whereby he might be reconciled both to God and his church although he were adiudged in the court of Rome to haue forfeited all the right which he had to his kingdome The king vnderstanding the meaning of the messengers sent them backe againe to bring ouer the legat who incontinentlie came ouer to Douer of whose arriuall when the king was aduertised he went thither and receiued him with all due honour and reuerence Now after they had talked togither a little and courteouslie saluted each other as the course of humanitie required the legat as it is reported vttered these words following The sawcie speech of proud Pandulph the popes lewd legat to king Iohn in the presumptuous popes behalfe I Doo not thinke that you are ignorant how pope Innocent to do that which to his dutie apperteineth hath both absolued your subiects of that oth which they made vnto you at the beginning and also taken from line 20 you the gouernance of England according to your deserts and finallie giuen commandement vnto certeine princes of Christendome to expell you out of this kingdom and to place an other in your roome so worthilie to punish you for your disobedience and contempt of religion and that Philip king of France with the first being readie to accomplish the popes commandement line 30 hath an armie in a readinesse and with his nauie newlie decked rigged and furnished in all points lieth at the mouth of the riuer of Saine looking for a prosperous wind that as soone as it commeth about he may saile therewith hither into England trusting as he saith with the helpe of your owne people which neither name you nor will take you for their king line 40 to spoile you of your kingdome with small adoo and to conquer it at his pleasure for he hath as he sticketh not to protest openlie to the world a charter made by all the cheefest lords of England touching their fealtie and obedience assured to him Therfore sith God for your iust desert is wroth with you and that you are as euill spoken of by all men as they that come against line 50 you be well
daie of Februarie they came foorth and submitted themselues and all that they had vnto the kings pleasure Who caused them to be safelie kept till he might take further aduisement what should be doone with them In the meane while also came the earle of Albemarle who by the helpe means of the archbishop of Yorke and the legat Pandulph purchased peace at the kings hands the rather indeed bicause he had line 40 faithfullie serued both the king and his father king Iohn in their wars before that time All those men of armes souldiers also which had submitted themselues and remained as prisoners were pardoned Which ouer-great clemencie caused other vnrulie persons to attempt the like offense of rebellion shortlie after At the very selfe same time the Welshmen began to sturre and vnder their prince and leader Leolin they entered vpon the English marshes and with great crueltie spoiled and robbed the same line 50 wherevpon it was determined by the councell that the king as he was comming toward the castell of Biham should diuide his armie and so he did sending one part thereof against the Welshmen whervpon Leolin after he vnderstood that the kings power came toward him as one not able to resist the same cast off his armour and submitted himselfe to his mercie There be which write that where prince Leolin had besieged the castell of Buet belonging to Reginald line 60 de Breuse the same Reginald besought the K. to helpe to remooue that siege The king contented with his request came with a puissant armie into those parts and therewith the siege was raised for the Welshmen according to their accustomed maner fled The king then entring further into the countrie came to the place where Mountgomerie now standeth and perceiuing the site of the same to serue well for fortification he caused a castell to be builded there to restreine the Welshmen from their accustomed trade of harrieng the countrie And so after he had foraied those quarters and taken order for the full accomplishment of that castell he returned the Nobles granting to him of euerie knights sée two markes of siluer Things being thus in quiet the king who by dailie experience of matters grew to more knowledge from time to time began now of himselfe to order his affaires for his owne behalfe namelie touching the estate of his kingdome and bicause he was minded to assaie the recouerie of those places which his father had lost in France he ordeined Sauerie de Mauleon to be his lieutenant in Guien whereof a gret part as yet remained in his hands and moreouer sent ambassadours vnto the French king requiring of him restitution of those places which he had taken from his father These oratours being come into France and admitted to the kings presence receiued answer that nothing ought to be restored which by law of armes was rightlie conquered and other redresse at that time would none be granted ¶ But a maruell it was to consider here at home in how short a space the state of the English common-wealth was changed and from a troubled fourme reduced to a flourishing and prosperous degrée chiefelie by the diligent heed and carefull prouision of the king himselfe So much auaileth it to haue him that ruleth to attend that which belongeth to his office After this to the intent that whiles he might be occupied in warres abroad he should not be troubled with ciuill discord at home he deuised to ioine in affinitie with the Scots giuing his sister Ione in mariage vnto Alexander the king of Scotland and Hubert of Burgh on the other side married the sister of the same Alexander called Margaret These marriages were solemnized at Yorke on the morrow after the feast of S. Iohn Baptist in the presence of a great number of the Nobles both of England and Scotland A councell also was holden by the archbishop of Canturburie at Oxford for reformation of the state ecclesiasticall and the religion of moonks ¶ In which councell two naughtie felowes were presentes before him that of late had beene apprehended either of them naming himselfe Christ and preached manie things against such abuses as the cleargie in those daies vsed Moreouer to prooue their errour to haue a shew of truth they shewed certeine tokens and signes of wounds in their bodies hands and féet like vnto our sauiour Iesus that was nailed on the crosse In the end being well apposed they were found to be but false dissemblers wherefore by doome of that councell they were iudged to be nailed vnto a crosse of wood and so those to whom the execution was assigned had them foorth to a place called Arborberie where they nailed them to a crosse and there left them till they were dead The one of them was an Hermophrodite that is to say both man and woman Also there were two women condemned of whom the one had taken vpon hir to be that blessed virgine Marie and the other fained hir selfe to de Marie Magdalene Ralfe Coghshall sheweth this matter otherwise and saith that there were two men and two women brought before the archbishop at this councell of the which one of the men being a deacon was accused to be an apostata for the loue of a woman that was a Iew he had circumcised himselfe being herof conuicted disgraded he was committed to the secular power so burnt by the seruants of Fouks de Brent The other being a yoong man was accused of contemning the sacraments of the church that he suffered himselfe to be crucified hauing the prints of the fiue wounds appearing in his bodie and counterfeiting himselfe to be Christ reioised to haue the two women giue out and spread the rumour abroad that he was Christ in déed one of the which women being verie aged was also accused of witcherie hauing with hir soâ—cerie and witchcraft brought that yoong man vnto such wicked foâ—â—ie and madnesse They two being hereof conuicted were closed vp betwixt two walles where they remained till they died the other woman being sister to the yoong man was pardoned and let go bicause she had reuealed the diuelish practise of the other This yeare also was the building of the stéeple belonging to the church of S. Paule in London finished And this yeare also vpon saint Iames day the line 10 citizens of London kept a plaie of defense and wrestling at the hospitall of saint Iames against other their neighbours of the suburbes and the quarters next adâ—â—â—ning In the end whereof it so fortuned that the Londoners had the vpper hand and amongst other that were put to the foile the steward of the abbat of Westminster with his folkes went awaie with the worst to their great gréefe Wherevpon the same steward deuised an other game of wrestling to be holden at Westminster on Lammas day next line 20 following and that whosoeuer could
sir Francis called the Aragoignois a noble capteine of the English part in Normandie tooke by force and policie the towne of Montargis with a great preie of treasure and prisoners and put therein a garrison leauing it well furnished with vittels and munition About the same time the earle of Arundell being truelie informed that the lord Bousac marshall of France was come to Beauuois intending to doo some feat in Normandie assembled the number of thrée and twentie hundred men and comming néere to the said towne of Beauuois sent a great number of light horssemen to run before the towne to traine out the Frenchmen within the which issuing out and following the English horssemen vnto their stale were so inclosed and fought with that in maner all the number of them saue a few which fled backe into the towne with the marshall were slaine or taken Amongst other of the cheefest prisoners that valiant capteine Pouton de Santrails was one who without delaie was exchanged for the lord Talbot before taken prisoner at the battell of Pataie There was also taken one called the sheepheard a simple man and a sillie soule but yet of such reputation for his supposed holinesse amongst the Frenchmen that if he touched the wall of any of their aduersaries townes they beléeued verelie it would incontinentlie fall downe This chance succéeded not fortunatlie alone vnto the English nation for Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike had a great skirmish before the towne of Gournie where he discomfited and repelled his enimies and beside those that were slaine he tooke fortie horssemen all being gentlemen of name and armes Like chance happened to the fréends of king Charles towards the marches of Lorraine where Reigner duke of Bar besieged the towne of Uaudemont perteining to the earle thereof named Anthonie cousine to the same duke Reigner This earle before the dukes approching left a conuenient crue within the towne to defend it and with all spéed rode to the dukes of Bedford and Burgognie being then at the foresaid great triumph at Paris where he purchased such fauour at their hands bicause he had euer taken their parts that not onelie sir Iohn Fastolfe was appointed to go with him hauing in his companie six hundred archers but also the duke of Burgognies marshall named sir Anthonie Toulongon accompanied with fiftéene hundred other men of warre When the duke of Bar heard that his enimies were thus comming towards him like a hardie capteine he raised his siege and met face to face with the earle and his companie betwéene whome was a cruell and mortall battell The horssemen of the French side endured long but in conclusion the English archers so galled their horsses and so wounded the men that the Barrois Almains and other of duke Reigners side were compelled to flee In the chase was taken the duke of Bar the bishop of Metz the lord of of Roquedemaque sir Euerard of Salseburgh the Uicont Darcie and two hundred other beside three thousand which were slaine In this luckie time also no lesse occasion of victorie was offered to the Englishmen in an other part if they could haue vsed it with such circumspect warinesse as had beene expedient For Robert lord Willoughbie and Matthew Gough a valiant Welshman with fifteene hundred Englishmen laid siege to a towne in Aniou called saint Seuerine Whereof line 10 Charles the French king being aduertised sent with all speed the lord Ambrose de Lore with manie noble men to the succours of them within the towne wherof the same lord Ambrose was capteine and therefore made the more hast to releeue his deputie and the other being streictlie besieged but yet staied at the towne of Beaumont till his whole power might come to him The Englishmen aduertised of this intent of the capteine came vpon him in the night and found the line 20 Frenchmens watch so out of order that a thousand men were entered into the campe before they were espied by reason whereof the Englishmen found small resistance But when the daie began to appeare and that the sunne had set foorth his bright beames abroad that all things might be seene the Englishmen giuen wholie to spoile followed not their enimies in chase but being contented with their preie and gaine began to retreit toward the siege againe line 30 which the lord Willoughbie still mainteined with a part of the armie But sée the chance The Frenchmen which were coÌ„ming after hearing by the noise of the people that some fraie was at hand put spurres to their horsses and set on the Englishmen pestered with bag and baggage of the spoile and preie which they had gotten in the French campe The other of the Frenchmen which before had fled returned againe and aided their fellowes so that the Englishmen being taken out of order were compelled to flée of whome line 40 Matthew Gough and diuerse other were taken prisoners And yet of the other part manie were slaine and a great number taken amongst whom was the lord de Lore who for all that the Frenchmen could doo was kept and not deliuered The lord Willoughbie hearing of this mishap raised his siege and departed verie sore displeased in his mind but could not remedie it About this season Nicholas the cardinall of the holie crosse was sent into France as a legat from line 50 Eugenie the fourth as then bishop of Rome to treat a peace betwéene the Englishmen and Frenchmen But when after great instance and labour made betweene the parties he saw their obstinate and froward minds nothing inclined to anie agréement he wan so much at their hands by earnest sute that a truce was granted to indure for six yeares to come but as the same was hardlie granted so was it of the Frenchmen soone and lightlie broken For the bastard line 60 of Orleance newlie made earle of Dunois tooke by treson the towne of Chartres from the Englishmen affirming by the law of armes that stealing or buieng a towne without inuasion or assault was no breach of league amitie or truce In which towne he slue the bishop bicause he was a Burgognian Hereby did new malice increase and mortall warre began eftsoones to be put in vre Whilest these things were dooing in France the cardinall of Winchester was come backe againe into England to appease certeine commotions and sturres aâ—tempted by sundrie persons vnder colour of religion but after that William Mandeuile and Iohn Sharpe the chéefe authors thereof were apprehended and executed by the gouernour and the kings iustices the residue yeelded and confessed their offenses whereof two articles were these as some write that priests should haue no possessions and that all things by the order of charitie among christian people should be in common Other thought their opinions were not such errours but that their enimies spread abroad such rumors of them to make them more odious to the people After that a parlement was called by
is angrie with you for your rebellion the kings sword drawne to defend his countrie the crie of the poore to God against ye the readinesse of the honest in armor to vanquish ye your death to be at hand which ye cannot escape hauing God against ye as he promiseth in his word the kings power to ouerthrow ye gathered in the field the common-welth line 50 to beate ye downe with stripes and with cursses the shame of your mischiefe to blemish ye for euer ¶ Thus far this necessarie treatise touching rebellion penned by sir Iohn Chéeke a gentleman euerie waie in complet sort satisfieng the report blazed abroad of him For if there were no more testimonies extant in the world but this onelie treatise discoursing Kets rebellion it were enough to warrant no lesse true than in common speech and writing is left witnessed of him And suerlie it appeareth line 60 that as in this gentleman there was an extraordinarie heape of laudable gifts so was there also in him the right vse of them all Wherby he grew in such fauor with king Henrie the eight that partlie for his absolute knowledge in toongs speciallie the Gréeke and Latine and also for his integritie of life and religion he was chosen schoolemaister to yoong prince Edward to traine him vp in the right vnderstanding both of forren languages the purenes of Gods seruice Insomuch that by his industrie such effects followed God aboue prospering his actions that the yoong prince when he came to the kingdome was mindfull of him and among other I will not saie gratuities where cause of desert maketh challenge of some recompense tokens of beneuolence aduanced him to the dignitie of knighthood as hereafter in due place maie appeare Of this woorthie man whose praise though neuer so excessiue if meet for a man is equiualent vnto his merits Iohn Leland vpon presenting vnto him a booke taketh occasion to write this epigram comprising in summe no lesse than is here vnder in English remembred Si vis Thespiadum choro probari Fac vt consilio libelle nostro Facundo studeas placere Checo Quem Pandioniae colunt Athenae Et quem Roma colit diserta multùm Quem rex maximus omnium supremúsque Henricus reputans virum probatum Spectatúmque satis reconditaeque Censorem solidum eruditionis Eduardum bene filium suúmque Haeredem puerum illi ad alta natum Sic concredidit vtriusque linguae Flores vt legeret venustiores Exercens facili manum labore Et Christi imbiberet suaue nectar Foelicem arbitror hunc diem fuisse Tanto discipulo dedit magistrum Qui talem c. During the time of these commotions and sturs here within the realme to the great danger of the state the French king hauing knowledge thereof ment not to omit the oportunitie offered to recouer out of the Englishmens hands those fortresses which they held at Bullongne and in Bullongnois Wherevpon he gaue summons to the gentlemen and men of armes and others of his realme to put themselues in order with all their furniture that they might be readie to attend him in his armie in Bullongnois by a daie appointed And about the same time that is to saie in the beginning of August the French king purposing to surprise the Iles of Gernesâ—ie and Ierseie appointed certeine gallies and ships of warre to passe thither but being receiued by the king of Englands nauie that laie there and other of the Iland they were beaten backe and repelled with the losse of a thousand men as some write and so were constreined to retire without atchiuing their enterprise Credible word was brought out of France to the lord protector that into one towne in one vessell were brought at the least thrée score gentlemen to be buried also an inhibition giuen out by the French king not to speake of the euill successe of that iournie In the meane time the French king being come downe vnto Abuile departed from thence the sixtéenth of August and comming vnto Rue lodged there that night and the next daie came to Monstreull where he found the conestable and monsieur Daumalle The next daie being the eightéenth of August he came to his armie lodged foure leagues on this side Monstreull at a village called Neufcastell neere to the forrest of Ardelo vpon the waie that leadeth to Bullongne The same daie were certeine pioners sent to Pont de Bricque to repare the bridge there and to make the waies easie for the artillerie to passe The next daie the said king with his armie passed by Bullongne berg and camped that night on a little hill betwixt that forrest and the forrest of Suren In this place he caused trenches to be cast about a plot of ground after the maner of a fortresse within the which he left certeine bands of men of warre to be a safegard vnto such as should passe to and fro with vittels to furnish his campe He staied not there past a daie a halfe but remoued to Ardenton a mile or little more beyond Marguisen from thence he came with his armie and lodged on a hill somewhat more than a mile a halfe from Hambleteuue The French king hauing viewed the forts caused fiue and twentie péeces of artillerie to be planted against that fort which was built in a place called the Almaine campe but the Frenchmen named it Le fort de Selaque distant from Hambleteuue about a quarter of a mile The artillerie had not gone off little more than the space of two houres but that line 10 Charls Sturton capteine of that péece and George Willoughbie a gentleman associat with him came foorth to parlee with the Conestable offering to yéeld the fort into his hands vpon condition they might depart with bag and baggage But as they were thus in hand to make their composition the Frenchmen thrust forward to the rampiers and entered in plumps into the fortresse slue fourescore persons tooke the rest prisoners There might be in all within that péece two hundred and thirtie persons men and women This happened the foure line 20 and twentith of August being Bartholomew daie This doone the king caused part of the artillerie to be planted against the castell of Hambleteuue situated at the one end of the towne néere to the sea side Towards night monsieur de Uandosme gaue an approch to the said castell and they within by commandement of the lord Greie retired to the maine fort to helpe to furnish the same wanting numbers sufficient to defend it The next daie being line 30 the fiue and twentith of August the king caused approches to be made vnto the great fort and the morrow after the batterie began most furiouslie The same daie after dinner the king summoned them within to yéeld but the lord Iohn Greie being generall although he saw how weake the péece was of it selfe the lacke of sufficient numbers of men to
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
inclinable â—are vnto his grace who is now readie to declare the same So soone as the lord chancellor had ended his line 60 tale the cardinall began and made a long solemne oration the which for shortnesse sake I haue collectd into these few articles remitting the reader to maister Foxes Acts and Monuments where they shall find the same wholie and entierlie as by him it was vttered 1 First he yéelded most heartie thanks to the king and queene and next vnto the whole parlement that of a man exiled banished from this common-weale they had restored him againe to be a member of the same and to the honour of his house and familie and of a man hauing no place neither here nor elsewhere within the realme to haue admitted him into a place where to speake and to be heard 2 Secondlie that his especiall comming was for the restitution of this realme to the ancient estate and to declare that the sée apostolike hath a speciall care of this realme aboue all other and chieflie for that this Iland first of all other prouinces of Europe receiued the light of Christs religion from the see of Rome 3 Thirdlie he exhorted that though the realme had swarued from the catholike vnitie that yet being better informed we ought to returne into the bosome of the church most open to receiue all penitents For the persuasion wherof he brought a number of old examples what perill and hurt hath happened vnto them that haue swarued and gone from the church of Rome namelie Greece and Germanie 4 Fourthlie how much we are bound to God for the king and quéens maiesties and how miraculouslie God had saued and defended our queene from hir enimies in most dangerous times and also that hée hath prouided to ioine with hir in mariage such a noble prince as king Philip was one of hir owne religion 5 Fiftlie he exhorted them all to obedience of these two princes and to call vpon God for issue to be had betweene them adding that king Philips father the emperour had amongst other princes trauelled most for the restitution of the peace and vnitie of the church But as almightie God said vnto Dauid though he had a mind and will to build his temple yet bicause he had shed bloud he should not build it And so bicause the emperour hath had so manie warres and shed so much bloud therefore hee could not atteine to bring perfect peace to the church But trulie said he this gratious prince king Philip his sonne as I conceiue is appointed of God to it considering now the calling of him to be ioined with so catholike a princesse as is the queene of this realme one without all doubt sent likewise of God for the restoring of the said realme to the vnitie of the church from whence it hath erred and gone astraie as it dooth and maie manifestlie appeare 6 Sixtlie he protested that his commission was not to preiudice anie person for he came not to destroie but to build he came to reconcile and not to condemne he came not to compell but to call againe he came not to call anie thing in question alreadie doone but his commission was of grace and clemencie to all such as would receiue it For touching all matters past and doone they should be cast into the sea of forgetfulnesse and neuer more to bée thought vpon 7 Finallie said he the meane whereby to receiue this high benefit is first to reuoke and repeale all such lawes as are impediments blocks and barres to this most gratious reconciliation For like as he himselfe had no place to speake there before such lawes were abrogated and remooued as stood in his waie euen so they could not receiue the grace offered from the see apostolike vntill these like impediments of lawes made against the see of Rome were vtterlie abolished and repealed And so in conclusion aduertised them first for the glorie of God and next for the conseruation and suertie of the wealth and quietnesse of the whole realme that they should earnestlie trauell therein and that then he would make them participants of the benefit of his commission The next daie the whole court of parlement drew out the forme of a supplication and the next daie following when the king the quéene and the cardinall with all the nobles and commons were assembled againe in the great chamber of the White hall aforesaid the bishop of Winchester there shewed what the parlement had determined concerning the cardinals request and then offered to the king and quéene the said supplication to be by them presented to the cardinall Wherein would be noted the readinesse of the assemblie to submit themselues to antichristian slauerie but omitting to giue iudgement marke their supplication the copie whereof followeth A supplication exhibited to cardinall Poole by the parlement WE the lords spirituall and temporall and line 10 commons in this present parlement assembled representing the whole bodie of the realme of England and dominions oâ— the same in the name of our selues particularlie and also of the said bodie vniuersallie offer this our most humble supplication to your maiesties to this end and effect that the same by your gratious intercession and meane maie be exhibited to the most reuerend father in God the lord cardinall Poole legat sent speciallie hither from our most holie father pope line 20 Iulie the third and the sée apostolike of Rome Wherin we doo declare our selues verie sorie and repentant of the long schisme and disobedience happening in this realme and the dominions of the same against the sée apostolike either by making agréeing or executing of anie lawes ordinances or commandements against the primasie of the same sée or otherwise dooing or speaking that might impugne or preiudice the same Offering our selues and promising by this our supplication that for a token knowledge line 30 of our said repentance we be and shall be euer readie vnder and with the authorities of your maiesties to the vttermost of our power to doo that shall lie in vs for the abrogation and repealing of all the said lawes and ordinances made and enacted to the preiudice of the sée apostolike as well for our selues as for the whole bodie whome we represent Wherevpon we humblie beséech your maiesties as persons vndefiled in offense of his bodie towards the said sée which neuerthelesse God by his prouidence hath line 40 made subiect to you so to set foorth this our humble sute as we the rather by your intercession maie obteine from the sée apostolike by the said most reuerend father as well particularlie as generallie absolution release and discharge from all dangers of such censures and sentences as by the lawes of the church we be fallen into And that we maie as children repentant be receiued into the bosome and vnitie of Christs church so as this noble realme with all the members thereof maie in
could not prosper so long as she kept in hir hands any possessions of the church did frankelie and freelie resigne and render vnto them all those reuenues ecclesiasticall line 20 which by the authoritie of parlement in the time of king Henrie had béene annexed to the crowne called the first fruits and tenths of all bishopricks benefices and ecclesiasticall promotions The resignation whereof was a great diminution of the reuenues of the crowne ¶ In this parlement was granted to the king queene a subsidie of the laitie from fiue pounds to ten pounds eight pence of the pound from ten pounds to twentie pounds twelue pence of the pound from twentie pounds vpward sixtéene line 30 pence of the pound and all strangers double and the cleargie granted six shillings of the pound Doctor Storie and other were appointed by the cardinall to visit euerie parish church in London and Middlesex to see their relikes repared and the images of the crucifix with Marie and Iohn therevpon to be fixed During the time of this parlement Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester and chancellor of England died at his house called Winchester place beside saint Marie Oueries in Southworke the ninth daie of Nouember whose corps was shortlie line 40 after solemnly from thence conueied to his church of Winchester there buried The maner of whose death why should I blush to blaze as I find it by report ¶ One mistresse Mondaie being the wife of one maister Mondaie secretarie sometime to the old lord Thomas duke of Norffolke a present witnes of this that is testified thus openlie reported in the house of a worshipfull citizen bearing office in this citie in words and effect as followeth The same daie line 50 when as bishop Ridleie and maister Latimer suffered at Oxford being about the ninetéenth daie of October there came to the house of Stephan Gardiner the old duke of Norffolke with the foresaid Mondaie his secretarie aboue named reporter héerof The old aged duke there waiting and tarieng for his dinner the bishop being not yet disposed to dine deferred the time till three or foure of the clocke at after noone At length about foure of the clocke commeth his seruant posting in all possible spéed from Oxford line 60 bringing intelligence to the bishop what he had heard and séene of whom the said bishop diligentlie inquiring the truth of the matter hearing by his man that fire most certeinlie was set vnto them commeth out reioising to the duke Now saith he let vs go to dinner Wherevpon they being set downe meat immediatlie was brought and the bishop began merilie to eate but what followed The blouddie tyrant had not eaten a few bits but the sudden stroke of God his terrible hand fell vpon him in such sort as immediatlie he was taken from the table so brought to his bed where he continued the space of fiftéene daies in such intollerable anguish and torments that all that meane while during those fifteene daies he could not auoid by order of vrine or otherwise any thing that he receiued whereby his bodie being miserablie inflamed within who had inflamed so manie good martyrs before was brought to a wretched end And thereof no doubt as most like it is came the thrusting out of his toong from his mouth so swolne blacke with the inflammation of his bodie A spectacle worthie to be noted and beholden of all such bloudie burning persecutors But whatsoeuer he was séeing he is now gone I referre him to his iudge to whom he shall stand or fall As concerning his death and maner thereof I would they which were present thereat would testifie to vs what they saw This we haue all to thinke that his death happened so opportunelie that England hath a mightie cause to giue thanks to the Lord therfore not so much for the great hurt he had doone in times past in peruerting his princesse in bringing in the six articles in murthering Gods saints in defacing Christs sincere religion c as also especiallie for that he had thought to haue brought to passe in murthering also our noble quéene that now is For whatsoeuer danger it was of death that she was in it did no doubt procéed from that bloudie bishop who was the cause thereof And if it be certeine which we haue heard that hir highnesse being in the tower a writ came downe from certeine of the councell for hir execution it is out of controuersie that wilie Winchester was the onelie Dedalus and framer of that engine Who no doubt in that one daie had brought this whole realme into wofull ruine had not the lords most gratious councell thorough maister Bridges then the lieutenant comming in hast to the quéene certified hir of the matter and preuented Achitophels bloudie deuises For the which thanks be to the same our Lord and Sauiour in the congregation of all English churches Amen After whose death Nicholas heath archbishop of Yorke was preferred by the quéene to the office of the chancellor ¶ She likewise gaue the priuie seale to the lord Paget and made him lord priuie seale these were both Londoners borne In this moneth of Februarie the lord maior of London and the aldermen entered into Bridewell and tooke possession thereof according to the gift of king Edward now conâ—â—â—med by queene Marie In the moneth of March next following there was in maner no other talke but of the great preparation that was made for the quéens lieng in childbed who had alredie taken vp hir chamber and sundrie ladies and gentlewomen were placed about hir in euerie office of the court ¶ And now forsomuch as in the beginning of the moneth of Iune about Whitsuntide the time was thought to be nie that this yoong maister should come into the world and that midwiues rockers nurses with the cradle and all were prepared and in a readinesse suddenlie vpon what cause or occasion it is vncerteine a certeine vaine rumor was blowne in London of the prosperous deliuerance of the quéene and the birth of the child insomuch that bels were roong bonefiers and processions made not onelie in the citie of London and in most other parts of the realme but also in Antwerpe guns were shot off vpon the riuer by the English ships and the mariners thereof were rewarded with an hundred pistolets or Italian crownes by the ladie regent who was the quéene of Hungarie Such great reioising and triumph was for the quéenes deliuerie and that there was a prince borne Yea diuerse preachers namelie one the person of saint Anne within Aldersgate after procession and Te Deum soong tooke vpon him to describe the proportion of the child how faire how beautifull and great a prince it was as the like had not béene seene In the middest of this great adoo there was a simple man this I speake but vpon information dwelling within foure miles of Barwike that neuer had béene
libertie out of danger to peace and quietnesse from dread to dignitie from miserie to maiestie from mourning to ruling brieflie of a prisonner made a princesse and placed in hir throne roiall proclamed now quéene with as manie glad hearts line 50 of hir subiects as euer was anie king or queene in this realme before hir or euer shall be I dare saie hereafter Touching whose florishing state hir princelie reigne and peaceable gouernement with other things diuerse and sundrie incident to the same and especiallie touching the great stirres and alterations which haue happened in other forren nations and also partlie among our selues here at home forsomuch as the tractation hereof requireth an huge volume by it selfe I shall therefore deferre the reader to the line 60 next booke or section insuing wherein if the Lord so please to susteine me with leaue and life I maie haue to discourse of all and singular such matters doone and atchiued in these our latter daies and memorie more at large Now then after these so great afflictions falling vpon this realme from the first beginning of quéene Maries reigne wherein so manie men women and children were burned manie imprisoned and in prisons starued diuerse exiled some spoiled of goods and possessions a great number driuen from house to home so manie wéeping eies so manie sobbing harts so manie children made fatherlesse so manie fathers bereft of their wiues and children so manie vexed in conscience and diuerse against conscience constrained to recant and in conclusion neuer a good man almost in all the realme but suffered something during all the time of this bloudie persecution after all this I saie now we are come at length the Lord be praised to the seuentéenth of Nouember which daie as it brought to the persecuted members of Christ rest from their carefull mourning so it easeth me somewhat likewise of my laborious writing by the death I meane of quéene Marie who being long sicke before vpon the said seuentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare aboue said about thrée or foure of the clocke in the morning yéelded hir life to nature and hir kingdome to quéene Elisabeth hir sister As touching the maner of whose death some saie that she died of a timpanie some by hir much sighing before hir death supposed she died of thought and sorrow Wherevpon hir councell seeing hir sighing and desirous to know the cause to the end they might minister the more readie consolation vnto hir feared as they said that she tooke some thought for the kings maiestie hir husband which was gone from hir To whome she answering againe In deed said she that may be one cause but that is not the greatest wound that pearseth mine oppressed mind but what that was she would not expresse to them Albeit afterward she opened the matter more plainlie to mistresse Rise and mistresse Clarentius if it be true that they told me which heard it of mistresse Rise himselfe who then being most familiar with hir and most bold about hir told hir that they feared she tooke thought for king Philips departing from hir Not that onelie said she but when I am dead and opened you shall find Calis lieng in my hart c. Which one supposing to be true hath left this report Hispani oppidulo amisso contabuit vxor Quam cruciatu aegro confecerat anxia cura And here an end of quéene Marie and of hir persecution during the time of hir misgouernment Of which quéene this trulie may be affirmed and left in storie for a perpetuall memoriall or epitaph for all kings and quéenes that shall succéed hir to be noted that before hir neuer was read in storie of anie king or quéene of England since the time of king Lucius vnder whom in time of peace by hanging heading burning and prisoning so much christian bloud so manie Englishmens liues were spilled within this realme as vnder the said quéene Marie for the space of foure yeares was to be séene and I beseech the Lord neuer may be séene hereafter Now for so much as quéene Marie during all the time of hir reigne was such a vehement aduersarie and persecutor against the sincere professors of Christ Iesus and his gospell for the which there be manie which doo highlie magnifie and approue hir dooings therein reputing hir religion to be sound and catholike and hir procéedings to be most acceptable and blessed of almightie God to the intent therfore that all men may vnderstand how the blessing of the Lord God did not onelie not procéed with hir proceedings but contrarie rather how his manifest displeasure euer wrought against hir in plaging both hir and hir realme and in subuerting all hir counsels and attempts what soeuer she tooke in hand we will bestow a litle time therein to perpend and surueie the whole course of hir dooings and cheuances and consider what successe she had in the same Which being well considered we shall find neuer no reigne of anie prince in this land or anie other which had euer to shew in it for the proportion of time so manie arguments of Gods great wrath and displeasure as was to be séene in the reigne of this queene Marie whether we behold the shortnesse of hir time or the vnfortunate euent of all hir purposes Who séemed neuer to purpose anie thing that came luckilie to passe neither did anie thing frame to hir purpose what soeuer she tooke in hand touching hir owne priuat affaires Of good kings we read in the scripture in shewing moreie and pitie in seeking Gods will in his word and subuerting the monuments of idolatrie how God blessed their waies increased their honors and mightilie prospered all their procéedings as we line 10 sée in king Dauid Salomon Iosias Iosaphat Ezechias with such others Manasses made the stréets of Hierusalem to swim with the bloud of his subiects but what came of it the text dooth testifie Of quéene Elisabeth which now reigneth among vs this we must néeds saie which we sée that she in sparing the bloud not onelie of Gods seruants but also of Gods enimies hath doubled now the reigne of quéene Marie hir sister with such aboundance of line 20 peace and prosperitie that it is hard to saie whether the realme of England felt more of Gods wrath in queene Maries time or of Gods fauour and mercie in these so blessed and peaceable daies of queene Elisabeth Gamaliell speaking his mind in the councell of the Phariseis concerning Christes religion gaue this reason that if it were of God it should continue who soeuer said naie if it were not it could not stand So may it be said of quéene Marie and hir Romish line 30 religion that if it were so perfect and catholike as they pretend and the contrarie faith of the gospellers were so detestable and hereticall as they make it how commeth it then that this so catholike a quéene such a necessarie piller
house in the west parts of England deane of Chichester departed this life in Germanie where he liued in exile about the latter end of quéen Maries reigne Cutbert Tunstall bishop first of London and after of Durham borne in Lancashire of a right worshipfull familie excellentlie learned as by his workes it may appeare doctor of both the lawes departed this life in the yeare 1559. Richard Sampson bishop of Couentrie Lichfield wrote certeine treatises departed this life 1555. Lucas Shepherd borne in Colchester in Essex an English poet Iane Dudleie daughter vnto Henrie Greie duke of Suffolke wrote diuerse things highlie to hir commendation of whome yée haue heard more before héere in this historie William Thomas a Welshman borne of whome yée haue likewise heard how he suffered for treason wrote the historie of Italie and other things verie eloquentlie Iames Brookes a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Standish a doctor likewise of the same profession great defenders of the popes doctrine as by their workes appeareth William Perine a blacke line 10 frier by profession and a doctor also of diuinitie wrote in defense of the masse and preached sermons which were printed of like stuffe Iohn Baret borne in Lin a doctor of diuinitie and sometime a Carmelit frier but reuolting from the popes religion he became an earnest setter foorth of the gospell but eftsoones he fell off and returned to his former opinions now in the daies of quéene Marie Henrie lord Stafford sonne to Edward duke of Buckingham amongst other things which he wrote he translated a booke out of Latine into English intituled Vtriusque potestatis differentia that is The difference betwixt the two powers which booke as some thinke was first compiled and set foorth by Edward Fox bishop of Hereford Iohn Hopkins translated diuerse psalmes of the psalter into English méeter which are to be found amongst those appointed to be sung in the churches of England Thus farre the troublesome reigne of Queene Marie the first of that name God grant she may be the last of hir religion eldest daughter to king Henrie the eight The peaceable and prosperous regiment of blessed Queene Elisabeth second daughter to king Henrie the eight AFter all the stormie tempestuous and blustering windie weather of quéene Marie was ouerblowne the darkesome clouds of discomfort dispersed the palpable fogs and mists of most intollerable miserie consumed and the line 10 dashing showers of persecution ouerpast it pleased God to send England a calme and quiet season a cleare and louelie sunshine a quâ—tsest from former broiles of a turbulent estate and a world of blessings by good quéene Elisabeth into whose gratious reigne we are now to make an happie entrance as followeth When true knowledge was had that quéene Marie was deceased who left hir life in this world the seuentéenth daie of Nouember as is before mentioned line 20 in the latter end of hir historie in the time of a parlement the lords that were assembled in the vpper house being resolued according to the lawes of the land to declare the ladie Elisabeth sister to the said quéene to be verie true and lawfull heire to the crowne of England sent immediatlie to the speaker of the parlement willing him with the knights and burgesses of the neather house without delaie to repaire vnto them into the vpper house for their assents in a case of great importance Who being line 30 come thither after silence made as the maner is the archbishop of Yorke chancellor of England whose name was Nicholas Heth doctor in diuinitie stood vp and pronounced in effect these words following The cause of your calling hither at this time is to signifie vnto you that all the lords here present are certeinlie certified that God this present morning hath called to his mercie our late souereigne ladie queene Marie Which hap as it is most heauie and line 40 gréeuous vnto vs so haue we no lesse cause another waie to reioise with praise to almightie God for that he hath left vnto vs a true lawfull and right inheritrice to the crowne of this realme which is the ladie Elisabeth second daughter to our late souereigne lord of noble memorie king Henrie the eight and sister to our said late quéene of whose most lawfull right and title in the succession of the crowne thanks be to God we néed not to doubt Wherefore the lords of this house haue determined with your assents and line 50 consents to passe from hence into the palace and there to proclame the said ladie Elisabeth quéene of this realme without further tract of time Whereto the whole house answered with euident appearance of ioy God saue quéene Elisabeth long may quéene Elisabeth reigne ouer vs. And so this present parlement being dissolued by the act of God the said lords immediatlie calling vnto them the kings and principall heralds at armes went into the palace of Westminster and directlie before the hall doore in the foore noone of the same daie after seuerall soundings of trumpets made in most solemne maner proclamed the new quéene by this name and title Elisabeth by the grace of God queene of England France and Ireland defender of the faith c to the great comfort and reioising of the people as by their maners and countenances well appeared After which proclamation made at Westminster the said lords to wit the duke of Norffolke the lord treasuror the earle of Oxford and diuerse other lords and bishops with all spéed repaired into the citie of London where the like proclamation was made in the presence of them and also of the lord maior and aldermen in their scarlet gowns at the crosse in Cheape with no lesse vniuersall ioy and thanksgiuing to God of all the hearers And so our most gratious souereigne ladie queene Elisabeth began hir happie reigne ouer this realme of England to the great comfort and gladnesse of all estates christianlie minded and disposed vpon the foresaid seuentéenth day of Nouember lux haec venerabilis Anglis Haec est illa dies albo signando lapillo saith the poet in the yeare after the creation of the world fiue thousand fiue hundred twentie and fiue year 1558 after the birth of our sauiour one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and eight of the empire of Ferdinando the first emperor of Rome bearing that name the first in the twelfe yeare of the reigne of Henrie the second of that name French king and in the sixtéenth yeare of the reigne of Marie quéene of Scotland On wednesdaie the three and twentith of Nouember the quéenes maiestie remooued from Hatfield vnto the Charter house in London where she lodged in the lord Norths house in which remoouing and comming thus to the citie it might well appeare how comfortable hir presence was to them that went to receiue hir on the waie and likewise to the great multitudes of people that came abroad to sée hir grace shewing their reioising harts in
reuerend a prelat as the managing of the princes affaires by him dooth well witnesse and this present age can yet well remember This man being of a mild condition was borne at Hachaford in Richmondshire and as Leland hath left in writing that he heard the base sonne of one Tunstall an ancient gentleman whose ancestors as I haue read came into England with the conquerour attending on him as his barbar for which cause he beareth in his armes thrée combes as a note to posteritie of the originall of his gentrie Which bishop although he is supposed to haue béene base borne as manie noble capteins and other the valiant persons of the world haue béene whereof six hundred examples as hath the prouerbe might be produced yet was he not base in lerning eloquence grauitie and honorable calling both in spirituall temporall affaires both in seruice of the prince and in charge of his church For besides manie other offices that he exercised he was maister of the rols sundrie time ambassador to forreine princes bishop of London and from thence by vertue of Clement the seuenth his bulles to K. Henrie the eight in the yeare 1530 the fiue twentith of March aduanced to the sée of Durham and by the kings letters elected therevnto the yeare before said In the which function he behaued himselfe as the worthinesse of the estate required and as the doctrine of the church in those daies would permit of which I meane not to intreat neither of his fall or rising but will onlie meddle with méere temporall accidents as one that hath not béene accustomed to die his pen in the bloud of mens consciences nor in the opinions of religion Wherefore to omit all such things I saie of this bishop that he was a man singularlie learned as Caius tearmeth him Literaâ—issimus in the Hebrue Gréeke and Latine toongs and did not onelie erect sumptuous buildings for the mind and inward man in furnishing when he was bishop of London a librarie in Cambridge with manie notable both written and printed bookes compiling also manie other bookes aswell of diuinitie as of other sciences wherof at this daie his arithmâ—tike is of great estimation through Europe but did also for the flesh outward man build from the ground a most beautifull porch or gatehouse with a chapell annexed therevnto of faire stone in the castell of Durham withall adding vnto the said castell certeine gates with iron bars and portcullices supported with strong walles line 10 of stone on each part for the more strength against the enimie not forgetting to make a water-conduit for the ease of washing and to serue the other offices in the house on the left side of the entrance into the said castell To which these sumptuous déeds for they are verie heroicall may be added the gatehouse built at Alnewike and the tolboth in the market of Durham all of stone with the rest of the houses of office next vnto the hinder part of the said tolboth which afterward with other great liberalities line 20 he gaue to the citizens of Durham Lastlie at his owne charge he new repared with stoneworke the third part of Tinbridge which his predecessour Thomas Langleie recouered against the manor of Newcastell and which others his predecessors as occasion was offered therefore did from time to time most statelie repare In the end about the latter reigne of Edward the sixt being by Kinian or Ninian Menuile or Menille accused for that he somewhat fauoured the Romane religion line 30 and was not so forward in furthering of the gospell as that time required he was for that cause depriued from his bishoprike from all other ecclesiasticall gouernment and committed to the tower where he remained all the time of K. Edward Afterward by the benefit of quéene Marie in the first yeare of hir reigne he was reinuested into his sée of Durham which he possessed all the time of hir gouernement during which he was not so seuere an executor of the Romane canons against the protestants line 40 as the other bishops of England were But she not continuing long such are the inconstancies of our estates vncerteinties of our troubles he was againe by the noble quéene Elisabeth depriued of his bishoprike after disputation and conference had at Westminster in which he defended the Roman religion in the first yeare of the said Elisabeth about the truth of Christs gospell and was committed to Matthew Parker bishop of Canturburie who vsed him verie honourablie both for the line 50 grauitie learning and age of the said Tunstall But he not long remaining vnder the ward of the said bishop did shortlie after the eightéenth of Nouember in the yeare 1559 depart this life at Lambeth where he first receiued his consecration being a man of such age as that he atteined to the number of fourescore fiue years when he died He was buried in the queere of the church of Lambeth whose funerall sermon was doone by Alexander Nowell then now in the yeare 1586 deane of Poules Who taking this line 60 theame to intreat vpon Blessed are they which die in the Lord did there deliuer such liberall singular commendation of this man for his vertuous life lerning grauitie and good seruice doone to manie princes of England that more could not be said of anie man being spoken trulie Such force hath vertue that we ought to commend it euen in our enimies ouer whose dead carcase in the said church of Lambeth is laid a faire marble in which is ingrauen this epitaph of his deuised by doctor Walter Haddon Anglia Cutbertum Tunstallum â—â—oesta requirit Cuius summa domi laus erat â—tque foris Rhetor arithmeticus iuris consultus aequi Legatúsque fuit denique praesul erat Annorum satur magnorum plenus honorum Vertitur in cineres aureus iste senex This man was as it should appeare in stories full of contumarie and selfe will vntractable he was and of nature rebellious For saith maister Fox in the reigne of king Edward being cast into the tower for his disobedience where he kept his Christmasse thrée yeares togither more worthie of some other place without the tower if it had pleased God otherwise not to haue meant a further plague to this realme by that man Howbeit he was indued with such excellencie of lerning and that of sundrie sutes that of the learned he is noted for a mirror of that age wherein he liued and albeit a papist yet not depriuable of the praise which it pleased God to prouide for him being an enimie vnto the truth perhaps through feare as manie more by those rare and manifold good means wherewith he was adorned Insomuch that Leland a man of a cleare iudgement and great insight to discerne betwéene substantiallie and superficiallie learned comparing this bishop Tunstall with profound Budeus saith as foloweth Qua te nostra canet Tunstalle Britannia laude
this bishoprike which sometimes was counted one of the best is now become in temporall lands one of the meanest and according to the foreprophesieng of bishop Grandesson a place scarse left for the bishop to laie and rest his head in and yet neuerthelesse he was a great fauourer of learned men and especiallie of diuines whome he preferred in his church aboue others He was verie bountions and liberall vnto all men but especiallie vnto courtiers vnto his owne kindred and countriemen Upon manie he bestowed much to the confusion of some of them and vpon the others he spent much by building of a towne called Sutton Colshull where he was borne which he procured to be incorporated and made a market towne and set vp therein making of kearsies but all which in the end came to small effect In his time after the death of king Henrie the eight there was an alteration of religion by king Edward the sixt wherof insued a rebellion commotion in this diocesse which in some part was imputed to this bishop bicause he laie farre from it and dwelled in his owne countrie Wherevpon he resigned the bishoprike into the kings hands after that he had beene bishop about thirtie yeares and liued by the rents of the temporaltie of the bishoprike which when he alienated and discontinued he did receiue vnto him for terme of his owne life 43 Miles Couerdale after the resignation of Uoiseie was by king Edward made bishop of this citie consecrated at Lambeth by Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and fiftie He was borne in the north countrie and from his childhood giuen to learning wherein he profited verie much he was one of the first which professed the gospell in this land in the time of king Henrie the eight he translated the bible out of the Hebrue into English and wrote sundrie bookes vpon the scriptures Which doctrine being verie new and strange in those daies and he verie streightlie pursued by the bishops made his escape passed ouer into low Germanie where he printed the bibles of his translation and sent them ouer into England and therof made his gaine wherby he liued But the bishops namelie D. Stokesleie bishop of London when he heard hereof and minding to preuent that no such bibles should be dispersed line 10 within this realme made inquirie where they were to be sold and bought them all vp supposing that by this meanes no more bibles would be had but contrarie to his expectation it fell out otherwise For the same monie which the bishop gaue for these bookes was sent ouer by the merchant vnto this Couerdale and by that meanes he was of that wealth and abilitie that he imprinted as manie more and sent them ouer into England but he was then so narrowlie sought for that he was driuen to remooue line 20 himselfe out of Flanders into Germanie and dwelled vnder the Palsegraue of Rhene where he found much fauour First he taught yoong children and hauing learned the Dutch toong the prince Palatine gaue him a benefice named Burghsaber where he continued and liued verie well partlie by that benefice and partlie by the liberalitie of the lord Cromewell who was his good lord and reléeued him verie much At length when the religion was altered in England and the gospell had a frée passage he returned line 30 did verie much good in preaching of the same And when the commotion in Deuon was for religion he was appointed to attend the lord Russell when he came to suppresse the same and verie shortlie for his learning and godlie life was made bishop of this see who most worthilie did performe the office committed vnto him He preached continuallie vpon euerie holie daie and did read most commonlie twise in the wéeke in some one church or other within this citie He was after the rate of his liuings a great kéeper line 40 of hospitalitie verie sober in diet godlie in life friendlie to the godlie liberall to the poore and courteous to all men void of pride full of humilitie abhorring couetousnesse and an enimie to all wickednesse and wicked men whose companies he shunned and whom he would in no wise shrowd or haue in his house and companie His wife a most sober chast and godlie matrone his house and houshold another church in which was exercised all godlinesse and vertue No one person being in his house which line 50 did not from time to time giue an account of his faith and religion and also did liue accordinglie And as he had a care for the successe in religion so had he also for the direction of the gouernement in ecclesiasticall causes And bicause he was not skilfull therin neither would be hindered from his godlie studies and be incombered with such worldlie matters which neuertheles he would haue be doone in all vprightnesse iustice and equitie he sent to Oxford for a learned man to be his chancellor and by the ministerie line 60 of the writer hereof he procured and obteined one master Robert Weston doctor of the ciuill law afterwards lord chancellor of Ireland vnto whome he committed his consistorie and the whole charge of his ecclesiasticall iurisdiction allowing vnto him not onelie all the fées therevnto apperteining but also lodged and found him his wife familie horsse and man within his owne house and gaue him a yearelie pension of fortie pounds And surelie the bishop was no more godlie and carefull of his part concerning preaching but this man also was as diligent and seuere in dooing of his office without reproch of being affectionated or corrupted And notwithstanding this good man now a blamelesse bishop liued most godlie and vertuous yet the common people whose old bottels would receiue no new wine could not brooke nor digest him for no other cause but bicause he was a preacher of the gospell an enimie to papistrie a married man Manie deuises were attempted against him for his confusion sometimes by false suggestions sometimes by open railings and false libels sometimes by secret backbitings and in the end practised his death by impoisoning but by Gods prouidence the snares were broken and he deliuered After that he had béene bishop about thrée yeares king Edward died and then queene Marie hauing the crowne the religion was altered and he depriued And notwithstanding the malice of prelats and archpapists was most bitter against him and who had sworne his death yet by the goodnesse of God he was most miraculouslie preserued and deliuered from out of their hands at the sute and by the meanes of the king of Denmarke who so earnestlie sued so often wrote to the quéene for him that he was deliuered and sent vnto him with whome after that he had staied a while he went againe into Germanie to the Palsgraue who most louinglie receiued him placed him againe in his former benefice of Burghsaber where he continued vntill the death of quéene
high treason by the Iurie On fridaie being the first of December Edmund line 30 Campion Iesuit Ralfe Sherwin Alexander Brian seminarie priests being condemned for high treason against hir maiesties most roiall person as also for traitorous practises touching the subuersion of the true vndoubted religion here mainteined with the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of this realme of England were drawne from the Tower of London on hurdles to the place of execution appointed garded with such a sufficient companie as might expresse the honor of iustice the larger in line 40 that behalfe Being come to the place of execution where diuerse of hir maiesties honorable councell with manie honorable personages and gentlemen of worship and good account beside a multitude of people not here to be remembred attended their comming Edmund Campion was first brought vp into the cart where after the great rumor of so manie people somewhat appeased he spake thus First he began the people then present expecting his confession with a phrase or two in Latine line 50 when immediatlie after he fell into English in this maner I am here brought as a spectacle before the face of God of angelles and of men satisfieng my selfe to die as becommeth a true christian catholike man As for the treasons that haue béene laid to my charge and I am come here to suffer for I desire you all to beare witnesse with me that thereof I am altogither innocent Wherevpon answer was made to him by one of the councell that he might line 60 not seeme to denie th'obiections against him hauing béene prooued so manifestlie to his face both by sufficient witnesse and euidence Well my lord quoth he I am a catholike man and a priest in that faith haue I liued hitherto and in that faith I doo intend to die and if you esteeme my religion treason then of force I must grant vnto you as for anie other treason I will not consent vnto Then was he mooued as concerning his traitorous and hainous offense to the quéenes most excellent maiestie Whereto he answered She is my lawfull princesse and quéene There somwhat he drew in his words to himselfe whereby was gathered that somwhat he would haue gladlie spoken but the great timiditie and vnstable opinion of his conscience wherein he was all the time euen to the death would not suffer him to vtter it Here is with iudgement a deepe point and high matter to be considered that this man alwaies directing the course of his life to a vaineglorious imagination and alwaies couetous to make himselfe famous at this instant made a perfect discouerie of himselfe For being somewhat learned all matters whatsoeuer as you haue heard before he bare awaie with a maiesticall countenance the visor of vanitie aptlie fitting the face of onelie hypocrisie what was sound he would make sophisticall what was the infallible truth of it selfe he would carrie in his owne conceipt and delude the people with a pleasant quirke or some such stuffe onlie to purchase him credit and affection And he was not to learne to set a coragious countenance on euerie such slight reason whereby he peruerted manie deceiued more and was thought such a champion as the pope neuer had the like But now behold the man whom neither racke nor rope should alter whose 〈◊〉 was such as he boasted inuincible feare had caught hold on this braue boaster and terror entred his thoughts whereby was discouered his impudent dissimulations Now let it with patience be mooued a little that the outward protestations of this man vrged some there present to teares not entring into conceipt of his inward hypocrisie to make a plausible definition of this perillous deceiuer not by coniecture but by proofe it shall be thus answered Edmund Campion as it is by men of sufficient credit reported at what time he spent his studie here in England both in the hospitall and also at the vniuersitie of Oxford was alwaies addicted to a maruellous suppose in himselfe of ripe iudgement prompt audacitie and cunning conueiance in his schoole points wherethrough he fell into a proud and vaineglorious iudgement practising to be eloquent in phrase and so fine in his quirks and fantasticall coniectures that the ignorant he woon by his smooth deuises some other affecting his pleasant imaginations he charmed with subtiltie and choked with sophistrie The learned who beheld his practises and peremptorie order of life pitieng his follie and wishing him a more staied determination lothed his maners yet loued the man bicause christian charitie willed them so to doo Now this glorious Thraso hauing by his libels made himselfe famous and vnder shew and suppose of great learning though indeed being approoued found verie simple to the speeches giuen of him subdued manie to affect him verie much when he was taken he knew it stood him vpon not to loose the credit openlie he had woone secretlie Wherefore in his former ridiculous maner both in prison at his arreignment yea and at his death he continued the same in all points which the foulnesse of his treasons blemished euerie waie Now indéed as our English nation is both louing and pitifull so manie seeing the gifts of God so well bestowed on the man and by him applied to so great abuse through naturall kindnesse bemoned his case wishing he had not fallen into so traitorous a cause Then was mooued to him againe his treasons and hainous offenses against the quéenes maiestie which impudentlie he still denied séeming to vtter words on the behalfe of one Richardson one likewise of the condemned traitors taking on his conscience that it was not be Which hath bin prooued to the contrarie for that it is knowne how this Richardson is he who distributed Campions libels and bookes abrode and when he was put to his oth whether it was he or no he refused to sweare on his behalfe And because the world might be fullie resolued that notwithsâ—anding all the pretended colourable meanes be could vse for his excuse and innocencie he was to suffer death deseruedlie as a traitor c. There was read to his face in the hearing of the assemblie a pamphlet published by authoritie as followeth An aduertisement and defense for truth against hir backebiters and speciallie against the whispering fauourers and colourers of Campâ—nâ— and the rest of his confederats line 10 treasons ALthough at the late arreignements at Westminster of Edmund Campion other his complices condemned there of sundrie high tresons it was manifestlie declared and fullie prooued how they all vnder pretense of the names of Iesuits seminarie priests other persons of like condition had secretlie come into this realme by sending of sundrie persons authorised line 20 by the pope to mooue the people by their secret persuasions to change their professions in the matter of religion of long time quietlie established in this realme and to be reconciled to the obedience of the pope and
euen so were these as to saie master Charke master Herne and diuerse others who all the waie applied such godlie and christian persuasions vnto them as had not the child of perdition so maruellouslie blinded them were of force to haue woone them into grace and mercie The spéeches they vsed to them by the waie were néedlesse here to set downe for that they did especiallie concerne causes to root out that wicked opinion in them and to establish a sound and perfect faith in place thereof but euen as it was in the other so it did agrée in them But Luke Kirbie séemed to chalenge the writer hereof as sufficient to prooue nothing against him which he did bicause it was supposed he was not there present but what passed betwéene him the said writer you shall heare hereafter They being come to the place of execution William Filbie was brought vp into the cart where conforming himselfe vnto the death his wicked tresons were mooued vnto him which obstinatelie and impudentlie he denied Then was he demanded if he would acknowledge the quéenes maiestie his souereigne princesse and supreme head vnder Christ of line 10 the church of England No quoth he I will acknowledge no other head of the church than the pope onlie Whervpon his answers were read vnto him and he not denieng them in anie point euen as they were wicked and impious euen so he remained in them still appealing that it was for his religion that he died and not for anie treason But the contrarie was prooued vnto his face as well by sufficient proofes as also by the traitorous answers whereto he had subscribed with his owne hand At last as he was desired line 20 he praied for the queenes maiestie that God might blesse hir and incline hir heart to mercie toward the catholikes of which societie he was one Then they opening his bosome found there two crosses which being taken from him were held vp and shewed to all the people beside his crowne was shauen So after a few silent Latine praiers to himselfe the cart was drawne awaie The next was Luke Kirbie who being brought vp into the cart offered long circumstance of spéech as line 30 concerning that he was come thither to die hoping to be saued in the bloud of Christ and much matter which were néedlesse here to rehearse Afterward he began to saie that there were none could approoue him to be a traitor neither had he at anie time attempted anie thing preiudiciall to hir maiestie and that his aduersaries naming them by speciall name could not vpbraid him with anie thing Whervpon master shiriffe told him that one of them was there and asked him if he would haue him called to line 40 him I sée him quoth he yonder and let him saie what he can against me Then he was the partie bidden come somewhat néere him to whom he began in vehement sort to saie Consider with thy selfe how vntrulie thou hast charged me with that which I neuer said nor thought Besides thou knowest that when thou camest to the Tower to me before master lieutenant an other who was there present then thou wast demanded what thou thoughtest of me and what thou couldest saie against me When as line 50 thou madest answer thou knewest no harme by me neither couldest thou at anie time saie otherwise of me than well wherevpon thou wast asked wherefore thou reportedst otherwise at my arreignement Then the shiriffe said vnto him Who can beare thée witnes of this Quoth he againe He spake it before master lieutenant and an other was by then Then was he demanded what other he was that was present Which after long trifling he said was a kéeper named him Whereto the said writer made answer line 60 as followeth Master Kirbie I with and desire you in the feare of God to remember your selfe for this is not a place to report an vntruth neither to slander anie man otherwise than you are able to prooue Whâ—n as I came vnto the Tower made knowne to master lieutenant for what cause I was sent to speake with you you were brought into a chamber by your kéeper and what I then mooued your selfe verie well knoweth as concerning my allowance being the popes scholer where what answer you made I haue trulie and according as you answered alreadie set downe in print Master lieutenant neither mooued anie such words to me as here you reported and I call God to my witnesse that not a motion of anie such matter was once offered to me by master lieutenant or by your kéeper Your selfe then vttered that at sundrie times in the seminarie there were diuerse lewd words spoken which might better haue beene spared and denied that you were not in my chamber when as I lieng sicke in my bed the traitorous speeches were mooued by them which were then present whereof your selfe was one with diuerse other matters which you spake vnto me which master lieutenant himselfe heard and your kéeper being present But if this be true which you saie that it may be prooued there were either such words mooued vnto me or anie such answer made by me I offer to susteine what punishment the law shall affoord me Then falling to an other matter for that this redounded to his owne confusion as master lieutenant can well witnesse he began to talke of my being at Rome what fréendship he had shewed vnto me and had doone the like vnto a number of Englishmen whome he well knew not to be of that religion both by his owne purse as also by fréending them to some of the popes chamber he made conueiance for thâ—m thense sometime going fortie miles with them when quoth he had my dealings bin knowne I should hardlie haue bin well thought of and I knew well inough that you were neuer bent to that religion albeit they thought the contrarie Yea I knew well inough when you departed thense that your disposition was contrarie to ours and concealed it to my selfe O Kirbie quoth master shiriffe this is verie vnlike that you could affoord such fauour to anie who were contrarie to that religion that you professed No no if you knew anie such there you would rather helpe to persecute them than pitie them as it is the nature of you all M. Kirbie quoth this writer it is verie vnlike that you had anie such secret knowledge of me either of my religion or how I was secretlie bent as you séeme here to professe for had I béene such a one as you would persuade these here you knew me to be would you haue deliuered me those silken pictures hallowed by the pope which you did and moreouer make knowen vnto me sundrie of your friends here in England to whome I should conueie them O sir quoth he I confesse indéed I deliuered to thée such pictures but thou knowest I gaue thee two Iulies to go buy them with I did it bicause I knew thée
nothing can be cruell and yet vpon whom nothing hath béene doone but gentle and mercifull The execution of iustice in England for maintenance of publike and christian peace against certeine stirrers of sedition and adherents to the traitors and enimies of the realme without anie persecution of them for questions of religion as is falslie reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons IT hath béene in all ages and in all countries a common vsage of all offendors for the most part both great and small to make defense of their lewd and vnlawfull facts by vntruths and by colouring and couering their déeds were they neuer so vile with pretenses of some other causes of contrarie operations or effects to the intent not onelie to auoid punishment or shame but to continue vphold and prosecute their wicked attempts to the full satisfaction of their disordered and malicious appetites And though such hath beene the vse of all offendors yet of none with more danger than of rebels and traitors to their lawfull princes kings and countries Of which sort of late yeares are speciallie to be noted certeine persons naturallie borne subiects in the realme of England and Ireland who hauing for some good time professed outwardlie their obedience to their souereigne ladie quéene Elisabeth haue neuerthelesse afterward beene stirred vp and seduced by wicked spirite first in England sundrie yeares past and secondlie and of later time in Ireland to enter into open rebellion taking armes and comming into the field against hir maiestie and hir lieutenants with their forces vnder banners displaied inducing by notable vntruths manie simple people to follow and assist them in their traitorous actions And though it is verie well knowen that both line 10 their intentions and manifest actions were bent to haue deposed the quéenes maiestie from hir crowne and to haue traitorouslie set in hir place some other whome they liked whereby if they had not béene spéedilie resisted they would haue committed great bloudsheds and slaughters of hir maiesties faithfull subiects and ruined their natiue countrie yet by Gods power giuen vnto hir maiestie they were so spéedilie vanquished as some few of them suffered by order of law according to their deserts line 20 manie the greatest part vpon confession of their faults were pardoned the rest but they not manie of the principall escaped into forren countries there bicause in none or few places rebels and traitors to their naturall princes and countries dare for their treasons chalenge at their first muster open comfort or succour these notable traitors and rebels haue falselie informed manie kings princes and states and speciallie the bishop of Rome commonlie called the pope from whom they all had secretlie their first line 30 comfort to rebell that the cause of their flieng from their countries was for the religion of Rome and for maintenance of the said popes authoritie whereas diuerse of them before their rebellion liued so notoriouslie the most part of their liues out of all good rule either for honest maners or for anie sense in religion as they might haue béene rather familiar with Catiline or fauourers to Sardanapalus than accounted good subiects vnder anie christian princes As for some examples of the heads of line 40 these rebellions out of England fled Charles Neuill earle of Westmerland a person vtterlie wasted by loosenesse of life and by Gods punishment euen in the time of his rebellion bereaued of his children that should haue succéeded him in the earledome and his bodie now eaten with vlcers of lewd causes as his companions doo saie that no enimie he hath can wish him a viler punishment a pitifull losse to the realme of so noble a house neuer before in anie age atteinted for disloialtie And out of Ireland ran line 50 awaie one Thomas Stukeleie a defamed person almost thorough all christendome and a faithlesse beast rather than a man fléeing first out of England for notable pirasies and out of Ireland for trecheries not pardonable which two were the first ringleaders of the rest of the rebels the one for England the other for Ireland But notwithstanding the notorious euill and wicked liues of these others their confederats void of line 60 all christian religion it liked the bishop of Rome as in fauour of their treasons not to colour their offenses as themselues openlie pretend to doo for auoiding of common shame of the world but flatlie to animate them to continue their former wicked purposes that is to take armes against their lawfull quéene to inuade hir realme with forren forces to pursue all hir good subiects their natiue countries with fire and sword for maintenance whereof there had some yeares before at sundrie times procéeded in a thundering sort buls excommunications and other publike writings denouncing hir maiestie being the lawfull quéene and Gods annointed seruant not to be the queene of the realme charging and vpon paines of excommunication commâ—â—â—ing all hir subiects to depart from their naturall allegiances whereto by birth and by oth they were bound prouoking also and authorising all persons of all degrees within both the realmes to rebell And vpon this antichristian warrant being contrarie to all the lawes of God and man nothing agréeable to a pastorall officer not onelie all the rable of the foresaid traitors that were before fled but also all other persons that had forsaken their natiue countries being of diuerse conditions and qualities some not able to liue at home but in beggerie some discontented for lacke of preferments which they gaped for vnworthilie in vniuersities and other places some bankerupt merchants some in a sort learned to contentions being not contented to learne to obeie the laws of the land haue manie yeares running vp and downe from countrie to countrie practised some in one corner some in an other some with séeking to gather forces and monie for forces some with instigation of princes by vntruths to make warre vpon their naturall countrie some with inward practises to murther the greatest some with seditious writings and verie manie of late with publike infamous libels full of despitefull vile termes and poisoned lies altogither to vphold the foresaid antichristian and tyrannous warrant of the popes bull And yet also by some other meanes to further these inuentions bicause they could not readilie preuaile by waie of force finding forren princes of better consideration not readilie inclined to their wicked purposes it was deuised to erect by certeine schooles which they called seminaries to nourish and bring vp persons disposed naturallie to sedition to continue their race trade and to become seedmen in their tillage of sedition and them to send secretlie into these the quéenes maiesties realmes of England Ireland vnder secret maskes some of priesthood some of other inferiour orders with titles of seminaries for some of the meaner sort and of Iesuits for the stagers and ranker sort
these sort are for their contrarie opinions in religion prosecuted or charged with anie crimes or paines of treason nor yet willinglie searched in their consciences for their contrarie opinions that sauour not of treason And of these sorts there haue béene and are a number of persons not of such base and vulgar note as those which of late haue beene executed as in particular some by name are well knowne and not vnfit to be remembred The first and chiefest by office was doctor Heth that was archbishop of Yorke and lord chancellor of England in quéene Maries time who at the first comming of hir maiestie to the crowne shewing himselfe a faithfull and quiet subiect continued in both the said offices though in religion then manifestlie differing and yet was he not restreined of his libertie nor depriued of his proper lands and goods but leauing willinglie both his offices liued in his owne house verie discréetlie and inioied all his purchased lands during all his naturall life vntill by verie age he departed this world and then left his house and liuing to his friends An example of gentlenesse neuer matched in quéene Maries time The like did one doctor Poole that had béene bishop of Peterborough an ancient graue person and a verie quiet subiect There were also others that had béene bishops and in great estimation as doctor Tunstall bishop of Duresme a person of great reputation and also whilest he liued of verie quiet behauiour There were also other as doctor White doctor Oglethorpe the one of Winchester the other of Carlill bishops persons of courteous natures and he of Carlill so inclined to dutifulnes to the quéenes maiestie as he did the office at the consecration and coronation of hir maiestie in the church of Westminster and doctor Thurlebie doctor Watson yet liuing one of Elie the other of Lincolne bishops the one of nature affable the other altogither sowre and yet liuing Whereto may be added the bishop then of Excester Turberuile an honest gentleman but a simple bishop who liued at his owne libertie to the end of his life and none of all these pressed with anie capitall paine though they mainteined the popes authoritie against the lawes of the realme And some abbats as maister Feckenam yet liuing a person also of quiet and courteous behauiour for a great time Some also were deanes as doctor Boxall deane of Windsore a person of great modestie learning and knowledge doctor Cole deane of Paules a person more earnest than discréet doctor Reinolds deane of Excester not vnlearned and manie such others hauing borne office dignities in the church that had made profession against the pope which they onelie began in queene Maries time to change yet were these neuer to this daie burdened with capitall peanes nor yet depriued of line 10 anie their goods or proper liueloods but onelie remoued from their ecclesiasticall offices which they would not exercise according to the lawes And most of them manie other of their sort for a great time were deteined in bishops houses in verie ciuill and courteous maner without charge to themselues or their friends vntill the time that the pope began by his buls messages to offer trouble to the realme by stirring of rebellion About which time onlie some line 20 of these aforenamed being found busier in matters of state tending to stir troubles than was méete for the common quiet of the realme were remoued to other more priuat places where such other wanderers as were men knowne to moue sedition might be restreined from common resorting to them to increase trouble as the popes bull gaue manifest occasion to doubt and yet without charging them in their consciences or otherwise by anie inquisition to bring them into danger of anie capitall law line 30 so as no one was called to anie capitall or bloudie question vpon matters of religion but haue all inioied their life as the course of nature would and such of them as yet remaine may if they will not be authors or instruments of rebellion or sedition inioie the time that God and nature shall yeeld them without danger of life or member And yet it is woorthie to be well marked that the chiefest of all these and the most of them had in time of king Henrie the eight and king Edward the sixt line 40 either by preaching writing reading or arguing taught all people to condemne yea to abhorre the authoritie of the pope for which purpose they had many times giuen their othes publikelie against the popes authoritie and had also yéelded to both the said kings the title of supreame hed of the church of England next vnder Christ which title the aduersaries doo most falselie write and affirme that the quéenes maiestie now vseth a manifest lie vntruth to be séene by the verie acts of parlement and at the beginning of hir reigne omitted in hir stile And for proofe that line 50 these foresaid bishops and learned men had so long time disauowed the popes authoritie manie of their books and sermons against the popes authoritie remaine printed both in English and Latin to be séene in these times to their great shame and reproofe to change so often but speciallie in persecuting such as themselues had taught and stablished to hold the contrarie A sin neere the sin against the holie ghost There were also and yet be a great number of others line 60 being laie men of good possessions and lands men of good credit in their countries manifestlie of late time seduced to hold contrarie opinions in religion for the popes authoritie and yet none of them haue béene sought hitherto to be impeached in anie point or quarell of treason or of losse of life member or inheritance So as it may plainelie appeare that it is not nor hath béene for contrarious opinions in religion or for the popes authoritie alone as the aduersaries doo boldlie and falslie publish that anie persons haue suffered death since hir maiesties reigne And yet some of these sort are well knowne to hold opinion that the pope ought by authoritie of Gods word to be supreame and onelie head of the catholike church through the whole world and onelie to rule in all causes ecclesiasticall and that the quéenes maiestie ought not to be the gouernour ouer anie hir subiects in hir realme being persons ecclesiasticall which opinions are neuerthelesse in some part by the lawes of the realme punishable in their degrées And yet for none of these points haue anie persons béene prosecuted with the charge of treason or in danger of life And if then it be inquired for what cause these others haue of late suffered death it is trulie to be answered as afore is often remembred that none at all were impeached for treason to the danger of their life but such as did obstinatlie mainteine the contents of the popes bull afore mentioned which doo import that hir maiestie is not
the lawfull quéene of England the first and highest point of treason and that all hir subiects are discharged of their oths and obedience a second high point of treason and all warranted to disobeie hir and hir lawes a third and a verie large point of treason And thereto is to be added a fourth point most manifest in that they would not disallow the popes hostile procéedings in open warres against hir maiestie in hir realme of Ireland where one of their companie doctor Sanders a lewd scholer and subiect of England a fugitiue and a principall companion and conspirator with the traitors and rebels at Rome was by the popes speciall coÌ„mission a commander as in forme of a legat and sometime a bursor or paiemaster for those wars Which doctor Sanders in his booke of his church monarchie did afore his passing into Ireland openlie by writing gloriouslie auow the foresaid bull of Pius Quintus against hir maiestie to be lawfull and affirmeth that by vertue thereof one doctor Morton an old English fugitiue and conspirator was sent from Rome into the north parts of England which was true to stirre vp the first rebellion there whereof Charles Neuill the late earle of Westmerland was a head capteine And thereby it may manifestlie appéere to all men how this bull was the ground of the rebellions both in England and Ireland and how for maintenance thereof and for sowing of sedition by warrant and allowance of the same these persons were iustlie condemned of treason and lawfullie executed by the ancient lawes temporall of the realme without charging them for anie other matter than for their practises and conspiracies both abroad and at home against the queene and the realme and for the mainteining of the popes foresaid authoritie and bull published to depriue hir maiestie of hir crowne and for withdrawing and reconciling of hir subiects from their naturall allegiance due to hir maiestie and to their countrie and for moouing them to sedition and for no other causes or questions of religion were these persons condemned although true it is that when they were charged conuinced of these points of conspiracies and treasons they would still in their answers colourablie pretend their actions to haue beene for religion but in deed and truth they were manifested to be for the procurement and maintenance of the rebellions and wars against hir maiestie and hir realme And herein is now the manifest diuersitie to be séene and well considered betwixt the truth of hir maiesties actions the falshood of the blasphemous aduersaries that where the factious partie of the pope the principall author of the inuasions of hir maiesties dominions doo falselie allege that a number of persons whom they terme as martyrs haue died for defense of the catholike religion the same in verie truth may manifestlie appeere to haue died if they so will haue it as martyrs for the pope but yet as traitors against their souereigne and quéene in adhering to him being the notable and onelie open hostile enimie in all actions of warre against hir maiestie hir kingdomes and people and that this is the meaning of all these that haue so obstinatlie mainteined the authoritie and contents of this bull the verie words of the bull doo declare in this sort as doctor Sanders reporteth them PIus Quintus pontifex maximus de apostolicae potestais plenitudine declarauit Elisabetham praetenso regni iure line 10 necnon omne quocunque dominio dignitate priuilegióque priuatam itémque proceres subditos populos dicti regni ac catero omnes qui illi quomodocunque iurauerunt à iuramento huiusmodi ac omni fidelitatis debito perpetuò absolutos That is to saie Pius Quintus the greatest bishop of the fulnesse of the apostolike power declared Elisabeth to be bereaued or depriued of hir pretended right of hir kingdome and also of all and whatsoeuer dominion dignitie and priuilege and also the nobles subiects and people of the said kingdome and line 20 all others which had sworne to hir anie maner of wais to be absolued for euer from such oth and from all debt or dutie of fealtie c with manie threatning cursings to all that durst obeie hir or hir laws As for execution hereof to prooue that the effect of the popes bull and message was a flat rebellion it is not amisse to heare what the same doctor Sanders the popes fire brand in Ireland also writeth in his visible church monarchie which is thus Pius Quintus ponâ—ifex maximus Anno Domini 1569 reuerendum presbyterum Nicolaum Mortanum Anglum iâ— Angliam misit vt certis illustribus viris authoritate apostolica denuntiaret Elisabetham quae tunc rerum potiebatur haereticam esse obeâ—mque causam omni dominio potestate excidisse impunéque ab illis velut ethnicam haleri posse nec 〈◊〉 lâ—gibus aut mandatis deinceps obedire cogi That is to saie Pius Quintus the greatest bishop in the yeare of our Lord 1569 sent the reuerend priest Nicholas Morton an Englishman into England line 40 that he should denounce or declare by the apostolike authoritie to certeine noblemâ—n Elisabeth who then was in possession to be an heretike for that cause to haue fallen from all dominion and power and that she may be had or reputed of them as an ethnike and that they are not to be compelled to obeie hir lawes or commandements c. Thus you sée an ambassage of rebellion from the popes holinesse the ambassador an old doting English priest a fugitiue and conspirator sent as he saith to some noble line 50 men and these were the two earles of Northumberland and Westmerland heads of the rebellion And after this he followeth to declare the successe therof which I dare saie he was sorie it was so euill with these words Qui dementiatione milti nobiles viri adducti sunt vt de 〈◊〉 liberandis cogitare auderent ac sperabant illi quidem 〈◊〉 â—â—nes summis viribus affuâ—urâ—s esse verum etsi 〈…〉 expectâ—bant res euenit quia catholici omnes nandum probè cognouerant Elisabetham haereticam esse declarâ—â—â—m line 60 tamen laudanda illorum nobilium consilia erant That is By which denuntiation manie noblemen were induced or led that they were boldened to thinke of the fréeing of their brethren and they hoped certeinlie that all the catholikes would haue assisâ—â—d them with all their strength but although the matter happened otherwise than they hoped for bicause all the catholikes knew not that Elisabeth was declared to be an heretike yet the counsels and intents of those noblemen were to be praised A rebellion and a vanquishing of rebels verie smoothlie described This noble fact here mentioned was the rebellion in the north the noblemen were the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland the lacke of the euent or successe was that the traitors were vanquished and the queenes maiestie and hir subiects had by Gods
as persons that did renounce their quarrell and seemed to cursse or to blame such as sent them to so vnfortunate and desperate a voiage But though these reasons grounded vpon rules of naturall reason shall satisfie a great number of the aduersaries who will yeeld that by good order of ciuill and christian policie and gouernement hir maiestie line 40 could nor can doo no lesse than she hath doone first to subdue with hir forces hir rebels and traitors and next by order of hir lawes to correct the aiders abettors lastlie to put also to the sword such forces as the pope sent into hir dominions yet there are certeine other persons more nicelie addicted to the pope that will yet séeme to be vnsatisfied for that as they will tearme the matter a number of sillie poore wretches were put to death as traitors being but in profession scholers or priests by the names of seminaries Iesuits or simple schoolemaisters that line 50 came not into the realme with anie armour or weapon by force to aid the rebels and traitors either in England or in Ireland in their rebellions or wars of which sort of wretches the commiseration is made as though for their contrarie opinions in religion or for teaching of the people to disobeie the lawes of the realme they might haue beene otherwise punished and corrected but yet not with capitall paine These kinds of defenses tend onelie to find fault rather with the seueritie of their punishments than to line 60 acquit them as innocents or quiet subiects But for answer to the better satisfaction of these uice and scrupulous fauourers of traitors it must be with reason demanded of them if at least they will open their eares to reason whether they thinke that when a king being stablished in his realme hath a rebellion first secretlie practised and afterward openlie raised in his realme by his owne seditious subiects and when by a forren potentate or enimie the same rebellion is mainteined and the rebels by messages and promises comforted to continue and their treasons against their naturall prince auowed and consequentlie when the same potentat and enimie being author of â—he said rebellion shall with his owne proper forces inuade the realme and subiects of the prince that is so lawfullie and peaceablie possessed in these cases shall no subiect fauouring these rebels and yéelding obedience to the enimie the inuador be committed or punished as a traitor but onelie such of them as shall be found openlie to carrie armour and weapon Shall no subiect that is a spiall and an explorer for the rebell or enimie against his naturall prince be taken and punished as a traitor bicause he is not found with armour or weapon but yet is taken in his disguised apparell with scrolles and writings or other manifest tokens to prooue him a spie for traitors after he hath wandered secretlie in his souereignes campe region court or citie Shall no subiect be counted a traitor that will secretlie giue earnest and prest monie to persons to be rebels or enimies or that will attempt to poison the vittels or the founteins or secretlie set on fire the ships or munition or that will secretlie search and sound the hauens and créeks for landing or measure the depth of ditches or height of bulworks and walles bicause these offendors are not found with armor or weapon The answer I thinke must needs be yéelded if reason and experience shall haue rule with these aduersaries that all these and such like are to be punished as traitors and the principall reason is bicause it can not be denied but that the actions of all these are necessarie accessaries and adherents proper to further and continue all rebellions and warres But if they will denie that none are traitors that are not armed they will make Iudas no traitor that came to Christ without armour colouring his treason with a kisse Now therefore it resteth to applie the facts of these late malefactors that are pretended to haue offended but as scholers or bookemen or at the most but as persons that onelie in words and doctrine and not with armour did fauour and helpe the rebels and the enimies For which purpose let these persons be termed as they list scholers schoolemaisters bookemen seminaries priests Iesuits friers beadmen Romanists pardoners or what else you will neither their titles nor their apparell hath made them traitors but their traitorous secret motions practises their persons haue not made the warre but their directions and counsels haue set vp the rebellions It is trulie to be pondered that the verie causes finall of these rebellions and warres haue béene to depose hir maiestie from hir crowne the popes bull hath roared it so to be The causes instrumentall are thâ—se kind of seminaries and seedmen of sedition their secret teachings and reconciliations haue confirmed it The fruits and effects thereof are by rebellion to shed the bloud of all hir faithfull subiects the rewards of the inuadors if they could preuaile should be the disinheriting of all the nobilitie the clergie and the whole communaltie that would as they are bound by the lawes of God by their birth and othes defend their naturall gratious quéene their natiue countrie their wiues their children their familie and their houses And now examine these which you call vnarmed scholers and priests wherefore they first fled out of the realme why they liued and were conuersant in companie of the principall rebels and traitors at Rome and in their places where it is proued that they were partakers of their conspiracies Let it be answered why they came thus by stealth into the realme Why they haue wandered vp downe in corners in disguised sort changing their titles names and maner of apparell Why they haue intised and sought to persuade by their secret false reasons the people to allow and beléeue all the actions and attempts whatsoeuer the pope hath doone or shall doo to be lawfull Why they haue reconciled and withâ—â—wne so manie people in corners from the lawes of the realme to the obedience of the pope a 〈◊〉 potentate and open enimie whome they kâ—â—w to haue alreadie declared the queene to be no lawfull queene to haue mainteined the knowne rebels and traitors to haue inuaded hir maiesties dominions with open warre Examine further how these vagarant disgised vnarmed spies haue answered line 10 when they were taken and demanded what they thought of the bull of pope Pius Quintus which was published to depriue the quéenes maiestie and to warrant hir subiects to disobeie hir whether they thought that all subiects ought to obeie the same bull and so to rebell Secondlie whether they thought hir maiestie to be lawfull queene of the realme notwithstanding the said bull or anie other bull of the pope Thirdlie whether the pope might giue such licence as he did to the earls of Northumberland and line 20 Westmerland and other hir maiesties subiects to rebell as
denied with manie protestations that he neuer saw them affirming they were none of his but were foisted in as he termed it among his papers by the gentlemen that searched his house Notwithstanding being more earnestlie pressed to confesse the truth he said they had beene left he knew not how in his chamber by a man of his who not long before was departed out of the realme named Edward Rogers aliàs Nuttebie by whome they were written And to make this deuise to carie some colour of truth after his committing vnto the line 10 Tower he found the meanes to get thrée cards on the backeside of which cards he wrote to his brother George Throckemorton to this effect I haue béene examined by whome the two papers conteining the names of certeine noblemen and gentlemen and of hauens c were written I haue alleged them to haue beene written by Edward Nuttebie my man of whose handwriting you know them to be meaning by this deuise to haue had his brother confirme his falshood line 20 These cards were intercepted and thereby the suspicion before conceiued of his practises increased Wherevpon as vpon other iust cause and matter against him hauing béene sundrie times brought before some of the principall personages of hir maiesties most honourable priuie councell and by them with all industrie examined and persuaded in verie mild and charitable maner to confesse the truth promising to procure pardon for him in case he would bewraie the depth of his practises but no persuasion line 30 preuailing hir maiestie thought it agréeable with good policie and the safetie of hir roiall person and state to commit him ouer to the hands of some of hir learned councell and others hir faithfull seruants and ministers with commission to them to assaie by torture to draw from him the truth of the matters appearing so weightie as to concerne the inuading of the realme c. These men by vertue of that commission procéeded with him first as the councell had formerlie doone by waie of persuasion line 40 to induce him to confesse but finding that course not to preuaile they were constreined to commit him to such as are vsuallie appointed in the Tower to handle the racke by whome he was laied vpon the same and somewhat pinched although not much for at the end of thrée daies following he had recouered himselfe and was in as good plight as before the time of his racking which if it had then or anie other time beene ministred vnto him with that violence that he and his fauourers haue indeuoured line 50 slanderouslie to giue out the signes thereof would haue appeared vpon his lims for manie yeares At this first time of torture he would confesse nothing but continued in his former obstinacie and deniall of the truth The second time that he was put to the racke before he was strained vp to anie purpose he yeelded to confesse anie thing he knew in the matters obiected against him wherevpon he was loosed And then the commissioners proceeded with line 60 him according to such interrogatories as had béene deliuered vnto them which for the more breuitie shall here be omitted the intent of this declaration tending onelie to discouer vnto you the treasons and treacherous dealings of the said Francis Throckemorton as well before as since his imprisonment for your better knowledge of the man and manifestation of the due and iust procéedings held with him by hir maiesties commissioners appointed vnto that seruice And here you are to note that when he was first pressed to discouer by whome the plots of the hauens were set downe and to what purpose he began without anie further interrogation ministred by waie of an historicall narration to declare that at his being at Spain in the countrie of Liege certeine yeares past he entered into conference with one Iennie a notorious knowne traitor touching the altering of the state of the realme here and how the same might be attempted by forren inuasion and to the like effect had sundrie conferences with sir Francis Englefield in the low countries who dailie solicited the Spanish king in Spaine and his gouernors in the said countries to attempt the inuading of the realme continued a course of practising against hir maiestie the state by letters betweene sir Francis Englefield himselfe till within these two yeares last past and that he did from time to time acquaint sir Iohn Throckemorton his late father with his traitorous practises who as he said séeing no probabilitie of successe in them dissuaded him from anie further meddling with those practises He hath further confessed that he vsed his fathers aduise opinion in setting downe the names of the catholike noblemen gentlemen and did acquaint him with the description of the hauens for the landing of forces which he conceiued and put in writing onelie by view of the map not by particular sight or surueie of the said hauens Item he hath also confessed that vpon the intermission of writing of letters and the accustomed intelligences passed betwéene sir Francis Englefield and him he was made acquainted by his brother Thomas Throckemorton by letters and conference and by Thomas Morgan by letters two of the principall confederats and workers of these treasons residing in France with a resolute determination agréed on by the Scotish quéene and hir confederats in France and in other forren parts and also in England for the inuading of the realme That the duke of Guise should be the principall leader and executor of that inuasion That the pretention which should be publikelie notified should be to deliuer the Scotish quéene to libertie to procure euen by force from the quéenes maiestie a tolerance in religion for the pretended catholikes But the intention the bottome whereof should not at the first be made knowne to all men should be vpon the quéenes maiesties resistance to remooue hir maiestie from hir crowne and state That the duke of Guise had prepared the forces but there wanted two things monie and the assistance of a conuenient partie in England to ioine with the forren forces and a third thing how to set the Scotish queene at libertie without perill of hir person For the first thing wanting that is monie messengers were sent from forren parts both to Rome and Spaine their returne dailie expected to their liking And the Spanish ambassadour to incourage the English to ioine both in purse person did giue out that the king his maister would not onlie make some notable attempt against England but also would beare halfe the charge of the enterprise For the second thing that is the preparing of a sufficient partie in England to receiue and to ioine with the forren forces one especiall messenger was sent ouer into England in August last vnder a counterfeit name from the confederats in France to signifie the plat and preparation there and to solicit the same here That
not to liue without your fauour and dieng will wish from my hart that my end may be the beginning of your maiesties securitie and my death the preseruation of your life and the increase both to your maiestie and to this your most flourishing commonwealth of all the most happie blessings of almightie God Your maiesties most wofull subiect in that he hath offended you Francis Throckemorton He sent vnto hir maiestie togither with the said submission a declaration written likewise with his owne hand conteining the effects of the most principall points of his treasons formerlie confessed retracting onelie the accusation of his father and some other particularities of no moment to cléere him of his treasons the effect wherof followeth in his owne words as he set them downe The declaration which Throckmorton sent to hir maiestie with his letter of submission THe onelie cause why I coined the practise first by me confessed and vniustlie touched my father was for that partlie I conceiued that the paper written so long since could not now by law haue touched me but principallie for that I was willing thereby to colour the setting downe of those names and hauens in Romane hand which were written long after the time by me confessed vpon occasion of conference betwéene the Spanish ambassador and me of this latter practise Mine intelligence with the Scotish queene began a little before Christmas was two yeares the cipher I had from Thomas Morgan in France the first letter I receiued by Godfrie Fulgeam by whome also came all such others as I after receiued for the most part vnlesse it were such as came to me by F. A. his hands who as he told line 10 me receiued them of the fellow by me spoken of in my former confessions whose name I protest before God I know not nor whense he is And for such letters as came vnto me in the absence of Fulgeam they were inclosed vnder a couerture from Fulgeam and were deliuered me by the hands of Robert Tunstead his brother in law vnto whome I deliuered such as I had for the Scotish quéene couered with a direction vnto Fulgeam and once I remember or twise I sent by one of my men called line 20 Butler letters for the Scotish queene to the house of the said Tunstead néere Buckestones couered with a direction to Tunstead and vnder a letter to Fulgeam In such letters as came to me from the Scotish quéene were inclosed letters to F. A. manie times and most times some for Thomas Morgan Hir letters to me conteined c. But before I returned mine answer vnto hir I vnderstood of the death of the duke of Lenox and withall heard from Morgan with whome all mine line 30 intelligence was for with my brother I neuer had anie other than that the matters by me written to Morgan were by him imparted vnto my brother most times that by the persuasion of the pope and the king of Spaine the duke of Guise had yeelded to performe the iournie in person and that it was thought that the next waie to atteine libertie for the Scotish quéene and to reforme Scotland was to begin here in England And therefore he desired to know from me whether in mine opinion line 40 catholikes would not backe any such force as should be sent considering a demand of tolerance in religion for them should insue the well performing of the said enterprise and what I thought the force would amount vnto both of horsse and footmen and where I thought to be the fittest landing Mine answer was that as then I saw no great probabilitie of the good successe of such an enterprise for that the catholikes were timorous dispersed the matter perillous to be communicated vnto manie without which I saw not how anie estimat could be line 50 made of the forces besides that it was an imminent danger vnto the Scotish quéene whereof I saw no remedie I tooke notice of this matter in my next letters to the Scotish quéene whose answer was that she latelie heard of that determination c. Upon my former answer vnto Morgan he desired me that I would conferre with the Spanish ambassador to whom I should be recommended from thense Herevpon line 60 the said ambassador sent for me and brake with me in this matter assuring me that in his opinion he found it verie easie to make great alteration here with verie little force considering the disuse in men to warre and troubles would so amaze them as he thought that they would be as soone ouerthrowne as assailed he could not thinke but in such a case catholikes would shew themselues sith the purpose tended to the obteining for them libertie of conscience and therefore he desired me to acquaint him what I thought men would doo in such a case and where I thought the fittest landing and what holds in these parts were easiest to be surprised I answered him that as it séemed the enterprise stood vpon great vncerteinties if it depended of the knowledge of a certeine force to be found here which no man could assure him of vnlesse he had sounded all the catholikes which was not possible without a manifest hazard of the discouerie of the purpose For as for anie great personage I know no one to be drawne to this action that could carrie anie more than his ordinarie retinue the onlie waie in such a case was I told him for such as would be drawne into this matter and were of credit in their countries to leuie forces vnder colour of the princes authoritie But for that these things depended vpon vncerteine grounds which was not fit to be vsed in so great an action I said it was to be resolued that the force to be sent should be of that number that what backing soeuer they should find here they might be able of themselues to incounter with anie force that might be prouided to be sent against them and therfore they could not be lesse than fiftéene thousand men For the place of their landing I said it depended much vpon the force that should be sent for if that were in great number it mattered not where they landed if in a small companie then was it requisit that it should be in the countries best affected furthest from hir maiesties principall forces which I said to be in the northerne parts on either side To the danger of the Scotish quéene by me obiected he said he knew no remedie vnlesse she might be taken awaie by some two hundred horsse which I told him I saw not to be possible for that I knew not anie gentleman in those parts which were men if anie to performe it that I durst wish to be made acquainted with the matter before hand Finallie our conclusion was that I should informe him of the hauens as particularlie as I could and within few daies after finding by him that the force intended hither was farre inferior vnto that I spake of
Parrie the same mondaie in the euening though not so knowne to him should be sent vnto maister secretaries house in London he being then there who according vnto such direction as he receiued from hir maiestie did let him vnderstand that hir highnesse in respect of the good will she knew he line 40 bare vnto the said Parrie of the trust that Parrie did outwardlie professe to repose in maister secretarie had made especiall choice of him to deale with him in a matter that concerned hir highlie and that the doubted not but that he would discharge his dutie towards hir according vnto that extraordinarie deuotion that he professed to beare vnto hir And therevpon he told him that hir maiestie had béene aduertised that there was somewhat intended presentlie against hir owne person wherwith she line 50 thought he could not but be made acquainted considering the great trust that some of hir woorst affected subiects reposed in him and that hir pleasure therefore was that he should declare vnto him his knowledge therein and whether the said Parrie himselfe had let fall anie spéech vnto anie person though with an intent onelie to haue discouered his disposition that might draw him in suspicion as though he himselfe had anie such wicked intent But line 60 Parrie with great and vehement protestations denied it vtterlie Whervpon maister secretarie the rather to induce him to deale more plainelie in a matter so important declared vnto him that there was a gentleman of qualitie euerie waie as good or better than himselfe and rather his friend than enimie that would auouch it to his face yet Parrie persisted stubbornelie in his former deniall and iustification of his owne innocencie and would not in anie respect yéeld that he was partie or priuie to anie such motion enterprise or intent Being lodged that night at M. secretaries house the next morning he desired earnestlie to haue some further spéech with maister secretarie which granted Parrie declared to him that he had called to remembrance that he had once some spéech with one Neuill a kinsman of his so he called him touching a point of doctrine conteined in the answer made to the booke intituled The execution of iustice in England by which booke it was resolued that it was lawfull to take awaie the life of a prince in furtherance of the catholike religion but he protested that they neuer had anie speech at all of anie attempt intended against hir maiesties person Which deniall of his at two sundrie times after so much light giuen him dooth set forth most apparantlie both the iustice and prouidence of God his iustice for that though he was one of a sharpe conceipt he had no power to take hold of this ouerture thereby to haue auoided the danger that Neuils accusation might bring him into by confessing the same as a thing propounded onelie to féele Neuils mind whome before he had reported vnto maister secretarie he found a person discontented and therefore his confession might to verie great purpose haue serued to haue cléered himselfe touching the intent his prouidence for that of his great mercie he would not suffer so dangerous and wicked a member to escape and liue to hir maiesties perill The same daie at night Parrie was brought to the earle of Leicesters house and there eftsoons examined before the said earle of Leicester maister vicechamberlaine and maister secretarie he persisted still in his deniall of all that he was charged with Wherevpon Neuill being brought before him face to face iustified his accusation against him He notwithstanding would not yet yéeld to confesse it but verie proudlie and insolentlie opposed his credit against the credit of Neuill affirming that his no was as good as Neuils yea as by way of recrimination obiected the crime to Neuill himselfe On the other side Neuill did with great constancie affirme all that he had before said and did set downe manie probable circumstances of the times places and maners of their sundrie conferences and of such other accidents as had happened betwéene them in the course of that action wherevpon Parrie was then committed to the Tower and Neuill commanded by their honors to set downe in writing vnder his hand all that which before he had deliuered by words which he did with his owne hand as followeth Edmund Neuill his declaration the tenth of Februarie 1584 subscribed with his owne hand WIlliam Parrie the last summer soone after his repulse in his sute for the maistership of saint Katharins repaired to my lodging in the White friers where he shewed himselfe a person greatlie discontented and vehementlie inueighed against hir maiestie and willed me to assure my selfe that during this time and state I should neuer receiue contentment But sith said he I know you to be honorablie descended and a man of resolution if you will giue me assurance either to ioine with me or not to discouer me I will deliuer vnto you the onelie meanes to doo your selfe good Which when I had promised him he appointed me to come the next daie to his house in Feuterlane repairing thither accordinglie I found him in his bed wherevpon he commanded his men foorth and began with me in this order My lord said he for so he called me I protest before God that thrée reasons principallie doo induce me to enter into this action which I intend to discouer vn to you the replanting of religion the preferring of the Scotish title and the aduancement of iustice woonderfullie corrupted in this common-wealth And therevpon entred into some discourses what places were fit to be taken to giue entrance to such forren forces as should be best liked of for the furtherance of such enterprises as were to be vndertaken And with these discourses he passed the time vntill he went to dinner after which the companie being retired he entered into his former discourses And if I be not deceiued said he by taking of Quinborough line 10 castell we shall hinder the passage of the quéenes ships foorth of the riuer Wherevnto when he saw me vse no contradiction he shooke me by the hand Tush said he this is nothing if men were resolute there is an enterprise of much more moment and much easier to performe an act honorable and meritorious to God and the world Which séeing me desirous to know he was not ashamed to vtter in plaine termes to consist in killing of hir maiestie wherein saith he if you will go with me I will line 20 loose my life or deliuer my countrie from hir bad and tyrannous gouernment At which spéeches finding me discontented he asked me if I had read doctor Allens booke out of which he alledged an authoritie for it I answered no and that I did not beléeue that authoritie Well said he what will you saie if I shew further authoritie than this euen from Rome it selfe a plaine dispensation for the killing of hir wherein you shall find
yeare 1570 I was sworne hir line 20 maiesties seruant from which time vntill the yeare 1580 I serued honored and loued hir with as great readinesse deuotion and assurance as anie poore subiect in England In the end of that yeare and vntill Midsummer 1582 I had some trouble for the hurting of a gentleman of the Temple In which action I was so disgraced and oppressed by two great men to whome I haue of late béene beholden that I neuer had contented thought since There began my misfortune line 30 and here followeth my wofull fall In Iulie after I laboured for licence to trauell for thrée yeares which vpon some consideration was easilie obteined And so in August I went ouer with doubtfull mind of returne for that being suspected in religion and not hauing receiued the communion in two and twentie yeares I began to mistrust my aduancement in England In September I came to Paris where I was reconciled to the church and aduised to liue without scandale the rather for that it was mistrusted line 40 by the English catholikes that I had intelligence with the greatest councellour of England I staied not long there but remooued to Lions a place of great traffike where bicause it was the ordinarie passage of our nation to and fro betwéene Paris and Rome I was also suspected To put all men out of doubt of me and for some other cause I went to Millaine from whense as a place of some danger though I found fauour there after I had cléered my conscience and iustified my line 50 selfe in religion before the inquisitor I went to Uenice There I came acquainted with father Benedicto Palmio a graue and a learned Iesuit By conference with him of the hard state of the catholikes in England by reading of the booke De persecutione Anglicana and other discourses of like argument 1 I conceiued a possible meane to relieue the afflicted state of our catholikes if the same might be well warranted in religion and conscience by the pope or some learned diuines I asked his opinion he line 60 made it cléere commended my deuotion comforted me in it and after a while made me knowen to the Nuntio Campeggio there resident for his holinesse By his meanes I wrote vnto the pope presented the seruice and sued for a pasport to go to Rome and to returne safelie into France Answer came from cardinall Como that I might come and should be welcome I misliked the warrant sued for a better which I was promised but it came not before my departure to Lions where I promised to staie some time for it And being indéed desirous to go to Rome and loth to go without countenance I desired Christofero de Salazar secretarie to the king catholike in Uenice who had some vnderstanding by conference of my deuotion to the afflicted catholikes at home and abroad to commend me to the duke 〈◊〉 Noua terra gouernour of Millaine and to the countie of Oliuaris Embi then resident for the king his master in Rome which he promised to doo effectuallie for the one and did for the other And so I tooke my iournie towards Lions whither came for me an ample pasport but somewhat too late that I might come go In verbo pontificis per omnes iurisdictiones ecclesiasticus absque impedimento I acquainted some good fathers there of my necessitie to depart towards Paris by promise praied their aduises vpon diuerse points wherein I was well satisfied And so assuring them that his holinesse should heare from me shortlie it was vndertaken that I should be excused for that time In October I came to Paris where vpon better opinion conceiued of me amongst my catholike countriemen I found my credit well setled and such as mistrusted me before readie to trust and imbrace me And being one daie at the chamber of Thomas Morgan a catholike gentleman greatlie beloued and trusted on that side amongst other gentlemen talking but in verie good sort of England I was desired by Morgan to go vp with him to another chamber where he brake with me and told me that it was hoped and looked for that I should doo some seruice for God and his church I answered him I would doo it if it were to kill the greatest subiect in England whom I named and in truth then hated No no said he let him liue to his greater fall and ruine of his house 2 it is the quéene I meane I had him as I wished and told him it were soone doone if it might be lawfullie doone and warranted in the opinion of some learned diuines And so the doubt once resolued though as you haue heard I was before reasonablie well satisfied I vowed to vndertake the enterprise for the restitution of England to the ancient obedience of the sée apostolike Diuers diuines were named doctor Allen I desired Parsons I refused And by chance came master Wats a learned priest with whome I conferred and was ouerruled 3 For he plainelie pronounced the case onelie altered in name that it was vtterlie vnlawfull with whome manie English priests did agrée as I haue heard if it be not altered since the booke made in answer of the execution of the English iustice was published which I must confesse hath taken hard hold in me and I feare me will doo in others if it be not preuented by more gratious handling of the quiet and obedient catholike subiects whereof there is good and greater store in England than this age will extinguish Well notwithstanding all these doubts I was gone so far by letters and conference in Italie that I could not go backe but promised faithfullie to performe the enterprise if his holinesse vpon my offer letters would allow it grant me full remission of my sinnes 4 I wrote my letters the first of Ianuarie 1584 by their computation tooke aduise vpon them in confession of father Aniball a Codreto a learned Iesuit in Paris was louinglie imbraced commended confessed and communicated at the Iesuits at one altar with the cardinals of Uandosmi and Narbone whereof I praied certificat and inclosed the same in my letter to his holines to lead him the rather to absolue me which I required by my letters in consideration of so great an enterprise vndertaken without promise or reward 5 I went with Morgan to the Nuntio Ragazzoni to whome I read the letter and certificat inclosed sealed it left it with him to send to Rome he promised great care of it and to procure answer and so louinglie imbraced me wished mee good spéed and promised that I should be remembred at the altar 6 After this I desired Morgan that some speciall man might be made priuie to this matter least he dieng and I miscarieng in the execution and my intent neuer trulie discouered it might sticke for an euerlasting spot in my race Diuerse were named but none agréed vpon for feare of bewraieng 7 This being doone
lord of Hunsdon master Uicechamberleine and master Secretarie and cardinall de Como his letters and Parries letters to the lord treasuror and lord steward should be openlie read And Parrie for the better satifieng of the people and standers by offered to read them himselfe but being told how the order was that the clerke of the crowne should read them it was so resolued of all parts And then maister vicechamberleine caused to be shewed to Parrie his said confession the cardinals letter and his owne letter aforesaid which after he had particularlie viewed euerie leafe thereof he confessed and said openlie they were the same Then said maister vicechamberleine Before we proceed to shew what he hath confessed what saie you said he to Parrie is that which you haue confessed here true and did you confesse it fréelie and willinglie of your selfe or was there anie extort means vsed to draw it from you Surelie said Parrie I made that confession fréelie without anie constraint and that is all true and more too for there is no treason that hath beene since the first yeare of the queene anie waie touching religion sauing receipt of Agnus Dei and persuading of others wherein I haue not much dealt but I haue offended in it And I haue also deliuered mine opinion in writing who ought to be successor to the crowne which he said to be treason also Then his confession of the eleuenth and thirtéenth of Februarie all of his owne handwriting and before particularlie set downe was openlie and distinctlie read by the clerke of the crowne And that doone the cardinall di Como his letter in Italian was deliuered vnto Parries hand by the direction of line 10 maister vicechamberleine which Parrie there perused openlie affirmed to be wholie of the cardinals owne handwriting and the seale to be his owne also and to be with a cardinals hat on it and himselfe did openly read it in Italian as before is set downe And the words bearing sense as it were written to a bishop or to a man of such degrée it was demanded of him by maister vicechamberleine whether he had not taken the degrée of a bishop He said No but said at first those tearmes were proper to the degrée line 20 he had taken and after said that the cardinall did vouchsafe as of a fauour to write so to him Then the copie of that letter in English as before is also set downe was in like manner openlie read by the clerke of the crowne which Parrie then acknowledged to be trulie translated And therevpon was shewed vnto Parrie his letter of the eightéenth of Februarie written to the lord treasuror and the lord steward which he confessed to be all of his owne handwriting and was as before is set downe line 30 These matters being read openlie for manifestation of the matter Parrie praied leaue to speake whereto maister vicechamberleine said If you will saie anie thing for the better opening to the world of those your foule and horrible facts speake on but if you meane to make anie excuse of that which you haue confessed which else would haue beene and doo stand prooued against you for my part I will not sit to heare you Then hir maiesties atturnie generall stood vp and said It appeareth before you my lords line 40 that this man hath béene indicted and arreigned of seuerall most heinous and horrible treasons and hath confessed them which is before you of record wherefore there resteth no more to be doone but for the court to giue iudgement accordinglie which here I require in the behalfe of the quéenes maiestie Then said Parrie I praie you heare me for discharging of my conscience I will not go about to excuse my selfe nor to séeke to saue my life I care not for it you haue my confession of record that is line 50 inough for my life and I meane to vtter more for which I were worthie to die and said I praie you heare me in that I am to speake to discharge my conscience Then said maister vicechamberleine Parrie then doo thy dutie according to conscience and vtter all that thou canst saie concerning those thy most wicked facts Then said Parrie My cause is rare singular and vnnaturall conceiued at Uenice presented in generall words to the pope vndertaken at Paris commended line 60 and allowed of by his holinesse and was to haue béene executed in England if it had not béene preuented Yea I haue committed manie treasons for I haue committed treason in being reconciled and treason in taking absolution There hath béene no treason since the first yeare of the quéenes reigne touching religion but that I am guiltie of except for receiuing of Agnus Dei persuading as I haue said and yet neuer intended to kill quéene Elisabeth I appeale to hir owne knowledge and to my lord treasurors and maister secretaries Then said my lord of Hunsdon Hast thou acknowledged it so often and so plainelie in writing vnder thy hand and here of record and now when thou shouldest haue thy iudgement according to that which thou hast confessed thy selfe guiltie of dooest thou go backe againe and denie the effect of all How can we beleeue that thou now saiest Then said master vicechamberleine This is absurd thou hast not onelie confessed generallie that thou wert guiltie according to the indictment which summarilie and yet in expresse words dooth conteine that thou haddest traitorouslie compassed and intended the death destruction of hir maiestie but thou also saidst particularlie that thou wert guiltie of euerie of the treasons conteined therein whereof the same was one in plaine expresse letter set downe and read vnto thée Yea thou saiedst that thou wert guiltie of more treasons too beside these And diddest thou not vpon thy examination voluntarilie confesse how thou wast mooued first thervnto by mislike of thy state after thy departure out of the realme And that thou diddest mislike hir maiestie for that she had doone nothing for thée How by wicked papists and popish bookes thou wert persuaded that it was lawfull to kill hir maiestie How thou wert by reconciliation become one of that wicked sort that held hir maiestie for neither lawfull quéene nor christian And that it was meritorious to kill hir And diddest thou not signifie that thy purpose to the pope by letters and receiuedst letters from the cardinall how he allowed of thine intent and excited thée to performe it and therevpon diddest receiue absolution And diddest thou not conceiue it promise it vow it sweare it and receiue the sacrament that thou wouldest doo it And diddest not thou therevpon affirme that thy vowes were in heauen and thy letters and promises on earth to bind thee to doo it And that what soeuer hir maiestie would haue doone for thée could not haue remooued thee from that intention or purpose vnlesse she would haue desisted from dealing as she hath doone with the catholikes as thou callest them All
plot was laid for the enterprise of the duke of Guise and that he was willed to conferre with Throckemorton in the matter who therevpon acquainted the said ambassador with the plot of the hauens and with the noble men and gentlemen that he had set downe as fit to be dealt withall in that cause Throckemorton said that the bottome of this enterprise which was not to be knowne to manie was that if a toleration of religion might not be obteined without alteration of the gouernement that then the gouernment should be altered the quéene remoued That the Scotish quéene was made acquainted from the duke of Guise with the intention to relieue hir by these forces It was in debate betweene Throckemorton and the Spanish ambassador how the Scotish quéene might be deliuered as by an enterprise to be made with a certeine number of horsses and it was told Francis Throckemorton by his brother Thomas Throckemorton that it was a principall matter in debate beyond the seas how she might be deliuered with safetie the lacke of resolution wherin was the principall staie of the execution of the attempt of inuasion Mendoza told Francis Throckemorton about Bartholomewtide 1583 that one Mope was come into England to sound the earle of Northumberland and other principall men in Sussex and about the end of September following the same Mendoza told him that Mope was Charles Paget and that he came not onelie to sound the men but to view the places the hauens the prouisions and meanes and néerenesse and commoditie of mens abidings that should ioine with the forren forces It was deuised that such noble men and others as would be contented to assist the forren forces being iustices of peace of credit in their countries might by colour of their authoritie leuie men as for hir maiesties defense and yet emploie them to assist the forren forces The lord Paget was made acquainted with this deuise and answered that it was a good course and that he had thought vpon it before Mendoza told Throckemorton that Charles Paget had béene in Sussex and had spoken with those that were there and that he came to moue the earle of Northumberland and others The night before Throckemorton was apprehended he came to the lord Paget and desired him that he would not acquaint the earle of Northumberland and certeine others whome he named with such matters as had passed betwéene them two touching the practise of this inuasion and the lord Paget willed him to deale as wiselie for his part as he would doo for himselfe and all should be well but quoth the lord Paget the earle of Northumberland knoweth you well enough It was once agreed among the confederats that the duke of Guise should land in Sussex being ouer against Déepe and Normandie which after was misliked because those parts laie too néere to hir maiesties greatest force and store and that the people thereabout for the most part were protestants Maister attourneie shewed further that in summer last there was taken vpon the seas sailing towards Scotland a Scotish Iesuit about whome line 10 there was found a discourse written in Italian of a like enterprise to be attempted against England which should haue beene executed in September or October then last past wherein assurance is made that the earles of Northumberland and Westmerland Dacres that is dead whom they termed lord Dacres and of all the catholike lords and gentlemen in the north parts where the inuasion should haue béene attempted setting it downe that it is not said by coniecture that these men are assured line 20 but that it is certeinlie knowne that they will ioine with the forren forces In the said discourse it is also affirmed that the priests dispersed in the realme can dispose of the other catholikes of the realme as they shall be ordered and that the popes excommunication should be renewed and pronounced against hir maiestie and all those that shall take hir part and that all such should be holden traitors that did not ioine with that armie by a daie When maister attourneie had thus prooued the line 30 purpose of inuasion he procéeded to the proofe of Charles Pagets comming ouer about the practise and prosecution of that enterprise And first that Paget came to Petworth in September 1583 was secretlie receiued and brought in the night laâ—e to the earle of Northumberland into his gallerie at Petworth by one of the earles seruants where the earle and he had secret conference together by the space of a large houre from thense Paget was likewise conueied backe into the towne by the same line 40 seruant and there lodged all that night and the next night following was conueied secretlie to a 〈…〉 And for better proofe thereof it was alleaged by master attorneie that Charles Paget returning from Petworth to the house of one William Dauies néere to the place where Paget had landed in Sussex and tooke shipping againe at his departure beyond the seas sent to William Shelleie esquire residing then at his house at Michelgroue distant about a mile from the house of William Dauies to come vnto him who within few daies before had béene at the lodge at Petworth with the said Paget and now at their méeting in a coppice néere to Dauies house Paget entred into speech and discourse with him of diuers matters and at the last among other things he began to be inquisitiue of the strength and fortification of Portesmouth and what forces and strength hir maiestie had in the other parts westward Paget brake out and declared vnto him that forraine princes would séeke reuenge against hir maiestie of the wrongs by hir doone vnto them would take such time and opportunitie as might best serue them for that purpose and said that those princes disdeined to see the Scotish queene so kept vsed here as she was and would vse all their forces for hir deliuerie that the duke of Guise would be a dealer therin and that the earle of Northumberland would be an assistant vnto them willing Shelleie whatsoeuer should happen to follow the earle of Northumberland affirming that there was not a noble man in England of conduct and gouernment like to the said earle saieng further that the earle of Northumberland was affected to the Scotish quéene would do what he could for hir aduancement that the duke of Guise had forces in a readinesse to be emploied for the altering of the state of religion here in England and to set the forenamed Scotish queene at libertie 〈…〉 awaie the lord Paget grew vpon the apprehension of Throckmorton who being committed to the Tower and charged with high matters was in case to be delt withall by waie of extremitie to be made to confesse the treasons charged vpon him in reuealing whereof Charles Pagets comming to Petworth and the cause of his repaire thither could not be conceled No man at this time within the realme could accuse the
the bodie of the townes and communalties of the aforesaid countries haue a firme hope that your maiestie will not sée them perish according to the desire of their enimies which make this long and cruell warre all which outrages the states of the said low countries following the diligence and band which they owe to their burgesses and citizens are to susteine repell and to turne from them by reason of the manifest tyrannie seruitude which the Spaniards attempt to bring in to laie vpon the poore people thereby to preserue their liberties rights priuileges and franchises with the exercise of the true christian religion whereof your maiestie by good right carrieth the title of protectrice and defendresse against which the said enimies and their associats alreadie haue and still doo make manie leagues deuise manie subtilties treasons and ambushes not ceasing dailie to practise and imagine them against the person of your maiestie and to the preiudice of the rest of your realme and states whome the good God hath preserued vntill this present for the wealth of the christians and sustentation of their churches Wherefore Madam it is so that for these causes reasons other considerations the said states haue assembled and concluded vpon a good and firme resolution to haue recourse vnto your maiestie sith it is an ordinarie matter amongst all people and oppressed nations in their calamities and oppressions to craue support and fauour against their enimies of kings and princes neere vnto them but especiallie of those who be indued with magnanimitie pietie iustice and other princelie vertues to which effect the states haue appointed vs to come vnto your maiestie to present vnto the same the principalitie souereigntie and iust gouernment of the said prouinces vnder certeine good and equall conditions chieflie concerning the preseruation of the exercise of the reformed religion and of the ancient priuileges liberties franchises and customs and next of the administration of the affaires policie and iustice of the warres in the said countrie And although that these countries haue susteined much hurt by these long and continuall warres and that the enimie hath taken diuers strong places and forts in the same countries yet there is besides the same in the countries of Brabant Gelderland Flanders Malmes Ouerset manie good townes and places which defend themselues against the force of the enimie and the countries of Holland Zeland Utricht and Frise be yet thanks be to God entire and whole in which there be manie great and strong townes and places faire riuers and déepe ports and hauens of the sea out of which your maiestie and your successors may receiue diuerse good seruices fruits and commodities whereof it is néedlesse here to make anie long recitall Onelie this amongst other matters deserueth good and especiall consideration that the vniting of those countries of Holland Zeland Frise and the townes of Sluze and Ostend in Flanders vnto the realmes of your maiestie importeth so much as the absolute gouernement of the great ocean sea and by consequence an assurance and perpetuall felicitie for the subiects of your woorthie maiestie Which we most humblie beséech that it will please the same to condescend vnto vs in the said points and conditions line 10 and in that which followeth which is that you will for you and your lawfull successors in the crowne of England be protectors of the reformed religion as the principall iusticer and souereigne gouernor of the said countries and consequentlie to receiue the people of the same as your most humble and most obedient subiects vnder the protection and continuall safegard of your maiestie they being a people assuredlie so faithfull and louing to their princes and lords be it spoken without vaunting as anie other line 20 nation is throughout christendome In dooing whereof Madam you shall preserue manie goodlie churches which it hath pleased God to assemble in these latter times in the same countries at this present in manie places greeuouslie afflicted and you shall deliuer the same countrie and people of late before the vniust deeds of the house of Spaine verie rich and florishing through the great commoditie of the sea ports hauens riuers traffike and merchandize whereof they be naturallie indued line 30 You shall I saie Madam deliuer them from ruine and perpetuall bondage of bodie and soule being a worke right roiall and most magnificent acceptable to God profitable to all christianitie woorthie immortall commendation answerable to the magnanimitie and heroicall vertues of your maiestie and ioined with the assurance and prosperitie of your dominions and subiects Wherevpon we present vnto your maiestie the said articles and conditions reuerentlie praieng the King of kings line 40 to preserue your maiestie from your enimies to increase your glorie and felicitie and for euer to keepe you in his holie protection ¶ This oration ended and the summe thereof considered it pleased the quéenes maiestie by direction of hir wise and politike councell to incline hir hart alwaies pitifull and replenished with commiseration to the ease and reléefe of the said oppressed people And bicause hir owne subiects should not be vtterlie line 50 vnacquainted with hir highnesse dooings in that case there was published by authoritie a booke thereof as in due place hereafter followeth On sundaie the fourth of Iulie Charles lord Howard late lord chamberleine was made lord admerall and Henrie lord Hunsdon was made lord chamberleine of houshold On the fift daie of Iulie Thomas Awfeld a seminarie priest and Thomas Weblie diar were arreigned at the sessions hall in the Old bailie found guiltie condemned and had line 60 iudgement as fellons to be hanged for publishing of bookes conteining false seditious and slanderous matter to the defamation of our souereigne ladie the quéene and to the excitation of insurrection and rebellion as more at large appeareth in their indictments These were on the next morrow to wit the sixt of Iulie executed at Tiborne accordinglie On thursdaie the sixteenth of Iulie by the sudden fall of a bricke wall in Thames stréet of London neere vnto Downegate fiue persons were ouerwhelmed and slaine to wit a man his wife the wife being great with child and two children the one their own the other a nurse child and a poore man that liued by charitie hauing no knowne dwelling place On the same sixteenth of Iulie was sir Francis Russell knight lord Russell third sonne to Francis Russell earle of Bedford slaine with a dag in the borders of Scotland beside Berwike by a Scot borne in those parts as they met vpon a true daie as more at large appeareth in the historie of Scotland On the next morrow to wit the seuentéenth of Iulie Francis Russell earle of Bedford knight of the garter and one of hir maiesties priuie councell father to the late named sir Francis lord Russell slaine on the borders of Scotland deceassed and was honorablie buried at Cheinies in
for his person both by water and by land the quéens maiesties barges and seruants imploied about him to from London the court then being at Gréenwich whither alwaies when he came the nobilitie of England failed in no point of courtesie that might be shewed which he séemed as he could no lesse verie acceptablie to take Now being in England and in the English court he might and no doubt did marke the magnificence of hir maiestie in all respects admirable Whereof a notable president was giuen in Whitsunweeke at what time the said ambassador being at the court was accompanied with certeine English lords to hir highnesse chapell and placed not far from hir excellencie did heare diuine seruice so melodiouslie said and soong both by voice and instruments of consort as a man halfe dead might thereby haue béene quickened The gentlemen of the chapell with the rest of the quier bending themselues both with skill and zeale that daie to honour their prince according to their place The bishop of Salisburie and others distinctlie reading part of diuine seruice and in presence of all the auditorie dooing such obeisance with knée and countenance as the presence of so gratious a souereigne as they had in their eies did require Now when this solemnitie was ended hir maiestie departed and so did the ambassador attended vpon and accompanied vnto the place appointed for dinner where standing néere vnto a faire window fronting into the open court he might being in communication now with one and then with another English lord as the L. Charles Howard L. admerall the lord Cobham lord warden of the cinque ports c behold the roiall seruice of hir maiestie verie personable gentlemen thereto sorted carieng couered dishes all of siluer and gilt verie beautifull themselues in veluet and silke sutable in ech respect and as decentlie made so decentlie worn the trumpets sounding and the drums plaieng therevnto a maruellous delightsome thing to heare a passing gallant sight to behold When dinner was doone the ambassador was made partaker of such courtlie recreations as for that time were fit wherewith he could not but be pleasantlie conceipted considering that as euerie thing was doone with purpose to delight so he with others must needs be accordinglie affected And as the better sort had their conuenient disports so were not the ordinarie people excluded from competent pleasure For vpon a gréene verie spatious and large where thousands might stand and behold with good contentment there bearebaiting bulbaiting tempered with other merrie disports were exhibited whereat it cannot be spoken what pleasure the people tooke Now the daie being far spent and the sun in his declination the pastimes ended and the actors therein wearie the ambassador withdrew vnto his lodging by barge to Crosbies place where no doubt this daies solemnitie was thought vpon and talked of if not by him yet by his traine and perhaps as like enough of both Now after this and manie other English courtesies else where verie bountifullie giuen and taken the ambassador after the finishing of such affaires as he was put in trust withall taking his leaue both of the court citie and countrie returned towards Denmarke on the thirtith line 10 daie of Maie next following whome we will leaue vpon his voiage and touch other matters happening at home In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred foure score and six and on the fourth daie of Iune a commission was directed from the quéens maiestie then at Gréenewich tending to the ratification of a firme league of amitie betwéene the two mightie princes Elisabeth queene of England and Iames the sixt of that name king of Scots vpon certeine line 20 causes necessarie and important the reigne and gouernement of the said princes happening in so doubtfull and dangerous times wherein the princes néere adioining who will be called catholike agnising the popes authoritie by mutuall leagues doo knit friendship for the rooting vp and throwing out of the true pure and sincere religion of the gospell not onelie out of their owne territories and dominions but also out of other forrein kingdoms and thereto haue obliged their faith line 30 Least they therefore that loue the religion of the gospell should seeme lesse carefull for the defense and supportation thereof than they which earnestlie indeuour to mainteine and vphold that of Rome least it should be ouerthrowne the said princes for the greater secuâ—itie of their persons vpon whose safetie the safetie of the whole people dooth depend and for the preseruation of the true ancient and christian religion which they now professe haue thought good that a stricter bond of a mutuall and sociall league than at anie time hitherto hath béene line 40 agreed vpon betweene their maiesties progenitors should now be substantiallie concluded This league was articulated and commissioners thereto appointed the right honorable Edward earle of Rutland a complet noble man answerable to the â—tymon of his name and verie well deseruing the poets report nomen virtutilus aequat Nec â—init ingenium nobilitate premi the lord William Euers and also Thomas Randolph esquier who with their traine of attendants line 50 came to Berwike the ninetéenth of Iune where the ambassadors of Scotland being in like sort present they accomplished the matter whereto they were commissionated the articles of the said league in all and euerie part sufficientlie confirmed on the fift of Iulie All which being dispatched the said earle of Rutland with his traine returned This ambassage is reported in the historie of Scotland wherevnto for the auoiding of tautologie we refer the reader line 60 In the moneth of Iulie a verie dangerous conspiracie was discouered tending to the subuersion of the state and lamentable confusion of all things wherein as the turbulent spirited did what they could to procéed so it pleased God the author of peace to intercept them in the plot of their mischéefous deuise and to ouerthrow them in their owne imagined nets Ringleaders in this pretended treason were certeine gentlemen and others of whome hereafter by particular name we will speake who had waded and ventured so far therein that vpon the notice thereof as God will suffer no such attempts to lie long vndetected order was taken for a verie strict inquirie and search vniuersallie to be made for their apprehension which was accordinglie executed in so much that the conspirators distressed and succorles were put to verie hard shifts by this inquisition and pursuâ—e and in fine apprehended to the great reioising of the citizens of London diuerslie testified as with bonfiers making merrie in the streets at square and round tables singing of psalmes marching about their fiers with tabber anâ— pipe and giuing manie a showt that the aire rang withall In so much that the consideration thereof did so worke in hir highnesse as herevpon a thing rare in a prince she directed letters of thanks to the citie
in roialtie adorned with crowne and scepter to the sucking babe lieng in the cradle wrapped in swathing clouts Which extremities of butcherlie crueltie and vnnaturall sauagenesse haue had an ancient purpose of practise as maie appeare by a clause or two of Iohn Nichols his recantation where speaking of Pius Quintus excommunicating our liege souereigne he saith that the same was within a twelue moneth of the first publication reuiued and fiue hundred copies printed at Rome which were dispersed throughout Italie Spaine Germanie Whereof what were the contents is at large set downe in the treatise of execution of iustice in England for treason not for religion But thus saith the same conuert that a reader of diuinitie positiue in the hearing of two hundred scholers vomited these prophane words out of his vncircumcised mouth that it was lawfull for anie of worship in England to authorise the vilest wretch that is to séeke the death of hir highnesse whose prosperous estate the Italish préest and Spanish prince doo so maligne that they would worke woonders were it not for certeine impedits as father Pais a Spaniard reader of diuinitie scholasticall in the Romane college affirmed in an auditorie of thrée hundred saieng Bona papae voluntas trita manifesta est eius crumena parata sed R. P. aut metus subtrahit aut potestatis defectus vetat vt suum in Angliam exercitum ducere non audeat Where by the waie would be noted an inuasion long since pretended And that the quéens maiesties estate was then maliciouslie aimed at maie appeare by these comminations and threats that they would burne hir bones and the bones of all such as loued hir either aliue or dead of whome some were lords temporall some spirituall c. Memorandum that this was to be doone when they held the sterne of gouernement which shall be when errant traitors are good subiects and ranke knaues honest men And now to touch the punishment inflicted vpon the foresaid wretches there is none if he be not a sworne aduersarie to the state and an enimie to iustice but must néeds confesse that although some of the conspirators were no lesse sharpelie executed than by law was censured yet considering the qualitie of their offense it was a death tempered with lenitie if no more but the spéedines of their execution be considered whereby their paine and smart was but momentanie Oh with what seueritie did the ancients punish offenses of this nature And not without cause For besides that nothing is more vsuall in all the whole scriptures than prohibition to kill or to séeke the life or honor not onelie of the prince but also of inferior magistrats although they be wicked and it is said in Exodus Thou shalt not raile vpon the iudges neither speake euill of the ruler of the people so is it prouided by the laws of nations that not onelie he that hath killed his souereigne but he also that made the attempt that gaue counsell that yeelded consent that conceiued the thought is giltie of high treason Yea he that was neuer preuented nor taken in the maner in this point of the souereigne the law accounteth him as condemned alreadie and iudgeth him capable of death that thought once in times past to haue seized vpon the life of his prince anie repentance that followed notwithstanding And trulie there was a gentleman of Normandie who confessed to a Franciscane frier that he once minded to haue killed king Francis the first but repented him of that euill thought The frier gaue him absolution but yet afterwards informed the king of the same who sent the gentleman to the parlement at Paris there to be tried where he was by common consent condemned to die and after executed Amongst the Macedonians there was a law that condemned to death fiue of their next kinsfolks that were conuicted of conspiracie against their prince And most notable is the historie of Romilda who seeing hir towne or citie besieged by a barbarous king but yet youthfull and wanton she signified vnto the enimie by messengers that she would betraie the citizens into his hands if he would honour hir with mariage Which when the king had promised to doo she in the night season opened the gates and the people vnwitting and ignorant let in forren force Now the king being entered in possession commanded that the towne should be sacked and all the people slaughtered Romilda excepted the vse of whose bodie for his oth sake which he was loth to violat he had the same night as in wedlocke howbeit the next daie he cast hir off and betooke hir to twelue scullions by turns to be abused lastlie pitcht hir vpon a stake line 10 Here you haue examples in both sexes man and woman of treason and conspiracie most seuerelie executed which if they be compared vnto the sufferings of our late offendors Iesu what ods shall we sée and confesse And as the ancients had treason in mortall hatred so could they not awaie with ingratitude as maie be obserued by the laws of Draco which were said to be written in bloud they were so sharpe and peremptorie amongst which there was a commandement that if anie man had line 20 receiued a benefit of his neighbor and it were prooued against him long after that he had beene vnthankefull for it and had ill acknowledged the good turne receiued such a one should be put to death So then we sée how in old time they opposed their affections against particular vices persecuting them with seueritie as laboring to supplant them this age of ours beholdeth ingratitude and treason combined with a fowle nest of other irkesome and noisome sins in the hearts of helbounds for we line 30 maie not vouchsafe them the name of men breathing out the vapors of their venemous infection to the damnifieng of the whole commonwelth what fauour then deserue such to find where they haue offended or rather what rigor are they not worthie to suffer Among the Locrians there was a strict decrée that euerie citizen desirous to bring in a new law should come and declare it publikelie before the people with a halter about his necke to the end that line 40 if his new law was not thought méet to be receiued and verie profitable for the commonwelth he might presentlie be strangled with the same rope If they in old time went so short a waie to worke in a case of vnaduisednesse to teach others that they vndertake nothing without mature deliberation what are we taught to be conuenient for such as breake not their wits either to deuise or prefer new laws but indeuor what they can to dissolue all law and order all peace and societie all gouernment and line 50 subiection and by the impulsion of a furious mind to let in libertie contempt and all the enormities and abuses that accompanie a licentious life To let passe the pluralitie of examples
hazarded and stand to the euent of the like miraculous discoueries Therefore as most humble and instant suppliants they did vpon their knées at hir most gratious féet beséech and request in most earnest maner that aswell for the continuance of Gods religion the quiet of this kingdome preseruation of hir person and defense of them and their posterities it would line 40 please hir highnesse to take order that the said sentence might be published and such further direction giuen as was requisit in this so weightie a cause according to the purport and intent of the said statute Wherein if hir maiestie pursuing hir woonted clemencie should now be remisse besides the imminent danger to hir person she might by the staie thereof procure the heauie displeasure of almightie God as by sundrie seuere examples of his iustice in the sacred scriptures dooth appeare And so line 50 he deliuered to hir maiesties owne hands the petition in writing which he said had béene with great deliberation assented vnto by all the whole parlement A SHORT EXTRACT OF SVCH reasons as were deliuered in speach by maister sargent Puckering speaker of the lower house before the queens most excellent maiestie in hir presence chamber at Richmond the twelfe of Nouember 1586 in the eight and twentith yere of hir line 60 reigne conteining diuerse apparant and imminent dangers that maie grow to hir maiesties most roiall person and to hir realme from the Scotish queene and hir adherents if remedie be not prouided First touching the danger of hir maiesties person 1 BOth this Scotish quéene and hir fauorers doo thinke hir to haue right not to succeed but to inioie your crowne in possession and therefore as shée is a most impatient competitor so will shée not spare anie meanes whatsoeuer that maie bereaue vs of your maiestie the onelie impediment that she inioieth not hir desire 2 She is obdurat in malice against your roiall person notwithstanding you haue shewed hir all fauour and mercie as well in preseruing hir kingdome as sauing hir life and saluing hir honor And therefore there is no place for mercie since there is no hope that she will desist from most wâ—cked attempts the rather for that hir malice appeareth such that she maketh as it were hir testament of the same to be executed after hir death and appointeth hir executors to performe it 3 She boldlie and openlie professed it lawfull for hir to mooue inuasion vpon you And therefore as of inuasion victorie maie insue and of victorie the death of the vanquished so did she thereby not obscurelie bewraie that she thought it lawfull for hir to destroie your sacred person 4 She thinketh it not onelie lawfull but honorable also and meritorious to take your life from you as being alreadie depriued of your crowne by the excommunication of the holie father And therefore it is like she will as hitherto she hath doone continuallie séeke it by whatsoeuer meanes 5 That she is gréedie of your maiesties death and preferreth it before hir owne life and safetie for in hir direction to one of hir laie complices she aduised vnder couert termes that whatsoeuer should become of hir that tragicall execution should be performed vpon you 1 IT is most perillous to spare hir that continuallie hath sought the ouerthrow and suppression of true religion infected with poperie from hir tender youth and being after that a confederat in that holie league when she came to age and euer since a professed enimie against the truth 2 She resteth wholie vpon popish hopes to deliuer and aduance hir and is thereby so deuoted to that profession that aswell for satisfaction of others as for feeding of hir owne humor she will supplant the gospell where and when so euer she maie which euill is so much the greater and the more to be auoided as that it staieth the verie soule and will spread it selfe not onelie ouer England and Scotland but also into those parts beyond the seas where the gospell of God is mainteined the which cannot but be exceedinglie weakened by the defection of this noble Iland 1 As the Lydians said Vnum regem agnoscunt Lydi duos autem tolerare non possunt So we saie Vnicam reginam Elizabetham agnoscunt Angli duas autem tolerare non possunt 2 As she hath alredie by hir allurements brought to destruction more noble men and their houses togither with a greater multitude of the commons of this realme during hir being here than she should haue beene able to doo if she had béene in possession of hir owne crowne and armed in the field against vs so will she still be continuall cause of the like spoile to the greater losse and perill of this estate and therefore this realme neither can nor maie indure hir 3 Againe she is the onelie hope of all discontented subiects she is the foundation whereon all the euill disposed doo build she is the root from whense all rebellions and trecheries doo spring and therefore whilest this hope lasteth this foundation standeth and this root liueth they will reteine heart and set on foot whatsoeuer their deuises against the realme which otherwise will fall awaie die and come to nothing 4 Mercie now in this case towards hir would in the end prooue crueltie against vs all Nam est quaedam crudelis misericordia and therefore to spare hir is to spill vs. 5 Besides this it will excéedinglie greeue and in a maner deadlie wound the hearts of all the good subiects of your land if they shall see a conspiracie so horrible not condignlie punished 6 Thousands of your maiesties most liege and louing subiects of all sorts and degrees that in a line 10 tender zeale of your maiesties safetie haue most willinglie both by open subscription and solemne vow entered into a firme and loiall association and haue thereby protested to pursue vnto the death by all forcible and possible meanes such as she is by iust sentence now found to be can neither discharge their loue nor well saue their oths if your maiestie shall kéepe hir aliue of which burthen your maiesties subiects are most desirous to be reléeued as the same maie be if iustice be doone line 20 7 Lastlie your maiesties most louing and dutifull commons doubt not but that as your maiestie is dulie exercised in reading the booke of God so it will please you to call to your princelie remembrance how fearefull the examples of Gods vengeance be that are there to be found against king Saule for sparing king Agag against king Achab for sauing the life of Benadad both which were by the iust iudgement of God depriued of their kingdoms for sparing those wicked princes whome God line 30 had deliuered into their hands of purpose to be slaine by them as by the ministers of his eternall and diuine iustice Wherein full wiselie Salomon proceeded to punishment when he tooke the life of his owne naturall and elder brother Adonias for the onelie intention
of a marriage that gaue suspicion of treason against him Herein we your maiesties most louing and obedient subiects earnestlie depend vpon your princelie resolution which we assure our selues shall be to God most acceptable and line 40 to vs no other than the state of your regall authoritie maie affoord vs and the approoued arguments of your tender care for our safetie vnder your charge dooth promise to our expectation A REPORT OF HIR MAIESTIES most gratious answer deliuered by hir selfe verballie to the first petitions of the lords and commons being the estates of parlement in hir chamber of presence at Richmond the twelfe daie of line 50 Nouember 1586 at the full almost of eight and twentie yeares of hir reigne Whereof the reporter requireth of all that were hearers a fauorable interpretation of his intent because he findeth that he can not expresse the same answerable to the originall which the learned call Prototypon THe bottomlesse graces and immesurable benefits bestowed vpon me by the almightie are and haue béene such as I must not onelie acknowledge them but line 60 admire them accounting them as well miracles as benefits not so much in respect of his diuine maiestie with whome nothing is more common than to doo things rare and singular as in regard of our weakenesse who can not sufficientlie set foorth his woonderfull works and graces which to me haue béene so manie so diuerselie folded and imbroidered one vpon another as in no sort I am able to expresse them And although there liueth not anie that maie more iustlie acknowledge themselues infinitelie bound vnto God than I whose life he hath miraculouslie preserued at sundrie times beyond my merit from a multitude of perils dangers yet is not that the cause for which I count my selfe the deepeliest bound to giue him my humblest thanks or to yéeld him greatest recognition but this which I shall tell you hereafter which will deserue the name of woonder if rare things and seldome séene be worthie of account Euen this it is that as I came to the crowne with the willing hearts of my subiects so doo I now after eight and twentie yeares reigne perceiue in you no diminution of good wils which if happilie I should want well might I breath but neuer thinke I liued And now albeit I find my life hath béene full dangerouslie sought and death contriued by such as no desert procured yet am I therein so cleare from malice which hath the propertie to make men glad at the fals and faults of their foes and make them séeme to doo for other causes when rancor is the ground as I protest it is and hath béene my gréeuous thought that one not different in sex of like estate and my neere kin should fall into so great a crime yea I had so little purpose to pursue hir with anie colour of malice that as it is not vnknowen to some of my lords here for now I will plaie the blab I secretlie wrote hir a letter vpon the discouerie of sundrie treasons that if she would confesse them and priuatlie acknowledge them by hir letters to my selfe she neuer should néed be called for them into so publike question Neither did I it of mind to circumuent hir for then I knew as much as she could confesse and so did I write And if euen yet now that the matter is made but too apparant I thought she trulie would repent as perhaps she would easilie appeare in outward shew to doo and that for hir none other would take the matter vpon them or that we were but as two milke maids with pailes vpon our armes or that there were no more dependencie vpon vs but mine owne life were onelie in danger and not the whole estate of your religion and well dooings I protest wherein you maie beléeue me for though I maie haue manie vices I hope I haue not accustomed my toong to be an instrument of vntruth I would most willinglie pardon and remit this offense Or if by my death other nations and kingdoms might trulie saie that this realme had attained an euer prosperous and florishing estate I would I assure you not desire to liue but gladlie giue my life to the end my death might procure you a better prince And for your sakes it is that I desire to liue to kéepe you from a woorse For as for me I assure you I find no great cause I should be fond to liue I take no such pleasure in it that I should much wish it nor conceiue such terror in death that I should greatlie feare it and yet I saie not but if the stroke were comming perchance flesh and bloud would be mooued with it and séeke to shun it I haue had good experience and triall of this world I know what it is to be a subiect what to be a souereigne what to haue good neighbors and sometime méet euill willers I haue found treason in trust séene great benefits little regarded and in stead of gratefulnesse courses of purpose to crosse These former remembrances present féeling and future expectation of euils I saie haue made me thinke An euill is much the better the lesse while it indureth so them happiest that are soonest hense and taught me to beare with a better mind these treasons than is common to my sex yea with a better heart perhaps than is in some men Which I hope you will not meerelie impute to my simplicitie or want of vnderstanding but rather that I thus conceiued that had their purposes taken effect I should not haue found the blow before I had felt it and though my perill should haue béene great my paine should haue béene but small and short wherein as I would be loth to die so bloudie a death so doubt I not but God would haue giuen me grace to be prepared for such an euent chance when it shall which I refer vnto his good pleasure And now as touching their treasons and conspiracies togither with the contriuer of them I will not so preiudicat my selfe and this my realme as to saie line 10 or thinke that I might not without the last statute by the ancient laws of this land haue procéeded against hir which was not made particularlie to preiudice hir though perhaps it might then be suspected in respect of the disposition of such as depend that waie It was so far from being intended to intrap hir that it was rather an admonition to warne the danger thereof but sith it is made and in the force of a law I thought good in that which might concerne hir to proceed according therevnto line 20 rather than by course of common law wherein if you the iudges haue not deceiued me or that the books you brought me were not false which God forbid I might as iustlie haue tried hir by the ancient laws of the land But you lawiers are so nice in sifting and scanning euerie word and letter that manie times you stand more vpon forme
H. HAie at a double price 785 a 30 Haâ—istones which made men amazed 39 b 10. Of the bignesse of hens egs 166 a 60. Of sundrie strange shapes 1313 b 60. Great the like not séene 284 b 20. A mightie storme that did much hurt 250 a 50. That slue both men and horsses note 393 b 60 394 a 10. Square and of sixteene inches about 1258 b 50. Fashioned like mens heads 968 b 50 Hales bloud and who brought it into England 275 b 10. Shewed at Paules crosse 946 a 40 Hales knight will not assent to the new succession of the crowne 1083 a 40 50 60. In trouble for religion 1092 b 10. Greuouslie tempted drowneth himselfe 1092 b 10 30 40 Hambleton castell lost summoned rendered vnto the French king the number that came foorth thereof 1057 a 30 50 b 10 Hamblethew fortified by the Englishmen 972 b 60 Hamont burned ¶ Sée Heretike Hangman hanged 945 b 40 Harding Stephan moonke of Shireborne 26 a 60 Harâ—â—lo sands 967 b 60 Harflue besieged 549 b 60. The people desire a parlée yéelded and sacked 550 a 30 b 10. Besieged by the French rescued by the English 557 a 10 60 woone by the English 615 b 50. Besieged 629 b 60. Yéelded to the French king 630 a 10 Harleston knight his notable exploit note 422 a 20 Harlots cause manie murthers 953 a 10. ¶ Sée Murther and Whoore. Harold king of Man knighted 238 b 60. ¶ Sée Canutus Hatred of the English against the Normans and contrariwise 14 a 10. Borne to the Iewes 121 b 50. Irreconciliable betwéene the dukes of Summerset and Yorke note 630 b 20. Great betwéene the duke of Buckingham and cardinall Woolseie 855 b 20. Against Richard the third 738 b 10 c 739 740 741 Of the earle of Glocester against king Stephan 48 b 50. ¶ Sée Enuie and Malice Haruest sore hindered by continuall raine 210 b 50 322 b 50. Wet and raine 249 a 30 397 b 50. Late 348 b 30 note 260 a 10 Harueie de Yuon his surrender to king Henrie the second 75 b 60. ¶ Sée Bishop Hastings the originall of the name the manner of their armes 467 b 60. Their grant for exchange of lands the record by which they executed the office of panteler 469 a 10 60. The order and number of clothes laid at the kings table and how the Hastings had them in sée 469 a 20. Record wherbie the said office of pantler is claimed the petition for the second swoord which the earle of Arundell also claimed the bill exhibited for the golden spurs 471 a 10 b 10 50 Hastings lord his counsell to all his acquaintance 675 b 10. Chamberleine maligned of the king and quéene 713 a 30. Described 723 b 60. His life and déeds laid open 724 a 40 c. Beheaded 723 a 20 Hastings lord discharged out of the Towre 1088 b 30 Hastings castell 6 a 40 Haukesford knight his practise to kill himselfe 677 a 10 c. Hed of wax wrought by necromancie speaketh 484 b 20 Heding castell besieged by the Englishmen 875 a 40 Hedgecote field 672 b 30. ¶ Sée Battell Helias the pretended earle of Mans his bold words to William Rufus 23 b 60 Henrie the first when he began his reigne 28 a 10. Glad to séeke the peoples fauour and whie 28 b 10. Woone the fauour of the people from his brother Richard 28 a 20. His wiues concubine and children his vertues vices 45 a 50. In danger of drowning 44 b 10. His promises to purchase the peoples fauour 28 b 40. Reconciled with his brethren Robert and William 19 a 60. Besieged by his two brethren Robert and William 19 a 40. His base sonne to whome married 37 a 40. Passeth ouer into Normandie and taketh diuerse cities 32 b 30. Persuaded to renounce his title to the inuestiture of prelats 32 a 40. Consulteth with his nobles where to get him a wife 28 b 30. Hurt in battell against the French king his valiantnesse 40 a 60. Against the consecration of archbishop Thurstane of Yorke 40 a 50. He and pope Calixtus come to an interuiew at Gisors 40 b 30. Passeth ouer into Normandie to aid and assist the earle of Champaigne against the French king 39 b 40. Placeth garrisons in Wales 38 a 10. He and pope Innocent méet at Chartres 44 a 50. His sonnes and daughters drowned by shipwracke 41 b 10 Without issue he marrieth againe 41 b 60. Goeth ouer into Normandie and createth his sonne William duke 38 a 30. His passage into Normandie and neuer returneth aliue 44 b 30. Departeth this life of a surfet 45 a 10 Henrie the second crowned king where and by whome 65. a 10. Offended with the bishops 70 a 30. Knighteth the king of Scots 76 a 30. Inuadeth the earle of Aluergnes land 75 a 40 Inuadeth Wales 73 b 10. He and the French king haue an interuiew at Coicée 69 a 40. His Thomas Beckets first falling out 68 a 20. He and the French king méet at Gisors 95 a 50. He and his sonnes are accorded vpon conditions 94 a 40. Returneth out of Normandie 93 a 20. His offer to his sonnes 89 b 10. Knowth not whom he may trust 86 b 50. Purgeth himselfe of Beckets death 83 b 60. Séeketh to appease the quarell betwixt his sonnes 10â— a 60. Passeth into Normandie he and his sonnes reconciled 105 b 40. He and the French king come to an interuiew at Vadum S. Remigij 104 b 50. Rideth all night to meet the French king at Douer 103 a 60. He and the French king méet at Yurie 101 b 40 60. His sonnes wife is brought to bed of a sonne 101 b 20. Against the Scots 66 b 30. Goeth into the north 66 a 20. Negligent in aiding the Christians against the Saracens 116 a 10. Not so fauourable to the church as he might haue béene 115 b 60. His vices 115. b 20. His sonnes and daughters his base sonnes the constitution of his bodie his stature his qualities of mind and bodie 115 a 20 c. He and the French king at strife they talke together 107 b 20 40. His words of displeasure to his sonne earle Richard 114 a 40. He and the French king come to a treatie of peace 113 a 20. Inuadeth France and maketh wast and spoile 112 b 60. He and the French kings interuiew betwixt Trie and Gisors 111 b 10. Passeth into Normandie to talke with French king 110 b 40. His subiects arrested in France 110 b 20. Nothing sorie for the death of Hugh Laâ—ie 110 a 30. He the patriarch passe ouer into France 109 a 50. Message to his sonne earle Richard 109. His gift to Hugh Lacie 82 b 20. Sorie for Thomas Beckets death 80 a 30. Laieth his crowne on the altar 67 a 40. Landeth in Ireland and what he dooth there 81 b 10. Becommeth seruitor to his sonne 76 b 10. Made his last will 77 a 10 His sonne crowned at seuentéene yeares old 76 a
hée ariueth in Ireland saileth into France all aâ—â—ant returneth vnto the ladie Margaret his first founder named by hir the white rose of England 776 a 10 c. Counterfeteth the duke of Yorke verie cunninglie his true linage his conspiring fautors 777 a 20 40 b 50. Sir William Stanlie his fauourer 778 b 40. He attempteth to land in Kent his men discomfited his capteins taken and executed he reculeth into Flanders 779 b 40 60. Saileth into Ireland and is in sundrie opinions hée marrieth the earle of Huntlies daughter saith that he is Edward the fourth his lawfull sonne telleth the Scotish K. how he was preserued kept aliue calleth the ladie Margareth his aunt craueth aid of the Scotish K. toward the recouerie of the crowne of England from Henrie the seuenth 780 a 20 c. His counterfet compassion 781 a 40. Hée is faine to packe out of Scotland his thrée counsellors hée assalteth Excester 783 b 50 c. He taketh sanctuarie his wife presented to Henrie the seuenth all his partakers in their shirts with halters about their necks appéere before Henrie the seuenth he is assalted in sanctuarie submitteth himselfe to the K. and is strictlie séene vnto 784 a 60 b 10 c. Escapeth from his kéepers his confession as it was written with his owne hand and read openlie vpon a scaffold by the standard in Chepe 786 a 10 20 c. 787 a 10. Hée corrupted his kéepers he is executed at Tiburne 787 a 10 b 30 Periurie punished 46 b 20.680 a 60. By God 1262 a 20. Laid to William Rufus charge by his brother Robert 21 a 40. ¶ Sée Oth Promise Laid to Henrie the fourths charge 524 a 10. ¶ Sée Baffuling Perot sir Thomas knight ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Persecution in England ceaseth and the protestants returne out of exile 1181 b 50. ¶ Sée Martyr Religion Priests sâ—mâ—â—arie Persie lord sent against the Scots 303 b 60. Put to flight by the king of Scots 315 a 10. ¶ Sée Conspiracie and Erle Persiuall ¶ Sée Maior and Officer Peson ¶ Sée Woonder Pestilence 473 a 20. In Calis 803 b 30. Followeth famine 1049 b 40. In manie places speciallie in London 787 b 60. In diuerse parts of the realme 704 a 60 That deuoured woonderfull multitudes note 703 b 20. Hot in London 1211 b 60. In London 961 a 40.525 a 60. Among the soldiors at Newhauen 1204 a 50. The cause that Newhauen fell into the hands of the French 1205 b 10 20 30. Transported from thense to London 1205 b 50. And what a consumption of people it wroght in the citie and suburbs this was called the great plague b 60. Like to haue increased 1260 a 10 20. In Germanie whereof thrée hundred thousand died 1206 b 10 Peterburrough spoiled 194 a 30 Peter pence forbidden to be anie more gathered in England 397 b 20 Peter Landoise ¶ Sée Landoise Peters William knight deceaseth his charitie 1227 b 50 Petitions thrée that quéene Philip made to hir husband on hir death bed note 404 a 20 30 c. ¶ Sée Demands and Requests Peâ—o cardinall became a begging frier note 1365 b 10 Peuerell William disherited 65 b 40 Philip his preparation to come into England the English ambassadors méete him at saint Iames of Compostella his arriuall in Southhampton receiued of the nobilitie interteined of quéene Marie married vnto hir what nobles were attendant on him the conditions of their mariage 1118 all Installed at Windsor he and she go throgh London to Westminster 1120 b 50 60. Passeth ouer into Flanders to incounter the French king 1133 b 20 1129 b 40. His returne into England 1133 a 40. Philip the hardie and whie so surnamed 401 b 60. Philip of Austrich afterwards K. of Castile or Spaine landeth in west parts of England 792 b 40. His honorable interteinment his bow inuiolablie kept his deth and description 793 a 10 50 60 Philip the French king bribed to procure peace betwéene William Rufus and Robert 21 b 10. Setteth Robert the sonne against his father William duke of Normandie 12 a 30. His iest at duke William lieng sicke 14 b 20. His death 34 b 60 205 a 60. ¶ Sée French king Philip king Richard the firsts base sonne slue the vicount of Limoges 160 b 60 Philip quéene of England ¶ Sée Quéene Philpot a worthie citizen of London and alderman 419 b 60. Discloseth treasons 428 a 60 Physician Lewes sheweth to quéene Elizabeth the whole conceit and deuise of vniting the house of Lancaster and Yorke in one 741 b 50 Physicians counsell neglected dangerous to the death 45 a 10 20 Piemount prince commeth into England 1126 b 10 Piers Exton ¶ Sée Exton Pilgrime his scrip and staffe 123 b 10 Pilgrims robbed and the théefe hanged note 122 a 20 Pilgrimage cloked 183 b 50 The holie pilgrimage 942 a 20 Pilgrimages ¶ Sée Images Pipes of lead vnder the ground to conueie water and when the casting of them was inuented 944. a 60. ¶ Sée Water Pirat Barton ¶ Sée Barton Campbell Pirats on the west seas taken and executed 1258 a 10. Hanged at Wapping 1258 b 40 1271 a 60 1354 b 10 20 ¶ Sée Clinton c. Pirats had like to haue taken Henrie the fourth 533 b 10 Followed so that they durst not péepe out 537 a 30. To the number of twentie and two condemned and iudged to die 1262 a 10 Pittie of Henrie the second to the poore note 115 a 50. Of Henrie the seuenth on a companie of haltered rebels 784 b 40. Of Henrie the sixt notable note 691. b 20. Of king Henrie the fift note 560. b 60 Of Hubert de Burgh toward duke Arthur of Britaine in prison 165. b 10. Of Edward the third towards the poore notable 375. a 20. Of a queene of England vnto six burgesses of Calis note 378. a 20. Of captaine Randoll notable 1205. b 10. Foolish in dearing with pardoning offendors note 1049. a 60. Of one the casting awaie of another note 41. b 30. On the dead pardon to the liuing 688. b 30 40. Procureth perill 423. b. 10.20 ¶ See Charitie Plage called The great plage asswaged in London 1262 a 10. Threefold to the poore citizens 1209 a 20. A natural prognostication therof 1050. b. 30. Great in Essex 480. b 60. In diuerse places of England great 805. a 10. ¶ See Pestilence Plaie pubâ—ike and conference there to further the rebellion in Northfolke but note the issue 1028. b 20.30.1029 1030. Of a tragedie in Oxford with misfortune 1209. b 10. Plaies and enterludes forbidden for a time 1184. a 50. Planets superiors coniunction 484. b. 40. Plantagenet the true earle of Warwike a verie innocent he is executed note 787. b 20.50 Knight deceaseth in the tower the cause of his trouble 955. a 60. b 10. c. The last of the right liâ—e and name 953 a 60. In whome that name rested 703. b 20. A counterfeit of the ladie Margarets imagining 775. a 60. ¶ See Arthur and
exhorâ—atorie speeches to the monsieur preparing and setling himselfe to Codward The monsieur departure out of this world like a lamp whose light 〈◊〉 for want oâ— oile Maruellous 〈◊〉 of inward loue 〈…〉 affectioÌ„ 〈…〉 the monâ—â—eur departed Theâ—e be verie 〈◊〉 〈…〉 â—â—â—eed For he was preacher c to the mounsieur and lost dimidium animae suae vp his death Ground remoued Eight persons killed by the fall of a scaffold at the beaâ—â— garden a warning to prophaners of the sabboth daie Eob. Hâ—ss in Psal. 50. WilliaÌ„ Bruistar and Marie Breame smothered to death A man and a woman hanged at Shoo-lane end The gunpowder house in Fetterlane blowne vp Palatine of Siradia in Poland came into England Elias Thackar and Iohn Coping hanged at Berrie Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex deceased * I. Stow. Edmund Grindall archbishop of Canturburie deceassed Abr. Hart. in R.L. Iustice Randolfe his charitie of one thousand nine hundred pounds â—â—â—roners apprehended and executed A briefe description of Clinton Atkiâ—son and his parentage Companie libertie bring manie to miserie An heretike Iohn Lewes burned at Norwich Sée pag. 1299. Palatine of Siradia in Poland returned A description of Albertus his person apparell c. * At Oxenford where he termed the Latine that he spake Militare Latinum that is souldiers Latine The lord Norris his daughter maried to sir A. Paulet his eldest sonne The welcomming of Albertus to the vniuersitie of Oxenford with a partile description of his interteinment Raine of rose-water and haile of sugar confects c. Doctor Whitegift archbishop of Canturburie * Allusio ad D. archiep nomen Ab. Hart. quondam Cant. Trinitarius A monstrous fish taken in Norffolke Slade and Bodie executed An Reg. 26. Horssestealers hanged ten at once in Smithfield Desmonds head set on London bridge Nantwich in Cheshire burnt Someruile Arden and others arreigned Arden 〈◊〉 This booke for the time that it was in request set people toongs on woorke and filled their minds with strange conceipts Why it was called the great coniunction Touching the yeare of woonders gathâ—red to be 1588. â—â—ouitius Regiomontanus The great yeare of 1588 is more talked of than feared When people saw nothing in the aire as they looked for they fell to derision Cartar executed for printing a traitorous booke A declaration of the fauorable dealing of hir maiesties commissioners for the examining of traitâ—rs To the reader The slanderous report concerning the extreame vse of yâ— racke conuinced Campion and Briant were too fauourablie vsed and far vnder the proportion of their treasonable offenses The curst stubborne hart of Briant Ergo it is false which the infamous libeller hath â—ast abrode Relligio 〈…〉 mala vita 〈◊〉 This is consonant to the report set downe before in the discouerie of Campion pag. 1325. What allegigiâ—nce these fellows meant to her maiestie may appéere by these words of Campion being the mouth oâ— the â—est As namelie Campion of whom an infamous libeller reporteth in commendation forsooth of his constancie Non secreta mee iorius licâ—torâ— fatebor All offendors couer their faults with contrarie causes Rebels doo most dangerouslie couer their faults Rebellion in England and Ireland The rebels vanquished by the quéens power Some of the rebels fled into forreine countries Rebels pretend religion for their defense Kingleaders of rebels Charles Neuill earle of Westmerland and Thomas Stukeleie The effect of the popes bull against the queene of England The practises of the traitors rebels and fugitiues to execute the 〈◊〉 Seminaries erected to nursse seditious fugitiues The seminarie fugitiues come secretlie into the relme to induce the people to obeie the popes bull Sowers of sâ—dition taken coâ—â—ented executed 〈◊〉 trâ—ason The seditious treitors condemned by the ancient lawes of the realme made two hundred yeres past Persons condemned spared â—rom execution vpon refusall of their treasonable opinions The forren traitors continue sending of persons to mooue sedition in the realme The seditious 〈◊〉 labour to bring the realme into a warre externall and domestâ—â—â—ll The dutie of the quéene and all hir gouernors to God and their countrie is to repell practises of rebellion None charged with capitall crimes being of a contrarie religion and professing to withstand forreine forces Names of diuerse ecclesiasticall persons professing contrarie religion neuer charged with capitall crimes The late fauorers of the popes authoritie were the chiefe aduersaries of the same by their doctrines and writings A great number of laie persons of liuelood being of a contrarie religion neuer charged with capitall crime No person charged with capitall 〈◊〉 for the onelie maintenance of the popes supremasie Foure points of treason Such coÌ„demned onelie for treason as mainteine the effects of the popes bull against hir maiestie and the realme Doctor Sanders maintenance of the popes bull The persons that suffered death were condemned for treason not for religion The diuersitie betwixt truth and falshood A full proofe that the mainteiners of the bull are directlie guiltie of 〈◊〉 Doctor Mortons secret ambassage froÌ„ Rome to 〈◊〉 the rebellion in the north Persons and Campion are offendors as doctor Sanders is for allowance of the bull Faculties granted to Persons and Campion by pope Gregorie the thirtéenth Anno 1580. By what authoritie Campion came into England Harts confession of the interpretation of the bull of Pius Quintus A conclusion that all the infamous books against the quéene and the realme are false Difference of the small numbers that haue béene executed in the space of fiue and twentie yeares from the great numbers in fiue yeares of quéene Maries reigne An aduertisement vnto all princes of countries abroad The authoritie proclamed by the pope not warranted by Christ or by the two apostles Peter and Paul Pope Hildebrand the first that made warre against the emperor An. Do. 1074. The iudgement of God against the popes false erected emperor Pope Gregorie the seuenth deposed by Henrie the fourth Henrie the fift Frederike the first Frederike the second Lewes of Bauar emperors Whatsoeuer is lawfull for other princes souereignes is lawfull for the queene and crowne of England The title of vniuersall â—â—shop is a preamble of antichrist Rome sacked and the pope Clement takeÌ„ prisoner by the emperors armie King Henrie the second of France his edicts against the pope and his courts of Rome The besieging of Rome and the pope by the duke of Alua and king Philips armie Quéene Marie and cardinall Poole resisted the pope D. Peito a begging frier The kings of christendome neuer suffer popes to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer them to haue rule ouer their people The quéene of England may not suffer the pope by anie meanes to make rebellions in hir realme Additâ—menâ—â— to the popes martyrologâ— The strange ends of Iames earle of Desmond D. Sanders Iames Fitzmoris Iohn of Desmond Iohn Someruile The prosperitie of England during the popes cursses Reasons to persuade by reason the
Hunsdon declareth how the dag was more than ordinarilie charged and how the earle dispatched him selfe Thrée bullets found vnder the point of the earls shoulder blade A slanderous report of the quéenes enimies and the earles fauourers answered The earle wanted no prospects for pleasure nor walks of conuenient libertie Sir Christopher Hatton reuealeth to the court and auditorie the gratious dealing of hir maiesâ—ie with the said earle no such fauour deseruing The quéenes maiestie mitigateth the punishmeÌ„t which the law would haue awarded against the earle The quéenes maiesties nature is to loue hir enimies O that they could change their nature and loue hir highnesse againe The earle standeth vpon termes of his innocencie all the world séeing the cause to contrarie * To this petition let all true harted Englishmen saie Amen The arriuall and interteinment of the deputies for the estates of the low countries The names of the said deputies for the estates The quéenes maiesties most gratious fauor acknowledged The distressed state of the 〈◊〉 countriâ—â—â—â—â—ter the death of the prince of Orange The hope that the low countrie people had in hir highnes helpe Spanish seruitude importable The cause whie the deputies for the states came into England and their sute vnto hir highnesse expressed The gouernement principalitie of the low countries presented to the quéenes maiestie Manie good townes and places yet remaining in the low countries defensible against the enimie The vniting of the low countries to the realmes of England c how beneficiall Protection of the reformed religion a part of their sute The loialtie and faithfulnesse of the low countrie people commanded Benefits like to insue vpon the said protection vndertaken of hir highnesse The said deputies doo present certeine articles and conditions to hir maiestie concerning their sute Aufeld and Weblie hanged for publishing of seditious bookes Fiue or rather 〈◊〉 people slain by the fall of a wall in London néere vnto Downegate Earle of Bedford and the lord Russell his sonne deceased Souldiers sent to aid the low countries of Holland Zeland c. Ground and trées soonke and swallowed vp in Kent eight miles from London Seminarie and massing priests banished Note in this certificat an acknowledgment of verie great English courtesie to the seminaries in their transportation The seminaries suddenlie assaulted and in danger of death by a Flushinger as they were passing ouer sea The seminaries are set on shore at Bullogne through their owne importunitie Kings and princes souereignes are to yéeld account of their actions onelie to almightie God the king of kings Naturall causes of the ancient continuall trafficke betwixt the people of EnglaÌ„d them of the low countries Confederatitions both betwixt the kings of England and lords of the low countries and also the subiects of both countries The people of both the countries bound by speciall obligations interchangeablie for mutuall fauours and friendlie offices Treaties extant of ancient time betwixt the kings of England and the dukes of Burgundie for the commerce betwixt their countries Conuentions for the subiects of either side to shew mutuall fauors one to th e other Spaniards and strangers latelie appointed gouernors in the low countries to the violation of the liberties of the countrie The destruction of the nobilitie and the people of the countries by the Spanish gouernement The lamentable violent death of the countie of Egmond the glorie of those countries The rich townes and strengths with the wealth thereof possessed by the Spaniards The French kings offers to haue aided and receiued to his subiection the oppressed people of the low countries The quéene of Englands coÌ„tinuall fréendlie aduises to the king of Spaine for restreining of the tyrannie of his gouernors The quéene of Englands means vsed to staie the states of the lowe countries froÌ„ yéelding their subiection to anie other forreine prince The enterprise of the Spaniards in Ireland sent by the king of Spaine and the pope The refusall of the quéenes messenger and hir letters to the king of Spaine The iust causes of dismissing of Barnardin Mendoza out of EnglaÌ„â— Two turbulent spirited persons Spaniardâ— dâ—uing what they could to set all EnglaÌ„ in a tumult Sée the voâ—luntarie confession of F. Throgmortoâ— in pages 1370 1373. The courteous dealing of hir maiestie with Mendoza a man mortallie hated departinâ— out of England The quéene of EnglaÌ„ds procéeding for the deliuerie of Scotland from the seruitude wherein the house of Guise meant to haue broght it The realme of Scotland restored to the ancient fréedome and so possessed by the present king by the meanes onelie of the quéene of England The conclusion of the causes of sending of certeine coÌ„panies of English souldiors to the defense of the oppressed people of the low countries and to withstand the attempts against this realme Thrée speciall things reasonablie desired by the quéene of England 1. The end of warres with restitution of the low countries to their ancient liberties 2. Suertie froÌ„ inuasion of hir owne realme 3. And renewing of the mutuall traffike betwéene the countries The causes of taking some townes into hir maiesties custodie The summe of a slanderous pamphlet published in the Italian toong against the quéenes maiestie The quéenes maiestie is gelous ouer the conseruation of hir reputation An answer to the first point of the said pamphlet clearing hir highnes of ingratitude The second point of the pamphlet answered to the full satisfaction of anie that is reasonable The prosecution of the warres in the low countries is not like to cease though the prince of Parma were dead This being dulie pondered all the world maie sée how vniustlie hir highnesse is slandered The nature of malice comprised in a senâ—â—nce of few 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a 〈◊〉 of few â—ords The reward â—â—at wicked and infamous â—â—bellors shall â—ape at the hands of God and men The earle of Leicesters paâ—sing ouer 〈◊〉 the low â—â—â—ntries The first shew â—f a woman â—â—presenting Leidon â—he second 〈◊〉 of faâ—e â—he third 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 The fourth shew of Spanish seruituuâ— The fift shew of hope to be succored The sixt shew of aid promised The last shew of libertie victorie and triumph These verses séeme to be made by no metrician perhaps they were deuised by some of Leidon Uerses written vpon the doore of the lord lieutenaÌ„ts lodging The lord lieutenant returneth backe from Leidon to Donhage A géneráll fast proclamed and deuoutlie obserued The lord lieutenant rideth to Skeueling and is presented with a few English verses Titles of honór ascribed to the lord lieutenant with a reioising at his comming The estates sworne to the quéene of England The earle of â—eicester installed at Donhage with the maner and order thereof Persons of honor and worship The couenants betwéen the quéens maiestie and the estates read in Latine and deliuered to and fro Note what â— title and stilâ— of excellencie the states 〈◊〉 to the earle their gouernor and the honorable seâ—â—uice to him â—â—pointed The good
thrée actuall rebellions He reuiued and put in execution the lawes for the abolishing of coine and liuerie He deuised the planting of presidents in the remoter prouinces He deuised the lawes for the distribution of the Irish couÌ„tries into shire ground He increased the reuenues ten thousand pounds yerlie His buildings fortifications and other necessarie works for the benefit and good of the countrie He built conuenient rooms for the kéeping and preseruation of the records which before were neglected He caused thâ— statutes of Ireland to bâ— imprinted which neuer before were published He procured some Englishmen to be sent ouer for the better administration of iustice A great fuâ—therer of all publike works The great loue he got him in all plâ—â—ces where he serued His carefulnesse in the seruice of the state Uerie expert and able he was of a bad clerke in time to frame a good secretarie Of great facilitie in dispatch of common causes A great desire to doo for all men A tender father to his children and a louing master to his seruants Solâ—â—ario homini atque in agro vitam agenti opinio iustitiae necessaria est He was intirelie beloued of the officers of hir maiesties houshold He was dubbed knight the same daie sir William Cecill was He died at the bishops palace 〈◊〉 Worcester His death greatlie bemoned His corps was buried at Penshurst The time of my ladie Sidneis death Sir Philip sir Robert and maister Thomas Sidneis Marie countesse of Penbroke William lord Herbert of Cardiffe The commendation of sir Philip Sidneie Lord gouernor oâ— Uâ—â—ssingen commonlie called Flâ—â—shing He surpriseâ— Arell in Flanders He drowned the countrie by making 〈◊〉 entrie into thâ— sea No resistance made by Mondragon Grauelin His hurt at the incounter néere Zutphen The daie of the death of sir Philip Sidneie Omnis virtus nos ad se allicit facÃtque vt diligamus eos in quibus inesse videatur tamen iusticia liberalitas id maximè efficit Thomas Louelace condigâ—liâ— punished by iudgement of the honorable court in the Star-chamber for counterfeiting of letters c. I. S. Henrie Ramelius ambassador out of Denmarke The Danish ambassador honorablie interteined The maiestie of the English court Heuenlie musike in the queens chapell The ambassador of Denmarke seeth the roiall seruice of the quéene of England Recreations and disports for prince and people This Crosbie â—as a knight 〈◊〉 his gift to 〈◊〉 of â—ondon pag. â—â— â—50 The ambasâ—â—dor deparâ—â—th home toâ—ards Denâ—arke â—ord Edâ—ard earle of Rutland ambassador into Scotland The quéenes maiestie hath speciall care of christian religion to be preserued and propagated â— league betweene England and Scotland confirmed Sée more of this ambassage in the historie of Scotland pag. 456. 〈…〉 The horrible conspiracie of â—abington â—ther his 〈◊〉 traitors 〈◊〉 sâ—oursed by â— F. Sir Wolstan Dixie lord maior of London Anthonie Ratcliffe and Henrie Prannell shiriffes Sir Francis Drake his turne into England 〈◊〉 his last 〈◊〉 finished Hispaniola in old time called Ophir The returne of sir Francis Drake into England with great riches c. Manie voiages of great difficultie haue beene vndertaken but failed in the issue Traitors indicted arreigned and condemned at Westminster I. S. The first seuen condemned without anie iurie The effect of the last seuen their tresons notable The place of their execution was sometime the méeting place of their consultation The order of the traitors executed Iohn Ballard preest persuader of Babington to these odious treasons executed How Ballard was affected at his death Ballards sophisticall asking of the queens maiestie forgiuenesse Anthonie Babington esquier executed A note of Babingtons pride at the verie instant of his execution Iohn Sauage gentleman executed The fruites that issue from listening to the counsell of Iesuits Romanists and Rhemists Robert Barnewell gentleman executed Chidiocke Tichborne esquire executed Charls Tilneie a pensioner executed Edward Abington esquier executed his thretning spéech Throgmortons prophesie and Abingtons of like truth in euent Thomas Salisburie esquier executed The last seuen traitors executed with great fauour Salisburie acknowledgeth his greeuous offense a note of repentance Uiolence forbidden by Salisburie Henrie Dun gentleman executed The ambitious humour of Henrie Dun. Edward Iones esquier executed Forren inuasion reproued by Iones Iohn Trauers Iohn Charnocke gentlemen executed Robert Gage executed Hir maiesties gratiousnesse commended by this traitor Hypocrisie of Robert Gage Ierom Bellamie gentleman executed One of the Bellamies hanged himselfe in the Tower Ex libello I. Nich. typis C.B. excuso 1581. Sée be fore pag 1357 a 60 c. 1358 v 60 c. The causes that haue so long hindered king Philip to inuade England The reuerend regard that subiects ought to haue of their souereignes c. A gentleman iudged to die because he once thought to haue killed his prince A seuere law against treason A woman tratoresse well rewarded Against séeking after nouelties and to teach men to be well aduised c. Extreame kinds of torments in other countries for treason c. Traitors iustlie rewarded and yet nothing so as they deserue A prettie apolog allusorie to the present case of malcontents Seldome commeth the better Barnardino de Mendoza alwaies mischéefouslie minded against the state of England note his practises with Ballard The Scotish quéene is an actor in this purposed conspiracie Iohn Sauage had vowed and sworne to kill the quéene Babington vndertaketh the managing of the whole action note their tresons The Scotish quéene writeth vnto Babington in cipher with his aduise direction and request The Scotish quéenes aduise in this mischiefous plot fauoring altogither of inhumanitie Six gentlemen of resolution c. Ballard apprehended being readie to be imbarked and transported ouersea The conspirators disguised themselues thinking by that meane to shift the matter Magna est veritas praeualet How the popish catholiks are affected to the Scotish queene What the fugitiue diuines must doo for their parts Iu nefariam Babingtoni caeterorumque coniurationem hexastichon Sir Philip Sidneie slaine at Zutphen in Gelderland of whome sée more pag. 1554. Seminarie préests executed at Tiborn A tempestuous wind in October terrible and hurtfull The accidents noteworthie by meanes of this blustering wind A strange accident of a walnut trée blowne downe with the wind c. The third strange chance Ludgate of London newlie builded Parlement at Westminster Anno Reg. 29. The earle of Leicester returned from the low countries and arriued in England In reditum magnanimi herois Roberti Comitis Lecestrij 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gratulatorium T. N. The parlement proroged line 30 The danger of the ouerthrow of the true religion The perill of the state of the realme The sentence giuen against the Scotish queene solemnlie proclamed An abridgment of the orders deuised for the reléefe of the poore in this time of dearth c. Starch F. T. Anonymall or namelesse chronicles treating wholie or in part of England The conclusion
fauourers of the pope that none hath béene executed for religion but for treason The first reason The second reason The bull of Pius Quintus set vp at Paules The first punishment for the bull The third reason Rebellion in the north The fourth reason The inuasion of Ireland by the pope The popes forces vanquished in Ireland The politike aduersaries satisfied Obiection of the papists that the persons executed are but scholers and vnarmed Manie are traitours though they haue no armour nor weapon The application of the scholasticall traitors to others that are traitors without armor The oâ—â—enâ—ors executed 〈…〉 reâ—igion Unreasonable â—nd obstinate persons are left to Gods iudgement 2. Esd. 4. Bishop of Winchester deceased Fiue executed for treason A. F. ex add G. C. Maister Walter Raleigh his viage for the discouerie of that land which lieth betwéene Notembega and Florida Philip Amadis and Arthur Barlow Two sauage men and other things brought from the said land discouered Maister Walter Raleigh prepareth for a second viage to the said land late discouered Gentlemen that associated sir Humfreie Gilbert in his viage to Norembega 1578. The viage hath not wished successe Maister Walter Raleigh sailed as far as Cape de Uerde c. and arriueth in saâ—eâ—ie at Plimouth Sir Humfrie Gilberd seuered from his companie dead and neuer heard of Ab. Fl. horâ—â—â— omnium maâ—imè consâ—ius The deceasse of D. Caldweâ—l physician of whom there is former meÌ„tioÌ„ pag. 1349. The court of Francis the first a vniuersitie c. pag. 1343. The distributions of D. Caldwell in his life times and his bequests after his death His commentaries vpon some part of Paulus Acgineta and other bookes * His ordinarie infirmitie was the colicke which tormented him excéedinglie His age and counterfet which séemed to be made 1571 and in the yeare of his age 5â— The armes of Caldwell blasoned * The crosse forme fiche was the cote of Cedwallader the last king of Britains in An. Dom. 680. These figurs 1 2 3 4 5 6 haue relation to certeine marks namelie the mullet the â—â—nquesoilâ— the floure delice the haÌ„d the cressant or moone and the pansie grauen in the copper plate which markes are referred to their like in and about the armes aboue said Francis Throckmorton arreigned and coÌ„demned of high treason But how can their interpretations be found whose iudgements are corrupt The premisses being all sufficient cannot but answer anie circumstance touching this traitor The bishop of Rosse an enimie to the English state A colour of truth to countenance a manifest lie The maner of procéeding against Throckemorton by commission The intent of this declaration what it is Iennie a notorious knowne traitor conferreâ— with Throckmorton Sir Francis Englefield Thomas Throckemorton and Thomas Morgan A pretention of an inuasion into England The speciall meanes wanting The Spanish ambassadours words tending to this inuasion Landing places for forren forces about Arundell in Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring a confederat in this action This would be feared and therefore alwaies by policie preuented Throckemorton wrote diuerse letters to Marie the Scotish queene Godfrie Fulgeam was glad to 〈…〉 The cause why Throckmortons confessions are here mentioned Throckemorton was at Spaw and elswhere c. This is a principall marke whereat they shoot and therefore they cannot but meditat vpon the meanes The duke of Guise his enterprise to inuade the realme The Spanish ambassador and Throckemorton did often times conuerse and conferre Throckemorton surprised and put to a narrow shift â—eare is an ordinarie tormentor of a guiltie conscience The clouds of lies cannot so darken the truth but it will appeare How William Shellie stood affectioned to these treasonable plots Certeine words and clauses of letters treasonable What mind Throckemorton hath carried towards hir maiestie This vehement speach importeth same secrets of great momeÌ„t betwéene Throckemorton and the Scotish quéene Chi a perso la fede a perso l'honore an Italian prouerbe The cause that mooued Throckemorton to denie his confessioÌ„s at his arreignement These gifts in him were Vivenenum in 〈◊〉 poculo Throckemortons submison in a letter answering Ad verbum with his owne handwriting He sueth for vndeserued mercie to hir maiestie in his miserie in whose fauour he might haue liued by loialtie A declaration c written by Throckemorton to the quéenes maiestie William Ardington The next way to atteine libertie for the Scotish quéene c. The pestilent persuasion of the Spanish ambassador to prefer this pernicious enterprise The resolutioÌ„ was frustrate as also the later of the ploâ— such was Gods iustice to persecute supplant both the one and the other Was this thinke you â— naturall subiects opinion or not rather the conceipt of a tyrannous traitor This Spanish ambassador had no good meaning in moouing this request This Mope was Charles Paget otherwise named Spring as before Throckmortons purpose if his enterprise succéeded not by the next spring Sir Francis Englefield whether excusable or no Throckemortons sute for commiseration to hir maiestie A recapitulation of soâ—e treasonable enterprises by Throckemorton Throckemorton executed Robert baron of Denbigh deceased The charitable déeds of D. S. These letters are placed aboue the quâ—drats or squares of the building Six houses of perpetuall reléefe founded vpon S. Peters hill in Baniard castell ward Rents left in perpetuitie for the maintenance of the said houses Ordinances of the founder to be inuiolablie obserued What kind of widowes are to be admitted into these houses Whom they may lodge and not lodge In order for the auoiding of infection sicknesse annoiance c. What wéeke daies they are to repaire to the church Conuenienâ— vse of water c. Performancâ— of these ordinances intended An order for lanthorne and candle light in winter The loue of the LoÌ„doners to the queenes maiestie A parlement at Westminster An Reg. 27. Addition of Fr. Thin An act for the maintenance of Rochester stone bridge procured by sir Roger Manwood Sir Roger Manwood a fréend to the coÌ„monwealth The place time of Sir Roger Manwoods birth and bringing vp DissolutioÌ„ of chanteries Sir Roger Manwood reader in the inner temple He erected â— faire schoolehouse of bricke and stone He procureth leters patents c for the maintenance of the same in perpetuitie The summe of 40 pounds allowed yearlie c to the maintenance of the said grammar schoole Two scholers roomes obteined in Cambridge two in Oxford for such scholers as remooue from the said schoole to either of the vniuersities Seuen almes houses by him founded for the reléefe of the honest aged Sir Roger Manwoodâ— toome A house of correction for â—ustie idle persons The ancient bridge of Rochester when builded and by whom Diuerse opinions concerning the first founding of the said bridge How the said bridge began to decaie and what meanes are vsed for the reparing of the same Sir Roger Manwoods deuised remedie for the kéeping of the said